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# Taxus wallichiana

Taxus wallichiana, the Himalayan yew, is a species of yew, native to the Himalaya and parts of south-east Asia. The species has a variety of uses in traditional medicine. It is currently classified as endangered by the IUCN.

## Distribution and habitat

The species favours a reasonably wide range of habitats, growing in montane, temperate, warm temperate, and tropical submontane to high montane forests which may be deciduous, evergreen, or of mixed character. In forests, it tends to present as a low canopy tree; in open situations it usually forms a large, broadly spreading shrub. Elevation ranges from 900 m to 3,700 m.

## Growth

It is a medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree growing to 10 m tall, similar to Taxus baccata and sometimes treated as a subspecies of it. The shoots are green at first, becoming brown after three or four years. The leaves are thin, flat, slightly falcate (sickle-shaped), 1.5–2.7 cm long and 2 mm broad, with a softly mucronate apex; they are arranged spirally on the shoots but twisted at the base to appear in two horizontal ranks on all except for erect lead shoots. It is dioecious, with the male and female cones on separate plants; the seed cone is highly modified, berry-like, with a single scale developing into a soft, juicy red aril 1 cm diameter, containing a single dark brown seed 7 mm long. The pollen cones are globose, 4 mm diameter, produced on the undersides of the shoots in early spring.

## Species

Similar plants occurring further east through China to Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines are included in Taxus wallichiana as T. wallichiana var. chinensis (Pilger) Florin by some authors, but are more often treated as a separate species Taxus chinensis.

## Medicinal uses

The tree has medicinal use in Ayurveda and Tibetan medicine. Taxus wallichiana is also a source of the chemical precursors to the anticancer drug paclitaxel (taxol). Taxus wallichiana is used for making tea by the Bhotiya tribal community in the Garhwal Himalaya. The stem bark of this species, which is locally known as thuner, is collected for this purpose. This species is also used as fuelwood by the local communities. In Himachal it is known to be medicine for some types of cancer.

## Conservation

The Himalayan yew has been subject to heavy exploitation for its leaves and bark across most of its range through the Himalayas and western China. Declines have been particularly heavy in India and Nepal, with losses of up to 90% having been reported. The degree of exploitation in other locations in its range is less well known, but is also assumed to be serious. The species is currently classified as endangered by the IUCN. It is present in several protected areas, and at least some conservation and propagation measures are underway, with an eye to its commercial value in the medicine trade.
# The Blooming Angel

The Blooming Angel is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Madge Kennedy, Pat O'Malley, and Margery Wilson.

## Plot

Floss Brannon, ousted from college due to her mischievous behavior, marries Chester Framm, a struggling young student with aspirations of becoming an orator. Facing financial strain from Chester's meager income as an insurance clerk, Floss devises a solution by creating a complexion cream named "Angel Bloom." To leverage Chester's oratory skills for promoting Angel Bloom, Floss orchestrates a plan involving renting an elephant, coating it with the cream, and having Chester endorse the product while riding on the elephant's back.
However, Floss's scheme takes a downturn when the elephant collapses, leading her rival, Carlotta, to accuse her of animal cruelty. Floss's innocence is eventually established during the trial when the elephant unexpectedly recovers and makes a dramatic appearance outside the courtroom window. The resulting publicity brings significant financial success to Chester, Floss, and Angel Bloom.

## Cast

* Madge Kennedy as Floss
* Pat O'Malley as Chester Framm
* Margery Wilson as Carlotta
* Arthur Housman as Ramon
* James Robert Chandler as College Professor
* Vera Lewis as Floss's Aunt
* F. Blinn as Appelwaith
* William Courtright as Holbetter
# The Alice Ottley School

The Alice Ottley School was an independent all-girls' school in Worcester that existed under this name – referencing its first headmistress – between 1883 and 2007 before it merged with the Worcester Royal Grammar School.

