Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Edward Joseph McManus (February 9, 1920 – March 20, 2017) served as the Lieutenant Governor of Iowa and served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa for over 50 years.

Education and career

Born in Keokuk, Iowa, McManus received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1940 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1942. He was a United States Naval Reserve Lieutenant from 1942 to 1946. He was in private practice in Keokuk from 1946 to 1962, serving as Keokuk City Attorney for the first nine of those years. He was elected to the Iowa Senate as a Democrat in 1954, serving from 1955 to 1959. In 1958 he was elected as the Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, a position he held from 1959 to 1961 serving under Governor Herschel C. Loveless. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Iowa in 1960, losing to Norman A. Erbe in November 1960. He was President of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Keokuk from 1955 to 1962 and President of 1001 Corporation in Keokuk from 1960 to 1962.

Federal judicial service

McManus was nominated by President John F. Kennedy on June 23, 1962 to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa vacated when Judge Henry N. Graven assumed senior status. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 13, 1962, and received his commission on July 16, 1962. He had not lived in the Northern District until this appointment, and thus needed to relocate from Keokuk (in Iowa's far southeastern county) to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  He served as Chief Judge from 1962 to 1985. He assumed senior status on February 9, 1985. No federal district court judge in Iowa history served for a longer period on the bench than McManus. He died at the age of 97 on March 20, 2017, in Cedar Rapids; at the time of his death, McManus was the longest serving living federal judge.

See also
 List of United States federal judges by longevity of service

References

Sources
 

1920 births
2017 deaths
Democratic Party Iowa state senators
Lieutenant Governors of Iowa
Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
United States district court judges appointed by John F. Kennedy
20th-century American judges
21st-century American judges
University of Iowa alumni
University of Iowa College of Law alumni
People from Keokuk, Iowa
United States Navy officers
Coca-Cola people
Businesspeople from Iowa
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American politicians
Rhyzodiastes parumcostatus is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Rhysodinae. It was described by Léon Fairmaire in 1868. It is found in Brazil and northern Argentina.

References

Rhyzodiastes
Beetles of South America
Beetles described in 1868
Taxa named by Léon Fairmaire
Bebić is a Croatian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Ana Bebić (born 1986), Croatian singer
Luka Bebić (born 1937), Croatian politician
Milivoj Bebić (born 1959), Croatian water polo player
Toma Bebić (1935–1990), Croatian artist

Croatian surnames
Events from the year 1976 in Denmark.

Incumbents
 Monarch – Margrethe II
 Prime minister – Anker Jørgensen

Events

Sports
 6–7 April — With two gold medals and three silver medals, Denmark finishes as the second best nation at the 5th European Badminton Championships in Dublin, Ireland.

Date unknown
 Graeme Gilmore (AUS) and Dieter Kemper (FRG) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.

Births

JanuaryMarch
 2 February  Gudrun Bojesen ballet dancer
 6 February  Kasper Hvidt, handballer
 10 March  Johan Wohlert, musician

AprilJune
25 April – Kenneth Cortsen, sport management researcher
26 June – Janus Friis, entrepreneur, co-founder of skype

JulySeptember
28 July – Rasmus Bjerg, actor, comedian
29 August – Jon Dahl Tomasson, football player
 1 September  Heidi Albertsen, model

OctoberDecember
13 October – Cathrine Grage, speed skater, inline skater, and cyclist
14 December – Peter Gade, badminton player

Deaths

AprilJune
 12 May – Kaj Gottlob, architect (born 1887)
 3 June  – Viggo Kampmann, politician, former prime minister (born 1910)

JulySeptember
 21 September  Nils Middelboe, football player (died 1087)

OctoberDecember
 23 October   Kjeld Ammentorp, businessman (born 1895)
 29 December  Ingeborg Frederiksen, illustrator (born 1896)

See also
1976 in Danish television

References

 
Denmark
Years of the 20th century in Denmark
1970s in Denmark
Tursunkhon Solieva () (1922-2001) was an artist of the Osh State Academic Uzbek Music and Drama Theater named after Bobur, People's Artist of Kyrgyzstan, made a great contribution to the development of culture and art in Kyrgyzstan.

