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Figs in the Bible

Figs in the Bible include references to both the tree and its fruit in the Tanakh and the New Testament, which are sometimes symbolic.

Hebrew Bible
The fig tree is the third tree to be mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible. The first is the Tree of life and the second is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve used the leaves of the fig tree to sew garments for themselves after they ate the "fruit of the Tree of knowledge" (), when they realized that they were naked ().

In Deuteronomy, the Promised Land is described as "a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything;" (). During Solomon's reign Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, lived in safety, each man "under his own vine and fig tree" (), an indicator of national wealth and prosperity.  states that Hezekiah rebelled against the King of Assyria, of whom he had become a vassal. In response, the Assyrian commander attempted to sway the army of Jerusalem by offering deserters each his own vine and fig tree.

 likens tending a fig tree to looking after one's master.
There was a fig tree in the garden of the Song of Solomon, and in the year of love the tree formed its fruit early ().

The fig tree and figs are featured in the Book of Jeremiah and mentioned briefly in the Book of Micah.

Another species of ficus, the Egyptian sycamore fig is occasionally mentioned as well, for example .

New Testament

The parable of the budding fig tree is found in , ,  as part of the Olivet discourse. The fig tree could be understood as symbolic of Israel .

The parable of the barren fig tree is a parable of Jesus recorded in the Gospel of Luke . A vinekeeper holds out hope that a barren fig tree will bear fruit next year.

Mark  includes an account of Jesus cursing the fig tree:

A parallel is found in Matthew , but the fig tree withers immediately and is noticed at that time by the disciples.

When the apostle Nathanael first encounters Jesus and asks how Jesus knows him, the answer is that He has already seen Nathanael sitting under the fig tree (John ).

New Testament miracles
 
Biblical topics
List of Big Ten Conference football champions

This is a list of yearly Big Ten Conference football champions. Co-champions are listed in alphabetical order.

Champions by year

Note: an asterisk (*) denotes a national championship for that season recognized by the College Football Data Warehouse.

^ Ohio State vacated all wins from the 2010 season and its share of the championship due to NCAA violations.

Championships by team

Keys
 Italics indicate a school no longer competing in the Big Ten.
 Bold indicates an outright conference championship.

Notes

Championships by head coach

^ Ohio State vacated all wins from the 2010 season and their share of the championship

See also
 List of Big Ten Conference football standings (1896–1958)
 List of Big Ten Conference football standings (1959–present)

References

Big Ten Conference
Champions
Rizoma

Rizoma (, before 1927: Σκλάταινα - Sklataina) is a village in the Trikala regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. In the 2011 census it reported 917 residents. It lies at 160 meters above sea level, 12 km north of the city of Trikala. It has an agricultural economy with tobacco being the main product.

The village is the seat of the Paralithaioi municipal unit and it is inhabited by Karagounides, the most commonly used name for the residents of the Thessalian plain. According to the legend this name was given to them by Alexander the Great when he passed through the region in 335 BC on his way to Thebes.

The most prominent figure that was born there was the priest-monk Saint Theophilus (mid-16th century) who is recorded as the founder of the Saint Stephen Monastery in Meteora.

To the north of the town, there is a low hill called Tzougza, where trenches dug in WW2 can still be seen.

References

Populated places in Trikala (regional unit)
Trikala
Woju

Woju may refer to:

Woju (song), a 2014 Nigerian Afropop song by Kiss Daniel
Okjeo, a Korean tribal state from roughly the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD, known as Woju in Chinese
Celtuce, a lettuce cultivar known as woju in Chinese
Dwelling Narrowness, a 2009 Chinese television series, known as Woju in Chinese
Tonnochy Road

Tonnochy Road () is a street in Wan Chai on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. It runs from Hennessy Road, across Lockhart Road, Jaffe Road, Gloucester Road, to Hung Hing Road near Victoria Harbour. The wide Gloucester Road divides Tonnochy Road into a north and a south sections. Gloucester Road has a flyover to turn into the road at the north.

Major building
Wan Chai Sports Ground is located at the road in Wan Chai North. Tonnochy Night Club on the road was a historical night club in Hong Kong.

History
The reclamation of 1922 extended the shore of Wai Chai moved north to present-day Gloucester Road. Upon completion in 1928, Tonnochy Road was one of new roads on the reclamation. It was named after Malcolm Struan Tonnochy, an acting Governor of Hong Kong from 7 to 28 March 1882.

In the 1960s, another reclamation by Hong Kong Government extended the road north to Hung Hing Road.

In fiction
Tonnochy Road (also as Tonnochie and spelled Tonnochi in this version) is an important location in the computer game Deus Ex, where the protagonist gathers clues about recent incidents within Wan Chai District.

