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How to Be Cool

How to be Cool is a 1987 novel written by Philip Pullman and intended for older teen readers.  The plot revolves around a young man named Jacob who finds out the truth about the sinister plans of the National Cool Board and hits upon an idea to beat them at their own game.

Release details
1987, UK Heinemann Young Books (), Pub date 1 September 1987, hardback (First edition)
1987, UK Heinemann Young Books (), Pub date 1 September 1987, paperback
Cover illustration & lettering: Martina Farrow

Television adaptation
It was adapted for television in the United Kingdom by Granada Television for ITV, and starred Roger Daltrey and Freddie Jones. Three 50-minute episodes aired between 3–17 December 1988.

References

1987 British novels
British young adult novels
Heinemann (publisher) books
New Zealand dory

The New Zealand dory (Cyttus novaezealandiae) is a dory, in the family Cyttidae, found around southern Australia, and New Zealand, over the continental shelf at depths of between 20 and 400 m. Its length is between 20 and 30 cm.

References

Other references
 
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 

Cyttidae
USD Nuorese Calcio 1930

U.S.D. Nuorese Calcio 1930, commonly known as Nuorese, are an Italian association football club from Nuoro, Sardinia, founded in 1930.  The club was known as A.S. Nuorese Calcio until 2006, and F.C. Nuorese Calcio from 2006 to 2008.

The colours of the team are blue and green.

History
Nuorese has a long history of playing in Serie C2 and top amateur leagues and also featured a young Gianfranco Zola during the 1980s.

In 2004 the club, then playing in the Eccellenza league, was acquired by former Torino chairman Roberto Goveani, with the aim to lead the Verdeazzurri back into professionalism. Under Goveani, and under the captaincy of former Cagliari mainstay Gianluca Festa, Nuorese promptly won two promotions in a row, being crowned Eccellenza Sardinia champions in 2004–05 and Serie D – Girone B winners in 2005–06, thus returning to play in Serie C2 the following season.

Playing in Serie C2/A in 2006–07, Nuorese finished in fourth place, then losing the promotion playoff semifinal round to third-placed Pergocrema, 3–1 on aggregate.

Nuorese played again in Serie C2/A for the 2007–08 season, finishing the season in eighth place; however, due to its failure to present proper documentation to confirm their football membership, the club was dropped from professional leagues for the 2008–09 season. Nuorese was successively admitted to play amateur, regionally based Promozione league in 2008–09.

Noted players who spent days at Nuorese include Pietro Paolo Virdis, Gianfranco Zola and, more recently, Gianluca Festa and former Belgium international Luis Oliveira.

References

Football clubs in Italy
Nuorese
Football clubs in Sardinia
Association football clubs established in 1930
Serie C clubs
1930 establishments in Italy
Silver dory

The silver dory (Cyttus australis) is a dory, in the genus Cyttus, found around southern Australia, on the continental shelf at depths of between 10 and 350 m.  Its length is about 40 cm.

References

 
 

Cyttidae
Fish described in 1843
Tim Crowder

Timothy C. Crowder (born June 30, 1985) is a former American football defensive end. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas.

Crowder has also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Known as the version that is not Tom Crowder.

Early years
Crowder attended John Tyler High School and was coached by Kelvin Ratliff. He primarily played defensive end and posted 127 tackles, 22 tackles for loss (TFLs) and 14 sacks in his final two seasons.

College career
Crowder played college football for the University of Texas Longhorns. As a freshman, Crowder played in all 13 games and started 9 at left defensive end. For the season, he recorded 35 tackles, 3 TFLs, one sack, one interception, 14 pressures, five passes deflected and two forced fumbles. Following the season, he was named third-team Freshman All America by the Sporting News and shared UT's Outstanding Newcomer of the Year award. As a sophomore, he started all 12 games at left defensive end. For the season, he recorded 47 tackles, 10 TFLs, one forced fumble, 4.5 sacks, and 22 quarterback pressures. He was named honorable mention All-Big 12 by the Associated Press. As a junior in 2005, he started all 13 games at left defensive end. He led the team with 20 QB pressures, while recording 50 tackles, nine TFLs, three sacks, an interception and, a forced fumble. He was a first-team All-Big 12 selection by the league's coaches, a second-team All-Big 12 selection by The Kansas City Star, an honorable mention All-Big 12 pick by the Associated Press, and a member of the Ted Hendricks Award watch list.

Professional career

Denver Broncos
Crowder was selected in the second round (56th overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos. He was the second defensive end selected by the club in that draft, and the second player to come from a recent BCS Championship team.
He finished his rookie year starting 13 games, 16 tackles, 1 forced fumble and 4.0 sacks.

He was waived by the Broncos on September 5, 2009.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Crowder was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on September 14, 2009. He was released on March 22, 2012.

References

External links
Texas Longhorns bio

1985 births
Living people
Players of American football from Tyler, Texas
American football defensive ends
Texas Longhorns football players
Denver Broncos players
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is a member of the British Shadow Cabinet responsible for the scrutiny of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and their department, the Northern Ireland Office. The post is currently held by Hilary Benn.

