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# Şefik Can

Şefik Can (June 22, 1909 – January 23, 2005) was a Turkish spiritual leader and the last Sufi master in the Mevlevi Sufi tradition in Turkey.

## Biography

Born in 1909 in Tebricik village of Erzurum, Şefik Can completed his primary education in Yıldızeli, Sivas. Can learned Arabic and Persian at an early age from his father, and graduated from the Kuleli Military High School in 1929 and the Military Academy in 1931. Then, with the permission of the Ministry of National Defense, he became a teacher at Istanbul University, and in 1935, completed his internship under Tahirü l-Mevlevi at Kuleli Military High School. Until his retirement in 1965, he taught at various military schools, civilian colleges and high schools. He was initiated into the Mevlevi Sufi order by his spiritual teacher Tahir al-Mevlevi and had been the head of the tradition until his death on January 23, 2005. He was the spiritual teacher of Hayat Nur Artiran.

## Works

* Fundamentals of Rumi's Thought: A Mevlevi Sufi Perspective (Tughra Books, Jan 1, 2006, Originally published in 1995)
# 1631 in France

Events from the year 1631 in France

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Louis XIII

## Events

* 23 January – Thirty Years' War: France and Sweden sign the Treaty of Bärwalde, a military alliance in which France provides funds for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden to maintain an army campaign against northern Germany.
* 30 January – Gaston, Duke of Orléans, breaks with Cardinal Richelieu and leaves the court.
* 3–4 February – Riots in Paris against wine tax and a rise in the price of bread.
* 23 February – Marie de' Medici is exiled to Compiègne.
* 30 March – The king at Dijon accuses accomplices of Gaston of Orléans of lèse-majesté.
* 6 April – War of the Mantuan Succession is ended by the Treaty of Cherasco (confirmed 19 June) by which France renounces its conquests in Italy but in fact by secret agreement retains Pinerolo.
* 23 May – Procession in Nice seeking relief from plague.
* 30 May
** Thirty Years' War: France and Bavaria sign the Treaty of Fontainebleau, forming a secret alliance; this is largely negated by autumn.
** La Gazette, the first French newspaper, is founded by Théophraste Renaudot.
** Gaston of Orléans issues at Nancy a manifesto against Richelieu.
* 14 June – The king at Saint-Germain-en-Laye establishes an extraordinary Chambre de justice to try crimes of counterfeit money.
* 4 July – 400 Piedmontais raise the garrison of the castle of Nice, which is almost destroyed.
* 18 July – Marie de' Medici leaves for the Low Countries.
* 5 August – Gaston of Orléans joins Marie de' Medici in Brussels.
* 1 September–10 October – National Synod of Charenton of the Protestant Reformed Church of France at Charenton-le-Pont.
* 4 September – Richelieu is granted the dignity of duc et pair. The following day, he is received by the Parlement of Paris.
* 16 September – The king names Richelieu as Governor of Brittany.
* Full date missing – Franco-Moroccan Treaty signed.

## Births

* 16 March – René Le Bossu, critic (died 1680)
* 28 May – Louis André, priest, missionary and translator (died 1715)
* 1 October
** Toussaint de Forbin-Janson, Catholic cardinal and Bishop of Beauvais (died 1713)
** Eugene Maximilian, Prince of Hornes (died 1709)
* 22 October – Gilles Boileau, translator (died 1669)
* 30 October – Pierre Beauchamp, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1705)
* 24 December – Gabrielle Suchon, Catholic moral philosopher and feminist (died 1703)
* Full date missing – Germain Audran, engraver (died 1710)

## Deaths

* 26 October – Catherine de Parthenay, noblewoman and mathematician (born 1554)
* 29 November – Edmond Richer, theologian (born 1559)
# Evelyn Shirley

Evelyn Shirley may refer to:
* Evelyn Shirley (1788–1856), Member of Parliament (MP)
* Evelyn Shirley (1812–1882), MP, son of the above
# John Sinclair (British Army officer)

Sir John Alexander Sinclair, KCMG, CB, OBE (29 May 1897 – 22 March 1977) was a British Army general who was head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from 1953 to 1956.