See also
 List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

References

Wan Chai
Roads on Hong Kong Island
Myth (disambiguation)

Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in society. Subsets include:

Myth may also refer to:

 Urban myth, a story circulated as true, often attributed to "a friend of a friend".
 Origin myth, which purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world
 Creation myth, symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it
 National myth, inspiring narrative or anecdote about a nation's past
 Political myth, ideological explanation for a political phenomenon that is believed by a social group

Music
 Myth: The Xenogears Orchestral Album, an album by Yasunori Mitsuda
 "Myth" (song), by Beach House from the album Bloom
 Myth (album), by Two Steps from Hell

Video games
 Myth (1989 video game), a 1989 text adventure by Magnetic Scrolls
 Myth: History in the Making, a 1989 platform game by System 3
 Myth (video game series), a 1997–2001 series of real-time tactical computer games, including:
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Myth II: Soulblighter
Myth III: The Wolf Age

Other uses
 Myth (gamer), a video game streamer and esports player
 Myth (warez), an underground PC game cracking group
 Myth-, a prefix in the MythTV open source software project
 M.Y.T.H. Inc., a corporation in Robert Asprin's MythAdventures series
 "Myth", a disc golf putter by Infinite Discs
 "Myth", a season 4 episode of Servant (TV series)

See also
 The Myth (disambiguation)
 Mythic (disambiguation)
 Mythology (disambiguation)
 Mythos (disambiguation)
 Mythopoeia
ABB Industrigymnasium

ABB-gymnasiet is the name of three schools in Västerås, Sala and Ludvika, Sweden, secondary schools with a focus on engineering, information technology and enterprising. The Västerås branch was started in 1994 by the industrial corporation ABB, which were merged in 1987 from the Swiss Brown Boveri Corporation and the Swedish ASEA, which is headquartered in Västerås. The Ludvika school was founded by ABB in 1995.

External links
 Official website

Education in Sweden
Västerås
Gymnasiums (school) in Sweden
Buildings and structures in Västerås
Education in Västerås
Jahtari

Jahtari is a netlabel, founded in 2004 by Jan Gleichmar aka "disrupt". Unlike most netlabels, it focuses on the dub and reggae music genres, with an electronic music approach which it calls "digital laptop reggae". According to The List, "the name is an amalgam of ‘Jah’ and ‘Atari’, and a similar lo-fi 8-bit aesthetic informs their branding and design."

From their site:
"We are a small record label based in Leipzig/Germany and we produce a kind of music here which we call - for the lack of a better term - DIGITAL LAPTOP REGGAE (DLR).This means nothing else but that we produce first and above all REGGAE music (or DUB) in its classical sense, which in itself is nothing new, but since we're having a background of mostly electronic music we're doing this with the only tool that is obvious to use for that purpose - a COMPUTER, and a computer only."

Jan Gleichmar has been working as a camera assistant. By 2006, Jahtari had started to offer a release on CD in addition to the free downloads, and later produced vinyl releases too. As of 2008, it had signed more than 20 artists, among them London-based Mikey Murka (a veteran of 1980s digital reggae).

References

External links 
 Jahtari.org, with Jahtari Magazine (a collection of articles about the history of Reggae music, also run by the Netlabel)
 solipsistic NATION No. 24: Jahtari Podcast. Interview with Jahtari founder Jan Gleichmar, plus music from the label. February 9, 2007
 The Jah of 8-Bit-Chip-Dub-Digital-Laptop-Reggae-Music Portrait of Jahtari on Phlow-Magazine.com

German record labels
Netlabels
Electronic music record labels
Reggae record labels
Online music stores of Germany
Keluo

Keluo (Chinese: , p Kēluò) is a dormant volcanic field  north-by-northwest of Daquijin in northeastern China. It is located at an intersection of regional lineaments trending northeast and northwest; the volcanoes were erupted through basement igneous and sedimentary rocks from the Jurassic to Cretaceous, through granite, and through pre-Permian metasediments. Like the Wudalianchi volcanic to its south, it contains high-potassium basaltic cinder cones.

The field possesses 23 cones over an area of . There are reports of historical activity, but these remain unconfirmed. The morphology of a number of the conesincluding Nanshan (), Gushan (), Jianshan (), Dayishan (), and Xiaoyishan ()suggests their formation during the last 10,000 years (the Holocene). Most cones to the northeast, however, probably date from the Pleistocene to the Tertiary.

Other peaks include Dangzishan, Heishan, and Muhenanshan.

See also
 List of volcanoes in China

References

External links

Dormant volcanoes
Volcanoes of China
Volcanic fields
RTL Boulevard

RTL Boulevard is a daily television programme on the Dutch TV channel RTL 4. It was set up as a television equivalent of a tabloid, with a lot of airy subjects, news items and gossip about the stars, fashion and criminality. The programme is renowned for its sarcastic and cynical tone.

History 

From the beginning in 2001, Beau van Erven Dorens was the main presenter. He was supported by his co-presenter Albert Verlinde and a daily rotating "expert". On 1 April 2005 Beau Van Erven Dorens moved to Talpa and Daphne Bunskoek (formerly a presenter of the morning program in the Netherlands Public Broadcasting) has taken over his place. When Daphne Bunskoek also left the show, she was replaced by Winston Gerschtanowitz and Humberto Tan.

Regular returning co-presenters were/are:
 Fiona Hering (fashion/lifestyle)
 John van den Heuvel (crime)
 Irene van de Laar (fashion/lifestyle)
 Marc van der Linden (royalty)
 Abraham Moszkowicz (crime, law)
 Peter van der Vorst (royalty)
 Peter R. de Vries (crime)

On 16 November 2006, Dutch prime-minister Jan-Peter Balkenende got his chance at executive editing and presenting the program, in the run-up to the 2006 general elections.

