Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Luo alphabet (also known as the Luo Lakeside script) was invented by Kefa Ombewa and Paul Sidandi between 2009 and 2012 to write Luo languages, specifically Dholuo of Kenya, in a unique way. The script is a left-to-right alphabet, with 33 letters connected to each other by a line running along the bottom.

History 
Other African writing systems have been developed before and some are still in use today. Work on the Luo alphabet started in 2009 by Kefa Ombewa. At the same time Paul Sidandi started his work on Luo numerals independently. The two men met on Twitter in 2013 and decided to combine the alphabet and the numerals to be a single project and the font produced was named KefaSidandi font. Digitization of the work started with a lot of challenges. Initially only a bitmap-font was available. Thereafter in order to produce the true-type font internet usage, Will Were joined to produce the font glyphs. The work was completed on June 12, 2012 when the first true-type font was produced. This led to the ability to embed the script on the Luo Alphabet website and made the font downloadable for other interested users. The Luo alphabet first came into the limelight in Kenya when Kefa Ombewa conducted an interview with Kenya Television Network (KTN) in 2014.

Letters 

The sounds below have been adopted by Luo speakers due to modern influence:

Example 

The writing above says Yuak ogwal ok mon dhok modho in Luo, translated as "The croak of a frog doesn't prevent cattle from drinking".

Numbers 
The Luo system has its own symbols for numbers. These numbers range from zero to nine for mathematical use but large number representations are also available for colloquial use. The table below shows these numerals compared to Arabic (western) numerals.

Vowel diacritics 
In this alphabet, there are five vowels represented by the same stroke. The difference is in the diacritic added to the vowel stroke. These diacritics do not show vowel stress, tone or length as can be in other languages or writing systems. Luo is a tonal language i.e. the same written word said in a different tone can mean a different thing. These tones vary within vowels but are never written thereby making it important to get the right context of the word. The table below shows the vowels, notice the different diacritics applied on the same stroke.

Punctuation and symbology 
Different systems have traditionally used different punctuation marks. Some did not even have any punctuation at all. In the Luo system commas, full-stops, slash, colon, semi-colon, question marks, brackets, hyphens, etc. are borrowed from the Latin system and are used in the same way. Mathematical or scientific symbols are also borrowed from the Latin system in the western world. These symbols include $, %, @, &, +, =, etc.

External links
 Interview with Kefa Ombewa
 Luo Alphabet

Alphabets
Writing systems of Africa
Luo languages
The Arabic Competency Test is a standardized test held in Saudi Arabia to evaluate and certify Arabic language proficiency for non-native speakers, covering language knowledge, reading, writing, listening and conversation. The test was officially introduced on June 12, 2022, by the country's Minister of Tourism Badr bin Abdullah al-Saud and is jointly managed by the Saudi Education and Training Evaluation Commission and King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language.

References 

Arabic language
Tests
William Popplewell Bloxam (9 January 1860 – 26 December 1913) was an English chemist  known for his work on dyes, particularly indigo in India and at the laboratory of A.G. Perkin. He was nephew of the chemist Charles Loudon Bloxam.

Bloxam was born on Mount Street, Grosvenor Square to surgeon William Bloxam and Emma Caroline Kite. He went to school at Northampton Grammar School and then King's College School. He was initially interested in studying law but the death of his father made him study chemistry from his uncle Charles Bloxam at King's College and became an assistant to Heinrich Debus (1824–1915) studying sulphur compounds and later under Vivian Lewes, both at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. In 1901 he applied for a position at the Madras Presidency College but this was cancelled when the former holder of the position returned from sick leave. He then moved to Bihar to work on the chemistry of indigo production and the extraction of indigotin.

He returned to England in 1904 and worked at the Clothworkers' Research Laboratory at the University of Leeds under A.G. Perkin. He suffered from a stroke and died at Guy's Hospital.

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Scientists from British India
Passandra is a genus of beetles in the family Passandridae.

