Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Phoenix theophrasti, the Cretan date palm, is a palm native to the eastern Mediterranean, in Greece and Turkey. It and Chamaerops humilis (the European fan palm) are the only native palm trees in continental Europe; areas forested with these species constitute Europe's only palm forests. Similarly in Turkey, it is the only native palm species; all other species—although much more common—are introduced.

Taxonomy 
The specific epithet theophrasti was chosen by the Swiss botanist Werner Greuter in 1967 for the fact that Theophrastus, the ancient Greek "father of botany", had described several types of palms, including one from Crete.

A genomic study from New York University Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology showed that domesticated date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) varieties from North Africa, including well-known varieties such as Medjool and Deglet Noor, are a hybrid between Middle East date palms and P. theophrasti.

Description
Apart from the usually inedible dates and upright fruit clusters, the Cretan species can appear quite similar to the cultivated date.

Phoenix theophrasti grows up to 15 m tall, usually with several slender stems. The leaves are pinnate, 2–3 m long, with numerous rigid greyish-green linear leaflets 15–50 cm long on each side of the central rachis. Dead leaves are marcescent, remaining attached to the stem for years after withering. The fruit is an oval yellowish-brown drupe 1.5 cm long and 1 cm diameter and containing a single large seed. The fruit pulp is too thin and fibrous to be of agricultural significance and has an acrid taste, though the fruits are sometimes eaten by the locals.

Distribution
The species has a relatively restricted distribution, mostly confined to southern Greece (a few sites on Crete and nearby islands), as well as some places on the Turkish coast.

Greece 
Sites on Crete include Vai in the Lasithi Prefecture, Ayios Nikitas in Heraklion Prefecture, and Preveli gorge and Souda near Plakias, both on the south coasts of Crete in Rethymnon Prefecture. Trees are also found on Amorgos island, on Halki Island, and on the south coast of Anafi island. Recently, around 10 trees, the only natural stand on the mainland, were found in an ancient palm forest in the Epidaurus area in Peloponnese. It has been proposed that its range was much more widespread in Ancient Greece, growing from Crete to Thebes and from the Peloponnese to Delos.

Turkey 
Its presence in Turkey was not described scientifically until the 1980s. There are four stands in southwest Turkey, especially on the Datça and Bodrum Peninsulas in Muğla Province and in Kumluca-Karaöz in Finike Bay. The plants form a grove in the village of Gölköy in northern Bodrum are considered by some as a subspecies, having a shorter stem (4–8 m) but longer fruit stalks (.6–2 m).

References and external links

Davis, P. H., ed. (1965-1985). Flora of Turkey. Edinburgh.
Phoenix theophrasti – information, genetic conservation units and related resources. European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN)

theophrasti
Flora of Crete
Trees of Europe
Trees of Turkey
Near threatened plants
Plants described in 1967
Baeckea subcuneata is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to an area near the west coast of Western Australia. It is a shrub that typically grows to a height of  and blooms between August and November producing white-pink flowers. It is found on sand dunes and sandstone outcrops in the coastal parts of the Mid West region of Western Australia in a small area near Geraldton where it grows in sandy soils.

The species was first formally described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1864 in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected near the Murchison River by Augustus Oldfield. It is listed as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.

See also
List of Baeckea species

References

Flora of Western Australia
subcuneata
Plants described in 1864
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
Leon J. Lombardi (born April 16, 1949 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977–1983 and as the Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1990-1992. He was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1982. He was appointed an associate justice of the Massachusetts Land Court Department by Gov. William Weld in 1995 and retired in 2008.

References 

1949 births
Boston University School of Law alumni
Living people
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Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
People from Brockton, Massachusetts
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People from Easton, Massachusetts
Roslindale Village station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station on the Needham Line, located in the Roslindale Square business district of the Roslindale neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. The station has a single side platform serving the line's single track, with a mini-high platform for accessibility.

History

The Boston and Providence Railroad (B&P) opened its West Roxbury Branch from  to  via West Roxbury on June 3, 1850. Stations at South Street (later Roslindale, now Roslindale Village), Central (), and  all opened with the branch.