In December 2006 the show made headlines all over the world when Eddie Murphy told reporter Matthijs Kleyn the unborn baby of Mel B is not his. A blood test showed him wrong.

On 6 July 2021, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter Peter R. de Vries was shot in the head after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The show's live broadcast of 9 July was cancelled due to concerns for an attack on the studio. The show of 10 July was cancelled by RTL Nederland. Since then, the show broadcasts from a studio located at Media Park in Hilversum, Netherlands. De Vries died on 15 July 2021.

References

External links 

Dutch television talk shows
Dutch-language television shows
Tabloid journalism
Entertainment news shows
2001 Dutch television series debuts
2000s Dutch television series
2010s Dutch television series
2020s Dutch television series
RTL 4 original programming
Smothers

Smothers is a surname. People with this surname include:

People
 Clay Smothers (1935–2004), African-American member of the Texas House of Representatives 1977–81
 Dick Smothers (born 1939), American comedian, composer and musician, one half of the Smothers Brothers, father of Dick Smothers, Jr.
 Howard Smothers (born 1973), American football offensive lineman
 Jessie Belle Smothers (AKA Jessie Belle McCoy, born 1985), American model, professional wrestling valet, and professional wrestler
 Joseph Smothers (fl. 1870s), Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi
 Joseph G. Smothers (1967--1998), a convicted felon from Wisconsin who was severely beaten while in federal prison in Leavenworth, KS, died 1998. The crime occurred in Wisconsin, and he was apprehended in Jasper, Indiana.
 Little Smokey Smothers (1939–2010), American blues guitarist and singer, younger brother of Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers
 Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers (1929–1993), American blues guitarist and singer, elder brother of Little Smokey Smothers
 Smothers Brothers, American double act consisting of Dick and Tom Smothers
 Tom Smothers (born 1937), American comedian, composer and musician, one half of the Smothers Brothers
 Tracy Smothers (1962–2020), American professional wrestler

See also 
 Smother (disambiguation)
Jialiang

Jialiang () is an ancient Chinese device for measuring several volume standards.

The term jialiang is mentioned in the Rites of Zhou. The passage describes the construction of one that includes three measures, fu (釜),  dou (豆), and  sheng (升); furthermore, the instrument weighs one jun (鈞) and its sound is the gong of huangzhong (黃鐘之宮). Known jialiang give standards for the five measures yue (龠), ge (合, equal to two yue), sheng (升, equal to ten he), dou (斗, equal to ten sheng), and hu (斛, equal to ten dou). 

The earliest known jialiang was made in the first year of Wang Mang's short-lived Xin Dynasty (9-23 CE), in order to standardize the measurements across the empire. Wang chose bronze to emphasize that it would last and remain as a reference. A 216-character inscription records the process of the casting and shows where each of the five measurements can be found. Wang Mang's jialiang is now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

The continuing availability of Wang Mang's device has ensured it an important place in researching historical Chinese metrology for millennia. Investigations on the jialiang were undertaken by such scholars as Liu Hui of the Three Kingdoms period and Zu Chongzhi and Li Chunfeng of the Tang dynasty. According to the research of modern scholar Liu Fu 劉復, at the time of its creation, following its measurements, the standard units correspond to the modern metric system in this way: 1 chi (尺) was 23.1 cm; 1 sheng (升) was 200 mL; and 1 jin (斤) was 226.7 g. 

In Beijing's Forbidden City, before the Hall of Supreme Harmony and the Palace of Heavenly Purity, there are two jialiangs cast during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, a square one in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony and a round one in front of the Palace of Heavenly Purity. These were cast in 1745 based on an examination of the Wang Mang's round jialiang and the square jialiang made during the time of Emperor Taizong of Tang.

The jialiang and the adjacent sundial (rigui 日晷) have been described as symbolizing the sovereignty and unity of the imperial reign or emphasizing that the emperor is just and fair.

Notes

Chinese inventions
Volumetric instruments
India (actress)

India (born May 17, 1977) is a former pornographic actress, singer and rapper.

She began working as an adult actress in around 1998 and has since appeared in over 200 videos. For five years she was an exclusive contract girl for the production company Video Team, and she has an exclusive sex toy line, manufactured by California Exotic Novelties.

India owns the record company Black Widow Entertainment, and in 2006 she released her debut solo album Role Play. She had previously been a member of several girl groups; her first album, Hi Naturally, was released in 1994 when she was in the group Harmony Innocents. In July 2002 she was profiled on VH1's All Access hip-hop/porn special. In 2004 her vocals featured in the movie Walking Tall, starring Dwayne Johnson.

Awards and nominations
2000 AVN Award nominee – Best New Starlet
2004 AVN Award nominee – Most Outrageous Sex Scene – Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp
2004 AVN Award nominee – Best Tease Performance – Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp
2008 AVN Award nominee – Best Supporting Actress, Video – Afrodite Superstar
2011 Urban X Awards Hall of Fame

References

External links
 
 
 

American pornographic film actresses
1977 births
Living people
African-American pornographic film actors
American women singers
American women rappers
African-American women rappers
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American women musicians
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American musicians
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women
21st-century women rappers
The Gardens Mall

The Gardens Mall is a two-story, enclosed shopping mall in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The mall features Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, and Sears.

