Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Dr. Saadallah Agha al-Qalaa () (b. Damascus, 1950) is the former minister of tourism in Syria. He has a Ph.D. in civil engineering.
Dr. Saadallah Agha al-Qalaa is a man of science and art. Born in 1950, he studied music at the Conservatory of Aleppo, and later became a teacher there. At the same time, he studied Civil engineering at the University of Aleppo, and later traveled to France to prepare his Ph.D. in Engineering. Upon his return to Syria as a professor of engineering and computer programming at the University of Damascus, he began to write many studies and research in Arabic music, and presented hundreds of hours of music television programs, in Syrian television and most of the Arab television stations. Adept at playing qanun, he is also a member of the Syrian Associations of Engineers, Artists and Teachers, a co-founder of the Syrian Computer Society, and served as Minister of Tourism in Syria for a period of ten years. He won also numerous Syrian and Arab awards.

Saadallah Agha al-Qalaa is distinguished, musically, through his tendency to employ modern technology, especially computers and databases, in Arabic music research in ways never touched before.

He developed an Arabic music information system, and put it in the service of Arab music analysis, then he started to publish his research on television, applying the latest music and comparative analysis methods, relying on his specialty in music, engineering and informatics  at the same time, in addition to his high performance in TV presentation. His efforts are currently focused on completing his project, "the second book of Songs" and publishing it in the form of an electronic encyclopedia. In March 2017, he launched his new project: Towards a New Arab Music Revival.

References

External links
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Syria
https://www.agha-alkalaa.net/

1950 births
People from Aleppo
Living people
Syrian ministers of tourism
Danielle Cox (born 16 September 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Parma.

Cox attended Oakbank School in Keighley and joined Doncaster Rovers Belles from there in 2009. After a spell with Blackburn Rovers, Cox returned to Doncaster in July 2013, signing a 15-month contract.

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1992 births
Sportspeople from Keighley
Footballers from West Yorkshire
Doncaster Rovers Belles L.F.C. players
Sheffield F.C. Ladies players
Sheffield United W.F.C. players
Durham W.F.C. players
Serie A (women's football) players
Pomigliano CF players
Parma Calcio 2022 players
English expatriate women's footballers
Expatriate women's footballers in Italy
English expatriate sportspeople in Italy
English women's footballers
Living people
Women's association football defenders
Women's Super League players
Women's Championship (England) players
Celtic F.C. Women players
Scottish Women's Premier League players
Fylde Ladies F.C. players
Blackburn Rovers W.F.C. players
FA Women's National League players
Irengia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

Species
Irengia guianensis Townsend, 1935
Irengia lativentris (Curran, 1934)

References

Tachinidae
Brachycera genera
Taxa named by Charles Henry Tyler Townsend
Diptera of South America
The Fontaine Bartholdi is a fountain sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and realised in 1889 by Gaget & Gautier. It was erected at the Place des Terreaux, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, in September 1892.

History
On 20 April 1857, the Bordeaux city council decided to hold a competition to create a fountain for Place Quinconces. Frédéric Bartholdi, then aged 23, won the contest. However, the city hall of Bordeaux decided not to carry out his project. After Bartholdi had made the Statue of Liberty in New York in 1886, the mayor of Bordeaux contacted him, but his new project was canceled after much hesitation. It was finally achieved in 1888, but it was deemed as too expensive and therefore was sold to Lyon. It was unveiled as part of the Exposition Universelle (1889). The fountain was eventually put at the Place des Terreaux and is currently still there.

The fountain depicts France as a female (Marianne) seated on a chariot controlling the four great rivers of France, represented by wildly rearing and plunging horses, highly individualized but symmetrically arranged, with bridles and reins of water weeds. The fountain weighs 21 tons and is made of lead supported by a frame of iron and was presented at the Exposition Universelle of 1889. It has been classified as monument historique since 29 September 1995.

1892: First inauguration on Place des Terreaux  

1995: "Historic monument" classification after its relocation opposite the Fine Arts Museum

June 2016: start of the restoration work

March 2018: inauguration of the restored, re-watered and lit fountain

Total budget for the restoration: 3.58 million euros (including a one million euro contribution from the State)

Restoration
The fountain was removed temporarily in 2015 for restoration and was returned in December 2017, for a total budget of 2 750 000  euros. The structure was rusted, and the lead statue warped and fractured.

Gallery

See also 
 List of tallest statues

References

External links

Fontaine Bartholdi at Lyon's city webpage

Fountains in France
Sculptures in France
Buildings and structures in Lyon
1st arrondissement of Lyon
Lead sculptures
Monuments and memorials in France
1889 sculptures
Tourist attractions in Lyon
Monuments historiques of Lyon
Sculptures by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Sculptures of horses
Exposition Universelle (1889)
World's fair sculptures
Animal sculptures in France
The Red Bridge is a historic bridge spanning the Quinnipiac River near Oregon Road in Meriden, Connecticut.  It was built in 1891 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, and is one of a small number of surviving lenticular truss bridges in the state, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.  The bridge is open to pedestrian traffic only.

