Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Manuel Cortés Quero (1906-1991), known as "The Mole of Mijas", was a Spanish politician and the last Republican mayor of Mijas (Málaga) between 3 March and 23 November 1936.

Biography 
With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he fled the municipality, to which he returned incognito on the night of 17 November 1939, beginning a long confinement in his own home that would last 30 years.

When on 28 March 1969 he heard on his radio the news that the Government had decreed the statute of limitations for crimes committed until 1 April 1939, he decided to leave his confinement. The then mayor of Mijas, Miguel González Berral, accompanied him to the Civil Guard Headquarters in Málaga, where the lieutenant colonel in command said: "You are free".

He was a founder of the local PSOE and presided over it until his death in 1991.

Tributes 
His life was reflected in the works of Manu Leguineche and Jesús Torbado ("Los topos", 1977) and Ronald Fraser ("Escondido", "In hiding: the life of Manuel Cortés", 1972).

In the Mijas House Museum a recreation of what was his house and hideout for 30 years can be visited.

In 2012, the animated documentary, 30 years of darkness by Manuel H. Martín, was released, telling the story of the "moles", among them Manuel Cortés.

In 2015, the PSOE of Mijas inaugurated a headquarters in his honor, 'La Casa del Pueblo de Mijas Pueblo: Manuel Cortes, the mole of Mijas', which is located in the central street Carril of the village environment. The inauguration, held on 7 March, was attended by hundreds of neighbors to remember his figure together with his granddaughter, María Peña.

His life served as inspiration for the directors of the 2019 film The Endless Trench.

References

External links 
 Mijas House Museum
 30 years of darkness Documentary by Manuel H. Martín. 

1906 births
1991 deaths
Alcaldes of the Second Spanish Republic
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
Mayors of places in Andalusia
Cyril St. John Stevenson (July 13, 1914 – November 6, 2006) was a Bahamian politician and newspaper publisher. 

Together with Henry Milton Taylor and William Cartwright, Stevenson co-founded the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in 1953, the first political party in the Bahamas.

Early life
Stevenson was born in Nassau, Bahamas, on July 13, 1914. He was the youngest child of Henry Macauley "Harry" Stevenson and Georgianna Louise "Lulie" Stevenson. 

His father died in 1915 when he was just fifteen months old.

Career

Early journalism career 
Stevenson began a career in journalism as a reporter for the Bahamas Weekly News.

In 1953, Stevenson, Sir Henry Milton Taylor and William Cartwright, co-founded the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). 

The following year, Stevenson became the editor and publisher of the now defunct newspaper, The Nassau Herald. At times, Stevenson used his editorial control of the Nassau Guardian to promote the views and candidates of his PLP party.

Political career 
In 1956, Stevenson was elected to the Bahamas House of Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, from the Andros and the Berry Islands constituency. 

He joined the "Magnificent Six," a group of six MPs who formed the first opposition block in the Bahamas parliament. The group of six PLP parliamentary members consisted of Stevenson, Randol Fawkes, Lynden Pindling, Milo Butler, Sammy Isaacs, and Clarence Bain. 

Stevenson was re-elected to the Assembly in the 1962 election, again representing portions of Andros Island and the Berry Islands. He lost his re-election in 1967, when he ran as an independent candidate and left the PLP. He retired from politics after his 1967 electoral defeat.

Later years 
Stevenson became head of the Bahamas Information Services, a government department, in 1970. He gave control of his printing business to family members that same year to focus on his work with the Bahamas Information Services. He remained head of the Bahamas Information Services until his retirement in 1985.

Legacy and awards 
Stevenson was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1975. 

He received an award for contributions to journalism by The Bahamas Press Club in 1999. 

In 2000, Jones Communication Limited named Stevenson as a member of the 100 Most Outstanding Bahamians of the 20th Century.

Death 
Cyril Stevenson died on November 6, 2006, at the age of 92. 

He was survived by his wife of 47 years, June Ellen Stevenson (née Maplethorpe), and five children. 

A state funeral was held at the Christ Church Cathedral in Nassau on November 16, 2006.

