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# Léon Vallas

Léon Vallas (17 May 1879 in Roanne – 9 May 1956 in Lyon) was a 20th-century French musicologist.

## Biography

Orphaned at 8 years of age, after studying at the St. Mary's Institution at St. Chamond, held by the Marists, he passed his baccalaureate and studied medicine in Lyon, which he dropped out. In 1908, he defended a thesis of musicology on La Musique à l'Académie de Lyon au XVIIIe ("Music at the Academy of Lyon in the 17th Century").
A collaborator of Vincent d'Indy, in 1902 he became a music critic at Tout Lyon, then founded La Revue musicale de Lyon in 1903, which later became the Revue française de musique in 1912, and then the Nouvelle revue musicale in 1920. He was involved in the creation of the "Société des grands concerts" in 1905, with the composer Georges Martin Witkowski and the construction of the Salle Rameau [fr] in 1908.
A physician during the war, he received his doctorate in 1919 on Un Siècle de musique et de théâtre à Lyon (1688–1789) ("A Century of Music and Theatre in Lyon (1688–1789)") and returned to Le Progrès in Lyon where he was a music critic for 35 years.
In 1925, he founded the "Conférences de musique vivante" in Paris and taught courses at the Sorbonne from 1928 to 1930. From 1929 to 1935, he lectured worldwide for the Alliance Française, which led him to be made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1934.
He was elected president of the Société française de musicologie in 1937, until 1943 and a member of the Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon in 1947. He applied twice (1924 and 1941), unsuccessfully, to the leadership of the Conservatoire de musique de Lyon.
He married pianist and singer Paule de Lestang in 1936, and then resided until his death at 286 rue Vendôme, in Lyon.
His biographies of Franck, Debussy and D'Indy constitute the essence of his work as a historian.

## Publications

* La Musique à l'Académie de Lyon au dix-huitième siècle (Lyon: Éditions de la Revue musicale de Lyon, 1908) (Read online)
* Le Théâtre et la Ville: 1694–1712 (Lyon: Cumin et Masson, 1919)
* Debussy (1862–1918) (Paris: Plon, 1926)
* Un Siècle de musique et de théâtre à Lyon (1688–1789) (Lyon: Masson, 1932)
* Les Idées de Claude Debussy, musicien français (Paris: Éditions musicales de la Librairie de France, 1927; translated into English by Maire O'Brien, Oxford: University Press, 1929)
* Claude Debussy et son temps (Paris: F. Alcan, 1932; reissued Paris: Albin Michel, 1958; translated into German, Munich: Nymphenburger Verlags-Handlung, 1961)
* Achille-Claude Debussy (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1944) (rééd. 1949)
* Vincent d'Indy (Paris: Albin Michel, 2 vols. (1. La Jeunesse, 1851–1886, 1946; 2. La Maturité, la vieillesse, 1886–1931, 1949)
* La Véritable histoire de César Franck (Paris: Flammarion, 1955)
# Semisi

Semisi is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Semisi Fakahau (1948−2022), Tongan politician
* Semisi Fonua (1911–1968), Tongan noble
* Semisi Masirewa (born 1992), Fijian rugby union player
* Semisi Naevo (born 1975), Fijian rugby union player
* Semisi Paea (born 1999), Tongan rugby union player
* Semisi Sika (born 1968), Tongan politician
* Semisi Tapueluelu (born 1949), Tongan politician
* Semisi Taulava (born 1983), Tongan rugby union player
* Semisi Telefoni (born 1982), New Zealand-born Tongan rugby union player
* Semisi Tora (born 1979), Fijian rugby league player
* Semisi Tupou (born 1999), Australian rugby union player
* Peniuto Semisi (fl. 1990), Tokelauan politician
# Saperda imitans

Saperda imitans is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Felt and Joutel in 1904. It is known from Canada and the United States.
# LxD-class amphibious warfare ship

The LxD is an initiative by the Italian Navy to procure a series of two amphibious warfare ships (with the option for a third vessel) as a replacement for the aging San Giorgio class.