Species
 Passandra apicalis Grouvelle
 Passandra blanchardi Grouvelle
 Passandra doriai Grouvelle
 Passandra elongatula Grouvelle
 Passandra fasciata Gray
 Passandra gemellipara Newman
 Passandra gigas Fabricius
 Passandra goudoti Grouvelle
 Passandra harmandi Grouvelle
 Passandra heros Fabricius
 Passandra kasiae Slipinski
 Passandra lineicollis Reitter
 Passandra marginata Grouvelle
 Passandra murrayi Grouvelle
 Passandra nodicornis Snellen
 Passandra oblongicollis Fairmaire
 Passandra penicillata Waterhouse
 Passandra popeorum Slipinski
 Passandra punctulicollis Fairmaire
 Passandra quadrilineata Smith
 Passandra rufipennis Fabricius
 Passandra sagena Lefkovitch
 Passandra semifusca Newman
 Passandra sexstriata Dalman
 Passandra simplex Murray
 Passandra tenuicornis Grouvelle
 Passandra trigemina Newman
 Passandra uniformis Waterhouse
 Passandra waterhousei Grouvelle
 Passandra zairensis Slipinski

References

Passandridae
ZAP Sherbrooke (ZAP stands for "Public Access Zone" in French") is a non-profit community wireless network which provides free wireless Internet access to mobile users in public spaces throughout the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.  The network was built using Open-source software and inexpensive off-the-shelf Wi-Fi hardware to share broadband Internet connections.  The initiative was created by a consortium of Sherbrooke University and Bishop's University along with hospitals and other colleges in the area. In 2008 the project received the OCTAS Award for "Technologies at the Service of Communities".

ZAP Sherbrooke is available throughout Sherbrooke city in public areas (public parks, arenas, library, city buildings) as well as universities (Sherbrooke University and Bishop's University) and hospitals.  It is also available in cafés, restaurants, bars, stores, and community organizations which pay a $200 fee the first year and $75 each subsequent year to join the network. As of March 2010, the network has over 35,000 registered users and over 240 live hotspots.

References

Companies based in Sherbrooke
Wi-Fi providers
Frederik Carl Gram Schrøder (19 July 1866 – 13 August 1936), usually referred to as F.C.G. Schrøder and also known as Fritz Schrøder was a Danish civil servant, Governor of Danmarks Nationalbank from 1925 and until his death.

In 1920 he served briefly as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of M.P. Friis, a caretaker cabinet mainly consisting of civil servants which under the leadership of Michael Pedersen Friis was in office from 5 April to 5 May triggered by the Easter Crisis of 1920.

Private life
Schrøder was born in Copenhagen. His two sons were Henning Schrøder, who became director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Povl Schrøder, a painter. His daughter Karen Margrethe Schrøder married the architect, urban planner and writer Steen Eiler Rasmussen and was the mother of the linguist Una Canger.

References

Danish civil servants
1866 births
1936 deaths
Governors of the Bank of Denmark
Government ministers of Denmark
Politicians from Copenhagen
Grace Hospital may refer to:

Fictional
 The fictional Seattle Grace Hospital in Seattle, Washington, which is the setting for the ABC series Grey's Anatomy

Active
 Grace Hospital (Morganton), Morganton, North Carolina, United States
 Grace Hospital (Richmond, Virginia)
 Grace Hospital (Winnipeg)
 Sinai-Grace Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
 Toronto Grace Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Defunct
 B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre (formerly Grace Hospital), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 Birchmount Hospital (formerly Scarborough Grace Hospital), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 Boston Emergency and General Hospital, which was known as Grace Hospital from 1906 to 1912
 Grace Hospital (Seattle)
 Grace Maternity Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia which merged with Izaak Walton Killam Hospital in 1996. Now known as IWK Health Centre
 Grace Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, which merged with New Haven Hospital in 1945. Now known as Yale New Haven Hospital
Allan Vizents (1945–1987) was an American artist who lived and worked in Australia. He was a founding member of Perth based conceptual art group Media-Space, active from 1981 to 1986. He moved to Sydney in 1986 and took up the role of director of the organisation Performance Space, until his death in 1987.

Vizents was born in California in 1945, and arrived in Perth in October 1978. His initial interest was in photography, and his work from this period is held in collections of the State Library of Western Australia, John Curtin Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The group Media-Space was formed by Vizents along with Paul Thomas, Jeff Jones, Ann Graham, Judy Chambers, Neil Sullivan, Brian McKay and Lindsay Parkhill and many other occasional participants. Together they established a space in Perth to combat the isolation of the city, and enable artists to access resources and to engage in discussions regarding ideas and recent occurrences in local and world arts. During this time, Vizents developed the performance and audio artwork that he would become renowned for. Along with PRAXIS, another Perth-based art group from this period, Media-Space formed the initial proposal to use the old Perth Boys School as the site for what became the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). During these years, Vizents met and married Patsy Vizents (nee. Bradbury). Vizents left Perth in 1986 to become the director of Sydney's Performance Space, but his tenure was cut short by his death on 19 March 1987.