History
The Gardens Mall, originally called The Gardens of The Palm Beaches, was developed by The Forbes Company, based in Southfield, Michigan. On October 5, 1988, the mall opened with three initial anchor stores: Burdines, Sears and the second Macy's in Florida. Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue joined as tenants in 1990. Burdines was shuttered in 2003 as Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.), the owners of the Macy's chain, consolidated all its nameplates into the Macy's brand, which already had a location at the mall. In March 2006, Nordstrom opened on the former Burdines site instead.

In 2005, the Florida Department of Transportation completed a new interchange at PGA Boulevard (SR 786) and SR 811, providing direct access from the mall entrance to I-95.

In October 2007, the mall underwent minor renovations. The fountain in the center was altered and the center court's garden theme was replaced with a more modern look. In April 2019, Macy's opened Macy's Backstage.

Anchors
 Macy's/Macy's Backstage
 Bloomingdale's
 Saks Fifth Avenue
 Nordstrom
 Sears

Junior anchors
 H&M (2010 - 2021)

Former anchors
 Burdines

References

Shopping malls in Palm Beach County, Florida
Shopping malls established in 1988
1988 establishments in Florida
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Robert Anderson (mayor)

Robert Anderson was mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia three times. He served from 1812 to 1813, 1820 to 1821 and finally 1828 to 1829.

References

Mayors of Williamsburg, Virginia
Basarab railway station

Basarab railway station () in Bucharest is situated near the city's main station, Gara de Nord. Built in 1959 to handle a share of the main station's traffic and mainly used by short-distance commuter trains run by Căile Ferate Române, it is often considered to be an annex of Gara de Nord, to which it is linked by a footbridge.

Basarab railway station is served directly by the Bucharest Metro system, via Basarab metro station. The underground passageway to the Metro station can also be used to cross the train tracks of Gara de Nord, since it has exits on both sides of the tracks. 

RATB lines: 
Tram lines: 1 (on the Basarab Bridge), 35, and 44.
Trolleybus lines: 65 and 86 (only Grivița side).
Bus lines: 105, 123, 133, 162, 178, 282.
Express Bus lines: 780 (Basarab railway station – Henri Coandă International Airport).

Railway stations in Bucharest
Railway stations opened in 1959
1959 establishments in Romania
Basarab (disambiguation)

Basarab or Bassarab can refer to:

The House of Basarab
Basarab railway station, in Bucharest, Romania
Basarab metro station, in Bucharest, Romania
Basarab Nicolescu
Basarab Panduru
Alexandru Bassarab
Maria Basarab
Olha Basarab
Basarab I of Wallachia

 See also
Basarabă of Caransebeș family
Bessarabia
Traumatic asphyxia

Traumatic asphyxia, or Perthes's syndrome, is a medical emergency caused by an intense compression of the thoracic cavity, causing venous back-flow from the right side of the heart into the veins of the neck and the brain.

Signs and symptoms
Traumatic asphyxia is characterized by cyanosis in the upper extremities, neck, and head as well as petechiae in the conjunctiva.  Patients can also display jugular venous distention and facial edema. Associated injuries include pulmonary contusion, myocardial contusion, hemo/pneumothorax, and broken ribs.

Causes
Traumatic asphyxia occurs when a powerful compressive force is applied to the thoracic cavity. This is most often seen in motor vehicle accidents, as well as industrial and farming accidents. However, it can be present anytime a significant pressure is applied to the thorax.

Pathophysiology
The sudden impact on the thorax causes an increase in intrathoracic pressure.  In order for traumatic asphyxia to occur, a Valsalva maneuver is required when the traumatic force is applied. Exhalation against the closed glottis along with the traumatic event causes air that cannot escape from the thoracic cavity. Instead, the air causes increased venous back-pressure, which is transferred back to the heart through the right atrium, to the superior vena cava and to the head and neck veins and capillaries.

Diagnosis
Patients are seen with a cyanotic discoloration of the shoulder skin and neck and face, jugular distention, bulging of the eyeballs, and swelling of the tongue and lips. The latter two are resultants of edema, caused by excessive blood accumulating the veins of the head and neck and venous stasis.

Prognosis
For individuals who survive the initial crush injury, survival rates are high for traumatic asphyxia.

See also
Asphyxia
Crush syndrome
Flail chest
Tension pneumothorax
Traumatic aortic rupture

References

External links 

Chest trauma
Skin conditions resulting from physical factors
Medical emergencies
Traumatology
Rumsey Street

Rumsey Street (Chinese: 林士街) is a street in Sheung Wan on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. It begins at Wing Lok Street near COSCO Tower, crossing Des Voeux Road Central and Connaught Road Central, and reaches the Victoria Harbour.

Name
The street was named in 1905 after Robert Murray Rumsey, the Harbour Master of Hong Kong Government.

Features
Wing On Department Store is located at the street.

