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Justin Greaves

Justin Pierre Greaves (born 26 February 1994) is a Barbadian cricketer who has played for both Barbados and the Combined Campuses and Colleges in West Indian domestic cricket. He made his international debut for the West Indies cricket team in January 2022.

Short description: West Indian cricketer
Back from the Grave, Volume 1

Back from the Grave, Volume 1 (CD), is the first installment in the Back from the Grave compact disc-exclusive series of garage rock compilations put together by Tim Warren of Crypt Records. It was released on August 23, 1996. Its track listing differs from that of the LP version, which is part of the Back From the Grave LP-edition series, also on Crypt. In keeping with all of the entries in the series, and as indicated in the subheading which reads "Raw 'n' Crude Mid-60s Garage Punk!," this collection consists of songs which display the rawer and more aggressive side of the genre and are often characterized by the use of fuzztone-distorted guitars and rough vocals. The set generally excludes psychedelic, folk rock, and pop-influenced material in favor of basic primitive rock and roll. The packaging features a booklet containing well-researched liner notes written by Tim Warren which conveys basic information about each song and group, such as origin, recording date, and biographical sketches, usually written in a conversational style that includes occasional slang, anecdotes, humorous asides. The liner notes are noticeably opinionated, sometimes engaging in tongue-in-cheek insults directed at other genres of music. The booklet also includes photographs of the bands, and the front cover features a highly satirical cartoon by Mort Todd depicting a revivified "rock and roll" zombie who, along with his macabre cohorts, has just emerged from the grave to "bury" all specimens of supposedly "heretical" pop and progressive music which have come to prominence over the years, such as disco music.

Short description: album
John Adams

John Matthew Adams (born July 27, 1946) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 22 games in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and Washington Capitals between 1972 and 1975. He was born in Port Arthur, Ontario.

Short description: Canadian ice hockey player
Zenith Motorcycles

Zenith Motorcycles was a British motorcycle and automobile manufacturer established in Finsbury Park, London in 1903, by W.G. Bowers. Automobile manufacture only lasted from 1905–1906. The first Zenith motorcycle was the 'BiCar' of 1903, based on Tooley's Bi-Car design, which was purchased by Zenith for its own production. The BiCar was a unique design with hub-center steering and a low-slung chassis with the engine (from Fafnir in Germany) centrally fixed. Fred ('Freddie') W. Barnes was hired as chief engineer in 1905, and patented the "Gradua" variable-ratio belt drive transmission that year. The Gradua system simultaneously changed the diameter of the crankshaft belt-drive pulley to alter the drive ratio, while moving the rear wheel forward or back to maintain belt tension. The Gradua's action was controlled by a rotating lever atop the fuel tank, and was among the first attempts to provide multiple drive ratios for a motorcycle, at a time when very simple, direct belt-drive transmission was the industry norm. Variable drive ratios proved a significant advantage in competition, leading riders of other marques to complain the Gradua gave an unfair advantage; eventually Zeniths with Gradua gears were banned from many competitions. Zenith capitalized on this ban, adding the word "Barred" to their advertising and logo. The Gradua system was replaced by the now-standard gearbox and chain transmission in 1924. In 1914, the factory moved to larger premises, close to the Brooklands race track, at the old East Moseley Mill near Weybridge, Surrey. As WW1 rapidly approached, the factory turned its attention to commercial sidecar outfits,.

Short description: company
John Robert Murdock

John Robert Murdock (April 20, 1885 – February 14, 1972) was a U.S. Representative from Arizona. Born in homestead near Lewistown, Missouri, Murdock attended the public schools. He graduated from State Teachers' College , Kirksville, Missouri, in 1912 and received a bachelors degree at the University of Iowa in 1925. He attended graduate school at the University of Arizona and at the University of California at Berkeley. He was an elementary school teacher and principal in Missouri before he went to the University of Iowa. He was an instructor in the Normal School at Tempe, Arizona, predecessor of Arizona State University. He was then Dean of this institution from 1933 to 1937. He wrote several textbooks on history and government. Murdock was elected as a Democrat to the 75th Congress and to the seven succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1937 to January 3, 1953. For his first six terms, he was one of two at-large congressmen from Arizona. When the state was split into two districts in 1948, Murdock was elected from the 1st District, comprising Phoenix and Maricopa County. He served as chairman of the Committee on Memorials (Seventy-eighth Congress), Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-ninth Congress), and Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-second Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress, losing to Republican challenger John Jacob Rhodes. He was the first Democratic incumbent to lose a House election in the state. He was married to Myrtle Cheney Murdock, who popularized the accomplishments of Constantino Brumidi.He.

