Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Isaac Spooner (c.1735–1816) was an English ironmaster and banker who founded Birmingham Bank.

Life
Spooner was born to Abraham Spooner and Anne Knight, he went into the family iron business based around a furnace at Aston, in the Birmingham area. In 1791 he founded a bank with Matthias Attwood the elder, known then as the Birmingham Bank, which became the largest private bank in Birmingham with a clientele mostly consisting of farmers and manufacturers. In 1801, Birmingham Bank opened a London branch called Spooner, Attwood & Holman. The bank Attwood, Spooner & Co. failed in 1865. 

Spooner's views were evangelical and abolitionist. He owned an estate of over 2000 acres at Elmdon, West Midlands, where he completed Elmdon Hall, a development begun by his father Abraham in 1795, and which stood until its demolition in 1956. Elmdon Park remains in its place.

Family
Spooner married Barbara Gough, daughter of Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet, sister of Henry Gough-Calthorpe, 1st Baron Calthorpe and granddaughter of the MP Reynolds Calthorpe. They had children including:

Abraham, who married the daughter of Luke Lillingston (great-nephew and heir of General Luke Lillingston) of Ferriby Grange, and took the name Abraham Spooner Lillingston.
Isaac, who married Miss Tyler of Redland in 1807.
Barbara Ann, who married William Wilberforce.
Anne, who married Edward Vansittart, son of George Vansittart and Vicar of Taplow, as his second wife, and was mother of Edward Vansittart Neale.
Henry, who attended Rugby School.
William, who became Archdeacon of Coventry.
Richard, who was a member of parliament. He married Charlotte, daughter of Nathan Wetherell.
John, who was a clergyman.

There were nine in all, with the unmarried Eliza; or ten. Richard is said to be the ninth child in an 1885 Life of Thomas Attwood.

Notes

External links
landedfamilies.blogspot.co.uk, Alston of Elmdon Hall

1735 births
1816 deaths
English businesspeople
English bankers
English evangelicals
People from Birmingham, West Midlands
Democratic Action for Namas was a political party in Namibia with ethnic affiliation to the Nama people. The chairman was Willem Oasib Boois. It was founded on 20 November 1984. It was one of the parties that merged into the Federal Convention of Namibia in 1988.

References

Defunct political parties in Namibia
Political parties established in 1984
Political parties disestablished in 1988
1984 establishments in South West Africa
1988 disestablishments in South West Africa
Nama people
Timothy Paul Blodgett is an American law enforcement officer who served as the Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives from January to April 2021.

Early life and education
Blodgett was born in Rochester, New York on June 16, 1966. Blodgett attended Buffalo State College earning a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Political Science and Philosophy 1988 and attended the Washington College of Law at American University earning a J.D. degree in 1992.

Career

Early career
Blodgett was admitted to the bars of the State of New York, the District of Columbia, the Western District of New York, and the Supreme Court. Blodgett clerked for Associate Chief Administrative Law Judge G. Marvin Bober and the Department of Labor and worked primarily on compensation issues involving Black Lung and Asbestosis from 1991 to 1993. Blodgett was then hired as an associate for Harris, Chesworth, and O’Brien concentrating on labor and employment and municipal issues involving law enforcement agencies from 1994 to 2000. Blodgett then worked as an associate for Krukowski and Costello in Washington, D.C. concentrating on labor and employment matters from 2000 to 2002.

Blodgett began his career on Capitol Hill as a senior attorney and Administrative Counsel for the Chief Administrative Officer of the House from 2002 to 2009. He began with the Office of the Sergeant at Arms as Counsel and served as Deputy from 2009 to 2021.

Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
Blodgett was sworn in as the Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives on January 12, 2021, following the resignation of Paul D. Irving after the storming of the United States Capitol five days prior.

As an elected officer of the House of Representatives, the Sergeant at Arms is the chief law enforcement and protocol officer of the House of Representatives and is responsible for maintaining order in the House side of the United States Capitol complex. The Sergeant at Arms reviews and implements all issues relating to the safety and security of Members of Congress and the Capitol complex. The Sergeant at Arms also coordinates extensively with the U.S. Capitol Police and various intelligence agencies to assess threats against Members of Congress and the Capitol complex.

