alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Bannalp

Bannalp is a mountain region in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden, near Engelberg. In the Bannalp region there are three alpine huts and a small lake, Bannalpsee. There is a cable car from Oberrickenbach, near Wolfenschiessen, to Bannalp. It has a small and family friendly ski resort.

External links
 Map

Geography of Nidwalden
Abbasi Shaheed Hospital

Abbasi Shaheed Hospital () is a teaching hospital located in Paposh Nagar neighborhood of Nazimabad, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

History
The hospital was constructed in the early 1970s and serves the residents of northern part of the city (Nazimabad, North Nazimabad, North Karachi, F. B. Area, Orangi Town etc.) with an estimated population of nearly 1 million. It is the Karachi's 3rd largest government hospital after Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and Civil Hospital.

This hospital was constructed by the city government during the tenure of Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in the name of Major Ziauddin Abbasi who sacrificed his life in the 1965 war between Pakistan and India.

See also
 List of hospitals in Karachi
 List of hospitals in Pakistan

References

External links

Hospital buildings completed in 1974
Teaching hospitals in Pakistan
Hospitals in Karachi
Hospitals established in 1974
The Crowning with Thorns

The Crowning with Thorns refers to the Crown of Thorns being placed on the head of Jesus, and is a common subject in art, examples including:

The Crowning with Thorns (Titian, Paris) painted in 1542/1543 by Titian
The Crowning with Thorns (Titian, Munich) painted in 1576 by Titian
The Crowning with Thorns (Caravaggio, Vienna) painted c. 1602/1604/1607 by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
The Crowning with Thorns (Caravaggio, Prato) painted c. 1604-1605 by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
The Crowning with Thorns (van Dyck) painted from 1618–1620 by Anthony van Dyck

See also
 Christ Crowned with Thorns (disambiguation)
Brush Street Station

Brush Street Station was a passenger train station on the eastside of downtown Detroit, Michigan, located at the foot of Brush Street at its intersection with Atwater Street and bordered by the Detroit River to the south.

History
The original station on this site was a passenger ferry terminal and train station opened in 1852 for the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad. The station was acquired by the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway, and also served the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad. The station was destroyed by fire on the evening of April 26, 1866, when someone with a lantern went to inspect a leaking barrel of naphtha being loaded onto a freight car, setting off a chain reaction which also destroyed the ferry boat Windsor moored along the river, killing 17 passengers on the ferry and one person on a passenger train.

The second station on the site was a two-story red brick structure opened in 1867 and designed by the architect Gordon W Lloyd, was constructed as a union station for the Detroit and Milwaukee, and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.  The Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee began serving the station in 1875.

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern left for Michigan Central Station sometime during or after 1913.

The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Detroit-Port Huron trains begin using the Brush Street Station in 1928.  Until this time, they terminated at the MC Third Street Station, or the Woodward Avenue Station.  The final Grand Trunk Western trains to use the station were the GTW's Mohawk to Pontiac, Durand, South Bend and Chicago's Dearborn Station and unnamed train following the same route.  In earlier years, the Grand Trunk's main service westward from Detroit involved trains due west to Pontiac, Durand, Owosso, Grand Rapids, and finally, Muskegon.  Continuing at the station, past the May 1, 1971 shift of American passenger trains to Amtrak, was the Canadian National Railway's/Grand Trunk's Tempo service from Detroit to Toronto via Windsor and London. 

The second structure was razed in 1973 to make way for construction of the Renaissance Center.

The last station on this site, Franklin Street Station, was built in 1974 approximately two blocks to the east along St. Antoine Street between Franklin and Atwater streets and used by the SEMTA commuter rail service between Pontiac and downtown Detroit.  This simple station consisted of only boarding platforms and a park-and-ride along Atwater Street. The commuter service was discontinued in 1983, and all train service soon thereafter.  The site is now the surface parking lot and the rail line to it repurposed as the Dequindre Cut greenway.

See also
Fort Street Union Depot
Michigan Central Station

References

Railway stations in Detroit
Detroit
Former railway stations in Michigan
Demolished buildings and structures in Detroit
Demolished railway stations in the United States
Blue Division (disambiguation)

Blue Division may refer to one of the following:

Blue Division (Second French Empire), the nickname given to the first naval division, formed in 1870, merging the naval artillery and naval infantry
Spanish Blue Division, a unit of Spanish volunteers that served on the German side of the Second World War, mainly on the Eastern Front
Irish Brigade (Spanish Civil War), Irish fascist volunteers who fought on the Falangist side in the Spanish Civil War and nicknamed the Blue Division
392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division, a volunteer division in Wehrmacht during World War Two recruited from the Independent State of Croatia, nicknamed the Blue Division by its men
TRU (band)

TRU (an abbreviation of The Real Untouchables) was an American hip hop group from New Orleans, active from 1989 to 2005. The group originally consisted of rappers on the New Orleans-founded record label, No Limit Records. The members are brothers Master P, C-Murder, and Silkk the Shocker.

The group released six albums, incorporating the typical No Limit formula of G-funk rhythms married to hardcore gangsta lyrics.

