Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Marcus Curtius is a mythological young Roman who offered himself to the gods of Hades. He is mentioned shortly by Varro and at length by Livius. He is the legendary namesake of the Lacus Curtius in the Roman Forum, the site of his supposed sacrifice.

Legendary biography
After an earthquake in 362 BC, a huge deep pit suddenly opened in the Roman Forum, which the Romans attempted to fill, but in vain. Despairing, they consulted an augur who responded that the gods demanded the most precious possession of Rome. The Romans doubted the warning, and struggled to think of what that was. 

However, a young soldier named Marcus Curtius castigated them and responded that arms and the courage of Romans were the nation's most precious possessions. Astride his horse, fully and meticulously armed and decorated, Marcus rode and leapt into the chasm. Immediately, the deep pit closed over him, saving Rome. 

The Lacus Curtius in the Forum was supposedly built on the site of the pit, and receives its name from him.

Art history
The story of Marcus Curtius, sacrificing himself for the cause of the commonwealth, became well known theme during the Renaissance, due to etchings made by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1507/1508) and the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius (1586). It was also depicted in the famous Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel (1493). A bas-relief, apparently found in a garden near the Forum Romanum in 1553, seems to have been leading in most images. It dates from the Early Empire, but may have been copied from a 3rd- or 2nd-century BC piece.

See also

Curtia (gens)

References

External links
'Lacus Curtius' page in the Penelope Chicago University site with images
Images of the silver coins ("denarii") made by order of the coinage Triunvir Quintus Curtius in 115-116 B.C.
 Maria Berbara: Civic Self-Offering: Some Renaissance Representations of Marcus Curtius. in Karl Enenkel, Jan L. de Jong, Jeanine de Landtsheer (Ed.): Recreating Ancient History, p. 147–166. Leiden 2001, Brill.

Curtii
Characters in Roman mythology
Richard Travis  (born William Benton Justice; April 17, 1913 – July 11, 1989) was an American actor in films and television.

Early years
The son of William and Ella (née Spain) Justice, William Benton Justice was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico and grew up in Paragould, Arkansas. His father owned and operated a marble yard in Paragould. 

Travis was a radio announcer and a sportscaster before he became an actor.

Film
Travis began his Hollywood career in 1930s action films. The high point of his career was a supporting role in the 1942 film comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), playing opposite Bette Davis.  He had some other fairly important roles in the early 1940s, but his career soon declined.  He spent World War II with the Army Air Forces's Broadway show Winged Victory.

In 1947, he starred in the B movie Backlash, which has become something of a cult classic among film noir fans, as well as Jewels of Brandenburg, a crime drama.

Television
Travis was busy in television roles in the early 1950s. He had the lead role of assistant Sheriff Rodger Barnett in the syndicated crime drama Code 3, which aired for 39 episodes in 1957.

Real estate
Travis retired from acting to pursue a  career in California real estate under his birth name. He founded the William Justice Company and became an officer on the Beverly Hills Realty Board.

Military service
Travis served in the United States Army Air Forces.

Partial filmography

References

External links
 

American male film actors
1913 births
1989 deaths
20th-century American male actors
The Chemainus River is located on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.  Its source is in the Vancouver Island Ranges, and it flows eastwards to the Strait of Georgia near the town of Chemainus, British Columbia.  The valley that surrounds the river additionally includes the communities of Crofton and Westholme as well as the Halalt First Nation Reserve and several smaller reserves. Located on one of the largest islands at the mouth of the river, an old now-deserted village called Xulel-thw stands on the northeast corner; Coast Salish peoples lived there and in other now-deserted villages in the area, constantly moving throughout history.

See also
List of rivers of British Columbia
Stz'uminus First Nation (Chemainus Indian Band)
Chemainus River Provincial Park

References

Rivers of Vancouver Island
Southern Vancouver Island
Larne Town Hall is a municipal structure in Upper Cross Street in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The structure, which was the meeting place of Larne Borough Council, is a Grade B+ listed building.

