Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Ride of the Kings is a festival that is celebrated in Spring, at the Pentecost, in Moravia, the south-east of the Czech Republic. In 2011, it was added to the UNESCO Representative List of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

The festival takes place in the region historically known as Moravian Slovakia. It is celebrated annually in the village of Vlčnov (pop.3,000), every three years in Hluk (pop.4,400), every two years in Kunovice (pop.5,500), and occasionally in Skoronice (pop.550) as part of another festival called the "Slovácký rok" (Slovak Year).

Description 
Until World War II, the Ride was an integral part of the Feast of Pentecost, but has since become largely a social event. The ceremony begins with a religious service and the approval of the Mayor, followed by the preparation of the costumes and decorations for the horses and riders. These are made by the women of the villages, according to traditional colors and designs unique to each place.

The Ride itself is performed by young men who number between 15 and 25. They are preceded and followed by singers and an honor guard wearing unsheathed swords to protect the "King"; a young boy of 10 to 15 years old, whose face is partially covered, holding a rose in his mouth. The King and his groomsmen are dressed in feminine costumes, while all the other riders wear masculine clothing. After riding through the village for a few hours, sometimes exchanging witticisms with the crowd, the participants return home then, later in the evening, meet at the "King's House" for music and dancing.

Origins
It has been celebrated in largely its current form since 1808, but its origins are unclear. A possible source are the Easter processions which, themselves, date from pagan ceremonies to ensure a good harvest. There are also similarities to initiation ceremonies for young men in Kyrgyzstan. In the Czech Republic, it is associated with various tales from history, including one that involves Matthias Corvinus dressing as a woman to flee from a disastrous battle, and myths such as the search for the "King of Barley" in Haná.

In fiction 
The Ride of the Kings is a subject of the novel Žert (The Joke) by the Czech-French writer Milan Kundera (part 4, Jaroslav).

References

External links

 Ride of the Kings from the official Vlčnov website.
 Ride of the Kings, a video from The Institute of Folk Culture @ YouTube

Czech culture
Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
The Madi () family was a patrician family from Zadar. They were influential in Croatian politics from the 10th to 12th centuries.

Notable members
Madius or Madije, the first known member, prior of Zadar and the proconsul of Dalmatia, rebuilt the monastery of St. Krševan in 986. The only prior of Zadar before the Madi was Andrija, the founder of the St. Krševan Monastery, who died in 918.
Jelena, Croatian queen, wife of king Michael Krešimir II of Croatia, died in 976.
Grgur or Dobronja, prior of Zadar, died in 1035. Tried to make Dalmatian city-states independent from Byzantine Empire.
Čika and her daughter Domnana, the founders the Benedictine monastery of St. Maria in Zadar in 1066 which received privileges from the Croatian king Peter Krešimir IV.
Vekenega, the daughter of Čika, became a nun in 1072 and later the abbess of the convent.

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People from Dalmatia
Politicians from Zadar
10th century in Croatia
11th century in Croatia
12th century in Croatia
Croatian noble families
Byzantine families
Falkneria camerani is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicodontidae.

This species is endemic to northwestern Italy. It is only known from five locations in Aosta Valley, Cervo Valley, Valsesia and Sessera Valley. Its natural habitat is rocky areas. It is threatened by habitat loss and, possibly, acid precipitation.

This taxon was incorrectly listed by Giusti & Manganelli in 1990, as "Falkneri camerani", due to an orthographic error.

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Hygromiidae
Molluscs of Europe
Endemic fauna of Italy
Gastropods described in 1880
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Charles Merrill Hough (May 18, 1858 – April 22, 1927) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Education and career
Born on May 18, 1858, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hough received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1879 from Dartmouth College and read law in 1883. He entered private practice in New York City from 1884 to 1906.

Federal judicial service
Hough was nominated by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 20, 1906, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y.), to a new seat authorized by 34 Stat. 202. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 27, 1906, and received his commission the same day.

Hough's most historically memorable judicial ruling came in 1908 in United States vs. Press Publishing Co. Hough quashed a libel suit brought by the federal government on behalf of President Roosevelt against a newspaper, the New York World, that had been critical of the way the administration handled the Panama Canal startup. The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld Hough’s ruling in 1911.

