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Mary McPartlan (8 January 1955 – 6 April 2020) was a traditional Irish singer and musician as well as a music director and producer.

Biography
Mary McPartlan was born in 1955 in Drumkeeran, County Leitrim. She founded folk duo Calypso in the 1970s. McPartlan was also the founder of both the Galway singers club An Riabhóg and theater company Skehana. She was also the administrator of Galway Youth Theatre.

McPartlan worked as a lecturer for University College Galway. She received a Fulbright Scholarship to Lehman College in the City University of New York in 2013. She taught Creative Arts and Theatre. McPartlan also worked as an arts PR and consultant with her own company Mac P.

During the 1990s McPartlan worked with TG4 to develop the Traditional Irish Music awards, Gradam Ceoil. She worked as a producer and director of musical projects including TG4 music show Flosc, the Arts in Action programme at NUI Galway and the opening of Glór, the national Irish music center in Ennis, Co Clare. McPartlan toured with the Druid Theatre's Seán Tyrell productions of The Midnight Court.

In 2004 McPartlan released her debut album The Holland Handkerchief and followed it in 2008 with Petticoat Loose and then in 2016 with From Mountain To Mountain. She was awarded the Ireland United States Association (IUSA) Distinguished Alumni Award for her contribution to culture, education and music.

McPartlan was married to Paddy Noonan, with whom she had two daughters, Mairéad and Meabh. She was also stepmother to Niamh and David. She died on 6 April 2020 after a long cancer illness.

References and sources

1955 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Irish women singers
Traditional musicians
Musicians from County Leitrim
Musicians from County Galway
21st-century Irish women singers
Academics of the University of Galway
William McDowell may refer to:

 William Fraser McDowell (1858–1937), American bishop
 William John McDowell (1863–1929), Northern Irish politician
 William Osborn McDowell (1845–1927), American financier and businessman
 W. W. McDowell (1867–1934), American politician and diplomat
 William McDowell (cricketer) (1837-1918), Scottish cricketer
 William McDowell (musician) (born 1976), American musician
 William D. McDowell, politician and sheriff in New Jersey
 William Hugh McDowell (1846–1864), VMI cadet killed at the Battle of New Market
 William G. McDowell (1882–1938), American bishop of Alabama

See also
 Bill McDowell (disambiguation)
Zamazaan (1965 – 8 April 1990) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and Champion sire in New Zealand and Australia. 

Zamazaan was bred by the HH Aga Khan IV.

Racing career

Zamazaan was a winner of 5 stakes races from 2,400 metres to 3,100 metres.

He retired from the track in 1969.

Stud career

He was syndicated for a then record NZ$200,000 and sent to stand at stud beginning in the 1970 season at Keith Burley's Carlyle Stud in East Tāmaki near Auckland, New Zealand.

He won the:
 Dewar Stallion Trophy award in 1977–8 with progeny earnings of $490,595 (excluding trophies).
 Champion New Zealand Sire in 1985-86  

Zamazaan sired 58 stakes winners for 123 stakes wins including:
 Beau Zam (Belle Cherie by Sovereign Edition) 
 Gelsomino (Salima by Copenhagen II) 
 Good Lord (Love In Bloom by Todman), winner of the 1977 and 1978 Wellington Cup and 1978 Sydney Cup
 Lord Reims (Right On by Ward Drill) 
 Phizam (Phius by Oncidium) 
 Veloso (Top of The Pops by Bismark II), winner of the 1983 Sydney Cup and Mackinnon Stakes and placed in multiple Group 1 races.

Zamazaan was dam-sire of:
 Doriemus (Golden Woods by Norman Pentaquad), winner of the 1995 Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup. 
 The Filbert (Fauxzann by Souvran), winner of the 1985 New Zealand Stakes.

