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Siouxland

Siouxland is a vernacular region that encompasses the entire Big Sioux River drainage basin in the U.S. states of South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa. The demonym for a resident of Siouxland is Siouxlander. A "vernacular region" is a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, mutual interests, and a common identity. Such regions are "intellectual inventions" and a form of shorthand to identify things, people, and places. Vernacular regions reflect a "sense of place," but rarely coincide with established jurisdictional borders.The lower Big Sioux River drainage basin stretches from Sioux City, Iowa, to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, an area that includes much of northwestern Iowa, the northeast corner of Nebraska, the southeast corner of South Dakota, and the extreme southwest corner of Minnesota. The term "Siouxland" was coined by author Frederick Manfred in 1946. Manfred was born in Doon, Iowa, a small town in Lyon County.

Short description: region of the United States
Eric Bennett

Eric Christopher Bennett (born 4 November 1973) is an American Paralympic archer from Surprise, Arizona and World Para-Archery Champion, as well as a Parapan American Games silver medalist. He is a four-time U.S. national champion. He has competed three times at the Summer Paralympics and won a gold medal at the 2015 World Championships in Men's recurve.

Short description: American Paralympic archer
Hussite trilogy

The Hussite Trilogy (Polish: Trylogia husycka, Polish pronunciation: [trɨˈlɔɡʲ.ja xuˈsɨt͡s.ka]) is a historical fantasy series of novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. It consists of three books: The Tower of Fools, Warriors of God and Light Perpetual. It is set in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (mostly Silesia and Bohemia) during the Hussite Wars (1419–1434). The series have been translated into numerous languages, including Czech, Slovakian, Russian, Serbian, German, Ukrainian and Spanish. The trilogy is to be published by Orbit in the US and Gollancz in the UK, who have purchased the rights. It will be translated by David French, who has worked with Sapkowski on The Witcher series.The main protagonist of the series is Reinmar von Bielau (Polish: Reinmar z Bielawy, i.e., Reinmar of Bielawa) known as Reynevan. He is a doctor and magician, and eventually a spy for the Hussites. Of nationality, he defines himself as "Silesian", rather than Czech, Pole or German. He studied in Prague.When asked about the creation of the trilogy, Sapkowski explained that he considered The Witcher saga of Geralt well-rounded and did not want to write any sequels. Therefore, he decided to write something completely different and chose the subgenre of historical fantasy. Further, he chose the setting of Bohemia and the Hussite Wars because, as he said, he frequently visited that area, and since the Hussite Wars is an important period in these lands, there are plenty of books on the subject. Also, the Hussite Wars are closely related to the Polish history of the period.

Short description: historical fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski
Gaurika Singh

Gaurika Singh (Nepali: गौरिका सिंह; born 26 November 2002) is a Nepali swimmer. She has held many national records since beginning her swimming career at the young age of eight. She has set the record of winning 4 gold medals in a season of the 2019 South Asian games held in Nepal. She won two silver and three bronze medals for swimming at the 2016 South Asian Games. She also participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as the youngest Olympian, representing Nepal in the Women's 100m backstroke. She has been included in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2021 Entertainment and Sports list.

Short description: Nepalese swimmer
HD 19467 B

HD 19467 B (also stylized as HD 19467 b) is a brown dwarf or a super-Jupiter exoplanet orbiting around the Sun-like star, HD 19467 approximately 101 light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus. It has a surface temperature of 978.0 K (704.9 °C; 1,300.7 °F), and is classified as a T5.5.

Short description: exoplanet
Azalea

Azalea is a populated place located within the city of Asheville, North Carolina in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

Short description: populated place in North Carolina, United States
Alhambra Creek

Alhambra Creek is a stream in Contra Costa County, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California.

Short description: river in the United States of America
Gong Ji-young

Gong Ji-young (Korean: 공지영; born January 31, 1963) is a South Korean novelist.

Short description: South Korean writer
Tone Dale House

Tone Dale House (or Tonedale House) is a Grade II listed country house built in 1801 or 1807 by Thomas Fox in Wellington, Somerset, England. Wellington lies 7 miles (11 km) west of Taunton in the vale of Taunton Deane, 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Devon border. Tone Dale House, also known as House of Fox, offers views of Somerset which include the Quantock hills to the north and the Blackdown Hills to the south.

Short description: house in Wellington, Taunton Deane, Somerset, UK
Cebrenninus

Cebrenninus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by S. P. Benjamin in 2016. It is a senior synonym of Ascurisoma.