Until recently there had been a 'bi-partisan' attitude to Northern Ireland affairs in the House of Commons but the role is influenced by the relationship between the main Official Opposition and parties in the country. The Conservative Party, for example, generally supports the unionist cause and in 2008 re-formalised a (since ended) link with the Ulster Unionist Party and relied on the support of the Democratic Unionist Party until the 2019 United Kingdom General Election in the House of Commons, while Labour has traditionally supported Irish nationalism and is loosely allied to the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). The Liberal Democrats are linked with the cross-community Alliance Party.

Shadow Secretaries of State

See also 

 Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
 Northern Ireland Office
 UK Shadow Cabinet 
 Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team
 Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
 Northern Ireland Grand Committee

References

External links 
 Conservative Northern Ireland branch
 Conservative Northern Ireland news
 Conservative Northern Ireland Education Spokesman
 David Lidington MP
 Lembit Öpik MP

Official Opposition (United Kingdom)
Government of Northern Ireland
Lustre

Lustre or Luster may refer to:

Places 
 Luster, Norway, a municipality in Vestlandet, Norway
 Luster (village), a village in the municipality of Luster
 Lustre, Montana, an unincorporated community in the United States

Entertainment 
 Luster (film), a 2002 movie by Everett Lewis
 Lustre (band), American power pop band
 Lustre (musical project), Swedish black metal artist Henrik Sunding
 Lustre (Ed Harcourt album), 2010
 Lustre (Claire Voyant album), 2009
 Luster (novel), a 2020 novel by Raven Leilani

Software 
 Lustre (file system), a Free Software distributed file system
 Lustre (programming language), a synchronous programming language
 Lustre, a color grading software developed by Autodesk Media and Entertainment

Other uses 
 Luster (surname)
 Nadine Lustre (born 1993), Filipina actress and singer
 Lustre (mineralogy), a description of the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock or mineral
 Lustre prints,  a photograph or artwork with a finish between glossy and matte
 USS Luster (IX-82), a yacht which served in the United States Navy as a patrol boat during World War II
 Operation Lustre, an Allied action in Greece in 1941 during World War II
 Lustre (treaty), a secret treaty  between France and members of the UKUSA Agreement for cooperation in signals intelligence
Luster (textiles), a property of textiles make them appearing bright, shiny and lustrous
 Lustre, English-language form of Latin lustrum – a period of 5 years

See also 
 Lusterware, ceramics with lustre glazes
 Lustral (disambiguation)
KLC Ann Arbor

Koby USA (Koby Language Center) is a private English language school located in downtown Novi, Michigan. Yoshihisa Kobayashi, founder and president of Koby International Academy, founded the school in 2006 in Ann Arbor, Michigan with the primary mission of teaching students with limited English proficiency the skills they need to succeed in academics, business, and life. The school was relocated in 2012 to its current location in Novi, Michigan.

Academic profile 
Koby USA offers various language programs including the Comprehensive English Program, Intensive English Program, Test Preparation Programs for TOEFL (TPPI), TOEIC (TPPII), and SAT (TPPIII), Academic English Program, Get Ready Program, Business English Program, English in Action, Personalized English Program, and Japanese Conversation Program. Various summer English programs are also offered in June, July, and August. Programs are generally four-week terms, except for some of the two-week-long summer programs.

Students include international students who are enrolled or entering grades K-12 in American schools, high school and post-graduate students who are preparing to take the TOEFL iBT (internet Based Test), and business professionals who need English skills for their profession and to prepare for the TOEIC test. The school also designs programs for businesses and individuals who have specific English needs and scheduling requirements.

The academic calendar runs month-to-month all year long. Students in the intensive English programs may spend up to eight months to go from Introductory to Advanced English proficiency. All programs run continuously, and students decide in how many terms they want to continue enrolling.

Campus and facilities 
The school sits above One World Market in Novi Michigan, a Japanese grocery store and sushi restaurant.

There are five classrooms and one administrative office. The school is again planning to relocate to another location in Novi on May 2, 2014.

External links 
Main Site

Companies based in Michigan
Schools in Michigan
Novi, Michigan
Otto Jírovec

Otto Jírovec (January 31, 1907 – March 7, 1972) was a Czechoslovak professor of parasitology and protozoology.

A significant fungus parasite of humans, Pneumocystis jirovecii, is named in his honour.  Pneumocystis jirovecii (formerly known as the human form of Pneumocystis carinii; originally spelled P. jiroveci when believed to be a protozoan) causes Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP).

Jírovec was born in Prague. In 1929 he obtained a doctorate at the Faculty of Science at the Charles University in Prague. From 1930 to 1932 he worked as a lecturer, and in 1933 he became an associate professor. During the war he worked as head of the Parasitology Laboratory at the State Health Institute. After the war, he returned to the faculty of the university. In 1948 he was again appointed associate professor at the Charles University in Prague. In the years 1949–1952 Jírovec led the Department of Zoology, and later managed a zoological institute. From 1954 to 1961 he led the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Laboratory of Parasitology.

In his professional work he focused in particular on the study of parasitic protozoa, both in temperate and in tropical regions. One of his most important discoveries was the pathogen causing Pneumocystis pneumonia, which he made with the pathologist Dr. M. Vaňek in 1953.

Books
Professor Jírovec wrote 11 books, published some 280 scientific articles and 250 articles popularizing scientific work.

