Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Salim Ali's fruit bat (Latidens salimalii) is a rare megabat species in the monotypic genus Latidens. It was first collected by Angus Hutton, a planter and naturalist in the High Wavy Mountains in the Western Ghats of Theni district, Tamil Nadu in South India in 1948. It was initially misidentified as a short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus) but later identified by Kitti Thonglongya as a new species and was named after Indian ornithologist Salim Ali in 1972.

Description
It is medium-sized and has no external tail. Ears are oval with rounded tips. The head is covered by blackish brown fur and the wing is light brown in colour and the underparts are light grey-brown with the brown wing membrane (Patagium) hairless. It has fifteen palatal ridges. The rostrum is long and narrow and the palate is very long especially postdental portion. Post orbital foramina are absent. Incisors 1 pair and peg like, cheek teeth brad. First premolars are very small and slightly exceeds the incisors in the crown area. Body length is 10 cm, hindfeet 0.8–1.5 cm, forearm 6.6 cm.

It was observed that these bats eat fresh fruits of Elaeocarpus oblongus (Rudraksh or bead tree) and the figs Ficus glomerata (cluster fig), Ficus macrocarpa (Indian laurel fig) and Ficus beddomei (Thavital, a strangler fig).

Range
The first description of the bat was from a single specimen collected at an altitude of 750 meters in the High Wavy Mountains of the Annamalai Western Ghats, Theni district, Tamil Nadu, South India.

In 2002 the Indian government added the Wroughton's free-tailed bat (Otomops wroughtonii) and Salim Ali's fruit bat (Latidens salimalii) to Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, affording these two species the highest level of protection. The other 112 species of bats in India were not affected.

Conservation
Salim Ali's fruit bat was listed as critically endangered in 1996, and has been considered an endangered species since 2004. It meets the criteria for this designation because of its small population size of fewer than 1,000 individuals. Additionally, it is experiencing population decline, with the population expected to contract by a further 20% by 2032 due to hunting for bushmeat, loss and degradation of caves, and deforestation.

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Mammals described in 1972
Nature conservation in India
Mammals of India
Memorials to Salim Ali
Pranciškus Baltrus Šivickis (born September 30, 1882, in the Raseiniai region of central Lithuania—died October 12, 1968) was a Lithuanian zoologist who moved to the United States where he completed his education. He became a professor at the University of the Philippines (Manila) before returning to Lithuania to become a professor at Kaunas University of Technology.

Early life
Šivickis was born in a village in Šiluva parish in the Raseiniai region of central Lithuania. He finished three years of schooling at a Russian school in Šiluva in 1900 and started work on his father's farm. He was interested in Lithuanian folk traditions and was involved as a patriot in revolutionary activities of 1905. Hearing that he was on a list of people that the Tsarist government planned to arrest, he moved to the United States in 1906. There he took various jobs and enrolled at evening classes, studying over the next few years at seven different US universities. By 1920 he had graduated from the Natural Sciences Department of the University of Chicago and two years later received his doctorate, his thesis being on the subject of the regeneration of flatworms.

He then took a post as Professor of Zoology at the University of the Philippines in Manila. Here he became a respected member of the scientific community known for his research, teaching work and organisational skills. His ambition however was to return to his native land and advance the field of Zoology in Lithuania.

Return to Lithuania
Šivickis returned to Lithuania in 1928 and joined the faculty at the Zoology and Comparative Anatomy Department of the University of Lithuania. He has been described as being the founder of the "Lithuanian school of ecological faunistic studies of invertebrates". Later he also took up a post as professor and head of the Department of Histology and Embryology at Vilnius University. He and the students he inspired published many scientific papers on soil, aquatic and parasitic invertebrates and other insects. He was a member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and in 1952 he started the first parasitology laboratory in the country.

References

1882 births
1968 deaths
People from Raseiniai District Municipality
People from Kovno Governorate
Lithuanian zoologists
Academic staff of the Kaunas University of Technology
Academic staff of the University of the Philippines
University of Chicago alumni
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
20th-century zoologists
Bintagoungou  is a rural commune and village of the Cercle of Goudam in the Tombouctou Region of Mali. The village lies at the south east corner of Lake Faguibine near the channel that connects Lake Faguibine to Lake Takara. The commune includes all of Lake Takara and a small section at the eastern end of Lake Faguibine.
 