He resigned on April 21, 2021, and was succeeded by William J. Walker.

Personal life
Blodgett lives in the state of Virginia.

References

1966 births
Living people
Sergeants at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
Lawyers from Rochester, New York
Buffalo State College alumni
Washington College of Law alumni
United States House of Representatives lawyers
American labor lawyers
Hūria Mātenga ( – 24 April 1909, also known as Julia Martin) was a New Zealand tribal leader and landowner. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa iwi. She was born in Whakapuaka, Nelson, New Zealand in about 1842.

Mātenga was the daughter of Wikitōria Te Amohau Te Keha (Ngāti Te Whiti) and Wīremu Kātane Te Pūoho. She inherited land rights from them to over 17,000 acres of land around Whakapuaka.

Mātenga entered an arranged marrage with Hēmi Mātenga Wai-Punahau (also known as James Martin) in 1858.

She became known as "the Grace Darling of New Zealand" after her heroics in the rescuing of the crew of the brigantine Delaware, which struck rocks during a gale close to Pepin Island in 1863. Mātenga, along with her husband and the three other men who jumped into the sea to help rescue the crew were given rewards from the citizens of Nelson for their bravery. Mātenga was gifted a gold watch inscribed in English and te reo Māori, and ₤50, and the men were awarded silver watches and ₤10.

Mātenga was also a weaver and two of her woven items are in the collection at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand.

References

1840s births
1909 deaths
People from Nelson, New Zealand
Ngāti Tama people
Ngāti Toa people
Te Āti Awa people
L'udienza is a 1972 Italian-French drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."

Cast
 Enzo Jannacci - Amedeo
 Claudia Cardinale - Aiche
 Ugo Tognazzi - Aureliano Diaz
 Michel Piccoli - Padre Amerin
 Vittorio Gassman - Principe Donati
 Alain Cuny - Padre gesuita
 Daniele Dublino - Il cardinale spagnolo
 Sigelfrido Rossi
 Irena Oberberg - Luisa (as Irene Oberberg)
 Maalerer Bergier - Cardinale tedesco (as Man Lerer Bergier)
 Dante Cleri
 Luigi Scavran
 Giuseppe Ravenna - Segretaria
 Mario Jannilli - Una guardia svizzera
 Enzo Mondino
 Attilio Pelegatti - (as Attilio Pellegatti)
 Bruno Bertocci - Cardinale Osta

Notes

External links

1972 films
1970s Italian-language films
1970s French-language films
1972 drama films
Films directed by Marco Ferreri
Films with screenplays by Rafael Azcona
Italian drama films
French drama films
1970s French films
1970s Italian films
Stephanie Edwards is an American singer and was the eleventh-place finalist on sixth season of American Idol. She is from Savannah, Georgia and first began singing around the age of two or three. After graduating from Windsor Forest High School, Edwards pursued vocal instruction for a month and then went on to appear at the Apollo Theatre in New York when she competed in "It's Showtime at the Apollo". Prior to American Idol, she had won most singing contests she had entered, including "Savannah Star" in 2005.

American Idol
Edwards first auditioned for the reality show, American Idol, in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the only one of the top 12 contestants on Idol not presented in the TV tryouts preceding the naming of the top 24 semi-finalists.

During the initial broadcast for the Top 24, Edwards was praised for her rendition of “How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore,” by Prince. For her second semifinal performance, Edwards attempted the song “Dangerously in Love,” to which Randy Jackson exclaimed that she "sang her face off," although he felt her performance was too much like the original. The following week, Edwards pulled off another winning performance with the song "Sweet Thing". According to the judges, she was "darn near flawless and had a good command of the stage."

On March 8, 2007, Edwards made it into Top 12. For the first theme week, she performed Diana Ross' song "Love Hangover." Edwards forgot her words at one point during the song. The judges bashed her arrangement of the song, saying that she teased them with the good part and then never delivered. Despite the criticism, Edwards secured herself a spot in the Top 11.

She was eliminated from the show on March 21, 2007. She missed the summer tour along with Brandon Rogers.

