Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Halesowen Railway, also known as the Halesowen and Northfield Railway and the Halesowen Joint Railway, was a standard gauge railway in what is now the West Midlands of England.  It connected the Great Western Railway's branch from Old Hill to Halesowen (opened 1878) with the Midland Railway’s Birmingham to Gloucester line at Longbridge Junction (formerly known as Halesowen Junction) near the present Longbridge station. The term "Halesowen Railway" is sometimes applied to the whole line between Old Hill and Longbridge but, strictly, it applies only to the portion south of Halesowen.

Opening
The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened their branch to  from  (on the line between  and ) on 1 March 1878. The new branch was  long from the junction at Old Hill, and on the same day, the GWR also opened the  link between Old Hill and , the latter being on the line from Stourbridge Junction to . Construction of the line between Halesowen and  started in 1878 and the railway opened as the Halesowen and Northfield Railway on 10 September 1883. It later became the Halesowen Joint Railway - a joint operation between the Great Western and Midland Railways.  It became jointly owned by the GWR and the London Midland & Scottish Railway in 1923 and British Railways in 1948.

Closure
It had a relatively short passenger railway life, the stations on the line being closed in 1919. There were freight trains and workers' special services to the Austin Rover Works up to 1960.

The line was closed altogether in 1964. The former station at Hunnington has been converted into a house and the other intermediate stations at Coombes Holloway and Rubery has been demolished. A short section of the line remained at the southern end to serve the Longbridge motor plant although there was no traffic after 2005 and that section was lifted during the redevelopment of the Longbridge site subsequent to its closure.

Campaign for Better Transport have added the railway to their recommendations for reopening.

Structures
A significant structure on the line was the Dowery Dell Viaduct, between Halesowen and Rubery. It was dismantled in 1964.

References

External links

 Map of railways around Birmingham
 Midland Railway diagram of Halesowen Junction

British joint railway companies
Closed railway lines in the West Midlands (region)
Rail transport in the West Midlands (county)
This is a list of the NCAA outdoor champions in the 3000 meters event.   The event was part of the program from the inception of women's events in 1982, until the event was removed from the program after the 2000 season.  In 2001, the 3000 meter steeplechase was introduced into the program.

Champions
Key
A=Altitude assisted

References

GBR Athletics

External links
NCAA Division I women's outdoor track and field

NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
Outdoor track, women
3000 m
Bradley is a village in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Skipton and Keighley, approximately  from the A629 and  from the nearby town of Skipton. Bradley is divided into two parts, the hamlet of High Bradley and the village of Low Bradley, known collectively as Bradleys Both although traditionally the village used to be named Bradley Ambo.

History 

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes through the village. The Bradley section of the canal was completed in 1775. Upon entering the village there is a swing bridge crossing the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. A coal business was eventually established on the left of the swing bridge, complete with a wharf and weighbridge, while a coal stay and canal wharf occupied a large area to the right. Coal barges pulled by boat were a regular sight.

Bradley Mill constructed in the 1860s was renovated into 28 homes in 2005, developed by Novo Homes.

The primary school, Bradleys Both Community Primary School, was built in 1914. The name derives from the fact that the village is divided into two parts – Low Bradley and High Bradley.

On 22 April 2007, a Polish war memorial was unveiled by the canal, in memory of seven Polish airmen who died when their plane crashed near Skipton in 1943.

Industry 
In the past, quarrying supplied slate and stone for building materials but most of the villagers were engaged in hand looming and wool combing in their own homes.

In the mid-1860s, industry started to develop in Bradley in the form of spinning and weaving mills.
Weaving was carried out at Rose Shed Mill, which was redeveloped into Browns Court in the late 1990s.

References

External links 

 Bradley Village Homepage
 Bradley Mill Homepage
 Bradley Village Store
 Bradley Cricket Club
 Bradley Village Hall

Villages in North Yorkshire
Craven District
Abbondio Sangiorgio (16 July 1798 – 2 November 1879) was an Italian sculptor of the neoclassical period.

