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Louis Charles Casartelli

Louis Charles Casartelli (14 November 1852 – 18 January 1925) was a Roman Catholic priest and was the fourth Bishop of Salford.

Short description: Catholic bishop (1852-1925)
Don Oberdorfer

Donald Oberdorfer Jr. (May 28, 1931 – July 23, 2015) was an American professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University with a specialty in Korea, and was a journalist for 38 years, 25 of them with The Washington Post. He is the author of five books and several academic papers. His book, Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat, won the D.B. Hardeman Prize in 2003.

Short description: American journalist
Phtheochroa sociana

Phtheochroa sociana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found on the Crimea and in Georgia and the Near East. The wingspan is 11–14 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from May to June.

Short description: species of insect
Chris Timberlake

Chris Timberlake (born April 28, 1985) is a Filipino-American basketball player who last played for the Blackwater Elite of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He was selected 7th overall in the 2009 PBA draft by the Barangay Ginebra Kings.

Short description: Filipino-American basketball player
Gian Paolo Chiti

Gian Paolo Chiti (born 21 January 1939 in Rome) is an Italian composer and pianist. After beginning his studies in piano, violin and composition at the age of four, he made a series of appearances as a child prodigy before entering the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy's most important music school, at the age of ten. His principal teachers include Carlo Zecchi, Arturo Bonucci (1894-1964) and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (private and masterclass studies). Chiti was a prizewinner in the Treviso and Busoni competitions.Gian Paolo Chiti began a duel career as a concert pianist, often in the company of his wife, the noted mezzo-soprano and president and founder of the Adkins-Chiti Donne in Musica foundation Patricia Adkins Chiti and as a composer. He has written works for almost every conceivable ensemble as well as for electronic media. His catalogue also includes a large number of film and television scores. His compositions have been programmed both in Italy and abroad at such festivals as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Venice Biennale, Edinburgh Festival, Lutoslawski Festival, Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte of Montepulciano, Nuova Consonanza, Incontri Musicali Romani, Chopin Festival in Poland, Sacred Music Festival in Chartres, France, Teatro Nacional di Caraccas in Venezuela and the Public Season at the Moscow Conservatory.Chiti has held the post of Head of the Composition department of the Conservatorio of Santa Cecilia in Rome since 1984. More than a generation of important young Italian musicians have been trained through his teaching. In addition, he is also a member of the Italian.

Short description: Italian musician
The Real Thing: In Performance

The Real Thing: In Performance (1964–1981) is an anthology of performances by Marvin Gaye. It was produced by Reelin' in the Years Productions and the Universal Music Group International. It includes a 24-page booklet with an extensive essay by Grammy Award-winning writer, Rob Bowman.

Short description: live album by Marvin Gaye
Chinatown

The US city of Providence, Rhode Island was once home to at least two Chinatowns, with the first on Burrill Street in the 1890s until 1901 and then around Empire Street around the late 1890s in the southern section of the city. According to another source, the Burrill Street Chinatown was burned to the ground in 1901 by a "mysterious fire" caused by a kerosene stove.The Empire Street Chinatown was considered one of the "last of the old Chinatowns" in a grouping that included Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The extension of Empire Street, proposed in 1914 (according to the Providence Sunday Journal) and completed around 1951 doomed the Chinatown, and all of the buildings were demolished including the former headquarters of local Chinese societies. The enclave was once located next to the Empire Theatre and the Central Baptist Church.

Short description: neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Pence Opera House

The Pence Opera House was an opera house and later, a mission, at Hennepin Avenue and 2nd Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The theater was named for its owner and chief funder, John Wesley Pence, a financier originally from Ohio, and was designed by architect Abraham M. Radcliffe. Though sometimes called the first theater in Minneapolis, it was actually built eight years after the first known theater in the city, Harrison's Hall. During construction, the building was struck by lightning, which was called "an act of God's retribution" by a local minister in his Sunday sermon that week. Soon afterwards, the minister's church was also struck by lightning. The Opera House was opened in 1867 with a seating capacity of 700. The three-story building housed shops on its first floor, offices on its second, a billiard parlor in the basement, and the theater on the third. In 1879, the theater was remodeled and increased its capacity to 900. Along with the St. Paul Opera House, it was one of the first music venues in the Twin Cities, joined in 1872 by the larger Academy of Music.The theater opened on June 21, 1867, with a performance of Sheridan Knowles' play The Hunchback, attended by Governor William Marshall and Sen. Alexander Ramsey. Performances at the Pence included musicians such as Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, vaudeville and minstrel shows, and plays such as The Rivals, Our American Cousin, and Shakespearian works including Richard III.In its early years, the theater was one of the city's major gathering places, but.

Short description: former theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist. He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir and criticism since 1986.He is the author of nine books, including Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate, The King in the Window, and A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. In 2020, his essay "The Driver's Seat" was cited as the most-assigned piece of contemporary nonfiction in the English-language syllabus.

