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# Metallic starling

The metallic starling (Aplonis metallica), also known as the shining starling, is a bird in the starling family native to the Moluccas, New Guinea, Queensland and the Solomon Islands.

## Description

The adult has brilliant red eyes, a long forked tail and green-glossed black plumage. Immatures are pale below with dark streaks.

## Behaviour

They are very social and flocks of them build messy suspended globular nests in tall rain forest trees where they breed, possibly only during the wet season (north-west monsoon, October–March) (observed at Kokopo, East New Britain Province, 2016). They are not fearful of humans and their activity on the ground below, being well separated from them by altitude, but a loud noise will see them fly out in a tight formation, circle, then return to their nests. Their movement is very fast. During the early part of the 20th century, a flock (or flocks) were seen to migrate during August to Dunk Island in far north Queensland, where they mate, preparing messy globular nests for their young which hang from tall trees. There they remain until April, whereupon they make their return journey to New Guinea. They are also seen in other areas of Queensland including Kuranda in the Atherton Tablelands, and Mossman Gorge.

## Gallery

* Phoenix Zoo, Arizona
* Juveniles, Cairns Esplanade, North Queensland
* Female with nest - Cairns, Queensland
* Feeding on Ptychosperma elegans fruit in Cairns, Queensland
* Metallic Starlings around high nests in the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland.
* Male at San Diego Zoo, California, USA
* Cairns
# Merrimack

Merrimack may refer to:
* Merrimack, New Hampshire, a town
* Merrimack County, New Hampshire
* Merrimack River, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
* Merrimack Valley, the region surrounding the river
* Merrimac, California, also spelled Merrimack

## Education

* Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts
* Merrimack High School, Merrimack, New Hampshire
* Merrimack Valley High School, Penacook, New Hampshire

## Other uses

* Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company based in Massachusetts
* USS Merrimack, several ships
# Metadioctria

Metadioctria is a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least three described species in Metadioctria.

## Species

* Metadioctria parvula (Coquillett, 1893)
* Metadioctria resplendens (Loew, 1872)
* Metadioctria rubida (Coquillett, 1893)
# Micah Williams

Micah Williams may refer to:
* Micah Williams (painter) (1782–1837), American painter
* Micah Stephen Williams (born 1991), American actor
* Micah Williams, birth name of comedian, Katt Williams (born 1971)
* Micah Williams (sprinter) (born 2001), American sprinter
# Michael Adamson

Michael Adamson (born June 30, 1971) is a Canadian painter, photographer and curator who is primarily known for a style that blends landscape with abstraction but abstraction wins.

## Biography

Michael Adamson was born in Toronto and initially studied photography at Ryerson University where he became interested in photo-conceptualism. Motivated to study more closely the Vancouver School Adamson transferred to study art at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver where his instructors included Ian Wallace. In his third year, he studied at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany where he became fascinated with Gerhard Richter, as were other painting students.

## Work

Adamson's breakthrough as a painter in Canada came in 1998 when he started to compose paintings in which he used grids to mirror the material of the canvas. His painterly signature is composed of discs of bright pigment applied to brilliantly hued canvas.At first influenced by modernist painters, such as Hans Hofmann and Richter, he became in time an abstract painter using ideas of landscape with horizon lines and configurations that could be read as water and skies. His work was described in the Globe and Mail as paintings that "hover...between abstraction and landscape".
At the end of the 1990s, he began to show his work in vacant properties around Toronto. These “pop-ups” were artist-run centres which presented shows of new artists. From 1998 until 2008, painting became for him an 'open country' to which he applied different approaches in composition and application. The Open Country series (2008) included 150 canvases completed over a five-month period. A later series was called Open Road.
Adamson's works have been included in shows at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick (Goop, Guck, And Globs: The Materiality Of Paint, 2012); the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (12 Trees, 2015); Thompson’s Galleries in London (2016); and the Couture Galleri in Stockholm (2016). In 2020, his solo show Abstraction in the Extended Field took place at the Art Gallery of Northumberland in Cobourg, Ontario. In 2021, a new series of paintings were exhibited in a solo exhibition at Thompson’s Galleries in London, UK. In 2022, his work from John Mann's collection was shown in a solo exhibition at the 13th Street Winery in St. Catharines, 0ntario.