Biography
Born in Milan, Sangiorgio studied at the city's Accademia di Brera. During his early career he worked for the Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano; later he received numerous commissions for large public sculptures in places including Turin (a Castor and Pollux for the Palazzo Reale), Milan, Brescia and Casale Monferrato (an equestrian portrait of Charles Albert of Piedmont-Sardinia). He also produced a large number of portrait sculptures in which he was able to express a predeliction for realism over neoclassicism.

Among Sangiorgio's students was Pietro Magni.

References

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Artists from Milan
1798 births
1879 deaths
19th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
Brera Academy alumni
19th-century Italian male artists
Urdapilleta is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Alejandro Urdapilleta (1954–2013), Uruguayan actor
 Benjamín Urdapilleta (born 1986), Argentine rugby union footballer
 Fernando Urdapilleta (1924–2013), Argentine equestrian
 Laura Urdapilleta (1932–2008), primaballerina of the national Mexican dance company
Vishnu Dayal Ram is a former director general police of Jharkhand state in India. He is a 1973 batch IPS officer and had served as DGP of Jharkhand Police twice from 1 July 2005 to 27 September 2006 and from 4 August 2007 to 13 January 2010. He has earlier served as SP of Bhagalpur and SSP of Patna. After retirement, he joined Bharatiya Janata Party and won 2014 Lok Sabha election from Palamu (Lok Sabha constituency).

References

Living people
Indian police chiefs
India MPs 2014–2019
Lok Sabha members from Jharkhand
People from Palamu district
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Jharkhand
1951 births
India MPs 2019–present
Alter Ego is a 2007 film produced by Village Roadshow Films (Greece). It premiered on May 10, 2007 in Greek theaters. The film stars Sakis Rouvas in his film debut. The film's soundtrack, which includes 5 songs by Sakis Rouvas.

Plot summary
Stefanos is the frontman, guitarist, and soul of the incredibly popular rock band Alter Ego. In recent years, the band has had groundbreaking success, and their potential surpasses those of international standards. However, a twist of fate changes their path on their journey to fortune and fame, and the group is ultimately rocked by a heartbreaking tragedy, especially Stefanos who needs to find the will and determination to move on.

Cast
Sakis Rouvas - Stefanos
Danae Skiadi - Ariadne
Doretta Papadimitriou - Nefele
Kostis Kallivretakis - Philippos
Dimitris Kouroubalis - Timos
Alexandros Logothetis - Argyris
Laertis Malkotsis - Andreas
Evdokia Statiri - Nadia
Mairi Louisi - Roula
Joseph King  - Himself

DVD release
The film was released on DVD in December 2007 in Greece. The DVD contains both English subtitles and Greek for the hearing-impaired. It also includes many behind-the-scenes features of Sakis Rouvas and the rest of the cast.

Box office
The film sold an estimated number of more than 250,000 cinema tickets.

Soundtrack
Alter Ego (soundtrack)

External links
 
 

2007 films
Greek romantic drama films
Films set in Greece
Sakis Rouvas
Naphill  is a village in the parish of Hughenden Valley, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is north-west of Hughenden, on the ridge of one of the Chiltern Hills, and is adjacent to the village of Walter's Ash.

The origin of its name is obscure. It is sometimes thought that people napped flints here, but this is disputed.

Naphill is a mainly linear settlement, with nearly all the houses built on side-roads branching off Main Road, which is just over  long.

Naphill borders the ancient parishes of Bradenham, North Dean, and West Wycombe. Whilst a village in its own right, it is part of the Parish of Hughenden, and is located around the former border between two ancient British tribes, the Catuvellauni and the Atrebates. It is close to the ancient feature Grimm's Ditch.

Walter's Ash in Naphill is the location of RAF Strike Command, which contains a nuclear bunker built on National Trust land in 1983–1985. This lies near the wartime Bomber Command bunker built in the 1930s. There was a peace camp during the time of the construction of the nuclear bunker, and during that time two copies of the magazine The Angry Pacifist were produced.

Naphill Common 
Naphill Common takes up a large part of Naphill, running the whole length of the village's west side. It is larger and more wooded than its neighbour, Downley Common. The Common contains evidence of an industrial background, including medieval iron smelting. Pieces of iron slag have been found in the area, which was once semi-enclosed. Also pieces of pottery dated to the 12th to 15th centuries have been found turned up by rabbits.