Short description: Staff writer for The New Yorker
Rad Aviation

Rad Aviation was a British aircraft manufacturer based in Kidlington. The company was formed by John Radford and specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the European microlight rules.The company was founded in 1989 as a powered paragliding research and development enterprise, producing their first production paramotor in 1995. By 2006 they reported that they had shipped more than 450 paramotors, selling mostly in the UK and Europe, plus the Middle East. The company went out of business in about 2006.The company focus was on very lightweight paramotors with low-powered engines. Designs produced included the Rad Arrow, MXL, RXL and the SXL Custom.

Short description: British aircraft manufacturer
Sir George Barlow, 1st Baronet

Sir George Hilaro Barlow, 1st Baronet, (20 January 1763 – 18 December 1846) served as Acting Governor-General of India from the death of Lord Cornwallis in 1805 until the arrival of Lord Minto in 1807.

Short description: Governor-General of India
Joe Schad

Joe Schad (born c. 1974) is a reporter, writer, analyst and broadcaster focused on college football and the NFL for the past 20 years. In July 2016, Schad announced he would begin covering the Miami Dolphins and the NFL at the Palm Beach Post. Schad joined ESPN in 2005 as a sports reporter, working as ESPN's National College Football Reporter and appearing on shows including College Football Live, SportsCenter, College GameDay, ESPN First Take, and ESPNEWS. Schad provided college football news and notes for SportsCenter. In addition, Schad wrote news stories and blogged for ESPN.com. Schad hosted a college football show for ESPN Radio and has done college football and NFL sideline reporting for ESPN, ABC and ESPN Radio. Between 2010-2015, Schad broadcast more than 145 games for ESPN Radio, including the Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, BCS National Championship Game and College Football Playoff Semifinals and National Championship Game.Schad is known for his breaking news, including underclassmen declaring for the NFL draft as well as reporting numerous coaches who have been hired or fired, players who have transferred and coaching contract extensions. Schad reported feature stories and sitdown conversations for shows like College GameDay, SportsCenter and Outside The Lines. Some of Schad's more notable interview subjects are Urban Meyer, Pete Carroll, Mack Brown, Bobby Bowden, Joe Paterno, Tim Tebow, Steve Spurrier, Jake Locker, Sam Bradford, Bobby Petrino, Tyrann Mathieu and Kenneth Starr. Schad has reported on several NCAA investigations including ones into Reggie Bush, Cam Newton, Johnny Manziel, Marvin Austin, Rhett Bomar,.

Short description: American football announcer
Kaninë

Kaninë is a settlement in the Vlorë County, southwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Vlorë. It is home to the Kaninë Castle.

Short description: human settlement
Dhanansu

Dhanansu is a village located in the Ludhiana East tehsil, of Ludhiana district, Punjab.

Short description: village in India
Wendy Piatt

Wendy Louisa Piatt (born 17 November 1970) is chief executive officer of Gresham College.

Short description: Director General of the Russell Group
British Rail Class 444

The British Rail Class 444 Desiro is an electric multiple-unit passenger train built by Siemens Transportation Systems in Austria between 2002 and 2004. The Class 444 currently operate on express passenger services for South Western Railway. The class first entered service with South West Trains in 2004.

Short description: a British electric multiple-unit passenger train
2016 Haragîș helicopter crash

The Haragîș helicopter crash happened on June 2, 2016, when a Romanian helicopter belonging to the SMURD emergency rescue service crashed near the village of Haragîș in Cantemir District while performing a rescue mission in Moldova. The helicopter had saved a life earlier that day by delivering a patient to Chișinău, then it refuelled and took off for the next patient, located in the southern city of Cahul. While en route to Cahul the aircraft crashed in Cantemir District due to poor weather conditions. All 4 crew members died: Adrian-Gabriel Sandu, nurse Mihaela Dumea, physician Constantin Voicu Șocae, copilot Ilie Doru Gavril, pilotAll of them were decorated post-mortem with high honors by the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis and the President of Moldova Nicolae Timofti. In June 2017, a commemorative stamp was issued in Moldova depicting the crew members and the helicopter.

Short description: helicopter crash that happened in 2016 near the village of Haragîș, Moldova
Wolina

Wolina [vɔˈlʲina] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nisko, within Nisko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) south-east of Nisko and 54 km (34 mi) north of the regional capital Rzeszów.The village has a population of 440.

Short description: village in Subcarpathian, Poland
Hemant Rao

Hemant Rao is a self-taught Indian abstract artist, whose paintings have been featured at international art fairs. Rao was born in 1984 at Raghogarh, Madhya Pradesh and worked at Bhopal's Bharat Bhavan multi-arts complex during his formative years.He has received 60th National Academy Award from Lalit Kala Akademi, India's national academy of fine arts, in 2019. Rao is also a recipient of Junior Fellowship (2011–12) of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Despite coming from a humble, rural background, his modern abstract work with soft pastels is free from any regional inclinations, as noted by Rita Dutta of The Telegraph. Rao's paintings have been canvassed at numerous exhibits including Busan International Art Fair in 2011, Seoul Art Festival in 2011, Art Revolution Taipei in 2019, Bangkok Triennale International Print & Drawing Exhibition in 2014, India Art Fair in 2020, among other solo or group shows. The artist currently lives and works in Bhopal.

