Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Ural pictograms () are prehistoric pictograms in Ural dated to 3,000–2,000 years BC and located along the coasts of Tagil River, Neyva River, Rezh River, Yurozan River and some other sites. The color of the pictograms is different, varying from ochre, probably mixed up with blood, to lilac and brown, while the thickness is between 10 and 20 mm. The existence of the Ural characters was known long ago. Peter the Great in 1699 ordered the scrivener Yakov Losyov to go there and make an exact copy.

The Ural pictograms span for about 800 km from north to south. The northernmost ones were found on the rivers Kolva and Vishera, while the southernmost ones were detected at Belaya River. The majority of Ural pictograms, however, were discovered along the Tagil River.

Characteristics
The Ural pictograms are tied to the indigenous Ural population. The pictograms were painted by finger or some tool from the ground level and artificial elevations, which allowed painting at the height of over three meters. Some pictogram lines are 4-5 cm thick. The images are generally aligned to the south. The Ural pictograms include the images of birds, animals, humans and various geometrical figures. The images of animals mainly depict moose, deer and roe deer. The birds are generally represented by waterfowl, mainly ducks and geese. Other images depict snakes and bear. Several pictograms of living beings feature skeleton pattern, showing the internal organs.

In 2001 a carved image was found at the River Rezh, which disproved the long-standing opinion that all Ural pictograms are painted.

Interpretations
According to Russian researcher Valeriy Chernetsov, who published The Rock Images of Ural (1st volume in 1964, 2nd volume in 1971), the Ural pictograms generally depict the hunting utensil. The pictograms, however, as emphasized by Chernetsov, have no direct association with fishing as no images of fishes have been found on sites.

See also
 Kamyana Mohyla
 Vinča signs

Notes

External links
 

Palaeography
Rock art in Europe
Culture of Sverdlovsk Oblast
History of Sverdlovsk Oblast
The American Airways Hangar and Administration Building is located on the grounds of Fort Worth Meacham International Airport in Fort Worth, Texas. The hangar and office opened in 1933 and cost $150,000 to construct. The two-story building measures 235 feet by 120 feet and is constructed of brick, steel and reinforced concrete. The hangar was designed by Russian-born architect Abraham Epstein.

It is the oldest building of Meacham Field. The southern, hangar portion is about two-thirds of the building;  the two-story brick administration building portion makes up about one-third, on the north. It has fluted cast stone pilasters, which include the American Airlines eagle in bas-relief capitals. The eagle appears above "American Airways" written in cast stone at the middle of the administration building.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 2008.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas

References

External links

National Register of Historic Places in Fort Worth, Texas
Aircraft hangars on the National Register of Historic Places
Transportation buildings and structures in Fort Worth, Texas
Air transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
1933 establishments in Texas
Arnold Lawrence Finkelstein (July 10, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York – April 22, 2005 in Jerusalem, Israel) was an American jazz saxophonist.

Career
Lawrence studied clarinet in his youth before switching to saxophone. He played from age 12 in clubs in the Catskills, and by age 17 was performing at Birdland, at one point working a double bill with John Coltrane. He played with Charles Mingus, Thad Jones, Maynard Ferguson, Clark Terry and Duke Pearson but did not make his first recordings until 1966, playing on Chico Hamilton's The Dealer. He worked for several years with Hamilton, and became a soloist on The Tonight Show from 1967 to 1972. His first records as a leader appeared in 1968.

In the early 1970s Lawrence played with Willie Bobo, then joined Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1974. He did a world tour with Liza Minnelli in 1978–79, and released a few more records under his own name before touring with Louie Bellson in the early 1980s. He composed a symphony entitled Red, White and Blues, which was premiered by an orchestra in Williamsburg, Virginia; Lawrence, Dizzy Gillespie, and Julius Hemphill all soloed in the performance.