History
The group originally consisted of Master P, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker. King George, Big Ed the Assassin, Cali G, Sonya C, Chilee Powdah and Milkman, before being shortened to just Master P, C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker. The group's first two releases, 1993's Who's Da Killer? and 1992's Understanding the Criminal Mind, were released independently through In-a-minute Records. In 1995, the group released their third album, True on No Limit Records, which had been established the previous year. In 1997, the group was shortened to include just the three Miller brothers and the trio released their fourth album, Tru 2 da Game, followed by Da Crime Family in 1999. However, by 2003, No Limit had fallen on hard times and was shut down. TRU returned in 2004 on Koch Records, released their sixth and final album, The Truth.

Former members
Master P (1989–2005)
C-Murder (incarcerated) (1989–2005)
Silkk the Shocker (1989–2005)
Big Ed (deceased) (1992–1995)
Cali-G (1989–1995)
Chilee Powdah (1989–1993)
King George  (1989–1995)
Milk Man (1989–1994)
Halleluyah (2005)

Discography

Studio albums
Understanding the Criminal Mind (1992)
Who's da Killer? (1993)
True (1995)
Tru 2 da Game (1997)
Da Crime Family (1999)
The Truth (2005)

Filmography
1997: I'm Bout It
1998: I Got the Hook-Up
1998: MP da Last Don
1999: Hot Boyz
2002: Undisputed

References

External links
Biography at AllMusic

Southern hip hop groups
Musical groups from New Orleans
No Limit Records artists
Gangsta rap groups
Musical groups established in 1989
Musical groups disestablished in 2005
Sibling musical groups
Krummhörn

Krummhörn is a municipality in the district of Aurich, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the Ems estuary, approximately 15 km southwest of Norden, and 10 km northwest of Emden.

The community (Gemeinde) of Krummhörn comprises 19 villages, and their official population as of 31 December 2008 is as follows:

Notable people

Eggerik Beninga (1490–1562), a chronicler of the Frisians, was born in Grimersum.
David Folkerts-Landau (born 1949), German economist

References

 
Towns and villages in East Frisia
Aurich (district)
Northover

Northover may refer to:


Places
Northover, Ilchester, Somerset, England, an old parish
Northover, Somerset, a suburb of Glastonbury
Mount Northover, on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada

People
Benn Northover (born 1981), British actor, filmmaker and artist
Bob Northover (), British sport shooter
Dean Northover (born 1991), Canadian soccer player
John Northover (fl. 1646), English landowner and participant in the English Civil War
Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover (born 1954), British politician
Mark Northover (1950–2004), British actor
Zara Northover (born 1984), Jamaican shot putter

See also
Northover Projector, a British anti-tank weapon of the Second World War
List of Chelsea F.C. players

Chelsea Football Club are an association football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League. Below is a list of all the players who made more than 100 appearances for the club.

Key
Appearances as a substitute are included. This feature of the game was introduced in the Football League at the start of the 1965–66 season.

Players
 Bold indicates players currently playing for the club.

Annual awards

List of captains

Notable captains
  Indicates captains who won the League in the Second Division.

See also
List of Chelsea F.C. players (1–24 appearances)
List of Chelsea F.C. players (25–99 appearances)

References
General
 Player profiles
 Player database
 
 List of all Chelsea players past and present and appearance data

Specific

Chelsea F.C. players
Chelsea F.C. players
Players
Association football player non-biographical articles
Südbrookmerland

Südbrookmerland is a municipality in the district of Aurich, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 7 km west of Aurich. Its seat is in the village Victorbur.

References

Towns and villages in East Frisia
Aurich (district)
Warid Telecom

Warid Telecom International () was an Emirati telecommunications company that was active in Bangladesh, Georgia, Congo, Pakistan, and Uganda before its divestment.

Pakistan

In 2004, Warid Telecom International LLC, purchased a license for operating a nationwide mobile telephony network, (WLL) and long-distance international (LDI) for US$291 million  and was the first venture of Warid Telecom International LLC.  The license was bid for and acquired by a team led by Bashir Tahir the former CEO of the Abu Dhabi Group, which is the parent company of all Warid operations.

Warid Pakistan launched its services in May 2005. Within 80 days of launch, Warid Pakistan claims to have attracted more than 1 million. users.

On June 30, 2007, Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Warid Telecom announced that they had entered into a definitive agreement subsequent to which SingTel would acquire a 30 percent equity stake in Warid Telecom for an estimated $758 million, valuing the company at an enterprise value of $2.9 billion.

SingTel sold back that stake in January 2013 for $150 million and a right to receive 7.5 percent of the net proceeds from any future sale, public offering, or merger of Warid.

On November 26, 2015, VimpelCom and Abu Dhabi Group agreed to merge Mobilink and Warid into a single company called  Jazz.

Network technology

Bangladesh

In December 2005, Warid Telecom International LLC obtained a 15-year GSM license to operate as the sixth mobile phone operator in Bangladesh for $50 million. Warid Bangladesh started rolling out its network from mid-2006, and launched commercial operations on May 10, 2007, covering 26 districts. It uses the code 16 preceded by the code number of Bangladesh +880. Warid Bangladesh acquired a million subscribers within 70 days of launch.

Warid Telecom sold 70% of its stake in Bangladesh operations to India's Bharti Airtel for $300 million receiving regulatory approval from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on January 4, 2010.

On December 20, 2010, Warid Telecom was rebranded as Airtel.

Georgia
Licence awarded.

Network technology

Ivory Coast

Licence awarded.

Republic of Congo

Launched service in January 2008. On November 5, 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported an acquisition by Airtel.

