Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Duchess Worldwide, Inc., doing business as Duchess, is a privately owned and operated regional casual fast food restaurant chain that operates in southwestern Connecticut. Duchess was founded in 1956 by Harold and Jack Berkowitz in Bridgeport and based in Milford, Connecticut. There are 14 locations all in the Fairfield and New Haven counties of Connecticut. The restaurants feature an eat-in dining room, take-out service, and a drive-thru.

History 
In 1956, brothers-in-law and diner owners Jack and Harold Berkowitz bought a restaurant named Maraczi's that sold hotdogs and hamburgers in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The brothers needed to put a name on the paperwork and they decided to name the restaurant after Dutchess County, New York, without the "T". After the renaming, the Duchess fast food chain began to expand operations.  Duchess has expanded to 14 locations in the Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut.

Duchess does not freeze their food and only cooks it fresh. Duchess offers more than 100 items on the menu and everything is cooked to order.

Locations 
Duchess has 13 locations and are found only in Connecticut:

Fairfield County 
 Bridgeport
 Darien
 Fairfield (2)
 Monroe
 Norwalk
 Shelton
 Stratford

New Haven County 
 Ansonia
 Milford
 Naugatuck
 Orange

Incidents 
On May 31, 1981, while responding to the report of a burglary at Duchess' Darien location, Officer Kenneth Bateman of the Darien Police Department was killed. The suspect escaped and remains at large. Bateman's murder remains the only unsolved killing of a Connecticut police officer on record. In 2015, Darien authorities offered a $100,000 reward for information about the murder.

See also 
List of fast food restaurant chains

References

External links 
 Duchess Restaurant website

Regional restaurant chains in the United States
Companies based in New Haven County, Connecticut
Restaurants in Connecticut
Milford, Connecticut
Buildings and structures in Fairfield County, Connecticut
Tourist attractions in Fairfield County, Connecticut
Restaurants established in 1956
Fast-food chains of the United States
Privately held companies based in Connecticut
1956 establishments in Connecticut
The large-eared tenrec (Geogale aurita) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Geogale, and the only member of the subfamily Geogalinae. It is endemic to Madagascar where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss, but to a lesser extent than was previously thought and is listed by the IUCN as being of "Least Concern".

Geogale is thought to have split from the ancestors of its sister clade, the subfamily Oryzorictinae, about 30 million years ago.

Description
The large-eared tenrec is a small shrew-like animal with short, soft fur, a long hairy tail and large projecting ears. Adults weigh between  and measure  in length, with a tail half as long again. The dorsal (upper) surface is greyish brown or reddish brown and the ventral (under) surface is buffish white. The large-eared tenrec differs from other tenrecs in the family by having 34 teeth instead of 36. It is also unique within the family in that females come into oestrus while they are lactating and so are able to be carrying one litter while still feeding another.

Behaviour
The large-eared tenrec feeds on insects, particularly termites which it locates by sound. It is itself preyed on by several predators including the barn owl (Tyto alba), the Madagascar owl (Asio madagascariensis), the Malagasy cat-eye snake (Madagascarophis colubrinus) and the narrow-striped mongoose (Mungotictis decemlineata).

The large-eared tenrec has a low metabolic rate and is heterothermic. This means that its body temperature fluctuates with the surrounding environment, although pregnant and lactating females may maintain a more steady, higher temperature. The animals are often torpid in the heat of the day, hiding in concealed locations such as hollow logs or holes. Reproduction has been little studied in this species, but the breeding season is between September and March. It is known that development can be arrested temporarily and the gestation period may vary between about 54 and 69 days. A litter consists of up to five blind, deaf and helpless young and these are weaned when between 21 and 33 days old, soon after their eyes have opened.

Status
The large-eared tenrec is listed by the IUCN in its Red List of Threatened Species as being of "Least Concern". The population trend is unknown and although this tenrec has been recorded in various scattered areas of Madagascar, it is a small, inconspicuous animal and is likely to also be present in intervening locations. It had been thought to be restricted to dry deciduous forest but it has now also been found in grassland and is probably more resilient to disturbed habitat than had previously been realised. Some of the areas in which it occurs are in national parks and nature reserves.

See also
Convergent evolution
List of mammals of Madagascar

References

Afrosoricida
Mammals of Madagascar
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Mammals described in 1872
Taxa named by Alfred Grandidier
Sempor () is a district of Kebumen Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. Sempor District is approximately 29 km northwest of Kebumen City. It borders Mandiraja District to the north, Karanggayam and Karanganyar Districts to the east, Gombong and Buayan Districts to the south, and Rowokele District to the west.

As of 2010, Sempor has a population of 58,418. Sempor District consists of 16 villages, 74 rukun warga, and 368 rukun tetangga. The administrative center of Sempor District is Jatinegara Village.