## History

The Alice Ottley School was founded by Canon William Butler of Wantage and Alice Ottley in 1883. Canon Butler had arrived in Worcester in 1881 and he noted that whilst the provision of education for boys was good (with the Royal Grammar School and the King's School), there was nothing of the same calibre for girls. The school opened on 21 June 1883, with eleven girls registered, although owing to sickness, only ten girls began on the day. The school operated on a strong Anglican ethos throughout its 124-year history.
Alice Ottley remained headmistress until 1912. She had already resigned when she fell ill in June 1912. She died in London on 18 September, by coincidence the first day of the new term under her successor, Miss Margaret Spurling. She was buried at Astwood Cemetery, Worcester with the inscription "In Thy Light we shall see Light". In 1957, the City of Worcester added its own, more lasting, commemoration in the form of a window in the cloisters of the cathedral. It remains to this day.
In 2007 the former Alice Ottley School merged with the boys' school and in 2009 it abandoned its name and became part of "RGS Worcester".

## After Alice Ottley

Spurling was headmistress from 1912 until 1934. She was succeeded in 1934 by Hilda Roden, who continued as headmistress until 1964. After Roden retired, Eileene Millest became head, retaining the position until 1985. She was the last headmistress to live in a flat in Britannia House itself. Under her, the school expanded from 600 to around 750 girls, still including day-girls and boarders. As a consequence of this expansion, Millest oversaw a number of building projects, including a sports hall (1970–1971), science laboratories (1978), additional classrooms and food technology classrooms.
Millest was succeeded in 1986 by Christine Sibbit, who led the school until her retirement in 1999, when she was succeeded by Morag Chapman, the last headmistress of the school. During Sibbit's time, the school closed its boarding houses and became a day school only.
In its 124-year history, the school had six headmistresses, and a portrait of each hangs in Main Hall. In the last portrait of Mrs Chapman, she wears an enamel brooch which had belonged to Alice Ottley, depicting a white lily – the emblem of the school.

## Links and connections

The school had well-established links with Worcester Cathedral, where the annual Carol Service and Prize-giving were held. In Ottley's day, the school was associated with two great British artists: the composer Edward Elgar was a visiting teacher of the violin, whilst Lewis Carroll was a great friend of Ottley’s and regularly visited the school.

## Notable alumnae

* Vanessa Redgrave, actress
* Barbara Cartland, writer
* Sheila Scott, the first British pilot to make a solo round-the-world flight
* Nicci Gerrard, writer
* Rachel Trevor-Morgan, bespoke milliner
* Rosemary Hollis, international relations academic
# The Bing Crosby Show

The Bing Crosby Show can refer to any of the following, all starring American entertainer Bing Crosby:
* The Bing Crosby – Chesterfield Show, a 1949–52 weekly variety radio series
* The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric, a 1952–54 weekly variety radio series
* The Bing Crosby Show (TV special), a 1954 TV special
* The Bing Crosby Show (1954–1956), a daily radio series
* The Bing Crosby Show (1964 TV series), a TV sitcom
# SS Lichtenfels

SS Lichtenfels was an early example of a modern heavy-lift ship. She was launched in 1929 in Germany for DDG Hansa. She was equipped with a 120 t (118 long tons; 132 short tons) boom crane capable of lifting fully assembled railway locomotives, which were shipped to India.
In 1941 Lichtenfels was scuttled in the Red Sea as a blockship. In 1950 her wreck was raised and scrapped.

## Building

After the First World War a Norwegian company, Skibs A/S Christen Smiths Rederi, developed heavy-lift ships to carry locomotives from Great Britain to Belgium. The company began by having existing ships adapted, but in 1924 Armstrong Whitworth completed the first purpose-built heavy-lift ship for Christen Smith. By the end of 1926 Christen Smith had a fleet of several heavy-lift ships.
With Lichtenfels DDG Hansa began to compete in the heavy-lift market to take fully-assembled locomotives to India. Deschimag built Lichtenfels at its "Weser" yard in Bremen.
Lichtenfels was built with a Maierform bow with a convex profile, which was meant to improve both her speed and her handling. She had a three-cylinder triple-expansion engine plus a Bauer-Wach low-pressure exhaust steam turbine. Exhaust steam from the low-pressure cylinder of the triple-expansion engine powered the turbine. The turbine drove the same shaft as the piston engine by double-reduction gearing and a Föttinger fluid coupling. The combined power of her piston engine and turbine was 785 NHP.
As demand for locomotives from India continued, DDG Hansa ordered three sister ships from Deschimag: Freienfels launched in 1929, Geierfels launched in 1930 and Uhenfels launched in 1931.

## Identification

Lichtenfels' code letters were QMKB until 1933. In 1934 they were superseded by the call sign DOFY.

