Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Ahmed Samuel Milai (March 23, 1908 – April 30, 1970), better known as Sam Milai, was an African American editorial and comic strip cartoonist who drew for the Pittsburgh Courier.

From 1940–c. 1971, Milai illustrated Your History (later known as Facts About The Negro), written by Joel Augustus Rogers. Patterned after the look of Robert Ripley'''s popular Believe It or Not cartoons, multiple vignettes in each cartoon episode recounted short items about African Americans from Rogers' research. The feature began in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1934, with art by George L. Lee. In 1940, the art chores were handed over to Milai, who stayed with the feature through the rest of its run. Two collections were published, Your History (1940) and Facts About The Negro (c. 1960).

Milai created Don Powers, an adventure strip distributed from August 19, 1950, to November 1, 1958, by the Smith-Mann Syndicate, about a superlative athlete. In addition, he created the strips Bucky (under his own name) and Society Sue (under the name Bobby Thomas).

Milai's 1960s political cartoons for the Pittsburgh Courier are curated at Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.

Milai was the Courier'''s editorial cartoonist for 33 years.

References

External links 
 The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: Sam Milai Collection Guide
 Michigan State University Library: Special Collections Division Comic Art Collection
 Sam Milai Exhibit: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
 Don Powers: The Museum of Uncut Funk

1908 births
1970 deaths
American editorial cartoonists
American comic strip cartoonists
African-American comics creators
20th-century African-American people
Geoffrey Audus Nicholson Hirst TD (14 December 1904 – 18 June 1984) was a British industrialist and politician who was a maverick Conservative Member of Parliament.

Early career
Hirst, from a Yorkshire military family, was educated at Charterhouse School and St John's College, Cambridge. He went into industry, becoming President of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce; he was also Chairman of the East and West Ridings Yorkshire Regional Council of the Federation of British Industries.

Parliament
During the Second World War, Hirst served with the Royal Artillery (he had been a member of the Territorial Army before it). At the 1950 general election, Hirst was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Shipley. He remained on the backbenches, although he did become Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Trade and Industry Committee. He often raised the issue of the textiles industry.

Political activities
Hirst was a right-winger and supported an aggressive policy over the Suez Canal in 1956. When the Treasury Ministers Peter Thorneycroft, Enoch Powell and Nigel Birch resigned in 1958 after failing to win backing for spending cuts, Hirst said he was considering resigning the Conservative whip in sympathy with them. He did not go through with this idea, but his constituency association gave backing to him.

In June 1963, Hirst called for "a new and younger leadership" for the government before the next general election, an indirect call for Harold Macmillan to resign. During the Alec Douglas-Home government, Hirst objected to Edward Heath's bill to abolish resale price controls, and jibed that the reason the negotiations for the United Kingdom to join the European Economic Community had failed was that there was no room in Europe for two de Gaulles.

Resigning the whip
With Heath as Conservative Party leader after 1965, Hirst became even more disillusioned. Following the 1966 general election, he launched a single-handed campaign against the Wilson government's Prices and Incomes Bill. On 10 July 1966 he announced that he would no longer receive the Conservative whip because the party would not vote against the Bill. He sat through the rest of the Parliament as an Independent Conservative, but did not attempt to retain his seat at the 1970 general election.

References

Sources 
M. Stenton and S. Lees, Who's Who of British MPs, Vol. IV (Harvester Press, 1981)
The Times.

External links 
 

1904 births
1984 deaths
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
People educated at Charterhouse School
Royal Artillery officers
UK MPs 1950–1951
UK MPs 1951–1955
UK MPs 1955–1959
UK MPs 1959–1964
UK MPs 1964–1966
UK MPs 1966–1970
Juan Carlos Blanco Acevedo (6 December 1879 – 3 May 1952) was a Uruguayan politician.

Background

A lawyer by profession, he was from a distinguished Uruguayan political family. His father Juan Carlos Blanco Fernández was Foreign Minister of Uruguay in the late 19th century. His brother Daniel Blanco Acevedo was a Deputy for Montevideo. His nephew Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé was to be Foreign Minister of Uruguay.

Political role and office

Juan Carlos Blanco Acevedo was a prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party.

He was Foreign Minister of Uruguay 1924-1926 under the Presidency of José Serrato.

See also

 Politics of Uruguay
 List of political families

References

University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni
20th-century Uruguayan lawyers
Foreign ministers of Uruguay
1879 births
1952 deaths
Colorado Party (Uruguay) politicians
Ambassadors of Uruguay to Argentina
Ambassadors of Uruguay to Brazil
Ambassadors of Uruguay to the United States
The Moghra Oasis is an uninhabited oasis in the northeastern part  of the Qattara Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt. It has a  lake containing brackish water, salt marshes and a swamp with reeds.

