Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
NASPA Word List (NWL, formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List, referred to as OTCWL, OWL, TWL) is the official word authority for tournament Scrabble in the USA and Canada under the aegis of NASPA Games. It is based on the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) with modifications to make it more suitable for tournament play. Its British and international-English counterpart is Collins Scrabble Words.

Current edition

North American tournament Scrabble currently uses the fifth edition of NWL, officially called NWL2020. The NASPA Games Dictionary Committee created this version in mid-2020 and it took effect on January 6, 2021; it is the second version published autonomously by NASPA rather than by Merriam-Webster under its copyright.

NWL2020 contains every word in the sixth edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary as well as words considered unsuitable for that book (offensive words and trademarks). It also contains words of nine or more letters, unlike the OSPD. It differs from its predecessor, NWL2018, only in the removal of 259 words deemed to be personally applicable offensive slurs, precipitated by rule changes proposed by the North American holder of SCRABBLE trademarks, Hasbro, Inc., in the wake of that year's anti-racism protests.

Past editions
The decision to bowdlerize the OSPD's third edition by removing a large number of possibly offensive words necessitated a separate, unabridged word list for tournament use. The first edition of OWL was created by the NSA Dictionary Committee, chaired by John Chew, and took effect on March 2, 1998. To avoid controversy, it was available for sale only to NSA members, and unlike the OSPD, did not include definitions. To provide additional value for tournament players, the OWL includes words whose base or inflected forms have up to nine letters, rather than the OSPD's eight. 

OSPD3 was created from OSPD2 by adding all appropriate words that had been added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (MWCD) in the interim; OWL was then formed by restoring the possibly offensive words removed from OSPD3 and adding nine-letter words from MWCD. 

The 2014 update OTCWL2014 added several thousand words from two new sources, Oxford Collegiate Dictionary Second Edition and Canadian Oxford Dictionary Second Edition. 

OTCWL2016, a minor update in 2016, added over 1,000 nine-letter words. 

The 2018 update NWL2018 added over 3,000 words, including additions to OSPD6 and MWCD, and ten-letter words from COD2. It was produced by NASPA in collaboration with Merriam-Webster, and under its own copyright for the first time.

Other word authorities
Unlike the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, NWL is a list and does not include definitions. It contains words not included in OSPD because they are considered offensive, and a number of other additional words (mostly registered trademarks). Print versions of NWL can be procured from the NASPA website by NASPA members only.

Word count

See also
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
Collins Scrabble Words

Notes

References

External links

 Information on the NASPA Word List 2018 Edition at NASPA

Lists of English words
Scrabble lexica
China’s coastline covers approximately 14,500 km (around 9,010 mi) from the Bohai gulf in the north to the Gulf of Tonkin in the south. Most of the northern half is low lying, although some of the mountains and hills of Northeast China and the Shandong Peninsula extend to the coast. The southern half is more irregular. In Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, for example, much of the coast is rocky and steep. South of this area the coast becomes less rugged: Low mountains and hills extend more gradually to the coast, and small river deltas are common.

China’s coasts are on the Yellow Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea. China claims a 12-nautical-mile territorial sea, a 24-nautical-mile contiguous zone, a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone, and a 200-nautical-mile continental shelf or the distance to the edge of the continental shelf.

Seas
Yellow Sea
East China Sea
South China Sea

Straits
Bohai Strait (渤海海峡)
Taiwan Strait
Qiongzhou Strait

Islands
Islands of China

Bays

 Bohai Bay
 Bohai Sea
 Dalian Bay
 Daya Bay
 Haitang Bay
 Hangzhou Bay
 Hong Kong bays
 Jiaozhou Bay
 Korea Bay
 Laizhou Bay
 Liaodong Bay
 Sanya Bay
 Yalong Bay
 Yellow River Delta and Bohai Sea

Peninsulas
Dapeng Peninsula
Leizhou Peninsula
Liaodong Peninsula
Macau Peninsula
Shandong Peninsula
Tashi Dor