Awards

Otto Jírovec received various awards for his work. He was a member of the Royal Czech Society of Sciences, Masaryk Academy of Labor and the Czechoslovak National Council research. In 1953, he became a corresponding member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Medical Faculty of Humboldt University in Berlin and the Faculty of Science of the University of Clermont-Ferrand.

References

External links
 Otto Jirovec Negatives Collection
 Quido

1907 births
1972 deaths
Czechoslovak parasitologists
Charles University alumni
Joe Perkins

Joe Perkins (born December 1, 1935) was an American singer whose song, "Little Eeefin' Annie", was a minor hit in 1963, reaching number 76 on the Billboard chart. The song featured eefer Jimmie Riddle. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee.

'Eeef' could possibly relate to 'Eeep', as the native African languages left a distinctive pronunciation pattern upon the English spoken by Americanized Africans. This may have been in part an inspiration to Jerry Garcia to write the song "Eep Hour", and may also have been at least a partial inspiration for The Grateful Dead song, "Cumberland Blues".

References

External links
 Joe Perkins' Little Eeefin' Annie page
 Jimmy Riddle and the lost art of Eefing on npr.org
 Detailed article on Joe's recording career plus discography

1935 births
Living people
American male pop singers
Singers from Nashville, Tennessee
Majdan Kozłowiecki

Majdan Kozłowiecki () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubartów, within Lubartów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately  south of Lubartów and  north of the regional capital Lublin.

This small village consists of buildings and farmsteads scattered along a country road that runs through a meadow, parallel to a stream. The road, meadow, and stream form a  wide gap through a large forest. 

Villages in Lubartów County
PT01

The PT01 was the first portable belt-driven turntable manufactured by Numark. An identical model called iPT01 was also manufactured by Ion Audio.

Product features

 Built-in phono preamp and speaker; 1/4- and 1/8-inch headphone inputs
 Runs on AC adapter or 6 D-size batteries; 12 by 3.88 by 12 inches (W x H x D)
 Portable turntable with integrated carrying handle, dustcover, and felt slipmat
 Belt-driven motor operates at 33-1/3, 45, and 78 rpm speeds
 Durable auto-start and -stop tonearm; +/- 10 percent pitch control
 Cartridge: Built-in ceramic cartridge, with removable sapphire stylus

External links 
 Numark Website

Turntables
List of individual gemstones

A number of individual gemstones are famous in their own right, either because of their size and beauty or because of the people who owned or wore them.

Aquamarines
Dom Pedro, the world's largest cut and polished aquamarine. Housed in the permanent collection of the Houston Museum of Natural Science

Diamonds 
See List of diamonds

Emeralds

 Bahia Emerald
 Carolina Emperor, 310 carats uncut, 64.8 carats cut; discovered in the United States in 2009, resides in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
 Chalk Emerald
 Duke of Devonshire Emerald
 Emerald of Saint Louis, 51.60 carats cut; discovered in Austria, probably Habachtal, resides in the National Museum of Natural History, Paris
 Gachalá Emerald
 Mogul Mughal Emerald
 Patricia Emerald, 632 carats uncut, dihexagonal (12 sided); discovered in Colombia in 1920, resides in the American Museum of Natural History, New York

Opals
 Andamooka Opal, presented to Queen Elizabeth II, also known as the Queen's Opal
 Flame Queen Opal
 Galaxy Opal
 Halley's Comet Opal, the world's largest uncut black opal
 Olympic Australis Opal, reported to be the largest and most valuable gem opal ever found

Pearls

Abernathy Pearl
Arco Valley Pearl
La Peregrina
Pearl of Lao Tzu
Pearl of Puerto, largest known pearl
Servilia's pearl, most expensive pearl of all time

Rubies
DeLong Star Ruby
Midnight Star Ruby
Neelanjali Ruby
Rajaratna Ruby
Rosser Reeves Ruby

Sapphires

Logan Sapphire  
Star of Bombay, given to Mary Pickford by Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
Star of India
Stuart Sapphire
Black Star of Queensland
 Star of Adam, with a weight of , it is the largest star sapphire in the world.
 Queen Marie of Romania Sapphire

Spinels
Black Prince's Ruby, actually a spinel mounted on the Imperial State Crown
Samarian Spinel, the world's largest spinel
Timur Ruby, believed to be a ruby until 1851, hence its name

Topazes
American Golden Topaz, the largest cut yellow topaz, weighing nearly 23,000 carats (4.6 kg).
Chalmers Topaz, a  cut topaz.

Tsavorite
Lion of Merelani, a square cushion cut tsavorite that weighs 116.76 carats and has 177 facets. It is on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

Images

See also
List of gold nuggets by size
List of minerals

References

External links
 Gemdat.org – The Gemstone Database
 Gemsociety.org - Gemstone Toxicity Table
Original Black Entertainment TV

OBE TV (Original Black Entertainment TV) was a British television channel launched in September 2003. It showed film, food, advertisements, sports and talk shows as well as conservative Christian programmes. The channel was aimed at African audiences and showed programmes from South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. Its programmes were primarily taken from the South African Broadcasting Corporation, including the SABC's news broadcasts.

A timeshifted service named OBE +1 launched on Thursday 29 November 2007 and it was replaced by DMAX on 8 January 2008 while the linear channel closed down permanently in 2011.