Short description: American politician (1885-1972)
Civil Service Bureau

The Civil Service Bureau (CSB) is one of the 13 policy bureaux under the Government Secretariat of the Government of Hong Kong and is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies on the management of the Hong Kong Civil Service. The Civil Service Bureau (CSB) is led by the Secretary for the Civil Service and has approximately 600 staff. The CSB absorbed the Official Languages Agency (from 1 July 2003) and the Civil Service Training and Development Institute (from 1 April 2004).On 15 January 2021, the CSB announced that civil servants must either sign an oath or a declaration to pledge loyalty to the government. In response, Leung Chau-ting, chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Civil Service Unions, said that the requirements were too vague and that the requirement would give the government power to discipline civil servants.In February 2021, the CSB announced that they will build both a temporary and permanent academy to teach civil servants about national affairs and the national security law.

Short description: bureau of the Hong Kong Government
Empire of the Petal Throne

Empire of the Petal Throne is a fantasy role-playing game designed by M. A. R. Barker, based on his Tékumel fictional universe. It was self-published in 1974, then published by TSR, Inc. in 1975. It was one of the first tabletop role-playing games, along with Dungeons & Dragons, and was the first published RPG game setting. Over the subsequent thirty years, several new games were published based on the Tékumel setting, but to date none have met with commercial success. While published as fantasy, the game is sometimes classified as science fantasy or, debatably, as science fiction.

Short description: tabletop role-playing game supplement (1975)
2014 QNet Open – doubles

The tournament in New Delhi was a new addition to the ITF Women's Circuit. Liu Chang and Lu Jiajing won the title, defeating Marina Melnikova and Elise Mertens in the final, 6–3, 6–0.

Short description: $50,000 ITF Women's Circuit tennis doubles tournament
Andorra

Andorra is a play written by the Swiss dramatist Max Frisch in 1961. The original text came from a prose sketch Frisch had written in his diary titled Der andorranische Jude (The Andorran Jew). The Andorra in Frisch's play is fictional and not intended to be a representation of the real Andorra located between France and Spain. Frisch has stated that the title Andorra had only been intended as a working title but later liked using the term "Andorrans" so much he kept it. In Germany, Andorra remains one of the best known of Frisch's plays.

Short description: play by Max Frisch
Tazeh Kand-e Nasirpur

Tazeh Kand-e Nasirpur (Persian: تازه كندنصيرپور, also Romanized as Tāzeh Kand-e Naşīrpūr) is a village in Quri Chay-ye Gharbi Rural District, Saraju District, Maragheh County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 74, in 18 families.

Short description: village in Iran
Nông Cống

Nông Cống is a district (huyện) of Thanh Hóa province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 185,052. The district covers an area of 286 km². The district capital lies at Nông Cống.

Short description: district in North Central Coast, Vietnam
Chequerbent railway station

Chequerbent railway station was in Westhoughton to the south-west of Bolton, Greater Manchester, on a deviation of the original Bolton Great Moor St to Kenyon Junction line. The station replaced an earlier station on the original line of the railway that had been served by a stationary engine. It was open from 1885 until 1952 for passengers and 1965 for freight.

Short description: former railway station in Westhoughton, Greater Manchester, England (1885-1965)
Lewis-Syford House

The Lewis-Syford House is a historic house on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was built in 1878 for Reverend Elisha M. Lewis, a Presbyterian missionary who had been a chaplain in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and designed in the Second Empire style. It was bequeathed by Constance C. Syford to the Nebraska State Historical Society in 1965. It is the oldest building on the UNL campus. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 18, 1971.

Short description: historic house on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska
Cadra perfasciata

Cadra perfasciata is a species of snout moth in the genus Cadra. It was described by Marianne Horak in 1994. It is found in the southern arid areas of Australia, on both sides of the Nullarbor Plain. The wingspan is 14–17 mm for males and 15–18 mm for females. The head, thorax, forewing and abdomen are finely speckled with white and grey scales or white-tipped grey scales, with a wide colour range from pale (predominantly white scales) to dark grey.

Short description: species of insect
Badrinath Temple

Badrinath or Badrinarayana Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu which is situated in the town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand, India. The temple is also one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshipped as Badrinath—holy shrines for Vaishnavites. It is open for six months every year (between the end of April and the beginning of November), because of extreme weather conditions in the Himalayan region. The temple is located in Garhwal hill tracks in Chamoli district along the banks of Alaknanda River. It is one of the most visited pilgrimage centers of India, having recorded 1,060,000 visits. The image of the presiding deity worshipped in the temple is a 1 ft (0.30 m), the black granite deity of Vishnu in the form of Badrinarayan. The deity is considered by many Hindus to be one of eight swayam vyakta kshetras, or self-manifested deities of Vishnu.Mata Murti Ka Mela, which commemorates the descent of river Ganges on mother earth, is the most prominent festival celebrated in the Badrinath Temple. Although Badrinath is located in North India, the head priest, or Rawal, is traditionally a Nambudiri Brahmin chosen from the South Indian state of Kerala. The temple was included in the Uttar Pradesh state government Act No. 30/1948 as Act no. 16,1939, which later came to be known as Shri Badarinath and Shri Kedarnath Mandir Act. The committee nominated by the state government administers both the temples and has seventeen members on its board. The temple is mentioned in ancient religious texts like Vishnu.

