alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Hiroyasu Shimizu

is a Japanese speed skater. He has an Olympic gold medal from 1998 in the 500 m, and held the 500 m record (34.32).

He was married Japanese fashion model Reiko Takagaki.

World records 

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

References 

 Hiroyasu Shimizu at SpeedSkatingStats.com
 
 Photos of Hiroyasu Shimizu

External links
 
 
 

1974 births
Living people
Japanese male speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters for Japan
Olympic gold medalists for Japan
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Asian Games medalists in speed skating
Speed skaters at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
Speed skaters at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
World record setters in speed skating
Nihon University alumni
Speed skaters from Hokkaido
People from Obihiro, Hokkaido
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
Washington House Bill 2661

Washington House Bill 2661 is a Washington state law which bans employment, insurance and housing discrimination against LGBT individuals, passed by the Washington State Legislature on January 27, 2006, and signed into law by Governor Christine Gregoire four days later. The bill went into effect on June 8, 2006.

Summary
Expands the jurisdiction of the human rights commission to include sexual orientation and gender expression or identity as a basis for prohibiting discrimination.
Adds definitions for sexual orientation and gender expression or identity to Washington's Law Against Discrimination.
Exempts from Washington's Law Against Discrimination those real estate transactions that include the sharing, rental, or sublease of a dwelling unit when the dwelling unit is to be occupied by the owner or sublessor.

See also
 Equal Rights Washington - key organization that pushed for its passage
 List of US ballot initiatives to repeal LGBT anti-discrimination laws

References

External links
Washington State House Bill 2661 as passed legislature (PDF)
Legislative History of Washington State House Bill 2661
Washington State House Bill 2661 Fiscal Notes

LGBT law in the United States
LGBT rights in the United States
Washington (state) statutes
2006 in LGBT history

LGBT in Washington (state)
2006 in American law
2006 in Washington (state)
Newtown, Isle of Man

Newtown () is a community within the parish of Santon, Isle of Man.  To the northern part of the community lies Mount Murray and to the north-west the Broogh Fort () - an Iron Age fort dating from the 13th century.

Villages in the Isle of Man
Mirny Station

The Mirny Station (, literally Peaceful) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) first Antarctic science station located in Queen Mary Land, Antarctica,  on the Antarctic coast of the Davis Sea.

The station is managed by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute and was named after the support vessel Mirny captained by Mikhail Lazarev during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen on Vostok.

Mirny Station was damaged by a fire on Sunday 21 June 2020.

Purpose and facilities
The station was opened on February 13, 1956, by the 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition. It was originally used as main base for the Vostok Station located  from the coast, this function is now served by Progress Station. In summer, it hosts up to 50 people in 30 buildings, in winter about 40-50 scientists and technicians. The average temperature at the location is , and on more than 200 days per year the wind is stronger than , with occasional cyclones.

Main areas of research are glaciology, seismology, meteorology, observation of polar lights, cosmic radiation, and marine biology.

Historic monuments

Some  south of the station stands a metal stele with an inscribed plaque. It was erected on a sledge on the land transport route between coastal Mirny and inland Vostok Station. It commemorates Anatoly Shcheglov, a driver-mechanic who died while performing his duties. It has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 8) following a proposal by Russia to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. Other similarly designated historic sites in the vicinity of Mirny are Ivan Khmara's Stone (HSM 7) and the Buromskiy Island Cemetery (HSM 9), both on Buromskiy Island  north of the station.

Climate

Mirny Station has an ice cap climate, since all months are below . Although, it is heavily influenced by the glacial nature of Antarctica's interior, it retains a strong maritime influence, resulting in high annual snowfall. Summers however, are sunny and dry, reflecting a mediterranean precipitation pattern, in spite of its poleward latitude and cold temperatures. Summer see highs approaching  on average, whereas winters are stable just below  means for several months. Due to its coastal location and the fact that summer temperatures sometimes rise above freezing, limited plant and animal life flourishes during summer (December, January, February).

See also
 List of Antarctic research stations
 List of Antarctic field camps

References

External links
 AARI Mirny Station page
 Official website Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
 COMNAP Antarctic Facilities ()
 COMNAP Antarctic Facilities Map ()

1956 establishments in Antarctica
Outposts of Antarctica
Russia and the Antarctic
Soviet Union and the Antarctic
Outposts of Queen Mary Land
EIU

EIU may refer to:
 Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston, Illinois, United States
 Economist Intelligence Unit, a British research and advisory company
 Eurasia International University, in Yerevan, Armenia
List of Fremantle Football Club players

Fremantle Football Club entered the Australian Football League in 1995, and the women's team entered the AFL Women's league in its inaugural season in 2017. Only players in league games are included in the ordered list; players who were on the Fremantle playing list but only played in pre-season or scratch matches are listed separately at the end of the article.