Geography
The Qattara Depression is about  below sea level and is shaped like a teardrop, with Moghra Oasis in its northeastern corner. The floor of the Depression consists of salt marshes and dry lake beds that flood occasionally and there are also large areas of windblown sand. Moghra Oasis consists of a  lake containing brackish water some  below sea level. Adjoining it are salt marshes and some Phragmites swamps. To the south and west there are sand dunes near the lake and extensive sheets of sand beyond.

Geology
The water rises to the surface from an aquifer in the Nubian sandstone, but its precise source is unclear as the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System is at great depths in this area. Just to the north of the oasis is a cliff which gives its name to the Moghra Formation, a thick layer of clastic sedimentary rocks with some minor carbonate interbeds. This formation contains fossils of vertebrates and plants; large mammals found here include hyaenodonts Megistotherium and Hyaenaelurus. These fluvial deposits are likely to have come from a river system which opened into the Nile Delta at the Moghra Oasis.

Ecology
To the south of the lake, the saltmarsh gradually merges into saline flats largely devoid of vegetation. There are three main species in this plant community, each dominating its own concentric zone; Zygophyllum album, Nitraria retusa and Tamarix nilotica. The most important variables affecting the distribution and structure of the communities are the moisture content of the soil and the salinity.

In the outer zone, where the salinity is low and the surface is friable, small scattered plants of Zygophyllum album occur. In the innermost part of this zone the plants are larger and more crowded and they sometimes form hummocks. Here they are associated with T. nilotica, Alhagi maurorum and N. retusa. The next zone is dominated by N. retusa which shows a wide range of tolerances to moisture and salinity conditions. Among sand dunes it forms hummocks and plays an important role in stabilising dunes. In the outer fringes of the zone it is associated with Z. album and T. nilotica while on the inner fringes, where the water table is high but the soil has a low salinity level, the community includes Phragmites australis, Juncus rigidus, Sporobolus spicatus and Z. album. The T. nilotica dominated area forms a scrub community on the outer fringes of the dune zone surrounding the salt flats, where it is associated with A. maurorum, Cressa cretica, N. retusa and Z album. There are a few abandoned groves of date palms in the sandy areas.

References

Oases of Egypt
Western Desert (Egypt)
Géraldine Girod (born 24 February 1970 in Chamonix) is a French curler.

She participated in the demonstration curling events at the 1992 Winter Olympics, where the French women's team finished in seventh place.

Teams

References

External links

Living people
1970 births
Sportspeople from Chamonix
French female curlers

Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Olympic curlers for France
The Corporation, also known as The Corp, is a public house on a prominent corner of the suburb of Canton in Cardiff, Wales. Opened in 1889 it closed as a pub in 2016, re-opening in November 2021 as a space for independent businesses.

History and description
Dating from 1889 The Corporation was built on Cardiff Corporation land, hence the name. It is on a prominent corner of what was known as Canton Cross (and the site of Canton Market) but nowadays on the corner of Cowbridge Road East and Llandaff Road.

The building is a generous two-storey building faced with dark grey rockfaced pennant sandstone rubble. It has a four storey tower above the main entrance. The Corporation received a Grade II heritage listing in 2001, being a "bold and unaltered piece of late 19th-century street architecture" and in close proximity to Canton Library.

21st century
Owned by Cardiff Council, the pub was leased to the pubco, Greene King, until March 2016 when they decided not to renew their tenancy. The leasehold was advertised on behalf of the Council, with its alcohol licence still valid for continued use as a pub.

After reopening for a short period the pub closed again and was sold at auction in November 2018 for £810,000. The new owner had plans to rebrand and reopen it in 2019. In August 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the car park at the rear of The Corporation re-opened as an outdoor pop-up street food venue known as The Corporation Yard.

In early 2021 it was announced  that’s the venue would reopen later in the year. The venue would be an extension of the Corporation Yard, with and indoor market space and cafe bar. It be designed by Cardiff based designer Tim Rice divided up into 24 units with tables and chairs spread throughout

The building was repurposed and opened in November 2021 as the "Corp Market", a location for independent retailers, a bar and coffee shop.

References

Canton, Cardiff
Grade II listed pubs in Wales
Grade II listed buildings in Cardiff
Commercial buildings completed in 1889
Pubs in Cardiff
Asanthus thyrsiflorus is a Mexican species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the states of San Luis Potosí, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Coahuila, and Durango in north-central Mexico.
	
Asanthus thyrsiflorus is a branching shrub up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. Flower heads have whitish disc florets but no ray florets. It grows in flats, creekbanks, and gravelly areas, often in pine-oak woodlands.

References

Eupatorieae
Plants described in 1879
Flora of Mexico
Izone is an industrial suburb of Rolleston in Selwyn District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand.

