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The Rooftops of Ostend is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Flemish expressionist painter James Ensor. This painting is on the official inventory of Flemish masterpieces. The Rooftops of Ostend is in the possession of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

Background
Ensor painted the view of his window from his attic studio three times during his career. The artist's attic studio was located in his parental home in Ostend, Belgium. However, it is difficult to determine which parts of Ostend was depicted in this painting since the city has changed significantly from Ensor's time.

Ensor never travelled afar in search of exotic or extraordinary settings. He was mostly interested in his immediate surroundings and was able to find enough inspiration for painting in Ostend, since he was intrigued by the nearby sea as well as Ostend's townscape.

Description
Storm is the main theme of the painting. The stormy clouds covering the city of Ostend attract the viewer's attention, and only a small portion of the painting depicts the roofs and the houses. Ensor's delicate use of dark colours and the scarcity of light depict a threatening landscape that suggests a near destruction for the city.

This portrayal of Ostend is surprising and inconsistent with Ensor's writings and notes in which he praises Ostend and his native land.

See also
 List of paintings by James Ensor

References

External links
 Official website of Lukas

1884 paintings
Paintings by James Ensor
Paintings in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Belgian art
Cities in art
The  is a botanical garden located in the Aoshima neighborhood of the city of Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, near the island of Aoshima.

The garden contains 400 species of subtropical plants.

See also 
 List of botanical gardens in Japan
List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic Sites and Special Natural Monuments

External links 
 Aoshima Subtropical Botanical Garden (Japanese)
 Japan National Tourist Organization entry

Botanical gardens in Japan
Miyazaki (city)
Gardens in Miyazaki Prefecture
At the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, the athletics events were held at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. A total of 36 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 13 by female athletes. This was the first athletics competition at the British Commonwealth Games to feature events in metric units, rather than imperial units. One world record and two Games records were broken at the competition.

Medal summary

Men

Women

Medal table

Participating nations

 (7)
 (33)
 (12)
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 (6)
 (12)
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 (9)
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 (22)
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 (7)
 (7)
 (20)
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 (55)
 (5)
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 (5)
 (8)
 (12)
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 (41)
 (11)

References
Commonwealth Games Medallists - Men. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-07-21.
Commonwealth Games Medallists - Women. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-07-21.

 
1970 British Commonwealth Games events
1970
British Commonwealth Games
1970 British Commonwealth Games
Theoleptus () is a Greek name. Notable historical figures with this name include:

 Theoleptos of Philadelphia
 Theoleptus I of Constantinople
 Theoleptus II of Constantinople

Greek given names
Octocorallia (also known as Alcyonaria) is a class of Anthozoa comprising around 3,000 species of water-based organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry. It includes the blue coral, soft corals, sea pens, and gorgonians (sea fans and sea whips) within three orders: Alcyonacea, Helioporacea, and Pennatulacea. These organisms have an internal skeleton secreted by mesoglea and polyps with eight tentacles and eight mesentaries. As with all Cnidarians these organisms have a complex life cycle including a motile phase when they are considered plankton and later characteristic sessile phase.

Octocorals have existed at least since the Ordovician period, as shown by Maurits Lindström's findings in the 1970s. Recent work suggesting that the Cambrian Pywackia may represent a Cambrian octocoral
is disputed.

Biology

Octocorals resemble the stony corals in general appearance and in the size of their polyps, but lack the distinctive stony skeleton. Also unlike the stony corals, each polyp has only eight tentacles, each of which is feather-like in shape, with numerous side-branches, or pinnules.

Octocorals are colonial organisms, with numerous tiny polyps embedded in a soft matrix that forms the visible structure of the colony. The matrix is composed of mesogleal tissue, lined by a continuous epidermis and perforated by numerous tiny channels. The channels interconnect the gastrovascular cavities of the polyps, allowing water and nutrients to flow freely between all the members of the colony. The skeletal material, called coenenchyme, is composed of living tissue secreted by numerous wandering amoebocytes. Although it is generally soft, in many species it is reinforced with calcareous or horny material.

The polyp is largely embedded within the colonial skeleton, with only the uppermost surface, including the tentacles and mouth, projecting about the surface. The mouth is slit-like, with a single ciliated groove, or siphonoglyph, at one side to help control water flow. It opens into a tubular pharynx that projects down into a gastrovascular cavity that occupies the hollow interior. The pharynx is surrounded by eight radial partitions, or mesenteries, that divide the upper part of the gastrovascular cavity into chambers, one of which connects to the hollow space inside each tentacle. The gonads are located near the base of each mesentery.

Phylogeny
Octocorallia is considered to be monophyletic, meaning that all contained species are descended from a common ancestor, but the relationships between subdivisions are not well known. The sea pens (Pennatulacea) and blue coral (Helioporacea) continue to be assigned separate orders, whereas the current order Alcyonacea was historically represented by four orders: Alcyonacea, Gorgonacea, Stolonifera and Telestacea.

References

External links

 

 
Anthozoa
Animal classes
The Highland Mountains in Nevada connect with the Eldorado and Newberry mountains.

References 

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
Mountain ranges of Clark County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of the Lower Colorado River Valley
Josefina G. Carbonell is a Cuban-born American government official. She was the third Assistant Secretary for Aging at the Administration on Aging within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She was appointed by President Bush in 2001 and served in the position until 2009. Before her time in public service, Carbonell was president and CEO of the Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Centers in Florida. Carbonell is currently the Senior Vice President of Long-term Care & Nutrition at Independent Living Systems and serves on the board of directors of the National Council on Aging.

Carbonell was honored as an Outstanding American by Choice by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2007.

References

External links
 Biography at Independent Living Systems

Living people
Cuban emigrants to the United States
Florida International University alumni
George W. Bush administration personnel
United States Assistant Secretaries for Aging
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Miss Universo Italia 2008 pageant was held on May 31, 2008. The chosen winner will represent the Italy at Miss Universe 2008.

Results
Miss Universo Italia 2008 : Claudia Ferraris

External links
 http://missuniverse.notizie.alice.it/index.html?pmk=notmuinav

Miss Universo Italia
2008 beauty pageants
2008 in Italy
Babatunde O. Gbadamosi (born 15 October 1967), is a Nigerian businessman, real estate developer and politician.

Early life 
Gbadamosi was born on October 15, 1967 in England to the  family of the late Fatai Gbadamosi and Alhaja Jemilat Gbadamosi. Gbadamosi is first of the thirteen children of His late father, Fatai Gbadamosi. Gbadamosi's early life was reflective of the saying, “it takes a village to raise a child”.

Education 
Between 1972 and 1978, Gbadamosi Attended K. Kotun Memorial Nursery and Primary School, Surulere, Lagos. He Attended Government College Lagos, Eric Moore Road, Surulere, from 1978 To 1981 then moved to Government College Victoria Island and finished at Government College Ikorodu In 1985. He then attended the now defunct Lagos State School of Basic Studies, Agindingbi, Ikeja. Gbadamosi attended The Lagos State University (LASU) from 1986 to 1989.

Political career

In 1994, Gbadamosi joined the UK Branch of the National Conscience Party, which he represented in NADECO Forum (UK), a broad coalition of political groups and NGOs formed to help return Nigeria to democracy. As an active member of the forum, he helped organise the epochal Nigerian Democracy Week, culminating on June 12, 1995.

On his return to Nigeria in 2007, he supported the candidacy of PDP's Senator Musiliu Obanikoro for the Governorship of Lagos State, and formally joined the PDP 2008.

He contested for the party's nomination to run as candidate for Governor of Lagos State in 2011 and again In 2015. He joined the Action Democratic Party (ADP) in 2017, and won the party's primary election in October 2018. He was the ADP candidate in the 2019 Lagos State Gubernatorial election in which he was the second runner up. Gbadamosi rejoined the People's Democratic Party in March 2020.
On September 5, 2020, he was announced as the candidate for the People's Democratic party in the October 31, 2020, Lagos East Senatorial district Bye-election. The court fined him after he lost at the tribunal.

Business career 
On his arrival in the UK in 1990, Gbadamosi started out working in small retail and service businesses, worked at Royal Mail as a mailman for a while, then London Underground as a station assistant, and did a stint as a mini-cab driver, and then got bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. He started out with his own cab firm, went into recruitment, and then into IT recruitment and finally into IT Training, Consultancy and Certification.

2003 – 2021 Redbrick Homes International Ltd - Director

2000 – 2007	Esstech Ltd, T/A Esstech College – Director

1997 – 1999	Akorn Recruitment Ltd - Director

1995 – 1997	Chequers Cars Ltd - Director

1990 – 1993	Various retail/clerical jobs, including 7-11, Royal Mail & Top Rank Bingo

Associations 
Member Of EKO Club Lagos

NADECO Forum UK

Afenifere Group

Member of Government College Ikorodu Old Students Association

Member of Government College Lagos Old

Member of LASU Alumnus Association, United Kingdom

References 

Living people
Action Democratic Party (Nigeria) politicians
Nigerian businesspeople
1967 births
was a Japanese samurai of the late Sengoku period who served the Azai clan and held Ishida castle in Omi province.  He was the son of Ishida Seishin. He was the father of Ishida Mitsunari. After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, he and his other son, Masazumi, committed suicide at Mitsunari's Sawayama Castle in Omi province.

Bibliography
Samurai Wiki 

Samurai
Daimyo
1600 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Suicides in Japan
Nabila Espanioly is a Palestinian-Israeli psychologist, social worker, feminist, and peace activist. She is the founder and director of the Al-Tufula Center in Nazareth.

Early life and education 
Espanioly grew up in a communist family in Nazareth, and was involved in the Nazareth branch of the Movement of Democratic Women in Israel beginning as a child.

Espanioly received a B.A. in Social Work from the University of Haifa, and an M.A. in Psychology from the University of Bamberg.

Career

Political activity 
Espanioly became active in the Israeli women’s movement during the First Intifada. As a member of the Haifa Feminist Center and a well-known Palestinian-Israeli feminist, she appeared regularly on Israeli national news programs. She advocated for the formation of groups for Palestinian women within larger Israeli women's organizations, notably supporting the concept at Israeli feminist conferences in 1994 and 1995, while also emphasizing her view that women are "united by [their] oppression."

After the 2008-2009 Gaza War, Espanioly participated in protests led by the Israeli Communist Party and by pacifists, and worked with local women's cells of the Party to organize humanitarian aid for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Espanioly ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Knesset as a member of Hadash in 2013. She was also involved in the founding of the Mossawa Center, which later presented her an award for her activism.

Al-Tufula Center 
Espanioly is the founder and director of the Al-Tufula Center in Nazareth, which works to support early childhood education for Palestinian families. She founded the Center in the late 1980s.

References

Bibliography

External links 
Al-Tufula Center

Clinical psychologists
Israeli social workers
Hadash politicians
University of Haifa alumni
University of Bamberg alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Palestinian communists
Israeli communists
Palestinian feminists
Israeli feminists
Kolashanpan is a carbonated beverage created by Embotelladora La Cascada S.A. It comes in either a glass bottle, plastic bottle, and a can, the most prominent of these is plastic.  On their company webpage the sizes go from a small bottle of 6.5 ounces to a 3 liter bottle, at least for the ones bottled in plastic.. According to the company, the main ingredients in this beverage are, "12 oz Agua Carbonatada, Azucar, Sabor Artificial, Acido Citrico Benzoato de sodio. Color Amarillo FD&C No 6." (carbonated water, sugar, artificial flavoring, citric acid sodium benzoate, and color FD&C yellow no. 6).

The design on the bottle is representative of what the country looks like from a bird's eye view.

Advertising 
There was an advertisement that played in El Salvador that ties the beverage with being a Salvadorean. The video itself aired in 1984 and it shows people working in the fields, with animals, people carrying items, selling in a market, and making tortillas. The video ends by saying "Kolashanpan, el sabor de El Salvador."

