Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
William C. Moffit (born May 12, 1925, in New Philadelphia, Ohio; died March 5, 2008, in Jacksonville, Florida) was an American musician, music arranger and marching band director, best known for his innovations in marching band show techniques and for hundreds of arrangements for marching bands.

Moffit was the third director of the Purdue University "All-American" Marching Band, serving from 1981 until his retirement in 1988. After his retirement, Moffit was named Professor Emeritus of Band. Moffit also served as director of the University of Houston Spirit of Houston marching band from 1969 to 1981. Moffit served as assistant director of bands at Michigan State University from 1960 to 1969, where he worked under renowned directors Leonard Falcone and Harry Begian. Moffit left an indelible impact at MSU with his musical arrangements and Patterns in Motion. Before going to MSU, he spent 10 years in the public school systems in Ohio and Michigan as a band director, including at Tippecanoe High School in Tipp City, Ohio, and Mt. Morris High School in Mt. Morris, MI. 

Moffit was an innovator in both marching band style and music. His "Patterns of Motion," based on a constant-motion system using four-player squads, revolutionized bands and their halftime shows, moving away from the military style of marching. His style dominated both college and high school marching band shows and competitions from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, when drum corps began to become popular.

A prolific arranger, Moffit arranged more than 450 popular songs for marching bands as part of his famous Soundpower Series published by Hal Leonard, a staple of collegiate and pep bands for decades and still in widespread use today. Moffit was known to hear a new song on radio and have it arranged for his band the following week – sometimes so fast that proper copyright clearances could not be obtained.

References

Purdue University people
University of Houston people
Michigan State University people
People from New Philadelphia, Ohio
Musicians from Ohio
1925 births
2008 deaths
20th-century American musicians
The Bridge Street Ferry was a ferry route connecting Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, United States, joining James Slip (Manhattan) and Bridge Street (Brooklyn) across the East River.

History
The ferry was established by the Brooklyn Ferry Company on July 1, 1864, running over a similar route to the old Roosevelt Street Ferry, which ran to Bridge Street until 1859. The route was discontinued in early 1874, due to the failure of a bill to improve Bridge Street.

Today, the site of the Bridge Street Ferry Pier is within a Con Ed substation. The site of the James Slip Ferry Pier is in the Alfred E. Smith Houses a NYCHA housing complex next to the Brooklyn Bridge.

See also
List of ferries across the East River

References

East River
Ferries of New York City
Riverdale is a neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, United States. It is situated northwest of Dayton across the Great Miami River.

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) lists the location of Riverdale at , which is now a part of the McPherson Town Historic District.

References

External links
History of Riverdale

Neighborhoods in Dayton, Ohio
The Encyclopaedia Cursus Philosophici is an encyclopedia of Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588–1638).

Johann Heinrich Alsted published the Encyclopaedia in seven volumes in 1620 in Herborn. It is often argued that this is the first work to bear the title "encyclopedia", though Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh's Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia was published in 1538, and Paul Scalich published Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum tam sacrarum quam profanarum epistemon in 1559.

Alsted was attempting with his Encyclopaedia to emulate the combination system of Ramon Llull as set out in Llull's 1308 Ars Magna, and thus to formulate a system of universal knowledge and a Llullian method for systematising the sciences. The scheme includes categorisations such as:

 generic - specific;
 peripheral - central;
 internal - external;
 communal - individual;
 quantum ad locum - ad conditionem ad aetatem;
 preparatorius - elaboratorius.

Alsted's approach influenced, among others, the pedagogue Johann Amos Comenius and the Hungarian encyclopedist Apáczai Csere János (1625–1659). Alsted's vision was that with the right methodologies of teaching and application, any person could have access to a perfect knowledge of all sciences.

References 

 Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: Vorwort zum Reprint von J. H. Alsted, "Encyclopaedia" (1630). Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt 1989

Latin encyclopedias
German encyclopedias
1620 books
17th-century encyclopedias
Martin Davis (born 11 October 1996) is a Jamaican footballer who currently plays for Gżira United F.C. in the Maltese Premier League.

Career

College and amateur 
Davis joined Harbour View aged 12, and a year later was awarded a summer scholarship with Spanish club Valencia following his performances at the Nexter Generation Valencia CF Easter Football Camp in Jamaica. He had a two-year orientation with the European club, and it was there he was converted from a forward into a midfielder.