Short description: genus of arachnids
Chinese Basketball Association

The Chinese Basketball Association (simplified Chinese: 中国男子篮球职业联赛; traditional Chinese: 中國男子籃球職業聯賽; pinyin: Zhōngguó Nánzǐ Lánqiú Zhíyè Liánsài), often abbreviated as the CBA, is the first-tier professional men's basketball league in China. It is widely regarded as the preeminent professional men's basketball league in Asia. The league is commonly known by fans as the CBA, and this acronym is even used in Chinese on a regular basis. The CBA should not be confused with the National Basketball League (NBL), which is a professional minor league. There is also a Women's Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA). A few Chinese players who competed in the CBA in the early stages of their careers — including Wang Zhizhi, Mengke Bateer, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue, and Zhou Qi — have also played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Others such as Xue Yuyang and Wang Zhelin were chosen in the draft, but have not played in the NBA. Only a limited number of foreign players are allowed on each CBA team. Notable imports include former NBA All-Stars Stephon Marbury, Tracy McGrady, Gilbert Arenas, Steve Francis, and Metta World Peace — as well as several NBA veterans who would become CBA All-Stars — Michael Beasley, Aaron Brooks, Jimmer Fredette, Al Harrington, Lester Hudson, Kenyon Martin, Randolph Morris, Shavlik Randolph, Jeremy Lin and J.R. Smith.

Short description: top professional men's basketball league in China
Thomas Erle Drax

Thomas Erle Drax (1721 – December 1789) was an English Tory politician. He served as a Member of Parliament for constituencies in Dorset in the 18th century. He was the son of Henry Drax, British MP and owner of slave plantations in Barbados and Jamaica.

Short description: British Member of Parliament (died 1789)
Saïd Amara

Saïd Amara (Arabic: سعيد عمارة; 11 March 1933 – 2 August 2020) was an Algerian football player and manager.

Short description: Algerian association football player (1933-2020)
MacDonald Park

MacDonald Park is a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Playford. It is north and west of a bend in the Max Fatchen Expressway, bounded by Curtis Road and Heaslip Road on the north and west sides. The suburb boundaries were adjusted on 2 June 2011 when the Max Fatchen Expressway was built so that suburbs did not span the expressway. The area south of Petherton Road changed from Penfield to Macdonald Park, and the area between the Expressway and Andrews Road changed from Macdonald Park to Andrews Farm. Some of the current suburb and part of the land transferred to Andrews Farm was formerly the Smithfield Munitions Store, which had been closed before the expressway was built across it. The Curtis Road interchange is also built on former munitions store land.

Short description: suburb of Adelaide, South Australia
Pro-Beijing camp

Pro-Beijing camp, pro-establishment camp or pro-China camp (Chinese: 建制派 or 親中派; Portuguese: campo pró-Pequim, campo pró-estabelecimento or campo pró-China) is a segment of Macau society which supports the policies and views of China and Chinese Communist Party before and after the handover of Macau on 20 December 1999. The term can be used to identify politicians, political parties and individuals. Their rivals are the pro-democracy camp.

Short description: pro-Chinese Communist Party segment of Macanese society
Alec McClure

Alexander McClure (3 April 1892 – 2 October 1971) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre half. He played for Birmingham both before and after the First World War, making 198 appearances in all competitions, and helped them win the championship of the Second Division in 1920–21. He also played in the Football League for Aston Villa, Stoke, Coventry City and Walsall.

Short description: English footballer (1892-1973)
Marcel Bellefeuille

Marcel Bellefeuille (born March 19, 1966) is a Canadian football coach who is the head coach of the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees and the wide receivers coach for the Philadelphia Stars of the United States Football League (USFL). He originally began his coaching career with Ottawa in 1995 and won the program's second Vanier Cup championship in 2000. He then spent 16 years coaching in the Canadian Football League (CFL), including a stint as the head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 2008 to 2011. Bellefeuille returned as head coach of the Gee-Gees in 2020.

Short description: Canadian football coach
2003 United Kingdom elections

Various elections were held in the United Kingdom in 2003, including: 2003 Scottish Parliament election 2003 National Assembly for Wales election 2003 United Kingdom local elections.

Short description: elections held in the United Kingdom in 2003
Nowina-Przęsławice

Nowina-Przęsławice [nɔˈvina pʂɛ̃swaˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pniewy, within Grójec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

Short description: village in Masovian, Poland
George Cartwright

George Cartwright (12 February 1739/40 – 19 May 1819) was an English army officer and a trader and explorer in Newfoundland and Labrador. His name is borne by Cartwright, a settlement at the entrance to Sandwich Bay.

Short description: English army officer and trader in Newfoundland and Labrador (1739-1819)
Murad Beg Khan

Murad Beg Khan was briefly the Khan of Kokand after he killed Shir Ali Khan. After requesting the assistance of the Emirate of Bukhara, Musulmonqul travelled to Namangan and gave his daughter as a "gift" to Khudayar before brought the young Khudayar to Kokand, where he was declared Khan with Musulmonqul as regent. Murad had been khan for only eleven days before he was killed and Khudayar put in power.

