Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Trapunto, from the Italian for "to quilt", is a method of quilting that is also called "stuffed technique". A puffy, decorative feature, trapunto utilizes at least two layers, the underside of which is slit and padded, producing a raised surface on the quilt.

History
The style originated in Italy before the 14th century.

Technique
Trapunto is often confused with the relatively similar techniques used in making traditional whole cloth Provençal quilts that were developed from the 17th century onwards in France.

Earliest
One of the earliest surviving examples of trapunto quilting is the Tristan Quilt in the Victoria and Albert Museum, a linen quilt representing scenes from the story of Tristan and Isolde which was made in Sicily during the second half of the 13th century. Another piece of the Tristan Quilt, thought to be from a pair to the V. & A.'s example, is in the Bargello, an art museum in Florence.

Modern
The technique was used for the inner-tunic collars worn in Starfleet uniforms from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. As of the 1980s, functional trapunto machines were rare, and the specialized needles which they employed were even rarer.

References

Quilting
Fabio Di Giannantonio (born 10 October 1998) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer, riding for Gresini Racing in MotoGP.

Career

Early career
Born in Rome, in 2015 Di Giannantonio finished as the runner-up in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, where he had debuted the year before, and in the CIV Moto3 championship;

Moto3 World Championship

Gresini Racing Moto3 (2015–2016)
In the same year he made his Grand Prix debut in the Moto3 World Championship with the Gresini Racing team at the Valencian Grand Prix as the replacement for the injured Andrea Locatelli, finishing the race in 23rd place.

For 2016 he was signed by the same team as a full-time rider in the same class. At the sixth race of the season, at Mugello, Di Giannantonio achieved his first championship points and his first podium finish with a second place, starting a streak of top ten finishes—including two more podiums, another second place at Assen and a third place in Brno.

Del Conca Gresini Moto3 (2017–2018)

Moto2 World Championship

Speed Up Racing (2019–2020)

Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 (2021)

MotoGP World Championship

Gresini Racing MotoGP (2022–present)

Career statistics

Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup

Races by year
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

By class

Races by year
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

 Season still in progress.

References

External links

1998 births
Living people
Italian motorcycle racers
Moto3 World Championship riders
Sportspeople from Rome
Moto2 World Championship riders
MotoGP World Championship riders
Gresini Racing MotoGP riders
21st-century Italian people
Aja West was an American funk musician. 

West first emerged onto the music scene in 1998 with his debut record White Moses. In 1999, he released the progressive hip-hop album Trauma...Life in the E.R. on his own Mackrosoft Records label. The album pays homage to artists like Beastie Boys and Eminem. West's albums are recorded in three Mackrosoft Studios around the country: The Sauna Room in Eagle Rock, California, The Mochi Factory in Los Angeles, California, and The Trophy Room in Mercer Island, Washington. West also records with his brother Cheeba as Aja West and Cheeba, and is a member of The Mackrosoft. West and Cheeba's Flash & Snowball won Best Jam Album at the 2006 Independent Music Awards. West was also winner of the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards Jam Album of the Year for "The Olympian" AND "Total Recall 2012" won R&B Album of the year.

Discography

Albums 
 White Moses (1998)
 Trauma...Life in the E.R. (1999, Mackrosoft)

References

External links 
 
 Mackrosoft Records website
 2007 interview at smallworldpodcast.com

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American funk musicians
Independent Music Awards winners
Publius Cornelius Rufinus was a Roman politician and general of the third century BC. 

He is often thought to be a son of Publius Cornelius Rufinus, dictator in 334 BC, but this is impossible because the Fasti Capitolini say that his father was a certain Gnaeus Cornelius Rufinus and his grandfather was Publius Cornelius Rufinus, probably the dictator (note the 44-year gap in between Publius the Elder's dictatorship and Publius the Younger's first consulship). 

Rufinus was consul twice and dictator once, the latter in an unknown year. He brought the Samnite War to an end in his first consulship, in 290 BC, with his colleague Manius Curius Denatus. In the elections of 277 BC, Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, consul the previous year, was an opponent of Rufinus but voted for him anyway, seeing that Rufinus was the only candidate with military genius. When Rufinus thanked him for the support, or when the people inquired why he voted for his opponent, Fabricius replied, "I would rather be robbed by a fellow countryman than sold by the enemy [as a slave]."

Rufinus took up arms again because of the vulnerability of the enemy, in his second consulship in 277 BC, in which he captured the towns of Croton and Locri, but his reputation suffered severely because of his avarice and cruelty. Two years later, Rufinus was expelled from the senate by Fabricius, who was censor at the time, when he was found to have possessed over ten librae (or pounds) of silver plate. 

He was also the great-great-great grandfather of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, and a father of Publius Cornelius Sulla, Flamen Dialis c. 250 BC.

See also
 Cornelia gens

References

3rd-century BC Roman consuls
Rufinus, Publius
Ancient Roman dictators
Roman patricians
A Bit of Previous is the eleventh studio album by Scottish band Belle and Sebastian, released on 6 May 2022 through Matador Records. It was preceded by the singles "Unnecessary Drama", "If They're Shooting at You" and "Young and Stupid". A non-album single, also called "A Bit of Previous", was released in June 2022.

Background
Belle and Sebastian intended to record A Bit of Previous in Los Angeles until the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to stay in their home city of Glasgow, making the album their first to be recorded there since 1999. The album title is a phrase used by the father of bassist Bobby Kildea to "winkingly acknowledge past relationships", although NME interpreted the title to be a reference to the Buddhist concept of reincarnation in that "you may already have 'previous' with people you meet".

Critical reception
On review aggregator Metacritic, A Bit of Previous received a score of 78 out of 100 based on 16 critics' reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reception. Quinn Moreland, writing for Pitchfork, felt that the "lyrics share a tight thematic focus" characterised by Belle and Sebastian's "clear, aphoristic language", although musically, "A Bit of Previous touches on a little bit of everything". Gary Ryan of NME highlighted the "universally lovely melodies and earworm choruses" and concluded that "All of the well-worn Belle and Sebastian hallmarks are present, but what's truly impressive is how effortless it all sounds this time around." Steve Erickson characterised the album as an "endearingly self-aware nostalgia trip", summarising that it "strikes a balance between the band's familiar sound and proving they still have something to say".

Bella Fleming of The Line of Best Fit wrote that due to the circumstance of being recorded in Glasgow it at first appeared "set to be standout, yet ultimately misses the mark". Fleming judged that while "carrying the same overall feel of If You're Feeling Sinister and The Boy With the Arab Strap, it lacks the depth and storytelling brilliance that originally made this band so exciting". Reviewing the album for PopMatters, Hayden Merrick stated that from the first track, A Bit of Previous "refutes the assumption that this is a return-to-form album. [...] Even the album title [...] seems to admit that golden age Belle and Sebastian will have only a bit part in this new release." Merrick felt that the band still only have "some" of what they used to.

Track listing

Charts

References

2022 albums
Belle and Sebastian albums
Matador Records albums
Coatonachthodes ovambolandicus is a termite-mimicking beetle which lives as a parasite in their nests. It looks roughly like a termite from above, though its legs look like "twisted balloons" rather than real insect legs. This less than accurate emulation can be explained by looking at the beetle from the side rather than down at its dorsum. The beetle's head and leg-bearing thorax are minuscule relative to its large abdomen. This part of the body is bent back towards the anterior (head) end, covering the rest of its body. It is the abdomen alone which is visible from above, providing a deceptive 'umbrella' that looks like a termite. The rear end thus acts as the termite 'head', and its appendages (legs and antennae) are composed of moving flaps attached to the abdomen's upper side.

