Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Events in the year 2008 in South Korea.

Incumbents
 President: 
 Roh Moo-hyun (until February 25), 
 Lee Myung-bak (starting February 25)
 Prime Minister: 
 Han Myeong-sook (until 29 February), 
 Han Seung-soo (starting 29 February)

Events
 2008 Grand National Party Convention bribery incident

January

February
2008 Namdaemun fire broke out on February 10.

March
2008 Asian Wrestling Championships were held in Jeju City from March 18 to 23.

April
2008 Asian Judo Championships were held from April 26 to 27. South Korea had two Gold medalists, six Silver medalists, and 4 Bronze medalists.

May
 24: 2008 US beef protest in South Korea

June

July
52nd Miss Korea 2008 was a beauty pageant. It was held on July 8, 2008 at Sejong Center.

August

South Korea competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in August. The country had participants that won a total of 31 medals.

September

October

South Korea participated in the 2008 Asian Beach Games, which took place from October 8 to 26.
 October 28: Nonhyeon-dong massacre

November
 15: 2008 Mnet Asian Music Awards

December
 Nayoung Case
 The 23rd Golden Disk Awards were held December 10, 2008. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.
 December 13: The first China–Japan–South Korea trilateral summit is held in Fukuoka, Japan.
 December 25: The finalists of the Korean Astronaut Program are selected.

Films

 List of 2008 box office number-one films in South Korea
 29th Blue Dragon Film Awards
 45th Grand Bell Awards

Television

 2008 MBC Drama Awards
 2008 SBS Drama Awards
 2008 KBS Drama Awards
 2nd Korea Drama Awards

Sport
 2008 in South Korean football

See also
2008 in South Korean music
South Korea at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
2008 US beef protest in South Korea
China–Japan–South Korea trilateral summit

References

 
South Korea
South Korea
Years of the 21st century in South Korea
2000s in South Korea
Ronald Bartlett Levinson (October 18, 1896 – November 21, 1980) was an American philosopher who focused in his work on Plato.

Life 
He was born October 18, 1896 in Chicago, Illinois and died November 21, 1980 in Bangor, Maine.
 1920 A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) from Harvard University.
 1924 Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
 1926 University of Maine.
 1927 Professor and Head of the department of philosophy.

Works 

Levinson focused in his works on Plato and the history of Platonism. He gained international awareness by his book In Defense of Plato (1953) in which he defended Plato against Karl Popper's sharp criticism, who considered Plato to be the forerunner of totalitarianism.

Levinson was a member of the American Philosophical Association and of the Society of Ancient Philosophy.

 Thomas Taylor, the Platonist (1924)
 Spenser and Bruno (1928)
 The college journey - an introduction to the fields of college study (1938)
 In Defense of Plato (1953).
 A Plato reader (1966)

External links 
 Ronald B. Levinson in: Who's who in Philosophy (1942)
 Dedication to Ronald B. Levinson in the 1963 yearbook

1896 births
1980 deaths
Platonists
Harvard University alumni
University of Chicago alumni
University of Maine faculty
20th-century American philosophers
American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
The 1953 Sylvania Television Awards were presented on December 1, 1953, at Hotel Pierre in New York City. The Sylvania Awards were established by Sylvania Electric Products. The awards were selected by a committee of 16 judges led by Deems Taylor.

The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, a two-hour variety show broadcast simultaneously on both CBS and NBC received four special awards for producer Leland Hayward, director Clark Jones, choreographer Jerome Robbins, and Mary Martin for her work on the 50 years of fashion sketch.