Short description: Khan of Kokand in 1845
Splash

The Splash Dinghy is 3.5 m in length and all boats are identical, thus, as is typical in One-Design classes, the sailor's ability rather than equipment is emphasised fleet racing. The boats employ an un-stayed mono rig with a sail area of 6.3 m2, which makes the class easy to handle by sailors ranging from 45 to 80 kg. This, combined with the low hull weight of 55 kg, allow the class to serve as a stepping stone between the Optimist Dinghy and boats such as the Laser Radial, suiting sailors in the age range from 13 to 21 years. Competitions are held at club, national and international level. In New Zealand, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, and many other countries in Europe, the National Splash Associations arrange many events during the season, ranging from the travellers’ ranking series, training camps, coaching, national champs, and world selection trials. New boats cost around EURO 4500, but second hand boats are considerably cheaper and some clubs have schemes whereby sailors can charter boats until they decide to continue with the class. The Splash is capable of speeds of over 10 knots on a broad reach, and has performance very similar to Laser 4.7 - its Portsmouth Yardstick is 1184, slightly higher than the Laser 4.7. It is similar in appearance to a Laser hull but is shorter and wider and has a vertical bow.

Short description: international racing sailing class
Gokurakuji Station

Gokurakuji Station (極楽寺駅, Gokurakuji-eki) is a commuter railway station on the Enoshima Electric Railway (Enoden) located in the Gokurakuji neighborhood of the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Short description: railway station in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Bowery Street Grocery Store

The Bowery Street Grocery Store, also known as Helmer's Grocery and as the New Pioneer Food Cooperative, is a historic building located on the far west side of Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The building's construction is consistent with those built in the mid-19th century. The single-story wood-frame structure with the false front was a popular commercial style building that was built in Iowa from that time period. Beginning about 1897 the city directory lists this location as a meat market and grocery store. It would continue to house that type of business, under a variety of owners or renters until 1975. In addition to a retail establishment, it also served as a meeting place for people in the neighborhood. The New Pioneer Food Cooperative was last grocery to occupy the space until is relocated to a larger facility. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

Short description: historic building in Iowa City, Iowa
Aurel Schmidt

Aurel Schmidt (born 1982) is a Canadian artist who lives and works in New York.

Short description: Canadian-born artist
Slobodan Vuk

Slobodan Vuk (born 15 September 1989) is a Slovenian football forward who plays for NK Domžale.

Short description: Croatian footballer
Out and About

Out and About is an album by Cherish the Ladies that was released in 1993 on the Green Linnet label.

Short description: album by Cherish the Ladies
Yarlagadda

Yarlagadda is a village in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Challapalli mandal of Machilipatnam revenue division. It is one of the villages in the mandal to be a part of Andhra Pradesh Capital Region.

Short description: village in Andhra Pradesh, India
Hellboy Universe

The Hellboy Universe is the fictional universe of the Hellboy comic and its various spinoffs, created by Mike Mignola. Its first appearance was in a black-and-white, four-page promotional comic by Mike Mignola with a script by John Byrne published by Dark Horse Comics in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 (August 19, 1993), distributed at the San Diego Comic-Con. The Hellboy Universe currently spans over eighty trade paperbacks. It is also sometimes informally called the "Mignolaverse".

Short description: fictional universe of the Hellboy comic
Ash

Ash is an unincorporated community in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. The community is located on North Carolina Highway 130, 10.3 miles (16.6 km) northwest of Shallotte. Ash has a post office with ZIP code 28420, which opened on November 17, 1884.

Short description: human settlement in United States of America
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an open-world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, and published by Bethesda Softworks and 2K Games. It is the fourth installment in the Elder Scrolls series, following 2002's The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in 2006, followed by PlayStation 3 in 2007. Taking place within the fictional province of Cyrodiil, the game's main story focuses on the player character's efforts to thwart a fanatical cult known as the Mythic Dawn that plans to open portal gates to a demonic realm known as Oblivion. The game continues the open-world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel anywhere in the game world at any time and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely. A perpetual objective for players is to improve their character's skills, which are numerical representations of certain abilities. Early in the game, seven skills are selected by the player as major skills for their character, with those remaining termed as minor skills. Development for Oblivion began in 2002, directly after the release of Morrowind, opting for tighter pacing in gameplay and greater plot focus than in past titles. To design the graphics, Bethesda used an improved Havok physics engine, high-dynamic-range lighting, procedural content generation tools that allowed developers to quickly create detailed terrains, and the Radiant AI system, which enabled non-player characters (NPCs) to make choices and engage in behaviors more complex than in past titles. The game features fully voiced NPCs—a first for.

Short description: 2006 action role-playing video game
Aleksandr Yelovskikh

Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Yelovskikh (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Еловских; born 12 September 1998) is a Russian football player.

Short description: association football player
Del Monte

Del Monte (Spanish for "Of The Mountain") is a district of Monterey, California. It was formerly an independent unincorporated community in Monterey County. It is located in the east part of Monterey, at an elevation of 16 feet (5 m).

