Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Silahdar Agha was a palace office of the Ottoman Empire, denoting the principal page of the Ottoman Sultan. As such its holders were persons of great influence, and provided many senior officials and even Grand Viziers.

The title derives from the Persian silahdar, meaning "arms-bearer", a title originally adopted by the Great Seljuks to denote one of the Sultan's principal aides, who bore his weapon and was responsible for the army's arsenal. The Ottomans inherited this title and elevated it further: by the time of Mehmed II () the Silahdar Agha was the second-in-command of the Sultan's Privy Chamber (Hass Oda) underneath the hass oda bashi. The Privy Chamber in turn was the senior of the four chambers making up the palace's Inner Service (Enderûn) under the Kapi Agha.

The Silahdar Agha's duties in the palace involved handling all communications to and from the Sultan, as well as assisting him in all public ceremonies or travels, where the Agha accompanied the sovereign carrying his sword. The Silahdar Agha was also in charge of a special bodyguard regiment, the silahdar bölüğü or sarı bayrak bölüğü ("Yellow Banner Division") after its distinctive flag. The unit grew from 2,000 silahdars under Mehmed II to 2,780 in 1568, 2,930 in 1588, 5,000 in 1597, 6,244 in 1660, 7,683 in 1699, 10,821 in 1713, reaching 12,000 under Mahmud II ().

Due to their proximity to the Sultan, the holders of the post were highly influential, and many occupants moved on to senior positions in the Ottoman government, including the supreme post of Grand Vizier. Under the capable Çorlulu Ali Pasha, who held the post in the reign of Mustafa II (), it rose to such importance under that it assumed the last remaining powers of the once powerful Kapi Agha. The last holder of the office was Giritli Ali Pasha, who died in 1831. Sultan Mahmud II thereupon abolished the post, merging it with the steward of the treasury (khazine kethüdası).

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Sources
 
 
 

Military of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman court
Ottoman titles
Royal guards
Persian words and phrases
The skouterios  (, "shield-bearer") was a Byzantine court office in the 13th–14th centuries, whose role was to carry the emperor's personal standard, the divellion.

History and functions
The office is very obscure, and is rarely mentioned in the sources. Although it is attested from the 13th century on in the Empire of Nicaea, most of what is known about it comes from the Book of Offices, written by pseudo-Kodinos in the middle of the 14th century. According to pseudo-Kodinos, the skouterios was responsible for bearing the emperor's banner, the so-called divellion (διβέλλιον) and the emperor's shield (σκουτάριον, skoutarion), not only in ceremonial processions, but whenever the emperor went about in public, including on campaign. The skouterios preceded the emperor, and the Varangian Guard followed behind the divellion. In imperial ceremonies, a number of other standards were also used, but the skouterios and the divellion always preceded them. The only exception was when the emperor visited a monastery, where the imperial bootmaker carried the divellion; the reason for this custom was unknown even to Kodinos.

In pseudo-Kodinos' work, the post occupies the 42nd place in the imperial hierarchy, between the prōtokynēgos and the amēralios. His court uniform was typical of the mid-level courtiers: a gold-brocaded hat (skiadion), a plain silk kabbadion, and a skaranikon (domed hat) covered in golden and lemon-yellow silk and decorated with gold wire and images of the emperor in front and rear, respectively depicted enthroned and on horseback. 

From the few holders known, the post was given to military commanders and fiscal officials. The term is also attested as a family name in Chalcidice, Constantinople, as well as in Trebizond.

List of known skouterioi

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Sources

 
 
 
 
 

Byzantine court titles
Greek words and phrases
Steve Libiih Leo Bessong (born February 10, 1989, in Yaoundé) is a professional Cameroonian footballer currently playing for Fogape Yaoundé.

Career 
He began his career by Dauphins FC and joined than in January 2007 Diósgyőri VTK, after one year joined back to Cameroon and signed by Fogape Yaoundé. Bessong had a try out by Trois-Rivières Attak and Montreal Impact.

References

1989 births
Living people
Cameroonian men's footballers
Diósgyőri VTK players
Footballers from Yaoundé
Men's association football forwards
Scincella huanrenensis  is a species of skink found in Liaoning in Northeast China and in Korea. The specific name refers to its type locality, Huanren County in Liaoning.

