Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Willie Pietersen (born 1937) is an international businessman, author, and professor at Columbia University.

William Gerard Pietersen was born in East London, South Africa, on Sept. 24, 1937 to Willem Gerhardus DuPlessis Pietersen and Hester Jacomina Francina (née Müller).  He is six feet, four inches tall and of Dutch, German and French ancestry.  Pietersen attended Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he earned a BA in law and economics and an LLB in law and was chairman of the Students Representative Council. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England where he received an MA in jurisprudence. After practicing law, he embarked on an international business career. By 1974, at age 36, Pietersen had become one of the youngest Managing Directors in the history of Unilever. Over a period of twenty years he served as the CEO of multibillion-dollar businesses such as Lever Foods, Seagram USA, Tropicana and Sterling Winthrop's Consumer Health Group.

Pietersen has served as a director on several boards including the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a think tank based in Silicon Valley.

In 1998, Willie was named Professor of the Practice of Management at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He specializes in strategy and the leadership of change, and his methods and ideas, especially Strategic Learning, are widely applied within Columbia's executive education programs, and also in numerous corporations.
He has served as a teacher and advisor to many global companies, including American Express, Aviva plc, Bausch & Lomb, Boeing, CNA Financial Corp., Chubb Corp., Deloitte, DePuy, Electrolux, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Henry Schein Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Pandora (jewelry), SAP AG, UGI Corp., United Nations Federal Credit Union, Univation Technologies and also the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Willie is the author of two books:
Reinventing Strategy, published in 2002, introduced the underlying principles and application tools for Strategic Learning.

Strategic Learning, March 2010, builds on these ideas and more extensive practical guidelines.

Articles about business strategy by Willie have appeared in the award-winning journal Leader to Leader, Financial Times, The European Business Review, and Columbia Business School's Ideas and Insights.

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External links
 Website
 Coaching on Call
 Blog Talk Radio
 Who Is Michael Price
Innovative Watch
 Parliament Speakers
 The Free Library
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Living people
1937 births
Afrikaner people
South African people of German descent
South African people of Dutch descent
South African expatriates in the United States
People from East London, South Africa
South African Rhodes Scholars
South African academics
Columbia University faculty
Selph is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Carey Selph (1901–1976), American baseball player
Carl Selph (born 1946), American politician
Jimmie Selph (1915–2000), American country music artist
Robert Selph Henry (1889–1970), American lawyer, railroad executive and historian
Thornburg is an unincorporated community in Smith County, Kansas, United States.

History
Thornburg briefly had a post office, from 1902 until 1904. Thornburg School, a one-room schoolhouse, was built in 1880 and remained in use until its closing in 1963.  The original structure still stands.

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Further reading

External links
 Smith County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Smith County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas
View of the Cannaregio Canal was painted by  Francesco Guardi  around 1770. It is a small oil on canvas painting measuring 48.9 × 77.5 cm. It now hangs in the reading room of the Frick Art Reference Library alongside  the Regatta in Venice. Both paintings were gifted to the Frick Collection by Helen Clay Frick after her father's death. In the painting, Guardi captures a typical scene of Venetian life on the canals. In this particular veduta, Guardi depicts a section of the northern bank of the Cannaregio Canal, one of Venice’s largest canals, located in the Cannaregio sestiere (district) of the city.

The Palazzo Surian Bellotto is the most prominent building in the painting, named after the two different families who owned the palace: first the Surian family and then the Bellotto family.

The Ponte dei Tre Archi connects the northern bank with the small fragment of the southern bank. The bridge’s arch acts as a viewfinder, focusing the viewer’s gaze onto the tiny patch of pure blue, breaking up the otherwise entirely urban landscape.

Another building that features in this view is the Santa Maria delle Penitenti. It is recognizable by its circular window below the roof and placement behind the Ponte dei Tre Archi. This church was designed by Giorgio Massari in 1725 and the façade was never completed. Guardi takes care to ensure its recognizability despite its modest appearance.

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1770 paintings
Paintings by Francesco Guardi
Paintings in the Frick Collection
Cityscape paintings of Venice
A central or intermediate group of three or four large glands is imbedded in the adipose tissue near the base of the axilla.

Its afferent lymphatic vessels are the efferent vessels of all the preceding groups of axillary glands; its efferents pass to the subclavicular group.

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Lymphatics of the upper limb
Nadrlje (Serbian Cyrillic: Надрље) is a village in Central Serbia (Šumadija), in the municipality of Rekovac (Region of Levač), lying at , at the elevation of 520 m. According to the 2002 census, the village had 229 citizens.

