Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira was first published in 2000. Chris Andrews’ English translation was published by New Directions in 2006.

Summary
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter simultaneously navigates the territories of history, philosophy, and fantasy to offer less a biography of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858) than a surreal account of his journeys through Latin America.   At the prompting of explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, Rugendas travels to Argentina, Chile, and Mexico to paint their landscapes with a sense of what Humboldt calls "physiognomic totality," an understanding of each work as a portrait of the environment as a whole.  In Argentina, Rugendas' adventure into the Pampas almost costs him his life when he is struck by lightning while riding his horse and then dragged through the Pampas as his horse flees.  This leaves him horribly disfigured.  As Rugendas struggles to recover physically he now sees the landscape with an altered vision.  Aira's themes include the persistence of the artist and the sustaining power of his will to continue painting.

Reception

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter has been hailed as "thrilling" (The New York Sun) and "utterly astonishing" (San Francisco Chronicle), a "memorable performance...whose tone and oddly compelling vision are distinctly [Aira's] own" (Los Angeles Times).  In his San Francisco Chronicle review, critic Ilan Stavans places this work alongside that of Roberto Bolaño as a modern Latin American novel likely to endure beyond its present moment.

External links
"Latin Americans Still Tweaking the Novel," by Ilan Stavans, San Francisco Chronicle, July 16, 2006.
"An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter," by Carlos Amantea.
"César Aira," by Maria Moreno, Issue 106 Winter .
"An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter" at Complete Review. Includes links to many reviews.

References

1. "Latin Americans Still Tweaking the Novel."  San Francisco Chronicle. July 16, 2006.  <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/16/RVGVPJQP0T1.DTL>.

2000 novels
Spanish novels
Novels about artists
Novels set in South America
Novels set in the 19th century
Sümeyye Boz (born 1985) is an anthropologist, former municipality worker and a politician of the Green Left Party (YSP). Since June 2023, she is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Mus for the YSP.

Early life and education 
She was born in 1985 and graduated from the Cumhurryet University in Sivas in anthropology and followed up on her studies at the same university taking on studies in social science. In September 2015 she was employed at the Municipality of Ipekyolu, Van as a training coordinator for women's affairs. As such, she was involved in a training course in memory of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. She was dismissed following a trustee replaced the elected mayor. In 2019, she was the director of youth and sports also in the Municipality of Ipekyolu, but she was dismissed again after the Mayor was replaced with a trustee.

Political career 
During her election campaign she focused on the agricultural development of Mus. In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, she was elected into the Grand Assembly of Turkey representing Mus for the (YSP).

References 

Living people
1985 births
Turkish anthropologists
Members of the 28th Parliament of Turkey
21st-century Turkish women politicians
See also 2008 in birding and ornithology, main events of 2009 and 2010 in birding and ornithology
The year 2009 in birding and ornithology.

Worldwide

New species

See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s

Taxonomic developments

Ornithologists

Deaths
Bob Scott
David Snow
Donald Trounson
Eric Simms
Geoff Moon
Ian Rowley
James Allen Keast
Kenneth E. Stager
Mitchell Durno Murray
Ravi Sankaran
Richard Zann
S. A. Hussain
William H. Behle

World listing

Europe

Britain

Breeding birds
 A Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) originally ringed on 17 May 1957 at Bardsley Bird Observatory has bred each summer on the island ever since.

Migrant and wintering birds
 Britain's largest flock of whiskered terns (Chlidonias hybridus) (eleven) at Willington Gravel Quarry, Derbyshire on 24 April. Eight remained on 25 April and the flock scattered to other midland and north-east sites over the next few days.

Rare birds
 Britain's second brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) from 8–10 May on Fair Isle.

Other events
 The Ringing Scheme celebrate its centenary, on 17 May, with 36 million birds ringed so far.

Ireland

Rare birds

Scandinavia
 Iceland's third bufflehead, a male at Dynjandi from February to April.

North America
To be completed

References

External links
  British Trust for Ornithology Bird Ringing Scheme

Birding and ornithology
Bird
Birding and ornithology by year
The Gardiner Pond Shell Midden (also known as RI-101W) is a prehistoric archaeological site in Middletown, Rhode Island, named after George Gardiner who was an early settler in the area.  The site includes a large shell midden, in which archaeological finds have been made dating the area's human habitation to the Middle and Late Woodland Period.  Finds at the site include agricultural tools such as hoes, planting tools, and stone mortars and pestles.  The midden is on the grounds of the Norman Bird Sanctuary.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Shell middens in the United States
Middletown, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island
George Henry Sauer Jr. (November 10, 1943 – May 7, 2013) was an American football wide receiver who played six seasons for the American Football League (AFL)'s New York Jets, and later played in the World Football League (WFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns. His father, George Henry Sauer Sr., played for the Green Bay Packers from 1935 through 1937.

Biography
Sauer played college football for the Texas Longhorns as a wide receiver. He was a member of the undefeated 1963 Longhorns, and of the 1964 Longhorns that defeated previously unbeaten Alabama in the 1965 Orange Bowl. After being teammates at Texas, Sauer and quarterback Jim Hudson continued as teammates for the New York Jets for five seasons, 1965 through 1969. Sauer led the American Football League (AFL) in receptions in the 1967 season. In 1968, he started and caught eight passes for the Jets in the third AFL-NFL World Championship Game, helping defeat the NFL's heavily favored Baltimore Colts. His eight receptions and 133 yards led all receivers in that game.

Sauer retired at the peak of his career following the 1970 NFL season because he considered professional football dehumanizing.  In a 1971 interview with the Institute for the Study of Sport and Society, Sauer said, "When you get to the college and professional levels, the coaches still treat you as an adolescent.  They know damn well that you were never given a chance to become responsible or self-disciplined. Even in the pros, you were told when to go to bed, when to turn your lights off, when to wake up, when to eat and what to eat. You even have to live and eat together like you were in a boys’ camp."  Sauer's father, on the subject of his son's retirement, stated, "He definitely does not like to be regimented."

In spite of his disillusionment about playing professional football, Sauer returned to play for the New York Stars of the World Football League in 1974. That season, Sauer caught 38 passes for 547 yards, good for 14.4 yards per catch and three touchdowns.

After retiring, Sauer pursued writing and completed a novel. He also coached a minor league football team in the late 1970s.  As of 1994, the same year as his father's death, Sauer was a textbook graphics specialist living in Saint Paul, Minnesota.  He died on May 7, 2013, in Westerville, Ohio, of congestive heart failure, having suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

See also
 List of American Football League players

References

1943 births
2013 deaths
American football wide receivers
Charlotte Hornets (WFL) players
New York Stars players
New York Jets players
Texas Longhorns football players
American Football League All-League players
American Football League All-Star players
Sportspeople from Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Players of American football from Wisconsin
American Football League players
Waco High School alumni
Hartshead Moor Top is a hamlet in the county of West Yorkshire, England, halfway between Brighouse and Cleckheaton on the A643. It is close to the Hartshead Moor services on the M62 motorway. In 1974 the service station was near the scene of a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack on a coach carrying soldiers and their children, killing twelve. There is a plaque in the entrance to the west-bound section commemorating those who died.

Governance
Hartsead Moor Top is a hamlet in the Cleckheaton ward of Kirklees, a metropolitan borough within the ceremonial county of West Yorkshire in England. It was originally in the parish of Clifton, but was transferred to Spenborough Urban District in 1937.

Geography
Hartshead Moor Top neighbours Scholes to the north, Cleckheaton to the north east, Hartshead Moor Side to the east, Hightown/Liversedge to the south east, Hartshead Moor services to the south and Clifton to the south west. Hartshead Moor services on the M62 is in the neighbouring metropolitan county of Calderdale.

Sport
Hartshead Moor Cricket Club, established in 1876, is based on Highmoor Lane.

Willow Valley Golf is the home of the Yorkshire P.G.A Championship and voted to be amongst the best new courses in the British Isles. This golf course has 36 holes.

References

External links

Villages in West Yorkshire
Artists from Genoa were influential during the 17th century. Many painters emigrated to either Venice, Florence, or Rome. Prominent stimuli to the local artists were prolonged visits to the town of artists from Spain and countries north of Italy, including Velázquez, Van Dyck, and Pierre Puget.

17th century
Bernardo Strozzi (1581–1644)
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664) 
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639–1709)
Giovanni Battista Carlone (1653–1655)
Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749) 
Domenico Fiasella (1589–1669)
Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585)
Pierre Puget (1622–1694) 
Valerio Castello (1624–1659)
Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari (1598–1669)
Orazio De Ferrari (1606–1657)
Gregorio De Ferrari (c. 1647–1726)
Lorenzo De Ferrari (1680–1744)
Valerio Castello (1625–1659)
Bartolomeo Biscaino (1632–1657)
Giulio Benso (1592–1668) 
Domenico Piola (1627–1703)
Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo (1584–1638)
Gioacchino Assereto (1600–1649)
Francesco Maria Schiaffino
Filippo Parodi
Giuseppe Badaracco (1588–1657)
Giovanni Raffaello Badaracco (1648–1726)
Giovanni Stefano Verdura
Carlo Antonio Tavella (1668–1738)
Giuseppe Palmieri (1674–1740)

See also 
 Genoese School

References

School of Genoa
Painters from Genoa
This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the US state of Washington.

Bridges

See also
List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Washington (state)

References

List
List
Washington (state)
Bridges, HAER
Bridges, HAER
The Rylands Haggadah is an illuminated Sephardi Passover Haggadah written and illuminated in Catalonia, Spain in the mid-14th century. It is generally regarded as one of the finest preserved and most ornate Haggadot in the world, and as an example of the "cross-fertilisation between Jewish and non-Jewish artists within the medium of manuscript illumination."

Description 
The Rylands Haggadah is an illuminated Passover Haggadah of the Sephardi rite dated to the mid-14th century, and produced in a style attributable to Catalonia, Spain. It contains piyyutim (liturgical poems) meant to be recited during Passover week and the Sabbath before Passover, as well as marginal commentary and a number full-page paintings. The illustrated cycle extends from the beginning of the Book of Exodus to the Passover sacrifice. The Biblical cycle is unconventionally followed by an illustration of a Passover seder.

The manuscript measures 28 centimetres (11 in) long by 23 centimetres (9 in) wide.

Provenance and history 
As is the case with the majority of Sephardi Haggadah of that period, the manuscript's provenance is shrouded in mystery. The identities of the patron, scribes, compilers, and illuminators who produced the work remain unknown. In 1901, the book was sold by James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall, to Enriqueta Rylands. It was later bequeathed to The John Rylands Library.

Conservator Steve Mooney spent eight months restoring and conserving the manuscript, and it is now fully digitised.

From March to September 2012, Rylands Haggadah was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Illustrations 
The Haggadah contains thirteen full-page miniatures with a cycle of biblical illustrations, ending in a panel of four scenes representing the Passover celebration, as well as eleven illustrations of the text set in the margins. These illustrations include:

 The Burning Bush and the Miraculous Staff of Moses (right); The Healing of Moses's Arm, the Return to Egypt, and Zipporah Circumcising Her Son (left)
 The Miraculous Staff of Aaron and the Plague of Blood (right); The Plagues of Frogs and of Lice (left)
 The Rylands Haggadah: The Plagues of Wild Beasts and of Cattle Disease (right); The Plagues of Boils and of Hail (left)
 The Rylands Haggadah: The Plagues of Locusts and of Darkness (right); The Death of the Firstborn and the Looting of Treasures (left)
 The Rylands Haggadah: The Israelites Leaving Egypt and the Pharaoh's Pursuing Army (right); The Crossing of the Red Sea (left) 
 The Preparation of the Paschal Lamb and the Marking of the Door (above); The Celebration of the Seder (below)

Gallery

References

External links 

 Digitized manuscript

Haggadah of Pesach
Jewish manuscripts
Jewish prayer and ritual texts
Sergio Segura García (born 7 July 1995) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Internacional de Madrid as an attacking midfielder.