The following additional awards were presented:
 Grand award - omitted
 Outstanding television actor - Rod Steiger, Marty, The Philco Television Playhouse (NBC)
 Best script written directly for television - Paddy Chayefsky, Marty, The Philco Television Playhouse (NBC)
 Outstanding comedy series - Make Room for Daddy starring Danny Thomas (ABC)
 Law enforcement documentary series - Dragnet, Jack Webb (NBC)
 Best adaptation for TV - Irving Gaynor Nieman for Appointment in Samara, on Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC)
 Timely news coverage - Coronation of Elizabeth II, film recordings originated by BBC, retransmitted by the CBC in Canada and relayed to ABC in the United States
 Outstanding panel show - What's My Line? (CBS)
 Outstanding achievement in a field of juvenile education - Ding Dong School and its "Miss Frances" (Dr. Frances Horwich) (NBC)
 Most versatile outstanding variety performance - Donald O'Connor, The Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC)
 Most outstanding new series - Person to Person, Edward R. Murrow, producer and moderator (CBS)
 Outstanding local education program - Shakespeare on TV with Dr. Frank C. Baxter (KNXT, Los Angeles)
 Outstanding discussion program - The American Forum of the Air, Theodore Granik, producer (NBC)
 Advancement of creative television technique - TV-Radio Workshop of Ford Foundation which created Omnibus (CBS) and Excursion (NBC)

The committee issued a report criticizing the "repetition and loud volume of sound in commercials, lack of a fresh approach in programs, lack of simplicity in set design, and use of dubbed in recorded laughter in filmed programs."

References

Sylvania Awards
The Portuguese Asia Commerce Company (Portuguese: Companhia do Comércio da Asia Portuguesa) was a charter company created by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal, in 1753. It was made to promote mercantile activity between the Qing Dynasty and Portuguese India.

History 
The company was established after Feliciano Velho Oldemberg and five other merchants received permission to negotiate relations between India and China for a period of a decade. However, the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 caused great damage to both the company's newly acquired ships and goods stocked in Lisbon. Subsequent scandals involving Feliciano's son and the Marquis and a failure to repay loans to the Portuguese monarchy led to the bankruptcy of both the company and Feliciano, its main shareholder in 1760.

References 

History of India
Colonial Indian companies
Portuguese Empire
Defunct companies of Portugal
Chartered companies
1753 establishments
Companies established in the 18th century
James Williams Gidley (1866-1931) was an American paleontologist and museum curator.

Biography

Life
Gidley was born in 1866, in Springwater, Iowa. He began collecting fossils during childhood. He attended Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1898 and a Master of Science degree in 1901. He later attended George Washington University, and earned a Ph.D. in 1922.

He died in 1931.

Career
While he pursued his formal education, Gidley became an assistant in vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, in 1892. He remained at this job until 1905, after which he joined the United States National Museum as the preparator in the section of vertebrate fossils. In 1908, after the development of the division of vertebrate paleontology, he became the custodian of fossil mammals. Four years later, in 1912, he became an assistant curator at USNM, a position he held until his death.

Gidley studied various fossil mammals throughout his career, including prehistoric rodents and horses. He described the species Equus scotti from Texas in 1899, and the three-toed horse genus Neohipparion from Nebraska in 1902. He named Armbruster's wolf in 1913.  He began seeking remains of Pleistocene humans in Florida in the 1920s.

References

1866 births
1931 deaths
American paleontologists
Princeton University alumni
George Washington University alumni
People associated with the American Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution people
Lusenga Plain National Park is a national park in the Kawambwa District, Luapula Province of Zambia, to the south-east of Lake Mweru.

Originally a grounds for hunting, Lusenga Plain was converted into one of Zambia's national parks in 1972. Featuring one of Zambia's highest amount of rainfall, the plain experiences about 1500 millimeters of rain yearly. The Kalungwishi River flows through the park and includes Zambia's second highest waterfall: Lumangwe Falls.  Originally experiencing a dearth of wildlife, the reintroduction of species began in 2007. Species reintroduced include the Grant's zebra, puku and impala. By Kundabwika Falls rests rock paintings.

Lusenga Plain National Park has a cultural significance to two different groups. The Luda people, led by Chief Mwata Kazembe, celebrate the Umutomboko Ceremony, and Senior Chief Mushota leads his Chishinga people in the yearly Chishinga Malaila Ceremony.

References

External links 

 Overview of Lusenga Plain at APAAT
 Lusenga Plain National Park at thebestofzambia.com

National parks of Zambia
Geography of Northern Province, Zambia
Tourist attractions in Northern Province, Zambia
Central Zambezian miombo woodlands
Birinci Səmədxanlı (also, Samedkhanly Pervyye and Samit-Khan) is a village and municipality in the Masally Rayon of Azerbaijan.  It has a population of 885.