Although the mimicry is not as convincing as that of other mimics, such as the ant mimic Labidus praedator, the evolution of the resemblance is certainly remarkable considering the changes required. In Climbing Mount Improbable, Richard Dawkins describes this imitation as "one of the most astonishing spectacles in all natural history."

References

Further reading

Staphylinidae
Parasitic insects
Parasites of insects
Group 5 consisted of five of the 50 teams entered into the European zone: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Israel, Luxembourg, and Russia. These five teams competed on a home-and-away basis for two of the 15 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone, with the group's winner and runner-up claiming those spots.

Standings

Results

Notes

External links 
Group 5 Detailed Results at RSSSF

5
1996–97 in Bulgarian football
Qual
1996–97 in Cypriot football
1997–98 in Cypriot football
1996–97 in Israeli football
1997–98 in Israeli football
1996–97 in Luxembourgian football
1997–98 in Luxembourgian football
1996 in Russian football
1997 in Russian football
Cyperus myrmecias is a species of sedge that is native to parts of tropical parts of southern Africa.

See also 
 List of Cyperus species

References 

myrmecias
Plants described in 1884
Flora of Zambia
Flora of Angola
Flora of Zimbabwe
Taxa named by Henry Nicholas Ridley
The International Maj Lind Piano Competition is organized by the Sibelius Academy and takes place in Helsinki, Finland.
Originally a national competition that was first held in 1945, it was opened to international competitors in 2002 and
has since then been held every five years.

The competition is named after Maria (Maj) Lind, née Kopjeff (1876–1942).

In 2022, prize money of over €100,000 was awarded.  The first prize was won by .

In 2017 the first prize was won by .

In 2012 the first prize was won by Sergei Redkin.

In 2007 the first prize was won by Sofya Gulyak.

In 2002 the first prize was won by Alberto Nosè.

References 

Music competitions in Finland
Days in the Country () is a 2004 French-Chilean drama film written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. It won the International Critics Award at the Lima Latin American Film Festival in 2006.

Plot
Two elderly men converse in a bar in Santiago de Chile, speaking as if they are deceased, blurring the line between reality and imagination.

Cast
 Marcial Edwards
 Mario Montilles
 Bélgica Castro
 Ignacio Agüero
 Francisco Reyes
 Amparo Noguera

References

External links
 
 Description at Rouge online film magazine by Maxime Renaudin

2004 films
2004 drama films
2000s French-language films
Films directed by Raúl Ruiz
French drama films
Chilean drama films
2000s French films

2000s Chilean films
Otepää Landscape Conservation Area (or Otepää Nature Park) is a nature park situated in Valga County, Estonia.

It's area is 22 209 ha.

References

Nature reserves in Estonia
Geography of Valga County
Tourist attractions in Valga County
Colonel Timothy James Earl, OBE was Private Secretary to the Princess Royal between 1999 and 2002.  He was educated at Brentwood School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Commissioned into The Life Guards in 1964, he was promoted Major in 1976, and was later Commanding Officer of The Life Guards. He was promoted to Colonel in 1988 and attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1989.

He retired from the British Army in 1993 and became Secretary of the Government Hospitality Fund.

In 1999 he joined the Office of the Princess Royal.

The Household of The Princess Royal provides the administrative support to Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. It is based at Buckingham Palace, and is headed by the Private Secretary.

The Household is separate from the Royal Household and is funded from the Civil List annuity paid to The Princess Royal for her public duties - which is however reimbursed to HM Treasury by Her Majesty The Queen.

Colonel Earl was made an OBE in 2000.

References

Living people
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
British Life Guards officers
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
People educated at Brentwood School, Essex
Year of birth missing (living people)
Graduates of the Royal College of Defence Studies
Linnaeosicyos is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae. The only species is Linnaeosicyos amara .

It is native to the Dominican Republic.

The genus name of Linnaeosicyos is in honour of Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). The Latin specific epithet of amara is derived from amarus meaning bitter.
Both genus and species were first described in Syst. Bot. Vol.33 on page 350 in 2008.

