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Thurathadi (; also spelled Thuyathadi or Thayéthadi) is a goddess in the Buddhist pantheon of Myanmar. She is one of the higher nats and guarding the Buddhist scriptures and promoting the welfare of scholars and writers. Students in Myanmar pray for her blessings before their exams.  Her origins are said to be derived from the Hindu goddess Saraswati, the consort of Brahma.

Iconography
Thurathadi is represented by riding on the side of the golden Hintha with her legs dangling off the side. She carries one or more Tipitaka books in her right hand.

Origin and legend
According to legend, she is often equated with Saraswati from the Hindu religion. However, Thurathadi has a number of her own stories and has long been worshiped in Myanmar since the Pagan dynasty. In Myanmar, the Shwezigon Mon Inscription near Bagan, dated 1084 AD, recites the name Saraswati as follows:

"The wisdom of eloquence, called Saraswati, shall dwell in the mouth of King Sri Tribhuwanadityadhammaraja at all times." – Translated by Than Tun

According to legend, she will be the mother of both the future king and his bride Mya Sein Yaung. She was also told that she would be reborn as a male and a Buddha. At a Bo Bo Aung shrine near Bagan, the statue of Thuyathadi riding her golden Hintha Bird is found just behind and to the side of the weizza's image. Thuyathadi is a very important nat in Myanmar, ranked and honored as one of the five great devas, and the oldest of all the nats. After the god Thagyamin, she is considered the most important supporter of the religion. Claim for her support of gaing beliefs in weizzas would seem designed to stress the higher Buddhist motivation of the weizzas. Because she guards the Buddhist scriptures—a traditional source of occult lore—and was once in India the goddess Saraswati, who was accredited with inventing Sanskrit, her reputed patronage adds both a Buddhist and scholarly air to weizza affairs.

Gallery

See also
Benzaiten
Nat (spirit)
Mythical creatures in Burmese folklore

References

Burmese nats
Burmese goddesses
Edoardo Vitale (29 November 1872 – 12 December 1937) was an Italian orchestral conductor. He was director of La Scala in substitution of Toscanini from 1908 to 1910, though he conducted most of his career at the Teatro Costanzi, now Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. His orchestration and conducting has been described as passionate.

Biography
Vitale was born in Naples, Italy, in 1872. As a boy he went to Rome, and by the time he was 14 he was already directing some operettas at the Teatro Metastasio, garnering acclaim for his conducting. He studied at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome. Starting from 1893, he was a professor at the Santa Cecilia. From 1908 to 1910 he was a substitute of Toscanini at La Scala. He was the first to direct Richard Strauss' Elektra in Italy, which he directed at La Scala in 1909. He directed Cherubini's Médée in 1909, also at La Scala.

He conducted mostly at the Teatro Costanzi. He also conducted in foreign countries. 

He was conductor of the orchestra of the lyrica company of Walter Moachi's company, which performed in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in 1925.

His son was Riccardo Vitale , who became Director of Rome Opera House  from the 1940s to early 1970s.

References

External links
Edoardo Vitale at the Italian Encyclopedia

1872 births
1937 deaths
Italian male conductors (music)
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
People from Naples
20th-century Italian male musicians
"Bring the Boys Home" is a song recorded by rhythm and blues singer Freda Payne in 1971 during the Vietnam War era. It was an anti-war song that was aimed at the sending of troops to fight in an increasingly unpopular war.

Background
The song was produced by Greg Perry and released on the Invictus label. It was backed with "I Shall Not Be Moved". The song came out at a time when soldiers were returning to America dead and in body bags. A higher than normal amount of the soldiers were black. The soldiers were only boys at the age of 20, which was the average age that many of them were killed. In spite of the healthy amount of airplay it received in the US, the US Command from the American Forces Network banned it. The reason given was that it would be of benefit to the enemy. 50,000 copies of the album Contact were pressed before it was added to the album after it became a hit. It replaced "He's In My Life" which was the first track on side 1.
  