Naphill Common is home to several very large beech and oak trees. One beech tree has grown on a medieval enclosure, the purposes of which enclosure is unknown because only three of its sides are visible. Most of the iron kilns and pottery are to be found in this part of Naphill. Originally, Naphill Common was more open, with large trees separated by grass-covered open ground, rather than the dense wood that has grown up around it.

Naphill Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

References

External links 

 

Villages in Buckinghamshire
Gurney Slade (1886–1956) was the pen name for English author Stephen Bartlett, who was best known for children's books and adventure novels. His novel Lovers and Luggers was filmed by Cinesound Productions in 1937. He wrote three novels about T.E. Lawrence.

He had been a pearler in Broome and served during World War One.

Writings
Pleasure Island (1924)
The Pearlers of Lorne : A Story For Boys (1925)
The Fifteen Men (1925)
Ships That Pass in the Night Clubs (1926)
The Black Pyramid (1926)
Lovers and Luggers (1928)
The Treasure of the Pass (1928)
In Lawrence's Bodyguard (1930)
The Delta Patrol (1934)
Led by Lawrence (1934)
Through the Never-Never (1935)
A North Sea Quest (1935)
Gentlemen o' Fortune (1935)
Lawrence in the Blue (1936)
A Bush Rescue (1936)
Captain Quid (1937)
Quid's Quest (1939)
Kharga the Camel (1948)
Pingoo the Penguin (1948)
Tamba the Lion (1949)
Bawse the Badger (1950)
The Long Arm of the Cardinal (1953)
The League of Guy Varenne (1954)

References

External links 
 Gurney Slade at AustLit
 

English writers
1886 births
1956 deaths
English children's writers
Place of birth missing
Jonathan Spector is the former president and CEO of The Conference Board, and currently a senior advisor to the organization.

Spector, a graduate of Wesleyan University and Harvard Business School, joined The Conference Board after serving as vice dean of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. During his tenure at Wharton, Spector was responsible for the significant growth and strategic repositioning of the school's executive education activities, and for strengthening Wharton's involvement in book publishing, globalization and collaborations across the university. Before joining The Wharton School he spent 20 years with McKinsey & Company, where he was a senior partner in the firm. He serves on the board of directors of The Demand Institute, The Conference Board of Canada, and the March of Dimes Foundation. He is the co-author of We Are Smarter Than Me (2007), which highlights the ways in which businesses can harness the power of collective intelligence.

References

External links
 Jonathan Spector biodata
Conference Board website

Living people
American chief executives
Date of birth missing (living people)
Harvard Business School alumni
Wesleyan University alumni
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Year of birth missing (living people)
François Picard (26 April 1921, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône – 29 April 1996, Nice) was a racing driver from France. He participated in one Formula One Grand Prix, on 19 October 1958.  He scored no championship points. This race was his last, as he crashed his Cooper into Olivier Gendebien's Ferrari, which had spun in front of him, and Picard suffered serious injuries. He eventually recovered, but never raced again.

Complete Formula One results
(key)

References

1921 births
1996 deaths
Sportspeople from Villefranche-sur-Saône
French racing drivers
French Formula One drivers
Rob Walker Racing Team Formula One drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
World Sportscar Championship drivers

12 Hours of Reims drivers
Biscogniauxia atropunctata, the hypoxylon canker, is a species of sac fungus in the family Graphostromataceae. Like many other fungi in the genus, it is a plant pathogen; specifically this species can cause Biscogniauxia (Hypoxylon) canker and dieback disease in host trees.

Range
This species is found in spring and early summer east of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

Ecology
When not pathogenic, Biscogniauxia atropunctata is saprobic on oak and other hardwood trees, causing a white rot on the host deadwood. The fruiting body grows in patches with a whitish-gray surface covered by black dots that grow to be blackened overall.

The fungus can colonize healthy trees and live undetected and harmlessly in the bark and sapwood for some time, its spread kept in check by the host's natural defenses. However, when the trees become stressed, the fungus invades weakened host tissues, causing the dieback disease. Initially the infection kills affected branches, then progresses down the trunk to form a canker, girdling the tree and killing the entire crown.