Biography 
Tursunkhon Solieva was born on December 17, 1922 in the city of Osh. For more than half a century, she worked at the Osh Uzbek Music and Drama Theater named after Babur, where she played more than 150 roles in performances in various genres. In 1940-1944 she worked at the Mukimi Theater in the city of Tashkent, and since 1944 she returned to work on the stage of the Osh Uzbek Drama Theater.

For her contribution to the development of theatrical art, the rapprochement of Uzbek and Kyrgyz cultures in 1953, Tursunkhon Solieva was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR, and in 1974, People's Artist of Kyrgyzstan. 

She died on September 21, 2001 in the city of Osh.

In 2017, the Union of Theater Workers of Kyrgyzstan established the Tursunkhon Solieva Prize.

Literature 
 
 
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1922 births
Uzbeks
2001 deaths
Kyrgyzstani actresses

 Soviet actresses
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Natalya Nikolayevna Kustinskaya (; 5 April 1938 – 13 December 2012) was a Soviet actress, who was a Meritorious Artist of Russia from 1999.

Kustinskaya was born in Moscow, and starred in a total of twenty films. Her most recognizable roles were in Three Plus Two, Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future and in the TV series Eternal Call. She died on 13 December 2012 from complications of pneumonia.

Filmography

1959 – Gloomy Mourning  as Marusya 
1960 – Stronger Than A Hurricane as Katya Belyayeva 
1960 / 1961 – The First Challenges as Yadvisya
1961 – Maiden Years  as Nastya 
1962 – After the Wedding as Tonya
1962 – Dismissal to the Shore as Katya Fyodorova 
1963 – Three Plus Two as Natalya  
1965 – Sleeping Lion as Natasha Tsvetkova 
1966 – Royal Regatta as Alyona 
1971 – Spring Fairy Tale as Yelena the Beautiful 
1971 – Wandering Front as Vera Turchaninova
1973 – Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future  as Yakin's girlfriend 
1973 / 1983 – Eternal Call  as Polina Lakhnovskaya  
1975 – Accident as woman in car 
1976 – Apprentice as Svetlana 
1978 – Pushful Person as Irina 
1980 – My Dad, idealist as  Silva 
1981 – Driver for One Trip as Masha 
 1982 – Simply Awful! as Cat Hostess 
1989 – Svetik as Vera's mother

References

External links

 

1938 births
2012 deaths
Actresses from Moscow
Soviet film actresses
Russian film actresses
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
Honored Artists of the Russian Federation
Deaths from pneumonia in Russia
Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery
Bob Bryant may refer to:

 Roscoe Rustling Bob Bryant (d. 1878), American outlaw
 Bob Bryant (tackle) (1918–2000), American football player
 Bob Bryant (end) (born 1937), American football player
 Bob Bryant (politician) (1944–2016), American politician
 Bob Bryant, stuntman and actor, was in Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)

See also
Robert Bryant (disambiguation)
Bobby Bryant (disambiguation)
is one of the eight wards of Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of  Japan. , the ward had an estimated population of 76,086 in 29,843 households  and a population density of 800 persons per km². The total area of the ward was  .

Geography
Akiha-ku is located in an inland region of north-central Niigata Prefecture. Both the Agano River and the Shinano River flow through the ward.

Surrounding municipalities
Niigata Prefecture
Konan-ku, Niigata
Minami-ku, Niigata
Gosen
Agano
Tagami

Climate
Akiha-ku has a Humid climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm, wet summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Akiha-ku is . The average annual rainfall is  with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around .

History
The area of present-day Akiha-ku was part of ancient Echigo Province. The modern towns of Niitsu and Kosudo were established on April 1, 1889 within Nakakanbara District with the establishment of the municipalities system. Niitsu was raised to city status on January 1, 1951. The city of Niigata annexed Niitsu and Kosudo on March 21, 2005. Niigata became a government-designated city on April 1, 2007 and was divided into wards, with the new Akiha Ward consisting of the former city of Niitsu and former town of Kosudo.

Education

University
 Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences

Primary and secondary education
Akiha-ku has 13 public elementary schools and six public middle schools operated by the Niigata city government. The ward has three public high schools operated by the Niigata Prefectural Board of Education.