Short description: Hindu temple of Lord Vishnu in Uttarakhand, India
2016 Thai Division 2 League North Eastern Region

2016 Regional League Division 2 North Eastern Region is the 8th season of the League competition since its establishment in 2009. It is in the third tier of the Thai football league system. The league winners and runners up will qualify for the 2016 Regional League Division 2 champions league round.

Short description: football league season
Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers

Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers is the second studio album by indie rock band the National. It was released in 2003 on Brassland Records. This is the first album on which the band worked with Peter Katis, who would produce the band's next albums Alligator and Boxer. The album is the first to feature guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Bryce Dessner (the twin brother of Aaron Dessner) as a full member.

Short description: album by The National
Devaramadugula

Devaramadugula is a village in Y. Ramavaram Mandal, East Godavari district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.

Short description: village in Andhra Pradesh, India
George T. Summerlin

George Thomas Summerlin (November 11, 1872 – July 1, 1947) was an American army officer and diplomat from Louisiana. He was born in Rayville, Louisiana and studied at private schools there. In 1888, he began college at Louisiana State University, before transferring two years later to the United States Military Academy. He graduated from the latter in 1896, and was chosen aide-de-camp to General Theodore Schwan at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War. He rose to the rank of captain in the U.S. Army before resigning in 1903. After a few years in business in Pittsburgh, he entered the State Department as a clerk. After rising through the ranks and serving in Japan, China, Mexico and Italy, he was appointed Minister to Honduras in 1924. In 1929, he was transferred to Venezuela, and in 1934 to Panama.In 1937, President Roosevelt appointed Summerlin Chief of Protocol of the United States. He was promoted to Special Assistant to the Secretary in 1944 and retired for health reasons in 1946. He died at the Navy Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Summerlin was married in 1899 to Virginia Loomis, a granddaughter of Jacob Jay Vandergrift.

Short description: American diplomat (1872-1947)
Kenny Roberts

Kenneth Leroy Roberts (born December 31, 1951, in Modesto, California) is an American former professional motorcycle racer and racing team owner. In 1978, he became the first American to win a Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship. He was also a two-time winner of the A.M.A. Grand National Championship. Roberts is one of only four riders in American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) racing history to win the AMA Grand Slam, representing Grand National wins at a mile, half-mile, short-track, TT Steeplechase and road race events.Roberts left his mark on Grand Prix motorcycle racing as a world championship winning rider, a safety advocate, a racing team owner, and as a motorcycle engine and chassis constructor. His dirt track-based riding style changed the way Grand Prix motorcycles were ridden. Roberts' proposal to create a rival motorcycle championship in 1979 broke the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) hegemony and increased the political clout of Grand Prix racers, which subsequently led to improved safety standards and a new era of professionalism in the sport. In 2000, Roberts was named a Grand Prix Legend by the FIM. He is also the father of 2000 Grand Prix world champion Kenny Roberts Jr.

Short description: American motorcycle racer
Brandau Glacier

Brandau Glacier (84°54′S 173°30′E) is a wide tributary glacier, 15 nautical miles (28 km) long, flowing westward from an ice divide between Haynes Table and Husky Heights to enter Keltie Glacier just west of Ford Spur. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander James F. Brandau, U.S. Navy, a pilot with Squadron VX-6, Operation Deepfreeze 1964 and 1965.

Short description: glacier in Antarctica
1971 Mississippi gubernatorial election

The 1971 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on 2 November 1971 for the post of Governor of Mississippi. The incumbent governor, Democrat John Bell Williams, was ineligible due to term limits, a rule that was changed to two back-to-back terms in the 1980s.Democrat Bill Waller, the former District Attorney of Hinds County, was chosen as his party's nominee in a contested primary. Running as an independent, Mayor of Fayette Charles Evers became the first African-American candidate for Governor of Mississippi.

Short description: election for the governorship of the U.S. state of Mississippi
Outlier

Outlier is the second studio album by the Australian alternative metal band Twelve Foot Ninja. It was released on 26 August 2016 and contains ten tracks, with one bonus track. The album entered the ARIA Albums Chart at #6 during its first week of release.

Short description: second studio album by Twelve Foot Ninja
Antigius

Antigius is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the eastern Palearctic realm (China, Korea, Japan, and the Russian Far East), as well as Taiwan and Myanmar.

Short description: genus of insects
Thomas Pritzker

Thomas Pritzker (born June 6, 1950) is an American billionaire heir and businessman. A member of the Pritzker family, he is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Pritzker Organization (TPO), which manages the various Pritzker family business assets, and the executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

Short description: American billionaire
Delia Weber

Delia Weber (23 October 1900 – 28 December 1982) was a Dominican Republic teacher, artist, poet and film actress, as well as a feminist and supporter of women's suffrage. Through her writing and painting, she portrayed the world in which she lived and the restrictions placed upon her life. Founding several cultural and feminist clubs, Weber successfully navigated the Trujillo years, helping to gain both civil and political rights for women.

