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A Covenant of Thorns is a one-man synthpop/darkwave project from the United States. Formed in Seattle, in 1992, by Scott-David Allen, the project is currently based in the upper midwest, outside of Chicago.

History 
After a string of smaller projects and bands, in 1992, Scott-David Allen began work on various songs with no real plan to release any of the material written.

Several years later, in 1998, at the urging of individuals who heard the songs, he released two six song EPs, A Covenant of Thorns 1 and A Covenant of Thorns 2.  The two EPs were a mixture of digital and analogue 4-track recordings.

In 1999, after the initial success of the two EPs, the first full-length album, Hallowed & Hollow, was released.  Consisting of eleven of the twelve songs from the first two EPs, the track Crown of Thorns was omitted due to a lack of space on the album.

Five years later, in 2004, the follow-up, full-length album, If The Heavens Should Fall was released.  The release was a reflective, personal and much more subdued offering.

After a decade of silence, The Fields of Flesh, a six track EP, was released in December 2014.  The release was noticeably more upbeat than If The Heavens Should Fall but still retained a slightly more modern, core A Covenant of Thorns sound.

In 2016, the six Track EP Forgotten was released.  It was the first release to feature guitars and retained the upbeat feel of the previous EP.

2017's Requiem was a dark introspective six song E.P. dealing with the passing of Scott-David Allen's father.

2018 brought the release of the third, full-length album, Shadows & Serenades.  It was noticeably more upbeat than the previous release while still exploring darker themes.

Late in 2020, the third full-length album, Black was released.  Exploring themes such as religion, love, loss and loneliness, it built upon the previous album, retaining its feel, while exploring new sounds and ideas; notably in the song Choke, which was a commentary on the treatment of women, from the Salem witch trials to current day.

Name 
According to Allen, the name A Covenant of Thorns symbolizes the contrast between everyday events:

Discography

EPs 
 1998: A Covenant of Thorns 1
 1998: A Covenant of Thorns 2
 2014: The Fields of Flesh
 2016: Forgotten
 2017: "Requiem"

Albums 
 1999: Hallowed & Hollow
 2004: If The Heavens Should Fall
 2018: Shadows & Serenades
 2020: Black

Compilations 
 1999: MP32K - The Future Is Now
 2000: Shadow Dancing
 2002: Trinity
 2005: Angelic Hauntings
 2020: Tiny Gods Who Walk Beside Us

Remixes 
 Dahlia (Phosphene Dreams Mix) - Remixed by The Joy Thieves

External links

See also 
Synthpop
Darkwave

References 

American synth-pop groups
Dark wave musicians
Electronic music groups from Washington (state)
Musical groups established in 1992
The smalldorsal cat shark (Apristurus micropterygeus) is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the South China Sea, at depths to 915 m. It can grow up to 37 cm. A. micropterygeus is unique among its species in having a narrow and sharply pointed first dorsal fin. However, Nakaya and Sato (2000) recommended that the status of the species be reviewed once additional specimens are available, citing the possibility that the dorsal fin of the holotype may have been malformed. The reproduction of the smalldorsal catshark is oviparous.

References

 

smalldorsal catshark
Marine fish of Southeast Asia
South China Sea
Taxa named by Meng Qing-Wen
Taxa named by Chu Yuan-Ting
Taxa named by Li Sheng (ichthyologist)
smalldorsal cat shark
The School District of Slinger educates students from K4 through 12th grade residing in the southeastern Wisconsin municipalities of Slinger, Addison, St. Lawrence, Polk, and portions of Richfield, Jackson, Hartford, and West Bend, in Washington County, Wisconsin.  

The Slinger High School was remodeled in 1991 and 1998; adding district office space, gymnasium, band room, cafeteria, main office and library, as well as new classrooms. In 2008, an undeveloped area in the high school was constructed into a weight lifting room.

In 1995, middle school students moved into the new Slinger Middle School, creating more space for faculty, staff and students in the subsequently remodeled Slinger Elementary School.

In 2002, a new elementary school was built in Addison.

Athletics
Slinger is a member of the North Shore Conference.

References

External links 
School District of Slinger official website

School districts in Wisconsin
Education in Washington County, Wisconsin
Brachytarsophrys intermedia (common name: Annam spadefoot toad) is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
It is found in the Central Highlands of southern Vietnam, Laos, and possibly Cambodia. This species might be a synonym of Brachytarsophrys carinense.

Its natural habitats are tropical forests. It is threatened by habitat loss caused by clear cutting and human settlement.

References

intermedia
Amphibians of Laos
Amphibians of Vietnam
Amphibians described in 1921
Taxa named by Malcolm Arthur Smith
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
William Adams (1716–1763) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served as captain of British flagship  during the Seven Years' War.

