Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Hayden Wayne (born March 2, 1949) is a modern American composer and librettist. Due to his background in popular music, his style is an amalgamation of classical music influenced by popular idioms. Wayne also has several film scores and award-winning commercials for television to his credit.

Biography 

His study of the piano began at the age of four, played tenor drum in the orchestra pit of The King And I at the age of five which his father was conducting, and performed his first composition in concert at the age of eleven. He won a second prize medal for piano solo from the New York State Music Awards at fifteen and subsequently toured with a series of rock 'n' roll bands including Man on CBS Records and Jobriath on Elektra Records.

As a composer, Wayne opened a new theater for the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles with his metaphorical circus Wire, won national first place (1987) from the National Institute for Music Theater with NEON (A Street Opera). In 2002, NEON won a 25,000 DM prize in the Prague Opera Competition. He was commissioned to write In Memoriam: A Celebration by the Interfaith Concert of Holocaust Remembrance, which premiered at Saint John the Divine in New York in 1993. Subsequently linked with Sinfonietta No. 1: The Klezmer and An Elegy Into Madness, specifically commissioned for the Fiftieth Anniversary of Israel, and titled A Triptych, had its world première at Mandel Hall, the University of Chicago in January 1998.

To date, Wayne has written over 400 compositions including: The Symphony of Friends, the ballet Cirque de la Lune, Dracula (Opera Erotica), Piano Concerto #1 (The Rock 'n' Roll) and Cello Concerto #1 which are paired as a diptych: Sinfonietta #2 (It's a Boy) and #3 (The Emerald) and Symphony #5 Africa (A Tone Poem) (also recorded by the State Philharmonic of Brno); the string quartets The Rosenberger Variations and The Romantic, The Nuzerov Quartets 3, 4, and 5, Nuzerov Quartets 6, 7, and 8, and Nuzerov Quartets 9 and 10 performed by the Wallinger String Quartet which were all released on New Millennium Records.

In recent times, most of his performances have taken place in the Czech Republic. Wayne calls his style "The New Classicism." He lives in Duchess County, New York with his wife and son. He has provided the music for the Randolph School's Circus show in May 2007.

External links 
New Millennium Records
Hayden Wayne interview by Bruce Duffie

1949 births
21st-century American composers
Living people
People from Dutchess County, New York
20th-century classical composers
Johannes von Gumpach () (1814–1875) was a German-born Englishman who was hired in China to teach astronomy and mathematics.

Von Gumpach was born in Fedderwarden nearby Wilhelmshaven on 7 May 1814 as Johannes Grumbrecht. By 1841 he was recorded as living in the parish of St James, Clerkenwell, in London. In England he adopted the first name Theodor, and in October 1842 he married Jane Willbraham Edwards in Cheltenham, Gloucester, England. While in the employ of the bank Huth & Co he was arrested for embezzlement and sentenced to seven years' exile. He and his wife arrived in Nuremberg on 5 September 1844 using the assumed name "Baron" Johannes von Gumpach. In 1860 he was living in Munich, and from 1860 to 1865 lived in Guernsey in the British Channel Islands, where he wrote copiously to the British astronomical establishment claiming that Newton's "erring imagination" and the acceptance that the Earth was oblate was the cause of maritime disasters. He published scientific writings as a "private scholar".

He was hired by the Tongwen Guan (School of Combined Learning) of the Chinese imperial government, the first modern institution of higher education in China. His dismissal by Robert Hart led him to sue Hart in the British Supreme Court for China and Japan for defamation. In 1873, the case ultimately went to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council  Hart v Gumpach which upheld Hart's right to make the decision.

In his career, he had written a number of books about the social and economical issues of China.

Von Gumpach died in July 1875 at the General Hospital in Shanghai.

Publications

In German:

References

19th-century German astronomers
19th-century German mathematicians
German emigrants to China
1814 births
1875 deaths
The DRS RQ-15 Neptune is a reconnaissance UAV developed in the United States in the early years of the 21st century. The design is optimized for operations over water, and is capable of water landings on its flying boat–like hull. The 11.2 kW (15 hp) pusher engine is mounted high to keep it dry during takeoffs and landings. The Neptune can also be launched off a pneumatic catapult and land on a skid. In 2007, one was unsuccessfully launched off the USS Nashville (LPD-13), crashing into the water less than two seconds after lift off.

