Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The term Tactical Air Force was used by the air forces of the British Commonwealth during the later stages of World War II, for formations of more than one fighter group. A tactical air force was intended to achieve air supremacy and perform ground attack missions.

Unlike the numbered air forces of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), the Tactical Air Forces did not include strategic bombing/heavy bomber capability. The USAAF situation changed in late 1943 when the 12th Air Force transferred its heavy bombers to the newly formed 15th Air Force. Later, when the Allied air forces in the MTO were reorganized into the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces (MAAF), the US 12th Air Force and the RAF Desert Air Force became part of the Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force and the US 15th Air Force and No. 205 Group RAF became part of the Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force. A Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force was also part of MAAF.

Operating strategic, tactical, and coastal air forces together throughout the latter stages of the Second World War was based on the successful practice primarily of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham during the Western Desert Campaign of WWII. This original 'tri-force' consisted of No. 205 (Heavy Bomber) Group, Air Headquarters Western Desert, and No. 201 (Naval Cooperation) Group as the strategic, tactical, and coastal components, respectively. Coningham commanded Air Headquarters Western Desert. To support Allied ground forces, he and Tedder developed some of the key features of Close air support still practiced in the 21st century.

The first tactical air force to be so named was the RAF Second Tactical Air Force, which was inaugurated within RAF Fighter Command on June 1, 1943, with the title "tactical air force" superseding the original title of "expeditionary air force".

The four tactical air forces were:
Australian First Tactical Air Force
Desert Air Force (later known as the First Tactical Air Force) - North Africa and later Italy
RAF Second Tactical Air Force - Northern Europe
RAF Third Tactical Air Force - South Asia

Also there was a U.S./French TAF, the 1st Tactical Air Force (Provisional), supporting 6th Army Group, consisting of XII Tactical Air Command and the French 1er Corps Aerien Francais. (Zaloga, Nordwind) 1 TAF (P) became operational early in November 1944 with Major General Ralph Royce in command. The 1er CAF was formed on 1 December 1944.

References 
Notes

Military units and formations of World War II
The Royal Canadian Artillery Museum, Canada's National Artillery Museum, is a museum dedicated to telling the stories of more than 200,000 Canadian Gunners who have served Canada in war and peace since 1855. The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery (RCA) has been a part of the fabric of Canadian history since the earliest days of the country. The RCA Museum was established in 1962 at Canadian Forces Base Shilo to preserve and interpret this proud heritage for future generations.

The RCA  Museum is a Manitoba Star Attraction and one of the largest military museums in Canada.

Exhibits 
The exhibition facility is 24,000 square feet, encompassing five major galleries with interactive exhibits and videos. The National Artillery Gallery is the largest exhibit and features 28 artillery pieces and vehicles telling the story of the Canadian Gunner.

Canadian military history is on display in the Canadian Forces Heritage Gallery, while the Weapons Vault displays almost 100 pistols and rifles. The Glorious and Free gallery tells the story of Manitoba's 12,000 years of military history, and the Manitoba Hall of Honour pays tribute to thirteen Manitobans who have received the Victoria Cross (two original Victoria Crosses are on display) and honors those who have sacrificed their lives for Canada.

The RCA Museum also features an outdoor "Gun Park" with more than thirty artillery pieces and vehicles and runs two temporary exhibits each year in the Gregg Gallery.

The museum is fully accessible for people with disabilities.

References 

Military and war museums in Canada
Hagen Stamm (born 12 June 1960 in Berlin) is a former water polo player from Germany, considered to be one of Germany's best in the last twenty years, having won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, and two European Championships in 1981 and 1989.

In 2000 Stamm took over the German men's team as head coach and became fifth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Stamm is the club president of German series champion Wasserfreunde Spandau 04.

See also
 Germany men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
 List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
 List of men's Olympic water polo tournament top goalscorers
 List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo

External links
 

1960 births
Living people
German male water polo players
Olympic water polo players for Germany
Olympic water polo players for West Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
Water polo players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Water polo players from Berlin
Olympic medalists in water polo
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
German water polo coaches
Germany men's national water polo team coaches
Water polo coaches at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Water polo coaches at the 2008 Summer Olympics
The Sierra High Route (also called the Roper Route and the High Route) is a cross-country hiking route,  long, through the Sierra Nevada. It was scouted by Steve Roper and described by him in his book Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country.