American Idol performances

Post-American Idol
After American Idol, Edwards recorded a charity single called "On Our Way" which was written by Julie Wilde and became available in early-October 2007 as a CD single on eBay. Sales of the album benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's  Light the Night Walk . Her second single, "Here I Am", was also written by Wilde. It was released in April 2008. Edwards performed the song on American Idol Extra. 

As of 2008, she was studying towards a psychology degree at Armstrong Atlantic State University.

In 2010, Edwards performed in the review show Southern Nights at the Savannah Theatre. She sang several classics, such as Georgia on My Mind, Midnight Train to Georgia and At Last.

References

External links

 The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

1987 births
Living people
21st-century American singers
American Idol participants
Singers from Baltimore
Singers from Georgia (U.S. state)
20th-century African-American women singers
21st-century American women singers
21st-century African-American women singers
The Hermitage of Agios Vasileios (), also sometimes referred to as the Skete of St. Basil (), is an Orthodox skete on Mount Athos.

The peak of Karmilio Oros (Καρμήλιο Όρος; "Mount Carmel"; elevation: 887 m) lies directly to the northeast of the Skete of St. Basil. The Holy Chapel of the Holy Glorious Prophet Elijah (Ιερόν Παρεκκλήσιον Αγίου ενδόξου Προφήτου Ηλιού) and some radio towers sit on top of the peak. A footpath connects the skete to the peak, as well as with the Stavros junction (elevation: 730 m), where there are footpaths that lead to the Skete of St. Anne, Kerasia, and Great Lavra.

Notable residents
Notable monks who lived at the skete include St. Joseph the Hesychast and his brotherhood, including disciples Arsenios the Cave Dweller and others.

Paisius Velichkovsky was also a resident of the skete.

References

Sketes in Mount Athos
Greek Orthodox monasteries
Great Lavra
Dovey may refer to:

 Dovey (surname), a surname
 River Dovey, a river in Wales that forms the border between the counties of Merionethshire and Cardiganshire, United Kingdom
 Dovey Johnson Roundtree (1914-2018), American lawyer
Keyesville (formerly, Keysville and Hogeye) is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located  west of Lake Isabella and the Kern River Valley, at an elevation of . Keyesville, founded in 1854 is named for Richard M. Keyes, whose discovery of gold in 1853 started the Kern River Gold Rush. The community is currently owned by the Bureau of Land Management.

History
Gold was discovered here in 1853 and the town became a gold hub of Southern California. Still located on the site are the original Post Office, Gold Assayer's office, Merchantile Building, Blacksmith Shop, and one of the brothels. A petition to the commander of Camp Babbitt about the depredations of the local Native Americans led to the Keyesville Massacre nearby on 19 April 1863. The community is registered as California Historical Landmark #98.

Natural history
Keyesville lies in the lower elevation Greenhorn Mountains. There are scattered trees and brushy chaparral slopes surrounding it. A number of wildflowers are in evidence in this part of the Greenhorn Mountains, including the yellow mariposa lily, Calochortus luteus, which species is at the southern limit of its range within the Greenhorn Mountains.

California Historical Landmark
The California Historical Landmark reads: 
NO. 98 KEYSVILLE - From 1853 until 1870, Keysville was a center of both placer and quartz gold mining. On the knoll just below the townsite may still be seen the outlines of an earthworks fort, built to meet a possible Indian attack in 1863.

See also
 California Historical Landmarks in Kern County
California Historical Landmark

References

External links
Keysville Special Recreation Management Area - Bureau of Land Management

Unincorporated communities in Kern County, California
Greenhorn Mountains
Kern River Valley
California Historical Landmarks
Populated places in the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Unincorporated communities in California
André R.M. Pakosie (born 25 May 1955) is a Surinamese historian, poet, Ndyuka activist and Edebukuman (head of experts) of the Afaka script.