Lawrence had taught from the middle of the 1970s, working as an artist in residence in Kentucky and Kansas. In 1986, he stopped recording and touring and founded the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City; among the program's students were Roy Hargrove, Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings, John Popper, Peter Bernstein and Spike Wilner of Smalls Jazz Club. He moved to Israel in 1997, where he founded the International Center for Creative Music, an education facility open to both Jewish and Arab students. He played regularly in Israel and owned his own nightclub called Arnie's Jazz Underground. He suffered from lung and liver cancer late in life, and died in Jerusalem in 2005.

Discography

As leader
 You're Gonna Hear from Me (Project 3, 1966)
 Look Toward a Dream (Project 3, 1968)
 Inside an Hour Glass (Embryo, 1970)
 Unobstructed Universe (Adamo, 1976)
 Renewal (Palo Alto, 1982)
 Arnie Lawrence and Treasure Island (Doctor Jazz, 1983)

As sideman
With Chico Hamilton
 The Dealer (Impulse!, 1966)
 El Exigente: The Demanding One (Flying Dutchman 1970)
 Peregrinations (Blue Note, 1975)

References

Jason Ankeny, [ Arnie Lawrence] at Allmusic

1938 births
2005 deaths
Musicians from Brooklyn
Jazz musicians from New York City
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Musicians from New York (state)
Palo Alto Records artists
20th-century American saxophonists
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
The Tonight Show Band members
Manny K. De Los Santos (born January 30, 1979) is an American politician and social worker serving as a member of the New York State Assembly from the 72nd district. He assumed office on February 17, 2022.

Early life and education 
De Los Santos was born in the Dominican Republic and was raised in Washington Heights, Manhattan. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and a Master of Social Work from the University at Albany, SUNY.

Career 
De Los Santos began his career working for the Children's Aid Society as a school social worker. From 2011 to 2018, he was a social worker for Counseling in Schools. In 2018, he was the campaign manager for Congressman Adriano Espaillat's re-election campaign. He was also the assistant vice president of the Hamilton Campaign Network. From 2019 to 2022, he worked as vice president of MirRam Group for government relations. De Los Santos was elected to the New York State Assembly in a February 2022 special election.

References

External links 
Represent NYC Election Special: NYS Assembly District 72 Democratic Primary at Internet Archive

Living people
New York (state) Democrats
American politicians of Dominican Republic descent
Dominican Republic emigrants to the United States
Hispanic and Latino American state legislators in New York (state)
American social workers
People from Washington Heights, Manhattan
University at Albany, SUNY alumni
1979 births
21st-century American politicians
You Bright and Risen Angels is a 1987 novel by William T. Vollmann, detailing a fictional war between insects and the forces of modern civilization.  Vollmann described the book, his first, as "an allegory in part", inspired by his experiences with the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The novel is subtitled "A Cartoon."  It is illustrated by the author.

Writing and composition
Vollman did not have a literary agent when he submitted the manuscript of the book to publishers. Vollman has said he used a "'writing by-the-yard' approach" to the novel and that it could have been "ten thousand pages longer".

Reception

Critical reception
The novel received positive reviews from the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere when published. Kirkus Reviews published a less positive review, comparing the book unfavorably to the work of Thomas Pynchon.

Honors
You Bright and Risen Angels won the 1988 Whiting Writers' Award.

References

1987 American novels
Postmodern novels
Fiction about insects
Works by William T. Vollmann
1987 debut novels
André Deutsch books
Atheneum Books books
Tennis events were contested at the 1963 Summer Universiade in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Medal summary

Medal table

See also
 Tennis at the Summer Universiade

External links
World University Games Tennis on HickokSports.com

1963
Universiade
1963 Summer Universiade
Rebecca Jackson Mendoza  is an Australian actress, singer, and dancer.

Biography

Early life
Rebecca Jackson Mendoza was born in Melbourne, Australia to a Filipino father and an Australian mother of German descent. She first came to national prominence as half of the pop duo Jackson Mendoza, with her sister Natalie. They had minor success releasing two singles that reached the Top 30 in Australia before disbanding in 2000.