## Selected public collections

* Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
* Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
* Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario
* Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
* McIntosh Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
* Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
* Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Unionville, Ontario
# Newfoundland twenty cents

The first known pattern for the Newfoundland 20-cent piece is a bronze strike with an obverse derived from a New Brunswick coin. The reverse is from the die for the 1864 New Brunswick 20-cents. The twenty-cent denomination was very popular in Newfoundland and was minted on a consistent basis throughout the reign of Queen Victoria. Over the years the piece became unpopular with Canadians as it was easily confused with the Canadian 25-cent piece, which was similar in size and shape. Pressured by Canada, the government replaced it with a twenty-five cent coin during World War I.

## Queen Victoria Laureated Portrait, 1865-1894
### Specifications

| Designer (Obverse) | Designer (Reverse) | Engraver | Composition | Weight | Diameter |
| Leonard C. Wyon | Horace Morehen | Leonard C. Wyon | .925 silver, .075 copper | 4.71 grams | 23.19 mm |

### Mintages

| Date and Mint Mark | Mintage |
| 1865 | 100,000 |
| 1870 | 50,000 |
| 1872H | 90,000 |
| 1873 | 45,797 |
| 1876H | 50,000 |
| 1880 | 30,000 |
| 1881 | 60,000 |
| 1882H | 100,000 |
| 1885 | 40,000 |
| 1888 | 75,000 |
| 1890 | 100,000 |
| 1894 | 100,000 |

### Mintages

| Date and Mint Mark | Mintage |
| 1896 | 125,000 |
| 1899 | 125,000 |
| 1900 | 125,000 |
1896 has Large 96 and Small 96 Varieties. 1899 has three varieties, large 99, small 99 and Hook 99's where the bottom of the 9's appear to have ends like those of fishing hooks.

## Edward VII 1904

Twenty-cent coins were required only on one occasion during Edward's short reign, making the 1904 issue the only one during his reign.

### Specifications

| Designer | Engraver | Composition | Weight | Diameter |
| George W. DeSaulles | W.H.J. Blakemore (copied DeSaulles’ design for 5 and 10 cent coins) | .925 silver, .075 copper | 4.71 grams | 23.19 mm |

### Mintages

| Date and Mint Mark | Mintage |
| 1904H | 75,000 |

## George V 1912

Just like the Edwardian predecessor, the George V issue was only for one year.

### Specifications

| Designer | Engraver | Composition | Weight | Diameter |
| Sir E.B. MacKennal | Sir E.B. MacKennal | .925 silver, .075 copper | 4.71 grams | 23.19 mm |

### Mintages

| Date and Mint Mark | Mintage |
| 1912 | 350,000 |
# Assonet Bay

Assonet Bay is a lake in Assonet, a village within the town of Freetown, Massachusetts. The Assonet River connects the waters of the bay with the Taunton River.
# Catharine Edwards (historian)

Catharine Harmon Edwards FBA (born 27 May 1963) is a British ancient historian and academic. She is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a specialist in Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly Seneca the Younger.

## Early life and education

Edwards was born on 27 May 1963 in Redruth, Cornwall, England. She was educated at Clifton High School, a private school in Bristol. She studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1985 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1990. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Transgression and control: studies in ancient Roman immorality".

## Academic career

Edwards began her academic career as a junior research fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge from 1988 to 1989. She then moved to the University of Bristol where she was a lecturer from 1989. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 1997 and to reader in 1999.
Edwards joined Birkbeck College, University of London in 2001 as a lecturer. She has been Professor of Classics and Ancient History since 2006.
Edwards researches Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly Seneca the Younger. She also researches the reception of Classical antiquity in later periods.
Edwards is the presenter of the three-part BBC series Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome. She has also contributed to BBC Radio 4's In Our Time series, on Cleopatra, Roman Britain, Virgil's Aeneid, Tacitus and the decadence of Rome, Pliny the Younger, The Augustan Age and Marcus Aurelieus.
She served as president of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from June 2015 to June 2018. In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

## Selected publications

* The politics of immorality in ancient Rome. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
* Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
* Rome the Cosmopolis. Cambridge University Press, 2003. (edited with Greg Woolf).
* Death in ancient Rome. Yale University Press, 2007.
# Muslim Khan

Muslim Khan (born 1954) is a captured Pakistani militant and former spokesman for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chapter based in Swat and became the chief spokesman of the Swat Taliban in 2007.

