Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
The Best In The Desert (BITD) Racing Association is an American desert off-road racing association, based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Casey Folks, and is currently owned by his sons Daryl and Bryan Folks. BITD runs the Vegas To Reno, the longest off-road race in the United States.

Events

 2023 season

Vegas to Reno: The flagship event of the series.
Silver State 300
Laughlin Desert Classic
UTV Legends Championship (motorcycles, quads and UTVs only)

 Former

Mint 400 (2012-2019)
Parker 425 (cars and trucks only): The event began in 1971 as a NORRA event. SCORE International sanctioned the event until 1998. Whiplash Motorsports held the event until BITD began sanctioning it in 2003. The 2008 had over 300 entrants. The 2023 edition was cancelled, and BITD dropped its sanctioning for the 2024 edition.
Parker 250 (motorcycles, quads and UTVs only)
Bluewater Desert Challenge
Henderson 250
Battle Born 200
Adelanto Grand Prix (motorcycles only)
World Hare & Hound Championship (motorcycles, quads and UTVs only)

Media
Events are nationally televised on MavTV, its website, and the America One Sports Network.

Divisions

Best In The Desert has classes of Trick Trucks (aka Trophy Truck), buggies, motorcycles, Quads. Various events have different classes of racing vehicles.

Notable drivers
Steve Olliges
Robby Gordon
Mike Groff
Robbie Groff
Rod Hall
Rob MacCachren

References

External links
Official website

Off-road racing series
Auto racing organizations in the United States
Diocese of Požega may refer to:

 Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Požega, former diocese (eparchy) of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in Slavonia (Croatia).
 Roman Catholic Diocese of Požega, current diocese of the Catholic Church, in central Slavonia (Croatia).

See also
Požega
Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia
Catholic Church in Croatia
Diocese of Zagreb (disambiguation)
Diocese of Zadar (disambiguation)
Diocese of Šibenik (disambiguation)
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education () is a Bangladesh government Directorate under the Ministry of Education responsible for improving education standards and access to education. The Director General of the Directorate is Nehal Ahmed.

History
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education traces its origins to the Directorate of Public Instruction, which was formed following the Wood's despatch in 1854. The government of Bangladesh converted the Directorate of Public Instruction to the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education in 1981. The Directorate is responsible for 29569 educational institutes in Bangladesh.

References

1981 establishments in Bangladesh
Organisations based in Dhaka
Government agencies of Bangladesh
Government directorates of Bangladesh
Whale's Voyage is a 1993 role-playing game developed by an Austrian company Neo Software and published by Flair Software. The game was programmed by Hannes Seifert and Niki Laber.

Plot 
The player is a space traveler who becomes stranded in space after making a bad deal purchasing the spacecraft "Whale". Left orbiting a remote planet, they must use trade and skill to upgrade the ship enough to escape.

Reception 
Amiga Format praised the title, despite describing it as huge, complicated, and daunting, and thought it lacked the depth and immersion of space adventures like BAT 2. Amiga Power thought the game offered CD32 owners something to play other than pinballers and platformers. Amiga Joker thought the game was a successful debut, and congratulated the Austrian video gaming industry. CU Amiga thought the game did not inspire confidence in the Austrian games market. Amiga Dream gave it a score of 85%.

In 1994, the game was voted by readers as #2 Best RPG in 1993 in the Amiga Joker magazine.

Legacy 
A sequel was released in 1995 entitled Whale's Voyage II: Die Übermacht. While never originally released in English, the sequel was unofficially translated into the language in 2018.

