Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Little Plain Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district located in Norwich, Connecticut.  When originally listed in 1970, it was centered on Little Plain Park, located about halfway between modern downtown Norwich and the Norwichtown green, the colonial center of the town.  From the late 18th century onward this area became a desirable and fashionable area to live, as it was closer to the growing port area of the city.  The area was mostly built out by about 1875, and features a rich concentration of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Italianate houses, although older and later styles are also represented.  The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and enlarged in 1987.  The 1987 enlargement expanded the district southward along Union Street and Broadway, to abut the Downtown Norwich Historic District, and increased the district's size from  to .

Little Plain Park is a long and narrow triangular parcel bounded on the east by Broadway, the wet by Union Street, and the south by Crossway Street.  It was donated to the city by Deacon Jabez Huntingdon and Hezekiah Perkins, whose houses stand at 181 and 185 Broadway.  Both are prominent examples of Georgian architecture to which Federal styling was later applied. The Dewitt-Sigourney House, at 189 Broadway, was built later in the 19th century for a ship's captain, and is a more pure example of Federal styling.  The Woodhull and Johnson Houses at 167 and 171 Broadway are fine examples of Greek Revival architecture, built for merchants and ship owners.

The district includes buildings designed by Norwich architects James A. Hiscox and Joshua W. Shepard.

See also
Neighborhoods of Norwich, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut

References

Federal architecture in Connecticut
Historic districts in New London County, Connecticut
Norwich, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in New London County, Connecticut
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Shannon Ebner (born 1971) is an American artist based in Los Angeles. She was born in Englewood, New Jersey. Ebner's artwork takes the form of photographs and poems that question the limits and ambiguity of language.

Career 
Ebner received her BA degree from Bard College in 1993. Before she entered Yale University in 1997, she stopped her photographic practice to focus more on her work as a poet. She participated in the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York and worked for the writer Eileen Myles. Although Ebner is no longer a poet, she takes her inspiration from poems and looks for ways to include poetry within her photographic work. She graduated from Yale in 2000.

From 2010 to 2018, Ebner taught the University of Southern California's Roski School of Art and Design. In 2018 she was named chair of Pratt Institute's photography department.

Process 

Ebner takes her photographs in black and white. In an interview with Mouse Magazine, Ebner explained that she believes black and white "means a way of seeing the world that doesn't exist in reality; it's a way of seeing the world that is about difference."

Ebner claims a photographer always has the choice to keep the colour or discard it. This means that the choice between colour and black & white is always an act of discarding the color information of the images. For Ebner, photography is about the lines of action: writing with blank ink on a world that's in shades of grey.

Themes 
Portraits

The first well known portrait made by Shannon Ebner is called: Portrait of My Ex-Girlfriend (1998). The picture was taken while she was a graduate student on Yale's MFA program. Ebner placed the picture in a jar of water and left it there while she embarked on a road trip to Nova Scotia where she hoped to meet Robert Frank. When she returned, she took the lid off the jar exposing the blurred picture resulting to be Portrait of My Ex-Girlfriend.

The submerging of photographs in jars filled with water is a method that Ebner kept using during her career. The photograph Paging Walter (2009) was made the same way. Ebner shot a portrait of Walter Benjamin and exposed the picture to the same process: because of the solubility property of water, the photographs emulsion sloughed off, leaving behind a ghostly trace of the original print.

Language

Language is the main subject in the photography of Ebner's career. Her work is an exploration of language and sign systems. "Ebner often takes symbolic or linguistic signifiers and detaches them from their usual contexts. She uses language in unexpected and multi-layered ways, with puns, palindromes and borrowed phrases."

Public collections 
Ebner's work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

References 

1971 births
Living people
Yale University alumni
American women photographers
Bard College alumni
21st-century American women artists
The Yan District is a district in Kedah, Malaysia. It is bordered by Kota Setar District to the north, Pendang District to the northeast and Kuala Muda District to the south. Yan District is along the coast of the Straits of Malacca. It is the smallest municipality in Kedah.

"Yan Besar" is the administrative town of Yan district, complete with administrative facilities such like Police Stations, magistrate court, district and land office. Its lifestyle is laid-back and slow-paced, with weekend attractions of natural waterfalls nearby. It also attract most pensioners to build their dream house for pleasant retirement or nurture some local fruit orchards. The waterfalls derived from the Jerai Mountain are known as Seri Perigi, Tangga Kenari/Titi Hayun, Batu Hampar  and Puteri Mandi.

It is also famous for Mount Jerai, which is the tallest peak in Kedah at 1242 metres (3,235 ft) and is easily accessible from the town. Visitors can climb by stairs to the peak of Mount Jerai via Titi Hayun.