Network technology

Uganda
Planned to launch services in Uganda by the fourth quarter of 2007. Warid is also set to deploy a WiMAX network throughout Uganda through its sister concern Wateen Telecom. Acquired by Airtel in 2013.

Network technology

References

External links
 Warid Telecom, Pakistan

 
Telecommunications companies established in 2004
Companies disestablished in 2015
Emirati companies established in 2004
2015 disestablishments in the United Arab Emirates
Egg-and-dart

Egg-and-dart, also known as egg-and-tongue, egg-and-anchor, or egg-and-star, is an ornamental device adorning the fundamental quarter-round, convex ovolo profile of moulding, consisting of alternating details on the face of the ovolo—typically an egg-shaped object alternating with a V-shaped element (e.g., an arrow, anchor, or dart). The device is carved or otherwise fashioned into ovolos composed of wood, stone, plaster, or other materials.

Egg-and-dart enrichment of the ovolo molding of the Ionic capital was used by ancient Greek builders, so it is found in ancient Greek architecture (e.g., the Erechtheion at the Acropolis of Athens), was used later by the Romans and continues to adorn capitals of modern buildings built in Classical styles (e.g., the Ionic capitals of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., or the ones of the Romanian Athenaeum from Bucharest). Its ovoid shape (the egg) and serrated leaf (the dart) are believed to represent the opium poppy and its leaves. The moulding design element continues in use in neoclassical architecture. As a mass-produced architectural motif at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, it can, when seen alongside dentils (tooth-like blocks of wood in rows), be used to date a building to the Edwardian period, which began with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.

Gallery

See also
 Rais-de-cœur
 Ionic order

References

Further reading

External links
 

Ornaments (architecture)
Visual motifs
Cullum

Cullum is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Albert Cullum (1921–2003), American educator
 Ben Cullum, British musician
 George Washington Cullum (1809–1892), American Civil War general and Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy
 JD Cullum (born 1966), American actor
 Jamie Cullum (born 1979), English pianist and songwriter
 Jim Cullum (1898–1948), Australian rules footballer
 Jim Cullum Jr. (1941–2019), American cornetist and bandleader
 John Cullum (born 1930), American actor and singer
 Kimberly (born 1981) and Kaitlin Cullum, American former child actors who are also sisters
 Leo Cullum (1942–2010), American cartoonist, father of Kimberly and Kaitlin Cullum
 Ridgwell Cullum (1867–1943), British writer of adventure novels
 Robert B. Cullum (1912–1981), American businessman and civic leader
 Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), medical doctor, botanist, and antiquary
   Matthew Cullum   (1957),  Philosopher
Watkin

Watkin is an English surname formed as a diminutive of the name Watt (also Wat), a popular Middle English given name itself derived as a pet form of the name Walter.
First found in a small Welsh village in 1629.

Within the United Kingdom it is associated with being a Welsh surname.

It may refer to:

People
Arthur Watkin, English footballer
Billy Watkin,  English footballer
Cyril Watkin, English footballer
Edward Watkin, Victorian railway chairman
Edward Watkin (disambiguation)
Evan Watkin, New Zealand cricket umpire
Frank Watkin, English footballer
George Watkin, English footballer
Louise Watkin, British paralympic swimmer
Pierre Watkin, an American actor
Steve Watkin, English cricketer
Steve Watkin (footballer), Welsh footballer
Thomas Glyn Watkin, Welsh lawyer
Watkin Tench, British marine officer in Australia's First Fleet
Watkin Tudor Jones, also known as Ninja, South African rapper
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet, Welsh politician
William Thompson Watkin (1836–1888), English archaeologist
William Ward Watkin, American architect

See also 
Watkin Baronets
 Watkins (surname)
 Atkin (disambiguation), Atkins (surname)
 Atkinson (surname)

English-language surnames
Surnames from given names
Philip James Shears

Major-General Philip James Shears CB (1887–1972) was a senior officer in the British Army.

He was born on 6 April 1887 in Surbiton, Surrey, the only son of James Charles Shears, a mechanical engineer from Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, and Beatrice Jane Margaret Dumas.  He was also a great-grandson of coppersmith Daniel Towers Shears, a partner of James Shears and Sons.

He went on to serve as Colonel of The Border Regiment (now part of The King's Own Royal Border Regiment) from 1947 to 1952.

In 1948 Philip Shears published The Story of the Border Regiment, 1939-1945.

He died on 7 April 1972.

References
 Military record

1887 births
1972 deaths
Royal Dublin Fusiliers officers
Royal Hampshire Regiment officers
Border Regiment officers
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army generals of World War II
People from Surbiton
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Military personnel from Surrey
British Army major generals
YouOS

YouOS was a web desktop and web integrated development environment, developed by Webshaka until June 2008.

From 2006 to 2008 YouOS replicated the desktop environment of a modern operating system on a webpage, using JavaScript to communicate with the remote server. This allowed users to save their current desktop state to return to later, much like the hibernation feature in many true operating systems, and for multiple users to collaborate using a single environment. YouOS featured built-in sharing of music, documents and other files. The software was in alpha stage, and was referred to as a "web operating system" by WebShaka.

An application programming interface and an IDE (integrated development environment) were in development.
Over 700 applications were created using this API.

In 2006, YouOS was listed on the 7th position of PC World's list of "The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year".

YouOS was shut down on July 30, 2008 because the developers had not actively developed it since November 2006. They have since moved on to other projects.

