Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
In military slang, a spider hole is a type of camouflaged one-man foxhole, used for observation.

Etymology 

The term is usually understood to be an allusion to the camouflaged hole constructed by the trapdoor spider.

According to United States Marine Corps historian Major Chuck Melson, the term originated in the American Civil War, when it meant a hastily dug foxhole.

The American columnist William Safire claimed in the December 15, 2003, issue of the New York Times that the term originated in the Vietnam War. According to Safire, one of the characteristics of these holes was that they held a "clay pot large enough to hold a crouching man." If the pot broke, the soldier was exposed to attack from snakes or spiders, hence the name "spider hole".

Design 

A spider hole is typically a shoulder-deep, protective, round hole, often covered by a camouflaged lid, in which a soldier can stand and fire a weapon. A spider hole differs from a typical foxhole in that a foxhole is usually deeper and designed to emphasize cover rather than concealment.

Use 

Spider holes were used during World War II by Japanese forces on many Pacific battlefields, including Leyte in the Philippines and Iwo Jima. They called them  for a fancied resemblance to the pots used to catch octopuses in Japan.

Spider holes were also used by fighters of the Viet Cong and soldiers of the People's Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War as both defensive and offensive fortifications, where VC/PAVN fighters could either seek shelter from combat with ARVN, US or other allied forces, or could conceal themselves in preparation for a surprise attack.

On December 13, 2003, during the Iraq War, American forces in Operation Red Dawn captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein hiding in what was characterized as a "spider hole" outside an Ad-Dawr farmhouse (near his hometown of Tikrit).

References 

Land warfare
Sydney Herbert Pardon (23 September 1855 – 20 November 1925) was a sports journalist who was the editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 35 editions, from 1891 until his death. His father was the journalist George Frederick Pardon.

He took over the editorship of Wisden following the death of his brother, Charles. He was considered to be one of Wisden'''s most successful editors. He introduced the "Notes by the Editor" feature in 1901, and did much to get throwing, a major problem in the 1890s, stamped out. L. E. S. Gutteridge wrote of him: "His was a cultured mind. He had definite opinions and was prepared to state them. His editorials make most interesting reading and his influence on the growth of the game throughout the world was immense."

In 1892, he introduced a comprehensive obituary section. In 1896, for the first time Wisden appeared in a  cloth-bound (hardback) edition as well as paperback. In 1910 he memorably wrote that the England selectors had "touched the confines of lunacy". In 1924, an issue of Wisden first passed the one thousand page mark.

With his brothers Charles and Edgar, he set up the Cricket Reporting Agency in 1880, which provided match reports for Reuters and the Press Association.

A man of many interests, he was proud to have contributed articles to The Times not only on cricket but also on music, the theatre and horse racing. He was also an expert on athletics, rowing, boxing and billiards.

 Notes 

 References 
 Barclay's World of Cricket – 2nd Edition'', 1980, Collins Publishers, , p. 198.
The Wisden Timeline
Wisden obituary

1855 births
1925 deaths
Cricket historians and writers
Editors of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
English male journalists
The Times people
The 2017 Open Castilla y León was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 32nd edition, for men, and 3rd edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in El Espinar, Segovia, Spain, between 31 July – 6 August 2017.

Men's singles main draw entrants

Seeds 

 1 Rankings as of 24 July 2017.

Other entrants 
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Nicolás Álvarez Varona
  Gerard Granollers
  Carlos Taberner
  Bernabé Zapata Miralles

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Edoardo Eremin
  Hugo Grenier
  Mick Lescure
  David Vega Hernández

Women's singles main draw entrants

Seeds 

 1 Rankings as of 24 July 2017.

Other entrants 
The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw:
  Marina Bassols Ribera
  Ángela Díez Plágaro
  Claudia Hoste Ferrer
  Vera Zvonareva

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Ainhoa Atucha Gómez
  Alba Carrillo Marín
  Rocío de la Torre Sánchez
  Marta Huqing González Encinas
  María Gutiérrez Carrasco
  Nuria Párrizas Díaz 
  Luisa Stefani
  Noelia Zeballos

Champions

Men's singles

 Jaume Munar def.  Alex De Minaur 6–3, 6–4.