## History

The Italian Navy received the approval in 2010 to procure two 20,000-ton 190-metre (623 ft 4 in) long amphibious assault ships (landing helicopter dock), with the possibility of a third ship, configured with extensive aviation facilities (landing helicopter assault).
In more recent designs the ships are shown as 16,500-ton 160-metre (520 ft) landing platform docks with two helicopter landing spots on the aft deck. The first two ships are expected to enter service from 2028 to 2030. If the option is taken, the third ship will enter service after 2031.
# Loose Change (book)

Loose Change (Doubleday: Garden City) is a non-fiction biography from 1977 by the American author Sara Davidson. The book follows the changing fortunes, lives, friendships, attitudes and characters of three women, beginning with their meeting as freshmen at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s. Sara (Davidson), Susie, and Tasha experience the radical changes that went through American culture in that era, observing or being involved in student protests, drug use, the Civil Rights Movement, the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, communes, free sex, and the popular music of the times. Over the course of the book, they become closer and then diverge in their viewpoints and propinquity.

## Television miniseries and NBC technical error

A three-part NBC television miniseries, also called Loose Change, was televised February 26 to 28, 1978. Season Hubley and Cristina Raines starred.
When the miniseries was originally televised, NBC broadcast the third part accidentally on February 27 to its East Coast affiliates due to technical difficulties; after 16 minutes of the third part being played, the error was discovered and the network aired the second part, in its entirety. In a separate incident, NBC affiliate KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah, censored part of the first part of the miniseries by removing three minutes. This caused issues in Boise, Idaho, because at the time all NBC programming to Idaho and Montana was routed through Salt Lake City; the general manager of KTVB was irked that KUTV was able to dictate what was or wasn't seen on his station.
The miniseries was re-edited and cut down to four hours (from the original six) and re-broadcast as Those Restless Years July 8 and 15, 1979.
# Reticon

The Reticon Corporation was incorporated in January 1971 in Sunnyvale CA. It is one of several semiconductor companies formed in the '60s and '70s by former employees of Fairchild Semiconductor. Intel, another one of these companies, was an early investor, holding a 22% share in the company.
Co-founder Gene Weckler started Reticon after several years at Shockley and eight years at Fairchild Semiconductor. He served as VP from 1971 until 1997. He states that Reticon developed and marketed the first solid state imaging devices, the first digital imaging cameras, and the first computer-controlled vision systems marketed in the USA. They also introduced the first commercially available switched-capacitor filters, and a variety of discrete-time analog signal processing. Other founders included Ed Snow and John Rado.
The company is known as a pioneer in certain technologies including the BBD (bucket-brigade device) and CCD (charge-coupled device). This included creation of such integrated circuits as the SAD512, SAD1024, SAD4096, R5101 and R5601. These were popularly used by companies such as MXR, Boss Corporation, Electro-Harmonix, A/DA and others in various electric guitar effects such as analog delay, chorus and flanging devices through the 1970s and 1980s. Reticon also made very steep analog filters useful for audio measurement.
In 1977, EG&G bought Reticon.
In June 1999, EG&G purchased Perkin-Elmer Analytical Instruments for $425 million. Reticon then became part of the new Optoelectronics division.
Weckler went on to form Rad-icon Imaging Corporation in 1997, where he continued to work in semiretirement until 2009.
The former Reticon group was shuttered by PerkinElmer in the mid 2000s, with some employees and assets transferring into the Amorphous Silicon division. PerkinElmer Optoelectronics was then spun off into Excelitas Technologies.
# Mehikoorma Umbjärv

Mehikoorma Umbjärv is a lake in Estonia.
# Tsiodras

Tsiodras is a surname of Greek origin.

## People with the surname

* Dimitris Tsiodras (born 1959), Greek politician
* Sotiris Tsiodras, Australia-born Greek pathologist physician
# Gaddings Dam

Gaddings Dam is a locally owned reservoir near to Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England. The dam was built to power water mills in the Todmorden area, being superseded by steam power and left redundant. It is notable for having a sandy beach at the north-eastern side which attracts people to it during the summer months, although it is known for its all-year round wild swimming opportunities. The presence of the sandy shore means the site is often labelled as the "highest beach in Britain", though there are other inland locations with beaches at a higher altitude.