Short description: Indian artist
Skoulikaria, Arta

Skoulikaria is a mountainous village in the Municipality of Georgios Karaiskakis with 273 permanent residents (2011 census) at an altitude of 973 meters, and is about 44 km away from the town of Arta. Under the Kapodistrias reform, in force until the end of 2010, Skoulikaria was a municipal area of the newly formed municipality of Georgios Karaiskakis based Diasello. Under the new administrative division of the Kallikratis Plan, Skoulikaria joined the extended Georgios Karaiskakis municipality, which was formed through the merger of the pre-existing municipalities of Irakleia, Karaiskakis and Tetrafilia. Skoulikaria along with Giannioti and Agia Paraskevi make up the local community Skoulikaria with a total population 441 people.

Short description: village in Greece
Book of Dreams

Book of Dreams is the tenth studio album by Steve Miller Band. The album was released in May 1977 (see 1977 in music) on Capitol Records in the United States, Canada and Japan and by Mercury Records in Europe. Three singles were released from the album in 1977 with the first single, "Jet Airliner", being the most successful. The album peaked in the top 10 of the trade charts in four countries, including Canada where the album topped RPM magazine's 100 Albums chart. The album has gone on to become one of the group's most successful studio albums.

Short description: 1977 album by Steve Miller Band
1978 Bank of Oklahoma Grand Prix

The 1978 Bank of Oklahoma Grand Prix was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Shadow Mountain Racquet Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of the 1978 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament was held from April 24 through April 30, 1978. Eddie Dibbs won the singles title and earned $8,500 first-prize money.

Short description: tennis tournament edition
Karl Brown

Karl Robert Brown (born 17 May 1988) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Lancashire until 2018. Brown made his first-class debut in 2006 and his list A debut the following year. Between 2005 and 2007, Brown played 15 Youth One Day Internationals. In 2011, Brown scored his maiden centuries in first-class and list A cricket and debuted for Lancashire in twenty20s.

Short description: English cricketer (born 1988)
Alyxia buxifolia

Alyxia buxifolia, otherwise known as the sea box or dysentery bush, is a species of evergreen shrub in the family Apocynaceae.Alyxia buxifolia has medium to dark green foliage consisting of small, fleshy leaves. The flowers are small and twisted anticlockwise in a star shape. They are orange at the base of the petal and are a white-cream colour at the tip of the petal. It flowers in spring through to autumn. Alyxia buxifolia produces small fruits that are red to orange in colour when ripe.Alyxia buxifolia has several synonyms though the current accepted name is Alyxia buxifolia R. Br.It is found naturally occurring throughout southern Australia and can be found in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales. Alyxia buxifolia occurs in coastal regions, often being found in scrub and heathland ecosystems.It can grow in many types of soils and is considered a hardy plant due to being tolerant of wind, salt, and some frost conditions. Alyxia buxifolia also creates habitat for small animals and provides food for birds and invertebrates.The shrub also contains several compounds of interest which include oleanolic acids, ursolic acids, and betulinic acid.It is used in many horticultural and landscape settings. It was also used by First Nations people of Australia to treat dysentery.Alyxia buxifolia is currently considered not to be under threat.

Short description: species of plant
Esme Emanuel

Esmé Emmanuel Berg (born 14 June 1947) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.

Short description: South African female tennis player
Aerfer

Aerfer was an Italian manufacturing company created in 1955 by the merger of IMAM and Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali. The name is a contraction of Costruzioni Aeronautiche e Ferroviarie (Aeronautical and Railway Constructions). In 1969 it merged with Salmoiraghi and the aviation division of Fiat to create Aeritalia. The firm is remembered mostly in connection with the development of Italy's first supersonic jet, the Aerfer Sagittario 2.

Short description: 1955-1969 aircraft manufacturer in Italy
Madagascar, a Journey Diary

Madagascar, a Journey Diary is a 2009 11-minute French animated film. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 2011.

Short description: 2009 short film directed by Bastien Dubois
Muratçayırı, Refahiye

Muratçayırı is a village in the Refahiye District of Erzincan Province in Turkey.

Short description: village in Turkey
Sylvia Schlettwein

Sylvia Schlettwein (born 16 November 1975) is a Namibian writer, teacher, translator and literary critic. She was the Head of the Department for Languages and Communication at the International University of Management in the capital Windhoek.

Short description: Namibian writer
Zielonka, Podkarpackie Voivodeship

Zielonka [ʑeˈlɔŋka] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Raniżów, within Kolbuszowa County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Raniżów, 18 km (11 mi) east of Kolbuszowa, and 25 km (16 mi) north of the regional capital Rzeszów.

