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Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by American science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp. It was published in hardcover in August 2002 by the Gale Group as part of its Five Star Speculative Fiction Series.

The book contains short works of fiction by the author spanning much of his writing career, having originally been published from 1939 to 1993. It also contains an introduction by Harry Turtledove.

Contents
"Introduction" by Harry Turtledove
"Aristotle and the Gun"
"The Gnarly Man"
"A Gun for Dinosaur" (a Reginald Rivers time travel story)
"The Honeymoon Dragon" (a Reginald Rivers time travel story)
"The Mislaid Mastodon" (a Reginald Rivers time travel story)
"Nothing in the Rules"
"Two Yards of Dragon" (a Eudoric Dambertson fantasy)

Reception
Don D'Ammassa wrote that the collection "includes some of his best stories," particularly the title story and "The Gnarly Man," noting that while all "are quite finely told ... none are the equal of the first two."

Roland Green called it a "high-quality volume" of "vintage short pieces," singling out "A Gun for Dinosaur," "The Gnarly Man," "Two Yards of Dragon," the title story, and "one of the classics of sf/fantasy humor, 'Nothing in the Rules,'" for particular mention. He also praised the introduction by Harry Turtledove, "who is the closest thing to a still-writing de Camp," as "match[ing] the stories in outstanding merit." Assessing the collection's worth for libraries, he advised them to "[c]onsider this a necessary acquisition wherever all these stories aren't otherwise and for sure in the collection. And let there be more and more of their fellows, until all the de Camps' many well-chosen words are 
again available."

Guy Soffer characterized the book as "a very nice presentation of L. Sprague de Camp's style, which blends fantasy and science fiction," and its stories as "fairly short, very readable and mostly also very funny." In his survey of the stories, he commended the irony in "The Gnarly Man," the humor in "Nothing in the Rules" and "Two Yards of Dragon," and finds the Reginald Rivers stories "fascinating." Overall, he felt de Camp "manages to paint a believable picture and wrap it up in a scientifically conceivable way," and recommended it "as light reading, suitable for readers of all ages."

Tom Easton, recalling the author as "always one of my favorite SF&F writers," urged de Camp's "many fans [to] get a copy," and predicted it should set any "not already a fan ... to looking for such gems as The Incomplete Enchanter, Lest Darkness Fall, and more." He called the title story "a classic exposition of the time-travel paradox," and assessed "A Gun for Dinosaur" as a classic as well.

Notes

2002 short story collections
Cengage books
Science fiction short story collections by L. Sprague de Camp
Systole  may refer to:

Systole (medicine), a term describing the contraction of the heart
Systolic array, a term used in computer architecture
Systolic geometry, a term used in mathematics
In mathematics, Systoles of surfaces are systolic inequalities for curves on surfaces
 Also see Introduction to systolic geometry
Dictyodes is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.

Species
D. dictyodes (Wiedemann, 1830)
D. platensis Steyskal, 1956

References

Sciomyzidae
Sciomyzoidea genera
Francesco Carlo Boffo (Cyrillic: Франц Карлович Боффо;  8 September 1796 – Cherson, 10 November 1867) was a Neoclassical architect who designed more than 30 buildings in Odesa between 1818 and 1861, including the famous Potemkin Stairs.

Boffo was probably born in 1796 in Sardinia (maybe in Orosei, but in 1790)  and he was apprenticed to an architect in Ticino. He then joined the University of Turin before entering the service of the Potocki noble family in Poland. He served as Odesa's chief architect between 1822 and 1844. His patrons included Count Michael Vorontsov and his wife, Elisabeth Branicka. Boffo was responsible for transforming Odesa into the open-air museum of Neoclassical architecture, rivalling St. Petersburg in the north of Imperial Russia.

The Potocki Palace (his authorship being disputed), Shidlovsky, and Vorontsov Palaces in Odesa were built to his designs, as was the Czarnomski Palace near Bershad (1817). The latter is famed for its uncanny resemblance to the White House. The Potemkin Stairs, Boffo's most ambitious undertaking, was modeled on the earlier Depaldo Stairs, designed by him for the town of Taganrog in 1823. It was Boffo who conceived a 22-metre memorial column for the Kagul battlefield. He also built the Londonska Hotel building in 1826–28 as a private residence. The architect died in 1867 and he was buried in Odesa.