## Early life and education

Born in Kabal Tehsil, Swat, in 1954 Khan started out as a student activist of a left-wing secular party in the 1960s, but became a religious extremist in the early 1990s, becoming a part of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi's leadership in 1994.
In an interview with New England Foundation for the Arts, when asked about his usage of American-styled English and pronunciation, he revealed that he had lived for some time in Boston, Massachusetts. He had spent 4 years in the USA and worked as a painter in Boston. The BBC reported that Khan spoke Pashto, Urdu, English, Arabic and Persian, and had lived in or travelled across more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, Europe, the US and Asia.

## Militant activities

In April 2009 he denounced any Pakistanis who disagreed with his interpretation of Islam calling them non-Muslims. It was also revealed due to a telephone intercept that Khan had urged attacks on the families of soldiers. "Strikes should be carried out on their homes so their kids get killed and then they'll realise". Before the start of the Army offensive against the Taliban, Khan claimed that his fighters controlled "more than 90 per cent" of Swat.
After the 2009 operation in Swat he was still at large, vowing that his men will step up attacks.

## Arrest

He was arrested on 10 September by the security forces of Pakistan in the suburbs of Mingora.
He was one of eight men sentenced to death by a military court on 28 December 2016 for terrorism and other offences. Khan's appeal before the Peshawar High Court was weakened following the Supreme Court's decision in Said Zaman Khan v. Federation of Pakistan. His sentence was briefly stayed by the High Court on 24 May 2017, on the basis of a petition filed by his wife.
# Alocasia azlanii

Alocasia azlanii, the red mambo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae, native to Brunei, and first described in 2016. With its red to purple patterning on and near its leaf veins, it is sometimes kept as a houseplant.
# Oedaspis ragdai

Oedaspis ragdai is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Oedaspis of the family Tephritidae.

## Distribution

Russia, Afghanistan.
# Zambia women's national under-16 basketball team

The Zambia women's national under-16 basketball team is a national basketball team of Zambia, administered by the Zambia Basketball Association (ZBA).
It represents the country in international under-16 (under age 16) women's basketball competitions.
It appeared at the 2015 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship for Women qualification stage.
# Peet

Peet or PEET may refer to:

## Surname

A surname of English or Dutch origin
* Alfred Peet (1920–2007), Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea
** Peet's Coffee & Tea, specialty coffee roaster and retailer founded in 1966
* Amanda Peet (born 1972), American actress
* Azalia Emma Peet (1887–1973), American missionary teacher in Japan
* Bill Peet (1915–2002), American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios
* John Peet (disambiguation), various individuals
* Lee Pete (1924–2010), American sports-talk radio broadcaster and college athlete
* Mal Peet (1947–2015), English author of novels mainly for young adults
* Margot Peet (1903–1995), American painter
* Stephen Peet (1920–2005),British filmmaker
* Thomas Eric Peet (1882–1934), English Egyptologist
* Wayne Peet (born 1954), American jazz pianist and organist
* Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet (1840-1921), American temperance activist and suffragist

## Given name

* Peet Aren (1889–1970), Estonian artist
* Peet Coombes (1952–1997), English musician
* Peet Johanson (1881–1939), Estonian politician
* Peet Kask (born 1948), Estonian politician
* Peet Petersen (1941–1980), Dutch soccer player
* Peet Pienaar (born 1971), South African performance artist
* Peet Stol (1880–1956), Dutch footballer