Much of the Sierra High Route runs parallel to the John Muir Trail, staying east of that trail and keeping above the timberline to higher elevations — between . About a third of the route follows maintained hiking trails (including  of the John Muir Trail); the rest of the route traverses off-trail meadowlands, granite slabs, and, at high elevations, difficult loose-talus terrain. Hiking the route does not require advanced mountaineering skills, but the hiker occasionally encounters class-3 rock faces in which footholds and handholds must be carefully chosen and tested.  The route requires the use of route descriptions, topographical maps, and one or more instruments (e.g., compass, GPS receiver) to navigate. Writes Roper in Sierra High Route,  "High Route adventurers will not be put off by the lack of an actual trail, since much of the singular joy of cross-country travel lies in wandering through the timberline country as the pioneers did--wondering what the next turn will reveal."

Roper divides the route into five segments:
 Cirque Country: Cedar Grove to Dusy Basin, traversing the Monarch Divide, Lake (Cartridge Creek) Basin, Upper Basin, Palisades Basin, Barrett Lakes Basin, and Dusy Basin.
 Whitebark Country: Dusy Basin to Lake Italy, through LeConte Canyon, Muir Pass, Evolution Basin, the Glacier Divide, Humphrey's Basin, and Bear Lakes Basin.
 Lake Country: Lake Italy to Devils Postpile by way of Bear Lakes Basin, Mono Lakes Basin, the Recesses, the Silver Divide, and the Mammoth Crest.
 Headwaters Country: Devil's Postpile to Tuolumne Meadows, crossing the Ritter Range and the Cathedral Range. Roper calls this "Headwaters Country" because the route crosses headwaters of the San Joaquin River.
 Canyon Country: Tuolumne Meadows to Twin Lakes through Yosemite's north country.

From south to north (the direction Roper recommends hiking it), the Sierra High Route passes through Kings Canyon National Park, the Inyo National Forest, and Yosemite National Park.

In 2006, Backpacker magazine editor Steve Howe hiked the entire Sierra High Route in one month.

External links 
 The Sierra High Route: A Journey at Timberline, Steve Roper recounts his discovery of the Sierra High Route
 Sierra High Route: Kings Canyon to the Second Recess, Roper's account of this trail segment
 Sierra High Route: Silver Divide to Rainbow Fall, Roper's description of this trail segment

References

Hiking trails in California
Sierra Nevada (United States)
Long-distance trails in the United States
Zameioscirpus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cyperaceae.

Its native range is Western Peru to Western Argentina.

Species:
 Zameioscirpus atacamensis (Phil.) Dhooge & Goetgh. 
 Zameioscirpus gaimardioides (É.Desv.) Dhooge & Goetgh. 
 Zameioscirpus muticus Dhooge & Goetgh.

References

Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae genera
Plants described in 2003
Flora of Southern America
List of Ambassadors

Aliza Bin-Noun 
Yossi Gal 2010-2015

Former Heads of Mission
Consul General Benad Avital (Non-Resident, Marseille) 1979 - 1982
Consul General Shimon Avimor (Non-Resident, Marseille) 1976 - 1979

References

Monaco
Israel
Episode II is the first mainstream studio album by Safri Duo, a percussion duo from Denmark that released six classical albums before its breakthrough with the Michael Parsberg-produced hit "Played-A-Live", the opening track of the album. It was released on May 28, 2001, and reissued in 2002 with two additional tracks, including a cover version of "Sweet Freedom" with vocals by American R&B/soul singer Michael McDonald. Later the same year a Remix Edition of the album was released, which included an additional disc with remixes by artists such as Airscape, Cosmic Gate and Future Breeze.

