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The Inspiration of the Poet is an oil-on-canvas in the classical style by the artist Nicolas Poussin, painted between 1629 and 1630. It is currently held and exhibited at the Louvre in Paris.

History

The painting seems to be the one which was in the Cardinal Mazarin Collection in 1653. 

It was given to Louis XIV in 1693, together with its companion piece, A Seaport, by the French architect and gardener André Le Nôtre. It was acquired by the Louvre in 1911.

The painting depicts Apollo, accompanied by infant Cupids and by one of the Muses, about to crown a poet who is writing under his inspiration. It is not known to what the painting alludes, nor what is its exact subject. Perhaps the latter was always indefinite, because the picture appears in Mazarin's inventory of 1653 as Apollo with a Muse and a Poet crowned with Laurels. Its warm colouring reveals the Titianesque strain in Poussin's work; it must have been painted during his first Roman period, at the end of the 1620s. Several other paintings of this period are related to this work: The Inspiration of Anacreon, the Parnassus, and the book frontispiece drawn by Poussin and engraved by Claude Mellan for an edition of Virgil published by the Imprimerie Royale in 1641–1642.

Some critics put forward the hypothesis that the model for the Muse, often recognizable in other works of this period by Poussin, may have been Anna Dughet, whom he married in 1630 at San Lorenzo in Lucina (Rome).

See also
List of paintings by Nicolas Poussin
Baroque
Et in Arcadia ego
History of painting
Western painting

Notes

References

F. Negri Arnoldi, Storia dell'Arte, Fabbri Group (1990), Vol.III, 

, Chapter 3. Poussin's hands and Titian's eyes

External links

L'Inspiration du poète at the Louvre
 Nicolas Poussin Biography, Style and Artworks
 Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 92 works by Nicolas Poussin
 

Mythological paintings by Nicolas Poussin
1630 paintings
Paintings in the Louvre by French artists
Paintings of Apollo
Paintings of Cupid
Erwin Sick (3 November 1909 in Heilbronn – 3 December 1988) was a German inventor and entrepreneur.

Life and career 

1924 Erwin Sick began his professional career with an apprenticeship in optometry and then attended the College of Optics and Precision Mechanics in Göttingen. In 1932 he got a job at Siemens & Halske, where he initially worked in the computer lab. From 1934 to 1939 Erwin Sick held various positions at Siemens, Bosch and Askania Werke AG initially as a designer and later as an engineer. There he was involved in development projects on color film, cinema technology, astronomical and physical devices.

In 1939 he became head of the Laboratory of Optical Works A&C Steinheil & Söhne, Munich. In 1945 he quit the job and ventured into self-employment. Because he was politically unencumbered, Erwin Sick received his license to "Practice his profession as an engineer"  on 26 September 1946 by the American military government. That was the birth of the company that later became known as Sick AG.

In June 1951 "German Inventors and Innovations Fair" was held in Munich where Sick presented his first finished wooden model of Photoelectric sensor and received a certificate "for creative performance". The successful patent application of the invented Photoelectric sensors and Autocollimation by Erwin Sick on 20 October meant a breakthrough in technical devices and based an entire equipment program.

On 3 December 1988 Erwin Sick died at the age of 79 years after a heart attack.

Also see this video describing his life.

Honors and awards

 In 1971, Erwin Sick received Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class at the 25th anniversary of Sick AG.
 In 1980, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Munich awarded Erwin Sick an honorary Doctor of Engineering in recognition of his contribution "to scientific and constructive development of optical devices with electronic signal evaluation".
 In 1982, he was awarded the Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille "for his numerous inventions in optoelectronics".

Literature

References 

Businesspeople from Baden-Württemberg
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
People from Heilbronn
20th-century German inventors
1909 births
1988 deaths
Place of death missing
Siemens people
Engineers from Baden-Württemberg
Oberbilk is an inner-city urban quarter in the south-east of the German city of Düsseldorf. The back exit of the Central Station leads to Oberbilk. The new District Court of Düsseldorf is located in Oberbilk since 2010, as is the main office of the Communal Library of Düsseldorf. Oberbilk is also home to the Mitsubishi Electric Halle, a concert arena with a capacity for 7,500.