Specifications

Design
The most remarkable design element is the double vertical stabilizer with the piston engine housed inbetween. This arrangement reduces the infrared signature from the side-to-rear view.

References

This article contains material that originally came from the web article Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Greg Goebel, which exists in the public domain.
 
 Manufacturer's website

RQ-015
2000s United States military reconnaissance aircraft
Unmanned military aircraft of the United States
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Tailless aircraft
Amphibious aircraft
Flying boats
Aircraft first flown in 2002
Twin-boom aircraft
Enville is a village and civil parish in rural Staffordshire, England, on the A458 road between Stourbridge and Bridgnorth.

Enville is in the South Staffordshire district. The largest village nearby is Kinver, with the smaller villages of Bobbington and Six Ashes, "The Sheepwalks" — a popular walking area nearby, as is Kinver Edge. Enville Golf Course is just outside the village. The hamlet of Six Ashes marks the old border of two counties — Staffordshire and Shropshire, and was the centre of the division of land as drawn up by the 1405 Tripartite Indenture between Owain Glyndŵr, Edmund Mortimer, and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.

Enville is the nearest village to Highgate Common.

Etymology
The earliest recorded name of the village was Efnefeld, and under that name it is entered in Domesday Book, the first part comes from the Welsh 'cefn' a Welsh word meaning "ridge" or "hillside". The nearby Kinver derives from the same word.

Amenities
The village includes The Cat Inn public house, a post office, a beauty salon, and a tea rooms with gift shop.

Church
St Mary's Church stands to the west of the village. The present ornate tower was built in 1871, when the original tower was taken down. Evidence of an earlier church on the site is to be found in a small stone figure of Anglo-Saxon origin built into the arcading above the south aisle. The church has a Norman nave (about AD 1100) and a transitional chancel (built by Roger de Birmingham, AD 1272–1307) and despite extensive restorations in 1749 and 1871 the distinguishing features remain. The church also contains four, 15th-century misericords, which are placed on either side of the choir stalls.

Television presenter Nick Owen and his second wife married here in 2020.

Enville Hall
The Enville Hall estate is prominent in the village. The Earls of Stamford lived in Enville Hall which is still owned and lived in by the family though the title is extinct. The hall, which once boasted its own private racecourse (now a mere forestry track), remains a private house, but it hosts occasional events each year.

The Great Fountain, Enville, was a fountain created in the mid-19th century by the Earl of Stamford in the middle of a lake in Enville Hall.

Sport
The grounds of Enville Hall are home to a recreational field, where Enville Cricket Club and Enville Athletic F.C. play.

Enville Cricket Club was formed in honour of the Coronation of George IV in 1821. An article in The Illustrated London News reporting on a match played by the club on Lord's Cricket Ground in 1857 praised Enville's, recently created by the 7th Earl rather than Lord's as "the finest cricket ground in the world". Currently (2021) it plays three senior teams in the Worcestershire County Cricket League and a junior team.

See also
Listed buildings in Enville, Staffordshire

References

External links

 Lichfield Diocese information for Church of St Mary the Virgin, Enville.

Villages in Staffordshire
South Staffordshire District
Civil parishes in Staffordshire
The Downtown Westerly U.S. Post Office is a historic post office building at 5 High Street at the intersection of Broad Street in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island.

Description

The building was designed in the Classical Revival style by architect James Knox Taylor and was built from 1913 to 1914.  The single-story building features a broad curving facade with eight fluted Doric columns of Vermont marble, flanked by wide piers.  The interior lobby space retains many original features, including terrazzo and marble flooring, and a coffered ceiling with decorative moulding.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

The building "demonstrates the height of grand government-sponsored design" and "is often considered the finest post office in the state," according to a 2019 Providence Journal article.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Rhode Island

References

External links

Westerly
Buildings and structures in Washington County, Rhode Island
Government buildings completed in 1913
Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Neoclassical architecture in Rhode Island
Westerly, Rhode Island
1913 establishments in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island
Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island
The Cathedral of St. Mary (;  Śānta Mariyā Āsana Dev Mædura) is a Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Batticaloa in Puliyanthivu. The cathedral is a landmark and Catholic historical icon in the district of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. It was first built in 1808 by Paschal Mudaliyar.

