Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Thomas Price (2 December 1911 – 26 December 1997) was a motorcycle speedway rider from England. In 1949 he won the first Speedway World Championship to be held after the Second World War.

Career

Born in Cambridge, England in 1911, Price's early education was at Perse School and later, at the Cambridge and County High School.

Price started his career with the Wembley Lions during the in 1935 after only a handful of appearances for Harringay Reserves in the previous season. In 1936, he was loaned out to Cardiff White City and Nottingham. Within three years he had qualified for his first World Final.

After the war, Price rejoined the Lions and spent a further eleven seasons at the club until he retired in 1956. During that he was a member of the teams that won the National League Championship seven times, and the National Trophy twice. He won the British Riders' Championship final held at Empire Stadium on 12 September 1946, in front of 85,000 spectators.

Price was selected to ride for England in the Ashes series against Australia, but never toured overseas during the winter.

Following his retirement, Tommy opened a small engineering workshop in Wembley, North London where he was able to produce small quantities of specialist items for riders. Often these would have been economically non-viable for larger companies and Tommy was seen as a saviour by many a 'Rocker' of the day.  Speedway faced a crisis at the end of the 1963 season when Southampton closed, due to the stadium being sold for redevelopment.  Realising that the then senior National League could not continue to operate with just 6 teams, Lord Shawcross was appointed to lead an enquiry into the running of the sport.  It was decided amongst senior promoters that a seventh team was vital to the continuance of the sport at a senior level, and it was decided that West Ham was ripe for a re-opening.  After lengthy discussions and a large cash injection funded by the promoters of other National League teams, West Ham reopened after 9 years with Tommy Price at the helm as both promoter and team manager.  Price continued in the role until the end of the 1965 season when he led West Ham to a unique treble, winning the British League, the KO Cup and the London Cup.

Retirement
After retiring Price moved to Perth, Australia with his wife Margaret. He has a daughter, Melanie, and grandchildren, Simon, Felicity and Sebastian. He died on 26 December 1997 in Perth.

World final appearances

 1938 –  London, Wembley Stadium – 13th – 8pts
 1949 –  London, Wembley Stadium – Winner – 15pts
 1950 –  London, Wembley Stadium – 5th – 8pts
 1954 –  London, Wembley Stadium – 11th – 5pts

Players cigarette cards
Price is listed as number 37 of 50 in the 1930s Player's cigarette card collection.

References

Further reading 
Tommy Price's Speedway Mixture: Illustrated fact and fiction annual, 1950, Atomic P

1911 births
1997 deaths
British speedway riders
English motorcycle racers
Individual Speedway World Champions
Wembley Lions riders
Nottingham speedway riders
Sportspeople from Cambridge
People educated at The Perse School
English emigrants to Australia
The San Jose State Spartans baseball team represents San José State University in NCAA Division I college baseball as a member of the Mountain West Conference.

San Jose State fielded its first baseball team in 1890, although the current SJSU baseball media guide only provides records dating back to 1911. The team plays its home games at San Jose Municipal Stadium in San Jose, California. The team formerly played select home games at Blethen Field, which was located on San Jose State's south campus. In 2014, SJSU released plans to build a new baseball stadium to replace Blethen Field.

History
The team first took the field in 1890. Known back then as the Normalites, the men's baseball beat a local high school team in the first recognized game. From 1911 through the 2013 season, the SJSU baseball team compiled a win–loss record of 1,878–1,696 (.525).

From 1965–2021, 104 Spartans were taken in the Major League Baseball draft and 19 were signed by MLB teams. As of 2021, seven former Spartans are active professional baseball players in both major and minor leagues.

The Spartan baseball team has made NCAA tournament appearances in 1955, 1971, 2000 and 2002. In 2000, the team advanced to the College World Series.

From 1997–2013, the SJSU baseball team competed in the Western Athletic Conference, earning three WAC pennants in 1997, 2000 and 2009.

Under head coach and SJSU alumnus Sam Piraro (1987–2012), the SJSU baseball team reached the 30-win mark 17 times (including five 40+ wins seasons) and appeared in the national rankings 47 times.