Oberbilk has a high population density, with 31,179 people (2020) living in just 3.94 km2. 36.6% are non-German, which is higher than the 23.6% found in Düsseldorf as a whole.

Traditionally Oberbilk was a working class borough containing heavy industry.
This changed in the 1980s and, following restructuring, employment is now dominated by the third sector. Unemployment is high.

Geography

Oberbilk lies to the south-east of the Central Station and borders on Stadtmitte, Bilk, Flingern, Lierenfeld and Wersten.

Public transport

In Oberbilk there are five underground lines, leading in one direction to the south of Düsseldorf, in the other direction to the Central District and the northern and western boroughs of the city. There are also metro lines to the neighbouring cities of Duisburg and Meerbusch.

Düsseldorf-Oberbilk station connects it with the Central Station, the International Airport, other parts of Düsseldorf, Cologne, Leverkusen, Solingen, Ratingen Ost, Duisburg, Mülheim and Essen.

There are two tram lines and some bus lines as well.

History

Oberbilk was a part of Bilk from 1384. There were only a few farms then and agriculture dominated until 1838 when the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway was built through Oberbilk; the Cologne-Minden railway followed in 1845.

With good railway connections to the coal mines of the Ruhr area, the steel industry built factories in Oberbilk, starting in 1852 with the Belgian Richard Brothers' Pudelstahlwerk. The industrial dynasty of Poensgen settled in Oberbilk in the 1860s.

The main part of Oberbilk was industrial or basic housing for the workers until the Second World War, when much of it was destroyed. Until the 1970s, when the war damage was repaired, restoration was piecemeal and rents in Oberbilk, especially its central district, were very low, in contrast to most other parts of Düsseldorf. This attracted immigrants and vice, with some brothels operating in the borough.

Oberbilk had three cinemas, a department store and a lot of small shops, but in the past many in Düsseldorf used to regard it as a problem area. In the 1980s the last industrial jobs left.

Restructuring

In the late 1970s, restructuring began. After the last steel factory left Oberbilk in 1979, the communal administration planned Oberbilk as a third sector area.

In the 1980s the Central Station of Düsseldorf was renovated, after which the area behind the railway station was planned anew. Insurance offices, the main seat of the Communal Library (Stadtbücherei), the State Court for Labour and Social Law (Landesarbeits und Landessozialgericht) settled in Oberbilk, bringing employment in services. The quality of life is much higher than in the 1980s, but it's still one of the poorer parts of Düsseldorf.

References

Oberbilk
Pleasant Valley is a residential neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas, United States.  It lies on the west bank of the Little Arkansas River in the northwestern part of the city.

Geography
Pleasant Valley is located at  (37.740556, -97.365278) at an elevation of .  It consists of the area between the MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway (known locally as “The Big Ditch”) to the north, the Little Arkansas River to the east, 29th Street to the south, and Interstate 235 to the west.  The Sherwood Glen neighborhood lies to the north, El Pueblo lies to the southeast, and Benjamin Hills lies to the south.

Government
For the purposes of representation on the Wichita City Council, Pleasant Valley is in Council District 6.

For the purposes of representation in the Kansas Legislature, the neighborhood is in the 29th district of the Kansas Senate and the 92nd district of the Kansas House of Representatives.

Education
Wichita Public Schools operates two schools in Pleasant Valley:
 Pleasant Valley Elementary School
 Pleasant Valley Middle School

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita oversees one Catholic elementary school in the neighborhood:  St. Jude School.

Transportation
Amidon Street, which runs north-south, is the primary route through Pleasant Valley. North of 33rd Street, it turns northwest and becomes Womer Street.  29th Street, which runs along the south side of the neighborhood, is the main east-west route.

Wichita Transit offers bus service to Pleasant Valley on its 17 route.