It was co- cathedral under Diocese of Trincomalee-Batticaloa and became a cathedral after the creation of Diocese of Batticaloa in 2012.

See also
List of cathedrals in Sri Lanka
Church of Our Lady of Presentation
Chandra Fernando (priest)

References

External links 
 Diocese of Batticaloa official site

1808 establishments in Sri Lanka
Churches in Batticaloa
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Sri Lanka
Tourist attractions in Batticaloa District
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1808
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Sri Lanka
Georges Thill (14 December 1897 – 17 October 1984) was a French opera singer, often considered to be his country's greatest lyric-dramatic tenor. Born in Paris, his career lasted from 1924 to 1953, peaking during the 1930s.

Career
A pupil of the Neapolitan tenor Fernando De Lucia (1860–1925), Thill made his opera debut at the Paris Opéra in 1924, and he continued to appear there and at the Opéra-Comique for several decades, undertaking a busy schedule of performances.

In addition, he sang throughout Europe and in South America, receiving the acclaim of audiences and critics at La Scala, Milan, the Rome Opera, the Verona Arena, the Vienna State Opera, the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. He also gave 14 performances, of seven roles, across two seasons (1931–1932), at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City; but he had difficulty fitting in with the unfamiliar American cultural environment, experiencing health difficulties, and he was less well received by the Met's patrons as a consequence.

His voice began to show signs of decline during the 1940s and he retired from the stage in 1953. He died in 1984 in Draguignan.

Chronologically, Thill's operatic repertoire ranged from Gluck to Puccini and embraced works by Gounod, Massenet, Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Wagner, Verdi and Leoncavallo, among others. He also gave song recitals and was a frequent visitor to the recording studio. He cut many 78-rpm discs of French, Italian and German operatic arias and duets, and participated in the recording of an entire performance of Massenet's Werther by French Columbia Records. The finest of his 78s, dating from 1927 to circa 1940, display the gleaming tone of his voice at its superlative best, as well as demonstrating his spotless taste, stylish phrasing and pellucid diction.

Thill also appeared in several film clips and French-language motion pictures, including Louise (1939), based on Gustave Charpentier's opera. It was directed by Abel Gance and featured Grace Moore as Thill's co-star. Privately, Thill, while a dedicated musician, enjoyed a convivial off-stage lifestyle, and he later blamed his propensity to burn the candle at both ends for shortening the span of his vocal prime.

Selected recordings on CD 
Many of Thill's 78-rpm records are available on CD reissues by EMI and the Preiser label. Naxos Records has produced a two-CD set featuring his singing of six Massenet arias plus his recording of the complete title role of Massenet's Werther, which he made in January 1931. On it, he partners Ninon Vallin and Germaine Féraldy, with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Paris Opera: Élie Cohen, conductor. (Naxos Historical 8.110061-62.)

References 
Bel Canto Society Store, Reviews and biographies for Louise.

External links
 History of the Tenor / Georges Thill / Sound Clips and Narration

1897 births
1984 deaths
Singers from Paris
French operatic tenors
20th-century French  male opera singers
Knights of the Legion of Honour
The Canadian Men's Soccer Championship is an association football team contested in Canada. It is organised by CCAA and sponsored by Adidas.

Participants

 Seneca Sting
 Holland Hurricanes
 Mount Royal Cougars
 Douglas Royals
 Fx Garneau Elans
 Algonquin Thunder

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Matches

5th/6th place playoff

3rd/4th place playoff

Final

External links
 Official website

CCAA
The Casino Theatre was a live theatre, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was located at 87 Queen Street West across the street from the current site of Nathan Phillips Square.