External links
 Levac Online
 Article about Nadrlje.

Populated places in Pomoravlje District
Šumadija
Ørteren is a lake in the municipality of Hol in Viken county, Norway.

Location 
Ørteren is located in Hardangervidda. Norwegian National Road 7 runs along the east side of the Lake.

Power Plant 
Ørteren is regulated for Ørteren Kraftverk, a hydroelectric power plant at Haugastøl. The power plant utilizes a drop of 160 meters between Ørteren and Sløtfjorden. It went into production in 1966. The dam and the intake were built by Oslo Energi and are currently operated by E- CO.

References

See also
List of lakes in Norway

Lakes of Viken (county)
Switak's banded gecko (Coleonyx switaki), also commonly known as the barefoot banded gecko, the barefoot gecko, and Switak's barefoot gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Eublepharidae. The species is indigenous to the extreme southwestern United States and adjacent northwestern Mexico.

Etymology
The specific name, switaki, is in honor of German herpetologist Karl-Heinz Switak (born 1938).

Geographic range
C. switaki is native to southern California in the United States and Baja California and Baja California Sur in Mexico.

Habitat
The preferred natural habitats of C. switaki are desert and rocky areas.

Taxonomy
Coleonyx gypsicolus, which is endemic to Isla San Marcos in Mexico, is sometimes considered a subspecies of C. switaki.

Description
C. switaki reaches a snout-to-vent length of .  The body of C. switaki is covered in round brown spots. Despite one of its common names, Switak's banded gecko, C. switaki has a variable color pattern that may not feature bands.

Reproduction
C. switaki is oviparous.

References

Further reading
Grismer LL (2001). "Geographic Variation of Color Pattern in Peninsular Populations of Coleonyx switaki (Squamata: Eublepharidae) from Baja California, Mexico and Southern California". Gekko 2 (1): 14–19.
Jones LLC, Lovich RE (2009). Lizards of the American Southwest: A Photographic Field Guide. Tucson, Arizona: Rio Nuevo Publishers. 568 pp.
Murphy RW (1974). "A new genus and species of eublepharine gecko (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Baja California, Mexico". Proc. California Acad. Sci., Fourth Series 40: 87-92. (Anarbylus switaki, new species).
Rösler H (2000). "Kommentirte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Coleonyx switaki, p. 63). (in German).
Stebbins RC (2003). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series ®. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 533 pp. . (Coleonyx switaki, pp. 265–266 + Plate 24 + Map 75).

Switak's banded gecko
Reptiles of Mexico
Reptiles of the United States
Fauna of the Southwestern United States
Reptiles described in 1974
Attwater's pocket gopher (Geomys attwateri) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to the Texas Coastal Bend in the southcentral United States.

This species was named in honor of English naturalist Henry Philemon Attwater.

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Attwater's Pocket Gopher
Mammals of the United States
Mammals described in 1895
The 1992 Tajikistan protests, also known as the Tajikistani Revolution, were nonviolent, bloodless protests and demonstrations against the results of the 1991 Tajik presidential election. These results were thought to be rigged and in favour of the president Rahmon Nabiyev. Opposition rallies erupted on 26 March 1992 but demonstrations became large-scale by May, at the onset of violence. These series of peaceful protests would lead to the bloody Tajikistani Civil War.

Background 
Tajikistan was part of the Soviet Union as the Tajik SSR. The introduction of perestroika and glasnost policies by Mikhail Gorbachev, last president of the USSR led to a series of political and economic upheavals that led to the unraveling of the political and economic system in place and greater influence by actors outside the Communist Party. In 1990, the Dushanbe riots took place against immigration from outside the republic and the government. After the failed August coup against Gorbachev in 1991, the republican authorities proclaimed independence and set presidential elections on November 24, which was won by communist leader Rahmon Nabiyev in disputed circumstances.

Protests 
Protests surrounding the election results escalated into clashes in March 1992, but soon subsided. Quiet protests and small demonstrations took place in April. Mass strikes and major demonstrations then resumed throughout the country, demanding the resignation of the government and President Nabiyev. The government responded by arming militias and quelling the demonstrators with guns and tanks, sparking more clashes. The unrest spiraled out of control, with a particular clash in Khujand, Tajikistan's second-largest city, sparking the 5 year long Tajikistani Civil War. After weeks of mass strikes and demonstrations, the protesters captured the Nabiyev and forced him to resign.

See also  
 Rahmon Nabiyev
 Tajikistani Civil War

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1992 in Tajikistan
1992 protests
Protests in Tajikistan
Protests against results of elections
Demonstrations
Protest marches
Michael Yelton is an English lay authority of the history of the Church of England, particularly the Anglo-Catholic movement. He is secretary of the Anglo-Catholic History Society and a retired as a county court judge on 22 April 2020.