## History

Historically, Gaddings Dam was actually two reservoirs built adjacent to each other, with water entering the valley via Lumbutts Clough. The earlier easterly dam was built to supply water to the mill owners in Lumbutts, but in 1824, the owners of the Rochdale Canal agreed to supplement the supply of water with a western dam due to the availability of water for the millworkings. Gaddings is an embankment dam, that has a perimeter of 3,000 feet (900 m), an average depth of 12 feet (3.6 m), a surface area of 7.4 acres (3 ha), and a catchment area of 20 acres (8 ha).
In 1923, the dam (along with many others that fed the Rochdale Canal), was sold to the Oldham and Rochdale Corporations as a freshwater supply reservoir. The easterly dam was described in 1988 as "..having dried up long ago..", leaving just the western dam with water. In 2001, the Gaddings Dam Preservation Company bought the deeds to the dam for £1,500 on condition that the dam was preserved for the local community.
On hot days, people from the local area are known to make the 780-foot (240 m) hike to the dam to cool off (there is no direct road access). Due to its height above sea level (1,150 feet (350 m)), it is often called the "highest beach in Britain", although the owners are quick to point out that this is not true, as many locations in the Lake District have beaches which are higher; even Warland Reservoir, a body of water just to the south-east of Gaddings Dam has a beach at a higher altitude. Even though the dam is known for its year-round wild swimming, the owners and local authorities highlight that there are no changing facilities, toilets, or lifeguards on patrol at the dam. The owners state that the beach has been created by sandstone (the dominant local stone in the area) being broken down by weathering, and being pushed with the prevailing wind to the north-eastern edge of the reservoir. Another possibility for the sand is that it is the broken down remains of stones used for dressing the dam walls.
# Rossi Model 971

The Rossi Model 971 is a revolver manufactured by the Rossi Firearm Company of Brazil, which was owned by the Interarms Firearms of Alexandria, Virginia.

## Description

The 971 is offered in calibers .38 Special +P and .357 Magnum only. The revolver is double-action and it fires six rounds per load. It weighs 1 lb. 14oz. It is 9-1/8" long (depending on barrel length) and it is 5-7/16" high. It is made of steel and its finish is blued. The 971 was also manufactured in a stainless steel model. The 971's sights are adjustable and its sight radius is 5-15/16".

## Variants

Along with the 971 Rossi also produces the Model 972. This is a polished stainless steel version of the 971 with a 6" barrel length. Both revolvers have a rubberized finger-groove grip and adjustable rear sight (both windage and elevation). The 971 and 972 are both produced in Brazil by Taurus Firearms Ltd. under license from Rossi USA.
Both the models 971 and 972 are certified for use with .38 Special +P rounds, and had a limited lifetime warranty through Rossi USA.
# Selden Roll

The Selden Roll is a 16th-century Mexican manuscript painted roll from the Coixtlahuaca region, incorporating both Mixtec and Aztec elements, probably recording myths of the origin and migration of divine ancestors.
The Selden Roll belonged to the English jurist John Selden, who died in 1654 and left his collection of books and manuscripts to the University of Oxford. It is held at the Bodleian Library (shelfmark MS. Arch. Selden. A. 72 (3)).
The roll was shown in a small public exhibition at the Bodleian Library in 2015 entitled "The Roll of the New Fire (Selden Roll): Painting from Early Colonial Mexico".
The Bodleian Library holds four other Mesoamerican codices: Codex Bodley, Codex Laud, Codex Mendoza, and Codex Selden.

## Gallery

* Other views of the Seldon Roll on display at the Bodelian Library
# Lori Mai

Lori Ann Duque Mai (November 16, 1977 – September 16, 2009) was a German–American folk rock singer and musician.

## Early life

Mai was born in Dallas, Texas to American parents. She grew up in Cooper City, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale with her mother, Carolyn Cooper Stoner, her sister, Lisa Duque Zilinski and stepfather, Marvin E Stoner, Jr. a Broward County Sheriff Deputy Chief, In 1990, she moved to Mission, Texas to live with her father Joe Duque for a couple of years, moved back to Florida and then in 1999 moved to Berlin.