Adams was born in England in 1716 and joined the Royal Navy in the 1740s. His first service was aboard the 44-gun , followed by postings to the 14-gun sloop ,  and the 24-gun . On 26 March 1750 he passed his lieutenant's examinations and was transferred to the 64-gun . In 1757 he again transferred, this time to Vice-Admiral Edward Boscawen's flagship, the 100-gun .

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Footnotes

Bibliography

1716 births
1763 deaths
Royal Navy officers
Royal Navy personnel of the Seven Years' War
Wallace Todd Kersten (born December 8, 1959) is a former American football tackle. He played for the Los Angeles Rams in 1982.

References

1959 births
Living people
American football tackles
Minnesota Golden Gophers football players
Los Angeles Rams players
Roosevelt High School (Minnesota) alumni
The Green Shack was a restaurant located on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada that is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. It was opened by Mattie Jones and was famous for its fried chicken.

History 
Opened in 1929 and known as the Colorado when it opened on Christmas Eve 1929, the Green Shack had previously been the Swanky Club. With the addition of an old Union Pacific Railroad barracks for expansion, it was renamed Green Shack in 1932. The green paint on the addition was the source of the new name.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1994.

The Green Shack closed in May 1999 by Jim and Barbara McCormick who were the owners, and was demolished several years later. When it closed, the Green Shack was the oldest restaurant in Las Vegas.

See also
 List of restaurants in the Las Vegas Valley

References

Sources 
Roadside Peek

Demolished buildings and structures in Clark County, Nevada
National Register of Historic Places in Las Vegas
Restaurants in the Las Vegas Valley
Buildings and structures in Las Vegas
Restaurants established in 1929
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada
1929 establishments in Nevada
Restaurants on the National Register of Historic Places
1999 disestablishments in Nevada
Buildings and structures demolished in 1999
Tillington is an ancient geographic district about 1½ miles north of Stafford town centre, in the unparished area of Stafford, in the Stafford district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. Essentially, the district lies within a triangle formed by Eccleshall Road, Stone Road and Crab Lane that narrows southward to a point where the two roads join at Foregate Street. Since records were first kept, the area has been recorded as Tillington. In more modern times, the geographic area comprises Tillington, Holmcroft and Trinity Fields as designated Wards of Stafford Borough Council, along with part of the parish of Creswell.

History 
In 1841 Tillington was described as "an out-township liberty of the parochial township of St. Mary and St. Chad." In 1851 Tillington was described as being "one and a half miles N of Stafford, comprising an extra-parochial estate of 1090 acres, and 55 inhabitants, on three farms." Tillington was formerly an extra-parochial tract, from 1858 Tillington was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1917 the parish was abolished and merged with Stafford. In 1911 the parish had a population of 1450.

Places of interest

Tillington Hall was situated on the A5013 Eccleshall Road about  northwest of Stafford town centre. An 1856 map shows a building, Tillington Cottage, on the site. Tillington Hall was a hotel. The 91-bedroom hotel was demolished and the site prepared for development in January 2022. The three-star hotel closed in May, 2021 after accommodating NHS staff and key-workers during the coronavirus lockdowns.

Tillington House (demolished c.1965), was an imposing, pillar-fronted c.1825 farmhouse with duck-pond and stables. The building was located immediately east of the A34 Stone Road, south of, and the other side the main road from the junction with Crab Lane. It was occupied c.1948-60 by the Holt family who farmed the local fields. 

Tillington Ley, "A highly productive pasture composed largely of annual grasses and clovers." An area of land identified on the 1856 map. Situated on the Eccleshall Road in Creswell, Staffordshire about 1/4 mile NW, and on the same side of the road as Tillington Hall.

Tillington Villa (Vilia?). As shown on the 1856 map, is thought to be a large residential property comprising one large building, behind which lies a smaller one. The current property was, and maybe still is, the same house, or a turn-of-the-20th century replacement for it, located not quite directly opposite where Holmcroft Road intersects Eccleshall Road.

References

Populated places in Staffordshire
Former civil parishes in Staffordshire
Stafford
Conference on disarmament or disarmament conference may refer to:

 Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (Geneva, 1932–1934)
 Conference on Disarmament, an international forum to negotiate multilateral arms control and disarmament agreements established in 1979
 Conference of the Committee on Disarmament

See also 
 Arms control
Julius Graf von Mirbach (27 June 1839, Sorquitten – 26 June 1921) was a German politician, born in Sorquitten, East Prussia.

He studied law at University of Königsberg, Bonn, and Berlin and served as an officer in the Prussian Army, resigning in 1865. 

In 1874 he entered the Prussian House of Lords and in 1878-81 and 1886-98 was a member of the Reichstag and a prominent figure in the German Conservative Party, taking a foremost part in economic and agrarian reforms, acting as leader of the Steuer-und Wirtschaftsreformer (1879 et seq.). He was created Count in 1888.