References

1796 births
1867 deaths
19th-century Italian architects
Neoclassical architects
Architects from Odesa
Architects from Sardinia
Italian expatriates in Russia
People from Ticino
Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Turin
The Eternal Mother is a lost 1920 American silent melodrama film directed by Will S. Davis and starring stage veteran Florence Reed.

Penultimate film directed by Davis before his death in 1920.

Cast
Florence Reed as Laura West
Lionel Atwill as Howard Hollister
Gareth Hughes as Stephen Rhodes
Jere Austin
Robert Broderick

References

External links

 

1920 films
American silent feature films
Films directed by Will S. Davis
Lost American drama films
American black-and-white films
1920 drama films
Silent American drama films
Melodrama films
1920 lost films
1920s American films
Sir John Butler (1511/14 – 1576), of Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, was an English politician.

He was the eldest son of Sir Philip Butler.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire for 1532–33 and 1539–40 and elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Hertfordshire in October 1553.

References

 

1510s births
1576 deaths
People from Watton-at-Stone
Members of the Parliament of England for Hertfordshire
English MPs 1553 (Mary I)
High Sheriffs of Essex
High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire
Bashir (, ) is a village in Iraq, located south of Kirkuk. It is populated by Shia Turkmens.

The village was captured by ISIL in June 2014. It was recaptured by Iraqi forces on 1 May 2016.

References

Populated places in Kirkuk Governorate
District capitals of Iraq
Turkmen communities in Iraq
Martine Le Moignan MBE (born 28 October 1962, Guernsey, Channel Islands) is an English former professional squash player, who was one of the game's leading players in the 1980s and early-1990s. In international competition, she represented England.

Le Moignan won the World Open in 1989, defeating Susan Devoy of New Zealand in the final 4–9, 9–4, 10–8, 10–8. She was also runner-up at the World Open in 1990, and runner-up at the British Open in 1985, 1989 and 1992. Le Moignan won four consecutive World Team Championships from 1985-1990.

Le Moignan was coached by Reg Harbour at the beginning of her career. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours for services to squash.

World Open

Finals: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

World Team Championships

Finals: 6 (4 titles, 2 runner-up)

British Open

Finals: 3 (0 title, 3 runners-up)

References

External links
 

English female squash players

Guernsey squash players
Guernsey sportswomen
Members of the Order of the British Empire
1962 births
Living people
Castle High School may refer to:

 United Kingdom
Castle High School (Belfast) in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Castle High School (Dudley) in Dudley, England

 United States
John H. Castle High School in Newburgh, Indiana
James B. Castle High School in Kaneohe, Hawaii

See also
Castle Hill High School in Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Castle Hill High School, Offerton in Stockport, England, United Kingdom
Mearns Castle High School in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Gaunt (died 23 October 1685) was an English woman sentenced to death for treason after having been convicted for involvement in the Rye House Plot. She was the last woman executed for a political crime in England.

Gaunt was an Anabaptist shop-keeper in London. She and her husband William lived in the parish of St Mary, Whitechapel. They were involved in Whig politics. She was the daughter of Anthony Fothergill of Brownber, Ravenstonedale, and was well known to give shelter to persecuted people, such as victims of religious and political oppression. According to Bishop Burnet, she spent "her life in acts of charity, visiting the gaols and looking after the poor of what persuasion soever they were". She helped one of the participants of the failed Rye House Plot of 1683, James Burton, to escape to Amsterdam. After his arrest in 1685, Burton implicated her as an accomplice in the hope of saving his life. She was in fact not involved in the conspiracy and the trial against her was seen as a show trial. David Hume wrote, "He received a pardon as a recompense for his treachery and she was burnt alive for her charity." She was sentenced to death for treason in the Old Bailey on 19 October 1685.

Gaunt considered the trial to be a martyrdom and reportedly behaved with such good humour that the audience was moved to tears. She was executed by burning, and, as she was denied strangulation, she was literally burned alive. William Penn witnessed the execution and reported that she "died with a constancy, even to a cheerfulness, that struck all that saw it."

