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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect%20%28Joel%20Turner%20song%29

Respect (Joel Turner song)

"Respect" is the fourth single from Joel Turner and the Modern Day Poets' self-titled debut album. The verses are performed by the Modern Day Poets (MDP), with Turner contributing the chorus, bass and beatbox backing. A piano riff was supplied by Mefi Puni and Bryan Bouro. The song is essentially a social comment on the lack of respect that exists within the hip hop community. It also alludes to the gang wars that have claimed the lives of several American rappers, and is a warning and a plea that the Australian hip hop scene does not follow suit. On release, the single's video caused a slight controversy, as some people criticized the use of images of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur, which were interspersed with footage of Turner and MDP from previous video shoots and the 2005 West Coast Blues and Roots Festival. In addition, ABC video show Rage censored the lyric "When peeps knock on your door / And force you to the floor / Put a gun in your mouth / Blow your brains out all over the wall". Shortly after the video's release, a second clip for the song emerged in which most of the original content (including Shakur's likeness) was replaced with colour scenes of the group performing the tune for the camera. "Respect" was released in Australia on 17 October 2005. It debuted in the top 40 of the ARIA singles chart, peaking at number 29 and reaching number 2 on the Queensland charts. Track listing "Respect" (Radio Edit)Writers: J. Turner, T. Turner, C. Heiner, M. Puni, B. BouroProducers: Joel Turner, Craig Porteils "Respect" (Live Freo's West Coast Blues and Roots Festival)Writers: J. Turner, T. Turner, C. Heiner, M. Puni, B. BouroProducers: Joel Turner, Craig Porteils, B. Bouro "Respect" (Video) DVD trailer Charts References 2005 singles 2005 songs Joel Turner (musician) songs

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20B.%20Kidner

Thomas B. Kidner

Thomas B. Kidner (1866–1932) was one of the founders of the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy (NSPOT) later renamed the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). He served as president of the society from 1923 to 1928. Life Kidner was born in 1866 in Bristol, England, the son of Robert Kidner and Mary Ann Bessell Kidner. In 1890, he married Edith Coulston Allen; they had three children. He migrated to Canada in 1900 as one of three teachers selected by the Macdonald Manual Training Fund of Canada to introduce technical education to elementary school children. While in Canada he had many roles in education and passionately incorporated manual training into his programs including the programs to rehabilitate soldiers returning from World War I in Canada he ran from 1916 until coming to the United States. These programs gained the attention of Eleanor Clark Slagle, Elizabeth Upham-Davis, and members of the US Federal Board for Vocational Education. These programs were a product of Kidner's time as the vocational secretary of the Military Hospitals Commission. After being named vocational secretary he promptly moved to Ottawa in January 1916. In Ottawa, he was given the duty of preparing soldiers returning from World War I to return to their former vocational duties or retrain soldiers no longer able to perform their previous duties. He developed a program that engaged soldiers recovering from wartime injuries or tuberculosis in occupations even while they were still bedridden. Once the soldiers were sufficiently recovered they would work in a curative workshop and eventually progress to an industrial workshop before being placed in an appropriate work setting. He used occupations (daily activities) as a medium for manual training and helping injured individuals to return to productive duties such as work. While involved with NSPOT, he used his background as an architect to help build the foundation for occupational therapy including pushing for a national registry and training standards to ensure that occupational therapists were properly trained to treat clients. He also pushed for occupational therapy to stay within the medical field. Kidner's association with the medical professional association in the United States to head towards this goal and even helped push for the occupational therapy insignia to include components of the medical insignia. He is credited with bringing crafts, in general, as the intervention for treatment in occupational therapy beginning at the Military Hospitals Commission in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Within AOTA, his main concern was to establish the structure and function of the association. He began a registry of therapists and instituted standards in education and desired all therapists to promote OT and keep the profession in the public eye. After leaving NSPOT/AOTA, Kidner worked with the National Tuberculosis Association, as the head of the Advisory Service on Institutional Construction until 1926. He then returned to his original occupation, working as an architect from 1926 until his death. He died suddenly at the home of his son, Arthur, in Beechhurst, NY, on June 14, 1932. References Occupational therapists People from Bristol 1866 births 1932 deaths British emigrants to the United States

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Bernhard%20of%20Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach%20%281792%E2%80%931862%29

Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792–1862)

Prince Carl Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (30 May 1792 – 31 July 1862) was a distinguished soldier, who, in 1815, after the congress of Vienna, became colonel of a regiment in the service of the king of the Netherlands. He fought at the Battle of Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo where he commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Dutch Division and became a Chief Commander of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Early life Prince Bernhard, the seventh child of Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, was born on 30 May 1792 in Weimar. He enlisted in the Prussian army and in 1806 he fought in the army of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen. By 1809 he had enlisted in the Saxon army and he fought under Marshal Bernadotte at Wagram. Waterloo campaign Prince Bernhard's 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Dutch Division (Sedlnitsky) was the first of the Duke of Wellington's forces to arrive at the cross roads of Quatre Bras. Prince Bernhard's brigade (joined later by the 1st Brigade,) held the cross roads at Quatre Bras for almost 24 hours from the late afternoon of 15 June 1815, until about 3 p.m. on the 16 June, preventing Marshal Michel Ney with the left wing of the French L'Armée du Nord from taking the cross roads before the Duke of Wellington and substantial allied forces arrived to reinforce the 2nd Division and fight the Battle of Quatre Bras. The successful holding action by the two brigades of the Dutch 2nd Division was one of the most important actions by any of the coalition brigades in the whole of the Waterloo Campaign. At the Battle of Waterloo Prince Bernhard commanded the allied forces holding the farms of Papelotte, Frischermont and La Haie on the extreme left of the Duke of Wellington's line of battle. They were strategically important, not just because if the forces holding these positions gave way then the French could out flank Wellington, but because it was from that direction that Wellington expected and received Prussian support. Though in the course of the battle Durutte’s 4th French Division obtained a temporary foothold in Papelotte, it was never captured Commander of the Dutch East Indies Army Bernhard was appointed commander of the Dutch East Indies Army on December 6, 1848 and arrived on April 14, 1849 in Java. Barely a few weeks after his arrival, the commander of the third Balinese expedition, General Andreas Victor Michiels was killed at Kasumba; and Saxe-Weimar offered to the Governor-General to take over the leadership of the expedition, acting according to the rules that had been given to General Michiels. In the winter of 1849 he was promoted to general of the infantry and three years later (1852) he returned to the Netherlands, for his health, after many improvements and having accomplished to restore the East Indies army. He received on October 5, 1853 an honorable retirement. Later life and family Prince Bernhard traveled extensively in the United States in 1825–26. A heavily edited account of his travels, Reise seiner Hoheit des Herzogs Bernhard zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach durch Nord-Amerika, was published by the historian Heinrich Luden in 1828. The work was translated into English and published in Philadelphia, also in 1828, as Travels through North America, during the Years 1825 and 1826. A critical edition of the original manuscript became available in 2017. In the years after Waterloo, Bernhard distinguished himself as commander of a Dutch Division in the Belgian campaign of 1831 (the Ten Days Campaign), and from 1847 to 1850 held the command of the forces in the Dutch East Indies. He died 21 July 1862 in Liebenstein. He married Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, daughter of Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, on 30 May 1816 in Meiningen. Prince Bernhard's son, William Augustus Edward, known as Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar (1823–1902), entered the British army, served with much distinction in the Crimean War, became colonel of the 1st Life Guards, and later a British Field Marshal. His daughter Amalia married Prince Henry of the Netherlands. His granddaughter Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (through his son Prince Hermann) married Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. His residence in Batavia (now Jakarta) is preserved as Pancasila Building. Honours He received the following orders and decorations: Ancestry References Further reading Pierre de Wite june/qb.1.pdf The prince of Orange at Quatre Bras and the order of battle of the 2nd Dutch division gives a description of Prince Bernhard's actions at Quatre Bras Karl-Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. Herzog Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach: Das Tagebuch der Reise durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826, edited by Walter Hinderer and Alexander Rosenbaum. Stiftung für Romantikforschung LX. Königshausen und Neumann, 2017. 1792 births 1862 deaths German military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Dutch military commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Royal Netherlands East Indies Army generals Military personnel from Weimar House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach People from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Knights Grand Cross of the Military Order of William Recipients of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Nobility from Weimar

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boussenois

Boussenois

Boussenois () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Population See also Communes of the Côte-d'Or department References Communes of Côte-d'Or Côte-d'Or communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20rig

Texas rig

The Texas rig is a fishing rig used for angling with soft plastic lures. It involves a bullet-shaped weight being threaded onto the fishing line first, followed by a glass or plastic bead crimped tight onto the line, and then the line is secured to a fish hook, usually an offset worm hook. The hook is then inserted into the head region of a worm lure and exits about down the worm. The worm is then moved up the hook towards the shank and then rotated so that the worm is now "locked" on the shank. The point of the hook is then threaded back into the body of the worm to make the rig "weedless" (i.e. unlike to snag on underwater vegetations). The crimped bead is fully optional, but some anglers find that the added noise or color provided by a bead can give them an advantage in stained or muddied water, because the clicking sound of a sliding sinker hitting the bead imitates a crayfish crawling over rocks and debris; while other anglers think that the bead detracts from a realistic presentation considering that most natural worms will not click. When fishing in open water without much cover to snag on, the Texpose rig is a better choice than a Texas rig because it increases the number of fish hooked. A Texpose rig is set up the same as a Texas rig with the exception that the hook point is pushed all the way through the body of the worm so it is slightly exposed. With a Texas rig, less fish will be hooked than with a Texpose because the hook point is not exposed; however, the occluded point deters hang ups on debris. The Texpose does not increase bite rate, but its exposed point increases the chance a biting fish will be hooked. The Texas rig can be a search bait if swam through a water column just like a spinnerbait or a crankbait. Although not as effective as a search bait. It is usually fished by casting as close to cover as possible with the goal of placing the worm as close to a bass as possible. Ideally, the lure enters the water with as little noise as possible, and with some controlled slack in the line, as bass will commonly attack the lure while it is sinking to the bottom. See also Dropshotting Carolina rig Notes External links Bassresource.com Texas Rig Recreational fishing

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Becher

Amy Becher

Amy Becher (born May 24, 1978) is an American curler from Omaha, Nebraska. In 2000, she won the United States Women's Curling Championship as vice-skip on Amy Wright's team. They went on to represent the United States at the 2000 World Women's Curling Championship. Curling career Becher competed at her first junior national championship in 1994, finishing last. She returned to junior nationals in 1995 and finished fourth. Becher again improved her results at the 1996 Junior Nationals, winning the championship as skip of her own team. As Team USA at the 1996 World Junior Curling Championships they finished last with a 0–9 record. In 1997 Becher joined Risa O'Connell's team at third, defended her junior national title and improved her World Juniors result by finished in fourth place at the 1997 World Juniors. She returned to the World Junior Championships a third time in 1999, as alternate on Hope Schmitt's team. Upon moving from juniors to women's curling, Becher joined Amy Wright's team at third and found success quickly. At her first Women's National Championship in 1999, Team Wright took the silver medal when they lost to Patti Lank in the final. They again faced Team Lank in the final of the 2000 Women's Championship, this time winning with a final score of 12–9. As national champions, Becher and Team Wright earned a spot at the 2000 World Women's Championship as well as an opportunity to compete at the 2001 United States Olympic Curling Trials. At World's, they finished in a three-way tie for sixth place with a 4–5 record. During the 2001 Olympic Trials Wright felt she was not playing good enough and stepped aside, allowing Becher to take over skipping duties. Despite the change in line-up, they finished in a three-way tie for last place with a 3–7 record. Personal life Becher's parents would bring her along to the curling club when she was young. She started curling competitively through the Ak-Sar-Ben Curling Club's juniors program. Becher graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a double major in chemistry and teaching. Awards USA Curling Team of the Year 1997 Teams References External links 1978 births Living people American female curlers Sportspeople from Omaha, Nebraska American curling champions 21st-century American women

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korro%20railway%20station

Korro railway station

Korro railway station was a ground level stopping place during the passenger transport days of the Willunga railway line. Shortly after the stop, the railway crossed the Onkaparinga River. The old bridge, built in 1914, had 3 spans, each of 70 feet, and was of lattice-type girder construction. A second bridge, built in 1930, also has 3 spans of rivetted plate-girder construction founded on concrete abutment piers driven into the bedrock. Height 17 feet, 3 inches. The stop is now unused, the entire Willunga railway line having been dismantled in 1972 and later replaced with the Coast to Vines Rail Trail. It was located near what is now the southern end of the Southern Expressway in Huntfield Heights. References Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin No 336, October 1965 Disused railway stations in South Australia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic

QBasic

QBasic is an integrated development environment (IDE) and interpreter for a variety of dialects of BASIC which are based on QuickBASIC. Code entered into the IDE is compiled to an intermediate representation (IR), and this IR is immediately executed on demand within the IDE. Like QuickBASIC, but unlike earlier versions of Microsoft BASIC, QBasic is a structured programming language, supporting constructs such as subroutines. Line numbers, a concept often associated with BASIC, are supported for compatibility, but are not considered good form, having been replaced by descriptive line labels. QBasic has limited support for user-defined data types (structures), and several primitive types used to contain strings of text or numeric data. It supports various inbuilt functions. For its time, QBasic provided a state-of-the-art IDE, including a debugger with features such as on-the-fly expression evaluation and code modification. History QBasic was intended as a replacement for GW-BASIC. It was based on the earlier QuickBASIC 4.5 compiler but without QuickBASIC's compiler and linker elements. Version 1.0 was shipped together with MS-DOS 5.0 and higher, as well as Windows 95, Windows NT 3.x, and Windows NT 4.0. IBM recompiled QBasic and included it in PC DOS 5.x, as well as OS/2 2.0 onwards. eComStation and ArcaOS, descended from OS/2 code, include QBasic 1.0. QBasic 1.1 is included with MS-DOS 6.x, and, without EDIT, in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me. Starting with Windows 2000, Microsoft no longer includes QBasic with their operating systems, but still makes it available for use on newer versions of Windows. Contents QBasic (as well as the built-in MS-DOS Editor) is backwards-compatible with DOS releases prior to 5.0 (down to at least DOS 3.20). However, if used on any 8088/8086 computers, or on some 80286 computers, the QBasic program may run very slowly, or perhaps not at all, due to DOS memory size limits. Until MS-DOS 7, MS-DOS Editor and Help required QBasic: the EDIT.COM and HELP.COM programs simply started QBasic in editor and help mode only, and these can also be entered by running QBASIC.EXE with the /EDITOR and /QHELP switches (i.e., command lines QBASIC /EDITOR and QBASIC /QHELP). QBasic came complete with four pre-written example programs. These were Nibbles, a variant of the Snake game; Gorillas, an artillery game; MONEY MANAGER, a personal finance manager; and RemLine, a Q-BASIC code line-number-removing program. QBasic has an Easter egg accessed by pressing and holding simultaneously after running QBasic at the DOS prompt but before the title screen loads: this lists The Team of programmers. See also Microsoft Small Basic QB64 References External links Runnable QBasic 1.1 via the Internet Archives Download QBASIC 1.1 from the Internet Archive QB Express: Qbasic and Freebasic programming magazine : created in 1997, one of the oldest QBasic sites on the web Programmed Lessons in QBasic: an introduction BASIC interpreters Discontinued Microsoft BASICs DOS software Articles with example BASIC code 1991 software BASIC programming language family Microsoft programming languages Programming languages created in 1991

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography%20of%20paravian%20dinosaurs

Biogeography of paravian dinosaurs

The biogeography of Paravian dinosaurs is the study of the global distribution of Paraves through geological history. Paraves is a clade that includes all of the Theropoda that are more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs. These include Dromaeosauridae and Troodontidae (historically grouped under Deinonychosauria) and Avialae (including crown group birds, i.e. modern birds). The distribution of paraves is closely related to the evolution of the clade. Understanding the changes in their distributions may shed light on problems like how and why paraves evolve, eventually gaining the ability to fly. Paraves first appeared in the fossil record in early Late Jurassic (163–145 million years ago), then rapidly diversified and dispersed during Cretaceous (145–66 million years ago). They emerged during the breakup of Pangea (since Early-Middle Jurassic), which influenced the biogeographic processes such as speciation, geodispersal and extinction. By the Late Cretaceous, Paraves reached global distribution with fossils found in modern Asia, Europe, Australia, Antarctica etc. Almost all Paravian dinosaurs died out before or during the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (~66 million years ago), also called the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction. As a result of this extinction event, only a small group of avialans – neornithines – were able to survive. This group of Avialae continued to flourish in Cenozoic and later evolved into all modern birds. There are limitations to be considered when studying the paleobiogeography of Paraves. Firstly, the fossil record may not represent the actual distribution of the three clades mainly due to taphonomic bias. Also, the fossil record may be incomplete, which may lead to misinterpretations. Vicariance and geodispersal Vicariance is a biogeographic process that occurs when a population is forced to separate into two or more groups due to geographic constraints. It is a key process in the biogeographic history of Paraves and one of the main hypotheses on the global distribution of dromaeosauridae in Late Mesozoic. Pangea broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana, creating an oceanic barrier in between the two landmasses where terrestrial faunal exchange was near impossible. In a regional scale, the collapse of land bridges can also cause vicariance. Geodispersal is the process where populations migrate from their origins to other areas due to the removal of geophysical barriers like mountains and seas, connecting areas that are previously isolated. Unlike vicariance, geodispersal opens up gene flow by allowing populations that had never been in contact before to interact. In reality, vicariance and geodispersal often occur together in repeated intervals. For example, the Bering Strait (Fig. 2) between North America and Asia acts as an oceanic barrier preventing terrestrial animals from crossing from one continent to another. Nonetheless, the channel was not present throughout the history of Earth. During Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, there were multiple occasions where the Bering Land Bridge formed between the two continents. The land bridge was made by tectonic movements in Late Mesozoic, and by lowering of global sea level due to climatic changes in Pleistocene. It acted as an overpass for land-dwellers to move from Asia to North America, and vice versa. Evidence for this was in the speciation of troodontids in Asia and North America respectively after the Bering Land Bridge broke off in the early Late Cretaceous. The land bridge was then repeatedly inundated and exposed since the breakup of Laurasia, contributing to the episodic exchange of fauna involving dinosaurs and mammals alike. Paleobiogeography During the Early Mesozoic, the supercontinent Pangea just finished its assembly and almost immediately started breaking apart. The rifting began to take place during Early to Middle Jurassic (201–163 million years ago), and gradually formed two extensive landmasses – Laurasia and Gondwana. The continents then continued to be ripped apart into smaller land that resembled modern continents throughout late Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The breakup of continents did not happen uniformly, and modern continents were formed at different speeds while experiencing repeated collision and rifting. This phenomenon is closely related to the dispersal and evolution of Paraves. Middle Jurassic There was a consensus among paleontologists that Paraves first appeared in Middle to Late Jurassic (174–145 million years ago). However, it was fairly recent when the clade Avialae was grouped under Paraves. With the discovery of Anchiornis (earliest feathered dinosaur with four wings) in Tiaojishan Formation in China, scientists were able to identify the appearance of Paraves within the Middle Jurassic. Anchiornis is a feathered dinosaur with anatomical features similar to that of Archaeopteryx, historically the oldest known avialan. Initially considered a basal troodontid, many paleontologists have also considered it an early avialan. Feathered dinosaurs have helped to confirm that the dinosaur-to-bird hypothesis is almost certainly true. Anchiornis is seen as one of the first paravian dinosaurs to have ever existed, along with several other genera from the same family (Anchiornithidae) such as Aurornis and Caihong. Their fossils were found in the same rock formation in China, suggesting that Paraves likely originated from Asia. Following the appearance of Anchiornis and other basal paravians, a series of vicariance events were inferred to have taken place. The widespread distribution and speciation of Dromaeosauridae and Troodontidae in Late Mesozoic coincided with the timing of the Pangean breakup, thus giving rise to the hypothesis of allopatric speciation initiated by continental fragmentation. Late Jurassic During Late Jurassic (163–145 million years ago), the land was mostly separated into Laurasia (north) and Gondwana (south). In addition to that, the North Atlantic Ocean was ripped open by the separation of North America and Eurasia. In terms of biodiversity, Paraves began to speciate into three distinct clades: Dromaeosauridae, Troodontidae and Avialae. The oldest Archaeopteryx (Avialae) was found in the Solnhofen Limestone in Germany, while the oldest evidence of Dromaeosauridae was unearthed in the Morrison Formation in North America. Troodontidae continued to diversify and can be found in Asia, Europe and North America. They were most probably dispersed from Asia to other continents on land. Around the same time, Avialae began to obtain the ability to fly. This may contribute to the rapid diversification and dispersal of avialans in later stages. Cretaceous In Early Cretaceous (145–100 million years ago), the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean commenced and South America became fully detached from Africa at approximately 100 Ma. Despite the fragmentation of land, terrestrial animals can still cross from continent to continent, facilitated by the land bridges and shallow seas. Apart from Troodontidae, Dromaeosauridae and Avialae began spreading to other continents. Dromaeosauridae dispersed to Asia and Africa, likely made possible by the Apulian Route connecting Eurasia and Africa, and the Bering Land Bridge linking North America and Asia. The Apulian Route was established in early Late Jurassic and broke off towards the end of Jurassic. At this stage, paravian distribution concentrated mostly on the northern hemisphere, with exceptions of avialae found in South America and Australia. The iconic Jehol Biota found in Yixian Formation and Jiufotang Formation in Inner Mongolia yielded fossils of early avialans including enantiornithes (a subclass of birds) and small dromaeosaurids (i.e. microraptorians). During the paravians' rapid diversification, some of the better-known dinosaurs came into existence, including the troodontid Mei. In Late Cretaceous (100–66 million years ago), both Dromaeosauridae and Avialae had reached global distribution, while Troodontidae remained found only in Asia (including India) and North America.There were many more avialan records in Antarctica and Australia in Early Cretaceous compared to that of Late Cretaceous. Paleontologists also deduced a slight change in diet in avialans during Cretaceous. While most Paraves in Late Jurassic were carnivorous (meat-eater), some avialans were found to be seed-eating in this period. This change in diet and the sudden avian diversification coincided with the spread of angiosperms (flowering plants), implying that there may have been coevolution taking place where the avialans and the flowering plants impact each other's evolution. End-Cretaceous mass extinction The Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction (~66 million years ago) is one of the most-studied extinction events. While not being the largest known mass extinction event, it is famous for its impact on dinosaurs. Like all other dinosaurian species, almost all Paraves died out sometime between the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and the start of Paleogene – with one exception. Given the title "the most successful dinosaurs" by paleontologists, neornithines managed to survive the mass extinction and continued to flourish in present days. The reason as to why only neornithines lived was still a very much debated topic among vertebrate paleontologists. Some believed that it was related to their global distribution and the cause of mass extinction. The fossil record of late Cretaceous neornithines concentrated in the southern hemisphere where Gondwana once was. It is then hypothesised that life in the southern hemisphere suffered less because the impact of the meteor at Chicxulub was northward-facing. Another hypothesis suggested that the extinction of non-neornithines was unlikely a result of mass extinction but was instead caused by a change in vegetation pattern. It is found that a portion of non-neornithines was already extinct before the impact event. This can be accounted for by the regional scale vegetation loss that occurred in North America, which largely affected the atmospheric composition and disrupted the food chain. Both hypotheses, along with any other possibilities, have yet to be proven with definitive evidence. One certain thing is that neornithines did not diversify much in Cretaceous compared to that in the early Cenozoic, unlike other groups of birds. The fossil record for neornithines in Late Cretaceous was sparse, but there was an explosive increase in fossils in Early Cenozoic. As the radiation of neornithines happened together with the rise of mammals, it seems logical that the two events were related. Paleogene-present As the Earth entered a new era, the continents started to move into their modern positions. Australia and South America finally separated from Antarctica while the Indian subplate began its collision into Asia, creating the world's largest mountain range the Himalayas. At the same time, the global average temperature cooled down since Late Cretaceous with a Thermal Maximum at Paleocene-Eocene boundary and Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum. Between these warm episodes were periods of cooling (Oligocene global cooling), where seawater level fell and land bridges between Africa and Eurasia (i.e. Gomphotherium landbridge), and Eurasia and North America (i.e. Bering Land Bridge) were formed. Vegetation patterns underwent drastic changes in Cenozoic. With long periods of global warming, grasslands spread to regions of higher latitudes. This phenomenon facilitated the dispersal of avialans that lived in non-arboreal environments, examples found in Green River Formation (USA) and Messel Oil Shale (Germany). Neornithines underwent a rapid increase in number in Paleogene in a relatively short time, though crown group birds were still sparse. Since the continents were almost entirely separated from each other, neornithines began to speciate independently. Most of the mutations occurred in birds without long-distance flight abilities, and the most prominent changes were found in birds living on isolated islands like New Zealand and Australia. It is hypothesised that due to the lack of large carnivorous (meat-eating) predators on these islands due to the extinction of dinosaurs, birds were able to evolve and adapt to the new environments. Such mutations include an increase in body sizes but reduced wings and development of flightlessness, as found in birds like moas (completely extinct by the year 1440), kiwis and ostriches. Though they were not closely related to one another, this evolution pattern indicates that birds evolve similarly in isolated environments without major threats of predators. Summary of paleobiogeography D – Dromaeosauridae (★) T – Troodontidae (⧠) A – Avialae (⚫︎) Limitations Flight capabilities There are some limitations in studying the biogeography of Paraves, including their development of flight. Flight capabilities in Paraves were developed since the Late Jurassic. While only several groups of paravian dinosaurs have such abilities, it is certainly a possibility that it contributed to their dispersal in late Mesozoic. In these cases, the biogeographic record of Paraves cannot be interpreted solely by whether the land was connected or not. Modern migratory birds can travel covering long distances without relying much on land. This means that the development of long-distance flight occurred at some point between the first appearance of bird-like dinosaurs and present day. It is found that, at least until Early Cretaceous, Paraves can only glide between trees instead of flying like modern birds. Thus, their flight abilities do not affect the dispersal of Paraves. In Cenozoic, avian flight abilities were more or less developed in neornithines, though there are exceptions that are flightless birds mainly found in isolated islands. Since then, flight in avians had become a major factor contributing to the dispersal of birds. Taphonomic bias Taphonomic bias is caused by the difference in how organisms decay and fossilise. It is another challenge faced by paleontologists as the fossil records are often incomplete. Moreover, some localities have better-preserved record due to their geological history than the others, leading to misinterpretations in biogeography. This is especially true for dinosaurian fossil records since localities in North America and China had a much higher abundance of fossils preserved in sedimentary rocks. In fact, there is only one known rock formation that holds a relatively complete and dated record of the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), named the Hell Creek Formation in western North America. The fossils for birds (including basal avialans) in Late Cretaceous are incomplete as well, given the sparse record discovered in Australia and Antarctica. Other possible types of taphonomic bias include collecting bias. Fossils of species that lived in a specific environment can also be poorly preserved. An example being fossils of arboreal neornithines (birds that live in trees) are rarely found in the late Mesozoic and earliest Paleocene. This may lead to the conclusion that they did not diversify in that period due to underrepresentation, which may or may not be true. See also Biogeography Paraves Pangea Geobiology Macroecology Vertebrate Paleontology External links Journal of Biogeography Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (journal) Society of Vertebrate Paleontology homepage References Biogeography Paravians

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wamsutta%20Mills

Wamsutta Mills

Wamsutta Mills is a former textile manufacturing company and current brand for bedding and other household products. Founded by Thomas Bennett, Jr. on the banks of the Acushnet River in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1846 and opened in 1848, Wamsutta Mills was named after Wamsutta, the son of a Native American chief who negotiated an early alliance with the English settlers of the Plymouth Colony. It was the first of many textile mills in New Bedford, and gradually led to cotton textile manufacturing overtaking whaling as the town's principal industry by the 1870s. Wamsutta Mills became well known for producing fine quality shirtings, sheetings and other fine cotton products. The Wamsutta name continues to be used as a brand today, marketed by American retailer Bed Bath & Beyond in North America and Brazilian textile conglomerate Springs Global in South America. History Planning and raising funds The Wamsutta Mills were conceived by Thomas Bennett Jr. of nearby Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Bennett originally planned to locate the mill in Georgia, where he had previously worked for fellow Fairhaven native Dwight Perry, in a mill. However, one prominent investor, Congressman Joseph Grinnell stipulated that the mill be located in his home city, New Bedford. On April 8, 1846, the new corporation was granted a charter from the Massachusetts General Court. By mid-1847, Bennett raised $160,000 for the mill, mostly in small investments of ten shares or less from skeptical New Bedford businessmen who were unfamiliar with the textile industry. The first meeting of the stockholders was held in 1847 and Joseph Grinnell was elected president and Thomas Bennett Jr., who had served as the superintendent of the Wamsutta Mills from 1846 until 1874, the secretary. Early development Construction of the first mill began in 1847. Designed by Seth Ingalls of New Bedford, it was a stone structure, long by wide, with five stories. David Whitman of Rhode Island served as an advisor during the construction and setup of the mill, which was initially fitted with 10,000 spindles, with room for 5,000 more. Cloth production began in February 1849, and housing was built for its workers. Soon business began to boom, with capital increasing to $300,000 in 1853. A second four-story mill, long by wide, was built in 1855. A third mill, a duplicate of the second, was built in 1860–1861 outfitted in 1862 and opened in 1865; the delay was due to the Civil War and labor and product shortages. By 1868 the capitalization of the company jumped to $2,000,000 and a fourth bigger mill was built. Mill No. 4 was constructed in brick, long by wide with four stories. Further development Thomas Bennett Jr. retired as superintendent in 1874 and was replaced by Edward Kilburn, though the company continued to grow. By 1875, capital reached $2,500,000, and Australia had recently been added as a shipping destination. Mill 5 was added north of Mill No. 4. Also of brick construction, it is long by wide. Shortly after, and production of percale fabric began (New Bedford is known to be the first city in the United States to make fine cotton). Famous textile magnate William Madison Wood began his textile career at the Wamsutta Mills, age fifteen, working there 1873-1876. In 1880, the Wamsutta Mills replaced the old Whitin spindles with 20,000 new Rabeth spindles, which were made in Pawtucket, Rhode Island by the Fales and Jenks Machine Company. In 1882 the construction of mill number 6 was begun. It is also of brick, three stories high and long by wide. Economic success In 1883, the Wamsutta Mills had six mills and produced 26 million yards of cotton cloth annually. Joseph Grinnell remained on until 1885 when he died at the age of 96; and Andrew G. Pierce, William Wallace Crapo, Oliver Prescott, and Charles F. Broughton successively took his place. Soon after, in 1892, Wamsutta owned a total of seven mills, and was the largest cotton weaving plant in the world. By 1897 Wamsutta was operating 4,450 looms and employing 2,100 workers. In 1917 plans were in the works for this massive mill to receive a modernization overhaul. Machinery was upgraded and replaced and the steam power was replaced with electric. A new focus was directed toward fine sheets and pillowcases complete with advertising campaign geared towards the public. By this time, the company operated a total of 229,000 spindles and 4,310 looms, in a city with numerous large spinning and weaving mills. Prior to the Great Depression, in the 1920s, the city of New Bedford, along with many other northern textile towns had their own depression. During this time, four of the city's factories closed down. The following decade almost two dozen closed. Wamsutta, however, increased its sales in 1925 while others were liquidating and closing. By 1935, their sheets were henceforth known as Supercale instead of percale. Additionally, they manufactured a new product called Lustercale, a blend of 60% cotton and 40% high strength Avril rayon. This blend feels like cotton but is somewhat softer. At some point Wamsutta changed the fiber content of Lustercale to 100% cotton. They also created the perfect weave for sails on sailing ships. Furthermore, because of the wars, they tailored their products for hot air balloons, gas mask fabric, military uniforms, and supplies. Many other fabric types were created for many other purposes and to this day Wamsutta remains a household name for fabrics. Recent events In modern times, Wamsutta is a brand name of Springs Global, a Brazilian textile conglomerate, except in North America, where the brand is owned by Bed Bath & Beyond. Bed Bath & Beyond acquired the brand from Springs Global in June 2012. Springs Global retains the rights to market the Wamsutta brand in South America. In 2004, the historic Wamsutta Mills complex in Massachusetts was slated for redevelopment according to officials of New Bedford. The renovation will also include a featuring loft style apartments with up to 3 bedrooms. See also List of mills in New Bedford, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in New Bedford, Massachusetts References Further reading Hough, Henry Beetle. Wamsutta of New Bedford 1846–1946. The Vineyard Gazette, ed. New Bedford: William E. Rudge's Sons, Wamsutta Mills, 1946. Print. External links Wamsutta Mills - Historic American Buildings Survey Renovation Article November 01, 2006 Cotton mills in the United States Buildings and structures in New Bedford, Massachusetts Industrial buildings and structures in Massachusetts Industrial buildings completed in 1847 Industrial archaeological sites in the United States Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in New Bedford, Massachusetts Companies based in New Bedford, Massachusetts American companies established in 1848 Manufacturing companies established in 1848 1848 establishments in Massachusetts History of Massachusetts

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Arnaud Jacquemet

Arnaud Jacquemet (born March 29, 1988) is a Swiss professional ice hockey defenseman who currently plays for and is an alternate captain of Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL). Jacquemet is one of the few players in the NL who can play both as a forward and as a defenseman. Jacquemet made his National League A debut playing with Kloten Flyers during the 2008–09 NLA season. References External links 1988 births Living people EHC Biel players Genève-Servette HC players EHC Kloten players Kootenay Ice players SCL Tigers players Swiss ice hockey forwards People from Sion, Switzerland Sportspeople from Valais

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1972 in Canada

Events from the year 1972 in Canada. Incumbents Crown Monarch – Elizabeth II Federal government Governor General – Roland Michener Prime Minister – Pierre Trudeau Chief Justice – Gérald Fauteux (Quebec) Parliament – 28th (until 1 September) Provincial governments Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Grant MacEwan Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – John Robert Nicholson Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – William John McKeag Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Hédard Robichaud Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland – Ewart John Arlington Harnum Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Victor de Bedia Oland Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Ross Macdonald Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – John George MacKay Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Hugues Lapointe Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Stephen Worobetz Premiers Premier of Alberta – Peter Lougheed Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C. Bennett (until September 15) then Dave Barrett Premier of Manitoba – Edward Schreyer Premier of New Brunswick – Richard Hatfield Premier of Newfoundland – Joey Smallwood (until January 18) then Frank Moores Premier of Nova Scotia – Gerald Regan Premier of Ontario – Bill Davis Premier of Prince Edward Island – Alexander B. Campbell Premier of Quebec – Robert Bourassa Premier of Saskatchewan – Allan Blakeney Territorial governments Commissioners Commissioner of Yukon – James Smith Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Stuart Milton Hodgson Events January to June January 1 - Winnipeg is merged into a megacity January 1 - Canada's ban on cigarette advertisements on film, radio, and television goes into effect January 1 - Canada's capital gains tax comes into effect January 18 - Frank Moores becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Joey Smallwood, who had governed for 23 years February 1 - The Atlantic Pilotage Authority is established February 25 - The Pickering Nuclear Power Plant opens April 15 - Canada and the United States sign the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement May 31 - The "member" level of the Order of Canada is created June 16 - The Churchill Falls hydro-electric facility opens July 14 - Donald MacDonald of the Canadian Labour Congress becomes the first non-European head of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions July to December July 21 - Global Television Network network licence approved by the CRTC August 30 - Frank Arthur Calder becomes the first Native Cabinet minister in Canadian history when he is appointed to the Cabinet of British Columbia September 1 - An arson attack on the Blue Bird Café in Montreal kills 37 and leads to nationwide changes to fire codes. September 4 – Armed robbers steal 18 paintings, including a Rembrandt, along with 38 pieces of jewellery, from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, valued at $2 million at the time in what is not only Canada's largest art theft but its largest theft of private property ever. Except for one returned in an attempt to negotiate a ransom, none of the paintings have been recovered nor have the thieves ever been identified publicly. September 12 - Heritage Canada is established September 15 - David Barrett becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing W.A.C. Bennett, who had governed for 20 years September 27 - The sale of fire crackers is banned in Canada September 28 - CITY-TV begins broadcasting in Toronto October 30 - Federal election: Pierre Trudeau's Liberals win a minority November 9 - Anik I, the world's first non-military communications satellite is launched. December - The government's Parliamentary Flag Program begins December 14 - Muriel McQueen Fergusson becomes the first female Speaker of the Senate of Canada. Full date unknown Government pensions are indexed to cost of living The Art Bank is established The Government of Ontario renames all departments to ministries. Arts and literature New works Robertson Davies: The Manticore Margaret Atwood: Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature Mordecai Richler: Shovelling Trouble John Newlove: Lies Milton Acorn: More Poems for People Donald Jack: Exit Muttering Leona Gom: Kindling Joy Fielding: The Best of Friends Farley Mowat: A Whale for the Killing Marshall McLuhan: Culture Is Our Business Awards See 1972 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Stephen Leacock Award: Max Braithwaite, The Night They Stole the Mounties' Car Vicky Metcalf Award: William Toye Sport March 18 – Toronto Varsity Blues win their sixth (and fourth consecutive) University Cup by defeating the Saint Mary's Huskies 5 to 0. The final game was played at the Palais des Sports in Sherbrooke, Quebec May 11 – Parry Sound's Bobby Orr is awarded his second Conn Smythe Trophy May 14 – Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Cornwall Royals win the Memorial Cup by defeating the Ontario Hockey Association's Peterborough Petes 2 to 1. The final game was played at the Ottawa Civic Centre. September 28 – Canada defeats the Soviet Union in the Summit Series 4 games to 3. The deciding Game 8 was played at Luzhniki Palace of Sports in Moscow October 11 – The World Hockey Association is established with four Canadian teams (Ottawa Nationals, Quebec Nordiques, Winnipeg Jets and Alberta Oilers) November 25 – Alberta Golden Bears win their second Vanier Cup by defeating the Waterloo Lutheran Golden Hawks 20–7 in the 8th Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto December 3 – Hamilton Tiger-Cats win their sixth Grey Cup by defeating the Saskatchewan Roughriders 13–10 in the 60th Grey Cup played at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton Births January to June January 1 - Barron Miles, defensive back for the BC Lions in the CFL January 3 - Drake Berehowsky, ice hockey player and coach January 4 – Brad Zavisha, ice hockey player January 7 - Susan Cushman, rhythmic gymnast January 10 - Jonathan Ohayon, archer January 16 – Dameon Clarke, actor and voice actor January 25 - Katrina Von Sass, volleyball player January 29 - Shaun Majumder, comedian and actor January 30 Jennifer Hale, actress and singer Chris Simon, ice hockey player February 2 - Naheed Nenshi, politician, Mayor of Calgary February 7 - Jamie Shannon, actor and director February 12 - Owen Nolan, ice hockey player March 13 - Sherri Field, field hockey player March 17 - Melissa Auf der Maur, bassist and photographer March 22 - Elvis Stojko, figure skater, Olympic silver medalist and World Champion April 1 - Rob Anders, politician April 2 - Graham Hood, middle-distance runner April 9 - Karen Clark, synchronized swimmer April 17 - Terran Sandwith, ice hockey player April 24 - Nicolas Gill, judoka and Olympic silver medalist May 5 - Brad Bombardir, ice hockey player May 5 - Devin Townsend, vocalist, guitarist and record producer May 6 - Martin Brodeur, ice hockey player May 7 - Ray Whitney, ice hockey player June 6 - Erin Woodley, synchronised swimmer June 15 - Krista Thompson, field hockey player June 17 - Steven Fletcher, politician and Minister June 26 - Garou, singer July to December July 4 - Mike Knuble, ice hockey player August 1 Marc Costanzo, musician Tanya Reid, actress August 2 – Kelly Richardson, Canadian contemporary artist August 23 – Anthony Calvillo, Canadian Football League quarterback August 27 - Mike Smith, actor August 29 - Amanda Marshall, pop-rock singer September 12 - Lori Strong, artistic gymnast September 20 - Sergio Di Zio, actor September 27 - Clara Hughes, cyclist, speed skater and Olympic medalist October 5 - Aaron Guiel, baseball player October 11 - Brigitte Soucy, volleyball player October 17 - Cameron Baerg, rower and Olympic silver medalist November 1 - Glen Murray, ice hockey player November 11 - Adam Beach, actor November 22 - Gabe Khouth, actor and voice actor (died 2019) November 26 - Chris Osgood, ice hockey player December 19 - Charles Lefrançois, high jumper December 23 - Christian Potenza, actor and voice actor Deaths January 2 - James White, World War I flying ace (b.1893) January 6 - Samuel McLaughlin, businessman and philanthropist (b.1871) April 7 - Woodrow Stanley Lloyd, politician and 8th Premier of Saskatchewan (b.1913) August 20 - A. M. Klein, poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer (b.1909) October 31 - Bill Durnan, ice hockey player (b.1916) December 27 - Lester B. Pearson, politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, diplomat and 1957 Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b.1897) See also 1972 in Canadian television List of Canadian films of 1972 References Years of the 20th century in Canada Canada 1972 in North America

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Martha Josey

Martha Josey (born Martha Lavaughn Arthur in Gregg County, Texas, on March 11, 1938, daughter of Robert Jonas Arthur, Sr. and the former Martha James) is an American professional rodeo cowgirl who specializes in barrel racing. She has been in active rodeo competition since 1964. She won the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) barrel racing world championship in 1980. She has earned numerous other titles at competitions such as the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) and events sanctioned by the National Barrel Horse Association (NBHA), and WPRA. She also competed in barrel racing as an exhibition event during the 1988 Calgary Olympics, and is the founder and co-owner of the Josey Ranch Barrel Racing Clinic. Early years Josey is originally from the Kilgore/Marshall, Texas area. Her love for horses was instilled by her father, who was one of the first directors for the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), and she began riding on a pony at a very early age. At age 10, Josey experienced the loss of a parent when her father died due to a heart attack. Josey's mother rented her land for oil for 25,000 dollars so that Martha could buy a gelding named CeBe Reed. After attending a rodeo in her teens, Josey became inspired to compete in the sport and began to work with CeBe Reed as a barrel racing horse. Martha married R.E. Josey in 1967, and the pair are still married. He was a three-time AQHA World Champion in calf roping, and now competes in team roping. Career Her first barrel horse, CeBe Reed, took her to 52 consecutive wins, and the awards she was given included seven horse trailers. Josey and CeBe competed in the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in 1968 and 1969, winning $3,421 in prize money in 1969. Josey claims this horse is the reason she was able to quit her job and go pro. Her second horse, Sonny Bit O'Both, brought her to the NFR four consecutive years (1978-1981). Sonny is the only horse in history to win both the AQHA and the WPRA championships in the same year. In 1980, she won the World Barrel Racing Champion title at the NFR, the highest barrel racing title in professional barrel racing. With the horse Jetonfer Pay, Josey won the Pro Tour Circuit in 1985, went to the NFR again, and was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. Josey and Swen Sir Bug, aka "J.C.", competed in the 1987 NFR. At the 1988 Winter Olympics held in Calgary, Alberta, she participated in a barrel racing exhibition as an Olympic special event where she and J.C. earned a gold medal. Her next horse, Mr. Revolution Bars, accompanied her to the 1989 and 1990 NFR, making her one of only two barrel racers to ever compete in the NFR in four consecutive decades. After that, Orange Smash carried her to a championship in the NBHA Senior World Championship 1997 and to the NFR in 1998. In 1999, she was received the Dennis D. High Lifestyle Achievements Award and was chosen as the Women's Sports Foundation AQHA Female Equestrian of the Year. In addition, Orange Smash received 1999 AQHA "Best of America's Horse Award" and was created as a model horse by Peter Stone. In 2000, she entered her fifth decade of competition with the horse, Joe B Jammin, and in that year ran the fastest time at the Lone Star Finals. They went on to be the Go Round Winner at the 2001 Copenhagen Cup Finale in Dallas, Texas. In 2002, she placed first and second in the NBHA Holiday Classic in Jackson, Mississippi, riding Joe B. Jammin and Sweet Sailin' Six, and 2003 ended with a championship in the Equus America competition in Houston, Texas, as well as a reserve championship in the AQHA World rodeo event in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 2004, she obtained Red Man Bay, and the pair won the 2004 NBHA Holiday Classic Sr. 1 D Championship in Jackson, Mississippi, and went on to win the 2004 and 2005 NBHA Sr. Division Reserve World Championships. In March 2004, Josey suffered a serious accident at a rodeo in Austin, Texas. Doctors discovered two skull fractures, a broken pelvis, six broken ribs, and a punctured lung. Though told she might not walk again and certainly never ride, she proved her doctors wrong. She worked out daily in the swimming pool with the help of her husband, and regained enough strength to not only ride again, but also to compete professionally. After her accident, however, Josey became a strong advocate of equestrian helmet use and endorses Troxel riding helmets and safety gear. As of 2009, Josey was still competing in barrel racing. Business enterprises Presently, Martha and R.E. Josey reside in Karnack, Texas, where they own the Josey Ranch. They train and market barrel-racing and roping horses. At the ranch, and at various other places around the United States, the Joseys, along with "The Josey Team" of previous students, hold clinics for aspiring barrel racers and calf ropers to improve their skills and learn more about these events. The Josey Clinic was the first barrel-racing clinic in the sport, and has assisted thousands of riders over a 40-year period. As of 2010, the Joseys claim a total of 80,000 student have passed through their clinics and ranch competitions. However, it is unclear how this figure was calculated. The Josey Ranch sponsors several competitions, including the Josey Jr. World Championship Barrel Race for youth age 20 and under and the Josey Reunion Round-Up. Martha Josey has also recorded several videos, written books, and has appeared in magazines such as Western Horseman. Both R.E. and Martha have also had television appearances on ESPN, RFD-TV, and other networks. In addition, the Joseys have a substantial number of product endorsements, many of which they sell at their Josey Western Store and online mail-order shop, headquartered from their ranch. Books authored World Champion Martha Josey's Running to Win: How to Win at Barrel Racing Both Inside and Out (Paperback - Jul 1985) Fundamentals of Barrel Racing (Paperback - Jan 1, 1977) Riding the Gymkhana Winner (Farmam Horse Library Series) (Paperback - Nov 1972) Honors 1985 National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame 2002 Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame with her husband, R.E. Josey 2007 Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame with her husband 2011 Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum 2020 ProRodeo Hall of Fame for Barrel Racing References Other Sources Living people 1938 births Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductees ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductees People from Gregg County, Texas People from Kilgore, Texas People from Marshall, Texas People from Harrison County, Texas American barrel racers American female equestrians 21st-century American women

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karimabad%2C%20Khorramabad

Karimabad, Khorramabad

Karimabad (, also Romanized as Karīmābād) is a village in Azna Rural District, in the Central District of Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 357, in 62 families. References Towns and villages in Khorramabad County

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin%20Concerto%20%28Strauss%29

Violin Concerto (Strauss)

The Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 8, is a concertante work written from 1881 to 1882 by the German composer Richard Strauss. This violin concerto was written during the composer's teenage years while he was still attending his last two years of school, and is less distinctive than many of his later orchestral works. Despite this it contains some bold and inventive solo writing as well as occasional passages that hint at the composer's mature harmonic style. Though written in the romantic tradition of its time, it hints at the young composer's reverence of masters of the preceding classical period, especially Mozart and Beethoven. In 1880 he had first begun to turn to large scale compositions during a tempestuous compositional interval after having decided to devote his life to composition, including a symphony in D minor (TrV 94), which was well received. The following year he began to sketch the Violin Concerto in D minor, among several other compositions. Although it is today rarely performed, it received encouraging reviews, including the following by Karl Klindworth from May 1882, before its premiere: So far as the form of the pieces is concerned there is little to find fault with, but I could wish for content of greater significance before the young composer embarks on a public career. Even so, I like the violin concerto best, and I should be delighted if it turned out to be effective and viable enough to banish Bruch's G minor from our concert halls. The work was dedicated to Benno Walter, the concertmaster of the Munich Court Orchestra, and also Strauss's violin teacher and relative. (Benno Walter was the son of (Johann) Georg Walter, and the first cousin of Richard Strauss's father Franz Strauss, and hence Richard's cousin once removed; Richard called him "cousin", but he is sometimes referred to as his "uncle".) Premieres and performance history The Violin Concerto was first performed publicly on 5 December 1882, in the Bösendorfersaal of the Herrengasse in Vienna. The soloist was the dedicatee Benno Walter. Strauss himself played his own piano reduction of the orchestral parts. Walter and Strauss played this violin-piano version again in Munich on 8 February 1883. The concerto's debut with violin and orchestra had to wait another seven years. On 4 March 1890, in Cologne, Benno Walter played with an orchestra conducted by Franz Wüllner. The first time Strauss himself conducted the concerto was on 17 February 1896, in the Liszt-Verein in Leipzig. The soloist was the 23-year-old (Gustav) Alfred Krasselt (3 June 1872 - 27 September 1908), concert master of Munich's Kaim Orchestra (later the Munich Philharmonic). Strauss went on to perform the concerto either as piano accompanist (Dresden 27 November 1902, Birmingham (UK) 10 December 1903 (Max Mossel on violin), Munich 24 June 1910 (Alfred Rose on violin)), or conducting with orchestra (Munich 13 January 1897 (Alfred Krasselt), Birmingham UK 2 December 1904 (Max Mossel), Bonn 7 November 1907). The concerto has been performed only once at the London Proms: on 18 September 1912 at the Queens Hall, with Sir Henry Wood conducting The New Queen's Hall Orchestra with violinist Arthur Catterall. Structure The composition consists of three movements: Recordings The first recording was the 1976 HMV release by Rudolf Kempe and the Staatskapelle Dresden with Ulf Hoelscher on violin, which was remastered and reissued in the Warner Classics 2013 CD. References Concertos by Richard Strauss Strauss 1882 compositions Compositions in D minor Music with dedications

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Alvarado family

Alvarado was the Spanish family of conquistadors. Diego Gómez de Alvarado y Mexía de Sandoval. the Commander of municipalities including Lobón, Montijo and Cubillana, Alcalde of Montánchez, Trece of the Order of Santiago, Lord of Castellanos, a Maestresala official instructor of Henry IV of Castile and General of the Frontier of Portugal. 1st wife: Teresa Suárez de Moscoso y Figueroa; 2nd wife Leonor de Contreras y Gutiérrez de Trejo. His sons: Pedro de Alvarado, famous conquistador. 1st wife Fransisca de Cueva, 2nd - her cousin Beatriz de la Cueva. Both childless. But more so than his wives his vital companion was Luisa de Tlaxcala (also called Xicoténcalt or Tecubalsi, her original names after Catholic baptism), an Indian noblewoman, daughter of the Tlaxcaltec Chief Xicotenga. With Luisa de Tlaxcala he had three children, and two more from other women (Leonor de Alvarado y Xicotenga Tecubalsi, Pedro de Alvarado, Diego de Alvarardo El Mestizo, Gómez de Alvarado, Ana (Anita) de Alvarado) Gonzalo de Alvarado y Contreras. His descendants were represented by the family Vides de Alvarado after the famous 17th-century historians Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán and also the father Domingo Juarros y Montufar. Jorge de Alvarado. Jorge married a daughter of Xicotencatl I, the ruler of Tizatlan in Tlaxcala. She was baptized with the Spanish name doña Lucía. They had a daughter who married the conquistador Francisco Xiron Manuel and had issue. Also he married twice, firstly to Francisca Girón and secondly in 1526 to Luisa de Estrada, certainly related to Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's wife, by whom he had a son Jorge de Alvarado y Estrada, born in México, who married Catalina de Villafañe y Carvajal, Mexican, daughter of Ángel de Villafañe, conqueror of Mexico, and wife Inés de Carvajal. Their son was Jorge de Alvarado y Villafañe, also born in Mexico, Governor and Captain-General of Honduras and Knight of Santiago since 1587, also married twice, firstly to Brianda de Quiñones and secondly to Juana de Benavides, vecina of Guatemala, and had issue. and Gómez, Hernando and Juan. Diego de Alvarado y Mexía de Sandoval, uncle of Pedro de Alvarado. Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez, cousin of Pedro de Alvarado. He married Isabel, a daughter of Jorge de Alvarado, his cousin. Alonso de Alvarado - ? Ancestors See also Alvarado wrestling family - Mexico City based family of professional wrestlers. References Spanish families

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395%20St.%20Francis%20Terriers%20men%27s%20basketball%20team

1994–95 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team

The 1994–95 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team represented St. Francis College during the 1994–95 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Ron Ganulin, who was in his fourth year at the helm of the St. Francis Terriers. The Terrier's home games were played at the Generoso Pope Athletic Complex. The team has been a member of the Northeast Conference since 1981. The Terriers finished their season at 9–18 overall and 5–13 in conference play. The Terriers played as the 9th seed in the NEC Tournament and lost in the first round against 8th seed Saint Francis (PA), 76–95. Roster Schedule and results |- !colspan=12 style="background:#0038A8; border: 2px solid #CE1126;;color:#FFFFFF;"| Regular season |- !colspan=12 style="background:#0038A8; border: 2px solid #CE1126;;color:#FFFFFF;"| 1995 NEC tournament |- References St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers men's basketball seasons St. Francis St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers men's basketball St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers men's basketball

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne%20Hubert%20%28canoeist%29

Étienne Hubert (canoeist)

Étienne Hubert (born 27 January 1988) is a French sprint canoeist. Career Hubert has competed since the late 2000s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań. External links Étienne Hubert CARAVAN series ambassador profile French male canoeists ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak 1988 births Living people Canoeists at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for France Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists of France Canoeists at the 2019 European Games People from Sedan, Ardennes Sportspeople from Ardennes (department) 20th-century French people 21st-century French people

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20British%20Academy%20Film%20Awards

1st British Academy Film Awards

{{Infobox film awards | number = 1 | award = British Academy Film Awards | date = 29 May 1949 | site = Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, London | host = | producer = | director = | best_film = The Best Years of Our Lives | best_british = Odd Man Out| best_actor = | best_actor_film = | best_actress = | best_actress_film = | most_wins = The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out (1) | most_nominations = | duration = | ratings = | next = 2nd }} The 1st British Film Academy Awards (retroactively known as the British Academy Film Awards), were handed out on 29 May 1949 at the Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, in London, for films shown in the United Kingdom in 1947 and 1948. They were presented by the British Film Academy (currently, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)), an organisation established in 1947 by filmmakers from Great Britain, for the "advancement of the art and technique of the film". The Academy bestowed accolades in three categories: Best British Film, Best Picture from any source - British or Foreign and a Special Award. British film producer Michael Balcon chaired the ceremony. Odd Man Out won Best British Film. Best Film from any source - British or Foreign was awarded to American film The Best Years of Our Lives. Documentary, The World Is Rich received the Special Award. Bronze trophies, designed by Henry Moore were given to the director of the films, on behalf of the motion pictures' production units. Winners Winners highlighted in boldface'. All sources used in this article make no mention of nominees in any of the categories. Special Award The World Is Rich'' (Documentary) See also 5th Golden Globe Awards 21st Academy Awards References External links The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Official website Film001 British Academy British Academy 1949 in British cinema 1949 in London May 1949 events in the United Kingdom

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Fahnbulleh

Joseph Fahnbulleh

Joseph Fahnbulleh (born 11 September 2001) is a Liberian-American sprinter. An Olympic finalist, Fahnbulleh is a double NCAA champion and finished fourth at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 200 meters race. Early and personal life Born in Hopkins, Minnesota, to Liberian parents, Fahnbulleh attended Hopkins High School. Career After being named National High School Coaches' Association boys athlete of the year in 2019 he was encouraged by Florida coach Mike Holloway to attend the University of Florida, and Fahnbulleh subsequently won the 200 m at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor National Championships with a personal best time of 19.91 seconds. He was also named National Senior Boys' Track and Field Athlete of the Year. After declaring for Liberia and being named in their team for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Fahnbulleh was given the honor of being the flag bearer for his nation in the opening ceremony. The journey to Tokyo for the Olympics was the first time Fahnbulleh had ever been outside of the United States. He made it through to the final of the 2020 Olympics 200 meters race with a time of 19.99 seconds in his semi-final, setting a new Liberian national record. He finished in fifth place in the final, again setting a new national record with a time of 19.98 seconds. On 10 June 2022, Fahnbulleh won both the 100 m and 200 m events at the 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships with times of 10.00 (+0.6 m/s) and 19.83 (+0.6m/s) respectively, helping the Florida Gators to the 2022 NCAA men's team title. Fahnbulleh placed fourth at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 200 metres running 19.84 seconds in the final. In August 2022, Fahnbulleh announced he had signed a professional contract with global brand Asics. Statistics Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. Personal records References External links 2001 births Living people Liberian male sprinters American male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Florida Gators men's track and field athletes Olympic athletes of Liberia Track and field athletes from Minnesota People from Hopkins, Minnesota American people of Liberian descent Hopkins High School alumni

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Hajir Darioush

Hajir Darioush (, , Bandar Pahlavi, Iran – 2 October 1995, Blagnac, France) was an Iranian film maker, described by Javed Jabbar in 1982 as "the leader of the organised progressive Iranian cinema". He took his own life in Blagnac, near Toulouse, France, in 1995. Darioush studied cinema at I.D.H.E.C (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques) later known as École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son in Paris. After graduation, he married Goli Taraghi, a Persian novelist, and the only daughter of a rich journalist. However, the marriage did not last long. His first film "Sacred Arena -- گود مقدس", in 1963, was a documentary about the traditional Persian gymnasium. His second film "Serpent's Skin -- جلد مار", made in 1964 was based on D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" featuring Fakhri Khorvash and Jamshid Mashayekhi. It is believed that he started the New Wave of Iranian cinema with this film. He then returned to making two important early social documentaries "But Problems Arose -- ولی افتاد مشکلها" in 1965, dealing with the cultural alienation of Iranian youth, and "Face 75 --چهره 75" a critical look at the westernization of the rural culture, which was a prizewinner at the 1965 Berlin Film Festival. Finally, he made his first and last commercially successful film, "Bita" in 1972, about a young woman's struggle to come to terms with social barriers, starring Googoosh. In 1979, he emigrated to France. He was director at the University of Toulouse. Darioush was the president of the First International Film Festival of Iran in 1966, and acted as artistic director for National Iranian Radio and Television. References External links 1938 births 1995 deaths People from Bandar-e Anzali Iranian film directors Iranian screenwriters Iranian documentary filmmakers Persian-language film directors 20th-century screenwriters Suicides in France

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Model for assessment of telemedicine

Model for assessment of telemedicine (MAST) is a framework for assessment of the value of telemedicine. Description Telemedicine services may have many different types of outcomes and can be studied in many ways. In order for those who develop new telemedicine services to produce the information that healthcare managers need for making decisions on investment in telemedicine, a model for assessment of telemedicine (MAST) was developed. This work was done in 2010 through stakeholder workshops and on the basis of a systematic literature review. If the objective of an assessment of telemedicine applications is to describe effectiveness and contribution to quality of care and to produce a basis for decision making, then MAST defines the relevant assessment framework fulfilling this objective as a multidisciplinary process which summarizes and evaluates information about the medical, social, economic and ethical issues related to the use of telemedicine in a systematic, unbiased, robust manner. This statement is based on the definition of Health technology assessment (HTA) in the EUnetHTA project. Key concepts are "multidisciplinary" and "systematic, unbiased and robust". The first concept implies that the assessments should include all important outcomes of the applications for patients, clinicians, healthcare institutions and society in general. The others imply that assessments should be based on scientific studies and methods, scientific criteria for quality of evidence and scientific standards for reporting of results, e.g. as described in EQUATOR Network. Steps In practice the use of MAST includes three steps: Preceding assessment Multidisciplinary assessment Transferability assessment Firstly, the assessment must start with preceding considerations in order to determine whether it is relevant for an institution at a given point in time to carry out the assessment. This step involves mainly assessment of the maturity of the technology and the organization planning to use it. If the technology is not matured and have not been tested in practice, then pilot studies must be carried out to mature the technology before a multidisciplinary study is initiated. Secondly, after the preceding considerations, the multidisciplinary assessment is carried out in order to describe and assess the different outcomes of the telemedicine application. This involves assessment of outcomes within the following seven domains: Domain 1: Health problem and characteristics of the application Domain 2: Safety Domain 3: Clinical effectiveness Domain 4: Patient perspectives Domain 5: Economic aspects Domain 6: Organizational aspects Domain 7: Socio-cultural, ethical and legal aspects Thirdly, in relation to the description of the outcomes, an assessment should also be made of the transferability of the results to other settings or countries. Use MAST is the most widely used framework for assessment of telemedicine in Europe. The model is used in large EU funded telemedicine project like Renewing Health, United4Health, Smartcare and inCASA. These projects include more than 20.000 patients and more than 18 randomised controlled trials. A large number of individual telemedicine projects also use MAST e.g. Patient@home, Durand-Zaleski (2013) and Campos et al. (2013) The number of publications of studies using MAST is still limited, but growing. The first clinical studies have been reported by Sorknæs et al. (2013), Karhula et al. (2015) and Rasmussen et al. (2015). Recently a study of the organizational outcomes of implementation of telemedicine was published by Rasmussen et al. (2015). MAST has also been recommended as a usable structure for assessment of outcomes of telemedicine by the association of Danish Regions Telemedicine strategy, by the British Thoracic Society statement on telemedicine (2014) and within the field of wound care by Angel et al. (2015). Difference between MAST and EUnetHTA Core model MAST is based on HTA and the EUnetHTA Core model, but whereas the core model includes 9 domains, MAST only includes 7 domains. This is done by combining the content of several domains into one. MAST has also a separate domain describing the impact of telemedicine on patient perception and thereby underlining the importance of the patients' view of this type of health care technology. In addition the three steps in MAST underline that the assessment of outcomes should be seen in the light of the maturity of the technology and the transferability of the results to other countries. References External links EUropean network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA): http://www.eunethta.eu/ Renewing Health project: http://www.renewinghealth.eu/en/ United4Health project: http://united4health.eu/ Patient@home project: http://www.en.patientathome.dk/ Smart Care project: http://www.pilotsmartcare.eu/home/ InCASA: http://www.incasa-project.eu/news.php MAST manual Methotelemed Videos on MAST Telemedicine Impact assessment Evidence-based practices Research methods

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Virtual address (disambiguation)

Virtual address refers to an address identifying a virtual, i.e. non-physical, entity. For example: Virtual address space in computing Virtual address translation to physical address in computing Virtual postal address, see virtual mailbox or commercial mail receiving agency Virtual business address, see Virtual office See also Virtual (disambiguation)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Hopper

Tim Hopper

Tim Hopper is an American actor known for his appearances in movies like Tenderness and To Die For. He has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois since 1988 and acted in various stage productions, including Arthur Miller's The Crucible. He was nominated for the 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award in the category "Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play" for "The Violet Hour" and received an Obie Award for his performance in "More Stately Mansions" at the New York Theatre Workshop. In 2012, Hopper appeared as Henry in the off-Broadway production of Him with Primary Stages. Filmography Film Television Videogames References External links American male television actors Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Steppenwolf Theatre Company players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Marie%20Heude

Pierre Marie Heude

Pierre Marie Heude (25 June 1836 – 3 January 1902) was a French Jesuit missionary and zoologist. Life Born at Fougères in the Department of Ille-et-Vilaine, Heude became a Jesuit in 1856 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1867. He went to China in 1868. During the following years, he devoted all his time and energy to the studies of the natural history of Eastern Asia, traveling widely in China and other parts of Eastern Asia. The first fruits of his research concern the mollusks: his Conchyliologie fluviatile de la province de Nanking (et de la Chine centrale) was published in Paris between 1876 and 1885 in 10 volumes; his Notes sur le mollusques terrestres de la vallée du Fleuve Bleu can be found in the first volume of the Mémoires concernant l'histoire naturelle de l'Empire Chinois, founded by the Jesuits of Xujiahui, Shanghai in 1882. Later he turned his attentions to mammals. With his remarkable collection of specimens, he helped to set up a museum of natural history at Xujiahui in 1868, the first of its kind in China. (The museum had been known later as Musée Heude, but was incorporated into other museums since the 1950s.) He continued his scientific works until his death at Xujiahui. Bibliography Heude P. M. (1875–1885). Conchyliologie fluviatile de la province de Nanking et de la Chine centrale. Paris. 10 volumes. another scan - this whole work is about freshwater bivalves of China Heude P. M. (1882–1890). "Notes sur les Mollusques terrestres de la vallée du Fleuve Bleu". Mémoires concernant l'histoire naturelle de l'empire chinois par des pères de la Compagnie de Jésus, Mision Catholique, Chang-Hai. (1882). 2: 1-88, plates 12-21. (1885). 3: 89-132, plates 22-32. (1890). 4: 125[sic]-188, plates 33-43. See also List of Jesuit scientists List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics References Further reading Kobelt W. (1902). "Necrologie". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 34(11-12): 215. Johnson R. (ed.) (1973). "Heude's Molluscan Types, or Asian land and fresh water mollusks, mostly from the People's Republic of China, described by P. Heude". Cambridge, Spec. Occ. Publ. 4, 111 pp. External links Biography at Catholic Encyclopedia 1836 births 1902 deaths People from Fougères French Roman Catholic missionaries 19th-century French zoologists French malacologists 19th-century French Jesuits Conchologists Jesuit missionaries in China Roman Catholic missionaries in China Jesuit scientists Jesuit missionaries French expatriates in China Museum founders

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Houston%2C%20Houston

East Houston, Houston

East Houston is a community in Houston, Texas, United States. Government and infrastructure The City of Houston Super Neighborhood #49 East Houston opened on August 24, 2000. The United States Postal Service operates the East houston Post Office at 9604 Mesa Drive. In July 2011 the USPS announced that the post office may close. Education The Houston Independent School District serves East Houston. North Forest High School is the sole zoned high school. Until July 1, 2013, North Forest Independent School District served East Houston; that district was formerly named the East and Mount Houston Independent School District. References Neighborhoods in Houston

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian%20Supplement

Georgian Supplement

Georgian Supplement is a Unicode block containing characters for the ecclesiastical form of the Georgian script, Nuskhuri (). To write the full ecclesiastical Khutsuri orthography, the Asomtavruli capitals encoded in the Georgian block. Block History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Georgian Supplement block: References Unicode blocks

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%20Radio%20Group

Adams Radio Group

Adams Radio Group is a radio broadcasting company focused on medium to small markets in the United States. Adams began in the early 1980s with radio stations in several markets across the country. The original market stations were all sold by 1996. The radio station groups in this article were formed in 1996. Markets and radio stations Fort Wayne WBTU in Kendallville, Indiana WJFX in New Haven, Indiana WWFW in Fort Wayne, Indiana WXKE in Churubusco, Indiana W245CA in Fort Wayne, Indiana W277AK in Fort Wayne, Indiana Northwest Indiana WLJE in Valparaiso, Indiana WXRD in Crown Point, Indiana WZVN in Lowell, Indiana Las Cruces KGRT in Las Cruces, New Mexico KHQT in Las Cruces, New Mexico KSNM in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico KWML in Las Cruces, New Mexico Tallahassee WHTF in Havana, Florida WQTL in Tallahassee, Florida WWOF in Tallahassee, Florida WXTY in Lafayette, Florida References External links Adams Radio Group Corporate Website Radio broadcasting companies of the United States

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Rajendra Singh Lodha

Rajendra Singh Lodha (died 3 October 2008), popularly known as R. S. Lodha, was an Indian chartered accountant and the chairman of the Birla Corporation. Lodha became co-chairman of the Birla Corporation in 2001. In July 2004, Priyamvada Birla, chairperson of the Birla Corporation, died and was revealed to have bequeathed the entire assets of the company to Lodha in 1999. Lodha was also the will's executor. This sparked a protracted legal battle between members of the Birla family and Lodha that included more than 110 court cases at one time. Despite this, Lodha took charge as chairman of the corporation. Death Lodha died in London of a heart attack on 3 October 2008. He had two sons and a daughter. The legal battle over the Birla estate continued after his death. References Year of birth missing 2008 deaths Indian accountants

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringian%20sausage

Thuringian sausage

Thuringian sausage, or Thüringer Bratwurst in German is a unique sausage from the German state of Thuringia which has protected geographical indication status under European Union law. History Thuringian sausage has been produced for hundreds of years. The oldest known reference to a Thuringian sausage is located in the Thuringian State Archive in Rudolstadt in a transcript of a bill from an Arnstadt convent from the year 1404. The oldest known recipe dates from 1613 and is kept in the State Archive in Weimar, another is listed in the "Thüringisch-Erfurtische Kochbuch" from 1797 which also mentions a smoked variety. Production Only finely minced pork, beef, or sometimes veal, is used in production. Most of the meat comes from the upper part from around the shoulder. In addition to salt and pepper, caraway, marjoram, and garlic are used. The specific spice mixtures can vary according to traditional recipes or regional tastes. At least 51% of the ingredients must come from the state of Thuringia. These ingredients are blended together and filled into a pig or sheep intestine. Thuringian sausages are distinguished from the dozens of unique types of German wursts by the distinctive spices (which includes marjoram) and their low fat content (25% as compared to up to 60% in other sausages). According to German minced meat law, the Hackfleischverordnung, raw sausages must be sold on the day of their creation or until the closing of a late-night establishment. Previously grilled sausages have a shelf-life of 15 days, and sausages immediately frozen after their creation may be stored for 6 months. Preparation The preferred preparation method for Thuringian sausage is roasted over charcoal or on a grill rubbed with bacon. The fire shouldn't be so hot that the skin breaks. However, some charring is desired. The sausages are sometimes sprinkled with beer during the grilling process. Usually, a Thuringian sausage is presented in a cut-open roll and served with mustard. Thuringian culture For the people of Thuringia, grilled Thuringian sausage is not merely the local cuisine. The grill is at the very core of Thuringian culture. Mostly beer instead of water is used to cool the grill, and the type of grill is a matter of doctrine. Mustard, preferably local, is the traditional condiment. Most commonly used is "Born mustard" from a local food company in Erfurt. In some regions the usage of any relish - even mustard - is a strict taboo. In eastern of Thuringia most commonly used is "Bautz’ner" mustard. In 2006, the Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum, opened in Holzhausen, part of the Wachsenburggemeinde near Arnstadt, the first museum devoted exclusively to the Thuringian sausage. In 2016, a kosher version of Thuringian bratwurst made with veal and chicken packed into goat intestines was introduced at the annual Onion Festival in Weimar, which took place between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The introduction of the kosher bratwurst sparked some backlash on social media with comments posted that were "full of hate, anti-religious sentiment and National Socialist cliches", according to the Governor of Thuringia. North America In North America, the term Thuringer refers to Thuringer cervelat, a type of smoked semi-dry sausage similar to summer sausage. It is made from a medium grind of beef, blended with salt, cure ingredients, spices (usually including dry mustard), and a lactic acid starter culture. After stuffing into a fibrous casing, it is smoked and dried, then cooked. Hormel Foods Corporation and Usinger's, as well as many regional processors and some small butcher shops, produce the sausage in this fashion. Luxembourg Prior to Thuringian sausages being given protected geographical region status in the EU, a type of Luxembourgish sausage was locally known as a Thüringer. It is now referred to as "Lëtzebuerger Grillwurscht" (). See also Cervelat Summer sausage Thüringer rotwurst (black pudding) List of sausages References Thuringer sausage German products with protected designation of origin Sausage Fresh sausages de:Bratwurst#Thüringer Rostbratwurst

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright%20Exhibition%20Team

Wright Exhibition Team

The Wright Exhibition Team was a group of early aviators trained by the Wright brothers at Wright Flying School in Montgomery, Alabama in March 1910. History The group was formed in 1910 at the suggestion of balloonist Augustus Roy Knabenshue. The team made its first public appearance on June 13, 1910 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The team performed aerial shows and set records for altitude (4939 feet) and endurance. Pilots were paid $20 per week and $50 a day when flying. By August there were five separate teams flying at one time with $186,000 in receipts. Ralph Johnstone was the first to be killed. After attempting another altitude record over Denver's Overland Park in November, Johnstone put his plane into Walter Richard Brookins' 'spiral dip' dive, and he never recovered. The plane plummeted to the ground, and Johnstone was crushed. A month later, on New Year's Eve, 1910, Arch Hoxsey was killed in an identical crash. Although the team had lost its star fliers, newer pilots trained by Welsh joined the team and continued performing around the country at 25 locations. Troubled by the deaths of the pilots, the group was disbanded in November 1911. Members Leonard Warden Bonney (1884–1928) † Walter Richard Brookins (1889–1953). Frank Trenholm Coffyn (1878–1960) Howard Gill (1883–1912) † Archibald Hoxsey (1884–1910) † Ralph Johnstone (1880/?1886–1910) † Augustus Roy Knabenshue (1875–1960), he managed the team. Duval La Chapelle (1869-1932) Philip Orin Parmelee (1887–1912) † James Clifford Turpin (1886–1966), pilot & engineer Arthur L. Welsh (1875 or 1881–1912) †, Welsh was killed in a crash while demonstrating a Wright model C airplane for the U.S. Army in 1912. Spencer Crane – mechanic James Davis – mechanic † Died in flight crashes. Timeline 1910 Indianapolis Motor Speedway on June 13 1910 October – Walter Brookins crashes the Wright Baby Grand at Belmont Park in New York. 1910 November – Ralph Johnstone dies at Denver's Overland park. 1910 December – Walter Brookins performs at Dominguez Field, Los Angeles. 1910 Death of Arch Hoxsey on December 31 1911 May – Walter Brookins leaves the flight team. 1911 Chicago, Illinois August 12–30, Grant Park 1911 November – The Wrights release the team, keeping Welsh on as a test pilot. References Wright brothers

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina%20Carrillo

Martina Carrillo

Martina Carrillo (born 1750, died after 1778) was a black Ecuadorian activist who defended the rights of black people and fought against slavery. Together with six other slaves of African descent, in 1778 she went to Quito to present her case to the president of the Royal Audience who promised to help them. They were nevertheless punished by whipping, Carrillo receiving 300 strokes. Today she is honored as a national heroine. Biography Born around 1750 in the valley of the River Chota in northern Ecuador, she became a slave in the ranch known as La Concepción. In 1778, at the end of January, together with six other black slaves from La Concepción (Pedro Lucumi, Andrés Lucumi, Ambrosia Padilla, Antonio Chalá, Ignacia Quiteño and Irene Luardo), Carrillo went to Quito to present to José Diguja, president of the Royal Audience appointed by the Spanish, a number of complaints stemming from the mistreatment they suffered under the administrator Francesco Aurrecco Eche. These included insufficient food and clothing and the need for days off after working in the fields. Diguja promised there would be improvements and sent them back with a written request to Aurreco Echea that no punishment should be given. Aurreco Echea disregarded the request and punished them all by whipping. Carillo received 300 strokes. The next day a doctor had to be called to treat Carrillo whose chest had been severed. All the others were seriously injured too and none were able to return to work for at least two weeks. The following April, Andrés Fernández Salvador began to investigate the case, questioning the witnesses at La Concepción. On 12 April, Aurreco Echea was arrested and on 14 July fined 200 peso, 100 of which were shared among the victims. A monument now stands in the central park of La Concepción honoring the bravery of Martina Carrillo. References 1750 births People from Carchi Province Afro-Ecuadorian Ecuadorian slaves Ecuadorian activists Ecuadorian women activists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palodeia

Palodeia

Palodeia () is a village in the Limassol District of Cyprus, located 2 km south of Paramytha and 7 km north of the centre of Limassol. Although the original village is small, Palodeia includes much of the surrounding land which has gradually been suburbanized. This led to a rapid growth in population in the beginning of the 21st century; the population almost doubled from 730 in 2001 to 1568 in 2011. Among the features of interest are two churches and a nursing home for veterans of EOKA, the Melathron. References Communities in Limassol District

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigatica%20semisulcata

Sigatica semisulcata

Sigatica semisulcata is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. Distribution Description The maximum recorded shell length is 15 mm. Habitat Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 60 m. References External links Naticidae Gastropods described in 1839 Taxa named by John Edward Gray

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphostoma%20pustulosa

Glyphostoma pustulosa

Glyphostoma pustulosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clathurellidae. Description The shell grows to a length of 12 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean along the Galápagos Islands and Cocos Island, Costa Rica References External links pustulosa Gastropods described in 1971

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20J.%20Maxwell

Henry J. Maxwell

Henry Johnson Maxwell (May 3, 1837 – August 26, 1906) was a lawyer, soldier in the Union Army, state senator, and postmaster in South Carolina. He was born free on Edisto Island to Stephen J. and Thurston Johnson Maxwell. He was a Sergeant in the 2nd U.S. Colored Artillery. After the war, he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau in Bennettsville, South Carolina as a teacher. He served in the South Carolina Senate from 1868 until 1877 representing Marlboro County, South Carolina He served as postmaster of Bennettsville in 1869 and 1870, and was the first black postmaster in the United States. He joined the South Carolina Bar in 1871. Towards the end of the Reconstruction era as Democrats regained power, he was charged with bribery and resigned as a state senator. He was never tried. He was married twice, the second time to Martha Louisa Dibble Maxwell. He helped raise eight children. One of his sons, John Moreau Maxwell, was a store owner in Orangeburg. Another of his sons was attorney Charles W. Maxwell. Henry J. Maxwell's granddaughter Cassandra Maxwell became the first female African American lawyer in South Carolina in 1941. His photograph was included among "Radical" members of the South Catolina Legislature. A historical marker is located at the site of his farm in Sumter County. References External links 1837 births 1906 deaths

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyropsis

Oxyropsis

Oxyropsis is a genus of fish in the family Loricariidae native to South America. These species are distinguished by the presence of a single row of enlarged odontodes along the trunk midline lying adjacent and immediately dorsal to, the lateral line canal. Species of this genus have a depressed head and have relatively large eyes placed ventrolaterally. This genus is most similar to Hypoptopoma in external appearance, which shares the head shape and eye placement. Oxyropsis are elongate and have a narrow caudal peduncle, which distinguishes it from all other Hypoptopomatinae genera except Niobichthys and Acestridium. The species of Oxyropsis are distinguished based on their armor plate formation, numbers of plates and teeth, relative depth of the caudal peduncle, development of serrae on the pectoral fin spine. Males have a genital papilla. Species There are currently 3 recognized species in this genus: Oxyropsis acutirostra P. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1951 Oxyropsis carinata (Steindachner, 1879) Oxyropsis wrightiana C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889 References Hypoptopomatini Fish of South America Catfish genera Taxa named by Rosa Smith Eigenmann Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann Freshwater fish genera

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroeurydemus%20striatus

Afroeurydemus striatus

Afroeurydemus striatus is a species of leaf beetle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, described by Brian J. Selman in 1972. References Eumolpinae Beetles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Beetles described in 1972 Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel%20Borchaert%20Voet

Carel Borchaert Voet

Carel Borchaert Voet (1671, Zwolle – 1743, Dordrecht), was an 18th-century flower and insect painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography According to the RKD he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in the years 1692-1699. He travelled to England in the service of Hans Willem Bentinck, count of Portland. He contributed to his Codex Bentingiana, a catalog of the flowers and insects in his garden called Bentingiana, that was later used as a source for Leonard Plukenet's Phytographia in 1692. He moved to Dordrecht in 1702 where he stayed. References Carel Borchaert Voet on Artnet 1671 births 1743 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters People from Zwolle Painters from The Hague

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Wright%20%28musician%29

Simon Wright (musician)

Simon Wright (born 19 June 1963) is an English drummer best known for his work with rock bands AC/DC and Dio. He started playing drums at the age of 13 and cites Cozy Powell, Tommy Aldridge and John Bonham as his greatest influences. He was also the drummer for the Rhino Bucket and Operation: Mindcrime bands. Career Wright began his career with local band Tora Tora (not to be confused with the American glam metal group), before joining Manchester group A II Z, a new wave of British heavy metal band founded in 1979 in Manchester, England by guitarist Gary Owens. The full line-up consisted of David Owens (vocals), Gary Owens (guitar), Gam Campbell (bass), Karl Reti (drums). They acquired a local following in Manchester, and were signed by Polydor Records, eager to cash in on the exploding NWOBHM boom. A single live album, The Witch of Berkley, followed in 1980. Reti was subsequently replaced by Wright. The band disintegrated and Wright went on to perform in Tytan and recorded on their full-length debut album Rough Justice, however; that band also dissolved shortly before the release of the debut. Wright, just a month shy of turning twenty years old, joined AC/DC after their drummer, Phil Rudd, left in May 1983. Wright responded to an ad at the urging of a friend that AC/DC had put out in a magazine called Sounds in England that stated "Rock Drummer Wanted. If you don't hit hard, don't apply." Wright played three songs at the audition. Two hours after the audition, Wright got the call that he had gotten the gig. AC/DC recorded three albums with Wright in the mid-late 80s; Fly on the Wall, Who Made Who and Blow Up Your Video. Wright left the group in November 1989 to join Dio, and was replaced by Chris Slade. Wright joined Rhino Bucket when he wasn't working with Dio to replace the departed Liam Jason for their third album, 1994's independently released Pain. In 2007, he reunited with the band and is featured on their latest album The Hardest Town. Wright has had two stints with Dio, 1990–91 and 1998–2010. With the band he has recorded four studio albums (Lock up the Wolves, Magica, Killing the Dragon and Master of the Moon) and two live albums (Evil or Divine - Live In New York City and Holy Diver - Live). His drumming can be heard on albums by UFO, Michael Schenker Group and John Norum. In 2005, Wright participated on a tribute album to Heavy metal icons Iron Maiden. It was his second of three times doing a tribute disc; the first experience being in 1998 on an AC/DC tribute album titled Thunderbolt, while in 2013 he took part in the DIO Tribute album "This Is Your Life". In 2006, Wright is credited in the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" on the album Butchering the Beatles, a heavy metal tribute. In August 2009, Wright teamed up with Joe Lynn Turner, Phil Soussan and Carlos Cavazo as part of the Big Noize project, playing shows in Iraq and Kuwait. On 25 January 2013, it was announced that Wright had joined Geoff Tate's version of Queensrÿche, later known as Operation: Mindcrime, after Tate's dismissal from the band. In 2018, Wright was announced as the drummer of Frontiers Records project called Dream Child with Craig Goldy on guitar. Equipment Drum kit Wright is an endorser of DW drums. He uses the collectors maple series. His drum sizes are: 18x22 bass drums (x2) 10x12, 11x13, 13x15, 14x18 Tom-Toms 6.5x14 Edge Snare 6x14 Collector's Maple Snare 5.5x14 Craviotto Solid Maple Snare 5000TD3 Delta3 Turbo Single Bass Drum Pedal (x2) 5500TD Delta Turbo Hi-Hat Stand 9300 Snare Drum Stand 9934 Double Tom/Cymbal Stand 9700 Straight/Boom Cymbal Stand (x5) 9100 Drum Throne 799 DogBone (x2) In the past, Wright used Sonor drums. Drumheads Wright also uses Evans Drum heads. Products used: AF Patch – Kevlar Single Pedal 13" Onyx 2-ply 15" G2 Coated 18" G2 Coated 14" Hazy 300 15" EC Resonant 18" EC Resonant 13" G1 Clear Cymbals Wright uses Sabian Cymbals. 14" AAX Metal Hats w/ Sizzle Bottom Hat 18" AA China 16" AA Metal Crash 18" AAX Metal Crash 19" AAX Metal Crash 22" AAX Heavy Ride 20" AA China 20" AA Rock Crash 20" AA Metal Crash w/ Sizzles Sticks Vic Firth. American Classic Metal Nylon (CMN) Discography With Tora Tora "Red Sun Setting" 7" With A II Z "I'm the One Who Loves You" 7" (Polydor 1981) With AC/DC Fly on the Wall (1985) Who Made Who (1986) Blow Up Your Video (1988) With Dio Lock Up the Wolves (1990) Magica (2000) Killing the Dragon (2002) Master of the Moon (2004) Evil or Divine (2005) Holy Diver - Live (2006) With UFO Live on Earth (1998/2003) Covenant (2000) With Rhino Bucket PAIN (1994) PAIN & Suffering (2007) The Hardest Town (2009) With John Norum Worlds Away (1996) With Tim "Ripper" Owens Play My Game (2009) With Mogg/Way Chocolate Box (1999) With Geoff Tate's Queensrÿche Frequency Unknown (2013) Instructional Star Licks Productions (2000) Operation: Mindcrime The Key (2015) Resurrection (2016) The New Reality (2017) References External links English heavy metal drummers English rock drummers AC/DC members UFO (band) members Musicians from the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham People from Oldham Musicians from London 1963 births Living people Dio (band) members Operation: Mindcrime (band) members

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Mountain Justice (organization)

Mountain Justice is a grassroots movement established in 2005 to raise worldwide awareness of mountaintop removal mining and its effects on the environment and peoples of Appalachia. The group seeks to encourage conservation, efficiency, solar and wind energy as alternatives to all forms of surface mining. It self-describes as "a regional Appalachian network committed to ending mountaintop removal". It seeks justice because the mountaintop removal (MTR) it opposes is a form of coal mining known as mountaintop removal mining which produces coal sludge toxic waste which is stored in a dam on the mountain and leaches into the groundwater, which poisons the environment, which defaces the top of the mountain, and which is not stopped due to political corruption. The group is non-hierarchical, and decisions are made using a consensus model of decision making. In 2008, the group shortened their name from Mountain Justice Summer to simply Mountain Justice to reflect the year round efforts of their activities. Group details Location: Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia Mission Statement: Mountain Justice seeks to add to the growing anti-MTR citizens movement. Specifically Mountain Justice demands an abolition of MTR, steep slope strip mining and all other forms of surface mining for coal. We work to protect the cultural and natural heritage of the Appalachia coal fields. We work to contribute with grassroots organizing, public education, nonviolent civil disobedience and other forms of citizen action. Historically coal companies have engaged in violence and property destruction when faced with citizen opposition to their activities. Mountain Justice is committed to nonviolence and will not be engaged in property destruction. We work together to create diverse and sustainable economies in Appalachian regions traditionally dominated by the coal industry by supporting businesses, jobs and ways of living that are not environmentally or culturally destructive and are nourishing to the social and biological fabric of healthy communities. Actions June 7, 2005: First stockholders meeting of National Coal Corporation Disrupted On June 7, 2005, approximately 45 Mountain Justice activists, some in animal costumes, surprised the first-ever shareholders meeting of Knoxville-based National Coal Corporation with a marching band, chants, drumming and noise makers. Demonstrators demanded that National Coal stop mountaintop removal mining and distributed informational flyers to shareholders. The sheriff and National Coal Corporation responded by assaulting protesters with pain compliance, choke holds and arrested three on bogus felony charges. June 30, 2005: West Virginia citizens occupy Massey headquarters On June 30, 2005, Concerned parents, grandparents and other citizens of Coal River Valley, West Virginia, with support from Mountain Justice participants, delivered a list of demands to Massey Energy's headquarters in Richmond, Virginia, insisting that Massey respond. Two were arrested for trespassing when they refused to leave the premises until Massey responded to their demands. The citizens demanded that Massey shut down its preparation plant, coal silo, 1,849-acre mountaintop removal coal mine and 2.8 billion-gallon coal sludge dam - a toxic waste storage facility — located feet from an elementary school, Marsh Fork Elementary, in Sundail, West Virginia. Aug. 15, 2005: Earth First!/Mountain Justice blockade of Campbell County mountaintop removal site On August 15, 2005, Earth First! and Mountain Justice activists blockaded a road leading to National Coal's mountaintop removal coal mine in Campbell County, Tennessee. Activists stopped a car on the road, removed its tires, locked themselves to the vehicle, and erected a tripod with a person perched on top of it. National Coal workers arrived and threatened the protestors; one tried to ram the tripod with his car. Eleven people were arrested; the police treated the arrested activists very roughly, endangering their safety. June 26, 2007: March & Street Theater at Dominion Headquarters On June 26, 2007, 35 people with the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards and Mountain Justice marched in Richmond, VA, calling for Dominion Resources to abandon its plans for a Wise County Plant in southwest Virginia. The march began at Massey Energy's headquarters, where participants acted out a "baby shower" for newly mined coal. With "baby coal" placed in a coffin, the march moved to Dominion Resources' headquarters and a mock funeral was held for the coal, drawing a line between strip mining and coal-fired power plants. Mar. 16, 2007: Sit-in at West Virginia Gov. Manchin's office On March 16, 2007, dozens of West Virginia community members - together with activists from Mountain Justice and Rising Tide North America - occupied the office of West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, in protest of the State Mine Board's approval of construction permits for a second coal silo near Marsh Fork Elementary School in Sundial, West Virginia. Community activists demanded that the state move the school; state officials have failed to comply thus far. Eleven people were arrested at this action, and many were treated roughly by police. Nov. 15, 2007: Rainforest Action Network day of action against coal finance On November 15, 2007, Rainforest Action Network activists - acting together with allies from Coal River Mountain Watch, Appalachian Voices, Rising Tide North America, Mountain Justice, Student Environmental Action Coalition, and Energy Justice Network - staged dozens of actions against Citibank and Bank of America branches in cities across the county, in protest of those two companies' refusal to stop funding new coal power plant development and coal mountaintop removal mining. In San Francisco, RAN activists attached caution tape - reading "Global Warming Crime Scene" - to dozens of Bank of America and Citibank ATMs, and held "cough-ins" in several branches. Similar ATM closure actions were held in New York City, Davis (CA), Los Angeles, Portland (OR), and St. Petersburg (FL), while protests against the two companies were held in numerous other cities. March 6, 2008: Bluegrass at the Bank, Boone, NC On March 6, 2008, approximately two dozen Mountain Justice activists visited a Bank of America in Boone North Carolina to protest the bank's funding of mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired power plants. March 28, 2008: Mountain Justice Spring Break action at AMP-Ohio headquarters in Columbus On March 28, 2008, activists participating in Mountain Justice Spring Break occupied the lobby of AMP-Ohio's headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, and demanded a meeting with AMP's CEO Marc Gerken. Several people stated their intention to conduct a sit-in in the office if their demands weren't met; about 40 people protested outside. After 30 minutes, Gerken met with the protestors, and agreed to their demands: to schedule a meeting of the Board of Trustees at which community members could present their concerns with AMP-Ohio's proposed coal-fired power plant in Meigs County, Ohio. No arrests were made. June 30, 2008: Activists Blockade Dominion Headquarters On June 30, 2008, 20 Activists with Blue Ridge Earth First! and Mountain Justice blockaded the entrance to Dominion Resources' corporate headquarters to protest the company's plan for the new coal-fired Wise County Plant in Southwest Virginia. Four protesters formed a human chain with their hands encased in containers of hardened cement and a fifth dangled by a climber's harness from the Lee Bridge footbridge. After several hours police made their way through the miles of backed up traffic to cut the activists out of the lockboxes and barrels. The climber came down on his own. Police also detained eight others standing on the sidewalks supporting the lockdown team. 13 in total were arrested. July 10, 2008: Mountain Justice activists protest approval of coal gasification plant, Boston, MA On July 10, 2008, nearly fifty Mountain Justice activists gathered in opposition to a coal project in Massachusetts, donning [[haz-mat suits and delivering a pile of coal while displaying "global warming crime scene" caution tape on the front steps of the Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in Boston. The action was in response to the office dismissing an appeal of the state's approval for a coal gasification project in Somerset, MA. July 20, 2008: Four arrested at Tennessee strip mine On July 20, 2008, residents from coal-impacted communities throughout Appalachia gathered for a march at Zeb Mountain, the largest surface coal mining site in Tennessee, to protest the environmentally destructive practice of mountaintop removal and surface coal mining. The march was organized by United Mountain Defense, Mountain Justice, and Three Rivers Earth First! and included political theater, life-sized puppets and rousing speeches. In an act of civil disobedience, four citizen activists walked across a line marked with police tape designating National Coal Corporation's property. The four were immediately arrested without incidence and removed from the property by the Campbell County Sheriff's office. September 15, 2008: 20 Protesters lock-down at Dominion coal plant construction site, Wise County, West Virginia On September 15, 2008 around 50 peaceful protesters entered the construction site of Dominion Resources Virginia's coal-fired Wise County Plant. Twenty protesters locked their bodies to eight large steel drums, two of which have operational solar panels affixed to the top that illuminated a banner reading "renewable jobs to renew Appalachia." In addition to those locked to the construction site, over 25 protesters convened in front of the plant singing and holding a 10'x30' banner, which said "we demand a clean energy future." Eleven were arrested. This action was organized by Mountain Justice, Blue Ridge Earth First!, Rainforest Action Network, Asheville Rising Tide, and Students for Democratic Society. March 14, 2009: 14 Arrested at TVA headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee Local residents joined dozens of activists from across the country in a demonstration at the Tennessee Valley Authority's headquarters, which resulted in the arrest of 14 individuals, after participating in a "die in" in front of the building. This event was held in solidarity with communities affected by the destructive impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining and the survivors of the coal ash disaster in Harriman. The demonstration began with a rally in Market Square, where organizers from United Mountain Defense and Mountain Justice spoke about coal's impact from cradle to grave on communities in Appalachia and the surrounding area. At the end of the march people interested in participating in civil disobedience gave a statement as to why they wanted to take this action. With the support of a singing crowd each participant fell to the ground representing the deaths caused by the coal industry. After a few minutes Knoxville law enforcement informed the participants that they were blocking the sidewalk, and that they needed to remove themselves from the area. All 14 people were arrested, and cited for loitering. March 20, 2009: 'Bluegrass at the Bank' hits Florida Bank of America branch Members of Mountain Justice and Earth First! from Florida and Appalachia disrupted the lobby of a Bank of America branch in Sarasota, FL in protest of the Bank's continued funding of mountaintop removal mining and the construction of new coal-fired power plants despite recent claims of environmental concern. May 23, 2009: 17 arrested at 3 separate action in Coal River Valley, West Virginia In the morning, two people donning hazmat suits and respirators were arrested after taking boating into the Brushy Fork Impoundment in the Coal River Valley. Later, over seventy-five residents of Coal River Valley along with members of Mountain Justice and Climate Ground Zero picketed the entrance to Massey Energy's Marfork Complex mining site. The group was protesting Massey's plans to blast 100 feet near the Brushy Fork sludge impoundment. Seven people were arrested after approaching the dam facility's entrance and refusing to leave. In the third action, six people chained themselves to a dump truck on a MTR mine owned by Patriot Coal on Kayford Mountain. All six were arrested. June 23, 2009: 31 Arrested at Marsh Fork Elementary School Mountain Justice and residents of Coal River Valley again joined forces for a rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School, where the group delivered a list of demands to Massey Energy. The approximately 400 protesters were met by Massey employees, who shouted obscenities and taunts at the protesters. Arrests were made after a smaller group of the activists sat down in the middle of the road. Among those arrested were 94-year-old former U.S. Congressperson Ken Hechler, NASA scientist James E. Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah, and West Virginia residents. July 26, 2009: MJS parades against the TVA in Knoxville, Tennessee An activist parade made its way through downtown Knoxville. Almost 100 people associated with Mountain Justice, United Mountain Defense, and Three Rivers Earth First!. Around the Tennessee Valley Authority Headquarters and the John J. Duncan Federal Building, home of the Office of Surface Mining environmental regulator. The group protested the TVA's involvement in coal extraction and combustion, especially in light of the December 2008 coal combustion waste spill at a TVA plant. August 14–19, 2009: Nationwide rallies at regional EPA headquarters Rallies were held against the Environmental Protection Agency's role in mountaintop removal at the regional EPA offices in Atlanta, New York, Boston, Dallas, Kansas City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Some of the groups involved were Mountain Justice, Mountain Defense, Student Environmental Action Coalition, and Energy Justice Network. The protests were organized because mountaintop removal permits were approved under EPA chief Lisa Jackson and the Obama administration despite Obama's campaign rhetoric opposing the mining practice. October 19, 2009: 7 Arrested at West VirginiaGovernor's Office Residents of Coal River Valley and their allies delivered a letter to West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, urging him to declare a state of emergency and rescind permits for the Bee Tree mountaintop removal mine on Coal River. The letter was signed by 13 residents and accompanied by nine personal statements, a cross-section image of the neighboring Brushy Fork sludge impoundment and underground mines below, and an aerial image of the impoundment. Seven people sat in Manchin's antechamber and refused to leave at the office's closing time; the seven were arrested with misdemeanors for trespassing and obstruction. October 22, 2009: Lockdown on WV MTR mine Four Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice activists chained themselves to each other and blocked a road on a mountaintop removal mine in Kanawha County, WV. The protesters were joined by four people who provided them with support; all eight were arrested. Bail was set at $2,000 each (totaling $16,000) with no 10% bond option, and was ordered to be paid in cash only. October 27, 2009: KY MJ protests University of KY alliance with Coal Kentucky Mountain Justice organizers hung a banner at the University of Kentucky in Lexington in protest of a decision to name a campus building the "Wildcat Coal Lodge." Despite opposition from some faculty, basketball players and fans, environmentalists, and general student population, the Board of Trustees approved the dorm name in a 16-3 vote at their annual meeting in October 2009. Among the concerns about "coal" in the name was the issue that it arguably conflicts with UK's pledge to transition to renewable energy and that the building is LEED-certified. A letter from an opposing Board of Trustees member to UK faculty can be found here. January 20–29, 2010: Tree Sits Stops Blasting on Coal River Mountain Three protesters associated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice halted blasting on a portion of Massey Energy's Bee Tree mountaintop removal mine on Coal River Mountain, West Virginia by ascending three trees, two tulip poplars and an oak tree. David Aaron Smith, 23 Amber Nitchman, 19 and Eric Blevins, 28 were on platforms approximately 60 feet up in direct protest of mountaintop removal mining and blasting near the Brushy Fork Coal Impoundment. Joshua Graupera, Isabelle Rozendaal, and Bernard Fiorillo were also arrested for providing ground support. The tree sit halted blasting for nine days. A federal judge granted a permanent injunction to Marfork Coal Co. Inc., a subsidiary of Massey Energy, ordering the defendants to keep off all company property. The occupation was strategically placed next to the spot where Massey was blasting for a road for the Bee Tree mine. Massey employees responded with constant harassment including air horns, bright lights throughout the night, and violent threats. Governor Joe Manchin called for an end to the violence but did not take any steps to intervene. One tree-sitter came down on the fourth day. On the fifth day, police arrested someone who was attempting to deliver aid bags to the tree-sitters. The remaining two tree-sitters decided to descend because of cold temperatures. May 18, 2010: Protest at Massey Shareholders Meeting Environmental groups (including Mountain Justice, Coal River Mountain Watch, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, and Rising Tide) teamed up with labor unions to protest Massey Energy at the company's annual shareholder meeting in Richmond, Virginia. The event was six weeks after an explosion at Massey's Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 miners, the worst coal mining disaster in the U.S. in forty years. Protesters called for Don Blankenship to resign and be prosecuted by the law for the accident and many other safety and environmental violations Massey has committed under Blankenship. Some protesters wore orange jumpsuits. At least two were arrested after hanging a banner inside the Jefferson Hotel, where the meeting took place, and were cited for trespassing. June 8, 2010: PNC Bank protested for MTR financing In Lexington, Kentucky, Mountain Justice participants and coalfield residents joined local residents to protest a PNC Bank branch because of the bank's role in financing mountaintop removal mining. The protest included a floating banner and a clown street-theater troupe. PNC bank has been the number one financier of MTR mining since January 2008. As PNC was the recipient of government bailout money, protesters highlighted the connection between taxpayer money and money invested in MTR. July 14, 2010: Lockdown on Coal River Mountain Two protesters with Mountain Justice and Climate Ground Zero locked themselves to mining equipment on the Massey Energy's Bee Tree mine, close to the Brushy Fork sludge impoundment. They were joined by two people filling supportive roles. All four were arrested and held on $12,000 bail altogether. See also Capitol Power Plant Global warming Mountaintop removal Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia References External links Government watchdog groups in the United States Nature conservation organizations based in the United States Environmental health organizations Volunteer groups in the United States Environmental organizations based in the United States Human rights organizations based in the United States Nonviolence organizations based in the United States Organizations based in West Virginia

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South African Military Health Service

The South African Military Health Service is the branch of the South African National Defence Force responsible for medical facilities and the training and deployment of all medical personnel within the force. Though unusual, as most national militaries integrate their medical structures into their existing service branches, the SANDF regards this structure as being the most efficient method of providing care and support to the SANDF's personnel. It is a significant actor in the effort to control HIV/AIDS within the SANDF. History The predecessor of the SAMHS, the South African Medical Service, was established as a full service branch of the South African Defence Force (SADF) on 1 July 1979 in order to consolidate and strengthen the medical services of the South African Army, South African Navy and South African Air Force. Rationalisation Following the end of the Border War, in the early 1990s, it implemented several retrenchment measures. It consolidated all quartermaster stores in the Cape Town and Bloemfontein areas, relocated its training center from Potchefstroom to Pretoria, closed several medical supply depots, consolidated computer centers and systems, rationalized procedures for procuring medicine and medical equipment, discontinued survival training, and reduced or closed sickbays and military medical clinics that served other armed services affected by retrenchments. The SAMS was incorporated into the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, and was renamed the South African Military Health Service on 1 June 1998. Organisational structure The SAMHS includes active duty military personnel and civilian employees of the Department of Defence. In addition, the service employs roughly 400 medical doctors and private medical specialists are sometimes appointed to supplement the staff of the SAMHS. The Surgeon General heads the SAMHS and has the rank of Lieutenant-General. The SAMHS operates three Military Hospitals; one in Pretoria, one in Cape Town and one in Bloemfontein. There are also four specialized institutes - the Institute for Aviation Medicine, the Institute for Maritime Medicine, the Military Veterinary Institute and the Military Psychological Institute. Together, these units provide comprehensive medical care for military personnel and their dependents, as well as the police and employees of other security-related government departments, and occasionally to neighboring countries. The SAMHS also provides extensive veterinary services for animals (mainly horses and dogs) used by the security and correctional services. The Institute for Aviation Medicine and the Institute for Maritime Medicine screen pilot candidates for the air force and for civilian aviation certification, as well as divers and submariners for the navy. The military's medical services also include general medical and dental care, and specialized rehabilitation services. The SAMHS is organized into regional medical commands, corresponding to the army's regional commands, as well as a Medical Logistics Command and a Medical Training Command. The regional commands support military units, military base hospitals, and military unit sickbays in their region. The Medical Logistics Command is responsible for medical logistics only, as each service provides for its own logistics support. In addition, the Medical Training Command supervises the South African Medical Service College, the South African Military Health Service Nursing College, and the South African Military Health Service Training Centre, as well as the military hospitals' training programs. The nursing college, in Pretoria, grants a four-year nursing diploma in association with the University of South Africa. Specialized, in-service training courses for nurses and for nursing assistants are also available. Formations Mobile Military Health Formation 1 Medical Battalion Group (Reserve) 3 Medical Battalion Group (Reserve) 6 Medical Battalion Group (Reserve) 7 Medical Battalion Group 8 Medical Battalion Group Tertiary Military Health Formation 1 Military Hospital (Pretoria) 2 Military Hospital (Cape Town) 3 Military Hospital (Bloemfontein) Institute for Aviation Medicine (Centurion) Institute for Maritime Medicine (Simon's Town) Military Psychological Institute (Pretoria , Area Military Health Unit) Military Veterinary Institute (Potchefstroom) Military Cyber Medicine & Cyber Surgery Institute (Pretoria) Area Military Health Formation Area Military Health Unit Western Cape Area Military Health Unit Eastern Cape Area Military Health Unit Northern Cape Area Military Health Unit North-West Area Military Health Unit Free State Area Military Health Unit KwaZulu-Natal Area Military Health Unit Gauteng Area Military Health Unit Mpumalanga Area Military Health Unit Limpopo Regional Occupational Health and Safety Centres Military Health Training Formation School for Military Health Training School for Military Training SAMHS Nursing College SAMHS Band Medical Command Post Combat Training Centre (Lohatla) Joint Physical Training, Sports & Recreation Training Centre Military Health Support Formation Military Health Base Depot Military Health Procurement Unit General Support Base Thaba Tshwane Directorates & Services Director Medicine Chaplain Services Sport & Recreation Corporate Communication Ranks and insignia Officers Other Proficiency Insignia Leadership References Military of South Africa Military medical organizations Military units and formations established in 1979

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strizh%20%28train%29

Strizh (train)

The Strizh () is a Russian locomotive-hauled, low-floor, high-speed express train. Main information The trains have been running between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod since 1 June 2015 and between Moscow and Berlin since 17 December 2016. On the Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod line, they make 1 to 3 stops, linking the two cities in 3 hours 35 minutes (when they only stop in Vladimir). The cars are pulled by an EP20 locomotive. In 2016, Russian Railways also connected Moscow and Berlin using the Strizh. The travel time between the two cities is a little over 20 hours. Lines The Strizh train currently operates on two lines: Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod (via Vladimir, Kovrov and Dzerzhinsk) Saint-Petersburg – Samara (via Moscow, Vladimir, Kovrov, Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Arzamas, Saransk, Syzran) Previously the train was in operation on international line: Moscow – Berlin (via Smolensk, Minsk, Brest and Warsaw) Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod line The Strizh trains run between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod since 1 June 2015. They make 1 to 3 stops on the line: in Dzerzhinsk, Kovrov and Vladimir. The travel time between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod is between 3 hours 35 minutes, when it stops only in Vladimir, and up to 3 hours 50 minutes with 3 stops. The cars are pulled by an EP20 locomotive. Another fast train, the Lastochka ("Swallow") operates on the same line but makes 6 stops: in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Vladimir, Kovrov, Vyazniki, Gorokhovets and Dzerzhinsk, travelling between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod in 4 hours 6 minutes. Moscow – Berlin line The Strizh trains were in operation between Moscow and Berlin since 17 December 2016 to 15 March 2020. Later this international route was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and closing of borders between countries. The length of the line was . The initial schedule was 2 trains per week, between Moscow Kurskaya and Berlin Ostbahnhof, linking both stations in 20 hours 14 minutes westbound (instead of 24h 49min previously) and 20 hours 35 minutes eastbound (compared with 25h 56min previously). The trains leave from Moscow on Saturdays and Sundays, and from Berlin on Sundays and Mondays. They made intermediate stops in Smolensk, Orsha, Minsk, Brest, Terespol, Warsaw, Poznan, Rzepin and Frankfurt (Oder). The Strizh trains to/from Berlin left and arrived at the Moscow Smolenskaya station (also called Moscow Belorussky) instead of Moscow Kurskaya. Between June 2017 and June 2019, some modernization work on a railway section between Warsaw and Poznan will force the trains to take a detour which will make the trip longer. After this renovation the speed limit will be on all the length of this section. Moscow and Berlin were also connected once weekly by the non-Strizh trains from the Moscow–Paris line, which depart from Moscow on each Wednesday evening and from Berlin on each Saturday morning. These trains, using RIC wagons, link both cities in about 24 hours. Media Locomotives, used in operation Interiors See also Sapsan Lastochka References External links Video coverage of the Moscow-Berlin link launch in 2016 New Swift international train makes first journey with passengers from Moscow to Berlin High-speed rail in Russia Railway services introduced in 2015 Articles containing video clips

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heretaunga%20Tamatea

Heretaunga Tamatea

Heretaunga Tamatea is a Māori iwi of New Zealand. In a 2014 settlement with the government, Heretaunga Tamatea was described as a settling group, including: Ngāi Tahu ki Takapau, Ngāi Tamaterā, Ngāi Te Ao, Ngāi Te Hauapu, Ngāi Te Hurihanga-i-te-rangi, Ngāi Te Kīkiri o te Rangi, Ngāi Te Oatua, Ngāi Te Rangikoianake I and II, Ngāi Te Rangitekahutia I and II, Ngāi Te Rangitotohu (also known as Rangitotohu), Ngāi Te Ūpokoiri, Ngāi Te Whatuiāpiti, Ngāi Toroiwaho, Ngāti Hāwea, Ngāti Hikatoa, Ngāti Hinemanu, Ngāti Hinemoa, Ngāti Hinetewai, Ngāti Hoata, Ngāti Honomokai, Ngāti Hōri, Ngāti Kautere, Ngāti Kere, Ngāti Kotahi, Ngāti Kurukuru, Ngāti Mārau o Kahungunu (also known as Ngāti Mārau], Ngāti Mahuika, Ngāti Manuhiri, Ngāti Mihiroa, Ngāti Ngarengare, Ngāti Papatuamāro, Ngāti Pīhere, Ngāti Pōporo, Ngāti Pukututu, Ngāti Rahunga, Ngāti Takaora ( Ngāti Takaro), Ngāti Tamatea, Ngāti Te Rehunga, Ngāti Toaharapaki, Ngāti Tukuaterangi (also known as Ngāti Tukua I te Rangi), Ngāti Tukuoterangi, or Ngāti Tuku(a)oterangi), Ngāti Ura ki te Rangi (also known as Ngāti Urakiterangi) and Ngāti Whakaiti. See also List of Māori iwi References

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%20Framed%20Roger%20Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman from Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy, with the voices of Charles Fleischer and an uncredited Kathleen Turner. Set in a 1947 version of Hollywood where cartoon characters (commonly referred to as "toons") and people co-exist, the film follows Eddie Valiant, a private investigator who must help exonerate Roger Rabbit, a toon who has been framed for the murder of the Acme Corporation's owner. Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights for the film's story in 1981. Price and Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg and his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film while Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand, and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. The film was released through Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner on June 22, 1988. It received acclaim from critics, who praised its visuals, humor, writing, and performances, with critics and audiences considering it to be "groundbreaking". It grossed over $351 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1988. It brought a renewed interest in the Golden age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance. It won three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for its animation direction by Williams. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot In a world co-populated by humans and cartoon characters, "toons" regularly interact with real people, act in animated shorts and films, and reside in an area of Los Angeles known as Toontown. Private detective Eddie Valiant once worked closely with toons alongside his brother Teddy, but sank into depression and alcoholism after Teddy was murdered by a toon during a case. In 1947, R.K. Maroon, head of Maroon Cartoon Studios, is concerned about the recent poor performances of one of his stars, Roger Rabbit. Maroon hires Eddie to investigate rumors about Roger's voluptuous toon wife Jessica being romantically involved with Marvin Acme, owner of both the Acme Corporation and Toontown. After watching Jessica perform at an underground nightclub, Eddie secretly photographs her and Acme playing patty-cake in her dressing room, which he shows to Roger, who becomes distraught about his wife cheating on him. The next morning, Acme is discovered dead in his factory, and evidence points to Roger being responsible. While investigating, Eddie meets Judge Doom, Toontown's sinister superior court judge, who uses a chemical substance known as "The Dip", capable of destroying the otherwise invulnerable toons. Eddie later runs into Roger's toon co-star, Baby Herman, who tells him that Roger is innocent, and that Acme's missing will, which will give Toontown's ownership to the toons, may be the key to his murder. In his office, Eddie finds Roger, who begs him to help exonerate him. Eddie reluctantly hides Roger in a local bar, where his girlfriend Dolores works. Jessica approaches Eddie and says that Maroon forced her to pose for the photographs so he could blackmail Acme. Doom and his toon weasel henchmen discover Roger, but he and Eddie escape with help from Benny, a toon taxicab. They flee to a theater, where Eddie tells Roger about the tragic loss of Teddy. As they leave with Dolores, Eddie sees a newsreel detailing the sale of Maroon Cartoons to Cloverleaf Industries, a mysterious corporation that bought the city's Pacific Electric transit system shortly before Acme's murder. Eddie goes to the studio to interrogate Maroon. Roger is sent to guard outside, but he is kidnapped by Jessica. Maroon tells Eddie that he blackmailed Acme into selling his company so he could sell the studio, then admits he only did so out of fear for the safety of the toons. Maroon is then murdered by an unseen assailant before he can explain the consequences of the missing will. Eddie spots Jessica fleeing the scene, and assuming she is the culprit, follows her into Toontown. Once he finds her, Jessica reveals that it was Doom who killed Acme and Maroon and that the former gave her his will for safekeeping, but she soon discovered it was blank. She and Eddie are then captured by Doom and the weasels. At the Acme factory, Doom reveals himself as the sole shareholder of Cloverleaf Industries and explains his plot to destroy Toontown with a machine fueled with dip to build a freeway full of attractions in its place and force people to drive it once he has the transit system decommissioned to control all the profits. When Roger unsuccessfully attempts to save Jessica, the couple is tied onto a hook in front of the machine's water cannon. Eddie performs a comedic vaudeville act full of pratfalls, causing the weasels to die of laughter before he kicks their leader into the machine's dip vat, killing him. Eddie then fights Doom, who is flattened by a steamroller but survives, revealing himself as a disguised toon – and the one who killed Teddy. Eddie empties the machine's supply onto the factory floor, spraying it all over Doom and melting him to death. The emptied machine then crashes through the wall into Toontown, where it is destroyed by a train. As the police and many dozens of toons gather at the scene, Eddie reveals Doom as Acme's murderer to everyone, clearing Roger's name. Eddie also discovers that Roger inadvertently wrote a love letter for Jessica on Acme's will, which was written in disappearing/reappearing ink, and Toontown's ownership is handed over to the toons. Having regained his sense of humor now that he has avenged Teddy, Eddie happily enters Toontown with Dolores alongside Roger, Jessica, and the other toons. Cast Live-action cast Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom Corey Burton as Doom's toon voice (uncredited) Stubby Kaye as Marvin Acme Joanna Cassidy as Dolores Alan Tilvern as R.K. Maroon Richard LeParmentier as Lt. Santino Richard Ridings as Angelo Joel Silver as Raoul Paul Springer as Augie Mike Edmonds as Stretch Voice cast Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit, Benny the Cab, Greasy and Psycho Kathleen Turner (speaking voice) and Amy Irving (singing voice) as Jessica Rabbit (both uncredited) Lou Hirsch as Baby Herman David L. Lander as Smart Ass Fred Newman as Stupid June Foray as Wheezy and Lena Hyena Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, and Sylvester the Cat. The film was one of the final productions in which he voiced his Looney Tunes characters before his death a year later in 1989. Joe Alaskey as Yosemite Sam Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse Tony Anselmo and Clarence Nash (archival recordings) as Donald Duck Tony Pope and Bill Farmer as Goofy and the Big Bad Wolf Mae Questel as Betty Boop Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse and birds Pat Buttram, Jim Cummings (imitating Andy Devine) and Jim Gallant (imitating Walter Brennan) as Eddie's toon bullets Les Perkins as Mr. Toad Mary T. Radford as Hyacinth Hippo, from Fantasia Nancy Cartwright as the toon shoe Cherry Davis as Woody Woodpecker Peter Westy as Pinocchio Frank Welker as Dumbo Richard Williams as Droopy April Winchell as Mrs. Herman and Baby Herman's "baby noises" Archival recordings of Frank Sinatra were used for the Singing Sword, whose character design is based on Sinatra. Production Development Walt Disney Productions purchased the film rights to Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? shortly after its publication in 1981. Ron W. Miller, then president of Disney, saw it as a perfect opportunity to produce a blockbuster. Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman were hired to write the script, penning two drafts. Robert Zemeckis offered his services as director in 1982, but Disney declined as his two previous films (I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used Cars) had been box-office bombs. Between 1981 and 1983 Disney developed test footage with Darrell Van Citters as animation director, Paul Reubens voicing Roger Rabbit, Peter Renaday as Eddie Valiant, and Russi Taylor as Jessica Rabbit. The project was revamped in 1985 by Michael Eisner, the then-new CEO of Disney. Amblin Entertainment, which consisted of Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, were approached to produce Who Framed Roger Rabbit alongside Disney. The original budget was projected at $50 million, which Disney felt was too expensive. The film was finally green-lit when the budget decreased to $30 million, which at the time still made it the most expensive animated film ever green-lit. Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg argued that the hybrid of live-action and animation would "save" Disney's animation department. Spielberg's contract included an extensive amount of creative control and a large percentage of the box-office profits. Disney kept all merchandising rights. Spielberg convinced Warner Bros., Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, King Features Syndicate, Felix the Cat Productions, Turner Entertainment, and Universal Pictures/Walter Lantz Productions to "lend" their characters to appear in the film with (in some cases) stipulations on how those characters were portrayed; for example, Disney's Donald Duck and Warner Bros.' Daffy Duck appear as equally talented dueling pianists, and Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny also share a scene. Apart from this agreement, and some of the original Looney Tunes voice artists being hired to reprise their roles, Warner Bros. and the various other companies were not involved in the production of Roger Rabbit. However, executives at Warner Bros. expressed displeasure at the animators using the Daffy design by Bob Clampett and demanded they use the design by Chuck Jones; in response to this, Zemeckis had separate artists animate Daffy using Jones' design to satisfy Warner Bros. to use Clampett's design in the final film. The producers were unable to acquire the rights to use Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Little Lulu, Casper, or the Terrytoons characters for appearances from their respective owners (King Features, Turner, Western Publishing, Harvey Comics, and Viacom). Terry Gilliam was offered the chance to direct, but he found the project too technically challenging. ("Pure laziness on my part," he later admitted, "I completely regret that decision.") Robert Zemeckis was hired to direct in 1985, based on the success of Romancing the Stone and Back to the Future. Disney executives were continuing to suggest Darrell Van Citters direct the animation, but Spielberg and Zemeckis decided against it. Richard Williams was eventually hired to direct the animation. Zemeckis wanted the film to imbue "Disney's high quality of animation, Warner Bros.' characterization, and Tex Avery humor." Casting Harrison Ford was Spielberg's original choice to play Eddie Valiant, but his price was too high. Chevy Chase was the second choice, but he was not interested. Bill Murray was also considered for the role, but due to his idiosyncratic method of receiving offers for roles, Murray missed out on it. Eddie Murphy reportedly turned down the role as he misunderstood the concept of cartoon characters and human beings co-existing; he later regretted this decision. Robin Williams, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Edward James Olmos, Wallace Shawn, Ed Harris, Charles Grodin and Don Lane were also considered for the role. Ultimately Bob Hoskins was chosen by Spielberg because of his acting skill, and because Spielberg believed he had a hopeful demeanor and he looked like he belonged in that era. To facilitate Hoskins' performance, Charles Fleischer dressed in a Roger Rabbit costume and "stood in" behind camera for most scenes. Williams explained Roger was a combination of "Tex Avery's cashew nut-shaped head, the swatch of red hair... like Droopy's, Goofy's overalls, Porky Pig's bow tie, Mickey Mouse's gloves, and Bugs Bunny-like cheeks and ears." Kathleen Turner provided the uncredited voice of Jessica Rabbit, Roger Rabbit's wife. Tim Curry auditioned for the role of Judge Doom, but was rejected because the producers found him too terrifying. Christopher Lee was also considered for the role, but turned it down. John Cleese also expressed interest for the role, but was deemed not scary enough. Peter O'Toole, F. Murray Abraham, Roddy McDowall, Eddie Deezen and Sting were also considered for the role. Christopher Lloyd was cast because he previously worked with Zemeckis and Spielberg on Back to the Future. He compared his part as Doom to his previous role as the Klingon commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, both being overly evil characters which he considered being "fun to play". He avoided blinking his eyes while on camera to perfectly portray the character. Fleischer also voiced Benny the Cab, Psycho, and Greasy. Lou Hirsch, who voiced Baby Herman, was the original choice for Benny the Cab, but he was replaced by Fleischer. Writing Price and Seaman were brought aboard to continue writing the script once Spielberg and Zemeckis were hired. For inspiration, the two writers studied the work of Walt Disney and Warner Bros. Cartoons from the Golden Age of American animation, especially Tex Avery and Bob Clampett cartoons. The Cloverleaf streetcar subplot was inspired by Chinatown. Price and Seaman said that "the Red Car plot, suburb expansion, urban and political corruption really did happen," Price stated. "In Los Angeles, during the 1940s, car and tire companies teamed up against the Pacific Electric Railway system and bought them out of business. Where the freeway runs in Los Angeles is where the Red Car used to be." In Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the toons were comic-strip characters rather than movie stars. During the writing process, Price and Seaman were unsure of whom to include as the villain in the plot. They wrote scripts that had either Jessica Rabbit or Baby Herman as the villain, but they made their final decision with the newly created character Judge Doom. Doom was supposed to have an animated vulture sit on his shoulder, but this was deleted due to the technical challenges this posed. Doom would also have a suitcase of 12 small, animated kangaroos that act as a jury, by having their joeys pop out of their pouches, each with letters, when put together would spell YOU ARE GUILTY. This was also cut for budget and technical reasons. The Toon Patrol (Stupid, Smart Ass, Greasy, Wheezy, and Psycho) satirizes the Seven Dwarfs (Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey), who appeared in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Originally, seven weasels were to mimic the dwarfs complement, but eventually, two of them, Slimey and Sleazy, were written out of the script. Further references included The "Ink and Paint Club" resembling the Harlem Cotton Club, while Zemeckis compared Judge Doom's invention of the Dip to eliminate all the toons as Hitler's Final Solution. Doom was originally the hunter who killed Bambi's mother. Benny the Cab was first conceived to be a Volkswagen Beetle before being changed to a taxi cab. Ideas originally conceived for the story also included a sequence set at Marvin Acme's funeral, whose attendees included Eddie, Foghorn Leghorn, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Tom and Jerry, Heckle and Jeckle, Chip n' Dale, Felix the Cat, Herman and Katnip, Mighty Mouse, Superman, Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto, Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar, the Seven Dwarfs, Baby Huey, and Casper the Friendly Ghost in cameo appearances. However, the scene was cut for pacing reasons and never made it past the storyboard stage. Before finally agreeing on Who Framed Roger Rabbit as the film's title, working titles included Murder in Toontown, Toons, Dead Toons Don't Pay Bills, The Toontown Trial, Trouble in Toontown, and Eddie Goes to Toontown. Filming Williams admitted he was "openly disdainful of the Disney bureaucracy" and refused to work in Los Angeles. To accommodate him and his animators, production moved to England where a studio, Walt Disney Animation UK (subsuming Richard Williams Animation), was created for this purpose; located at The Forum, 74-80 Camden Street, in Camden Town, London, while the live-action production was based at Elstree Studios. Disney and Spielberg also told Williams that in return for doing the film, they would help distribute his unfinished film The Thief and the Cobbler. Supervising animators included Van Citters, Dale Baer, Michael Peraza, Joe Ranft, Tom Sito, James Baxter, David Bowers, Andreas Deja, Mike Gabriel, Chris Jenkins, Phil Nibbelink, Nik Ranieri, Simon Wells, and Bruce W. Smith, while Williams and associate producer Don Hahn spearheaded the animation production. The animation production was split between Walt Disney Animation UK and a specialized unit in Los Angeles, set up by Walt Disney Feature Animation and supervised by Baer. The production budget continued to escalate, while the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. When the budget reached $40 million, Disney CEO Michael Eisner seriously considered shutting down production, but studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg talked him out of it. Despite the budget escalating to over $50 million, Disney moved forward on production because they were enthusiastic to work with Spielberg. VistaVision cameras installed with motion-control technology were used for the photography of the live-action scenes, which would be composited with animation. Rubber mannequins of Roger Rabbit, Baby Herman, and the Toon Patrol portrayed the animated characters during rehearsals to teach the actors where to look when acting with "open air and imaginative cartoon characters". Many of the live-action props held by cartoon characters were shot on set with the props either held by robotic arms or manipulated with strings, similar to a marionette. For example, a test was shot at ILM with an actor playing the detective would climb down a fire escape and the rabbit is supposed to follow and he knocks down some stacked boxes. Naturally, there would not be a rabbit during the test, so the camera would go down the fire escape and the boxes would fall when a wire was pulled. The actor who played the voice of Roger, Charles Fleischer, insisted on wearing a Roger Rabbit costume while on the set, to get into character. Filming began on November 2, 1986, and lasted for seven and a half months at Elstree Studios, with an additional month in Los Angeles and at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) for blue screen effects of Toontown. The entrance of Desilu Studios served as the fictional Maroon Cartoon Studio lot. Animation and post-production Post-production lasted for 14 months. ILM had already used CGI and digital compositing in a few movies, such as the stained glass knight scene in Young Sherlock Holmes, but the computers were still not powerful enough to make a complicated movie like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, so all the animation was done using cels and optical compositing. First, the animators and layout artists were given black-and-white printouts of the live-action scenes (known as "photostats"), and they placed their animation paper on top of them. The artists then drew the animated characters in relationship to the live-action footage. Due to Zemeckis' dynamic camera moves, the animators had to confront the challenge of ensuring the characters were not "slipping and slipping all over the place." To ensure this did not happen and that the characters looked real, Zemeckis and Spielberg met for about an hour and a half and came up with the idea that, "If the rabbit sits down in an old chair, dust comes up. He should always be touching something real." After the rough animation was complete, it was run through the normal process of traditional animation until the cels were shot on the rostrum camera with no background. Williams came up with the idea of making the cartoon characters “2.5-dimensional”, and the animated footage was sent to ILM for compositing, where technicians animated three lighting layers (shadows, highlights, and tone mattes) separately, to give the characters a sense of depth and create the illusion of them being affected by the lighting on set. Finally, the lighting effects were optically composited on to the cartoon characters, who were, in turn, composited into the live-action footage. One of the most difficult effects in the film was Jessica's dress in the nightclub scene because it had to flash sequins, an effect accomplished by filtering light through a plastic bag scratched with steel wool. Music Regular Zemeckis collaborator Alan Silvestri composed the film score, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) under the direction of Silvestri. Zemeckis joked that "the British [musicians] could not keep up with Silvestri's jazz tempo". The performances of the music themes written for Jessica Rabbit were entirely improvised by the LSO. The work of American composer Carl Stalling heavily influenced Silvestri's work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The film's soundtrack was originally released by Buena Vista Records on June 22, 1988 and reissued on CD on April 16, 2002. On January 23, 2018, Intrada Records released a three-CD set with the complete score, alternates, and a remastered version of the original 1988 album, plus music from three Roger Rabbit short films, composed and conducted by Bruce Broughton and James Horner. Mondo Records and Walt Disney Records reissued the original 1998 album on vinyl on September 17, 2021. The film features performances of "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Tony Anselmo and Mel Blanc), "Why Don't You Do Right?" (Amy Irving), "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" (Charles Fleischer), and "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!" (Toon Chorus). Release Michael Eisner, then-CEO, and Roy E. Disney, vice chairman of The Walt Disney Company, felt the film was too risqué with adult themes and sexual references. Eisner and Zemeckis disagreed over various elements of it but since Zemeckis had final cut privilege, he refused to make alterations. Roy E. Disney, head of Feature Animation along with studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, felt it was appropriate to release the film under the studio's adult-orientated Touchstone Pictures banner instead of the flagship Walt Disney Pictures banner. Box office The film opened in the United States on June 22, 1988, grossing $11,226,239 in 1,045 theaters during its opening weekend, ranking first place at the US box office. It was Disney's biggest opening weekend ever at the time of its release. It went on to gross $154,112,492 in the United States and Canada and $197,387,508 internationally, coming to a worldwide total of $351,500,000. At the time of release, it was the 20th-highest-grossing film of all time. It was also the second-highest-grossing film of 1988, behind only Rain Man. In the United Kingdom, the film also set a record opening for a Disney film. Home media The film was first released on VHS on October 12, 1989, and on DVD on September 28, 1999. On March 25, 2003, Buena Vista Home Entertainment released it as a part of the "Vista Series" line in a two-disc collection with many extra features including a documentary, Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit; a deleted scene in which a pig's head is "tooned" onto Eddie's; the three Roger Rabbit shorts, Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, and Trail Mix-Up; as well as a booklet and interactive games. The only short on the 2003 VHS release was Tummy Trouble. The 2003 DVD release presents the film in Full Screen (1.33:1) on Disc 1 and Widescreen (1.85:1) on Disc 2. On March 12, 2013, the film was released by on Blu-ray and DVD combo pack special edition for the film's 25th anniversary. The film was also digitally restored for the release; frame-by-frame digital restoration was done by Prasad Studios removing dirt, tears, scratches, and other defects. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the film on Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 7, 2021. Reception Critical response Who Framed Roger Rabbit received near-universal acclaim from critics, making Business Insiders "best comedy movies of all time, according to critics" list. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of based on reviews, and an average rating of . The site's critical consensus reads, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an innovative and entertaining film that features a groundbreaking mix of live action and animation, with a touching and original story to boot." Aggregator Metacritic has calculated a weighted average score of 83 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Who Framed Roger Rabbit was placed on 43 critics' top ten lists, third to only The Thin Blue Line and Bull Durham in 1988. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four, predicting it would carry "the type of word of mouth that money can't buy. This movie is not only great entertainment but [also] a breakthrough in craftsmanship." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune praised the film's "dazzling, jaw-dropping opening four-minute sequence", while noting that the sequence alone took nearly nine months to animate. In reviewing the film, Siskel gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four. Ebert and his colleague Siskel spent a considerable amount of time in the Siskel & Ebert episode in which they reviewed the film analyzing its painstaking filmmaking. In evaluating their top ten films of the year, Siskel ranked it number two while Ebert ranked it as number eight. Janet Maslin of The New York Times commented that this is "a film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed." Desson Thomson of The Washington Post considered Roger Rabbit to be "a definitive collaboration of pure talent. Zemeckis had Walt Disney Pictures' enthusiastic backing, producer Steven Spielberg's pull, Warner Bros.'s blessing, Canadian animator Richard Williams' ink and paint, Mel Blanc's voice, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman's witty, frenetic screenplay, George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic, and Bob Hoskins' comical performance as the burliest, shaggiest private eye." Gene Shalit on the Today Show also praised the film, calling it "one of the most extraordinary movies ever made". Filmsite.org called it "a technically-marvelous film" and a "landmark" that resulted from "unprecedented cooperation" between Warner Bros. and Disney. On CNN's 2019 miniseries The Movies, Tom Hanks called it the "most complicated movie ever made." Richard Corliss, writing for Time, gave a mixed review. "The opening cartoon works just fine but too fine. The opening scene upstages the movie that emerges from it," he said. Corliss was mainly annoyed by the homages to the Golden Age of American animation. Chuck Jones made a rather scathing attack on the film in his book Chuck Jones Conversations. Among his complaints, Jones accused Robert Zemeckis of robbing Richard Williams of any creative input and ruining the piano duel that both Williams and he storyboarded. Accolades Legacy The critical and commercial success of the film rekindled an interest in the Golden Age of American animation, and sparked the modern animation scene, as well as the Disney Renaissance. In November 1988, a few months after the film's release, Roger Rabbit made his guest appearance in the live-action and animated television special broadcast on NBC called Mickey's 60th Birthday in which to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mouse. In 1991, Walt Disney Imagineering began to develop Mickey's Toontown for Disneyland, based on the Toontown that appeared in the film. The attraction also features a ride called Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin. Three theatrical animated shorts were also produced: Tummy Trouble was shown before Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Roller Coaster Rabbit was shown before Dick Tracy; and Trail Mix-Up was shown before A Far Off Place. The film also inspired a short-lived comic book and video game spin-offs, including two PC games, the Japanese version of The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (which features Roger instead of Bugs), a 1989 game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and a 1991 game released on the Game Boy. In December 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The 2022 film Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers was created as a spiritual sequel to Roger Rabbit, though combining several different animation techniques that have come about since Roger Rabbit. Roger appears in a cameo in the film. Controversies With the film's LaserDisc release, Variety first reported in March 1994 that observers uncovered several scenes of antics from the animators that supposedly featured brief nudity of Jessica Rabbit. While undetectable when played at the usual rate of 24 film frames per second, the LaserDisc player allowed the viewer to advance frame-by-frame to uncover these visuals. Whether or not they were actually intended to depict the nudity of the character remains unknown. Many retailers said that within minutes of the LaserDisc debut, their entire inventory was sold out. The run was fueled by media reports about the controversy, including stories on CNN and various newspapers. Another frequently debated scene includes one in which Baby Herman extends his middle finger as he passes under a woman's dress and re-emerges with drool on his lip. Also, controversy exists over the scene where Daffy Duck and Donald Duck are playing a piano duel, and during his trademark ranting gibberish, it is claimed that Donald calls Daffy a "goddamn stupid nigger"; however, this is a misinterpretation, with the line from the script being "doggone stubborn little—." Legal issue Gary K. Wolf, author of the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, filed a lawsuit in 2001 against The Walt Disney Company. He claimed he was owed royalties based on the value of "gross receipts" and merchandising sales. In 2002, the trial court in the case ruled that these only referred to actual cash receipts Disney collected and denied Wolf's claim. In its January 2004 ruling, the California Court of Appeal disagreed, finding that expert testimony introduced by Wolf regarding the customary use of "gross receipts" in the entertainment business could support a broader reading of the term. The ruling vacated the trial court's order in favor of Disney and remanded the case for further proceedings. In a March 2005 hearing, Wolf estimated he was owed $7 million. Disney's attorneys not only disputed the claim but also said Wolf owed Disney $500,000–$1 million because of an accounting error discovered in preparing for the lawsuit. Wolf won the decision in 2005, receiving between $180,000 and $400,000 in damages. Proposed sequel Spielberg discussed a sequel in 1989 with J. J. Abrams as writer and Zemeckis as producer. Abrams's outline was eventually abandoned. Nat Mauldin was hired to write a prequel titled Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon, set in 1941 to 1943. Similar to the previous film, Toon Platoon featured many cameo appearances by characters from The Golden Age of American Animation. It began with Roger Rabbit's early years, living on a farm in the midwestern United States. With human Ritchie Davenport, Roger travels west to seek his mother, in the process meeting Jessica Krupnick (his future wife), a struggling Hollywood actress. While Roger and Ritchie are enlisting in the Army, Jessica is kidnapped and forced to make pro-Nazi German broadcasts. Roger and Ritchie must save her by going into Nazi-occupied Europe accompanied by several other Toons in their Army platoon. After their triumph, Roger and Ritchie are given a Hollywood Boulevard parade, and Roger is finally reunited with his mother and father, Bugs Bunny. Mauldin later retitled his script Who Discovered Roger Rabbit. Spielberg left the project when deciding he could not satirize Nazis after directing Schindler's List. Eisner commissioned a rewrite in 1997 with Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver. Although they kept Roger's search for his mother, Stoner and Oliver replaced the WWII subplot with Roger's inadvertent rise to stardom on Broadway and Hollywood. Disney was impressed and Alan Menken was hired to write five songs for the film and offered his services as executive producer. One of the songs, "This Only Happens in the Movies", was recorded in 2008 on the debut album of Broadway actress Kerry Butler. Eric Goldberg was set to be the new animation director, and began to redesign Roger's new character appearance. Spielberg became busy establishing DreamWorks, while Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy decided to remain as producers. Test footage for Who Discovered Roger Rabbit was shot sometime in 1998 at the Disney animation unit in Lake Buena Vista, Florida; the results were a mix of CGI, traditional animation, and live-action that did not please Disney. A second test had the toons completely converted to CGI, but this was dropped as the film's projected budget would escalate past $100 million. Eisner felt it was best to cancel the film. In March 2003, producer Don Hahn was doubtful about a sequel being made, arguing that public tastes had changed since the 1990s with the rise of computer animation. "There was something very special about that time when animation was not as much in the forefront as it is now." In December 2007, Marshall stated that he was still "open" to the idea, and in April 2009, Zemeckis revealed he was still interested. According to a 2009 MTV News story, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman were writing a new script for the project, and the animated characters would be in traditional two-dimensional, while the rest would be in motion capture. However, in 2010, Zemeckis said that the sequel would remain hand-drawn animated and live-action sequences will be filmed, just like in the original film, but the lighting effects on the cartoon characters and some of the props that the toons handle will be done digitally. Also in 2010, Hahn, who was the film's original associate producer, confirmed the sequel's development in an interview with Empire. He stated, "Yeah, I couldn't possibly comment. I deny completely, but yeah... if you're a fan, pretty soon you're going to be very, very, very happy." In 2010, Bob Hoskins stated he was interested in the project, reprising his role as Eddie Valiant. However, he retired from acting in 2012 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a year earlier, and died from pneumonia in 2014. Marshall confirmed that the film would be a prequel, similar to earlier drafts, and that the writing was almost complete. During an interview at the premiere of Flight, Zemeckis stated that the sequel was still possible, despite Hoskins' absence, and the script for the sequel was sent to Disney for approval from studio executives. In February 2013, Gary K. Wolf, writer of the original novel, said Erik Von Wodtke and he were working on a development proposal for an animated Disney buddy comedy starring Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit called The Stooge, based on the 1952 film of the same name. The proposed film is set in a prequel, taking place five years before Who Framed Roger Rabbit and part of the story is about how Roger met Jessica. Wolf has stated the film is currently wending its way through Disney. In November 2016, while promoting his film Allied in England, Zemeckis stated that the sequel "moves the story of Roger and Jessica Rabbit into the next few years of period film, moving on from film noir to the world of the 1950s". He also stated that the sequel would feature a "digital Bob Hoskins", as Eddie Valiant would return in "ghost form". While the director went on to state that the script is "terrific" and the film would still use hand-drawn animation, Zemeckis thinks that the chances of Disney green-lighting the sequel are "slim". As he explained more in detail, "The current corporate Disney culture has no interest in Roger, and they certainly don't like Jessica at all". In December 2018, while promoting Welcome to Marwen, his latest film, and given the 30th anniversary of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Zemeckis reiterated in an interview with Yahoo! Movies that though the sequel's script is "wonderful", Disney is still unlikely to ever produce it, and he does not see the possibility of producing it as an original film for the streaming service Disney+, as he feels that it does not make any sense as there is no "Princess" in it. Notes References Further reading External links Who Framed Roger Rabbit essay by Alexis Ainsworth at National Film Registry 1988 films 1980s English-language films 1988 animated films 1988 comedy films 1980s American animated films 1980s crime comedy films American crime comedy films American crossover films American films with live action and animation American detective films Metafictional works Self-reflexive films Looney Tunes films Bugs Bunny films Daffy Duck films Elmer Fudd films Foghorn Leghorn films Marvin the Martian films Porky Pig films Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog films Speedy Gonzales films Sylvester the Cat films Tweety films Yosemite Sam films Mickey Mouse films Donald Duck films Goofy (Disney) films Betty Boop Droopy Animated films about rabbits and hares Films about babies BAFTA winners (films) Comedy crossover films Disney controversies Films about animation Films about films Films about Hollywood, Los Angeles Films about murder Films adapted into comics Films based on American novels Films set in 1947 Films set in Los Angeles Films set in studio lots Films shot in Hertfordshire Films shot in Los Angeles Films shot in California Film controversies Rotoscoped films Amblin Entertainment films Amblin Entertainment animated films Disney animated films Films shot at EMI-Elstree Studios Obscenity controversies in animation Obscenity controversies in film Touchstone Pictures films Touchstone Pictures animated films Films that won the Best Sound Editing Academy Award Films that won the Best Visual Effects Academy Award Films whose editor won the Best Film Editing Academy Award Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation winning works Films scored by Alan Silvestri Films directed by Robert Zemeckis Films produced by Frank Marshall Films with screenplays by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman United States National Film Registry films Animated crime films Animated crossover films Postmodern films Films about weasels

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Hebron Lutheran Church

Hebron Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located in the countryside northeast of Madison, Madison County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1740, with the south wing added about 1800. It is a one-story, "T" shaped, frame building on a stone foundation. The original section measures 50 feet by 26 feet. The building was renovated in 1850 and, in 1885, the flat ceilings were adorned with decorative frescoes of rich Victorian patterns by Giuseppe Oddenino. The building was renovated again in 1961. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. In 1802, a new pipe organ made by David Tannenberg, perhaps America's most renowned early builder of pipe organs, was installed in the Hebron Lutheran Church. As the largest remaining and virtually unaltered example of Tannenberg's or any other extant organs from the colonial period, it is of special importance in American organbuilding history. It, like the church wherein it is located, are special examples of American history. Pastors The following pastors have served Hebron Lutheran Church. John Caspar Stoever 1733-1739 George Samuel Klug 1739-1764 Johannes Schwarbach 1765-1775 Jacob Frank 1775-1778 References External links Hebron Lutheran Church website The Hebron Lutheran Church Foundation Hebron Lutheran Church, State Routes 638 & 653, Madison, Madison County, VA: 1 photo, 4 measured drawings, and 17 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey Description, photos and sound recordings of the Tannenberg organ in Hebron Lutheran Church, Madison Descriptive information of Hebron's Tannenberg organ and its restoration in 1970 by George Taylor Photos of Hebron's Tannenberg organ Biography Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Lutheran churches in Virginia Churches completed in 1740 Buildings and structures in Madison County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Virginia 1740 establishments in Virginia 18th-century Lutheran churches in the United States

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JoAnn Willette

Joann Willette (born October 12, 1963) is an American actress. Willette is best known for appearing in the role of Constance "Connie" Lubbock in the television series Just the Ten of Us from 1988 to 1990. She has also made appearances on a number of other series including The Facts of Life, T. J. Hooker, Santa Barbara, Growing Pains, Melrose Place, Chicago Hope, Becker, ER, The Young and the Restless, My Sister Sam, Private Practice, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and in movies such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and Welcome to 18. She also was in a music video in 1986 titled "Your Love" by The Outfield. On June 4, 2014, Willette appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor Podcast. Award nominations References External links 1963 births Actresses from Maine American film actresses American television actresses Living people People from Lewiston, Maine 21st-century American women

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udarny%2C%20Karachay-Cherkess%20Republic

Udarny, Karachay-Cherkess Republic

Udarny () is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Prikubansky District of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,083. History It was established in 1961 and granted urban-type settlement status in 1965. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, the work settlement of Udarny is subordinated to Prikubansky District. As a municipal division, Udarny is incorporated within Prikubansky Municipal District as Udarnenskoye Urban Settlement. References Notes Sources Urban-type settlements in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranerita%20polyxena

Paranerita polyxena

Paranerita polyxena is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1883. It is found in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. Subspecies Paranerita polyxena polyxena (Peru, Ecuador) Paranerita polyxena bolivica Strand, 1919 (Bolivia) References Paranerita Moths described in 1883

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisi%C3%B3n%20del%20Norte%20metro%20station

División del Norte metro station

División del Norte is a metro station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City. General information The station logo represents Revolutionary hero Pancho Villa, leader of the División del Norte of revolutionary soldiers during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Its name is taken from the nearby Avenida División del Norte. The station has a cultural display. The station opened on 25 August 1980. Until trolleybus service was discontinued on line "O" in 2010, this metro station was served by trolleybus line "O", which runs between Metro Mixcoac and the Central de Abasto wholesale market. División del Norte serves Del Valle, Letrán Valle, Vertiz Narvarte and Santa Cruz Atoyac neighborhoods. It is located in the crossing between Avenida Universidad, Avenida División del Norte and Avenida Cuauhtemoc, in what used to be "Glorieta del Riviera". On 16 February 1994, Cuban Mexican vedette Judith Velasco killed herself in this station by jumping to the tracks dying instantly when she was hit by the train. Ridership Nearby Parque de las Arboledas, public park. Parroquia de la Medalla Milagrosa, church designed by Félix Candela. Exits Northeast: Av. División del Norte and Matías Romero street, Letrán Valle Southeast: Av. División del Norte and Chichen Itzá street, Letrán Valle South: Av. Cuauhtémoc and Av. Universidad, Santa Cruz Atoyac Northwest: Av. División del Norte, Santa Cruz Atoyac Southwest: Matías Romero street, Colonia del Valle References External links Division del Norte Railway stations opened in 1980 1980 establishments in Mexico Mexico City Metro stations in Benito Juárez, Mexico City Railway stations located underground in Mexico

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCBI

MCBI

MCBI can refer to: Minnesota Christian Broadcasters MetroCorp Bancshares (Nasdaq: MCBI)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal%20Nishan%20Party%20%28Leninvadi%29

Lal Nishan Party (Leninvadi)

Lal Nishan Party (Leninvadi) (Red Flag Party (Leninist)) is a communist political party in the Indian state of Maharashtra. LNP(L) was formed a splinter group of Lal Nishan Party in 1988. LNP(L) was critical to that LNP had gotten closer to the Indian National Congress and the Perestroika. • LNP(L) is mainly concentrated to trade union activism. The trade union organization of the party is called Sarva Shramik Sanghathan. The strongest base of LNP(L) is in Pune. In general, LNP(L) does not contest elections in the current years. • LNP(L) has maintained good relation with some ML Fraction groups specially with Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation and Red Flag. • The party was led by Ashok Manohar until his death in 2003. After the dead of Ashok Manohar the party is led by Bhimrao Bansod. • Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2004 LNP(L) supported the candidates of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag. • LNP(L) published Leninwadi Lalnishan monthly paper from Pune the city of 'Maharashtra'. External links A revolutionary leader dies, article in Green Left Weekly Political parties established in 1988 Political parties in Maharashtra Communist parties in India Political parties in India 1988 establishments in Maharashtra

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Cram

Ralph Cram

Ralph Cram may refer to: Ralph Adams Cram (1863–1942), American architect Ralph W. Cram (1869–1952), American journalist and newspaper editor

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon%20Staley

Brandon Staley

Brandon John Staley (born December 10, 1982) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams in 2020 and also served as an assistant coach for the Denver Broncos and Chicago Bears. Playing career Staley went to the University of Dayton and started two years at quarterback for the Flyers guiding the team to a 16–5 record from 2003 to 2004. He finished his playing career at Mercyhurst College, playing on the football team in 2005. Coaching career College Brandon began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Northern Illinois from 2006 to 2008 before working with defensive linemen and special teams at Division III St. Thomas in 2009. In 2010 and 2011 Staley served as the associate head coach and defensive coordinator at Hutchinson Community College. He spent the 2012 season at Tennessee as a graduate assistant. Staley would then spend three seasons (2013, 2015, 2016) as the defensive coordinator/secondary coach with John Carroll University. 2014 was spent as the defensive coordinator/linebackers coach at James Madison University. Chicago Bears In 2017, Staley was hired by the Chicago Bears as their outside linebackers coach. Denver Broncos On January 15, 2019, Staley was hired by the Denver Broncos as their outside linebackers coach, reuniting with head coach Vic Fangio. Los Angeles Rams On January 16, 2020, Staley was hired by the Los Angeles Rams as their defensive coordinator, replacing Wade Phillips. In his only year as coordinator in 2020, Staley helped guide the Rams defense to 1st in points and total yards allowed, positioning himself as an attractive head coaching candidate around the league. Los Angeles Chargers On January 17, 2021, Staley was hired as head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. On September 12, 2021, Staley made his regular-season head coaching debut against Washington and led the Chargers to a 20–16 victory. Staley led the Chargers to a 9–7 record through the first 16 games of the season. However, against the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 18 in a win or tie or go home situation, Staley came under scrutiny for two decisions during the game. The first involved a failed fourth down conversion on the Chargers' own 18-yard line, giving the Raiders a short field, which they would score on to extend their lead to 12. The second was calling a timeout with 38 seconds left in the overtime period with the Raiders at the Chargers 39 yard line. Staley claimed he called the timeout to get the right defensive personnel on the field as the Raiders were running the ball. Following the game there was conjecture that the timeout proved to be costly for the Chargers as the Raiders kicked a 47-yard field goal as time expired, winning 35–32, and eliminating the Chargers from playoff contention. However, when discussing the moment on a podcast, Raiders’ interim head coach Rich Bisaccia stated that “the timeout was really irrelevant.” Head coaching record Personal life Staley was diagnosed at 24 years old with Hodgkin lymphoma, but has been cancer-free for over a decade following chemotherapy at the Cleveland Clinic. Staley married Amy Ward in 2011. They have three children. References External links Los Angeles Chargers profile 1982 births Living people American football quarterbacks People from Perry, Ohio Sportspeople from Greater Cleveland Coaches of American football from Ohio Players of American football from Ohio Dayton Flyers football players Mercyhurst Lakers football players Northern Illinois Huskies football coaches St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies football coaches Hutchinson Blue Dragons football coaches Tennessee Volunteers football coaches John Carroll Blue Streaks football coaches James Madison Dukes football coaches Chicago Bears coaches Denver Broncos coaches Los Angeles Rams coaches National Football League defensive coordinators Los Angeles Chargers head coaches

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Biao

Li Biao

Li Biao (; born 12 December 1997) is a Chinese footballer currently playing as a midfielder for Hubei Istar. Career statistics Club . Notes References 1997 births Living people Footballers from Yunnan Chinese footballers Association football midfielders Shaoxing Keqiao Yuejia F.C. players Gondomar S.C. players F.C. Maia players Chinese expatriate footballers Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Portugal

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acaiatuca%20quadricostata

Acaiatuca quadricostata

Acaiatuca quadricostata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Tippmann in 1953. It is known from Brazil. References Hemilophini Beetles described in 1953

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear%20X-Tacy

Ear X-Tacy

Ear X-tacy is a 1994 album by instrumental rock solo artist Andy Timmons. Track listing "Carpe Diem" - 3:59 "Turn Away" – 4:13 "I Remember Stevie" – 5:18 "Cry For You" – 6:56 "Farmer Sez" – 1:46 "Electric Gypsy" – 4:34 "I Have No Idea" – 5:36 "This Time For Sure" – 1:52 "It's Getting Better" – 4:43 "Hiroshima (Pray For Peace)" – 6:16 "No More Goodbyes" – 5:19 "Bust A Soda" - 3:52 "There Are No Words" - 3:45 Personnel Andy Timmons - Guitars Mike Daane - Bass Mitch Marine - Drums References 1994 albums Andy Timmons albums

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%E2%80%9371%20Luxembourg%20National%20Division

1970–71 Luxembourg National Division

The 1970–71 Luxembourg National Division was the 57th season of top level association football in Luxembourg. Overview It was performed in 12 teams, and Union Luxembourg won the championship. League standings Results References Luxembourg - List of final tables (RSSSF) Luxembourg National Division seasons Lux Nat

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Pa%C5%A1anski

Boris Pašanski

Boris Pašanski (), often spelled Pashanski in English-language media, is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of world number 55 on 27 February 2006. Betting controversy On October 24, 2007, Pašanski was beaten by Dmitry Tursunov in the 2nd round of the St. Petersburg Open by the score 4–6, 6–3, 6–4. The match was associated with highly irregular betting patterns on the online betting exchange Betfair. Large bets were being made on Tursunov to win at odds 1.2 when Pašanski was leading by a set and a break, extremely low odds in such circumstances. There was suspicion among market observers that Pašanski threw the match, with or without the active collusion of Tursunov. However, Betfair decided not to void bets on the match. Performance timeline Singles ATP career finals Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 25 (12–13) Doubles: 6 (3–3) References External links Pashanski world ranking history 1982 births Living people Serbia and Montenegro male tennis players Serbian expatriates in Malta Serbian male tennis players Serbian tennis coaches Tennis players from Belgrade Yugoslav male tennis players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated%20Survivor%3A%2060%20Days

Designated Survivor: 60 Days

Designated Survivor: 60 Days () is a 2019 South Korean television series based on the 2016–2019 American television series Designated Survivor. It stars Ji Jin-hee, Heo Joon-ho, Kang Han-na, Lee Joon-hyuk and Bae Jong-ok. The series aired on tvN and Netflix from July 1 to August 20, 2019. Synopsis Park Mu-jin (Ji Jin-hee) is the South Korean Minister of Environment, with little ambition as a politician. After a diplomatic incident involving free trade negotiations with the United States, and Park's dispute over numbers provided by its Environmental Protection Agency about pollution caused by imported cars, President Yang Jin-ma (Kim Kap-soo) dismisses him from the office. The next day, as the President announces to the National Assembly that he is making peace with North Korea, the building explodes, killing all of the South Korean line of succession. Park Mu-jin, whose resignation had yet to become effective, survived the accident. He is sworn in as Acting President for 60 days, and starts uncovering the truth behind the bombing. Cast Main Ji Jin-hee as Park Mu-jin, Acting President of the Republic of Korea, formerly Minister of Environment and chemistry professor at KAIST. He is the show's counterpart of Tom Kirkman. Lee Joon-hyuk as Oh Yeong-seok, former ROK Navy Lieutenant Commander and independent member of the National Assembly. He is the show's counterpart of Congressman Peter MacLeish. Huh Joon-ho as Han Joo-seung, Chief Presidential Secretary. He is the show's counterpart of Charles Langdon. Kang Han-na as Han Na-kyung, NIS Terrorism Task Force Analyst. She is the show's counterpart to Hannah Wells. Bae Jong-ok as Yoon Chan-kyung, leader of the opposition Seonjin Republican Party. She is the show's counterpart of Kimble Hookstratten. Supporting Park Family Kim Gyu-ri as Choi Kang-yeon, First Lady of South Korea, Park Mu-jin's wife and a human rights lawyer. She is the show's counterpart of Alex Kirkman. Nam Woo-hyun as Park Si-wan, Park Mu-jin's teenage son. He is the show's counterpart of Leo Kirkman. Ok Ye-rin as Park Si-jin, Park Mu-jin's daughter. She is the show's counterpart of Penny Kirkman. The Blue House Son Suk-ku as Cha Young-jin, Presidential Office Senior Administrator. He is the show's counterpart of Aaron Shore. Choi Yoon-young as Jung Soo-jung, secretary of Park Mu-jin. She is the show's counterpart of Emily Rhodes. Lee Moo-saeng as Kim Nam-wook, Presidential Office Administrator and later Acting Press Secretary, former defector from North Korea. He is the show's counterpart of Seth Wright. as Kang Dae-han, Presidential Security Service Agent. He is the show's counterpart of Mike Ritter. Lee Do-yeop as An Se-young, Chief of Civil Affairs. Baek Hyun-joo as Min Hee-kyung, Presidential Secretary. as Park Soo-kyo, Presidential Office Administrator. as Ko Young-mok, Director of the National Security Office. as Kim Eun-joo, administrator of the second subdivision office. National Intelligence Service Kim Joo-hun as Jung Han-mo, NIS Terrorism Task Force Chief. He is the show's counterpart of Jason Atwood. Jeon Sung-woo as Seo Ji-won, NIS Terrorism Task Force Cyber Specialist. He is the show's counterpart of Chuck Russink. as Ji Yoon-bae, NIS Deputy Director. He is the show's counterpart of John Forstell. Lee Ha-yool as Kim Jun-oh, NIS agent. He is the show's counterpart and a composite of Senator Scott Wheeler and Gabriel Thompson. Republic of Korea Army Choi Jae-sung as General Lee Gwan-mook, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief Director of the Joint Defense Headquarters. He is the show's counterpart of General Harris Cochrane. Lee Ki-young as General Eun Hee-jung, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Army. Presidential Candidates Ahn Nae-sang as Kang Sang-goo, former three term Mayor of Seoul. He is the show's counterpart to and a composite of Governor James Royce and former president Cornelius Moss. TBN Station Choi Jin-ho as Kim Dan, the news director. Oh Hye-won as Woo Sin-young, journalist. She is the show's counterpart to and a composite of Elizabeth Vargas, Lisa Jordan, and Abe Leonard. Others Jeon Su-ji as Heo Jin-joo Special appearances Kim Kap-soo as Yang Jin-man, the assassinated President of the Republic of Korea (episode 1). He is the show's counterpart of President Robert Richmond. Park Hoon as Major Jang Jun Ha (episode 6). He is the show's counterpart of Captain Max Clarkson. Original soundtrack Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Viewership Awards and nominations International broadcasts The series was purchased for broadcast in Iran by IRIB Ofogh in 2021. References External links TVN (South Korean TV channel) television dramas Korean-language television shows 2019 South Korean television series debuts 2019 South Korean television series endings Designated Survivor (TV series) South Korean television series based on American television series Political drama television series National Intelligence Service (South Korea) in fiction South Korean political television series South Korean military television series

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Scotus

David Scotus

David Scotus was a Gaelic chronicler who died in 1139. Biography His date of birth is unknown. Early in the twelfth century there was at Würzburg an ecclesiastic and teacher known as David. His surname Scotus shows that he was probably a Gael from either Ireland or Scotland, if he is identical with the homonymous Bishop of Bangor, from Wales (see below). According to Ekkehard's Chronicon, Emperor Henry V received him, was charmed with his virtue and knowledge, and made him one of the imperial chaplains. With other scholars, David accompanied Henry on his expedition to Italy in 1110, and was appointed royal historiographer for the occasion with the intention, perhaps, of drafting the emperor's relatio, a brief narrative stringing together the documents of the intended treaty and presenting his master's achievements in the best light. The expedition did not go to plan, with the incumbent Pope Pascal II at first refusing to crown Henry and his wife, Matilda, relenting only after two months of imprisonment. The work written by David has been lost, although it was used as authority in the writings of William of Malmesbury and Ordericus Vitalis. He died in 1139. Writings His work in three books is now known only from excerpts of it in later historians, especially in Ekkehard and William of Malmesbury. The latter says that David described the expedition with partiality for the king. Possibly identical homonym A certain David was consecrated Bishop of Bangor in Wales, 4 April 1120; according to Malmesbury he was none other than the chaplain David Scotus. As bishop he took part in several English synods, and probably died in 1139, since his successor was then consecrated. But it is not easy to reconcile with the foregoing, the statement of the later historian Trithemius, that David became a monk under St. Macharius in the monastery of St. James in Würzburg, as this abbey was not founded until 1140. See also Aaron Scotus (died 1052) Blessed Marianus Scotus (died circa 1088) Joseph Scottus (died near 800), Irish deacon, scholar, diplomat, poet, and ecclesiastic Johannes Scotus Eriugena (circa 815–877), Irish theologian Marianus Scotus (circa 1028–1082), Irish monk Marianus Scotus (died c. 1088), Irish abbot of St Peter's at Ratisbon (Regensburg) Sedulius Scottus (9th century), Irish teacher, grammarian and Scriptural commentator Notes Sources Irish chroniclers 12th-century Irish historians 1139 deaths Medieval European scribes Medieval Gaels Year of birth unknown Irish expatriates in Germany Irish Latinists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n%20Crespo%20Toral

Hernán Crespo Toral

Hernan Crespo Toral (December 8, 1937 in Cuenca – March 23, 2008 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian architect, archeologist and museologist who played an important role in the conservation of cultural heritage in Ecuador. Biography He studied museology at the École du Louvre in Paris on a scholarship from UNESCO, and returned to Ecuador in 1959 when he was 22 years old to use his knew knowledge in his homeland. Crespo Toral worked for over 25 years at the Museums of the Central Bank of Ecuador, first as Founding Director of the Archaeological Museum and Art Galleries, and later as Director General of Museums. After working for the Museum of the Central Bank, he became the Assistant Director-General for Culture at UNESCO. Then in 1988 he was the Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, located in Havana, Cuba. In 1995, he moved Paris to work at the UNESCO headquarters, where his position was first Director of the Culture Sector (1995–1998) and then Assistant Director-General for Culture (1998–2000). In 1991 Crespo Toral was awarded the Ecuadorian National Prize in Culture "Premio Eugenio Espejo" by the President of Ecuador. Crespo Toral retired from UNESCO in 2000, he then served as an international consultant. References 1937 births 2008 deaths People from Cuenca, Ecuador École du Louvre alumni Conservation architects Ecuadorian architects

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonality%20analysis

Commonality analysis

Commonality analysis is a statistical technique within multiple linear regression that decomposes a model's R2 statistic (i.e., explained variance) by all independent variables on a dependent variable in a multiple linear regression model into commonality coefficients. These coefficients are variance components that are uniquely explained by each independent variable (i.e., unique effects), and variance components that are shared in each possible combination of the independent variables (i.e., common effects). These commonality coefficients sum up to the total variance explained (model R2) of all the independent variables on the dependent variable. Commonality analysis produces commonality coefficients, where k is the number of the independent variables. Example As an illustrative example, in the case of three independent variables (A, B, and C), commonality returns 7 () coefficients: The unique contributions of A, B, and C (three coefficients) The contribution common to each possible pair of variables (AB, BC, AC) The contribution common to all three variables (ABC) The unique coefficient indicates to which degree the variable is independently associated with the dependent variable. Positive commonality coefficients indicate that a part of the explained variance of the dependent variable is shared between independent variables. Negative commonality coefficients indicate that there is a suppressor effects between independent variables. Calculation The calculation of commonality coefficients can be done in principle with any software that calculates R2 (e.g., in SPSS; see ), however, this becomes quickly burdensome as number of independent variable increases. For example, with 10 independent variables, there are commonality coefficients to be calculated. The yhat package in R can be used to calculate commonality coefficients, and to produce bootstrapped confidence intervals for commonality coefficients. Notes References Regression analysis Econometric modeling

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley%2C%20New%20Mexico

Riley, New Mexico

Riley is located in Socorro County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Settled in 1892, it is situated about north of Magdalena, New Mexico, on Cibola NF road 354 and now is a ghost town. References Ghost towns in New Mexico

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linfield%20Christian%20School

Linfield Christian School

Linfield Christian School (LCS) is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory K-12 Christian school located on a 100-acre campus in Temecula, California, a city that is located between San Diego and Los Angeles. The school’s colors are navy blue, light blue and white, and the school mascot is the Lion. The current student enrollment is approximately 750 students. History Linfield Christian School, founded and established in 1936, was originally located in Los Angeles and was named the Culter Academy after its founder, Dr. Mabel Culter. Dr. Culter began the school in a home with seven students. Rapid increases in enrollment necessitated several relocations of the campus within Los Angeles. In 1968, the academy moved to its present site and reopened in 1972 as Linfield. Don Odell was president at the time of the relocation and Dr. Robert Mounce was the first headmaster. Accreditation and memberships The school is governed by a Board of Trustees, accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC K-12), and holds membership in the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) and California Interscholastic Federation (CIF). Linfield is also a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling and subscribes to the Statement of Principles and Good Practice. Academic program The curriculum at the high school adheres to the entrance requirements of the University of California and California State University school systems. Athletics Linfield Christian High School competes with teams in the California Interscholastic Federation. Recent accomplishments 2010-Present Basketball (B) CIF Champion Basketball (G) CIF Champion Tennis (G) CIF Champion Football CIF Champion 2009-10 Football CIF Champion Girls Tennis CIF Semi-Finalist Baseball CIF Finalist Basketball (B) CIF Semi-Finalist Boys Tennis CIF Semi-Finalist References External links www.linfield.com Christian schools in California Educational institutions established in 1936 High schools in Riverside County, California Nondenominational Christian schools in the United States Private high schools in California Private middle schools in California Private elementary schools in California Temecula, California 1936 establishments in California

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givi%20Agrba

Givi Agrba

Givi Kamugovich Agrba (; 4 April 1937 – 27 August 2014) was a politician from Abkhazia. Early life Agrba was born on 4 April 1937 in the village of Kulanyrchua, Gudauta District. He attended school in Lykhny and studied in the philological faculty of the Sukhumi Pedagogical Institute. Career Agrba became Minister of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia in 1993, after the war with Georgia. On 2 June 1996, President Ardzinba dismissed him for unsatisfactory work, replacing him with the head of his own security office Almasbei Kchach. From 1996 until 2002, Agrba was Deputy Defence Minister and Chief of the General Staff. He was awarded the rank of Major in 1996 and Lieutenant General in 1998. He subsequently became advisor to President Ardzinba on Military Matters, and on 2 April 2003, was appointed was appointed Head of the State Security Service, replacing Zurab Agumava. On 15 June 2004, Agrba handed in his resignation along with Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba and First Vice Premier Astamur Tarba following the murder of opposition politician Garri Aiba. President Ardzinba accepted Agrba's resignation on 7 July and replaced him with Mikhail Tarba. Death Agrba died on 27 August 2014 in Sukhumi. References 1937 births 2014 deaths People from Gudauta District Ministers for Internal Affairs of Abkhazia Chairmen of the State Security Service of Abkhazia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BB%C3%B3%C5%82wino%2C%20Kamie%C5%84%20County

Żółwino, Kamień County

Żółwino is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wolin, within Kamień County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north of Wolin, west of Kamień Pomorski, and north of the regional capital Szczecin. The village has a population of 20. References Villages in Kamień County

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taru%20M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4

Taru Mäkelä

Taru Mäkelä (born 1 April 1959) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. She started her career in the 1980s working for the Finnish Broadcasting Company. Life and career Besides directing and screenwriting, Mäkelä has also worked as a producer, editor and actor. Mäkelä studied at the Department of Cinematography at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture and graduated with a master's degree in art in 1989. She is also a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Helsinki. Mäkelä began her career as a director in the 1980s at YLE, where she wrote and directed the Smiley Lips entertainment series. She has directed three feature films: Little Sister (1999), The Storage (2011) and August Fools (2013). In December 2014, Mäkelä's comedy Eila, Rampe and Likka, based on the characters in Sinikka Nopola's books, premiered. In 2005–2010, Mäkelä was a member of the Board of the Finnish Film Foundation. She was the chairman of the Finnish Film Directors' Association from 2006 to 2008. Mäkelä has suffered from cancer three times, most recently from metastases to the liver in 2017. The Mäkelä family has been active in the film industry since the 1920s. Mäkelä's uncle was film producer Mauno Mäkelä and her grandfather was an influential figure in the Finnish film industry, Väinö Mäkelä. Her cousin Jukka Mäkelä was one of the founders of Finnkino. The documentary Saalis (2007), directed and written by Taru Mäkelä, tells the story of her family. In 2005, Mäkelä and her husband, film director Jouko Seppälä, founded the film production company Kinosto, which was also the name of her grandfather's company. Selected filmography as a director Lotat (1995) Pikkusisar (1999) Varasto (2011) August Fools (2013) Varasto 2 (2018) Täydellinen joulu (2019) References External links 1959 births Living people People from Tampere Finnish film directors Finnish screenwriters Finnish women film directors Finnish women screenwriters

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Frantz Yvelin

Frantz Yvelin is a French businessman, pilot, and serial entrepreneur. He was the President of Aigle Azur, France's 2nd largest airline until August 26, 2019. Frantz Yvelin previously created and ran two French independent scheduled Airlines, (La Compagnie and L'Avion). Early life and education A commercial pilot since the age of 21, Yvelin is type-rated on Airbus A320, Boeing 737, Boeing 757, Boeing 767, Cessna Citation and McDonnell Douglas MD80. Career Yvelin started his career as an IT consultant (for GFI Informatique, CS Communication & Systèmes). In 2006 he founded and ran Europe's first all-Business-Class airline, L'Avion, before selling it to British Airways. (In 2009, L'Avion became OpenSkies and has since operated under that brand). Yvelin was Head of Strategy and Development for OpenSkies for a time after it was merged with L'Avion. In 2013, along with La Compagnie, Frantz created a French holding company called Dreamjet Participations, which he ran as President and CEO until the end of 2016. Dreamjet Participations acquired 100% of French leisure airline XL Airways in 2016. Along with Peter Luethi, La Compagnie's co-founder, he has been an air transport advisor for three years and was a lecturer in air transportation economics at the École nationale de l'aviation civile (teaching the Mastère spécialisé course). In parallel, he has helped to develop an airliners' ferry and flight testing company based in the USA. Notes Living people French chief executives French airline chief executives École nationale de l'aviation civile Year of birth missing (living people)

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Mecas linsleyi

Mecas linsleyi is a species of longhorn beetles found in North America. It was described by Knull in 1947. References Saperdini Beetles described in 1947

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Lal Sena

Lal Sena (1974–1990, English: Red Army) was an organised armed militia of CPIML Liberation in northeastern India, across the terrains of central Bihar, north-west of today's Jharkhand, and a few districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh. It was formed mainly by lower caste (middle and lower class) peasantry and landless labourers. Background In 1960s, when the Naxalite movement started under the leadership of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), the poor peasantry and agricultural labourers who belonged mainly to the lower castes started taking side with the communists in central Bihar across the districts of Bhojpur, Gaya, Nalanda, Patna and Aurangabad. Several violent armed clashes occurred between the landlords and poor/landless peasantry. In 1970s, CPI (ML) faced hard offence from central and state governments throughout India and splintered into several ML factions. In 1974, one of the ML factions was able to hold on to the grounds and reorganised itself into the CPI(ML) Liberation political party. Meanwhile, the landlords/landowners most of whom economically were from upper class peasantry (mainly upper caste ) organised themselves based on caste lines into several landlord gentries. In retaliation Lal Sena guerrilla armed squads, were organised by then underground CPI (ML) Liberation. After 2005 Since the late 2000s, Lal Sena's squad activity has been curtailed. The CPI (ML) Liberation party's movements took a militant but democratic approach through legalised workers, peasants, students, youth and women organisations, as noted by Dr. Sanjay K. Jha: See also Ranvir Sena Kuer Sena List of communist parties in India References Communist organisations in India Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation Defunct communist militant groups Land rights movements Left-wing militant groups in India Politics of Bihar

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Roger Robinson (actor)

Roger Robinson (May 2, 1940 – September 26, 2018) was an American actor who won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for the 2009 revival of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Life and career Born in Seattle, Washington, Robinson made his Broadway debut in 1969 in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? opposite Al Pacino. Additional theatre credits include Amen Corner, The Iceman Cometh, and Seven Guitars, which garnered him his first Tony nomination. Robinson appeared in six of August Wilson's ten plays chronicling African-American life in the 20th century. He felt the playwright's "use of language is second to none, except Eugene O'Neill and perhaps Tennessee Williams." Robinson was the first African American to receive the Richard Seff Award, presented annually by the Actors' Equity Foundation to an actor fifty years of age or older for his performance in a supporting role in a Broadway or off-Broadway production. Robinson's film credits include Believe in Me (1971), Willie Dynamite (1974), Newman's Law (1974), Meteor (1979), It's My Turn (1980), The Lonely Guy (1984), Who's the Man? (1993), Wedding Daze (2006), and Brother to Brother (2004). The latter won him the LA Outfest Grand Jury Award Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film and a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Robinson's television credits include the television miniseries King, TV-movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders, which led to a recurring role on Kojak, a regular role on the short-lived Mary Stuart Masterson series Kate Brasher, and guest appearances on Ironside, Starsky and Hutch, The Jeffersons, A Man Called Hawk, Law & Order, New York Undercover, Homicide: Life on the Street, ER, Kojak, and NYPD Blue. On ABC's How to Get Away With Murder, he played Mac Harkness, the father of Viola Davis' Annalise Keating. He also wrote material for Martin Lawrence Presents: 1st Amendment Stand-Up. Filmography References External links Playbill.com interview, June 2, 2009 1940 births 2018 deaths American male stage actors American male film actors American male television actors African-American male actors Tony Award winners Male actors from Seattle 20th-century African-American people 21st-century African-American people

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Koepcke's screech owl

Koepcke's screech owl (Megascops koepckeae) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is endemic to Peru. Taxonomy and systematics Koepcke's screech owl was originally described as a subspecies of tropical screech owl (then Otus choliba, now Megascops choliba), and they are now considered sister species. It was named in honor of Maria Koepcke, a German ornithologist who worked extensively in Peru. It has two subspecies, the nominate M. k. koepckeae and M. k. hockingi. Description Koepcke's screech owl is about long. Six individuals of M. k. koepckeae weighed and three of M. k. hockingi . The nominate subspecies has a whitish gray facial disc with darker speckles and a blackish rim. It has short whitish brows above yellow eyes. The crown is very dark brown with pale brown speckles. The upperparts are grayish brown to dark brown with blackish or dusky streaks and dark barring. The folded wing shows a line of whitish spots. The tail is dark brown with narrow ochre bars and small speckles. The underparts are grayish white and have wide dark brown streaks and irregular bars. The upper breast has a pale brownish ochre wash. M. k. hockingi is similar to the nominate but grayer, and the markings on its underparts are less apparent. Distribution and habitat Koepcke's screech owl is found only in Peru. The nominate subspecies has a disjunct range including the northerly Departments of Lambayeque, Cajamarca,and La Libertad; the valley of the Utcubamba River; and small areas of the Departments of Ancash and Lima. M. k. hockingi is found further south, irregularly from southern Junín Department to the Departments of Huancavelica, Ayacucho, and Apurímac. The two subspecies of Koepcke's screech owl inhabit different landscapes. The nominate uses evergreen forests between while M. k. hockingi inhabits dry forest and scrubby areas in intermontane valleys. In elevation it ranges between but is usually found below . Behavior Feeding Like most other screech owls, Koepcke's screech owl is nocturnal. Its diet has not been well studied but appears to be mostly insects and might include small vertebrates. Breeding The breeding phenology of Koepcke's screech owl is also essentially undocumented. In south central Peru it breeds in February and March. It is assumed to usually nest in tree cavities like others of its genus but the only reported nest was in a cavity in an earthen bank. Vocalization The territorial song of Koepcke's screech owl has been described as "a loud, staccato series of notes with slowing pace and rising volume: ko-ko-ko-ko ka ka KA KAH!". M. k. hockingis song is similar but is longer and higher pitched. An aggressive song is "a series of quieter short hoots rising and falling in pitch". Pairs sometimes sing in duet. Status The IUCN has assessed Koepcke's screech owl as being of Least Concern. Though its population size has not been determined, it is believed to be stable. The species appears to adapt well to highly degraded habitat as long as some trees remain for nesting and roosting. References Koepcke's screech owl Birds of the Peruvian Andes Endemic birds of Peru Koepcke's screech owl Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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Dijana Mugoša

Dijana Mugoša (born 22 October 1995) is a Montenegrin handball player for SCM Craiova and the Montenegrin national handball team. She represented Montenegro at the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship. References External links Montenegrin female handball players 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Podgorica Olympic handball players of Montenegro Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Expatriate handball players in Turkey Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Ardeşen GSK players RK Podravka Koprivnica players

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Estudios Filológicos

Estudios Filológicos is an academic journal published by the Humanities and Philosophy Faculty of the Southern University of Chile. It covers a wide range of linguistics and literature-related topics, primarily on issues that are relevant to Iberoamerica. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA International Bibliography, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, and International Bibliography of Book Reviews. External links Philology journals Chilean literature Austral University of Chile academic journals Publications established in 1975 Multilingual journals

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CENPA

Centromere protein A, also known as CENPA, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the CENPA gene. CENPA is a histone H3 variant which is the critical factor determining the kinetochore position(s) on each chromosome in most eukaryotes including humans. Function CENPA is a protein which epigenetically defines the position of the centromere on each chromosome, determining the position of kinetochore assembly and the final site of sister chromatid cohesion during mitosis. The CENPA protein is a histone H3 variant which replaces one or both canonical H3 histones in a subset of nucleosomes within centromeric chromatin. CENPA has the greatest sequence divergence of the histone H3 variants, with just 48% similarity to canonical histone H3, and has a highly diverged N-terminal tail that lacks many well characterised histone modification sites including H3K4, H3K9 and H3K27. Unusually for a histone, CENPA nucleosomes are not loaded together with DNA replication and are loaded at different cell cycle stages in different organisms: G1 phase in human, M phase in drosophila, G2 in S. pombe. To orchestrate this specialised loading there are CENPA-specific histone chaperones: HJURP in human, CAL1 in drosophila and Scm3 in S. pombe. In most eukaryotes CENPA is loaded into large domains of highly repetitive satellite DNA. The position of CENPA within satellite DNA are heritable at the protein level through a purely epigenetic mechanism. This means that the position of CENPA protein binding to the genome is copied upon cell division to the two daughter cells independent of the underlying DNA sequence. Under circumstances in which CENPA is lost from a chromosome a fail-safe mechanism has been described in human cells in which CENPB recruits CENPA via a satellite DNA binding domain to repopulate the centromere with CENPA nucleosomes. CENPA interacts directly with the inner kinetochore through proteins including CENPC and CENPN. Through this interaction the microtubules are able to accurately segregate chromosomes during mitosis. References External links Further reading

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Tease

Tease may refer to: Teasing Tease (EP) by Piano Overlord Tease (TV series), a U.S. TV series presented by Lisa Rinna Tease (band), an American R&B band from Los Angeles formed in 1979. See also Teaser (disambiguation) Teaser (gambling)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crevice%20Cave

Crevice Cave

Crevice Cave is a cave located in Perry County in the state of Missouri. It is the longest cave in Missouri and one of the longest caves in the United States. Geology Speleothems in the cave have been used to determine climate changes in the period stretching from 25,000 to 75,000 years ago, as well as to document periods of cave flooding during the Holocene epoch. Length It is the longest cave in Missouri and the 8th or 11th longest cave in the United States. In 1984 the cave was measured to be 28.20 miles (over 48,000 meters or 45.37 kilometers) long. The Missouri Speleological Survey suggests the cave is more than 31.2 miles long. References Caves of Missouri Geography of Perry County, Missouri

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Mayersville, Mississippi

Mayersville is a town on the east bank of the Mississippi River, and the county seat for Issaquena County, Mississippi, United States. It is located in the Mississippi Delta region, known for cotton cultivation in the antebellum era. Once the trading center for the county, the town was superseded when railroads were built into the area. The population of the majority-black town was 547 at the 2010 census, down from 795 at the 2000 census. History Native Americans had lived in this area since prehistoric times. The Mayersville Archeological Site, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, is on privately owned land. It contains the remains of earthwork mounds constructed primarily in the Mayersville phase ( 1200–1400) of the earlier Mississippian culture. A 1950 survey by Philip Phillips of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology reported eleven ancient mounds. By the time the site was nominated by the state to the National Register of Historic Places, two mounds had been completely destroyed, a third one was nearly gone, three were reduced in size by plowing, and five remained nearly as described. Three mounds had enclosed a large plaza measuring roughly . The fourth side was bounded by three mounds. Among these was Mound I, which was found to have been re-occupied from 1400 to 1600, perhaps by the succeeding Choctaw people. A European-American family cemetery associated with a 19th-century plantation was developed on Mound A. The first record of non-Native settlement was in 1830, when European-American Ambrose Gipson purchased a large body of land along the Mississippi River and founded "Gipson's Landing". This soon became the port on the river for shipping out the cotton of Issaquena and Sharkey counties. It attracted shifting populations of river crews, gamblers, and traders, as well as show boats during low water times. The shipping records for David Mayer, who owned nearby Mout Level Plantation, show that river freight was shipped from the port via steamboat to points in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Mississippi. Mayer purchased Gipson's Landing in 1870, and the town of Mayersville was founded in 1871. The town was established in 1872 by the legislature as the Issaquena County seat. In January 1885, black saloon keeper Ebenzer Fowler was rumored to have sent an insulting letter to a white woman in the town. An armed white posse confronted Fowler on the main street just before dark on January 30, 1885. They claimed that Fowler grabbed a gun from a posse member and fired a shot at them; they returned fire and shot him dead. Tension between the town's blacks, a majority of the population, and whites flared following the shooting. The county sheriff called in 22 members of Vicksburg's militia, the "Volunteer Southrons", for assistance. The militia left the following day when tensions had eased. Mayersville's popularity as a shipping port began to decline in the mid-1800s when it had to compete with the railways being built across the South, though no railway was built to the town. The construction of a levee following the hugely destructive flood of 1927 cut off direct river access for the town, causing further decline. In the 21st century, Bunge North America operates a large grain port in Millers Landing north of town. In 1958, the current county courthouse in Mayersville was built. With federal legislation in the mid-1960s, African Americans regained the ability to register and vote. In 1976, famed civil rights activist Unita Blackwell was elected mayor of Mayersville and the first female African-American mayor in Mississippi. Mayersville's small population and quiet character are in sharp contrast to its years as a booming Mississippi River port. Geography Mayersville is in northern Issaquena County, just east of the Mississippi River, from which it is separated by a levee. Mississippi Highway 1 passes through the town, leading north to Greenville and south to U.S. Route 61 at Onward. Vicksburg is south of Mayersville via Highways 1 and 61. Mississippi Highway 14 has its western terminus in Mayersville and runs out of town to the northeast with Highway 1. Highway 14 leads east to US-61 at Rolling Fork. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Mayersville has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 433 people, 155 households, and 66 families residing in the town. 2013 ACS As of the 2013 American Community Survey, there were 652 people living in the town, a decline since 2000. The remaining population is increasingly African American. 90.2% were African American, 9.7% White and 0.2% from some other race. 0.2% were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 795 people, 190 households, and 126 families living in the town. The population density was 710.7 people per square mile (274.1/km2). There were 212 housing units at an average density of 189.5 per square mile (73.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 88.05% Black or African American, 11.95% White, and 0.13% Hispanic or Latino. There were 190 households, out of which 40.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.3% were married couples living together, 31.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.2% were non-families. 31.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.80 and the average family size was 3.53. In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.4% under the age of 18, 16.0% from 18 to 24, 36.9% from 25 to 44, 13.7% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females, there were 165.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 228.7 males. The median income for a household in the town was $10,962, and the median income for a family was $15,208. Males had a median income of $20,917 versus $15,875 for females. The per capita income for the town was $7,287. About 41.6% of families and 49.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 62.6% of those under age 18 and 51.4% of those age 65 or over. Education The town of Mayersville is served by the South Delta School District. Notable people Unita Blackwell, civil rights leader and mayor of Mayersville from 1976-2001; first female African-American mayor in Mississippi. Hazlewood Power Farish, Mississippi state senator from 1908 to 1912 William Stamps Farish II, president of Standard Oil. Anthony Harris, professional football defensive tackle Elza Jeffords, U.S. Representative from Mississippi's 3rd congressional district from 1883 to 1885 Willis Elbert Mollison (1859-1924), attorney and first African-American district attorney in Mississippi; migrated to Chicago between 1910 and 1920, where he continued to work at law. Henry Sterling Sias, Sr. - Farmer and educator, devout civil rights activist. Began one of the first famed Freedom Schools after four of his children were expelled from school for wearing SNCC pins and refusing to take them off. He housed and facilitated civil rights notables, such as Stokley Carmichael, Marion Wright, Robert Wright, Ivanhoe Donelson, Charles Cobb, Willie Rollins and Louis Grant. He attended the Democratic Freedom Party Convention in Atlantic City with Fannie Lou Hamer. References Towns in Issaquena County, Mississippi Mississippi populated places on the Mississippi River Towns in Mississippi County seats in Mississippi 1830 establishments in Mississippi

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Vice (2018 film)

Vice is a 2018 American biographical political satire black comedy-drama film directed, written, and co-produced by Adam McKay and starring Christian Bale as former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, with Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Justin Kirk, Tyler Perry, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe, and Jesse Plemons in supporting roles. The film follows Cheney on his path to becoming the most powerful vice president in American history. It is the second theatrical film to depict the presidency of George W. Bush, following Oliver Stone's W. (2008). Vice was released in the United States on December 25, 2018, by Annapurna Pictures, and grossed $76 million worldwide. While the performances were universally acclaimed, the film polarized critics; some considered it to be one of the best films of the year while others thought it to be one of the worst, with McKay's screenplay and direction receiving both "scathing critiques and celebratory praise". The film received numerous accolades, with eight nominations at the Oscars, including for Best Picture, winning Best Make-Up and Hairstyling. It also received six nominations each from the Golden Globes (including for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy) and the BAFTAs. For their performances, Bale, Adams, and Rockwell were nominated at all three shows, with Bale winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Plot Vice is narrated by Kurt, a fictitious veteran of the Afghan and Iraqi wars. In 1963, Dick Cheney works as a lineman in Wyoming after his alcoholism led him to drop out of Yale University. After Cheney is stopped by a traffic cop for driving while intoxicated, his wife Lynne Cheney tells him to clean up his life or she'll leave him. In 1969, Cheney finds work as a White House intern during the Nixon Administration. Working under Nixon's economic adviser, Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney becomes a savvy political operative as he juggles commitments to his wife and their daughters, Liz and Mary. Cheney overhears Henry Kissinger discussing the secret bombing of Cambodia with President Richard Nixon, revealing the true power of the executive branch to Cheney. Rumsfeld's abrasive attitude leads to him and Cheney being distanced from Nixon, which works in both men's favor; after Nixon's resignation, Cheney rises to the position of White House Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford while Rumsfeld becomes Secretary of Defense. The media later dubs the sudden shake-up in the cabinet as the Halloween Massacre. During his tenure, a young Antonin Scalia introduces Cheney to the unitary executive theory. After Ford loses the election, Cheney runs to be representative for Wyoming. After giving an awkward and uncharismatic campaign speech, Cheney suffers his first heart attack. While he recovers, Lynne campaigns on her husband's behalf, helping him to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. During the Reagan Administration, Cheney supports a raft of conservative, pro-business policies favoring the fossil fuel industries, as well as the abolishment of the FCC fairness doctrine, which led to the rise of Fox News, conservative talk radio, and the increasing level of party polarization in the United States. Cheney next serves as Secretary of Defense under President George H. W. Bush during the Gulf War. Outside of politics, Cheney and Lynne come to terms with their younger daughter, Mary, coming out as a lesbian. Though Cheney develops ambitions to run for president, he decides to retire from public life to spare Mary from media scrutiny. Cheney becomes the CEO of Halliburton while his wife breeds golden retrievers and writes books. A false epilogue claims that Cheney lived the rest of his life healthy and happy in the private sector and credits begin rolling, only for them to end abruptly as the film continues. Cheney is invited to become the running mate of George W. Bush in the 2000 United States presidential election. Under the impression that Bush is more interested in pleasing his father than attaining power for himself, Cheney agrees on the condition that Bush delegates executive responsibilities to him and avoids getting him involved in the Republican Party's stance against gay rights. As vice president, Cheney works with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, legal counsel David Addington, Mary Matalin, and Chief of Staff Scooter Libby to exercise control of key foreign policy and defense decisions. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Cheney and Rumsfeld maneuvered to initiate and preside over the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Various other events from his vice presidency are depicted, including his endorsement of the unitary executive theory, the Plame affair, the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington, and tensions between the Cheney sisters over same-sex marriage. Cheney's actions are shown to lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq, resulting in him receiving record-low approval ratings by the end of the Bush administration. While narrating Cheney's tearful deathbed goodbye to his family after another hospitalization, Kurt dies in a road traffic incident while jogging. In March 2012, his healthy heart is transplanted into Cheney. A few months later, Cheney accepts his daughter Liz's opposition to same-sex marriage, which she expresses when she runs for a Senate seat in Wyoming; this upsets Mary. Liz later wins election to her father's former Congressional position. At the end of the film, an irate Cheney breaks the fourth wall and delivers a monologue to the audience, asking them "which terror attack would you allow to go unchecked so you don't look like a mean and nasty fella", admits he's not perfect, states that he has no regrets about anything he has done in his career and concludes by thanking the audience for giving him the powers to transform the vice-presidency. In a mid-credit scene, a focus group depicted earlier in the movie gets into another argument about the efficacy of the film and the Presidency of Donald Trump, whereas some members of the group are uninterested and would rather do something other than politics. Cast Main characters Supporting characters Production On November 22, 2016, it was announced that Paramount Pictures had come on board to handle the rights to a drama about Dick Cheney; the screenplay was to be written by Adam McKay, who would also direct. The film was produced by Plan B producers Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, along with McKay and his Gary Sanchez partners Will Ferrell and Kevin Messick. Bale signed on to play Cheney in April 2017, and gained 40 pounds (18 kg) for the role. On August 22, Bill Pullman was cast as Nelson Rockefeller (though did not appear in the finished film), and a title, Backseat, was announced. It was later changed to Vice. On August 31, Sam Rockwell was cast as George W. Bush. In September 2017, Adam Bartley joined the cast. Principal production commenced in late September 2017. Tyler Perry and Lily Rabe joined the film in October as Colin Powell and Liz Cheney, respectively. Music Release The film premiered at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on December 11, 2018. Vice was released in both Canada and the United States on December 25, 2018 alongside Holmes & Watson. It was previously scheduled for release on December 14, 2018. The film opened in the U.K. on January 25, 2019, with most of Europe and Hong Kong following with February 2019 release dates. Vice was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on April 2, 2019. Reception Box office Vice grossed $47.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $28.2 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $76.1 million, against a production budget of $60 million. In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Holmes & Watson on Christmas Day and was projected to gross around $13 million from 2,378 theaters over its first six days. It made $4.8 million on its first day and $2.9 million on its second. The film went on to have a first weekend gross of $7.8 million, for a six-day total of $17.7 million. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film performed its "best on both coasts, versus America's heartland, although some theaters in markets including Dallas, Houston and Phoenix turned in respectable business". It then made $5.8 million in its second weekend and $3.3 million in its third. Critical response On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critical consensus reads: "Vice takes scattershot aim at its targets, but writer-director Adam McKay hits some satisfying bullseyes—and Christian Bale's transformation is a sight to behold." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score 61 out of 100, based on 54 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an overall positive score of 72% and a 49% "definite recommend". The critical response to Vice made it one of the worst-reviewed films to ever be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter, who named the film his favorite of 2018, wrote: "Across the board in Vice, everyone has risen to the occasion of their individual challenges, none of them easy, to collectively pull off a political satire that both provokes great laughs and hits home with some tragic truths". Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the film a "B−" and called it "messy but ambitious", writing: "Vice, in its rambunctious and unfocused manner, takes some ludicrous risks to make cogent points about Cheney's malicious intent—and how he put his plans into action". By contrast, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian awarded the film 4/5 stars, and wrote that Bale "captur[es] the former vice-president's bland magnificence in Adam McKay's entertainingly nihilist biopic". Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers praised the film, giving it a 4/5 rating and writing: "Adam McKay's flamethrowing take on Dick Cheney, played by a shockingly brilliant Christian Bale, polarizes by being ferociously funny one minute, bleakly sorrowful the next, and ready to indict the past in the name of our scarily uncertain future." Stephanie Zacharek of Time gave the film a negative review, describing Vice as an "exhausting film that turns Dick Cheney into a cartoon villain". Ikon London Magazine, while praising the make-up artistry of Greg Cannom, noted that "the story reminds of a witch hunt". Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post praised Bale's performance as Cheney but criticized the story pacing, awarding the film 2/5 stars. Hornaday had issues with the film's structure, writing that the film is "a mess, zigging here and zagging there, never knowing quite when to end, and when it finally does, leaving few penetrating or genuinely illuminating ideas to ponder". Similarly, Scott Mendelson of Forbes praised Bale's and Amy Adams's performances, but criticized the film as a "cinematic mediocrity". Historical inaccuracies Numerous scenes from the film were identified as being historically inaccurate, heavily dramatized, or presented without necessary context. Politifact stated that in certain scenes, "the line between historic facts and poetic interpretation gets fuzzy". In an early scene where Rumsfeld (played by Steve Carell) is introduced, it was stated that he was an elite Navy jet pilot. In reality, Rumsfeld never flew jet-engine aircraft during active-duty service within the United States Navy; he only flew propeller-engine aircraft such as the Grumman S-2F Tracker and North American T-6 Texan. During the early scene when Cheney first arrives for his congressional internship program in 1969, it is depicted that Cheney still has not yet decided whom he will work for and decides to work with Illinois's 13th district Congressman, Donald Rumsfeld following Cheney listening to and admiring Rumsfeld's speech. In real-life, Dick Cheney, who had been affiliated with the Republican Party and Conservatism prior to his government service work, was actually introduced to Donald Rumsfeld by Rumsfeld's colleague in the House of Representatives, Congressman William A. Steiger from 6th district of Wisconsin, to work under Rumsfeld when he was appointed by President Richard Nixon as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and needed more staff to work with. During Rumsfeld's tenure as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Rumsfeld also brings along his old protégé from Rumsfeld's time at Princeton University, Frank Carlucci to work along with Dick Cheney to assist Rumsfeld with tasks as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Carlucci later-on succeeded Rumsfeld as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity when Rumsfeld was appointed as Counselor to the President by President Nixon and coincidentally both Rumsfeld, Cheney and Carlucci would later-on serve as United States Secretary of Defense. An important scene in the film that depicts Dick Cheney conversing with Antonin Scalia in the mid-1970s about expanding the power of the executive branch is totally fictional. However, Cheney campaigned for increased presidential authority. In the scene, the "theory of the unitary executive" is mentioned although the phrase did not become used by legal scholars until the late 1980s. Politifact says that the film also "butchers" the meaning of the unitary executive when in reality, the theory says the president has ultimate control over the executive branch. However, the film represents the theory as advocating for the president to have unlimited powers. The film implies that Lynne Cheney's father murdered her mother; however, there is no evidence provided for this assertion. Officially, Lynne Cheney's mother Edna drowned on the evening of May 24, 1973 at the age of 54. She was walking her dogs near Yesness Pond and slipped and fell in. She did not know how to swim and her body was found after her husband reported her missing. Both the sheriff and coroner stated that there was no evidence to indicate foul play and her drowning was ruled accidental. Edna had been taking blood pressure medicine that often made her dizzy, her daughter Lynne Cheney theorized that she lost her balance when chasing after her dogs. Lynne Cheney never implied that her father could have killed her mother. Instead, she stated that her father was so devastated after the death of his wife that he drank himself to death two years later. The implication made by the film was described by the "HistoryVSHollywood" website as a conspiracy theory. Responses from Cheney family Dick Cheney's daughter and Congresswoman Liz Cheney criticized Christian Bale for his portrayal of her father in Vice, remarking during a Fox & Friends interview that "he finally had the chance to play a real superhero, and he clearly screwed it up". Liz also responded negatively to Bale's acceptance speech for winning the Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Golden Globe for his portrayal of Cheney, in which the actor thanked Satan for inspiring him to play the role of Cheney. Accolades Vice has received multiple awards and nominations, and was nominated for six Golden Globe Awards at the 76th annual ceremony, the most nominations of any film, with Bale winning for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The film was subsequently nominated for eight awards at the 91st Academy Awards (winning Best Make-Up and Hairstyling), nine awards at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards (winning Best Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy for Bale), six awards at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards (winning Best Editing), and 4 nominations at the 8th AACTA International Awards. References External links 2018 films 2010s biographical films 2018 black comedy films 2018 comedy-drama films 2018 LGBT-related films 2010s satirical films American biographical films American black comedy films American comedy-drama films American political drama films American LGBT-related films American nonlinear narrative films American satirical films Annapurna Pictures films BAFTA winners (films) Comedy-drama films based on actual events Cultural depictions of George H. W. Bush Cultural depictions of George W. Bush Cultural depictions of Gerald Ford Cultural depictions of Henry Kissinger Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon Cultural depictions of Osama bin Laden Cultural depictions of Dick Cheney Films about George W. 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Vegard Vigerust

Vegard Vigerust (18 November 1925 – 27 May 2020) was a Norwegian novelist and poet. He was born in Dovre. He made his literary debut in 1954 with the satirical novel Stålstuten. Further books include the novels Guten som ville kjøpe Norsk rikskringkasting from 1957, Sæval (1966), and Mikla (1970), and the poetry collections Istid from 1972, Jord (1975), Skimt (1978), and Strender (1982). His novel Stålstuten was basis for a play which was staged at Det Norske Teatret. He contributed with lyrics to the albums Syng Dovre (1998) and Troillspel (2001) by the band . In his treatment of Norwegian literature after World War II, Øystein Rottem mentions Vigerust along with other satirical and critical writers from the 1950s, such as Ragnar Kvam, , and Odd Winger. Vigerust died in Asker on 27 May 2020, at the age of 94. References 1925 births 2020 deaths People from Dovre 20th-century Norwegian novelists 20th-century Norwegian poets Norwegian male novelists Norwegian male poets Norwegian dramatists and playwrights

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Kurt Haertel

Kurt Haertel (26 September 1910, Berlin – 30 March 2000, Seefeld am Ammersee) was a German patent lawyer. He played a leading role in the establishment of the European patent system. He is sometimes referred to as one of the "fathers of the European patent law", or the "father of European patent law". He was President of the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (German Patent and Trade Mark Office) from 1963 to 1975. In October 1977, he was elected Honorary Chairman of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation. Since 2003, a street in Munich, Germany, is named after him, the "Kurt-Haertel-Passage". This is the connecting path from the Grasserstraße to the Bayerstraße near the buildings of the European Patent Office. Publications Die Rückgliederung des Saarlandes auf dem Gebiet des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes, des Wettbewerbsrechts und des Urheberrechts, GRUR 1957, 98 (with Albrecht Krieger) The New European Patent System, Its Present Situation and Significance, (Dec. 1978) I.I.C., Vol. 19, No.6 See also Romuald Singer Dieter Stauder Johannes Bob van Benthem References External links Kurt-Haertel-Institut für geistiges Eigentum an der FernUniversität in Hagen (English: Kurt Haertel Institute of Hagen University) IP Hall of Fame, . Archived on archive.org. 1910 births 2000 deaths 20th-century German lawyers Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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Zelenoborsk

Zelenoborsk () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Sovetsky District of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Population: References Urban-type settlements in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

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Daniel Sanchez (Peruvian footballer)

Daniel Alonso Sánchez Albújar (born 2 May 1990 in Lima) is a Peruvian footballer who plays for Comerciantes Unidos. Club career In 2007 Sanchez, were called along with 8 other U-20 players to the first team of Sporting Cristal. After his participation in the U17 WC, Sanchez started gaining caps in the first team of Sporting Cristal. Sanchez made his debut right after the WC ended for Peru and he became in 2008 a regular member of the starting line-up of the team. Sanchez, who wears the 23 jersey, has a brilliant future, and has contributed a lot to his team. "Dani" is still young, but has scored many excellent goals in the 2008 season. One of the best ones so far, is the one he scored against Universitario de Deportes when Sporting Cristal beat 2-1 la U in Monumental Stadium. Sanchez will continue in Sporting Cristal, but it seems like he will soon emigrate to Europe. On June 9, 2011 it was announced that Daniel transferred to Peruvian team C.D. Universidad César Vallejo. International career He was also part of the Peru U-17 team that reached the quarterfinal stage at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup played in South Korea. Now Sanchez is a player that could end up later in Europe and it's about to represent Peru in the next U20 South American Championship. References External links 1990 births Living people Footballers from Lima Peruvian footballers Association football midfielders Sporting Cristal footballers Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo footballers Ayacucho FC footballers Serrato Pacasmayo players León de Huánuco footballers Sport Loreto players Coronel Bolognesi footballers Sport Victoria players Comerciantes Unidos footballers Peruvian Primera División players

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Wastella, Texas

Wastella is a ghost town in northwest Nolan County, Texas, United States. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 84 and Farm to Market Road 1982, about northwest of Roscoe. It lies within the physiographic region known as the Rolling Plains to the southeast of the high plains of the Llano Estacado. History Wastella was platted 8 miles northwest of Roscoe on land provided by Will Neeley when the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway was constructed in 1908. Neely named the town site for his eldest daughter, Wastella. Wastella grew slowly and was never very large, but at one time it had a few stores, a hotel, a school, and a post office that opened in 1907. Despite its key location along the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway, Wastella suffered from its close proximity to more significant towns such as Snyder, Roscoe, and Hermleigh. The post office closed in the early 1930s. In 1980 and 1990, the population was 13, and the population dropped to only four in 2000. See also Clear Fork Brazos River Brazos Wind Ranch Roscoe Wind Farm List of ghost towns in Texas References External links Public domain photos of the Llano Estacado Ghost towns in Texas Unincorporated communities in Nolan County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas

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Guha (film)

Guha is a 1981 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by M. R. Jose and produced by P. H. Rasheed. The film stars Shankar, Ambika, Jagathy Sreekumar, Mini and Mancheri Chandran. The film has musical score by Shankar–Ganesh. Cast Shankar as Das Ambika as Devu Vincent as Dr. Prasad Jagathy Sreekumar Mini as Anitha Mancheri Chandran Menaka as Suvarna Vijayan as Prabhu Bahadoor as Chandrasekhara Kaimal K. S. N. Raj Pournami Sairabhanu Vanitha Krishnachandran as Kamala Soundtrack The music was composed by Shankar–Ganesh and the lyrics were written by Mankombu Gopalakrishnan. References External links 1981 films 1980s Malayalam-language films Films scored by Shankar–Ganesh

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Brussels International (1910)

The Brussels International Exposition (, ) of 1910 was a world's fair held in Brussels, Belgium, from 23 April to 1 November 1910. This was just thirteen years after Brussels' previous world's fair. It received 13 million visitors, covered and lost 100,000 Belgian Francs. Location The grounds and buildings were partly located around the Solbosch district (in the City of Brussels' southern extension), and partly in the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark (a remainder of the 1897 World's Fair), where the fine art's exhibition took place. The colonial exhibition was hosted in the newly built , today's Royal Museum for Central Africa, in the suburb of Tervuren. Another major site for the exhibition was the Mont des Arts/Kunstberg in central Brussels, although this site was largely demolished during the post-war construction process of Brusselisation. Country participation There were 26 participating countries: Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany (whose Attaché des Reichskommissars was Heinrich Albert), Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Persia, Peru, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States and Uruguay. The Dutch and German pavilions displayed the decorative arts and architecture of their home country. The Italian pavilion illustrated the Italian Renaissance. The Belgian pavilion was represented through the cities of Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp and Liège. Exhibits The exhibition was dedicated to science, the arts, industry and trade. The fine art's section included modern art loaned by the French including three works each by Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin and Auguste Renoir, as well as two works by Henri Matisse. Painters who participated included the Belgian Aloïs Boudry who won a silver medal, and the French Adrien Karbowsky. During the exhibition, the altarpiece of St. John Berchman's Church was presented. The Belgian engineer also exhibited his new Type 10 pacific locomotive. Fire There was a big fire on 14 and 15 August which gutted several pavilions in the Solbosch part of the exhibition. Part of the Belgian and French sections were destroyed, but the worst hit was the English section. After the fire, some destroyed parts were rebuilt at a rapid pace. This event attracted the attention of the public and the organisers were able to successfully use it for the promotion of the exhibition. Legacy The Hotel Astoria was built for the fair, at 101–103, rue Royale/Koningsstraat, and is now a protected monument by the Monuments and Sites Directorate of the Brussels-Capital Region. See also Human zoo Brussels International Exposition (1935) Expo 58 References Notes Further reading M. Dumoulin, L'entrée dans le XXè siècle (in French), Brussels, Le Cri édition, 2010. M. Dumoulin, 1900-1913 La fin d’une époque (in French), in Les grands événements du xxe siècle en Belgique, Brussels, NV Reader's Digest, 1987. S. Jaumain et W. Balcers (dir.), Bruxelles 1910 : de l'Exposition Universelle à l'Université (in French), Brussels, Racine, 2010. Anonymous, Livre d’Or Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles 1910 (in French), EM. Rossel, 1910. Anonymous, Guide pratique : Bruxelles et les Faubourgs et l’Exposition Universelle 1910 (in French), Brussels, A. De Boeck, 1910. Y. Manhes, Histoire des Belges et de la Belgique (in French), Paris, Vuilbert, 2005. External links Official website of the BIE Exposition Universelle de Bruxelles 1910 - hundreds of postcards and pictures 1910 Brussels (BIE World Expo) - approximately 75 links World's fairs in Brussels 1910 in Belgium Colonial exhibitions 1910s in Brussels

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Sobarocephala flaviseta

Sobarocephala flaviseta is a species of fly in the family Clusiidae. References External links Clusiidae Articles created by Qbugbot Insects described in 1913

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Primary texts of Kabbalah

The primary texts of Kabbalah were allegedly once part of an ongoing oral tradition. The written texts are obscure and difficult for readers who are unfamiliar with Jewish spirituality which assumes extensive knowledge of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Midrash (Jewish hermeneutic tradition) and halakha (Jewish religious law). The Torah For kabbalists, ten utterances in Genesis with which God created the world are linked to the ten sefirot—the divine structure of all being. According to the Zohar and the Sefer ha-Yihud, the Torah is synonymous with God. More specifically, in the Sefer ha-Yihud, the letters in the Torah are the forms of God. The kabbalist looks beyond the literal aspects of the text, to find the hidden mystical meaning. The text not only offers traditions and ways of thinking, but it also reveals the reality of God. One of the first Jewish philosophers, Philo of Alexandria (20BCE-40), said that Abraham knew the essential Torah, before it was given, because Abraham was himself a philosopher: he observed the world around him and looked inside himself to discover the laws of nature. While this is not strictly speaking a mystical notion, it does introduce the idea of an inner Torah that underlies the written word. Much later, in the 19th century, the Sfas Emes, a Hasidic rebbe, made the assertion that it was actually Abraham's deeds that became Torah. The Torah is thus seen as an ongoing story played out through the lives of the Nation of Israel. The Torah is an important text because even the most minor traditions of the Kabbalah will acknowledge its aspects of the divine. Textual antiquity Jewish forms of esotericism existed over 2,000 years ago. Ben Sira warns against it, saying: "You shall have no business with secret things". Nonetheless, mystical studies were undertaken and resulted in mystical literature. The first to appear within Judaism was the Apocalyptic literature of the second and first pre-Christian centuries and which contained elements that carried over to later Kabbalah. According to Josephus, such writings were in the possession of the Essenes and were jealously guarded by them against disclosure, for which they claimed a certain antiquity (see Philo, De Vita Contemplativa, iii., and Hippolytus, Refutation of all Heresies, ix. 27). That books containing secret lore were kept hidden away by (or for) the "enlightened" is stated in 2 Esdras xiv. 45-46, where Pseudo-Ezra is told to publish the twenty-four books of the canon openly that the worthy and the unworthy may alike read, but to keep the seventy other books hidden in order to "deliver them only to such as be wise" (compare Dan. xii. 10); for in them are the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge. Instructive for the study of the development of Jewish mysticism is the Book of Jubilees written around the time of King John Hyrcanus. It refers to mysterious writings of Jared, Cain, and Noah, and presents Abraham as the renewer, and Levi as the permanent guardian, of these ancient writings. It offers a cosmogony based upon the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and connected with Jewish chronology and Messianology, while at the same time insisting upon the heptad (7) as the holy number, rather than upon the decadic (10) system adopted by the later haggadists and observable in the Sefer Yetzirah. The Pythagorean idea of the creative powers of numbers and letters was shared with Sefer Yetzirah and was known in the time of the Mishnah before 200 CE. Early elements of Jewish mysticism can be found in the non-Biblical texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, such as the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice. Some parts of the Talmud and the Midrash also focus on the esoteric and mystical, particularly Hagigah 12b-14b. Many esoteric texts, among them Hekalot Rabbati, Sefer HaBahir, Torat Hakana, Sefer P'liyah, Midrash Otiyot d'Rabbi Akiva, the Bahir, and the Zohar claim to be from the Talmudic era, though some of these works, most notably the Bahir and Zohar, are considered by some modern scholars to clearly be medieval works pseudepigraphically ascribed to the ancient past. Traditional orthodoxy, however, does not agree to this. In the medieval era Jewish mysticism developed under the influence of the word-number esoteric text Sefer Yetzirah. Jewish sources attribute the book to the patriarch Abraham, though the text itself offers no claim as to authorship. This book, and especially its embryonic concept of the Sefirot, became the object of systematic study of several mystical brotherhoods which eventually came to be called baale ha-kabbalah (בעלי הקבלה "possessors or masters of the Kabbalah"). Primary texts Hekhalot literature Hekhalot literature (Hekhalot, "Palaces") are not a single text. Rather, they are a genre of writings with shared characteristics. These texts primarily focus either on how to achieve a heavenly ascent through the Hekhalot and what to expect there, or on drawing down angelic spirits to interact and help the adept. There are several larger documents of the hekhalot, such as Hekhalot Rabbati, in which six of the seven palaces of God are described, Hekhalot Zutarti, Shi'ur Qomah and sixth-century 3 Enoch, as well as hundreds of small documents, many little more than fragments. Sefer Yetzirah Sefer Yetzira (סֵפֶר יְצִירָה) ("Book [of] Formation/Creation"), also known as Hilkhot Yetzira ("Laws of Formation"), is a primary source of Kabbalistic teaching. The first commentaries on this small book were written in the 10th century, perhaps the text itself is quoted as early as the 6th century, and perhaps its linguistic organization of the Hebrew alphabet could be from as early as the 2nd century. Its historical origins remain obscure, although many believe that it was authored by Abraham and edited by Rabbi Akiva. It exists today in a number of editions, up to 2,500 words long (about the size of a pamphlet). It organizes the cosmos into "32 Paths of Wisdom", comprising "10 Sefirot" (3 elements – air, water and fire – plus 6 directions and center) and "22 letters" of the Hebrew alphabet (3 mother letters, 7 double letters plus 12 simple letters). It uses this structure to organize cosmic phenomena ranging from the seasons of the calendar to the emotions of the intellect, and is essentially an index of cosmic correspondences. Bahir Bahir (בהיר) ("Illumination"), also known as Midrash of Rabbi Nehunya ben Ha-Kana - a book of special interest to students of Kabbalah because it serves as a kind of epitome that surveys the essential concepts of the subsequent literature of Kabbalah. It is about 12,000 words (about the size of a magazine). Despite its name "Illumination", it is notoriously cryptic and difficult to understand (but not impossible). Much of it is written in parables, one after the other. The Bahir opens with a quote attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben Ha-Kana, a Talmudic sage of the 1st century, and the rest of the book is an unfolding discussion about the quote. Jewish tradition considers the whole book to be written in the spirit of Rabbi Nehunya (or even literally written by him). It was first published in Provence France (near Italy) in 1176. Historians suspect Rabbi Yitzhak Ha-Ivver (Isaac the Blind) wrote the book at this time, albeit he incorporated oral traditions from a much earlier time about the Tanakh, Talmud, Siddur, Yetzira, and other Rabbinic texts. Sefer Raziel HaMalakh Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (רזיאל המלאך) (Book of Raziel the Angel) is a collection of esoteric writings, probably compiled and edited by the same hand, but originally not the work of one author. Leopold Zunz ("G. V." 2d ed., p. 176) distinguishes three main parts: (1) the Book Ha-Malbush; (2) the Great Raziel; (3) the Book of Secrets, or the Book of Noah. These three parts are still distinguishable—2b–7a, 7b–33b, 34a and b. After these follow two shorter parts entitled "Creation" and "Shi'ur Ḳomah," and after 41a come formulas for amulets and incantations. Sefer ha-ḥesheq Sefer ha-ḥesheq ( "Book of Delight"), a kabbalistic treatise dealing with the Divine names and their efficacy in mystical practices. Passed down by Abraham Abulafia, the information distinguishes between the various methods of kabbalistic transmission to later generations. Abulafia opposes the method he received to the Talmudic and theosophical Sefirotic methods. Zohar Zohar (זהר) ("Splendor") – the most important text of Kabbalah, at times achieving even canonical status as part of Oral Torah. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah, written in an artificial mixture of several Aramaic dialects, like the Babylonian Targumic Aramaic of Targum Onkelos, Babylonian Talmudic Aramaic, and Jewish Palestinian Aramaic. Gershom Scholem argued that Moses de León (1240-1305) was the sole author of the Zohar. More recently, Yehuda Liebes contended that while De León may have been the primary author, he incorporated or recast selections from contemporary kabbalists (e.g. Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla, Rabbi Joseph of Hamadan, Rabbi Bahya ben Asher). Most recently, Kabbalah scholars such as Ronit Meroz, Daniel Abrams and Boaz Huss have been demonstrating that the materials within the Zohar underwent several generations of writing, re-writing and redaction. De León claimed to discover the text of the Zohar while in the land of Israel and attributed it to the 2nd-century Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai, who is the main character of the text. The text gained enormous popularity throughout the Jewish world. Though the book was widely accepted, a small number of significant rabbis over the subsequent centuries published texts declaring Rabbi Moshe invented it as a forgery with concepts contrary to Judaism. However, many of these Rabbis were not Kabbalists themselves. This was a major point of contention made by a community among the Jews of Yemen, known as Dor Daim, a religious intellectual movement that called for a return to a more Talmudic based Judaism. Other communities in Italy and the Andalusian (Spanish Portuguese) lands also questioned the content and authenticity of the Zohar. While organized into commentaries on sections of the Torah, the Zohar elaborates on the Talmud, Midrash Rabba, Sefer Yetzira, the Bahir, and many other Rabbinic texts. To some degree, the Zohar simply is Kabbalah. Pardes Rimonim Pardes Rimonim (in Hebrew: פרדס רימונים) (Garden [of] Pomegranates) – the magnum opus of Rabbi Moshe Cordovero (1522–1570), published in the 16th century. It is the main source of Cordoverian Kabbalah, a comprehensive interpretation of the Zohar and a friendly rival of the Lurianic interpretation. Etz Hayim and the Eight Gates Etz Hayim (in Hebrew: עץ חיים) ("Tree [of] Life") is a text of the teachings of Isaac Luria collected by his disciple Chaim Vital. It is the primary interpretation and synthesis of Lurianic Kabbalah. It was first published in Safed in the 16th century. It consists of the primary introduction to the remainder of the Lurianic system. The Shemona She'arim (eight gates): is the full Lurianic system as arranged by Shmuel Vital, the son of Haim Vital. Eitz Hayim is the only work published within Hayim Vital's lifetime, the rest of his writings were buried with him in an unedited form. Supposedly Shmuel Vital had a dream that he was to exhume his father's grave and remove certain writings leaving the others buried. Shmuel Vital went on then to redact and publish the works as the Eight Gates which are then, at times subdivided into other works: Shaar HaHakdamot – Gate of Introduction: Otztrot Haim, Eitz Haim, Arbah Meot Shekel Kesef, Mavoa Shaarim, Adam Yashar Shaar Mamri RaShB"Y – Gate Words of R.Simeon bar Yochai Shaar Mamri RaZ"L – Gate Words of Our Sages Shaar HaMitzvot – Gate of Mitzvot commandments Shaar HaPasukim – Gate of Verses: Likutei Torah, Sepher HaLikutim Shaar HaKavanot – Gate of Kavanot (intentions): Shaar HaKavvanot, Pri Eitz Haim, Olat Tamid Shaar Ruach HaKodesh – Gate of Prophetic Spirit Shaar HaGilgulim – Gate of Gilgul reincarnations Sephardi and Mizrahi Kabbalists endeavor to study all eight gates. Etz Hayim is published standard in a single volume three part arrangement, the initial two parts published by Haim Vital, with a third part, Nahar Shalom by Rabbi Shalom Sharabi, being now considered the third part. Ashkenazi Kabbalists often tend to focus only on Eitz Haim, with explanations of the RaMHaL (Rabbi Moshe Haim Luzzato). However this is not always the case. There are Yeshivot such as Shaar Shmayim that deal with the works of Haim Vital in their entirety. Notes References Dan, Joseph, The Early Jewish Mysticism, Tel Aviv: MOD Books, 1993. __, The 'Unique Cherub' Circle, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1999. Dan, Joseph and Kiener, Ron, The Early Kabbalah, Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1986. Dennis, G., The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism, St. Paul: Llewellyn Worldwide, 2007. Fine, L., ed., Essential Papers in Kabbalah, New York: NYU Press, 1995. Idel, Moshe. Kabbalah: New Perspectives. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. _, Kabbalah: New Perspectives, New Haven: Yale Press, 1988. _, "The Story of Rabbi Joseph della Reina," in Behayahu, M., Studies and Texts on the History of the Jewish Community in Safed. . __, "Defining Kabbalah: The Kabbalah of the Divine Names", in Herrera, R.A., Mystics of the Book, New York, 1993. Kaplan, Aryeh Inner Space: Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy. Moznaim Publishing Corp 1990. __, The Bahir, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Aronson, 1995. () __,The Sefer Yetzirah, the Book of Creation: in Theory and Practice, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1997. () John W. McGinley, 'The Written' as the Vocation of Conceiving Jewishly; Scholem, Gershom, Kabbalah, Jewish Publication Society. Wineberg, Yosef. Lessons in Tanya: The Tanya of R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi (5 volume set). Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, 1998. The Wisdom of The Zohar: An Anthology of Texts, 3 volume set, Ed. Isaiah Tishby, translated from the Hebrew by David Goldstein, The Littman Library. Online bibliographies and study guides Don Karr's Bibliographic Surveys A Guide to English Language Resources for the Student of Traditional Rabbinic Kabbalah Online rabbinic Kabbalah texts Who Should Learn the Hidden Torah? Rambam (pdf)(Maimonides) Guide for the Perplexed English and Aramaic Zohar Online (searchable) – Kabbalah Centre Kabbalah Digital Library (Responsa-like searchable) – Bnei Baruch Seforim/Hebrew books Online Hasidic Kabbalah texts Lessons in Tanya – Chabad The Gate Of Unity Translation & Commentary of The Gate Of Unity

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Memphis Pal Moore

Memphis Pal Moore (born Thomas Wilson Moore) was an American boxer from Memphis, Tennessee, who claimed the World Bantamweight Championship in 1918 defeating championship claimant Johnny Ertle in Baltimore. He was rated as the seventeenth best bantamweight of all time by boxing.com, and was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2010. Managed by Tommy Walsh, Moore fought over 260 fights. He fought over thirty bouts with fifteen world champions, of which he impressively won nineteen. Boxing record Early boxing career Moore was born on July 28, 1894, in Kenton, Tennessee. Beginning in 1913 in the Memphis area, he was undefeated in his first 10 fights. On March 25, 1915, Moore defeated Italian boxer Young Zulu Kid in a ten-round points decision in New Orleans, Louisiana. He would defeat the talented Zulu Kid two more times, on January 13, 1916, in an eight-round points decision in his hometown of Memphis and on August 5, 1916, in a ten-round newspaper decision in Brooklyn. On October 28, 1915, Moore defeated gifted boxer Kid Williams decisively in a non-title, eight-round newspaper decision of The Washington Post. Williams was down twice in the bout. Williams had taken the World Bantamweight Championship in June 1914 and held it through 1917. As early as 1915, Moore had clearly identified himself as a top bantamweight and a serious contender for the World Bantamweight Championship, but he would be granted precious few shots at the title. Defeating future bantamweight champion Pete Herman in early career On November 15, 1915, Moore defeated Pete Herman for the first time in an eight-round points decision in Memphis, Tennessee. On March 24, 1919, Moore likely defeated Herman again according to the eight-round newspaper decision of the Memphis Commercial Appeal on March 24, 1919, at the New Lyric Theatre in Memphis. The bout was not recorded as a title match, but the title may have changed hands if Moore had knocked out Herman. Herman held the World Bantamweight Championship almost continuously from January 1917 through September 1921 excluding the first seven months of 1921. Surprisingly, Moore never had the opportunity to challenge Herman again for the World Bantamweight Title. On February 20, 1917, Moore first met Jack "Kid" Wolfe, losing in a fourth-round technical knockout in Cleveland, Ohio. Moore claimed he had broken his arm in the bout. Four months later, after healing, on June 18 of that year Moore defeated Wolfe in an eight-round points decision in his home of Memphis. On May 3, 1920, Moore would defeat Wolfe again in an eighth round points decision at the Southern Athletic Club in Memphis. In his career, Wolfe would take a version of the Jr. Featherweight Championship in September 1922 against Joe Lynch, thought the NYSAC did not recognize the title. Moore fought Frankie Burns in Boston to a draw on July 24, 1917, and in a loss by decision on August 2, 1918, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Burns was a top-ranked bantamweight and would contend four times for the World Bantamweight Championship between 1912 and 1917. First bouts with Joe Lynch 1917-8 On October 27, 1917, Moore first met Joe Lynch, drawing with him in ten rounds at the Fairmont Athletic Club in the Bronx. On December 21, 1917, he lost to Lynch at Thornton, Rhode Island in a twelve-round points decision. On January 11, 1918, he legitimately defeated Lynch in a twelve-round points decision in Providence. Boxing and serving with the US Navy at Great Lakes Station around WWI He honed his boxing skills while serving as a sailor in the United States Navy. He served as a boxing instructor while in the Navy. He was selected as a boxing representative and sent to England for a tournament of the Allied nations after the end of World War I. He served at the historic Great Lakes Naval Station outside Chicago, and completed his service shortly after 1919. Claiming the World Bantamweight Championship, Johnny Ertle, April 1918 Moore fought Johnny Ertle claimant of the World Bantamweight championship in Baltimore on April 10, 1918, defeating Ertle by decision. The Indianapolis News wrote that Moore had taken the decision with "great ease". Moore claimed the World Bantamweight Championship as a result of this win, but was not universally recognized to have held the title and is not recognized today. Moore had first defeated Ertle in a controversial eight-round decision on April 5, 1916, in Memphis. ISBA Allied Forces King's Trophy Bantamweight Competition Moore fought Jimmy Wilde on July 17, 1919, in London, while still in the Navy. The bout was part of the Finals for the ISBA King's Trophy Bantamweight Competition. Moore won by decision and took the King's Bantamweight Trophy by some American accounts, but officially lost the decision according to the British referee and judges present at the bout. Wilde was the Welsh-born World Flyweight Champion impressively for seven years from 1916-1923, and held the title at the time of his bout with Moore. Match with French champion Eugene Criqui, December 1919 On December 26, 1919, while still serving in the US Navy, Moore defeated the great French boxer Eugene Criqui at the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, London in a fourteenth-round technical knockout. According to the Scranton Republican, Criqui was "severely trounced" and the blow that ended the battle was a right hook to the stomach, which the referee did not call as a low blow. The audience contained a number of Americans, including Moore's fellow navy companions. Criqui would hold the French Featherweight Title in 1921, the European Featherweight Title in 1922, and the World Featherweight Title in 1923. On March 19, 1920, he defeated Johnny Buff in an eighth-round newspaper decision of the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. Buff would take the World Bantamweight Championship on September 23, 1921. In another meeting, on December 15, 1921, Moore defeated Buff in a ten-round newspaper decision of the Milwaukee Journal in Milwaukee. Bouts with 1920-21 World Bantamweight Champion Joe Lynch, most frequent opponent Joe Lynch was Moore's most frequent opponent, meeting him ten times. Fortunately for Lynch, he never fought a title bout with Moore based on points during Lynch's reign as bantamweight champion, but this was common during boxing's "no decision" era. On May 24, 1920, Moore lost to Joe Lynch in the decision of The Jersey Journal in twelve rounds at Jersey City, New Jersey. The Journal wrote that Moore slapped with his gloves, a tactic that sometimes lost him points in his fights, but that Lynch landed clean punches, giving him nine of the twelve rounds. Nonetheless, Moore was observed as having put up a game fight, pressing the issue throughout the bout. Other sources considered the bout slightly closer. On October 26, 1920, Moore drew with Lynch according to the newspapers in St. Louis. Moore's holding cost him the decision as he carried the fight to his opponent in nearly every round. On May 6, 1921, Moore defeated Lynch in twelve by decision of the Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. Other newspapers considered the bout too close to call, as in the twelfth round Lynch, reigning champion, tried hard to knockout Moore, and effectively used his left jab throughout. Many spectators considered the bout the best between Moore and Lynch. On September 4, 1922, the newspapers gave a twelve-round decision to Lynch in Indiana before a significant crowd of 8,000. In this instance, Lynch had a decisive victory, knocking Moore to the canvas twice in the seventh round, for counts of six and four. Jack Dempsey fought an exhibition in the first match before the crowded house. On November 27, 1923, Moore defeated Lynch by a ten-round newspaper decision in St. Louis, though the match was considered close and dull by most newspaper accounts. Lynch may have dealt a few blows which connected, but Moore's boxing and scientific defense did not seem as stellar as in his earlier career. On February 24, 1926, Moore drew with Lynch in a ten-round points decision in Ft. Lauderdale, though a few newspapers gave Moore the edge. On March 4, 1926, the Miami Daily News gave the decision to Moore in Miami. Many in the crowd jeered the boxers. Moore fought Johnny Gannon who was the bantamweight champion of the U.S. Army on March 16, 1921, to a ten-round draw in Rockford, Illinois. Moore fought Kid Pancho in Memphis, winning by decision. Bouts with champion Sammy Mandell, 1921-2 On August 26, 1921, Moore first met Sammy Mandell in Aurora Illinois, losing in a ten-round newspaper decision of the Aurora Daily Star. The bout was the main event of the evening. The Logansport Pharos Tribune believed Mandell may have had the edge in the fairly close bout but noted that "Moore displayed the greater cleverness and landed the most blows", but "Mandell's hitting was more effective". Mandell's strong display in the bout gained him notice a number of boxing reporters. He drew with Mandell in a newspaper decision in Memphis on July 4, 1922. In the fast bout, Mandell had a slight weight advantage and was considered the better puncher which forced Moore to use his speed and science to outbox his opponent. The bout was described as exciting with "The men...on their toes and slugging from the beginning until the end of the bout." The referee present said if he had called the decision, he would have ruled for a draw. Mandell took the World Lightweight Championship on July 3, 1926, and held it for four years. Bouts with Bantamweight Champion Bud Taylor June 1922-January 1923 Moore fought Bud Taylor, holder of the NBA World Bantamweight Championship 1927-8, in four career bouts. Moore was diagnosed with pneumonia around February 9, 1922, and three weeks rest was recommended. Moore's first match with Taylor was a newspaper win by the Aurora Daily Star in Illinois in ten rounds on June 23, 1922. As was not unusual in this stage of Moore's career, he was described as having performed a shade better in his boxing technique, but Taylor was described as landing more solid blows, though the bout was close. The second, Moore won by ten-round newspaper decision of the Chicago Tribune on the USS Commodore (IX-7) off Chicago on December 22, 1922. The third was a ten-round draw by newspaper decision in Indiana on January 15, 1923. Shortly after this bout, Moore expressed his intention to go after the World Flyweight Championship and perhaps face Pancho Villa, but a World Flyweight Championship Match never materialized for Moore. Moore drew in their fourth meeting on February 13, 1923, in Indianapolis by a ten-round newspaper decision of two Indianapolis papers. Once again, one source described Taylor as having connected with more blows in the close bout. The bout was described as a "whale of a battle from start to finish", with each boxer exchanging the lead, though Taylor was described as landing more blows by several newspapers. Moore also fought Frankie Genaro on April 23, 1923, in Chicago but lost in a sixth-round DQ. The New York Times said the foul was an accidental upper cut to the groin. The foul seemed unintentional as one account wrote that Genaro had jumped six inches off the floor into the punch. According to the El Paso Herald, Moore's loss by foul was his first in eleven years of fighting. Genaro would take the NBA World Flyweight Championship on February 6, 1926, and hold it almost continuously until October 1931. On December 9, 1924, Moore met the incomparable boxer Jimmy McLarnin before a packed house in Vernon, California, drawing in a four-round points decision. The "wild" bout was described as having abundant action and each boxer was given two rounds. Moore was said to confuse his opponent with his "jumping jack" tactics, but had trouble landing solid blows. Moore was known to prance and sometimes jump from the floor in his bouts. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Moore introduced his own variation of the "kangaroo leap", and that he delivered frequent open gloved slaps to the back of McLarnin's neck, but was adept at keeping out of reach at long range in the close bout. McLarnin would hold multiple weight division world titles in his career. On July 12, 1927, Moore lost to reigning World Flyweight Champion Fidel LaBarba before a crowd of 18,000, at Wrigley Field, in Chicago, Illinois in a ten-round points decision. A few newspapers said LaBarba had a clear victory, or that he landed cleaner, stiffer punches, against Moore who threw punches from every angle. There were no knockdowns in the bout, nor obvious injuries. Retirement from boxing, death and honors Moore retired from boxing in 1930 after his last bout with Leroy Dougan in Memphis. He died on March 15, 1953, reportedly from a stomach ulcer and a severe asthmatic condition that may have forced him from his ring career. He received twelve decisions over champions in his weight class, but each match was a no-decision bout, and received only newspaper decisions, rather than a points decision for a title. Moore defeated Kid Williams, Joe Lynch, Pete Herman, and Johhny Buff by newspaper decision, and each held the Bantamweight Championship in their career. In 2010, Pal Moore was selected to join the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Professional boxing record All information in this section is derived from BoxRec, unless otherwise stated. Official record All newspaper decisions are officially regarded as "no decision" bouts and are not counted in the win/loss/draw column. Unofficial record Record with the inclusion of newspaper decisions in the win/loss/draw column. References External links http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:12311 http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=12311&cat=boxer http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=21812 Top 25 Bantamweights of All Time 1894 births 1953 deaths Boxers from Tennessee Sportspeople from Memphis, Tennessee People from Kenton, Tennessee American male boxers Bantamweight boxers

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1987 Stockholm Open – Doubles

Sherwood Stewart and Kim Warwick were the defending champions, but did not participate this year. Stefan Edberg and Anders Järryd won the title, defeating Jim Grabb and Jim Pugh 6–3, 6–4 in the final. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References Draw Stockholm Open 1987 Grand Prix (tennis)

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Mohamed Nur

Mohamoud Ahmed Nur (, ) is a Somali politician. He served as the Mayor of Mogadishu from 2010 to 27 February 2014. Background Personal life Nur was born to a family from the Udejeen sub-clan of the Hawiye. He was raised in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Nur is married to Shamis, with whom he has six children and grandchildren from four of them. When the Somali Civil War broke out in the early 1990s, he and his family emigrated to London in 1993. The family initially stayed in Hackney, later relocating to the North West neighborhood, where they are still based. Education Nur subsequently pursued higher education studies, graduating from the University of Westminster. Early career Nicknamed "Tarzan", Nur is a civil engineer and entrepreneur by profession. In an administrative capacity, he worked as a business advisor to the Islington Council in London. In 2006, Nur unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat as a Labour Party councillor in Fortune Green. He also established and ran the Kentish Town Somali Welfare Association, the first such Somali community organization in Kentish Town. Based in a Community Centre, it offers support and direction to new immigrants. Mayor of Mogadishu In 2010, through his involvement with a Somali political organization in the diaspora, Nur was appointed Mogadishu's new Mayor. He took on the task believing he could effect positive change by "altering the mindset of the people" in the battle-scarred city. Since taking office, Nur's administration enacted a number of reforms in a bid to improve the city's security and service delivery, including starting a garbage collection program, erecting proper streetlights and providing around-the-clock electricity, sacking corrupt public officials, and offering formal police protection. The municipal government also firmed up on traffic safety, fining motorists who drive without lights, in the wrong street lanes or carrying excessive loads. Among his more ambitious projects, Nur organized a street festival in 2011 celebrating local culture. It was the first event of its kind in many years in the city, but was vulnerable to attack by Al Shabaab insurgents. Following the ousting of the Islamist rebels from Mogadishu in mid-2011, life in the city gradually began to return to normal. Nur's administration also started large-scale rehabilitation of roads and general infrastructure, with residents closely cooperating with the civil and police authorities to tighten up on security. Nur recognized the opportunity to transform Mogadishu although resources were limited. He sought external expertise and international cooperation, yet was also careful to establish any partnerships. The evicted militants periodically continue to issue death threats to Nur via text messages and by telephone. He narrowly escaped a planted car bomb in 2011 and a road-side explosive device the following year, which killed six army soldiers. Nur consequently entrusts his security detail to his cousin and travels around the city in an armoured convoy with personal guards. With the passing of a new Constitution in 2012 and the subsequent election of an inaugural President in the new Federal Government, Nur has continued to oversee Mogadishu's ongoing post-conflict reconstruction. He chaired meetings discussing business licenses in the capital's newly established Chamber of Commerce, and organizes various development projects, including the renovation of shopping malls. In January 2014, the Banaadir administration launched a citywide street naming, house numbering and postal codes project. Officially called the House Numbering and Post Code System, it is a joint initiative of the municipal authorities and Somali business community representatives. The initiative was founded on the success of an initiative launched by urban strategist Mitchell Sipus in partnership with the Benadiir administration to advance a data-driven approach to post-war reconstruction. The project was part of the ongoing modernization and development of the capital. According to Nur, the initiative also aims to help the authorities firm up on security and resolve housing ownership disputes. The project sufficiently successful to transform United Nations strategy and partner with the initiative. Having witnessed the rapid gains the UN shifted its strategy and overtook the project, but lacked strong community ties, and the success of the project diminished over time. The same month, Nur was named Deputy Minister for Youth Sports in Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed's new Cabinet. Nur declined the position at a press conference, stating that he had not been consulted about the nomination. On 27 February 2014, Nur was replaced as Mayor of Mogadishu with Hassan Mohamed Hussein Mungab, a former military court chairman. Part of a security sector reform, the appointment was made by presidential decree after consultations between President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed and Interior Minister Abdullahi Godah Barre. In November 2014, Mohamed Nur announced the creation of the Social Justice Party, which has justice, unity and development platform. References Living people Somalian politicians Alumni of the University of Westminster Somalian Muslims 20th-century Somalian people 21st-century Somalian people 20th-century Muslims 21st-century Muslims Year of birth missing (living people) Somalian communists Muslim socialists

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Weak n-category

In category theory, a weak n-category is a generalization of the notion of strict n-category where composition and identities are not strictly associative and unital, but only associative and unital up to coherent equivalence. This generalisation only becomes noticeable at dimensions two and above where weak 2-, 3- and 4-categories are typically referred to as bicategories, tricategories, and tetracategories. The subject of weak n-categories is an area of ongoing research. History There is currently much work to determine what the coherence laws for weak n-categories should be. Weak n-categories have become the main object of study in higher category theory. There are basically two classes of theories: those in which the higher cells and higher compositions are realized algebraically (most remarkably Michael Batanin's theory of weak higher categories) and those in which more topological models are used (e.g. a higher category as a simplicial set satisfying some universality properties). In a terminology due to John Baez and James Dolan, a is a weak n-category, such that all h-cells for h > k are invertible. Some of the formalism for are much simpler than those for general n-categories. In particular, several technically accessible formalisms of (infinity, 1)-categories are now known. Now the most popular such formalism centers on a notion of quasi-category, other approaches include a properly understood theory of simplicially enriched categories and the approach via Segal categories; a class of examples of stable can be modeled (in the case of characteristics zero) also via pretriangulated A-infinity categories of Maxim Kontsevich. Quillen model categories are viewed as a presentation of an ; however not all can be presented via model categories. See also Bicategory Tricategory Tetracategory Infinity category Opetope Stabilization hypothesis External links n-Categories – Sketch of a Definition by John Baez Lectures on n-Categories and Cohomology by John Baez Tom Leinster, Higher operads, higher categories, math.CT/0305049 Jacob Lurie, Higher topos theory, math.CT/0608040, published version: pdf Higher category theory

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The Quadrangle (Manhattan College)

The Quadrangle (or The Quad) is the student-run newspaper of Manhattan College. The Quadrangle publishes weekly on Tuesdays during the academic year at Manhattan College. It is editorially independent of the college's administration. The Quadrangle has continually published since its founding in 1924, when Manhattan College moved to its current location in the Riverdale section of The Bronx in New York City. The Quadrangle is an official club of Manhattan College and is open to students of all academic fields of study. Prominent stories 2008 New York Times story In 2008, The Quadrangle was mentioned in The New York Times after writing a story about a proposed chastity club on the Manhattan College campus. The idea was proposed by then college president Brother Thomas J. Scanlan, and never came to fruition. Notable interviews Andrew Cuomo Rubén Díaz Jr. Rudy Giuliani Steve Masiello Gary Sanchez JoJo Mike Posner Shaggy T-Pain Operations Editorial board The Quadrangles editorial board operates on one-year-long terms, which begin in January in conclude in December. The editor-in-chief is chosen by the outgoing board in an election in November. The editor-in-chief then selects club members to fill out the rest of the board. Each of the four sections of the paper: news, features, arts and entertainment, and sports, has an editor and at least one assistant editor. The board also includes additional editors and assistant editors for social media, production and layout, and photography. In 2014, the Web Editor position was created. In 2017, the multimedia editor position was added. The editor-in-chief also appoints at least one managing editor. In 2017, The Quadrangles editorial board, or masthead, is composed of nineteen Manhattan College students. Traditions The Triangle Since 1982, The Quadrangle has published an annual satire edition, typically released near the April Fools' Day holiday. Special editions Since 2015, The Quadrangle has published special editions on a biennial basis. Topics discussed in recent special issues include gender, money, health and faith. Special editions are published once per semester. People Past editors-in-chief References External links Official website Student newspapers published in New York (state) 1924 establishments in New York (state)

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Dujeong station

Dujeong Station is a railway station located in northern Cheonan. The station opened on the Gyeongbu Line – the line from Seoul to Busan – on June 15, 1979, and was put under the control of Cheonan Station on July 1, 1985. It has also been served by Seoul Subway Line 1 since January 20, 2005. The station is close to Gongju University, the Cheonan campuses of Sangmyung University, Dankook University, Hoseo University and Baekseok University. It is also in proximity of Cheonan Bus Terminal, Cheonan Industrial Complex, Cheonan Sindae Elementary School, Bugil Academy and Bugil Girls' High School. Technically, the station is also on the Cheonan Connection Line, though this has only two stops: Cheonan and Dujeong. Very close to the station you can find a large movie theater (CINUS) with restaurants and snack shops. References External links Station information from Korail Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations Railway stations opened in 1979 Metro stations in Cheonan

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Township%2C%20Minnesota

Norman Township, Minnesota

Norman Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Minnesota: Norman Township, Pine County, Minnesota Norman Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota See also Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota Normanna Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota Norman (disambiguation) Minnesota township disambiguation pages

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Mike Ruth

Michael Joseph Ruth (born June 25, 1964) is a former American football player. Ruth was a member of the College Football All-America Team and the winner of the 1985 Outland Trophy as college football's best lineman. After two seasons in the NFL with the New England Patriots in 1986 and 1987, Ruth finished his pro career with the Barcelona Dragons of the World League of American Football in 1991 and 1992. Ruth was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in December 2017. He is the 10th former Boston College player or coach enshrined in the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame. He later graduated from Harvard University with a M.Ed. and is now a teacher at Everett High School in Massachusetts. References 1964 births Living people All-American college football players American football defensive tackles Barcelona Dragons players Boston College Eagles football players New England Patriots players Players of American football from Pennsylvania Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni

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List of British Army Regiments (2008)

This is a list of British Regular Army regiments as constituted as a result of the British defence white paper Delivering Security in a Changing World in 2004 and "Delivering Security in a Changing World Future Capabilities" in 2005. Cavalry Household Cavalry Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment The Life Guards The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) Royal Armoured Corps Heavy Cavalry 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) The Royal Dragoon Guards Light Cavalry The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish) 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) The King's Royal Hussars The Light Dragoons The Queen's Royal Lancers The Royal Tank Regiment 1st Royal Tank Regiment 2nd Royal Tank Regiment Infantry Note: When a regiment is described as having n + n battalions, the first number is regular army battalions, and the second is Territorial Army battalions. Foot Guards Grenadier Guards - 1 + 0 battalion Coldstream Guards - 1 + 0 battalion Scots Guards - 1 + 0 battalion Irish Guards - 1 + 0 battalion Welsh Guards - 1 + 0 battalion The London Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion Line Infantry Royal Regiment of Scotland - 5 + 2 battalions formed by an amalgamation of: The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) The King's Own Scottish Borderers The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) - 2 + 1 battalions Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border) - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of: King's Own Royal Border Regiment King's Regiment Queen's Lancashire Regiment Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 2 + 1 battalions Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of: Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) Mercian Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of: 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Welsh - 2 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of: Royal Welch Fusiliers Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) - 1 + 1 battalion Parachute Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 + 0 battalions The Rifles - 5 + 2 battalions formed by an amalgamation of: Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry The Light Infantry Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry Royal Green Jackets Special Forces Special Air Service Special Reconnaissance Regiment Special Forces Support Group The Army Air Corps Army Air Corps Support Arms and Services Support Arms Royal Regiment of Artillery Corps of Royal Engineers Royal Corps of Signals Intelligence Corps Services Royal Army Chaplains Department Royal Logistic Corps Royal Army Medical Corps Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Adjutant General's Corps Royal Army Veterinary Corps Small Arms School Corps Royal Army Dental Corps Army Physical Training Corps (Granted 'Royal' prefix in 2010) General Service Corps Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Corps of Army Music External links UK MoD: Delivering Security in a Changing World (PDF) Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities House of Commons Hansard: Future Capabilities Notes British Army regiments (2008)

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USS Robinson

USS Robinson may refer to more than one United States Navy ship: , a destroyer in commission from 1918 to 1922 , a destroyer in commission from 1944 to 1964 USS Jack C. Robinson (DE-671), a destroyer escort converted during construction into the high-speed transport , a high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946 United States Navy ship names

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Sophronica subaureovittata

Sophronica subaureovittata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1977. References Sophronica Beetles described in 1977