Beneath the street is the unused MTR platform of Rumsey station. The station was for an abandoned plan of East Kowloon line. The platform was later incorporated into Sheung Wan station.

See also 
 List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

References

Sheung Wan
Roads on Hong Kong Island
Northern Illinois Bluegrass Association

The Northern Illinois Bluegrass Association (NIBA) is a non-profit organization which promotes and preserves bluegrass music in the northern Illinois (US) area.

History
The NIBA was formed in 1996 as a group of musicians who met weekly to play bluegrass in a barn in Grand Ridge, Illinois. Over time, it developed into a community of musicians and listeners from Illinois, southern Wisconsin, northwestern Indiana and eastern Iowa who share a love of bluegrass music.

Activities
The NIBA organizes and promotes local bluegrass jams and events and participates in the Bluegrass In The Schools program.

The NIBA publishes a newsletter for its members with upcoming event announcements and other bluegrass-related news items.

References

External links
Official website

American bluegrass music groups
Musical groups established in 1996
Musical groups from Illinois
Non-profit organizations based in Illinois
Stanley Scott

Stanley Winckworth Scott (24 March 1854 – 8 December 1933) was an English cricketer who played for Middlesex.

Scott was a middle-order batsman who played fairly regularly for Middlesex from 1878 to 1893, heading the batting averages in several seasons, though by modern standards his figures appear modest. His best season was 1892, when he scored 1015 runs at an average of 39 runs per innings, and against Gloucestershire at Lord's that season he scored 224, then regarded as a colossal score. He did well that season in both Gentlemen v Players matches at Lord's and The Oval, and was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1893.

But at the end of the 1893 season he retired to become a stockbroker.

He also played football and played for Clapham Rovers in the 1879 FA Cup Final, losing 1–0 to  the Old Etonians.

Honours
Clapham Rovers
FA Cup finalist: 1879

External links
 Cricinfo
 Cricket Archive

1854 births
1933 deaths
English cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
Wisden Cricketers of the Year
English men's footballers
Clapham Rovers F.C. players
British people in colonial India
English stockbrokers
Gentlemen of the South cricketers
Gentlemen cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Gentlemen of England cricketers
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Lee Labrada

Lee Labrada is a professional bodybuilder, published author and CEO of Labrada Nutrition. He won the title Mr. Universe in 1985 and placed top 4 for seven consecutive years in Mr. Olympia. In 2002, at the request of the city of Houston, Labrada launched the "Get Lean Houston" campaign to combat the city's obesity problem.
In 2004, Labrada was inducted into the IFBB Pro-Bodybuilding Hall of Fame.
In 2005 he wrote a fitness book. He founded the company Labrada Nutrition, which sells nutritional supplements.
He is father of bodybuilder Hunter Labrada.

Publications 
 The Lean Body Promise, 2005. HarperCollins.

See also 
List of male professional bodybuilders
List of female professional bodybuilders

References

External links 
 Labrada Nutrition official website

1960 births
Living people
American bodybuilders
Professional bodybuilders
American male writers
University of Houston alumni
Cuban emigrants to the United States
Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena

Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena (Jose Maria Martin Carpena Arena) is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Málaga, Spain. The current seating capacity of the arena is 11,300 for sports, and 10,000 for large concert events.

History

Martín Carpena arena opened in 1999. It has been the long-time home arena to one of Spain's top basketball teams, Unicaja Málaga, of the Liga ACB.

The arena originally had a seating capacity of 9,743 spectators, and an area of around 22,000 square meters. In 2007, a project was proposed to expand the capacity of the venue to 17,000 spectators, due to the high demand for seats and tickets by fans of Unicaja Málaga. Ultimately, the expansion project was approved, but to a new capacity of 13,000 spectators, rather than the originally planned 17,000. The expansion project was then scheduled to be completed in separate phases. The first expansion phase, which was completed in 2010, increased the seating capacity from 9,743 to 11,300. The next expansion phase will increase it to 13,000.

See also
 List of indoor arenas in Spain

References

External links

 

Basketball venues in Spain
Indoor arenas in Spain
Baloncesto Málaga
Sports venues in Andalusia
English Canal

The English Canal () was a planned and partially completed canal project that would connect the Swedish iron ore fields around Kiruna and Gällivare with Luleå and the Gulf of Bothnia.

The ore fields were discovered as early as in the 1650s, but due to their remote location in the sparsely populated areas in northern Sweden, far from both the Atlantic coast and the coast of the Bothnian Gulf, it was very hard to transport the ore to any port from where it could be shipped to its ultimate destination. All attempts during the centuries to efficiently transport the ore failed. But with the introduction of the railway, new possibilities arose.

Some earlier plans included horse-drawn trains and regular roads, but in the end it was decided to combine the new railway technology with the ancient boat transport. A railway line was planned for the stretch from the iron ore fields to the place where Stora Lule River and Lilla Lule River joined at Storbacken. The remaining length of the transport could be made possible by canalising the rest of Lule River from Storbacken down to Luleå. This would bypass the rapids of Edefors and Hedenforsarna which would allow the ore to be transported by boat all the way to the Gulf of Bothnia.