Description and history
The Red Bridge is located in south Meriden, crossing the Quinnipiac River just upriver from the bridge that now carries Oregon Road.  It is a single-span wrought iron lenticular pony truss structure, measuring  long with a roadway width of , resting on brownstone abutments.  Its bridge deck is wooden, of recent construction.

The bridge was built in 1891 for the city by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, the largest fabricator of metal bridges in New England at the time.  It replaced a wooden truss bridge that already bore the name "Red Bridge", which carried Oregon Road, then a major route between Meriden and Cheshire.  The bridge is one of a small number (less than twenty) of lenticular truss bridges built by the company in its home state to survive, out of more than 100 built.  The bridge was bypassed for vehicular use in the 1970s, and underwent a major restoration in 2018, after which it was reopened to foot traffic.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut

References

External links

National Register of Historic Places in New Haven County, Connecticut
Bridges completed in 1891
Meriden, Connecticut
Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
The Celtic Psalter (University of Edinburgh MS 56) is a 114-page, 11th-century psalter and is likely to be the oldest Scottish book to be still kept within Scotland.

Its exact origins are unknown, however it is similar to books made in Irish and Scottish monasteries at the time, which strongly suggests it was produced somewhere within Scotland, possibly by monks in a monastery in Iona.

Contents

The book contains the Hebrew version of the psalter handwritten in Irish minuscule. Psalms at the beginning and end of the manuscript have been replaced or completed at a later date. The margins of the book have been badly cropped, removing all catchwords and clipping off parts of psalm initials in places.

Psalms start with an illuminated initial and more simply coloured initials on every other line after. These illuminated initials are depicted as a complex interwoven depiction of some sort of animal, including birds, dragon-like creatures and a fish. Illuminations are filled in with red, blue, green, yellow and purple pigment. 

As well as initials there are two full pages of illumination. The first page of full illumination has been painted over with an imitation of 11th century English style work with only the knotwork in the corners remaining of the original. The book is in excellent condition with the ink writing remaining perfectly legible and pigmentation bright and vibrant despite its age.

Many bindings for the book have been made over time as the original has long since been lost. The current binding was created by Douglas Cockerell in 1914 in Celtic style.

History

The book is dated sometime in early 1000s or perhaps earlier. Analysis of gold pigment by A.P. Laurie on one of the pages shows it contains river-washed gold dust which has at latest been found in the Canterbury psalter in the early 1000s and is absent past the 11th century. The earliest owner known of the manuscript is John Reid, chancellor of Aberdeen, in 1537, who has left an inscription within. There are no other marks of ownership apart from an erased inscription on the first page. It was then acquired by the University of Edinburgh library at some point before 1636 as shown by a manuscript catalogue of that date.

A common rumour is that the book was commissioned for Saint Margaret of Scotland as a love token by Malcom III since the book has been dated to around that period. Analysis from researchers such as A.P. Laurie show that the manuscript is likely older making this rumour quite unlikely.

References

Further reading

External Links 
Celtic Psalter University of Edinburgh (MS 56), digital version.

Illuminated psalters
11th-century illuminated manuscripts
11th-century Latin books
University of Edinburgh
The Fort of Trafaria is a fort in Portugal. Dating back to 1683, it has never been used in battle.

Location
The Fort of Trafaria, also known as the Fort of Nossa Senhora da Saúde da Trafaria, is located on the left bank of the Tagus river, in the parish of Caparica e Trafaria in the municipality of Almada, in the Setúbal district of Portugal. It is south-west of the Belém Tower on the right bank.

Construction
The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Saúde (Our Lady of Health) was constructed in 1678 to accompany a lazaretto, or quarantine hospital, that had been on the site since the late 1600s. The fort was built a few years later in 1683 during the reign of Pedro II of Portugal, to complement the defence of the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Throughout its history doubts were raised about its defensive effectiveness and the fort has seen little or no military action, since its only real function was to prevent possible disembarkation on the left bank. For a time, it was used as the quarantine hospital.

Later developments
In 1725, works were carried out to rebuild the chapel and the main buildings of the hospital and in 1743 a wall was added to prevent the general population from accessing the chapel during times when there were patients held in quarantine. The area was extensively damaged by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and restoration was only completed in 1786. The role as a quarantine hospital ended in the early 1800s, when the fort was vacated. Repair works were carried out during the Portuguese Civil War (1828-1834). The fort was used as a military prison until the end of the conflict, after which it was deactivated again. Later, it was occupied by the Algarve Fisheries Company for the production of fish guano, until this activity was stopped for public health reasons. After being re-occupied by the State, it served as a nursery for the national forests and as a shelter for the royal galleys.