Short description: village in Subcarpathian, Poland
Junji Ikoma

Junji Ikoma (Japanese: 生駒純司)is a retired Japanese mixed martial artist from Osaka, Japan, who competed in the strawweight and flyweight division. He has fought throughout his career exclusively for the Shooto organization and is currently a part of Shooto's provisional association. Ikoma is a former Shooto World Flyweight (114 lb) Champion. Fight Matrix ranks him as the #15 all time strawweight.

Short description: mixed martial artist
Krossberg

Krossberg is a village in Stavanger municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located in the city of Stavanger in the borough of Madla between the Stokkavatnet and Hålandsvatnet lakes.The 0.11-square-kilometre (27-acre) village has a population (2019) of 390 and a population density of 3,545 inhabitants per square kilometre (9,180/sq mi).

Short description: village in Western Norway, Norway
Polish School in Paris

Szkoła Narodowa Polska w Paryżu ("Polish School in Paris"; French: École polonaise Paris), also known as the School at Batignolles (Polish: Szkoła Batiniolska; French: École polonaise des Batignolles) is a Polish international school at the Polish embassy in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France.It includes a primary school and a three-year lyceum course followed by a further three years of (senior high school/sixth form college) under the aegis of the Polish Ministry of Education.The history of the schools dates to mid-19th century, and it is seen as an important element of Polish-French culture, particularly for the Polish people in France.

Short description: Polish international school at the Polish embassy in France
Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU or Toronto Met, legally incorporated as and previously operating as Ryerson University) is a public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District, although it also operates facilities elsewhere in Toronto. The university operates seven academic divisions/faculties, the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Community Services, the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, the Faculty of Science, The Creative School, the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, and the Ted Rogers School of Management. Many of these faculties are further organized into smaller departments and schools. The university also provides continuing education services through the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education. The institution was established in 1948 as the Ryerson Institute of Technology, named after Egerton Ryerson—a prominent contributor to the design of the Canadian public school system whose views later influenced the development of the Canadian Indian residential school system following his death. In 1964, the institution was reorganized under provincial legislation, and renamed Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. Under that name, the institution was granted limited degree-granting powers during the 1970s. The institution was reorganized into a full-fledged university in 1993, and renamed Ryerson Polytechnic University. In 2002, several years after the university's school of graduate studies was established, the university adopted the name Ryerson University. In 2021, the university announced it would be renamed due to recognition of Egerton Ryerson's involvement in the residential school system. The school's new name of Toronto Metropolitan University was announced in 2022; however, pending the announcement.

Short description: public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gorodishchna

Gorodishchna (Russian: Городищна) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Gorodishchenskoye Rural Settlement, Nyuksensky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 701 as of 2002. There are 9 streets.

Short description: human settlement in Nyuksensky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia
Brenda McGrory

Brenda McGrory (born 29 April 1956) is an Irish former swimmer. She competed in three events at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Short description: Irish swimmer
Champ

Chaamp is a 2017 Indian Bengali-language sports drama film directed by Raj Chakraborty with story written by Dev. Produced by Dev, the film stars him in the lead role, along with Rukmini Maitra, in her debut film and Chiranjeet Chakraborty, Priyanka Sarkar, Kamaleswar Mukherjee who stars in other pivotal roles. After releasing initially in West Bengal on 23 June 2017, the film released all over India on 30 June 2017. The concept of the film was penned by Dev. The film got great response from critics and audience and was a blockbuster in box office. The film was the third highest grossing film of 2017.

Short description: 2017 film by Raj Chakraborty
2002 NCAA Division I-AA football season

The 2002 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I-AA level, began in August 2002, and concluded with the 2002 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 20, 2002, at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers won their first I-AA championship, defeating the McNeese State Cowboys by a final score of 34−14.

Short description: American college football season
digital dermatitis

Digital dermatitis is a disease that causes lameness in cattle. It was first discovered in Italy in 1974 by Cheli and Mortellaro. This disease is caused by a mixture of different bacteria. Anaerobic bacteria, including spirochetes of the genus Treponema, are found in the lesions associated with the infection. Digital dermatitis is different from foot rot in cattle and both conditions may occur concurrently. Digital dermatitis primarily affects dairy cattle and has been known to lower the quantity of milk produced, but the quality of the milk is unaffected. Evidence shows that risk factors favouring digital dermatitis outbreaks include: poor hygiene and high humidity; introduction of infected animals; no hoof care for heifers and dry cows; high levels of chronically infected animals; insufficient or inadequate hoof trimming; soft hooves and unbalanced nutrition.

Short description: cattle disease
I Want to Be a Boarder

I Want to be a Boarder, or איך ווילן צו זיין אַ באָרדער (Ikh Vil Zayn a Boarder) in Yiddish, is a 1937 American comedy short film starring Leo Fuchs and Yetta Zwerling, excerpted from the Yiddish language feature film Amerikaner Schadchen. It is a parody of Hollywood's optimism and grandiose nature, as well as famous Hollywood actors, particularly Fred Astaire.

