Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Nuxsha Nasih Ahmed (also spelled Nukhsha in English;  ; referred to Nuxshe Nasih or Nuxshe Naseh, born 1978 or 1977) is the Mayor of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. She is the second woman to be appointed to the most prominent political office in Halabja.

Nasih was elected Mayor of Halabja in 2016. The Kurdish news service Rudaw noted that she was the second woman to hold the top office in Halabja, the first being Lady Adela (Adela Khanum). "the effective mayor of the town from 1909 until her death in 1924." Nasih commented on her appointment that, "Appointing women to senior positions is nothing new in Halabja. The educated people of the city have always supported this idea."

Nasih is a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which won the 2014 elections in the town. Prior to her appointment as Mayor, she was the commissioner for the Biyare sub-district on the border with Iran for seven years, and trained as a lawyer. She was supported by Hero Ibrahim Ahmad, the former First Lady of Iraq and wife of PUK leader Jalal Talabani.

Nasih has worked with officials in the neighbouring Iranian Kurdish province of Kermanshah to officially recognise two border crossings connecting the regions. Iran is aiming to export electricity to the Kurdistan region through Halabja. She is also working to end the use of plastic bags in Halabja with the 'Green City Halabja' campaign.

In 2019 she spoke at George Washington University in Washington DC on the legacy of the genocidal Al-Anfal Campaign in which Saddam Hussein killed thousands of civilians in Halabja using poison gas in 1988.

References 

21st-century Kurdish women politicians
Kurdish politicians
Mayors of places in Iraq
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Robert Close (15 July 1903 in Camberwell, Victoria – 17 July 1995 in Palma, Majorca) was an Australian novelist.

His early life was clouded by disappointment. He hated school, and his a passion for a life at sea was blighted when he was found to have colour blindness. Tuberculosis thwarted a possible singing career. During the 1930s Depression, he worked variously as a labourer, manager, salesman, and debt collector. He was an avid reader and won prizes as a short-story writer.

In a widely publicised case, in 1946 he and "Georgian House Pty Ltd", the publisher of his 1945 novel Love Me Sailor, were prosecuted in the Supreme Court of Victoria for "obscene libel". During the first trial, the entire 90,000-word book was read to the jury by counsel for the prosecution twice: the first jury was discharged when the court was notified that the foreman of the jury had discussed the case with one of Close's friends. Close was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and a fine of £100. This was later overturned on appeal; he served 10 days in prison and was fined £150.

Close left Australia for France in 1950. His later works included Eliza Callaghan (1957), loosely based on the life of Elizabeth Callaghan, the spouse of Australian pioneer and businessman John Batman, and The Voyage Continues (1969). He returned to Australia in 1975 but after two years relocated to Majorca, where he died in 1995. His autobiography, Of Salt and Earth, was published in 1977.

References

External links
 Secrets of the censors: Obscenity in the Archives from the National Archives of Australia
 Robert S. Close at sections 132 and 134 of the archive from the library of the University of Melbourne

1903 births
1995 deaths
20th-century Australian novelists
20th-century Australian male writers
Australian male novelists
Writers from Melbourne
Montavilla Park is a  public park in Portland, Oregon's Montavilla neighborhood, in the United States. The park is located on the corner of 82nd Avenue and Glisan Street, adjacent to Multnomah University.

History 
The park was acquired in 1921. Within the park's boundaries, the Montavilla Community Center and the Montavilla Outdoor Pool were constructed in the 1920s. Over subsequent years, the community center building experienced several renovations and expansions.

Features 
Montavilla Park includes the Montavilla Community Center, an outdoor pool, a children's playground, and a futsal field. The Portland Timbers Field was added to the park in 2014, which was partially funded by the Portland Timbers.

Events 
Activist Joey Gibson has hosted a free speech rally in the park.

References

External links

1921 establishments in Oregon
Montavilla, Portland, Oregon
Parks in Portland, Oregon
Northeast Portland, Oregon
The European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications or ECSAT is a research centre belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) and located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

It was created in 2009 and moved to its present building in 2013. Staff work on activities linking space to telecommunications, integrated applications, climate change, technology and science. 

The development of ECSAT was in line with the growing efforts of the United Kingdom in the space sector, including the creation of the UK Space Agency  in 2010 and the increase in the economic contribution of that country to ESA. At the same time, ESA benefited from a closer relation with the UK space sector and corrected a historical anomaly whereby the United Kingdom, while being one of the biggest ESA contributors, did not host any of the agency's major centres.

There is an earlier ESA facility on the campus, the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) Harwell, which is intended to assist in the development of technology transfer ideas, helping to transform them into viable businesses.