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1987 deaths
20th-century Australian male artists
20th-century American male artists
Australian performance artists
American performance artists
American emigrants to Australia
20th-century Australian photographers
Photographers from California
20th-century American photographers
Artists from Perth, Western Australia
Major Mahadevan is a fictional character and the protagonist in the Major Mahadevan film series. The character was created by Major Ravi and is portrayed by Mohanlal. Mahadevan is a commanding officer in the Indian Army, who held the title Major and was promoted to a Colonel. He first appears in the 2006 film Kirthi Chakra, and later in the sequels Kurukshetra (2008), Kandahar (2010), and 1971: Beyond Borders (2017).

Major Mahadevan is one of the most influential characters to have appeared in Malayalam cinema. Mohanlal was given an honorary position as a lieutenant colonel in the Territorial Army of India by the Indian Ministry of Defence, taking into account his honest portrayal of an army man and the reach the character got through the films Kirthi Chakra (2006) and Kurukshetra (2008). The third installment Kandahar was released in 2010. He appeared in the latest film 1971: Beyond Borders in 2017.

Family
Mahadevan was married and had a daughter, Arathi Mahadevan with his wife, Sreekutty (portrayed by Lakshmi Gopalaswamy), who were killed in a bomb explosion. Both his wife and daughter appeared in the first film Keerthi Chakra. His father Sahadevan was a war veteran, an army Major, who had fought in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Major Sahadevan appeared in the 2017 sequel 1971: Beyond Borders.

Appearances
Mahadevan appeared in four films:

 Keerthi Chakra (2006) (as Major Mahadevan)
 Kurukshetra (2008) (as Colonel Mahadevan)
 Kandahar (2010) (as Major Mahadevan)
 1971: Beyond Borders (2017) (as Colonel Mahadevan and Major Sahadevan)

References

Indian film characters
Film characters introduced in 2006
Fictional colonels
Fictional commanders
Fictional majors
Fictional military personnel in films
Fictional Indian Army personnel
Fictional special forces personnel
Olga Iakinfovna Kuzeneva (1887-1978) was a Russian botanist who specialized in conifers.  She identified at least five species.

References 

1887 births
1978 deaths
People from Dukhovshchina
People from Dukhovshchinsky Uyezd
Soviet botanists
20th-century Russian botanists
Russian women botanists
Chazara heydenreichi is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be found from Hindu Kush and the W. Himalaya across Middle Asia and Kazakhstan to the S. Altai.

The wingspan is 45–60 mm. The butterflies fly from June to August.

Subspecies
Chazara heydenreichi heydenreichi
Chazara heydenreichi hegesander Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Dzhungarsky Alatau, Tian-Shan)
Chazara heydenreichi nana Rühl, 1895 (western Pamirs, Ghissar, southern Ghissar, Darvaz, Alai)

External links
 Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic - Chazara heydenreichi

Chazara
Butterflies described in 1853
Edward Frank Gillett (23 July 1874 – 1 May 1927), often credited as Frank Gillett, was a British artist and illustrator. He worked in pen and ink, pastel, watercolour, and oil. Though he died in 1927, two of his works were in the art competition in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Early life 
Gillett was born in Worlingham, Suffolk, and educated at Gresham's School, Norfolk.

Career 
Having found a career as a clerk in 1891, Gillett lived in Lambeth, London. He decided to focus on his art from 1896. Gillett submitted cartoons to the periodical Fun before starting work full time as an illustrator at The Daily Graphic from 1898. He worked there until 1908, transferring to Black and White and then to Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, contributing to them between 1910 and 1923. Gillett was a member of London's Langham Sketch Club and in 1909 became an elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. He left London in 1916, moving to the Mickelburgh family farm in Aldeby, Norfolk and later to Beccles.

Gillett worked in pen and ink, pastel, watercolour, and oil and was noted as a skillful caricaturist. He was inspired by Norfolk's rural life and his work often involved sport, particularly fox-hunting and hare-coursing. His work has been exhibited by the Royal Academy of Arts and the Walker Art Gallery and is held by the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Gillett also illustrated 25 reissues of works by G. A. Henty as well as several books by Robert Louis Stevenson and Percy F. Westerman.

Two of Gillett's works, La Finale and Contre l'horizon, were submitted into the Mixed Painting, Drawings And Water Colours category at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He did not win a medal but his entry makes him one of only a small number of posthumous Olympians and the only one to represent Great Britain.