He represented Harbour View in both Junior and Premier Leagues, as well as the Manning Cup at St. George's College during high school. However, he was forced to miss the entire 2014 season due to injury.

He also played for Caxton College and Sagunto FC during his youth career. Davis had a month-long trial with Toronto FC in July 2014, and was subsequently offered a place in the youth development programme.

Professional 
Joining the Toronto FC Academy in January 2015, Davis featured for Toronto FC III fourteen times, scoring four times in the 2015 PDL season and appeared for Toronto FC II twice during the 2015 USL season. He made his debut for the reserve team on 28 March 2015 against FC Montreal, before making his first professional start on 19 April 2015 against Whitecaps FC 2.

The club announced that Davis had been rewarded with a USL contract in February 2016, which would see him remain with Toronto FC II for the 2016 season.

In September 2017, Davis signed with St. Andrews F.C. in Malta on an initial loan deal before signing for the club on a permanent basis in 2018. In November 2018, Davis won the BOV Player of the Month award after impressing in a 2–0 win over Balzan F.C.

In August 2019, Davis signed a 5-year contract with Gżira United F.C.

International 
Davis has represented Jamaica at under-17 and under-20 levels. On 12 July 2012, he made his debut in a 5–0 win against Bermuda in the CONCACAF U-17 Championship. He made three further appearances for the U17s in a 1–1 draw against Panama, a 2–2 draw with Barbados and a 4–2 defeat to Canada. In January 2015, he made his debut in the CONCACAF U-20 Championship during a 2–2 draw with Trinidad & Tobago.

He is eligible to represent both Jamaica and Canada, due to his father being Canadian. As a result of holding a Canadian passport, Davis would classify as a domestic player for Toronto FC in both MLS and USL Pro.

References 

1996 births
Living people
Jamaican men's footballers
Jamaica men's youth international footballers
Jamaican expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Toronto FC players
Toronto FC II players
Harbour View F.C. players
St. Andrews F.C. (Malta) players
Gżira United F.C. players
Maltese Premier League players
USL Championship players
Jamaica men's under-20 international footballers
Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Malta
Expatriate men's footballers in Malta
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
Tequila Moon is the first studio album from Peak Records recording artist Jessy J.  It includes the Billboard Jazz #1 song "Tequila Moon".  The album was released on March 4, 2008 and produced by Paul Brown.

Track listing
 "Tequila Moon" (Paul Brown, Tommy K, Jessy J) - 4:36
 "Spanish Nights" (Donald Hayes) - 3:45
 "Sin Ti/Without You" (Jessy J, Paul Brown) - 4:35
 "Mas que Nada" (Jorge Ben) - 5:04
 "Fiesta velada" (Jessy J, Paul Brown) - 4:07
 "Poetry Man" (Phoebe Snow) - 3:36
 "Turquoise Street" (Kiki Ebsen) - 4:03
 "PB 'n' J" (Paul Brown, Jessy J) - 3:04
 "Bésame Mucho" (Consuelo Velazquez) - 3:40
 "Running Away" (Jessy J, Paul Brown) - 3:51
 "A Song for You" (Leon Russell) - 5:43

References

2008 debut albums
Jessy J albums
Peak Records albums
Konduwattuwana Wewa (Sinhalese: ) or Kondawattuwana Wewa is an ancient reservoir located in Ampara, Sri Lanka. The reservoir lies on the Ampara – Inginiyagala main road, approximately  away from the town of Ampara. The site with ancient Buddhist ruins which belonging to the Konduwattuwana reservoir area is a formally recognised an archaeological site in Sri Lanka.

The reservoir is believed to be built during 1st-3rd century BC and had been renovated time to time to facilitate irrigation and drinking water to the nearby area. According to a stone pillar inscription found near the reservoir, the irrigation water of this reservoir was taxed, along with the paddy fields during the reign of King Dappula IV (939 - 940).  Further it reveals that unlawful tapping of irrigation water had also been prohibited by the edict.