ECSAT hosts the ESA Climate Office, responsible for defining and implementing ESA's Climate Change Initiative Programme.

See also
 European Space Operations Centre (ESOC)
 European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
 European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
 European Astronaut Centre (EAC)
 ESA Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN)
 Guiana Space Centre (CSG)
 European Space Tracking Network (ESTRACK)
 European Space Agency (ESA)

References

External links

European Space Agency
Research institutes in Oxfordshire
Space programme of the United Kingdom
Space technology research institutes
Vale of White Horse
Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (CIC,  is an immigration detention centre located in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong. 7,942 persons were held at CIC in 2015 who were slated for expulsion from Hong Kong.

Notable events 

In December 2019, an Indonesian migrant worker, author, and reporter Yuli Riswati, reported that she was strip-searched by a male doctor at CIC. She noted that "Many friends who are still detained there at CIC are suffering – the conditions are inhumane and unjust."

From 29 June 2020, a group of around 25 detainees reportedly went on hunger strike against what they saw as their indefinite detention, though authorities said that, while they were refusing official meals, tests including for glucose levels showed that they were in fact taking nutrition of some kind.

References

Tuen Mun District
Detention centers
Buildings and structures in Hong Kong
Jun Byung-doo (Hangul: 전병두, Hanja: 全炳斗) (born October 14, 1984 in Busan, South Korea) is a South Korean left-handed starting pitcher. He pitched in the KBO League for the Doosan Bears, Kia Tigers, and SK Wyverns

Professional career 
Drafted by the Doosan Bears with the 1st pick in the second round of the 2003 KBO Draft, Jun made his pro debut on September 2, 2003.
In 2005, Jun was traded to the Kia Tigers for Daniel Rios, and had his statistically outstanding season as a setup man and closer, going 3-2 with 5 saves and a 3.00 ERA in 57 innings pitched. After the 2005 KBO season, he was called up to the South Korea national baseball team for the inaugural World Baseball Classic held in March 2006. At the 2006 WBC, he played an important role as a left-handed specialist, appearing in the last three games for the South Korean team.

In the 2006 KBO season, he pitched 101.1 innings as a starter and long reliever with 94 strikeouts.

In 2007, however, Jun spent much of his time on the disabled list because of elbow trouble.
	 
In the middle of the 2008 season, Jun was traded to the SK Wyverns. Sidelined by injuries, he only appeared in 10 games during the season, going 2-4 with a 4.64 ERA and 29 strikeouts in 33 innings pitched.

In 2009, Jun had the most productive season, establishing career-highs in almost every single pitching category. He was runner-up in ERA (3.11) behind Wyverns ace Kim Kwang-Hyun and fifth in strikeouts (136), going 8-4 with 8 saves. Jun became a fixture in the starting rotation until the All-Star break after being one of the Wyverns' most consistent pitchers in spring training, and appeared in games as a utility pitcher in the second half of the season. On May 23 against the Doosan Bears, Jun struck out 9 consecutive batters with a total of 13 strikeouts as a starter, falling one shy of Lee Dae-Jin's KBO record of 10 consecutive strikeouts.

External links
Profile and stats on the KBO official site

1984 births
Living people
South Korean baseball players
2006 World Baseball Classic players
Doosan Bears players
Kia Tigers players
SSG Landers players
Busan High School alumni
Baseball players from Busan
Rodrigo Ābols (born 5 January 1996) is a Latvian professional ice hockey forward for Örebro HK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Ābols was selected in the seventh round, 184th overall, by the Vancouver Canucks during the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.

He is the son of Artis Ābols, who also played ice hockey and is currently the head coach of Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League.

Playing career
During the 2014–15 season, Ābols skated for both Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and HK Rīga of the Minor Hockey League (MHL). He made his KHL debut on 27 December 2014 with Riga, whom his father, Artis Ābols, coached.

Ābols joined the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League (WHL) for the 2015–16 season. In 62 games, Ābols registered 20 goals and 49 points. During the 2016 NHL Entry Draft, Ābols was selected in the seventh round, 184th overall, by the Vancouver Canucks. Ābols split the 2016–17 season between the Winterhawks and the Acadie–Bathurst Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Ābols skated for Örebro HK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) during the 2017–18 season. While on loan, he also played for BIK Karlskoga of HockeyAllsvenskan. With his rights expired from the Canucks, he continued his tenure with Örebro HK in the 2018–19 season, increasing his production with 18 goals and 26 points in 45 games.

On 28 May 2019, the Florida Panthers signed Ābols to a two-year, entry-level contract.