Twentieth century to the present
On 17 April 1901, the Fort of Trafaria was the scene of the first wireless connection in the country, receiving a message from a transmitting station installed at the Fort of Alto do Duque, on the other bank of the Tagus, a distance of 4,300 meters.

Between 1908 and 1910 it underwent work to adapt its facilities to a military prison and was subsequently used by the Portuguese Navy. The restoration of its chapel dates from this period. However, by 1917 it had, once again, been abandoned. Briefly being used as a private dwelling, it again became a military prison, first for the Navy, then for the Army. Once again in a state of degradation in the second half of the 1990s, the Fort of Trafaria was acquired by the municipality of Almada in 2000. In September 2020 it was announced that it would be rehabilitated at a cost of  7.6 million Euros, to become the site of the Institute of Art and Technology of the NOVA University Lisbon.

References

Trafaria
Buildings and structures in Almada
Vanessa Olivia Ezenwa is an American ecologist who is a professor at the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Her research considers the ecology of infectious diseases amongst animal populations. In 2020, she was selected by The Community of Scholars as one of the most Inspiring Black scientists in the United States.

Early life and education 
As a high school student, Ezenwa became interested in infectious diseases and ecology. Ezenwa earned her bachelor's degree at Rice University. She was a graduate student at Princeton University, where she majored in behavioral ecology. Her doctoral research considered eleven different species of African ungulate in Kenya. Some of these ungulates lived in pairs, whilst some lived in groups of one hundred. After completing her doctorate, Ezenwa joined the United States Geological Survey as a postdoctoral fellow.

Research and career 
In 2005, Ezenwa joined the faculty at the University of Montana. She moved to the University of Georgia in 2010. Her research considers infectious diseases in animal populations, with a particular focus on identifying effective intervention strategies. She has studied how gastrointestinal worm infections impact the susceptibility of African buffalo to contract bovine tuberculosis, and how severe their diseases are once they have become infected. She concentrated her studies on the free ranging buffalo of Kruger National Park, but the buffalo are a major reservoir of bovine tuberculosis infections in South Africa. The prevalence of the disease in Africa can impact other wildlife. Ezenwa demonstrated that it was possible to treat the worms, diminishing the severity of tuberculosis and increasing the likelihood infected animals survive. Unfortunately, because infected animals survive better, they are more likely to spread the disease. Ezenwa has investigated non-pharmaceutical approaches to managing infectious diseases amongst animals, such as test and cull programmes. Beyond African buffalo, Ezenwa studied Grant's gazelle and spiny mice. Ezenwa has investigated the influence of climate change and changing weather on infectious diseases amongst livestock.

Ezenwa serves on the editorial advisory board of Science. In 2020, Ezenwa was selected by The Community of Scholars as one of the most inspiring Black scientists in the United States.

Selected publications

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American scientists
Rice University alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Georgia faculty
American ecologists
Women ecologists
American environmentalists
21st-century African-American academics
21st-century American academics
Mikhail Igorevich Kostin (; born 10 March 1985) is a former Russian professional footballer.

Club career
He played five seasons in the Russian Football National League for four clubs.

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1985 births
Footballers from Luhansk
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
PFC Dynamo Stavropol players
FC Daugava players
FC Metallurg Lipetsk players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
FC Belshina Bobruisk players
FC Dynamo Bryansk players
FC Spartak Moscow players
FC Avangard Kursk players
Latvian Higher League players
Belarusian Premier League players
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus
Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia
FC Spartak Nizhny Novgorod players
The Koeckert Quartet was a well-known German string quartet.

Origin and activity 
It was first founded in 1939 under the name of the "Sudeten German Quartet", later renamed the "Prague String Quartet". It consisted of members of the German Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague (1939-1945), which had been founded by order of Joseph Goebbels. In 1947 it took the name Koeckert Quartet, after its first violinist Rudolf Koeckert. (1913–2005). Since 1949 the quartet resided in Munich, and the members were soloists of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. In the 1950s and 1960s, it shaped the musical life of the city of Munich alongside other ensembles, from where it started concert tours to North America, South Africa and all major European cities. It was thus one of the leading German string quartets of international standing. The quartet existed under the name "Koeckert Quartet" until 1982, when it was succeeded by the "Joachim Koeckert Quartet"; its first violinist, Rudolf-Joachim Koeckert, is the son of Rudolf Koeckert; the position of second violin was taken over by Antonio Spiller. Since 1982 this ensemble has premiered most of Karl Höller's important chamber music works, as well as works by Günter Bialas, Alberto Ginastera, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Křenek and Winfried Zillig. The Joachim Koeckert Quartet existed until 1992).