## Career

Sinclair was the second son of a Church of England priest, John Sinclair. He was educated at West Downs School, Winchester, and the Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth. He served in the Royal Navy during World War I but had to leave the Navy due to ill health. At the end of the war he transferred to the army and after training at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery. In 1938 he was appointed an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley. By 1941 he was Deputy Director of Operations at the War Office and then in 1942 he became Commander Royal Artillery for 1st Division. In 1944 he was appointed Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office. In 1946, while still in the army, he started working for the SIS.
Following his retirement from the military in 1952 as a Major-General, Sinclair was appointed head of the SIS, taking up the post in 1953. He led the Service through the transition from its wartime operations, directing operations in the emerging Cold War environment in a "practical and responsible fashion", "instead of accommodating the risk-takers". He also introduced reforms to recruitment and conditions of service designed to introduce a professional career structure within SIS suited to post-war conditions. His personal integrity was recognised not just by colleagues, but also by opponents.
Sir John's retirement coincided with a failed frogman mission to investigate the Sverdlov-class cruiser Ordzhonikidze that had brought the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, and Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin on a diplomatic mission to Britain, resulting in the death of frogman Lionel Crabb. The Prime Minister had not approved this mission and some accounts incorrectly claimed that Sir John had been forced to resign. The "Authorized History of MI5" confirms that the decision that the head of that service should succeed Sir John at his planned retirement date in 1956 had been taken by the Prime Minister in 1954.
# Expro

Expro is an energy services provider headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.

## History

The company was founded by J. Trewhella, J. Ross and H. Green in 1973 at Great Yarmouth as Exploration & Production Services (North Sea) Ltd with the objective of carrying out well testing in the North Sea. In 1986, about 84% of the company was acquired by Flextech from whom the management subsequently bought out the business in 1992. The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1994. In 2006, it acquired PowerWell Services, another leading well management concern, for $674.5 million.

### Takeover

In May 2008, Halliburton made a £1.7 billion takeover of the business, while a competing bid worth £1.8bn was made the following month by Umbrellastream, a Candover-led consortium also comprising Goldman Sachs and Alpinvest. An improved bid from Halliburton was then rejected by the Expro board, a position backed by the High Court after an appeal lodged by a group of activist shareholders. The acquisition of Expro by Umbrellastream was completed in July 2008.
In March 2021 Expro announced a merger with Frank's International. The merger was completed in October 2021 and began trading under NYSE:XPRO.
# John Purvey (MP)

John Purvey (by 1525 – 21 April 1583), of Wormley, Hertfordshire, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Huntingdon in October 1553, Horsham in November 1554, Hertfordshire in 1558, and Higham Ferrers in 1559 and 1563.
# John Purvis

John Purvis may refer to:
* John Purvis (politician) (1938–2022), Conservative MEP for Mid Scotland and Fife
* John Gordon Purvis (born 1942), man who spent nine years in prison for a murder he did not commit
* John Stanley Purvis (1890–1968), British clergyman, archivist, poet, and artist
# John Purvis (Royal Navy officer)

Vice Admiral John Brett Purvis (12 August 1787 – 1 October 1857) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, South East Coast of America Station.

## Naval career

Born the son of Admiral John Child Purvis, Purvis joined the Royal Navy in 1799. Promoted to commodore, he became Commander-in-Chief, South East Coast of America Station in March 1842. Promoted to rear admiral on 9 November 1846, he went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown in June 1852 and was promoted to vice admiral on 4 July 1853.
# Evloghios (Hessler)

Evloghios (Hessler) (secular name Klaus Augustin Hessler; February 21, 1935 – January 20, 2019) was Archbishop of Milan and Longobardia and Metropolitan of Aquileia and Western Europe, and Primate of the Holy Synod of Milan.
He was ordained a deacon in 1971; he was a bishop by 1986 and was elected Metropolitan in 1990.
The Holy Synod of Milan is not recognized by any mainstream Eastern Orthodox Church, therefore the church and its members are not in communion with any mainstream Eastern Orthodox denomination worldwide.
# Evliya Çelebi Way

The Evliya Çelebi Way is a cultural trekking route celebrating the early stages of the journey made in 1671 to Mecca by the eponymous Ottoman Turkish gentleman-adventurer, Evliya Çelebi. Evliya travelled the Ottoman Empire and beyond for some 40 years, leaving a 10 volume account of his journeys.