History
The town hall was financed by a donation by the Ulster-Scots merchant, Charles McGarel. It was designed by Alexander Tate in the Gothic Revival style, built Stewart & Company of Belfast in rubble masonry at a cost of £5,500 and was officially opened on 25 August 1870.

The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with eleven bays facing onto Upper Cross Street with the left hand end bay projected forward as a pavilion; the central bay featured a four-stage clock tower with an arched doorway flanked by colonettes in the first stage, a lancet window in the second stage, an oculus in the third stage and a belfry with a clock and a pyramidal roof in the fourth stage. The left hand section featured six tall arched traceried windows on a single floor, while the right hand section was slightly set back and featured tall arched traceried windows on two floors. The traceried windows in both sections took the form of pairs of lancet windows separated by colonettes. The left hand end bay formed a caretaker's house. Internally, the principal rooms were the assembly hall, known as the "McGarel Hall", in the left hand section, the public reading room on the ground floor of the right hand section and the library and museum on the first floor of the right hand section.

The town was advanced to the status of municipal borough, with the town hall as its headquarters, in 1938. It also became a significant events venue and performers included the singer, Bridie Gallagher, in 1949, but it ceased to be the local seat of government when the council relocated to the Sir Thomas Dixon Buildings in the early 1960s. An extensive programme of refurbishment works, as well as the demolition of an existing annex and the construction of a new three-storey extension, was carried out by Tracey Brothers and completed in 2012. After particularly bad winter storms in March 2013, the Prince of Wales visited the town hall in June 2013 and met with members of the farming community who had been adversely affected by the extreme weather.

In June 2020, Amnesty International asked for the McGarel Hall to be renamed on the basis that, as a young man, McGarel had owned at least 1,000 slaves at a sugar plantation in Demerara in South America, and that part of his wealth had been generated from the compensation he had received for the loss of those slaves. Council officials said that they had no plans to change the name.

See also
 List of Grade B+ listed buildings in County Antrim

References

Government buildings completed in 1870
City and town halls in Northern Ireland
Buildings and structures in Larne
Grade B+ listed buildings
Beckov () is a village and municipality in Nové Mesto nad Váhom District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia.

History
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1208. Mihály de genere Bána, royal equerry, who was the forefather of the Cseszneky family, performed several heroic deeds against the Mongolian invaders of Hungary (during the invasion in 1241–42) and for his bravery in 1241 King Béla IV appointed him Count (comes) of Beckó.

Geography
The municipality lies at an altitude of 190 metres and covers an area of 28.629 km2. It has a population of about 1375 people.

Sights
Above the village is Beckov Castle, now in ruins.
The village, which used to be a town, was fortified by mighty wall, large parts of which are preserved.
Religious buildings include the gothic catholic parish church and baroque former franciscan monastery with church within the walled town and the protestant parish church outside the walls.
In the town there are several renaissance and baroque manors. Some of them are restored and well kept, some are dilapidated and falling in ruins.

People
 Jozef Miloslav Hurban born 1817 
 Baron László Mednyánszky born 1852 
 Dionýz Štúr born 1827

Gallery

Sources
 Györffy György: Az Árpád-kori Magyarország történeti földrajza

Genealogical resources

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Bratislava,Slovakia"

 Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1676-1934 (parish A)
 Lutheran church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1792-1942 (parish A)

See also
 List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia

References

External links

Municipal website 
Surnames of living people in Beckov

Villages and municipalities in Nové Mesto nad Váhom District
Parlasco (Valassinese ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region of Lombardy, about  north of Milan and about  north of Lecco. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 147 and an area of . Parlasco is one of the smallest Italian towns and it is located in the Parco Regionale della Grigna Settentrionale (Regional Park of the Northern Grigna) in Valsassina, just a few minutes from Lecco. It is on the main road connecting Lake Lecco to Valsassina and joins Alpe Cainallo with Cortenova.