Taxonomy
Biscogniauxia atropunctata contains the following varieties:
 Biscogniauxia atropunctata maritima
 Biscogniauxia atropunctata atropunctata

References

External links

Xylariales
Fungi of North America
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Fungal tree pathogens and diseases
Viet Cuong (born 1990 in West Hills, California) is a Vietnamese-American composer. Praised as "alluring" by The New York Times and "irresistible" by The San Francisco Chronicle, Cuong's music has been performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center. His music has been commissioned and performed by organizations such as the New York Philharmonic, So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Eighth Blackbird, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, and The Crossing.

Biography 
Cuong was born in West Hills, California, and grew up in Marietta, GA, where he graduated from Lassiter High School.  He credits his high school band program for helping him find both a love of music and sense of belonging. He studied music composition at the Peabody Institute, Princeton University, and Curtis Institute of Music.  His mentors include Kevin Puts, Oscar Bettison, Donnacha Dennehy, Steven Mackey, Jennifer Higdon, David Ludwig, Richard Danielpour.

Cuong serves on the music composition faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is the current Young American Composer-in-Residence of the California Symphony.

References

External links

American composers
1990 births
Living people
Raymond Harold Osrin (October 5, 1928 – April 3, 2001) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist. He was most notable for his work in the Golden Age of Comic Books. Later, he took a position as the editorial cartoonist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where his political cartoons appeared daily for more than 30 years.

Biography
Osrin was born in Brooklyn, New York  and studied at the School of Industrial Art and the Art Students League. He was a staff inker at Jerry Iger's comics shop from 1945 to 1949. In the 1940s, his work appeared at Fiction House and Fox.

In 1950 Osrin worked as an inker on It Rhymes with Lust, a newsstand publication that was the first graphic novel. Called a "picture novel" on the cover and published by the comic book and magazine company St. John Publications, it was written by Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller (together using the pseudonym Drake Waller), with black-and-white art by Matt Baker.

In the mid-1950s, he drew for Archie Comics (Pat the Brat), Charlton Comics (Blue Beetle, Crime and Justice, romance and suspense stories) and Dell/Gold Key (Snuffy Smith and Barney Google, Supercar).  In the 1960s he was also a ghost artist on the Morty Meekle daily.  In 1957 Osrin moved from New York City to Pittsburgh, where he was involved in television animation and industrial film making. He was a staff cartoonist of the Pittsburgh Press from 1958 to 1963.

In 1963, he "blindly applied for a job in the art department" of The Plain Dealer and was hired to replace editorial cartoonist Ed Kuekes. Osrin moved to Cleveland to work as a cartoonist and "wait for his predecessor to retire." He became the editorial cartoonist of The Plain Dealer in 1966, and remained there until retiring on April 2, 1993.

Osrin won the National Headliners Club's award for editorial cartooning in 1971. In a 1972 interview, Osrin said "I'm influenced by Oliphant and Mauldin and Herblock, (and) a fellow named Wright on a Miami newspaper."  Other influences include Paul Conrad, Milt Caniff, Frank Robbins, and Matt Baker.

Upon retirement, he moved to Boca Raton, Florida. He donated collections of his cartoons to Cleveland State University and the Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University in the hopes that his work would "mean something later on and somebody can enjoy it." He died from complications due to heart disease and diabetes on April 3, 2001, in Delray Beach, Florida.

References

External links
The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum : Ray Osrin Collection Guide
Lambiek.Net
Panel to Panel article on "It Rhymes with Lust"
Cleveland State University's Catalog of Ray Osrin Cartoon Collection
Youngstown State University Oral History Digital Program (see Political Cartoons)

American editorial cartoonists
Art Students League of New York alumni
Deaths from diabetes
Artists from Brooklyn
Artists from Cleveland
2001 deaths
1928 births
High School of Art and Design alumni
Cy Kuckenbaker is an American filmmaker, video artist and professor known for Tiger Oak + Echo, Bush League, The Potato Eater and his viral "time collapse" edits of planes and traffic in San Diego.