The Soul Source section of the May 22 issue of Billboard named it the best new record of the week.

Weekly charts
By July 10, the single had reached number four on the Billboard soul singles chart. The song spent 13 weeks on the Hot 100, peaking at No. 12.

Chart performance

Certifications

References

External links
 Elsewhere: Freda Payne: Bring the Boys Home (1971)

Songs about soldiers
Songs about the military
1971 songs
1971 singles
Anti-war songs
Freda Payne songs
Songs written by General Johnson (musician)
Songs written by Greg Perry (singer)
Brigantine Castle was a popular funhouse and haunted house attraction by the beach in Brigantine, New Jersey. It was originally located at the corner of 14th Street and Brigantine Avenue.

Constructed in 1976, it drew millions of visitors annually until it was damaged in 1982 in a storm. Facing declining attendance and a $500,000 repair bill, it was closed in 1984. Carmen Ricci, the owner, sold it in 1987 for $1 million, and it burned to the ground later that year just as demolition was slated to begin.

References
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/20/nyregion/haunted-houses-inspected.html
http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jersey/2017/10/29/brigantine-castle-workers-reflect-spooky-memories/811518001/
http://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/history/2015/05/22/local-history-do-you-remember-brigantine-castle/27776843/

External links
 Brigantine Castle Online

Defunct amusement parks in New Jersey
Tourist attractions in Atlantic County, New Jersey
Brigantine, New Jersey
1976 establishments in New Jersey
1984 disestablishments in New Jersey
Amusement parks opened in 1976
Amusement parks closed in 1984
Douglas or Doug Clark may refer to:

Arts
Douglas Clark (poet) (1942–2010), English poet
Douglas Clark (sculptor), American sculptor
Doug Clark (died 2002), leader of Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts

Politics
Doug Clark (Arizona politician), American politician 
Doug Clark (Australian politician) (1927–2008)

Sports
Douglas Clark (rugby league) (1891–1951), British rugby league footballer, wrestler and World War One veteran
Doug Clark (baseball) (born 1976), American baseball player

Other people
Doug Clark (serial killer) (born 1948), American serial killer
Doug Clark (investor), American real estate investor
Douglas Alan Clark (1917–2012), American recipient of the Navy Cross

See also 
 Douglas Clarke (disambiguation)
The 2011–12 Loyola Greyhounds men's basketball team represented Loyola University Maryland during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Greyhounds, led by eighth year head coach Jimmy Patsos, played their home games at Reitz Arena and are members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. They finished the season 24–9, 13–5 in MAAC play to finish in second place. They were champions of the MAAC Basketball tournament and earned the conference's automatic bid into the 2012 NCAA tournament where they lost in the second round to Ohio State.

Roster

Schedule

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References

Loyola Greyhounds men's basketball seasons
Loyola
Loyola (MD)
Mahdi Wissam Zein (; born 23 May 2000) is a Lebanese footballer who plays as a midfielder for  club Nejmeh and the Lebanon national team.

Club career
On 29 April 2019, Nejmeh renewed the contract of Zein for five years, renewable for two additional seasons. On 2 April 2021, Zein scored his first senior goal against Shabab Sahel, helping his side win 3–0 in the league.

International career

Zein represented Lebanon at under-16, under-19 and under-23 levels. His senior debut came on 4 December 2021, as a substitute in a 2–0 defeat to Algeria in the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup. On 25 June 2023, Zein scored his first senior international goal in a 4–1 win against Bhutan in the 2023 SAFF Championship.

Style of play 
Regarded as one of Lebanon's most promising players, Zein is a playmaking midfielder, capable of moving play from the defence to the attack. His main abilities are his through passes and ball control.

Personal life
Mahdi Zein's uncle, Haitham Zein, is a former Lebanese international.

Career statistics

International 

Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Zein goal.