References

Scincella
Reptiles of China
Reptiles of Korea
Reptiles described in 1982
Taxa named by Zhao Ermi
Taxa named by Kang-cai Huang
This is a list of places in Scotland called Papa or similar, which are so named after the Papar, monks from the Early Historic Period or from their connection to other, later priests.

Orkney

Islands
 Papa Stronsay
 Papa Westray (also known as "Papay")
 Holm of Papay
John of Fordun in his 14th century enumeration of these islands, has a Papeay tertia ("third Papey"), the location of which is unknown.

Placenames
 Paplay, South Ronaldsay
 Paplay, Holm, Mainland
 Papdale, an early name for Kirkwall

Papleyhouse on Eday and Steevens of Papay on North Ronaldsay may not be genuinely related to the Papar.

Shetland
 Papa, Shetland, one of the Scalloway Islands, lying north west of Burra and east of Oxna
 West Head of Papa, a tidal island off Papa, Shetland
 Papa Little
 Papa Stour (Great Papa)
 Sound of Papa, a strait between Papa Stour and the Sandness peninsula.

Hebrides
Gaelic, Pabaigh, () anglicised to "Pabay" or "Pabbay" means "priest island", but it is not clear if these names refer to the early Papar or later, post-Norse priests.
 Pabay, off the island of Skye. 
Pabbay near Barra lying in the Bishop's Isles
Pabbay near Harris
Pabbay, South Uist at

See also
Papey - an Icelandic island named after the Papar.

Notes

References
 
 Thomson, William P. L. (2008) The New History of Orkney. Edinburgh. Birlinn. 

Scottish Island set index articles
The Islamabad Leopards was a domestic T20 and List A cricket team, based in Islamabad, Pakistan. The team was established in 2004.

Notable players

Shoaib Akhtar
Umer Gul
Iftikhar Anjum
Bazid Khan
Shan Masood
Babar Azam
Imad Wasim

See also
 Pakistan Super League

References

External links
Twenty 20 Record page for Islamabad Leopards
Cricketarchive page for Islamabad Leopards

Cricket clubs established in 2004
2004 establishments in Pakistan
Cricket teams in Pakistan
Leopards
The Siem Reap River (Steung Siem Reap; ) is a river flowing through Siem Reap Province, in north-west Cambodia. The Siem Reap River was originally an offtake channel constructed during the Angkor period, used to divert water from the Puok River southward, probably to the East Baray. Because of the straight nature of a channel, the water flowed much faster than in a natural river. This caused the bed of the channel to erode as much as 10 meters in some areas, and probably caused problems with diverting the water to the East Baray. Over the past thousand years, the channel has gained small meanders and a unique ecosystem, and thus it is more accurate to call it a river.

References

Rivers of Cambodia
Geography of Siem Reap province
Gul Akhtara Begum is an Indian politician. In 2011 she was elected as MLA of Bilasipara East Vidhan Sabha Constituency in Assam Legislative Assembly. She was an All India United Democratic Front politician. She joined Indian National Congress in 2016.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
All India United Democratic Front politicians
Women members of the Assam Legislative Assembly
Indian National Congress politicians from Assam
Living people
The men's basketball tournament at the 2023 SEA Games will be held at the Morodok Techo Indoor Sports Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 9 to 16 May 2023.

Competition schedule
The following is the competition schedule for the men's basketball competitions:

Participating nations

Competition format
The preliminary round was composed of two groups of four teams each. Each team played the teams within their group. The top two teams per group advanced to the knockout round. The other teams qualified to the classification round.
Classification round:
5th place: Third place teams played for fifth place.
7th place: Fourth place teams played for seventh place.
The knockout round was a single-elimination tournament, with a bronze medal match for the semi-finals losers. The losing team in the final was awarded the silver medal, while the winning team was awarded the gold medal.

Venue
The regular 5-on-5 basketball tournament was held at the Morodok Techo Indoor Sports Center in Phnom Penh.