Pulau Bunting Bridge is a bridge that connects Pulau Bunting to Yan district. It is the only bridge connecting an island in Kedah.

Administrative divisions

Yan is divided into 5 mukims, which are:
Dulang
Sala Besar
Singkir
Sungai Daun
Yan

Demographics

People from Yan
 Abdullah Hussain – novelist and writer.
Abdul Rahman Hashim – deceased Inspector General of Police.

Federal Parliament and State Assembly seats

List of Yan district representatives in the Federal Parliament (Dewan Rakyat)

List of Yan district representatives in the State Legislative Assembly (Dewan Undangan Negeri)

References
Soterioupolis (; "City of the Saviour") or Soteropolis (Σωτηρόπολις) was a Byzantine fortress in the southeastern Black Sea coast during the 10th–12th centuries. The name has been suggested to apply to two different localities, Pitsunda in Georgia and Borçka in Turkey.

Byzantine town 
According to the mid-10th century De administrando imperio, Soterioupolis was located on the border with Abasgia, while seal finds attest that it was the capital of a border district or kleisoura. The Escorial Taktikon, written in the 970s, mentions a "strategos of Soterioupolis or Bourzo", and the contemporary Notitiae Episcopatuum record that it was the seat of an autonomous archbishopric.

The site's identification has been disputed: Alexander Kazhdan in the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium dismisses the  suggestions expressed by various authors for an identification with Pitsunda or Sukhumi, and considers Soterioupolis to have been a single site. Werner Seibt and Ivan Jordanov, on the other hand, distinguish between the various references of the name, equating the Soterioupolis of the De administrando imperio with Pitsunda, which in the mid-11th century formed part of a military command with nearby Anakopia, securing Byzantine presence in coastal Abkhazia and the northwestern Caucasus in general, where Byzantium had commercial and strategic interests. The seat of the strategos of the Escorial Taktikon, however, is considered to be located further south, at the fortress Bourzo (identified by Nicolas Oikonomides and B. Baumgartner with modern Borçka in Turkey), to which are to be attributed the seals of the kleisourarches of Soteropolis, as well as the references preserved in the collection of miracles of Saint Eugenios of Trebizond, according to which the strategos was a subordinate of the doux of Chaldia.

Titular see 
In modern times, the town has been a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, as the Archdiocese of Soteropolis. First awarded in 1932, it has had seven holders and has been vacant since 6 October 2005, with the death of its last incumbent, Ettore Cunial.

References

Sources 
 
 

Byzantine forts
Byzantine Pontus
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Populated places of the Byzantine Empire
History of Abkhazia
Staged detonation is an overall principle used for many explosive devices. A general description of the principle is that one explosive compound with one set of properties is detonated, and the detonation wave from this is transfers into another explosive compound with different set of properties.

The principle is most often used for detonating insensitive explosive compounds by using stages of less and less sensitive explosive compounds. A simple example is the common industrial detonator, where a very small amount of a sensitive explosive detonates, causing the less sensitive main charge of the detonator to detonate. It may involve additional steps where successively less sensitive compounds trigger a detonation wave in each other, with stages including various types of booster charges.

Staged detonation may be used to initiate cheap and insensitive mining explosives, but the principle has other uses. In certain applications there is a need to modify the shape of a detonation wave travelling through an explosive material. One example of this can be found in explosive lenses, in which case the properties of different explosive compounds are used to initiate each stage in the detonation with a specific relative delay, creating a detonation wave with a non conventional shape. That shape can for example be a spherical wave travelling in towards the centre of that sphere, or any other shape required. This principle is used in many areas in high energy research, as well as in nuclear weapons.

The principle does not necessarily involve different explosive compounds. Because the properties of an explosive compound is in some degree related to its density, which is a result of with what pressure it is compressed during manufacture, the stages in a staged detonation may also come from each section having been pressed to a different density, giving it varying properties.

The term "staged detonation" may also refer to a method where several explosive charges are set to detonate in series with a given delay between them. This method called "delayed detonation". This method is commonly used in industrial demolition activities such as mining.

History and development of the principle
The use of a primary and secondary explosive was the first practical use of the staged detonation principle, and was revolutionary to the safety of the mining industry. After this staged detonation is used in everything from explosive lenses in nuclear weapons (where the different properties of each explosive create a perfectly spherical detonation wave moving in towards origo) to mining where each blasting operation requires several stages to detonate each main charge, not only the primary and secondary explosive used in the simplest staged detonation.

References
The 2023 Cheshire East Council election took place on Thursday 4 May 2023 to elected all 82 members of Cheshire East Council in Cheshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.

The council had been under no overall control prior to the election, being run by a Labour minority administration with support from independent councillors. The council remained under no overall control after the election. The Conservatives formed the largest single party, but an agreement was reached between Labour and most of the independent councillors to continue running the council.