Short description: unincorporated community in California
The Rope Dancer

The Tightrope Dancer is an 1899 painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

Short description: pastel by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Hettie Jones

Hettie Jones (née Cohen; born in 1934) is an American poet. She has written twenty-three books that include a memoir of the Beat Generation, three volumes of poetry, and publications for children and young adults, including The Trees Stand Shining and Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music.

Short description: American writer
Aarne Pelkonen

Aarne Eliel Tellervo Pelkonen (November 24, 1891 – November 6, 1959) was a Finnish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Finnish team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, free system event.

Short description: Finnish gymnast
Johan Claassen

Professor Johannes Theodorus Claassen (23 September 1929 – 6 January 2019) was a South African rugby player, playing at the second-row forward position.

Short description: South African rugby union footballer and coach (1929-2019)
Anna Senjuschenko

Anna Senjuschenko (Russian: Анна Сенющенко; 1961/1962 – 1979) was an Australian soccer player who won four unofficial caps for the Australia women's national soccer team.Senjuschenko was an elegant central defender, noted for her powerful shooting. At the 1978 Women's World Invitational Tournament, she was named Australia's best player and named to the team of the tournament. The following year she was involved in a fatal traffic accident, while travelling as a passenger in a car in central Perth. In 1996 Senjuschenko was named to the Football Hall of Fame Western Australia.Anna's brother Alex Senjuschenko was also a soccer centre-half and Football Hall of Fame Western Australia member. Their parents were Russian and moved to Australia in the early 1950s. Alex died in April 2012.

Short description: Australian association football player (1961-1979)
Alonso Neira Martinez

Alonso Neira Martinez (December 27, 1913 – January 31, 1990) was a Colombian sculptor.

Short description: Colombian sculptor
Ed Jeffers

Edward Francis Jeffers (December 6, 1921 – April 4, 2010) was a professional American football guard. He was a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.He served his country in the United States Army during World War II in the Pacific. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star with Clusters, Bronze Star Medal with Clusters and two Purple Hearts. He was discharged as a sergeant. He graduated from McAlester High School in the Class of 1939. He later graduated from Oklahoma State University, where he played football. After graduation, he played professional football with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He married Leota Curliss in 1950, in Hartshorne. He was an educator for more than 35 years and was the football coach at Hartshorne in the 1950s. He taught and was a football coach at Houston Junior High for 32 years in Hobbs, New Mexico. He and his wife raised 4 sons.

Short description: Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1921-2009)
Michnowce

Michnowce [mixˈnɔft͡sɛ], is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krasnopol, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) east of Krasnopol, 6 km (4 mi) west of Sejny, and 112 km (70 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok.

Short description: village in Podlaskie, Poland
1993 Toray Pan Pacific Open – doubles

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Helena Suková were the defending champions, but Sánchez Vicario did not compete this year. Suková teamed up with Martina Navratilova and successfully defended her title, by defeating Lori McNeil and Rennae Stubbs 6–4, 6–3 in the final.

Short description: 1993 tennis event results
Haris Xanthoudakis

Haris Xanthoudakis (Greek: Χάρης Ξανθουδάκης; born 1950) is a Greek composer. A native of Piraeus, Xanthoudakis studied with Iannis Xenakis, among others. Besides music, he has worked in the fields of philology, glottology, semiotics, and art history. Xanthoudakis taught in various conservatories around Europe before becoming, in 1992, professor of music at the Ionian University on Corfu.

Short description: Greek composer
Tsapournia, Larissa

Tsapournia (Greek: Τσαπουρνιά, Greek pronunciation: [t͡sapuɾ'ɲa]) is a village and a community of the Elassona municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Sarantaporo, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 179 inhabitants in the village and 335 in the community. The community of Tsapournia covers an area of 27.197 km2.

Short description: human settlement in Greece
Sisters of Mercy

The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. As of 2019, the institute had about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations. They also started many education and health care facilities around the world.

Short description: religious order
developmental regression

Developmental regression is when a child who has reached a certain developmental stage begins to lose previously acquired milestones. It differs from developmental delay in that a child experiencing developmental delay is either not reaching developmental milestones or not progressing to new developmental milestones, while a child experiencing developmental regression will lose milestones and skills after acquiring them. Developmental regression is associated with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett syndrome, Landau-Kleffner syndrome, and neuro-degenerative diseases. The loss of motor, language, and social skills can be treated with occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy.

Short description: loss of developmental skills, as manifested by loss of developmental milestones
2016 Formula One World Championship

The 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 70th season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)'s Formula One motor racing. It featured the 67th Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars which is recognised by the sport's governing body, the FIA, as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. Teams and drivers took part in twenty-one Grands Prix—making for the longest season in the sport's history—starting in Australia on 20 March and finishing in Abu Dhabi on 27 November as they competed for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' championships. The 2016 season saw the grid expand to twenty-two cars with the addition of the Haas F1 Team entry. Renault returned to the sport as a constructor after a four-year absence following their takeover of Lotus prior to the start of the season. The calendar similarly expanded, with the return of the German Grand Prix. The European Grand Prix was also revived, with the event visiting a new circuit in Azerbaijan's capital city, Baku.Nico Rosberg won his only World Drivers' Championship title in the final race of the season. With nine wins and seven other podiums, Rosberg beat teammate and defending World Champion Lewis Hamilton by five points. In doing so, Rosberg followed the success of his father in 1982 and became the second son of a champion to become champion himself, a feat previously achieved by Damon Hill in 1996. Rosberg announced his retirement from the sport shortly after winning the title. In the World Constructors'.