References

External links 
Whale's Voyage at Lemon Amiga
Whale's Voyage at Amiga Hall of Light
Reviews listed at Kultboy

Role-playing video games
Rockstar Vienna games
Amiga CD32 games
Amiga games
1993 video games
Video games developed in Austria
Flair Software games
Imperial Navy may refer to:

Navies

In Asia
 Imperial Chinese Navy 1875–1912
 Imperial Japanese Navy 1868–1945
 Manchukuo Imperial Navy 1932–1939
 Imperial Iranian Navy 1932–1979

In Europe
 Austro-Hungarian Navy 1867–1918
 Imperial German Navy 1872–1918
 Ottoman Empire Navy 1323-1922
 Imperial Russian Navy 1696–1917

Elsewhere
 Imperial Brazilian Navy 1822–1889

Arts and entertainment
 Imperial Navy (film), a 1981 Japanese film
 Imperial Navy (Star Wars), a fictional force

See also
Imperial Army (disambiguation)
Royal Navy (disambiguation)
August Henry Rodenberg (July 25, 1873 – April 12, 1933) was an American tug of war athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in St. Louis, Missouri. In the 1904 Olympics he won a silver medal as a member of Southwest Turnverein of Saint Louis No. 1 team.

References

External links
profile

1873 births
1933 deaths
Sportspeople from St. Louis
Olympic tug of war competitors for the United States
Tug of war competitors at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in tug of war
Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Albert McDonald Cole (October 13, 1901 – June 5, 1994) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Born in Moberly, Missouri, Cole moved to Topeka, Kansas, in 1909. He attended the grade schools of Topeka, Kansas, Sabetha (Kansas) High School, and Washburn University, in Topeka. He earned his J.D. at University of Chicago Law School in 1925. He was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced practice in Holton, Kansas.

Cole served as county attorney of Jackson County 1927-1931. He served as member and president of the Holton School Board 1931-1943. He served as member of the Kansas Senate 1941-1945.

 
Cole was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1953).  He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress. He then served as administrator for the Housing and Home Finance Agency, (now the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development) Washington, D.C., from March 1953 to January 1959. He was vice president of Reynolds Aluminum Service Corp. from 1959 to 1961, and president, Reynolds Metals Development Corp. from 1961 to 1967, and director from 1967 to 1970. Afterwards, Cole practiced law in Washington, D.C., from 1967 to 1990.

Cole was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death there on June 5, 1994, at the age of 92.

References

External links
Albert McDonald Cole entry at The Political Graveyard
 
 

1901 births
1994 deaths
Kansas lawyers
Kansas state senators
People from Holton, Kansas
People from Moberly, Missouri
Politicians from Topeka, Kansas
University of Chicago Law School alumni
Washburn University alumni
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas
Articles containing video clips
20th-century American lawyers
Washington, D.C., Republicans
20th-century American politicians
Irene Charalambidou (; born 19 March 1964) is a Cypriot journalist and politician. In 2011, she was elected MP in the Nicosia constituency with AKEL, being re-elected in 2016.

Early life and education
Irene Charalambidou was born in Limassol on 19 March 1964. 

She studied Psychology at the University of Nicosia and journalism at the Mediterranean College in Athens.

Career

Journalism
She worked as a journalist at the newspaper "The Games", in "Eleftherotypia" and collaborated with the newspaper "Kiryka". She was the director of public relations of the "Louis" Tourism Organization. She has worked for many years on Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, presenting one of the most popular shows of the time, "Pleasant Saturday Night". She also worked for the television of "Logos" and "ANT1 Cyprus". During the period 2005-2011 she was responsible for the research, journalistic supervision and presentation of the TV broadcasting policy of RIK "We Discuss It". The President of the Republic of Cyprus, Demetris Christofias, made the first presidential report on this show in December 2008.

Author
In 2007, she published her first book titled What We Talked and in January 2011, the second book, The White Pages of the Cyprus issue on the political analysis of events of the contemporary political history of the Cyprus. The presentation of the book was made by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Dimitris Christofias.

Politics
In 2011, is elected a member of the electoral district of Nicosia with AKEL. She is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Institutions, Securities and Administration, the House Standing Committee on the Development and Control of Public Expenditure and the Parliamentary Committee on Health. On May 22, 2016, she is re-elected to Nicosia with AKEL. She is ranked first in crosses of preference and this makes her the first female Member who succeeds in national elections to be elected with most crosses of preference pancyprian. With the new legislature, she is Deputy Chairwoman of the House Standing Committee on the Development and Control of Public Expenditure, and a member of the Institutions, Securities and Administration, Health and Human Rights Committees.