The domain youos.com domain name was acquired by a German startup company, Dynacrowd, in May 2015. The project name YouOS now represents a mobile platform for hyperlocal interaction used to operate the German refugee assistance system AngelaApp.

Parent Company
 
Webshaka was a messaging company most notable for making YouOS. It was founded by Samuel Hsiung, Jeff Mullen, Srini Panguluri and Joseph Wong.

References

External links
YouOS web site 

Web desktops
Emlichheim

Emlichheim (Low German: Emmelkamp) is a municipality in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony, Germany, roughly 20 km south of Emmen, and 25 km northwest of Nordhorn.

Geography 
Emlichheim lies right on the German-Dutch border. The community is bordered on the south by the river Vechte and on the north by the Coevorden-Picardy Canal. It is the administrative seat of the Samtgemeinde Emlichheim, whose members also include Hoogstede, Laar and Ringe. The village has experienced massive growth due to the inflow of Dutch nationals.

History 
Emlichheim has existed at least since Charlemagne’s time. In a document from 1312, the community crops up under the name Emminchem.

In old Dutch documents (16th to 19th century), and even today in the Low Saxon dialects, Emlichheim is called Emmelkamp.

Politics

Municipal council 
Council’s current composition (19 seats in total):
 CDU - 8 seats
 SPD - 7 seats
 FDP - 2 seats
 Grafschafter Bürger Forum (gbf) - 2 seats
(State: municipal election by 11. September 2011)

Partner communities 
 Genemuiden, Netherlands since about 1975 
 Grabów nad Prosną, Poland since 2006

Economy 
The firm Emsland-Stärke, with its location in Emlichheim, is one of Europe’s starch producers. Over a million metric tons of potatoes delivered from within a region with a radius of some 150 km are processed here every year, thereby making Emsland-Stärke  the community’s largest employer.

Some 8 km west of Emlichheim lies the border-straddling industrial park within the communities of Laar in Germany and Coevorden in the Netherlands called EUROPARK. Here, a hotly disputed rubbish burning site, the Müllverbrennungsanlage Emlichheim, is supposed to be built by a private Dutch investor.

Another economic factor of the Emlichheim Samtgemeinde is the plastics processing industry. Among these businesses are Synco and BekuPlast in Ringe and Ringoplast in Ringe-Neugnadenfeld.

Education 
Emlichheim has a primary school, a Hauptschule-Realschule, a Gymnasium for secondary level 1 and a special school. These schools supply basic educational needs, but further needs must be sought either in Neuenhaus (Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium) or in the district seat of Nordhorn. In Nordhorn learners have almost every possibility at their disposal (general-education Gymnasien, specialized Gymnasien, vocational training schools, and so on).

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the community 
 Dr. Frank Schindelhauer, medical corps brigadier

Further reading 
Herbert Wagner: Die Gestapo war nicht allein... Politische Sozialkontrolle und Staatsterror im deutsch - niederländischen Grenzgebiet 1929 - 1945. LIT Verlag. Münster 2004 (contains, among other things, illegal border crossings, struggle between church and state)

References 

County of Bentheim (district)
Dawn of Possession

Dawn of Possession is the debut album by Immolation. It was released on July 19, 1991; it was their first and only album released on Roadrunner Records. The album was re-issued and re-mastered by Metal Mind Productions as a limited-edition digipak, on April 24, 2006, with bonus videos.

Track listing
All songs written by Immolation.

Personnel
Immolation
Ross Dolan - vocals, bass
Robert Vigna - guitar
Tom Wilkinson - guitar
Craig Smilowski - drums

Production
Andreas Marschall - cover art
Carole Segal - photography
Harris Johns - engineering, mixing, producer
Patricia Mooney - art direction
Mark Mastro - logo
Renato Gallina - artwork (original logo concept)

Immolation (band) albums
1991 debut albums
Roadrunner Records albums
Albums produced by Harris Johns
Kappa Draconis

Kappa Draconis, Latinized from κ Draconis, is a blue giant star located in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco. At an apparent magnitude of 3.88, it is barely visible to the naked eye when artificial lighting from cities is present. Nevertheless, it is a powerful star, approximately five time as massive as the Sun. It is about 460 light-years away, and is 1,400 times brighter than the Sun.

The star is currently located at declination  (right ascension ), but due to the effects of precession, Kappa Draconis was the nearest star to the north celestial pole visible to the naked eye from 1793 BC to approximately 1000 BC, though it was 6° removed from perfect alignment, making it only an approximate pole star, similar to the roughly 7° variance from perfect alignment of the much brighter (magnitude 2.08) star Kochab, at the same time during Earth's precession.

Properties

Kappa Draconis is a classical Be star, displaying Balmer emission lines in its spectrum. It is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 170 km/s. The star is thought to be just entering its red giant phase, having exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core. Over the next several thousand years, the star will expand, becoming more powerful but with a much cooler surface temperature. Tens of thousands of years from now, Kappa Draconis will appear much brighter, probably shining with a reddish hue.

Kappa Draconis is a single-lined spectroscopic binary. The main Be star is orbited by another stellar companion, on a circular orbit with a period of 61.555 days.   The General Catalogue of Variable Stars lists Kappa Draconis as a Gamma Cassiopeiae type star, a type of eruptive irregular variable star, whose visual magnitude varies from 3.82 to 4.01. However Balona and Dziembowsk classify it as a Zeta Ophiuchi star, a type of pulsating variable star, with a primary period of 10.4 hours.