History
Izone was proposed by Selwyn District Council in August 2000 to attract business to their district. The council bought  of rural land in April 2001 to start the venture. One year later, the council signed up The Warehouse Group to have their South Island distribution centre established on the site. The distribution centre, which opened in June 2003, was built for the council by Naylor Love and later sold it to an investment fund. It was the largest single-storey building in the South Island at  and was extended by another  in 2016.

By 2010, Izone was New Zealand's biggest industrial subdivision. In 2015, Port of Lyttelton and Port of Tauranga both built container handling facilities at Izone. Port of Lyttelton did so because the Christchurch Southern Motorway had caused congestion on Brougham Street, slowing down access to Canterbury's port. Port of Tauranga did so because it owns a half-share in PrimePort Timaru. Both these South Island ports are accessible via the Main South Line. The PrimePort facility opened in July 2015 and Lyttelton's MidlandPort opened in June 2016.

Location and access
Izone is framed on two sides by railway lines. The Main South Line forms the southern boundary and the Midland Line forms the south-western boundary. Parallel to and just beyond the Main South Line is State Highway 1, and beyond the highway is the township of Rolleston.

The intersection on State Highway 1 that is formed with Hoskyns Road was signalised in March 2007. As State Highway 1 segregates the township from its industrial subdivision, a bridge is planned to connect Rolleston with Izone to be constructed in 2021.

Demographics 
Rolleston Izone statistical area covers .  It had an estimated population of  as of  with a population density of  people per km2. 

Rolleston Izone had a population of 33 at the 2018 New Zealand census, a decrease of 18 people (-35.3%) since the 2013 census, and a decrease of 30 people (-47.6%) since the 2006 census. There were 6 households. There were 15 males and 18 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.83 males per female. The median age was 35.3 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 3 people (9.1%) aged under 15 years, 12 (36.4%) aged 15 to 29, 15 (45.5%) aged 30 to 64, and 3 (9.1%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 72.7% European/Pākehā, 27.3% Māori, 9.1% Asian, and 9.1% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).

The proportion of people born overseas was 9.1%, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people objected to giving their religion, 63.6% had no religion and 18.2% were Christian.

Of those at least 15 years old, 3 (10.0%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 3 (10.0%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $32,200, compared with $31,800 nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 21 (70.0%) people were employed full-time and 3 (10.0%) were part-time.

See also 
 Industrial suburb

References

Rolleston, New Zealand
Roger Cuche (27 October 1928 – 10 April 1999) was a Swiss boxer. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1928 births
1999 deaths
Swiss male boxers
Olympic boxers for Switzerland
Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Lightweight boxers
Petersburg (Lavaca County), Texas was the first seat of Lavaca County when the county was organized in August 1846 but is now an  unincorporated area and ghost town. It was located six miles southeast of Hallettsville on Farm to Market Road 2616 on the east bank of the Lavaca River.

History
The townsite, 300 acres of land given by Arthur Sherill in 1846. Petersburg's first post office was established in 1848. Petersburg was a crossroads for early Texians at the intersection of the San Felipe-Gonzales-San Antonio and the Victoria-Columbus roads. After single building which was used as a combined courthouse, church, school, and sheriff's office burned to the ground, a new courthouse was constructed in mid-1850s. Between the fire and new construction  county business was held in various buildings or under the trees, and prisoners were locked in barns or private homes. In 1852 Hallettsville was made the new county seat. It required arms to secure the county archives from the citizens of Petersburg. During the Civil War the school had to close for lack of pupils. In 1876 the post office was moved to nearby Williamsburg. The final building on the site in 1963 was a home which was built with the old post oak lumber from the Petersburg courthouse.

References

Ghost towns in South Texas
Lavaca County, Texas
Former county seats in Texas
1846 establishments in Texas
TDG Limited was a goods transportation, distribution, warehousing and supply chain management company based in England with offices also in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary and Germany.

History
The company was formed in 1922 as The General Lighterage Co Ltd. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1950, and changed its name to Transport Development Group in 1957. It started to expand into Europe in 1963, and acquired Van Straaten in the Netherlands in August 1999. The name changed to TDG plc in 2000.

The company acquired IWT Holdings, an Irish logistics business, in August 2001, Mond & Cie, a Belgian logistics business, in March 2006 and Doman S.A., a Spanish logistics business, in February 2007. In July 2008, TDG was taken private by the Laxey Investment Trust (later renamed Douglas Bay Capital) through Laxey Logistics and was subsequently removed from London Stock Exchange.

On 26 November 2010, Norbert Dentressangle reached an agreement to buy Laxey Logistics Ltd (which owns 100% of TDG Ltd and all its subsidiaries) from Douglas Bay Capital. The transaction was completed on 29 March 2011, following approval from the European Commission. TDG Limited became a subsidiary of XPO Logistics after Norbert Dentressangle was acquired by XPO Logistics in 2015.