Programming
Miracle Power - with Pastor Kingsley Appiagyei
Bruce's Kitchen
Home Sweet Home
Taxi Driver - a Ghanaian series
London Got Problem
Centre 4
Paridigams
Driss's Kitchen
Christ Apostolic Church Bethel with Apostle Ayo Omideyi
Hotel St. James
I Stand Accused (Ultimate Story Series)
Tentacles
Shot One - a interviews about Congo Gospel Artists with Bony Tongomo and Congo Soukous Artists with Tyty Ilunga
Music Africa - a slot that shows music videos from West African artists
Reggae Showcase - interviews, discussions and performances hosted by the artist Named Savana
Saga Africa with Franck Akyl
Superbook
I am a Four Door Saloon
Super Story
Dada Boat
This Life
Papa Ajasco
Fresh Act
Nollywood
Black Variety Show
Africa Within
Freedom Walk
Gimme My Moonay Back
Straight Talk (hosted By Papa Aikins)
Goge Africa
Mmaa Nkomo
Dustbina Okebagou
Mzansi Jams- Top Hit Southern African Music Show Produced by Oscar 'Oskido' Mdlongwa, Sanpoulus Maplanka, and Atterbell Maplanka
Love and Politics
Half Sisters
Special Assignment
KICC
BO Chicken Eaters
Sports With Kwaku
World Music - a broadcasting slot that ranges from one up to four hours, featuring music videos by an assortment of African artists
Shaka Zulu - a series produced in South Africa in 1986, focusing on the Zulu king Shaka
Teleshopping - broadcast in slots that range from 30 minutes to two hours at midnight
OBE TV Noticeboard  - Info About funerals and Events
Hip Life - Entertainment and Music

References

External links
 

Television channels and stations established in 2003
Television channels in the United Kingdom
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
Black British culture
Susquehannock language

Susquehannock, also known as Conestoga, is an Iroquoian language spoken by the Native American people variously known as the Susquehannock or Conestoga.

Information about Susquehannock is scant. Almost all known words and phrases come from the Vocabula Mahakuassica, a vocabulary written by the Swedish missionary Johannes Campanius in New Sweden during the 1640s and published by his grandson Thomas Campanius Holm in two separate works in 1696 and 1702. Peter Stephen Du Ponceau translated the 1702 work from Swedish to English in 1834.

Campanius's vocabulary contains just over 100 words and phrases. Linguist Marianne Mithun believes this limited data is sufficient to classify Susquehannock as a Northern Iroquoian language, closely related to the languages of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Examples of Susquehannock-language place names include Conestoga, Juniata, and Swatara.

Place names in the Conestoga homeland are documented as of Conestoga origin. After 1763, some Conestoga remnant peoples joined nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Conestoga language survived for a time. Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania with Numerous Historical Notes and References (1928), a book by Dr. George P. Donehoo identifies place names derived from the Conestoga language.

Notes

References

 Holm, Thomas Campanius, et al. A Vocabulary of Susquehannock. 2nd ed., translated by Peter Stephen Duponceau, Evolution Publishing, 2007. American Language Reprints, edited by Claudio R. Salvucci. .

 2021. Conestoga Language Living Dictionary. https://livingdictionaries.app/conestoga_language
 Mithun, Marianne. “Stalking the Susquehannocks.” International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 47, no. 1, Jan. 1981, pp. 1-26. JSTOR, .
 Donehoo, George P. Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania: with Numerous Historical Notes and References. Sunbury Press, 2014. .

External links
 Native-languages.org
 Conestoga Language Living Dictionary, hosted on the Living Dictionaries platform: 

Northern Iroquoian languages
Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands
Extinct languages of North America
First Nations languages in Canada
Native American history of Maryland
Native American history of Pennsylvania
 
Languages extinct in the 18th century
Indigenous languages of Pennsylvania
Indigenous languages of Maryland
Shigar

Shigar () is the headquarter of its namesake district and tehsil in the Baltistan division of Gilgit–Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It is located at the bank of Shigar River in the most remote and dramatic part of the region. It is a popular site for tourists and trekkers and contains many historical buildings of architectural significance associated with several different communities.

The town is inhabited almost exclusively by the Balti people of Tibetan descent. Almost 65% of the population belongs to the Shia sect of Islam, 26% to the Norbakhshi sect and the remaining to the Sunni sect. Via the Shigar Valley, it is the gateway to the Karakoram mountain range, which has five eight-thousanders, including K2.

History 
According to tradition, Syed Ali Hamdani arrived to Shigar in the late 14th century and converted the locals to Islam. To this day, mosques and khanqahs attributed to him exist in the region.

Tourist attractions

Popular tourist attractions in the town include:               
 Shigar Fort
 Amburik Mosque
 Khanqah-e-Muallah Shigar

Climate
Shigar has a cold desert climate (Köppen: BWk).

Gallery

See also
Shigar Fort
Shigar Valley

References

Populated places in Shigar District
Baltistan
Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940)

Urakaze  was one of 19 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s.

Design and description
The Kagerō class was an enlarged and improved version of the preceding . Their crew numbered 240 officers and enlisted men. The ships measured  overall, with a beam of  and a draft of . They displaced  at standard load and  at deep load. The ships had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of  for a designed speed of . The ships had a range of  at a speed of .

The main armament of the Kagerō class consisted of six Type 3  guns in three twin-gun turrets, one superfiring pair aft and one turret forward of the superstructure. They were built with four Type 96  anti-aircraft guns in two twin-gun mounts, but more of these guns were added over the course of the war. The ships were also armed with eight  torpedo tubes for the oxygen-fueled Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedo in two quadruple traversing mounts; one reload was carried for each tube. Their anti-submarine weapons comprised 16 depth charges.

Construction and career
On 9 June 1944, she rescued 126 survivors from the destroyer  (including her commander Lieutenant Commander Ikeda) which had been sunk by the submarine , near Tawitawi. During the Battle of Philippine Sea, she assisted survivors of the aircraft carrier , which was sunk by the submarine , and slightly damaged the attacking submarine with depth charges.

On 21 November 1944, Urakaze was torpedoed and sunk with all hands - including Commander Destroyer Division 17 (Captain Tamotsu Tanii) - by the submarine ,  north-northwest of Keelung, Formosa (). The torpedo that sank her was one out of three launched by the submarine, one of which inadvertently sank her with the two others missing their intended target, the battleship , and hitting the battleship , sinking her several hours later.

Notes

References

External links
  CombinedFleet.com: Kagero-class destroyers
  CombinedFleet.com: Urakaze history

Kagerō-class destroyers
World War II destroyers of Japan
Ships sunk by American submarines
1940 ships
World War II shipwrecks in the East China Sea
Warships lost in combat with all hands
Maritime incidents in November 1944
Ships built by Fujinagata Shipyards
Potent

Potent  may refer to:
 
 for the heraldic fur
Warren Potent for the Australian Olympic medalist in shooting

See also:
Potency (disambiguation)
Shigar Valley

The Shigar Valley () is a valley in Gilgit Baltistan in northern Pakistan that is watered by the Shigar River, and centred on the town of Shigar. The valley stretches about 170 km from Skardu to Askole and is the gateway to the high mountains of the Karakoram. The town of Shigar is the largest settlement in valley. Even though the Shigar Valley is a remote and largely inaccessible place, there are several villages in the valley. Askole is the last settlement in the Shigar Valley, which is still far from the high mountains. Shigar was an administrative sub-division of Skardu District that is now a district in its own right.

This valley is a stream of the Indus River, which is near to the town of Skardu. It is a popular destination for hiking, trekking and mountaineering, despite the tough conditions there.  Also, the valley is an attraction for the tourists as it is a gateway to Karakoram Hills, one of the world's highest peaks is K2.

Two ethnic groups exist, which speak Shina language and Gujari language.
The local Balti community´s use of medicinal plants has been surveyed in an ethnobotanical study.

See also
Askole
Skardu

References

External links

https://gbit.pk/10-beautiful-places-visit-shigar-valley-skardu-baltistan/
Photos from Shigar by Arif A Khan

Baltistan
Populated places in Shigar District
Valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan
Shigar District
Madam's Organ Blues Bar

Madam's Organ Blues Bar is a restaurant and nightclub located at 2461 18th Street NW in Washington, D.C.'s Adams Morgan neighborhood. A local landmark, the bar is popular for its nightly live music, especially blues and bluegrass. Regular performers include Bobby Parker, Ben Andrews, Catfish Hodge, and Bob Perilla & Big Hillbilly Bluegrass. The bar offers billiards, has a rooftop deck and serves soul food. Notable regular patrons have included Euan Blair, son of Tony Blair, and the late Soviet dissident artist Alexandr Zhdanov.  Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi was not only a regular patron but also performed with his band "Coalition of the Willing" for his Washington Diplomatic farewell party attended by a Washington A-list including European diplomats, United States Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. Barbara and Jenna Bush have also been spotted there.  Madam's Organ was described as a favored hangout by Playboy and Stuff, and was featured on the Wild On! travel series on E!.

History

In 1992, it opened as a blues and bluegrass bar.  Madam's Organ moved to its present location in 1997, after a temporary closure. 

This location once housed the original Children's Supermart store, which was opened by Charles Lazarus in 1948 and later became the Toys "R" Us retail chain.

Controversy

Madam's Organ features a large outdoor mural, which depicts "The Madam", the bar's burlesque mascot. The bar's owner, Bill Duggan, says he commissioned the mural as an artwork, but the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs ruled it an advertisement because it includes the name of the establishment. In court, the owner refused to remove the wording from the breasts, claiming that to do so would only further expose 9' by 13' breasts. Since Madam's Organ did not have a permit for the mural, the bar owner was fined. The case remains in the Court of Appeals.

References

External links

 Madam's Organ official site

Music venues in Washington, D.C.
Madam's Organ
Adams Morgan
Restaurants in Washington, D.C.
Wingate Sandstone

The Wingate Sandstone is a geologic formation in the Glen Canyon Group of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States which crops out in northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah.

Geology 
Wingate Sandstone is particularly prominent in southeastern Utah, where it forms attractions in a number of national parks and monuments. These include Capitol Reef National Park, the San Rafael Swell, and Canyonlands National Park.

Wingate Sandstone frequently appears just below the Kayenta Formation and Navajo Sandstone, two other formations of the Glen Canyon group. Together, these three formations can result in immense vertical cliffs of  or more. Wingate layers are typically pale orange to red in color, the remnants of wind-born sand dunes deposited approximately 200 million years ago in the Late Triassic.

