Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Samuel Blair (1741 – September 1818) was an American Presbyterian minister and the second Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.

Early life
Blair was born in 1741 in Faggs Manor, near Cochranville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, the son of a Presbyterian minister also named Samuel Blair who died when the son was about ten years old.  His mother was Frances van Hook, daughter of Judge Lawrence van Hook and Johanna (Smith) van Hook.

Education
His primary education was at his father's theology school, the Faggs Manor Classical School. He went on to earn a B.A. in 1760 and a M.A. in 1764 from The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), where he also tutored from 1761-1764. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Newcastle in 1764. He earned a M.A. from Harvard College in 1767 and a D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1790.

Work
A conscientious and eloquent minister, he became pastor of the Old South Church in Boston in 1766. While traveling to Boston, he survived a shipwreck but became ill and lost his possessions including the sermons he had written.  In the spring of 1769, he traveled to Philadelphia and became severely ill, believing he would not recover. Because of his poor health, and conflict with his church members regarding the Half-Way Covenant, he resigned and was dismissed on October 10, 1769. He then moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolutionary War, he was a chaplain of the Continental Army from 1775 until June 20, 1780. His rank as an officer made him eligible for membership in the Society of the Cincinnati. He was appointed the second Chaplain of Congress on December 10, 1790, a position he held for two years, until he was replaced by Ashbel Green on November 5, 1792. Blair was a member of the American Philosophical Society (elected in 1797) and died in Germantown in September 1818.

Family
Upon return to Pennsylvania in 1769, he married Susan Shippen, the daughter of William Shippen, a Philadelphia physician and delegate to the Continental Congress. They had two sons and three daughters.  His wife died in 1821.

Published sermons
Blair published two sermons. One was a eulogy to Reverend John Blair Smith who died in 1799.

References

1741 births
1818 deaths
American Presbyterian ministers
Chaplains of the United States House of Representatives
Harvard College alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Peter Goullart () (1901 - June 5, 1978) was a Russian-born traveler, explorer and author, who is best known for a number of books describing the life and customs of various peoples living in remote parts of East and Southeast Asia.

Life

Goullart was born in Russia in 1901 into a well-educated family, and spent his youth in Moscow and Paris. He was interested in the Orient from an early age. After Bolshevik Revolution he fled to China and eventually settled in Shanghai in 1924. He perfected his Chinese and worked as a tour guide for Western tourists and businesspeople, accompanying them on their trips throughout East and South-East Asia. During this time he developed an interest in Daoism and in exploring the remote mountainous areas of Western China.

In 1939 following the Japanese invasion of China, Goullart secured an appointment as a representative of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (an agency of the Kuomintang Government), first in what is now western Sichuan, then in 1942 in the ancient city of Lijiang, in the North-Western corner of Yunnan Province.

He lived in Lijiang for over eight years at the time when it was an important transit stop on the vital trading and supply route from India to China during World War II. 
Goullart documented life and customs of inhabitants of this remote region, in particular, Nakhi People, in his first book, Forgotten Kingdom.

In 1949 shortly after the communist takeover, Goullart left Lijiang on a chartered plane to Kunming together with the botanist and explorer Joseph Rock. He left China and then lived and worked in Singapore, and continued to write about his travels throughout Southeast Asia. All his books were written and published in English. He died in the house of his friend Desmond Neill in Singapore on June 5, 1978.

Works

Goullart, P., Report on the industrial cooperatives of Likiang, Yunnan, 1945.
Goullart, P., Forgotten Kingdom, J. Murray, 1955.
Goullart, P., Princes of the Black Bone. Life on the Tibetan Borderlands, J. Murray, 1959. (published in the US as Land of the lamas: Adventures in secret Tibet, Dutton, 1959)
Goullart, P., The Monastery of Jade Mountain, J. Murray, 1961.
Goullart, P., River of the White Lily: Life in Sarawak (Malaysian heritage series), J. Murray, 1965.

References 

1978 deaths
Explorers of Central Asia
White Russian emigrants to China
The Pannerdens Kanaal (Pannerden Canal) is a canal in the Netherlands that was dredged between 1701 and 1709 to cut off a large, shallow bend of the river Rhine and so improve river traffic and water regulation.