Club career
Born in Leganés, Madrid, Arribas represented Real Madrid and CD Leganés as a youth. He made his senior debut with the latter's reserves in 2014, in the regional leagues.

On 21 December 2016 Arribas made his first team debut, coming on as a late substitute for Darwin Machís in a 1–2 away loss against Valencia CF for the season's Copa del Rey. He made his La Liga debut on 17 April 2018, replacing José Naranjo in a 1–2 loss against Villarreal CF.

References

External links
Leganés profile 

1995 births
Living people
People from Leganés
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from the Community of Madrid
Men's association football midfielders
La Liga players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
CD Leganés B players
CD Leganés players
CD Paracuellos Antamira players
Internacional de Madrid players
Jaime Vilamajó (born 27 November 1959) is a former Spanish racing cyclist. He rode in twelve Grand Tours between 1981 and 1989.

Major results

1982
1st Stage 4 Tour of the Basque Country
3rd Clasica de Sabiñánigo
8th Overall Vuelta a España
1983
1st Stage 2 Vuelta a los Valles Mineros
8th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
1984
2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
10th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
1st Stage 1
1986
1st Stage 4 Vuelta a los Valles Mineros 
3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
10th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
1987
1st Stage 22 Vuelta a España
1988
1st Stage 4a Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme

References

External links

1959 births
Living people
Spanish male cyclists
People from Tàrrega
Sportspeople from the Province of Lleida
Cyclists from Catalonia
20th-century Spanish people
A substantive dye or direct dye is a dye that adheres to its substrate, typically a textile, by non-ionic forces.

Overview 
The amount of this attraction is known as "substantivity": the higher the substantivity the greater the attraction of the dye for the fiber. Substantive dyes work best on textiles with high contents of cellulose, such as cotton. In contrast to direct dyes, wool and leather goods are dyed by the process of ion exchange, exploiting the cationic nature of proteins near neutral pH. The development of substantive dyes helped make mordant dyes obsolete.

Substantive dyes are set in a slightly basic or neutral environment at temperatures close to boiling point. They are set by formation of aggregates of dyes within interstices of the fibres.  Aggregation is enhanced by extended aromatic rings.

Gallery

References

Dyes
MKL/megakaryoblastic leukemia 1 (also termed MRTFA/myocardin related transcription factor A) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MKL1 gene.

Function 

The protein encoded by this gene is regulated by the actin cytoskeleton and is shuttled between the cytoplasm and the nucleus as a result of actin dynamics. In the nucleus, it coactivates the transcription factor serum response factor, a key regulator of smooth muscle cell differentiation, in an interaction mediated by its Basic domain. It is closely related to MKL2 and myocardin, with which it shares five key conserved structural domains.

Clinical significance 

This gene is involved in a specific translocation event that creates a fusion of this gene and the RNA-binding motif protein-15 gene. This translocation has been associated with acute megakaryocytic leukemia. It also functions in the process of normal megakaryocyte maturation.

Research 
Evalarted MKL1 expression is observed in breast cancer and can predict chemosensitivity and patient survival. MKL1 may be a promising biomarker of clinical value for breast cancer.

See also 
 Serum response factor

References

Further reading
Hillcroft School was a boys' secondary school in South London. In 1960, it was established in Tooting Bec, being built on playing fields of, and adjacent to, the premises of Bec School. The initial complement of pupils were drawn from Hillbrook Secondary School in Hillbrook Road, Tooting, and Estreham Secondary School in Penwortham Road, Streatham (housed in the same building as Penwortham Primary School). Hillbrook and Estreham then closed.

The school closed when it was amalgamated with Bec School in 1971 to create Bec-Hillcroft Comprehensive School. Bec-Hillcroft was renamed Ernest Bevin School, after the former Labour minister Ernest Bevin, in the next year. In 1996, the school was renamed to Ernest Bevin College. It is now known as Ernest Bevin Academy.

History

Following its establishment, Hillcroft School enjoyed a substantial amount of academic success and supported a large sixth form, especially during the years of 1966 through 1970. A considerable number of boys achieved good O- and A-Level results, with many going on success at University, the Civil Service, and the professions. The school had a substantial prefect system which was considered helpful in advancing pupils' maturity.