References 

 http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/burning.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20120425060634/http://www.thegloriousrevolution.org/docs/elizabethgaunt.htm

Year of birth unknown
1685 deaths
People of the Rye House Plot
Executed British people
People convicted of treason against England
People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning
Executed English women
English Anabaptists
Executed people from Cumbria
17th-century English businesswomen
17th-century English businesspeople
Giovanni Marghinotti (7 January 1798, Cagliari - 20 January 1865, Cagliari) was an Italian painter in the Neoclassical style.

Biography
His father Vincenzo was a craftsman, originally from Trapani, who worked hard to provide his four sons with professional educations. His brothers became a Jesuit priest, an engineer, and a lawyer. He was launched on an artistic career when his talent was noticed by , the second Marquis of Villahermosa. Through the Marquis' influence, he obtained a Royal Patent that enabled him to attend the French Academy in Rome, beginning in 1819. His primary instructor there was Jean-Baptiste Wicar. He also studied with Gaspare Landi. 

He married Felicita Puccini, from Ferentino, in 1825. Four years later, he had his first exhibition, in Turin. That same year, he received his first major commission: a huge allegorical canvas of King Charles Felix of Sardinia as a protector of the arts, for the Town Hall in Cagliari. In 1834, he decided to return to his home town and open a studio. Over the next decade, he received numerous commissions from royal and ecclesiastical authorities, which included large canvases for the cathedral there, as well as ones in Ozieri, Sassari and Oristano. 

In 1842, he was appointed an honorary member of the Accademia Albertina in Turin. Two years later, he was named a "Virtuoso of Merit" at the Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon in Rome and, in 1845, became a court painter for King Charles Albert. The following year, he was awarded a chair in drawing at the Albertina, which led him to live in Turin for ten years. There, he made contacts with the Spanish Royal Court and, in 1852, was named a Knight in the Order of Charles III.

A reorganization at the Albertina led to his retirement from there in 1856. Due to the possibility of armed conflict with Austria, he decided to return to Cagliari and reestablish his old contacts. This was not a popular decision with his family, as his son Angelo was about to begin a career as a painter in Turin. Attempts to create Cagliari's first painting and drawing school were unsuccessful, but he became a popular portrait painter for the nobility. He died there, shortly after his sixty-seventh birthday.

Selected paintings

References

Further reading 
 G. Dore, Giovanni Marghinotti nel Museo Sanna. Esposizione delle opere nel bicentenario della nascita (1798-1998), exhibition catalog, Muros 1998
 Claudio Galleri, Giovanni Marghinotti a Cagliari, exhibition catalog, Comune de Cagliari, Assessorato alla cultura,  1999

External links 

1798 births
1865 deaths
People from Cagliari
19th-century Italian painters
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Ichi the Killer, which was adapted into a live-action film by Takashi Miike in 2001, and Homunculus.

Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and the human mind.

Biography
Hideo Yamamoto received the "Tetsuya Chiba Award", given to promising young manga creators in 1988. After resigning from the post of assistant of a popular seinen manga artist, Kenshi Hirokane, he made his professional debut by drawing SHEEP (written by Masahiko Takasho) for Weekly Young Sunday in 1989.

Works
 Sheep, 1989
 Okama Report, 1989–1991 
 Voyeur (Nozokiya), 1992
 Another One Bites The Dust (illustrated by Koshiba Tetsuya)
 Voyeurs, Inc. (Shin Nozokiya), 1993–1997
 Ichi the Killer, 1998–2001
 Homunculus, 2003–2011
 Yume Onna, 2013 (illustrated by Hiroya Oku)
 Hikari-Man, 2014–2020
 Adam and Eve, 2015–2016 (illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami)

References

External links
 Hideo Yamamoto in Media Arts Database 
 

1968 births
Living people
Manga artists from Saitama Prefecture
People from Tokorozawa, Saitama
Beigo (Baygo, Baigo, Bego, Beko, Béogé, Beygo) is an extinct East Sudanic language once spoken in Sudan by the Baygo people, numbering some 850 in the late twentieth century. Similar to Darfur Daju, it is classified as part of the Western Daju family of languages.