The decision to construct the canal was taken 1863, and the Gellivare Company Limited based in London was contracted for the project. They were backed by English financiers and also received investments from the Swedish state. The excavation was started 14 October 1864 and by 1865 no less than 1,486 men were working on the project. But the English company soon experienced an economic crisis, which led to the stagnation of the construction in 1866 and 1867, until the company went bankrupt on New Year's Eve 1867 which marked the end of the project.

In 1884-1888 a railway was built all the way between Gällivare and Luleå, the Iron Ore Line.

Remains of the canal project can still be seen on several places in Norrbotten and Swedish Lapland, for example in Boden. These remains are sometimes called Engelska graven, which is a play on the Swedish word grav which can mean both "ditch"/"trench" and "grave/"tomb".

See also 

 LKAB
 Iron Ore Line
 English Channel

References 

Print

 Nyström, Bror Oscar (ed.) & Skeppstedt, Sven (ed.) (1990). Boden: fästningen, garnisonen, samhället. Västervik: Ekblad. ISBN N/A.

Online

 Arnholm, Bosse (2003). Engelska kanalen. Retrieved 4 Mar., 2006.

Canals in Sweden
Norrbotten
Lapland (Sweden)
Abandoned canal projects
Whit Tuesday

Whit Tuesday (syn. Whittuesday, Whitsun Tuesday) is the Christian holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost Monday, the third day of the week beginning on Pentecost. Pentecost is a movable feast in the Christian calendar dependent upon the date of Easter. "Whit" relates either to the white robes worn by those baptized on Pentecost, or to the French word "huit," since Pentecost is the eighth Sunday after Easter.

Observance 

It was a holiday in the Lutheran Church in Germany at Bach's time, where all major holidays were celebrated for three days. Bach and others composed cantata music for the occasion.

It used to be a public holiday in Denmark and Sweden. In Denmark it was abolished 26 October 1770, and in Sweden 4 November 1772, both places as part of larger reductions of the number of holidays.

The Dancing procession of Echternach takes place on Pentecost Tuesday. In the 19th century, it was also the occasion of the feast of Saint Tetha in Cornwall.

Observance in Eastern Orthodoxy 

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Whit Tuesday is known as the "Third Day of the Trinity" and is part of the Feast of Pentecost. Monasteries,  cathedrals, and parish churches often celebrate the Divine Liturgy on this day.

See also

Ordinary Time
Willibrord

References

Pentecost
Holidays based on the date of Easter
June observances
And She Was

"And She Was" is a song by the American band Talking Heads, from their 1985 album Little Creatures. The song was written by David Byrne, who also provides the lead vocals.

The song is musically notable for its unusual use of modulation. The overall key of the song is E major; however, the bridge to the chorus is in F major. The second bridge back to the verse is in the key of G major (Chords B minor to G major, "She was glad about it...")

It reached  on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and  on the British singles chart. The accompanying music video was directed by avant-garde filmmaker Jim Blashfield, who cites the style of Terry Gilliam as one of his major influences.

Background
"I used to know a blissed-out hippie-chick in Baltimore," recalled Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "She once told me that she used to do  acid (the drug, not music) and lay down on the field by the Yoo-hoo chocolate soda factory. Flying out of her body, etc etc. It seemed like such a tacky kind of transcendence… but it was real! A new kind of religion being born out of heaps of rusted cars and fast food joints. And this girl was flying above it all, but in it too."

Drummer Chris Frantz said of the song, "It's a story about a woman who has the power to levitate above the ground and to check out all her neighbors from a kind of bird's eye view. And the guy who's writing the song is in love with her and he kinda wishes she would just be more normal and, like, come on back down to the ground [Laughs], but she doesn't. She goes floating over the backyard and past the buildings and the schools and stuff and is absolutely [upside-down] to him in every way."

Reception
Cash Box said that the song "displays David Byrne’s discreet pop ingenuity and Talking Heads' inimitable rhythmic pump" and has "a strangely surrealistic lyric and a singalong chorus."

In popular culture
The song was featured in the 1989 film Look Who's Talking, in the 2005 films Bewitched and Sky High, and the 2016 film Storks.

Charts

Weekly Charts

Year-end charts

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Talking Heads songs
1985 singles
EMI Records singles
Music videos directed by Jim Blashfield
Songs written by David Byrne
Songs about drugs
Sire Records singles
Song recordings produced by David Byrne
Song recordings produced by Jerry Harrison
1985 songs
List of ship commissionings in 1918

The list of ship commissionings in 1918 includes a chronological list of ships commissioned in 1918.  In cases where no official commissioning ceremony was held, the date of service entry may be used instead.


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Filomena Moretti

Filomena Moretti (born 11 June 1973) is an Italian classical guitarist. She  was born in Sassari, graduated from the Sassari Conservatory, winning the first prize. After her graduation, she continued her studies with Ruggero Chiesa and won several international competitions: 
 1985–1987 Premier Prix and "Mention Spéciale" at the Competition Mondovi
 1991 Premier Prix "Golfo degli Angeli" at the Competition Cagliari
 1992 Second Prize "E. Pujol" at the International Competition of Sassari
 1993 Premier Prix at the International Competition of Stresa; Second Prize at the Competition Fernando Sor in Rome
 1995 Premier Prix et mention spéciale at the International Competition of Alessandria
 1996 Premier Prix at the Competition de l'A.R.A.M.