Approaching his second season under contract with the Panthers, on 3 August 2020, Ābols returned to Sweden to begin the 2020–21 season on loan with his former club, Örebro HK. He returned to the SHL with the North American season delayed until mid-November due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 13 January 2021, Ābols was released by the Florida Panthers.

International play

Ābols participated at the 2013 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships as a member of the Latvian national junior team. He made his senior international debut in Prague at the 2015 IIHF World Championships.

He represented Latvia at the 2023 IIHF World Championship where he recorded five goals and two assists and won a bronze medal, Latvia's first ever IIHF World Championship medal.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1996 births
Acadie–Bathurst Titan players
BIK Karlskoga players
Dinamo Riga players
Greenville Swamp Rabbits players
Latvian ice hockey forwards
Living people
Örebro HK players
Portland Winterhawks players
HK Riga players
Ice hockey people from Riga
Springfield Thunderbirds players
Vancouver Canucks draft picks
Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Latvia
Doomsday Book may refer to:
 Domesday Book or Doomsday Book, an 11th-century survey of England
 Doomsday Book (novel), a 1992 novel by Connie Willis
 Doomsday Book (film), a 2012 science-fiction anthology film directed by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung

See also
 Domesday Book (disambiguation)
 Doomsday (disambiguation)
This is a list of Polish television related events from 1999.

Events
Unknown - Marcin Szaniawski, performing as Jay Kay wins the second and final series of Zostań gwiazdą.

Debuts

International

Television shows

1990s
Klan (1997–present)

Ending this year

Zostań gwiazdą (1998-1999)

Births

Deaths
David Taylor (17 September 1940 – 12 March 2017) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward.

Taylor started his career at Gillingham where he played 21 appearances in the Football League scoring 3 goals, before leaving for Portsmouth where he made a further two Football League appearances. At the end of the 1959–60 season, Taylor dropped into non-league football joining Southern Football League side Yeovil Town. In nine seasons with Yeovil, Taylor scored 284 goals in 436 matches setting a post-war club record as top scorer. Taylor left Yeovil in April 1969, signing for their local rivals Bath City scoring a further 46 goals in 149 appearances before his departure in November 1971 for Cheltenham Town.

Taylor died in March 2017 aged 76.

References

1940 births
2017 deaths
People from Rochester, Kent
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Gillingham F.C. players
Portsmouth F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
Bath City F.C. players
Cheltenham Town F.C. players
English Football League players
Footballers from Kent
Razanaka or Vohipeno Razanaka is a rural municipality in the Brickaville district (or: Vohibinany (district)) in the Atsinanana Region, Madagascar.

It is located near on the banks of the Vohitra river.

Agriculture
Curcuma is widely planted in this municipality.

References

Populated places in Madagascar
Populated places in Atsinanana
Comturist was the name of the hard currency luxury shops that existed in Communist Romania, managed by the Ministry of Tourism. After the 1989 Romanian revolution, these stores became obsolete and were sold off in 1991 to private business owners; as a result of this sale by auction, the Comturist name is still in existence today in a more limited capacity as a chain of duty-free stores.

About 200 Comturist stores were in existence in Romania by 1977, mainly in the largest cities and tourist areas. The Comturist stores existed explicitly to offer items that were not allowed to be sold in the then mainstream Romanian socialist economy. Imports from western Europe, North America, and Japan were sold in these shops, such as alcohol, tobacco, perfume, shoes, clothing, radios, televisions, calculators, and by the 1980s, personal computers. High-quality Romanian souvenirs were also sold, such as sheepskin, handicrafts, folk costumes, and folk music records. 

Originally the Comturist stores were geared toward foreign visitors, with a passport being required to visit them, but by the 1980s the requirement changed to allow any shopper who held foreign currency (which had to be declared and could only be procured via work done in the West or by remittances from foreign relatives).

Comturist SA, a private entity owned by former Communist elites-turned-capitalist entrepreneurs, was formed in September 1990 and bought off some of the remnants of the old Comturist chain in the March 1991 auctions. Comturist started trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange in 2004.

See also
 List of duty-free shops

References

Hard currency shops in socialist countries
Socialist Republic of Romania
Duty-free shops
Retail companies of Romania
The Ippari, anciently called the Hipparis () is a  long river located in the province of Ragusa in south-eastern Sicily.

The river rises in the Mount Serra Brugio area of the Hyblaean Mountains, just below Chiaramonte Gulfi at a height of about  above sea level and flows into the Mediterranean Sea south of the fishing town of Scoglitti. The river passes near the towns of Comiso and Vittoria. The ruins of the ancient Greek city of Kamarina, which used the river as a Canal-port, can be found on the southern bank.

Nature reserve
The lower half of its course lies in The Pino d'Aleppo Nature Reserve.