Geography 
Sempor District is situated inside a valley within the South Serayu Mountains. The Sempor Reservoir is located in the center of the district.

Climate 
Sempor has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with abundant rainfall year-round. It receives the most amount of precipitation in January, and the least in August. A summary of the annual temperature fluctuation and rainfall can be seen below:

Administrative divisions 
Sempor is divided into the following 16 villages:

Education 
There are a total of 50 schools spread out across all the villages under Sempor. A breakdown of the 50 schools are shown in the table below:

See also 

 Sempor Dam

References 

Districts of Central Java
Districts of Indonesia
Anodoration is a genus of South American dwarf spiders that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge in 1991.  it contains only two species: A. claviferum and A. tantillum.

See also
 List of Linyphiidae species

References

Linyphiidae genera
Spiders of Argentina
Spiders of Brazil
Max Carver (born Robert Maxwell Martensen Jr; August 1, 1988) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Preston Scavo in the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, as Aiden on the MTV teen-horror drama Teen Wolf, and in the first season of the HBO series The Leftovers; his twin brother Charlie Carver portrayed the twin of his characters in all three shows.

Early life and education

Max Carver was born in San Francisco, California, on August 1, 1988. His identical twin brother Charles was born seven minutes earlier on July 31. Before he began acting professionally, he was known as Max Martensen. His father was physician, historian, and author Robert Martensen, and his mother, Anne Carver, is a philanthropist and community activist. In 1992, Anne and her new husband Denis Sutro moved the family to Calistoga in Napa Valley. Max attended high school at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, from which he graduated in 2007. In 2012, he graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in English.

Career
His acting debut was with his brother in the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives; they played Preston and Porter Scavo, sons to Lynette Scavo and Tom Scavo. He and his brother appeared in season 3 of MTV's Teen Wolf as a pair of twin werewolves – Max played Aiden, and Charlie played Ethan. They next appeared in the first season of HBO series The Leftovers.

Carver has also acted separately from his brother. He has guest starred on shows such as The Office, Good Luck Charlie, Victorious, and Best Friends Forever. He had a cameo role in the 2014 comedy Mantervention, playing Lifeguard Joe.  He made his principal film debut in 2014 in Ask Me Anything, co-starring with Britt Robertson, Justin Long, and Martin Sheen.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Living people
American male television actors
Identical twin male actors
21st-century American male actors
Male actors from San Francisco
American twins
1988 births
Sharon Hill may refer to:

 Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
 Sharon Hill station (SEPTA Regional Rail)
 Sharon Hill station (SEPTA Route 102)
 Sharon A. Hill,  geologist, science writer and speaker
Carabus dufourii is a species of black-coloured beetle from family Carabidae that are endemic to Spain. It is "one of the most representative species of the Carabus [genus] to the south of the Iberian Peninsula".

Subspecies
The species contain only 2 subspecies which could be found on Gibraltar and in Spain:
Carabus dufourii baguenai Breuning, 1926 Spain
Carabus dufourii dufourii Dejean, 1829 Gibraltar & Spain

References

dufourii
Beetles described in 1829
Endemic fauna of Spain
Beetles of Europe
Eight Deer Jaguar Claw (), or 8 Deer for brevity, was a powerful Mixtec ruler in 11th-century Oaxaca referred to in the 15th-century deerskin manuscript Codex Zouche-Nuttall, and other Mixtec manuscripts. His surname is alternatively translated Tiger-Claw and Ocelot-Claw. John Pohl has dated his life spanning from 1063 until his assassination in 1115.

Biography
Born on the Mixtec Calendar date from which he got his name, 8 Deer was the son of the high priest of Tilantongo Lord 5 Alligator 'Sun Rain'. His mother was Lady 11 Water 'Bird Jewel'. Two of his brothers, 12 Earthquake "Bloody Jaguar" and 9 Flower "Copalball with Arrow" were his faithful war companions.

He also had a half-sister, 6 Lizard "Jade-Fan". First the fiancée and lover of 8 Deer himself, she was finally married to 8 Deer's archenemy 11 Wind "Bloody Jaguar", the king of the city "Xipe's Bundle", also known as Red and White Bundle. The lords of Xipe's Bundle had rights to the throne of Tilantongo and were therefore the most important rivals to 8 Deer's power.

Lord 8 Deer is remembered for his military expansion. The Codex Zouche-Nuttall counts 94 cities conquered during his reign. Almost always pictured wearing a jaguar helmet, he supported the powerful Toltec ruler of Cholula, Lord 4 Jaguar "Face of the Night" in his attempts at expansionism, and was thus awarded a turquoise nose ornament, a symbol of Toltec royal authority.

The codices also tell of his several marriages which seem to have been part of a political strategy to achieve dominance by marrying into different Mixtec royal lineages. He married 13 Serpent, daughter of his own stepsister and former fiancée 6 Lizard.