Works
Peter Anson: Monk, Writer and Artist: An Introduction to His Life and Work (2005) 
Alfred Hope Patten and the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (2006) 
Empty Tabernacles: Twelve Lost Churches of London (2006) 
Alfred Hope Patten: His Life and Times in Pictures (2007) 
Anglican Church-building in London 1915-1945 (2007) 
Anglican Papalism: An Illustrated History, 1900-1960 (2009) 
Outposts of the Faith: Anglo-Catholicism in Some Rural Parishes (2009) 
The Twenty One: An Anglo-Catholic Rebellion in London, 1929 (2009) 
The South India Controversy and the Converts of 1955-1956: An Episode in Recent Anglo-Catholic History (2010) 
An Anglo-Catholic Scrapbook, Produced to Mark the Tenth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Anglo-Catholic History Society (2010) 
Anglican Church-building in London 1946-2012 (2013) 
More Empty Tabernacles: Another Twelve Lost Churches of London (2014) 
(foreword), Anglican Abbot: Dom Denys Prideaux (2016) 
Martin Travers: His Life and Work (2016) 
St Silas, Pentonville: The First 150 Years (2017) 
Twenty Priests for Twenty Years: A Commemorative Volume to Mark the Twentieth Anniversary of the Anglo-Catholic History Society (2020) 
An Anglo-Catholic Miscellany (2021) 
The Community of Reparation to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and the Church of St Alphege, Southwark (2022) 
Alfred Hope Patten and the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (2022)

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English Anglo-Catholics
English historians
20th-century English judges
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Eric Halley (3 December 1893 – 17 June 1953) was a South African sports shooter. He competed in two events at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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1893 births
1953 deaths
South African male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for South Africa
Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Dunedin
New Zealand emigrants to South Africa
Iowa State University's Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business was established in 1984, and is accredited by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The college consists of five departments offering nine bachelor's degrees and six post graduate degrees.

History 

Although Iowa State University had offered courses in business since the 1920s, the College of Business was only established in 1984. In the 1920s, business courses were held under the Department of Economics. After some name changes, the Department of Industrial Administration was created in 1955, and became a part of the College of Humanities and Sciences in 1958. In 1980, the School of Business Administration was formed which was renamed the College of Business Administration in 1984. The college was renamed to the College of Business in 1991. On October 19, 2017 the college was officially renamed the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business.

Academics

Departments
Accounting
Finance
Management
Marketing
Supply Chain
Information Systems

Centers 
Iowa Small Business Development Center
ISU Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship

Facilities 
The Gerdin Business Building located on the Iowa State University Campus is the home of the College of Business. Completed in 2003, the building is named after Russell and Ann Gerdin, the lead donors for the construction of the new business building.

References

External links 
Iowa State University College of Business

Business
1984 establishments in Iowa
 Business schools in Iowa
Mount Qingcheng () is a sacred Taoist mountain in Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. 

It is considered one of the birthplaces of Taoism and one of the most important Taoist religious sites in China. In Taoist mythology, it was the site of the Yellow Emperor's studies with Ning Fengzi. As an important site of the Taoism, it became host to many Taoist monasteries and temples. The mountain has 36 peaks. The mountain is also home to Dujiangyan Giant Panda Center and since 2000 has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mount Qingcheng was affected by the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008.

History
In 142 AD, the first Celestial Master Zhang Daoling developed the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice, a prominent movement in Taoism. Many of the essential elements of Taoism derived from the teachings and practices of the temples that were built on the mountain during the Jin and Tang Dynasties. There are 11 Taoist temples on the mountain, and Mount Qingcheng was an important spiritual and philosophical center until the 17th century.

Places of Interest

 Jianfu Palace

"Located at the foot of Mount Zhangren, Jianfu Palace was firstly built in the Tang Dynasty and repeatedly renovated in the following dynasties. There are only two halls and three compounds renovated in the Qing Dynasty left today. Leading figures of the Taoist school are worshiped in the splendid Main Hall of Jianfu Palace. In Weixin Pavilion, the dresser of the Princess consort of Prince Qingfu in the Ming Dynasty.

It is the first Taoist temple on Mount Qingcheng."

 Chaoyang Cave

"Located at the foot of the main peak of Mount Laoxiao, the Cave is deep, with drops of water falling down occasionally. Chaoyao Cave is also a magnificent Taoist temple built under steep cliffs which are part of the terrain."

 Shangqing Palace

"Located at the peak of Mount Qingcheng with an altitude over 1500 m, Shangqing Palace marks the end of the touring route of Mount Qingcheng. Buildings such as Laojun Hall, Sanqing Hall, Wenwu Hall, and Tao Te Ching Preaching Hall in the Taoist temple of Shangqing Palace with several cultural relics, were originally built in the Jin Dynasty."

Gallery

See also 
 Qingchengshan railway station, named after the Mount Qingcheng in Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

References

External links

 Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System: the official UNESCO site
https://www.clausiuspress.com/conferences/AETP/ETSS%202018/A12512.pdf

Qingcheng
Qingcheng
Qingcheng
Sacred places in Taoism
Taoist temples in China
World Heritage Sites in China
Tourist attractions in Sichuan
AAAAA-rated tourist attractions
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Spirito Santo is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Lungomare Ortigia #4, facing towards the Ionian sea, on the island of Ortigia, in the historic city center of Siracusa in Sicily, Italy.

Description
A church at the site stood apparently since the 4th century, but had been damaged severely by earthquakes including one in 1542, culminating in its toppling during the 1693 Sicily earthquake. It was rebuilt during the rule of the Spanish in Sicily by the architect Pompeo Picherali in 1727.

Since 1652, the church has been sponsored by the Confraternity of the Holy Spirit. Members of the lay confraternity, dressed in hooded robes, had privileges of carrying out processions with displays of "mysteries" related to the Passion during Holy Week. Just above the door is a shield with the double cross symbol of the Confraternity. Above this is a royal heraldic shield, likely a Spanish Bourbon symbol with a single headed eagle with a crown above.

The interior of the church has suffered greatly from age. The membership in the confraternity is flagging. In 1974, burglars stole an 18th-century silver chalice and an altarpiece from the school of Antonello da Messina. The interior of the building is closed and in need of repair. An external staircase has been added to allow visitors to rise to roof-level, and see both skyline of Ortigia and the sea. Accessibility at present is unknown, and restoration is planned.

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18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Hordatine A is a phenolic secondary metabolite and an adrenergic antagonist that is found in barley. This natural product is a member of the class benzofurans, and can also be found in barley malt and beer, as it withstands moderate processing. Hordatine A is a hydroxycinnamic acid amide derivative (HCAA) as well as a dimer of coumaroyl agmatine, and is plentiful during the development of barley seedlings, specifically in the shoots. Hordatines and their hydroxycinnamoyl agmatine precursors are of interest because of their antifungal activity against plant pathogens, such as inhibiting spore germination of many fungi species. Hordatine A is thought to be a phytoanticipin, because it is observed in significant amounts in young seedlings and at early growth stages.

Biosynthesis 
The first step in the biosynthesis of hordatine A is characterized by the use of the enzyme agmatine coumaroyltransferase (ACT), which catalyzes the formation of p-coumaroylagmatine from p-coumaroyl-CoA and agmatine. The second step in the biosynthesis of the natural product is characterized by the oxidative coupling of two molecules of p-coumaroylagmatine by the enzyme peroxidase. The formation of this homodimer and its observable furan ring results from the hydroxy group of one p-coumaroylagmatine molecule reacting with the ethylene double bond of the other molecule.

Function 
Hordatine A and hordatine B are potential inhibitors of COVID-19 main protease and RNA polymerase, and could serve as potential therapeutic drugs against COVID-19. Hordatine A has been found to overcome activity of key targets of COVID-19, the first being the protease 7BQY and the second being the RNA polymerase 7bV2. Out of multiple target compounds found to possess binding affinities to these targets, hordatine A and hordatine B were found to not only have the highest binding affinity but to also have a higher binding affinity than the native ligand in RNA polymerase, Remdesivir. This is due to the substantial interaction of Hordatine A and B with varying receptor-binding residues, as well as the hydrogen bond formation of Hordatines to catalytic residues.

References

External Links  
 Hordatine A via PubChem

Benzofurans
Guanidines
Amides
Phenols
Rear Admiral Chris Bennett  (8 December 1937 – 17 August 2021) was the author of a number of books.

Naval career 
Bennett was born in KweKwe. He attended school at Kingswood College before joining the South African Navy.

He commanded the Minesweeper  in 1972. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1986 and appointed as Flag Officer Commanding Naval Command West until January 1989. In 1989 he was appointed Chief of Naval Staff and then as Chief of Naval Support. He retired in 1990

Awards and decorations

Books 
 
  with Arne Söderlund

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1937 births
2021 deaths
South African non-fiction writers
South African admirals
White South African people
Alumni of Kingswood College (South Africa)