Short description: 1937 film by George Roland, Joseph Seiden
Najla Mohammad Al Awar

Najla Mohammad Al Awar is the Minister of Community Development in the United Arab Emirates. She is one of eight women in the cabinet of United Arab Emirates, the highest number of women cabinet members in the Arab world. She is also the Secretary General of the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and The Future.

Short description: politician
RMAN

RMAN (Recovery Manager) is a backup and recovery manager supplied for Oracle databases (from version 8) created by the Oracle Corporation. It provides database backup, restore, and recovery capabilities addressing high availability and disaster recovery concerns. Oracle Corporation recommends RMAN as its preferred method for backup and recovery and has written command-line and graphical (via Oracle Enterprise Manager) interfaces for the product.

Short description: backup and recovery manager included in Oracle Database
Le Haut-Soultzbach

Le Haut-Soultzbach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of northeastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Mortzwiller and Soppe-le-Haut.

Short description: commune in Haut-Rhin, France
Abdul Samad Idris

Tan Sri Dato' Seri Utama Haji Abdul Samad bin Idris (23 October 1923 – 16 October 2003) was a former Malaysian politician who served as Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports.

Short description: politician
Donald Knight

Donald John Knight (12 May 1894 – 5 January 1960) was an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for Surrey, Oxford University and England between 1911 and 1937. A stylish opening batsman, Knight first played for Surrey in 1911 while he was still a schoolboy at Malvern College, and won a Blue while studying at Trinity College, Oxford, either side of the First World War. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1915. His great season was 1919 when, after completing his university studies, he opened regularly for Surrey with Jack Hobbs and scored 1,588 runs at an average of more than 45 runs per innings, with seven centuries. That season, R. C. Robertson-Glasgow wrote, "people went to The Oval to see Hobbs and Knight open the Surrey innings. Many then did not know, or care to ask, which was which, satisfied to watch the joint approach to perfection. "In a county match at Hastings in 1920, Knight was struck on the head while fielding and was never quite the same batsman again. In 1921 he was picked for two Test matches against the all-conquering Australians but scored only 54 runs in four innings. In the First Test his 38 in the second innings was England's highest score in the match.He became a teacher at Westminster School, where he was master in charge of cricket for many years. After the 1921 season he appeared only occasionally for Surrey, mostly in the summer holidays, retiring after playing 12 games in 1937.

Short description: English cricketer (1894-1960)
1930 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Short description: overview of the events of 1930 in poetry
Cane River

Cane River is a 2001 family saga by Lalita Tademy. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection. Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, Elizabeth a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy’s historical fiction novel chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. They are women whose lives begin in slavery, who weather the Civil War, and who grapple with contradictions of emancipation, Jim Crow, and the pre-Civil Rights South. The culture she explores, that of slaves who remained in bondage until after the American Civil War, bears some core similarities but radical dissimilarities to that of Cane River's Melrose-St. Augustine society, whose families had lived as free from the late Spanish period of Louisiana history.

Short description: book by Lalita Tademy
Wang Huning

Wang Huning (Chinese: 王沪宁; born October 6, 1955) is a leading Chinese political theorist since the 1990s and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Since October 2017, he has been a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee (China's top decision-making body) and the first-ranked secretary of the CCP's Secretariat. He also chaired the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization since November 2017. He previously served as the director of the Central Policy Research Office from 2002 to 2020, the longest tenure of the office. Widely regarded as the "Grey Eminence" of the CCP, Wang is believed to be the chief ideologue of the Communist Party and principal architect behind the official political ideologies of three paramount leaders since the 1990s: "Three Represents" by Jiang Zemin, the Scientific Development Concept by Hu Jintao, and the Chinese Dream and Xi Jinping Thought of Xi Jinping. He has held significant influence over policy and decision making over all three paramount leaders, a rare feat in Chinese politics. Wang was regarded, along with Wang Qishan, as one of the two primary advisors and decision makers for Xi Jinping. A former academic, Wang was a professor of International Politics and dean of the law school at Fudan University.

Short description: Chinese political theorist and politician
Virginia Raggi

Virginia Elena Raggi (Italian pronunciation: [virˈdʒiːnja ˈraddʒi]; born 18 July 1978) is an Italian lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Rome from 2016 to 2021. She represents the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S); Raggi is both the first candidate from her party and first woman to be elected as mayor of Rome.

Short description: Italian politician (1978)
Ottenhöfen im Schwarzwald

Ottenhöfen im Schwarzwald (Low Alemannic: Oddeheefe) is a town in the district of Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Short description: municipality in Germany
Pityopsis

Pityopsis is a genus of North American plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. Species of Pityopsis are known by the common names silkgrass or golden asters or grass-leaved goldenasters . SpeciesPityopsis aspera (Shuttlw. ex A.Gray) Small – Pineland silkgrass - LA MS AL GA FL SC NC VA TN Pityopsis falcata (Pursh) Nutt. – Sickleleaf silkgrass - ONT NY MA CT RI NJ FL Pityopsis flexuosa (Nash) Small – Zigzag silkgrass - FL Pityopsis graminifolia (Michx.) Nutt. – Narrowleaf silkgrass - Bahamas, Belize, Honduras, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Tamaulipas, United States (TX LA MS AL GA FL SC NC VA MD DE WV OH KY TN AR OK) Pityopsis microcephala (Small) Small - FL SC TX Pityopsis oligantha (Chapm. ex Torr. & A.Gray) Small – Grassleaf goldaster - USA (TX LA MS AL GA FL) Pityopsis pinifolia (Elliott) Nutt. – Taylor County goldaster - USA (AL GA SC NC) Pityopsis ruthii (Small) Small – Ruth's golden aster - TN.