A grade crossing elimination project in the late 1890s raised the tracks above grade. A rail bridge was built over Roberts Street, while South Street was cut at the tracks, with only a pedestrian underpass. The 1898-built bridge over Roberts Street was be replaced with a modern bridge in June 2021. The new bridge was designed to allow construction of a parallel span should a second track be later added.

Bus connections

Roslindale Square is an important bus transfer location; nine MBTA bus routes run on Washington Street between Forest Hills and Roslindale, then fan out to the south and west. Five of these routes (plus the 14, which terminates at Roslindale Square) serve the station directly via Belgrade Avenue:
: Roslindale Square–
: – via Cummins Highway and Roslindale Square
: Dedham Mall or Stimson Street–Forest Hills station
: Millennium Park or VA Hospital–Forest Hills station
: Baker Street & Vermont Street–Forest Hills station
: Reservoir station–Forest Hills station

Four additional routes stop on Washington Street about  east of the station:
: Dedham Square–Forest Hills station
: Walpole Center–Forest Hills station
: Georgetowne–Forest Hills station
: Cleary Square–Forest Hills station

Route , a single early-morning trip, also serves Roslindale Square.

References

External links

MBTA - Roslindale Village
 Robert Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

MBTA Commuter Rail stations in Boston
Former Old Colony Railroad stations
1850 establishments in Massachusetts

Railway stations in the United States opened in 1850
"Shine on Silver Sun" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1974 album Hero and Heroine. It is written by Dave Cousins and was intended as a "come-back" single after the post-"Part of the Union" band split. The single was a minor success peaking at number 34 in the UK Singles Chart.

B-Side

The B-side track "And Wherefore" is a band composition, not released on any studio album. It forms the second part of the composite song "Why and Wherefore" which appears on the compilation/rarities album Halcyon Days.

Personnel

Dave Cousins – vocals, acoustic guitar
Dave Lambert – backing vocals, electric guitar
Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar
Rod Coombes – drums
John Hawken – piano, mellotron

References
"Shine on Silver Sun" at Strawbsweb official site

External links 
Lyrics to "Shine on Silver Sun" at Strawbsweb official site
Lyrics to "And Wherefore" at Strawbsweb official site

1973 singles
Strawbs songs
1973 songs
Songs written by Dave Cousins
In Fire Forged, published February 1, 2011,
is the fifth anthology of stories set in the Honor Harrington universe or Honorverse.
The stories in the anthologies serve to introduce characters, provide deeper more complete backstory and flesh out the universe, so claim the same canonical relevance as exposition in the main series.  David Weber, author of the mainline Honor Harrington series, serves as editor for the anthologies, maintaining fidelity to the series canons

The book contains the following stories:
 "Ruthless" by Jane Lindskold, a sequel to her previous short story ("Promised Land" from The Service of the Sword), involving the Royal scion Michael Winton and Judith of Masada.

 "An Act of War" by Timothy Zahn, is a sequel to his previous short story ("With One Stone" from The Service of the Sword). It features "Charles", a slippery, conniving, elusive, less than totally honest dealer in black-market technology.

 "Let's Dance" by David Weber, is the longest story.  It covers the Casimir raid prior to On Basilisk Station, and how then-Commander Honor Harrington broke up a slave depot on Casimir (an event mentioned in At All Costs).

 "An Introduction to Modern Starship Armor Design", by Mr. Hegel DiLutorio, CAPT, RMN, ret. HMSS Hephaestus, 1906 PD is an in depth design study regarding the history and design of laser heads and armor.

References 

 Story title information from the Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:29 pm entry at the davidweber.net Blog site.

External links 
 In Fire Forged: Worlds of Honor V at Baen Ebooks

2011 anthologies
Honorverse books
Science fiction anthologies
Baen Books books
August Stähelin (16 September 1812 – 28 September 1886) was a Swiss politician and President of the Swiss Council of States (1857/1858).

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1812 births
1886 deaths
Politicians from Basel-Stadt
Swiss Calvinist and Reformed Christians
Members of the Council of States (Switzerland)
Presidents of the Council of States (Switzerland)
Pierre Baroni (30 October 1955 – 9 March 2021) was an Australian radio broadcaster, artist, and musician.