The canal, now indistinguishable from a "real" river, forks off north from river Waal a few kilometres past the point where the Bijlands Kanaal, a similar canal dug to cut off a Waal bend, ends. It flows past the towns of Pannerden (right bank), which gives the canal its name, and Angeren (left bank) and so north to the point where the old Rhine bend flows into it and the river continues to the sea as Nederrijn (Lower Rhine). The old Rhine bend, cut off at its upstream end, still exists and is called, unsurprisingly, Oude Rijn (Old Rhine).

Canals in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta
Canals opened in 1709
1709 establishments in the Dutch Republic
Canals in the Netherlands
Canals in Gelderland
Lingewaard
Zevenaar
18th-century architecture in the Netherlands
Sue Vincent is a British actress and writer.

Career 
Vincent spent three years training in acting and musical theatre from 1991 to 1994 before first appearing on stage in 1996. Her first television role was as Anne Bevitt in Casualty. Since then, Vincent has become known for her roles in comedy series such as Shameless (2013), Mount Pleasant (2011–2017) and Bad Move, (2017–2018) is a British actress and writer.

She has also appeared in soap operas such as EastEnders, Coronation Street and Doctors and drama series such as The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Monday Monday and Identity. As a writer, she has written alongside her Mount Pleasant co-star Sally Lindsay and as a member of The Comedy Project. She has also written numerous plays for Soho Theatre. In 2019, she appeared in the Mrs. Brown's Boys Christmas special as Peggy Piper.

In 2014, she was cast as Sadie in a stage production of the Jim Cartwright-penned play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Derby Theatre in Derby and reprised the role in a 2019 production of the play opposite actor Ted Robbins at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton.

In January 2021, Vincent and writing partner Sally Lindsay were commissioned by Channel 5 and Acorn TV to write a 6-part television thriller series. The series, titled The Reluctant Madame Blanc,  will be directed by Dermot Boyd and Vincent will appear in the programme as an actress. Later known as The Madame Blanc Mysteries.

Filmography

References

External links

Living people
British television actresses
21st-century British actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sam Longoria (born March 12, 1956, in Seattle, Washington, United States) is a Hollywood producer-director and visual effects engineer. 
He produces independent feature movies, (digital and 35mm and 65mm film), and serves as writer, director, actor, editor and cinematographer.

Longoria began making movies in 1970 at the age of 14.  
He made a feature-length 35 mm film in Enumclaw, Washington, moved to Hollywood in 1978, with occasional film and theatre work in Portland, Oregon, New York, and Chicago.

Longoria's Hollywood work (frequently uncredited) begins in the 1980s, as a member of the technical crew on films such as Ghostbusters, 2010, Return to Oz, and Captain EO.

In 1985, he photographed President Ronald Reagan in the White House for a large-format film documentary.  
In 1992, he created 35 mm projected backgrounds from small-format film and video elements, for Peter Sellars's production of Paul Hindemith's Opera Mathis der Maler, at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 
In the 1990s, Longoria built camera electronics for the 1994 film Terminal Velocity, optically enlarged Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen's Super 8 mm home movies for the 
1999 film Five Aces, and performed hydraulic special effects on the 1997 film Dante's Peak, which had the largest water dump (650,000 gallons, weighing 5.4 million pounds) in cinema history.

From 1985 to 1994, Longoria Produced six live stage comedy shows a week, a Russian Drama, and two successful comedy radio shows, 
in Hollywood at The WILD SIDE Theatre. He loves Improv, and uses it in his shows and films.

In 1998–2001, he helped out in the studio with his friends' "The Firesign Theatre" comedy recordings, and attended the Grammy Awards in 1998 and 2002 to root for their nominated discs. He is credited as "Mascot," and "Nuts and Berries."

Since 2001, he splits his year, working both in Hollywood and Seattle.  
Longoria is a member of the Visual Effects Society and the Masquers Club in Hollywood, and focuses now on making his own films.