Chinese name
 
In Chinese,  (), meaning Right Wall of Purple Forbidden Enclosure, refers to an asterism consisting of κ Draconis, α Draconis, λ Draconis, 24 Ursae Majoris, 43 Camelopardalis, α Camelopardalis and BK Camelopardalis. Consequently, the Chinese name for κ Draconis itself is  (, .), representing  (), meaning Second Chief Judge

References

External links
 Kappa Draconis by Jim Kaler

B-type giants
Be stars
Spectroscopic binaries
Draco (constellation)
Draconis, Kappa
Durchmusterung objects
Draconis, 05
109387
061281
4787
Northern pole stars
Christ Crowned with Thorns

Christ Crowned with Thorns may refer to:
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Bosch, London), a painting created after 1485 by Hieronymous Bosch
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Bosch, El Escorial)
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Bouts), a 1500 painting by Albrecht Bouts
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Heemskerck)

See also
Crown of Thorns
The Crowning with Thorns (disambiguation)
Here in After

Here in After is the second album by Immolation. It was released on February 13, 1996 through Metal Blade Records after the band was dropped from Roadrunner Records. This is the last album to feature drummer Craig Smilowski; Alex Hernandez joined the band on their 1999 release, Failures for Gods.

Track listing

Personnel
Immolation
Ross Dolan – vocals, bass
Craig Smilowski – drums
Robert Vigna – lead guitar
Thomas Wilkinson – rhythm guitar

Production
Brian J Ames – design
Wayne Dorell – engineering, mixing, producer
Jim Forbes – assistant producer
Brad Hyman – photography
Andreas Marschall – cover art
Eddy Schreyer – mastering
Jeff Wolfe – live photography

References

1996 albums
Immolation (band) albums
Metal Blade Records albums
Failures for Gods

Failures for Gods is the third album by American death metal band Immolation. It was released on Metal Blade Records in 1999.

Track listing
All songs written by Immolation.

Personnel
Immolation
Ross Dolan – bass, vocals
Alex Hernandez – drums
Robert Vigna – lead and rhythm guitars
Thomas Wilkinson – lead and rhythm guitars

Production
Brian Ames – design, layout
Andreas Marschall – cover art
Paul Orofino – engineering, producer
Brad Vance – mastering
John Vigna – back cover graphics, icon enhancements
Jeff Wolfe – photography

References

1999 albums
Immolation (band) albums
Metal Blade Records albums
Laserburn

Laserburn is a set of wargaming rules written by Bryan Ansell in 1980. Written for use with 15mm sci-fi figures, but also playable with 25mm figures, the Laserburn set of rules, published by Tabletop Games, is set in a universe where man has reached the stars and the highest pinnacles of technology and is well on his way back to barbarism. The rules consist of 'Laserburn' and four other supplements, all of which are still available. A range of 15mm metal figures were produced for use with Laserburn and are still available.

There is a small, but active, internet group promoting and expanding on the limited Laserburn background and rules.

Some elements of the Laserburn rules, such as power and dreadnought armour, bolt guns and jet cycles were carried forward and appear in Warhammer 40,000 by Games Workshop whom Ansell worked for in the late 80s onwards.

See also
Imperial Commander

References

External links
 15mm site    

Miniature wargames
Games and sports introduced in 1980
Izhora (disambiguation)

Izhora may refer to one of the following.
Izhora, a river in northwestern Russia
Izhora Plateau
A transliteration from Russian for Izhorians. 
A transliteration from historical Russian for Ingria. 
Izhorskiye Zavody or Izhora Plants
Adams Island (Massachusetts)

Adams Island was an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

History 

Adams Island was originally part of Tuckernuck Island. During the 1890s, the westernmost part of Tuckernuck extended almost to Muskeget Island and served as a barrier beach, protecting the Gravel Islands, western Dry Shoal, and Little Gull Island.

The island came into existence in 1902, when the Haulover Nor'easter severed it from Tuckernuck. Another island, Tombolo, was also created. In 1907, Adams almost attached itself to Muskeget, but failed to do so because the sea formed a narrow deep channel separating Adams from Muskeget.

In 1910, Adams' length was shortened due to a tropical storm and an autumn nor'easter. By 1920, Adams was less than four hundred meters long. A little less than ten meters of it remained in 1950, and by 1980 it was gone.

Adams Island Day 

In 1983, a group of Nantucket residents, self-designated as Adamites, held a small celebration in honor of the former island.  The first Adams Island Celebration was characterized by a nihilist/absurdist spirit emphasizing the short existence of the island and downplaying its disappearance.  The celebration has taken place in some form each year since 1983, and although it rarely falls on the same day as in the previous year, it is known each year to Adamites as Adams Island Day.

By boat, one can easily access Tuckernuck from Madaket on the island of Nantucket.

Coastal islands of Massachusetts
Islands of Nantucket, Massachusetts
Former islands of the United States
Close to a World Below

Close to a World Below is the fourth album by Immolation. It was released via Metal Blade Records in 2000.

Reception

Critical reception 
Since its release, Close to a World Below has received universal acclaim. Todd Nief of AllMusic gave the Close to a World Below four and a half stars, calling the album a late-career classic. He stated that with Close to a World Below, Immolation released one of the most profound and creative death metal albums of the 2000s which gave a new voice to a genre deluged with cookie-cutter clones. Metal Storm gave Close to a World Below a near-perfect 9.7 out of 10 praising Ross Dolan's vocals along with the overall brutality of the album.