Career 
Pierre Baroni was born in Kew, Victoria in 1955, and grew up in Glenroy. He was a member of Melbourne pub band Carmine in the mid-1970s who were described by Ian "Molly" Meldrum as "one of the future top bands of Australia" on his Countdown tv program. After the band broke up, Baroni formed Power by Beat! (P.X.B.) in 1977, who released one EP in 1978.

In late 1980, Baroni joined New Wave band The Aliens, who had previously released singles and an album on Mushroom Records. After Baroni joined, The Aliens released their single I Don’t Care in 1981 and then broke up. During this time he began DJing his collection of 60s vinyl records at a Monday night called Shout, run by Rob Furst, owner of Beat Magazine, before joining his brother Dean Baroni in a new band Filed of Knives, who then became The Pony.

Formed in 1986, The Pony released two albums Thorns and Cutlery (1987) and Memories of Daydreams (1989) before breaking up in 1990.

Baroni then began working in the art department for Mushroom Records in 1990, designing record covers, and later directing music videos. After three months he was promoted to Art Director, and he created artwork for albums such as Archie Roach’s Charcoal Lane, and others for Tina Arena and Jimmy Barnes. His work for Mushroom was nominated and won ARIA Awards for Best Cover Art.

During the 90s, Baroni was a regular guest on Vince Peach's Soul Time radio program for Melbourne community radio station PBS. He then began presenting his own program Soulgroove’66 in 2003, sourcing records from his own collection of around 5,000 soul, funk and R&B singles.

In March 2021 he died from cancer, with PBS posting a series of tributes from his friends and listeners of his radio program. The theme song to Soulgroove’66 by Renée Geyer was released on vinyl as a tribute to Baroni following the news of his death. The recording featured Geyer and Baroni with organist Jake Mason, drummer Danny Farrugia, and bass player Yuri Pavlinov as the fictional band The New Cobras.

Pierre Baroni was inducted posthumously into Music Victoria’s Hall of Fame at the 2021 Music Victoria Awards, with tributes from Jimmy Barnes and Archie Roach.

References 

1955 births
2021 deaths
Australian radio people
Australian artists
Artists from Melbourne
People from Kew, Victoria
People from the City of Merri-bek
Radio personalities from Melbourne
Musicians from Melbourne
The Sawley map, formerly known as the Henry of Mainz map, is the earliest surviving mappa mundi (world map) made in England. It was made between about 1180 and the early 13th century. The map is the frontispiece of a copy of the Imago mundi of Honorius of Autun. It is oriented with east (and the Garden of Eden) at the top and the island of Delos at the centre.

The map takes up the second page (folio 1v) of manuscript 66 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The first folio is of thicker vellum than the rest of the manuscript. The manuscript was probably copied at Durham Priory before being given to Sawley Abbey (now in Lancashire) in the early 13th century. The map is oval in shape, with winged figures (angels, not winds) decorating the four corners of the rectangular page. It measures about . Across the top of the page is a faint ex libris in Latin: Liber s[an]c[t]e Marie de Salleia, 'book of Saint Mary's of Sawley'.

The map depicts three continents—Asia, Africa and Europe—surrounded by a world ocean. It is in colour, with green representing the ocean and purple the rivers. Mountains are depicted as series of red lobes. Places are marked by circles, square and pictographic symbols, such as towers or, in the case of Jerusalem, a temple. Delos, at the centre, was noted for its pagan temples. It is depicted as a circle surrounded by smaller circles (the Cyclades). The Orkneys are depicted in the same way.

The Sawley map is usually grouped with other encyclopaedic mappae mundi of the same period, such as the Hereford map and Ebstorf map (since destroyed). It contains much fanciful material and many pieces of information derived from the Bible and the classics. It may belong to a northern French tradition, if it was copied from the mappa mundi which Bishop Hugh of Le Puiset bequeathed to Durham Priory in 1195.

The misattribution of the map to Henry of Mainz, possibly the future Archbishop Henry I, stems from a misreading of the prologue, which states that this version of the Imago mundi was edited by Henry in 1110. It does not mention the map, which is not an integral part of the Imago but was created decades later. Whether or not the Cambridge MS. 66 version of the text was even edited by any Henry of Mainz has been challenged. No other manuscript of the Imago contains a copy of the Sawley map or one like it. The only thing that can be said for certain of the connection between the Sawley map and the accompanying text is that they could be found bound together at Sawley shortly after 1200.