Summary

Election result

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Results by ward
The results for each ward were:

Alderley Edge

Alsager

Audlem

Bollington

Brereton Rural

Broken Cross and Upton

Bunbury

Chelford

Congleton East

Congleton West

Crewe Central

Crewe East

Crewe North

Crewe South

Crewe St. Barnabas

Crewe West

Dane Valley

Disley

Gawsworth

Handforth

One of the two Handforth seats had been vacant since November 2022 following the death of the previous Handforth Ratepayers' Association councillor Barry Burkhill.

Haslington

High Legh

Knutsford

Leighton

Macclesfield Central

Macclesfield East

Macclesfield Hurdsfield

The Macclesfield Hurdsfield seat had been vacant since December 2022 following the death of the previous Labour councillor Steve Carter.

Macclesfield South

Macclesfield Tytherington

One of the Macclesfield Tytherington seats had been vacant since November 2022 following the resignation of the previous independent councillor Lloyd Roberts.

Macclesfield West and Ivy

Middlewich

Mobberley

Nantwich North and West

Nantwich South and Stapeley

Odd Rode

Poynton East and Pott Shrigley

Poynton West and Adlington

Prestbury

Sandbach Elworth

Sandbach Ettiley Heath and Wheelock

Sandbach Heath and East

Sandbach Town

Shavington

Sutton

Willaston and Rope

Wilmslow Dean Row

Wilmslow East

Wilmslow Lacey Green

Wilmslow West and Chorley

Wistaston

Wrenbury

Wybunbury

Notes
 Italics denote a sitting councillor for the same ward.

References

Cheshire East
Cheshire East Council elections
2020s in Cheshire
May 2023 events in the United Kingdom
Henry O'Keane (3 February 1763 – 6 July 1817) was an Irish catholic priest and French army officer.

O'Keane was born at Kilcummin, Killala, County Mayo, one of at least three sons to a cowherd on the Tyrawley estate. He learned Latin at a hedge school and was ordained for the diocese of Killala. He went to France where he studied philosophy and theology at the Irish College in Nantes. He stayed in France, and at the time of the French Revolution was a curé near the town. He took the constitutional oath of the clergy in 1791, joining the French army around that time.

O'Keane became a captain in the 65th regiment, and a member of the staff of Jean Joseph Amable Humbert, for whom he served as a local liaison when the French landed at Killala on 22 August 1798 (he spoke Irish and French better than English).

Church of Ireland Bishop Joseph Stock praised his actions during the rebellion, stating that "his language breathed nothing but mildness and liberality, and indeed his behaviour was suitable, for he exerted himself on all occasions to protect the loyalists and frequently with the greatest effect."

He remained at Ballina after Humbert left for Castlebar, and in the aftermath of the defeat at Ballinamuck, he and Peter Barrett led an unsuccessful attack on Castlebar on 12 September. On 22 September they engaged a British force from Sligo attempting to take Ballina. The Franco-Irish retreated to Killala, where after heavy fighting, they dispersed or surrendered on 23 September.

O'Keane surrendered and was tried for high treason as a British military subject at Castlebar. He was convicted and sentenced to transportation, later commuted to banishment. Bishop Stock gave evidence in his favour.

He returned to France, apparently having "carried off from Dublin another man's wife", serving in Germany and Portugal. He was one of the first to be admitted, on 1 October 1807, to the Legion d'Honneur. Following the restoration of the Bourbons, he retired. He died unmarried on rue Traversière in the town of Auxerre in 1817.

References
 O'Keane, Henry, C.J. Woods, in Dictionary of Irish Biography, p. 582, Cambridge, 2009.

1763 births
1817 deaths

1798 French campaign in Ireland
18th-century Irish people
19th-century Irish people
Irish expatriates in France
Irish soldiers in the French Army
Military personnel from County Mayo
Christian clergy from County Mayo
People from Killala
Ellen Catherine Hildreth is a professor of computer science at Wellesley College. Her fields are visual perception and computer vision. She co-invented the Marr-Hildreth algorithm along with David Marr.

She completed all of her higher education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977, a Master of Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 1980, and a Ph.D. from EECS in 1983. Her thesis, "The Measurement of Visual Motion", won an Honorable Mention from the Association for Computing Machinery.

She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Hildreth is married to Eric Grimson. The couple have two sons.

References

Artificial intelligence researchers
Computer vision researchers
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Wellesley College faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
The  (English; Canadian Institute of Quebec) was founded by Marc-Aurèle Plamondon on January 17, 1848, 4 years after the founding of the Institut canadien de Montréal. Originally a library open to its members, it became public in 1897. The institute manages the public library network of Quebec City.