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1839 births
1921 deaths
People from Mrągowo County
People from the Province of Prussia
Counts of Germany
German Protestants
German Conservative Party politicians
Members of the 4th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 7th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 8th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the 9th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the Prussian House of Lords
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
University of Bonn alumni
University of Königsberg alumni
Prussian Army personnel
Kemerton Power Station is a power station 17 km northeast of Bunbury in Western Australia.  It is located in an area known as the Kemerton Industrial Park.  The location had been considered as being Kemerton, in the 1980s as a potential aluminium smelter location, but is now considered to be part of Wellesley.  The consideration of the site as being appropriate as a power station site was being considered in the early 2000s.

It is rated at 300 MW using two Siemens open cycle gas turbine generators powered by natural gas. It operates as a peaking plant and provides electricity into the South West Interconnected System (SWIS). When it was built in 2005, it was rated at 260.9 MW, and received an upgrade to the current capacity in June 2008. When gas is not available, the power station can also operate on fuel oil. Gas is supplied to the Kemerton Power Station via a 4.94 km lateral branch from the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline. The branch line is a 300 mm diameter steel pipe with 6.4 mm wall thickness.

Kemerton power station also has four 1.25 MW diesel generators completed in October 2018. These are used in a contract with the Australian Energy Market Operator to provide the capability for a black start on the SWIS if needed.

References

Natural gas-fired power stations in Western Australia
"Play It for the Girls" is an English language song by Danny Saucedo, better known as Danny, from his album Heart Beats. The song was written by Jonas von der Burg and Anoo Bhagavan.

It entered the Swedish Singles Chart on 31 May 2007 and reached number one on the chart on 7 June 2007, one week after its release. It stayed 17 weeks in total on the chart.

Chart performance

Charts

References 

Danny Saucedo songs
2007 singles
Number-one singles in Sweden
Songs written by Jonas von der Burg
Songs written by Anoo Bhagavan
Sony Music singles
2007 songs
William H. Riffee was Dean of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy.   Prior to his position at the UF College of Pharmacy, he was a professor at the University of Texas from 1975 until 1996.

Education
 B.S. degree in Pharmacy from West Virginia University in 1967.
 Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Ohio State University in 1975.

External links
Message from the Dean
Riffee's Profile on Educase

Living people
West Virginia University alumni
University of Florida faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ohio State University Graduate School alumni
The Italian men's national under 20 ice hockey team is the national under-20 ice hockey team in Italy. The team represents Italy at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World U20 Championship.

International competitions

References

Junior national ice hockey teams
Junior
Keeler Township is a civil township in Van Buren County, Michigan, USA. At the 2000 census, the population was 2,601.

Keeler Township is largely agricultural, though it has a large influx of summer visitors who own cottages or stay at summer resorts in the Sister Lakes area in the township's southwest corner. The Sister Lakes area, though unincorporated, has the largest collection of retail establishments in the township. (The area extends into adjacent Silver Creek Township in Cass County.)

Township offices are in Keeler, which also has some stores.

Communities
Sister Lakes
Keeler

History

In 1964, the Sister Lakes area gained national notoriety when an area resident reported seeing a Bigfoot-like creature. ABC News filed a report after hearing about monster hunters congregating in the area following the claimed sighting.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which  is land and  (2.88%) is water.

Demographics
At the 2000 census, there were 2,601 people, 870 households and 629 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 1,562 housing units at an average density of . The racial make up of the township was 88.85% White, 1.35% African American, 1.15% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 5.61% from other races, and 2.88% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 22.57% of the population.

There were 870 households, of which 30.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.2% were married couples living together, 9.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.6% were non-families. 22.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.13.

29.1% of the population  were under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 105.5 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 105.0 males.

The median household income was $42,955 and the median family income was $47,083. Males had a median income of $32,069 and females $26,016#. The per capita income was $19,989. About 9.2% of families and 16.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.0% of those under age 18 and 11.2% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people
 Ernie Koob (born in Keeler, 1892), baseball pitcher, threw a no-hitter for 1917 St. Louis Browns

References

External links
Sister Lakes website
Sister Lakes Business Association
Sister Lakes Streetscape Project
Sister Lakes Fire Department

Townships in Van Buren County, Michigan
Kalamazoo–Portage metropolitan area
Townships in Michigan
Twister, also known as Twister: Mother of Charlotte or just Mother of Charlotte, is a shooting game developed by Chris Yates and Jon Hare for Sensible Software and published by System 3 for the ZX Spectrum in 1986. It was originally developed as Mother of Harlots but was renamed after a controversy regarding the title and sexualized promotion with skimpily dressed dancers at an industry event, and a planned Commodore 64 version was never released. The game received positive reviews from Aktueller Software Markt, Crash, Sinclair User, and Your Sinclair.