Track listing

Personnel 
Immolation
 Ross Dolan – bass guitar, vocals
 Robert Vigna – guitar
 Thomas Wilkinson – guitar
 Alex Hernandez – drums

Production
 Paul Orofino – production, engineering, mastering
 Immolation – production

Visual art
 Jeff Wolfe – photography
 Andreas & Alex Marschall – cover art

References

External links 
 
 Close to a World Below at Metal Blade Records

2000 albums
Immolation (band) albums
Metal Blade Records albums
Unholy Cult

Unholy Cult is the fifth album by death metal band Immolation. It was released on Listenable Records in 2002. It is the band's last album to feature Alex Hernandez behind the drum kit. The album was inducted into Decibels Hall of Fame.

Track listing
 All songs written by Ross Dolan and Robert Vigna.

Personnel
Immolation
Ross Dolan – bass, vocals
Bill Taylor – guitar
Robert Vigna – guitar
Alex Hernandez – drums

Production
Andreas Marschall – Cover artwork
Paul Orofino – Engineering, Mastering, Producer
Jeff Wolfe – Band photography
Sven – Additional layout

References

2002 albums
Immolation (band) albums
Listenable Records albums
Harnessing Ruin

Harnessing Ruin is the sixth album by Immolation. It was released on Listenable Records in 2005. This is the bands first album with drummer Steve Shalaty.

Track listing

Personnel
Immolation
Ross Dolan – Bass, Vocals
Bill Taylor – Guitar
Robert Vigna – Guitar
Steve Shalaty – Drums

Production
Paul Orofino – Engineering, Mastering, Producer
Sven – Artwork, Layout

References

2005 albums
Immolation (band) albums
Listenable Records albums
Mervyn Blake

Mervyn Alexander Clifford Blake,  (30 November 1907 – 9 October 2003) was a Canadian stage actor.

Blake was born in Dehradun India, where his father worked as a railway executive. After his family returned to England, he fell in love with theatre and attended London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1933. He made his professional theatre debut in 1933 at the Embassy Theatre in London. At the start of World War II, he joined the British Army as a driver, and was present at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberation in April 1945, an experience which haunted him for the rest of his life.

After the War, he was an acting company member at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon from 1952 to 1955. During this time, he worked with prominent actors such as Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Michael Redgrave, and Dame Peggy Ashcroft. 

In the mid 1950s, he and his wife Christine Bennett moved their family to Canada, following British acting colleagues Tony Van Bridge and Powys Thomas. He joined the acting company at the Stratford Festival of Canada in 1957, where he stayed to perform in 111 productions over 42 consecutive seasons. In 1988, he performed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, making him the first company member to perform in the entire canon of Shakespeare's plays.

Blake was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 1995.  He died in 2003 at a nursing
home in Toronto following a long illness.

References

External links
 

1907 births
2003 deaths
Canadian male stage actors
Members of the Order of Canada
Male actors from Dehradun
British people in colonial India
British emigrants to Canada
20th-century Canadian male actors
Caater

Caater is an Estonian Eurodance duo of Kalle Kukk and Markku Tiidumaa. Caater is signed with Sony Music.

In 1999, Caater was awarded the "Kuldne Plaat" (gold record) at the Estonian Music Awards for the single "O Si Nene". That year, it was also named band of the year and album of the year.

Discography

Albums
 I (1997)
 II Level (1997)
 Contact (1998)
 Freakshow (1998)
 Space Invasion (1998)
 Millennium: The Best Of Caater (1999)
 Connected (2000)
 King Size (2001)
 Club Space (2002)
 The Queen of Night (with Trinity) (2003)

Singles

References

Estonian pop music groups
Estonian electronic music groups
Eurodance groups
Musical groups established in 1996
David Povall

David Povall (born June 21, 1947, in San Antonio, Texas) is an American actor. After acting in many Mexican and American films, known as David Estuardo, he also works as a voice actor.

Filmography

Live-action 
The Arrival - Additional voices
Counting Days - Rev. John Santos
The Ring - Girl's father

Anime
The Castle of Cagliostro - Inspector Koichi Zenigata (MGM version)
The Professional: Golgo 13 - F. Garvin
3x3 Eyes - Benares; Demon
Wicked City - Hodgkins (USA dub)
Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy - Additional voices
Crying Freeman Volume 3: Shades of Death Part 2 - Goken Ishida; Abductor
Tales of the Wolf - Inspector Koichi Zenigata
Megazone 23 - Newscaster; Sensor operator
Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo - Inspector Koichi Zenigata

TV Series
Phantom 2040 - Additional voices
Team Knight Rider - Computer Guy
The Ex-List - Mr. Crane

Video games 
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms - Unit #5 (voice)

References

External links

1947 births
Living people
American male voice actors
Place of birth missing (living people)
Trans Canada Highway (EP)

Trans Canada Highway is an EP by Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada. Originally scheduled for release on 6 June 2006, it was released by Warp on 29 May 2006. It peaked at number 4 on the UK Independent Albums Chart, number 8 on the UK Dance Albums Chart, and number 12 on Billboards Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

Music videos
The opening track, "Dayvan Cowboy", also appeared on the duo's album The Campfire Headphase. Melissa Olson directed the music video for the track. The video pieces together stock footage of Joseph Kittinger's high-altitude parachute jumps for Project Excelsior and stock footage of surfer Laird Hamilton riding waves. In 2009, Pitchfork placed it at number 39 on their list of the "Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s".