Women's singles
 Paula Badosa Gibert def.  Ayla Aksu, 6–2, 6–4

Men's doubles

 Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras /  Sergiy Stakhovsky def.  Roberto Ortega Olmedo /  David Vega Hernández 4–6, 6–3, [10–7].

Women's doubles
 Quinn Gleason /  Luisa Stefani def.  Ayla Aksu /  Bibiane Schoofs, 6–3, 6–2

External links 
 Official website

2017 ITF Women's Circuit
2017 ATP Challenger Tour
2017 in Spanish tennis
July 2017 sports events in Spain
August 2017 sports events in Spain
Tennis tournaments in Spain
2017
2017 Open Castilla y León
Bures railway station is on the Gainsborough Line, a branch off the Great Eastern Main Line to , in the East of England, serving the village of Bures, which straddles the counties of Essex and Suffolk.

It is  down the line from  and  from London Liverpool Street, between  to the south and Sudbury to the north. Its three-letter station code is BUE. The platform has an operational length for four-coach trains.

History
The station opened with the opening of the line from Marks Tey to Sudbury as part of the Stour Valley Railway on 2 July 1849.

On 12 July 1887 one person was killed at Bures when part of a runaway train collided with a crossing gate.

The station is managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving it, as part of the East Anglia franchise. The original station buildings having been demolished it is now unstaffed and has one platform as the line is single-track. A self-service ticket machine was installed in 2017 as part of a franchise commitment to install ticket machines at all Greater Anglia stations.

In December 2017 Bures was made a request stop during weekday off-peak times and throughout the weekend. However, from May 2019 it reverted to a regular stop with all trains calling.

Services
The typical off-peak service is as follows:

References

External links

History of the railway line from Marks Tey to Sudbury, particularly around Bures
History page at Subterranea Britannica

 

Railway stations in Essex
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849
Greater Anglia franchise railway stations
1849 establishments in England
Distancias is a Spanish 2008 short documentary film.

Synopsis 
A group of refugees from the Congo are stuck in Rabat, Morocco. The Spanish borderline stops them from entering Europe. In a room on the outskirts of the city they rehearse a theatrical piece based on their own experiences. An imperfect, unfinished staging. Real life and the stage are all mixed together. Apollinaire tells us, face to face, about the never-ending journey with an uncertain ending. Television images show us how many emigrants are expelled into the desert, forced to start their journey once more. Faces whose names are lost. Behind them, the empty spaces of what has already happened. Silent tracks that tell a story the same as ours.

Awards 
 Audience Award - 49 Festival dei Popoli, Florence 2008

Festivals 

Rompan Límites – Muestra de Cine Experimental de Maldonado (Uruguay).
“Border, displacement and creation. Questionen the contemporary” (Oporto).
I Festival de Cine Migrante de Bogotá.
Festival Migrant Scène de Toulouse y Burdeos.
I Festival de Cine Migrante de Buenos Aires.
IV Festival Sinima de Soria.
XV MedFilm Festival – Cine del Mediterráneo de Roma.
14 Festival Internacional de Cine de Ourense.
Perspektive 09 - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Nuremberg.
VI Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa.
Muestra Ovni 2009, CCCB.
VI Documenta Madrid – Festival Internacional de Documentales.

Website 

http://distancias.es

References 

2008 films
Spanish documentary films
2008 short documentary films
Spanish short documentary films
Documentary films about refugees
Rabat
Films shot in Morocco
2000s Spanish films
N'Gattakro (also spelled Ngatakro) is a town in east-central Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of Daoukro Department in Iffou Region, Lacs District. The town is 16 kilometres to the west of the border of Comoé District.

N'Gattakro was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.

In 2014, the population of the sub-prefecture of N'Gattakro was 13,480.

Villages
The 5 villages of the sub-prefecture of N'Gattakro and their population in 2014 are:
 Adjékro (4 151)
 Akakro (2 081)
 Amoikonkro (2 183)
 N'gattakro (3 767)
 N'tèkléfè (1 298)

References

Sub-prefectures of Iffou
Former communes of Ivory Coast
Cyrillopsis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ixonanthaceae.