See also

Institut canadien de Montréal
History of Quebec 
Timeline of Quebec history 
History of Canada

External links
 Institut canadien de Québec website

History of Quebec City
Literary societies
1848 establishments in Canada
Public libraries in Quebec
French-language literature in Canada
Libraries established in 1848
Penfold may refer to:
Penfold (pillar box), a type of pillar box designed by John Penfold

People
Penfold (surname)

Other
Ernest Penfold, character from the animated series Danger Mouse
Penfolds, Australian wine label
Penfolds Grange, Australian wine produced by that label
Penfold Golf, British manufacturer of golf balls
Penfold Park (also called Penfold Garden), public park in Sha Tin, Hong Kong
Penfold PGA Championship, annual professional golf tournament
Penfold Tournament, former professional golf tournament (1932–1974)
Stefan Jarl (born 18 March 1941) is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries. Together with Jan Lindqvist he made the Mods Trilogy, three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s, They Call Us Misfits (1968), A Respectable Life (1979) and The Social Heritage (1993). A Respectable Life won the 1979 Guldbagge Awards for Best Film and Best Director. Jarl also wrote and directed Jag är din krigare (1997), and directed Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003), The Girl From Auschwitz (2005), and Submission (2010), a documentary about the "chemical burden" of synthetics and plastics carried by people born after World War II.

At the 25th Guldbagge Awards in 1990 he won the Creative Achievement award and in 2017 Jarl received the Lenin Award. In his acceptance speech, he said: "My dad was a baker. My mother worked in the store but was also a “house slave” and took care of me and my brothers. They lived and worked so that we children could graduate, something they themselves had not been given the chance to do. I had the privilege of growing up in what came to be the “best country in the world” where education, justice, work for all, healthcare and equality had been won. Through books and movies, I eventually found my own way."

Selected filmography
 They Call Us Misfits (Dom kallar oss mods) codirector Jan Lindqvist
 A Respectable Life (Ett anständigt liv, 1979)
 Det sociala arvet (1993)
 Jag är din krigare (1997)
 Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (Terrorister - en film om dom dömda, 2003)
 Submission (Underkastelsen, 2010)

References

External links

Stefan Jarl's homepage 

Swedish film directors
German-language film directors
1941 births
Living people
Best Director Guldbagge Award winners
Producers who won the Best Film Guldbagge Award
Grădinile Mănăștur (Romanian for Mănăștur Gardens) is one of the districts of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, located around the street Calea Mănăștur. It is sometimes confused with the Mănăștur district. Grădinile Mănăștur houses the Ursus Breweries and the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca.

Districts of Cluj-Napoca
Mark Frith is a journalist.

Mark Frith may also refer to:

Mark Frith (musician)

See also 
 Mark Firth, English industrialist
The 1986–87 Women's Basketball European Cup was the 29th edition of the competition. The final took place in Thessaloniki on 12 March 1987 and confronted defending champion AS Vicenza and 1986 Ronchetti Cup champion Dynamo Novosibirsk, with the Italians winning their third European Cup in a row, an overall fourth.

Qualification round

Round of 16

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Semifinals

Final

References

Champions Cup
EuroLeague Women seasons
Painavu is the administrative headquarters of Idukki district of Kerala, India.

Transport
 Nearest Airport: Cochin International Airport, Nedumbassery - 120 km
 Nearest Railhead: Angamaly - 114 km
 Road connectivity: State Highway 33 km from Thodupuzha and Idukki Road from Neriyamangalam

Climate
 May - October : Rainy 12-25 degrees
 November - January : Mild 5-20 degrees
 February - April: Warm 15-30 degrees

Places of interest
Situated amidst the Idukki Wild Life Sanctuary, Painavu is also home to several State Government institutions such as Civil Station, Idukki and Government Engineering College, Idukki, Ekalavya Model Residential School idukki, District Panchayath idukki, Kendriya Vidyalaya Idukki, Model Polytechnic College Painavu. The Idukki Dam and the Cheruthoni Dam part of the Idukki Hydro Electric project are situated 7 km from Painavu.

External links 

Cities and towns in Idukki district
AR Rahman Foundation is a non-profit organization registered under FCRA. It was started in 2009 by Indian musician A R Rahman to raise funds for disaster relief and to provide education for poor children in India. Khatija Rahman is the director of this foundation.

Projects 

 Sunshine Orchestra

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20090925105051/http://www.arrahman.com/v2/foundation-vision.html

Foundations based in India
Social welfare charities
Organizations established in 2009
2009 establishments in India
Non-profit organisations based in India
Ali Hamed Al-Awasa (born 17 July 1957) is a Jordanian sport shooter. He competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

References

1957 births
Living people
Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Jordanian male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for Jordan
Place of birth missing (living people)