Places

Liaoning
Dalian
Dandong
Jinzhou

Hebei
Qinhuangdao

Tianjin
Tianjin

Shandong
Yantai
Qingdao

Shanghai
Shanghai

Zhejiang
Hangzhou
Ningbo
Wenzhou

Fujian
Fuzhou
Putian
Xiamen

Guangdong
Chaozhou

Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Macau
Macau

Guangxi
Zhangjiang
Beihai
Qinzhou

Hainan
Haikou
Wenchang
Qionghai
Wanning
Dongfang

Ports
Ports of China

Pollution
A total of 145,000 square kilometers of shallow waters along China's vast coast failed to meet national quality standards for clean oceanic water, of which 29,000 square kilometers of seawater were seriously polluted. These severely polluted water areas included East Liaoning, Bohai and Hangzhou bays, and the estuaries of Yellow, Yangtze and Zhujiang rivers, as well as inshore areas of major coastal cities. Content of major pollutants, such as inorganic nitrogen and phosphate, remains high in contaminated seawater. During the past 50 years, the inshore ecosystem had seen 50 percent of coastal wetlands disappear in excessive reclamation and 80 percent of coral reefs and mangroves destroyed.

See also
List of countries by length of coastline
Geography of the People's Republic of China
List of national parks of the People's Republic of China
Protected areas of the People's Republic of China
List of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in China
Early Chinese cartography

External links
China Coastal Research Network
Coastal map of China
 On Fractal Dimensions of China's Coastlines 

 01
Coasts of the Pacific Ocean
The Avenue in the Rain is a 1917 oil painting by the American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam. It depicts Fifth Avenue in New York City in the rain, draped with U.S. flags. The painting is one of six works by Hassam in the permanent art collection of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Between 1916 and 1919, Hassam completed as many as thirty paintings showing city streets decorated with flags. Hassam called this series "the flag series." The Avenue in the Rain dates to February 1917, a time when patriotic fervor was rising and about two months before the United States entered the First World War. The previous month, Germany had extended its unrestricted submarine warfare to neutral ships, including American vessels. The Zimmermann Telegram became public knowledge at the end of February 1917, and the country declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.

The painting measures  and is dominated by tones of blue and red. A large U.S. flag is depicted in the foreground, while a number of smaller flags fill the surrounding space and line Fifth Avenue into the background. Several dark figures in the middle distance hold umbrellas. The flags seem to float in mid-air, hanging from poles that project from unseen buildings. Their images are reflected on the wet street and sidewalk. In painting this work and others in the series, Hassam may have been influenced by two similar pieces by Claude Monet depicting national celebrations in Paris on June 30, 1878.

The painting was donated to the White House in 1963 by Thomas Mellon Evans and hung between the windows in John F. Kennedy's blue-themed President's Bedroom (now a private sitting room, adjacent to the Yellow Oval Room on the second floor). It was in the President's Dining Room for many years and hung in the Oval Office during Bill Clinton's, Barack Obama's, and Donald Trump’s terms, as well as currently under Joe Biden's term.

A replica of the painting has been featured in multiple fictitious oval offices including the CBS show Madam Secretary and the NBC show The West Wing.

Other works by Childe Hassam with flags, 1916-1919

Claude Monet

See also
 Art in the White House

References

 The Avenue in the Rain, Treasures of the White House, The White House Historical Association
 The Avenue in the Rain, Digital Library, The White House Historical Association
 Living Room, WhiteHouseMuseum.org

1919 paintings
Art in the White House
New York City in popular culture
Flags in art
Rain in art
Paintings by Childe Hassam
The 2016–17 season is the 87th season in Girona FC ’s history and the 21st in the second-tier. They achieved promotion to La Liga for the first time in the club's history.

Squad

Competitions

Overall

Liga

League table

Matches

Kickoff times are in CET.

Copa del Rey

References

Girona FC seasons
Girona FC
Girona
Pinkerton Syndrome is a term for the perceived tendency of some Asians to regard Whites as superior or more desirable, especially for marriage or relationships.

Etymology
Pinkerton Syndrome is derived from the 1904 opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, based on the 1898 short story Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long. The term "Pinkerton" is in reference to the character of United States Navy Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton, an upper class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, who marries a Japanese girl for convenience while docked in Nagasaki, but plans to abandon her as soon as he leaves Japan and to find a suitably upper class White American wife. Lt. Pinkerton's young Japanese wife, and initially her family, are very excited about her marriage to an American man. However, when she later finds out that Pinkerton has indeed abandoned her and re-married a white American woman, she commits Seppuku.

