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Brockley Combe

Brockley Combe is a wooded combe near the village of Brockley in North Somerset, England. The combe cuts into the western edge of the Lulsgate Plateau, the Carboniferous limestone hills which form a northern outlier of the Mendips, south west of Bristol.

Bristol International Airport lies at the top of the combe. A minor road runs along the length of the combe, meeting the A370 at the lower end, near the village of Brockley.

The name arises as a very rare co-joining of two Brythonic words; combe meaning 'a small deep dry valley, easily defended', and Brock meaning 'badger'. Combe is spelt differently in other part of the United Kingdom as Coombe and Coomb, but the meanings are the same.

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, published in 1868, describes Brockley Combe as follows: "Near the village, on the south-east, is Brockley Coomb, a deep narrow glen, of singular beauty, sunk between steep rocks, rising at some points to the height of 300 feet. It is adorned with many noble trees, and all the fissures and ledges of the cliffs are enriched with a great variety of mosses and other forms of vegetation. Lead ore is found here, and there are masses of columnar basalt."

Two identically named poems were written about the combe. Brockley Coomb by British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which is subtitled Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, May 1795; and Brockley Coomb by British poet Arthur Hugh Clough. John Marius Wilson said that Brockley Combe was a "favourite resort of Coleridge".

To the south is another, more undisturbed, combe, Goblin Combe.

Brockley Hall
Forestry is carried out in the surrounding woodland. Down from the A370 is a Georgian manor house called Brockley Hall, this was inhabited by the Smyth Pigott family until later in its life. In World War II it was inhabited by American soldiers who have inscribed their names in the surrounding trees and even the large stone gate posts. After the war the hall was lived in by squatters. In the 1960s and early 70s, it was let out as flats, with houses being built in the grounds. Around 35 years ago, it was bought and refurbished, then resold as 4 separate apartments, each worth nowadays around £900,000

In the woods are the remains of a bowling green which was used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is surrounded by large mature yew trees, one of which was painted by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm in 1773.

References

External links

 Brockley & Chelvey parish
 Ordnance Survey Map c.1900 of Brockley Combe

North Somerset
Forests and woodlands of Somerset
Golden Hits

Golden Hits may refer to:

 Lady of the Stars by Donovan, packaged as Golden Hits, 1996
 The Drifters' Golden Hits, a 1968 compilation album by American doo wop/R&B vocal group The Drifters
 Golden Hits – 15 Hits of Pat Boone, a 1967 greatest hits album by Pat Boone
 The Magic of Boney M. – 20 Golden Hits, a 1980 greatest hits album by Boney M.
 Golden Hits (Demis Roussos album), 1975
 Golden Hits of the Smothers Brothers, Vol. 2, the Smothers Brothers' first greatest hits album
 The Golden Hits of Sandie Shaw, a compilation album by 1960s British singer Sandie Shaw
 Golden Hits of the Four Seasons, 1963
 Golden Hits (Turtles album), 1967
 Golden Hits (Westlife album)
Sudan at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Sudan competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Boxing

Men

References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference

Nations at the 1968 Summer Olympics
1968
Big Foot High School

Big Foot High School (BFHS) is a comprehensive four-year public high
school located in Wisconsin's South Central Walworth County in the Village of
Walworth. A union high school, BFHS operates as a grade
9-12 district with students coming from four K-8 districts.  BFHS is
governed by a separate, elected five-member board of education.  The
BFHS union district serves families from the villages of Fontana,
Sharon and Walworth; and the townships of Walworth, Delavan, Linn and
Sharon.

BFHS is named after the Potawatomi leader Big Foot
(Maumksuck) who had 6 toes and lived along the banks of Geneva Lake (originally
known as Big Foot Lake) until his tribe was forcibly relocated by the United
States government in 1836.

Extracurricular activities
Big Foot's football team went to the Division 4 state championship game at Camp Randall Stadium in 2008, but lost to Wautoma High School by a score of 20–0. In 2009, the team played in the championship game the second consecutive year, this time facing Kewaunee High School. Big Foot won by a score of 42–13, making it the first State Football title in school history.

Statistics 
Enrollment: 468 (2021–22)
District Administrator: Mr. Doug Parker
Principal: Mr. Jeremy Andersen
Assistant Principals: Ms. Bailey Racky and Mr. Mike Welden
Coeducational: Yes
Colors: Scarlet and Silver

Notable alumni
 Tyler August, Speaker pro tempore of the Wisconsin State Assembly
 Travis Frederick, Center for the Dallas Cowboys (NFL)

References

External links 
Big Foot High School website
Big Foot High School Band Website

1959 establishments in Wisconsin
Educational institutions established in 1959
Public high schools in Wisconsin
Schools in Walworth County, Wisconsin
Sudan at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Sudan competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Ten competitors, all men, took part in ten events in four sports.

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Boxing

Men

Shooting

Three shooters represented Sudan in 1960.
Men

Weightlifting

Men

References

External links
Official Olympic Reports

Nations at the 1960 Summer Olympics
1960
Centaur Aisle

Centaur Aisle is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the fourth book of the Xanth series.