References

Cucurbitaceae
Monotypic Cucurbitaceae genera
Plants described in 2008
Flora of the Dominican Republic
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
Tell Bazmusian is an archaeological site on the right bank of the Little Zab in the Ranya Plain (Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq). The site was excavated between 1956 and 1958 by Iraqi archaeologists as part of a salvage operation to document cultural remains that would be flooded by Lake Dukan, the reservoir created by the Dukan Dam which was being built at that time. Apart from Tell Bazmusian, four other sites were excavated during this operation: ed-Dem, Kamarian, Qarashina and Tell Shemshara. Bazmusian is a tell, or settlement mound, with a circumference of  and a height of . Together with Tell Shemshara, it is one of the largest archaeological sites in the Ranya Plain. When the excavations started, the southeast flank of the mound was occupied by a village that was only established at the beginning of the 20th century. The site is now submerged under Lake Dukan.

The excavations have revealed 16 occupation layers, ranging from the Samarra culture (sixth millennium BCE) up to the ninth century CE. The finds of level I consisted of a fragmented pebble foundations, ninth-century CE pottery and mudbricks. Level II also contained Islamic material. Level III, to be dated to the late second millennium BCE, contained a single-room temple with thick mudbrick walls. Pottery dated to the mid- to late-second millennium BCE. In a pit outside of this temple, several clay tablet fragments were found. Although they were too damaged to be read, based on stylistic details they could be dated to the Middle Assyrian period. An earlier version of this temple was uncovered in level IV. In level V, plastered mudbrick walls were found. Levels VI–XVI contained material dating to the third millennium BCE, the Uruk period and of the Samarra and Halaf cultures but this has not yet been published.

References 

Bazmusian
Bazmusian
Bazmusian
Bazmusian
Samarra culture
Halaf culture
The Yorkshire Ladies' Council of Education (YLCE) is an English charitable institution founded in 1875 to support women's education.

Its current principal activity is the giving of educational grants of £200–£400 to help with course fees for British women over 21 with a place on a course for which they cannot obtain student funding.

History
The Yorkshire Board of Education established a Ladies Committee in 1866, and the Ladies Honorary Council of the Yorkshire Board of Education was founded on 1 January 1871. In 1875 this group became independent of the board and became the Yorkshire Ladies Council of Education. It was incorporated in 1904.

The council was involved in, or supported, the establishment of the Yorkshire School of Cookery (1874), Bradford Girls' Grammar School (1875), Leeds Girls' High School (1876), Yorkshire College of Science (precursor of the University of Leeds, 1878), Wakefield Girls' High School (1878), the West Riding Nursing Association (1907), and several other social work projects including Forest Hill residential home for the elderly, opened in 1960 and now a sheltered housing scheme operated by a separate charity Yorkshire Ladies Council (Hostels) Ltd. Lady Frederick Cavendish was the council's president 1885–1912.

The council's archive is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service. A history of the council was published by the Thoresby Society in 1979.

Secretarial college
The Yorkshire Ladies Secretarial College was founded by the council in 1918 at 7 Cookridge Street, Leeds. It later moved to 18 Blenheim Terrace, opposite the University of Leeds, and closed on 1 January 1988.

Notes

References

External links

Women's organisations based in England
Charities based in West Yorkshire
Educational charities based in the United Kingdom
Schizachyrium maritimum is a species of grass known by the common name Gulf bluestem. It is native to the Gulf Coast of the United States, where its distribution extends from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

This species produces single stems that lie decumbent, often rooting at nodes that come in contact with the sandy substrate, making them look like rhizomes. The stems are waxy and reddish in color. The leaf blades are 11 centimeters to well over one meter long.

This plant grows at the coastal waterline. It is sometimes submerged in water. It binds the soil. It is considered "the most important species of bluestem grass on the Gulf of Mexico." It is commonly used in coastal revegetation projects on the Gulf. It provides habitat for several types of animals.

