Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Klaudia Taev (13 April 1906 in Saaremaa – 7 June 1985 in Pärnu) was an Estonian vocal pedagogue.

Born into a teacher’s family on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, she studied as an opera singer at the Tallinn Conservatoire, under the tutorage of Aino Tamm, the first professional opera singer in Estonia.

During World War II, she taught singing in Yaroslavl, and her students included the famous Estonian baritone, Georg Ots. Later, other well-known Estonian singers Urve Tauts, , Hans Miilberg, Viktor Gurjev, Asta Vihandi studied under her.

Taev died on 7 June 1985, due to an illness. She is remembered through an international competition for opera singers named after her - the Klaudia Taev Competition.

External links
Klaudia Taev on PromFest

1906 births
1985 deaths
People from Saaremaa Parish
People from the Governorate of Livonia
Voice teachers
Estonian women educators
20th-century Estonian educators
Lakshmi de Silva is a translator, writer and critic from Sri Lanka. In 2000, her work was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize. She has also received the Sahithyarathna Award for lifetime achievement.

Biography 
De Silva has been a lecturer in English at the University of Kelaniya. In 2000, her translation of Henry Jayasena’s play Kuveni was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize.

Publications 
 De, S. L. (2004). 12 centuries of Sinhala poetry: A Sri Lankan anthology. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications.

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Kelaniya
Sri Lankan translators
Trifolium eriocephalum is a species of clover known by the common name woollyhead clover or hairy head clover.

Distribution
The plant is native to the north-western United States, and to California, Nevada, and Utah.

It is a common plant of several types of habitat, including Coast redwood forest, coastal prairie, mixed evergreen forest, and yellow pine forest.

Description
Trifolium eriocephalum is a hairy perennial herb producing an upright, unbranched stem. The leaves are made up of oval leaflets up to 4 centimeters long.

The inflorescence is a head of flowers up to 3 centimeters long with flowers spreading and soon drooping. The flower has a densely hairy, tubular calyx of sepals with long, narrow linear lobes that may bend outward. The white or yellowish corolla may be up to 1.4 centimeters long.

Subspecies
Trifolium eriocephalum ssp. cusickii —  Cusick's clover, Great Basin region.
Trifolium eriocephalum ssp. eriocephalum

References

External links
Calflora Database: Trifolium eriocephalum (Woollyhead clover)
USDA Plants Profile for Trifolium eriocephalum (woollyhead clover)
Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Trifolium eriocephalum var. eriocephalum
Washington Burke Museum
UC CalPhotos gallery: Trifolium eriocephalum

eriocephalum
Flora of the Northwestern United States
Flora of California
Flora of Nevada
Flora of Utah
Flora of the Klamath Mountains
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
Senator Gaither may refer to:

Burgess Sidney Gaither (1807–1892), North Carolina State Senate
David Gaither (born 1957), Minnesota State Senate
William Lingan Gaither (died 1858), Maryland State Senate
Synageles is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1876.

Species

 it contains nineteen species, found in the Old World from Spain to China, with one found in northern Africa (S. repudiatus from Egypt), and in the New World from Mexico to Canada, and the Bahamas:
Synageles albotrimaculatus (Lucas, 1846) – Spain, France, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey
Synageles bishopi Cutler, 1988 – USA
Synageles canadensis Cutler, 1988 – USA, Canada
Synageles charitonovi Andreeva, 1976 – Kazakhstan, Central Asia
Synageles dalmaticus (Keyserling, 1863) – Mediterranean, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Caucasus (Russia, Azerbaijan)
Synageles hilarulus (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Korea, Japan
Synageles idahoanus (Gertsch, 1934) – USA
Synageles leechi Cutler, 1988 – Canada
Synageles mexicanus Cutler, 1988 – USA, Mexico
Synageles morsei Logunov & Marusik, 1999 – Russia (Far East)
Synageles nigriculus Danilov, 1997 – Russia (South Siberia, Far East)
Synageles noxiosus (Hentz, 1850) – North America, Bahama Is.
Synageles occidentalis Cutler, 1988 – USA, Canada
Synageles persianus Logunov, 2004 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran
Synageles ramitus Andreeva, 1976 – Ukraine, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Mongolia, China
Synageles repudiatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Egypt
Synageles scutiger Prószyński, 1979 – Greece, Ukraine, Azerbaijan
Synageles subcingulatus (Simon, 1878) – Central Europe, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, West Siberia), Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
Synageles venator (Lucas, 1836) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Japan. Introduced to Canada