Personal life
She is married to Andros Papapavlou and has two sons.

References

1964 births
Living people
People from Limassol
Cypriot women writers
Cypriot journalists
Cypriot women journalists
21st-century Cypriot women politicians
21st-century Cypriot politicians
Progressive Party of Working People politicians
Members of the House of Representatives (Cyprus)
Cypriot women television presenters
University of Nicosia alumni
Hans-Jörg Voigt (born Dresden, East Germany, 7 June 1962) is a German Lutheran bishop. He is the bishop of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany and the chairman of the International Lutheran Council. Bishop Voigt is married to Christiane and they have four children.

Religious career
He studied Theology in Leipzig, Berlin and Oberursel. His vicarage was in Cottbus at Holy Cross Lutheran Church between 1989-1991. He witnessed at this time the reunification of Germany. He was ordained a Lutheran minister on 15 December 1991 in Cottbus. His parish was in St. Otto von Bamberg Lutheran Church in Greifswald from 1991 to 2006. Voigt was superintendent (regional bishop) of the Berlin-Brandenburg church district from 2003 to 2006. On 11 February 2006, the synod of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church elected him as bishop. The installation divine service was in St. John's Church on 24 June 2006 in Hannover. Since 20 September 2012 Bishop Voigt has been the regular chairman of the International Lutheran Council.

Bishop Voigt works in the editorial of the monthly magazine Lutheran Church.

References

External links
 About Bischop Voigt - german
 Video Installation service Bishop Voigt

1962 births
Living people
People from Dresden
People from Bezirk Dresden
21st-century German Lutheran bishops
Dennis Thomas Kirby (September 15, 1835 – April 18, 1922) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.

Brevet Brigadier General Dennis T. Kirby was born in Niagara County, New York, September 15, 1837, and moved with his parents to Buffalo, New York, in 1847, and to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1854.

He entered the service as captain, Company E, Eighth, Missouri Volunteer Infantry, June 25, 1861. He served in Missouri and Kentucky to February 1862. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel August 3, 1863.

He was mustered out with the regiment July 7, 1864, and then commissioned colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor W. P. Hall, of Missouri, and colonel of Fifth Regiment St. Louis City Guard, October 1, 1864. He was then commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-Seventh Missouri Volunteer Infantry, October 6, 1864, and at once detailed as chief picket officer of the Seventeenth Army Corps, on the staff of Major General [Frank P. Blair], commanding.

He was on the March to the Sea November 16 to December 13. He was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from November 13, 1863; and present at the surrender of General Joseph Johnston, and in the grand review at Washington.

He was appointed captain of Company E, Thirty-Ninth United States Infantry, July 28, 1866, and brevetted major for gallant conduct at Chickasaw Bayou, lieutenant-colonel for gallant conduct in the assaults on Vicksburg, and colonel, United States Army for gallant and meritorious conduct at Chickamauga Creek, Georgia, Mission Ridge, Tennessee, and Bivers Bridge, South Carolina. He served in the regular army until the fall of 1868, when his services ended. He then resided in Washington, D. C.

He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism during the Siege of Vicksburg, while serving as a major of the 8th Missouri Infantry. His Medal of Honor was issued on January 31, 1894.

Kirby died on April 18, 1922, and was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia.

Medal of Honor citation

References

External links

Profile of Kirby 

1835 births
1922 deaths
American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
People from Niagara Falls, New York
Union Army officers
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
The 2018 Uber Cup qualification process is a series of tournaments organised by the five BWF confederations to decide 14 of the 16 teams which will play in the 2018 Uber Cup, with Thailand qualifying automatically as hosts, and China qualifying automatically as trophy holder.

Qualified teams

Qualification process
The number of teams participating in the final tournament are 16. Even though the qualification process began in February 2018, the allocation of slots for each confederation was similar to the allocation in 2016 tournament.