The SJSU baseball team has fielded 16 All-Americans including four first-team selections.

All-time record vs. current Mountain West teams

As of the conclusion of the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season:

San Jose State in the NCAA tournament

The Spartans are 7–12 (.368) all-time in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.

Major League Baseball

San José State has had 96 Major League Baseball draft selections since the draft began in 1965.

Making it to Omaha
Under the direction of head coach Sam Piraro, the Spartans played in the College World Series in 2000 in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams who accompanied the Spartans in Omaha were Clemson, Florida State, Louisiana State, Stanford, Texas, Louisiana-Lafayette, and the University of Southern California. San Jose State was eliminated after the first round of the tournament by the number four seed, the Clemson Tigers.

See also
List of NCAA Division I baseball programs

References

External links
 

 
Baseball teams established in 1911
1911 establishments in California
Siegfried Böhm (20 August 1928 – 4 May 1980) was an East German politician and long-term finance minister of East Germany. He was in office for nearly fourteen years between 1966 and 1980.

Biography
Böhm was born in Plauen on 20 August 1928. In 1966 he was appointed the finance minister and his term lasted until 1980. He was among the central committee members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was also a member of the Working Group Balance of Payments from 1974 to 1980. Böhm was one of the first officials who alerted the East German authorities about the negative consequences of the indebtedness to the Western countries. He also criticized the illegal currency and gold transactions carried out in the country.

Böhm died at his home in Berlin-Karlshorst on 4 May 1980. The East German officials reported on the next day that his wife shot him during a quarrel and then she committed suicide. The official paper Neues Deutschland argued that Böhm and his wife died in an accident without giving any further details about the incident. One week later their children issued an obituary in a state-controlled paper.

Böhm was buried in a state ceremony. He was succeeded by Werner Schmieder as finance minister in June 1980.

In 2003 it was revealed as a result of the investigations that Böhm was in fact killed by an East German hit squad due to his potential reports about the bankruptcy faced in East Germany. His wife was also murdered by the squad to fabricate the official story of his death.

References

External links

1928 births
1980 deaths
Assassinated German politicians
Finance ministers of East Germany
Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Members of the Volkskammer
People from Plauen
People of the Cold War
Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold
1980s assassinated politicians
Bryden MacDonald (born October 30, 1960 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian playwright.

His best known plays include Whale Riding Weather, which was a nominated for the Governor General's Award for English drama at the 1994 Governor General's Awards, and With Bated Breath, which was a shortlisted nominee in the Drama category at the 2011 Lambda Literary Awards. His other plays include The Weekend Healer (1994), Divinity Bash / nine lives (1998) and The Extasy of Bedridden Riding Hood (2004). He was nominated again for the Governor General's Award for English drama for Odd Ducks (2015), He has also helmed musical tributes to Leonard Cohen (Sincerely, A Friend, 1991), Carole Pope and Rough Trade (Shaking the Foundations, 1999) and Joni Mitchell (When All the Slaves Are Free, 2003).

MacDonald is also a theatre director, most noted for his productions of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw and Judith Thompson's Perfect Pie. He has taught at the National Theatre School of Canada, and served as playwright in residence at the Stratford Festival.

He is openly gay.

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1960 births
Canadian theatre directors
LGBT theatre directors
Canadian gay writers
People from Glace Bay
Writers from Nova Scotia
Living people
Academic staff of the National Theatre School of Canada
20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Canadian LGBT dramatists and playwrights
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
Gay dramatists and playwrights
André Pean is a retired French slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. He won two medals at the 1951 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Steyr with a gold in the C-2 team event and a silver in the C-2 event.

References
ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.

French male canoeists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Bruno Valdemar Åvik (born 14 November 1940) is a retired Swedish cross-country skier. He competed in the 30 km event at the 1968 Winter Olympics and finished in 20th place. Åvik was born in Finland, but in 1959 moved to Sweden and became a Swedish citizen in 1966.

Cross-country skiing results

Olympic Games

References

1940 births
Living people
Cross-country skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Olympic cross-country skiers for Sweden
Swedish male cross-country skiers
Finnish emigrants to Sweden
Naturalized citizens of Sweden
Swedish people of Finnish descent
Chlorion is a genus of Hymenoptera of the Wesergton Sphecidae family of wasps.