The commune includes eight settlements:
Alphahou Abarbouch
Alphahou Inataben
Alphahou Taraba
Bintagoungou
Etewel
Taxina
Tihigrène
Toufazrouf

References

Communes of Tombouctou Region
The Comer Range () is an Antarctican mountain range,  long, running southwest to northeast and rising to 600 meters to the west of Harbour Glacier in Wiencke Island, Palmer Archipelago. From south to north the range includes Jabet Peak and Noble Peak. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007 after Gary Comer (1927–2006), an American philanthropist and founder of the Lands' End company whose association with polar research stems from his 2001 trip through the Northwest Passage in the vessel Turmoil. The ease of his passage in comparison to that of numerous experienced sailors previously convinced him that climate change was occurring. To research the issue Comer contacted distinguished scientists Wallace S. Broecker, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, and F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California, Irvine, and engaged their help in sponsoring a fellowship/mentorship program that he would fund. Comer's investments in climate and environmental change research in the Arctic, and in particular the polar science internship program that he developed and supported, represents a substantial contribution to the advancement of polar science. The new intellectual capital represented by the cadre of new scientists trained through his internship program has already made substantial contributions to knowledge of the Arctic and this in turn represents a significant contribution to improving the global glacial-geologic and glaciological context that is essential for understanding climate change work in the Antarctic.

References

Mountains of the Palmer Archipelago
The Bilsam Sky Walker I is a Polish powered parachute designed and produced by Bilsam Aviation of Poznań. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

The company's website is non-functional and has been so since about 2008, so it is not clear if the company is still in business.

Design and development
The Sky Walker I was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . It features a  parachute-style wing, single-place accommodation, tricycle landing gear and a single two stroke  Radne Motor AB engine in pusher configuration. The Bilsam TNA four-stroke engine is a factory option.

The aircraft carriage is built from a combination of composite material and steel tubing. In flight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw. On the ground the aircraft has foot pedal-controlled nosewheel steering. The main landing gear incorporates spring rod suspension.

The aircraft has an empty weight of  without the engine fitted and a gross weight of , and a full fuel capacity of .

The Sky Walker I can be fitted with a choice of three wings, Matrix, Pelikan or Condor all manufactured by Bilsam.

The Sky Walker II is a two-seat variant with an enclosed cockpit.

Specifications (Sky Walker I)

References

External links

Sky Walker I
2000s Polish sport aircraft
2000s Polish ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Powered parachutes
Inge Gudmar Edler (17 March 1911 – 6 March 2001) was a Swedish cardiologist, who in collaboration with Carl Hellmuth Hertz developed medical ultrasonography and echocardiography.

Edler and Hertz shared the 1977 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for this achievement.

Early life and education
Edler was born on 17 March 1911 in Burlöv, Malmöhus County, Sweden. His parents were Carl and Sophia Edler and primary school teachers. In childhood, he was interested in technology, nature, and geography. Edler graduated from high school, Hegre Allmanna Laroverket, in 1930. Edler's older sister was a dentist and he initially intended to pursue a career in this field. As it was too late in the year to enroll in dental school, instead he enrolled in medical school at Lund University. Edler graduated from medical school in 1943.

Career

Personal life
Edler met his future wife, Karin Jungebeck, in 1939 at medical school as she was also a medical student at the same university. They had 4 children.

Edler died 7 March 2001 at home.

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1911 births
2001 deaths
Swedish medical researchers
Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Swedish cardiologists
Frances Mason is a British classical violinist, whose main interest is in chamber music but who has also performed as a soloist.

While a child, she studied with violinist Albert Sammons. She subsequently studied under Alan Loveday at the Royal College of Music, London. While there, she was awarded the Violin Prize and both the Tagore and the Worshipful Company of Musicians Medals. Later, she won awards in the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition and in the BBC Violin Competition, and won the National Federation of Music Societies Award for Young Concert Artists.