In 1909, Hough ruled in favor of the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (ALAM) against the Ford Motor Company, regarding an automobile patent issued to George B. Selden that ALAM was using to collect royalties. Hough's ruling was overturned on appeal in 1911, allowing Ford (and other manufacturers) to produce automobiles without paying a royalty.

Hough's service with S.D.N.Y. terminated on September 5, 1916, due to his elevation to the Second Circuit.

Hough was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson on August 15, 1916, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated by Judge Emile Henry Lacombe. Hough was confirmed by the Senate on August 21, 1916, and received his commission the same day. He was a member of the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now the Judicial Conference of the United States) in 1926. His service terminated on April 22, 1927, due to his death in New York City.

Personal life
Hough was the son of brigadier general Alfred Lacey Hough (1826–1908) and Mary Jane Merrill. He married Ethel Powers in 1906. They bore two children, Helen Anastasia Hough (1905–1978) and John Newbold Hough (1906–2000).

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References

External links
 United States v. Press Publishing Co., 219 U.S. 1 (1911)
 

1858 births
1927 deaths
Dartmouth College alumni
Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States court of appeals judges appointed by Woodrow Wilson
United States district court judges appointed by Theodore Roosevelt
20th-century American judges
United States federal judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law
Mateus Ferreira da Silva (born 3 July 1995 in Marilac) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Ituano as a defender.

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1995 births
Living people
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Ituano FC players
Stumptown is a name or nickname that has been applied to several places in the United States (listed alphabetically by state):

Guerneville, California, was the site of an ancient coast redwood forest, much of which was logged for the rebuilding of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire.  Prior to being renamed for one of the local milling families, Guerneville was called Stumptown for the giant redwood stumps left by the loggers. Each year Guerneville holds its "Stumptown Daze Parade" and a number of local businesses adopted the original name including Stumptown Brewery, Stumptown Nursery and Stumptown Cycles.
Whitefish, Montana, was called Stumptown as the area was cleared for the train station.
Matthews, North Carolina, was originally named Stumptown in the early 19th century after cotton farmers cleared the land, leaving tree stumps everywhere.
Portland, Oregon, bears the nickname Stumptown, as well as several other nicknames. In the mid-19th century, the city's growth led residents to clear a lot of land quickly, but the tree stumps were not immediately removed; in some areas, there were so many that people used to jump from stump to stump to avoid the muddy, unpaved roads. The nickname is used in the names of several local businesses, including Stumptown Coffee Roasters, an independent coffee roaster and retailer located in Portland; Stumptown Sewing, a custom sewing and upholstery shop; StumpTown Kilts, a maker of men's and women's modern kilts; Stumptown (comics), a creator-owned detective fiction comic book series by Greg Rucka, set in Portland; the Stumptown Comics Fest, an annual comic book convention held in Portland; Stumptown Syndicate, a Portland-based 501(c)(3) organization working to create resilient, radically inclusive tech and maker communities that empower positive change; Stumptown Dance, a Portland based weekly Swing Dance; and Stumptown Mattress, a Portland based e-commerce mattress brand. 
Stumptown, Indiana, is an unincorporated community in Parke County.
Stumptown, Loudoun County, Virginia, is an unincorporated community.
Stumptown, Northampton County, Virginia, is an unincorporated community.
Stumptown, West Virginia, is an unincorporated community in Gilmer County.

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Nicknames
The Woodlawn and Butternut Street Railway, a horse-drawn street trolley line in Syracuse, New York, was established in 1886. The road commenced at North Salina Street at the junction of James Street and traveled to Butternut street and Manlius Street with final destination, Woodlawn Cemetery.

The company merged with Syracuse Consolidated Street Railway in 1890, after an agreement was made that allowed the new company to lease the lines.

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Defunct railroads in Syracuse, New York
Defunct New York (state) railroads
Railway companies established in 1886
Railway companies disestablished in 1890
The Élorn (; ) is a  long river in Brittany, France. Its source is in the monts d'Arrée,  north-northeast of Le Tuchenn Kador, and it then runs through several small towns such as Sizun and Landivisiau before flowing out into the roadstead of Brest.