Fremantle Football Club players

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Fremantle women

Other players

Listed players yet to play an AFL game for Fremantle men's team

Listed players yet to play an AFLW game for Fremantle women's team

Delisted players who did not play an AFL game for Fremantle

Delisted players who did not play an AFLW game for Fremantle

See also
 Category of Fremantle players, ordered alphabetically
 Fremantle Football Club drafting and trading history

References

External links
 Full List of Fremantle Players at AFL Tables
 Every Senior Listed Player from the Fremantle FC Official Website

Fremantle Football Club

Fremantle
Fremantle-related lists
Fremantle Football Club (AFLW) players
Tacca

The genus Tacca, which includes the batflowers and arrowroot, consists of flowering plants in the order Dioscoreales, native to tropical regions of South America, Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, and various Oceanic islands. In older texts, the genus was treated in its own family Taccaceae, but the 2003 APG II system incorporates it into the family Dioscoreaceae. The APG III and APG IV systems continue to include Tacca in Dioscoreaceae.

Description 
Many Tacca species have nearly black flowers, with conspicuous involucral bracts and  bracteoles like whiskers. Engbert Drenth hypothesized that species of this genus attracted "carrion and dung flies" for pollination and that the fleshy seam of the seed might be attractive to ants and hence that ants might aid in seed dispersal.

Taxonomy 
Earlier classifications placed the genus within the monogeneric family Taccaceae, which in turn was the sole family in the order Taccales. Dahlgren recognised the similarities to the genera within the Dioscoreales, and incorporated the family into that order.

Subdivision 
There are at least 16 species, 
 Tacca ampliplacenta L.Zhang & Q.J.Li - Yunnan
 Tacca ankaranensis Bard.-Vauc., 1997 - Madagascar
 Tacca bibracteata Drenth - Sarawak
 Tacca borneensis Ridl. - Borneo
 Tacca celebica Koord. - Sulawesi
 Tacca chantrieri André, 1901 - Indochina, Assam, Bangladesh, Tibet, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Yunnan 
 Tacca ebeltajae  Drenth - Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
 Tacca integrifolia Ker Gawl., 1812 - Tibet, Bhutan, Assam, Bangladesh, Indochina, India, Pakistan, Java, Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
 Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze, 1891 - widespread across tropical Africa, Madagascar, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans
 Tacca maculata  Seem., 1866 - Western Australia,  Northern Territory, Fiji, Samoa
 Tacca palmata Blume - Indonesia, Indochina, Malaysia, Philippines, New Guinea
 Tacca palmatifida Baker - Sulawesi
 Tacca parkeri Seem. - South America
 Tacca plantaginea (Hance) Drenth, 1972 - Indochina, southern China
 Tacca reducta P.C.Boyce & S.Julia - Sarawak, Borneo, Malesia
 Tacca subflabellata P.P. Ling & C.T. Ting, 1982 - Yunnan
 Synonyms:
 Tacca lanceolata Spruce - Brazil, Venezuela = Tacca parkeri Seem.

Cultivation
Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants for their bold foliage and large flowers. The well-known T. chantrieri goes by the names of black batflower, bat-head lily, devil flower or cat's whiskers. Tacca integrifolia is known as the purple or white batflower. Other cultivated varieties include the arrowroot, T. leontopetaloides, and T. cristata aspera.

Gallery

References

Bibliography 

 
 Germplasm Resources Information Network: Tacca
 Taccaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards), The families of flowering plants 
 Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan.

Dioscoreaceae
Dioscoreales genera
Saint-Jérôme Aerodrome

Saint-Jérôme Aerodrome  is located adjacent to Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada.

References

Buildings and structures in Saint-Jérôme
Registered aerodromes in Laurentides
Fort Macleod (Alcock Farm) Airport

Fort Macleod (Alcock Farm) Airport  is located about  south-southeast of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada.

References

External links
Page about this airport on COPA's Places to Fly airport directory

Registered aerodromes in Alberta
Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26
Kirby Lake Aerodrome

Kirby Lake Airport  is a registered aerodrome located adjacent to Kirby Lake, Alberta, Canada.

References

Registered aerodromes in Alberta
Transport in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
Nueltin Lake Airport

Nueltin Lake Airport  is located near to Nueltin Lake, Manitoba, Canada.

References

Registered aerodromes in Manitoba
Fiction International

Fiction International is a literary magazine devoted to innovative forms of fiction and non-fiction which addresses progressive political ideals. Founded at St. Lawrence University in New York City by Joe David Bellamyin 1973, the magazine moved to San Diego State University in 1983, where it has been "edited by Harold Jaffe and Larry McCaffery until 1992, when Harold Jaffe assumed sole editorship". Over the years, the magazine has published works by Harold Jaffe, J.M. Coetzee, Claribel Alegría, Robert Coover, William S. Burroughs, Alberto Moravia, Malcolm X, Allen Ginsberg, Marguerite Duras, Edmund White, Kathy Acker, Eckhard Gerdes, Sean Gill, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Clarice Lispector, and Roque Dalton.

References

External links
 Official Website
 Fiction International Blog

Literary magazines published in the United States
Annual magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1973
Magazines published in New York City
Magazines published in California
Anthony Stewart

Anthony Stewart may refer to:

A. T. Q. Stewart (1929–2010), academic historian and author from Northern Ireland
Anthony Stewart (ice hockey) (born 1985), ice hockey player
Anthony Stewart (footballer) (born 1992), English footballer
Anthony Stewart (rugby league) (born 1979), Irish rugby league player
Anthony Stewart (basketball player) (born 1970), Australian basketball player
Anthony Stewart (basketball coach) (1970–2020), American college basketball coach
Anthony Stewart (businessman), owner of the ship Peggy Stewart, burned in the "Annapolis Tea Party", 1774

See also
Anthony Stuart (disambiguation)
Tony Stewart (disambiguation)
Dihu

The dihu (低胡, pinyin: dīhú) is a large bowed string instrument from China. It has a large soundbox covered on one end with snakeskin. Like most other members of the huqin family of instruments, it has two strings and is held vertically. The instrument's name derives from "dī," meaning "low," and "hú" (short for huqin).