Transportation

Railway
 JR East - Shin'etsu Main Line
 () -  -  -  -  -  - ()
 JR East - Ban'etsu West Line
  -  -  - ()
 JR East - Uetsu Main Line

Highways

Points of interest
 Niigata Prefectural Botanical Garden
 Niitsu Railway Museum

References

Notes

External links

 Niigata city official website 
 Niigata Akiha-ku website 
 Niigata City Official Tourist Information  (multilingual)
 Niigata Pref. Official Travel Guide (multilingual)

Wards of Niigata (city)
Bryolymnia viridimedia is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by John Bernhardt Smith in 1905. It is found from south-eastern Arizona (Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains) southward in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Mexico City area.

The wingspan is about 36 mm. Adults have been collected from early July to mid-September.

External links

Hadeninae
Moths described in 1905
Moths of North America
The 2000 GP Ouest-France was the 64th edition of the GP Ouest-France cycle race and was held on 30 July 2000. The race started and finished in Plouay. The race was won by Michele Bartoli of the Mapei team.

General classification

References

2000
2000 in road cycling
2000 in French sport
July 2000 sports events in France
BALL Watch Company SA is a Swiss luxury watch company based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. It was founded in 1891 by Webb C. Ball in Cleveland, Ohio, and is linked to American railroad history.

History 

Before the development of railroads across the United States, there was no need for a standardization of time or any real accuracy in timekeeping. Each town kept its own local time, based on the position of the sun. When trains began to connect distant cities, it became problematic and difficult to avoid collisions. Moreover, there were no policies or standards for the watches used by the railroad employees.

On April 19, 1891, a head-on collision between two trains in Kipton, Ohio resulted in several deaths. At the time, trains were using the same lines in opposite directions and had to cross each other at defined crossing points. That day, one of the conductors’ watches stopped for four minutes, leading to the fatal collision.

In order to make train rides safer for travelers and employees of the railroads, Webb C. Ball was designated “Chief Time Inspector” and set up tests and standards for all watches used on the trains. Ball’s criteria for accuracy and reliability were so strict that they later inspired others like the Swiss Official Testing Institute (COSC).

RR Standard 
 Webb C. Ball set up “RR Standard” (“RR” for Rail Road) to assure a high accuracy and perfect reading to all railroad employees. He also created the BALL Time Service, an after-sale service to which every employee of the rails had to bring his watch every two weeks to make sure the accuracy and reliability of the watch was maximal. 
To obtain the “RR Standard” certification, the watches had to follow certain criteria:

 No lid on the dial, size 18 or 16 (44.86mm or 43.17mm)
 Plain white dial, bold black hands and Arabic numbers
 Winding stem at 12 o’clock
 Minimum of 17 jewels
 Must have a double roller
 Must be lever-set
 Adjusted to at least 5 positions
 Be adjusted to temperatures of 40 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit
 Accuracy with a gain or loss of maximum 30 seconds a week

Collections 
BALL Watch currently has eight distinct collections: Engineer Hydrocarbon, Engineer III, Engineer II, Engineer Master II, Trainmaster, Conductor, Roadmaster and Fireman.

References

External links 
 

Companies based in Ohio
Manufacturing companies established in 1891
Watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland
1891 establishments in Ohio
Kulibi is a mountain located 70 kilometers east of Dire Dawa in Oromia Region, Ethiopia.  It is the location of a major shrine to the Archangel Gabriel, and is a pilgrimage site for members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church and is credited with many miracles.  Every year in July and more significantly in January, hundreds of thousands of the faithful travel to St. Gabriel of Kulibi to fulfill religious pledges made to the angel for the granting of prayers and miracles.  The church was built by Ras Makonnen, father of Emperor Haile Selassie, in the early 1900s, and enlarged by the Emperor in the 1950s.

Mountains of Ethiopia
Somali Region
Woodborough railway station is a former railway station in Woodborough, Wiltshire, UK on the Reading to Taunton line. The line opened in 1862, providing a link to . The station closed in 1966 as part of the Beeching cuts. Today the line is still in use and the station's sidings remain in place.