The maritime part of the river stops at Landerneau, where the Pont de Rohan blocks seaborne ships from sailing any further upstream. The river also crosses the château de la Roche-Maurice and many abandoned mills, and on the banks of its maritime part are several family properties belonging to families in Brest (Park an Coat, le Frout, Beau Repos, le Petit Manoir de Poul ar Velin). At low tide the mud is met, at high tide the sea flows over the countryside.

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0Elorn
Geography of Brest, France
Rivers of France
Rivers of Brittany
Rivers of Finistère
The Battle of Ruxu, also known as the Battle of Ruxukou, was fought between the warlords Sun Quan and Cao Cao in 217 in the late Eastern Han dynasty. Two years earlier, Sun Quan attempted to take control of Hefei fortress, but failed due to a sudden plague and the staunch resistance put up by Cao Cao's forces under Zhang Liao. Since then, Cao Cao had been making preparations for a counterattack on Sun Quan, and he personally led his navy to Ruxu to fight a decisive battle.

This battle is not to be confused with another earlier battle that also took place at Ruxu in 213.

The battle
Before Cao Cao's massive army arrived at the battlefield, Sun Quan's second-in-command, Lü Meng, had already started to strengthen the defences of Ruxu fort, leaving the transportation and retreat route open for Sun. Meanwhile, Cao Cao operated his Hefei fortress as a front-line base, stationing his troops there; in addition, Cao Cao ordered Zang Ba and Sun Guan to mobilize their "Qingzhou Corps" to the battlefield. 

When Cao Cao pressed on Ruxu fort, Sun Quan sent out Ling Tong, Xu Sheng and the like to do battle. During the ensuing engagement, Sun Guan was killed in action, and Cao Cao temporarily halted the attack. The development was not as optimistic as Cao had expected, so he set up numerous camps across a river, and prepared for a long-term war. Cao ordered Xiahou Dun to lead his "26 armies" from Juchao to the frontline.

Facing the growing number of Cao Cao's troops, Sun Quan ordered his generals to maintain a line of defensive, which Cao was never able to break.

The tide of battle turned heavily in Sun Quan's favour when Gan Ning led 100 men into Cao Cao's main camp under cover of nightfall and laid waste to the camp, throwing Cao's armies into confusion. Gan Ning and his unit left without any casualties, and the demoralized armies of Cao Cao withdrew from the battle.

Order of battle

Sun Quan forces
Sun Quan
Lü Meng
Jiang Qin
Xu Sheng
Zhou Tai
Gan Ning
Ling Tong
Zhu Ran
Xu Xiang

Cao Cao forces
Cao Cao
Xiahou Dun
Cao Ren
Zhang Liao

In popular culture
The battle is featured as a playable stage in Koei's video game Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends. If the player is playing on Sun Quan's side, he can use Gan Ning's night raid to win the battle. In earlier versions of the game, this battle is merged with the Battle of He Fei.

References
 Chen Shou. Records of the Three Kingdoms, Volume 55, Biography of Gan Ning.
 Rafe de Crespigny. Generals of the South.

Ruxu 217
217
Ruxu 217
Attila Kaszás (; 16 March 1960 – 23 March 2007) was a Slovak-born Hungarian actor.

Early life

Attila Kaszás born in Šaľa, Czechoslovakia, but he spent his childhood in Vlčany, where his parents taught in the local school. He went then to the in János Selye High School in Komárno. From 1979 he studied at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, where he finished in 1983. From 1984 he was the member of the Vígszínház for 15 years, then he worked as a freelancer for 4 years. From 2003 he was the member of the National Theatre. He played roles in the József Katona Theatre in Kecskemét, New Theatre in Budapest, Kamaraszínház in Budapest, Rock Theatre in Budapest and in Győr, Kecskemét, Sopron and Szeged.

He reached his first success in 1990 in Georg Büchner's comedy, Leonce and Lena, acting Leonce. He got the Best Actor-prize then. In his career he played main character in more than 50 acts, TV and movie roles. With his finest sound he played in several musicals, too.

His first wife was actress Enikő Eszenyi, then after a short relationship with actress Edit Balázsovits he married again. From his second marriage one son was born, Jancsi (*2005) and shortly after his death his wife gave birth to their daughter, Luca (*2007).