External links
 Official website
 Longoria's filmmaking blog
 
 Sam Longoria – Libertarian
 Longoria in People magazine
 Longoria in Los Angeles Times

American bloggers
Filmmakers from Seattle
1956 births
Living people
Film directors from Washington (state)
The 2019 Codasur South American Rally Championship is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA and run by the Confederacion Deportiva Automovilismo Sudamericana (Codasur). The championship was contested over five events held in five South American countries from March to November.

Paraguayan Toyota driver Alejandro Galanti won the championship for the first time. Galanti won by a single point in a dramatic finish to the championship. Galanti won the season ending Rally del Atlántico ahead of second placed Hyundai driver Diego Domínguez who had been leading the championship going into the final rally. Domínguez won the first two events, the Rally de la Tierra Colorada and the Rally Trans Itapúa, and was second at the Rally de Erechim. Defending champion, Škoda driver Gustavo Saba, who had also still been in contention to win the championship, was third in the final event and the championship. Saba had won the Rally de Erechim. The Rally Santa Cruz de la Sierra was won by Bolivian Škoda driver Marco Bulacia Wilkinson.

Galanti was the first new Codasur champion since Domínguez won his first championship in 2014.

Event calendar and results

The 2019 Codasur South American Rally Championship was as follows:

Championship standings
The 2019 Codasur South American Rally Championship points were as follows:

Points were awarded to the top ten finishers of each rally and for the top eight positions of each leg of each rally.

References

External links

Codasur South American Rally Championship
Codasur South America
Codasur South American Rally Championship
Al-Chibayish is a town on the Euphrates River in Al-Chibayish District, Dhi Qar governorate, in southern Iraq. It is the capital of its eponymous district.

Al-Chibayish is inhabited primarily by Marsh Arabs of the Beni Isad tribe. Al-Chibayish has historically been an important hub for the Marsh Arab people and a traditional boat-building center for their mashoof canoes.

History
Al-Chibayish was historically home to a community of Mandaeans, as well as Arabs. In 1895, Sheikh Ṣaḥan ibn Sheikh Ṣagar (Ṣaqar in standard Arabic), a Mandaean priest, was arrested near Chabāyish in Iraq and imprisoned in Basra. He was accused of supporting an Arab tribal rebellion led by Jāsim al-Khayyūn (of the Bani Asad tribe, one of the largest tribes affiliated with the Al-Muntafiq), as well as killing his nephew. Although a petition was delivered to the British authorities to have him released, and the British attempted to assist Sheikh Sahan, he was not released and died in prison in 1898.

Al-Chibayish was the subject of a groundbreaking 1955 ethnographic study, Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta, by Iraqi anthropologist Shakir Mustafa Salim.

Al-Chibayish was home to about 11,000 people in 1955. Al-Chibayish's population dropped to less than 6,000 by 2003 as a result of Saddam Hussein's draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes and his associated campaign of violence against the Marsh Arabs, during which Al-Chibayish was attacked by military helicopters. However, the population recovered and quintupled between 2001 and 2009, when it reached an estimated 30,416 people.

References

Populated places in Dhi Qar Province
District capitals of Iraq
Marsh Arabs
The 2022 Conference USA men's basketball tournament was the concluding event of the 2021–22 men's basketball season for Conference USA (C-USA). It was held March 8–12, 2022, in Frisco, Texas, at the Ford Center at The Star. The winner, the UAB Blazers, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

Schedule

Bracket 

* denotes overtime period.

See also
 2022 Conference USA women's basketball tournament

References 

Tournament
Conference USA men's basketball tournament
College sports tournaments in Texas
Sports in Frisco, Texas
Conference USA men's basketball tournament
Conference USA men's basketball tournament
Basketball competitions in Texas
The Afro-Asian Club Championship, sometimes referred to as the Afro-Asian Cup, was a football competition endorsed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and Asian Football Confederation (AFC), contested between the winners of the African Champions' Cup and the Asian Club Championship, the two continents' top club competitions. The championship was modelled on the Intercontinental Cup (organised by Europe's UEFA and South America's CONMEBOL football federations and now replaced by the FIFA Club World Cup) and ran from 1987 to 1999.