Honours
Nejmeh
 Lebanese FA Cup: 2021–22, 2022–23; runner-up: 2020–21
 Lebanese Elite Cup: 2021
 Lebanese Super Cup: 2023; runner-up: 2021

See also
 List of association football families

References

External links

 
 
 
 

2000 births
Living people
People from Tyre District
Lebanese men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Nejmeh SC players
Lebanese Premier League players
Lebanon men's youth international footballers
Lebanon men's international footballers
MP3 Disques is a French pop music record label founded in 2004 in Montreal.  The independent label was established by singer Mario Pelchat and is operated by Lionel Lavault. The first album released by the label was Pelchat's own Noël avec Jireh Gospel Choir. The second release, in 2006, was again Pelchat's titled Le monde où je vais.

Over the years, MP3 Disques has released albums by Cindy Daniel, Ytheband, Nadja and Étienne Drapeau.

Catalogue
November 2004: Mario Pelchat - Noël avec Jireh Gospel Choir (AMPCD7894)
March 2006: Mario Pelchat - Le monde où je vais (AMPCD7895)
March 2006: Cindy Daniel - J'avoue (AMPCD7896)
October 2006: Various Artists - Quand le country dit bonjour, volume 1 (AMPCD7897)
May 2007: Various Artists - MexiCanciones (AMPCD7898)
October 2007: Various Artists - Quand le country dit bonjour, volume 2 (AMPCD7899)
August 2008: Cindy Daniel - Le tout premier jour (AMPCD7900)
January 2009: Ytheband - What the city does to people (AMPCD7901)
September 2009: Nadja - Nadja (AMPCD7902)
September 2010: Étienne Drapeau - Paroles & Musique (AMPCD7903)

External links
MP3 Disques Official website

Record labels established in 2004
Canadian independent record labels
Pop record labels
Companies based in Montreal
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}Pefkos or Pefki, Greek: Πεύκος (Πεύκοι), is a well known beach resort located on eastern coast of Rhodes, just  southwest of Lindos, and  from the capital city Rhodes. The island of Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands, on the eastern Aegean Sea, just a few miles from the coast of the Asia Minor. Pefkos was once known as a fishermen's hamlet located along the coastal road that connects the villages of Lindos and Lardos. Originally Pefkos was mainly used as a summer temporary residence for those who lived further inland but grew crops such as grapes, olives, tomatoes, figs and corn. They couldn't return home daily due to the heat and distance, so had small very basic houses in Pefkos. Visiting Pefkos by day will leave one with the impression of a quiet and relaxed holiday resort; however when the lights come on the resort is bustling with warm, friendly activity.

The main Pefkos beach (Lee beach) is a pure sand beach and is a Blue Flag status awarded beach for 2008. The beach is busy with tourists during the day, currently there are 3 restaurants on the waterfront. The beach is quiet, with no motorised watersports. 

Pefkos, until recently was under developed, but is now swiftly evolving in an important tourist resort, mostly offering self-catering holiday accommodation (villas and apartments) while its commercial center has many amenities and a large range of restaurants, tavernas and bars. The resort is set against a hill which is surrounded by Pine trees from which the town gets its name. It is largely visited by Scandinavians, British, Germans, Polish and Austrians.

References

Photos

External links
 Pefkos page at discover-rhodes.com

Populated places in Rhodes
Laura Gail Siering (born February 23, 1957) is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec.  She won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with Linda Jezek (backstroke), Camille Wright (butterfly), and Shirley Babashoff (freestyle).  Siering also competed in the women's 100-meter breaststroke and 200-meter breaststroke at the 1976 Olympics, but did not advance to the finals in either event.