## Music career

In February 2008, Mai was a candidate of the casting television show, Deutschland sucht den Superstar. She performed from a motorized wheelchair because she was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Later, she acquired a record deal with Music 2 Gold and produced her first and only album, Be What I Am, released on May 9, 2008.

## Personal life

Mai was married and had two children, Alenka and Anuschka, whom she had lived with during her residence in both Estenfeld and Berlin.

## Discography
### Albums

* Be What I Am (2008)

### Singles

* Killing Me Softly (2008)
* My Promise (2008)

## Death

Mai died on September 16, 2009, in Mission, Texas, from complications due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
# Rhinotia hemisticta

Rhinotia hemisticta is a species of weevil in the family Belidae, commonly referred to as the long-nosed weevil, or long nosed weevil. It is found in Australia, is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, and is found in wooded areas.
It was first described by Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1848 as Belus hemistictus.
* A long-nosed weevil feeding on acacia leaves in south east New South Wales
* High magnification image of a long nosed weevil showing head detail
* Taking flight
# Meautys

Meautys is a surname, there are several variant spellings in use. Notable people with the surname include:
* Jane Meautys, English courtier
* Thomas Meautys (1592–1649), English civil servant and politician
* Peter Meutas (died 1562), English courtier and soldier
# Paddy Gray (footballer)

Patrick Gray (born 4 December 1872) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre-half.
# Gaddipur

Gaddipur is a village in Salon block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 2 km from Salon, the block and tehsil headquarters. As of 2011, Gaddipur has a population of 548 people, in 104 households. It has no schools and no healthcare facilities, and it does not host a permanent market or a periodic haat.
The 1961 census recorded Gaddipur as comprising 2 hamlets, with a total population of 182 people (86 male and 96 female), in 35 households and 35 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 157 acres.
The 1981 census recorded Gaddipur as having a population of 176 people, in 19 households, and having an area of 64.35 hectares. The main staple foods were given as wheat and rice.
# Homalocalyx pulcherrimus

Homalocalyx pulcherrimus is a member of the family Myrtaceae endemic to Western Australia.
The spreading to semi-prostrate shrub typically grows to a height of 0.1 to 0.6 metres (0.3 to 2.0 ft). It blooms between September and December producing red-pink-purple flowers.
It is found on sand plains in an area where the Goldfields-Esperance meets the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia between Kondinin and Coolgardie where it grows in sandy soils.
# Selden Neck State Park

Selden Neck State Park is a 607-acre (246 ha) island and public recreation area on the Connecticut River in the town of Lyme, Connecticut. Accessible only by boat, the state park has four areas for primitive, riverside camping. Hiking, fishing, and hunting are also available. The park was among the first parcels secured for park purposes by the state, with initial land purchases on the island made in 1917. It is managed by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

## Setting

Selden Neck State Park is located on Selden Island, and is not actually a neck or peninsula. It is located on the east side of the Connecticut River south of Gillette Castle State Park, and is separated from the mainland by Selden Creek, land owned by the Nature Conservancy. The roughly lozenge-shaped island is about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) at its widest point and about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long. It is primarily wooded except for a fringe of tidal marshes, and has a high point of 230 feet (70 m).

## Features

The island is entirely roadless, but there are hiking trails on it. The main campground is located on the river side near the northern end. The island also has the remains of a quarry, located near the southeastern end. Begun in the late 19th century, the quarry provided red sandstone pavers for New York City and other regional cities. In addition to the quarry itself, the remains of a causeway for bringing stone from the quarry to the shore also survive.
The island also has a documented prehistory. Excavations on the island in the 1980s uncovered a sizable Middle Woodland Period village, with radiocarbon dates to c. 1000 CE. Stone tools, pottery fragments, and animal bones are among the many artifacts found in the excavation, which only covered an estimated 2% of the site, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
# Ubaldo Ranzi

Ubaldo Ranzi (18 July 1970) is a former Italian decathlete and bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

## Biography

Born in England to an Italian father and a British mother, he won a gold medal in the two-man event at the 1999 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo and won a silver medal (with Gunther Huber), in 2000 always in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Before starting his bobsleigh career he collected 6 caps in Italy national athletics team from 1993 to 1996. Ranzi held the fourth performance of all-time of Italy in the speciality of the decathlon.