## Scuttling

On 25 October 1939, while off the Port Sudan Lichtenfels was ordered to Massawa in Italian Eritrea. During the East African campaign she stayed here for 18 months with nine other German merchant ships: Bertram Rickmers, Coburg, Crefeld, Frauenfels, Gera, Liebenfels, Oder, Oliva and Wartenfels.
On 4 April 1941 Lichtenfels and other German and Italian merchant ships were scuttled in an attempt to blockade the harbour. Her wreck was raised and scrapped in 1950.
# Zhanjiang Sports Centre

Zhanjiang Sports Centre (Chinese: 湛江体育中心) is a multi-use stadium in Zhanjiang, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The capacity of this stadium is 20,000.

## Footnotes

* ↑ 湛江市体育中心 - 中国自驾网
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# Siddhachalam

Siddhachalam is the first Jain Tirtha (pilgrimage site) located outside of India. Founded in 1983 by Sushil Kumar, it is located on a 108-acre (44ha) site in rural New Jersey, United States. Siddhachalam (Hindi: siddha, liberated souls; achal, a permanent place, as a mountain) literally means the abode of liberated souls.

## History

In 1980, Sushil Kumar encouraged his disciples to acquire a long-abandoned children's summer camp and founded an ashram there to teach ahimsa. Kumar reportedly engaged there in extended samadhi meditation. Twelve years later, he encouraged the community to establish temples in homage to Jinas. The ashram maintains the only Jain monastery outside India. Siddhachalam has become an important center of Jain conferences and an important Jain pilgrimage. The center houses idols from all Jain sects, given that American Jains have sought to not bring in sectarian differences from India.
In 2012, Siddhachalam became the site for the world's first full-scale, complete replication of Shikharji, the most important place of pilgrimage for the Jains. Shikharji at Siddhachalam is the first Jain place of pilgrimage outside India.
The main temple has marble idols of the tirthankaras Rishabha, Pārśva, Mahāvīra, Chandraprabha and Shantinatha. There is also a small temple where the main idol is Pārśva.
The ashram is also a nature preserve and wildlife sanctuary.
# Rodić

Rodić (Serbian Cyrillic: Родић, pronounced) is a Serbo-Croatian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Aleksander Rodić (born 1979), Slovenian football player
* Gabriel Rodić (1812–1890), Croatian general in the Austrian Empire
* Ivan Rafael Rodić, Croatian Franciscan priest, Archbishop of Belgrade
* Ivan Rodić, Croatian football player
* Milan Rodić, Serbian football player
* Silvio Rodić, Croatian football player
* Snežana Rodić, Slovenian triple jumper
* Vladimir Rodić, Montenegrin football player
# South West Cape (Tasmania)

South West Cape is a cape located at the south-west corner of Tasmania, Australia. The cape is situated in the south-western corner of the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) southwest of Hobart in Tasmania, and about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west and slightly north of South East Cape.
The cape is bound to the southeast and southwest by the Indian Ocean and is located south of Low Rocky Point and Point Hibbs.
The South West Cape Range provides a buffer between the cape and the inland wilderness area to the east and north, and the next range to the east is the Melaleuca Range. The high point of the southern end of the range, closest to the cape, is Mount Karamu at 439 metres (1,440 ft). The mount is named after the USS steam ship which foundered off the cape in 1925.
Wrecks and foundering of boats up to 500 kilometres (270 nmi; 310 mi) away in distance, are usually referred to this cape as an identification point, and mapping of the area usually uses the cape as a boundary between sections of the coast.
# USS Leyden (1865)

The first USS Leyden was a screw steamer that operated as a tug in the U.S. Navy from 1866 to 1903 and saw combat service in the Spanish–American War in 1898.

