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Sir Thomas White (1492 – 12 February 1567) was an English cloth merchant, Lord Mayor of London in 1553, and a civic benefactor and founder of St John's College, Oxford and Merchant Taylors' School.

Biography
Thomas White was born in Reading, Berkshire, the son of William White, a clothier of Reading, and his wife, Mary, daughter of John Kibblewhite of South Fawley, also in Berkshire. He was brought up in London. Sir Thomas was twice married, to Avicia (died 1558) and to Joan. A principal member of the guild of Merchant Taylors, he served as Sheriff of London in 1547, and was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1553.  He was knighted in the same year by Queen Mary I. He was a member of the commission for the trial of Lady Jane Grey.

In 1555, inspired by the example of Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College, Oxford, White obtained a royal licence for the foundation of St John's College, Oxford, dedicated to the patron saint of the Merchant Taylors and established in the buildings of the dissolved Cistercian College of St Bernard. He was involved in the foundation of Merchant Taylors' School, and made provision that scholars of the college should be nominated from pupils of the school.  He also established scholarships at St John's College, tenable by pupils of Tonbridge School, Bristol Grammar School, Reading School and King Henry VIII School, Coventry, where one of the school's four houses bears his name. He purchased Gloucester Hall and set it up in 1560 as a hall of residence for scholars; this became the basis of the later foundation of Worcester College. As a result of his philanthropy, he was listed in Richard Johnson's Nine Worthies of London in 1592.

Sir Thomas White Loan Charity
The charity was founded in 1542 and is still extant. It gives interest-free loans to aspiring businesspeople in Leicestershire and Rutland. There are several memorials to White in England and he is honoured on Leicester's Clock Tower.

References

Bibliography
 Mark Noble (1784). Memoirs of the Protectorate-house of Cromwell: Deduced from an Early Period, and Continued Down to the Present Time,..., Volume 2, Printed Pearson and Rollason.

External links
 Tudor Place: Sir Thomas White
 Royal Berkshire History: Sir Thomas White
 Sir Thomas White Loan Charity
 The Charity of Sir Thomas White, Warwick

1492 births
1567 deaths
People educated at Reading School
People from Leicester
People from Reading, Berkshire
People associated with St John's College, Oxford

English knights
Knights Bachelor
Sheriffs of the City of London
Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors
16th-century lord mayors of London
16th-century merchants
16th-century English businesspeople
English merchants
Cloth merchants
Founders of colleges of the University of Oxford
People associated with Worcester College, Oxford
Barry Andrew Potomski (November 24, 1972 – May 24, 2011) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.  He played 68 National Hockey League games: 59 with the Los Angeles Kings and 9 with the San Jose Sharks.

Potomski died on May 24, 2011, after collapsing at a fitness centre, Lifestyle Family Fitness in Windsor.

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1972 births
2011 deaths
Adirondack Red Wings players
Anaheim Bullfrogs players
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Erie Panthers players
Ice hockey people from Windsor, Ontario
Idaho Steelheads (WCHL) players
Las Vegas Thunder players
London Knights players
Long Beach Ice Dogs (IHL) players
Los Angeles Kings players
Phoenix Roadrunners (IHL) players
San Diego Gulls (WCHL) players
San Jose Sharks players
Toledo Storm players
Undrafted National Hockey League players
Chaturvedi is a surname of Indian origin. The name "Chaturvedi" literally means "Knower of the Four Vedas". They are from the families of rishis (saints). The Earlier family was living around Mathura but during the Mughal period some conflict happened between Aurangzeb and Chaturvedi which led to Aurangzeb sending  troops towards villages for chaturvedi and the Mughal King. This event leads to the rehibitions of Chaturvedi some stayed in Mathura, some came out of mathura and settled around Agra region and many moved toward different districts of Bihar. 