The school was organised into four houses, each of about 250 boys: Churchill, Faraday, Shaftesbury, and Wellington. The school enjoyed a certain distinction at sports, with activities including five-a-side football, lacrosse, hockey, and swimming.

The school lacrosse team formed Hillcroft Lacrosse Club in 1971. The club is no longer formally affiliated with the school, but continues to thrive to this day, with their first team playing in the SEMLA premiership. The club now runs 4 teams, 3 men's and a women's and plays its home games at Tooting and Mitcham fc on the astroturf in front of the stadium.

From 1962 to 1971, the school was under the headmastership of John Owen, and the Senior Master was Tony Leech.

References

External links
 Ernest Bevin College website
 Hillcroft Lacrosse Club

Educational institutions established in 1960
Educational institutions disestablished in 1970
Defunct schools in the London Borough of Wandsworth
1960 establishments in England
1970 disestablishments in England
Garuda's abduction of Queen Kakati is a famous Buddhist tale about the former lives of the Buddha, called a Jataka.

In this story, the Buddha was born in a previous life as the king of Benares, and therefore was still a Bodhisattva, and ruled with his beloved queen, Kakati. The royal solar bird Garuda came to the court disguised as a man and gambled with the king. He then became enamored of the queen and abducted her. He carried her off to his nest by the Simbali-Lake and there lived with her.

When Garuda heard of the king's great sadness and of his true love for Kakati, he restored her to him.

The story is one of those related by the bird Kunala, in the kunala Jataka. The story is also very close to that of the Sussondi Jataka.

According to Buddhist mythology, the Garudas were enemies to the nāga, a race of intelligent serpents, whom they hunt.  The Garudas at one time caught the nāgas by seizing them by their heads; but the nāgas learned that by swallowing large stones, they could make themselves too heavy to be carried by the Garudas, wearing them out and killing them from exhaustion.  This secret was divulged to one of the Garudas by the ascetic Karambiya, who taught him how to seize a nāga by the tail and force him to vomit up his stone (Pandara Jātaka, J.518).

References

Jataka tales
Gautama Buddha
Mohan Kanda (born 4 September 1945) is an Indian civil servant. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1968 batch. He retired as Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh in 2005. He is working as a member of National Disaster Management Authority.

Early life
He was born in Chennai Tamil Nadu, India in a Telugu Brahmin family to the High Court judge Mr. Bheema Shankaram Kanda and Mrs. Papayamma, a prominent social reformer. He did his schooling from All Saints High School, Hyderabad and his Bachelors and Masters in Mathematics from Nizam College, Osmania University. He was awarded Ph.D in Mathematics by Osmania University for his thesis. His nephew is Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member, Sitaram Yechury.

He has acted in a few Telugu films as a child actor with the screen name "Master Mohan." They include Pelli Chesi Choodu a comedy film of 1952 directed by L. V. Prasad. He acted in the song drama Amma Noppule Ammamma Noppule.

Career
Mohan Kanda started his career with State Bank of India as an Officer. After becoming an IAS officer he began working with the Government of Andhra Pradesh. He was also Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India and served as Vice Chairman, National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA). He worked as a Secretary in the Union Ministry of Agriculture before working as Chief Secretary in Chandrababu Naidu's government and later with Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy government.

He is a member of the steering committee on Agriculture and Allied Sectors for the formulation of the 12th Five Year Plan (2012–17) for Planning commission.

He was made head of a committee that would look into the problems faced by the Coastal Andhra riots in declaring a crop holiday.

Personal life
Mohan Kanda is married to Usha. She  assumed charge as Director General, MANAGE (National Centre for Management of Agricultural Extension) with effect from 1st August 2015.

References

External links
 Official Profile
 A Report on Land Resource Management By Mohan Kanda

Indian Administrative Service officers
1945 births
Male actors from Hyderabad, India
Living people
Indian male child actors
Chief Secretaries of Andhra Pradesh
Alumni of All Saints High School, Hyderabad