Short description: Afro-Dominican teacher, artist, poet and film actress
Estaj, Sabzevar

Estaj (Persian: استاج, also Romanized as Estāj; also known as Estāch and Usmaj) is a village in Khavashod Rural District, Rud Ab District, Sabzevar County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 267, in 121 families.

Short description: Village in Iran
Granite Construction

Granite Construction Inc. is a member of the S&P 600 Index based in Watsonville, California, and is the parent corporation of Granite Construction Company, a heavy civil general contractor and construction material producer. Incorporated in 1922 and publicly traded since 1990, Granite Construction Company is composed of a materials division and two geographically divided operating divisions (Granite West, located in Watsonville, and Granite East, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex suburb of Lewisville, Texas), under which are several regional offices. Granite specializes in both public and private sector transportation infrastructure projects that include: roads, highways, tunnels, bridges, locks and dams, mass transit facilities and airports. The materials division produces construction materials such as sand, gravel, ready-mix and asphalt concrete.

Short description: American Construction Firm
Peace in Our Time

"Peace in Our Time" is a song that became a hit in the US and Canada for Eddie Money in 1989, and in the UK for Cliff Richard in 1993. The song was written by Andy Hill and Peter Sinfield and was originally released by Jennifer Holliday on the 1988 Summer Olympics album One Moment in Time for the Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea.

Short description: 1989 song performed by Eddie Money
Pardosa yavapa

Pardosa yavapa is a species of wolf spider in the family Lycosidae. It is found in the United States.

Short description: species of arachnid
Chen Shiwei

Chen Shiwei (陈时伟; born 2 August 1991) is a Chinese track and field sprint athlete who competes in the Men's 4x100m relay event. He is from Changle District, Fuzhou. Chen holds Chinese records and won the men's 4x100m relay at the 2014 Asian Games. Chen holds the Asian record of the 4x100m relay, 37.99 in Incheon.

Short description: Chinese athletics competitor
Kovno Kollel

Kovno Kollel also known as Kollel Perushim of Kovno or Kollel Knesses Beis Yitzchok, was a kollel located in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was founded in 1877 by Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter when he was 67. Kovno Kollel's purpose was the furtherance of hora'ah (expertise in deciding matters of Jewish law) and musar - by supporting and guiding exceptional Torah scholars in their development as authorities.

Short description: Jewish educational institution in Kaunas, Lithuania
Populus euphratica

Populus euphratica, commonly known as the Euphrates poplar, desert poplar, diversiform-leaved poplar, or poplar diversifolia, is a species of poplar tree in the willow family.

Short description: species of plant
Sanghavi

Sangavi (born Kavya Ramesh) is an Indian actress and a model known for her work predominantly in Tamil and Telugu language films. She was one of the leading actresses in South Indian cinema for a decade from 1993 to 2004. In her career spanning 15 years, she starred in over 80 feature films - 36 films in Telugu, 35 films in Tamil, 6 films in Kannada, 2 films in Malayalam and 1 film in Hindi.

Short description: Indian actress
Fidela Oller Angelats

Fidela Oller Angelats (born Maria Dolors Oller Angelats; 17 September 1869 - 30 August 1936) was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and professed member from the Religious Sisters of Saint Joseph of Girona. Oller was born to potters and lived her life in her town until she set herself on entering a religious order. But the premature death of her father forced her to return home to tend to her mother and brothers though she later returned to the order for her profession and religious life. Oller moved from place to place in service to her order and rendered her assistance to the ill in hospitals where she was known for her attentiveness and comfort.The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 caused her to hide in different locations in Gandía where she had been stationed until she moved in with a fellow religious: Sister Josefa Monrabal Montaner. But the two were discovered and the militiamen who came to arrest them hauled them into a truck and then gunned them down along a road at Xeresa.The pair were beatified alongside their colleague Caterina Margenat Roura (who had been slain that same week as them) on 5 September 2015 in the Girona Cathedral after Pope Francis confirmed their beatification in a decree issued some months prior.

Short description: Spanish Roman Catholic nun and martyr
Wielogłowy, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Wielogłowy [vjɛlɔˈɡwɔvɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełmiec, within Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Chełmiec, 7 km (4 mi) north of Nowy Sącz, and 69 km (43 mi) south-east of the regional capital Kraków.The village has a population of 1,102.

Short description: village in Lesser Poland, Poland
Bacteroides plebeius

Phocaeicola plebeius, formerly Bacteroides plebeius, is a microbe found in the human gut, most often found in Japan natives. The microbe is believed to have obtained the gene for degradation of porphyran via horizontal gene transfer. The porphyranase encoding gene is believed to have been derived from the microbe Zobellia galactanivorans. Microbes in the gut are responsible for their production of carbohydrate active enzymes or CAZymes. CAZymes are responsible for a variety of functions involving complex carbohydrates such as synthesis, recognition, or metabolism. Moreover, CAZymes are not encoded in the human genome, highlighting the importance of microbes in digestive processes. P. plebeius contains a gene known as BACPLE_01693 which encodes β-porphyranase-A.