Summary of qualification

Note
Badminton Asia total includes +1 for Thailand as hosts, and China as trophy holders.
Various is the top three of the ranking qualification.

Confederation qualification

Badminton Confederation of Africa

The qualification for the African teams was held from 12 to 15 February 2018, at the Hacène Harcha Arena in Algiers, Algeria. The winners of the African qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup.

Teams in contention
Teams qualified for the Group stage

First round (group stage)

Second round (knockout stage)

Badminton Asia

The qualification for the Asian teams was held from 6 to 11 February 2018, at the Stadium Sultan Abdul Halim in Alor Setar, Malaysia. The semi-finalist of the Asian qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup. Thailand qualifying automatically as hosts, and China qualifying automatically as trophy holder.

Teams in contention
Teams qualified for the Group stage

 (qualified)
 

 
 
 

 (qualified)

First round (group stage)

Second round (knockout stage)

Badminton Europe

The qualification for the European teams was held from 13 to 18 February 2018, at the Kazan Gymnastics Centre in Kazan, Russia. The semi-finalist of the European qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup.

Teams in contention
Teams qualified for the Group stage

First round (group stage)

Ranking of runners-up

Second round (knockout stage)

Badminton Pan Am

The qualification for the Pan American teams will held from 15 to 18 February 2018, at the National Racket Centre in Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago. The winner of the Pan American qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup.

Teams in contention
Teams qualified for the Group stage

First round (group stage)

Second round (knockout stage)

Badminton Oceania

The qualification for the Oceanian teams was held from 6 to 7 February 2018, at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium in Hamilton, New Zealand. The winner of the Oceania qualification will qualified for the Uber Cup.

Teams in contention

Round-robin

World team rankings 
Below is the chart of the BWF World Team Ranking calculated by adding World Ranking of top three Women's Singles players and top two Women's Doubles pairs on 22 February 2018.

References

qualification
Skadi Walter (born 18 April 1964) is a German speed skater. She competed in the women's 500 metres at the 1984 Winter Olympics. Her daughter is the speed skater Bianca Walter.

References

External links
 

1964 births
Living people
German female speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters for East Germany
Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Halle (Saale)
The 2014–15 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball team represented the University of Louisiana at Lafayette during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Ragin' Cajuns were led by third-year head coach Garry Brodhead and played all their home games at the Cajundome with the a select few (mainly during the Women's Basketball Invitational) at the Earl K. Long Gymnasium, which is located on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus. They were members in the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 23-12, 10–10 in Sun Belt play to finish in sixth place. They advanced to the semifinal game of the Sun Belt women's tournament where they lost to Arkansas State by the score of 61-63. They competed in the Women's Basketball Invitational and went to the championship game, winning by the score of 52-50 against the Siena Saints

Previous season 
The Ragin' Cajuns finished the 2013–14 season 14-16, 7-11 in Sun Belt play to finish in a two-way tie for seventh place in the conference. They made it to the 2014 Sun Belt Conference women's basketball tournament, losing in the first round game by the score of 61-67 to the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. They were not invited to any other postseason tournament.

Roster

Schedule and results

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See also
 2014–15 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball team

References

Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball seasons
Louisiana-Lafayette
Louisiana-Lafayette
Women's Basketball Invitational championship seasons
Louisiana
Louisiana
Loxosceles palma is a species of venomous recluse spider in the family Sicariidae. It is native to Baja California, Mexico. The species name palma comes from the Latin word for palm, and was named as such after the palm canyons in both California, and Baja California.

L. palma mainly inhabits deep canyons, such as the San Jacinto Mountains, in California. They tend to hide under rocks.

References 

Sicariidae
Spiders described in 1980
The Duggan-Cronin Gallery, which is a satellite of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, houses in part the legacy in photographs and ethnographic artefacts of the photographer Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin. It occupies a former dwelling known as The Lodge. Built in 1889, to a design by the architect Sydney Stent, The Lodge was the residence of John Blades Currey, manager of the London & S.A. Exploration Co. De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd acquired the extensive property of the London & S.A. Exploration Co  in 1899, including The Lodge, which continued to be used as a residence.