King Trent has left Xanth on a mission of trade to Mundania and has left Dor as temporary king. When Trent fails to return after some time, Dor must find a way to rescue Trent. He is informed that the means to rescue Trent lies to the south on Centaur Isle, the home of a tribe of centaurs.

Plot

Xanth's King Trent has left for dreary Mundania, leaving Dor to practice governing the magical kingdom. Dor's magical talent is communication with the inanimate which for information gathering is very helpful, but for dealing with citizens needing discipline it leaves room for improvement. But when Trent goes to establish trade routes with Mundania, Dor and his friends (a golem named Grundy, the centaur Chet, Smash the ogre, and Dor's love interest, King Trent's daughter Princess Irene) must keep the land in line.

However, the former King Trent does not return when he had planned. After waiting two weeks, Dor gathers his gang and goes on a quest to help rescue Trent.

This mission leads them to Centaur Isle, to find an unknown Centaur Magician. Centaurs are very negative about magical talents, so when they find Arnolde the Centaur and discover his talent, he is exiled and willing to help them rescue Trent. Arnolde's talent is a magical aisle, creating a field of magic around him that allows anyone to use magic in Mundania.

The gang (minus Chet) travel north by rainbow to Mundania.  While in Mundania, they find a scholar named Ichabod. From him, they learn that they are in the wrong time strand and must go back to Xanth and re-cross the border. Eventually Dor and his friends find the correct strand and go to the castle where they think Trent and his wife Iris were last. After a nice dinner and a little betrayal, they are locked in a dungeon. After escaping, they smash down walls to find Trent and his new friend King Omen, the proper king of this area.

The group (plus the new additions) struggles to get Omen onto his rightful throne. After exchanging farewells, they decide to return to Xanth with King Trent and Queen Iris.

Characters
 Dor
 Irene
Smash
Grundy
Chet
Arnolde

References

American fantasy novels
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1982 American novels
Novels about magic
Del Rey books
Books with cover art by Michael Whelan
Dragon on a Pedestal

Dragon on a Pedestal is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the seventh book of the Xanth series .
 
This book centers on Princess Ivy, the 3-year-old daughter of King Dor and Queen Irene, the search for her, and the spell on Gap Chasm that caused people to forget it existed breaking apart into "Forget Whorls".

Plot summary

When the book begins, the Good Magician Humfrey, and his son Hugo, run into the Gap dragon while filling a vial with water from the Fountain of Youth. Humpfrey tells Hugo to douse the dragon with the water, and Hugo does so but accidentally sprays Humpfrey as well. Humpfrey regresses to the age of a baby, as does the dragon. Queen Irene realizes Princess Ivy has wandered off, and begins a quest to find her daughter.  Luckily, Ivy comes across Humfrey's 8-year-old son Hugo, and – due to her unknown talent of enhancement – Hugo temporarily becomes smarter, braver, and stronger when she tells him he is. Ivy also manages to enhance the positive qualities of  the Gap Dragon, and names him Stanley Steamer.

In Castle Roogna, Dor accidentally put a forget spell on the Gap Chasm (the huge rift that splits Xanth in two), while trying to escape a horde of harpies and goblins, with the result being that everyone forgot the Gap Chasm existed, with the exception of the people who live near it. In this book, the forget spell is beginning to disintegrate into "forget whorls" spinning off into the nearby forest (due to the Time Of No Magic caused when Bink released the Demon X(A/N)th), causing confusion and memory loss.  Ivy ends up walking through a forget whirl and it causes her to forget how to get home.

Near the end of the novel, all the characters join forces against a swarm of wiggles, which threaten the welfare of Xanth by burrowing through anything and everything in their path.

Characters
Ivy
Hugo
Irene
Gorgon
The Gap Dragon
Humfrey
Dor

Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Dragon on a Pedestal for White Dwarf #52, and stated that "Despite a predilection for very didactic explanations and very stupid protagonists, Anthony is engagingly breezy and inventive, titivating each tired old quest plot with new varieties of 'magic'."

Reviews
Review [French] by Élisabeth Vonarburg? (1984) in Solaris, #54
Review by Richard Mathews (1984) in SF & Fantasy Review, March 1984

References

1983 American novels
American fantasy novels
Del Rey books
Human-zombie romance in fiction
 07
Zombie novels
Schottky defect

A Schottky defect is an excitation of the site occupations in a crystal lattice leading to point defects named after Walter H. Schottky. In ionic crystals, this defect forms when oppositely charged ions leave their lattice sites and become incorporated for instance at the surface, creating oppositely charged vacancies. These vacancies are formed in stoichiometric units, to maintain an overall neutral charge in the ionic solid.

Definition
Schottky defects consist of unoccupied anion and cation sites in a stoichiometric ratio. For a simple ionic crystal of type A−B+, a Schottky defect consists of a single anion vacancy (A) and a single cation vacancy (B), or v + v  following Kröger–Vink notation. For a more general crystal with formula AxBy, a Schottky cluster is formed of x vacancies of A and y vacancies of B, thus the overall stoichiometry and charge neutrality are conserved. Conceptually, a Schottky defect is generated if the crystal is expanded by one unit cell, whose a prior empty sites are filled by atoms that diffused out of the interior, thus creating vacancies in the crystal.