References

External links 
 Official website
 
 Twister at the World of Spectrum

1986 video games
Cancelled Commodore 64 games
Sensible Software games
Single-player video games
Shooter games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games
System 3 (company) games
was a  after Eiryaku and before Chōkan.  This period spanned the years from September 1161 through March 1163. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era
 January 28, 1161 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Eiryaku 2, on the 4th day of the 9th month of 1161.

Events of the Ōhō era
 1161 (Ōhō 1, 2nd month): The emperor visited Kasuga Shrine and other shrines which were situated just outside the boundaries of the capital city.
 July 31, 1162 (Ōhō 2, 18th day of the 6th month): Fujiwara no Tadazane died.

Notes

References
 Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979).  Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. ;  OCLC 251325323
 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005).  Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ;  OCLC 58053128
 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou,  Annales des empereurs du Japon.  Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
 Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. ;  OCLC 6042764

External links 
 National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

Japanese eras
1160s in Japan
The Aero & Tech Nexth (or sometimes Next-H) is an Italian ultralight aircraft designed by  Morelli Luca and produced by Aero & Tech of Fossato di Vico. Introduced at the Aero show held in Friedrichshafen in 2011, the aircraft is intended to be supplied as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft.

Design and development
The Nexth complies with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. A later version will comply with US light-sport aircraft rules.

The design features a cantilever mid-wing, two seats in side-by-side configuration, retractable tricycle landing gear made from titanium and a single  Rotax 912ULS four cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four stroke engine in tractor configuration. Cockpit access is by two gull wing doors hinged at the top. The aircraft was designed to meet aerobatic category requirements, including +9 and -4.5 g.

The aircraft fuselage is an aluminium sheet covered steel space frame, based on Formula One racing construction techniques. Its  span wing employs winglets and flaps. Fuel is carried in a single fuselage tank and totals , giving a range of over .

Marino Boric, writing in the World Directory of Leisure Aviation notes that the Nexth fuselage is an unusual multi-faceted shape reminiscent of stealth fighter design. The prototype was painted black, which adds to the resemblance.

Specifications (Nexth)

References

External links

2010s Italian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (; also known as My Girlfriend's Boyfriend) is a 1987 French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. The film stars Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury, François-Éric Gendron and Éric Viellard. It is the sixth and final instalment in Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series. The title literally means the (male) friend of my (female) friend, or perhaps the boyfriend of my girlfriend: it echoes the proverb "Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis" ("My friend's friend is my friend").

Plot
Blanche is freshly installed in Cergy-Pontoise, a trendy new town near Paris. She has a new apartment, a new job with no one over and no one under her. She meets Léa at lunch one day, and soon she meets an acquaintance of Léa, Alexandre, whom she approaches somewhat awkwardly. The film then follows the time-honored plot of exchange of relationships, as Blanche and Léa switch boyfriends.

Cast
 Emmanuelle Chaulet as Blanche
 Sophie Renoir as Léa
 François-Éric Gendron as Alexandre
  as Fabien
  as Adrienne

Reception
The film received generally positive reviews from major critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 100% based on reviews from 10 critics.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised the film highly, saying, "L'Ami de Mon Amie is as clean and functional in appearance as the satellite city, but it's full of unexpected delights." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it three out of four and wrote: "Rohmer knows exactly what he is doing here. He has no great purpose, but an interesting small one: He wants to observe the everyday behavior of a new class of French person, the young professionals." Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum also gave the film a favourable rating. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote: "It's an utterly superficial movie – a celebration of superficiality – and utterly charming."

References

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1980s French films
1980s French-language films
1980s romantic comedy-drama films
1987 comedy-drama films
1987 films
1987 romantic comedy films
1987 romantic drama films
Fictional couples
Films about friendship
Films directed by Éric Rohmer
Films produced by Margaret Ménégoz
Films set in France
French romantic comedy-drama films
Mark Dymond (born 1974, Wimbledon, London) is an English actor of Irish descent.  In addition to appearances in films, he is known as Dr. Lorcan O'Brien, a major character in the 2007–2009 seasons of the TV drama series The Clinic, among other TV shows. He married actress Jo Bourne-Taylor in 2004.
In 2002 he played the minor role of Van Bierk in the James Bond film Die Another Day.

Dymond has an occasional recurring role in the television comedy series Mrs. Brown's Boys as Mick O'Leary, the on-off boyfriend of Cathy Brown.

Filmography

References
 Mark Dymond profile at PBS

External links

21st-century English male actors
Living people
Actors from Wimbledon, London
1974 births
English male television actors