Colourful frescoes on house walls tell the story of Lasco the bandit, taken from a historical novel set in the 17th century that tells of the difficult life of inhabitants who were at the mercy of historical events and popular beliefs and oppressed by local landlords. The church of S. Antonio Abate. with paintings dating back to the 15th century, is also of interest.

Parlasco borders the following municipalities: Bellano, Esino Lario, Perledo, Taceno, Vendrogno.

Demographic evolution

References

External links
 www.comune.parlasco.lc.it/

Cities and towns in Lombardy
Taichi Vakasama (born 12 October 1999) is a Fijian swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Hangzhou, China. He also represented Fiji in the men's 200m breaststroke heats at the 2020 Olympics. 

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he was the flag bearer for Team Fiji

References

External links
 

1999 births
Living people
Fijian male swimmers
Male breaststroke swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Fiji
Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Fiji
Place of birth missing (living people)
Allegro was a ground-based, cryogenic resonant Weber bar, gravitational-wave detector run by Warren Johnson, et al. at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The detector was commissioned in the early 1990s, and was decommissioned in 2008.

Mechanical design 
The resonant bar in Allegro is 2300 kg of aluminum, 3 meters in length. Suspended in a cryogenic vacuum tank at 4.2 Kelvin, the bar's natural resonant frequency (the lowest longitudinal mode) is near 904 Hz.

The strain on the bar is measured by coupling a second, much lighter, suspended mass to the main heavier mass as a mechanical transformer at the same resonant frequency. Therefore, small motions of the primary mass generate much larger motions in the smaller mass. The differential displacement of the two masses is recorded using an inductive transducer and amplifier (a SQUID).

Collaboration with LIGO 
Due its close proximity to the LIGO Livingston Detector (one in the array of three, large-scale, laser interferometric detectors), Allegro has partnered with the LIGO Scientific collaboration to produce several results during the fourth science run of LIGO.

References 

Gravitational-wave telescopes
Astronomical observatories in Louisiana
In music, a rewrite rule is a recursive generative grammar, which creates a chord progression from another.

Steedman (1984) has proposed a set of recursive "rewrite rules" which generate all well-formed transformations of jazz, basic I–IV–I–V–I twelve-bar blues chord sequences, and, slightly modified, non-twelve-bar blues I–IV–V sequences ("rhythm changes").

The typical 12-bar blues progression can be notated

 1   2   3   4     5   6   7   8    9   10  11  12
 I / I / I / I // IV /IV / I / I // V / IV / I / I
where the top line numbers each bar, one slash indicates a bar line, two indicate both a bar line and a phrase ending and a Roman numeral indicates the chord function. 

Important transformations include

replacement or substitution of a chord by its dominant or subdominant:

 1    2   3   4      5     6     7     8      9   10   11  12
 I / IV / I / I7 // IV / VII7 / III7 / VI7 // II7 / V7 / I / I //

use of chromatic passing chords:
   ...7      8     9 ...
 ...III7 / III7 / II7...
and chord alterations such as minor chords, diminished sevenths, etc.
Sequences by fourth, rather than fifth, include Jimi Hendrix's version of "Hey Joe" and Deep Purple's "Hush":

    1            2     3   4        5           6     7   8       9           10    11  12
 VI, III / VII, IV / I / I // VI, III / VII, IV / I / I // VI, III / VII, IV / I / I //
These often result in Aeolian harmony and lack perfect cadences (V–I). Middleton (1990) suggests that both modal and fourth-oriented structures, rather than being, "distortions or surface transformations of Schenker's favoured V-I kernel, are more likely branches of a deeper principle, that of tonic/not-tonic differentiation."

For the  notation, see Borrowed chord.

References

Chord progressions
Tassie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Eric Tassie (1887–1936), Australian rules football administrator
Henry Tassie (1863–1945), accountant and politician in South Australia
James Tassie (1735–1799), Scottish gem engraver and modeller
William Tassie (1777–1860), Scottish gem engraver and modeller, nephew of James
Gillian O'Connor (11 August 1941 - 3 April 2016) was a British journalist, and the editor of the Investors Chronicle from 1982 to 1994.