Covers
In 2011, Solange Knowles released a version of the track "Left Side Drive" with additional vocals. Knowles stated, "It's completely unofficial, and was just inspired by the song which I had a deep love affair with for years".

Track listing

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
 Mike Sandison – composition, performance, production (except track 6)
 Marcus Eoin – composition, performance, production (except track 6)
 D. Philip Madson – production (on track 6)
 Dee Kesler – strings (on track 6)
 Antonio Diaz – tape (on track 6)
 Boards of Canada – artwork, design

Charts

References

External links
 
 

2006 EPs
Boards of Canada albums
Warp (record label) EPs
Party Girl

Party Girl or Party Girls may refer to:

Film and TV
 Party Girl (1930 film), starring Marie Prevost
 Party Girl (1958 film), starring Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse
 Party Girl (1995 film), starring Parker Posey
 Party Girl (2014 film), a 2014 French film
 Party Girl (1996 TV series), short-lived series based on the 1995 film and starring Christine Taylor
 Party Girl (2005 TV series), party planning series on Discovery Home
"Party Girl", episode of 1990s sitcom Brotherly Love (1995 TV series)

Songs
 "Party Girl" (Girlband song)
 "Party Girl" (Grace Jones song)
 "Party Girl" (McFly song)
 "Party Girl" (U2 song)
 "Party Girl" (StaySolidRocky song)
 "Party Girl", a Bernadette Carroll single produced and co-written by Ernie Maresca
 "Party Girl", a song from Elvis Costello and the Attractions' album Armed Forces
 A cover of the above song featured on Linda Ronstadt's Mad Love
 "Party Girl", a song written by Buddy Buie and released as a single by Tommy Roe in 1964
 "Party Girl", a song by Asher Roth 
"Party Girls", a 2014 song by Ludacris.
"Party Girls", Mink DeVille from album Cabretta 
"Party Girls", song by Swazy Styles featuring Qwote 2010
"Party Girls", single by Ya Boy featuring Rico Love from Rich Rocka

Other uses
Party Girl (yacht), a 2012 yacht
Party Girl, a 2007 novel by sex columnist Anna David (journalist)
William Benjamin Wells

William Benjamin Wells (October 3, 1809 – April 8, 1881) was a lawyer, judge, journalist and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Augusta Township in Upper Canada in 1809. He studied law with Marshall Spring Bidwell in Kingston and was called to the bar in 1833. In 1834, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada representing Grenville as a Reformer. Although he was reelected in 1836, he travelled to England to protest the interference by Sir Francis Bond Head in the election. He wrote Canadiana: containing sketches of Upper Canada, and the crisis in its political affairs, which described radical Reform policies of the time. He did not involve himself in the Upper Canada Rebellion; however, allegations of his involvement with William Lyon Mackenzie's Patriots led to his expulsion from the assembly.

In 1851, he was appointed district court judge in Kent County. He retired from the bench in 1878. He contributed articles on law and sport to various periodicals in Canada and the United States.
He died at Toronto in 1881.

External links
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

1809 births
1881 deaths
Upper Canada judges
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Province of Canada judges
Judges in Ontario
Ein Kessel Buntes

Ein Kessel Buntes ("A Kettle of Colour") was a television variety show in the former East Germany. It broadcast from 1972 to 1992. A total of 113 shows were made, six per year. It was broadcast at first from the Friedrichstadtpalast theatre, and later from the Palast der Republik, as well as from other prominent music halls in other East German cities. Its title sequence showed a series of famous clocks in East Berlin, such as that on the Rotes Rathaus and the Weltzeituhr at Alexanderplatz displaying the time of broadcast, 8 p.m. (scheduled to clash with the main evening news on ARD)

Ein Kessel Buntes was originally hosted by actors Horst Köbbert (who spoke Low German from the north), Lutz Stückrath (a speaker of the Berlin dialect), and Manfred Uhlig (who spoke Saxon from the south), whose satirical commentary during the live broadcasts often criticised the East German government. They were soon replaced by a rotating cast of celebrities.

The show was meant to compete with those on West German television (which most East Germans were able to receive, and often watched). To this end it was fairly successful even attracting a following in parts of West Germany which could receive Eastern TV. Its production values were high. Apart from song and dance numbers and appearances from East German celebrities, almost every broadcast featured well-known stars from the west, often after their popularity had peaked in their home countries.

After German reunification, and the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR, the concept and name of the program were taken over by ARD and broadcast on Das Erste, following the main news programme Tagesschau. In its final two years of "Ein Kessel Buntes", Karsten Speck hosted the show on January 12, 1991, a total of ten times. At one time, Frank Schöbel moderated the program. The last show ran on 19 December 1992. It is still popular in reruns and best-of shows.

Numerous international stars were invited to participate: ABBA, Amanda Lear, Secret Service, Bad Boys Blue, Dalida, Karel Gott, Dara Rolins, Helena Vondráčková, Zsuzsa Koncz, Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, Kati Kovács and others.

External links
Stern article about East German television
Short page in German about East German television with music clip from the show
Fan description in English

Literature

Das war unser Kessel Buntes, Hans-Ulrich Brandt, Angela Kaiser, Evelin Matt, Günther Steinbacher ()
Ein Kessel Buntes und mehr, Hendrik Petzold ()

Television in East Germany
1980s German television series
1972 German television series debuts
1992 German television series endings
Variety television series
German-language television shows
Uranyl zinc acetate

Uranyl zinc acetate (ZnUO2(CH3COO)4) is a compound of uranium.