See also
 List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
 List of University of Southern California people

References

External links
 

1957 births
Living people
American female breaststroke swimmers
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
Sportspeople from Pomona, California
Swimmers at the 1975 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
USC Trojans women's swimmers
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games
SPEAR (originally Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Rings, now simply a name) was a collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.  It began running in 1972, colliding electrons and positrons with an energy of .  During the 1970s, experiments at the accelerator played a key role in particle physics research, including the discovery of the  meson (awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics), many charmonium states, and the discovery of the tau (awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics).

Today, SPEAR is used as a synchrotron radiation source for the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL). The latest major upgrade of the ring in that finished in 2004 rendered it the current name SPEAR3.

References

External links 
 
 Brief explanation of the acronym in SLACspeak
 25th Anniversary Info from SLAC
 SPEAR3 status

Buildings and structures in San Mateo County, California
Particle physics facilities
Stanford University
Particle accelerators
The Reagan Diaries is an edited and published version of the diaries kept by Ronald Reagan during his presidency. The book was edited by Douglas Brinkley and was published by HarperCollins in 2007, three years after Reagan's death. It reached the number one spot on The New York Times Best Seller list. The complete diaries of his presidency were published in an unabridged form in 2009.

Reagan's diaries
Reagan was one of five U.S. presidents to have kept a consistent diary as president, and the only one to do so each day, never neglecting an entry (even when he was in the hospital recovering from his assassination attempt). The diaries number five volumes of thick, maroon, leather-bound books, normally kept in the White House residence, written in simple, sing-song prose, with many misspellings.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan made the diaries available to be transcribed in 2005, and the Reagan Library Foundation partnered with HarperCollins to print them in 2007. The company paid seven figures for the world publication rights.

In them, Reagan wrote about his relationship with his children, once writing that he refused to talk to his son, Ron, and about his relationship, love, devotion, for his wife. When Nancy Reagan was away on her frequent "Just Say No" anti-drug crusades, Reagan wrote in his diary about going "upstairs to a lonely old house," and noted their anniversary as "29 years of more happiness than any man could rightly deserve." Also writing about his wife, he stated "I pray I'll never face a day when she isn't there." Although he was not a regular churchgoer, his simple faith is consistent in the diaries, and he never spelled out even mild swear words, with hell being written as h--l, and damn as d--n.

Compared to other Presidential writings of innermost thoughts, Reagan's thoughts appear far more shallow. However, their original intent does not suggest that they were meant to capture deep thoughts.  One reviewer wrote, "No one expected Reagan to be introspective or philosophical in his diary, ... which is why he elided his mild cursing ("d--n" and "h--l") and was circumspect in other ways".

The head archivist at the Reagan Library, Mike Dugan, described Reagan's writings by saying, "I wouldn't call it an introspective diary, but he states his position. What you read confirms that what you saw with Reagan is what you got."

Gallery
The actual diaries are on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum.

References

External links
Interview with Brinkley on The Reagan Diaries, April 27, 2007, C-SPAN
Interview with Brinkley on The Reagan Diaries, June 9, 2007, C-SPAN

Diaries
2007 non-fiction books
Books by Ronald Reagan
Books about Ronald Reagan
Political autobiographies
HarperCollins books
Books published posthumously
Books written by presidents of the United States
Gods of War is Blasphemy's second full-length album, released in 1993. The 1989 demo Blood Upon the Altar has been released as bonus on most of the editions of this album, to compensate for the albums overly short running time. All songs were composed by Blasphemy.

Track listing

Personnel

Blasphemy
Caller Of The Storms – lead guitars, effects 
Ace Gustapo Necrosleezer And Vaginal Commands – bass, backing vocals, effects 
Nocturnal Grave Desecrator And Black Winds – vocals 
3 Black Hearts Of Damnation And Impurity – drums

Production
Len Osanic – engineering
Jeff Trebilcock – engineering
SV. Bell Illustration – artwork
Osmose – executive production

Release history

References

External links
 

1993 albums
Blasphemy (band) albums
Osmose Productions albums
Alexis Nicolas (born 13 February 1983) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He currently works in commercial real estate investment.