In 1101 8 Deer finally conquered Xipe's Bundle, killed his wife's father and his stepsister's husband 11 Wind and tortured and killed his brothers-in-law, except the youngest one by the name of 4 Wind. In 1115 4 Wind led an alliance between different Mixtec kingdoms against 8 Deer who was taken prisoner and sacrificed by 4 Wind, his own nephew and brother-in-law.

Legacy
Eight Deer was the only Mixtec king ever to unite kingdoms of the three Mixtec areas: Tilantongo in the Mixteca Alta area with Teozacualco of the Mixteca Baja area and Tututepec of the coastal Mixteca area.

His reputation as a great ruler has given him a legendary status among the Mixtecs; some aspects of his life story as it is told in the pictographic codices seem to merge with myth. Furthermore, actual knowledge of his life is hindered by the lack of complete understanding of the Mixtec codices, and although the study of the codices has advanced much over the past 20 years, it is still difficult to achieve a definitive interpretation of their narrative. The narrative, as it is currently understood, is a tragic story of a man who achieves greatness but falls victim to his own hunger for power. The above biography of 8 Deer is based on the codex's interpretation by Mixtec specialist John Pohl.

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1115 deaths
Mixtec people
1063 births
Medieval kings
Indigenous military personnel of the Americas
Executed military leaders
Executed monarchs
11th-century monarchs in North America
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LPLA may refer to:
 Lajes Field
 Lipoate—protein ligase, an enzyme
The 32nd Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1979, were presented on March 15, 1980 at the Beverly Hilton. The award honoring commercial directors was given out for the first time at this ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Film

Television

Commercials

Frank Capra Achievement Award
 Emmett Emerson

References

External links
 

Directors Guild of America Awards
1979 film awards
1979 television awards
Direct
Direct
Directors
Directors Guild of America Awards
Directors Guild of America Awards
Hewster is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

John Hewster, MP City of London (elections to the Parliament of England)
Adam Hewster, MP for Stafford (UK Parliament constituency)

See also
Fewster
Hester
The China Cultural Industry Association is an umbrella trade association and cultural institution led by Zhang Bin.

Description 
The China Cultural Industry Association is a Chinese umbrella media organisation that also works to build “the soft power of Chinese culture.”

Organisation 
The China Cultural Industry Association website states that it is an independent organisation registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The organisation is led by billionaire political strategist and business person Zhang Bin and is noted for is proximity to the Government of China.

History 
The China Cultural Industry Association website states that it was founded on Jun 29, 2013. The organisation previously operated as a media company. Established in 2003, the Liaoning Folk Art Ensemble later became the Bensham Media Company before being renamed as the China Cultural Industry Association in 2011.

From 2011, the company became very profitable as it delivered media in Northeast China.

In 2014, the association funded the erection of a statue of Norman Bethune located at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. In 2016, the association stated that it had created the Trudeau Education Fund at the Universite de Montreal. In 2023, the university was considering returning the $750,000 donation to Zhang.

In 2022, on behalf of various Chinese technology companies, the association published a fourteen-page “self-discipline initiative", a corporate self-governance model for trading in non-fungible tokens. The rules centred around transparency and discouraging anonymous trading.

References

External links 
 Official website

2013 establishments in China
Cultural organizations based in China
Cultural organizations based in Asia
Political organizations based in China
Trade associations based in China
Mass media in China
Rhapis excelsa, also known as broadleaf lady palm or bamboo palm, is a species of fan palm (Arecaceae subfamily Coryphoideae, tribe Trachycarpeae) in the genus Rhapis, probably native to southern China and Taiwan. It is not known in the wild; all known plants come from cultivated groups in China. They were first collected by the Japanese for Tokugawa shogunate palaces, then popularity spread to Europe, and later to America where its low light and humidity requirements make it a common feature in malls and offices.  The genus name is Greek - rhapis, meaning "needle"; and the species name is Latin for "tall", though R. excelsa is not the tallest in the genus.

Description
Rhapis excelsa grows up to 4 m in height and 30 mm in diameter in multi-stemmed clumps with glossy, palmate evergreen leaves divided into broad, ribbed segments. Leaf segments are single or few in young plants and increase to a dozen or more in mature plants; segments are divided to the petiole. Leaf-ends are saw-toothed unlike most other palms, occurring on slender petioles ranging from 20 to 60 cm in length.  New foliage emerges from a fibrous sheath which remains attached to the base. As the plants age, the sheaths fall, revealing the bamboo-like trunks.  This usually dioecious palm species produces a small inflorescence at the top of the plant with spirally-arranged, fleshy yellow flowers containing three petals fused at the base.  Ripe fruit are fleshy and white, though R. excelsa more readily propagates via underground rhizome offshoots.

