Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Order of Independence (Wisam al-Istiqial) is the fourth knighthood order of the Kingdom of Jordan.

History 
It was instituted in 1921 by Emir Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.

Grades 
The Order of Independence is divided in five classes:

Insignia 
The ribbon is purple with white and black stripes on its borders.

Notable recipients 

Senior members of the Jordanian Royal Family as well as Prime Ministers of Jordan are among the current recipients of the Order's highest rank of Grand Cordon.  Others include foreign royalty, prominent businessmen and cultural figures.

Grand Cordon
 B. J. Habibie, President of Indonesia
 L. B. Moerdani, Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces
 Jaime de Marichalar, Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo's former husband.
 Simeon II, King of the Bulgarians and Prime Minister.
 Anthony Bailey, interfaith campaigner.
 Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim, Saudi businessman and media figure.
 Halbi Mohd Yussof, Minister of Brunei
 Yasmin Umar, Minister of Brunei
 Hashemite University, received the order of Independence of first class.
Edraak.org, received the order of Independence of first class.
 Amer Khammash
 Bisher Al-Khasawneh

Grand Officer
 Faisal Al-Fayez, Prime Minister
 Kathleen Kenyon, British archaeologist
 Air Chief Marshal Anwar Shamim (Chief of Air Staff Pakistan Air Force 1978-1986)
 Raja Inal Siregar, Governor of North Sumatra

Commander
 General Zia-ul-Haq (President of Pakistan 1978-88); Awarded for his role in crushing the Palestinian rebels during Black September 1970
 Air Commodore Zafar Masud (Pakistan Air Force); Base Commander, PAF Base Sargodha during the 1965 War

Sources 
Medals World Index, Jordan: Order of Independence (Wisam al-Istiqial)

References 

 
Independence (Jordan), Order of
Independence (Jordan), Order of
Awards established in 1921
1921 establishments in Asia
Jafred Chirchir Kipchumba (born 8 August 1983) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. He won the 2011 Eindhoven Marathon in a personal best time of 2:05:48 hours.

Biography
Hailing from Keiyo District in Kenya, he began training for marathon running in 2003. He made his first competitive appearance over the classic distance at an all-debutant version of the Vienna City Marathon in 2009. He finished in sixth place with a time of 2:10:42 hours. He again finished sixth at the Istanbul Eurasia Marathon in October later that year.

In his fourth outing over the 42.195 km distance, Kipchumba had his first competitive win. He defeated former world champion Charles Kamathi to win the Milano City Marathon in a personal best time of 2:10:42 hours and later declared that he himself had not expected to win the competition. He improved his time further at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon where he crossed the line after 2:08:09 hours to take the runner-up spot behind Kenneth Mungara, who ran the fastest time ever set in Canada. He made a significant career breakthrough at the 2011 Eindhoven Marathon: he ran a course record time of 2:05:48 hours, beating the previous course record by over a minute (Geoffrey Mutai's 2:07:01 from 2009). He was surprised by his achievement, stating after the race: "I was only thinking about running 2:07. I was not confident I was going to run faster".

He trains with Geoffrey Mutai, who won the 2011 Boston Marathon in a world's fastest time.

References

External links

Marathon Info profile

1983 births
Living people
People from Elgeyo-Marakwet County
Kenyan male long-distance runners
Kenyan male marathon runners
The Caucasian snowcock (Tetraogallus caucasicus) is a snowcock in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds.

It is native to the Caucasus Mountains, particularly the Western Caucasus, where it breeds at altitudes from 2000 to 4000 m on bare stony mountains. It nests in a bare ground scrape and lays typically 5-6 greenish eggs, which are incubated only by the female. Its food is seeds and vegetable matter. It forms small flocks when not breeding.

Description 
This is a  long bird. Its plumage is patterned with grey, brown, white and black, but this snowcock looks grey from any distance. The breast is darker and the flanks ruddier than the rest of the body. It has a white throat and a white patch on the side of the neck. The nape is rust-coloured.