Zamazaan's legacy has continued with the following:
 Elvstroem
 Nature Strip

See also

 Thoroughbred racing in New Zealand

References 
 
 Leading Sires of Australia

External links
 Zamazaan's pedigree and partial racing stats

1965 racehorse births
1990 racehorse deaths
Champion Thoroughbred Sires of Australia
Champion Thoroughbred Sires of New Zealand
New Zealand Thoroughbred sires
Racehorses bred in France
Racehorses trained in France
Thoroughbred family 7
The William G. Mennen Sports Arena, commonly referred to as Mennen Arena, is a multi-purpose arena in Morris Township, New Jersey primarily used for ice hockey and other skating activities. The building houses three regulation-sized ice rinks. The main rink has seating for 2,500 spectators.

Usage
Mennen Arena is a facility of the Morris County Park Commission.

The venue is the main home ice rink for the New Jersey Colonials youth hockey program and the main training center for the Skating Club of Morris. Morris Rugby Corporation holds events at Mennen Arena. It is also the host rink for the County College of Morris hockey team as well as most of the public high school hockey teams in Morris County, New Jersey. 

During the summer months the ice surface in the main rink is removed. The arena has hosted the Shrine Circus, dog shows, professional wrestling and MMA events such as Grapplers Quest and Cage Fury Fighting Championships (CFFC).

Mennen hosted one game for the New Jersey XTreme of the National Indoor Football League in 2005, and was formerly the home of the New Jersey Revolution of the American Indoor Football Association.

History 
The Mennen Arena  was built in 1973 on land donated by the Mennen Company, now part of Colgate-Palmolive.  It was opened to the public on January 12, 1975.  At that time, the facility consisted of one indoor multi-purpose arena with artificial ice in place for most of the year.

A second ice surface was added in an expansion building in 1986.  A third surface was added in 2002.

References

External links
 Mennen Sports Arena at Morris County Parks Commission
 RinkAtlas listing for William G. Mennen Sports Arena

Indoor arenas in New Jersey
Sports venues in New Jersey
Indoor ice hockey venues in the United States
1975 establishments in New Jersey
Sports venues completed in 1975
Figure skating venues in the United States
Zoureena Saviera Nazrul Rijger (born in Paramaribo, Suriname, on June 19, 1991) is a singer and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Suriname 2009.

Biography 
Zoureena is the daughter of well-known Surinamese country singer Lex Rijger and his wife Nisa Rijger. Lex performed with his daughters Cheryll, Zoureena, and Xaviera in a group called Lex Rijger and Family. The girls also sing on their own as the group The Rijger Sisters. At the Surinamese song festival Suripop 2008 they performed the song A Song of Life, written by their father.

On August 28, 2009, Rijger was crowned Miss Suriname 2009 in the Marriott Hotel Suriname.  On November 10, 2009, Rijger travelled to South Africa to take part in the Miss World 2009 beauty pageant, which took place on December 12, 2009.

References 

1991 births
Living people
Miss World 2009 delegates
People from Paramaribo
Surinamese beauty pageant winners
Surinamese female models
21st-century Surinamese women singers
The Very Best of Prince is a greatest hits album by American recording artist Prince. It was released on July 31, 2001, by Warner Bros. Records. The album contains most of his commercially successful singles from 1979 to 1991 including the US number 1s "When Doves Cry", "Let's Go Crazy", "Kiss" and "Cream".

The Very Best of Prince does not include the US number 1 hit "Batdance" most likely due to the licensing of the character Batman. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine believed that the Batman album was unofficially being written out of Prince's discography. All the songs included in this compilation were all previously included in the 3-disc box set The Hits/The B-Sides (1993), with the exception of "Money Don't Matter 2 Night".

Commercial performance
On the chart dated August 18, 2001, The Very Best of Prince debuted at number 66 on the US Billboard 200. As of September 21, 2004, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling 1 million copies in the United States.

The Very Best of Prince sold 179,000 album-equivalent units (100,000 in pure album sales) in the week following Prince's death, thus allowing the album to re-enter the Billboard 200 at number one; this makes the album Prince's fifth number-one on the chart. The following week the album fell to number two on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 391,000 equivalent copies (216,000 in pure album sales) behind Beyoncé's Lemonade. In 2016, the album has sold 660,000 recognized copies in the United States in addition to the over 2 million copies sold prior to 2016.

Track listing
All songs are written by and credited to Prince, except where noted.