Schottky defects are observed most frequently when there is a small difference in size between the cations and anions that make up a material.

Illustration
Chemical equations in Kröger–Vink notation for the formation of Schottky defects in TiO2 and BaTiO3. 

∅  v  + 2 v

∅  v  + v  + 3 v

This can be illustrated schematically with a two-dimensional diagram of a sodium chloride crystal lattice:

Bound and dilute defects

The vacancies that make up the Schottky defects have opposite charge, thus they experience a mutually attractive Coulomb force. At low temperature, they may form bound clusters.

The bound clusters are typically less mobile than the dilute counterparts, as multiple species need to move in a concerted motion for the whole cluster to migrate. This has important implications for numerous functional ceramics used in a wide range of applications, including ion conductors, Solid oxide fuel cells and nuclear fuel.

Examples
This type of defect is typically observed in highly ionic compounds, highly coordinated compounds, and where there is only a small difference in sizes of cations and anions of which the compound lattice is composed. Typical salts where Schottky disorder is observed are NaCl, KCl, KBr, CsCl and AgBr. For engineering applications, Schottky defects are important in oxides with Fluorite structure, such as CeO2, cubic ZrO2, UO2, ThO2 and PuO2.

Effect on density
Typically, the formation volume of a vacancy is positive: the lattice contraction due to the strains around the defect does not make up for the expansion of the crystal due to the additional number of sites. Thus, the density of the solid crystal is less than the theoretical density of the material.

See also
Frenkel defect
Wigner effect
Crystallographic defects

References

Notes

Crystallographic defects
Lulsgate Plateau

Lulsgate Plateau is the name given to the Carboniferous Limestone hills which form a northern outlier of the Mendip Hills, southwest of Bristol, England, approximately  above sea level, which has been occupied since prehistoric times.

The major feature on the plateau is Bristol International Airport. Cutting into the western edge of the plateau are two combes, Brockley Combe and Goblin Combe a  biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). There are two major roads in the area — the A38 cuts across the top of the plateau, while the A370 runs along its western edge. Both run in a southwesterly direction, and join Bristol to towns and villages in Somerset. To the west of the plateau are the North Somerset Levels, and to the south is the Yeo valley.

References

Landforms of Somerset
Mendip Hills
Plateaus of England
Wrington
Seam allowance

Seam allowance (sometimes called inlays) is the area between the fabric edge and the stitching line on two (or more) pieces of material being sewn together. Seam allowances can range from  wide to as much as several inches. Commercial patterns for home sewers have seam allowances ranging from .

A 5/8″(1.5cm) seam allowance provides enough extra between the seam line and the cut edge of the fabric to make sure that the fabric will be safely caught as they are being joining together. This is particularly important when working with fabrics that ravel easily.

Sewing industry seam allowances range from  for curved areas (e.g. neck line, armscye) or hidden seams (e.g. facing seams), to  or more for areas that require extra fabric for final fitting to the wearer (e.g. center back). Curved seams generally have a smaller seam allowance than straight seams; bulky seams with a large amount of seam allowance are more difficult to press into or conform to a curved shape.

References

Seams
139P/Väisälä–Oterma

139P/Väisälä–Oterma is a periodic comet in the Solar System. When it was discovered in 1939 it was not recognized as a comet and designated as asteroid 1939 TN.

References

External links 
 Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
 139P/Vaisala-Oterma – Seiichi Yoshida @ aerith.net
139P at Kronk's Cometography

Periodic comets
0139
Discoveries by Liisi Oterma
+
Comets in 2017
19391007
Spon Lane Locks Branch

The Spon Lane Locks Branch is an 800-yard section of the BCN Main Line canal in Oldbury, England, which forms a connecting canal "sliproad" where the Old BCN Main Line crosses the New BCN Main Line at the Stewart Aqueduct. It runs westwards from Spon Lane Junction (underneath the M5 motorway) via the three Spon Lane Locks to Bromford Junction. 
It was originally part of the Wednesbury branch of Birmingham Canal which opened in 1769. At the top lock, there is a rare example of a split bridge, which enabled a horse to cross the canal without being detached from the barge. The rope passed through a gap at the centre of the bridge between its two halves. However, this particular example is a modern reconstruction, dating from 1986. These are probably the oldest working locks in the country. There is pedestrian access to a tow path for its entire length, but being narrow and muddy, it is not suitable for cyclists.

On the north-west corner of Spon Lane bottom lock can be found a rare example of an Ordnance Survey rivet benchmark, this one indicating a height of  above sea level at Newlyn. This is one of two rivet benchmarks on this branch, the other being at Smethwick Middle Lock.

References

Birmingham Canal Navigations
Canals in the West Midlands (county)
Oldbury, West Midlands
Canals opened in 1769
Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn

Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the eighth book of the Xanth series.

This book is a story within a story as one of Castle Roogna's ghosts, Jordan the Barbarian, tells Princess Ivy his story of betrayal and death via the magical medium of the Tapestry.