Personal life
Gillett married Elsie Joanne Bastard in 1903 but was widowed in 1912. He remarried in Aldeby two years later to Margaret Mickelburgh.

References

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1874 births
1927 deaths
British painters
People educated at Gresham's School
People from Worlington, Suffolk
Olympic competitors in art competitions
British children's book illustrators
James Arthur Bédard (born November 17, 1956) is a Canadian retired ice hockey goaltender. He was most recently the goaltending coach for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Career 
Originally drafted in 1976 by the Washington Capitals, Bédard played for parts of two seasons with the Capitals. After playing two seasons in the minor leagues, Bédard signed to play in the Finnish SM-liiga, After two seasons with HC TPS, he played in Finland for 12 seasons more, mostly in lower divisions, before finally retiring in 1994.

After his playing career, he served as the goaltending coach with the Detroit Red Wings for 19 seasons. He had won three Stanley Cups with Detroit in 1998, 2002 and 2008. On May 9, 2016, it was reported that Bédard's contract with the team would not be renewed.

Bédard is also the goalie coach for the Detroit Red Wings Alumni Association  and is active in its efforts to raise money for children's charities in Metro Detroit. As of 2016–17, Bédard is the goaltending coach for the OHL's Windsor Spitfires. Since 2017–18, Bedard has been the goaltending coach for the Texas Stars.

References

External links

Profile at hockeydraftcentral.com

1956 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Cincinnati Stingers (CHL) players
Dallas Stars coaches
Dayton Gems players
Detroit Red Wings coaches
Edmonton Oilers (WHA) draft picks
Hershey Bears players
HPK players
Imatran Ketterä players
Rochester Americans players
Ice hockey people from Niagara Falls, Ontario
Stanley Cup champions
Sudbury Wolves players
HC TPS players
Tulsa Oilers (1964–1984) players
TuTo players
Washington Capitals draft picks
Washington Capitals players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Finland
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian ice hockey coaches
Elise Mertens and An-Sophie Mestach were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.

Nicola Geuer and Anna Zaja won the title when Ana Bogdan and Ioana Loredana Roșca retired in the final at 6–3, 2–2.

Seeds

Draw

References 
 Draw

Engie Open Andrézieux-Bouthéon 42 - Doubles
WSTT (730 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel music format. Licensed to Thomasville, Georgia, United States, the station is currently owned by Southern Gulf Broadcasting.

History
This station first went on the air in December 1947 as WKTG, owned by Eunice M. Martin ("Thomas County Broadcasting") and broadcasting from the Bank of Thomas County Building in Thomasville. After transfers to John H. Phipps in 1955 and James S. Rivers in 1959, original owner Martin re-purchased WKTG in 1960. In December 1963, Martin sold out again, this time to Triple C Broadcasting (owned by Mrs. Lem Clarke, Dink Collins and Jay Clarke). In 1972, the station was bought by Norris Mills and Chester Bellamy, who changed the call letters to WLOR ("Wonderful Land of Roses"), broadcasting a block format of easy listening, gospel, country and pop music. By 1978, the station was owned by Marion R. Williams, had changed formats to country and gospel, and was known as WSTT.

MTV contest
In 1990, MTV obtained a "revocable option" to purchase WSTT, with the idea to offer it as a prize in a contest. (Ervin Duggan, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, called the idea "repugnant" at the time, but didn't say whether the FCC would approve such a transfer.) In November of that year, Chris McCarron, General Manager and DJ at Cerritos College station KCEB (now WPMD), was selected at random from about 250,000 people who took part in the giveaway. McCarron won $10,000 in cash along with the station; she was also given the option to either keep WSTT or trade it for an undisclosed cash sum. She visited the station on Saturday, November 10, 1990, when rocker Billy Idol was an on-air guest.

The station changed its call letters to WSNI on February 15, 1991, but this lasted barely two months, as it switched back to WSTT on April 22. It is speculated that McCarron took the cash option and/or sold the station back to MTV, and then moved on with her life. The station's license was again assigned to Marion R. Williams (still WSTT's current owner as of 2021) at that time.

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Radio stations established in 1947
Gospel radio stations in the United States
1947 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
STT
Alfred Vökt (; 21 May 1926 – 14 June 1999) was a Swiss operatic tenor who made a career at major opera houses, mainly in Germany. He focused on supporting roles and took part in world premieres such as Henze's König Hirsch in Kassel and Hans Zender's Stephen Climax at the Oper Frankfurt in 1986. Vökt appeared at major European opera houses and festivals.