Short description: sports season
István Ács

Dr. István Ács (September 18, 1928 – July 22, 2018) was a Hungarian jurist and politician, who served as the last Chairman of the Council of Debrecen between October 11, 1966 and December 31, 1989.

Short description: Hungarian jurist and politician (1928-2018)
Asymptote

Asymptote is a descriptive vector graphics language — developed by Andy Hammerlindl, John C. Bowman (University of Alberta), and Tom Prince — which provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Asymptote runs on all major platforms (Unix, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows). It is free software, available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Short description: descriptive vector graphics language
Drue Kataoka

Drue Kataoka is a Japanese American visual artist, known for her Sumi-e art. In 2012, she was chosen Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos. She is based in Silicon Valley, California.

Short description: visual artist
Panic Prevention

Panic Prevention is the Mercury Prize nominated debut album by English indie rock singer-songwriter Jamie T, released in the United Kingdom on 29 January 2007. The album is so-called because of the panic attacks Jamie suffered as an adolescent. Most of the songs on the album deal with aspects of modern 'youth' culture in the UK (for example binge drinking), and as such has been strongly compared to the works of The Streets, Lily Allen and The Libertines. Three singles have been released from the album prior to its release: "Sheila", "If You Got The Money" and most recently "Calm Down Dearest". The albums sound contains a wide variety of musical styles including indie rock, punk, rap, ska, reggae, skiffle, rockabilly, pub rock, folk, and indie electronic.

Short description: album by Jamie T
Clara Ward

Clara Mae Ward (April 21, 1924 – January 16, 1973) was an American gospel artist who achieved great artistic and commercial success during the 1940s and 1950s, as leader of The Famous Ward Singers. A gifted singer and arranger, Ward adopted the lead-switching style, previously used primarily by male gospel quartets, creating opportunities for spontaneous improvisation and vamping by each member of the group, while giving virtuoso singers such as Marion Williams the opportunity to perform the lead vocal in songs such as "Surely, God Is Able" (among the first million-selling gospel hits), "How I Got Over" and "Packin' Up".

Short description: American gospel singer (1924–1973)
El Punt

El Punt (Catalan pronunciation: [əl ˈpun], meaning in English "The Point") was a Catalan daily newspaper based in Girona, Catalonia (Spain). The newspaper was renamed in 1990 from the original Punt Diari ('Daily Point'). It was published between 24 February 1979 and 31 July 2011.

Short description: old Catalan newspaper
Wrentham

Wrentham () is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within the County of Warner No. 5. It is located southeast of the intersection of the Veteran Memorial Highway (Highway 36) and the historic Red Coat Trail (Highway 61), approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of the Village of Stirling, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the Town of Taber and 55 kilometres (34 mi) west of the Village of Foremost. The hamlet was named by the Canadian Pacific Railway after Wrentham, a village in Suffolk, England.The hamlet is located in Census Division No. 2 and in the federal riding of Lethbridge.

Short description: hamlet in Alberta, Canada
Wolha Samusik

Volha Samusik (Belarusian: Вольга Эдуардаўна Самусік; January 7, 1985, Minsk — December 7, 2010, Minsk) was a Belarusian rock singer and journalist.

Short description: Belarusian journalist (1985-2010)
Maranjab Caravanserai

The Maranjab Caravansarai is a caravanserai in the Maranjab Desert, located to the north of Aran o Bidgol city in Isfahan province, Iran. It was constructed by order of Shah Abbas in 1603 and located along the Silk Road, between Khorasan and Isfahan provinces.

Short description: caravanserai in Aran va Bidgol County, Iranian national heritage site
Lampronia

Lampronia is a genus of moths of the family Prodoxidae.

Short description: genus of insects
Lindus

Lindus or Lindos (Greek: Λίνδος) was one of the most important towns in ancient Rhodes. It was situated on the eastern coast, a little to the north of a promontory bearing the same name. The district was in ancient times very productive in wine and figs, though otherwise it was very barren. In the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad of Homer, Lindus, together with the two other Rhodian cities, Ialysus and Camirus, are said to have taken part in the war against Troy. Their inhabitants were Dorians, and formed the three Dorian tribes of the island, Lindus itself being one of the Doric Hexapolis in the south-west of Asia Minor. Previous to the year 408 BCE, when the city of Rhodes was built, Lindus, like the other cities, formed a little state by itself, but when Rhodes was founded, a great part of the population and the common government was transferred to the new city. Lindus, however, though it lost its political importance, still retained religious importance, for it contained two ancient and much revered sanctuaries – one of Athena, hence called the Lindian, and the other of Heracles. The former was believed to have been built by Danaus, or, according to others by his daughters on their flight from Egypt. The temple of Heracles was remarkable, according to Lactantius (Div.Inst. 1.21.31-37), on account of the vituperative and injurious language with which the worship was conducted. This temple contained a painting of Heracles by Parrhasius; and Lindus appears to have possessed several other paintings by.