References

1914 births
2006 deaths
Members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas
Progressive Liberal Party politicians
Bahamian businesspeople
Bahamian newspaper editors
Bahamian journalists
Bahamian newspaper publishers (people)
People from Nassau, Bahamas
20th-century businesspeople
20th-century journalists
20th-century Bahamian politicians
Iceland's Bell () is a historical novel by Nobel prize-winning Icelandic author Halldór Kiljan Laxness. It was published in three parts: Iceland's Bell (1943), The Bright Jewel or The Fair Maiden (1944) and Fire in Copenhagen (1946). The novel takes place in the 18th century, mostly in Iceland and Denmark. Like many of Laxness's works, the story paints a tragic and ironic picture of the terrible state of the Icelandic populace in the 18th century.

Plot summary

Part 1 – Iceland's Bell
The first part tells the story of the farmer Jón Hreggviðsson and his battle with the Icelandic authorities. Jón is sentenced to death for the murder of an executioner, an official of the King of Denmark, but manages to flee from Iceland to Denmark, where he hopes to get an interview with the King to persuade him to grant a pardon.

Part 2 – The Bright Jewel or The Fair Maiden
Snæfríður Íslandssól (lit. "Snow-Beautiful Iceland's-Sun") is the protagonist in the second part. She is in love with a collector of manuscripts named Arnas Arnaeus but is married to a drunkard. This character is based on an actual historical figure, Thordis Jónsdóttir, who was the daughter of the bishop of Hólar and was widely considered at the time to be the most beautiful woman in southern Iceland. Her husband, squire Magnús Sigurðsson, was wealthy and well-fed, as well as a violent alcoholic.

Part 3 – Fire in Copenhagen
The third part is about Arnas Arnaeus the manuscript-collector and the fate of his collection in Copenhagen. In the end, Arnas does not marry the woman of his heart, Snæfríður, but stays with his rich Danish wife who financed his life's work.

Background
The character Arnas Arnæus is based on Árni Magnússon, an Icelandic scholar who collected and preserved a great deal of medieval manuscripts. The Icelandic painter Jóhannes Kjarval depicts the "cutting down the bell" scene from Íslandsklukkan in a painting of the same title that currently hangs in the Kjarvalstadir museum, in Reykjavík.

1943 Icelandic novels
Historical novels
Novels by Halldór Laxness
Novels set in Iceland
Novels set in Denmark
Novels set in the 18th century
Icelandic-language novels
The International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR) is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering European culture and history for the 16th and 17th centuries. Its geographical scope extends outside Europe by including publications on European interactions with the wider world. Chronologically, it extends beyond the Renaissance through the inclusion of modern hermeneutics and reception studies.

The database currently comprises over 355,000 records on every aspect of the Renaissance humanist period. Annually, about 20.000 records are added. Publications in English, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Japanese are eligible for inclusion.

Between 1965 and 2013, the Bibliographie internationale de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance was coordinated and published by Librairie Droz in Geneva, Switzerland. Brepols Publishers of Turnhout, Belgium, acquired the rights to the bibliography in 2013 and has since developed it into an online database.

References 

Bibliographic databases and indexes
Neuilly-le-Brignon () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

It is a small village near Descartes, Le Grand-Pressigny, and Abilly.

History 
The village of Neuilly-le-Brignon is mentioned for the first time by Gregory of Tours in the sixth century under the name of Noviliacus vicus and Nobiliacensis pagus. Later versions of the name can be found in references to Parochia de Nuilleis (1195), Nuillé (1234) and Nuilleius (18th century), but from the 15th to the 19th centuries it was most often called Neuillé or Neuilly le Noble, despite receiving its current name in 1793 at the height of the French Revolution.

The church of Saint Saturnin was founded circa 550 by Saint Bauld, the bishop of Tours. The presence of walls of small stonework show that some of the building dates to at least the 11th century. The doorway dates from the 12th century with its typical four orders decorated with flowers, helices, nail heads and a torus decorated with a zig-zag pattern.

Population

See also
Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department

References

Communes of Indre-et-Loire
Lukini () is a small settlement in the City Municipality of Koper in the Littoral region of Slovenia close to the Croatian border.