Fossil content 
Long dated to the Early Jurassic only, fossils (including a phytosaur skull) and other evidence indicate that part of the Wingate Sandstone is as old as Late Triassic in age. The upper part of the formation, which laterally interfingers with the Moenave Formation to the west, is Early Jurassic in age.

Gallery

References

External links 

 U.S.G.S National Geologic Map Database Lexicon

Sandstone formations of the United States
Jurassic System of North America
Triassic System of North America
Jurassic Arizona
Triassic Arizona
Jurassic Colorado
Triassic Colorado
Jurassic geology of Nevada
Triassic geology of Nevada
Jurassic geology of Utah
Triassic geology of Utah
Geologic formations with imbedded sand dunes
Aeolian deposits
G. C. Kuhlman Car Company

The G. C. Kuhlman Car Company was a leading American manufacturer of streetcars and interurbans in the early 20th century. The company was based in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Kuhlman Car Company was founded in 1892 by Gustav C. Kuhlman (c.1859-1915), his father and three other brothers.  It was acquired by the J. G. Brill Company in 1904, but continued building under the Kuhlman name.  It was reorganized in 1931 as J. G. Brill of Ohio, but ceased operations completely in 1932.  

Before it closed, as the market for electric streetcars and interurban cars began to contract, Brill gave Kuhlman the additional task of building steel diners.

The company's main clients were railways in Ohio, Michigan, New York, and Illinois, as well as streetcar operating companies in Akron, Detroit, Cleveland and Montreal, Quebec.

Products
 SE ST streetcar
 Peter Witt streetcar

Clients
 Boston Elevated Railway
 Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad
 Indiana Railroad
 Louisville Railway Company
 The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company
 New York Railways
 Northern Ohio Traction and Light
 Montreal Street Railway Company
 Shaker Heights Rapid Transit

References

External links

 G. C. Kuhlman Car Company history. 2006. Mid-Continent Railway Museum website. 
 Preserved North American electric Kulhman equipment. Branford Electric Railway Association website.

Defunct rolling stock manufacturers of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Cleveland
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1892
Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Ohio
Tram manufacturers
J. G. Brill Company
A Box of Their Best

A Box of Their Best is the first US box set by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1980. It consisted of the albums A New World Record (with the sides reversed), Out of the Blue and Discovery. Also included was Jeff Lynne's first ever solo single, "Doin' That Crazy Thing". This single, a one-sided single that was marked as a promo, was not in all releases of the box. The box set is almost identical to the UK release Four Light Years, released the same year.

Track listing

All songs written by Jeff Lynne.

7" single
"Doin' That Crazy Thing" – 3:21

A New World Record

Out of the Blue

Discovery

Personnel
Jeff Lynne – vocals, guitars, piano, synthesizer
Bev Bevan – drums, percussion
Richard Tandy – piano, synthesizer, electric piano, clavinet
Kelly Groucutt – bass guitar, vocals

Additional personnel on sides 1–6
Mik Kaminski – violin
Melvyn Gale – cello
Hugh McDowell – cello

References

1980 greatest hits albums
Albums produced by Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra compilation albums
Epic Records compilation albums
Douglas Bassett (media executive)

Douglas Graeme Bassett,  (born June 22, 1940) is a Canadian media executive.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of John Bassett, he is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Baton Broadcasting Inc. and Chairman of the Board of CTV Television Network Limited.  He was educated at Upper Canada College.

In 1991, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition for being "one of Canada's leading business figures". He was awarded the Order of Ontario in 1995 and is a Knight of the Order of St. John. In 2005, he was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

He is married to Susan Juliet Temple and has three daughters; Deborah, Stephanie and Jennifer.

References

1940 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Toronto
Canadian people of English descent
Knights of Justice of the Order of St John
Officers of the Order of Canada
Members of the Order of Ontario
Upper Canada College alumni
St. Marks River

The St. Marks River is a river in the Big Bend region of Florida. It has been classified by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection as an Outstanding Florida Water, and is the easternmost river within the Northwest Florida Water Management District.

The St. Marks River begins in eastern Leon County, Florida and flows  through Leon and Wakulla counties into Apalachee Bay, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. It has a drainage basin of  in size. It has one significant tributary, the Wakulla River.

A few miles south of its source the St. Marks passes under a natural bridge at Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park and then disappears underground to become a subterranean river for about one-half mile. The river emerges at the St. Marks River Rise, a first magnitude spring with a discharge of 433cf/s, to pass over a stretch of rocks, forming rapids.

The incorporated town of St. Marks is located at the juncture of the Wakulla and St. Marks Rivers. To the north is the community of Newport. Between St. Marks and Newport is a small industrial area serviced by barge.

The San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park and St. Marks lighthouse are located near the mouth of the river, while the City of Tallahassee's Sam O. Purdom Generating Plant is located on the river in St. Marks.

List of crossings

References

 Marth, Marty. 1990. St. Marks River. in Marth, Del and Marty Marth, eds. The Rivers of Florida. Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc. .
 protectingourwater.org: St. Marks River Watershed
 Emerging Waters: Springs of Northwest Florida
 St. Marks River & Apalachee Bay Watershed
 City Of Tallahassee Sam O. Purdom Generating Station

Bodies of water of Jefferson County, Florida
Bodies of water of Leon County, Florida
Rivers of Florida
Rivers of Wakulla County, Florida
Outstanding Florida Waters
Subterranean rivers of the United States
Mahidol (disambiguation)

Mahidol usually refers to Prince Mahidol Adulyadej of Songkla, father of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. The name may also refer to:
Mahidol as the surname used by members of Prince Mahidol's line of the Thai royal family
Mahidol University, a university in Bangkok, Thailand
Brownell Car Company

Brownell Car Company was a horsecar and streetcar builder in St. Louis, Missouri.

The company was founded as Brownell and Wight Car Company by Frederick Brownell and Andrew Wight in 1875 as a horsecar builder, and was renamed in 1879.

It produced electric cars after horsecar service was abandoned by many cities. The company was bought by J. G. Brill and Company in 1902, either directly or through their American Car Company subsidiary.

Product
 Horsecars
 SE ST streetcar
 Cable cars - Chicago, Brooklyn, New York, Kansas City
 Low's Adjustable Car
 Accelerator Car
 Open bench electric street cars
 Combination cars
 Rail grinder cars

Clients
 Montreal Street Railway
 Baltimore Traction Company - open bench streetcars
 Grand Avenue Railway - Kansas City - cable cars
 Chicago City Railway - Chicago - cable cars
 Brooklyn Avenue Railway - cable cars
 Salem, Oregon Salem Street Railway Company - horsecars
 St. Louis Public Service Company

See also
St. Louis Car Company, the railcar maker founded in 1887 in St. Louis

References

Defunct rolling stock manufacturers of the United States
Horsecar manufacturers
Tram manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in St. Louis
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1875
1875 establishments in Missouri
Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States
J. G. Brill Company
Dagstuhl Castle

Dagstuhl Castle (in German: Burgruine Dagstuhl or Burg Dagstuhl) is a ruined castle on the top of a hill near the town of Wadern, kreis Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany. It overlooks the newer Schloss Dagstuhl in the valley below, which is historic, but has been converted for use as a meeting centre for computer science.

The castle was founded by Knight Boemund of Saarbrücken sometime before 1290, probably for Bohemond I von Warnesberg, Archbishop of Trier. The name derives from the German word for roof, "Dach", because of the roof-like shape of the hill on which the castle stands.

The castle ruins have been archaeologically explored and were improved for public access in 2004.

See also 
 Schloss Dagstuhl

References

External links 
 Burg und Herrschaft Dagstuhl 

Castles in Saarland
Ruined castles in Germany
1290s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
1290 establishments in Europe
Stiepel Priory

Stiepel Priory is a Cistercian monastery in Stiepel in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

It was founded in 1988 at the instigation of Franz Hengsbach, first Bishop of the Diocese of the Ruhr. It is a dependent house of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria.

The priory church is also a place of pilgrimage to the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is taken care of by the monks and the local parish.

Priors and Subpriors

External links

  Stiepel Priory website

Cistercian monasteries in Germany
Monasteries in North Rhine-Westphalia
Christian organizations established in 1988
Buildings and structures in Bochum
Ski Amadé

The Ski Amadé region of Austria is a network of 28 ski areas and towns that combined, make up the second largest ski area in Europe.  It is named after the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who was born in the city of Salzburg.

Background
The resorts are linked by buses. There are 860 km of downhill slopes and 278 modern ski lifts, the highest lift being at the Dachstein Glacier with an altitude of 2,700 m. There are over 700 km of marked cross country Nordic skiing tracks.

Five Regions
The resorts are made up of 28 villages across five principal regions that make up the alliance. The five regions are Salzburger Sportwelt, Dachstein Tauern, Gastein Valley, Hochkönig Ski Area, and Grossarl Valley.

Geography
The ski region stretches from the south-east of Salzburg to the upper Styrian Ennstal, including the impressive mountain ranges of Steinernes Meer, Hochkönig, Dachstein and Tauernkamm.

Being in the Eastern Alps, thus being colder than the Western Alps the region has a good record of snowfall during the winter months.

Interesting facts
The resorts of Schladming/Planai, Reiteralm, Flachau and Zauchensee all have runs which are used for the annual Alpine Skiing World Cup circuit.
Hermann Maier who has won four overall World Cup titles, two Olympic gold medals, three World Championship titles and 53 races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup circuit is from the Austrian Three Valleys area of Alpendorf, Wagrain and Flachau. With 53 champion races he is only second in place to being defined as the world's greatest skier; in front of him is Ingemar Stenmark from Sweden who has 86 victories.
Scenes from the classic film The Sound of Music were filmed around the Salzburger Sportwelt region of the alliance. One scene in particular, where Julie Andrews is singing as she walks along a grassy verge was filmed near the resort of Alpendorf.
The Gastein Valley resorts of Bad Gastein and Bad Hofgastein are highly renowned for their thermal baths as well as for their extensive skiing areas, and are supplemented by the mountains of Graukogel and Sportgastein offering more opportunities for intermediate and advanced skiers and freeriders. The ski lifts of the third town in the valley - Dorfgastein - are linked to the Grossarl Valley.

References

External links
 
 
 Salzburger Sportwelt region

Ski areas in Austria
American Car Company

The American Car Company was a streetcar manufacturing company based in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It was one of the country's leading streetcar builders during the heyday of streetcar operation. The company was founded in 1891 by William Sutton and Emil Alexander, who had previously founded the Laclede Car Company in 1883 also in St. Louis, and had both got their start working in the streetcar business at St. Louis' horsecar manufacturer, the Brownell Car Company.