Gallery

See also
 List of Archaeological Protected Monuments in Ampara District

References 

Reservoirs in Sri Lanka
Landforms of Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
Archaeological protected monuments in Ampara District
Lakes of Sri Lanka
Hamoud Al-Jaifi () (born  1918 - died 22 March 1985), was a Yemeni politician, diplomat and military officer. He served as Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic from 29 April 1964 to 6 January 1965, under President Abdullah as-Sallal.

Biography 
Al-Jaifi was born in 1918 in Wadi Dhahr village in Hamdan, Sana'a. He grew up and studied basic education in Sana'a. In 1935 he join Iraq Military Academy and graduated in 1937. After the revolution of 62 September he held many positions, including the Minister of War in 1962, ambassador of Yemen Arab Republic to United Arab Republic in 1963, Prime Minister in 1964, the Minister of Economy and Treasure, the head of National Defense Council in 1965, and then the Minister of War in 1966.

Literature
Robin Leonard Bidwell: Dictionary of Modern Arab History, page 209. Routledge, New York 2010

References 

1918 births
1985 deaths
Prime Ministers of North Yemen
Economy ministers of Yemen
20th-century Yemeni military personnel
Iraqi Military Academy alumni
The 2004–05 Polish Basketball League was the 77th edition of the top basketball league of Poland.

Teams

The first 10 teams will play in Era Basket Liga in the next season:
 Idea Śląsk Wrocław
 Prokom Trefl Sopot
 Anwil Włocławek
 Polonia Warbud Warszawa
 Gipsar Stal Ostrów Wlkp.
 Unia Wisła Paged Tarnów
 Arcus Detal-Met Notec Inowrocław
 Czarni Słupsk
 Ostromecko Astoria Bydgoszcz
 AZS Gaz Ziemny Koszalin
Last 2 teams are dropped from EBL
 Start Lublin
 Spojnia Stargard Szczeciński
Teams promoted to EBL
 Turów Zgorzelec
 SKS Starogard Gdański

League table

Ineligible for playoffs

Playoffs

External links
Polska Liga Koszykówki - Official Site 
Polish League at Eurobasket.com

Polish Basketball League seasons
Polish
Lea
Robbie "Rob" Modra is an Australian professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events.

Career

He failed to win a PDC Pro Tour Card at the 2016 Qualifying School. He is still eligible to compete in the PDC's second tier PDC Unicorn Challenge Tour. He reached the final of the second event in 2016, gaining £1,000.

World Championship results

BDO
 2016: Preliminary Round (lost to John Walton 0–3) (sets)

References

External links
 Rob Modra on Darts Database

Living people
Australian darts players
British Darts Organisation players
Professional Darts Corporation associate players
1972 births
Sportspeople from Adelaide
Sportspeople from Melbourne
Vambola Maavara (10 February 1928 Tsooru Parish – 14 May 1999 Tartu) was an Estonian entomologist and travelog writer.

In 1951 he graduated from Tartu State University in biology. From 1947 to 1991 he worked at the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany. From 1992 to 1998 he worked at Estonian University of Life Sciences' Plant Protection Institute.

His main fields of research were ecology and ethology of social insects, forest entomology, myrmecology, sociobiology. He was one of the most prominent ant researcher in Estonia. He discovered about 20 new ant species.

Works
 Noore entomoloogi käsiraamat (1956, with author's illustrations)
 Metsakaitse (1961, one of the authors and illustrator)
 Taimekaitse aktuaalsed küsimused (1970)
 Mägedest mägedeni (1979, with author's illustrations)
 Sotsiobioloogia arenguloost ja olemusest. – Biosüsteemide kooseksisteerimise teooria, 1986
 Madal- ja siirdesoode loomastik. Rabade loomastik. – Eesti sood, 1988

References

1928 births
1999 deaths
Estonian entomologists
University of Tartu alumni
Academic staff of the Estonian University of Life Sciences
People from Antsla Parish
Cloncaird Castle is located near the small village of Kirkmichael, around  east of Maybole in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The castle lies beside the Kelsie Burn, at the centre of a  estate. Originally a 16th-century castle, it was extended and rebuilt as a country house in the early 19th century. After a time as a convalescent home, it is now a private residence once more.