References

1941 births
2016 deaths
British journalists
British magazine editors
High on the Hog is the ninth studio album by Canadian-American rock group the Band, released in 1996. As with its predecessor, 1993's Jericho, it relies heavily on cover versions; only two tracks are original. Songs include Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" (which was intended as a tribute to Jerry Garcia), a live recording of Richard Manuel (who had died ten years prior) performing "She Knows", and the closer "Ramble Jungle" (which features vocals by Champion Jack Dupree).

Track listing

The European and Japanese pressings of the album included a bonus track, "Young Blood", which only appeared in the US on a tribute album to Doc Pomus and which is the only release by the group to include vocals by multi-instrumentalist Garth Hudson. A 2006 CD release on the U.S. label Titan/Pyramid Records includes two bonus tracks, the first of which is "Young Blood"; the other is the Sam Cooke cover "Chain Gang", which was previously unreleased.

Personnel
The Band
Rick Danko – acoustic and electric bass, acoustic guitar, vocals
Levon Helm – drums, bass guitar, harmonica, vocals
Garth Hudson – keyboards, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophone, accordion, organ, trumpet, vocals on bonus track "Young Blood"
Richard Manuel – piano and vocals on "She Knows"
Jim Weider – guitars, bass guitar
Randy Ciarlante – drums, percussion, vocals
Richard Bell – piano, keyboards, keyboard bass, horns

Additional personnel
Tom Malone – trombone, trumpet and baritone saxophone on "Stand Up", "Free Your Mind" and "Ramble Jungle"
Ron Finck – tenor saxophone and flute on "Stand Up", "Free Your Mind" and "Ramble Jungle"
Howard Johnson – baritone saxophone on "Stand Up" and "Free Your Mind"
Blondie Chaplin – acoustic guitar and vocals on "Crazy Mama" and "I Must Love You Too Much"
Colin Linden – acoustic guitar on "Forever Young"
Larry Packer – violin and viola on "She Knows"
Frank Luther – string bass on "She Knows"
Jason Myles – harp emulation and programming on "She Knows"
Champion Jack Dupree – vocals on "Ramble Jungle"
Kenn Lending – guitar on "Ramble Jungle"
Rob Leon – bass guitar on "Ramble Jungle"
Maud Hudson – backing vocals on "I Must Love You Too Much"
Marie Spinosa – backing vocals on "I Must Love You Too Much"
Ian Kimmett – backing vocals on "I Must Love You Too Much"
Horns arranged by Garth Hudson, Richard Bell, Levon Helm, Aaron Hurwitz and Tom Malone
Co-produced and engineered by Aaron "Professor Louie" Hurwitz

References

1996 albums
Albums produced by Garth Hudson
Covers albums
Rhino Records albums
The Band albums
Sheray Thomas (born October 4, 1984) is a male Canadian basketball player who plays as a forward, currently for the Montreal Jazz of the National Basketball League of Canada. He ended up in seventh place with the Canada national men's basketball team at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sheray Thomas son of Darcelle Thomas and Robert Fields, was born in Montreal, Quebec. He has one sister named Chelsea Fields

References

Canadian Olympic Committee

1984 births
Living people
Anglophone Quebec people
Basketball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
Canadian men's basketball players
Montreal Jazz players
Pan American Games competitors for Canada
Basketball players from Montreal
University of Kentucky alumni
Forwards (basketball)
Karim Tarek Mohamed Safwat (Arabic: كريم طارق محمد صفوت; born 23 January 1992), also known as Kareem Tarek, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier League club Tala'ea El Gaish. Operating mainly as a winger but also as an attacking midfielder, he is an ambipedal player.

International career 
Tarek made his debut for Egypt in a 1–0 friendly win over Liberia on 7 November 2019.