References

Geography of Wichita, Kansas
Neighborhoods in Kansas
Upper Pithlachascotee River Preserve, also referred to as Upper Cotee Preserve, is a 129-acre area of protected land in Pasco County, Florida. It includes 69 acres of bottomland forest by the Pithlachascotee River and the Ryals Branch, a tributary that crosses the site. The park includes a Cypress tree believed to be between 200 and 300 years old, a specimen listed in the Historic Places of Pasco County. It was the first property purchased through the Pasco County's ELAMP program with funding from the "penny for Pasco" sales tax. It includes sandhill habitat,  upland mixed forest and freshwater marshes. The Upper Cotee Preserve is located at 17135 Minneola Drive and includes a nature center, boardwalk and hiking trail. The area provides habitat for deer, wild turkey, gopher tortoises, barred owl, red-shouldered hawks, the Florida mouse, gopher frog, little blue heron and snowy egret.

Trail map
Trail map and location map

References

Protected areas of Pasco County, Florida
Nature reserves in Florida
The Spacecraft Fabrication Facility is a unit at the Goddard Space Flight Center where technicians and engineers manufacture components used for spacecraft assembly. This includes the tools which the astronauts use in space as well as the spacecraft themselves.

Branches
The Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis Branch is broken up into seven smaller branches:
 GN&C Systems Engineering Branch
 Systems Engineering Services and Advanced Concepts Branch
 Flight Dynamics Analysis Branch
 Component Hardware Systems Branch
 Propulsion Branch - The Propulsion branch is responsible for the spacecraft propulsion subsystems design, fabrication, analysis, integration, testing, propellant loading, and launch. LRO is one of the current missions.
 GN&C Mission Systems Engineering Branch
 Mission Systems Engineering Branch

External links
 NASA: Goddard's Organizations and Projects

NASA groups, organizations, and centers
John Morphew (died 1720) was an English publisher. He was associated with significant literary and political publications of the early 18th century. At one point publishing for both Whig and Tory factions, he later became identified with the Tories.

Life
Morphew as trade publisher (distributor) and John Nutt (printer) took over the business of Edward Jones when he died; this was in 1706. Previously Morphew had been a journeyman for Jones. At this period (i.e. from 1706) Morphew's name had replaced that of Nutt as imprint in most of Jonathan Swift's works. In 1707 he began to publish periodicals. He also had a long working relationship with Delarivier Manley.

In 1709 Morphew was arrested by the government, with John Barber, and the publisher John Woodward; the charge arose from the publication of the second volume of Manley's New Atalantis. In 1710 he began publishing The Examiner for Swift. From 1710 also, Morphew, who was connected to the Tory administration, began working with Edmund Curll and producing political pamphlets. George Sewell, who had worked for Morphew as a hack writer, left to work for Curll. He was also publisher of The Tatler, the real person mentioned alongside the fictitious Isaac Bickerstaff.

Morphew associated with the Scriblerus Club, and had some status as printer to the Tory ministry of the last years of Queen Anne. He took on, at some point, the publication of Abel Roper's Tory paper the Post Boy (1714). Shortly after the Hanoverian Succession in 1714 it gave offence to the government. At this juncture Roper denied active involvement; and Morphew backed him up by stating that for while he had not accounted for the Post Boy'''s profits to Roper. Subsequently Morphew lost some of his predominance as trade publisher to James Roberts, who identified more with the Whig cause. Material published in the Post Boy'' in the sensitive area of Anglo-Swedish relations, after the 1716 Jacobite plotting, caused Morphew to be arrested again in February 1717.

Notes

External links
WorldCat page

Year of birth missing
1720 deaths
English publishers (people)
The Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburgh Railroad was formed on February 26, 1859, by the merger of the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad and the Buffalo and Bradford Railroad. The Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburgh Railroad was leased to the Erie Railroad on January 6, 1866, for period of 499 years. It was most commonly known as the Bradford Branch of the Erie.

The railroad operated about  of track in New York and Pennsylvania. The main line ran  from Carrollton, NY to Gilesville, PA. The Bradford Branch ran from Bradford to Nusbaum, PA, a distance of about .