Its native range is northern South America and Brazil.

Species:

Cyrillopsis micrantha 
Cyrillopsis paraensis

References

Ixonanthaceae
Malpighiales genera
Mesika is a Jewish-Tunisian surname and may refer to:

Erez Mesika, current Israeli midfielder with Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Gal Mesika, Israeli American footballer
Gershon Mesika, Israeli lawyer and politician
Miri Mesika, Israeli singer
Reef Mesika, Israeli footballer currently playing for Hapoel Umm al-Fahm
Yigal Mesika, Israeli magician known internationally

Jewish surnames
Here follows a list of notable people associated with Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. This list includes the college's notable alumni, organized by their fields of endeavor, in addition to notable members of its faculty and a complete chronological list of the presidents of the college.

Distinguished graduates

Academia

Activism

Law

Literature and journalism

Military

Performing arts

Philanthropy

Politics

Religion

Sciences

Sports

Visual arts

Notable faculty members
 Chauncey Colton, Homiletics 
 Virgil Aldrich, Philosophy
 Robert O. Fink, Classics
 Bruce Haywood, German; Provost
 Jed Hoyer, Kenyon Baseball Coach; Executive Vice President and General Manager, Chicago Cubs
 Lewis Hyde, English
 Randall Jarrell, English
 P. F. Kluge, English
 Perry Lentz, English
 Robie Macauley, English
 Wendy MacLeod, Theater
 George E. McCarthy, Sociology
 Otto Nikodym, Mathematics
 Paul Radin, Anthropology
 John Crowe Ransom, English
 Charles Ritcheson, History
 Richard G. Salomon, History
 Benjamin Schumacher, Physics
 Joan Slonczewski, Biology
 Anna Sun, Sociology, Asian Studies
 Denham Sutcliffe, English
 Allen Tate, English

Visiting faculty
 John Kinsella, English
 Claire Messud, English
 Barry Unsworth, English
 Katharine Weber, English
 James Wood, English

Presidents of the College

 Philander Chase (1825–1831)
 Charles Pettit McIlvaine (1832–1840)
 David Bates Douglass (1840–1844)
 Samuel Fuller (acting, 1844–1845)
 Sherlock A. Bronson (1845–1850)
 Thomas M. Smith (1850–1854)
 Lorin Andrews (1854–1861)
 Benjamin L. Lang (acting, 1861–1863)
 Charles Short (1863–1867)
 James Kent Stone (1867–1868)
 Eli Todd Tappan (1868–1875)
 Edward C. Benson (acting, 1875–1876)
 William B. Bodine (1876–1891)
 Theodore Sterling (1891–1896)
 William Foster Peirce (1896–1937)
 Gordon Keith Chalmers (1937–1956)
 Frank E. Bailey (acting, 1956–1957)
 F. Edward Lund (1957–1968)
 William G. Caples (1968–1975)
 Philip H. Jordan Jr. (1975–1995)
 Reed S. Browning (acting, 1989)
 Robert A. Oden Jr. (1995–2002)
 Ronald A. Sharp (acting, 2002–2003)
 S. Georgia Nugent (2003–2013)
 Sean M. Decatur (2013–2022)
 Jeff Bowman (acting, 2022–2023)
Julie Kornfeld (2023-)

References

Kenyon College people
The 2017–18 BBL Cup was the 15th edition of the BBL Cup, the annual cup competition for British basketball teams, organised by the British Basketball League (BBL). The Cheshire Phoenix won its first title. The competition was played from 13 October 2017 until 28 January 2018.

Bracket

See also
2017–18 British Basketball League season
2017–18 BBL Trophy

References

BBL Cup seasons
2017–18 in British basketball
Petra Dettenhöfer  (born 4 July 1957 in Schlammersdorf) is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Since 2008 she has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria (Bayerischer Landtag)

See also
List of Bavarian Christian Social Union politicians

References

Christian Social Union in Bavaria politicians
People from Neustadt an der Waldnaab (district)
1957 births
Living people
The Union of Writers of Russia () is a creative union of professional writers in Russia. It is the successor of the Union of RSFSR Writers, which was founded in 1958. The Union of Writers of Russia has 90 branches in the regions of Russia and other countries.