References 

Populated places in Masally District
Newton Farm may refer to:

A. Newton Farm, a historic home and farm in New York State, USA
Edrom Newton Farm, an historic farm house in Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland
A housing development at Newton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
A ward in Herefordshire, West Midlands, England; see 2019 Herefordshire Council election

See also
Newton (disambiguation)
David Callender Campbell may refer to:
 David Callender Campbell (naturalist) (1860–1926), Irish businessman and naturalist
 Sir David Campbell (Belfast South MP) (1891–1963), Ulster Unionist politician, nephew of the above

See also
 David Campbell (disambiguation)
Ikram Antaki (July 9, 1948 – October 31, 2000) was a Syrian-Mexican writer.

Biography
Antaki was born in Damascus, Syria. Her grandfather served as the last governor of Antioch. At the age of four, she entered a French language Franciscan school, where she remained until obtaining her baccalaureate. Later, she emigrated to France to study comparative literature, social anthropology, and ethnology of the Arab world at the University of Paris VII. In 1975, in her own words, she decided to travel "to the end of the earth," choosing Mexico as the most distant possible place from her native Damascus. She eventually became a Mexican citizen and lived there for the rest of her life.

Antaki published 29 books in Spanish, French, and Arabic.  During her time in Mexico she collaborated with Mexican television channels 11 and 13 and gained popularity due to her participation on "Monitor" radio news show, one of the most popular in the central region of the country.  Her opinions were rather unorthodox: on several occasions she remarked that the generation of youth that participated in the movement of 1968 had been the poorest intellectually of 20th-century Mexico, that democracy had no place in the family or the school, and that plebiscites were a fascist invention.

Those who have written about her describe her as an extremely reserved person. She never learned to dance or to swim. Her readers, on the other hand, note the lightheartedness of her writings and lectures, the profundity of her investigations and her own originality.

She died October 31, 2000, in Mexico City, survived by one son, the Mexican filmmaker Maruan Soto Antaki.

Selected works
El pueblo que no quería crecer, 2000. (The people who didn't want to grow)
El espíritu de Córdoba. (The spirit of Córdoba)
A la vuelta del milenio. (To the turn of the millennium)
El Manual del ciudadano contemporáneo, 2000. (Manual of the contemporary citizen)
Segundo Renacimiento: pensamiento y fin de siglo, 1992. (The Second Renaissance: thought and the end of the century)
En el banquete de Platón, 1996.
Epiphanios, 1992.
El secreto de Dios, 1992.
La pira, 1990.
La cultura de los árabes, 1989.
Temas morales, 2002.
Celebrar el pensamiento, 1999.
La tercera cultura : nuestras raíces islamoárabes, 1990.
Espiratualidad, 2000.

References

This article originated as a translation of the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia.

1948 births
2000 deaths
Syrian emigrants to France
Syrian novelists
Mexican people of Syrian descent
Writers from Damascus
French emigrants to Mexico
20th-century novelists
Syrian women writers
20th-century Syrian women writers
20th-century Syrian writers
20th-century Mexican women writers
20th-century Mexican writers
Bahçesaray (, ) is town and district in Van Province in Turkey. It was a bucak in Pervari district of Siirt Province until 1964 and Gevaş district of Van Province between 1964 and 1987. It is at a distance of  from Van. The town is built at the Bahçesaray rivers' shores.

Etymology 
The name comes from Persian باغچه سرای "bāghche-sarāy" which means "the Garden Palace". Its former name was Müküs, derived from Armenian Mokkʿ () region. In , derived from the Armenian. The word "Mokk in classical Armenian language means: "the place of the magic". According to the legend, Amenap'rkich ("Wholly Saviour") abbey that was nearby Moks, has the grave of a magician by name Gaspar. Probably name of "the place of the magic" or just "Mokk" is connected with this mysterious personality. But scientific sources say that in the Urartu era there existed the Moxene tribe and Moxoene, so the names Mokk' and Moks originated from this tribe's name.
 
The word Bahçesaray is compound of bahçe ("garden") and saray ("palace"). Bakhchysarai in Crimea has the same name.