References

External links 
 
 

1992 births
Living people
Footballers from Alexandria
Men's association football wingers
Men's association football midfielders
ENPPI SC players
El Gouna FC players
Petrojet SC players
Tala'ea El Gaish SC players
Egyptian Premier League players
Egypt men's youth international footballers
Egypt men's under-20 international footballers
Egypt men's international footballers
Egyptian men's footballers
"Puttin' On the Ritz" is a song written by Irving Berlin.

Puttin' On the Ritz may also refer to:
 Puttin' On the Ritz (film), a 1930 musical film
 Putting on the Ritz (novel), a 1991 book by novelist Joe Keenan
 A 1962 episode of the British sitcom Hugh and I
Aftab Alam (born 27 April 1984) is a Pakistani first-class cricketer who played for the Peshawar cricket team. He was named man of the match in the final of the 2010–11 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, playing for Habib Bank Limited.

References

External links
 

1984 births
Living people
Pakistani cricketers
Habib Bank Limited cricketers
Peshawar cricketers
Cricketers from Peshawar
Dick Taylor (born 1943) is an English musician, guitarist with The Pretty Things and early bass player for The Rolling Stones.

Dick Taylor may also refer to:

Dick Taylor (Australian rules footballer) (1901–1962), Australian football centerman
Dick Taylor (football manager) (1918–1995), English football defender for Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United, later manager of Aston Villa F.C.
Dick Taylor (Iowa politician) (born 1931), Iowa State Representative
Dick Taylor (athlete) (born 1945), British long-distance runner
Dick Taylor (footballer, born 1957), English football goalkeeper for Huddersfield Town and York City

See also
Dick Tayler (born 1948), former New Zealand runner
Richard Taylor (disambiguation)
List of people with surname Taylor
Taylor (surname)
Nezdenice is a municipality and village in Uherské Hradiště District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.

Nezdenice lies approximately  east of Uherské Hradiště,  south of Zlín, and  south-east of Prague.

History
The first written mention of Nezdenice is from 1374.

References

Villages in Uherské Hradiště District
Hatchie (born 1993) is an Australian pop musician.

Hatchie may also refer to:

 Hatchie River, a river in northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee
 Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge, a wildlife refuge consisting of a portion of the floodplain of the Hatchie River in West Tennessee
Galium pumilum, the slender bedstraw or small bedstraw, is a plant species of the genus Galium.

References

pumilum
Flora of Europe
Plants described in 1770
Taxa named by Johan Andreas Murray
The Hyakumangoku Matsuri (百万石まつり) is the main annual festival taking place in Kanazawa, Japan. The festival commemorates the entry of Lord Maeda Toshiie into Kanazawa Castle in 1583. The highlight of the festival is the Hyakumangoku Parade, which has begun on the first Saturday in June since 2007.

The Hyakumangoku Parade reenacts the entrance of Lord Maeda Toshiie and his entourage into Kanazawa. The participants are dressed in 16th-century period costumes and parade around several city blocks.

The name Hyakumangoku refers to rice production. Hyakuman means "1,000,000" (literally "100 10,000") and the koku is a measurement of rice production. 1,000,000 koku is around 150,000 tonnes or 5,000,000 bushels of rice.

In the evening after the main parade there are Bon Festival dances starting from 19.00 h and ending late in the night. Employees from different companies wear different kimono, but anyone can join the dances. The traditional Japanese dance along the central street near Kohrinbo is a picturesque event, and the column of dancing people is several kilometers long.

Tourou nagashi (灯篭流し) commences the night before the main festival. Lit Kaga Yuzen lanterns are floated down the river Asano at dusk, starting near the Tenjin-Bashi bridge. The lanterns then float under the Ume-no-Hashi bridge before finishing at the Asanogawa Ohashi bridge.

Other events during the festival include tea ceremonies staged in Kenroku-en, performances of traditional arts and folk dancing, a "Miss Hyakumangoku" beauty contest, and a children's drum and lantern parade.

Picture gallery

Festivals in Japan
Tourist attractions in Ishikawa Prefecture