Short description: species of bacterium
Switchblade Symphony

Switchblade Symphony was an American dark wave band from San Francisco, California. Their music combined orchestral sounds with heavy synth sequences and ethereal vocals to create a union of classical music and gothic rock.

Short description: American dark wave band
Henrik Ottesen

Henrik Ottesen (born 29 January 1934) is a Danish boxer. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Short description: boxer
Kammerflimmer Kollektief

Kammerflimmer Kollektief is a German musical group, founded by Thomas Weber, consisting of Heike Aumüller, Johannes Frisch, Christopher Brunner, Heike Wendelin, and D. Wurm. They play a mixture of jazz, noise, electronic music, free jazz and experimental music. Formed in 1997, they have released to date 8 albums, and have appeared on many jazz and electronic compilation albums. In 2012 they formed the band The Schwarzenbach together with German writer Dietmar Dath and released the album Farnschiffe.

Short description: band that plays jazz
Andrew Pryce Jackman

Andrew Pryce Jackman (13 July 1946 – 16 August 2003) was an English keyboardist, arranger and composer. He was in the Syn with bassist Chris Squire (later of Yes). Jackman subsequently worked on Squire's solo album Fish Out of Water (1975), his single "Run with the Fox" (1980), on the Yes album Tormato (1978) and on The Steve Howe Album (1979).

Short description: English keyboardist, arranger and composer
Sarah Spurgeon

Sarah Katherine Spurgeon (born 4 December 1963) is the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She served as President of the Engineering Professors' Council from 2017 to 2019. She has previously served as Head of the Department of Engineering at both the University of Leicester and University of Kent.

Short description: British electrical engineer
Martín Parejo

Martín Parejo Maza (born July 15, 1989) is an athlete from Spain. He has visual impairment and is a T11/B1 type athlete.

Short description: Spanish paralympic athlete
Raj Kapoor

Raj Kapoor (born 15 August 1958) is an Indian film director and actor, who has worked predominantly in Tamil cinema. He introduced cinematic techniques in his Tamil serial Nandini causing a huge hype in south Indian film industry. He has also appeared as a supporting actor in Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films.

Short description: Indian film director and actor
329th Armament Systems Group

The 329th Armament Systems Group is an inactive United States Air Force unit, last assigned to the Air Armament Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. It was inactivated in 2007. The group was first activated in July 1942 as the 329th Fighter Group. It acted as an Operational Training Unit for fighter units and as a Replacement Training Unit for Lockheed P-38 Lightning pilots deploying to overseas theaters until 1944, when it was disbanded in a major reorganization of the Army Air Forces training units. The group was activated again as part of Project Arrow, a program by Air Defense Command (ADC) to revive World War II fighter units to replace its Air Defense Groups. It was inactivated in 1959 when ADC realigned its fighter force. The Air Armament Systems Group was activated in 2005 as part of the Air Force Materiel Command Transformation, in which Air Force Materiel Command replaced its traditional directorates with wings, groups, and squadrons. The following year it was consolidated with the 329th Group as the 329th Armament Systems Group. It was inactivated in 2007 when the Air Armament Center combined its units into the 308th Armament Systems Wing.

Short description: military unit
26th Venice International Film Festival

The 26th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 6 September 1965.

Short description: 1965 film festival edition
Darwish

Darwish and Darvish (and in French more prominently Darwich and Darwiche) are alternate transliterations of the Persian word "dervish", used in Arabic: درويش, referring to a Sufi aspirant. There is no v sound in most Modern Arabic dialects and so the originally Persian word is usually pronounced with a w sound in Arabic. The word appears as a surname in the Levant or for people descended from Levantine communities, particularly in Lebanon, Syria, Israel Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories. In Iraq, the surname, which in Arabic means "wandering, roaming", has been borne by people of Jewish descent as well. An etymology for the name is given in the Oxford Dictionary of American Family Names: Status name for a Sufi holy man, from Persian and Turkish derviş ‘dervish’, a member of a Sufi Muslim religious order, from Pahlavi driyosh meaning ‘Wayfarer’, ‘one who goes from town to town’ in search of Knowledge, he had to earn his food by his means. He could not live like a hermit in solitude, he had to live in public.

Short description: family name
Legend Quest

Legend Quest is an American adventure television series that premiered on July 13, 2011, on the SyFy channel. The series follows historian and adventure-seeker Ashley Cowie in his quest to crack the code on his hunt for the most powerful lost treasures in the world. On March 12, 2012, TVWise reported that the series has been cancelled by Syfy.