Sizes
The instrument comes in three sizes:
The xiaodihu (小低胡, also called dahu or cizhonghu), pitched one octave below the erhu (tuned D-A, with its lowest D one whole step above the viola's lowest C). It is the tenor member of the erhu family (the erhu being the soprano member and the zhonghu being the alto member).
The zhongdihu (中低胡, pitched one octave below the zhonghu, (tuned G-D, as the middle strings of the cello). It is the bass member of the erhu family.
The dadihu (大低胡, pitched one octave below the xiaodihu and two octaves below the erhu (tuned D-A, with its lowest D one whole step above the cello's lowest C). It is the contrabass member of the erhu family.

Overview
The dihu family was developed for orchestral use in the 1930s as lower members of the erhu family (the erhu being the soprano member and the zhonghu being the alto member) to increase the pitch range of the instruments used in a Chinese orchestra and allow music with harmony to be played.  However, by the late 20th century it had largely fallen into disuse, part of the reason being that it is unwieldy to play. Also, the fact that (like other instruments in the huqin family) the bow passes between the instrument's two strings means that playing pizzicato is difficult; thus, the larger four-string gehu and diyingehu (or cello or double bass) are generally used in Chinese orchestras for the lower bowed string voices instead.

See also
Dahu (instrument)
Diyingehu
Laruan
Huqin
Traditional Chinese musical instruments

References

External links
Dihu page  (Chinese)
Xiaodihu photo (xiaodihu on left; erhu on right for comparison)
Zhongdihu photo (zhongdihu on left; erhu on right for comparison)
Dadihu photo (dadihu on left; erhu on right for comparison)

Bowed instruments
Chinese musical instruments
Drumhead lutes
Huqin family instruments
Heikki Saari

Heikki Saari (alias "Mörkö", "kermis" or "kmn") (born on 8 September 1984 and originating from Veteli, Finland) is the current drummer for Whorion and Finntroll. He is also the live drummer for Tuoni and former drummer of Norther and Amberian Dawn. He started playing drums around 1987 and influences include Scarve, Opeth, Soilwork, Ensiferum, Disarmonia Mundi, Dream Theater, Meshuggah, Annihilator, Deathchain, Hate Eternal, Rotten Sound, Rytmihäiriö, Sevendust, and Wintersun.

Discography

with Whorion
Fall of Atlas
The Reign Of The Seventh Sector

with Norther
Frozen Angel  (single for the movie Vares 2: Jäätynyt Enkeli)
No Way Back EP
N

with Finntroll 
Vredesvävd

with Virtuocity
(Played under the pseudonym Joey Edith)
Northern Twilight Symphony

with Atheme One

Atheme One has recorded a four-song promotional EP and two songs, titled "Dreamchaser" and "World of Insanity", are available for download. Currently band is not working anymore under this title, but under name of Amberian Dawn with a different drummer as Heikki left the band at the end of 2006.

Session Work
Heikki was recruited by Scottish metal band Hellbound, along with Aleksi Sihvonen from Norther, on their debut EP.

Since 2017, he has been the live session drummer for Wintersun.

External links
Whorion website
Heikki's Youtube channel
Official Norther website
Official Norther MySpace -profile
EndlessWar, an extensive fansite
Official Amberian Dawn website
 NORTHER - the Finnish Breeze fansite
Russian Norther Fansite
Official hellhole of Heikki Saari

References / Notes
All of the information in this article was compiled from information on the Official Norther website, the Official Norther Forum, and the EndlessWar member information page. Photo found at Spinefarm Records press area.

1984 births
People from Hyvinkää
Living people
Finnish heavy metal drummers
Amberian Dawn members
21st-century drummers
Norther members
Finntroll members
Scape (botany)

In botany, a scape is a peduncle arising from a subterranean or very compressed stem, with the lower internodes very long and hence few or no bracts except the part near the rachis or receptacle. Typically it takes the form of a long, leafless flowering stem rising directly from a bulb, rhizome, or similar subterranean or underwater structure.

The scapes of scallions, chives, garlic chives, and garlic are used as vegetables.

Etymology and usages

The word scape (Latin scapus, from Greek σκᾶπος), as used in botany, is fairly vague and arbitrary; various sources provide divergent definitions. Some older usages simply amount to a stem or stalk in general, but modern formal usage tends to favour the likes of "A long flower stalk rising directly from the root or rhizome", or "a long, naked, or nearly naked, peduncle, rising direct from the base of a plant, whether 1- or many-fid."   Other authorities refer to the scape rising directly from the ground, without morphological analysis. For example: "A leafless floral axis or peduncle arising from the ground, as in Cyclamen".

Practical definition

The modern trend is towards usefully distinguishing the definition of "scape" from those of related, but more general, terms such as peduncle and inflorescence. It now is rarely used for such objects as stems or inflorescences in general. However, it is not easy to find coherent and fully general definitions. Typical examples from authoritative online sources include the following: "a peduncle arising at or beneath the surface of the ground in an acaulescent plant... broadly: a flower stalk...", "a leafless stalk in plants that arises from a rosette of leaves and bears one or more flowers..." and several more very similar.