Short description: ancient polis on Rhodes island, Greece, with famous acropolis
cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – men's sprint

The men's sprint cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 22 February at Pragelato.Vasily Rochev was the defending world champion at this event, but he won in the classical style. The last free style sprint at the World Championships was won by Thobias Fredriksson in 2003, while Tor Arne Hetland was defending Olympic champion. Swede Björn Lind won the two most recent World Cup events, and also won the Olympic race, beating Frenchman Roddy Darragon to the line. Darragon won France's first cross-country skiing medal in the history of the Olympics, while Sweden took the bronze through Thobias Fredriksson.

Short description: men's sprint events at the Olympics
Robert Abraham

Robert Abraham (1773–1850) was an English building surveyor and later architect in London. He was the son of a builder and was educated as a surveyor as a pupil of James Bowen. He turned to architecture after 1818, and was chiefly employed by the leading Roman Catholic families in England, including the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Shrewsbury. He was respected by his patrons principally for his reliability, but he was competent in the various styles fashionable at the period. He was married to Eliza Brown (died 1818), an accomplished flower-painter, and their son H. R. Abraham succeeded to his practice when he died on 11 December 1850. His eldest daughter (Ellinor Mary) married Richard Bethell, Lord Westbury, who served as Lord Chancellor in 1861-1865. Another daughter (Louisa Sarah) married John Bethell.Among Abraham's students was the architect James Lockyer who went on to form his own successful London practice.

Short description: English architect
Salman Masalha

Salman Masalha (Arabic: سلمان مصالحة, Hebrew: סלמאן מצאלחה; born November 4, 1953) is an Israeli poet, writer, essayist and translator. Masalha is a bilingual writer who writes in Arabic and Hebrew, and publishes in both languages. His poetry has also appeared in other languages. Salman is a frequent contributor to left-leaning Israeli newspaper, Haaretz.

Short description: Palestinian poet
Charles Frederic Humphrey, Sr.

Charles Frederic Humphrey Sr. (September 2, 1844 – June 4, 1926) was a major general in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient.

Short description: United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Qing dynasty coinage

Qing dynasty coinage (traditional Chinese: 清朝貨幣; simplified Chinese: 清朝货币; pinyin: Qīngcháo Huòbì; Manchu: ᡩᠠᡳᠴᡳᠩᠵᡳᡴᠠ; Möllendorff: Daicing jiha) was based on a bimetallic standard of copper and silver coinage. The Manchu-led Qing dynasty was established in 1636 and ruled over China proper from 1644 until it was overthrown by the Xinhai Revolution in 1912. The Qing dynasty saw the transformation of a traditional cash coin based cast coinage monetary system into a modern currency system with machine-struck coins, while the old traditional silver ingots would slowly be replaced by silver coins based on those of the Mexican peso. After the Qing dynasty was abolished its currency was replaced by the Chinese yuan of the Republic of China.

Short description: historical coinage of China
Caroline Chikezie

Caroline Chikezie (born 19 February 1974) is a British Nigerian actress, best known for playing Sasha Williams in As If, and Elaine Hardy in Footballers' Wives. In recent years she has gained popularity as the main character in the Nigerian series The Governor.

Short description: British actress
1877 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1877.

Short description: literature-related events during 1877
Alvin Williams

Alvin Williams (born January 17, 1965) is a former American football player who played five seasons in the Arena Football League with the New England Steamrollers, Pittsburgh Gladiators, Denver Dynamite, New Orleans Night and Sacramento Attack. He played college football at Texas Southern University.

Short description: American football player
Ljubić

Ljubić is a village in the municipality of Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Short description: village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Suzanne Décarie

Suzanne Décarie is a Canadian politician, who has been a Montreal City Councillor for the Pointe-aux-Trembles ward in the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles since 2009. She was first elected to city council in 2009 as a member of the Vision Montréal party, following a stint as the same district's representative on the borough council. She briefly served as interim borough mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles in 2010, between the resignation of Joe Magri and the election of Chantal Rouleau.However, she left the Vision Montréal caucus to sit as an independent councillor on May 30, 2013, indicating that she will run for reelection in the 2013 election as part of Équipe Denis Coderre.

Short description: Canadian politician
corregimiento

Corregimiento (Spanish: [korexiˈmjento]; Catalan: Corregiment, IPA: [kurəʒiˈmen]) is a Spanish term used for country subdivisions for royal administrative purposes, ensuring districts were under crown control as opposed to local elites. A corregimiento was usually headed by a corregidor.