Results
All times are Cambodia Standard Time (UTC+7)

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Classification round

7th place match

5th place match

Knockout round

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final standings

See also
Women's tournament

References

Men
The Canada Cup (branded as the Home Hardware Canada Cup for sponsorship reasons, and also referred to as the Canada Cup of Curling) is a major men's and women's curling championship in Canada. It is organized by Curling Canada and is one of its major events on its "Season of Champions". The event is frequently used as a qualifier for various other events, such as the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Pre-Trials and Continental Cup. Since 2013, the Canada Cup is not held during the same curling season as the Winter Olympic Games.

Competition history
The first event was held in 2003 at the Sport Mart Place in Kamloops, British Columbia, the Cup's home until 2008. During this time the event was sponsored by the Strauss Herb Company. The first event featured a total purse of $220,000, divided equally for the men's and women's events. Subsequent events however have seen smaller purses available.

In 2004, a second tier of competition, the qualification rounds Canada Cup East and Canada Cup West were added. In 2006, this had changed to men's and women's qualification rounds. The qualifying rounds were held every year with the John Shea Insurance Canada Cup Qualifier being held at the Ottawa and Rideau curling clubs in Ottawa, Ontario and the Diversified Transportation Canada Cup Qualifier being held at the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. The men's and women's qualifiers alternated between the two cities.

On February 18, 2008, the Canadian Curling Association announced that the 2009 finals of the Canada Cup of Curling would be held at the Farrell Agencies Arena in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

The 2009-10 season was without a Canada Cup, with the event returning in December 2010 rather in the Spring like it had been previously. The Canada Cup qualifiers were abolished for the 2010 event, using a number of smaller bonspiels to feed the event. The 2010 event was held at the Medicine Hat Arena in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

The 2011 event in Cranbrook, British Columbia hosted seven teams of each gender instead of ten. The teams played in a round robin as in previous years, with the top three advancing to the playoff round. The second and third-placed teams played in the semifinal, and the winner faced the first-placed team in the final.  The 2012 event used the same format.

At present, there are no longer any qualifying tournaments. Teams qualify based on their World Curling Tour Order of Merit rankings, with one spot reserved for the top-ranking non-qualified team on the Canadian Team Ranking System closer to the event.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Curling Canada stated that the 2020 Canada Cup would likely be postponed to an unspecified date in 2021, citing its role in qualification for trials for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The 2021 event ultimately did not go ahead, and there are no plans to hold the event in the near future.

Winners

Men

Women

References

External links
Event history

 
Curling competitions in Canada
PRCF may refer to:

People Resources and Conservation Foundation, a non-governmental conservation organization
Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France, a political movement inspired by Marxism–Leninism
The Mill at Sanssouci () is a 1926 German silent historical film directed by Siegfried Philippi and Frederic Zelnik and starring Otto Gebühr, Lissi Lind and Jakob Tiedtke. The film is part of the popular cycle of Prussian films. It premiered on 1 February 1926.

The film was released by the German subsidiary of the American company Fox Film. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. Art direction was by Andrej Andrejew and Gustav A. Knauer. The title alludes to the Historic Mill of Sanssouci constructed in the 18th century.

Plot
Prussia, 1750. After the end of the Silesian Wars, Frederick II returns to Sanssouci exhausted from the events of the war. But the mill of the miller Casper, once the noblest and most expensive construction in the world rattles so loudly, that his majesty feels very disturbed during the time of rest. He issues an edict which should silence the miller and his mill from functioning during the time of peace, but Casper is beyond stubborn. He confronts the king's decree, insisting that all people are equal before the law in Prussia.

Soon the dispute escalates, and Casper decides to even obtain a court ruling in this matter (of which Frederick knows that he can only lose before Justice in view of the equality requirement he had established). Eventually, the two parties decide to seek an out-of-court solution that enables reconciliation. Under various pretenses, His Majesty can promote the marriage of two couples, including two of his soldiers (Lieutenant von Bärenfels and Corporal Jobst) by following in the footsteps of French writer Voltaire, and eventually move things forward in his own amorous affair – his relationship with the dancer Barberina.

Cast

References

External links

Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Frederic Zelnik
Prussian films
Films set in the 1740s
Films set in 1750
Biographical films about German royalty
Depictions of Frederick the Great on film
Cultural depictions of Voltaire
German historical drama films
1920s historical drama films
German black-and-white films
1926 drama films
Silent historical drama films
1920s German films
Films shot at Staaken Studios
1920s German-language films
Films set in the Kingdom of Prussia
Black Crows is a French independent high end ski brand based in Chamonix, France that designs skis, poles and technical outerwear.