Empirical evidence 
Empirical evidence for the Pinkerton syndrome was first examined in Singapore. After a cursory search of Singapore's online media, it was argued that the Pinkerton syndrome is not restricted to interpersonal attraction. As such, the Pinkerton syndrome was redefined broadly "as the tendency for Asians to be prejudiced and to discriminate in favor of white people." In a simulated hiring decision task, Singaporean Chinese participants rated a white job applicant as more suitable for the job and recommended them a higher salary than an equally qualified Chinese applicant. The study provided the first and only empirical evidence of the Pinkerton syndrome in Singapore.

See also
 Amejo
 Sarong party girl
 Yellow cab (stereotype)

References

Culture-bound syndromes
East Asian culture
Dating
Colette Appel (born July 22, 1986) is an American former pair skater. With Lee Harris, she is the 2002 U.S. national junior champion and placed 12th at the 2002 World Junior Championships. They were fourth at two ISU Junior Grand Prix events and on the senior level at the 2003 Finlandia Trophy.

Earlier in her career, Appel competed with Adam Kaplan. They were the 1998 U.S. pairs champions on the Intermediate level and the 1999 U.S. silver medalists on the novice level. From 2011 to 2013, Appel was an athlete member of the U.S. Figure Skating Pairs Committee. She received her Bachelor degrees in Psychology and also in Liberal Studies: Teaching and Learning from California State University Channel Islands.

Programs 

With Harris

Results

With Harris

With Kaplan

References

External links
 
 Colette Appel / Lee Harris at Tracings.net

American female pair skaters
1986 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Hartford, Connecticut
21st-century American women
21st-century American people
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Colón-Kuna Yala (erected 15 December 1988 as the Diocese of Colón, renamed 13 June 1997) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Panamá.

Ordinaries
Carlos María Ariz Bolea, C.M.F. (1988–2005)
Audilio Aguilar Aguilar (2005–2013), appointed Bishop of Santiago de Veraguas
 Manuel Ochogavía Barahona, O.S.A. (2014–present)

See also
Catholic Church in Panama

References

External links
 

Colon-Kuna Yala
Colon-Kuna Yala
Colon-Kuna Yala
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Panamá
The Puerto Yeruá Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation in the Paraná Basin, pertaining to Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, as well as egg fragments and fossilized wood.

Description 
The formation comprises red claystones and grey sandstones, medium-thick, well silicified, partly conglomeratic, whitish and reddish color thanks to the presence of iron oxides and frequently calcareous cement. It was deposited in a lacustrine to floodplain humid environment with seasonal rainfall. Fossils of cf. Sphaerovum erbeni (Faveoloolithidae), Theropoda indet., and Ankylosauria indet. are reported from the formation. The formation has been correlated with the Guichón Formation of eastern Uruguay.

Paleofauna 
 Argyrosaurus superbus (lithostrotia indet.)
 Paraperseoxylon septatum

See also 
 List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
 List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
 Guichón Formation

References

Bibliography 
 
 
  
 

Geologic formations of Argentina
Upper Cretaceous Series of South America
Cretaceous Argentina
Sandstone formations
Shale formations
Fluvial deposits
Lacustrine deposits
Ichnofossiliferous formations
Ooliferous formations
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of South America
Paleontology in Argentina
Formations
Formations
Matthew Joseph Stokoe (born 13 January 1989) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Alex in the Channel 4 series Misfits, crime boss Luke Aikens in the thriller Bodyguard, teacher Gerard Eyre in The Village, Captain Marcheaux in series 3 of The Musketeers for the BBC, and as James Read in the Sky 1 series Jamestown. In 2020, he played Gawain in the Netflix original series Cursed.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Personal life
Stokoe is engaged to actress Sophie Rundle, whom he met on the set of Jamestown. They have a son, born in April 2021.

References

External links
 

1989 births
Living people
21st-century English male actors
English male film actors
English male stage actors
English male television actors
English male video game actors
People from Durham, England
National Youth Theatre members
René Pleimelding (13 February 1925 – 20 October 1998), was a French football defender and manager who played at the international level for France. He was the father of two professional football players, Pierre Pleimelding and Gérard Pleimelding.