Death

According to his actor friend, Péter Trokán, he already felt very badly days before the first performance of Twelve Angry Men. On 19 March 2007 on the pilot of this act, he suddenly dropped on the stage. In the ambulance he needed to be reanimated. He was carried into the Neurological Institute for intensive care, with a diagnosis of a stroke. He stayed there for four days in a coma. On the night of 22 March an operation was held to save his life, but on the second day at 7:40 p.m. he died.

Filmography

 Fehér rozsda (1982) - TV
 Macbeth (1982)
 Cha-Cha-Cha (1982)
 Az élet muzsikája (1984)
 Boszorkányszombat (1984)
 Napló Gyermekeimnek (1984)
 Hány az óra, Vekker úr? (1985)
 A Másik ember (1987)
 Nyolc évszak (1987) - TV mini series
 Zuhanás közben (1987)
 Titánia, Titánia, avagy a dublörök éjszakája (1988)
 Hét akasztott (1988)
 Tükörgömb (1990)
 Zenés TV színház (1990)
 Isten hátrafelé megy (1991)
 Édes Emma, drága Böbe (1992)
 Prinzenbad (German movie) (1993)
 Patika (1994–1995) TV-series
 Érzékek iskolája (1996)
 Üvegtigris (2001)
 A Hídember (2002)
 Hukkle (2002)
 Egy hét Pesten és Budán (2003)
 Üvegfal (2003)
 Sértett (2003)
 Kútfejek (2006)
 Indián nyár (2006) - TV
 Árpád népe (2006) - TV
 56 csepp vér (2007)
 A Kísértés (2007) - TV

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1960 births
2007 deaths
Hungarian male film actors
Hungarian male television actors
Hungarian male stage actors
20th-century Hungarian male actors
21st-century Hungarian male actors
People from Šaľa
Jesse Max Barber (July 5, 1878 – September 20, 1949) was an African-American journalist, teacher and dentist.

Biography
Born in Blackstock, South Carolina, to former slave parents, Jesse Max Barber was educated at Benedict College and Virginia Union University, where he was student editor of the university journal and president of the literary society. After graduation in 1903 he began working for the Voice of the Negro, a monthly literary magazine founded in 1904 in Atlanta, eventually becoming its editor-in-chief. Barber, one of the founders of the Niagara Movement in 1905, sought out younger and more radical black writers for the Voice. By 1906 the Voice was the leading black magazine in the United States, with a circulation of 15,000.  After the Atlanta Riots in 1906, Barber faced threats from white vigilantes and was forced to flee to Chicago. There he was unable to secure financial backing for his magazine, and Voice of the Negro folded in 1907. Barber's radicalism had made an enemy of Booker T. Washington, whose interventions caused Barber to lose jobs as a newspaper editor in Chicago and as a teacher in Philadelphia. To escape Washington's influence, in 1909 Barber retrained at the Philadelphia Dental School and on graduation in 1912 he set up a Philadelphia dental practice.

In 1923, Barber attended and spoke what was hoped to be an annual "pilgrimage" of Blacks from "all parts of the Union" at John Brown's grave, in North Elba, New York.

References

Further reading
Thomas, Rhondda R. & Ashton, Susanna, eds. (2014). The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. "J. Max Barber (1878-1949)," p. 179-184.

1878 births
1949 deaths
African-American journalists
American male journalists
American dentists
Benedict College alumni
Writers from South Carolina
Virginia Union University alumni
Niagara Movement
Anna Jardfelt is the Swedish Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Organisations in Geneva.

Early life and education
Jardfelt Melvin holds a law degree with focus on International law and Human rights.

Career
Anna Jardfelt Melvin was previously Ambassador of Sweden to Kenya, Seychelles, Comoros and Permanent Representative to UN Environment and United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) from 2017 to 2020, having served as Ambassador to the EU's Political and Security Committee in Brussels between 2014 and 2017.

Prior to these posts, she was the Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) between 2010 and 2014.

Jardfelt Melvin joined the Swedish Foreign Ministry in 1997 and has spent a large part of her career on European Security policy issues, notably as Chief of Staff for the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (2001–2005).

Other activities
 United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2021)
 European Leadership Network (ELN), Member

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Ambassadors of Sweden to Kenya
Ambassadors of Sweden to Seychelles
Ambassadors of Sweden to the Comoros
Swedish women ambassadors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Keep in Style is a 1934 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.