Football career
Born in Westminster, Nicolas played youth football with Aston Villa before joining Chelsea in 2001. He made his debut for Chelsea on 24 January 2004, in an FA Cup game against Scarborough; Paul Wilson of The Guardian described Nicolas' performance as "encouraging." After a loan spell with Brighton & Hove Albion, Nicolas signed for the club permanently in October 2004. After leaving Brighton, he played non-league football with St Albans City, playing for them on a week-to-week contract from September to November 2006. He joined Hadley as a player-coach in January 2012.

He was also a Cyprus under 21-international.

Finance career
After working for Franc Warwick, Nicolas set up his own firm, Springer Nicolas, in 2012.

Career statistics

References

1983 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Cypriot men's footballers
Cyprus men's under-21 international footballers
Aston Villa F.C. players
Chelsea F.C. players
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
St Albans City F.C. players
Hadley F.C. players
Premier League players
English Football League players
Men's association football midfielders
English people of Greek Cypriot descent
Footballers from Westminster
The Dr. Samuel MacKenzie Elliott House is a historic house located at 69 Delafield Place in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York.

Description and history 
Built in 1840, it was one of 22 similar houses in the area designed and built as investments by Scottish born Samuel Mackenzie Elliott, an oculist and eye surgeon who boasted prominent clients like John Jacob Astor, Peter Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Horace Greeley. So great was his influence on the first settlement of this part of the north shore of Staten Island that the neighborhood was then known as "Elliotville". It is a -story, dark grey, locally quarried stone cottage in the Gothic style cottage. It has a gable roof with a small, pointed arch window under the rear gable.

Elliot was an active abolitionist, and this house, along with his own, was reputedly outfitted as a refuge for slaves escaping the United States via the Underground Railroad.

It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1967, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 28, 1980.

See also
List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Staten Island
National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond County, New York

References

External links
 2007 photo, with transcribed description from NRHC nomination

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Staten Island
Gothic Revival architecture in New York (state)
Houses completed in 1840
New York City Designated Landmarks in Staten Island
Underground Railroad in New York (state)
African-American history in New York City
West New Brighton, Staten Island
Terence Rawlings (4 November 1933 – 23 April 2019) was a British film editor and sound editor with several BAFTA nominations and one Academy Award nomination. His credits as a sound editor date from 1962–1977, after which he was credited primarily as a film editor.

Career
A founding member of the Guild of British Film and Television Editors, Rawlings was also elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors, and received the organization's 2006 Career Achievement Award. He was nominated for an Oscar for his work on Chariots of Fire and for BAFTAs for both Alien and Blade Runner.

Personal life and death
He lived in north London with his wife. He died at his home in Hertfordshire on 23 April 2019, at the age of 85.

Filmography
The Sentinel (1977)
Watership Down (1978)
Alien (1979)
The Awakening (1980)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Blade Runner (1982) (credited as "supervising editor". Despite being the film's editor, British citizen Rawlings was not allowed a full editor credit because he did not belong to an American film labor union)
Yentl (1983)
Legend (1985)
F/X (1986)
White of the Eye (1987)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Slipstream (1989)
Bullseye! (1990)
Not Without My Daughter (1991)
Alien 3 (1992)
No Escape (1994)
Trapped in Paradise (1994)
GoldenEye (1995)
The Saint (1997)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Entrapment (1999)
The Musketeer (2001)
The Core (2003)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Awards
 1970 - Nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Sound Track for Isadora and Women in Love.
 1980 - Nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Alien.
 1982 - Nominated for BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Chariots of Fire.
 1983 - Nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Film Editing for Blade Runner.
 2003 - Won DVDX Award for Best Audio Commentary (shared with Ridley Scott, Ronald Shusett, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt)
 2006 - Received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.

References

External links
Terry Rawlings at the British Film Institute

1933 births
2019 deaths
English film editors
American Cinema Editors
Film people from London