References

External links
 Photograph of S. venator
 Photograph of female S. venator

Further reading

Salticidae genera
Salticidae
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of North America
The lap steel ukulele is a type of and method of playing the ukulele

There are three main types of lap steel ukulele:

 Lap slide ukuleles, simply a ukulele with high action played with a slide
 Resonator ukuleles, particularly those with square necks.
 Electric lap steel ukuleles, generally solid-body instruments.

Lap slide and resonator ukuleles may also be fitted with pickups, but do not depend on electrical amplification to produce their sound.

Description
The distinguishing feature of a lap steel ukulele is that the strings are raised at both the nut and bridge ends of the fingerboard. This makes the frets unusable, and they may be replaced by markers on some ukuleles. Other lap steel ukuleles are designed to be adapted between lap and conventional playing, or are modified versions of conventional ukuleles, and the only difference may be the action height. Round-necked resonator ukuleles set up for steel playing fall into this category.  Ukuleles which are made exclusively for slide playing may have a "square" profile neck.

Lap steel ukuleles generally have four strings, in keeping with their ukulele heritage.

Playing

The lap steel ukulele is typically placed on the player's lap, or on a surface in front of the seated player.

The strings are not pressed to a fret when sounding a note, rather, the player holds a metal slide called a steel in the left hand, which is moved along the strings to change the instrument's pitch while the right hand plucks or picks the strings.

This method of playing greatly restricts the number of chords available, so lap steel music often features a restricted set of harmonies (such as in blues). Alternatively, the lap steel ukulele player can play the melody or another single part.

History
The lap steel ukulele appears to be a very recent development, with only a handful of professional musicians and large-scale manufacturers addressing the style and instrument.

Ukulele musician James Hill commissioned a square-neck raised action resonator ukulele from Beltona Resonator Instruments in order to develop his lap steel ukulele style.  Similarly, Indian slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya designed a four-string lap steel guitar, or "slide ukulele" which he calls the anandi.

Notable lap steel ukulele players
James Hill
Debashish Bhattacharya
Del Rey

Tunings
The lap steel ukulele may be tuned to the standard ukulele tuning, or to an open tuning.

See also
Lap steel guitar
Resonator ukulele
Electric ukulele
Ukulele

References

External links
: a description of the ukuleles owned by musician James Hill, including his Beltona resonator ukulele lap steel, including photographs and video.

Ukuleles
Continuous pitch instruments
Experimental musical instruments
John Douglas Armour (May 4, 1830 – July 11, 1903) was a Canadian Puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Born in the township of Otonabee, Upper Canada (now Ontario), the son of Samuel Armour, he was educated at Upper Canada College, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1850 from the University of Toronto. He then articled with his brother, Robert Armour, and then with Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnet.  He was called to the Bar in 1853 and practised law for 25 years in Cobourg, Ontario. In 1877, he was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench of Ontario and was appointed as its chief justice in November of that year. In 1901, he was appointed Chief Justice of Ontario. In November 1902 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, but only served seven months before his death. Armour died in London while there on work with the Boundary Commission.

Legacy
Mount Armour, aka Boundary Peak 175, a summit on the boundary between British Columbia and the US state of Alaska, was named for him.  Justice Armour was one of the original commissioners of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal and was replaced on it after his death by A.B. Aylesworth.

Also Armour Township in Ontario, Canada, was named after him.

References

External links
 Supreme Court of Canada biography
 People of Upper and Lower Canada

Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada
Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario
University of Toronto alumni
People from Peterborough County
1830 births
1903 deaths
Upper Canada College alumni
People from Cobourg
Canadian King's Counsel
Lance Robert Blankenship (born December 6, 1963) is an American former Major League Baseball utility player.