In the UK this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

Gallery

References

Moore, H. E., Jr. (1963). An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7: 162, 180.S
Zhong Guo & Hua Jing. (1993). China Floral Encyclopaedia

External links 

PACSAO.org

excelsa
Flora of China
Maria Geznenge () (née Gusheva (); born 13 March 1977) is a retired Bulgarian tennis player.

In her career, she won one singles title and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 9 September 2002, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 190. On 15 September 2003, she peaked at No. 163 in the doubles rankings.

Playing for Bulgaria at the Fed Cup, Geznenge has a win–loss record of 5–2.

Geznenge retired from professional tennis 2006.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner–ups)

Doubles: 10 (2 titles, 8 runner–ups)

References

External links
 
 
 

1977 births
Living people
Bulgarian female tennis players
Sportspeople from Sofia
The Posavac Hound (FCI No. 154) (Croatian: posavski gonič) is a breed of dog, originating as a hunting dog of the scenthound type. Croatia is the home country for the breed. The name translates into English as the Scenthound From The Sava Valley, but is usually translated as the Posavac Hound.

Appearance 
The Posavac Hound is a solidly built dog with a somewhat long body, close-fitting drop ears, a long tail, and a gentle expression. The breed has an ideal height around 50 cm (20 ins) at the withers. The short, flat coat is slightly longer on the belly and backs of legs (feathering). Coat colour is a reddish wheaten, marked with white.

History 
There is no actual proof of great antiquity for this breed, although there is much fanciful conjecture. The type is very old, and the modern breed resembles images seen in frescoes as early as 1497. Writers cited as having mentioned the type include Bishop of Đakovo Petar Bakić in 1719 and the veterinarian Franjo Bertić, also of Đakovo, in 1859. Hounds from the Sava Valley (Posavina, south-east of Zagreb) were sold as boskini in Croatia in the 1800s. The ancestry of the dogs was documented starting in 1929, when registrations for the stud book were first taken. The breed was internationally recognised by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale in 1955, and the name was clarified in 1969. The breed has been known since then as the Posavac Hound.

The breed is recognised in North America by the United Kennel Club in the Scenthound Group, and by a number of minor registries, hunting clubs, and internet-based dog registry businesses, and is promoted as a rare breed for those seeking a unique pet.

Health and temperament 
No unusual diseases or claims of extraordinary health have been documented for this breed. The breed standard describes the ideal temperament as docile and an enthusiastic hunter.

See also
 Dogs portal
 List of dog breeds
 Istrian Shorthaired Hound
 Istrian Coarse-haired Hound

References 

FCI breeds
Scent hounds
Dog breeds originating in Croatia
Rare dog breeds
The Kulubnarti church is an archaeological site and former Christian church located on the island of Kulubnarti, in the village of Kulb in northern Sudan. The island is situated between the 2nd and 3rd cataracts of the Nile, about  southwest of Wadi Halfa, in the Batn-El-Hajar region.

History

Somers Clarke published a sketch in 1912 of the island's church, its walls made of mud bricks. It was fully excavated and recorded by the anthropologist William Yewdale Adams in 1969, and plans and elevations prepared by Friedrich Hinkel.  Adams  and Peter Grossmann date the church to the 13th or 14th century, Adams having dated pottery finds in the church to that period, and Grossman concurring with the dating on the basis of stylistic comparisons.  Greek, Coptic, and Old Nubian language graffito was incised within the church. The church paintings, described by Adams in his 2011 book, were moved to the National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum.

Architecture
The small building has an almost square  area.  It is typical in all respects of the Late Christian Church Type 4d, having a rectangular rather than an apsidal sanctuary, and eastern  corner rooms entered only from the aisles, not from the sanctuary.  At the west end there is a staircase in the southwest corner room, but no corresponding room at the northwest corner.  There was probably though not certainly a tall cupola over the center of the nave. Entrance, as in all Nubian churches, is through the north and south walls near the western end.  There are three pairs of narrow slit windows high in the eastern wall, and two widely separated slit windows in the east and west walls.  The entire building consisted of mud bricks with a single layer of rough stones at ground level.

On the interior walls, fairly well preserved remains of two layers of murals were found in the east end of the sanctuary and in both aisles, but not in the eastern corner rooms.  Recognizable designs included a Nativity, a figure of Christ Pantocrator flanked by the Disciples, an archangel, and a head of Christ within a tondo, with the symbols of the Four Living Creatures projecting from it.  The murals were conserved in 1970 and are now partly on display in the Sudan National Museum.  Otherwise the church remains largely as it was when excavated, for it is above the level of waters impounded by the Aswan High Dam.

References

Further reading
William Y. Adams, Kulubnarti I, 69-77.  Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 18, 2011.
William Y. Adams, The Churches of Nobadia, 348-50.  Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication 17, 2009.

Churches in Sudan
Nubian architecture in Sudan
Archaeological sites in Sudan