Short description: genus of plants
Drybrook Road railway station

Drybrook Road is a closed station on the Cinderford to Coleford direct railway line in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, near the village of Drybrook. The former station was on the former Severn and Wye Railway system. It opened in 1875 and closed in 1929.In the early 20th century the station was used to load timber from the local forest. In 1903 a coal train was involved in an accident at Drybrook.

Short description: railway station in Drybrook, the UK
Atlètic Club d'Escaldes

Atlètic Club d'Escaldes, also commonly known as Atlètic d'Escaldes, is an Andorran football club based in Escaldes-Engordany, currently playing in Primera Divisió.

Short description: association football club
1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

The 1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1920 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 27th overall and 24th season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach Xen C. Scott, in his second year, and played their home games at University/Denny Field in Tuscaloosa and at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and one loss (10–1 overall, 6–1 in the SIAA). This marked the first ten win season in the history of Alabama football. Starting with Scott, every Alabama coach has won ten games in a season at least once, with the exception of Jennings B. Whitworth. Alabama opened the season with six consecutive shutout victories over the Southern Military Academy, Marion Military Institute, Birmingham–Southern, Mississippi College, Howard, and Sewanee. In their seventh game against Vanderbilt Alabama allowed its first touchdown of the season, but won 14–7 after the Commodores threw an interception on a fourth and goal from the three-yard line in the fourth quarter. After their shutout victory over LSU on what was the first homecoming game played at Alabama, the Crimson Tide lost their only game of the season at Atlanta against Georgia. The Bulldogs did not score on offense but won 21–14 after touchdowns were scored on a fumble return, a blocked punt return and a blocked field goal return. The loss snapped Alabama's then school-record 11-game.

Short description: American college football team season
Fulbrook

Fulbrook is a small parish and deserted village in Warwickshire, England, situated about 4 miles (6 km) north-east of Stratford upon Avon. Population details can be found under Hampton Lucy. Fulbrook today consists mostly of sheep-grazed fields on the banks of the River Avon. Ridge and furrow marks on the bank just down from the road are almost all that remains of medieval strip fields that once supported a village upon the site. Fulbrook was one of many villages first decimated by the Black Death in the 14th century, but doubly unfortunate in that its remaining tenants were later forcibly evicted by the Duke of Bedford so that he could enclose it as a park for hunting (nearby Charlecote remains a deer park).There are documented reports of a dramatic rise in highway crime on the surrounding roads soon after the eviction of the villagers. The Duke of Bedford also built a castle on the site near a moated house belonging to a widow of noble birth, the moat of which is still clearly visible. Local records tell of fierce rivalry between, on the one side, the Duke of Bedford and the noble widow and, on the other, the Earl of Warwick: conflict which on occasions descended into violence between supporters of the two sides in the town of Warwick.There was once also a watermill, owned by an order of nuns from Coventry, and there are records of graves found on the site. Later excavations have destroyed almost all traces of the village.

Short description: village and civil parish in Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Bata Limited

Bata Corporation (originally, and in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, known as Baťa) is a Czech multinational footwear and fashion accessory manufacturer and retailer founded in Zlín, today in the Czech Republic. After World War II, its factories in socialist states were nationalized, while its branches in capitalist states remained family-owned. It is now based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The principal subsidiaries are Bata Europe (based in Zlín), Bata North America (based in Toronto), Bata Asia-Pacific-Africa (based in Singapore) and Bata Latin America (based in Mexico City). A family-owned business, the company is organized into three business units: Bata, Bata Industrials (safety shoes) and AW Lab (sports style). The company is the world's leading shoemaker by volume, and it has a retail presence of over 5,300 shops in more than 70 countries and production facilities in 18 countries.

Short description: footwear and fashion accessory company
Terry Lin

Terry Lin (Chinese: 林志炫; pinyin: Lín Zhìxuàn; born 6 July 1966) is a Taiwanese singer. He has been nominated for the Golden Melody Awards 5 times for Best Mandarin Male Artist. He is known for his clear and elegant androgynous voice, which utilizes different resonance in his head to 'mix' head voice and falsetto to effortlessly move to the high ranges and maintain power and volume despite his slight build. He has a combined range of 3 octaves but has spanned an additional octave while performing "Opera", a rearranged instrumental by Vitas, a song he stated he cannot practice (including perform) more than 4 times a day. He later became the first Taiwanese artist to record his album in One Take and One Take Live with no further editing.

