Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Brandsen is a partido in northeastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. In 2001 the city and district had a population of about 22,500 people. It covers an area of . The capital is also known as Brandsen.

History
Founded on November 21, 1875 it lies about  from Buenos Aires. The area was named after Argentine colonel, Federico de Brandsen, who was killed in the battle of Ituzaingó in the Cisplatine War.

Settlements

Brandsen
Altamirano
Doyhenard
El Chaja
Gobernador Obligado
Gómez
Jeppener
Las Acacias
Las Golondrinas
Los Bosquecitos
Oliden
Samborombón

References

External links

 
 Brandsen Museum

Partidos of Buenos Aires Province
The , also called  and , is a six- or seven-stringed plucked bridge zither which, unlike the koto and other stringed instruments, is believed to be truly native to Japan, and not imported from mainland Asia. Both names translate literally to "Japanese stringed instrument."

According to Shintō myth as written in the Kojiki, the yamatogoto played an important role in the origins of Japan itself. In the myth, Amaterasu, goddess of the sun, is insulted by her brother Susano-o no Mikoto and hides in a cave, refusing to emerge. The world is therefore plunged into darkness. Amaterasu is eventually coaxed out of her cave by the goddess Ame-no-Uzume, who performs a dance outside the cave, to music provided by the twanging of six hunting bows. Amused by the music, and by the entertained sounds of the other gods, Amaterasu leaves the cave and returns to the firmament. The six bows are lashed together to form an instrument, and the first wagon or yamatogoto is born.

The instrument's form has changed very little since the eighth century. Similar in shape to the more commonly known koto, the yamatogoto is narrower, as it has fewer strings. Bridges are made from the natural forks of tree branches, particularly maple trees, according to tradition. Unlike many instruments, the yamatogoto's strings are not arranged in a scale, from low to high pitch, but in a preset melodic sequence which is played in rhythmic patterns. Another common playing technique involves a quick glissando across all the strings, with all but the last string played immediately muted with the hand, thus allowing only the last string to resonate.

Today, the instrument is used only in the Shintō ceremonial/court music called gagaku, and even then it is not common. Nevertheless, its central role in Japanese mythology allows it to retain some reverence.

References
Clark, Mitchell (2005). "Sounds of the Silk Road: Musical Instruments of Asia." Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Publications.

Japanese musical instruments
Zithers
Kagura
Sacred musical instruments
Gagaku
Berta Gersten born Berta Gerstenman (1894 – September 10, 1972) was an American actor in Yiddish theater and later in Broadway productions. She took a major role in The Benny Goodman Story film in 1954.

Life
Gersten was born in Kraków in 1894 or maybe 1896. Her family moved to New York in 1899 where her father, Avrom Gerstenman, was a translator and her mother, Meshe (née Kopps) was a dressmaker. Her acting debut happened because her mother was working for an actor who needed a child for a production. In 1918 she was recruited by Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre troup performing notable Yiddish works and dramatic classics like Chekhov Ibsen and Shakespeare in Yiddish. Stayed with the theatre for 25 years frequently in leading roles with Jacob Ben-Ami.

A film adaptation of the play Mirele Efros was made in the United States in 1939. It was directed by Josef Berne with Gersten in the title role and Ruth Elbaum as Shaindl. It was made in Yiddish with English subtitles.

Gersten acted in Yiddish plays, but in 1954 she took a role in an English-speaking play "The World of Sholom Aleichem" on Broadway. She was known for acting in the theatre, but she played Benny's mother in the 1956 film The Benny Goodman Story. This was her only Hollywood film appearance. Other significant Broadway productions of The Flowering Peach (1955), A Majority of One (1959), and Sophie (1963) included Gersten in the cast. Her lasting acting role was in My Father's Court in 1971.

Death and legacy
Gersten died in hospital in The Bronx aged 78. Gersten is included in the 1971 work Notable American Women, 1607–1950; A Biographical Dictionary.

References

External links
 Mirele Efros at IMDB".

1890s births
1972 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Yiddish theatre in the United States
Mantatao is an island off the coast of Bohol, Philippines. Situated in the Cebu Strait, the island is approximately  north-northwest from the town center of Calape, Bohol. Mantatao is one of multiple chains of islands located in the Danajon Bank, the only double barrier reef in the country. The island is one of the 33 barangays that comprise the municipality of Calape. As of 2020, Mantatao's population is 972.

With a total estimated area of , the island has a high population density. It is known for having an abundance of fish, squid, shell/clams and seaweeds. Mantatao Island is surrounded by mangrove forest, which is the natural habitat for marine creatures.  It has an elementary school  and a diesel power plant, which is operated by the National Power Corporation.

Recently, the island has experienced several natural hazards that greatly impacted its inhabitants and their livelihood. Mantatao was affected during the 7.2 2013 Bohol Earthquake. The earthquake created a sinking or lowering of the ground known as subsidence. During high tide, the island becomes submerged as seawaters flood the entire island. In 2021, the residents of the island were affected by Typhoon Rai or Supertyphoon Odette in the Philippines. Families were immediately evacuated to the mainland prior to the typhoon's landfall.

See also
 List of islands by population density

References

 Islands of Bohol
The 1996 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was the 48th edition of the cycle race and was held from 2 June to 9 June 1996. The race started in Megève and finished in Grenoble. The race was won by Miguel Induráin of the Banesto team.

Teams
Sixteen teams, containing a total of 127 riders, participated in the race:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Collstrop–Eddy Merckx

Route

Stages

Prologue
2 June 1996 – Megève,  (ITT)

Stage 1
3 June 1996 – Megève to Villefontaine,

Stage 2
4 June 1996 – Charbonnières-les-Bains to Firminy,

Stage 3
5 June 1996 – Saint-Maurice-de-Lignon to Tournon-sur-Rhône,

Stage 4
6 June 1996 – Tain-l'Hermitage to Mont Ventoux,

Stage 5
7 June 1996 – Gigondas to Beaumes-de-Venise,  (ITT)

Stage 6
8 May 1996 – Digne-les-Bains to Briançon,

Stage 7
9 June 1996 – Briançon to Grenoble,

General classification

References

1996
1996 in French sport
June 1996 sports events in Europe
C. J. Marottolo is an American ice hockey coach and former player. He is currently the head coach Sacred Heart and was previously an assistant at Yale.

Career
Marottolo joined the program at Northeastern in 1985 and remained with the team for four seasons. During his time with the Huskies Marottolo was listed as a member of the team but never played in a game and is not listed as having revived a letter. After graduating Marottolo went to France, joining the French division IV Hockey Club de Metz as a player/coach for two years and also coached the Euro-Sport/Drummond Hockey School. In 1992 Marottolo returned to the North Haven area to serve as an assistant at Trinity in Hartford and later transitioned to the same position at Yale.

Marottolo worked for Yale for thirteen seasons, helping the team reach the NCAA tournament in 1998, the first time the program had done so in 46 years. In 2009 the Bulldogs won their first conference tournament championship and returned to the NCAA bracket. Marottolo was expected to continue his role at Yale until Shaun Hannah, the head coach at nearby Sacred Heart, suddenly resigned a month before the 2009–10 season began. Marottolo was enticed to take over as the fourth head coach in program history.

The team responded to the new hire by winning 10 more games than they had done the year before, finishing the year as runner-up for both the regular season and tournament title in Atlantic Hockey and earning Marottolo the conference coach of the year award. The following year, Sacred Heart dropped in the standings and remained there for three years, winning a school-low 2 games in 2013. After the three-year slump the Pioneers started to recover and produced double-digit wins in each of the following five seasons, but weren't able to produce a winning record. Despite the lack of regular season success Sacred Heart has been able to produce a small modicum of positive postseason results, winning three series over eight seasons despite being a lower seed.

College head coaching record

References

External links
 Official Biography, Sacred Heart Pioneers

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American ice hockey coaches
Sacred Heart Pioneers men's ice hockey coaches
People from North Haven, Connecticut
Ice hockey coaches from Connecticut
Leiston railway station was a station in Leiston, Suffolk. It was opened in 1859 by the East Suffolk Railway and later became part of the Great Eastern Railway on its  branch line from  to . It was closed in 1966 as part of the Beeching Axe as much of the British rural rail network was cut back. Today the old station survives intact, as the line is still used to service the nearby nuclear power station at Sizewell.

History

Passenger services lasted up until 1966 when the line closed to passengers. In August 1967, the track between Aldeburgh and Sizewell siding was taken up using steam cranes. By 1969, all that remained was one single line to Sizewell. In 2005, The line through the station was used for staff road training.

References

Disused railway stations in Suffolk
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Beeching closures in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1859
1859 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966
Leiston
Business for Britain was a eurosceptic campaign group which sought a renegotiation of the relationship between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU). The campaign was founded in April 2013 by Matthew Elliott.

History
The company was founded by Matthew Elliott who had founded the TaxPayers' Alliance in 2004. Elliott served as the chief executive of the organisation.

The group published research on the voting record of the UK in the European Parliament in 2014, called Measuring Britain's influence in the Council of Ministers. It cited 55 times that the UK government had rejected a proposal which then went on to be passed by the EU Council. The fact-checking organisation Full Fact felt that this did not show a full picture as often proposals are rejected before being presented to the Council and that there was research to show that a majority of decisions were taken before a vote in the Council. In November 2014, they published a letter signed by more than 500 business leaders which called for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. In June 2015, the Business for Britain Board agreed to form Vote Leave.

Publications
 Measuring Britain's influence in the Council of Ministers (2014) PDF

See also
Campaign for an Independent Britain
Conservatives for Britain
Democracy Movement
Grassroots Out (GO)
Labour Leave
Leave Means Leave
Leave.EU
Vote Leave

References

2013 establishments in the United Kingdom
Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in the City of Westminster
2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum
Valentina Aleksandrovna Zhulina (,  Yermakova, born 15 June 1953) is a Soviet rower. She competed under her maiden name until 1979.

References

External links
 

1953 births
Living people
Russian female rowers
Soviet female rowers
Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in rowing
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union
The UK R&B Chart is a weekly chart, first introduced in October 1994, that ranks the 40 biggest-selling singles and albums that are classified in the R&B genre in the United Kingdom. The chart is compiled by the Official Charts Company, and is based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl and other formats over the previous seven days.
 
The following are the number-one albums of 2011.

Number-one albums

Notes
  - The album was simultaneously number-one on the UK Albums Chart. 
  - The artist was simultaneously number-one on the R&B Singles Chart.

See also

List of UK Albums Chart number ones of 2011
List of UK R&B Chart number-one singles of 2011

References

External links
R&B Albums Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
UK Top 40 RnB Albums at BBC Radio 1

Number-one RandB albums
United Kingdom RandB Albums
2011
Journeys with George is a documentary by Alexandra Pelosi and Aaron Lubarsky that follows George W. Bush for more than a year on his campaign trail in the 2000 United States presidential election.

Working for NBC and as part of what she calls the "travelling press corps," Pelosi offers the only behind-the-scenes look at Bush's campaign.  With light journalism, she achieves considerable access to the then-Governor of Texas.
 
The film focuses on the relationship between the press and presidential candidates, the life of a traveling journalist in such a relationship, and Bush, usually in a humorous light, with less attention given to the issues. It earned six Emmy nominations including one win for Lubarsky's editing. It scored 48 out of 100 on Metacritic. In April 2007, it was shown on MSNBC.

The last two seasons of The West Wing, which follow the presidential campaigns of Matt Santos and Arnold Vinick, were inspired in part by scenes in Journeys.

References

External links
 
 Journeys with George on HBO

2003 films
2003 television films
Documentary films about elections in the United States
Documentary films about journalism
Films about the 2000 United States presidential election
Documentary films about presidents of the United States
Films about George W. Bush
Films directed by Alexandra Pelosi
2003 directorial debut films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
The canton of Le Confluent is an administrative division of the Lot-et-Garonne department, southwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Aiguillon.

It consists of the following communes:
 
Aiguillon
Bazens
Bourran
Clermont-Dessous
Cours
Frégimont
Galapian
Granges-sur-Lot
Lacépède
Lagarrigue
Laugnac
Lusignan-Petit
Madaillan
Montpezat
Nicole
Port-Sainte-Marie
Prayssas
Saint-Salvy
Saint-Sardos
Sembas

References

Cantons of Lot-et-Garonne
Sodium dithionate Na2S2O6 is an important compound for inorganic chemistry. It is also known under names disodium dithionate, sodium hyposulfate, and sodium metabisulfate. The sulfur can be considered to be in its +5 oxidation state.

It should not be confused with sodium dithionite, Na2S2O4, which is a very different compound, and is a powerful reducing agent with many uses in chemistry and biochemistry. Confusion between dithionate and dithionite is commonly encountered, even in manufacturers' catalogues.

Preparation
Sodium dithionate is produced by the oxidation of sodium bisulfite by manganese dioxide:

2 NaHSO3 + MnO2 → Na2S2O6 + MnO + H2O

Alternatively, it can be prepared by the oxidation of sodium sulfite by the silver(I) cation:

 + 2 Ag + SO →  + 2 Ag

Another method is via oxidation of sodium thiosulfate with chlorine:

3 Cl2 + Na2S2O3·5H2O + 6 NaOH → Na2S2O6 + 6 NaCl + 8 H2O

And another method to produce sodium dithionate is treating sodium thiosulfate with sodium hypochlorite solution.

Structure

The dithionate ion represents sulfur that is oxidized relative to elemental sulfur, but not totally oxidized. Sulfur can be reduced to sulfide or totally oxidized to sulfate, with numerous intermediate oxidation states in inorganic moieties, as well as organosulfur compounds. Example inorganic ions include sulfite and thiosulfate.

Sodium dithionate crystallize as orthorhombic crystals of the dihydrate (). The water of crystallization is lost when heated to 90 °C, and the structure becomes hexagonal.

Large single crystals of () have been grown and studied for pulsed lasing purposes (pico second spectroscopy) with great success by E. Haussühl and cols.

Properties

Sodium dithionate is a very stable compound which is not oxidized by permanganate, dichromate or bromine. It can be oxidized to sulfate under strongly oxidizing conditions: these include boiling for one hour with 5 M sulfuric acid with an excess of potassium dichromate, or treating with an excess of hydrogen peroxide then boiling with concentrated hydrochloric acid. 

The Gibbs free energy change for (for example) the dithionate anion's oxidation to sulfate is a negative −300 kJ/mol, making it thermodynamically unstable against oxidation, but the kinetics for this reaction are rather poor. For similar reasons, the dithionate anion has been used to form single crystals of large cation complexes in high oxidation states, as the resulting salts are very likely highly kinetically stable(unless in extraordinary conditions that obviously do not belong to crystal analysis- see above), enough to survive all the way throughout the analysis of the crystal.

References

Dithionates
Sodium compounds
Tree hugger may refer to:
 A slang term, sometimes derogatory, for environmentalists
 Chipko movement, an environmental movement in India
 TreeHugger, a sustainability website
 The Tree Hugger Project, an environmental art project
Wilcher is a surname shared by several notable people:

 Geneice Wilcher (born 1980), American beauty pageant titlist
 Mike Wilcher (born 1960), retired American professional football player
 Phillip Wilcher (born 1958), Australian pianist and composer
 Thomas Wilcher (living), American collegiate and pre-collegiate champion track and field athlete
Barry Jackson may refer to:

Sports
Barry Jackson (athlete) (born 1941), track and field athlete
Barry Jackson (cricketer) (born 1966), English cricketer
Barry Jackson (footballer) (1938–2021), English footballer
Barry Jackson (rugby union) (1937–2019), England international rugby union player

Other
Barry Jackson (actor) (1938–2013), English actor
Barry Jackson (director) (1879–1961), English theatre director
Barry E. Jackson (born 1954), production designer and writer
Barry Steven Jackson (born 1960), Congressional staffer
Barry Jackson (surgeon) (born 1936), British surgeon
Merivale is an Australian privately held company, with property assets involved in the entertainment and hospitality sectors, predominantly in Sydney, New South Wales.

Fashion years 
It was founded in 1957 in Sydney by John and Merivale Hemmes, initially as a millinery in Sydney's Boulevard Arcade, later expanding into clothing. In 1959, the first House of Merivale fashion store was established in the Theatre Royal in Castlereagh Street. It expanded into a successful and influential high-fashion chain with three stores in Pitt Street, two in Melbourne and one in Canberra.

Hospitality and property diversification 
Merivale diversified into both hospitality and property interests, acquiring the Angel Hotel building in Pitt Street, which included a restaurant that reopened as a boutique, and was the first item in a substantial property portfolio.

It expanded further into hospitality in the early 1990s with the Merivale restaurant in Potts Point, as it began winding down its fashion interests, closing the last fashion outlet in 1996.

Hemmes' son, Justin, took over the business in the mid-1990s and aggressively diversified into hospitality, operating more than 70 nightclubs, pubs and restaurants, primarily in Sydney, by 2020. Notable assets include Hotel CBD, the Newport Arms Hotel and the Slip Inn.  In 2021, Merivale purchased the Lorne Hotel for 38 million, expanding the company's reach into Victoria.

In 2019 a class action was commenced against Merivale, alleging 129 million in under-payment of approximately 14,000 employees who were employed between December 2013 and December 2019. The litigants claimed that the employees were not paid for the significant overtime they were required to work, beyond the maximum allowance of 38 hours per week. Merivale denied the claims. On 30 March 2021, in a major loss to Merivale, Justice Thawley in the Federal Court ruled that the WorkChoices agreement was not validly approved. , negotiations in a mediation between the parties for an agreed settlement amount has not been resolved.

References

External links

Clothing retailers of Australia
Companies based in Sydney
Defunct retail companies of Australia
Hospitality companies of Australia
Privately held companies of Australia
Australian companies established in 1957
Retail companies established in 1957
Yanbian Library (, ) is a library located in Yanji City, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, China. With a collection of over 80 thousand books in Korean, it is the largest and the only one Korean literature collection center in China.

History 
Yanbian Library was constructed in February 1949. People's Government of Jilin Province formally named the library as "Yanbian Library" on 6 January 1955. In order to solve the problem of saturation of the building, the library was moved to the western part of Yanji City in 2012.

References 

Libraries in Jilin
Public libraries in China
2012 establishments in China
Libraries established in 1949
Perigramma is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Achille Guenée in 1857.

Species
Perigramma canescens (Walker, [1865])
Perigramma celerenaria (Walker, [1865])
Perigramma nervaria Guenée, 1857

References

Geometridae
Jonathan David (born 2000) is a Canadian soccer player.

Jonathan David may also refer to:
Jonathan David (singer) (born 1978), American musician
Jonathan David (song), 2001 song by Belle and Sebastian
Yonasan David, Haredi rosh yeshiva.

See also
David and Jonathan, heroic figures of ancient Israel
Jonathan David Brown (1955–2016), American record producer and audio engineer
Jonathan David Gómez (born 1989), Argentine footballer
Jonathan David Katz (born 1958), American activist, art historian, educator and writer
Jonathan David Victor (born 1954), American neuroscientist