Track listing

First edition

New Edition

The Remix Edition

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2001 debut albums
Safri Duo albums
Universal Music Group albums
The Syracuse and Suburban Railroad, an interurban rail in Syracuse, New York, was chartered on June 29, 1895. The main line of this electric road, also known as the Syracuse and Suburban Electric Railroad and the Syracuse and Eastern Railroad, ran , over the beds of city streets, extending from Syracuse to Fayetteville and Manlius where it ended at Edwards Falls, a local tourist attraction. The railroad also operated a line that ran from Orville, now known as DeWitt to Jamesville, for a total distance of .

References

Defunct railroads in Syracuse, New York
Defunct New York (state) railroads
Railway companies established in 1895
Railway companies disestablished in 1921
Interurban railways in New York (state)
DeWitt, New York
The Annandags Peaks () are a group of small, isolated peaks about  southwest of the Jule Peaks (Christmas Peaks) in Queen Maud Land. They were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and from air photos by the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–52) and named "Annandagstoppane" (Boxing Day's Peaks).

The Annadagstoppane granite is the only exposed part of the Archaean basement of the Grunehogna Craton and the only Archaean fragment of West Gondwana (Africa and South America) left in Antarctica.  U-Pb dating of the youngest detrital zircons from Annandagstoppane returned an age of 3067±8 Ma and a tectonic-magmatic history identical to that of the Kaapvaal Craton in southern Africa.  This suggests that the Kaapvaal-Grunehogna Craton remained stable for 2.5 billion years before it was split by the Pan-African orogeny.  Hafnium dating of phenocrystic and detrital zircons in the granite revealed several crustal sources up to 3.9 billion years old.  This suggests that intracrustal melting and recycling was common in the Mesoarchaean and may be an important process in the initial stabilisation of continental crust (i.e. the formation of the first cratons.)

References 

Mountains of Queen Maud Land
Princess Martha Coast
Barhakune Daha (Nepali: ब्रहाकुने दह ) is a lake that lies in the Dang District, Nepal. This is situated in Ghorahi sub-metroploitan city- 07. Baraha Kshetra is  away from the market. This lies in north-west Mahabharat hilly regions’ arms. On the first of Magh (Nepali calendar), there helds the big fare.

People gather ashore the Barhakune Daha on the occasion of Maghe Sankranti

See also 
 List of lakes of Nepal

References

Lakes of Lumbini Province
Dang District, Nepal
Bocanda Airport is an airport serving Bocanda in Côte d'Ivoire.

Airports in Ivory Coast
Buildings and structures in Lacs District
N'Zi Region
The 2014 QNet Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first and last edition of the QNet Open and was part of the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in New Delhi, India, on 17–23 November 2014.

Singles entrants

Seeds 

 1 Rankings as of 10 November 2014

Other entrants 
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Prerna Bhambri
  Bhuvana Kalva
  Natasha Palha
  Sharon Sanchana Paul

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Kamonwan Buayam
  Shweta Rana
  Rishika Sunkara
  Wang Xiyao

The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a lucky loser:
  Vaniya Dangwal

Champions

Singles 

  Ivana Jorović def.  Barbara Haas 6–2, 6–2

Doubles 

  Liu Chang /  Lu Jiajing def.  Marina Melnikova /  Elise Mertens 6–3, 6–0

External links 
 2014 QNet Open at ITFtennis.com

2014 ITF Women's Circuit
2014 in Indian tennis
November 2014 sports events in Asia
Debabrata Pradhan (born 10 October 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Odisha in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 6 March 2017. He made his Twenty20 debut for Odisha in the 2017–18 Zonal T20 League on 8 January 2018. He made his first-class debut for Odisha in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 1 November 2018.

References

External links
 

1996 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Odisha cricketers
People from Sambalpur
Cricketers from Odisha
The North American Racquets Association is the governing body for the sport of racquets in the United States and Canada.