Notable people with the surname Chaturvedi include:

 Avani Chaturvedi, one of the first female fighter pilots of India
 B. K. Chaturvedi, civil servant
 Chaturvedi Badrinath (1933–2010), IAS officer and writer
 Juhi Chaturvedi, screenwriter
 Makhanlal Chaturvedi (1889–1968), Hindi writer
 Nishi Chaturvedi, British epidemiologist
 Priyanka Chaturvedi, previously Indian National Congress spokesperson
 Sanjiv Chaturvedi, bureaucrat
 Siddhant Chaturvedi, actor
 Surendra Chaturvedi (1929–1977), journalist and activist
 T. N. Chaturvedi, Governor of Karnataka from 2002 to 2007

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The 10th Legislative Assembly of British Columbia sat from 1903 to 1906. The members were elected in the British Columbia general election held in October 1903.
This election was the first in British Columbia to be contested by competing political parties. The British Columbia Conservative Party led by Richard McBride, having won the majority of seats, formed the government.

Charles Edward Pooley served as speaker.

Members of the 10th General Assembly 
The following members were elected to the assembly in 1903.:

Notes:

Party standings

By-elections 
By-elections were held for the following members appointed to the provincial cabinet, as was required at the time:
 Charles Wilson, Attorney General, elected November 21, 1903
 Frederick John Fulton, President of Executive Council, acclaimed June 1, 1904

By-elections were held to replace members for various other reasons:

Notes:

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Political history of British Columbia
Terms of British Columbia Parliaments
1903 establishments in British Columbia
1906 disestablishments in British Columbia
20th century in British Columbia
Calosoma cancellatum is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily of Carabinae. It was described by Eschscholtz in 1833.

References

cancellatum
Beetles described in 1833
Survival of the Fattest is a sculpture of a small, starved boy carrying a fat woman. The sculpture was made by Jens Galschiøt and Lars Calmar in 2002, as a symbol of the imbalanced distribution of the world’s resources. In 2006 it was acquired by the city of Ringkøbing, Central Denmark Region, and placed in the harbour.

Sculpture and symbols 
The 3.5 metre tall bronze sculpture was made in 2002 and depicts a huge fat woman from the west, sitting on the shoulders of a starved African boy. The woman is holding a pair of scales, as a symbol of justice, but her eyes are closed—a reference to the traditional depiction of Lady Justice wearing a blindfold, but also a suggestion that justice is degenerating into a self-righteous unwillingness to see an obvious injustice.

The sculpture was intended to send out a message to the rich part of the world; it seems to create focus on our obesity due to over consumption while people in the third world are dying of hunger. Due to the imbalanced distribution of the resources in the world, the most people in the western countries are living comfortably, they are oppressing the poor people by means of an unjust world trade. The rich countries are by means of tariff barriers and subsidies keeping the poor countries out of the markets of the West.

On the sculpture there is an inscription, which states: "I'm sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under the burden. I would do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back."

Exhibition at COP15 
In 2009 at the 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15), Jens Galschiot exhibited a series of sculptures titled SevenMeters, with Survival of the Fattest among them.

Survival of the Fattest was placed in the harbour of Copenhagen, next to the internationally famous statue The Little Mermaid. Based on the 1837 fairy tale by the Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Mermaid is a national monument and seen by an estimated 1 million tourists a year.

By placing his sculpture in the water next to The Little Mermaid, Galschiot was assured that its explosive message would receive international attention. The act also highlighted that the goals and objectives of the wealthy nations at the Climate Change Conference to be nothing more than fairy tales.

As of 2020, the monument is located in the harbour of Ringkøbing, Central Denmark Region.

See also
 Danish sculpture
 Jens Galschiot
 My Inner Beast
 The Color Orange
 Pillar of Shame
 Fundamentalism (sculpture)

References

Sculptures by Jens Galschiøt
2009 in the environment
Environmental art
Sculptures of children in Denmark
Glaze City is an unincorporated community in Gonzales County, Texas, United States. The community is located along Farm to Market Road 443 in the eastern part of the county.

History
Glaze City was founded in 1926; it took its name from one of its promoters. The community's population peaked at 90 in the 1940s, but had declined to ten by 1989; as of 2000, its population was still ten.

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Unincorporated communities in Gonzales County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
1926 establishments in Texas
Populated places established in 1926
Huang Cheng (; born 1982) is a Chinese paralympic rower. He won the gold medal at the 14th Summer Paralympics at London. He defeated Erik Horrie and Aleksey Chuvashev to clinch gold in the men's single sculls.

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1982 births
Paralympic gold medalists for China
Living people
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Rowers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in rowing
Paralympic rowers for China
21st-century Chinese people
Poitrenaud is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Clément Poitrenaud (born 1982), French rugby union player
Jacques Poitrenaud (1922–2005), French film director and actor

French-language surnames
Richard Charles Ackerman (born December 5, 1942) is an American Republican  politician, who was a California State Senator for the 33rd District, representing inland Orange County, from 2000 to 2008.

Born in Long Beach, California, Ackerman earned a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law in 1967. Ackerman and his wife, Linda, who married in 1968, have three children, Lauren, Marc, and Brett, and two granddaughters, Caitlin and Elizabeth.

Elected to the Fullerton City Council in 1980, Ackerman served three terms on the council, also serving as Mayor in 1982 and 1986.

California State Assembly career

Ackerman was elected to the California State Assembly from the 72nd District in a 1995 special election to replace Assemblyman Ross Johnson, who vacated the seat after winning a special election to the State Senate.  He was unopposed for re-election in 1996 and won 68% of the vote in 1998.  During his tenure in the Assembly, Ackerman served as Assistant Republican Leader, Republican Caucus Whip, Vice Chair of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee, Vice Chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, a member of Appropriations Committee, and a member of the Legislative Ethics Committee.

California State Senate career

After those three terms in the Assembly, Ackerman was elected to the State Senate in 2000.   In first year in the Senate, he became Vice Chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee.  Ackerman and his family moved from their long-time Fullerton residence in the northern part of his Senate District to Irvine in the central part of his Senate District.  In 2002, Ackerman agreed to run as a sacrificial lamb against incumbent Democratic Attorney General Bill Lockyer in the latter's bid for a second term, as no Republican sought the nomination for Attorney General and Ackerman could retain his Senate seat since it was not up for election until 2004. As expected, Lockyer won re-election and Ackerman stayed in the Senate.  On May 10, 2004, Ackerman was unanimously elected to serve as Senate Minority Leader.  Six months later, he won re-election to the Senate with 69% of the vote. On April 15, 2008, Ackerman officially handed over California Senate GOP leadership to fellow Long Beach-born State Senator Dave Cogdill.

References

External links
Dick Ackerman Political History

1942 births
Republican Party California state senators
Living people
Republican Party members of the California State Assembly
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco alumni
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
People from Fullerton, California
People from Irvine, California
Politicians from Long Beach, California
21st-century American politicians
Maged George Elias Ghattas is an Egyptian politician with a military background. He has been Minister of State for Environmental Affairs since 14 July 2004, initially as part of the cabinet of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif.

Education
Ghattas graduated with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Power Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University in 1971. Joining the military on 1 February 1972, he gained a B.Sc. in Military Science from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1972.

Career
Ghattas took part in the 6th October War against Israel and continued his career in the military. From 6 June 1996 to 5 July 1998, George worked as a military attaché in Rome, Italy. From July 1998 to 11 December 1999 he was Chief of General Stuff for Military Works and Projects Managements in Egypt. From 12 December 1999 to 20 July 2002 he was Military works Management Director. From 21 July 2002 to 13 July 2004 he Chief of the Armed Forces' Engineering Authority.

On 14 July 2004 he was appointed Minister of State for Environmental Affairs. Despite his association with the Mubarak regime, he managed to keep his position in Essam Sharaf's cabinet after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

Medals
"Long Services" and "Perfect Example" Medals
"Excellent Service" Medal
Second Degree Medal of The Arab Republic of Egypt
The Order of Merit of the Grand Officer of the Italian Republic (Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) from H.E. President of the Republic of Italy

Personal life
Ghattas is a Coptic Christian.

See also
Cabinet of Egypt

References

External links
Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs  with profile

1949 births
Living people
National Democratic Party (Egypt) politicians
Environment ministers of Egypt
Politicians from Cairo
Egyptian people of the Yom Kippur War
20th-century Egyptian military personnel
Egyptian Military Academy alumni
Military personnel from Cairo
Coptic Christians from Egypt
The Canon de 105 mm modèle F1 (or CN-105-F1) is a French 105 mm tank gun used with the AMX-30.

History 
The CN 105 F1 was designed at the end of the 1950s by the arsenal of Bourges (EFAB) under the project name D1512, its development was completed in 1962 and the gun was registered as 105 Mle 62 (an abbreviated version of 105 mm 1962 Model) which in turn took the designation of CN 105 F1 after being fitted with its armored gun mantlet.