Short description: Taiwanese singer
Peter Blanck

Peter David Blanck (born 1957) is an American academic, psychologist, and lawyer who is the University Professor and Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University.

Short description: American Academic & Lawyer
2016 Pacific typhoon season

The 2016 Pacific typhoon season is considered to have been the fourth-latest start for a Pacific typhoon season since reliable records began. It was an average season, with a total of 26 named storms, 13 typhoons, and six super typhoons. The season ran throughout 2016, though typically most tropical cyclones develop between May and October. The season's first named storm, Nepartak, developed on July 3, while the season's last named storm, Nock-ten, dissipated on December 28. The development of Nepartak made the second-latest time within a season for the first named storm to develop and ended a 199-day period (from December 17, 2015 – July 3, 2016) during which no named storm was active in the basin. Tropical Storm Mirinae reached peak intensity while making landfall over the Red River Delta, causing very severe damage in Northern Vietnam. By the end of August, three storms had hit the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, the most since 1951. In September, Typhoon Meranti reached peak intensity with a minimum pressure of 890 hPa, becoming one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record. Typhoon Chaba became the strongest typhoon to strike South Korea since 2012. Tropical Storm Aere and a tropical depression brought the worst flooding in Vietnam since 2011. The last storm of the season, Typhoon Nock-ten, became the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded worldwide on Christmas Day (December 25) since at least 1960, in terms of 1-minute maximum sustained winds. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator.

Short description: Period of formation of tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific Ocean in 2016
Dąbrowa Jastrzębska

Dąbrowa Jastrzębska [dɔmˈbrɔva jasˈtʂɛmpska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jastrzębia, within Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

Short description: village in Masovian, Poland
Themis

In Greek mythology and religion, Themis (; Ancient Greek: Θέμις, romanized: Themis, lit. 'justice, law, custom') is one of the twelve Titan children of Gaia and Uranus, and the second wife of Zeus. She is the personification of justice, divine order, fairness, law, and custom, and her symbols include the Scales of Justice. She is also associated with oracles and prophecies, including the Oracle of Delphi.

Short description: in ancient Greek mythology, a titaness, the personification of divine order, fairness, law, natural law, and custom, whose symbols are the scales of justice
Salvatore Cimino

Salvatore Peter Cimino (born October 27, 1933) is an American politician who served one term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He lost reelection in 1980 to Marie Parente, who challenged him as an independent.

Short description: American politician
Esra Battaloğlu

Esra Battaloğlu is a Turkish geneticist researching the human genetics of inherited peripheral neuropathies. She is an assistant professor at Boğaziçi University.

Short description: Turkish geneticist
Phytoecia centaureae

Phytoecia centaureae is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Sama, Rapuzzi and Rejzek in 2007.

Short description: species of insect
Joan Hohl

Joan Hohl (June 13, 1935 – June 16, 2017) was an American writer of over 60 romance novels starting in 1980. She signed her novels as Paula Roberts and Amii Lorin. She was a recipient of the RITA Award.

Short description: American writer (1935-2017)
John E. Bridges

John E. Bridges is a Chelan County Superior Court Judge in Washington state. He presided over the high-profile legal challenge to the 2004 Washington gubernatorial election in which he upheld the election of Christine Gregoire. He grew up in Chelan County, and graduated from Seattle Pacific University and the Gonzaga University School of Law. He was admitted to the Washington State bar association in 1976, and appointed to the bench by Gov. Booth Gardner in 1988. Five years prior to the high-profile 2004 Washington gubernatorial election case, Judge Bridges presided over another trial in which he voided an election result. On December 29, 1999, Bridges invalidated the certified results of the November 2, 1999 Wenatchee, WA mayoral elections, because the certified winner, Gary Schoessler, did not meet the residency requirements for candidacy. The case had been brought by two local ministers, Sanford Brown and Kel Groseclose. Bridges' decision was upheld by the Washington Supreme Court in a unanimous decision on April 20, 2000.

Short description: American judge
Fumio Kurokawa

Fumio Kurokawa (黒川 文男, Kurokawa Fumio, born October 20, 1932), is a Japanese storyboard artist and animated film director. He directed a number of animated television series produced by Nippon Animation during the 1970s and 1980s. Kurokawa was the series director of Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, included among the "100 Must-See Japanese Animation Masterpieces" in the 2007 encyclopedia Anime Classics Zettai!.

Short description: Japanese storyboard artist and anime director
Rhian Nokes

Rhian Nokes (born 13 February 1989) is a Welsh former footballer and rugby player. She began playing football with Cardiff City as a goalkeeper and represented the Wales women's national side. She later switched to playing rugby union. In 2018, she was convicted of sex offences against a minor after entering into a relationship with a child while working as a sports coach.