Career
Mendoza has had film roles in Howling III (1987) as a dancer, and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) as Queen Breha Organa. Her stage roles include Australian and German productions of Miss Saigon, Australian productions of Show Boat and Hair, Australian and Japanese productions of We Will Rock You, and Lady Galadriel in the Toronto production of The Lord of the Rings. Mendoza played "Miss Bell" in Fame: The Musical, Australia.

Stabbing incident
In 1999, Mendoza suffered a stroke after being stabbed in the chest by her estranged husband and fellow Show Boat cast member Marlon Brand, who committed suicide after the attack. The couple had a daughter named Phoenix.

Filmography

Film

References

External links
 
 Cast page at The Lord of the Rings - The Stage Musical website
 Reddit original tapes found

Australian female dancers
Australian women singers
Australian film actresses
Australian stage actresses
Living people
Actresses from Melbourne
Stabbing survivors
Australian people of Filipino descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Clement Muchiri Wambugu is a Kenyan politician. He is the immediate former Member of Parliament for Mathioya constituency in Murang'a county. He 
was first elected to the Parliament in the 2007 Kenyan general election to represent Mathioya Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya under the PNU (Party of National Unity). Wambugu, a newcomer in politics, beat the incumbent and long serving MP for Mathioya Joseph Kamotho by garnering 9597 against Kamotho's 3156 votes. Wambugu was reelected on the National Alliance party ticket in the 2013 Kenyan general election. He served for one more term but he was unable to defend his seat in the 2017 Kenyan general election, where he was unseated by another newcomer, Honorable Peter Kimari, who is currently serving as the member of Parliament for Mathioya constituency.

Wambugu, a prominent Wahundura High School alumnus, has been supportive of the school and instrumental in reviving its Old Boys Association. He also previously worked for the African Express Airways and served in a team, appointed by Chirau Ali Mwakwere the then Minister for Transport, to investigate the Kenya Police Helicopter accident, which happened in Kapsabet on 11 May 2009.

He has been instrumental in introducing the Mathioya Secondary Schools Computerization Program, the Mathioya Education Day, the Rabbit Rearing Program, and the Energy Saving Rocket Technology (funded by GTZ/PSDA) for the Mathioya youth, and several other projects during his first term of office. It is also under his leadership and first term in office that Mathioya Constituency was voted the most improved constituency by a leading research firm.

See also
Politics of Kenya

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Party of National Unity (Kenya) politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Kenya)
David Scougall or Scougal (c.1610–c.1680) was a Scottish portrait painter.

He is the earliest clearly recorded member of a family of artists, including his son John and grandson George (the latter two often referred to as the "elder" and "younger" Scougall). Other relatives included Patrick Scougal, Bishop of Aberdeen.

Life
Scougall was known to have resided at Leith. Although it has been supposed that there was an earlier portraitist in the family, a John Scougall roughly contemporary with Daniël Mijtens, David is the first for whom concrete records exist, with payments to him recorded in 1672 and portraits signed by him dating from the 1650s, including the Laird of Grant and Lady Mary held by the National Museums of Scotland.

Scougall's style follows in the path of Scotland's first great painter George Jamesone, but was historically said to bear "a great resemblance to that of Sir Peter Lely" and similarly to much of Lely's output, his attributed work consists of formal portraits of the gentry of the time. During the period immediately after the Restoration of Charles II, Scougall dominated the Scottish portrait market, producing many portraits of members of the new Parliament. Amongst better known works attributed to him are portraits of the Marquess of Argyll and of Robert Campbell of Glenlyon.

References

1610s births
1680s deaths
17th-century Scottish painters
Scottish male painters
Scottish portrait painters
is a Japanese international rugby union player who plays as a Prop.   He currently plays for  in Super Rugby and Suntory Sungoliath in Japan's domestic Top League.

References

1990 births
Living people
People from Mitaka, Tokyo
Japanese rugby union players
Japan international rugby union players
Rugby union props
Tokyo Sungoliath players
Sunwolves players
21st-century Japanese people
Acoustiblok, a registered trademark product of Acoustiblok Inc., is manufactured in the United States. It is a sound attenuation material that was introduced in 1999.  It is implemented in new construction or remodeling projects. It is also designed for application beneath drywall and other finishing materials.