Notes

Rivers of Italy
Rivers of Sicily
Rivers of the Province of Ragusa
European drainage basins of the Mediterranean Sea
The Tasmanian Government Railways L class was a class of 2-6-2+2-6-2 Garratt steam locomotives operated by the Tasmanian Government Railways.

History
In 1912, the Tasmanian Government Railways took delivery of two 2-6-2+2-6-2 Garratt locomotives from Beyer, Peacock & Co, Manchester. They were designed to haul freight trains, however did on occasions haul passenger trains. Both were withdrawn in 1930 after the Q class entered service. However, a motive power shortage during World War II saw both overhauled and returned to service in 1943. Both were withdrawn when replaced by Australian Standard Garratts in 1945.

References

Beyer, Peacock locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1912
Steam locomotives of Tasmania
2-6-2+2-6-2 locomotives
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia
Garratt locomotives
Petar Jovanović (born 9 April 1980) is a Montenegrin basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for Lovćen 1947 of the Montenegrin League.

Coaching career 
On 15 February 2018, Jovanović became a head coach for the Montenegrin team Lovćen 1947 Cetinje. He left the post after the end of the 2017–18 season. On 3 August 2020, he signed back for Lovćen 1947 Cetinje.

References

External links 
 Jovanović ABA League Profile
 Coach Profile at eurobasket.com
 Player Profile at eurobasket.com
 Player Profile at realgm.com

1980 births
Living people
KK Lovćen coaches
KK Lovćen players
KK Leotar players
OKK Vrbas players
Montenegrin basketball coaches
Montenegrin expatriate basketball people in Kosovo
Montenegrin expatriate basketball people in Serbia
Montenegrin men's basketball players
Point guards
Sportspeople from Cetinje
Robyn Lea Rowland  (born 1952) is an Irish Australian poet, writer and retired academic.

Biography 
Rowland, a third generation Irish Australian, was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1952. While researching her PhD, Rowland worked as a part-time tutor at the University of Wollongong.

Rowland was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to women's issues, particularly in the fields of higher education and health as Foundation Head of the School of Social Inquiry at Deakin University and Director of the Australian Women's Research Centre".

Selected works

Nonfiction

Poetry

References

External links 

 

1952 births
Living people
20th-century Australian poets
21st-century Australian poets
Australian women's rights activists
Officers of the Order of Australia
20th-century Australian women
John Beeston (17 January 1831 – 1 June 1873) was an Australian cricketer. He played three first-class matches for New South Wales between 1857/58 and 1860/61.

See also
 List of New South Wales representative cricketers

References

External links
 

1831 births
1873 deaths
Australian cricketers
New South Wales cricketers
Cricketers from Yorkshire
Sean Rabbitt (born April 8, 1990) is an American retired figure skater. He is the 2015 Autumn Classic International bronze medalist.

Programs

Competitive highlights 
CS: Challenger Series

Senior career

Juvenile to junior career

Detailed results
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Pewter medals for fourth-place finishes awarded only at U.S. national and regional events. At team events, medals awarded for team results only.

Senior career

References

External links 
 

1990 births
American male single skaters
Living people
People from Orange, California
Pantanodon is a genus of poeciliids native to East Africa and Madagascar.

Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
 Pantanodon madagascariensis (Arnoult, 1963)
 Pantanodon stuhlmanni (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924) (Eastcoast lampeye)

References 

 
Poeciliidae
Fish of Africa
Freshwater fish genera
Taxa named by George S. Myers
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Stephen Mason (15 April 1832 – 21 April 1890) was a Scottish Liberal politician.

Family and business
Mason was born at Kennoway in the Kingdom of Fife. He was educated locally in a private school. He married Martha Marshall of Machan in Lanarkshire.

Mason was originally a Glasgow merchant, a sometime chairman of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. By 1889 he is recorded as being a member of the London Board and managing director of the English and Australian Mortgage Bank Ltd He was also a Justice of the Peace in Glasgow.

His son, David Marshall Mason was an MP, being Liberal member for Coventry from 1910–1918 and Edinburgh East 1931-35

Political career
Mason was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Mid Lanarkshire in the 1885 general election defeating his Conservative opponent by 296 votes. At the 1886 election Mason held his seat with an increased majority 870, this time against Liberal Unionist opposition and emphasising his support of Irish Home Rule.  He resigned from Parliament in 1888 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. It was reported that Mason had gone on a voyage to Australia.

Death
Having previously been in what appeared to be good health, Mason died suddenly of heart disease at his London home in Streatham Hill on 21 April 1890.

References

Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
1832 births
1890 deaths
UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1886–1892
Scottish Liberal Party MPs