Short description: district in which the Corregidor exercised his judicial, political-administrative and military jurisdiction. Originally from the Crown of Castile and applied successively throughout the territory of the Spanish empire
William Tomkinson

Lieutenant-general William Tomkinson (18 January 1790 – 1872) was a British Army officer who served during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign.

Short description: British Army officer
2019 National

The 2019 BOOST National was held from December 10 to 15, at the Conception Bay South Arena in Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was the third Grand Slam and second major of the 2019–20 season. In the men's final, Team Brad Jacobs defeated Team Niklas Edin 3–1 to win their second consecutive Grand Slam event. In the women's final, Team Anna Hasselborg also won their second consecutive Grand Slam event, defeating Team Jennifer Jones 7–3.

Short description: Grand Slam of Curling event
Siparunaceae

Siparunaceae is a family of flowering plants in the magnoliid order Laurales. It consists of two genera of woody plants, with essential oils: Glossocalyx in West Africa and Siparuna in the neotropics. Glossocalyx is monospecific (Glossocalyx longicuspis) and Siparuna has about 74 known species.Until the 1990s, most taxonomists placed Glossocalyx and Siparuna in the family Monimiaceae. The monograph of Monimiaceae by William R. Philipson in 1993 was the last major work to do so. In the 1990s, molecular phylogenetic studies of DNA sequences showed that Monimiaceae, as then circumscribed, was paraphyletic. When the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group published their APG system in 1998, the old Monimiaceae was divided into three separate families: Siparunaceae, Atherospermataceae, and Monimiaceae sensu stricto. This classification remained unchanged in the APG III system of 2009 and the APG IV system of 2016.The families Siparunaceae, Gomortegaceae, and Atherospermataceae form one of the three major clades that constitute the order Laurales. Siparunaceae is sister to the clade composed of Gomortegaceae and Atherospermataceae.In 1898, Janet Russell Perkins began a series of articles on Monimiaceae, but only two were ever completed. The second of these was mis-titled as part III on its first page (compare to table of contents therein) and covers the genus Siparuna.

Short description: family of plants
Liane Carroll

Liane Carroll (born 9 February 1964, London) is an English vocalist, pianist and keyboardist.Jazz critic Dave Gelly of The Observer has described her as "one of the most stylistically flexible pianists around, with a marvellous, slightly husky singing voice". According to John Fordham of The Guardian, she is "a powerful, soul-inflected performer with an Ella Fitzgerald-like improv athleticism and an emotional frankness on ballads". Peter Quinn of Jazzwise says: "Liane Carroll has that rare ability to meld effortless, often transcendent vocal and piano technique, with heart stopping emotion and soul bearing power." Nick Hasted of The Independent says that she is "still frustratingly little-known" but calls her "one of Britain's most emotionally visceral and accomplished singers".Her five albums since 2009 have each received four-starred reviews in The Guardian or The Observer.

Short description: British musician
Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: 黃河, Mandarin: Huáng hé [xwǎŋ xɤ̌] (listen)) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of 5,464 km (3,395 mi). Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of Western China, it flows through nine provinces, and it empties into the Bohai Sea near the city of Dongying in Shandong province. The Yellow River basin has an east–west extent of about 1,900 kilometers (1,180 mi) and a north–south extent of about 1,100 km (680 mi). Its total drainage area is about 795,000 square kilometers (307,000 sq mi). The Yellow River's basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese, and, by extension, Far Eastern civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. There are frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields.

Short description: major river in China
Cherry Hinton

Cherry Hinton (7 April 1975 – after 1991) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Despite never competing above Group Three level, she was officially rated the best two-year-old filly in Britain, and was rated the best juvenile filly in Europe by Timeform. She ran well in defeat in her first two races before winning the Tadcaster Stakes at York Racecourse and then establishing her reputation with a wide-margin victory in the Argos Star Fillies' Mile. She was expected to play a leading role in the following season's classics but had a series of training problem and failed to win in three starts. She later had some success as a broodmare.

Short description: American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse
William Herbert Shipman

William Herbert Shipman (1854–1943) was a Hawaiian and American businessman on the island of Hawaii. One estate of his family was used to preserve the nēnē, an endangered species of Hawaiian goose. A historic house associated with his family for over a hundred years is called the W. H. Shipman House in Hilo, Hawaii. Another of his historic estates called the Ainahou Ranch, built in 1941 as a refuge from World War II, is preserved within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Short description: Hawaiian businessman
Salomo Liscow

Salomon Liscovius or Salmon Lischkow or Salomon Liscow was a German psalmist. According to Högmarck, Liscovius was a clergyman in the German princedom of Halberstadt. He is represented in the Swedish Psalm Books from 1695 to 1937 with the original texts of four works in the 1695th Psalm Book, two of which remain in 1937 Psalm Book 285 and 290).