Personnel
 Prince – lead vocals and various instruments

The Revolution
 Lisa Coleman – keyboards, vocals
 Wendy Melvoin – guitar, vocals
 Bobby Z. – drums, percussion
 Brown Mark – bass guitar, vocals
 Matt (Dr.) Fink – keyboards, vocals

The New Power Generation
 Levi Seacer Jr. – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
 Tony M. – rapping, backing vocals
 Tommy Barbarella – "PurpleAxxe" sampling, keyboards
 Kirk Johnson – percussion, backing vocals
 Damon Dickson – percussion, backing vocals
 Sonny T. – bass, backing vocals
 Michael B. – drums
 Rosie Gaines – vocals, "PurpleAxxe" sampling, organ

Additional musicians
 Jill Jones – co-lead vocals (on "1999")
 Dez Dickerson – co-lead vocals (on "1999" & "Little Red Corvette"), lead guitar (on "Little Red Corvette")
 Mazarati – backing vocals (on "Kiss")
 Sheena Easton – vocals (on "U Got the Look")
 Sheila E. – drums, percussion (on "U Got the Look" & "Alphabet St."), vocals (on "Alphabet St.")
 Cat Glover – rap (on "Alphabet St.")
 Eric Leeds – brass, vocals (on "Alphabet St."), flute (on "Gett Off")

Charts

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2001 greatest hits albums
Prince (musician) compilation albums
Albums produced by Prince (musician)
Warner Records compilation albums
Compilation albums of number-one songs
Levenhookia octomaculata, the dotted stylewort or eight-spotted stylewort, is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Levenhookia (family Stylidiaceae). The specific epithet octomaculata refers to the eight red dots this plant produces on each flower. It is an ephemeral annual that grows from  tall with a simple or branched stem. There are very few leaves that are obovate to spathulate and mostly around the base of the stem. Scapes are umbellate and dark-coloured. Flowers are bright pink with white throats and two red dots borne on each petal. L. octomaculata blooms from September to October in its native range. It is endemic to Western Australia. Its habitat has been reported as being sandy soils in open Acacia acuminata or Eucalyptus wandoo forests in compact colonies. Because this species is known from several populations that are not believed to be under immediate threat but are poorly known, this species has been declared a priority three species, which means it is under consideration for rare status but more information must be gathered first.

References

Endemic flora of Western Australia
Eudicots of Western Australia
octomaculata
Plants described in 1956
The Båstad riots () is the name given to the riots that took place during a Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Rhodesia on 3 May 1968 in Båstad, Sweden.

Demonstrators were protesting the participation of the two apartheid countries, Rhodesia and South Africa, in the international tennis competition. The countries were barred from other international sporting events. It became the most violent confrontation between the Swedish police and demonstrators during the 1960s. It was followed by a dialogue between the Swedish government and the demonstrators to curb the escalation of violence. The match later was played in secrecy, and Sweden won 4-1.

References

1968 Davis Cup
1968 in Sweden
1968 riots
1968 in tennis
Riots and civil disorder in Sweden
Sports riots
Politics and sports
Sport in Rhodesia
May 1968 events in Europe
Foreign relations of Rhodesia
1968 in Swedish tennis
Charles Brewer (born 1958) is an American entrepreneur.

Charles Brewer is the founder of MindSpring Enterprises, an American Internet service provider, Green Street Properties, a real estate development company, and Las Catalinas, a resort town in Costa Rica. He serves on the board of directors of the Midtown (Atlanta) Alliance, the Atlanta Commerce Club, and he serves on the board of councilors of the Carter Center. He and his wife Ginny reside in Atlanta with their family.

Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from high school at Kentucky Country Day School and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College with a degree in economics, and received his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. After a frustrating experience trying to set up an Internet account, Charles decided to start his own ISP. He founded MindSpring Enterprises in 1994. From the beginning, Charles crafted a set of Core Values and Beliefs which outlined how employees in the company would treat each other and their customers. MindSpring grew to be one of the largest national ISPs, and eventually merged with EarthLink on February 4, 2000. Frustrated with the direction taken by the company after the merger, Charles soon left the company and sold his stock holdings.