Blankenship played his entire career with the Oakland Athletics (1988–1993) after the A's drafted him in the 10th round of the 1986 MLB amateur draft.  He made his Major League Baseball debut on September 4, 1988, and played his final game on August 15, 1993.  His career concluded with a regular season .222 batting average, nine home runs, 92 runs batted in, and 54 stolen bases.

Blankenship played for the Athletics in two World Series. He was a member of the A's team that swept the San Francisco Giants in the 1989 World Series and the A's team that lost to the Cincinnati Reds in the 1990 World Series. In five postseason series, Blankenship tallied a career postseason .250 batting average with four runs scored and two stolen bases.

Blankenship's playing career was derailed by a rotator cuff injury which prevented his return to the Major Leagues. In 1995, he bought a tropical fish and aquarium store in San Ramon, California and, by 1998, he was managing it full-time.

References

External links

1963 births
Living people
Baseball players from Portland, Oregon
Medford A's players
Modesto A's players
Huntsville Stars players
Tacoma Tigers players
Oakland Athletics players
Major League Baseball second basemen
Major League Baseball outfielders
California Golden Bears baseball players
Sonoma County Crushers players
Bagneux may refer to:

Communes in France
Bagneux, Aisne
Bagneux, Allier
Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine
Bagneux, Indre
Bagneux, Marne
Bagneux, Meurthe-et-Moselle
Bagneux-la-Fosse, Aube

Other
Bagneux British Cemetery, département of the Somme
Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
Jayson Craig Bromley, Jr. (born May 28, 1992) is a former American football defensive tackle. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at Syracuse.

Early years
Bromley was born on May 28, 1992, in Jamaica, New York. His mother was addicted to crack and he was himself born with an addiction. His father, a pimp, beat one of his prostitutes after tying her to a radiator. She died, he was convicted of homicide, and sentenced to prison when Jay was just nine months old. Custody of Jay went to his aunt and uncle when he was four months old. He attended Flushing High School in Queens, New York, where he was named to the New York Post All-City First-team and was an all-borough selection following his senior season. He recorded 60 tackles and 12 sacks as a senior, while serving as team captain. He recorded over 40 sacks in his high school.

College career
He did not receive much recruiting attention, and only had a walk-on option at Stony Brook University. By June of his senior year, he was without any scholarship offers. However, after an invite to the Outback Steakhouse Empire Challenge, Bromley dominated the event, earning himself MVP honors. In the coming days, he received a scholarship from Syracuse University, which he accepted. During his career at Syracuse, Bromley recorded 121 tackles, including 25.5 for loss, 14 sacks, and three forced fumbles. After leading his team in tackles for loss (14.5) and sacks (10), as a senior, he was named a third-team All-ACC selection.

Professional career

New York Giants
Bromley was drafted by the New York Giants in the third round (74th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft.

In his four years with the Giants, Bromley played in 39 regular-season games as a reserve defensive tackle, recording 76 tackles, with a career-high 36 tackles in 2015.

New Orleans Saints
On May 14, 2018, Bromley signed with the New Orleans Saints. He was released on September 1, 2018. He was re-signed on September 18, 2018. He was placed on injured reserve on October 23, 2018, after suffering a torn biceps in Week 7.

San Francisco 49ers
On August 3, 2019, Bromley was signed by the San Francisco 49ers. He was released during final roster cuts on August 30, 2019.

DC Defenders
On November 22, 2019, Bromley was drafted by the DC Defenders in the 2020 XFL Draft. He had his contract terminated when the league suspended operations on April 10, 2020.

Bromley had a tryout with the Chicago Bears on August 20, 2020.

References

External links
 Syracuse Orange bio

1992 births
Living people
American football defensive tackles
DC Defenders players
Flushing High School alumni
New Orleans Saints players
New York Giants players
People from Jamaica, Queens
San Francisco 49ers players
Players of American football from Queens, New York
Syracuse Orange football players
Söndags-Nisse (Swedish: Sunday Nisse) was a humor magazine published in Stockholm, Sweden. It was in circulation between 1863 and 1924.

History and profile

Söndags-Nisse was founded by Gustaf Wahlbom in 1862. The magazine contributed to the career of cartoonist Oskar Andersson who published comic strips in the magazine in 1897. Other contributors to the magazine include Carl Larsson and Jenny Nyström.