Species
Listed alphabetically.
Chlorion aerarium Patton, 1879 – Steel-blue Cricket Hunter Wasp, Aphid Wasp
Chlorion boharti Menke, 1961
Chlorion consanguineum (Kohl, 1898)
Chlorion cyaneum Dahlbom, 1843
Chlorion funereum Gribodo, 1879
Chlorion gratiosum (F. Smith, 1856)
Chlorion hemiprasinum (Sichel, 1863)
Chlorion hemipyrrhum (Sichel, 1863)
Chlorion hirtum (Kohl, 1885)
Chlorion lobatum (Fabricius, 1775)
Chlorion magnificum F. Morawitz, 1887
Chlorion maxillosum (Poiret, 1787) – Cricket Hunter Wasp
Chlorion migiurtinicum (Giordani Soika, 1941)   
Chlorion mirandum (Kohl, 1890)  
Chlorion regale F. Smith, 1873  
Chlorion semenowi F. Morawitz, 1890    
Chlorion splendidum Fabricius, 1804 
Chlorion strandi Willink, 1951
Chlorion striatum Li and Yang, 1989  
Chlorion viridicoeruleum Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau and Audinet-Serville, 1828

References

Sphecidae
is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Saitama Prefecture in Japan. He assumed office replacing Kiyoshi Ueda in the August 2019 gubernatorial elections.

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1963 births
Living people
People from Saitama Prefecture
Governors of Saitama Prefecture
Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
Democratic Party of Japan politicians
Japanese diplomats
Japanese Arabists
Keio University alumni

Politicians from Saitama Prefecture
Bill Caswell was a country music singer-songwriter and musician active since the early 1980s. Together with his wife Rosi Caswell, the duo from Bartlesville, Oklahoma perform on rare old style instruments including the ukelin, mandolin-guitar, bell-harp, and tremoloa. In the 1980s he performed his music on television in Hee Haw and on live radio in A Prairie Home Companion.  The two together performed at Dollywood in Gatlinburg, Tennessee for five seasons.

Bill began his career in the early 1980s as a songwriting protégé of Rodney Crowell and developed a reputation as one of the best songwriters in the business. Working for Tree Record, as a staff writer. He
co-wrote KENTUCKY HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS with Kin Vassy.  Kenny Rogers included the song on his first Christmas album. It went "Platinum" in 3 weeks.

His recent albums include Oklahoma Backroads and Love Lost and Found.

In 1983, Bill Caswell appeared along with Crowell on the PBS music television program Austin City Limits for a "Songwriters Showcase" episode.

Bill co-wrote some songs with other top country songwriters, such as Alan Rhody, with "Just When" which was recorded by George Jones on his 1985 album Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?, and "Somebody To Care", recorded by Tanya Tucker on her 1986 album Girls Like Me.

In recent years, Bill and Rosi Caswell performed at the September 30 to October 2, 1999, annual Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival in Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Died February 16,2023 in Bartlesville Oklahoma.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Bartlesville, Oklahoma
American bluegrass musicians
American country singer-songwriters
Country musicians from Oklahoma
Singer-songwriters from Oklahoma
Franz Klein may refer to:
 Franz Klein (politician) (1854–1926), Austrian jurist and politician, Minister of Justice
 Franz Klein (sculptor) (1779–1840), Austrian sculptor
Azjur al-Turki () or Arkhuz ibn Ulugh Tarkhan al-Turki (أرخوز بن أولوغ طرخان التركي) was a Turkic military officer in the service of the Abbasid Caliphate. He was briefly the governor of Egypt in 868, and was the last individual to hold that office prior to the Tulunid takeover of Egypt that same year.

Career 
According to the fifteenth century chronicler Ibn Taghribirdi, Azjur/Arkhuz was born in Baghdad to Ulugh Tarkhan, a Turkic man of likely high status, as evidenced by the use of the title tarkhan. Azjur himself eventually became one of the senior amirs of the Abbasid state, and in 867 he was appointed as chief of security (shurtah) of Egypt by the governor Muzahim ibn Khaqan.