## Route

The Evliya Çelebi Way is a c.600 km-long trail for horse-riders, hikers and bikers. It begins at Hersek (a village in Altınova district), on the south coast of the Izmit Gulf, and traces Evliya's pilgrimage journey via Iznik, Yenişehir, Inegöl, Kütahya (his ancestral home), Afyonkarahisar, Uşak, Eski Gediz, and Simav. (Heavy urbanisation prevents the Way entering either Istanbul, from where he set out in 1671, or Bursa).
The Evliya Çelebi Way was inaugurated in autumn 2009 by a group of Turkish and British riders and academics. See Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, 'Expedition and Reenactment: Recovering the Ottoman Past through Creating the Evliya Celebi Way,' in Vanessa Agnew, Sabine Stach, and Juliane Tomann, eds., Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiental History (London and New York: Routledge, 2023): 195-216. A guidebook to the route, both English and Turkish, includes practical information for the modern traveller, day-by-day route descriptions, maps, photos, historical and architectural background, notes on the environment, and summaries of Evliya's description of places he saw when he travelled in the region, paired with what the visitor may see today.
# Ray Webster

Ray Webster may refer to:
* Ray Webster (first baseman) (born 1942 in Panama), Major League Baseball player
* Ray Webster (second baseman) (born 1937 in California), Major League Baseball player
* Ray Webster (footballer), Australian rules footballer, see Mike Cronin
* Ray Webster (horseman), Australian horseman, see List of Melbourne Cup winners
# Ranko Simović

Ranko Simović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ранко Симовић, born June 7, 1999) is a Serbian professional basketball player who currently plays for FMP of the ABA League as a loaned player of Crvena zvezda mts.

## Professional career

Simović grew up playing basketball for Mladost Čačak. In 2016, he was added to the Crvena zvezda U18 team.
On June 19, 2017, Simović signed a four-year contract with Crvena zvezda. Prior to the 2018–19 season he was loaned out to Vršac. Through 21 games in the 2018–19 ABA 2 season, he averaged 5.5 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 0.9 assists per game. In April 2019, he joined FMP for the rest of the 2018–19 season. In December, he was loaned to Sloboda Užice for the rest of the 2019–20 season.
In May 2022, Simović signed a two-year contract with FMP.

## National team career

Simović was a member of the Serbia under-18 team that finished 10th at the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship in Samsun, Turkey. Over seven tournament games, he averaged 3.8 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 0.6 assists per game. Simović was a member of the Serbian under-20 team that finished 15th at the 2019 FIBA U20 European Championship in Tel Aviv, Israel. Over seven tournament games, he averaged 9.9 points, 7.1 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per game.
# Rat Patrol (disambiguation)

Rat Patrol may refer to:
* The Rat Patrol, a television show
* "Rat Patrol", a song by Naked Raygun on Throb Throb
* "Rat Patrol", a song by They Might Be Giants on Long Tall Weekend
* "Rat Patrol", a song by the Untouchables on Flex Your Head
# Rat Portage 38A

Rat Portage 38A is a First Nations reserve on Lake of the Woods in northwestern Ontario. It is one of two reserves of the Obashkaandagaang Bay First Nation.
# 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons

Two cavalry regiments of the British Army have been numbered the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons:
* 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons (1759), (1759-1763)
* 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons (17th Lancers), raised as 18th Dragoons in 1759 and redesignated as a lancer regiment in 1861.
# 1731 in Ireland

Events from the year 1731 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: George II

## Events

* June 25 – the Royal Dublin Society is founded by members of the Dublin Philosophical Society, chiefly Thomas Prior and Samuel Madden, as the "Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry, Manufactures and other Useful Arts and Sciences".
* The Parliament of Ireland first meets in the new Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green in Dublin designed by Edward Lovett Pearce.

## Births

* January 25 – Robert Harpur, educator and politician in New York (d. 1825)
* May 28 – James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown, politician (d. 1810)
* Robert Barry, lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
* George Bryan, businessman, statesman and politician in Pennsylvania (d. 1791)
* John Butler, 12th Baron Dunboyne, apostate Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork (d. 1800)
* Approximate date – Richard Townsend, politician (d. 1783)

## Deaths

* April 15 – Oliver St George, politician (b. 1661)
* June 30 – Francis Bernard, lawyer and politician (b. 1663)
* August 4 – Gabriel O'Kelly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.
# John Stephenson (MP died 1794)

John Stephenson (c. 1709 – 17 April 1794) was a British Member of Parliament.
He was the son and heir of Thomas Stephenson of Bails and Crosslands, Alston, Cumbria and a Member of Parliament for various boroughs in the south-west from 1754 to 1755 and 1761 until his death in 1794.
He was a director of the British East India Company from 1765 to 1768, and had government victualling contracts in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland at the time of the American Revolution.
# 1755 (band)

1755 (pronounced seventeen fifty-five) is an Acadian band formed in 1975 by Kenneth Saulnier, Pierre Robichaud, Roland Gauvin, Donald Boudreau and Ronald Dupuis.