Pakosie comes from a family of herbal doctors and is himself a phytotherapist in the Surinamese Maroon tradition. He founded the Sabanapeti health center and the Maroon Institute Sabanapeti Foundation. In the 1980s he had to leave Suriname because of the Suriname Guerrilla War and settled in the Netherlands. He has received honors from the Queen of the Netherlands and the President of Suriname. He was the founder of "Maroon Day", celebrating the Maroon struggle for freedom. In his teens he rejected Christianity as he felt it hostile to pre-Christian traditions. In addition to being a herbalist and activist he is also a poet and historian. He is noted for his writing concerning the Maroon peoples.

André Pakosie has written more than 30 books as of 1972, in the following languages: Dutch, Sranan Tongo and the Ndyuka or Okanisi language. The books are mainly about the history of Suriname and culture of the Maroons. The Ndyuka mainly have an oral tradition, and to encourage the development of writing, Pakosie had founded in 1974 the National Institute to Combat Illiteracy in Suriname, of which he had been the director. Pakosie is editor-in-chief of the Marron magazine Siboga in which he has published extensively. He has also published among others in the Weekkrant Suriname, Trouw., Volksnieuws, De Gids, Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (University of Birmingham, England) and New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids.
As Edebukuman of the Afáka syllabary, he is working to systematize that script.

In 2015 Pakosie was sentenced to 6 years in prison and fined €10,000 for years of incest with his teenage daughter and the production of child pornography. The victim's mother and stepmother were sentenced to 3 years for complicity; her step-sister was given a probationary sentence due to herself being a victim of her father.

References

External links 
 André Pakosie at Digital Library for Dutch Literature (in Dutch - Tuka: klaagliederen bij de bosnegerstam der Ndyuka available for free download)

1955 births
Converts to pagan religions from Christianity
Herbalists
Living people
People from Sipaliwini District
Ndyuka people
Surinamese emigrants to the Netherlands
Surinamese poets
Surinamese historians
Surinamese Maroons
Writers in Sranan Tongo
The Golden Apples of the Sun is a limited edition compilation of contemporary folk music curated by musician Devendra Banhart for the art magazine Arthur Magazine. It collected 20 songs performed by recent underground folk and psychedelic artists and has since become considered the definitive compilation of what some have dubbed the New Weird America movement. It also featured artwork by Banhart himself.

Track listing 
 Vetiver (with Hope Sandoval) – "Angel's Share"
 Joanna Newsom – "Bridges and Balloons"
 Six Organs of Admittance – "Hazy SF"
 Viking Moses – "Crosses"
 Josephine Foster – "Little Life"
 Espers – "Byss & Abyss"
 Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart – "Rejoicing in the Hands"
 Jana Hunter – "Farm, CA"
 Currituck Co. – "The Tropics of Cancer"
 White Magic – "Don't Need"
 Iron & Wine – "Fever Dream"
 Diane Cluck – "Heat from Every Corner"
 Matt Valentine – "Mountains of Yaffa"
 Entrance – "You Must Turn"
 Jack Rose – "White Mule"
 Little Wings – "Look at What the Light Did Now"
 Scout Niblett – "Wet Road"
 Troll – "Mexicana"
 CocoRosie – "Good Friday"
 Antony – "The Lake"

References

New Weird America albums
Compilation albums included with magazines
2004 compilation albums
Roderic O'Connor (October 29, 1907 – March 6, 2001) was an American painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

References

1907 births
2001 deaths
20th-century American painters
American male painters
Olympic competitors in art competitions
People from Clamart
20th-century American male artists
Franz Dorfmüller (17 April 1887 in Regensburg – 8 July 1974 in Munich at age 87) was a German pianist, piano teacher and music writer. In addition to guest performances and lectures, he was active at the main venues of Munich, Regensburg, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and Nuremberg.

Well-known pupils of Dorfmüller were Hermann Reutter, , , Günter Wand and Karl Holl. During his studies he became a member of the .

In 1927, Dorfmüller, who was already working as a university lecturer, joined the composer Fritz Büchtger (1903-1978) and the young pianist  (1904-2003) as co-founders of the .