All those definitions are descriptive, but morphologically vacuous. In contrast, a professional botanical publication puts the matter plainly in a key to Eriogonum: "Scapes (the first internode)... Botanically, any such structure is practically of necessity an internode".

Description
In the purest sense, that of a smooth stem without leaves or branches, a scape is a single internode. It might comprise an entire peduncle with just one flower (e.g. Tulipa) or just the basal internode of a peduncle. This is in contrast to the typical compound peduncle, which morphologically speaking is derived from a branch, or from an entire shoot.

A single scape may bear a single flower or many, depending on the species. When it bears more than one flower, there is the terminal part of an inflorescence on top, as in Amaryllis. Compare this with say, the peduncle of Agave, which sensu stricto, is not a scape.

Scapes are found on plants of many families, including Amaryllidaceae, Asphodelaceae, Balsaminaceae, Liliaceae, Papaveraceae, Droseraceae, and Violaceae.

References 

Plant morphology
CSN3

CSN3 may refer to:

 CSN3 (gene), a human gene which encodes the protein kappa-casein
 Saint-Jérôme Aerodrome, a private airport in Quebec, Canada
Dipsogen

A dipsogen is an agent that causes thirst. (From Greek: δίψα (dipsa), "thirst" and the suffix -gen, "to create".)

Physiology
Angiotensin II is thought to be a powerful dipsogen, and is one of the products of the renin–angiotensin pathway, a biological homeostatic mechanism for the regulation of electrolytes and water.

External links
 'Fluid Physiology' by Kerry Brandis (from http://www.anaesthesiamcq.com)

Physiology
Over Seventy

Over Seventy is an autobiographical work by P. G. Wodehouse, including a collection of articles originally from Punch magazine. It was first published in the United States on 3 May 1956 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the title America, I Like You, and in the United Kingdom, in a considerably expanded form, on October 11, 1957, by Herbert Jenkins, London, with the Over Seventy title and the subtitle An Autobiography with Digressions.

Much of the writing describes Wodehouse's feelings concerning the United States, his adopted homeland, with the journalism and stories inserted in context.

References

External links
The Russian Wodehouse Society's page

Books by P. G. Wodehouse
1956 non-fiction books
Herbert Jenkins books
British autobiographies
Annalee Blysse

Annalee Blysse is an American paranormal romance novelist. Born and raised in Alaska, she recently moved to Nevada.
She writes romances, and erotic romance, especially futuristic and paranormal.

Selected works 

Novels 
 Starlit Destiny (2005) - Nominee for 2005 CAPA for Paranormal Romance at The Romance Studio

Novellas 
"Lord of the Night" in Relic (2006)
Never A Sunset (2005)

External links
 Annalee Blysse's Website
 Author Page at NCP—New Concepts Publishing
 Passionate Ink—Special Interest Chapter of Romance Writers of America for erotic romance writers.

Year of birth missing (living people)
American paranormal romance writers
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
Writers from Alaska
Writers from Nevada
Living people
Women romantic fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
Children of the Thunder

Children of the Thunder is a 1988 science fiction novel by John Brunner.

References

1988 British novels
1988 science fiction novels
Novels by John Brunner
Environmental fiction books
Del Rey books
Cronk ny Merriu

Close to Port Grenaugh, Cronk ny Merriu () is one of the remains of promontory forts in the Isle of Man. Cronk ny Merriu was previously considered by historians to be a prehistoric burial place due to its large grass-covered bank and name, literally translating to "Hill of the Dead". The bank and ditch created a defensive promontory fort at Cronk ny Merriu. Later, a rectangular building of Norse style and layout stood here, part of a system of coastal lookout posts used to protect the coastline and to police beach markets. Excavations of Cronk ny Merriu show that there was very little domestic activity, and that the Norse building likely didn't have permanent residency. It's suggested that the longhouse was primarily a building for those at nearby forts to shelter from harsh weather, rather than a place of defence itself. Although no scientific dating has been done, due to the similarities with fortified headlands throughout the Anglo-Celtic isles, archeologists strongly believe that this site dates back to the Celtic Iron Age.

Several of the lookout posts, especially in Santon, where Cronk ny Merriu is situated, can be visited using the coastal footpath. The posts were protected with a deep ditch and a rampart strengthed by large stones on their vulnerable landward side. There'd also be a heavily protected gateway, with ramparts built up on either side, for those seeking shelter in the fort.

The Scandinavians who arrived in Mann in the eighth and ninth centuries sometimes re-used these Iron Age promontory forts, often obliterating the old domestic quarters with their characteristic rectangular houses; the example at Cronk ny Merriu has been used as the basis of the reconstruction of the House of Manannan museum in Peel.

Etymology
Hill forts in the Isle of Man
Historic sites in the Isle of Man
Tourist attractions in the Isle of Man
History of the Isle of Man
In the Manx language  (hill)  (the dead) means literally 'Hill of the Dead'.