Lineup 
 Rudolf Koeckert (1st violin) (until 1982)
 Willi Buchner (14 October 1910 Schwarzau / Lower Austria) (until 1965), Rudolf-Joachim Koeckert (10 April 1941 Prague) (2nd violin)
 Oskar Riedl (4 July 1912 Graslitz / Bohemia) (until 1975), Franz Schessl (viola)
 Josef Merz (20 August 1911 Gumplitz / Bohemia) (until 1976), Helmar Stiehler (cello)

Discography (by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH) 
 Anton Bruckner, String quintet F major (with Georg Schmid, viola), mono (DGG 18.042)
 Robert Schumann, String Quartet op. 41 Nr. 2 and Bedřich Smetana, String Quartet No. 1 (1959)
 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, String Quartet op. 12 (1960)
 Franz Schubert, String Quartet No 14 Death and the Maiden Quartet (Rudolf Koeckert, Willi Buchner, Oskar Riedl, Josef Merz) Decca DL 9567, (1953)
 Franz Schubert, Trout Quintet D 667, with Christoph Eschenbach, piano (1964)
 Joseph Haydn, String Quartet Hob. III:72 (1969)
 Carl Orff, Catulli Carmina, with choir and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor: Eugen Jochum (1970)
 Robert Schumann, String Quartet Op. 41 No 1 and 3 (1985)
 Edvard Grieg, String Quartet (1990 and 1992)

Literature 
 Alain Pâris: Klassische Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. dtv, Munich 1997, .
 
 A. Schmitt: 25 Jahre Koeckert-Quartett. In Musica. 18, 1964, .
 J. Creighton: Discopaedia of the Violin, 1889–1971. Toronto 1974, .

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German string quartets
Musical groups from Munich
1939 establishments in Germany
1992 disestablishments in Germany
Al. Gherghel (; April 27, 1879 — December 20, 1951) was a Romanian Symbolist poet.

Born in Pitești into a family of intellectuals, his father Ion was a German teacher in Câmpulung. He spent his childhood and adolescence in the latter town, where he first began writing verse. He attended his first two years of high school at Saint Sava National College in the national capital Bucharest but completed his secondary studies in Pitești. He and Ion Minulescu, a year his junior, edited a literary magazine called Luceafărul for a short period before it was shut down by the headmaster. Entering the University of Bucharest in 1904, where he studied at the Law and Literature faculties, he studied under Titu Maiorescu and Mihail Dragomirescu, and was a classmate of Vasile Pârvan, Panait Cerna, Ion Petrovici, Oreste Georgescu and I. Dragoslav.

His debut volume, Cântece în amurg ("Songs in Twilight"), appeared in 1906. Drawn into the capital's literary circles, he became close to Alexandru Macedonski's circle as well as to that of Ovid Densusianu and his Vieața Nouă review. He would meet fellow writers at the Kübler Coffeehouse on Calea Victoriei. In March 1908, several months after finishing his studies in Bucharest, he went to Berlin to study law at Humboldt University, but soon had to return home due to lack of funds. At this point, he began a career as a bureaucrat. Passing an examination, he became a plasă administrator at Brăhășești, followed by the same post in the Iași neighborhood of Târgu Cucului and at Cotești. In September 1911, he settled in Constanţa. After teaching for a time, he devoted himself to practicing law and writing poetry, of which he published six volumes. He died in the home of a retired Căile Ferate Române employee.

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1879 births
1951 deaths
People from Pitești
University of Bucharest alumni
Romanian poets
Romanian male poets
Symbolist poets
The year 1910 in radio involved some significant events.

Events
13 January — Lee de Forest broadcast grand opera performance from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

24 June — Wireless Ship Act of 1910 passed by the United States Congress, requiring all ships of the United States traveling over  off the coast and carrying over 50 passengers to be equipped with wireless radio equipment with a range of .

Births
 16 January – Dwight Weist, American actor and announcer (d. 1991)
 22 March – Elisabeth Barker, British current affairs radio administrator (d. 1986)
 10 April – Olive Shapley, English radio documentary producer and broadcaster (d. 1999)
 3 May – Norman Corwin, American writer-producer (d. 2011)
 17 June – Sam Costa, British crooner, voice actor and disc jockey (d. 1981)
 21 August – D. G. Bridson, English radio producer and author (d. 1980)
 1 September – Charles Maxwell, Scottish-born radio producer (d. 1998)

References

 
Radio by year
Tillandsia simulata, common name Florida airplant or Manatee River airplant, is a plant species endemic to Florida. It an epiphyte growing on the branches of various trees and shrubs in the region, mostly in swamps and other moist locations.

Tillandsia simulata can be distinguished by its narrowly elliptic leaf sheath, up to 2 cm wide. It produces inflorescences up to 15 cm (6 inches) long, with rose-colored bracts and conspicuous violet flowers.

References

simulata
Endemic flora of Florida
Taxa named by John Kunkel Small