She has appeared as soloist four times in the BBC Promenade Concerts ("The Proms"), 196568.

She has played in the Zorian String Quartet, the Julian Bream Consort, and the Dartington Piano Trio. She has been leader of the Music Group of London, of the Rasumovsky String Quartet, and of the Tagore String Trio.

She has made several recordings, both under her own name and as part of an ensemble.

She has taught at the Royal College of Music, where she holds the title of professor.

References

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British classical violinists
British music educators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Living people
21st-century classical violinists
Women classical violinists
MV Morning Glory, formerly Gulf Glory, Bandar Ayu, and Pergiwati, is a 1993-built crude oil tanker. Considered a stateless vessel with stolen cargo, the tanker was seized by United States Special Operations Forces southeast of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean on March 16, 2014. The intervention occurred upon the request of the Libyan and Cypriot governments.

As Gulf Glory the vessel had previously sailed under Liberian registry. In 2011, the Morning Glory was repaired at the CIC Changxing Shipyard, China.

March 2014 event
Apparently, the tanker had been ordered to Libyan waters off the port of Sidra, Libya where it was seized by rebel gunmen. Flying the flag of North Korea the vessel then entered the port of Sidra in early March 2014. North Korea, however, disavowed the ship once it learned that it was under rebel control. Sidra is under the control of an eastern Libyan militia group that under the leadership of Ibrahim Jathran defies the central government and aims for greater autonomy.  At Sidra, the tanker was loaded with 234,000 barrels of state-owned crude oil that had been seized by the rebels.

The Libyan government intended to prevent the ship from leaving the port on March 11 but failed to establish an effective blockade. As a result, the Ali Zeidan government collapsed. Fearing for his safety Zeidan then fled the country. The rebels had planned to sell the oil bypassing the Libyan government, however, the intervention on sea blocked this attempt. The oil tanker was seized by a U.S. Navy SEAL team and U.S. SWCC from the  on March 16, 2014, without bloodshed. The vessel was brought to the port of Zawiya, Libya and handed over to Libyan authorities on March 22, 2014, after being escorted by .

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1993 ships
Captured ships
Maritime incidents in 2014
Oil tankers
Ships of Libya
The Department of Information & Cultural Affairs of West Bengal, previously known as the Department of Information & Public Relations, is a Bengal government ministry. It is a nodal ministry mainly responsible for the information, culture, film and archaeological heritage related activities of the State. The principal objectives of the department are to disseminate information about the activities & achievements of the state government through different media, to keep the ministers & other senior government functionaries aware of the public reaction reflected through the media & other sources, to promote & preserve Bengali cultural heritage (including the folk culture), to preserve West Bengal's archaeological heritage, to coordinate with important personalities and facilitate all activities related to films, theatre, art, etc., to organize state ceremonies, and to extend hospitality to visiting Indian and foreign dignitaries.

Ministerial team 
The ministerial team is headed by the Cabinet Minister for Information & Cultural Affairs, who may or may not be supported by Ministers of State. Civil servants are assigned to them to manage the ministers' office and ministry.

The current head of the ministry is Mamata Banerjee who is also the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

References 

Government of West Bengal
Government departments of West Bengal
West Bengal
"Street Singer"  is a song written by Roy Nichols, and performed by American country music band The Strangers.  It was released in April 1970 as the first single from their album Introducing My Friends The Strangers. The B-side was "Mexican Rose," written by Roy Nichols and Norm Hamlet. The lineup of The Strangers during this time was Roy Nichols on lead guitar, Norm Hamlet on pedal steel guitar, Bobby Wayne on rhythm guitar, Dennis Hromek on bass, and Biff Adam on drums. "Street Singer" peaked at number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and peaked at number twenty four on the Bubbling Under Hot 100. It reached number-one on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks in June 1970.

Personnel

The Strangers:
Roy Nichols – lead guitar
Norman Hamlet – steel guitar, dobro
Bobby Wayne - rhythm guitar
Dennis Hromek – bass
Biff Adam  – drums

with:
Merle Haggard– vocals

Chart performance

References

1970 singles
Merle Haggard songs
Song recordings produced by Ken Nelson (American record producer)
Capitol Records singles
1970 songs
The Maj. John A. Pickler Homestead, also known as the Pickler Project, is a historic house.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.  It located on the south edge of the city of Faulkton, South Dakota.