Bibliography
 Inventaire des etudes linguistiques sur les pays d'Afrique noire d'expression francaise et sur Madagascar,  Daniel Barreteau 1978 
 Sudan notes and records, Volume 21, The Sudan Philosophical Society
 A Thesaurus of African Languages: A Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa: with an Appendix on Their Written Representation, Mann and Danby, January 1987,  Hans Zell Publishers,

References

Daju languages
Extinct languages of Africa
Mahmood Sabzi, professionally known as Sabzi, is an Iranian artist known for his abstract impressionist paintings.

Sabzi was born in Ahvaz, Iran. He began painting when he was twelve years old, but eventually earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering at the University of Jundi Shapur.

Initially, Sabzi made realistic paintings inspired by his country's history and culture. He went to exile during the regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, settling in Germany and the United States. During this period, he experimented with figurative and abstract styles.  He eventually settled in southern California.  Each of his moves was reflected in changes in his style to reflect changes in his environment.

Inspiration 
According to Sabzi, he draws inspiration from the Persian rugs created by his mother.
My artistic inspiration, the very basis of form and color for my work, comes from my childhood memories of Persian rugs designed and weaned by my mother. As I watched her for hours creating gorgeous patterns, hues and textures, her fingers dancing across the loom, the designs and shapes of my current work took form. My creations flow from the same source of energy and creativity that inspired my mother.

Sabzi's painting style is influenced by the Modernist works of Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, as well as by the poet Rumi. Majority of his works feature women in various moods and poses, implying internal conflict.

References

Further reading

External links 
 Online gallery of Sabzi's paintings

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Ahvaz
Iranian painters
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Dock Sud is a town of Avellaneda Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It forms part of the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires.

The area is characterized by its predominantly working-class background, with many of its inhabitants pertaining to diverse immigrant communities. Dock Sud is home to the bulk of Argentina's Cape Verdean community.

Sport
The area is home to Club Sportivo Dock Sud a football team playing in the lower leagues of Argentine football. Former Argentina national football team captain Javier Zanetti grew up in Dock Sud.

Neighbourhoods
The oldest and most important neighborhood in Dock Sud is Isla Maciel, which is home to Club Atlético San Telmo. The Nicolás Avellaneda housing complex, started in 1973 by President Héctor Cámpora, is the second most important, and is located on the eastern side of the Buenos Aires-La Plata Freeway. Dock Sud, a predominantly working-class district, has in recent decades been afflicted with some of the nation's highest crime rates.

References

External links
 Welcome to Dock Sud

Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Avellaneda Partido
Cities in Argentina
The 1980–81 Superliga Espanola de Hockey Hielo season was the ninth season of the Superliga Espanola de Hockey Hielo, the top level of ice hockey in Spain. Eight teams participated in the league, and CH Casco Viejo Bilbao won the championship.

Final round

Relegation

External links
Season on hockeyarchives.info

Spain
Liga Nacional de Hockey Hielo seasons
Liga
Nene Sakite I (died in 1892 in Odumase Krobo) was the second Konor, or paramount chief, of the Manya Krobo and reigned 1867 until his death in 1892. He was succeeded by Emmanuel Mate Kole who ruled Manya Krobo from 1892 until his death in 1939.

He was born in Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

References 

19th-century monarchs in Africa
Ga-Adangbe people
Year of birth unknown
Date of birth unknown
Date of death unknown
1892 deaths
Edward Wilcox was an American politician who was Lieutenant governor of Rhode Island from 1817 to 1821. He briefly served as governor of Rhode Island following the resignation of Nehemiah R. Knight on January 9, 1821, until his successor took office on May 2, 1821.

References

Rhode Island Democratic-Republicans
Governors of Rhode Island
Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States
19th-century American politicians
Jim Gutterson (1 July 1939 – 18 July 2008) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Gutterson, a fullback, came from Chelsea originally and made a total of seven appearances for Footscray in the 1961 and 1962 VFL seasons. He won the reserves best and fairest award, the Gardiner Medal, in 1962.

He also played for three Victorian Football Association clubs, Moorabbin, Brighton-Caulfield and Prahran.