References

External links

Lukini on Geopedia

Populated places in the City Municipality of Koper
The Sporting District was an area near 16th and Harney Streets in Omaha, Nebraska where city boss Tom Dennison kept the majority of his gambling, drinking and prostitution interests from the late 19th century until the end of his reign in 1933. "Cowboy" James Dahlman was reputedly voted to the first of eight terms as mayor of Omaha because he was more tolerant of the Dennison's "Sporting District" in the middle of the city.

The term sporting was a common 19th-century euphemism for gambling and/or prostitution. Many communities around the U.S. used this term; brothels were often referred to as sporting houses.

History
The Burnt District had been Omaha's red-light district in the late 19th century.  The area was located east of Creighton University from Douglas Street six blocks north to Cass Street and from the Missouri River west to Sixteenth Street. The district was closed down around the turn of the century, and business transferred to the Sporting District.

It has been estimated that there were over 100 "houses of questionable character" in 1910. In 1918 the Health Commissioner reported that there were at least 1,600 prostitutes working in the area.

Establishments
There were a variety of venues inside the district. They included the Gayety Theatre, located at 1514 Harney Street, which was a notorious burlesque house that civic organizations protested. The theatre was opened in 1906 as the Burwood Theatre and the name was changed to the Gayety Theatre in 1908. It continued to operate until 1928. Tom Dennison kept his primary office at the Budweiser Saloon in the Sporting District at 1409 Douglas Street, the site of the current Union Pacific Center. The saloon was owned by William E. Nesselhous, one of Dennison's key lieutenants.

Anna Wilson ran a 25-room brothel in a mansion at 915 Douglas Street during this period, along with Dan Allen's gambling house, saloon and pawn shop. Mae Hogan ran a brothel on the corner of 16th and Jackson, and Ada and Minna Everleigh had a brothel at 12th and Jackson before moving to Chicago to open the Everleigh Club.

Another establishment in the Sporting District was the Diamond Gambling House located at 1312 Douglas Street. The "Big Four" Omaha gamblers of 1887, Charles Bibbins, H.B. Kennedy, Charles White and Jack Morrison operated the facility until 1893, when it was closed by the City.

See also
 History of Omaha
 Culture in Omaha
 San Antonio Sporting District
 Storyville

References

Bibliography

External links
 Historic postcard of the Gayety Theatre.

Historic districts in Omaha, Nebraska
Historical red-light districts in the United States
Crime in Omaha, Nebraska
 
History of Downtown Omaha, Nebraska
In Search of Marco Polo is a Croatian documentary TV miniseries written and directed by Miro Branković.

Synopsis
 
By filming on the actual locations traversed by Marco Polo, the In Search of Marco Polo TV series brings to life the authenticity of the local peoples from the standpoints of ethnology, historiography, culture and economics. It follows the exact route depicted in his book, Il Milione, documenting the peoples, customs and cultures along the way to bring into sharp relief the cultural differences within the Asian mainland.

Viewers are introduced to their development, becoming familiar with three completely different and, to us, relatively unknown spheres of civilisation and religion—Arabic Islam, Indian Hinduism and Oriental Buddhism. The host takes us through regions and cultures that may seem exotic—and, at times, dreamlike—in our search for the evidence of Marco Polo's passage. Interviews with common folk bring to light amazing facts and tales of unfamiliar customs, beliefs, crafts, attitudes and value systems that have developed in Asia over the millennia. The series' depiction of these faraway lands is based on contrast. Magnificent edifices like temples or palaces are juxtaposed with the details from a masterfully crafted vase. The war tactics of the Mongolian army, the greatest military force of its time, are contrasted with the life of today's Mongols in their quaint yurts. The closed Burma (Myanmar) is compared with the opening of China. Each episode forms a whole connected by the thread of Marco Polo, with the entire miniseries linking not only Polo's travels, but the world's largest circles of civilisation (European, Arabic, Indian and Oriental).

Finally, the series explores the sensations of wonder and magic, which have changed little in the seven centuries since Marco Polo's time.