Uranyl zinc acetate is used as a laboratory reagent in the determination of sodium concentrations of solutions using a method of quantitatively precipitating sodium with uranyl zinc acetate and gravimetrically determining the sodium as uranyl zinc sodium acetate, (UO2)3ZnNa(CH3CO2)9·6H2O. The presence of caesium and rubidium does not interfere with this reaction, but the presence of potassium and lithium must be removed prior to analysis.

This method was important to determine Na in urine for diagnostic purposes. Zinc uranyl acetate is sometimes called "sodium reagent"  since pale yellow NaZn(UO2)3(C2H3O2)9 is one of the very few insoluble sodium compounds.

Laboratory use
Uranyl zinc acetate has been used as a catalyst for the demethoxylation of toluene-2,4-dicarbamate into toluene-2,4-diisocyanate (TDI).

References

Uranyl compounds
Zinc compounds
Acetates
Coordination complexes
David Varney

Sir David Robert Varney (born 11 May 1946) was the chairman of HM Revenue and Customs from its establishment in April 2005 to the end of August 2006. He was named as a recipient of a knighthood in the 2006 New Year's honours list. In the same year he was awarded an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws (LL. D.) from the University of Bath.

Private sector career
After graduating in Chemistry from the University of Surrey, where he was President of the Students' Union, Varney joined Shell in 1968. In 1990 he was appointed Head of Marketing, Branding and Product Development for Shell International Petroleum and in 1991 was appointed a Managing Director of Shell UK with responsibility for downstream activities. He was appointed a Director of Shell International Petroleum in 1996.

In June 1996 Varney joined BG (formerly British Gas), as Chief Executive designate of the proposed BG plc and was appointed Chief Executive the following year, overseeing the successful demerger of Lattice plc. He was Chairman of mobile phone operator mmO2 between 2001 and 2004. He was also Chairman of Business in the Community and is president of the Chartered Management Institute.

HM Revenue and Customs
HM Revenue and Customs was formed from the merger of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs & Excise in April 2005. Varney was appointed as the first executive chairman of the merged organisation having carried out that role in a shadow capacity from October 2004.

Varney's previous career as a private sector executive differs from the traditional career path of senior Civil Service heads.  On taking the role, Varney faced a number of key challenges including maintaining business-as-usual while delivering around 12,000 staff cuts under the Gershon Review and moving jobs out of the South-East of England under the Lyons Review.

Following the ending of his chairmanship of HM Revenue and Customs, he took up a role at HM Treasury as a permanent secretary. In December 2006, he delivered the report "Service Transformation: a better service for citizens and businesses, a better deal for the taxpayer", which aimed to improve the UK's service performance in interacting with citizens and businesses.

References

External links
 Accountancy Age profile
Lyons Review

Living people
1946 births
Alumni of the University of Surrey
Knights Bachelor
Chairmen of the Board of Inland Revenue
Chairmen of the Board of HM Customs and Excise
Chairmen of HM Revenue and Customs
British civil servants
Alumni of the Manchester Business School
Union of Retaliation

Union of Retaliation (Polish:Związek Odwetu or Z.O.) was a Polish World War II resistance organization established on 20 April 1940. It was created by General Stefan Rowecki, head of the Armed Resistance, as that organization's branch dedicated to sabotage and covert operations.

Early history 

The ZO was formed out of a variety of previously existent sabotage groups which were then merged into the ZWZ. Initially a part of the ZWZ, all of them were then separated. Thus the risk of eliminating the whole ZWZ by destruction of one of its sabotage cells was eliminated.

Initially headed by Maj. Franciszek Niepokólczycki Teodor, the organization was aimed at diminishing the German military and industrial potential by means of active and passive sabotage. It also carried out a number of revenge actions as a reprisal for particularly brutal German mass shootings, łapankas or other actions aimed at Polish civilians. The net of sabotage and intelligence cells organized by the ZO included almost every major German-controlled factory in occupied Poland, as well as a number of special detachments, used by the ZO's headquarters for particularly difficult actions.

Increased resistance measures 

In February 1942, the commander in chief of the Polish forces and the prime minister of Poland, Gen. Władysław Sikorski, withdrew his order of limiting armed resistance in Poland, the ZO's network started to grow significantly. It also organized a number of spectacular actions against the German war effort. Out of several hundred thousand actions (mainly in Silesia, Lesser Poland, Holy Cross Mountains and Mazovia), perhaps the best known is the Wieniec. During that action, carried out in October 1942, the Polish resistance blew up all railways leading from and to Warsaw, destroyed 4 German supply trains going for the Eastern Front and disrupted the supply transport for several days (with the Warsaw train hub being cut out for roughly 15 hours). In December, the action was continued by the ZO in Eastern Poland, as a reprisal for the German terror in the area around Zamość.

Merger into Armia Krajowa 
After the ZWZ was reformed into the Armia Krajowa, the ZO was again incorporated into it, merged with the Wachlarz and OSA units and formed the backbone of the Kedyw organization. During the later stages of its existence, the ZO was headed by Maj. Jan Wojciech Kiwerski.

References
  Związek Odwetu

1940 establishments in Poland
Units and formations of Polish resistance during World War II
Military units and formations established in 1940