The structure was designed by architects Kaplan & Sprachman, who designed 21 other theatres in Toronto, and 48 elsewhere in Canada. The theatre opened in 1936 and demolished in 1960. It seated almost 1,200 patrons.

The theatre hosted well-known performers, such as Johnny Rae, Patti Page, Gene Nelson, Pearl Bailey, Phil Silvers, Abbott and Costello, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Mickey Rooney, Frankie Laine, Sally Rand, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose La Rose, Cup Cakes Cassidy, the Crewcuts, the Four Lads, Golden Gate Quartet, Billy Daniels and Rosemary Clooney.

The strippers, and baudy comedians who performed at Casino made the Casino particularly subject to commentary and complaints. Doug Taylor, the author of Toronto Theaters and the Golden Age of the Silver Screen wrote that, "Other perhaps than the Victory Theatre on Spadina, there is no entertainment venue that elicited as much praise, raunchy stories, condemnation and press coverage as the infamous Casino Theatre." He described one high school principal staking out the theatre in order to catch students who were playing hookey to catch a show at the Casino.

Mike Filey, the Toronto Suns historical columnist, noted that the theatre opened at one minute after midnight, April 13, 1936, a Monday, because conservative laws required the closure of venues that catered to pleasure, on Sundays.  Filey suggested public complaints about the morals of the establishment were routinely ignored, since it was right across the street from City Hall, and many city councilors were regular patrons.
Filey wrote that the Casino "offered every type of performance allowed by law, and some that weren't."

The three partners who founded the Casino were Jules Allen, and Jay Allen, and Murray Little, who already owned the Broadway Theatre, another Burlesque theatre at 75 Queen Street West.

References

Burlesque theatres
Theatres in Toronto
Ángel Montoro may refer to:
Ángel Montoro (footballer) (born 1988), Spanish footballer
Ángel Montoro (handballer) (born 1989), Spanish handballer
Luke Foils the Villain is a 1916 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.

Cast
 Harold Lloyd as Lonesome Luke
 Snub Pollard
 Gene Marsh
 Bebe Daniels as Maizie Nut

See also
 Harold Lloyd filmography

References

External links

1916 films
1916 comedy films
Silent American comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Hal Roach
1916 short films
American silent short films
Lonesome Luke films
American comedy short films
1910s American films
Instant Software was a company that produced game, utility, and education software in the late 1970s and early 1980s primarily for the TRS-80 line of home computers. Instant Software was a subsidiary of Kilobaud Microcomputing, headquartered in Peterborough, New Hampshire and run by Wayne Green.

History
Green said in 1980 that although his company Instant Software had published "hundreds of programs for the TRS-80 [and] want to translate as many as possible for use on the TI-99/4", it could not find anyone among more than 1,000 developers in its network who could port software to the computer, adding "We understand the problems with the system and the efforts Texas Instruments made to make translation difficult".

Games
Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio (1978)
Casino II - Craps (1978)
Dungeon of Death (1979)
Who-Dun-It? (1979) 
Wordwatch (1979)
Airmail Pilot (1980)
Cosmic Patrol (1980)
Money Madness (1980)
Danger in Orbit (1981)
Master Reversi (1981)

References

Defunct video game companies of the United States
Pyhäjärvi is a lake in Finland. It is the largest lake in the southwestern Finland and is notable for having relatively few islands. Although the lake is eutrophicated, it is considered a good fishing lake.

References

Eurajoki basin
Lakes of Pöytyä
Samuel De Palma (June 22, 1918 – March 21, 2002) was an official in the United States Department of State.

Biography

De Palma was born in Rochester, New York.  He was educated at the University of Rochester, graduating in 1940.  After college, he took a job with the United States Department of War in Washington, D.C. as a civilian economic analyst and intelligence specialist.

After World War II, in 1945, De Palma joined the United States Foreign Service.  In 1949, he was a member of the United States Department of State's Bureau of International Organization Affairs working at the United Nations until 1952.  In 1956, he became deputy director of the United Nations Office of Political and Security Affairs.  He then spent a year at the National War College.  He moved to Paris in 1961, becoming first secretary and political office at NATO.  From 1961 to 1963, he worked at the U.S. embassy in the Netherlands.  He joined the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1963, becoming its assistant director in 1966.