References

 

Beeching closures in England
Disused railway stations in Wiltshire
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1862
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966
1862 establishments in England
Brigadier-General Sir Richard Beale Colvin,  (4 August 1856 –  17 January 1936) was a British officer and Conservative Party politician.

Biography
Colvin was the elder son of Beale Blackwell Colvin, of Pishiobury, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1879.

He served as High Sheriff of Essex in 1890, and was a Major in the Loyal Suffolk Hussars, a Yeomanry regiment based in Bury St Edmunds..

Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Colvin was on 7 February 1900 appointed Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General in the Imperial Yeomanry, responsible for corps raised outside the headquarters of the existing yeomanry regiments. With the expansion of the number of Imperial Yeomanry regiments, he was a month later, on 14 March 1900, reassigned and appointed in command of the 20th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, which set out for South Africa later that month. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 8 November 1901, and transferred to the Essex Yeomanry. For his services during the war, he was appointed a Companion (military) of the Order of the Bath (CB) in November 1900. After the end of the war, he received the honorary rank of colonel.

He was later awarded the Companion (civil) of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1911, and was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Order (KCB).

Colvin was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Epping at an unopposed by-election in 1917, after Epping's Conservative MP Amelius Lockwood was ennobled as Baron Lambourne. He was re-elected in 1918 and 1922, and retired from the House of Commons at the 1923 general election. On 31 January 1929, he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Essex, serving as such until 1936.

Family
Covin married, on 26 June 1895, Lady Gwendoline Audrey Adeline Brudenell Rous (1869–1952), daughter of John Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke and Augusta Bonham.
They had two children:
 Aubrey Mary Maud Colvin (b.1896)
 Richard Beale Rous (b.15 March 1900)

They lived at Monkhams, Waltham Abbey.

His portrait, describing him as a brigadier general, is held at the National Portrait Gallery.

References

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1856 births
1936 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1910–1918
UK MPs 1918–1922
UK MPs 1922–1923
Lord-Lieutenants of Essex
High Sheriffs of Essex
British Army brigadiers
Imperial Yeomanry officers
City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) officers
Essex Yeomanry officers
The hamingja was a type of female guardian spirit in Norse mythology. It was believed that she accompanied a person and decided their luck and happiness. Consequently, the name was also used to indicate happiness, and that is what it means in modern Icelandic. When a person died, the hamingja passed to a beloved family member and thus accompanied a family for several generations, continuing to influence their fortunes. It was even possible to lend one's own hamingja to a friend, as happened when Hjalti Skeggiason was about to leave on a perilous voyage and asked Olaf II of Norway to lend him his hamingja.

It usually appears during sleep in the form of an animal, but it can also be the spirit of a sleeping person who appears in the form of an animal, as Bödvar Bjarki in the saga of Hrólfr Kraki.

In Norse mythology, hamingja (Old Norse "luck") refers to two concepts: 
 the personification of the good fortune or luck of an individual or family, 
 the altered appearance of shape-shifters.

Both Andy Orchard and Rudolf Simek note parallels between the concept of the hamingja and the fylgja. Luck may be transferred to a descendant of the owner, or to a member of a tribe for a perilous journey, it accords wealth, success and power, and it accrues over a life time. Sometimes hamingja is used to denote honor.

See also
Dís
Norns

Notes

References

Orchard, Andy (1997). Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. Cassell. 
Simek, Rudolf (2007) translated by Angela Hall. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. D.S. Brewer. 

Creatures in Norse mythology
Scandinavian legendary creatures
Female supernatural figures in Norse mythology
Tutelary deities
Paraguay is one of the main countries where Stevia rebaudiana or kaʼa heʼẽ (Guarani) is cultivated. In 2014 an area of 2,300 hectares was devoted to this crop, producing 3,680 tonnes, according to estimates of the National Directorate of Censuses and Statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. The Paraguayan departments that produce the greatest yield (kilograms per hectare) are San Pedro, Caaguazú, Itapúa and Alto Paraná.

Exports 
Exports of Stevia extracts (especially sweeteners) and of the leaves during the period 2007–2014 reached a cumulative total of USD 7,600,000. The main export destinations of Stevia from Paraguay in 2014 were the European Union (47%), China (37%), the wider Mercosur area (11%), United States (1%), and Rest of the World (4%).