It was home of Major Pickler, an influential person in the transition of South Dakota from territory to statehood in 1889.  He served in the territorial legislature and was appointed and elected to four terms of the U.S. Congress.  Alice Pickler was involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.

The home was visited by Theodore Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, and distinguished others.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota
Houses completed in 1882
National Register of Historic Places in Faulk County, South Dakota
1882 establishments in Dakota Territory
Prachanda Kulla is a 1984 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by  P. S. Prakash and produced by Dwarakish. The film stars Vishnuvardhan, Dwarakish, Raadhika and Sudarshan. The film has musical score by G. K. Venkatesh.
The movie is famous for the sequence involving the hero lifting the Shiva idol (linga). The movie was dubbed in Tamil as Veera Mandra Kullan.

Cast

Vishnuvardhan as Shiva
Dwarakish as Rama
Raadhika as Pushpa
R. N. Sudarshan as Kinkini Sharma
Musuri Krishnamurthy as Thatturayya
Thoogudeepa Srinivas
Rajanand as King Pashupathi
Lokanath as Yogindra Muni
M. S. Umesh as Phaninaga
Chethan Ramarao as Mantri Patradeva
Prasanna as Kondanda Rudra
Rathnakar as Nanjundappa
Kanchana as Rama's mother
Geetha as Parvati
Silk Smitha special appearance in the song Nee Jana Endidde
Jayamalini special appearance in the song Nee Jana Endidde
Anuradha special appearance in the song Nee Jana Endidde
Devikarani
Sushma
Sadashiva Brahmavar as Rama's father
Lakshman
Shankar Rao as Ganganna
B. Hanumanthachar
M. Shivaji Rao
Shani Mahadevappa as Aryabhata
Y. R. Ashwath Narayan
Dingri Nagaraj
Gode Lakshminarayan
Rajanagesh
Saikumar

Soundtrack
The music was composed by G. K. Venkatesh.

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External links
 
 

1984 films
1980s Kannada-language films
Films scored by G. K. Venkatesh
Chris Green (born 7 September 1943) is a British railway manager. He has a reputation for the adoption of business-led management of passenger services both in the British Rail and privatised eras, and has been described as "the best chairman BR never had".

Early life
Green was born in Winchester and educated at St Paul's School, London and Oriel College, Oxford (where he read History).

Railway career

Early career
Green began his career in 1965 as a trainee manager with British Rail in the West Midlands, becoming area manager at Hull in 1973.

Senior management
In 1984 Green became manager of ScotRail, building its new identity.

In January 1986 he became BR Sector Director, London & South East. In April he announced that Marylebone station in central London would be reprieved from closure, and in June he launched Network SouthEast to unify London suburban rail services.  In October 1989 Green briefly appeared on BBC Challenge Anneka in an episode covering the re-opening of Northiam railway station.

At the beginning of 1992 he was appointed managing director of the InterCity sector, with a remit to create a new integrated and profitable business (from that April) which he achieved with a particular emphasis on customer service.

Heritage interlude
Owing to an interest in the built heritage in 1995 Green became chief executive of English Heritage.  He resigned from this post after 14 months having breached rules on the proper conduct of public business, described in an auditor's report as relatively minor matters and not amounting to fraud. He then became a director of consultants Gibb Rail and an advisor to the Transport Select Committee of the House of Commons. In 1995 he was appointed a board member of Eurotunnel.

Return to the mainline rail industry
In 1999 Green was invited back into active rail industry management as chief executive of Virgin Rail Group on a five-year contract with a twofold mission – to deliver a markedly improved service on the existing network and ensure the £1.8bn worth of new Class 390 Pendolino, Class 220 Voyager and Class 221 Super Voyager trains would be delivered on time. He also served as non-executive chairman of Virgin Rail Group Holdings in 2004/05.

From 2005 to 2010 he was a non-executive director of Network Rail.