History

The castle was originally built during the 16th century, and is described as having been in the style of feudal mansions of that period, with a large square tower, narrow spiral staircase, and other indications of the time to which it belonged. An armorial panel dated 1585 is still in place on the castle wall. Towards the close of the 16th century it was in the possession of Walter Mure, a scion of the Auchendrane family, and cousin of the Laird of Auchendrane who devised the murder of Sir Thomas Kennedy of Culzean. This Walter Mure of Cloncaird was the perpetrator of the murder, and was assisted in the execution of his crime by his boon companion, Kennedy of Drumurchy.

Cloncaird was purchased by Henry Ritchie of Craigton and Busbie in the early 19th century. Born in 1777, Henry Ritchie was a descendant of James Ritchie, 'merchand burgess' of Glasgow; whose name appears in the Commissary Register in 1674. The family was settled in Craigton, Lanarkshire in 1746, and Henry's father, James, acquired the estate of Busbie, Ayrshire in 1763 and married 1765 Catharine, daughter of Robert Kerr of Newfield, a grandson of the 1st Marquess of Lothian. Ritchie made Cloncaird his chief residence, and in 1814 he had the front entirely re-built and modernised, giving the castle its current appearance.  Ritchie succeeded his father at Busbie and Craigton in 1799, and was twice married: to Elizabeth Cathcart (died 1836); then in 1838 to Catherine, daughter of James Fergusson of Kilkerran, 4th Baronet. Ritchie died in 1843 having had three unmarried daughters by his first wife, and the estates passed to his sister's son, William Wallace of Cairnhill.

In 1905 Cloncaird was sold by Colonel Wallace to a Mrs Dubs, who he then married in 1908. The castle was extensively renovated at this time. Mrs Dubs died in 1947, and from 1949 the mansion was used as the Dubs Memorial Convalescent Home, operated by the local authority. When this closed the castle returned to private ownership. It was purchased before 2003 by Ephraim Belcher, chairman of Belcher Food Products. The house is a category B listed building. Within the grounds are category C listed structures including an Arts and Crafts style garage, U-shaped stable block and a bridge. The grounds also contain a pond, weir and fountain, and a walled garden.

References

External links
Cloncaird Castle Homepage
Stravaiging Around Scotland: Cloncaird Castle

Castles in North Ayrshire
Category B listed buildings in South Ayrshire
Denis Donnelly (1937 – 27 October 2008) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler who played for club sides Skryne and Kilmessan and at inter-county level with the Meath senior teams in both codes. He usually lined out as a full-back.

Career

Donnelly lined out for the Meath senior teams as a dual player. He was captain of the senior football team that won the Leinster Championship in 1964. Donnelly also filled the right corner-back position on the Meath team that was beaten by Galway in the 1966 All-Ireland final. He also won two Leinster Junior Championships with the Meath senior hurling team. At club level, Donnelly was a member of the Skryne team that won the Meath SFC title in 1965. He also won four Meath SHC titles with sister club Kilmeassan. Donnelly was the joint-winner of the All-Ireland Poc Fada Championship in 1963.

Personal life and death

Donnelly spent his entire working life as a farmer. His son, David Donnelly, also lined out with the Meath senior hurling team. Donnelly died after a period of illness at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan on 27 October 2008.

Honours

Kilmessan
Meath Senior Hurling Championship: 1961, 1962, 1965, 1969

Skryne
Meath Senior Football Championship: 1965 

Meath
Leinster Senior Football Championship: 1964 (c), 1966
Leinster Junior Hurling Championship: 1961, 1972

References

1937 births
2008 deaths
Kilmessan hurlers
Skryne Gaelic footballers
Meath inter-county Gaelic footballers
Meath inter-county hurlers
Build One South Africa (BOSA) is a South African political party. It is led by Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the One SA Movement and the former leader of the Democratic Alliance. While the deputy leader is Nobuntu Hlazo-Webster, founder and convener of the South African Women’s Commission. The chairperson of the party is the current Nelson Mandela Bay deputy mayor Mkhuseli Jack. The party was launched on 24 September 2022 in Naledi, Soweto.

The party will contest the 2024 general elections as an "umbrella organisation" for independent candidates. Maimane will stand as the party's presidential candidate in the elections.

References

2022 establishments in South Africa
Political parties established in 2022
Political parties in South Africa
Zeacumantus lutulentus is a species of medium-sized sea snail or mud snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae, the horn snails.