References

External links
NatureServe

maritimum
Taxa named by Alvan Wentworth Chapman
Lamson may refer to:

Surname 
Chuck Lamson (1939–2015), American football player
Father Lamson, 19th-century American eccentric, attended abolitionist meetings in a long white beard and white robe, and carrying a large scythe
Fred I. Lamson (1910–1981), American politician, Mayor of Malden, Massachusetts, and  member of the Massachusetts Senate
George Henry Lamson (1852–1882), American doctor and murderer
Gertrude Lamson, or Nance O'Neil (1874–1965), American actress of stage and silent cinema of the early 20th century
Laura Lamson (1948–2008), American screenwriter and university lecturer, based in England throughout her career
Lucy Stedman Lamson (1857–1926), American business woman, educator
Otis Lamson (1876–1956), American football player and coach
Roswell Lamson (1838–1903), officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War
William Lamson (born 1977), American installation, performance and generative artist

Middle name 
Carl Lamson Carmer (1893–1976), American author of nonfiction, memoirs and novels
Mortimer Lamson Earle (1864–1905), American classical scholar
Edward Lamson Henry (1841–1919), American genre painter
Flora Lamson Hewlett (1914–1977), American philanthropist
Nathaniel Lamson Howard (1884–1949), American railroad executive
Thomas Lamson Ludington (born 1953), United States federal judge
Edwin Lamson Stanton (1814–1869), Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War

Buildings 
Lamson Farm, a working 18th century farm and town-owned conservation land in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire
Newton Lamson House, historic house at 33 Chestnut Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts
Rufus Lamson House, historic house at 72-74 Hampshire Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ships 
USS Lamson (DD-18), Smith class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I
USS Lamson (DD-328), Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I
USS Lamson (DD-367), Mahan-class destroyer of the United States Navy named for Roswell Hawkes Lamson

Engineering 
Lamson L-106 Alcor, American, high-wing, experimental, pressurized research glider
Lamson tube, systems in which cylindrical containers are propelled through a network of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum
Lamson Engineering Company Ltd, the best known British manufacturer of Cash Ball, Rapid Wire and Pneumatic tube delivery systems from 1937 to 1976
Lamson PL-1 Quark, American high-wing, single-seat, glider that was designed and constructed by Philip Lamson, first flying in early 1965

Other 
Battle of Lamson or Operation Lam Son 719, offensive campaign conducted in Laos by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam in 1971
Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, houses one of the largest collections of theological books in the United States

See also
Lampson (disambiguation)
Moisiejus Leonas Koganas (February 20, 1894, Šiauliai – May 30, 1956, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian Jewish medical doctor specializing in lung diseases, particularly tuberculosis.

In 1919, he graduated from Moscow University. During World War I, he served as a doctor in the Red Army. In 1921–40 he worked as a physicians in Kaunas. He was one of the first to perform thoracocautery and practice tracheobronchoscopy in Lithuania. After the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union in June 1940, he became Minister of Health in the short-lived People's Government of Lithuania (it was a new ministry; before, there was only the Health Department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs). He spent World War II working at various tuberculosis clinics in the interior of the Soviet Union (Mordovia, Kirghizia, Gorky Oblast, Moscow Oblast). After the war, he returned to Lithuania working in Vilnius as director (1945–46) and deputy director (1947–51) of the Tuberculosis Institute. He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1947. In the wake of the Doctors' plot, Koganas was arrested in February 1953 and accused of communicating with other arrested doctors, preferring Western treatment methods, and giving poor medical care to various communist workers and activists.

References

1894 births
1956 deaths
People from Šiauliai
People from Kovno Governorate
Lithuanian Jews
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Lithuanian pulmonologists
Lithuanian collaborators with the Soviet Union (1940–41)
Soviet pulmonologists
Moscow State University alumni