Awards
 Winner, Best Croatian Film, Zagreb Tourfilm Festival, 2013
 Winner, Best documentary Film, Zagreb Tourfilm festival 2013
 Winner, Best Cinematography, Zagreb Tourfilm festival 2013
 Discography Award Porin in the category for the Best album of original music for theatre, film and /or TV, Zagreb 2013
 Best Film Winner, Tourfilm festival Karlovy Vary 2013.
 Golden Award Winner in the category of Culture & Traditions, International Tourism Film Festival in Baku 2013
 Best festival film, ITF'CRO-Solin 2013
 Second Award, Art Film Festival Telč 2014.
 Special Mention, East Coast of Europe, Veliko Tarnovo, 2014.
 Award "Silver Winner" in the category "History and Civilisation", Cannes Corporate Media and TV Awards 2014 
 Jury Award, for the affirmation of values religious and cultural heritage, Jahorina Film Festival 2014 
 Award for Best film for Television, Documentarts festival, Bucharest 2014

References

External links 

HRT o 10. nagradi serijalu u Češkoj (in Croatian)
HRT o Porinom nagrađenoj glazbi iz serijala (in Croatian)
Music from the TV series on YouTube

Croatian television series
Films shot in Croatia
Films shot in Italy
Films shot in Afghanistan
Films shot in Turkey
Films shot in Israel
Films shot in China
Films shot in Vietnam
Eric Halladay (9 July 1930 – 19 July 1997) was a British historian, academic, and rowing coach. He was Master of Grey College, Durham from 1980 to 1989, Rector of St Aidan's College, Durham from 1990 to 1991, and Principal of St Chad's College, Durham from 1991 to 1994.

Early life
Halladay was born in Huddersfield on 9 July 1930 and was the son of a vicar. He was educated at Durham School, where he learnt to row on the River Wear. He studied history at St John's College, Cambridge and was a member of the Lady Margaret Boat Club. Following his graduation from the University of Cambridge, he studied theology at Ripon Hall, Oxford, for one year.

Career

Military service
On 14 February 1949, as part of National Service, he was granted an emergency commission in the Royal Regiment of Artillery with the rank of second lieutenant. He served with the 5th Royal Horse Artillery. On 21 December 1951, he was transferred to the Supplementary Reserve officers and granted seniority in the rank of second lieutenant from 4 August 1950. On 7 June 1952, he was promoted to acting lieutenant. He was promoted to lieutenant on 9 July 1953 with seniority from 7 July 1952. On 22 July 1958, he was transferred to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers.

Academic career
Halladay began his academic career not as a lecturer but a teacher. He taught history at Exeter School, a private school in Exeter, Devon. In 1960, he was appointed a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. While his main duties at the academy were to teach the officer cadets military history, he also coached the Boat Club.

He joined Durham University in 1964 as a lecturer in history. He specialised in military and African history. The same year, he was appointed senior tutor of Grey College, Durham. He co-wrote The Building of Modern Africa with D. D. Rooney which was published in 1966. He was appointed Vice-Master of Grey in 1967, therefore deputising to the then Master Sidney Holgate. In 1972, his book The Emergent Continent: Africa in the Nineteenth Century was published. In 1980, he became the second Master of Grey College. As the head of college, he became a part-time lecturer. He then moved colleges, and served as Principal of St Chad's College, Durham from 1991 to 1994.

Rowing coach
In 1963, Halladay coached a team from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to win the Ladies' Challenge Plate. This was the first Henley Royal Regatta he would win.

References

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

1930 births
1997 deaths
Academics of Durham University
Masters of Grey College, Durham
Principals of St Chad's College, Durham
People educated at Durham School
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Royal Artillery officers
Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
20th-century British historians
Stewards of Henley Royal Regatta
Schoolteachers from Devon
People from Huddersfield
The Finance Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It supports the House of Lords Commission on considering the expenditure on services based on the Estimate for the House of Lords.

As of January 2023, the members of the committee are as follows:

See also 
 List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament

References

Committees of the House of Lords
State Route 515 (SR 515) is a  four-lane C-shaped state highway in the northern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. It uses a blue state route designation because it is part of the Appalachian Development Highway System. It begins just west of Nelson. It curves to the northeast to Lake Chatuge, where it heads north to the North Carolina state line. The highway was built to give motorists in the north Georgia mountains better access to Atlanta and its outlying suburbs, as opposed to the old SR 5 and U.S. Route 76 (US 76) highways, which this project replaced. 