Plot

The five-year-old Princess Ivy asks one of Castle Roogna's ghosts to tell her how he became a ghost.  Ivy uses her talent of enhancement - and some caustic Crewel Lye to strip off centuries of accrued grime - to improve the range and clarity of Castle Roogna's magical Tapestry.  The Tapestry is a woven hanging which allows anyone to view recent or historical events (although it cannot violate the Adult Conspiracy, nor does it include sound).  The ghost, known as Jordan the Barbarian when he was alive 400 years ago, begins his story by recounting how he set off on an adventure with his horse Pook.

Jordan had the magical talent of self-healing — which came in handy as he was cut, stabbed, and dismembered during his travels.  In one case, a woman finds him gravely injured and hauls him to her cottage, not knowing of his talent.  Jordan ends up falling in love with this woman, Threnody.  Unfortunately, the evil magician Yin-Yang had already claimed Threnody to be his wife, and was willing to do anything to have her.

Intending to keep Jordan safe from Yin-Yang, Threnody makes it appear that she has betrayed Jordan. She cuts him into pieces and buries each piece in a different remote location — knowing that if the pieces were reattached, he would be able to heal himself. However, she is never able to break free of Yin-Yang long enough to collect Jordan's dismembered body and eventually kills herself.

After hearing Jordan's story, Ivy decides to gather his body parts herself. Once placed near each other, the pieces mend together and cover back up with muscle and skin (greatly sped up due to Ivy's enhancement).  Jordan is alive again — but he wants his new love, the ghost Renee, to be brought to life again too. When Ivy and Jordan use a regenerating potion on Renee's remains (after accidentally teleporting Stanley Steamer the baby Gap Dragon away), Threnody emerges from her grave.

Threnody explains that her "cruel lie" had been done to protect Jordan.  After some time, he forgives her and they get married.

Characters
Jordan
Threnody
Pook Pooka
Yin-Yang
Ivy

References

American fantasy novels
 08
1985 American novels
Novels about magic
Del Rey books
Series 6 exam

In the United States, the investment company products/variable life contracts representative exam, is commonly referred to as the Series 6 exam. Individuals passing this multiple choice exam are licensed to sell a limited set of securities products:
 Mutual funds
 Closed-end funds on the initial offering only
 Unit investment trusts
 Variable Annuities

A Series 6 registered individual is not a stockbroker since Series 6 license holders cannot sell stock, other corporate securities, direct participation programs (DPPs), or option products.

This exam is administered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA, previously known as the NASD). In order to take the exam, an individual must be sponsored by a member firm of either FINRA or a self-regulatory organization (SRO). The cost of the exam is $40. Individuals are allowed 90 minutes to complete 50 multiple choice questions. The passing score is 70%, and those who fail this exam must wait thirty days before taking it again.  In order to be registered with the Series 6, an individual must also pass the Securities Industry Essentials Exam (The SIE Exam). 

The table below lists the allocation of exam questions for each main job function of an investment company and variable contracts products representative.

See also
 List of securities examinations
 Series 7 exam
 Series 24 exam
 Series 63 exam
 Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

Sources
 Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (http://www.finra.org/industry/series6)
 http://www.series6examtutor.com  (via FINRA's series 6 content outline)

United States securities law
Professional certification in finance
Standardized tests in the United States
Golem in the Gears

Golem in the Gears is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the ninth book of the Xanth series.

Plot introduction

Grundy, a man only a few inches high, is desperate to prove himself and gain respect. He volunteers to ride the Monster Under The Bed to find his friend Ivy's long lost dragon, Stanley Steamer.

After many adventures, he rescues Rapunzel from the villainous Sea Hag. It seems too good to be true that she could become any size she wanted! A perfect match, seemingly. But that would have to wait until they shook off the pursuing Sea Hag...and Stanley still needed to be found!

Characters
Grundy
Rapunzel
Sea Hag
Snortimer

Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Golem in the Gears for White Dwarf #86, and stated that "Like some legendary D&D campaigns, Xanth is so full of whimsy and casual magic that no situation can threaten for long: the storyline lurches drunkenly from pun to banal pun."

Reviews
Review by Bob Collins (1985) in Fantasy Review, December 1985
Review by Don D'Ammassa (1986) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #82 July 1986
Review by Andy Sawyer (1987) in Paperback Inferno, #64
Review by Ken Brown (1987) in Interzone, #20 Summer 1987

References

American fantasy novels
 09
1986 American novels
Del Rey books
Rwanda at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Rwanda competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Women
Track & road events

References

Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference

Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988
1988 in Rwanda
Vale of the Vole

Vale of the Vole is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the tenth book of the Xanth series.
It begins a trilogy including Heaven Cent and Man from Mundania. The novel was written as a satirical jab at the canalization of the Kissimmee River in Anthony's native state of Florida as a result of the effects of the 1947 Atlantic hurricane season.
 
The protagonist of this story is Eskil "Esk" Ogre, only son of Tandy Nymph and Smash Ogre.  His talent is to protest; when Esk says "No!" he really means it. Those he directs this talent at literally stop what they have intended to do. Esk goes to ask Good Magician Humfrey how to get rid of the Demoness Metria, who has seemingly threatened his family. Unfortunately, Humphrey has gone missing.