Distribution 
This species occurs in:
 New Zealand
 Australia

References

 Ozawa, T., Köhler, F., Reid, D.G. & Glaubrecht, M. (2009). Tethyan relicts on continental coastlines of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and Australasia: molecular phylogeny and fossil record of batillariid gastropods (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea). Zoologica Scripta, 38: 503-525

External links 

 
 

Batillariidae
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1841
Luis Fernando De León is a Panamanian evolutionary biologist. He is an assistant professor of biology and evolutionary biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, research associate at the Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología de Panamá (INDICASAT), and level I member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) in Panama.

Education 
Luis completed a B.Sc. in Biology at University of Panama in 2002. He earned a Ph.D. from McGill University in 2011.

Research 
Luis Fernando De León has published over 40 peer-reviewed scientific papers which together have received over 700 citations. His research focuses on adaptive divergence and speciation, human impacts on evolution,
eco-evolutionary dynamics. His lab works primarily on Darwin's finches and weakly-electric fishes in the order Gymnotiformes. He was invited to be the Saul Speaker at Middlebury College in 2020.

References

External links
 Lab Website
 Google Scholar Page

21st-century American biologists
University of Panama alumni
Living people
Evolutionary biologists
Panamanian scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Vestfjorddalen (West Fjord Valley) is a glacial valley in the inner, western branch, Vestfjorden, of Wijdefjorden. Located in the west of the Indre Wijdefjorden National Park on the divide between Andrée Land and Dickson Land in Spitsbergen, Svalbard in Arctic Norway. It is 12 km long and forks into Universitetsbreen to the south and Lisbetbreen to the northeast.

References

Valleys of Spitsbergen
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia is a nonfiction book by Simon Garfield, a British journalist and nonfiction author. It covers the history of encyclopedias from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, with a focus on Encyclopædia Britannica.

Overview 

Garfield arranged the twenty-six chapters alphabetically, from “Ahh, Here Comes Andrew Bell” and “Accumulation”, through the alphabet to “Zeitgeist” and “Zywiec,” each chapter a few separate vignettes that need not be read in order.

More than 270 years after Denis Diderot stated that the goal of an encyclopedia is “to assemble all the knowledge scattered on the surface of the earth,” encyclopedia-inclined people are still working on the task. Garfield argues that encyclopedias have gotten bigger and bigger—more words, entries, volumes, and rival brands of encyclopedias. Because old sets of Encyclopaedia Britannica are worth less than the cost of delivery, Garfield calls them “the fastest depreciating assemblage of information ever known.” “What is and isn’t valued knowledge, and how best to present it, has been the recurring headache of every encyclopedia editor in history,” he writes.

Garfield’s focus on Britannica, which has operated since 1768, led The New York Times to call it his “de facto protagonist.” He notes that the encyclopedia giant paid experts to be sole authors of articles about their topic of study; for example, Sigmund Freud on psychoanalysis, Marie Curie on radium, Alfred Hitchcock on film production. Britannica estimated that it paid $32 million to create its 15th edition, not including printing costs, which is why Garfield calls Britannica “the largest single private investment in publishing history.”

He discusses the Yongle Dadian, a massive document with 11,095 manuscript volumes, commissioned by emperor Zhu Di of China’s Ming dynasty.

Reception 

The New York Times praised Garfield for portraying the encyclopedia builders of history into interesting characters: “However bookish knowledge can be, Garfield counters this tendency with a light and personable touch.” The Wall Street Journal called it a “lively threnody to the encyclopedic impulse.”

Joshua Kim of Inside Higher Ed wrote that the narrative of Britannica’s fall into obscurity is missing “the inside story of how Britannica attempted to pivot to the digital age,” adding that the Britannica split into two divisions for print and internet, and that in 1999, when Britannica opened its content for free online, its site crashed from the high traffic.

Publishers Weekly praised the book for being “fast-paced and fact-filled.”

References 

Books about books
2023 non-fiction books
HarperCollins books
William Morrow and Company books
Weidenfeld & Nicolson books
Encyclopedias
Biankouri  is a small town in the Savanes Region of north-western Togo. It is located 82 kilometres from Dapaong.

Populated places in Savanes Region, Togo