In 1966, President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson nominated De Palma as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, and, after Senate Confirmation, De Palma held this office from February 11, 1969 until June 20, 1973.

De Palma left government service in 1973, becoming international analysis unit director of ITT Corporation.  He retired in 1983.  

In retirement, De Palma was president of the American and international committees of the Community of Democracies.  He lived in Bethesda, Maryland until his death from pneumonia on March 21, 2002.

References

"Samuel De Palma, 83; Foreign Service Official", Washington Post, Mar. 25, 2002

2002 deaths
United States Assistant Secretaries of State
People from Rochester, New York
University of Rochester alumni
NATO officials
1918 births
American expatriates in France
Nonafluoro-tert-butyl alcohol (IUPAC name: 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)propan-2-ol) is a fluoroalcohol.  It is the perfluorinated analog of tert-butyl alcohol.  Notably, as a consequence of its electron withdrawing fluorine substituents, it is very acidic for an alcohol, with a pKa value of 5.4, similar to that of a carboxylic acid.  As another consequence of being a perfluorinated compound, it is also one of the lowest boiling alcohols, with a boiling point lower than that of methanol.

Synthesis
It is prepared by addition of trichloromethyllithium to hexafluoroacetone, followed by halogen exchange with antimony pentafluoride. The aluminate derived from its alkoxide anion, tetrakis[1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)propan-2-oxy]aluminate(1–), {Al[(CF3)3CO]4}– is used as a weakly coordinating anion.

See also 
 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol
 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoro-2-propanol
 Hexafluoroacetone

References

Perfluorinated alcohols
Tertiary alcohols
Trifluoromethyl compounds
A Long Petal of the Sea () is a 2019 novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende. Originally published in Spain by Plaza & Janés, it was first published in the United States by Vintage Espanol. The novel was issued in 2019 in Spanish as Largo pétalo de mar, and was translated into English by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. Based on a real story, it is set partly during the Spanish Civil War and partly in Chile where the protagonists again witness the fight between freedom and repression. A Long Petal of the Sea became the most popular book in Spain between April 2019 and April 2020.

Plot
The story opens during the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona where the protagonist, Victor Dalmau, has left his medical studies to help the Republicans against the Fascist forces of General Franco. His brother, Guillem, is also a Republican soldier, but he dies in the Battle of Ebro. Victor has to seek the help of his Basque friend, Aitor Ibarra, to send his mother and Guillem's wife, Roser, to France, as the victory of Franco's forces is becoming more and more certain. After many trials, he reunites with Roser in France, and they hear that Winnipeg, a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda, is going to take a certain number of Spanish refugees to Chile. Desperate to grab the chance, Victor and Roser get married reluctantly to qualify for the journey.
They embark on this journey, but migration to the new country is not the end of their problem, and there again they are forced to witness the fight between freedom and repression, which seems to be a neverending war.

Reception
On the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the novel received a cumulative "Positive" rating based on 20 reviews: 8 "Rave" reviews, 8 "Positive" reviews, 3 "Mixed" reviews, and 1 "Pan" review. Marcela Davison Avilés of NPR admires the "gifted stories" of Allende, noting that "A Long Petal of the Sea is a love story for these times. But it's not a story beholden to any era. Its call is immutable, like Neruda's hope". The Observer praises the skill with which Allende tells a story of "displacement", "a theme sharpened by her own life story". In her review for The New York Times, Paula McLain highlights the themes of this novel: "there is the sense that every human life is an odyssey, and that how and where we connect creates the fabric of our existence: the source of our humanity". Kirkus Reviews praises Allende's storytelling skill: "Allende tends to describe emotions and events rather than delve into them, and she paints the historical backdrop in very broad strokes, but she is an engaging storyteller".

References

External links
The Author's Website.

2019 Chilean novels
Novels by Isabel Allende
Novels set in Chile
Novels set in Spain
Chilean historical novels
Novels set during the Spanish Civil War