Plot summary

On his way to the Good Magician's castle, Esk meets Chex, the winged centaur daughter of Xap Hippogryph and Chem Centaur.  Despite having wings, Chex is unable to fly due to her solid equine weight; she is going to ask Humfrey how she can fly.  Later, the two of them meet up with Volney Vole, who always replaces S's with V's during speech.  Volney has a demon problem of his own, as his home by the Kiss-Me River has become unbearably infested with bugs ever since the demons decided to straighten out the river's undulating curves.

When they discover the Good Magician is missing, they decide to look for him.  On the way, they go through a Hypnogourd, where bad dreams are manufactured.  Esk meets Bria Brassie, a heavy brass woman, and they fall in love.  The team discovers that Chex can make items temporarily light when she flicks them with her tail, which provides a solution to her problem of how to fly.

Characters
Eskil
Volney
Chex
Bria
Metria

References

 10
1987 American novels
Rwanda at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Rwanda competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Women
Track & road events

References
Official Olympic Reports
sports-reference

Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984
1984 in Rwanda
Man from Mundania

Man from Mundania is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony. The twelfth book of the Xanth series, it concludes the trilogy of Vale of the Vole and Heaven Cent.

Plot introduction
The protagonist of Man from Mundania is seventeen-year-old Princess Ivy, daughter of King Dor and Queen Irene, older sister to Prince Dolph.  Due to her ancestor Bink's deal in the second Xanth novel, The Source of Magic, Ivy has a magician-caliber magical talent of being able to selectively enhance the world around her to match her expectations.  The story begins when Ivy decides to use the Heaven Cent, located by Dolph in the previous book Heaven Cent, to find the Good Magician Humfrey, who had been missing since Vale of the Vole.

Plot summary
 
Princess Ivy sets off with her younger brother's co-fiancees Nada Naga and Electra to retrieve the magic mirror that had been stolen by the evil machine Com-Pewter, in preparation for her quest to find Good Magician Humfrey.  After besting Com-Pewter in a battle of wits, Ivy uses the charged-up Heaven Cent to transport her to Humfrey's location.

Meanwhile, in Mundania, an average college boy named Grey Murphy runs a computer program that claims that it will help him meet women.  Sure enough, after installing the "Worm" program, Grey meets a series of appropriately named girls who move into the neighboring apartment, starting with Agenda and moving on through Dyslexia and Euphoria.  When Ivy arrives, disorientated to find herself in Mundania, Grey starts to fall for her despite her claims that she is a princess from a fantasy world called Xanth.

When Ivy wants to go home, Grey agrees to go with her, even though he doesn't believe that Xanth exists.  Even when they've entered Xanth, Grey finds a scientific basis for the fantastical things he sees.  His feelings for Ivy grow stronger, although Ivy knows that her regal parents won't allow her to marry a non-magician.  The two of them take a trip through the Hypnogourd, where bad dreams are manufactured.  After exiting the gourd, Grey, still skeptical of Xanth's magic, turns the Maenads' wine spring into water. Nada realizes his talent: magic nullification - which is a magician-caliber talent.  It emerges that Grey is the son of Evil Magician Murphy and Vadne, both banished from Xanth in the book  Castle Roogna, although they had never revealed their origins to him.

References

External links
Excerpt from Google Books

 12
1989 American novels
Avon (publisher) books
Isle of View

Isle of View is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, published in 1989. It is the thirteenth book of the Xanth series.

Plot
Che, Chex Centaur’s winged foal, has been kidnapped by a group of goblins.  It is up to Jenny, a girl from the world of Two Moons, to save him. Dolph finally has to decide whom to marry: Electra or Naga Nada.

The book begins in mid-crisis: Che Centaur has been foalnapped.  Jenny Elf, wandering in a myopic haze through the World of Two Moons with her cat Sammy, accidentally stumbles through a giant hole between dimensions and ends up in Xanth.  Jenny eventually discovers Che being held hostage by a group of goblins, and her attempt to rescue him results in them both being captured by another band of goblins.

Nada Naga, Electra, and the original goblin gang work together and succeed in retrieving Che, Jenny, and Sammy from the new goblin kidnappers.  Nada and Electra play a game of chance with the goblins to determine to whom Che goes; the goblins win.  The four goblins, Che, Jenny, and Sammy go back to Goblin Mountain where Che is to live. There, Che and Jenny learn why the goblins had kidnapped Che in the first place: they wanted him to be the tutor and companion to Gwendolyn, a young goblin princess who was lame and mostly blind.  Because the goblins only respect strength and power, Gwendolyn needed to be able to conceal her physical disabilities by riding on Che's back - otherwise she would be overthrown and killed.

As Che and Jenny are getting to know Gwendolyn, Che's parents call together all the winged monsters in Xanth to start a siege on Goblin Mountain.  After much chaos, it is decided that Che will return to his parents, provided that they will take care of Gwendolyn as well.

Prince Dolph finally has to decide which one of his fiancees to marry: Electra or Nada.