Activities 
The main tasks of the Union are:
 preservation of a single cultural, literary and informational field in the Russian Federation;
 assistance to the preservation and development of the Russian language and literature, as well as languages and literatures of other peoples of the multinational Russian Federation; meeting the needs of the peoples of the world who want to join the Russian language and literature;
 creation of conditions for the realization of the creative abilities of the members of the Union and beginning writers;
 strengthening the creative community of writers of the Russian Federation, as well as other countries of the world;
 development of initiatives for the adoption at the state and regional level of legislative decisions to improve domestic book publishing, translation, remuneration of authors' work, provide them with social and other support;
 organization of actions and events aimed at promoting the achievements of classical and modern Russian literature;
 concern for the preservation of the literary heritage, assistance to young writers;
 exchange of experience between Russian writers and writers from foreign countries.

Chairmen 
The post of chairman of the Union of Writers of Russia has been held by:
 Leonid Sobolev (1958-1970)
 Sergey Mikhalkov (1970-1990)
 Yuri Bondarev (1991-1994)
 Valery Ganichev (1994–2018)
 Nikolai Ivanov (2018)
The secretary of the board of directors is Vasily Nikolaevich Popov.

See also
List of Russian language writers

References

External links
 Union of Writers of Russia

Civic and political organizations based in the Soviet Union
Soviet literature
Russian literature
Soviet Union
Arts organizations established in 1958
1958 establishments in the Soviet Union
Trade unions in the Soviet Union
North Common is a village just outside Warmley, Bristol, in South Gloucestershire, England. Historically this was a rural hamlet surrounded by farmland. The residents are fortunate enough that to the east of the village is attractive rolling countryside, with views of Lansdown, and the surrounding hills. The village is on the eastern outskirts of Bristol and approximately halfway between Bristol city centre and the neighbouring city of Bath.

North Common is a semi rural village, adjacent to the villages of Warmley, Oldland Common and Bridgeyate. To the east of the village is open farmland and greenbelt which is only a few minutes walk. The village is home to the Bath Ales brewery. 

The Bristol and Bath Railway Path passes through North Common and steam trains from the Avon Valley Steam Railway travel as far as North Common where the rail track terminates.

Many local children attend St Barnabas CE Primary School, Redfield Edge Primary School, The Meadows Primary School in Bitton or St Anne's CE VC Primary school in nearby Oldland Common. Older students attend Sir Bernard Lovell Academy or other local secondary schools such as Digitech or Wellsway School in Keynsham.

North Common has its own village hall located in Millers Drive and is served by several pubs in particular The Griffin and White Harte pubs at Bridgeyate, the Doplhin at Oldland Common and the Hollybush Inn on the North Common - Bridgeyate border.

There is suitable public transport with the 42 to Bristol city centre, the 19A to Bath city centre or Cribbs Causeway, or around 10 minutes walk away outside the griffin there's the 35 from Marshfield to Bristol city centre. There are good road links to the Avon Ring Road (and hence the motorway network) via nearby Warmley village and Bath lies some  east and is easily accessible by road. Bristol is  west, also very accessible.

References

External links

Villages in South Gloucestershire District
Kaolin Township is an inactive township in Iron County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

Kaolin Township was established in 1857, and named for deposits of kaolin within its borders.

References

Townships in Missouri
Townships in Iron County, Missouri
Dabana may refer to:
 Dabanas, an ancient fortress
 Limnonectes dabanus, a species of frog
The World Prison Brief at PrisonStudies.org is an online database providing free access to information on prison systems around the world. It is now hosted by the Institute For Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), Birkbeck College, University of London.

It was previously hosted by the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS). It was a research centre at the University of Essex. It was launched at the House of Lords on 4 April 2011. Between 1997 and 2010 ICPS was based in King's College London and was launched formally by Home Secretary Jack Straw in October 1997. In July 2010 the International Centre for Prison Studies incorporated and registered as a charity with the Charities Commission of England and Wales.  From the outset the Centre was independent of governmental and intergovernmental agencies, although it would work closely with them.