On June 14, 2001, Charles announced the formation of Green Street Properties. Green Street's focus is on developing residential communities in the New Urbanist style, and its first project in Glenwood Park opened on June 18, 2005.  In August 2006 Charles and partners purchased the Las Catalinas property in Guanacaste, Costa Rica and began plans for the development of a compact, walkable beach town there. Charles withdrew from Green Street Properties at the beginning of 2008 in order to focus on Las Catalinas. Construction began at Las Catalinas in late 2009.

Charles Brewer said in a panel discussion that he is interested in running a company again in Atlanta specifically on March 19, 2015. He was speaking with Michael Tavani, the co-founder of Atlanta coupon app, Scoutmob, during a live version of Tavani's leadership series of podcast's called On Doers. The event was hosted at General Assembly Atlanta in Ponce City Market.

References

1959 births
Living people
American real estate businesspeople
Amherst College alumni
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
American computer businesspeople
Businesspeople from Louisville, Kentucky
Mount Wise () is a bare rock summit, the highest point (815 m) on Brown Peninsula, Antarctica. It was named by A.J. Heine of the McMurdo Ice Shelf Project, 1962–63, for K.C. Wise, a New Zealander who explored the peninsula while a member of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1958–59.

Mountains of Victoria Land
Scott Coast
Philippe Kirsch,  (born April 1, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer who served as a judge of the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2009 and was the Court's first president.

Biography
Kirsch was born in Belgium in 1947 and arrived in Canada in 1961. Kirsch holds a Bachelor of Civil Law and an LL.M. degree from the Université de Montréal (1972).

Kirsch, who joined the Department of External Affairs of Canada in 1972, has held a number of positions in the Department, including Assistant Deputy Minister for Legal, Consular and Passport Affairs, Ottawa (1994–1996); and Director General, Bureau of Legal Affairs, Ottawa (1992–1994). He was Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations (1988–1992), Deputy Representative to the Security Council (1989–1990) and Canada's ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden.

Kirsch is member of the Bar of the Province of Quebec and of the Canadian Council on International Law and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1988. 

Kirsch served as Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the International Conference on the Problem of War Victims (1993), Chairman of the preparatory and subsequent Intergovernmental Working Groups of Government Experts on the Protection of War Victims (1993, 1995), and Chairman of the Drafting Committee at the 26th and 27th International Conferences of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent (1995, 1999).  He was Chairman of the Canadian National Committee on Humanitarian Law (1998–1999) and member of the Group of International Advisers to the International Committee of the Red Cross (2000–2003).

He has extensive experience in the development of international criminal law with regard to issues such as various acts of terrorism; suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of maritime navigation; unlawful acts of violence at airports serving international civil aviation; safety and security of UN and associated personnel and the taking of hostages.

His appointment as judge came after his extensive experience in the process of the establishment of the International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

In 1998 Kirsch served as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole of the Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court. He was also Chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (1999 to 2002).

Honours
In 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to international criminal law, notably as president of the International Criminal Court in The Hague".

References

Further reading
 KIRSCH, Philippe International Who's Who. Retrieved September 4, 2006.

1947 births
Living people
Lawyers in Quebec
Ambassadors of Canada to Sweden
Université de Montréal alumni
Officers of the Order of Canada
Presidents of the International Criminal Court
Belgian emigrants to Canada
People from Namur (city)
Canadian King's Counsel
Université de Montréal Faculty of Law alumni
21st-century Canadian judges
Canadian judges of international courts and tribunals
Members of the Institut de Droit International
The Erichsburg, formerly Erichsberg, () is a ruined medieval castle near the village of Friedrichsbrunn (borough of Thale) in the Harz Mountains in central Germany. It is located within the boundaries of Gernrode, a part of Quedlinburg.

History 
In 1320 Count Henry of Stolberg bought the fortified manor house of Erichsberg, together with other goods and chattels, from Heineke of Hoym and Bertholdus II of Arnswald, known as Geylvus  (today Geilfuss/ Geilfuß). The castle had first been mentioned in the 12th century and was probably built to protect a trading route. In order to protect his new possessions, he enfeoffed it, along with Wolfsberg Castle which he had purchased at the same time, in 1325 to the Bishop of Halberstadt.
 