Trivia
 Jenny Elf is named after a real reader, a twelve-year-old girl named Jenny Gildwarg, who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident that left her partially paralyzed. The story is also chronicled in the non-fiction account, Letters To Jenny.
 The title is a same-sounding (homophonous) phrase of "I love you", which is a mondegreen.

References

American fantasy novels
 13
1989 American novels
1989 fantasy novels
William Morrow and Company books
Peter Karran

Peter Karran (born 20 May 1960) is a Manx politician, who is a former leader of the Liberal Vannin Party and former Minister of Education and Children. He was a Member of the House of Keys for Middle, and then for Onchan, from 1985 to 2016.

He was a member of the Manx Labour Party from 1981 but left in 2004. In August 2006 he founded the Liberal Vannin Party and became its first leader.

Career

Karran worked as a joiner. He stood for election in Middle in the 1981 Manx general election but was not elected. In 1985 he contested a by-election in Middle and was elected, becoming the youngest ever elected Member in the House of Keys. In the 1986 general election, Karran contested Onchan and was elected. He repeated his success in Onchan in general elections in 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011. He has been very popular ever since, topping the Onchan polls at most elections. (In 2006 he received more votes than any other candidate for the Keys: partly because Onchan was one of the few three-seat constituencies and so there were more votes available.)

He was a Manx Labour Party member (and one of their two MHKs) but left the party in 2004. In August 2006 he founded the Liberal Vannin Party (LVP) and became its first leader. From 2011 to 2012 Karran served as the Minister of Education and Children under Allan Bell; however he was removed from the position for opposing the position of the Council of Ministers on the film industry.

In February 2014, Karran renounced the leadership of the LVP in favour of Kate Beecroft MHK. Karran said that it "was time for a change".

Around April 2016, Karran announced he would be standing down from the Keys after 31 years in Manx politics.

Controversy

Karran has been highly critical of the Manx Government, for example about the Mount Murray scandal. He was criticised by many people on the island when he announced the closure of all of the island's government-run preschools. His election campaign was based around the protection of frontline services in the Isle of Man, and the school closures were seen as a direct contradiction to that.

Electoral performance
Karran contested several elections, first for the Manx Labour Party and later for the Liberal Vannin Party.

House of Keys elections

Note: Throughout the relevant period the Onchan constituency elected three MHKs and each elector was entitled to three votes. Thus for example achieving 28.1% of the vote might mean that anything up to 84.3% of the electors may have voted for him.

References

Living people
1960 births
British political party founders
Liberal Vannin Party politicians
Members of the House of Keys 1981–1986
Members of the House of Keys 1986–1991
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Harpy Thyme

Harpy Thyme is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the seventeenth book of the Xanth series.

Plot summary 
Gloha Goblin-Harpy is searching for love, and decides to ask the Magician Humfrey where she can find it. He tells her to ask his second son Crombie the Soldier. Gloha goes on a quest for love, accompanied by Magician Trent and Cynthia, a winged centaur filly.

References

External links

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Walter Baker (Canadian politician)

Walter David Baker,  (August 22, 1930 – November 13, 1983) was a Canadian parliamentarian and lawyer.

Baker is best known for having been Government House Leader during the short-lived minority government of Joe Clark. He received much of the popular blame for the defeat of the government in a Motion of no confidence on December 13, 1979 with the claim that the government fell because "Walter Baker couldn't count". However, observers pointed out that targeting Baker as the scapegoat was unfair as he was House Leader, not Party Whip. The defeat was the result of the Clark government's decision to alienate the six Social Credit Members of Parliament by refusing to accord them official party status as well as Clark's view that he could "govern as if" he had a majority government.

Baker was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1972 election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Grenville—Carleton (later renamed Nepean—Carleton) and was re-elected in the 1974, 1979 and 1980 elections. He served as both Government House Leader and Minister of National Revenue during the Clark government. He served as Opposition House Leader from 1976 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1981.

In government, Baker introduced the first ever Access to Information Bill which died on the order paper with the Tory government. However, much of Baker's bill became part of the eventual Access to Information Act that was introduced by Liberal Solicitor-General Francis Fox in 1983 and passed by parliament into law. 

He was one of the founding partners of the law firm Bell Baker LLP located in Ottawa, Ontario.

Baker died at the age of 53. A week after his death, a recreational center in Barrhaven, Ottawa, Ontario was named after him, the South Nepean Centre became the Walter Baker Sports Centre.

Electoral record

References

 There goes another one by Pat MacAdam, Ottawa Sun, May 22, 2005

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1930 births
1983 deaths
Carleton University alumni
Lawyers in Ontario
Members of the 21st Canadian Ministry
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
University of Toronto Faculty of Law alumni
Lovely Head

"Lovely Head" is an electronic song performed by British group Goldfrapp. The song was written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory for the duo's debut album Felt Mountain (2000). It was released as the album's first single in May 2000 but did not chart. In November 2001, the song was re-issued as a double A-side single with "Pilots (On a Star)" and reached number sixty-eight on the UK Singles Chart.