## History

Leyden was launched in 1865 by James Tetlow, Chelsea, Massachusetts. From 1866 to 1879 she operated as a yard tug at the Boston Navy Yard, performing various harbor duties out of Boston, Massachusetts, until reassigned to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1879. Leyden served there until 1897, when she was assigned to Newport, Rhode Island. While the ship was near Boston on 26 August 1881, Seaman Michael Thornton jumped overboard and rescued a fellow sailor from drowning, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
In 1898, Leyden performed towing operations off Cuba during the Spanish–American War. On 21 July 1898, her captain, Ensign Walter S. Crosley, using her one-pound guns, joined armed yacht USS Wasp, and gunboats USS Annapolis and USS Topeka in firing on and sinking the Spanish sloop Jorge Juan in Nipe Bay, Cuba, in the Battle of Nipe Bay. She also fought at the Battle of Fajardo the night of 8–9 August, bombarding enemy positions to support bluejackets from USS Amphitrite holding the Cape San Juan Light against a Spanish ground attack. The next morning, Leyden transported 60 women and children from the town of Fajardo that had been quartered at the lighthouse to Ponce, Puerto Rico.
From 1898 to 1903, Leyden alternated her services between the Caribbean and Newport, Rhode Island. While on a return passage from Puerto Rico on 21 January 1903, the tug foundered in heavy fog off Block Island, ending her lengthy career. Ordinary Seaman Ernest H. Bjorkman, Fireman First Class Loddie Stupka, Quartermaster Third Class August P. Teytand, and Chief Machinist Michael Walsh received the Medal of Honor "for heroism at the time of the wreck of that vessel".

## Awards

* Sampson Medal
* Spanish Campaign Medal
# USCGC Harriet Lane (WSC-141)

The USCGC Harriet Lane (WSC-141) was a 125-foot patrol boat, commonly known as a "buck-and-a-quarter", 1926–1946.
She was the second ship named for Harriet Lane. She was based in Boston, Provincetown and Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 1941, the cutter served in World War II, and after for the Fifth Coast Guard District, home ported in Norfolk, Virginia. She was decommissioned in 1946, and became the merchant vessel Humble AC-4 in 1949.
# USS Wapakoneta

USS Wapakoneta has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
* USS PC-579, a patrol craft in commission from 1942 to 1955, which was given the name USS Wapakoneta (PC-579) in February 1956 after she was decommissioned and which she held while in reserve until stricken in 1960.
* Wapakoneta (YTB-766), a large harbor tug in service from 1963 to 2001
# Udež

Udež (Serbian Cyrillic: Удеж) is a village in the municipality of Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
# USS Frigate Bird

USS Frigate Bird is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:
* USS Frigate Bird (AMc-27), served in a non-commissioned status in the 13th Naval District between 30 January 1941 and 27 April 1943
* USS Frigate Bird (AMS-191), was launched 24 October 1953 by Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Quincy, Massachusetts
# USS Fresno (CL-121)

The second USS Fresno (CL-121) was a United States Navy Juneau-class light cruiser launched on 5 March 1946 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Kearny, New Jersey, sponsored by Mrs. Ruth R. Martin; and commissioned on 27 November 1946, with Captain Elliott Bowman Strauss in command. She was reclassified CLAA-121 on 18 March 1949.

## Service history

During her first operational cruise, from 13 January-7 May 1947, Fresno not only concluded her preliminary training in the Caribbean, but also visited Montevideo, Uruguay, during a presidential inauguration and called at Rio de Janeiro. On 1 August, she sailed from Norfolk, Virginia for a tour of duty which took her to ports both of northern Europe and the Mediterranean, returning to Norfolk on 1 December.
A second overseas deployment, from 3 March-19 June 1948, found Fresno visiting Amsterdam, Dublin, Bergen, and Copenhagen from her overseas base at Plymouth, England. Her coastwise operations from Norfolk included cruises to Prince Edward Island and Bermuda prior to her decommissioning at New York Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1949. Placed in reserve, she was berthed at Bayonne, New Jersey. She was sold for scrap on 17 June 1966.

## Awards

* World War II Victory Medal
* Navy Occupation Medal with "EUROPE" clasp
# US Education Fair Moscow

US Education Fair Moscow is the first social-oriented and non-commercial exhibition project covering all the segments of US education ― from K-12 to higher. The project takes place in Moscow.

## Mission

To improve competitiveness of Russian managerial personnel, help find fresh knowledge and ideas in humanities and technological areas, to provide additional impetus to the development of cultural and educational exchange between Russia and the United States, thereby strengthening bonds of collaboration and trust shared by those two countries.

## The organizer

Moskau Messe Exhibition Company

## The venue

One of the most storied exhibition grounds in Moscow, Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Centre located in the like-named park, will serve as the event's venue.
It is particularly fitting that in 1959 Sokolniki was the site for the first exhibition in Russia dedicated to American industrial production.