Green has also served as a non-executive director of Connex Rail; chairman of The Railway Forum, 2005–2006; an advisory board member of Cranfield University; and a trustee of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since 2012 he has been a Vice President of the advocacy group Railfuture, having been appointed at the same time as his peer Adrian Shooter.

Books
He has co-authored two books; one about Network SouthEast and one about InterCity.

References

1943 births
Living people
Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
British Rail people
English Heritage
People educated at St Paul's School, London
Businesspeople from Winchester
Virgin Trains
Pier Pressure is the debut mixtape by British rapper ArrDee. It was released on 18 March 2022 through Island. It features guest appearances from Aitch, Lola Young, Russ Millions, Tion Wayne, Bugzy Malone, Fivio Foreign, E1 (3x3), ZT (3x3), Buni, Darkoo and Digga D. The reissue adds appearances from Black Sherif and Kyla.

Background
ArrDee, born Riley Davies, saw success being featured on the remix of Russ Millions and Tion Wayne's song "Body", which topped the charts in various countries including the UK. He then released the single "Oliver Twist", referencing the book by Charles Dickens, which peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart

Singles
The first official single from Pier Pressure was "Flowers (Say My Name)", which samples the track of the same name by Sweet Female Attitude and "Say My Name" by Destiny's Child. It was released on 11 November 2021 and peaked at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart, spending thirteen weeks in the top 40, seventeen weeks in the top 100, with seven of those weeks being in the chart's top 10.

On 3 February 2022, Davies released the second single, "War", featuring rapper Aitch. "War" debuted at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart on 11 February 2022.

On 4 March 2022, Davies released "Come & Go" as the third single from the mixtape.

Critical reception

Pier Pressure was released to generally positive reviews. Clash magazine felt the rapper "cement[ed] his position within UK rap's upper echelons". Sophie Williams, writing for NME felt Pier Pressure was "fresh" and "fierce".

Promotion
In November 2021, Davies announced his first UK tour.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2022 mixtape albums
Debut mixtape albums
ArrDee albums
Island Records mixtape albums
Universal Music Group mixtape albums
The 2017 RFL Women's Challenge Cup was an English rugby league knockout tournament competed for by 16 teams during the summer of 2017. The competition was won by Bradford Bulls who beat Featherstone Rovers 50–18 in the final on 30 July 2017.

Preliminary round
The preliminary round was played on 9 April and 23 April:
East Leeds Academy 10 – 0 Lindley Swifts
West Leeds Eagles 14 – 24 York City Knights
Hull Wyke 28 – 16 Brighouse Rangers

Round One
The first round was played on 30 April:
Barrow 12 – 56 Oulton Raidettes
Bradford Bulls 92 – 1 Army RL
Hull Wyke 24 – 40 Stanningley
Leigh Miners Rangers 68 – 6 Whitley Bay Barbarians
Wakefield Trinity 6 – 48 Castleford Tigers
Featherstone Rovers v East Leeds
Thatto Heath Crusaders v York City Knights
Wigan St Patricks v Batley Bulldogs

Quarter Finals
The quarter finals were concluded on 28 May:
Bradford Bulls 64 – 0 Castleford Tigers
Oulton Radiettes 6 – 30 Thatto Heath Crusaders 
Featherstone Rovers 50 – 4 Leigh Miners Rangers
Wigan St Patricks 30 – 4 Stanningley

Semi Finals
The semi finals were concluded on 18 June:
Bradford Bulls 30 – 6 Wigan St Patricks
Featherstone Rovers 22 – 10 Thatto Heath Crusaders

Final
The final took place of 30 July:

Challenge Shield

Shield Round One
The first round was played on 28 May:
East Leeds Academy 0 – 48 Whitley Bay Barbarians
Hull Wyke v Batley Bulldogs
Wakefield Trinity 0 – 36 Army RL
York City Knights v Barrow

Shield Semi Finals
The semi-finals were played on 25 June:
Batley Bulldogs 12 – 18 Army RL
York City Knights 24 – 16 Whitley Bay Barbarians

Shield Final
The final took place on 30 July:

References

 

 
RFL Women's Challenge Cup
2017 in English rugby league
2017 in English women's sport
2017 in women's rugby league