Cultural Impacts 
According to a dissertation, Kolashanpan helps Salvadoreans maintain, "a transnational community identity as well as a salvadoreño(americano) ethnic identity." Brock says that, in Houston there are many Salvadoreans and Salvadorean-Americans and that keeping items such as sodas from their native country, they can more easily adjust to living in Houston, as well as keeping in touch with their native roots. On the company website, they have five distribution centers in, Texas, Connecticut, California, New York, and Florida.

References

Carbonated drinks
The boys' ice hockey tournament at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics was held from 13 to 22 January at the Tyrolean Ice Arena in Innsbruck, Austria.

Teams from five national hockey associations competed, in one single preliminary round group.  The tournament consisted of 14 games: 10 in the preliminary round (teams played all other teams); 2 semifinal games; 1 bronze medal game; and 1 gold medal game.

All games were played in three 15-minute periods, as opposed to the traditional 20-minute periods.

Qualification
The top eight teams in the 2011 IIHF World Ranking will choose which tournament (either boys' or girls') they want to compete in. First priority is given to higher ranked nations.

Rosters

Each country is allowed to enter 17 athletes each.

Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+1).

Playoffs

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

References

Ice hockey at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics
Llandegley International Airport is a spoof in the region of the village of Llandegley (), near Llandrindod Wells, in mid Wales. No such airport exists, but a sign, erected as a practical joke, announces a forthcoming turn off to it.

Despite Llandegley having no airfield—much less one of international standard—a visitor to Llandegley, Nicholas Whitehead, erected his own road sign, mimicking the UK's standard Worboys signs, on private land on the north side of the A44 east of Crossgates in 2002, showing "Llandegley International [Airport] /  / 2½ ". He spent £1,000 on renting the site.

The original sign was removed in November 2009, but replaced in 2010 following public outcry. It was replaced again in April 2012. The version of the sign visible on Google Street View imagery, captured in April 2021, has the added wording "For Airport Cafe, follow signs for Terminal 1", and a fly posted "No  Runway 2" notice."

The sign has attracted press and television coverage and was mentioned in the United Kingdom Parliament in 2003 by Roger Williams, the member for Brecon and Radnorshire.

The sign is listed in the Welsh Government's National Monuments Record database, Coflein.

A Twitter account, @llandegley_int, has operated in the name of the airport since 2008, and the airport has a 
Facebook page.

In November 2022, the owner took the decision to end his commitment to the sign, explaining it had cost him a total of over £25,000 to date. He expressed the hope that the Welsh Government's heritage body, , might be interested in funding it in the future as a cultural landmark.

After a crowdfunding campaign, in May 2023 a new sign was erected east of the village, where the landowner will allow it to remain without cost.

See also 
 List of hoaxes
 List of hoax commemorative plaques

References

External links 

 
 
 

Hoaxes in the United Kingdom
Tourist attractions in Powys
Fictitious entries
Traffic signs
"Freedom" is a 1987 single by Alice Cooper, taken from his tenth solo studio album, Raise Your Fist and Yell. It was written by Alice Cooper and Kane Roberts.

The song was the only single released from Raise Your Fist and Yell. It did not chart in the US when released in late 1987; however, it reached #50 on the UK charts in early 1988. The single's B-side in both countries was the album track "Time to Kill".

It was Cooper's last single to be released by MCA Inc. until 1992 when Geffen Records (bought by MCA in 1990) released the Guns N' Roses song "The Garden" from Use Your Illusion I as a single, Cooper being a guest on that track.

Music video
A music video was produced to promote the single.

Personnel
Alice Cooper - vocals
Kane Roberts - guitar
Kip Winger III - bass
Paul Horowitz - keyboards
Ken K. Mary - drums

Chart positions

References

1987 singles
Songs written by Alice Cooper
Songs written by Kane Roberts
Alice Cooper songs
MCA Records singles
Glam metal songs
1987 songs
Eakles Mills (also known as Eakles Mill) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 26 as of the 2020 census. Snively Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