In 2002, "Lovely Head" appeared in the Guy Ritchie film Swept Away. It appeared in Jan Kounen's 99 francs (2007), as well as in Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love (2004).
During 2001 the song was used in a TV and cinema advertising campaign for UK mobile phone company  One2One, which featured Gary Oldman. The song was also used in Arte documentary series about photographer  Helmut Newton, "Mein Leben" (2002). In 2000, the song was used by carmaker BMW in a commercial advertising its 5 Series (E39).

"Lovely Head" is used as the background music in most scenes of BBC animated television series Monkey Dust that contain the character Clive Pringle.

Background and writing
Goldfrapp began work on "Lovely Head" in September 1999 in a rented bungalow in the Wiltshire countryside. Alison Goldfrapp contributed the song's lyrics, and William Gregory and Goldfrapp composed the music together. The duo recorded the song outside their bungalow, drawing inspiration from nature. The song was originally titled "Your Lovely Head". "Lovely Head" features high lonesome whistling and cold vocals set to harpsichord and strings.

What is often mistaken for a theremin synth in the song is, in fact, Alison's vocals manipulated through a Korg MS-20 synthesiser. It was inspired by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey and Italian film director Sergio Leone.

In August 2009, American music website Pitchfork listed "Lovely Head" in their Top 500 tracks of the 2000s at number 493.

Formats and track listings

 CD & 12” single / digital single (2018)
"Lovely Head"  – 3:50
"Lovely Head" (Staré Město Mix) – 3:51
"Lovely Head" (Miss World Mix) – 3:50

Credits and personnel

Alison Goldfrapp – lead vocals, backing vocals, whistling, keyboards, songwriting, production
Will Gregory – synthesizer, keyboard, songwriting, production
Nick Batt, Chris Weston – additional programming
Adrian Utley – bass guitar
John Parish – drums
Stuart Gordon – violin, viola
John Dent – mastering

Charts

References

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Geis of the Gargoyle

Geis of the Gargoyle is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the eighteenth book of the Xanth series.

Plot
Seeking a spell that will restore the polluted river Swan Knee to a state of purity, guardian Gary Gargoyle finds himself face-to-face with the Magician Humfrey. Humfrey tells Gary to go and find the philter. Instead of serving the usual one year, Gary has to become a man with the help of Trent, who has gone into the brain coral's pool along with his wife Iris, and civilize a 5 year old child named Surprise. Iris comes along for the quest after having a rejuvenation potion. Surprise is a kid with as many talents as there are thinkable, but only one at a time. When Gary gets some direction, they go off to search for the philter in the middle of the madness, which is spreading farther out, in the ruins of stone hinge. Once there, in an attempt to search for where the philter could be Iris recreates the past that Gary revealed to them from reading the stones After the illusions are being recreated, some illusions that aren't Iris's come and start communicating with the group. Eventually, they find that the illusions are trying to steal Gary's soul. Then they find that there is a demon creating the illusions, and that that demon is the philter, and in order to stop the madness from spreading, and to clean the rivers coming in to Xanth, they have to put the philter back into 'The Interface'. An old spell that the ancients who created stone hinge used to tame the madness, and separate Xanth from Mundania. They had apparently thought that the philter had also gone into 'the interface', but it had managed to hide itself instead of going in. After much confusion, they manage to get the philter into the interface. In finding the philter, they also find out that Surprise can only use each talent once, and then can no longer do the same thing. Surprise became way more mature after learning that she can't perform the same talent more than once, and Gary no longer has to purify the river of Swan Knee.

References

American fantasy novels
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1994 American novels
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Hodder & Stoughton books
Roc and a Hard Place

Roc and a Hard Place is the nineteenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

Plot
One year after the events of Geis of the Gargoyle, Demoness Metria, whilst making her husband Veleno deliriously happy, finds that the stork will not acknowledge her summons. Seeking to summon the stork, Metria (and her worse half, D. Mentia) are sent on a quest by the Good Magician Humphrey. Metria is then tasked by the Simurgh to deliver a bag's worth of summons to their respective citizens of Xanth in order to hold a trial for Roxanne Roc. All that remains is to find out why Roxanne Roc is on trial as Metria meets with many old Xanth characters, including Grundy Golem, Sorceress Iris, Magician Trent, Gray Murphy, Jordan the Barbarian and Desiree Dryad.

References

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1996 fantasy novels
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Sierra Leone at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Sierra Leone competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

Results by event

Athletics

Men 

Track and road events

Women 

Track and road events

Field events

Combined events – Heptathlon

Boxing

Swimming 

Men

References
Official Olympic Reports

Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996
Oly
Lulsgate

Lulsgate may refer to several places in North Somerset, England:
 Bristol Airport, an airport formerly known as Lulsgate
 Lulsgate Plateau, an outlier of the Mendip Hills
 Lulsgate Quarry, a Site of Special Scientific Interest
 Lulsgate Aerodrome, a motor racing circuit
 Lulsgate Bottom, a settlement
Faun & Games

Faun & Games is the twenty-first book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

Plot
A young faun discovers his friend has gone missing into the Void and thus, the tree that nymph is bound to will wither and die. The hero wishes to save his friend's tree but in doing so, he risks his own tree.  After visiting the Good Magician, Forrest Faun is sent with Mare Imbri to Ptero to find a faun for the tree.  His journey later takes him from Ptero to smaller moons that orbit that specific world's Ida.