Grönköpings Veckoblad, a satirical political magazine, started as a section of Söndags-Nisse in 1902. Söndags-Nisse ceased publication in 1924.

Original drawing of Gustaf Wahlbom published in the magazine is archived in the national museum of Sweden.

References

External links

1862 establishments in Sweden
1924 disestablishments in Sweden
Defunct magazines published in Sweden
Humor magazines
Magazines established in 1862
Magazines disestablished in 1924
Magazines published in Stockholm
Swedish humour
Satirical magazines published in Sweden
Swedish-language magazines
Carr Bank is a small hamlet near Arnside, Cumbria, England. It is in the civil parish of Beetham in South Lakeland local government district.

References

External links

Hamlets in Cumbria
Beetham
The 610th Security Forces Squadron (610 SFS) is a United States Air Force Reserve unit located at the Naval Air Station JRB Fort Worth. The unit is unique as it does not serve a law enforcement purpose on the base, but instead focuses on combat readiness. The unit was originally designated AFRES Ground Combat Readiness Center and was re-designated 610 SFS in November 1995. The 610th SFS has officially shut its doors on 1 October 2015, due to the federal budget for FY 2016.  Most of the traditional reservists merged with the 301st Security Forces Squadron, which is co-located on the same installation with the 610th SFS.

Mission 
To organize, train, and equip to meet worldwide contingency and Air Expeditionary Force requirements. And, to develop, manage, and execute ground combat skills and other readiness related training activities directed by HQ Air Force Reserve Command.

Training Courses 
There were nine training courses operated by the 610 SFS, including the Patriot Defender course located at Fort Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas.

Deployment History 
The 610 SFS had deployed five times to Afghanistan, three times to Iraq, twice to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Puerto Rico, as well as once to eleven other sites. In addition, it had conducted joint training with No. 2620 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment, a field squadron at RAF Marham, United Kingdom.

References 

Security squadrons of the United States Air Force
Michael M. Watkins is an American engineer, scientist, and a Professor of Aerospace and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He previously served as the 9th director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and as a vice president of Caltech, which staffs and manages JPL for NASA. His directorial position was effective from July 1, 2016 to August 20, 2021.

Education
Watkins attended the University of Texas at Austin and received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering in 1983, 1985 and 1990, respectively. For his doctoral degree, Watkins worked under the supervision of Bob E. Schutz.

Career
Watkins joined the staff at JPL in 1993 and stayed there 22 years. During that time, he served as chief scientist for JPL's Engineering and Science Directorate, manager of JPL's Science Division and manager of its Navigation and Mission Design Section. He was mission manager from development through landed operations for the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which sent the Curiosity rover to Mars. He also led NASA development and review teams for the Cassini, Mars Odyssey and Deep Impact robotic space missions. 
 
He served as project scientist for the GRACE, GRAIL and GRACE Follow-On missions. He was an originator of the concept for the GRACE mission, which uses a pair of Earth-orbiting satellites to make detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field anomalies. In addition, he has been a pioneer in the development and use of gravity data for new science applications to better understand Earth's climate and its evolution. Other research interests include mission design, instrument design and science analysis for acquisition and use of remote sensing data for Earth and other planets.

In 2015, Watkins left JPL to serve as the Clare Cockrell Williams Chair in Engineering and director of the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas at Austin before returning to JPL as director the following year.

He has published in both engineering and science, contributed more than 100 conference presentations, and serves or served on the boards of numerous international scientific and engineering societies. In addition, he has taught estimation, filtering theory and system engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and at Caltech.

Honors and awards
 2019 – The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM) Academy of Distinguished Alumni in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
 2020 – Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
 2022 – Member of the National Academy of Engineering

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American engineers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory faculty
Cockrell School of Engineering alumni
Polistes crinitus is a species of paper wasp most commonly found on Hispaniola, Jamaica and other small Caribbean islands. Subspecies of P. crinitus include Polistes crinitus crinitus, Polistes crinitus americanus, and Polistes crinitus multicolor.