Count Henry of Stolberg left Erichsberg to his cousin, Hermann, who based mercenaries in the houses at Erichsberg that had ravaged Thuringian Land, especially the Counts of Hohnstein from Sondershausen. Whereupon in 1346 Margrave Frederick together with the citizens of Erfurt, Mühlhausen and Nordhausen marched on the castle, took the Count of Stolberg prisoner and destroyed the site. The Erichsberg could not be rebuilt and its ruins were transferred to the Stolberg Amt of Bärenrode.

Of the former castle, a few small remnants of the walls and short sections of the old ramparts and moat are still visible.
Castles in Saxony-Anhalt
Castles in the Harz
Quedlinburg
Richard Townsend Davies (March 28, 1920 – March 30, 2005) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 1973 to 1978.

Biography 
Davies was born on March 28, 1920, in Brooklyn and grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey. He graduated from Columbia College in 1942 with a degree in international relations.

After he finished his studies, he fought in World War II and served in the Office of Military Government in Germany.

He joined the Foreign Service in 1947 and served as a consular and political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw for two years. He also served as the counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the U.S. Information Agency assistant director for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from 1965 to 1968. From 1968 to 1969, he was the consul general of the Consulate General of the United States, Kolkata.

He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European affairs from 1970 to 1972 when he was appointed by Richard Nixon as ambassador to the Polish People's Republic, where he served until 1978. During his posting in Poland, he was credited for establishing regular contacts, and forming friendly ties with Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Kraków, who later became known as Pope John Paul II. 

Davies also prepared the visits of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter to Poland as ambassador and helped improve trade relations between the two countries. He made his retirement in 1980 as director of the State Department's human intelligence tasking office in Washington.After his retirement, he maintained an interest in human rights promotion in Eastern Europe and chaired an NGO to support the Polish workers' movement, Solidarity.He was also a frequent writer of op-eds and opposed NATO enlargement.

Davies died on March 30, 2005, in Silver Spring, Maryland. One son, Glyn Townsend Davies, is also a career foreign service officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Thailand from 2015 to 2018 and the 7th United States Ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Vienna. His other son, John S. Davies, is an actor.

References 

Columbia College (New York) alumni
Ambassadors of the United States to Poland
Politicians from Brooklyn
20th-century American diplomats
United States Assistant Secretaries of State
Nixon administration personnel

1920 births
2005 deaths
United States Foreign Service personnel
American military personnel of World War II
American expatriates in Germany
Venger may refer to:
 The Venger: Dead Man Rising, an American comic book series by Matthew Spatola
 Venger, a character in Dungeons & Dragons

People with the surname
 Anders Venger (1872–1935), Norwegian politician of the Conservative Party
 Amund Venger (1943–2013), Norwegian politician for the Centre Party
Senna barclayana, commonly known as smooth senna or pepper-leaf senna, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a herbaceous perennial or subshrub with pinnate leaves with six to ten pairs of lance-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaflets, and yellow flowers in groups of six to ten.

Description
Senna barclayana is an erect, herbaceous perennial subshrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are pinnate,  long on a petiole  long, with six to ten pairs of lance-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaflets  long and  wide. There is a sessile gland near the base of the petiole, and a stipule that falls off as the leaf opens. The flowers are yellow and arranged in upper leaf axils in pairs or groups of six to ten on a peduncle  long, each flower on a pedicel  long. The petals are up to  long and there are six fertile stamens and four staminodes, the longest anthers about  long. Flowering occurs all year, and the fruit is a cylindrical pod  long.

Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1827 by Robert Sweet who gave it the name Cassia barclayana in his Flora Australasica. In 1988, Barbara Rae Randell transferred the species to Senna as Senna barclayana in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. The specific epithet (barclayana) honours Robert Barclay of Bury-hill (1751–1830).

Distribution and habitat
Senna barclayana grows in open forest southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, but its range is increasing and it is now naturalised in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.

References

barclayana
Endemic flora of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Taxa named by Robert Sweet (botanist)
Plants described in 1827