The American Car Company was a builder of electric powered streetcars. ACC was bought out by the J. G. Brill Company of Philadelphia in 1902. However, Brill continued to operate the American Car Co. under its own name until 1931, when it was reorganized as J. G. Brill of Missouri.

In 1915, American Car built the very first Birney-type trolley, the prototype of a new design then known as the "Safety Car", and went on to build more Birney cars than any other manufacturer. The Fort Collins Municipal Railway, in Colorado, and the Fort Smith Trolley Museum, in Arkansas, are examples of operations where preserved Birney cars built by the American Car Company can still be seen running today.  

In 1931, only four months after parent company J. G. Brill discontinued use of the American Car Company name, the ex-ACC factory in St. Louis closed permanently.

See also
 Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224
 American Car and Foundry Company
 List of tram builders

References

External links
 American Car Company history, by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum

Manufacturing companies based in St. Louis
Defunct rolling stock manufacturers of the United States
Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States
J. G. Brill Company
Laclede Car Company

Laclede Car Company was founded in 1883 by William Sutton and Emil Alexander, who later founded the American Car Company and worked at Brownell Car Company in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

The company was a short-lived electric streetcar builder. It was located at 4500 North Second Street. It was bought out by St. Louis Car Company in 1903.

Defunct rolling stock manufacturers of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in St. Louis
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1883
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1903
1883 establishments in Missouri
1903 disestablishments in Missouri
Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Tram manufacturers

References
Area codes 601 and 769

Area codes 601 and 769 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for central and southern Mississippi, excluding the three counties of the Gulf Coast. 

Area code 601 was one of the original North American area codes assigned in 1947. Until 1997, it served the entire state of Mississippi.

Despite the state's relatively stagnant population growth, 601 was close to exhaustion by the mid-1990s due to the proliferation of cell phones and pagers. In 1997, the far southeastern tip of the state, including Biloxi and the Gulf Coast, was split off with area code 228. In 1999, area code 662 was created in the northern half of Mississippi, including the Mississippi side of the Memphis area.

The 1999 split was intended as a long-term solution, but within five years, 601 was close to exhaustion due to the proliferation of cell phones, particularly in the Jackson area. In 2006, Mississippi's first and only overlay complex was created when 769 was approved as the second area code for the 601 numbering plan area. Ten-digit dialing became mandatory in central Mississippi.

Service area
The numbering plan area includes the following cities:

Bolton
Brandon
Braxton
Brookhaven
Canton
Carthage
Clinton
Columbia
Conehatta
Crystal Springs
Decatur
Edwards
Florence
Flowood
Forest
Hattiesburg
Hazlehurst
Jackson
Laurel
Lucedale
Lumberton
Madison
Magee
Magnolia
McComb
Mendenhall
Meridian
Monticello
Mount Olive
Morton
Natchez
Newton
Ovett
Pearl
Pelahatchie
Petal
Philadelphia
Picayune
Poplarville
Port Gibson
Prentiss
Puckett
Purvis
Quitman
Raleigh
Raymond
Richland
Ridgeland
Terry
Tylertown
Utica
Vicksburg
Washington
Waynesboro
Wesson
Wiggins

See also
List of Mississippi area codes

References
Area code history. AreaCode-Info.com.
Bellsouth.com

External links

601 and 769
601 and 769
Telecommunications-related introductions in 1947
1947 establishments in Mississippi
2005 establishments in Mississippi
George Washington Walker

George Washington Walker (19 March 1800 – 2 February 1859) was an English-born Australian missionary for the church called Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers.

Walker was born to Unitarian parents in London, the twenty-first child of John Walker by his second wife, Elizabeth. He was educated at a school in Barnard Castle. He was introduced to the Society of Friends in his teenage years when he worked in Newcastle for a linen draper who was a Quaker, but Walker did not become a Quaker himself until 1827.  Walker also participated in the temperance movement.

Walker met his future missionary partner James Backhouse in 1820 or 1821.  Between September 1831 and February 1832, Walker and Backhouse travelled from England to Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (modern Tasmania). Between 1832 and 1838, they made a tour of the penal settlements in Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and Norfolk Island.  Between 1838 and 1840, they left Australia and did missionary work in Mauritius and South Africa.

In 1840, Walker ended his travels.  He returned to Hobart in September and was married to Sarah Benson Mather on 15 December 1840.  He set up a business as a draper, and, in 1844, helped establish the Hobart Savings Bank which eventually became the Trust Bank.  He worked at his business and for the Quakers and temperance until he died on 2 February 1859 in Hobart.

In 1994, the Hobart Savings Bank endowed a scholarship at the University of Tasmania named the "George Washington Walker Trust Bank Perpetual Undergraduate Scholarship"; it was to be awarded to students of commerce or economics.

His eldest son was James Backhouse Walker.

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1800 births
1859 deaths
English Quakers
Australian Quakers
Converts to Quakerism
Quaker missionaries
People from Barnard Castle
English Protestant missionaries
Protestant missionaries in Australia
Protestant missionaries in Norfolk Island
Protestant missionaries in South Africa
Protestant missionaries in Mauritius