In flight, this wary bird shows white flight feathers and undertail, and reddish sides to the tail. Male and female plumages are similar, but the juvenile is slightly smaller and duller in appearance.

Caucasian snowcock has a desolate whistling song, vaguely like a Eurasian curlew, . The calls include loud cackles and bubbled .

See also

References

 Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse by Madge and McGowan, 

Caucasian snowcock
Birds of Georgia (country)
Birds of Azerbaijan
Caucasian snowcock
Le Soleil ("The Sun") was a French daily newspaper. It was founded in 1873 and run by the journalists Édouard Hervé and Jean-Jacques Weiss. 
Le Soleil was a monarchist daily, more moderate than others, sold for five centimes at the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth century. 
It was located in the rue du Croissant.
It was one of two French newspapers that gave the best coverage of international news, along with Le Temps.

History

The newspaper had two founders and editors, Jean-Jacques Weiss ( 1827 - 1891) and Édouard Hervé (1835 - 1899), friends who had worked together on the Orleanist and liberal Journal de Paris. 
They launched the first issue on 28 April 1867.

Édouard Hervé, a member of the French Academy since 1886, 
former adviser and friend of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, was the owner-director of Le Soleil until his death in June 1899. 
He said, "I am Catholic, I even go to Church, but I do not want to serve it in my journal."
Always holding liberal opinions in the Second Empire, 
he changed to monarchical views with the war of 1870, which soon became apparent from the tone of the articles of his team.

The newspaper hoped to help the merger of legitimists and Orléanists.
It rapidly gaining a readership interested in international affairs, having refused to engage in supporting General Georges Boulanger. 
It was one of the papers that sent a reporter to Berlin for the German elections of 1887, while the German Continental Agency only gave out a little information on the subject.

Renowned for the quality of its articles, Le Soleil included among its editors the reporter Félix Dubois (1862 - 1945), Hugues Rebell (1867 - 1905) and Paul Bézine (1861 - 1928), one of the founders of the Association of Young Royalists in 1890, and founder of the anti-Masonic association Le Grand Occident de France, who in 1912 broke with the royalist party.
In 1882 the daily columnist "Jean de Nivelles" (Charles Canivet) worked for the paper.

Le Soleil dropped from 40,000 to 25,000 copies in just one year, between 1898 and 1899, because its readers were baffled by the paper taking up the defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, while in general the royalists were against Dreyfus, which caused the departure of the royalist journalist Hervé de Kérohant.
Disavowed by the Duke of Orleans, the newspaper passed first to Ambroise Rendu and then to Louis Numa Baragnon fils, who tried in vain to retain its old readers.
Ambroise Rendu was a Paris municipal counsellor. In 1901 he bought Le Moniteur Universel.
Le Soleil became a popular daily newspaper, costing only 5 centimes, but displeased many royalists by the tone of its articles. 
The newspaper closed down during World War I, in June 1915.

References

Sources

 
 

1873 establishments in France
1915 establishments in France
Defunct newspapers published in France
French penny papers
Newspapers published in Paris
Newspapers established in 1873
Publications disestablished in 1915
Daily newspapers published in France
A Whistling Woman is a 2002 novel by A. S. Byatt. The novel was published by Chatto & Windus in 2002. 

The novel is the final in a sequence of four books, preceded by The Virgin in the Garden (1978), Still Life (1985), and Babel Tower (1996). Jonathan Walker, in a paper published by Contemporary Literature, referred to the series of books as the "Frederica quartet". Byatt herself expressed a preference for The Virgin in the Garden quartet when speaking about it ("It isn't Frederica's book--though she's the sort of person who would muscle in and try to take it!") and noted her publisher's intention to produce a boxed set, simply titled The Quartet.

Byatt has said the novel is "about utopianism...and a dangerous sort of mystical romanticism".

A Whistling Woman is half dedicated to Frances Ashcroft.

References

2002 British novels
Chatto & Windus books
Novels by A. S. Byatt
Novels set in the United Kingdom
Frank Millar is a Northern Irish journalist and former unionist politician.

The son of Frank Millar, also a unionist politician, he was known as "Frank Millar Jr" during his early political career.  He joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and remained a member when his father left the organisation to sit as an independent Unionist.

Millar was the Press Officer of the UUP during the early 1980s.  He stood unsuccessfully for 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly in South Antrim.  However, he was elected to that body in 1984 in an uncontested by-election in Belfast South caused by the IRA murder of Edgar Graham.

In 1983, Millar became the General Secretary of the UUP.  At the 1987 UK general election, he stood in Belfast West, receiving 18.7% of the votes cast.  The same year, he worked with UUP MP Harold McCusker and the DUP's Peter Robinson to produce a report on power sharing, following a positive report on the topic by the Ulster Political Research Group.  The Task Force Report gave serious consideration to the idea, and called for a strategic unionist rethink in the wake of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. It was rejected by their respective leaders, Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux.  Millar then resigned from his party post.

Millar subsequently became a journalist and has long been the London Editor of the Irish Times.  In 1998, he was named the Irish Print Journalist of the Year.  In 2004, he wrote a biography of UUP leader David Trimble, entitled David Trimble: The Price of Peace.

References

Living people
Northern Ireland MPAs 1982–1986
Journalists from Northern Ireland
Ulster Unionist Party politicians
Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland
Year of birth missing (living people)
Aleksandra Jevtić (; born 14 February 1976), formerly known as Aleksandra Jevtić Vukmirović is a politician in Serbia. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2018 to 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career
Jevtić has a Ph.D. in Biotechnical Sciences. She lives in Vrnjačka Banja.

Politician

Municipal politics
Jevtić was awarded the ninth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Vrnjačka Banja municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won exactly nine mandates. She did not seek re-election at the local level in 2016.

Parliamentarian
Jevtić received the 146th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 mandates; Jevtić was not directly elected but was awarded a mandate on 26 September 2018 as a replacement for Ivan Manojlović, who had resigned. She was a member of the environmental protection committee and the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee, as well as Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Bolivia, China, Cyprus, Greece, Russia, and Turkey.

She was given the 248th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election Direct election from this position was mathematically impossible, and indeed she was not elected even as the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. It is possible, though unlikely, that Jevtić may return to parliament in the current term of the assembly as the replacement for another Progressive Party member.

References

1976 births
Living people
People from Vrnjačka Banja
21st-century Serbian women politicians
21st-century Serbian politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Serbian Progressive Party politicians
Women members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Lavoriškės is a village in Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania, it is located only about  east of Vilnius city municipality. According to the 2011 census, it had population of 621.

References

Villages in Vilnius County
Vilnius District Municipality
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Maryland:

Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Attorney General
State Comptroller

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

State Senate
State House of Delegates
State delegation to the United States Senate
State delegation to the United States House of Representatives

For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

1777–1851

1851–present

See also
Politics in Maryland
Government of Maryland

Politics of Maryland
Government of Maryland
Maryland
Robert Clinton Hughes (July 1847 – 18 January 1935) was a New Zealand lawyer and conservationist.

Hughes was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1847, but the family moved to New Plymouth when he was a young child. He was a lawyer by trade and had his own practice from 1870 when he was admitted to the bar. From July 1874 until the abolition of the provincial government system in 1876, he represented the Town of New Plymouth electorate on the Taranaki Provincial Council. Subsequently, he served on the New Plymouth borough council. He was one of three candidates in the  contesting the  electorate, and he came last.

On 1 December 1898, Hughes married Amy Grace Burton at Dunedin. He died without having had children on 18 January 1935 in New Plymouth, survived by his wife.