Physical properties

Acoustiblok is a mass-loaded vinyl, sound isolation product. It is an extremely dense but very flexible material that comes in two sizes; 16oz. and 32oz. 

 Sixteen-ounce Acoustiblok is 1/8" thick and weighs 1 lb/ft2.
 Thirty-two ounce of Acoustiblok are 1/4" thick and weigh 2 lb/ft2.
 Barium Free
 Color: Black
 High UV Resistance
 No Fungal or Algal Growth

Performance data

The ability of a partition to block the transmission of airborne sound is typically described by a single number rating of the Sound Transmission Class (STC).  

 Sixteen-ounce Acoustiblok material has an STC of 26.
 Thirty-two ounce Acoustiblok material has an STC of 32.
 Adding one layer of Acoustiblok to a standard metal stud gypsum board interior wall increases its STC to 53.
 Double steel stud partition walls, faced with single layers of drywall and containing fiberglass insulation and Acoustiblok, can achieve an STC of 66.

STC is calculated using a range of frequencies similar to the human voice; attenuation in higher and lower ranges should be estimated from the Sound Transmission Loss graphs provided with standard STC reports. 

Test procedures and the formula for calculation of STC values are defined in ASTM Standards E90-02 and E413-87.

Construction applications

New Construction, Remodel/Renovation   

Acoustiblok material is typically installed in partition walls and floor/ceiling assemblies when they are stripped to the studs.

Classification

Acoustiblok is qualified for use in commercial and institutional construction by its UL Classification file, found under Fire Tests of Building Construction and Materials.  This Classification includes use in wall designs of the U300, U400, and V400 series and floor-ceiling constructions of the L500 series, as specified in ANSI/UL 263 Fire Resistance Ratings. Ratings of 1 and 2 hours can be obtained, depending on the specific partition design.

References

Noise reduction
Mike Hunter is a retired U.S. soccer defender who played five seasons in the North American Soccer League as well as one in the Western Soccer Alliance and three in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Hunter grew up in the Los Angeles area, attending Damien High School in La Verne, California.  He then played soccer at Santa Clara University from 1976 thru 1979.   In the fall of 1979, he signed with the expansion Detroit Lightning in the Major Indoor Soccer League as the first pick of the first MISL draft.  The Lightning folded at the end of the 1979-1980 season and Hunter moved to the San Jose Earthquakes as their first pick in the North American Soccer League draft.  He would play five outdoor seasons with the Earthquakes in the NASL.  In 1983 and 1984, the team was renamed the Golden Bay Earthquakes.  In the fall of 1984, the Earthquakes dealt Hunter to the Los Angeles Lazers of the Major Indoor Soccer League.  According to the San Diego Union, Hunter "a five-year indoor veteran . . . was acquired from Golden Bay."  Hunter spent two seasons with the Lazers before a contentious release after the trade deadline on March 1, 1986, as the team prepared for the play-offs.  In addition to playing the winter indoor seasons with the Lazers, on June 5, 1985, Hunter returned north to sign with the Earthquakes for an eighteen-game non-league exhibition season.  By this time the NASL had collapsed and the Earthquakes no longer belonged to a league.  In October 1986, Hunter went on trial with the San Diego Sockers, but there is no indication that he played for them.

References

External links
NASL/MISL Stats

1958 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Detroit Lightning players
San Jose Earthquakes (1974–1988) players
Golden Bay Earthquakes (MISL) players
Los Angeles Lazers players
Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Santa Clara Broncos men's soccer players
Western Soccer Alliance players
Men's association football defenders
Damien High School alumni
Soccer players from Los Angeles
The Accorsi–Ometto Museum is a private museum based in Turin, northern Italy. It is chronologically the first decorative arts museum in Italy. The museum was originated from a legacy left by Pietro Accorsi (Turin, 1891–1982) and was opened by Giulio Ometto, president for life of the "Fondation Pietro Accorsi" and Director ad interim of the museum.