Career 
Born in Basel, Vökt first studied law at the University of Basel, being awarded a Doctor of Law in 1955; at the same time, he studied voice with Ernst Reiter. He was a member of a choir in Basel from 1950 to 1958.

He was an ensemble member of Theater Basel from 1955 to 1957. He was then a member of the Städtische Bühnen Oberhausen (1958–1959), Stadttheater Gießen (1959–1960), Opernhaus Kiel (1960–1962) and the Staatstheater Kassel (1962–1965). In Kassel, he appeared as Ceccho in the world premiere of the complete version of Henze's König Hirsch on 10 March 1963, and as the Father in Ján Cikker's Abend, Nacht und Morgen on 5 October 1963. He sang at the Opernhaus Dortmund from 1965 to 1968, where he appeared as Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss in the opening performance of the new opera house on 3 March 1966. Other roles there included the Narrator in Orff's Der Mond, Goro in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, the Knusperhexe in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Wenzel in Smetana's Die verkaufte Braut and Wolfgang Capito in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler. He took part in the premiere of Eli by Walter Steffens in 1967.

Vökt was a member of the Oper Frankfurt from 1968 to 1992 and appeared as a guest thereafter. In Frankfurt, he created the role of the Tanzlehrer (dance master) in Hans Zender's Stephen Climax on 15 June 1986. Other roles there included Bardolfo in Verdi's Falstaff, Hauk-Šendorf in Janáček's Die Sache Makropulos and Monsieur Triquet in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin.

Vökt appeared as a guest in Bordeaux, at La Monnaie in Brussels, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf-Duisburg, the Edinburgh Festival, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Théâtre Musical de Paris, in Toulouse and at the Theater an der Wien. He sang on radio for the WDR.

Vökt was also active in concert. In 1976, he recorded the part of the Evangelist in Bach's Christmas Oratorio (Parts I to IV) in Düsseldorf, with Ingeborg Reichelt singing the soprano part and E. Wolfram Fürll conducting.

Vökt died on 14 June 1999 in his hometown.

Roles 
Vökt's roles also included:
 Jacob Glock in Prokofiev's L’Ange de feu
 Jeroschka in Borodin's Fürst Igor
 Professor von Mucker in Henze's Der junge Lord
 Schwachsinniger (The yuródivïy) in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunow

Awards 
 1987: Kammersänger in Frankfurt am Main

References

External links
 
 Alfred Vökt (Tenor) Bach Cantatas Website

Swiss operatic tenors
1926 births
1999 deaths
Musicians from Basel-Stadt
University of Basel alumni
20th-century Swiss male opera singers
Ratnamala may refer to:

People
Rani Ratnamala Devi, Indian politician
Rathnamala Prakash (born 1952), Indian singer
Ratnamala Savanur (born 1950), Indian politician

Other uses
 Ratnamala (film), a 1947 Telugu film
Marquess Lie may refer to:

Marquess Lie of Zhao (died 400 BC)
Marquess Lie of Han (died 387 BC)
The Hampson Baronetcy, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created by King Charles I on 3 June 1642 for Thomas Hampson, second son of Sir Robert Hampson (1537-1607) one of the two Sheriffs of the City of London in 1599, knighted by King James I in 1603. The third Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Chipping Wycombe in 1685. The tenth Baronet was an entomologist. The title became extinct on the death of the twelfth Baronet in 1969.

Hampson baronets, of Taplow (1642)
Sir Thomas Hampson, 1st Baronet (–1655)
Sir Thomas Hampson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1626–1670)
Sir Dennis Hampson, 3rd Baronet (died 1719)
Sir George Hampson, 4th Baronet (died 1724)
Sir George Hampson, 5th Baronet (died 1754)
Sir George Francis Hampson, 6th Baronet (1738–1774)
Sir Thomas Philip Hampson, 7th Baronet (1765–1820), did not use the title because of his political views
Sir George Francis Hampson, 8th Baronet (1788–1833)
Sir George Francis Hampson, 9th Baronet (1823–1896)
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (1860–1936)
Sir Dennys Francis Hampson, 11th Baronet (1897–1939)
Sir Cyril Aubrey Charles Hampson, 12th Baronet (1909–1969)

References

1642 establishments in England
Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England