In 1993, she obtained a grant to pursue her studies with Oscar Ghiglia at the Chiagana Academy in Siena.

Performances
Filomena Moretti has played in Italy and throughout Europe. She has been invited by some of the most prestigious musical institutions, such as:
 The Spiegelsaal im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg
 The Gartensaal im Schloß Wolfsburg, the Zitadelle Spandau of Berlin, Kiel, the Chopin Foundation in Warsaw, Kraków twice in a row, by the «Società dei concerti» of the Verdi Conservatoire in Milan
 The "Salone della Musica" in Turin
 The Musicora in Paris.
She took part in several master-classes with Alirio Diaz, David Russell, Julian Bream, José Tomás and Manuel Barrueco.

Filomena Moretti also performed with leading orchestras. Her extensive repertoire includes the most important guitar concertos. She toured Italy in March 1999 with the renowned Lucero Tena (castanets). In June 1999, she performed the Giuliani Concerto with the Società dei Concerti at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In France, she has appeared at the TransClassiques at La Cigale in Paris, at the Flâneries Musicales in Reims, at the Festivals de Radio France in Montpellier, at the Young Soloist Festival in Antibes. Her concerts have been broadcast on Muzik and Mezzo TV channels. She has also been invited by the FRANCE 2 Channel.

Recordings
Filomena Moretti has recorded two CDs, for Phoenix and Stradivarius (record label). The release of the complete works for solo guitar by Joaquín Rodrigo on the Stradivarius label Filomena Moretti led to her being featured on the front page of the Italian magazine Classica. In 1998 she received the "Golden Guitar" for her recording of Fernando Sor under the Stradivarius label. She recorded two volumes of J.S. Bach's lute works transcribed for guitar for the Transart UK label.

References

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Living people
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People from Sassari
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21st-century women guitarists
List of ship decommissionings in 1940

The list of ship decommissionings in 1940 includes a chronological list of ships decommissioned in 1940.  In cases where no official decommissioning ceremony was held, the date of withdrawal from service may be used instead.  Notably, several destroyers were decommissioned by the United States Navy during 1940 for immediate transfer to the Royal Navy under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the two nations.


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1940
 Ship decommissionings
 Ship launches
Ship launches
Charles Brownlow

Charles Brownlow may refer to:

Chas Brownlow (1861–1924), Australian rules football administrator in the Victorian Football League
 Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan (1795–1847), Irish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1832
 Charles Brownlow, 2nd Baron Lurgan (1831–1882), Anglo-Irish Liberal politician
 Charles Henry Brownlow (1831–1916), British Army officer
 Charles Brownlow (The Bill), fictional character
I Am David (film)

I Am David is a 2003 American drama film written and directed by Paul Feig in his directorial debut. It is based on the 1963 novel of the same name (originally published in the USA under the name North to Freedom) by Anne Holm. The film was produced by Walden Media and Lions Gate Entertainment.

Plot
Seven years after World War II, a 12-year-old boy named David escapes a gulag in Bulgaria where he has spent his entire life where his mother has been taken away from him. He sets out on a risky journey to Denmark, initially believing he is on an important mission to deliver a letter, but eventually discovering that the "mission" was to reunite him with his mother, of whom he has distinct memories. Along his journey, he faces danger, fear, loneliness, hunger, missions and encounters various people.

Johannes, his friend and mentor in the camp, who prepares him for escape, is killed by a guard, leaving David to face escape on his own. David is helped by a guard to escape, who gives him a compass and tells him he must go southwest to Greece, take a boat to Italy and finally go north to Denmark, a peaceful and neutral country. The guard also tells him to trust no one. Since David was locked in a camp all his life, he has repressed feelings and trusts no one anyway, and so feels lost and disoriented in the world.

Along his journey, though he is mistreated by some people, he is well-treated by others. Gradually he learns that some people can be trusted, and to open up and experience his own feelings.  Finally, with the help of decent people whom he has learned to trust, David is reunited with his mother in Denmark.

Cast
 Ben Tibber - David
 Jim Caviezel - Johannes
 Joan Plowright - Sophie
 Hristo Shopov - The Man
 Roberto Attias - Baker
 Maria Bonnevie - David's mother
 Francesco De Vito - Roberto
 Viola Carinci - Maria
 Silvia De Santis - Elsa
 Alessandro Sperduti - Carlo

Reception
  Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "I couldn't believe a moment of it, and never identified with little David."

The film grossed $288,552 domestically in 226 theaters. In the rest of the world, the film grossed $3,824.

Awards
The film won several awards in 2003, including the Crystal Heart Award in the Heartland Film Festival, the Queens Festival's Best Feature Film prize, and Best Film and Most Promising Actor for Ben Tibber. Ben Tibber never acted in a feature film again.

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2000s coming-of-age drama films
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Films based on Danish novels
Films directed by Paul Feig
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Films set in Greece
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Flora L. Thornton

Flora Laney Thornton (November 1, 1913 – May 7, 2010) was an American actress and philanthropist.