The palace
The collection is located in a historical building in the Via Po, designed by the Savoy's court architect, Amedeo of Castellamonte and dates back to the late 17th century (1684). When Pietro Accorsi's father became custodian of the palace, in 1901, the family moved into a relatively small flat that looked onto the courtyard.

The museum

The route through the museum leads through 27 rooms, divided into two sections: the first presents the exhibition of pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries, in particular Baccarat crystals, silverware, and Meissen porcelain. The second section presents furniture reconstructing the ambiance of a refined home of the 18th century, in accordance with the antique dealer's taste. The style represented here, according to historical records, was fashionable for about fifty years in Turin's leading homes. Particularly remarkable is the Piffetti's room, dedicated to the secrétaire-cabinet in rare wood with ivory and tortoiseshell, made in 1738 by Pietro Piffetti. This trumeau is considered a masterpiece of the Piedmont cabinet maker.

Gallery

References

External links
 Museum website 
Accorsi-Ometto Museum within Google Arts & Culture

Museums with year of establishment missing
Museums in Turin
Decorative arts museums in Italy
Biographical museums in Italy
The Medieval Underworld is a 1972 illustrated book authored by Andrew McCall, published by Barnes & Noble Books in New York. It details the basis for criminal and ecclesiastical justice from the fall of Rome to about 1500.

The book has been distinguished in Mark Galeotti's Paths of Wickedness and Crimes for its discussion of organized crime in medieval Europe, and it forms part of the basis of the IEA's overview course on Crime and Society.

Overview 
In popular culture, The Medieval Underworld has been suggested as a source of primary material for role-playing game developers.

References

See also 
 Thieves' guild

1972 non-fiction books
History books about the Middle Ages
Criminology
Non-fiction crime books
History of criminal justice
Cris Beam is an American writer. She is the author of nonfiction books on transgender teenagers, the U.S. foster system, and empathy, as well as a young adult novel and a short memoir.

Life
Beam was a volunteer teacher at EAGLES Academy for two and a half years, a former public high school for LGBT students in Los Angeles. She has an adoptive daughter.

Books

Transparent
In 2007, Beam published Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers. The non-fiction book describes four transgender teenage girls; The New York Times said, "With sensitivity and a deep connection to the girls, Beam describes their struggles with transitioning and how they reconcile them with more familiar teenage concerns like crushes and cliques." Beam, a journalist from New York City, began the book after moving to Los Angeles where her partner was in graduate school and Beam began volunteering at a high school for gay and trans teenagers.

Transparent won the 2008 Transgender Lambda Literary Award and the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table named it a Stonewall Honor Book for Nonfiction for 2008.

I Am J
In 2011, Beam published I Am J, a young adult novel which was named a finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction.

To the End of June
In 2013, Beam published To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care. In the Chicago Tribune, Robin Erb called To the End of June a "a challenging and refreshing read" thanks to Beam's intention, in Beam's words, to make the book "be more descriptive than prescriptive, placing the why above the what next" [emphasis in the original] in her account of the system's problems. In The New York Times, Benoit Denizet-Lewis says, "Beam’s book is most gripping when she hangs out with foster children themselves. Just as she did in 'Transparent,' her excellent book about transgender teenagers in Los Angeles, Beam writes about social outcasts without stereotyping them. She gives them a much-needed voice and does what too many adults in the foster-care system can’t, or won’t: she advocates for them." But Denizet-Lewis also notes Beam's reporting suggests this advocacy "can provide only so much hope in a system that no one — 'not the kids, not the foster or biological parents, not the social workers, the administrators, the politicians, the policy experts' — thinks is working."

I Feel You

In 2018, Beam published the nonfiction book I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy.

See also
LGBT culture in New York City
Literary analysis

References

Living people
American non-fiction writers
American LGBT writers
American women non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American LGBT people
21st-century American women writers