Member clubs

 Tennis and Racquet Club (Boston)
 Racquet Club of Chicago
 Detroit Racquet Club
 Montreal Racket Club
 Racquet Club of Philadelphia
 Racquet and Tennis Club (New York City)
 Tuxedo Club

External links
 North American Racquets Association

Rackets (sport)
Sports governing bodies in Canada
Racquets
The 1960 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate John F. Kennedy, narrowly won the state of Texas with 50.52 percent of the vote to the Republican candidate Vice President Richard Nixon's 48.52%, a margin of two percent, giving him the state's 24 electoral votes. Despite the presence of U.S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson on the Democratic ticket, the result made Texas the tenth closest state in the election. Nixon's strong performance in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, Harris County, the Panhandle, and the Hill Country kept the race close.

Background
The weakening of the Democratic control over the Solid South allowed Republicans to win Texas in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections. The state legislature passed legislation requested by Lyndon B. Johnson that allowed him to run in both the presidential election and the concurrent senatorial election.

Campaign
Fears of anti-Catholic voting in West Texas, which had given Herbert Hoover a narrow win over Al Smith in 1928, were not entirely realized. It is notable that the sparsely populated rural Plains counties of Armstrong, Bailey, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Dawson, Donley, Floyd, Gaines, Hale, Hardeman, Hartley, Moore, Motley, Parmer, Wheeler, Willbarger and Yoakum switched from Stevenson to Nixon, as did Wise County north of Fort Worth, while a further thirty-eight counties saw Kennedy fail to reach Stevenson's vote percentage.  However, this was more than offset by Kennedy's gains in heavily Hispanic Catholic South Texas, where few Mexicans had voted in 1928. Anti-Catholic voting was also lessened by appeals from former President Harry Truman, who campaigned for Kennedy and Johnson. , this is the last time Glasscock County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.

Nixon himself later commented "we lost Texas...because of that asshole Congressman", referring to Bruce Alger. The only Republican congressman in Texas at the time, Alger had led protestors, many of them well-heeled conservative women, against Johnson's visit to Dallas on November 4th. One woman pulled Johnson's wife's gloves out of her hand, and her hat was knocked off by a protestor's placard. Nicknamed the "mink coat mob", the resulting press coverage was a humiliation for Texas Republicans and was blamed for damaging the party's electoral results in the South generally at a time when wives were regarded as sacrosanct. 

Johnson won in the concurrent senatorial election against Republican nominee John Tower, but Tower won in the special election to fill the vacancy created by Johnson's election to the vice-presidency.

Results

Results by county

See also
 United States presidential elections in Texas
 1960 United States presidential election
 John F. Kennedy 1960 presidential campaign
 Richard Nixon 1960 presidential campaign

References

Works cited
 

 
Irish-American history
Anti-Catholicism in the United States
1960 presidential election
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
November 1960 events in the United States
Articles containing video clips
John F. Kennedy
Paweł Gaca (5 October 1917 – 11 August 2008) was a Polish gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

References

1917 births
2008 deaths
Polish male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts for Poland
Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics
People from Wodzisław Śląski
20th-century Polish sportsmen
Sportspeople from Silesian Voivodeship
Rivand () may refer to:
 Rivand, Davarzan
 Rivand, Rashtkhvar
 Rivand Rural District
The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume I is a book edited by Loren Wiseman and published by Game Designers' Workshop.

Contents
The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume I is a compilation of selected articles from the first four issues of the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society.

Reception
William A. Barton reviewed The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume I in The Space Gamer No. 40. Barton commented that "If you missed any issues from The Journal'''s first year, I heartily recommend The Best of the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, Volume I''."

See also
Journal of the Travellers Aid Society

References

Traveller (role-playing game)
Rubicon was a New Zealand pop punk band best known for their singles "Bruce" and "Funny Boy" from the early 2000s.

History 

Rubicon was formed in Auckland in 1999 by drummer, bassist and singer Paul Reid. He had previously drummed with Loves Ugly Children and The D4 and also played Marshall Heywood on New Zealand television soap Shortland Street. Reid was joined by his school friends: guitarist and vocalist Gene Bennett and bassist and drummer Jon Corker. The trio first gained attention with their song "California", which had come second in a demo competition held by Auckland radio station 96.1. This led to the band signing with Wildside Records, including distribution in New Zealand, Australia and Japan.