References 

crinitus
Insects described in 1765
Conocephalus fasciatus, the slender meadow katydid, is a species of katydid of the family Tettigoniidae that is native to the United States and Canada.

Habitat
Conocephalus fasciatus is commonly found year-round throughout the United States and in the southern parts of Canada. They are commonly found in grassy and weedy areas in a large range of habitats including pastures, open pine woods and roadsides.

Diet
The diet of C. fasciatus mainly consists of grasses and grass seedheads, which are readily available in their habitats.

Identification
It is a small, slender katydid with long, narrow wings that extend beyond its posterior.  On average, C. fasciatus are 18–26 mm in length and are usually a combination of brown and green in color. In males, the cerci are green and have a stout tooth on the inner border as well as a tip that is weakly flattened. They have a straight ovipositor that is two-thirds the length of the hind femur.  The Slender Meadow Katydid has a soft song that is a sequence of alternating ticks and buzzes that vary in duration from 1–20 seconds.

References

fasciatus
Gymnopilus acystidiatus is a species of mushroom-forming fungus in the family Hymenogastraceae. It is found in Jalisco, Mexico, where it grows in pine and oak woodland. The fungus was described as new to science in 1991 by Gastón Guzmán and his daughter Laura Guzmán-Dávalos.

See also

List of Gymnopilus species

References

acystidiatus
Fungi described in 1991
Fungi of Mexico
Taxa named by Gastón Guzmán
Fungi without expected TNC conservation status
Sneh Gupta (born 12 May 1957) is an actress and the executive director of Sucheta Kriplani Shiksha Niketan (SKSN), a residential school for students with physical challenges. She is known for her work on the British television shows Sale of the Century and Angels, as well as her role as Princess Sushila in the film The Far Pavilions. She also founded a production company.

Early life
Gupta was born in Kenya on 12 May 1957, as one of five children to Indian parents. Her father was a teacher and she attended whichever school he taught at.

She travelled as a child in order to follow her father's teaching career. However, not wishing to get engaged and wanting her own independence, she left home aged 17 and spent a year studying in Germany before going to England.

Acting and modelling 
While living in Bedford after moving to the United Kingdom in 1974, Gupta initially studied to become a nurse. Saying that she did so "for a laugh", she decided to audition for Miss Anglia TV which she won, gaining public notice in 1977. This in turn led to her becoming a hostess on the ITV gameshow Sale of the Century alongside Nicholas Parsons for a year until 1978, after which she opened a fashion boutique called Plumage in Bedford. She then tried a modelling career but gave it up, realising she could not keep it in parallel with an acting career. Debuting in Angels, Gupta proceeded to make appearances in Turtle's Progress, Lingalongamax, Crossroads, Doctor Who (1984's Resurrection of the Daleks), Kim, Tandoori Nights and Octopussy.

In 1981, she starred in An Arranged Marriage, an ITV drama about a Sikh who moved to the Midlands in the 1950s, and the arranged marriages for himself and for his daughter. The storyline was based on information from interviews with more than 250 Sikhs. Her character in The Far Pavillions engages in suttee, a scene described by Roy West in The Liverpool Echo as "one of the dramatic highlights of this spectacular series". She was a guest on Blankety Blank in 1987. Gupta presented the series Switch On To English, a quiz show for people who spoke English as a second language, in 1986, and Bol Chaal, a Hindi and Urdu language-learning programme, in 1989. In 1991, she co-hosted the magazine programme One World with Mike Shaft.

In 1987, Gupta cut her hair short as part of an attempt to avoid typecasting as a young, reserved woman, but was not offered the wider range of roles that she hoped. She also formed her own production company.

Production work
Gupta moved to India in 1996 where she worked on documentaries as a researcher, location manager, assistant producer and director for a variety of broadcasters.

Executive director of SKSN
Gupta is the executive director of Sucheta Kriplani Shiksha Niketan (SKSN), a school for students with physical challenges and started the Indian Mixed Ability Group Events (IMAGE) programme in 2004, leading to the founding of the Indiability Foundation in 2011.

References

External links

Foundation

20th-century Kenyan actresses
Living people
1957 births
Actors from Nairobi
Kenyan film actresses
Kenyan television actresses