During Muzahim's governorship, Azjur assisted in quelling the revolt of Jabir ibn al-Walid, and fought a battle against him in the area of Giza in June 867. He soon made himself unpopular, however, when he introduced a number of new ritual practices in place of those traditionally used in Egypt. Muzahim eventually dismissed him from the shurtah in November 867, but Azjur remained an influential figure, and after Muzahim's death in January 868 he was again appointed as the head of security for Muzahim's son and successor Ahmad.

In April 868, Azjur himself became governor of Egypt following the death of Ahmad. During his administration he sent the rebel Jabir, who had been imprisoned in al-Fustat by Muzahim, to Iraq, and also defeated an 'Alid rebellion that broke out in Upper Egypt. He remained governor until August or September 868, after which he was replaced by Ahmad ibn Tulun. Ibn Taghribirdi claims that he then returned to Iraq, where he was received by the caliph and became one of his officers (quwwad); al-Kindi, on the other hand, reports that he left Egypt to go on the Hajj.

Notes

References 
 
 
 
 

9th-century military personnel
Abbasid governors of Egypt
People from Baghdad
9th-century Abbasid governors of Egypt
Wordtune is an AI powered reading and writing companion capable of fixing grammatical errors, understanding context and meaning, suggesting paraphrases or alternative writing tones, and generating written text based on context. It is developed by an Israeli AI company AI21 Labs.

History 
Wordtune was released in October 2020 by AI21 Labs. It was released just as the company came out of stealth mode. Wordtune can be used as a standalone editor, or added as an extension for the Chrome browser. Users can use the tool to paraphrase text being composed on services like Gmail, Google Docs, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

On November 14, 2021, AI21 released Wordtune Read — an AI-powered Chrome extension and standalone app designed to process large amounts of written text from websites, documents, or YouTube videos, and summarize them into short and easily digestible pieces of text.

In January 2023, AI21 released Wordtune Spices — a generative-AI toolkit designed to help writers write faster. Wordtune Spices can generate sentences or whole paragraphs in tune with whatever the user is writing. VentureBeat compared it with AI-powered Grammarly while The New York Times and some other media called Wordtune a rival to ChatGPT.

References 

Virtual assistants
Editing software
Ormyrus nitidulus is a parasitoid species of wasp in the family Ormyridae. It is primarily associated with oak gall wasps. Ormyrus nitidulus is a small metallic wasp approximately 5mm long as an adult.  It has a fairly widespread distribution being found across North Africa, the Middle East, North America and Europe.

Distribution
The Universal Chalcidoidea Database  cites distribution records for Ormyrus nitidulus from: Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Caucasus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Europe, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, Jordan, Macedonia, Netherlands, North Africa, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, USSR, Yugoslavia (pre 1991). 

GBIF holds 128 georeferenced records for Ormyrus nitidulus

Biology
Ormyrus nitidulus larvae are idiobiont (prevent further development of the host after initial parasitization) ectoparasitoids (live on the outside of its host) primarily associated with oak gall wasps including multiple species of Andricus and one species of gall midges: Oligotrophus bergenstammi .  .T

Morphology and identification
Ormyrus sp. are generally characterised by bright metallic colours, coarsely crenulated sculpture of the metasoma, well-developed hind coxae, short stigmal veins and two stout and curved metatibial spurs. As of 2016 there are 4 species of Ormyrus recognised in the UK: Ormyrus gratiosus, Ormyrus papaveris, Ormyrus nitidulus and Ormyrus pomaceus. In order to distinguish between Ormyrus species there are a number key resources available including: Oak-galls in Britain by Williams, R and Zerova’s 2006 key to Palaearctic Ormyridae.

NHM data portal 
There are 10 specimens of Ormyrus nitidulus available to view on the NHM Data Portal. This includes 4 specimens from the Antoni Ribes Escolà (1968-2014) Collection.

References

Insects described in 1804
Chalcidoidea
Greigia sylvicola is a plant species in the genus Greigia. This species is native to Panama and Costa Rica.