## About the project

Special non-commercial exposition American Education Area including some thematic zones to be organized within the framework of the exhibition:
* US Education Geography: Colleges and Universities
* English testing area
* American student communities
* US education: history
* The Ivy League
* 50 Top American Universities
* Webcast zone (where prospective students may ask US education representatives any questions on-line).
# R&B Transmogrification

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.8/10 |
| Record Collector | |
R&B Transmogrification is the second studio album by the American indie band Quasi. It was released on March 25, 1997, on Up Records.

## Critical reception

Record Collector wrote that the album is "clever from the get-go; between their heavily distorted rocksichord (a kind of electronic keyboard made to approximate the sound of a harpsichord) and lyricism that tells of the worst kind of heartbreak, there’s a sort of commercial viability without selling the soul of these songs." Trouser Press thought that "the imaginative music includes everything commercial pop lacks: the pioneering spirit navigating a sinking ship, violations of civilized taste and neurotic condemnations."

## Track listing

All tracks by Sam Coomes except "Bird's Eye View" by Janet Weiss and Coomes.
* "Ghost Dreaming" – 3:24
* "Ballad of Mechanical Man" – 3:13
* "In the First Place" – 4:02
* "Bird's Eye View" – 3:23
* "Two-Faced" – 2:53
* "Ghost vs. Vampire" – 3:26
* "R&B Transmogrification" – 2:29
* "When I'm Dead" – 2:20
* "Sugar" – 5:27
* "My Coffin" – 3:59
* "Mama, Papa, Baby" – 2:59
* "Chocolate Rabbit" – 3:24
* "Iron Worm" – 3:18
* "Clouds" – 2:52

## Personnel

* Sam Coomes – vocals, guitars, Roxichord, keyboards
* Janet Weiss – vocals, drums
* Charlie Campbell – recording engineer, mixing
* Quasi – recording engineer, mixing
* Tony Lash – mastering
# UST Museum of Arts and Sciences

The University of Santo Tomas Museum is the oldest existing museum in the Philippines. It started as a Gabinete de Fisica, or observation room, of mineral, botanical and biological collections in the 17th century. Under the old Spanish educational law the collections were used as classroom materials, especially in Medicine and Pharmacy.

## History

Ramon Martinez, O.P., a professor of natural history, founded the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences in 1871. However, it was Casto de Elera, O.P., who started to systematically gather and catalogue all the collections, some of which date back to 1682.
Considered the oldest school-based museum in the Philippines, the UST Museum became a repository of scientific and artistic articles, and objets d’art. Starting in 1941, the museum acquired the works of Filipino masters such as Fernando and Pablo Amorsolo, Carlos Francisco, Vicente Manansala, and Galo Ocampo. The museum has permanent displays for specimens of natural history, ethnographic materials, Oriental art objects, Philippine religious images, paintings, and Coins, Medals, and Memorabilia. The painting collection includes works from the 17th to the 20th century.
The museum also houses the museum gallery, a souvenir shop, and a mini-library. The museum gallery has served as the venue for art exhibitions.

## Collections

* Natural history
* Visual arts
* Philippine religious images
* Coins, medals and memorabilia
* Non-Philippine Oriental arts
* Ethnography

## Facilities

* Library
* Museum gallery
* Curio shop
* Conservation laboratory
# UST Plaza Mayor

The UST Plaza Mayor in Manila, Philippines is a large plaza located in the center of the University of Santo Tomas.

## History

The Plaza Mayor was the location where the Americans declared the liberation of the Santo Tomas internees in 1945.
Prior to the existence of the plaza, the front yard of the UST Main Building served as a parking area and pedestrian. A small street called Benavides Drive traversed the area to connect the Quezon Drive and the Osmeña Drive. As part of the university's preparation for the Quadricentennial Celebration, the area was refurbished to enhance the structural magnificence of the Main Building.

## Features

The plaza has a rectangular plan divided into 13 vertical segments of alternating terracotta and gray-colored tiles. Fourteen twin-head Victorian lamp posts line the 2 ends of the quadrangle. The plaza is contiguous with the Plaza Benavides by the M.H. Del Pilar Lane, the Burgos Lane, and the Chinese tombstone.
On the southeast flank of the quadrangle, stand a statue of a tiger and the UST block letters. The current tiger statue, unveiled in August 2022, is about 8 feet long.