Companies and employment in the sector 
In 2010 there were roughly 40 companies in the country devoted to this product, employing in total some 20,000 people in production, industrial processing and export. Among the leading companies in this sector in the period 2007–2014 were Steviapar S.A., Purecircle South America S.A., NL Stevia S.A., Nativia Guaraní S.A., during the period of 2007-2014.

See also 
Economy of Paraguay

Notes

References 

Stevia (genus)
Crops originating from Paraguay
Urmila Balavant Apte is the Indian Founder of the BhartiyaStree Shakti organisation in 1988 which is dedicated to the empowerment of women. She received the Nari Shakti Puraskar from President Ram Nath Kovind in 2018 for her work.

Life 
Apte is a mathematician who gained a master's degree from the University of Mumbai in mathematics. In 1969 she used her teaching qualification and master's degree to teach maths at various colleges in Mumbai.

She founded, Bhartiya Stree Shakti (BSS), in 1988. BSS is an organisation for the empowerment of women. The organisation seeks to end discrimination based on gender and to empower women. It works to recognise women's contribution to the nation and to the family.

She served as the President of the Bhartiya Stree Shakti until 1995. In that year she became the All-India Organising Secretary and that is a role she retained until 2014. 
During her time she has travelled across her county to support those interested in the Bharatiya Stree Shakti organisation. Ten states in India have at least one branch and it total there are 33 branches. From 2014 she sat on the National Executive Council of BSS.

In 2018 a two-day meeting of the Bhartiya Stree Shakti to celebrate thirty years since it was founded attracted 1,000 delegates from around India.

She was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar on International Women's Day in 2018. The award was made by President Kovind at the Presidential Palace (Rastrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi also attending.  Thirty-nine people or organisations were honoured that year. They received the award and a prize of $R 100,000.

References 

Nari Shakti Puraskar winners
People from Mumbai
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Indian mathematicians
Indian women mathematicians
The Plantagenets: The Kings and Queens Who Made England is a history book written by Dan Jones. It was published in 2012 in the United Kingdom and a year later in the United States, where it was listed on the New York Times bestseller list. The book, which covers the history of the Plantagenet dynasty from Henry II to Richard II, received mostly  positive reviews from critics.

Content
The Plantagenets: The Kings and Queens Who Made England is divided into seven sections, termed by Jones as "ages". These sections successively deal with periods in the history of the Plantagenet dynasty's rule over England.

Reception
The Plantagenets: The Kings and Queens Who Made England was positively received. HistoryNet, in their review of the book, described it as "lively and entertaining" and "a must for those interested in medieval history". Becca Selby, writing in The Manchester Historian, gave a positive review, praising the book's writing style, which she likened to that of a work of historical fiction. David Horspool of The Daily Telegraph gave it five stars out of five, calling it "a great story" and described Jones' writing as inspiring the feel of an "impressively confident guide". Christina Hardyment, in a review in The Independent, gave the book a more measured review, praising the work's characterisation and insight, but finding that its presentation of cycles of prosperity and hardship was confusing, and that it lacked "a proper presentation of the profoundly religious medieval mindset", which made understanding the mindset of the featured kings harder. Ben Wilson, writing in the New Statesman, praised the book, declaring that it described the period "with verve", and that Jones' insights into the nature of medieval rule were good.

References

2012 non-fiction books
English non-fiction books
HarperCollins books
History books about the Middle Ages
Azé is the name of the following communes in France:

 Azé, Loir-et-Cher, in the Loir-et-Cher department
 Azé, Mayenne, in the Mayenne department
 Azé, Saône-et-Loire, in the Saône-et-Loire department

See also 
 Aze (disambiguation)
 Azay (disambiguation)
Vallabhaneni Vamsi Mohan is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh, representing Gannavaram, through Telugu Desam Party, since 2014.

He is also a film producer in Telugu cinema. He produced two high budget films, Adhurs (2010) and Touch Chesi Chudu (2018), with Jr. NTR and Ravi Teja, respectively.

As Producer

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Living people
Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2014–2019
Politicians from Vijayawada
Telugu politicians
YSR Congress Party politicians
YSR Congress Party
Year of birth missing (living people)