Honours
 Coupe de France winner: 1957

External links
 Player bio at the official web site of the French Football Federation

1925 births
1998 deaths
Footballers from Meurthe-et-Moselle
French men's footballers
France men's international footballers
French football managers
AS Nancy Lorraine managers
AS Béziers Hérault (football) managers
ES Troyes AC managers
SR Colmar players
Men's association football defenders
A gladius (Latin, 'sword') is the primary sword of Ancient Roman foot soldiers.

Gladius may also refer to:

 Gladius (cephalopod), a hard internal bodypart found in certain cephalopods
 Gladius (gastropod), a synonym for a genus of molluscs
 Gladius (video game), a tactical role-playing video game
 Suzuki SFV650 Gladius, a motorcycle
 Gladius, a fictional character in One Piece
 Gladius LLC, a film production company founded by Heri Martínez de Dios
 Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War, a 2018 strategy video game

See also

 Gladiolus (disambiguation)
 Gladiator (disambiguation)
 Gladiatrix (disambiguation)
 Gradius, a series of video games
KKWQ 92.5, is a small local radio station broadcasting from the border town of Warroad, Minnesota. It is owned and operated by Border Broadcasting, along with sister station KRWB. They share studios at 113 Lake St NW, in Warroad. The transmitter site is SW of Warroad on Country Road 12. A 100,000 watt transmitter and 460 foot tower gives them a large coverage area covering NW Minnesota, including the Northwest Angle and parts of Manitoba and Ontario.

Its format is country music, and they broadcast 24 hours a day.

External links
 

Radio stations in Minnesota
Country radio stations in the United States
The Tylee Cottage Residency is an artist-in-residence programme facilitated by the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, New Zealand. The scheme began in 1986 as a partnership between the Sarjeant Gallery, the Wanganui District Council and the QEII Arts Council of New Zealand (now known as Creative New Zealand). It was established by gallery director, Bill Milbank, QEII Arts Council adviser, John McCormack, and inaugural artist, Laurence Aberhart. It is currently managed by the Sarjeant Gallery and funded by the Wanganui District Council. Each year, the selected artist works full-time on their work for 2–12 months and resides in Tylee Cottage. Tylee Cottage was built in 1853 and is one of Whanganui's oldest homes.

List of artists-in-residence
Since the Tylee Cottage Residency was established in 1986, the artists-in-residence have been:

1986 Laurence Aberhart
1987 Andrew Drummond
1988 Mervyn Williams
1989 Anne Noble
1990 Sue Cooke
1991 Emare Karaka
1992 Dennis Turner
1993 Ans Westra
1994 Gary Freemantle
1995–96 Peter Ireland
1996 John Beard
1997 Andrew Smith
1997–98 George Krause
1998 Julian Hooper
1999 Bronwynne Cornish
1999 Victor Meertens
2000 Jeff Thomson
2000 Sarah Buist and Sonia van Kerkhoff
2000–01 Marcus Williams and Susan Jowsey
2001–02 Lauren Lysaght
2002 Alastair Galbraith
2002 Jean Zuber
2002–03 Gregor Kregar
2003–04 Andrea du Chatenier
2004 Johanna Pegler
2005 Christine Hellyar
2005 Paul Johns
2005–06 Ben Cauchi
2006–07 Matt Couper
2007 Mark Braunias
2007 Joanna Langford
2007–08 Regan Gentry
2008 James Robinson
2009 Andrew Ross
2009 Miranda Parkes
2009–10 Kay Walsh
2010 Emily Valentine Bullock
2010–11 Liyen Chong
2011 John Roy
2011 Glenn Burrell
2011–12 Charles Butcher and Cobi Cockburn
2012 Adrian Jackman
2012 Alexis Neal
2012–13 Ann Shelton
2014 Richard Orjis
2014–15 Cat Auburn
2015 Roberta Thornley
2015 Sam Mitchell
2016 Erica van Zon
2016 Wendy Fairclough
2016 Susan Frykberg
2017 Peter Trevelyan
2017–18 Conor Clark
2018 Kate Fitzharris
2018-19 Julia Holden
2019 Annie Mackenzie
2019 Marie Shannon
2019-20 Jae Hoon Lee
2020 Laurence Aberhart
2020 Matthew McIntyre-Wilson
2020 Anne Noble
2021 Graham Fletcher
2021 Zahra Killeen-Chance
2021 Solomon Mortimer
2022 Andrew McLeod
2022 Denis O'Connor

References

New Zealand art awards
Whanganui
1986 establishments in New Zealand
Timothy Schreiber is a London-based, design artist. Schreiber's limited edition items are represented by various galleries including  88-Gallery in London.