References

1847 births
1935 deaths
19th-century New Zealand lawyers
New Zealand conservationists
People from Auckland
Members of the Taranaki Provincial Council
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1890 New Zealand general election
Elections to Newport City Council were held on 1 May 2008 along with elections to the other 21 local authorities in Wales, community council elections in Wales and 2008 United Kingdom local elections.

Councillors elected in this election serve a four-year term.

The previous election took place in 2004.

The next full election took place on 3 May 2012.

Election results: overview 

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| colspan=2 style="text-align: right; margin-right: 1em" | Total
| style="text-align: right;" | 50
| colspan=5 |
| style="text-align: right;" |  41,640 
| style="text-align: right;" | 
|-
|}

 The Independent statistics are for all Independents, whether they are members of the Independent group on the council or not.

Ward results

Allt-yr-yn

Alway

Beechwood

Bettws

Caerleon

Gaer

Graig

Langstone

Liswerry

Llanwern

Malpas

Marshfield

Pillgwenlly

Ringland

Rogerstone

St Julians

Shaftesbury

Stow Hill

Tredegar Park

Victoria

References

Newport
2008
Limnonectes fragilis (common names: fragile large-headed frog, fragile wart frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to the Hainan Island, China. It is a medium-sized frog, males being  and females  snout-vent length. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

fragilis
Frogs of China
Endemic fauna of Hainan
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Amphibians described in 1973
Pietro Antonio de Angelis (died 1553) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nepi e Sutri (1542–1553).

Biography
On 7 August 1542, Pietro Antonio de Angelis was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul III as Bishop of Nepi e Sutri.
He served as Bishop of Nepi e Sutri' until his death in 1553.

References

External links and additional sources
 (for Chronology of Bishops) 
 (for Chronology of Bishops) 

16th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Bishops appointed by Pope Paul III
1553 deaths
The 2016–17 Big East Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2016, followed by the start of the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. This season marked the 38th year in the conference's history, but the fourth as a non-football conference, which officially formed on July 1, 2013.  Conference play began on December 31, 2016.

Villanova clinched the regular season championship, their fourth straight Big East regular season championship, with a win over No. 23-ranked Creighton on February 25. Butler finished second, three games behind Villanova.

Villanova shooting guard Josh Hart was named the conference's Player of the Year. Butler head coach Chris Holtmann was named Big East Coach of the Year.

The Big East Conference tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York from March 8 through March 11, 2017. Villanova also won the Big East Conference tournament beating Creighton in the Tournament championship game. As a result, Villanova received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Seven Big East Schools (Villanova, Butler, Creighton, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, and Xavier) received bids to the NCAA Tournament. The conference finished with a 5–7 record in the Tournament, highlighted by Butler reaching the Sweet Sixteen and Xavier advancing to the Elite Eight.

Head coaches

Coaches 

Notes: 
 Year at school includes 2016–17 season.
 Overall and Big East records are from time at current school and are through the end the 2016–17 season. 
 Mack's A-10 and McDermott's MVC conference records not included since teams began play in Big East.

Preseason

Preseason poll 
Prior to the season, the Big East conducted a poll of Big East coaches, coaches do not place their own team on their ballots.

Preseason All-Big East teams
Source

Rankings

Player of the week
Source

Regular season

Conference matrix
This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play through February 14, 2017.

Honors and awards

All-Big East Awards and Teams

Postseason

2017 Big East tournament

NCAA tournament 

The winner of the Big East tournament received an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

References

External links
Big East website
Cockburn River ( ) is a perennial river that is part of the Namoi catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, located in the Northern Tablelands district of New South Wales, Australia.

The river rises in the west slopes of Moonbi Range, near Limbri and then flows generally west south west, joined by four minor tributaries, towards its confluence with the Peel River at Nemingha; dropping  over its course of .

The river was first encountered by European explorers on 4 September 1818 during an expedition led by the Surveyor-General of New South Wales, John Oxley, who named the river in honour of Admiral Sir George Cockburn.

From upstream to downstream, the Cockburn River flows through or near the localities of Limbri, Moonbi, Kootingal, Tintinhull and Nemingha. A section of the Main North railway line runs along the valley of the Cockburn River.