Short description: German clergyman and hymn writer
The Dollar-a-Year Man

The Dollar-a-Year Man is a 1921 American comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film.

Short description: 1921 film by James Cruze
Jake Duncombe

Jake Duncombe is an Australian professional skateboarder for Life Extension Skateboards who was awarded SLAM magazine's Australian "Skater of the Year" award in 2006, and was one of the youngest professional sportspeople in Australia in 2004. Duncombe was sponsored by the Blind Skateboards skateboard deck company, founded by Mark Gonzales, for nine years and released a signature model skate shoe with Globe International.

Short description: Australian skateboarder
6th Division

The 6th Infantry Division is a military formation of the Korean People's Army Ground Force.

Short description: combat formation of the Korean People's Army Ground Force
North East Surrey College of Technology

The North East Surrey College Of Technology (NESCOT) is a large further education and higher education college in Epsom and Ewell, Surrey, England that began as Ewell Technical College in the 1950s.

Short description: college in Surrey, UK
Marie-Etienne Nitot

Marie-Étienne Nitot (born 2 April 1750 in Paris – deceased 9 September 1809) was a French jeweller, the official jeweller to the Emperor Napoleon, and the founder of the House of Chaumet.

Short description: French jeweler
Laruscade

Laruscade (French pronunciation: ​[laʁyskad]) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Short description: commune in Gironde, France
William Gregory Lee

William Gregory Lee (born January 24, 1973) is an American actor.

Short description: American actor
Urban Rusnák

Urban Rusnák (born 9 September 1967 in Košice, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak diplomat and academic. He holds a M.Sc. from the Moscow University of Oil and Gas, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Political Sciences from the Institute of Social Sciences of Ankara University. Rusnák wrote his thesis on the Geopolitics of Oil and Gas in the Caspian region.

Short description: Slovak diplomat
Rockford Rox

The Rockford Rox was the primary moniker of the minor league baseball teams based in Rockford, Illinois between 1871 and 1949. In an era of early baseball, Rockford hosted teams in numerous leagues beginning in 1871. From 1916 to 1923, the Rox played in the Class B level Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League, and from 1947 to 1949, they played in the Class C level Central Association. The Rockford Rox were preceded by the Rockford Red Sox (1901–1904) and Rockford Wakes (1914–1916) in the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League. Several other Rockford teams played in various leagues leading up to the Rox. The Rockford Rox were an affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds from 1947 to 1949. During this era, Rockford was also home to the women's professional baseball Rockford Peaches of the AAGPBL from 1943 to 1954. The Rox were succeeded in minor league baseball by the 1988 Rockford Expos, who began play as members of the Midwest League.

Short description: minor League Baseball team
Nastasee

Nastasee was a hardcore band formed in Bergen County, New Jersey, by former Mucky Pup, Dog Eat Dog, and Murphy's Law guitar player, Dan Nastasi. Nastasee recorded two albums featuring collaborations with members of Mucky Pup, Dog Eat Dog, Non-Fiction, Hades and Murphy's Law.

Short description: band that plays hardcore punk
European Security Academy

The European Security Academy has been established in 2008 by Andrzej Bryl as the Special Training Centre that provides with training services within the scope of personal protection, maritime protection, protection in a high-risk environment (PMC), first aid and shooting. It performs also security-related consultancy services. The ESA training centre is located in west Poland.

Short description: training centre in Wroclaw, Poland
Kolonia Łowiczek

Kolonia Łowiczek [kɔˈlɔɲa wɔˈvit͡ʂɛk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bądkowo, within Aleksandrów County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Bądkowo, 14 km (9 mi) south-east of Aleksandrów Kujawski, and 33 km (21 mi) south of Toruń.

Short description: village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Poland
Clivina inopaca

Clivina inopaca is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Scaritinae. It was described by Darlington in 1962.

Short description: species of insect
Pseudoraja fischeri

The fanfin skate (Pseudoraja fischeri) is a species of skate in the family Arhynchobatidae. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Pseudoraja. This pelagic skate occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Florida and through the Gulf of Mexico to Honduras.

Short description: species of fish
tamaraw

The tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis) is a small hoofed mammal belonging to the family Bovidae. It is endemic to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, and is the only endemic Philippine bovine. It is believed, however, to have once also thrived on the larger island of Luzon. The tamaraw was originally found all over Mindoro, from sea level up to the mountains (2000 m above sea level), but because of human habitation, hunting, and logging, it is now restricted to only a few remote grassy plains and is now a critically endangered species. Contrary to common belief and past classification, the tamaraw is not a subspecies of the local carabao, which is only slightly larger, or the common water buffalo. In contrast to the carabao, it has a number of distinguishing characteristics; it is slightly hairier, has light markings on its face, is not gregarious, and has shorter horns that are somewhat V-shaped. It is the second-largest native terrestrial mammal in the country next only to the carabao.

Short description: species of buffalo