Short description: television series
Rita Gam

Rita Gam (born Rita Eleanore MacKay, April 2, 1927 – March 22, 2016) was an American film and television actress and documentary filmmaker. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

Short description: American actress
Honesdale Residential Historic District

Honesdale Residential Historic District, is a national historic district located at Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 289 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites in a predominantly residential neighborhood of Honesdale. The residences were built between 1830 and 1940, in a variety of popular architectural styles including Greek Revival, Italianate, Bungalow / American Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne. The larger homes are typically 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame dwellings with hipped and gable roofs. The district also includes some former factories, such as the Irving Cut Glass Co. and Honesdale Show Company, and a former Armory. The contributing sites consist of four cemeteries and Riverside Park.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Short description: historic district in Pennsylvania, United States
Tropical Storm Faxai

Severe Tropical Storm Faxai, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Juaning, was a short-lived tropical storm that had minor effects on land. The twentieth named storm of the 2007 Pacific typhoon season, Faxai originated from a tropical depression over the open waters of the western Pacific Ocean in late October. The storm quickly strengthened, becoming a severe tropical storm on October 26 as it rapidly traveled toward the northeast. The storm became extratropical the following day as it brushed Japan. The remnants dissipated on October 28. Although Faxai never made landfall, outer bands associated with the storm produced torrential rains, amounting to 458 mm (18.0 in) on Miyakejima. A Japan Airlines flight to Narita Airport encountered severe turbulence during the afternoon of October 27. One person sustained serious injuries, and five others received minor injuries; the plane was damaged during the event. One person was killed near Tokyo as the storm passed by, and three others were injured. Damages from the storm amounted to ¥150 million (US$1.5 million).

Short description: Pacific severe tropical storm in 2007
Priozernoye, Amur Oblast

Priozernoye (Russian: Приозёрное) is a rural locality (a selo) in Srednebelsky Selsoviet of Ivanovsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia. The population was 184 as of 2018. There are 7 streets.

Short description: village in Ivanovsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia
NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships

The NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships for individuals and teams were first officially sponsored in 1963 and have since been held annually. The NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships is a double-elimination tournament for individuals competing in ten weight classes. Sixteen wrestlers in each class qualify through four "Super Regional" tournaments. During the championships, individual match winners earn points based on the level and quality of the victory, which are totaled to determine the team championship standings. In addition to determining the national championship, the NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships also determine the Division II All-America team. The top eight finishers in each weight class qualify for Division II All-American status. On March 13, 2020, the NCAA cancelled all of its 2020 wrestling championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Short description: football tournament
Guzmania variegata

Guzmania variegata is a plant species in the genus Guzmania. This species is native to Ecuador and Peru.

Short description: species of plant
Paradiarsia

Paradiarsia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.

Short description: genus of insects in the family of Owlet moths (Noctuidae)
Iota Hydrae

Iota Hydrae (ι Hydrae, abbreviated Iota Hya, ι Hya), formally named Ukdah , is a star in the constellation of Hydra, about 8° to the north-northwest of Alphard (Alpha Hydrae) and just to the south of the celestial equator. Visible to the naked eye, it is a suspected variable star with an apparent visual magnitude that ranges between 3.87 and 3.91. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 12.39 mas measured during the Hipparcos mission, it is located around 263 light-years from the Sun.

Short description: star in the constellation Hydra
Henri-César de Castellane-Majastre

Henri-César de Castellane-Majastre (1733-1789) was a French aristocrat, landowner and Navy officer.

Short description: French landowner and sailor (1733-1789)
Doufelgou

Doufelgou is a prefecture located in the Kara Region of Togo. The capital city is Niamtougou. Doufelgou means White Mountain (white= felm & mountain= dour).The cantons (or subdivisions) of Doufelgou include Niamtougou, Siou, Défalé, Alloum, Massédéna, Kadjalla, Pouda, Léon, Agbandé-Yaka, Baga, Ténéga, Kpaha, Koka, and Tchoré.

Short description: prefecture of Togo
Up Against the Wall Motherfucker

Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, often shortened as The Motherfuckers or UAW/MF, was a Dadaist and Situationist anarchist affinity group based in New York City. This "street gang with analysis" was famous for its Lower East Side direct action.

Short description: American anarchist affinity group (1967-1969)
Muniria

Muniria is a genus of four species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory in Australia. Plants in this genus are woolly shrubs with five petals joined to form a tube-shaped flower with four stamens of unequal lengths. These species are similar to those in the genus Pityrodia except that the branches are distinctly 4-angled in cross section and the fruit has calluses or ridges.

Short description: genus of plants
Stephen Laybutt

Stephen Laybutt (born 3 September 1977) is an Australian footballer.

Short description: Australian association football player
Maurice Halperin

Maurice Hyman Halperin (1906–1995) was an American writer, professor, diplomat, and accused Soviet spy (NKVD code name "Hare").

Short description: American diplomat
Buchholz (Nordheide) railway station

Buchholz (Nordheide) (German: Bahnhof Buchholz (Nordheide)) is a railway station located in Buchholz in der Nordheide, Germany. The station is located on the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway, Heath Railway and Wittenberge–Buchholz railway. The train services are operated by Metronom and Erixx.