History
The first two competitions held in 1986 and 1987 were contested over a single match; from 1988 until 1998 the competition was held in a two-legged tie format. The last winners were Moroccan side Raja Casablanca, who defeated South Korean side Pohang Steelers in 1998.

The competition was officially discontinued following a CAF decision on 30 July 2000, after AFC representatives had supported Germany in the vote for hosting the 2006 FIFA World Cup rather than South Africa (who eventually won the bid for the 2010 FIFA World Cup).

In February 2018, CAF President Ahmad Ahmad stated that CAF would consider re-introducing the competition.

Records and statistics

Finals

Results by club

Results by country

Results by continent

Winning coaches
The following table lists the winning coaches of the Afro-Asian Club Championship.

See also
Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
CAF Champions League
AFC Champions League
Copa Interamericana
Intercontinental Cup
FIFA Club World Cup

Notes
 A.   For clarity, years given in the winners' list do not necessarily correspond to the years when matches were actually played. The finals were always held between the African Champions' Cup winners from the earlier calendar year (given year minus 1) and the Asian Champions' Cup winners who won the title in the previous season (given year minus 1/given year), e.g. the inaugural 1986 final was held between 1985 African Champions' Cup winners FAR Rabat and the 1985–86 Asian Club Championship winners Daewoo Royals. However, FIFA designates at least some of these titles according to the year when the final matches were held.
B.  Korean club Busan IPark were known as Daewoo Royals until 2000.
C.  Japanese club JEF United Ichihara Chiba were founded as Furukawa Electric Soccer Club until 1991.
D.  Japanese club Tokyo Verdy were called Yomiuri FC from their foundation in 1969 until 1993.

References
General

Specific

 
Defunct Confederation of African Football club competitions
Defunct Asian Football Confederation club competitions
Defunct international club association football competitions in Africa
Defunct international club association football competitions in Asia
Recurring sporting events established in 1987
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2000
Bridget Holmes (1591–1691) was a domestic servant at the English royal court in the 17th century.  Holmes was a necessary woman whose duties included emptying and scouring chamber pots and cleaning the royal apartments. She served during the reigns of Charles I, Charles II, James II, and William III and Mary II.

She is best known as the subject of a full-length slightly over life-size portrait dated 1686 in the Royal Collection by John Riley, painted on a scale and "in a style...normally reserved for royalty" or the nobility. Though signed by Riley, the painting may owe much to the contribution of John Closterman, who often worked with Riley, because of its "impressive" composition. It is not clear why James II commissioned the portrait, which was an extravagant way to "celebrate her great age and her loyalty to the Stuarts", and also seems to make a "satirical or moral comment" on the conventions of grand portraiture, as "a parody of all those martial portraits of dukes and generals. But the figure herself is treated with great dignity, very respectfully. The joke's not on her" as one curator put it.  Critic Ronald Jones noted that "[Holmes] is resonant with self-respect, and can play with her venerable position in the household; teasingly she brandishes her mop after a page-boy", a Page of the Backstairs according to the Royal Collection.

Riley painted two other, smaller, portraits of servants: Katherine Elliot (also Royal Collection) and A Scullion in the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford.  Other portraits by the Netherlandish painter Pieter Aertsen from the previous century show female cooks holding roasting spits like marshall's batons in what have been taken to be clear references to the conventions of elite portraiture, though whether these would have been known to James (who had spent his youth in exile in the Low Countries) or Riley is unknown.

Bridget Holmes died in 1691 at the age of 100 and was buried in Westminster Abbey with a monument noting the monarchs whom she had served. She is believed to have been "one of the longest serving servants in royal history".

The painting of Bridget Holmes is among the "few pre-eighteenth-century portraits of working-class people" in existence. It is normally on display  in the state apartments of Windsor Castle. It was included in the "Below Stairs" exhibition of servant portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London in 2003, and has also been shown in other exhibitions of the Royal Collection.

Notes

References
Lloyd, Christopher, The Queen's Pictures, Royal Collectors through the centuries, National Gallery Publications, 1991, 

1591 births
1691 deaths
British servants
British centenarians
Burials at Westminster Abbey
Women centenarians
Bob Arnold was an actor who played the part of Tom Forrest in the long running BBC radio series The Archers. He died in 1998.