Notes

Bibliography

External links
Virtual Mappa 2.0 — contains an annotated Sawley map

12th-century maps
Historic maps of the world
Big Australia was a term used by former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to describe an increase in the population of Australia from 22 million in 2010 to 36 million in 2050, along with the policies needed to react to it. 

In 2009, Rudd stated that he was in favour of a "big Australia" in response to a demographic projection in the Government's Intergenerational Report, which showed that the population of Australia would increase from 22 million in 2010 to 35 million in 2050. A portion of the growth involved continued high rates of immigration to Australia, which proved controversial. In April 2010, Rudd appointed Tony Burke to the position of Minister for Population and asked him to develop a population policy.

Julia Gillard, who ousted Rudd from office in June 2010, stated shortly after taking over that she did not support Rudd's position. In her opinion, a "big Australia" would be unsustainable. Gillard's position was "a sustainable Australia, not a big Australia". The Government released a "sustainable population strategy" in May 2011, which did not specify a target population. In October 2011 trade minister Craig Emerson released a paper with Gillard's approval that advocated for continued rapid rates of population growth.

Demographic projections released by the Queensland Centre for Population Research in 2011 found that there is a 50 per cent likelihood of Australia's population being larger than 35 million by 2050. Similarly, the latest ABS projections (3222.0) have a midpoint projection of 37.1 million for 2050. These projections always assume net migration of at least 175,000, a figure unknown to Australia before 2006, when John Howard achieved 182,000.

References

Further reading

Political history of Australia
Demographics of Australia
Tianjin–Weifang–Yantai high-speed railway is a high-speed railway currently under construction in China. The railway will have a design speed of . Weifang–Yantai section of the railway is expected to open in 2024 and Tianjin–Weifang section is expected to open in 2027.

History
On June 29, 2020, the feasibility study for the section from Weifang to Yantai was approved. The feasibility study for the section from Binhai railway station in Tianjin to Weifang was approved in January 2022. Construction of Tianjin–Weifang section started on 6 November 2022.

Route
Between Weifang North and Changyi, the route shares the line with the Weifang–Laixi high-speed railway.

Stations

References

High-speed railway lines in China
High-speed railway lines under construction
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1916. Mayor Tommy Church was elected to his second term in office.

Toronto mayor
Church had first been elected mayor the year previous. In the words of the Toronto Daily Star the mayoral contest "was something of a joke" as Church was only opposed by Harry Winberg, who had never before held elected office. Church ignored his opponent during the campaign, and was easily returned.

Results
Tommy Church (incumbent)  - 28,541
Harry Winberg - 9,880

Board of Control
There was one change to the Board of Control. R.H. Cameron won a seat while Frank S. Spence was defeated.

Joseph Elijah Thompson (incumbent) -18,209
John O'Neill (incumbent) - 17,572
Thomas Foster (incumbent) - 16,085
R.H. Cameron - 15,391
James Simpson - 13,080
Frank S. Spence (incumbent)  - 12,652
John Dunn - 11,009

City council

Ward 1 (Riverdale)
William D. Robbins (incumbent) - 4,283
A.H. Wagstaff - 4,011
W. W. Hiltz - 3,657
Albert Walton (incumbent) - 2,866
Robert Yeomans  (incumbent) - 2,590
Walter Brown - 913

Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 2,550
J.R. Beamish - 2,499
Herbert Henry Ball (incumbent) - 2,093
Charles Beavis - 1,946
Thomas Barber - 729

Ward 3 (Central Business District and The Ward)
Charles A. Maguire (incumbent) - 3,397
J. George Ramsden (incumbent) - 2,154
Sam McBride (incumbent) - 1,971
Thomas Vance - 1,666

Ward 4 (Kensington Market and Garment District)
Arthur Russell Nesbitt - 2,652
John Cowan (incumbent)  - 2,374
Louis Singer (incumbent) - 2,177
A.W. Miles - 1,954

Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
Garnet Archibald - 2,808
R.H. Graham - 2,789
W.R. Plewman - 2,006
John Warren (incumbent)  - 1,860
Joseph May - 1,571
John Wesley Meredith (incumbent) - 1,439
George Hagar - 1,373
James Thompson - 1,290
Alfred Moore - 388

Ward 6 (Brockton and Parkdale)
Fred McBrien - 4,512
Joseph Gibbons (incumbent) - 4,414
D.C. MacGregor - 4,006
George Birdsall - 3,890
Thomas Roden (incumbent) - 2,319

Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 1,420
Frank Whetter - 1,252
William Henry Weir (incumbent)- 1,106

Results taken from the January 1, 1916 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.

References
Election Coverage. Toronto Star. January 1, 1916

1916 elections in Canada
1916
1916 in Ontario
SLUB (the unqueued slab allocator) is a memory management mechanism intended for the efficient memory allocation of kernel objects which displays the desirable property of eliminating fragmentation caused by allocations and deallocations. The technique is used to retain allocated memory that contains a data object of a certain type for reuse upon subsequent allocations of objects of the same type. It is used in Linux and became the default allocator since 2.6.23.

See also
 Slab allocation (SLAB)
 SLOB

Notes

External links
 The SLUB allocator
 SLUB: The unqueued slab allocator V6

Memory management algorithms
Linux kernel
D. R. Moon Memorial Library is a small public library donated in 1901 by the family of a lumber baron to the community of Stanley, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

History
In the late 1880s the Northwestern Lumber Company built a large sawmill in Stanley, under the direction of DeLos R. Moon, the company president at the time. In 1893 the company began to build the Stanley, Merrill and Phillips Railway, to haul lumber from Northwestern's holdings to the mill in Stanley. Altogether, Northwestern was the largest industry in Stanley, employing hundreds of men.

Moon died in 1898. Around that time, people began seriously discussing Stanley's need for a public library. Mrs. Sallie F. Moon, DeLos's widow, donated funds for the library as a memorial to her husband, and because of his affection for the community.

William Channing Whitney of Minneapolis designed the building in Neoclassical style, a compact 1-story building with T-shaped floor plan and hip roof. The front entrance is a round arch flanked by Doric columns. Inside are more Doric columns, dark oak ceiling beams, and a large brick fireplace with a plaque acknowledging the Moon family.

The library was dedicated in a ceremony on December 17, 1901, with a speech by DeLos' son Sumner and with remarks by F.A. Hutchins and Senator J.H. Stout of the State Library Commission. Hutchins "declared that for a building of its size, it had no equal in the state, and that the selection of books was the best he had seen." The initial selection of books was given by Mrs. Moon. To that, S.J. McNight, DeLos Moon's successor as president of Northwestern Lumber, donated another 500 books. These included reference books, history, travel, science, children's books, and books in Norwegian, for this community with a large Norwegian population.

Though computers and DVDs have been added inside, the building remains largely as originally designed, still serving the community.

References

Library buildings completed in 1901
Government buildings completed in 1901
Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Public libraries in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures in Chippewa County, Wisconsin
Neoclassical architecture in Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Chippewa County, Wisconsin
The flagtail catfish or stripedtail catfish, Dianema urostriatum, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Callichthyinae sub-family of the family Callichthyidae.  It originates in the Amazon Basin in South America.

The fish will grow in length up to .  It natively inhabits waters with a pH range of 6.0 to 8.0, a hardness of 5 – 19 DH, and a temperature of 25° – 28 °C (77° – 82 °F).

References 

Callichthyidae
Freshwater fish of Brazil
Freshwater fish of Colombia
Fish of the Amazon basin
Fish described in 1912
John Frederick Augustus Bond   was Dean of Connor from 2001 until 2016.

Born in 1945 he was educated at Trinity College Dublin and ordained in 1967. After curacies in Lisburn and Finaghy he held incumbencies in Ballynure and  Skerry, Rathcavan and Newtowncrommelin. He was Precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn from 1998 until his appointment as Dean.

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Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
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Living people
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20th-century Irish Anglican priests
21st-century Irish Anglican priests