Short description: railway station in Buchholz in der Nordheide, Germany
KNIA

KNIA (1320 kHz "Real Country AM 1320") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Knoxville, Iowa, United States. The station airs a classic country radio format and is owned by M and H Broadcasting, Inc. Programming is also heard on two FM translator stations: 95.3 K237DH in Knoxville and 94.3 K232FR in Indianola. KNIA includes local news and information in its weekday schedule. On Sundays, Southern Gospel music and other religious programming is aired. KNIA also broadcasts local high school football and basketball games.

Short description: radio station in Knoxville, Iowa
Nové Vilémovice

Nové Vilémovice (in German Neu-Wilmsdorf) is a small village located in the Rychlebské Hory (Reichensteiner Gebirge in German) in the north-western part of Moravia in the Czech Republic, a territory historically known as Sudetenland. In the past, the village also administered two nearby settlements Hraničky and Červený Důl and today is a part of the village Uhelná.

Short description: village in Jeseník District of Olomouc region
Sidney H. Haughton

Sidney Henry Haughton FRS (7 May 1888 – 24 May 1982) was an English-born South African paleontologist and geologist best known for his description of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Melanorosaurus in 1924, and his work on the geology of the Witwatersrand. Haughton was born on 7 May 1888 in Bethnal Green, London. He was the eldest of three children born to Henry Charles Haughton and Alice Aves. During World War I, Haughton enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps, was posted to Egypt and then India, and picked up malaria, leading to his discharge from the army. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961. His candidature citation read: "Honorary Director of Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, Witwatersrand University; formerly Director of the Geological Survey of South Africa and Chief Geologist, South Africa Atomic Energy Board. The outstanding living authority on the geology of South Africa. Distinguished for the value and wide range of contributions to the geology of southern and central Africa especially in the fields of palaeozoology, stratigraphy and economic geology. To the systematic study of Karoo reptiles alone he has devoted 37 papers; other researches contain mollusca, fishes, amphibia and mammalia. Currently is co-ordinating geological studies throughout Africa south of the Sahara. The list of 106 publications is attached. "Haughton's work on South African geology culminated in the 1964 publication of Gold Deposits of the Witwatersrand Basin: The Geology of Some Ore Deposits of Southern Africa, Volume 1, a collection of 18 papers on Witwatersrand geology.

Short description: British paleontologist (1888-1982)
English Presbyterian Church of Wales, Chester

The English Presbyterian Church of Wales is in City Road, Chester, Cheshire, England. The church was built in 1864, and designed by Michael Gummow of Wrexham. It is constructed with a stuccoed front and brick sides, and has a slate roof. The architectural style is Neoclassical, Its entrance front is in five bays; it has a portico with four Ionic columns, and a three-bay pediment. The opposite end of the church is apsidal. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade listed building.

Short description: grade II listed church in the United kingdom
Feijó Airport

Feijó Airport (IATA: FEJ, ICAO: SNOU) is the airport serving Feijó, Brazil.

Short description: airport in Brazil
Farhana Sultana

Farhana Sultana is an Associate Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, where she is also a Research Director for the Program on Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Her research considers how water management and climate change impact society. Her first book, The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles, investigates the relationships between human rights and access to clean water.

Short description: Bangladeshi environmental scientist and researcher
CDC34

CDC34 is a gene that in humans encodes the protein Ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2 R1. This protein is a member of the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme family, which catalyzes the covalent attachment of ubiquitin to other proteins.CDC34 was originally discovered by work in baker's yeast as a gene that is essential for the cell cycle. Cdc34 in yeast targets numerous substrates - notably the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor Sic1 - for ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. CDC34 is required for ubiquitin-mediated degradation of cell cycle G1 regulators, and for the initiation of DNA replication.

Short description: protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
The Golden Scarab

The Golden Scarab is the debut studio album by former Doors member Ray Manzarek as a solo artist. It was recorded in 1973 and released in 1974 on the Mercury label after the Doors breakup.

Short description: album by Ray Manzarek
1988 Stewartry District Council election

Elections to the Stewartry District Council took place in May 1988, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The number of seats and the total vote share won by each party is listed below.

Short description: election in Stewartry, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Ho Thành Chinh

Ho Thành Chinh (born 21 December 1941) is a Vietnamese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Short description: Vietnamese sprinter
Antonio Maria Camalda

Antonio Maria Camalda (1601–1690) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Strongoli (1663–1690).

Short description: 17th-century Roman Catholic bishop
Mordellistena sexmaculata

Mordellistena sexmaculata is a species of beetle in the genus Mordellistena of the family Mordellidae. It was described by Champion in 1891.

Short description: species of beetle
Donald R. Heath

Donald Read Heath (August 12, 1894 – October 15, 1981) was a member of the United States Foreign Service for more than four decades including service as the Minster to Laos (1950–1954), and Ambassador to Cambodia (1950–1954), Vietnam (1952–1955), Lebanon (1955–1957) and Saudi Arabia (1958–1961). During his tenure as Ambassador to Vietnam, Heath advocated and carried out American policy under Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that helped set the stage for American military involvement.Heath was born in Topeka, Kansas the son of Hubert A. and Estelle (Read) Heath. He was educated in Topeka public schools and graduated from Washburn University about 1915. He attended the University of Montpellier in France for one semester. While a student at Washburn, Heath was a member of the Kansas Beta Chapter of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity where among his chapter brothers was Arthur S. Champeny. On October 10, 1920, he married Sue Louise Bell. In 1950, Washburn awarded Heath its Distinguished Service Award. In 1958, the Washburn again honored him with an honorary doctorate of laws.