Notes

The Archers
English male radio actors
1998 deaths
Year of birth missing
Gonionota hypoleuca is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1971. It is found in Venezuela.

The wingspan is 16–22 mm. The forewings are snuff brown, many of the scales tipped whitish. From the basal third of the costa a very faint, ill-defined white line, interrupted in cell by a fuscous spot, extends to the fold and the tornus has an ill-defined fuscous blotch. The hindwings are sepia.

References

Moths described in 1971
Gonionota
Monaco competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's nineteenth consecutive Olympiad since its debut in 1920.

Comité Olympique Monégasque sent the nation's largest delegation to the Games, since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. A total of 6 athletes, 5 men and 1 woman, competed. Single sculls rower Mathias Raymond and judoka Yann Siccardi made their second consecutive Olympic appearance. Backstroke swimmer Angelique Trinquier, the youngest and only female athlete of the team, at age 21, was honored as the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Monaco continued its medal-less streak started after the 1924 Games.

Athletics

Men

Judo

Monaco has had 1 judoka invited.

Rowing

Monaco has received one wild card.

Men

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Monaco has qualified 1 boat for each of the following events.

Men

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race;

Swimming 

Monaco has been given a wild card.

Women

Triathlon

Monaco has been given a wild card.

References

Nations at the 2012 Summer Olympics
2012
2012 in Monégasque sport
Ampparit.com is a Finnish online news portal founded in 2004. The service provides its users with an easy-to-use list of news headlines, consisting of material from Ampparit's more than 250 media sources. It is also possible for users to search for news of their special interest.

In addition to the news service, Ampparit.com includes a news map, a weather service, a TV program schedule, an online video service and a blog. The site can be customized by creating a user profile, which makes it possible to filter the contents by source, category or headline.

Versions

Mobile versions
Two mobile versions of the service have been developed. The text version, Ampparit Mini, is designed for mobile phones with small screens, whereas Ampparit Lite serves the owners of devices with larger screens. Applications for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone users are also available. The possibility to create a customized user profile was introduced in autumn 2009 for Lite, and in October 2011 for Mini.

Witpik
Witpik is a professional media monitoring tool. In 2006, Joensuun Tiedepuisto Oy (Joensuu Science Park Inc.) organized a business idea competition under the name Ideka 2006. Ampparit participated with their idea Ampparit Pro – Business Intelligence, which won the third prize. As a result, Ampparit Pro was further developed into an information search service. During the winter of 2010, its name was changed to Witpik Media Monitoring prior to an expansion into the Russian market. In the following spring, a mobile version of Witpik was introduced.

Reception
In a research conducted by TNS Metrix, Ampparit.com was the 30th most visited Finnish website during the week 48/2011's statistics on Different web browsers. The site has more than 300 000 visitors per week, and it has one of the highest user return rates. According to the data from TNS Metrix and a survey by Digitoday, Ampparit.com is the most popular news aggregator in Finland.

It has been estimated that Ampparit.com, or news aggregators and RSS feeds in general, bring significant numbers of visitors to small news sites. Their effect on larger websites is much less significant. In spite of this, Ampparit and other similar services have managed to increase awareness of headlines' importance also among larger media companies.

References

External links
Ampparit Official Website
The BBC Rebrand – A Good Idea?

News aggregators
The 2016 MTN 8 was the 42nd edition of South Africa's annual soccer cup competition, the MTN 8. It featured the top eight teams of the Premier Soccer League at the end of the 2015-16 season.

Teams
The eight teams that competed in the MTN 8 knockout competition are (listed according to their finishing position in the 2015/2016 Premier Soccer League Season):
 1. Mamelodi Sundowns
 2. Bidvest Wits
 3. Platinum Stars
 4. Cape Town City
 5. Kaizer Chiefs
 6. Chippa United
 7. Orlando Pirates
 8. SuperSport United

Results

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

1st leg

2nd leg

Final

References

MTN 8
2016–17 in South African soccer
2016 domestic association football cups