References

sylvicola
Flora of Costa Rica
Flora of Panama
Plants described in 1927
Ellnora Decker Krannert (May 20, 1890 - July 6, 1974) was a philanthropist with a passion for the arts, drama, dance, and music.

Ellnora was born in Noblesville, Indiana to Pheobe Katherine Spencer Decker and Philip Greene.  She earned a bachelor's degree in music from Brenau College and was bestowed honorary doctorates in the humanities, law, fine arts, and music from University of Indianapolis, University of Evansville, Indiana University, and Butler University, respectively.

In 1919, she married Herman C. Krannert in Anderson, Indiana.  They moved to Indianapolis in 1925 and founded the Inland Container Corporation.

Ellnora and Herman made several transformative gifts to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Herman had earned a mechanical engineering degree.  Because of Ellnora's passion for the arts, the couple chose to support projects dedicated to those fields.  She was committed to making the Midwest a center of culture and the arts as well as agriculture and industry.  She and her husband gave funds to establish Krannert Art Museum, which opened in 1961, and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in 1969.  Ellnora contributed to the design of the Krannert Center and helped selecting colors, materials, and landscaping designs.  Unhappy with having to wait on the street during the intermissions of Broadway performances, she urged architect Max Abramovitz to incorporate a large indoor space where crowd could gather, an aspect of the design that has been characterized as transformative in that the space functionally resembles a piazza or public square rather than a traditional lobby.

Ellnora Guitar Festival, named in her honor, is held biennially at Krannert Center.

Ellnora and Herman also made substantial gifts to hospitals, universities, and museums in Indiana.  They established the Robert M. Moore Heart Clinic at Wishard Memorial Hospital in 1952.  This became the Krannert Institute of Cardiology, and later the Krannert Cardiovascular Research Center, which is now part of the Indiana University School of Medicine.  They also founded the Krannert Foundation and Krannert Charitable Trust.  They established the Krannert School of Management and the Krannert Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Purdue University.  At the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Krannert Pavilion was named in their honor.

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1890 births
1974 deaths
20th-century American philanthropists
Li Jian (; born 1 March 1989 in Foshan, Guangdong, China) is an Ecuadorian-Chinese footballer.

Club career
Li started his professional career with China League Two side Guangdong Sunray Cave in 2007. He made an impression within the team as Guangdong Sunray Cave won promotion to the second tier at the end of the 2008 season. On 27 June 2009, he scored his first League One goal in the 4–2 home victory against Shanghai East Asia.

Career statistics
Statistics accurate as of match played 12 November 2014

Personal life
Li Jian's father is Chinese and mother is Ecuadorian.

References

1989 births
Living people
Chinese men's footballers
Ecuadorian people of Chinese descent
Chinese people of Ecuadorian descent
Sportspeople of Ecuadorian descent
Footballers from Foshan
People from Foshan
Shaanxi Wuzhou F.C. players
Men's association football midfielders
China League One players
Oswald Astley Cheesman  (13 September 1913 – 29 September 1985) was a New Zealand musician, music teacher, conductor and composer. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 13 September 1913. After World War II, he was involved in forming first New Zealand Broadcasting Service's Auckland Radio Orchestra and then in 1946 and 1947 the National Orchestra, now the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

In 1970, he received the Benny Award from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand Inc, the highest honour available to a New Zealand variety entertainer. In the 1972 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to music.

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1913 births
1985 deaths
New Zealand conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
Musicians from Christchurch
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra people
20th-century conductors (music)
New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
20th-century male musicians
Poropteron is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Ocenebrinae  of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Species
 Poropteron debruini (Lorenz, 1989)
 Poropteron graagae (Coen, 1943)
 Poropteron multicornis (Houart, 1991)
 Poropteron quinquelobatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1879)
 Poropteron transkeianus (Houart, 1991)
 Poropteron uncinarius (Lamarck, 1822)

References

External links
 Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338
  Jousseaume, F. (1882). Etude des Purpuridae et description d'espèces nouvelles. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 3, 7: 314-348
  Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335

Ocenebrinae
Gastropods described in 1880
Gastropod genera