History 
Located in southeastern Washington County Maryland, Eakle's Mill is a remnant of a typical 19th century rural farm community. Originally surrounded by farms and orchards, which provided abundant jobs during the manual labor era prior to mechanization, Eakle's Mill as other similar sites, became a thriving village.  Originating on the lands of Conrad Snivley and Andrew Putman who arrived in the area during the influx of (mostly) German immigrants in the 1760s, the community is on the road originally leading from  Pleasant Valley and Crampton's Gap. Putman purchased a property named “Partnership” from Josiah Chapline, who was disposing of the lands of his late father Moses Chapline who was the original settler in the 1740s. Putman added to his lands, which after his death were bought by son in-law Christian Wyandt.  The village gained prominence in the 1870s with the construction of the Hagerstown branch of the B&O Railroad.  Jeremiah Snyder founded a Sunday school in the schoolhouse in 1877, which spawned the Eakle's Mill United Brethren Church in 1887.  Located some distance behind the (abandoned) church and not associated with it is the Keedy family graveyard.

Early AME Church circuit riding minister Thomas Henry used the Jacob Snivley farm at Eakle's Mill as his base of operations for several years during the 1850s and speaks highly of Mr. & Mrs Snivley's hospitality towards him. The United Brethren in Christ, of which the Snivley's were members, was the overwhelmingly dominant religion locally. A sect that was philosophically opposed to slavery and so, is thought to be a contributing factor enabling the sizable free African American population living in the surrounding area decades prior to the civil war.   Once home to a mill, store, school and church, no public entities remain in the village.  The railroad ceased operation in the 1970s.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has an area of , all land.

Demographics

References

Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Maryland
Unincorporated communities in Maryland
Census-designated places in Washington County, Maryland
Census-designated places in Maryland
Maurice Desmond Snape (7 July 1923 – 17 April 1992), usually known as Desmond Snape, was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire during the 1949 season.

Snape was born in Creswell, Derbyshire. He joined Derbyshire in 1948 and played mainly in the 2nd XI for the Minor Counties. In the 1949 season he played two first-class matches in June. His first-class debut was against Sussex in June 1949, but the game was abandoned while he was not out in the first innings. His next and last game was against Warwickshire when he was out lbw for a duck in both innings.

Snape was a right-handed batsman and played in two first-class matches, but never scored a run nor took a catch in the first-class game. Snape continued to play in the Derbyshire second XI and for the Club and Ground until 1951.

Snape died at the age of 68 in Worksop.

References

1923 births
1992 deaths
English cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers
People from Bolsover District
Cricketers from Derbyshire
The Apollo of Cyrene is a colossal Roman statue of Apollo found at the ancient city of Cyrene, Libya. It was unearthed at the site along with a large number of other ancient sculptures and inscriptions which were presented to the British Museum in 1861.

Discovery
This enormous sculpture was discovered in the mid-nineteenth century at the Temple of Apollo at Cyrene in Libya. It was excavated by the British explorers and amateur archaeologists Captain Robert Murdoch Smith and Commander Edwin A. Porcher. The statue was found broken into 121 pieces, lying near the large plinth where it originally stood. The fragments were later reassembled in the British Museum to create a relatively intact statue with only the right arm and left hand missing.

Description
The statue dates to the 2nd century AD, and is a copy of a Hellenistic work probably dating to between 200 and 150 BC.  It is made from high quality marble and would have originally been painted. The god is shown nude with the exception of a cloak wrapped around his hips. As the god of music, he is shown playing a lyre, with a python nestled below. The statue has a curious mixture of masculine and feminine characteristics, which reflects its Hellenistic origin.

Temple of Apollo
The statue was probably the main cult image in the Temple of Apollo at Cyrene. The deity would have acted as the focal point for worship and ritual activity.

Gallery

References

Further reading
L. Burn, The British Museum book of Greek and Roman Art, revised edition (London, The British Museum Press, 1999)
P. Higgs, 'The Cyrene Apollo', History Today, 44 (11) (), pp. 50–54

1861 archaeological discoveries
Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum
Archaeological discoveries in Libya
Sculptures of Apollo
Ancient Cyrenaica
Ancient Greek and Roman colossal statues
Colossal statues in the United Kingdom
Marble sculptures in the United Kingdom
Cult images