Activities
The company is organised into four sectors; Transport and Distribution, Warehousing and Storage, International Services and Support Services  and offers the following services:

 Logistics warehousing and shared user warehousing  
 Transport logistics, hazardous goods transport, bulk and packed chemical transport  
 Distribution logistics, 3PL, High-Cube transport network  
 Flexible end to end supply chain management  
 Bulk chemical storage and hazardous goods warehousing  
 Temperature controlled warehousing and distribution 
 International freight forwarding by air, sea or road 
 4PL services that maximise efficiency and reduce costs 
 Customs brokerage services 
 Value added services including: tank cleaning, drumming, blending, mixing, contract packing and IBC cleaning and management.

References

External links
 Official site
 Catalogue of the TDG archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

Transport operators of the United Kingdom
Business services companies established in 1922
Transport companies established in 1922
Transport companies disestablished in 2011
1922 establishments in England
2011 disestablishments in England
The 3rd Louisiana Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers recruited in Louisiana that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The seven-company 15th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion was formed in January 1863 by Isaac F. Harrison.

Timeline of Work 
At Choctaw Bayou and other places, the battalion tried but failed to stop the army of Major General Ulysses S. Grant from moving down the Mississippi River in April 1863. 

Elements of the battalion fought at Milliken's Bend and raided Union camps in June 1863. 

It was augmented by three additional companies in November 1863 to form a regiment. 

The unit served for the entire war west of the Mississippi River in the Trans-Mississippi Department. 

The regiment fought in the Red River campaign in spring 1864. 

The regiment resisted minor Union raids in the Alexandria and Monroe areas before formally surrendering on 26 May 1865.

Notes

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Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Louisiana
1863 establishments in Louisiana
Military units and formations established in 1863
1865 disestablishments in Louisiana
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
New York's 46th State Senate district is one of 63 districts in the New York State Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Neil Breslin since 2023.

District 46 is the newest district in the legislature, having been drawn from pieces of existing Senate districts in 2012, increasing the size of the body from 62 seats to 63.

Geography
District 46 is located in the western Capital District, including all of Montgomery County and parts of Albany and Schenectady.

The district overlaps with New York's 19th and 20th congressional districts, and with the 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 109th, 111th, and 112nd districts of the New York State Assembly.

Recent election results

2022

2020

2018

2016

2014

2012

Federal results in District 46

References

46
The Lovers of Lisbon () is a 1955 French drama film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Trevor Howard and Betty Stockfeld. Two French exiles in Lisbon fall in love after each has murdered their respective spouse. It was based on a novel by Joseph Kessel.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne.

The soundtrack included the Portuguese singer Amália Rodrigues singing "Solidão" which is the initial version of what is popular as "Canção do Mar", a song written by Frederico de Brito and Ferrer Trindade.

Cast
 Daniel Gélin as Pierre Roubier
 Françoise Arnoul as Kathleen Dinver
 Trevor Howard as Inspector Lewis
 Marcel Dalio as Porfirio
 Amália Rodrigues as Amália
 Jacques Moulières as Manuel
 Ginette Leclerc as Maria
 Georges Chamarat as L'avocat
 Betty Stockfeld as Maisie

References

External links

Les Amants du Tage on Films De France

1955 films
French drama films
1955 drama films
1950s French-language films
Films directed by Henri Verneuil
Lisbon in fiction
Films set in Lisbon
Films based on French novels
French black-and-white films
1950s French films
Meikleville Hill is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the , Meikleville Hill had a population of 464 people.

References 

Shire of Livingstone
Localities in Queensland
A flying frog (also called a gliding frog) is a frog that has the ability to achieve gliding flight. This means it can descend at an angle less than 45° relative to the horizontal. Other nonflying arboreal frogs can also descend, but only at angles greater than 45°, which is referred to as parachuting.

Evolution 
Gliding flight has evolved independently several times among frogs from both New World (Hylidae) and Old World (Rhacophoridae) families.  This parallel evolution is seen as an adaptation to their life in trees, high above the ground. Characteristics of the Old-World species include "enlarged hands and feet, full webbing between all fingers and toes, lateral skin flaps on the arms and legs, and reduced weight per snout-vent length". These morphological changes contribute to the flying frogs' aerodynamic abilities.

Taxonomy 
Alfred Russel Wallace made one of the earliest reports of a flying frog. The species he observed was later described by George Albert Boulenger as Rhacophorus nigropalmatus.

Flying or gliding frogs includes members of these genera:
Agalychnis (Hylidae)
Ecnomiohyla (Hylidae)
Polypedates (Rhacophoridae)
Zhangixalus (Rhacophoridae)
There are 380 species of flying frogs.

References

Frogs
Gliding animals
Molipteryx hardwickii is a species of squash bugs belonging to the subfamily Coreinae.

Distribution

This species is present in India and Nepal.

References

Insects of India
Insects of Nepal
Insects described in 1839
Mictini