Biography

Early life
Flora Laney was born on November 1, 1913 in Independence, Kansas. She was the daughter of Charles W. and Effie M. (Smith) Laney. She moved with her family to Fort Worth, Texas, where she attended Texas Tech University. She majored in nutrition and clothing design. She later moved to New York to study voice.

Career
She appeared in two Broadway musicals, May Wine and White Horse Inn.

Philanthropy
She served on the board of regents of Pepperdine University. She also served a seven year term at the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. She supported the University of Southern California School of Music, the USC/Norris comprehensive cancer center, and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Following Thornton's contribution of $25 million to the School of Music in 1999, the USC Board of Trustees renamed the School of Music to USC Thornton School of Music. She also donated to the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Pepperdine University, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Music Center, and the Los Angeles Opera.

Her support to the Los Angeles Opera made her a life trustee and Founding Angel in 1989. She partnered with Plácido Domingo, the company's general director, to establish the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program. "Identifying and encouraging talented young artists with enormous potential is essential to the future of opera," Thornton said at the time. Thornton also served nine years on the board of the Santa Fe Opera. Her contribution helped organize a scholarship fund to the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.

She established the Flora L. Thornton Foundation, which supports philanthropic programs which help make local-world communities a better place to live. With her second husband, she supported the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Programs, which led to the establishment of the Eric Small Centers for Optimal Living, for people with multiple sclerosis and similar diseases.

Personal life
She married her first husband, Tex Thornton, in 1937. They were married for 44 years until his death in 1981. She remarried in 2005 to Eric Small.

Death
She died of pulmonary disease at her home in Holmby Hills on May 7, 2010. Her service was held at All Saints Church in Beverly Hills, California.

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2010 deaths
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from Fort Worth, Texas
People from Holmby Hills, Los Angeles
People from Independence, Kansas
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Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2005

6th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
February 7, 2006

Best Film: 
 Brokeback Mountain 

Best Canadian Film: 
 C.R.A.Z.Y. 
The 6th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2005, were given on 7 February 2006.

Winners

International
Best Actor: 
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Best Actress: 
Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Best Director: 
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Best Film: 
Brokeback Mountain
Best Foreign Language Film: 
Paradise Now, Palestine
Best Supporting Actor: 
Terrence Howard - Crash
Best Supporting Actress: 
Amy Adams - Junebug

Canadian
Best Actor: 
Marc-André Grondin - C.R.A.Z.Y.
Best Actress: 
Lisa Ray - Water
Best British Columbian Film: 
It's All Gone Pete Tong
Best Director:
Deepa Mehta - Water
Best Film: 
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Best Supporting Actor: 
Michel Côté - C.R.A.Z.Y.
Best Supporting Actress: 
Danielle Proulx - C.R.A.Z.Y.

2005
2005 film awards
2005 in British Columbia
2005 in Canadian cinema
Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga

Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga (born 20 February 1965) is a Cameroonian businessman known as the chief executive of the newspaper L'Anecdote and the TV channels Vision 4 and Télésud. Belinga caused controversy in March 2006 when he was sentenced to four months in prison for defamation after naming Grégoire Owona, a government minister, in a list of 50 presumed homosexual Cameroonians published in L'Anecdote. In 2023, he was arrested and charged in relation to the murder of journalist Martinez Zogo.

Career 
Born to farming parents in Nkoumadzap, Méfou-et-Akono, Centre Region, as an adult Belinga moved to Yaoundé, where he was mentored by newspaper editor Georges-Gilbert Baongla. In 1995, Belinga became the editor of L'Anecdote. In 2020, he bought the television station Télésud. Belinga is a vocal supporter of Paul Biya, who has been President of Cameroon since 1982.

Criminal investigations

Owona defamation case 
In January 2006, L'Anecdote published a list of 50 influential Cameroonians it alleged were homosexual, as part of a larger tabloid crusade against "deviant behaviour" in Cameroon, which at the time had made "homosexual acts" punishable by up to five years in prison. Belinga had justified the publication of the list, saying "we could not remain silent, we had to ring the alarm bell... we don't regret it and we have to do it again". In February 2006, following a two week trial, judge Alexandre Amougou Anaba said that Belinga had failed to produce any evidence to support the allegation that Owona was gay, something which Owona had consistently denied. Owona stated the allegations had damaged his reputation and exposed his family to ridicule. Belinga was sentenced to a four month custodial sentence, in addition to paying symbolic compensation to Owona of 1 CFA. Belinga was also ordered to pay 1 million CFA to the Cameroonian government and to arrange for the judgement to be published in 15 national and international media outlets, with him having to pay an additional 300, 000 CFA to Owona for every day the judgement was not published.

Assassination of Martinez Zogo 
In February 2023, Belinga was named as suspect in the investigation of the torture and assassination of journalist Martinez Zogo, who had disappeared on 17 January 2023 and whose body had been found five days later. Belinga is suspected of being the mastermind of the crime. Despite L'Anecdote reporting that Belinga's arrest had been part of "routine procedure", on 4 March 2023, Belinga was charged with complicity in torture.

Personal life 
Belinga is polygamous and has at least three wives.

References

Cameroonian businesspeople
Living people
LGBT rights in Cameroon
1965 births