## History

The band was named after the Great Deportation of 1755, during which Acadians were deported from Acadia (present day Maritimes), and it is associated with Acadie's passage into modernity and for generating a new consciousness of Acadian pride and identity. The Acadian poet Herménégilde Chiasson wrote that 1755 was "much more than a band" but rather "the chant of a generation" and that their songs and lyrics remain the "testimony of a period of tension and affirmation". The group is considered an icon of modern Acadian culture, and is credited for launching the modern Acadian musical scene at the international level and for influencing several Acadian artists and bands that came after them, such as Fayo or Dominique Dupuis.
The band officially broke up in 1984, but began to reunite to play shows and summer tours, especially during Acadian-related festivities such as National Acadian Day. A particularly notable show was at the Moncton Coliseum, during the first Acadian World Congress in 1994, which was filmed and turned into a live album Les retrouvailles de la famille and a video release on VHS and DVD. The band toured through New Brunswick in 2009.
After the band broke up, its members went on with their musical careers. Gauvin joined the band Les Méchants Maquereaux and released a solo album in 2005. He also co-wrote the music for the 1995 documentary about the Acadian deportation. In 2001, Saulnier released the solo album Heritage. Robichaud released two solo albums, in 1998 and 2004. Dupuis formed the Glamour Puss Blues Band.
As of 2019, 1755 was still touring and performing.

## Musical style

1755 combines folk, country and rock, with traditional folk song lyrics, or original compositions from the band members, or from Acadian poet Gérald Leblanc. Most of the band's songs are performed in the French dialect of south eastern New Brunswick, known as "chiac", but some compositions are in English as well.

## Discography
### Albums

* 1755, 1978, Presqu'île Records
* Vivre à la Baie, 1979, Presqu'île Records
* Synergie, 1982, Le Barachois
* Les retrouvailles de la famille, Live Au Colisée De Moncton, 1994, ISBA Music Entertainment
* Yousque T'es Rendu? (re-release of Synergie), 1999, ISBA Music Entertainment
* Anthologie, 2012, Independent

### EPs and singles

* "Le Monde A Bien Changé" / "Le Monde Qu'on Connait", 1978, Presqu'île Records
* "C.B Buddie" / "Hallo Joe", 1978, Presqu'île Records
* "Je T'Aime" / "Disco Banjo", 1979, Presqu'île Records

## Awards and honors

* At the 2008 East Coast Music Awards, 1755 received the Dr Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award for their contribution to the music of the region.
# Expletive Delighted!

Expletive Delighted! is a 1986 album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, their fifteenth studio album since their debut in 1968. It is the band's only album consisting solely of instrumental tracks, despite the claim "Lyric sheet enclosed" on the album cover.
Ric Sanders, who had played on some tracks on the previous album Gladys' Leap, was invited to join Fairport full-time, as was Maartin Allcock; the result, according to Dave Pegg,
   "Ric and Maart were both writing stuff, composing these great instrumental pieces. I thought we should do something immediately, catch the moment. So we put out an all instrumental album, Expletive Delighted. I really wanted to show everyone just what these new chaps could do, how brilliantly they could play. ... The line-up meant we could tour again, it meant we had new material for Cropredy, it meant there was a Fairport again. So from 1986 on, Cropredy wasn't just a reunion festival any more. We had a band."
This new lineup would last for the next eleven years, the most stable of all of Fairport's configurations to that point.

## Reception

Allmusic's reviewer described Expletive Delighted! as "alternately enjoyable and maddening", criticising the prominence of Dave Mattacks's drums in the mix, while praising "Portmeirion" and the title track as "delicate and beautiful as any work that this version of the band has done".

## Track listing
### Side one

* "The Rutland Reel/Sack the Juggler" (Ric Sanders) - 3:20
* "The Cat on the Mixer/Three Left Feet" (Maartin Allcock) - 3:37
* "Bankruptured" (Dave Pegg) - 3:04
* "Portmeirion" (Ric Sanders) - 5:21
* "Jams O'Donnell's Jigs" (Dave Pegg) - 2:48

### Side two

* "Expletive Delighted" (Ric Sanders) - 1:55
* "Sigh Beg Sigh Mor" (O' Carolan) - 7:18
* "Innstuck" (Maartin Allcock) - 2:08
* "The Gas Almost Works" (John Kirkpatrick) 1:58
* "Hanks for the Memory" (various, arrangement by Jerry Donahue) - 4:38
** "Shazam!" (Duane Eddy, Lee Hazlewood)
** "Pipeline" (Bob Spickard, Brian Carmen)
** "Apache" (Jerry Lordan)
** "Peter Gunn" (Henry Mancini)