External links

Western New York Railroad Archive - Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburgh Railroad

Predecessors of the Erie Railroad
Defunct New York (state) railroads
Defunct Pennsylvania railroads
Railway companies established in 1859
Railway companies disestablished in 1941
1859 establishments in New York (state)
American companies established in 1859
Cnemaspis flaviventralis is a species of geckos described from the hills of Amboli, Maharashtra, India. Its common name is yellow-bellied day gecko.

References

flaviventralis
Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats
Reptiles of India
Taxa named by Neelesh Dahanukar
Reptiles described in 2016
Ngecha is a settlement in Kenya's Central Province.

It is the home of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, one of East Africa's greatest novelists, and a nominee for a Nobel prize for literature.

References 

Populated places in Central Province (Kenya)
Nonankuppam is a part of Ariyankuppam (West) village in Ariyankuppam Commune Panchayat in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India.

Geography

Nonankuppam is located at 11°53'4"N and 79°47'43"E. Nonankuppam is 7 km. from Pondicherry. It is in between Pondicherry and Cuddalore on NH-45A. One can reach Nonankuppam by any local bus from Pondicherry to Cuddalore, Bahoor or Madukarai running via Ariyankuppam.

Road network
Nonakuppam is connected to NH-45A by RC25 road. Nonankuppam serves as a gateway to two hamlet namely Angalakuppam and Pudukuppam which are under Killingikuppam Village Panchayat of Cuddalore district, Tamil nadu.

Places of interest
Nonankuppam Village
Nonankuppam village is a village with green paddy and coconuts tree (its look a like mini kerala) fields in the bank of the river chunnambar. It houses an Angala Amman temple, Pillaiyar koil. The temple festival starts on the mahashivaratri day and runs for seven days.

Chunnambar Boat House
Chunnambar Boat House () is a major tourist spot in Puducherry and it is located in Nonankuppam which is at a distance of 7 km from Puducherry town.

Angala Amman Koyil
Angala Amman koyil is the major temple in Nonankuppam.

References

External links
 Official website of the Government of the Union Territory of Puducherry

Villages in Puducherry district
Renhuai () is a county-level city located in the north of Guizhou province, China, bordering Sichuan province to the west. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zunyi. The city is served by Zunyi Maotai Airport.

Administrative divisions
 Under the jurisdiction of Renhuai, it is subdivided into 19 township-level divisions (13 towns and 6 townships); subdivided into 22 communities and 149 villages.

Climate

References 

 
County-level divisions of Guizhou
Zunyi
Ladislaus IV may refer to:
 Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262–1290), a king of Hungary
 Władysław I Łokietek (1260/1-1333), King of Poland who was sometimes numbered IV
 Władysław IV Vasa or Ladislaus IV (1595–1648), a king of Poland
The Synagogue of the Priests of Djirt (Hebrew Beit Knesset Kohanim HaDintreisa , ) is a synagogue located in Hara Kbira "Greater Neighborhood", the Jewish neighbourhood located on the outskirts of Houmt El Souk, on the Tunisian island of Djerba.

It is named after the ancient Jewish village of Djirt, modern day er-Riadh, also known as Hara Sghira "Smaller Neighborhood”, which is located a few miles south of Houmt El Souk. According to tradition, it was in this village where the first Jews, members of the kohanim who were exiled from Jerusalem at the time of the destruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, settled. The inside is lavishly covered with decorative coloured tiles.

The synagogue is to be distinguished from the El Ghriba synagogue. El Ghriba's founding is also traced to the flight of priests from the destruction of the Second Temple during the Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE). Legend tells that they brought with them a door of the Temple, which is covered over in a wall of the synagogue.

See also
List of synagogues in Tunisia
History of the Jews in Tunisia

References

Orthodox Judaism in North Africa
Orthodox synagogues in Tunisia
Sephardi Jewish culture in North Africa
Sephardi synagogues
Djerba
Mala'e may refer to:

Mala'e (Futuna)
Mala'e (Wallis)
Kurt Gerrard Luby (born 6 March 1963 in Bolton, Lancashire) is a former British auto racing driver who now works as a motorcycle dealer in his hometown of Bolton. He first entered racing through karting in 1978, winning seven championships up to 1987. In 1987 he won the British Formula Ford 1600 series, winning the championship that year and then defending his title in 1988. He switched to the Formula Vauxhall Lotus Championship in 1989, finishing second on points. A year later he was third in the championship. After moving to saloon car racing, he was second in the 1991  National Saloon Championship Group N, driving a BMW M3. Also that year he won the Willhire 24 Hours with Will Hoy and Ray Bellm. His final championship title was in the 1998 British GT in a GT2 class Chrysler Viper GTS-R alongside Richard Dean.