History 
Black Crows was founded in 2006 by French professional skiers Camille Jaccoux and Bruno Compagnet, along with ski industry leader Christophe Villemin. Black Crows were born out of a desire to collide beauty and efficiency into skis.

Products 
Black Crows launched its first skis - the Corvus - in 2006. Since then, Black Crows has developed a range of skis for different skiers and styles. Black Crows is known for their high-altitude skis. In 2012 Black Crows launched the freebird range for ski touring, in 2013 its first range of ski poles, in 2014 its first women's range, birdie, and in 2015, Black Crows presented its first outerwear range, Corpus.

References

External links 
 official website

Retail companies of France
In Norse mythology, Gyllir (Old Norse: ) is a horse listed in both Grímnismál and Gylfaginning among the steeds ridden by the gods each day when they go to make judgements at Yggdrasil. However, in both poems, Gyllir is not assigned to any specific deity.

Gyllir is also found in the thulur as a jötunn name.

See also
 Horses in Germanic paganism
 List of horses in mythology and folklore

References

Horses in Norse mythology
Jötnar
The 2014 al-Dalwah attack occurred on 3 November 2014 at al-Dalwah village in the eastern province of al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia when three masked gunmen shot at a group of people, killing eight people and injuring nine others. The attack occurred on Ashura and is thought to be targeting Shi’ite Muslims. Six people were arrested and one suspect killed.

On 4 November, two police officers and two gunmen were killed in an operation after five people were shot dead and another wounded. According to Saudi security, the leader of the gunmen had previously slipped back into the kingdom after fighting in Iraq and Syria.

While the government and the official media and religious establishment strongly condemned the attack, a handful of articles in the Saudi press argued that the attack "had not come out of nowhere", that there was anti-Shi'ite incitement in the kingdom on the part of "the religious establishment, preachers, and even university lecturers – and that it was on the rise".

Attackers 
On 24 November, three weeks after the attack, the Saudi Interior Ministry revealed the identity of the attackers on the Al-Dalwah Shiite shrine in Al-Ahsa: Abdullah Al-Sarhan, Khalid Anzi, Marwan Nail, and Tariq Maimoni. Saudi security authorities arrested 77 people linked to ISIS.

Aftermath
On 2 September 2020, seven militants linked to the shooting were sentenced to death by the Special Criminal Court in Riyadh, while three others were handed 25-year jail terms each. Of the 12 defendants, 10 appeared in court for judgment. The court sentenced the first, second, third and fourth-degree defendant to the death penalty by crucifixion, while the others were typically judged to 25 years in prison.

References

2014 mass shootings in Asia
2014 murders in Saudi Arabia
21st-century mass murder in Asia
Violence against Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia 
Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
ISIL terrorist incidents in Saudi Arabia
Islamic terrorist incidents in 2014
Mass murder in 2014

Mass shootings in Saudi Arabia
November 2014 crimes in Asia
November 2014 events in Asia
Terrorist incidents in Saudi Arabia in 2014
Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum is a synonym for Aegonychon purpurocaeruleum (L.) Holub, also known as the purple gromwell,This plant is a herbaceous perennial rhizomatous flowering plant and it belongs to the family Boraginaceae.

Etymology
The Latin name of the species, , means 'purple and blue', referring to the changing colour of the flowers with the progress of flowering.

Description
 Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum is a bushy plant that reaches on average  of height, with a maximum of . The stem is hairy, erect and unbranched. Leaves are dark green and lanceolate to narrow elliptic, with a prominent midrib on the underside. Flowers are  hermaphroditic, funnel-shaped,  long and  of diameter, clustered in a racemose inflorescence. The flowers are initially purple-reddish,  changing to a deep blue. The flowering period extends from April to June. The fruits are bright white capsules,  long, with a glossy surface. They are very hard (hence the genus synonym Lithospermum, meaning "stone seed" for the hardness of these capsules).

Distribution
This species is rare in British Isles, widespread in central Europe up to South Russia and in Mediterranean countries from Spain to the eastern Turkey.

Habitat
Lithospermum purpurocaeruleum is typically found in dry and warm forests characterized by sparse deciduous vegetation, it can also be found in the meadows situated on the edge of the woodlands, as well as in hedgerows and scrublands. The plants prefer calcareous soils rich in humus, at an altitude of  above sea level.

References

 Pignatti S. - Flora d'Italia – Edagricole – 1982, Vol. II, pag. 398
 Tutin, T.G. et al. - Flora Europaea, second edition - 1993

External links

purpurocaeruleum
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Plant dyes
Blue flowers
The Richard 150 Commuter is an American two-seat cabin monoplane designed and built by The C.H. Richard Company of Lancaster, California to be sold in kit form or as plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
A development of the early Richard 125 Commuter flown in 1969, the 150 Commuter is a braced high-wing monoplane with all-metal construction of the wings, monocoque fuselage and tail unit. It has a non-retractable conventional landing gear with a tailwheel. The prototype was powered by a  Lycoming O-320-A2A air-cooled engine with a two-bladed metal tractor propeller. The enclosed cabin has two side-by-side seats with dual controls and a baggage space behind the seats.  After the prototype first flew in 1972, a new wing was designed with different wing section and an area of .

Specifications (prototype with original wing)

References

Notes

Bibliography

1970s United States civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
150
Aircraft first flown in 1972
The 2020 Baptist Health 200 was the 5th stock car race of the 2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series season, and the 25th iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, June 13, 2020 in Homestead, Florida at Homestead–Miami Speedway, a  permanent oval-shaped racetrack. The race took 134 laps to complete. At the end, Kyle Busch of Kyle Busch Motorsports would cruise on the final restart to win the race, the 58th of his career in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series and the 2nd of the season. To fill the podium, Tyler Ankrum of GMS Racing and Ross Chastain of Niece Motorsports would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

Background 

Homestead-Miami Speedway is a motor racing track located in Homestead, Florida. The track, which has several configurations, has promoted several series of racing, including NASCAR, the NTT IndyCar Series and the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series

From 2002 to 2019, Homestead-Miami Speedway has hosted the final race of the season in all three of NASCAR's series: the NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series.

Entry list 

*Withdrew due to the team not passing technical inspection. This would cause Tim Viens to cut ties with Mike Affarano Motorsports, saying "I did everything I was supposed to do. Secured the ride with the team, Mike Affarano Motorsports. Did everything financially I was supposed to do. Paid for the ride. I paid for all of the hotels. I bought three sets of sticker tires today before the race, that was $6,500. I paid for a first-class pit crew that was $3,500. I paid $2,000 for the transporter to get down here. Everything I was supposed to do. I was at the track, and was ready to go. This sucks. It really sucks.”

**Driver switched to Ray Ciccarelli.

**Withdrew the car after Bayley Currey, who was originally supposed to drive the #49, left the team. Currey would leave the team due to Ray Ciccarelli's announcement that his team would leave NASCAR after the league banned the Confederate flag, causing major controversy on the team and Ciccarelli. Currey would later confirm he left in a reply to a question on Twitter. As a result, Ciccarelli would drive the #49.

Starting lineup 
The starting lineup was based on a random draw. As a result, Austin Hill of Hattori Racing Enterprises won the pole.

Race results 
Stage 1 Laps: 40

Stage 2 Laps: 40

Stage 3 Laps: 54

References 

2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series
NASCAR races at Homestead-Miami Speedway
June 2020 sports events in the United States
2020 in sports in Florida
A PrintableString is a restricted character string type in the ASN.1 notation.
It is used to describe data that consists only of a specific printable subset of the ASCII character set.

According to the ASN.1 Specification of basic notation, the character set of PrintableString can be expressed as:

The PrintableString definition does not include the at sign (@) or ampersand (&).
This sometimes causes problems for naive implementers who attempt to put an SMTP email address into an X.509 digital certificate Distinguished Name.

The PrintableString definition does not include asterisk (*) which means it must not be used to represent a wildcard in an X.509 digital certificate Distinguished Name.

See also 
 The X.690 encoding standard for ASN.1
 IA5String

References 

Character sets