Duggan-Cronin
In the late 1930s De Beers made The Lodge available to A.M. Duggan-Cronin to establish what he called (progressively, at the time) the 'Bantu Gallery'.  Exhibits were arranged by tribe in the various rooms of the house. These were re-arranged in the 1980s to incorporate a more strongly historical narrative, while more concerted work on the Duggan-Cronin collections resulted in a much more substantial display reconfiguration in the early 2000s.

References

Buildings and structures in Kimberley, Northern Cape
Anthropology museums
Ethnographic museums in Africa
Biographical museums in South Africa
Art museums and galleries in South Africa
Photography museums and galleries
South African photography organisations
The Franklin Academy & Prattsburgh Central School (PCS) is a school located in Prattsburgh, New York for grades pre-K–12.

Public elementary schools in New York (state)
Public high schools in New York (state)
Public middle schools in New York (state)
Schools in Steuben County, New York
Emad Bouanane (born 1984) is a French footballer. Originally signed by manager Brian Flynn to play as a left back for Wrexham Football Club, Emad Bouanane quickly became a favourite amongst the Wrexham supporters.

After leaving Wrexham 
Having been released from the Red Dragons in the summer of 2001 due to financial problems, Emad went on to have a failed trial at another football league side, Swindon Town F.C. He spent a year living in Birmingham before signing for fifth-tier French club SC Abbeville. He scored on his début in a 2-0 victory against AC Cambrai.

References

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=22026
http://www.redpassion.co.uk/oldsite/issue28/emad.htm
http://www.redpassion.co.uk/oldsite/news/news2607c.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/986720.stm

1984 births
Living people
French men's footballers
US Avranches players
Wrexham A.F.C. players
SC Abbeville players
Men's association football defenders
Jagoli Baba Mandir is one of the oldest temples in Champawat District in Uttarakhand State of India. 

The Oli dynasty worships here with their fourteen generation. The Kharwal Saheb priest since 8th generation. In the past whole Goshni, Tarsoun, Faraka with the adjacent of Simal Khet are worshiping here. 

In the 19th century this place is second center of freedom struggle after Almora. Lal Bhadur Shastri, Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant, Hargobind Pant, Badridutt Pandey, Madan Mohan Upadhyay assembled here. The most important person, who lived here was Swami Satyadev Paribrajhak.

References

Champawat district

Hindu temples in Uttarakhand
The Mackay Base Hospital is the major hospital for the Central Queensland Region situated in Mackay, Queensland, Australia. It is located around  from Mackay city centre. The Hospital offers general services to a population of approximately 135 000 throughout Mackay and the surrounding areas including referrals from Moranbah and parts of the Bowen region. The Hospital has a wide range of medical and allied health services. The main referral hospitals are the Townsville Hospital ( away) and the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital ( away).

Redevelopment
In 2010-2014 the Mackay Base Hospital underwent a A$405 million redevelopment. The hospital redevelopment included increasing bed numbers from 163 to 318, adding more operating theatres, a dedicated Coronary Care Unit, a larger Intensive Care Unit, new emergency and outpatients' departments, renal support services, day oncology and a dental services unit, support services building and major services infrastructure, as well as an upgraded helipad and Carpark.
Woods Bagot, in association with Sanders Turner Ellick Architects of Mackay, is the architect, and Baulderstone is the managing contractor.
The first major area, Mental Health Inpatient Unit, was completed in August 2012. Following the completion of the new buildings the old hospital was demolished.

See also
 List of hospitals in Queensland
 List of hospitals in Australia

References

Hospitals in Queensland
Hospital buildings completed in 2012
Buildings and structures in Mackay, Queensland
Plant quarantine is a technique for ensuring disease- and pest-free plants, whereby a plant is isolated while tests are performed to detect the presence of a problem.

Administration

United States
In the U.S., the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) retains the plant quarantine function, although the agency’s border-inspection function was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by P.L. 107-296.

References 
 

Agriculture
Quarantine
Phytopathology
Pest control