Publications 
 Kurt Dorfmüller: Zum Münchner Musikleben während des ersten Weltkrieges und der Nachkriegsjahre; Beitrag in 100 Jahre Münchner Philharmoniker, , ed. by Gabriele E. Meyer. Munich 1994.
 Kurt Dorfmüller: Die Münchner Musikszene: Von den zwanziger Jahren in die NS-Zeit in "Zur Situation der Musik in Deutschland in den dreissiger und vierziger Jahren". Publisher Orff-Zentrum München.
 Anton Kerschensteiner, Ernst Wengenmayer, Oskar Kaul, Franz Dorfmüller, Albert Hartmann, Otto Loesch: Geschichte des Akademischen Gesangvereins München 1861–1961, Munich 1961.

References

External links 
 Dorfmüller, Franz on 
 Gabriele E. Meyer: Neue Musik-Wochen in München, 1929–1931 Gründung der „Vereinigung für zeitgenössische Musik“ In BLO (Historisches Lexikon Bayerns)
 

German classical pianists
Male classical pianists
20th-century classical pianists
Academic staff of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich
1887 births
1974 deaths
Musicians from Regensburg
20th-century German male pianists
Lorna June Stone,  (born 25 June 1938), is a former Australian politician. She was the Liberal Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Sutherland from 1997 to 1999.

Stone was born Lorna Nicholson to parents Alfred and Erla. She was a drama teacher, having received her teacher's certificate from Sydney Teachers College before also attending Trinity College London. In 1974, she joined the Sylvania branch of the Liberal Party, and remained active in the party thereafter, holding various positions including campaign secretary and chairman of the local government executive. She married Keith Stone, with whom she had four children. She was also a Sutherland Shire Councillor from 1991 to 1995.

In 1997, the Liberal member for the state seat of Sutherland, Chris Downy, resigned, forcing a by-election for the seat. Stone was selected as the Liberal candidate. Labor had defeated the Liberal government two years earlier and had hopes of winning the seat, but Stone emerged with an increased majority over Labor candidate Christine Hawkins. However, the seat was abolished for the 1999 state election, and Stone contested the new seat of Heathcote. The new seat had a notional Labor margin and was also contested by Ian McManus, the Labor member for the abolished seat of Bulli, who convincingly defeated Stone. She retired from politics following her defeat.

References

1938 births
Living people
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Women members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Gordan Maras (born 13 June 1974) is a Croatian economist and politician who served as a minister at Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts at the Cabinet of Zoran Milanović from 2011 until 2016. He was a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Education

Maras finished elementary school "Vladimir Nemet" and 10th Gymnasium. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Economics and gained his master's degree at the Cotrugli Business School.

Professional career

From 2001 to 2003 he was a sales and business manager at Croatian Olympic Centre Bjelolasica, from 2003 to 2004 CEO of Maximus Communications, and from 2004 to 2010 business manager of Social Democratic Party of Croatia.

Political career

Maras started his political career in 1997 when he joined the Social Democratic Party. He was a vice-president of the SDP Youth Forum (1998–2000),  President of the SDP Youth Forum (2000–2002), and  member of SDP Main Board (2000–2008). In 2009, he became the vice-president of SDP of the City of Zagreb and, since 17 June 2018, he is the president of SDP of the City of Zagreb.

In the 2007 parliamentary elections, Maras was elected to Sabor in 1st electoral district. In 2008, he became the vice-president of the Committee on Finance and State Budget of Sabor. From 2011 to 2016, he was the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Crafts at the Cabinet of Zoran Milanović.

In addition to his committee assignments, Maras has also been serving as member of the Croatian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2017. As member of the Socialist Group, he is currently a member of the Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport and of the Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society. He was part of a cross-party delegation to observe the 2017 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria.

On 27 July 2021, Maras was evicted from SDP, alongside Rajko Ostojić, Marina Opačak Bilić, Nikša Vukas, Tihomir Barišić and Zvane Brumnić.

Personal life
Maras is a father of two–Ema and Borna. He lives in Zagreb and in spare time likes to play tennis and football. He is fluent in English.

References

1974 births
Living people
Politicians from Zagreb
Social Democratic Party of Croatia politicians
University of Zagreb alumni
Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament
The Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IBMC) is a research institute of molecular and cellular biology that is owned by the French National Centre for Scientific Research and operated by the University of Strasbourg.

External links 
 Official site

Research institutes in France
Molecular biology institutes
French National Centre for Scientific Research