Short description: Welsh footballer and rugby union player (born 1989)
Dragutin Esser

Dragutin Esser was a race car driver, driving cars designed or built by Émile Mathis. The production cars of Mathis driven by Dragutin Esser or by Emile Mathis achieved numerous successes in the touring classes: Grand Prix du Mans - 1911 Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. - 1913 Tour de France - 1913 and at other venues around Europe including the U.K. and Ireland.Dragutin Esser designed two cars of 2025cc and 2253cc which were built by Mathis under license from Stoewer. In July 1914, Esser drove a Nagant on the XIV Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France - and finished 6th.

Short description: French racing driver
Centromyrmex praedator

Centromyrmex praedator is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.

Short description: species of ant
Rabak Airport

Rabak Airport (IATA: KST, ICAO: HSKI) was an airport formerly serving the cities of Kosti and Rabak in the White Nile State of Sudan. The dirt runways have been overbuilt with housing.

Short description: airport in Sudan
Toquz Oghuz

The Toquz Oghuz (Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰸𐰆𐰔:𐰆𐰍𐰔, romanized: Toquz Oγuz; Chinese: 九姓; pinyin: Jĭu Xìng; lit. 'Nine Surnames'; Tibetan Drugu Rus Dgu "Turks of Nine Bones") was a political alliance of nine Turkic-speaking Tiele tribes in Inner Asia, during the early Middle Ages. Toquz Oghuz was consolidated and subordinated within the First Turkic Khaganate (552–743) and remained as a nine-tribe alliance after the Khaganate fragmented. Oghuz is a Turkic word meaning "community" and toquz means "nine". Similarly the Karluks were possibly known as the Üç-Oğuz – üç meaning "three". The root of the generalized ethnic term "oghuz" is og-, meaning "clan, tribe"; which in turn, according to Kononov, descends from the ancient Turkic word ög meaning "mother" (however, Golden considered such a further derivation impossible). Initially the oguz designated "tribes" or "tribal union", and eventually became an ethnonym. The Toquz Oghuz were perhaps first mentioned in the Orkhon inscriptions written in the 730s. The nine tribes were named in Chinese histories as the Huihe (回纥), Pugu (仆骨), Hun (浑), Bayegu (拔野古), Tongluo (同罗), Sijie (思结), Qibi (契苾), A-Busi (阿布思) and Gulunwugusi (骨仑屋骨思). The first seven named – who lived north of the Gobi Desert – were dominant, whereas the A-Busi and Gulunwugu(si) emerged later and were accepted on an equal footing with the others some time after 743. The A-Busi apparently originated as a sub-tribal group within the Sijie and the Gulunwugu(si) as a combination of two other tribes.Latter Gōktürk Khagan Bilge considered the Toquz Oghuz "[his] own people". It is also mentioned in Kul Tigin inscriptions.

Short description: Extinct Turkic confederation
Grant Turner

Grant Turner (May 17, 1912 - October 19, 1991) was an American disc jockey known as the long time host of the Grand Ole Opry and on WSM AM radio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1981, Turner was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the first announcer or disk jockey to achieve that honor.

Short description: American disc jockey (1912-1991)
Cartimandua

Cartimandua or Cartismandua (reigned c. AD 43 – c. 69) was a 1st-century queen of the Brigantes, a Celtic people living in what is now northern England. She came to power around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, and formed a large tribal agglomeration that became loyal to Rome. The only account of her is by the Roman historian Tacitus, through which she appears to have been widely influential in early Roman Britain. Her name may be a compound of the Common Celtic roots *carti- "chase, expel, send" and *mandu- "pony".

Short description: 1st-century queen of the Celtic Brigantes
Eleanor Gamble

Eleanor Acheson McCulloch Gamble (March 2, 1868 – August 30, 1933) was an influential American psychologist from the late 19th century through the early 20th century. Gamble published most of her work on audition and memory influenced by Georg Elias Müller, Edward B. Titchener, Mary Whiton Calkins, and Ernst Heinrich Weber. Despite her chronic eye conditions she was successful in editing volumes of textbooks, her own papers, and directing many master's degree students. She earned her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 1889. She went on to obtain her doctorate from Cornell University in 1898. She held several teaching positions over the course of her career and was a member of several influential organizations including the American Psychological Association (APA). Gamble was a distinguished and well-liked professor at Wellesley College for more than two decades, and by 1930 she was the head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology following the death of Mary Whiton Calkins. At the time of her death she was professor of psychology and director of the psychological laboratory at Wellesley College.

Short description: psychologist
Myxochlamys

Myxochlamys is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Zingiberaceae.Its native range is Borneo.Species: Myxochlamys amphiloxa R.J.Searle Myxochlamys mullerensis A.Takano & Nagam.

Short description: genus of plants
83rd New York State Legislature

The 83rd New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3 to April 17, 1860, during the second year of Edwin D. Morgan's governorship, in Albany.

Short description: NewYork state legislative session
Veliuona

Veliuona (Samogitian: Veliouna, Polish: Wielona, German: Wehlonen) is a small town on the Nemunas River in the Jurbarkas district municipality in Lithuania.

Short description: town