The band released single "Funny Boy" in 2001, which reached #46 in the New Zealand charts, followed by single "Bruce" in 2002, which charted at #22. The band's debut album Primary was released in 2002, charting at #16. Rubicon received 10 NZ On Air grants of $5000 for the production of music videos and a $50,000 grant for the recording of Primary.

In 2004 Bennet and Corker left the band to pursue their own musical directions, with Reid relocating to Los Angeles. New York musicians Scott Zant and Frank Zumo joined the band, with a new line-up of Zant on bass and vocals, Zumo on drums and Reid on guitar and vocals. In 2005 the band released their second album The Way It Was Meant To Be, but it did not experience the same popularity as Primary.

By 2006 Rubicon had broken up, with Reid having returned to New Zealand and launched a now defunct web directory similar to Craigslist called The Thing. As of 2012, Reid is the managing director of Auckland real estate company Iconicity, later renamed The Icon Group.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links
Rubicon at Muzic.net.nz
Rubicon at Amplifier

New Zealand punk rock groups
Pop punk groups
Bronislav Gimpel (January 29, 1911 – May 1, 1979) was a Polish-American violinist, and teacher. He was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, part of Polish Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine), to a family of Jewish origin. Gimpel's older brother, Jakob Gimpel, was a noted concert pianist who also recorded music for motion pictures.

Early career
Bronislav Gimpel started piano and violin lessons with his father at the age of five. At the age of eight, he studied with Moritz Wolfsthal at the Lwów Conservatory. After 1922 he continued his studies with Robert Pollack at the Vienna Conservatory. 1925, at the age of fourteen, he played the Goldmark Concerto with the Vienna Symphony. A year later, an extended concert tour in Italy resulted in a succession of triumphs of historic proportion, with command performances before King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Pope Pius XI, and invitations to play on Paganini's famous Guarneri and to perform at the grave of the legendary virtuoso. Tours of South America and Europe followed. In 1928/29 he attended the Berlin Hochschule für Musik under the guidance of Prof. Carl Flesch. Thereafter he continued his solo career while holding the lead posts in Königsberg and Gothenburg.

Move to United States
Gimpel immigrated to the United States in 1937. On Otto Klemperer's initiative, he became concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in July 1937. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1942 to the end of the war, Gimpel resumed his solo career in Europe, where he was received, once again, with great acclaim. In 1963, he and Władysław Szpilman formed "The Warsaw Piano Quintet". His recording of Dvorak's Violin Concerto is considered one of the best interpretations of this concerto.

Teaching positions
In 1967 Gimpel accepted a professorship at the University of Connecticut. From 1973 Gimpel was a professor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. In this period of time he resumed his solo concert appearances in Europe, the United States and South America.

Gimpel died in Los Angeles at age 68.

Footnotes

External links
 

1911 births
1979 deaths
American male violinists
Polish violinists
Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
Musicians from Lviv
Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition prize-winners
20th-century American violinists
20th-century American male musicians
Justin "Hero" Cassell is a Montserratian calypsonian, popularly regarded as one of the pioneers of calypso from Montserrat.  He began performing in the 1950s.  His brother is the musician Arrow.

Cassell has won Montserrat's calypso crown more often than anyone else.  During the 1970s and 80s, he was part of a rivalry with the calypsonian musician Reality.

References

 
  

Montserratian musicians
Calypsonians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Liuliqiao station () is an interchange station on Line 9 and Line 10 of the Beijing Subway. It is located along Guang'an Road to the southwest of Liuliqiao, the intersection between the 3rd Ring Road and the northern terminus of the G4 Beijing–Hong Kong and Macau Expressway.

Station Layout 
The line 9 station has 2 underground side platforms. The line 10 station has an underground island platform. The line 10 platforms are located under the line 9 platforms.

Exits 
There are 6 exits, lettered A, B, C, D, E, and F. Exit C is accessible.

Gallery

References

External links

Beijing Subway stations in Fengtai District
Railway stations in China opened in 2011