The Cockburn River is also one of the fastest flowing rivers in the southern hemisphere. It is home to fish species including catfish, yellow belly, and European carp; the last have decimated the native fish stocks to the point that they are getting harder to find. There are small areas of irrigated cropping along the banks of the river and the surrounding hills are mostly used for grazing.

See also

List of rivers of Australia
Rivers of New South Wales

References

External links
 

Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin
Mark Pryor (born 1963) is a United States Senator.

Mark Pryor may also refer to:

 Mark Pryor (author) (born 1967), British mystery writer and Assistant District Attorney for Travis County, Texas
 M.G.M. Pryor (1915–1970), British entomologist

See also
 Mark Prior (born 1980), professional baseball player
 Pryor (disambiguation)
Neoperiboeum is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:

 Neoperiboeum juanitae Chemsak, 1991
 Neoperiboeum villosulum (Bates, 1872)

References

Elaphidiini
The Schlesinger Building, also known as Wesbank Centre or Sanlam Centre, is a skyscraper in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1965 to a height of . It has 21 floors. The building is named for John Schlesinger, a Johannesburg businessman who was also one of the first major art collectors in the city.

Doreen E. Greig, who was the first female president-in-chief of the South African Institute of Architects, described the building in her book as 'an immense building' with a 'sombre and monumental' aspect, which derived from the reflection of grey-green glass sheathing. Its facade are swollen and its vertical aluminium mullions are balanced by the horizontal glass spandrels, which also less obscure than the fenestration.

See also 
 List of tallest buildings in Africa
 List of tallest buildings in South Africa

References

Citations

Books

External links 
Amethyst: Johannesburg Landmarks. Retrieved 11 February 2008.

Buildings and structures completed in 1965
Skyscraper office buildings in Johannesburg
Office buildings completed in 1965
20th-century architecture in South Africa
A pressure vacuum breaker (PVB) is a type of backflow prevention device, used to keep non-potable (or contaminated) water from entering the water supply. A PVB is similar to an atmospheric vacuum breaker (AVB), except that the PVB contains a spring-loaded poppet.  This makes it acceptable for applications that are high hazard or where valves are downstream.  Pressure vacuum breakers must be protected from freezing when installed outdoors.  PVBs usually have test cocks, to which specially-calibrated gauges are attached, in order to ensure that they are functioning properly.

Backflow prevention devices such as PVBs are regulated by the Uniform Plumbing Code, but may also be required by government regulations.

See also
 Air gap
 Atmospheric vacuum breaker
 Chemigation valve
 Double check valve
 Hydrostatic loop
 Reduced Pressure Principle BFP

Plumbing valves
Irrigation
Backflow
In Henriques v Giles, an important case in the South African law of succession, a husband and wife had instructed their accountant to prepare each of their respective wills. The content of each of the wills varied considerably. The husband accidentally signed his wife's will; his wife accidentally signed his will.

The husband died in 2004, and his wife the following year.

In response to a request to rectify both wills, the court held that the husband's will was capable of being rectified, but the wife's will was not, as the court was not satisfied that she had the requisite capacity to execute a will due to her affliction with Alzheimer's syndrome.

See also 
 South African law of succession

References 
 Henriques v Giles NO and Another; Henriques v Giles NO and Others 2010 (6) SA 51 (SCA).

Notes 

Law of succession in South Africa
Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa cases
2010 in South African law
2010 in case law
MRQ is an acronym that may refer to:

 Marinduque Airport (IATA: MRQ)
 Marquesan language (ISO 639:mrq)
 Midalja għall-Qlubija, a Maltese medal of bravery whose post-nominal letters are M.R.Q.
 Modern Rock Quartet, a Canadian jazz-rock band
 most recent quarter, in a fiscal year

See also
 MRQE, Movie Review Query Engine
 MRQP, ICAO for Quepos La Managua Airport