Life & career 
Kuckenbaker is from Alaska and briefly attended college in South Dakota. He moved to Hillcrest in 1993,  and graduated from San Diego State University in 1998. Kuckenbaker made the film Tiger Oak + Echo after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kupiškis, Lithuania from 2000-2002. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004 and received a Master of Fine Arts at California Institute of the Arts in 2006. Kuckenbaker has been a professor at San Diego City College since 2010.

In 2013, Kuckenbaker partnered with the Museum of Photographic Arts through the Creative Catalyst Grant from the San Diego Foundation to produce a series of videos stemming off his viral content and creative edits of traffic, planes and everyday life in San Diego. After relocating near San Diego International Airport, he said the planes were recorded on Black Friday, November 23, 2012, between 10:30am and 3pm, following inspiration from a composite photo at Hannover Airport by Ho-Yeol Ryu. Kuckenbaker said it took approximately 2 hours of editing for every 1 second of finished video rendering and that he had to composite additional time lapse footage over the render to give the illusion that time was passing. He recorded 462 cars over 4 minutes from the Washington Street bridge overlooking SR-163 on October 1, 2013.

Filmography

References

External links 

 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
California Institute of the Arts alumni
San Diego State University alumni
Artists from Alaska
Artists from San Diego
Educators from California
Filmmakers from California
Peace Corps people
Fulbright alumni
American film directors
Northwest Suburban Conference may refer to:

 Northwest Suburban Conference (Illinois)
 Northwest Suburban Conference (Minnesota)
3000 And 9 Shit is a collaborative mixtape by American recording artists Ocean's 7. Including Jermaine Dupri, Usher, Trey Songz, Nelly, Bryan Michael-Cox, Tyrone and Johnta Austin. The mixtape was released on May 9, 2009.

Background
Jermaine Dupri’s composed an interview on his Global 14 website, Ocean’s 7. The recording process went by whoever was in the studio each night instead of setting up a recording schedule. In an interview Durpi said “We made one song, one song turned into the next song. Whoever showed up in the studio was who got on the songs. A lot of people [are] saying ‘why isn’t this person on this song,’ or ‘why isn’t that person on that song,’ you know? Usher’s not on the mixtape because he started going through his divorce at that point in time so we let him do what he had to do.”

Track listing

References

2009 mixtape albums
The neuromedin U receptors are two G-protein coupled receptors which bind the neuropeptide hormones neuromedin U and neuromedin S. There are two subtypes of the neuromedin U receptor, each encoded by a separate gene (, ).

Selective Ligands
Neuromedin U is an agonist at both the NMU1 and NMU2 subtypes, while neuromedin S is selective for NMU2, and is a more potent agonist at this subtype than neuromedin U. Several other peptide and non-peptide ligands are also available for the NMU receptors.

Agonists
Non-selective
 Neuromedin U
 non-peptide NMU modulators 

NMU2 selective
 Neuromedin S

Antagonists
NMU2 selective
 R-PSOP

References

External links

 

G protein-coupled receptors
Robert Clarke & Company was a book publishing company and bookseller in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1858 to 1909. After 1894, it was known as The Robert Clarke Company. It published literary and historical works.

Leadership
Robert Clarke was born May 1, 1829, at Annan,
Dumfrieshire, Scotland, and came with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1840. He was educated at public schools and Woodward College. He was a bookkeeper for William Hanna, and then became a proprietor of a second-hand bookstore near the corner of 6th and Walnut St. In 1858, in partnership with John W. Dale and Roderick D. Barney, he bought out the large Cincinnati publishing and bookjobbing firm H. W. Derby & Co., renaming it Robert Clarke & Co. In 1874, Howard Barney and Alexander Hill entered the firm.

In 1894, the firm was renamed The Robert Clarke Company with a board composed of the same gentlemen. Robert Clarke died at his home library in Glendale, Ohio, on August 27, 1899. The firm lost its plant in a February, 1903 fire, but rebuilt. The firm dissolved in a receiver's sale in 1909.

Reputation
The firm's reputation for access to comprehensive offerings is illustrated by the following testimonials:

Selected publications

 - two volumes
 - two volumes

Notes

References

Further reading

Book publishing companies based in Ohio
Defunct book publishing companies of the United States
Publishing companies established in 1858
History of Cincinnati
1858 establishments in Ohio