## Others

* Rogers Peet, a men's clothing company founded in 1874
** Rogers Peet Building, a five-story structure built in Manhattan in 1863
* Peet Brothers, a Kansas-based soap manufacturer that merged with Palmolive to become Palmolive-Peet, and later Colgate-Palmolive
* Peet Limited, Australian real estate company
# Michael Addis

Michael Addis is a comedic television and film director who has made his mark in hidden camera comedy and reality-style comedy.
Addis' debut feature, Poor White Trash (starring Jaime Pressly and Sean Young) was an underground hit in 2000 that ended up making three times its budget.
His feature documentary Heckler premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival (garnering a two-page NY Times spread) and had its West Coast premiere at the AFI Film Festival in November 2007.
Michael was also the showrunner of the TV hit "Impractical Jokers." He was the Executive Producer of the BET hit comedy series, Hell Date. He has produced and directed on The Showbiz Show with David Spade, as well as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, The Swan, Minding the Store and The New Tom Green Show. Addis has also written for The Man Show and The Skateboard Show. He produced and directed the stand-up special Jamie Kennedy: Unwashed, which he sold to Comedy Central. He also worked as a director on "Lewis Black's Root of All Evil.
Michael is a member of the DGA and is represented by Puraj Puri at Paradigm Talent Agency.
# Next Stop Hollywood

Next Stop Hollywood is an Australian observational documentary television series directed by Gary Doust and produced by Matchbox Pictures. It follows six ambitious Australian actors competing for roles in Los Angeles during the frenzied TV pilot season. The six-part series was screened on ABC1 in 2013.

## Cast

* Alycia Debnam-Carey, 18
* HaiHa Le, 29
* Penelope Mitchell, 22
* Michael Clarke-Tokely, 22
* Craig Anderson, 35
* Luke Pegler, 30

## Episodes

* Episode 1–8 January 2013
The excitement, frustrations, fears and tears as six actors – Alycia, HaiHa, Penny, Craig, Luke and Michael - set off from Australia.
* Episode 2–15 January 2013
Alycia scores two major auditions after only two weeks in Hollywood.
* Episode 3–22 January 2013
It’s week three in LA. Penelope gets a Hollywood agent and is in the running for a role in a major feature film.
* Episode 4–29 January 2013
A month into pilot season and things are heating up for Alycia.
* Episode 5–5 February 2013
Alycia goes to Canada to meet a film director. Luke realises he needs to re-focus.
* Episode 6–12 February 2013
It is the final week of pilot season for the cast and this coincides with Hollywood's night-of-nights - the Oscars.
# New Rome, Minnesota

New Rome is an unincorporated community in Sibley County, Minnesota, United States, near Arlington. The community is located along Sibley County Road 9 (411th Avenue) near 280th Street. New Rome is located within Arlington Township and Kelso Township. State Highway 19 (MN 19) is nearby.
# Newhailes railway station

Newhailes railway station, also known as Newhailes Junction, served the town of Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland from 1859 to 1950.

## History

The station opened in 1859 and closed on 6 February 1950.
# Newtown Abbey

Newtown Abbey is a medieval monastery and National Monument located in Trim, County Meath, Ireland.

## Location

Newtown Abbey is located about 1.2 km (¾ mile) east of Trim town centre, on the north bank of the Boyne.

## History

The Abbey was founded by Simon Rochfort, Bishop of Meath, for Canons Regular ("Augustinians") of the Order of St. Victor about 1206, and was dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
A synod was held at Newtown in 1216, which turned the sees of the churches of Trim, Kells, Slane, Skryne, and Dunshaughlin into rural deaneries.
In 1307, Richard Sweetman, the prior, was accused of murdering Robert Mody, one of the canons, and of assisting his brother, William Sweetman, to kill another canon. The prior gave Hugh de Lacie and John le Blounde, of Rathregan, as bail for his appearance at the next assizes. There is no record of the result of the trial.
William Shirwood, Bishop of Meath, was interred at Newtown Abbey in 1482.
The Abbey was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537.