References
John Lang


John Lang may refer to:

Sportspeople
John Lang (footballer, born 1881) (1881–1934), Scottish footballer
John Lang (footballer, born 1908), Scottish footballer
John Lang (Australian rugby league) (born 1950), Australian rugby league player and coach
John Lang (New Zealand rugby league) (1896–1971), New Zealand rugby league player

Musicians
John Lang (American musician) (born 1952), lyric writer for Mr. Mister and member of the band Djinn
John Lang (Rough Trade), Canadian musician with the band Rough Trade
Jonny Lang (born 1981), American blues and gospel musician

Others
John Dunmore Lang (1799–1878), Presbyterian clergyman and early advocate of Australian republicanism 
John Lang (Canadian politician) (1839–1921), former member of the Canadian House of Commons
Johnny Lang, historic Joshua Tree National Park cattle rancher and mining operator
John Lang (priest) (1927–2012), Anglican Dean of Lichfield
John Lang (sailor) (1794–?), sailor in the United States Navy
John Lang (writer) (1816–1864), said to be the first Australian-born novelist
John H. Lang (1899–1970), American who served with the Canadian Army and the United States Navy
Sir John Lang (1896–1984), British civil servant
John Lang (1972-Now), French writer, autor of the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk

See also
Jack Lang (disambiguation)
John Lange (disambiguation)
John Laing (disambiguation)
Crawford State Park (Kansas)

Crawford State Park is a state park in Crawford County, Kansas, United States, located  north of Girard.

The  park, resides on a  lake built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s. There are two recorded archaeological sites within the park's boundaries, including remnants of a 19th-century U.S. military outpost. An interpretive trail connects the park with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks' Farlington Fish Hatchery, which was built shortly after the CCC completed construction of the lake.

Crawford State Park is known as a fishing destination for channel catfish, crappie, and striped bass. Boating and scuba diving are also popular in the park.

Located on the edge of the Ozarks, Crawford State Park features numerous redbud trees.

See also
 List of Kansas state parks
 List of lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas
 List of rivers of Kansas

References

External links

State parks of Kansas
State parks of the U.S. Interior Highlands
Civilian Conservation Corps in Kansas
Protected areas of Crawford County, Kansas
Leasingham

Leasingham is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated less than  north from Sleaford, and just off the A15. The hamlet of Roxholm lies to the north. When combined with Rauceby figures, there are a total of 916 households as of 2011. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,584.

The B1209 passes through the village to join the A153 further east, passing across Leasingham Moor. Close by to the west is RAF Cranwell. The A15 used to run through the village on Captain's Hill until the 1950s.

Captain's Hill takes its name from the local landowner, Captain Richard Wharton-Myddleton, who had been an ensign at the battle of Waterloo. He lived in Leasingham Hall (built about 1836) now a Grade II listed house. On 4 January 2022, this hall had a renovation to transform it into 6 flats, however work could not begin initially due to safety concerns over tree preservation.

Other buildings in the village include the church of St Andrews, a Wesleyan chapel, manor house, village hall and a row of alms houses. The local school is St Andrew's C.E. Primary School, which partners with Carre's Grammar School using its Outreach programme. The playing fields include a bowls club and cricket pitch.

Amenities include the Duke of Wellington public house, Busy Bees Preschool, a post office shop, corner shop, farm shop, and two hairdressers.
 
A local bus service runs every hour to Sleaford, with links to Lincoln, Grantham, Nottingham and Skegness.

Scout Group 

The local scout group is 1st Leasingham Scouts and is held in St Andrew's Primary School's main hall. The group is run by a selection of leaders and young leaders, split into beavers, cubs and scouts. The necker colours are red and blue.

The group takes part in remembrance service in Leasingham and St George's Day parades in Sleaford. The beavers on 17 April 2016 were invited round Sleaford Tesco Superstore to learn how their food is prepared as part of their farm2fork programme. And as part of Poacher 2022, both the beavers and cubs were invited to take part in Junior Poacher 2022 which involved a more limited version of the main event but still including activities like water zorbs and climbing walls. Whereas the scouts section took part in the whole event.

References

External links

St Andrews C.E. Primary School Website
Leasingham War Memorial
1st Leasingham Scout Group Twitter

Villages in Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
North Kesteven District
Potassium 2-ethylhexanoate

Potassium 2-ethylhexanoate, also known as potassium iso-octanoate, is a chemical used to convert the tert-butylammmonium salt of clavulanic acid into potassium clavulanate (clavulanate potassium). It is also used as a corrosion inhibitor in automotive antifreeze and as a catalyst for polyurethane systems.

References

Potassium compounds
Ethylhexanoates
Misor

Misor was the name of a deity appearing in a theogeny provided by Roman era Phoenician writer Philo of Byblos in an account preserved by Eusebius in Praeparatio Evangelica, and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon. He was one of two children of the deities Amunos and Magos. The other named was Sydyk. It is said that these two were the first to discover the use of salt. The names "Misor" and "Sydyk" mean "Straight" and "Just" (or, in another translation, "Well-freed" and "Just").

Misor's son was named Taautus, and believed to be the inventor of the first written alphabet.

References

Phoenician mythology
Commelinids

In plant taxonomy, commelinids (originally commelinoids) is a clade of flowering plants within the monocots, distinguished by having cell walls containing ferulic acid.

The commelinids are the only clade that the APG IV system has informally named within the monocots.  The remaining monocots are a paraphyletic unit. Also known as the commelinid monocots it forms one of three groupings within the monocots, and the final branch; the other two groups are the alismatid monocots and the lilioid monocots.

Description
Members of the commelinid clade have cell walls containing UV-fluorescent ferulic acid.

Taxonomy
The commelinids were first recognized as a formal group in 1967 by Armen Takhtajan, who named them the Commelinidae and assigned them to a subclass of Liliopsida (monocots).  The name was also used in the 1981 Cronquist system.  However, by the release of his 1980 system of classification, Takhtajan had merged this subclass into a larger one, and no longer considered it to be a clade.

Takhtajan system
The Takhtajan system treated this as one of six subclasses within the class Liliopsida (=monocotyledons). It consisted of the following:

subclass Commelinidae
superorder Bromelianae
order Bromeliales
order Velloziales
superorder Pontederianae
order Philydrales
order Pontederiales
order Haemodorales
superorder Zingiberanae
order Musales
order Lowiales
order Zingiberales
order Cannales
superorder Commelinanae
order Commelinales
order Mayacales
order Xyridales
order Rapateales
order Eriocaulales
superorder Hydatellanae
order Hydatellales
superorder Juncanae
order Juncales
order Cyperales
superorder Poanae
order Flagellariales
order Restionales
order Centrolepidales
order Poales

Cronquist system
The Cronquist system treated this as one of four subclasses within the class Liliopsida. It consisted of the following:

subclass Commelinidae
order Commelinales
order Eriocaulales
order Restionales
order Juncales
order Cyperales
order Hydatellales
order Typhales

APG system
The APG II system does not use formal botanical names above the rank of order; most of the members were assigned to the clade commelinids in the monocots (its predecessor, the APG system used the clade commelinoids).  The commelinids now constitute a well-supported clade within the monocots, and this clade has been recognized in all four APG classification systems.

Subdivision
The commelinids of APG II (2003) and APG III (2009) contain essentially the same plants as the commelinoids of the earlier APG system (1998). In APG IV (2016) the family Dasypogonaceae is no longer directly placed under commelinids but instead a family of order Arecales.

See also 
 List of commelinid families

References

Bibliography

External links

 
Plant unranked clades
Naftali Yehuda Horowitz

Naftali Yehuda Halevi Horowitz is the Bostoner Rebbe, having succeeded his father, Grand Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, the second Bostoner Rebbe, upon the latter's death in December 2009. He is the rebbe of the Boston Hasidic community from the New England Chassidic Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, built by his father, and also directs ROFEH International, the community-based medical referral and hospitality liaison support agency established by his father.

Family
Naftali Yehudah Horowitz is the third and youngest son of Levi Yitzchak Horowitz and Raichel Unger Leifer. He is a ninth-generation descendant on the male line of Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz, the Nikolsburger rebbe.  His eldest brother, Pinchos Dovid Horowitz, is the Bostoner-Chuster rabbi of Borough Park, Brooklyn, and his other brother Mayer Alter Horowitz is the Bostoner rebbe of Har Nof, Jerusalem. His sister Shayna Gittel is married to the Vialopola rebbe of Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Biography
Horowitz received rabbinical ordination at Beth Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, New Jersey and Tchebin Yeshiva of Jerusalem, Israel.  He married Shayndle Weiss and in 1980 went to Boston to become the rabbi of Congregation Beth Pinchas in Brookline. Congregation Beth Pinchas is part of the New England Chassidic Center, an umbrella organization providing religious and community services throughout the Boston area.

References

External links 
Official Website of the Bostoner Shul

American Hasidic rabbis
20th-century American rabbis
21st-century American rabbis
Beth Medrash Govoha alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rebbes of Boston
The Braaid

The Braaid is an Iron Age roundhouse and two Norse long houses on this site represent its occupation until the 11th or 12th century AD in the parish of Marown in the Isle of Man.

The site uniquely brings together buildings of Iron Age and Viking styles that were used together and survive down to the present.

The site lies between Braaid hamlet and Mount Murray at which reference an area map can be viewed.

Also nearby is The Broogh Fort ().

References
 The Braaid, Manx National Heritage

History of the Isle of Man
Dasypogonaceae

Dasypogonaceae is a family of flowering plants based on the type genus Dasypogon, one that has traditionally not been commonly recognized by taxonomists; the plants it contains were usually included in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae. If valid, Dasypogonaceae includes four genera with 16 species. The family is endemic to Australia. The best known representative is Kingia australis.

The 2016 APG IV system places the family in the order Arecales, after several studies revealed the family as a sister-family to Arecaceae. Other authors find that the placement of Dasypogonaceae remains undetermined, due to conflicting models, and leave it in an order of its own, the Dasypogonales.

The earlier APG III (2009), APG II (2003), and the 1998 APG system all accepted the validity of the family, assigning it to the clade commelinids, but leaving it unplaced as to order. The commelinids are monocots, the broad group to which, in any event, these plants clearly belong.

Phylogeny
Studies have confirmed the monophyletic character of the grouping. The following is a phylogenetic tree of the family.