In 2013 Schreiber started working in cast glass with his "icicle tables" being his first series of furniture in this material. He applied traditional glass casting technique to relatively large furniture designs.

External links
Official Website
Timothy Schreiber on Artnet
Timothy Schreiber on incollect

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German emigrants to England
German furniture designers
Mimi Tao is a Thai fashion model.

Early life 
Tao grew up in Khon Kaen, Thailand. At eleven she became a monk, but left the monastery after six years to help her family, who had been bankrupted by a financial crisis. She was a fan of  and persuaded Phetkanha to help her learn to model.

Career 
Tao moved to the United States in 2017 to pursue a modeling career after failed attempts in Thailand and Singapore. In 2021 Tao became a regular model on season 19 of Project Runway. She was the show's first transgender model. She also was a regular model in 2023's season 20. 

As of 2019 Tao is represented by the Los Angeles modeling agency Slay, which represents only transgender models.

Personal life 
Tao is a Buddhist. She is transgender.

References 

Transgender female models
Thai female models
Thai transgender people
Thai LGBT models
LGBT Buddhists
Project Runway (American series) participants
1990s births
21st-century Thai LGBT people
21st-century Thai people
Living people
Major-General Michael Dalrymple Regan  (born 6 January 1942) is a former British Army officer.

Military career
Educated at St Boniface's Catholic College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Regan was commissioned into the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1962. He became commanding officer of 3rd Battalion The Light Infantry in 1982. He went on to be commander 20th Armoured Brigade in 1985, Deputy Chief of Staff at Headquarters UK Land Forces in 1989 and General Officer Commanding Wales and Western District in 1991. His last appointment was as Director-General, Adjutant General's Corps in 1994 before retiring in 1996.

In 1974 he married Victoria Grenfell; they have two daughters.

References

 

1942 births
Living people
British Army major generals
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
King's Shropshire Light Infantry officers
The Light Infantry officers
Maoist Bolshevik Reorganisation Movement of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party () is an underground communist party in Bangladesh. It was formed in 2001, following a split from the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party. Following the formation of PBSP(MBRM), the party revived the agrarian struggles of PBSP in the Rajbari area, seizing 3,000 bighas of land and distributing them among landless peasants. Two police camps were set up in the area to counter the influence of the party.

PBSP(MBRM) attended the 2004 CCOMPOSA conference as an observer. Moreover, the group has initiated contacts with the Maoist sectors that considers the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement as having taken a liquidationist direction. In November 2004 PBSP(MBRM) took part in an international conference in Malmö, Sweden, which was organized by opponents to the RIM leadership.

In November 2015, Sahinur Rahman, described as a 'top leader' of the party, was killed by police in Rajbari. In April 2018, Saidul, a local commander of the party in Rajbari, was killed by police.

References

External links
PBSP(MBRM) document, issued ahead of the 2004 conference

Communist militant groups
Communist parties in Bangladesh
Maoist parties
Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia
Maoist organisations in Bangladesh
Grajaú is a train station on ViaMobilidade Line 9-Emerald, in the district of Grajaú in São Paulo.

History
Grajaú station was opened by FEPASA in 1992, to attend the district of Grajaú, as part of the Jurubatuba-Varginha operational extension. Initially it was composed of two wood platforms, built along with a pontillion which crossed over Avenida Belmira Marin. The two platforms had a ravine behind them with an inclination of approximately , considering the avenue level. The old station was deactivated in December 2001, along with the traffic of Jurubatuba-Varginha branch, and was demolished by CPTM for the construction of Line 9-Emerald above the old FEPASA South Line.

In 2008, a larger and modernized new station was built by CPTM in the same place of the old one and kept the name Grajaú, with free access to the SPTrans urban bus terminal.

See also
 Grajaú (district of São Paulo)
 Line 9 (CPTM)
 Subprefecture of Capela do Socorro

References

External links
 Official page of the Paulista Metropolitan Trains Company
 Subprefecture of Capela do Socorro
 Roman Catholic Diocese of Santo Amaro

Railway stations opened in 1996
Railway stations opened in 2008