## Buildings

The main building is the Church of St Peter and St Paul (sometimes called a cathedral). The abbey church features lancet windows, with Norman-style sedilia to the right of the altar, and a double piscina for washing communion vessels.
A smaller church in the east of the monastery is the parish church of Newtown Clonbun. This is the burial site of Lucas Dillon (1530 – 1592), Attorney General for Ireland and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and his first wife Jane Bathe. Their tomb effigies are separated by a sword of state, and so they gained the local nickname of the "jealous man and woman".
# Nga Ying Chau

Nga Ying Chau, or Cap Island, was an island off the northeast shore of Tsing Yi Island of Hong Kong, separated by a small harbour, Mun Tsai Tong, with Tsuen Wan at its northeast, just across the Rambler Channel. When the small harbour was reclaimed for the development of a new town, the island became part of Tsing Yi Island. The island was once home to the CRC Oil Storage Depot, which later relocated to the other side of Tsing Yi Island owing to its proximity to the residential area. The former island is now a small hill on the northeast point of Tsing Yi Island, and Villa Esplanada, a private housing estate, stands on the hills.
There is also a park called Nga Ying Chau Garden in the vicinity of the former island.
# Ngoma District

Ngoma is a district (akarere) in Eastern Province, Rwanda. Its capital is Kibungo.

## Sectors

Ngoma district is divided into 14 sectors (imirenge): Gashanda, Jarama, Karembo, Kazo, Kibungo, Mugesera, Murama, Mutenderi, Remera, Rukira, Rukumberi, Rurenge, Sake and Zaza.
# Niccolò de' Niccoli

Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364 – 22 January 1437) was an Italian Renaissance humanist.
He was born and died in Florence, Italy, and was one of the chief figures in the company of learned men which gathered around the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici. Niccoli's chief services to classical literature consisted in his work as a copyist and collator of ancient manuscripts; he corrected the text, introduced divisions into chapters, and made tables of contents.

## Achievements

His lack of critical faculty was compensated by his excellent taste; in Greek (of which he knew very little) he had the assistance of Ambrogio Traversari. Many of the most valuable manuscripts in the Laurentian Library are by his hand, amongst them those of Lucretius and of twelve comedies of Plautus. The pursuit of ancient manuscripts was a dangerous and expensive task; agents working in the field at the time included Poggio Bracciolini. Thanks to the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici, Niccoli was able to build up his personal library of 800 manuscripts. He was generous with lending out his books since he had multiple copies of several Classical texts. This would be the basis of the library that Cosimo de' Medici built in San Marco.
Niccoli's private library was bettered only by that of Cosimo de' Medici who was the pioneer of the first Florentine public library which was the largest in Europe at that time. Niccoli also possessed a small but valuable collection of ancient works of art, coins and medals. He regarded himself as an infallible critic, and could not bear the slightest contradiction; his quarrels with Francesco Filelfo, Guarino da Verona and especially with Traversari created a great sensation in the learned world at the time.
His hypercritical spirit (according to his enemies, his ignorance of the language) prevented him from writing or speaking in Latin; his sole literary work was a short tract in Italian on Latin Orthography, which he withdrew from circulation after it had been violently attacked by Guarino. His fame as a Latin stylist was extensive, and many authors would submit to him their manuscripts prior to publication for correction; Leonardo Bruni called him the "censor of the Latin tongue".
He is also regarded as the inventor of the cursive script, known today as Italic or Cancelleresca. This came about from his enduring study of ancient manuscripts and the numerous copies he made. Niccoli decided he would vary his copied manuscripts by using tilted lettering and as a result later on, when Italian printers first used Italic type, they chose Niccoli's lettering style.
Niccoli was buried in the Basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence. He was extremely indebted prior to his death, after which Cosimo offered to cover all of his outstanding payments to debtors in exchange for control over his collection of 800 manuscripts valued at around 6,000 florins. He never married, preferring to fill his houses with manuscripts, coins, statuary, vases, and gems.
# Niccolò da Verona

Niccolo da Verona (15th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He painted a fresco of the Virgin with the Child and Saints in the Ognissanti at Mantua, is signed with this name, and dated 1461.