References

External links 
 
 Dasypogonaceae , Calectasiaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 9 March 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20070103200438/http://delta-intkey.com/.
 Dasypogonaceae in Western Australia  [70 entries]

 
Commelinid families
Plant families endemic to Australia
Arecales
Evan Walker

Evan Walker is the name of:

 Evan Harris Walker (1935–2006), American physicist
 Evan Walker (politician) (1935–2015), Australian politician
1984 Australian federal election

The 1984 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 1 December 1984. All 148 seats in the House of Representatives (24 of them newly created) and 46 of 76 seats in the Senate (12 of them newly created) were up for election. The incumbent Labor Party led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke defeated the opposition Liberal–National coalition, led by Andrew Peacock.

The election was held in conjunction with two referendum questions, neither of which was carried.

Background and issues
The election had a long campaign and a high rate of informal voting for the House of Representatives, but decreased rate in the Senate (due to the introduction of the Group voting ticket). Although a House election was not due until 1986, Hawke opted to call an election 18 months early in part to bring the elections for the House and Senate back into line following the double dissolution election of 1983.

The legislated increase in the size of the House by 24 seats and the Senate by 12 seats came into effect at the 1984 election. Prior to 1984 the electoral commission did not undertake a full distribution of preferences for statistical purposes. The stored ballot papers for the previous election were put through this process prior to their destruction – therefore the figures from 1983 onwards show the actual result based on full distribution of preferences.

Results

House of Representatives

Senate

Seats changing hands

 Members listed in italics did not contest their seat at this election.

Analysis

The results of the election surprised most analysts; the expectation had been that Bob Hawke – who had been polling a record ACNielsen approval rating of 75 percent on the eve of the election – would win by a significantly larger margin. Labor instead suffered a 2-point swing against it and had its majority cut from 25 to 16. Hawke blamed the result on the changes to Senate vote cards, which he believed confused people regarding their House of Representatives votes and contributed to the relatively high informal vote, the majority of which apparently was Labor votes. However, analysis by the Australian Electoral Commission found that informal voting only slightly reduced Labor's primary vote and did not change the result in any division.

Andrew Peacock did well from a good performance in the one leaders' debate, held on 26 November 1984, which was the first televised leaders' debate in Australia.

See also
 Candidates of the 1984 Australian federal election
 Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1984-1987
 Members of the Australian Senate, 1985-1987

References

University of WA  election results in Australia since 1890
AEC 2PP vote
AustralianPolitics.com election details

1984 elections in Australia
Bob Hawke
Federal elections in Australia
December 1984 events in Australia
NS Class 8800

The NS 8800 was a series of tank engines of the Dutch railway NS for the shunting service. Of the approximately 324 British-built Hunslet Austerity C (0-6-0ST) saddle tank locomotives, many were used by the British War Department during their fight against the German army in mainland Western Europe. The NS bought 27 of them just after World War II. They had been built by the Hunslet Engine Company (12), WG Bagnall (3), Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns (RSH) (6), and Hudswell Clarke (6).

In NS service 
After the departure of the British army in 1945, the Dutch Railways bought 31 copies. Four engines were sold to the Staatsmijnen in Limburg after a short time. The other 27 were assigned the NS numbers 8801-8827 and were used for shunting until 1957. They were liked by crews and had the name not to "leave" any train standing. Shunting a heavy coal train was not difficult for these locomotives, and they were loved by drivers and firemen alike. With their water tanks built around the boiler like a saddle (hence the name saddle tank locomotive) and their two internal cylinders, they looked very different from the traditional Dutch shunting locomotives of the NS 8700 and NS 9500 series. In the years between 1953, and 1957 six engines were sold, five to the Laura and Julia coal mine (8811 and 8826 in 1953, 8812 in 1954, 8807 and 8815 in 1957) and one to the United Cooperative Sugar Factories in Roosendaal (8817 in 1955). The remaining engines were scrapped during that time.

Period after service with the NS
After the NS withdrew the engines in 1957, a large number were sold to the Laura and Julia Mine and the Oranje Nassau Mine, where they remained in use until the mines were closed in 1974. The locomotives that were sold to the Staatsmijnen were scrapped in the period 1960–1961. Three engines have been preserved. In 1981 the Stoom Stichting Nederland bought the former NS 8811, built by Hudswell Clarke in 1943. In 2010 this locomotive was partially made roadworthy. On April 13, 2012, the now completely restored locomotive was presented to invited guests at the SSN depot. The former NS 8826, built by Hunslet in 1944, was bought in 1975 by the Metaalhandel Gebr. van Raak in Tilburg, who loaned the locomotive to the Stichting Stoomtrein Tilburg-Turnhout between 1976 and 1981 for a heritage steam service on the Tilburg - Turnhout railway line. After the line closed the locomotive returned to Tilburg. In 1998 the locomotive was purchased by the Zuid Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij with the intention of making it roadworthy again. The boiler of the former NS 8812 on the frame of the former NS 8815 has returned to England, where the locomotive bears the name 'Walkden' and is used on the Ribble Steam Railway.

References

External links
ZLSM | De mijloenenlijn

8800
0-6-0ST locomotives
Steam locomotives of the Netherlands
Hunslet locomotives
Bagnall locomotives
Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns locomotives
Hudswell Clarke locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the Netherlands
Shunting locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1945
Uqba ibn Amir

Uqba ibn Amir al-Juhani (; died 677/78) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the Umayyad governor of Egypt in 665–667 and died in the province.