The Centre is self-funded and a number of charitable trusts gave generous grants which allowed the Centre to start work. The centre seeks to assist governments and other relevant agencies to develop appropriate policies on prisons and the use of imprisonment. It carries out its work on a project or consultancy basis for international agencies, governmental and non-governmental organisations.

It aims to make the results of its academic research and projects widely available to groups and individuals, both nationally and internationally, who might not normally use such work. These include policy makers, practitioners and administrators, the media and the general public.

In November 2014 the International Centre for Prison Studies merged with the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research at Birkbeck, University of London.

People

The founding director is Andrew Coyle. The current director is Dr Jessica Jacobson. Baroness Stern is a senior research fellow at the centre.

See also 
 Incarceration
 List of countries by incarceration rate

References

External links
 Core Publications of the World Prison Brief. Such as the World Prison Population List, and the World Female Imprisonment List.
 World Prison Brief - Highest to Lowest. A main portal of the World Prison Brief. Compare many nations. Select from menu: prison population total, prison population rate, percentage of pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners within the prison population, percentage of female prisoners within the prison population, percentage of foreign prisoners within the prison population and occupancy rate. Click on any country link for detailed info.

Birkbeck, University of London
King's College London
University of Essex
Prison-related organizations
François Makita (born 6 May 1963) is a Congolese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented the Republic of the Congo national team internationally from 1984 to 1993.

Career
Raised in Pointe-Noire, Makita began playing youth football for Congolese sides, debuting in 1977 with Brazzaville's CS Negro and later playing for CARA Brazzaville. In 1984, he moved to France to play for Montelimar. He would play in Ligue 2 for AS Saint-Étienne before finishing his career with several lower-tier French clubs.

Makita made several appearances for the Congo national team, including one FIFA World Cup qualifying match, and he participated at the 1992 African Cup of Nations finals. Makita helped Congo reach the quarter-finals of the 1992 Cup of Nations.

After retiring from playing, Makita became a football manager. He was briefly the manager of US Argenton.

References

External links

Profile at Anciensverts.com

1963 births
Living people
Footballers from Brazzaville
Men's association football forwards
Republic of the Congo men's footballers
Republic of the Congo men's international footballers
1992 African Cup of Nations players
CARA Brazzaville players
AS Saint-Étienne players
Nîmes Olympique players
Louhans-Cuiseaux FC players
RC Épernay Champagne players
Ligue 2 players
Republic of the Congo expatriate men's footballers
Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Comunión (,  or )  is a village and concejo located in the municipality of Lantarón, in Álava province, Basque Country, Spain. It is the capital of the municipality.

References

External links
 

Concejos in Lantarón
Divović is a South Slavic Surname mainly common amongst Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

History 
The surname most likely derived from the Bosnian word "Div" meaning "Giant" or "Colossus". The Divović Family were known for being one of the greatest gatekeepers of the Ottoman Empire, they settled In the medieval Hungarian capital of Buda after the Battle of Mohács and the Ottoman Conquest of Hungary. They held and guarded the keys to the gates of houses, hamams, harams etc. of the Ottoman nobility, such as viziers, aghas, pashas and beys. The family left Buda and settled In Bosnia Eyalet In 1686, after It fell under the rule of The Habsburgs and exile of the Muslims of the city. The family settled In the cities of Foča, Sarajevo and Rogatica during the 17th and early 18th century.

Notable people

Writers

 Mulla Muhamed Mestvica Divović "Vrcanija" (1775-1864), Bosniak writer, poet, astronomer, astrologist and calligraphist from Sarajevo, He also thought Husein-kapetan Gradaščević calligraphy from 1819 to 1821. He wrote his works in Bosnian and Turkish, he also spoke Arabic and Persian.

Religion

 Nazif-efendija Divović, a Bosniak Islamic qadi from the 18th century and Muallim of the Gazi Husrev-bey Madrasa.

Military and war

 Nermin Divović, 7-year-old child killed by a Serb sniper on November 18th 1994, during the Siege of Sarajevo.

References