## Doping and world champion medal

In 1998 Ranzi was found positive for doping at the Italian decathlon championships. While waiting for the counter-analysis, he was allowed to compete in the world bobsleigh championships, a sport in which he had only four months of training. Going as a reserve in the two-man bob, he incredibly won the world gold medal as he found himself replacing the titular brakeman Enrico Costa injured in the heat.
Even more strange is the fact that the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) has even awarded the athlete who instead perhaps should not have even participated in those world bobsleigh championships, because he was positive for doping, therefore, as per regulation, prohibited from participating in competitions in that sport. (athletics) pending counter-analysis and possible disqualification, obviously not in another sport (bobsleigh).

## National titles
### Athletics

Ubaldo Ranzi has won one time the individual national championship.
* 1 win in the decathlon (1993)
# Rhinostomus frontalis

Rhinostomus frontalis is a species of weevils, previously placed in a genus called Yuccaborus and known as the yucca weevils.
# Meautis Airfield

Meautis Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield, which is located near the commune of Méautis in the Normandy region of northern France.
Located to the east of Méautis, the United States Army Air Force established a temporary airfield on 24 July 1944, shortly after the Allied landings in France The airfield was constructed by the IX Engineering Command, 840th Engineer Aviation Battalion.

## History

Known as Advanced Landing Ground "A-17", the airfield consisted of a single 5000' (1500m) Prefabricated Hessian Surfacing/Compressed Earth runway (3600 PHS/1400 ETH) aligned 10/28.
In addition, tents were used for billeting and also for support facilities; an access road was built to the existing road infrastructure; a dump for supplies, ammunition, and gasoline drums, along with a drinkable water and minimal electrical grid for communications and station lighting.
The 50th Fighter Group, based P-47 Thunderbolt fighters at Meautis from 15 August though 6 September 1944.
The fighter planes flew support missions during the Allied invasion of Normandy, patrolling roads in front of the beachhead; strafing German military vehicles and dropping bombs on gun emplacements, anti-aircraft artillery and concentrations of German troops in Normandy and Brittany when spotted.
After the Americans moved east into Central France with the advancing Allied Armies, the airfield was closed on 7 September 1944. Today the airfield consists of agricultural fields, likely located to the east of the commune, as a large section of land appears to have an outline of an airfield by its field shapes.
# Tryne Sound

Tryne Sound (68°25′S 78°25′E﻿ / ﻿68.417°S 78.417°E﻿ / -68.417; 78.417) is a short, narrow passage on the north side of Langnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, connecting Tryne Bay and Tryne Fjord. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936–37) and named Tryne Sund (snout sound).
This article incorporates public domain material from "Tryne Sound". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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# Homalocalyx inerrabundus

Homalocalyx inerrabundus is a member of the family Myrtaceae endemic to Western Australia.
The shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 metres (1.6 ft). It blooms between September and November producing violet-pink flowers.
It is found on sand plains in a small are in the Mid West region of Western Australia near Geraldton where it grows in sandy and sandy-loamy soils.
# Ross Steele

Ross Steele AM is an Australian author, academic and Francophile.
During his career he has held teaching positions at the "Paris-Sorbonne University, the University of New South Wales, Harvard University, and the University of Sydney". He has published thirty-seven books in French and English on subjects including French culture, language and the teaching of French language.
Steele has received a number of awards including Member of the Order of Australia (2006), Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (1996), and Officier in the Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur in 2008.
Steele is mentioned in the closing credits of the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
# Valley Memorial Park (Alaska)

Valley Memorial Park (also known as Valley Memory Garden and Butte Cemetery) is a cemetery in Palmer in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska.
# Sennar penduline tit

The Sennar penduline tit (Anthoscopus punctifrons) is a species of bird in the family Remizidae, the most northerly member of the genus Anthoscopus. It is found in Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.