Plot
Betty holds a "Betty Boop Exposition", where she displays the latest modern inventions. Her creations included an ultra-streamlined car, a roadster with multiple rumble seats (for those with a large family), a multi-level baby carriage for quintuplets, and a grand piano that can change into other useful contraptions. Her final invention is her dress, which can change into a flower, a butterfly, and a high-collared gown with a train. The dress is a sensation, and soon everyone is wearing the latest Boop creation.

References

External links
 Keep in Style at the Big Cartoon Database.
 Keep in Style on YouTube.
 

1934 films
Betty Boop cartoons
1930s American animated films
American black-and-white films
1934 animated films
Paramount Pictures short films
Fleischer Studios short films
Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
Francis Daniel Kelly (29 November 1893 – 10 March 1980) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Armidale to farmer William Kelly and Annie O'Neill. He attended Smith Street Public School in Balmain, leaving at twelve and working for the Oriental Tea Company as a storeman. From 1916 to 1918 he served in the 38th Battalion in World War I. In January 1920 he married Eileen Wellfare, with whom he had two children. A Randwick alderman from 1934 to 1937, he was president of the Storeman and Packers Union from 1941 to 1947 and a delegate to the Trades and Labor Council from 1931 to 1941. From 1942 to 1947 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He was also president of the Labor Party central executive from 1943 to 1947. In 1947 he took up a position as the Commonwealth Arbitration Commissioner, which he held until 1958. Kelly died at Concord in 1980.

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1893 births
1980 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council
20th-century Australian politicians
Ejike Benedict Obiano known professionally as Ejyk Nwamba or Ogene master, is a Nigerian musician from Anambra State. One of the front men in Ogene music, a musical style which is popular in the Eastern part of Nigeria, Nwamba is regarded as the best Ogene musician in Igboland. He is the recipient of several accolades, including Artist of the Year at the 2021 Ukpor Special Awards and Best Indigenous Artist of the Year at the 2022 Anambra Legends Achievers Awards.

Ejyk Nwamba is the founder and leader of Ogene Ubo Mma Group, his musical band.

Biography 

Nwamba was born in Enugu, a state in the southeastern region of Nigeria. He picked in interest in music at a young age and was passionate about it and cultural instruments and learnt it by watching people play it. He started his career in the church as a performer in the early 2000s where he would perform at churches, weddings, and cultural meetings. Nwamba started publishing his music on music streaming platforms in the late 2010s.

His music is a mixture of Ogene music, Igbo highlife and mainstream Nigerian music fused with traditional tunes and chants. Ejyk Nwamba recreates mainstream Nigerian music like Afrobeats in a cultural way, and has successfully worked with mainstream Nigerian musicians including Flavour, Zoro, Kola Boy and others.

His breakthrough was “Aja Wele Wele” which was released in 2019. In 2020, he released his debut extended play with the same title “Aja Wele Wele” and was accompanied with music videos.

Nwamba has performed in all most  all the states in Nigeria and made his United Arab Emirates performance debut in 2022.

Artistry 

Nwamba music has been dubbed as “Ogene Cultural Praise”. He sings in Igbo language, and sings in English when recreating mainstream music. His music deploys Igbo instruments such as the Slit drum, ogene, ichaka, ekwe, and Ọjà which is known in English language as flute. His lyrics are centered in promotion of his culture, inheritance and his journey of life.

Education 
Nwamba studied Mass communication at Enugu State University in Nigeria.

Discography

Albums 

 Ndi Ogene Ejebego Uka (2021)

EPs 

 Aja Wele Wele (2020)

Singles 

 “Business Trip”
 “Ifeoma”
 “Ogene Cultural Praise”
 “Kawaii”
 “Arusi Ego Special”
 “Akwa Okuku Special”
 “Obama First Son Special”
 “Mmilienweilo Special”
 “Ubo”
 “Gbawalum Oji”

References

External links 

 Instagram 
 Releases on (YouTube)
 Ejyk Nwamba – Gbawalum Oji (Vol 2 / New Version))

Living people
Nigerian musicians
Nigerian highlife musicians
Igbo singer-songwriters
Ogene musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)