As the French Army was relying on the OCC 105 F1 (obus G) as main as its only armor-piercing ammunition at that time, the rifling of CN 105 F1 gun barrel was given a relatively slow twist of one turn in 25 calibers to minimise the spin imparted to the HEAT projectile, but this made it unsuitable for firing APDS, although compatible with all other types of NATO 105×617mm ammunition such as APFSDS, the OFL 105 F1 being the first French-made APFSDS and was fielded in November 1981.

Design 
The CN 105 F1 is a monoblock steel  cannon protected from bending with a magnesium alloy thermal sleeve. The F1 is fitted with a semi-automatic vertical sliding wedge breechblock, though fitted without a muzzle brake. Unlike the similar L7 tank gun, the F1 uses a compressed air scavenging system instead of a bore evacuator. The recoil mechanism uses two symmetrically opposed hydraulic brake cylinders with a single hydropneumatic recuperator cylinder. An electrical firing system is fitted.

Additional specifications 
Factory designation: D1512
Total length: 5.9 m
Rifling length: 5.263 m 
Rifling twist: 7°,10' right hand
Number of grooves: 32
Recoil mechanism: two symmetrically opposed hydraulic brake cylinders
Recuperator: single hydropneumatic recuperator cylinder
Recoil length: 385 mm
Maximum recoil length: 400 mm
Recoil force: 23 t
Weight, overall: 2470 kg
Recoiling gun mass: 1980 kg
Source:

Variant 

A shorter barrel version designated D1504 was fitted to Israeli M51 Shermans and locally known as the CN 105 D1, some of which have been sold to Chile.
The gun saw extensive combat use in the 1967 Six Days War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, scoring many victories in engagements with Syrian and Egyptian forces. In order to fit in the T23 turret of the M51, a larger muzzle brake was added to reduce the recoil length.

Argentina also produced a version of this gun, similar to the Israeli version, for use on their Repotenciado upgrade of ex-British Sherman Firefly tanks, known locally as the L44/57 FTR 105 mm.  Although these tanks still had the original smaller Sherman turret, the extended Firefly bustle gave enough space for the recoil within a limited elevation arc, but left a very cramped turret. Ammunition was sourced from Fabricaciones Militares.

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Cold War artillery of France
Tank guns of France
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Siddha Baba Temple () is a Hindu temple of Shiva located near the city of Butwal, Dobhan-5, Palpa district of Nepal. The temple is visited by the people all over Nepal and mostly by the Hindus of Palpa and Rupandehi and neighboring districts. It is believed that the wishes of the devotees who visit the temple comes true. There is a tradition to release a pigeon when a person's wish is fulfilled. This tradition has contributed to large number of pigeon population around the temple.

Hindu people worship at the temple of Siddha Baba during the days of Saturday, Monday and various religious festivals directly and indirectly connected to god Shiva. During the festivals of Shivaratri, a large numbers of Hindus go to the temple for worship.

Location
The temple of Siddha Baba lies in Dobhan-5, Palpa district, Nepal at a distance of about 2 km from Butwal Sub-metro city. The temple is located at left bank of Tinau Riveron the way to Pokhara via Siddhartha Highway.

A small river named Chidiya Khola flows near the temple. The pilgrimage considers water from this river as holy.

History
According to the legend, the temple is believed to be a place of penance of King Bhartrihari, the elder brother of king Vikramaditya-the king who started Bikram Sambat.

Currently, the temple had been registered in the office of District Administration, Palpa in 1998.

Surrounding
Besides, Shiva, the temple houses other deities such as Ganesh, Nag, Mansa Devi and Bishwokarma.  A akhand dhuni (continuous holy fire) is located inside the temple. There is a dharmashala (rest house) and a place for performing shradha, parking places, and other public amenities in the temple premises.

References

Hindu temples in Lumbini Province
Rupandehi District
Shiva temples in Nepal
Morne Plat Pays is a volcano on the island of Dominica. Located on the southern region of the island, the volcano last erupted around the year 1270 AD. Since the mid-18th century, a number of earthquake swarms have occurred near the mountain, but these are not related to Morne Plat Pays' eruptive activity.