References

1939 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Western Bulldogs players
Moorabbin Football Club players
Brighton Football Club players
Prahran Football Club players
Chelsea Football Club (Australia) players
2008 deaths
LeCrone is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Emery LeCrone (born 1986), American dancer and choreographer
 Megan LeCrone, American ballet dancer
Desaturation may refer to:
 In pulse oximetry, the condition of a low blood oxygen concentration
 Reduction of colorfulness in image processing
 Conversion of a saturated compound into an unsaturated compound by a removal of two hydrogen molecules and the creation of a double bond
Astrakiano Gorge () is a gorge near Heraklion, Crete.

Etymology
The gorge gets its name from the village of Astraki (el).

Location
Astrakiano gorge is part of a larger geological complex known as the Juktas ecopark. It starts near the village of Peza and runs for about  towards the north and parallel to Kounaviano gorge. The two gorges meet at Kaki Rachi near the village of Skalani (el), forming the Karteros gorge. Astrakiano gorge can be entered at various locations along its length, i.e. Peza, Kato Astraki, Agies Paraskies, Aitania. Karteros river flows through the gorge.

Features
Astrakiano gorge has lush vegetation that includes plane trees, willows, kermes oaks and fig trees. Certain of its parts are not well signed and difficult to cross due to vegetation. Near the abandoned village of Kato Astraki, the gorge is spanned by a stone arch bridge known as Astrakiani Kamara (Αστρακιανή Καμάρα), built in the early 20th century. The Neraidospilios (Νεραϊδόσπηλιος) cave and a small pond is within a short distance. Around 10 watermills operated along the gorge before WW II; they are all abandoned today.

External links
Kounaviano gorge from archanes-asterousia.gr
Astrakiano gorge from cretanbeaches.com

References

Landforms of Heraklion (regional unit)
Gorges of Crete
Tourist attractions in Crete
Betty Moschhona (; 7 March 1927 in Patras – 6 December 2006 in Athens) was a Greek actress.

She received her first role in 1952 with Mimis Kokkinis' company and participated in inspected with different comical roles (Vlachos, Kritikos, Nevrikia, Gria, Methysmeni). She employed between others including the Kalouta sisters, Orestis Makris, Sofia Vebo, Rena Dor, Al. Livaditis, Kouli Stoligka and the husband of Takis Miliadis. In 1966 and 1967, she became the company head of Rena Vlachopoulou and Vasilis Avlonitis in a repertoire always with the company in the comedy community. In 1968 and 1969, she had an artistic member of the company Asoi tou geliou at the Vebo Theatre.

After 1970, Moschona acted with Lambros Konstantaras, Kostas Karras, Mary Chronopoulou, Nikos Rizos, Rena Vlachopoulou, Aliki Vougiouklaki (in Efthymi chira). For some years, she remained at Kostas Voutsas's company. The swan song ballad at the theater from 1998 until 1999 in the Hal Salguin comedy at the Apothiki Theater (Theatre).

She also played in films including Peripterou as well as television including Epta kaka tis moiras mou with Giorgos Konstantinou, in Axiotimos kyrious and in Madame Soussou.

She was awarded with the theatrical Ta Panathinaia for her roles at the theatre.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

External links

Biography at Helkin 
Biography at hellenica 

1927 births
2006 deaths
Greek actresses
Actors from Patras
The 26th Gran Premio di Roma (Rome Grand Prix), was the fourth round of the 1984 European Championship for F2 Drivers. This was held at the Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi, to the north of Rome, on 13 May.

Report

Entry
A total of 25 F2 cars were entered for the event, but come qualifying the field was down to just 17 cars.

Qualifying
Mike Thackwell took pole position for Ralt Racing Ltd, in their Ralt-Honda RH6, averaging a speed of 108.969 mph.

Race
The race was held over 65 laps of the Vallelunga circuit. Mike Thackwell took the winner spoils for works Ralt team, driving their Ralt-Honda RH6. The Kiwi won in a time of 1hr 15:59.41mins., averaging a speed of 102.049 mph. Second place went to the other works Ralt of, Roberto Moreno.  The podium was completed by the PMC Motorsport / BS Automotive March of Christian Danner.

Classification

Race Result

 Fastest lap: Mike Thackwell, 1:07.38secs. (106.236 mph)

References

Rome
Rome
Rome Grand Prix
Lisa Elliott is a female former gymnast who competed for England.

Gymnastics career
Elliott represented England and won a bronze medal in the team event, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.

References

British female artistic gymnasts
Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
Gymnasts at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games