History 
The district corresponds to Historical Armenia's Mok Arandznak district, which was part of the greater province of Moxoene. The district has several ancient Armenian monasteries and churches. The Aparank monastery is located in the vicinity of the town.  

In the 19th century Bahçesaray was the center of the Kurdish Emirate of Müküs, until the emirate was defeated by the troops of Ottoman Empire in 1846.

2020 avalanches 

On 4 and 5 February 2020, a pair of avalanches struck a highway in the district, leaving at least 41 people dead and 84 others injured.

References

Towns in Turkey
Populated places in Van Province
Districts of Van Province
Kurdish settlements in Turkey
Tracy Irwin Storer (1889–1973) was an American zoologist known for his contributions to the wildlife of California and the ecology of the Sierra Nevada. He was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Davis for over 30 years. He served as president of several biological societies, including the Cooper Ornithological Club (as a three-time president), Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the Society of Mammalogists, and the Wildlife Society, and was a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences which in 1968 awarded him the Fellow's Medal, the academy's highest honor.

Storer was born in San Francisco, California August 17, 1889. He attended the University of California, Berkeley where he earned a B.S. in 1912, followed by a M.S. in 1913. From 1914 to 1923 he worked in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology as an assistant curator of birds and field-naturalist. He worked with the ecologist Joseph Grinnell, with whom he co-authored Animal Life in the Yosemite and The Game Birds of California. Storer received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley in 1921, and in 1923 joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, where he was the first professor of zoology and later founded the school's Department of Zoology. He retired in 1956 and was given a Doctor of Letters degree by U.C. Davis in 1960. A building on the campus, Storer Hall, is named after him.

Storer died in Davis, California on June 25, 1973.

Selected works
Storer authored or co-authored over 200 books and articles.
Some of his more notable works are listed below.

Joseph Grinnell, Harold C. Bryant and Tracy I. Storer. 1918. The Game Birds of California. University of California Press. Berkeley.
Joseph Grinnell and Tracy I. Storer. 1918. Animal Life in the Yosemite  
Tracy I. Storer with Lloyd P. Tevis, Jr. 1955 (republished 1978). California Grizzly University of California Press. Berkeley
Tracy I. Storer and Robert L. Usinger. 1968. Sierra Nevada Natural History.  University of California Press. Berkeley

References

External links
 
 Nature photographs and field notes by Tracy I. Storer at CalPhotos
 Namesakes: Tracy Storer - UC Davis Centennial

20th-century American zoologists
1889 births
1973 deaths
University of California, Davis faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
People associated with the California Academy of Sciences
Scientists from San Francisco
People from Davis, California
Snub octahedron may refer to:

Icosahedron, with pyritohedral symmetry, , 
Snub cube, or snub cuboctahedron, ,
E. roseum may refer to:
 Epilobium roseum, a plant species in the genus Epilobium
 Eriogonum roseum, the wand buckwheat, a wild buckwheat species

See also
 Roseum (disambiguation)
Trauaxa is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, Trauaxa obliqualis, is found in Mexico, Panama, Honduras and the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Both the genus and the species were first described by Francis Walker in 1866.

References

Hypeninae
Monotypic moth genera
Xu Xiang (born 29 November 1972) is a Chinese sports shooter. She competed in the women's double trap event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

References

1972 births
Living people
Chinese female sport shooters
Olympic shooters for China
Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Nikoides danae is a species of crustacean in the family Processidae, first described in 1875 by 	
Otton Mikhailovich Paulson.

It is a bottom dwelling species found at depths of 0-5 m, in shallow waters of the Central Pacific, off New Caledonia and French Polynesia.

References

Crustaceans described in 1875
Caridea
Anne Salmond is a New Zealand architect, based in Wānaka, New Zealand. Her work is noted for the emphasis placed on green architecture, sustainability and whole-of-life building design.

Salmond graduated from Victoria University in 1980, and then worked for Athfield Architects, collaborating there with Clare Athfield. She was the founding member, with three other architects, of the Wellington practice Architecture+.  While a director there, Salmond won the competition held to design the Pātaka Art + Museum in Porirua, which enabled her practice to move towards working on larger-scale buildings.