Luby is best known for his brief time in the British Touring Car Championship. His first year was in 1990, racing for the BMW Junior Team. He drove in seven races with five wins and two-second places in his class, finishing thirteenth in the final standings. His second year in the BTCC didn't come until 2001. He only raced in the first part of the season in a Lexus IS200 for ABG Motorsport, finishing ninth in the championship in what was a small field of drivers.

Racing record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position - 1 point awarded all races in 2001 only) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap - 1 point awarded - 1 point awarded all races) (* signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap - 1 point awarded in 2001 only)

‡ Endurance driver - not eligible for points

Complete British GT Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

External links
 Official BTCC 2001 Standings.
 BTCCPages Profile.

British Touring Car Championship drivers
1963 births
Living people
People from Bolton]
British GT Championship drivers
BMW M drivers
Leo Frank Katkaveck (April 17, 1923 – May 6, 2006) was an American professional basketball and baseball player. Katkaveck was selected in the 1948 BAA draft by the Washington Capitols after a collegiate career at North Carolina State. He played for the Capitols in 1948–49 and 1949–50 before retiring from basketball.

Katkaveck was also a minor league baseball player. Between 1948 and 1951, he played for the Warsaw Red Sox, Raleigh Capitals, Goldsboro Goldbugs, and Roanoke Rapids Jays.

BAA/NBA career statistics

Regular season

Playoffs

References

External links

1923 births
2006 deaths
American men's basketball players
Baseball players from North Carolina
Basketball players from North Carolina
Goldsboro Goldbugs players
Guards (basketball)
NC State Wolfpack baseball players
NC State Wolfpack men's basketball players
Raleigh Capitals players
Roanoke Rapids Jays players
Warsaw Red Sox players
Washington Capitols draft picks
Washington Capitols players
In mathematics, specifically convex geometry, the normal fan of a convex polytope P is a polyhedral fan that is dual to P.  Normal fans have applications to polyhedral combinatorics, linear programming, tropical geometry and other areas of mathematics.

Definition
Given a convex polytope P in Rn, the normal fan NP of P is a polyhedral fan in the dual space, (Rn)* whose cones consist of the normal cone CF to each face F of P,

Each normal cone CF is defined as the set of linear functionals w such that the set of points x in P that maximize w(x) contains F,

Properties
 NP is a complete fan, meaning the union of its cones is the whole space, (Rn)*.
 If F is a face of P of dimension d, then its normal cone CF has dimension n – d.  The normal cones to vertices of P are full dimensional.  If P has full dimension, the normal cones to the facets of P are the rays of NP and the normal cone to P itself is CP = {0}, the zero cone.
 The affine span of face F of P is orthogonal to the linear span of its normal cone, CF.
 The correspondence between faces of P and cones of NP reverses inclusion, meaning that for faces F and G of P,

 Since NP is a fan, the intersection of any two of its cones is also a cone in NP.  For faces F and G of P,

where H is the smallest face of P that contains both F and G.

Applications
 If polytope P is thought of as the feasible region of a linear program, the normal fan of P partitions the space of objective functions based on the solution set to the linear program defined by each.  The linear program in which the goal is to maximize linear objective function w has solution set F if and only if w is in the relative interior of the cone CF.
 If polytope P has the origin in its interior, then the normal fan of P can be constructed from the polar dual of P by taking the cone over each face of the dual polytope, P°.
 For f a polynomial in n variables with coefficients in C, the tropical hypersurface of f is supported on a subfan of the normal fan of the Newton polytope P of f.  In particular, the tropical hypersurface is supported on the cones in NP of dimension less than n.

References

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