Life
Uqba ibn Amir hailed from the Juhayna tribe, a branch of the Quda'a confederation resident across Syria and northwestern Arabia. He became a well-known companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and had been the latter's muleteer. Uqba was also a poet and became known for his writing skills. He developed a reputation as an early reader of the Quran and possessed a version of the Muslim holy book that was different than the version descended from Caliph Uthman (). His recension of the Quran fell into oblivion after the Umayyad governor of Egypt, Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan, had another codex produced in accordance with the Uthmanid canon. Uqba is credited with the transmission of several hadith (traditions of Muhammad).

During the First Muslim Civil War, he was an active supporter of his friend Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan against Caliph Ali (). Mu'awiya became caliph in 661 and appointed Uqba the governor of Egypt, replacing the caliph's deceased brother, Utba ibn Abi Sufyan, in 664. According to the 9th-century historian al-Tabari, in 668/69, Uqba led the Arab troops of Egypt alongside the troops of Medina in a naval raid against Byzantine territory. He was replaced as governor by Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari in 669. He died in Egypt in 677/78. An honorary tomb was built on his grave in the cemetery of Qarafa al-Kubra near Fustat. During the Mamluk period in the 14th century, it was one of several ziyarat (Muslim pilgrimage sites) visited by Egyptian Muslims.

References

Bibliography

678 deaths
7th-century Umayyad governors of Egypt
People of the First Fitna
Quda'a
Sahabah hadith narrators
Umayyad people of the Arab–Byzantine wars
Year of birth unknown
Tiata Fahodzi

Tiata Fahodzi (ti∙a∙ta fa∙hoon∙zi) – meaning "theatre of the emancipated" – is a British African theatre company founded in 1997 by Femi Elufowoju Jr. It receives funding as a National Portfolio Organisation of the Arts Council England.

Previous artistic directors include Femi Elufowoju Jr (1997–2010) and Lucian Msamati (2010–2014). Natalie Ibu became the company's third artistic director in 2014. In March 2021, Chinonyerem Odimba became the current artistic director as the company prepared for its 25th anniversary in 2022.

Emerging artists

Fahodzi is noted for showcasing new British African talent with many artists gaining their first professional experiences with the company before achieving success at the national and international level. These artists include Bola Agbaje, who is now a Laurence Olivier Award winning playwright and Adetomiwa Edun, now internationally known as an actor, most notably as Sir Elyan in the TV show Merlin.

Residency

In 2015 Tiata Fahodzi became a resident company at Watford Palace Theatre, gaining an operational base for the first time in its history.

References

 Hutchinson, Shaun Ajamu (17 November 2010). "REVIEW: BLUE/ORANGE". The New Black Magazine. Retrieved 27 February 2015.

External links
 The archive of Tiata Fahodzi is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre and Performance Department.

Theatre companies in the United Kingdom
Simply Slang

Simply Slang is an American hard rock quartet, founded in 2002, and based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Originally known as Deadline, the band later changed its name upon discovering another band using the same name. In 2004, Simply Slang issued its eponymous debut, Simply Slang, through Platinum Realm Entertainment.

Within a short time of its release, Simply Slang began to receive international attention, due in part by the band offering free downloads of its songs through the internet.

This strategy proved effective, as two songs released from the debut, "Live 4 The Weekend" and "Angeline", became top downloads on music websites around the world. In March 2005, Simply Slang reached No. 1 on the Heavy Rock Artist chart on MP3.com.au, Australia's most popular music provider. Several weeks later (on the same website) Simply Slang hit No. 1 on the Heavy Rock Album chart.

Despite the accomplishments, the band's lack of financial success started to take a toll. The hectic tour schedules, along with artistic conflicts, substance abuse issues, and financial woes, grew too much for some members to bear. Starting with guitarist Jeff Novak, the musicians departed one by one. By August 2005, frontman Aaron Morales was the band's sole remaining original member. In the weeks to follow, Simply Slang would go through several lineup changes before entering the studio in late 2005, to begin work on their second opus, Bad Attitude.

Released on June 23, 2006, Bad Attitude featured the new lineup, along with a fresh, new, aggressive style. With material ranging from punky rock anthems, to blues-metal sleaze, Bad Attitude allowed the members of Simply Slang to forge a new chapter in the band's existence.

Simply Slang maintains a cult following among hard rock and sleaze/glam metal fans in the United Kingdom, Australia, Scandinavia, Latin America, Spain, and Italy. Despite the band's achievements internationally, Simply Slang did not achieve notable success in the United States.

In 2007, Aaron Morales dissolved the band to pursue his solo career, contributing to Hollywood's Demon Doll Records compilation album, Glamnation Vol. 2, and later releasing an EP called "Independence!" in 2010. Former members Patrick Mulcahy and Jon Schang are currently in progressive rock band District 97, with American Idol Season 6 semi-finalist Leslie Hunt.

Members
Aaron Morales - Guitar, Vocals (2002–2007)
Matt Overbee - Guitar (2005–2007)
Pat Mulcahy - Bass (2006–2007)
Jon Schang - Drums (2005–2007)

Discography
Simply Slang (2004)
Bad Attitude (2006)

External links
Official Website
Official MySpace Page
Heavy Harmonies page

2002 establishments in Illinois
2007 disestablishments in Illinois
Glam metal musical groups from Illinois
Hard rock musical groups from Illinois
Musical groups established in 2002
Musical groups disestablished in 2007