In the late 1980s, Salmond relocated to Wānaka and established the practice of Salmond Architecture there. Since its founding, Salmond's practice has focused on improving the quality of local housing, and advocating for reducing house size to improve their thermal performance. This interest is reflected with her developing structural insulated panels, for use in local housing.

In 2019, she was made a Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, in recognition of her contribution to New Zealand architecture. As of 2023, she has been an assessor for the New Zealand Registered Architects Board for more than 15 years.

Notable works
 Pātaka Art + Museum (1980)

References

External links
Salmond Architecture Wānaka

New Zealand women architects
21st-century New Zealand architects
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Topsia Cola () is a cola-flavoured soft drink produced in Iran by Damavand Mineral Water Co.

References
Dambedam

Cola brands
Iranian drinks
Eimear Ní Chonaola (; born 1977) is an Irish journalist and television presenter from Spiddal, County Galway. Since 2006, Ní Chonaola has been the news anchor on TG4's main evening news broadcast Nuacht TG4 and Nuacht RTÉ.

Life

Early life
Ní Chonaola was born in an Síán in the Gaeltacht town of Spiddal. A native Irish speaker, she graduated from NUI Galway with a B.A. in 1997 and a Higher Diploma in Applied Communication in 1998.

Journalistic career
Ní Chonaola was part of the Nuacht TG4 team from the beginning, joining the newsroom as a journalist in October 2000. In 2001, she began presenting for the first time, beginning with the shorter weekend bulletins.

She took over as main anchor from Siún Nic Gearailt on 25 September 2006.

Ní Chonaola chaired the first ever election debate in Irish on 16 February 2011, when she hosted one of the official debates of the 2011 Irish general election. The high-profile debate not only brought greater exposure, but her performance as chairperson of the three-way discussion between Enda Kenny, Eamon Gilmore and Micheál Martin was widely credited in the national press.

The debate was a big ratings win for TG4, with around 600,000 people watching live. Eimear Ní Chonaola took home three Oireachtas Awards as a result.

Irish language support
Ní Chonaola appeared on The Late Late Show on 4 March 2011, along with Coman Goggins and Róisín Ní Chúaláin to promote Seachtain na Gaeilge.

As part of Seachtain na Gaeilge 2012, she launched a business initiative along with Gaillimh le Gaeilge.

Personal life
Ní Chonaola has a son, Cuan.

References

1977 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Galway
Broadcasters from County Galway
TG4 newsreaders and journalists
20th-century Irish people
21st-century Irish people
People from Spiddal
The American House (established 1835) was a hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Hanover Street.
Abraham W. Brigham, Lewis Rice (1837–1874), Henry B. Rice (1868–1888), and Allen E. Jones (c. 1921) served as proprietors. In 1851 the building was expanded, to a design by Charles A. Alexander. In 1868 it had "the first hotel passenger elevator in Boston." By the 1860s it also had "billiard halls, telegraph office, and cafe." In the late 19th century it was described as "the headquarters of the shoe-and-leather trade" in the city. Guests of the hotel and restaurant included John Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Whitwell Greenough, Charles Savage Homer, Zadoc Long, and George Presbury Rowell. Many groups held meetings there, among them: Granite Cutters' International Association of America, Letter Carriers' Association, National Electric Light Association, and New England Shorthand Reporters' Association. The hotel closed in 1916, and re-opened under new management in 1918. It permanently closed on August 8, 1935, and the building was shortly afterwards demolished to make room for a parking lot. The John F. Kennedy Federal Building now occupies the site.

References

Further reading
 New-Yorker, 1838
 
 Ballou's Pictorial, March 5, 1859, p.157
 Molly W. Berger. Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

External links

 New York Public Library. 
 Menu for June 13, 1851 
 Menu for April 10, 1856
 Boston Public Library
 American House, Boston. 42 Hanover St. Drawn by Hammatt Billings, engraved by G.G. Smith, c. 1835-1850
 Photo of New American House and Rathskeller, 20th century
 Photo of American House, 1930

Images

Hotel buildings completed in 1851
Demolished buildings and structures in Boston
1835 establishments in Massachusetts
19th century in Boston
Hotels in Boston
Government Center, Boston
Demolished hotels in the United States
Buildings and structures demolished in 1935