Short description: American diplomat (1894-1981)
KAJR-LD

KAJR-LD, virtual channel 36 (UHF digital channel 21), is a low-powered Movies!-affiliated television station serving Des Moines, Iowa, United States that is licensed to Fort Dodge. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings, as part of a duopoly with KCYM-LD (channel 45). The station broadcasts its digital signal on from a transmitter located near Baxter.

Short description: television station in Iowa , United States
Ala Al-Sasi

Ala Al-Sasi (Arabic: علاء الصاصي) (born 2 July 1987) is a Yemeni international footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder.

Short description: footballer
Rissoina multicostata

Rissoina multicostata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoinidae.

Short description: species of mollusc
Ethel, Lady Pearson

Ethel Maud, Lady Pearson, (née Fraser; 3 November 1870 – 10 April 1959) was a British humanitarian who was active in charities to aid the blind.She was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of William John Fraser of Herne Bay, Kent, an engineer, and his wife Jane. On 3 June 1897, she married, as his second wife, the publisher Arthur Pearson, who was created a baronet in 1916.She became heavily involved in St Dunstan's Hostel for the Blind, the home for blinded soldiers that her husband, who became blind himself, founded in 1915. For these services, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 Birthday Honours.She was also a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). She founded the Blind Musicians Concert Party, which enabled musicians who had been blinded in the war to earn a living for themselves, as well as bring in funds for St Dunstan's and the RNIB. By 1920, it had raised an estimated (equivalent to £4,273,000 in 2021). Following her husband's death in 1921 she succeeded him as president of St Dunstan's and held the position until 1947, when she was succeeded by their only son, Sir Neville Pearson.Lady Pearson died on 10 April 1959, aged 88, at her home at 17 Eresby House, Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge, London.

Short description: British humanitarian
Addo Ndala

Addo Ndala (born 27 April 1973) is a Congolese hurdler. She competed in the women's 400 metres hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Short description: congolese athlet
Cobrastyle

"Cobrastyle" is a song performed by Swedish band Teddybears, featuring Jamaican singer Mad Cobra. The song was released on their 2004 album Fresh, and reissued on their 2006 album Soft Machine. It was released as a single on 6 June 2006.

Short description: 2004 song performed by Mad Cobra, Teddybears
Investigative Committee of Russia

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (Russian: Следственный комитет Российской Федерации) has since January 2011 been the main federal investigating authority in Russia. Its name (Sledstvennyi komitet) is usually abbreviated to SKR (Russian: СКР). The agency replaced the Russian Prosecutor General's Investigative Committee and operates as Russia's anti-corruption agency. It is answerable to the President of Russia and has statutory responsibility for inspecting the police forces, combating police corruption and police misconduct and is responsible for conducting investigations into local authorities and federal governmental bodies. On January 21, 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree appointing Alexander Bastrykin, then the acting chair of the Prosecutor General's investigative committee, as Sledkom's chairperson. In 2012 President Medvedev began to discuss the possibility of creating a Federal Anti-Corruption Bureau under Sledkom, as part of the campaign against corruption and to combat corruption in the Russian police.

Short description: investigative authority of Russia
Arnold Islets

Arnold Islets are about 3 islands about 10 km east of the Jardine River Resource Reserve Jardine River National Park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, in the Cape York Peninsula about 70 km southeast of Bamaga. The island covers an area of about 5 hectares.

Short description: islands of Queensland
Flavus

Flavus (Latin: the blond) was a son of a Cheruscan chief called Segimerus and a younger brother to the German leader Arminius. Flavus' Germanic name is unknown; Flavus in Latin means "the blonde," probably relating to the colour of his hair. Like his elder brother, Arminius, Flavus was given Roman citizenship and served as an auxiliary specifically in the Equites. He lost one of his eyes while fighting in the Illyrian Revolt at the siege of Andetrium in 9 AD. Unlike his brother Arminius, who was the leading figure of the uprising against the Romans in Germania who also orchestrated Rome's devastating defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Flavus remained loyal to Rome and served as an officer in the army. Flavus was a soldier under Tiberius in the Roman army and opposed the Germans. Flavus clashed with his brother Arminius, winning the Battle of the Weser River, whose spark was in part due to Arminius learning of the Roman capture of his wife and child. Rome had avenged its humiliating defeat at the hands of Arminius and then withdrew behind the Rhine. Flavus had a son called Italicus who in 47 AD became chieftain of the Cherusci. The tribe had appealed to Rome for the only member of the royal house still alive to lead their tribe, the son of Flavus.

Short description: son of a Cheruscan chief called Segimerus and a younger brother to the German leader Arminius