Characters in Faun & Games
Forrest Fawn
Mare Imbrium
Eve
Dawn
Ida
Magician Humphrey

References

American fantasy novels
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1997 American novels
1997 fantasy novels
Tor Books books
Sierra Leone at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Sierra Leone competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Results by event

Athletics
Men's 800 metres
Prince Amara
 Heat — 1:51.76 (→ did not advance)

Men's 110m Hurdles
 Benjamin Grant 
 Heats — 14.27 (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump
Thomas Ganda
 Qualification — 7.67 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump
 Eunice Barber 
 Heat — 5.55 m (→ did not advance)

References

Sources
Official Olympic Reports

Nations at the 1992 Summer Olympics
1992
Oly
América Televisión

América Televisión is a Peruvian television network, founded in 1958. The network is owned by Plural TV, which is a joint venture of the El Comercio and La República daily newspapers. It was the second television channel to be founded in Peru, the first commercial station with regular broadcasts, and Peru's highest-rated network.

Productions Channel

Programming

Services

América tvGO 
Created in 2012. Is an OTT platform with composed program of series, magazine and exclusive contents. The service is paid and the user must subscribe to be able to watch the network's productions and transmedia interactions such as receiving communication from some characters and voting in game shows.

External links
 Official Site

References 

Television stations in Peru
Television channels and stations established in 1958
Spanish-language television stations
Television networks in Peru
Mass media in Lima
1958 establishments in Peru
Xone of Contention

Xone of Contention is the twenty-third book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.

Plot introduction

Dug, the Mundane who had had an adventure in Xanth through the Companions of Xanth computer game, is now happily married to Kim.  His friend Edsel on the other hand is on the rock with his marriage to Pia, Dug's old girlfriend, who wants a divorce.  Edsel, not wanting to lose her strikes a deal with her, they take a two-week vacation in Xanth, switching with Nimby and Chlorine who want to learn about Mundania, and if she doesn't change her mind, he won't fight it.

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1999 science fiction novels
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Sierra Leone at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Sierra Leone competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Twelve competitors, eleven men and one woman, took part in fourteen events in four sports.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Athletics

Men
Track and road events

Field events

Women
Track and road events

Boxing

Cycling

One male cyclist represented Sierra Leone in 1988.

Road
Men

Weightlifting

References

External links
Official Olympic Reports

Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988
Oly
Swell Foop

Swell Foop is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-fifth book of the Xanth series.
 
The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," famously (but not first)  spoken by the tongue-twisted Peter Sellers character in the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.

Plot summary
Cynthia Centaur and her companions must find the Six Rings of Xanth (Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Void, and the Idea) in order to find the Swell Foop and use it to rescue the Demon E(A/R)th from the thrall of the Demoness Fornax.

Characters 

Cynthia Centaur
Che Centaur
Sim
Jaylin
The Demons FO(R\N)ax, JU(P/I)ter, M(A/R)s, V(E\N)us, E(A/R)th and ME(R/C)ury
Justin Tree
Breanna

References

External links

American fantasy novels
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2001 American novels
Tor Books books
Up in a Heaval

Up In A Heaval is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-sixth book of the Xanth series.

Plot

Characters  
Umlaut
Sesame
Magician Humfrey
Demoness Metria
Sammy Cat
The Demon Jupiter

References

External links

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Sierra Leone at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Sierra Leone competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.

Results by event

Athletics
Women's 100 metres
 Eugenia Osho-Williams
 First Heat — 12.83s (→ did not advance)

Boxing
Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
 Israel Cole 
 First Round – Bye
 Second Round – Defeated Victor Claudio (PUR), RSC-1
 Third Round – Defeated Elone Lutui (TNG), RSCH-2
 Quarterfinals – Lost to Christophe Tiozzo (FRA), 0:5
Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)
 Egerton Forster 
 First Round – Bye
 Second Round – Lost to Arnold Vanderlyde (NED), 1:4

References
Official Olympic Reports

Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984
Oly
Cube Route

Cube Route is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-seventh book of the Xanth series.

Pangrammatic window
The shortest known published pangrammatic window, a stretch of naturally occurring text that contains all the letters in the alphabet, is found on page 98 of the 2004 First Mass Market Edition.  The passage, which is 42 letters long (in boldface), reads:  "We are all from Xanth," Cube said quickly. "Just visiting Phaze. We just want to find the dragon."

References

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Stork Naked

Stork Naked is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the thirtieth book of the Xanth series.

Plot
Surprise summons the stork with Umlaut, only to discover with dismay that the stork refuses to deliver her baby due to a clerical error. Off on an adventure to find her child, she seeks the aid of Pyra, who wields a tool that can find, and enter, alternate realities. As Surprise and her entourage search for the correct world, the sinister mechanism behind the whole adventure is revealed.

Characters  
Surprise Golem, daughter of Grundy Golem and Rapunzel Elf
Che Centaur, winged Centaur, tutor 
Pet Peeve, an insulting bird
Half-Demon Ted
Half-Demon Monica
Woe Betide, the child aspect of the Demoness Metria
Pyra

References

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Tor Books books