See also 
 List of mountains of Dominica
 List of volcanoes in Dominica

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Mountains of Dominica
Volcanoes of Dominica
Inactive volcanoes
Stratovolcanoes of North America
Handel Cossham (31 March 1824 – 23 April 1890) was a British colliery owner, lay preacher and Liberal politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1890.

Early life
Cossham was born in High Street, Thornbury, in a house where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were also born. His father Jesse Cossham, a carpenter and builder, named his son after the composer of Messiah, George Frederic Handel. A plaque at his birthplace describes him as a "non-conformist Preacher, Industrialist, Geologist, Politician, Educationalist and Public Benefactor".

Career

Cossham began his involvement in the coal industry in 1845 at Yate colliery. In 1848 he married Elizabeth Wethered and through a partnership with her family, began Parkfield Colliery at Pucklechurch in 1851. As a caring employer, Cossham also built houses and a school for his colliery workers at Parkfield. The partnership opened several other coal pits, initially under the name of Cossham and Wethered Ltd and from 1867, the Kingswood Coal and Iron Company Ltd. The business came under control of Handel Cossham and Charles S. Wills after 1879 when the Kingswood and Parkfield Colliery Company Ltd was formed. In 1862, Handel Cossham built the British School in Thornbury, which remains today. The Cossham Hall, which was built as a Wesleyan chapel, was purchased and donated to Thornbury by Cossham in 1888.

Political life
Cossham represented St. Paul's ward on Bristol City Council as a Liberal during the 1860s. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament at Nottingham in 1866, at Dewsbury in 1868 and at Chippenham in 1874. He was Mayor of Bath from 1882 to 1885. At the 1885 general election he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for the newly created Bristol East and retained the seat in 1886.

Death

In April 1890, whilst in the library of the Houses of Parliament, Cossham was taken ill and died the following day aged 66. An estimated 50,000 people lined the streets on the day of his funeral. His estate amounted to £59,127. In 1900, his collieries were sold at auction for £61,000. The Cossham Memorial Hospital in Kingswood, Bristol is a memorial to Handel Cossham, who instructed in his will that his estate be used for the building of a hospital.

Personal papers
Records relating to Handel Cossham's collieries and estates are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 9492).

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Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
1824 births
1890 deaths
UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1886–1892
Bristol Coalfield
People from Thornbury, Gloucestershire
Mayors of Bath, Somerset
British businesspeople in the coal industry
Faithful unto Death is a crime novel written by English writer Caroline Graham and first published by Headline in 1996. The story follows Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby investigating the case of a missing woman. It is the fifth volume in Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby series, preceded by Written in Blood and followed by A Place of Safety. It has been adapted into an episode in the ITV drama Midsomer Murders.

Plot summary
When local housewife Simone Hollingsworth doesn't show up for bell-ringing practice, nobody even raises an eyebrow, let alone suspect anything sinister. However, after her suspicious neighbours, the elderly Brockleys, notice her husband digging holes in his garden late one night, they call in Chief Inspector Barnaby for help unearthing his dark secrets.

Publication history 
United Kingdom: 1996, Headline, London, 1996, Hardback, 311 p., .
United States: 1998, St. Martin's Press, New York City, 1998, Hardback, 311 p., .

Reception
A starred review from Publishers Weekly stated: "What distinguishes this series from run-of-the-mill English country fare is Graham's dry wit, which is especially smooth when turned on the banality of English middle-class repression." Kirkus Reviews noted: Graham writes in an old-fashioned way—with leisurely grace, ironic wit, real-seeming characters, ongoing suspense, and a corker of a plot. The result: top-flight entertainment." Book critic David Pitt in Booklist, said that the "seemingly typical British small-town mystery ends as an eyebrow-raising shocker."

Television adaptation
The novel was adapted by Douglas Watkinson into the fourth episode of Midsomer Murders, starring (alongside regulars John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard and Daniel Casey) Lesley Vickerage as Simone, Michele Dotrice, Peter Jones, Rosalind Ayres, Roger Allam, Tessa Peake-Jones, David Daker and Eleanor Summerfield.

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1996 British novels
Inspector Barnaby series
English novels
Headline Publishing Group books