## Release history

* 1986, August : Woodworm Records WR009, UK LP; WRC004 UK Cassette
* 1986 : Varrick Records VR029, US LP
* 1986, December : Sandstock SSM019, Australia LP
* 1987, August : Entente 12-3074 (833 074-928), Germany, LP (different cover, gatefold sleeve)
* 1990 :Varrick CD-VR-029, US CD
* 1990 : Folkprint FP002CD, UK CD, reissue with Gladys' Leap

## Personnel
### Fairport Convention

* Maartin Allcock - guitars, bouzouki, mandolin
* Dave Mattacks - drums, percussion, keyboards
* Simon Nicol - guitars
* Dave Pegg - acoustic & bass guitars, mandola
* Ric Sanders - violin

### Additional musicians on "Hanks for the Memory"

* Jerry Donahue - guitar
* Richard Thompson - guitar

### Technical

* Tim Matyear - engineer
# Expleuracanthus

Expleuracanthus is a genus of xenacanthidan shark. It was erected by Hayler in 1969 as a replacement for Pleuracanthus, which had priority as a name for a genus of beetles. It is considered to be dubious due to it being based on non-diagnostic remains. It is probably a junior synonym of Triodus or Xenacanthus.
# 1818 in rail transport
## Events

* November 13 – Public meeting in Darlington, England, resolves to promote a Stockton and Darlington Railway.

## Births

* April 4 – Robert Pearson Brereton, chief assistant to Isambard Kingdom Brunel who completed many engineering projects after Brunel's death in 1859 (d. 1894)
* July 22 – J. Gregory Smith, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1866–1872, is born (died 1891)

### Unknown date births

* Septimus Norris, steam locomotive designer often credited as the designer of the first 4-6-0 (died 1862)
# 1816 Massachusetts's 11th congressional district special election

A special election was held in Massachusetts's 11th congressional district on August 26, 1816, to fill a vacancy left by the death of Elijah Brigham (F) on February 22, 1816.

## Election results

| Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
| Benjamin Adams | Federalist | 1,975 | 66.3% |
| Abraham Lincoln | Democratic-Republican | 1,002 | 33.7% |
Adams took his seat December 2, 1816 and was also elected in the November elections.
# 1834 in birding and ornithology

* Elizabeth Gould collaborates with Edward Lear in illustrating A Monograph of the Ramphastidae
* 1834-1835 Charles Coxen travels through the sparsely settled country between the Hunter and Namoi Rivers, including the Liverpool Plains, collecting specimens of birds and mammals.
* Permanent human settlement on Lord Howe Island begins the extinction of the Lord Howe swamphen or white gallinule, white-throated pigeon, red-crowned parakeet and the Tasman booby.
* Franz Meyen describes species then new to science such as the Humboldt penguin and the mountain caracara
* Thomas Nuttall publishes Volume 2 (and last) of Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada (1832 and 1834)
* Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger publishes Vollständiges Handbuch der Naturgeschichte der Vögel Europas
* Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby withdraws from politics to concentrate on birds.
* Pink-footed goose described by Louis Antoine François Baillon in Mémoires de la Société Royale d'Émulation d'Abbeville
Ongoing Events
New bird species described in this work in 1834 include Lincoln's sparrow, the king rail, Swainson's warbler and the Carolina chickadee
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# Sunnhordlands Kommunistblad

Sunnhordlands Kommunistblad was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Stord in Vestland county.

## History and profile

Sunnhordlands Kommunistblad was started on 6 January 1927 as the Communist Party organ in the region Sunnhordland. It was published weekly. However, the party struggled economically and the newspaper went defunct after its last issue on 5 July 1928.
After the Second World War, a short-lived Sunnhordland Arbeiderblad existed.
# 1999 Hertsmere Borough Council election

The 1999 Hertsmere Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Hertsmere Borough Council in Hertfordshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1998. The Conservative party gained overall control of the council from the Labour party.

## Election result

Hertsmere Local Election Result 1999 :
| Party | Seats | Net gain/loss | Seats % |
| Conservative | 20 | +9 | 51.3 |
| Labour | 13 | -9 | 33.3 |
| Liberal Democrats | 6 | 0 | 15.4 |