SR 515 is also known as the Zell Miller Mountain Parkway, in honor of Zell Miller, elected as Georgia governor and U.S. senator. It is one of the Georgia Department of Transportation's Governor's Road Improvement Program (GRIP) corridors. The highway is known for mountain views all along its route. SR 515 is part of the Appalachian Development Highway System's Corridor A, and is known as the "APD Highway." The highway was designated in 1989.

Route description

SR 515 begins just west of Nelson and just north of the Cherokee-Pickens County line, at the convergence of the northern terminus of Interstate 575, SR 5, the northern terminus of SR 5 Business, and the northern terminus of SR 372. It is concurrent with SR 5 from its southern terminus to Blue Ridge. It is also concurrent with US 76 from East Ellijay to a point between Young Harris and Hiawassee. It maintains a fairly strict south-north routing from its southern terminus to Blue Ridge and then becomes a due east-west route for the remainder of its length.

SR 515 is a significant route for the north Georgia mountains, funneling tourist traffic and serving as a growth corridor. SR 515 sees an Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) of more than 10,000 vehicles south of Blue Ridge, and at least 5,000 on the entirety of the route.

The entire length of SR 515, including the concurrent sections, is part of the National Highway System, a system of routes determined to be the most important for the nation's economy, mobility and defense.

History

The road that would eventually become numbered as SR 515 was established at least by 1919 along nearly the same alignment as it travels today. At the time, it was numbered as SR 5 from Nelson to Ellijay, SR 2 and possibly 5 from Ellijay to Blue Ridge, and SR 2 from Blue Ridge to the Young Harris area. The entire route was paved by this time. In 1989, SR 515 was signed along its entire length.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

515
Transportation in Pickens County, Georgia
Transportation in Gilmer County, Georgia
Transportation in Fannin County, Georgia
Transportation in Union County, Georgia
Transportation in Towns County, Georgia
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest
Appalachian Development Highway System
Kaiser Wilhelm Tower or Emperor William Tower is the name of various observation towers, mostly in Germany, which are given that name, although some of them also have alternative names:

Extant Kaiser Wilhelm towers in Germany:
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Bad Schmiedeberg), on the Schöne Aussicht in the Düben Heath, Bad Schmiedeberg, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Eutin), on the Wilhelmshöhe by the Kellersee lake, Fissau (Eutin), Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Herne), water tower and observation tower on the Beimberg,  Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Hohe Acht), on the Hohe Acht in the  Eifel, near Adenau, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, in the Black Forest on the Hohloh, near Gernsbach, Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg – see Hohloh Tower
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Holzminden), in Holzminden, Holzminden, Lower Saxony
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, auf den Lahnbergen in Marburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse – see Spiegelslust Tower
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Neugattersleben), in the Schloss Park at Neugattersleben (Nienburg (Saale)), Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt
 Kaiser Wilhelm II Tower, on the Sackpfeife, near Hatzfeld, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Hesse
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Schläferskopf), in the Taunus on the Schläferskopf, Wiesbaden-Klarenthal, Hesse
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, in the Harz on the Armeleuteberg, near Wernigerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt – see Kaiser Tower (Wernigerode)

Non-preserved Kaiser Wilhelm towers:
 Kaiser Wilhelm I Tower, on the Carlsberg in Danzig-Oliva, Poland
 Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Essen), in Stoppenberg, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
 Kaiser Wilhelm I Tower, in Silesian Meffersdorf, today Pobiedna, Poland

Kaiser Wilhelm towers that have since been renamed or rededicated:
 Fuchsturm (Gera), on the Fuchsberg in Debschwitz, Gera, Thuringia
 Grunewald Tower, on the Karlsberg in Berlin-Grunewald
 Österberg Tower, on the Österberg in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg
 Wilhelm Raabe Tower, in the Harz on the Eichenberg, near Blankenburg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt
 Wolfert Tower, in the  Wolfertanlage in Ehingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg

See also
 Kaiser tower
 Emperor William monument

Monuments and memorials in Germany
Fiona Smith may refer to:

Fiona Lesley Smith (born 1973), Canadian Olympic women's ice hockey player
Fiona Smith (badminton) (born 1963), English badminton medalist
Fiona Smith (whipcracker), Australian whipcracking champion
Lucius Tarquinius may refer to:
Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus