alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary

The Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary was a bird sanctuary in Indian Shores, Florida that was in operation from 1971-2016.  In 1990, its bird hospital was called "the largest wild bird hospital in North America".  The sanctuary operated solely on private donations and was the largest not-for-profit wild bird sanctuary and rehabilitation center in the United States.  The sanctuary was dedicated to the Rescue, Repair, Rehabilitation and Release of sick and/or injured wild birds, and provided a permanent home to non-releasable birds in a safe and healthy environment.

In January, 2013, the sanctuary experienced a staff walk-out due to non-payment of wages.  The sanctuary remained open, thanks to the tireless efforts of a handful of dedicated individuals. In April 2013, the Sumter Disaster Animal Rescue Team helped the Sanctuary refurbish and prep the wild bird hospital to reopen.

Due to a legal settlement in September 2016, the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary ceased operations and closed after 45 years of service.  Following the closing of Suncoast, a new non-profit organization called the Seaside Seabird Sanctuary moved into the same Indian Shores location.  The new organization rescues and rehabilitates birds from all over the Tampa Bay area.  Continued relationships in the community with veterinarians, wildlife experts and volunteers has kept the sanctuary viable.

References

External links

Bird sanctuaries of the United States
Protected areas of Pinellas County, Florida
Wildlife rehabilitation and conservation centers
Tourist attractions in Pinellas County, Florida
Buildings and structures in Pinellas County, Florida
1971 establishments in Florida
2016 disestablishments in Florida
Magdy Galal Sharawi

Air Marshal Magdy Galal Sharawi ( born May, 1946) is a retired senior Egyptian Air Force officer.  From 2002 to 2008, he was the Commander of the Egyptian Air Force.

Magdy Galal Sharawi graduated from the Egyptian Air Academy in 1966.  As a pilot he flew MiG-15s, MiG-17s, MiG-21s and SU-7s.  From  February 1997 to January 2000 he was the Director of the Egyptian Air Academy and in 2002 he was appointed as the Commander of the Egyptian Air Force.  In late 2003, Sharawi visited Pakistan, meeting the Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat. Following a number of senior appointments he was made Commander of the Egyptian Air Force on 1 March 2002. Currently, he is an Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary to Switzerland.

References

External links
Egyptian Armed Forces - Egyptian Air Force Commander

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1946 births
Living people
Egyptian Air Force air marshals
Egyptian Air Academy alumni
Guarani de Goiás

Guarani de Goiás is a municipality in eastern Goiás state, Brazil.  Guarani is a very poor municipality in the northeast of the state.

Geography
Guarani belongs to the Vão do Paranã statistical microregion.  There are municipal boundaries with  São Domingos, Iaciara, Posse, and the state of Bahia

Guarani is located south of the Terra Ronca state park and 28 kilometers north of Posse.  It is 35 kilometers to the important BR-020 highway, which links Brasília to Salvador. Guarani is crossed by the Frei River, which has one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the region.

The distance to Goiânia is 550 km. Connections are made by taking	BR-153 / Anápolis / GO-060 / Alexânia / Planaltina / Formosa / GO-020 / BR-030 / Vila Boa / Alvorada do Norte / GO-108 / Posse.

Demographics
Population density: 3.34 inhabitants/km2
Population in 1980: 3,978
Population in 2007: 4,105
Urban population: 1,743
Rural population: 2,362
Population growth rate:   -1.28%

Economy
The main economic activities are cattle raising, poultry raising, and agriculture (beans, manioc corn, and bananas).
There were no hospitals in 2007.
Industrial units: 1
Retail commercial units: 30
Motor vehicles (automobiles and pickup trucks): 146
Number of inhabitants per motor vehicle: 28

Agricultural data 2006
Farms:  550
Total area:  165,143 ha.
Area of permanent crops: 149 ha.
Area of perennial crops: 1,713 ha.
Area of pasture:  106,927 ha. 
Area of woodland and forests:  53,907 ha. 
Persons dependent on farming:  1,750
Cattle herd:  55,200  
Corn: 450 ha.    
Sugarcane:  80 ha. 
Rice:  450 ha.
Beans: 60 ha.
Manioc:  60 ha.

Health and education
Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index: 0.632
State ranking:  238 (out of 242 in 2000)
National ranking:  4,091 (out of 5,507 in 2000)  
Literacy rate: 72.2% (2000)
Infant mortality rate: 37.81 in 1,000 live births (2000)
Schools:  12 with 1,429 students
Hospitals: none in 2007

History
The town was first created as a district of the municipality of  São Domingos with the name of Guarani in 1919.  In 1943 the name was changed to Coatiçaba.  In 1963 it was dismembered from São Domingos and formed a new municipality with the name Guarani de Goiás.

See also
List of municipalities in Goiás
Microregions in Goiás
Vão do Paranã Microregion

References

Frigoletto
Transporte

Municipalities in Goiás
GPSA

GPSA may stand for:

Georgia Political Science Association, Professional association for political scientists in Georgia, USA
Green Party of South Africa
 GPSA Journal
 Gas Processors Suppliers Association
Bowling (1979 video game)

Bowling is a sports video game published in 1979 by Atari, Inc. for the Atari VCS (later renamed the Atari 2600). It was programmed by Larry Kaplan who left Atari to co-found Activision the same year. The game is an interpretation of the sport bowling, playable by one or two players.

Gameplay

In all six variations, games last for 10 frames, or turns.  At the start of each frame, the current player is given two chances to roll a bowling ball down an alley in an attempt to knock down as many of the ten bowling pins as possible.  The bowler (on the left side of the screen) may move up and down his end of the alley to aim before releasing the ball.  In four of the game's six variations, the ball can be steered before it hits the pins.  Knocking down every pin on the first shot is a strike, while knocking every pin down in both shots is a spare.  The player's score is determined by the number of pins knocked down in all 10 frames, as well as the number of strikes and spares acquired.

Variations
Odd-numbered variants are one player games, while two players alternate on frames in even-numbered games.

 Games 1/2: The bowling ball can be moved in one direction after being thrown.
 Games 3/4: The bowling ball can be moved up and down after being thrown.
 Games 5/6: The ball moves straight and cannot be moved.

Reception
Bowling was reviewed by Video magazine in its "Arcade Alley" column where it was praised as "an enjoyable version of a sport that is perfectly suited to the video arcade format". The reviewers singled out the graphics (including the automatic frame-by-frame scoring and "deft" character animation) as "one of the game's best points".

See also

List of Atari 2600 games

References

External links
Bowling at Atari Mania

1979 video games
Atari games
Atari 2600 games
Bowling video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
USNS Sirius

USNS Sirius (T-AFS 8) was a Sirius-class combat stores ship of the United States Navy, named for Sirius , the brightest star visible from Earth other than the Sun.

Sirius was built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the Royal Navy. Laid down in 1965, she was launched in 1966 from Wallsend as RFA Lyness with the pennant A339 serving in the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

On 15 November 1980, the ship was acquired by charter by the United States Military Sealift Command. She was transferred  to the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command in 1981.

Sirius was deactivated and struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 2005 and given to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD), then assigned to Texas Maritime Academy under an agreement that it can be activated by MARAD at any time. During the fall of 2005, the Sirius served in New Orleans for Katrina relief, from 10 September until 29 November and at Lake Charles, LA for Rita relief until 2 March. Because of its extended relief effort the Sirius was unable to undergo a refit in 2006 to adapt its new role as a training vessel and comply with U.S. Coast Guard safety standards.  Because the Sirius had not undergone a refit, it could not be formally commissioned as the USTS Texas Clipper III nor could it be used for summer training cruises.  In the winter of 2009 the US Coast Guard ruled that the Sirius was unfit for training and was prepared for decommissioning while the school looked for a new training ship. On 25 June 2009, the Sirius was returned to the U.S. Maritime Administration.

Sirius was scrapped at Brownsville on 30 May 2014.

Honors and awards
The USNS Sirius is authorized the following awards:

Citations

References
 
 
 

 

Ships built on the River Tyne
1966 ships
Sirius-class combat stores ships
Ness-class combat stores ships
Ships built by Swan Hunter
Schopfloch

Schopfloch is a municipality in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Black Forest (Schwarzwald).

Schopfloch consists of three communities: Schopfloch, Oberiflingen and Unteriflingen.

References 

Freudenstadt (district)
Württemberg
List of places in Florida: S



See also
 Florida
 List of municipalities in Florida
 List of former municipalities in Florida
 List of counties in Florida
 List of census-designated places in Florida

References
USGS Fips55 database
Clive Martin

Sir Clive Haydn Martin,  (born 20 March 1935) is a British businessman who was Lord Mayor of London from 1999 to 2000.

Martin was born in London to Thomas Stanley and Dorothy Gladys Martin. He was educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire, Haileybury and the London College of Printing.  He completed National Service in the Royal Engineers, was commissioned and appointed OBE. He served in and commanded the Honourable Artillery Company earning the Territorial Decoration, and was appointed in 1999 Honorary Colonel of 135 Independent Topographic Squadron RE (Volunteers). In 1985, Martin was elected as Alderman to the City of London, and served as Sheriff of the City of London in 1996 and Lord Mayor of London for 1999–2000. He has also served as Vice-Chair of the City of London Magistrates Court.

Martin is an active English Freemason, who served from 2006 to 2007 in the very senior post of Junior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England. He was initiated in 'British Lodge' No 8 in 1984 and served as Master in the 'Lodge of Assistance' No 2773.

He is Chairman of MPG Ltd., a graphics communications business. In 2009, he was given an honorary doctorate by the University of the Arts London, and is listed as an alumnus of the London College of Communication.

References

1935 births
Living people
Businesspeople from London
People educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire
People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor
Deputy Lieutenants
Royal Engineers officers
Honourable Artillery Company officers
Sheriffs of the City of London
20th-century lord mayors of London
20th-century English politicians
21st-century lord mayors of London
21st-century English politicians
Queen of Peace High School

Queen of Peace High School may refer to:

Queen of Peace High School (Illinois), in Burbank, Illinois
Queen of Peace High School (New Jersey), in North Arlington, New Jersey
Lord Altrie

Lord Altrie is a title in the Peerage of Scotland that was created on 29 July 1587 for Robert Keith. On his death, about 1593, it was inherited by his nephew George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal, and remained united with that title, until its forfeiture in 1715 by George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal.

Lords Altrie (1587)
Robert Keith, 1st Lord Altrie (died ca. 1593)
George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal and 2nd Lord Altrie (ca. 1553–1623)
For further Lords: see Earl Marischal

References

Forfeited lordships of Parliament
Noble titles created in 1587
David Staniforth (field hockey)

David Staniforth (born 5 April 1976 in Durban) is a field hockey goalkeeper from South Africa, who was a member of the national squad that finished tenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The goalie plays for a provincial team called KwaZulu Natal Raiders.

Staniforth was named South African Hockey's Male Personality of the Year for 2002. He made the match-winning save from Belgian player, Jean-Philippe Brulé's flick in a penalty shoot-out to decide the final Olympic qualifying place for the 2004 Athens Games. Staniforth was substituted into the game specifically for the penalty shoot-out after the game had ended at 2-2 and the golden goal period remained scoreless.

He  played for English side Fareham Hockey Club, in Hampshire and coaches the University of Southampton's male and female hockey teams.

He coaches Australian National keepers while based out of Western Australia, 2022

International senior tournaments
 2001 – Champions Challenge, Kuala Lumpur (2nd)
 2002 – World Cup, Kuala Lumpur (13th)
 2002 – Commonwealth Games, Manchester (4th)
 2003 – All-Africa Games, Abuja (2nd)
 2003 – Champions Challenge, Johannesburg (3rd)
 2004 – Olympic Qualifier, Madrid (7th)
 2004 – Summer Olympics, Athens (10th)
 2005 – Champions Challenge, Alexandria (5th)

References

External links 

1976 births
Living people
South African male field hockey players
Male field hockey goalkeepers
Olympic field hockey players for South Africa
South African field hockey coaches
Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
Sportspeople from Durban
Expatriate field hockey players
Railway Union field hockey players
South African expatriate sportspeople in Ireland
South African expatriate sportspeople in England
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
African Games competitors for South Africa
Group with operators

In abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics, the algebraic structure group with operators or Ω-group can be viewed as a group with a set Ω that operates on the elements of the group in a special way.

Groups with operators were extensively studied by Emmy Noether and her school in the 1920s. She employed the concept in her original formulation of the three Noether isomorphism theorems.

Definition 
A group with operators  can be defined as a group  together with an action of a set  on :
 
that is distributive relative to the group law:
 

For each , the application  is then an endomorphism of G. From this, it results that a Ω-group can also be viewed as a group G with an indexed family  of endomorphisms of G.

 is called the operator domain. The associate endomorphisms are called the homotheties of G.

Given two groups G, H with same operator domain , a homomorphism of groups with operators is a group homomorphism  satisfying
  for all  and 

A subgroup S of G is called a stable subgroup, -subgroup or -invariant subgroup if it respects the homotheties, that is
  for all  and

Category-theoretic remarks 
In category theory, a group with operators can be defined as an object of a functor category GrpM where M is a monoid (i.e. a category with one object) and Grp denotes the category of groups. This definition is equivalent to the previous one, provided  is a monoid (otherwise we may expand it to include the identity and all compositions).

A morphism in this category is a natural transformation between two functors (i.e., two groups with operators sharing same operator domain M).  Again we recover the definition above of a homomorphism of groups with operators (with f the component of the natural transformation).

A group with operators is also a mapping
 

where  is the set of group endomorphisms of G.

Examples 
 Given any group G, (G, ∅) is trivially a group with operators
 Given a module M over a ring R, R acts by scalar multiplication on the underlying abelian group of M, so (M, R) is a group with operators.
 As a special case of the above, every vector space over a field k is a group with operators (V, k).

Applications
The Jordan–Hölder theorem also holds in the context of operator groups. The requirement that a group have a composition series is analogous to that of compactness in topology, and can sometimes be too strong a requirement. It is natural to talk about "compactness relative to a set", i.e. talk about composition series where each (normal) subgroup is an operator-subgroup relative to the operator set X, of the group in question.

See also
 Group action

Notes

References 

Group actions (mathematics)
Universal algebra
Denzil Dolley

Denzil Dolley (born 22 July 1977 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape) is a field hockey player from South Africa, who was a member of the national squad that finished tenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He played for the University of Port Elizabeth and a provincial team called KwaZulu Natal Raiders.  He has previously played for Holcombe Hockey Club - based in Rochester, Kent - in the UK National League, as well as coaching Sanderstead Hockey Club. He is now the 1st XI player/coach at Woking Hockey Club - based in Surrey.

International senior tournaments
 2001 – Champions Challenge, Kuala Lumpur (2nd)
 2002 – World Cup, Kuala Lumpur (13th)
 2002 – Commonwealth Games, Manchester (4th)
 2003 – All-Africa Games, Abuja (2nd)
 2004 – Summer Olympics, Athens (10th)
 2006 – World Cup, Mönchengladbach (12th)

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
South African male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for South Africa
South African field hockey coaches
Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Sportspeople from Port Elizabeth
Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
Holcombe Hockey Club players
South African expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate field hockey players
African Games silver medalists for South Africa
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
African Games medalists in field hockey
Split (1989 film)

Split is a 1989 film directed by Chris Shaw and starring Timothy Dwight and Joan Bechtel. The film was notable for its early use of CGI. It was the final film appearance of Gene Evans.

Plot
A big brother-like leader from another dimension known as the Director controls our every move while letting us believe that we have free will. Starker is a homeless man for whom no records exist so he is able to elude the Director and his Agency. He attempts to counter the oppressive message and is forced to go into hiding with a round disc that he believes is the gateway to a greater humanity.

Cast
 Timothy Dwight as Starker
 Joan Bechtel as The waitress
 John Flynn as The artist
 Chris Shaw as The Director

Reception
Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called Split "a timeless political-religious parable".

References

External links 

1989 films
1989 science fiction films
1989 directorial debut films
Films about mass surveillance
1980s English-language films
American science fiction films
1980s American films
Andrew Green, Baron Green of Deddington

Andrew Fleming Green, Baron Green of Deddington, KCMG (born 6 August 1941) is a former British diplomat. He is the founding president of MigrationWatch UK, an organisation arguing for lower immigration to the United Kingdom. He has also held a number of positions with voluntary organisations.

Background and education
Lord Green was educated at Haileybury before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences and Economics. He then took a three-year Short Service Commission in the Royal Green Jackets.

Career

Diplomatic career
On joining the Diplomatic Service in 1965, he studied Arabic in Lebanon. Thereafter, he spent half his career in the Middle East where he served in six posts. The remainder of his service was divided between London, Paris, and Washington DC. He was HM Ambassador in Syria (1991–94) and then Director for the Middle East at the Foreign Office, before serving for four and a half years as ambassador in Saudi Arabia.

MigrationWatch UK
After his retirement in June 2000, Lord Green went on to co-found MigrationWatch UK together with David Coleman, Professor of Demography at Oxford University. He was chairman from its establishment in December 2001 until July 2021 when he became president and the chairmanship was taken up by Alp Mehmet.

Other work
He chaired Medical Aid for Palestinians (a British charity seeking to improve health care for Palestinians both in Palestine and in refugee camps) for three years. He was for 12 years a board member of Christian Solidarity Worldwide (a human rights organisation which speaks for Christians and others around the world who are suffering persecution for their religious beliefs).

He was the co-chair of the lobbying group British Syrian Society, founded by President Assad's father in law Fawaz Akhras, until his resignation in 2011. He was re-appointed as Director of the Society in 2018.

Awards
He was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Companion (CMG) in the 1991 Birthday Honours and was promoted as a Knight Commander (KCMG) in the 1998 Birthday Honours.

On 21 October 2014 it was announced that Sir Andrew Green was to be created a life peer on David Cameron's personal recommendation for Green's "proven record of public service." He was duly raised to the peerage as Baron Green of Deddington, in the County of Oxfordshire on 28 November 2014. Lord Green sits on the cross benches in the House of Lords.

References

External links
Debrett's People of Today
MigrationWatch UK website
www.gov.uk
Independent profile

1941 births
Living people
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Syria
Immigration to the United Kingdom
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Royal Green Jackets officers
Members of HM Diplomatic Service
Crossbench life peers
Life peers created by Elizabeth II
20th-century British diplomats
Total ring of fractions

In abstract algebra, the total quotient ring or total ring of fractions is a construction that generalizes the notion of the field of fractions of an integral domain to commutative rings R that may have zero divisors. The construction embeds R in a larger ring, giving every non-zero-divisor of R an inverse in the larger ring.  If the homomorphism from R to the new ring is to be injective, no further elements can be given an inverse.

Definition 

Let  be a commutative ring and let  be the set of elements which are not zero divisors in ; then  is a multiplicatively closed set. Hence we may localize the ring  at the set  to obtain the total quotient ring .

If  is a domain, then  and the total quotient ring is the same as the field of fractions. This justifies the notation , which is sometimes used for the field of fractions as well, since there is no ambiguity in the case of a domain.

Since  in the construction contains no zero divisors, the natural map  is injective, so the total quotient ring is an extension of .

Examples 

For a product ring , the total quotient ring  is the product of total quotient rings . In particular, if A and B are integral domains, it is the product of quotient fields.

For the ring of holomorphic functions on an open set D of complex numbers, the total quotient ring is the ring of meromorphic functions on D, even if D is not connected.

In an Artinian ring, all elements are units or zero divisors. Hence the set of non-zero-divisors is the group of units of the ring, , and so . But since all these elements already have inverses, . 

In a commutative von Neumann regular ring R, the same thing happens. Suppose a in R is not a zero divisor. Then in a von Neumann regular ring a = axa for some x in R, giving the equation a(xa − 1) = 0. Since a is not a zero divisor, xa = 1, showing a is a unit. Here again, .

In algebraic geometry one considers a sheaf of total quotient rings on a scheme, and this may be used to give the definition of a Cartier divisor.

The total ring of fractions of a reduced ring 

Proof: Every element of Q(A) is either a unit or a zero divisor. Thus, any proper ideal I of Q(A) is contained in the set of zero divisors of Q(A); that set equals the union of the minimal prime ideals  since Q(A) is reduced.  By prime avoidance, I must be contained in some . Hence, the ideals  are maximal ideals of Q(A).  Also, their intersection is zero. Thus, by the Chinese remainder theorem applied to Q(A), 
.
Let S be the multiplicatively closed set of non-zero-divisors of A.  By exactness of localization, 
,
which is already a field and so must be .

Generalization 

If  is a commutative ring and  is any multiplicatively closed set in , the localization  can still be constructed, but the ring homomorphism from  to  might fail to be injective.  For example, if , then  is the trivial ring.

Citations

References

Commutative algebra
Ring theory

de:Lokalisierung_(Algebra)#Totalquotientenring
Sangju Civic Stadium

Sangju Civic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Sangju, South Korea. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 15,042 spectators.

References

External links
 Sangju Stadium Introduction Page
 World Stadiums

Football venues in South Korea
Multi-purpose stadiums in South Korea
Sports venues in North Gyeongsang Province
Sports venues completed in 1992
1992 establishments in South Korea
K League 1 stadiums
K League 2 stadiums
Gimcheon Sangmu FC
20th-century architecture in South Korea
Central Vanuatu languages

The Central Vanuatu languages form a linkage of Southern Oceanic languages spoken in central Vanuatu.

Languages

Clark (2009)
Clark (2009) provides the following classification of the Central Vanuatu languages, divided into geographic areas. Outlier (aberrant) languages identified by Clark (2009) are in italics. Clark's Central Vanuatu branch is wider in scope, including not only the Shepherd–Efate languages, but also the Malakula and Ambrym–Paama–Epi languages.

Central Vanuatu
Malakula languages
Northeast Malakula (Uripiv), Vao, Vovo; Mpotovoro
Dirak, Malua Bay
V’ënen Taut, Tape
Larevat, Neve’ei, Naman
Navava, Nevwervwer
Unua-Pangkumu
Banam Bay, Aulua
Lendamboi; Nasarian
Axamb, Avok, Maskelynes, Port Sandwich
Sinesip, Naha’ai; Ninde
Ambrym–Paama–Epi area
Ambrym Island: North Ambrym, West Ambrym, South Ambrym
Paama Island: Southeast Ambrym, Paamese
Epi Island: Lewo, Lamen, Bierebo, Baki
Epi Island: Mkir, Bieria
Shepherd–Efate area
Shepherd Islands: Nakanamanga (Nguna); Namakir
Efate Island: South Efate

François (2015)
The following list of 19 Central Vanuatu languages (excluding the Malakula languages) is from François (2015:18–21).

Additionally, the extinct Sowa language was formerly spoken in central Vanuatu.

References  

 .

 
Southern Oceanic languages
Languages of Vanuatu
Interceltic Festival

Interceltic Festival may refer to:
Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Brittany, France
Interceltic Festival of Avilés, Asturias, Spain
Interceltic Festival of Morrazo, Moaña, Galicia, Spain

See also
Ortigueira's Festival of Celtic World, Galicia, Spain
Happy Flowers

Happy Flowers was an American musical group, formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1983 by two members of the Landlords, John Beers ("Mr. Horribly Charred Infant", drums, vocals) and Charlie Kramer ("Mr. Anus", guitar, vocals), both students at the University of Virginia.  This duo combines improvisational noise punk guitar and drums with lyrics often written in the first person from the perspective of a child, with childlike intonation and grammar.  Their humorous songs are mainly about freak childhood accidents and common childhood gripes.

History
The Landlords were an early hardcore punk band from Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. The band, consisting of four students from the University of Virginia, was formed at around October 1983. A month after the Landlords formed, the band began to break off into a number of other bands which included the Happy Flowers When Beers and Kramer concentrated on their Happy Flowers work, Landlords bassist Eddie Jetlag continued his association with them by writing sleevenotes for their releases. The Landlords continued for a few years after Happy Flowers started.

Happy Flowers' first song, "Mom, I Gave the Cat Some Acid", was released during the summer of 1984 as a part of the compilation album called Brain of Stone. This was followed the same year by the band's first two EPs. The band received a wider audience with the albums My Skin Covers My Body (1987) and I Crush Bozo (1988), both released by Homestead Records.  The 1990 album Lasterday I Was Been Bad featured drummer Scott Pickering on half of the tracks. In March 2000, the band went on a four-date tour, the band's first tour in nearly ten years. In February 2004, the band reunited in Charlottesville, Virginia for a 20th anniversary performance, a limited-edition DVD from which is available from Lost Frog Productions. In March 2006, the band reunited again and played at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.

Line-up
 Mr. Horribly Charred Infant (vocals, instruments, non-instruments)
 Mr. Anus (vocals, instruments, non-instruments)

Discography

Landlords discography
It's a Teenage House Party With The Landlords LP (1984), Catch Trout
Our Favorite Songs! EP (1987), Catch Trout
Fitzgerald's Paris  LP (2016), Feel It Records

Happy Flowers albums
My Skin Covers My Body (1987), Homestead
I Crush Bozo (1988), Homestead
Oof (1989), Homestead
Lasterday I Was Been Bad (1990), Homestead
Compilations
Making the Bunny Pay (1987), Catch Trout - compilation of first two EPs
Too Many Bunnies, (Not Enough Mittens) (1989), Homestead
Flowers on 45: The Homestead Singles (1992), Homestead

Happy Flowers singles and EPs
Songs for Children 7-inch EP (1984), Catch Trout
Now We Are Six 7-inch EP (1986), Catch Trout
"They Cleaned My Cut Out With a Wire Brush" (1988), Homestead
"BB Gun" (1989), Homestead
"Call Me Pudge" (1990), Homestead
The Peel Sessions 7-inch EP (1991), Homestead

Videography
20th Anniversary Show (DVD, 2006)

References

External links

Happy Flowers entry at Monocular Times

American noise rock music groups
Homestead Records artists
Punk rock groups from Virginia
Ivane Andronikashvili

Prince Ivane Andronikashvili (), also known as Knyaz Ivan Malkhazovich Andronnikov () (1798 – November 19, 1868) was a Georgian nobleman and general in the Imperial Russian service.

He was born in Qudaghlo in the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti to Prince Malkhaz Andronikashvili and Princess Mariam Bagrationi. (In 1801, the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti became part of the Russian Empire.) His mother, Princess Mariam Bagrationi, was the sister of the last Imeretian king Solomon II. He himself was married to Princess Nino Imeretinsky, granddaughter of King David II of Imereti.

When Andronikashvili turned nineteen, he was enrolled in the St Petersburg Cavalry Regiment of the Leib Guard. Seven years later he was transferred to the Nizhny Novgorod cavalry regiment with the rank of major. When the Russo-Persian war broke out in 1826 Andronikashvili became heavily involved in many decisive battles.  He served later in the Caucasus during the wars with Persia (1826-1829) and Turkey (1828-1829). He was promoted Major General in 1841 and appointed Governor General of Tiflis in 1849. He took part in the Caucasian War and led an expedition against the rebellious Ossetes in 1840 and 1850.

The Crimean War was the apex of Andronikashvili’s military career. On November 14, 1853, he defeated Ali Pasha's army of 20,000 men at Akhaltsikhe with as few as 5,000 soldiers, mostly irregular Georgian cavalrymen. He achieved another victory against considerable odds over Selim Pasha’s 36,000 troops at the Choloki River with the force of 13,000. Prince Andronikashvili was promoted to General of Cavalry just a few months before his death in 1868.

Honours and awards
 Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class (1826),
 Order of St. Anna, 2nd class (1827)
 Order of St. George, 4th class (1830) and 3rd class (1853)
 Order of St. Stanislaus 1st class (1847)
 Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1854)

See also
Andronikashvili

References

External links 

  Russian Biographical Dictionary

1798 births
1868 deaths
Nobility of Georgia (country)
Military personnel from Georgia (country)
Russian military personnel of the Crimean War
Imperial Russian Army generals
Georgian generals in the Imperial Russian Army
Georgian generals with the rank "General of the Cavalry" (Imperial Russia)
Generals from Georgia (country)
Ivane
Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 1st class
Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
Russian military personnel of the Caucasian War
People of the Russo-Persian Wars
People of the Caucasian War
Thun District

Thun District is one of the 26 administrative districts in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital is the municipality of Thun. 

From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while being replaced by the new and enlarged Thun (administrative district), whose administrative centre remained Thun. 

Since 2010, it remains therefore a fully recognised district under the law and the Constitution (Art.3 al.2) of the Canton of Berne.

The district has an area of 285 km2 and consists of 27 municipalities:

References

Former districts of the canton of Bern
David Lodge (voice actor)

David William Lodge is an American voice actor who works for anime as well as animation and the video game community and is known for his voice work in the Power Rangers franchise. Two of his best-known voice roles there were as Villamax in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy and Loki in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue. In anime, he voiced Kenpachi Zaraki in Bleach and  Jiraiya in Naruto. In animation, he provides the voice of Luxor in Tutenstein and Tenderheart Bear in the 2010s Care Bears cartoons. In video games, he voices a variety of roles, especially in World of Warcraft.

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Films

Video games

References

External links 
 
 
 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male voice actors
American male video game actors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
The Forgotten (Wiesel novel)

The Forgotten (French: L'oublié "the forgotten one") is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1992 in French. It follows two men, Elhanan Rosenbaum, and his son Malkiel.  Elhanan is suffering from an incurable disease that causes him to lose his memory slowly, something like amnesia.  Elhanan tells Malkiel the story of his past before he forgets it all.  Malkiel is compelled to go to the village in Romania where his father failed to stop a crime from occurring, a memory that continues to haunt him.  Malkiel encounters the truth about his father and attempts to deal with the past.

References

1992 American novels
Novels set in Romania
French-language novels
Novels by Elie Wiesel
Nirvana discography

The discography of Nirvana, an American rock band, consists of three studio albums, twenty-one singles, five live albums, two extended plays, four compilation albums, and three box sets.

Nirvana was formed in 1987 by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic, with the position of drummer being filled by various musicians. The band released its debut album, Bleach, in 1989 on independent label Sub Pop. After being joined by final drummer Dave Grohl and signing to Geffen Records subsidiary DGC Records, the band released its second studio album, Nevermind, which became one of the best selling alternative albums of the 1990s and popularized the Seattle grunge movement and alternative music. The band's third album, In Utero, was also a commercial and critical success, though it did not match the sales precedent set by Nevermind—as the members of the band expected. Nirvana disbanded in 1994 after the death of Cobain; since then several posthumous releases have been issued from the band, which once resulted in a legal conflict between Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, and the surviving members of the band over the release of the song "You Know You're Right". In 2006, Love sold a significant share of the rights to Cobain's song catalog to Primary Wave Music Publishing. Since its debut, the band has sold 27.6 million albums in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide.

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Box sets

Extended plays

Singles

Retail singles

Notes

Promotional singles

Notes

Split singles

Notes

Other charted and certified songs

Music videos

Video albums

Notes

Other appearances

Unreleased songs
Courtney Love stated in May 2002 that she owned 109 unreleased tapes made by Cobain, with or without the other members of Nirvana. Of these songs, many were released on the 61 song box set With the Lights Out in 2004, with three "freshly unearthed" songs appearing on the compilation Sliver: The Best of the Box in 2005. More unreleased Nirvana tracks were released on the deluxe and super deluxe 20th anniversary editions of the Nevermind and In Utero albums in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Many more unreleased songs were released on Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings in 2015 which was the companion soundtrack to the film Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Brett Morgen stated that in Cobain's archive he discovered over 200 hours of audio on over 108 cassettes and that he thought the solo album "would be a nice complement to the film".

See also
Nirvana bootleg recordings
Foo Fighters discography

References

External links
 Nirvana official page
 Nirvana Live Guide
 Live Nirvana
 
 

Discographies of American artists
Discography
Alternative rock discographies
Rock music group discographies
Jordan's Castle

Jordan's Castle (; Ulster Scots: Joardan's Kessel) is a castle situated in Ardglass, County Down, Northern Ireland. The tower house known as Jordan's Castle is a State Care Historic Monument sited in the townland of Ardglass, in the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council area, at grid ref: J5601 3713. It stands close to the junction of Kildare and Quay Streets in Ardglass and commands the harbour.

Features
The entrance is at the bottom of the north-west tower and leads to a spiral stairway to roof level. It is protected by a machicolation at that level. 

The Dublin Penny Journal of 30 March 1833 describes Jordan's Castle as follows:

History

It was also extensively used for get-togethers of the wide circle of Irish Cultural revival artists and writers to whom Bigger was friend and patron. Following suggestions by Alice Stopford Green and the archivist Henry Egan Kenny, Bigger renamed the tower "Castle Seán' in honour of the two years when Shane O'Neill (Seán Ó Néill) controlled Ardglass, and they believed, re-fortified the tower following his defeat of the MacDonnells at Glentaisie in 1565. The contents have since been dispersed among the Ulster Museums general collections and the tower is no longer open to the public.

Ardglass had at least six castles and remains of four of them can still be seen: Ardglass Castle, Cowd Castle, Margaret's Castle and Jordan's Castle.

See also 
Castles in Northern Ireland

References

External links
Environment and heritage Service – Jordan's Castle

Castles in County Down
Ruined castles in Northern Ireland
Ardglass
Northern Ireland Environment Agency properties
Tower houses in Northern Ireland
Peggy O'Neal (voice actress)

Peggy O'Neal is an American voice actress.

Career
O'Neal began acting in three episodes of seaQuest DSV, and went on to do ADR on Dawson's Creek, Dark Skies, Walker, Texas Ranger.  Through acting classes taught by Susan Blu, O'Neal got in contact with Paul Di Franco, a casting agent for Saban Entertainment.  O'Neal's roles at Saban Entertainment included Shinzo character Yakumo Tatsuro.

In addition to voice acting, O'Neal works as a part-time teacher for acting classes at Moorpark College.

Filmography

Anime

Film

Video games

Other dubbing

References

External links
 
 

American voice actresses
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American actresses
Barbara O'Brien

Barbara O'Brien (born April 18, 1950) was the 47th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado from 2007 to 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is currently serving her second 4-year term as an elected member of the board of Denver Public Schools.

Political career

Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
She was chosen as running mate by Bill Ritter, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Colorado in the 2006 election. 
The Ritter/O'Brien ticket won with 57% of the vote. 
As lieutenant governor she made education her signature issue. 
Ritter chose not to run for re-election in 2010, and O'Brien also stepped down at the end of her term.

Prior to becoming lieutenant governor, she was a speechwriter and policy advisor for Governor Richard Lamm.

Denver School Board Director
Barbara O'Brien was elected as the at-large school director of the Denver Public Schools School Board on November 5, 2013, claiming 59.5% of the vote and winning over Michael Kiley and Joan Poston.
and was reelected in November 2017 to another term.

The Denver Post newspaper stated that candidates who promised reform won the majority of local school board elections across Colorado in the November 2013 off-year election, and that O'Brien, as well as her fellow winners for Denver School Board positions, were reform candidates.

Business career

, O'Brien was a senior fellow at the Piton Foundation, which uses its private funding to develop, manage, and incubate programs to create opportunities for lower-income families in Denver.

In 2013, O'Brien was named President of Get Smart Schools, a Denver-based public education reform group.

Personal

O'Brien is married to Richard O'Brien, and has two sons, Jared and Connor.

See also
List of female lieutenant governors in the United States

References

External links

1950 births
Living people
Lieutenant Governors of Colorado
School board members in Colorado
People from Brawley, California
Women in Colorado politics
21st-century American women
Liard River Corridor Provincial Park and Protected Area

Liard River Corridor Provincial Park and Protected Area is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Part of the park is in the larger Muskwa-Kechika Management Area.

References

Liard Country
Provincial parks of British Columbia
2001 establishments in British Columbia
Margaret's Castle

Margaret's Castle is a castle in Ardglass, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is a  small Tower house probably built in the 15th century. Only two storeys still exist but there is evidence that it was at least three storeys high. It is vaulted above the ground floor with a rectangular tower with projecting turrets in the north west wall. The doorway between the turrets was protected by a murder-hole. A spiral stairway rises within the west turret.

The tower house known as Margaret's Castle is a Scheduled Historic Monument in the townland of Ardglass, in the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council area, at grid ref: J5603 3703.

Ardglass had at least six castles and remains of four of them can still be seen: Ardglass Castle, Cowd Castle, Margaret's Castle and Jordan's Castle.

See also 
Castles in Northern Ireland

References 

Castles in County Down
Ruined castles in Northern Ireland
Scheduled monuments in Northern Ireland
Ardglass
Usurper

A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. In other words, one who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it as one's own. Usurpers can rise to power in a region by often unexpected physical force, as well as through political influence and deceit.

Etymology

The word originally came from the Latin word usurpare (“to seize", "to take forcefully" or "to use”).

Politics

The Greeks had their own conception of what usurpers were, calling them tyrants. In the ancient Greek usage, a tyrant (tyrannos/τύραννος in Greek) was an individual who rose to power via unconstitutional or illegitimate means, usually not being an heir to an existing throne. Such individuals were perceived negatively by political philosophers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

Usurpers often try to legitimize their position by claiming to be a descendant of a ruler that they may or may not be related to. According to Herodotus, this was done by someone impersonating Smerdis in order to seize the throne of Cyrus the Great after his death.

The concept of usurpation played a huge role in the governance of monarchies, often carrying disdain to those who have been accused of it. Lengthy advice was given to potential and actual usurpers by the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli in his book The Prince. Methods discussed were pertinent to the establishment of a more secure principality for the ruler, which Machiavelli stated would require evil to be done at some point.

See also 

 Embezzlement
 Misappropriation
 Roman usurper
 List of usurpers
 Coup d'état

Further reading

References

 
Positions of authority
Alex Jordan Jr.

Alexander John Jordan Jr. (March 3, 1914, Madison, Wisconsin – November 6, 1989) was best known as the creator of the House on the Rock, an eccentric architectural and entertainment attraction in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Biography

Published information on Jordan's life is scant. There are three biographies, all self-published. One is an unsympathetic 1990 biography by Marv Balousek, a newspaper reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal, who describes his book as "an unauthorized biography, ...not been sanctioned by the new owner of The House on the Rock, nor by those closest to Jordan. Jennie Olson, his companion of 50 years, declined to be interviewed; so did Don Martin, who helped build every exhibit." A 1991 "authorized biography" by Doug Moe was published by The House on the Rock and is sold in its gift shop. Moe had access to and quotes Jennie Olson, Don Martin, and others not accessible to Balousek. The third book is "Never Enough: The Creative Life of Alex Jordan" by Tom Kupsh, published in 2014.  Kupsh was a sculptor who worked for Jordan at the House on the Rock from 1977 to 1984.  From 1989 to 1998, Kupsh was the creative director at the House on the Rock. In 2006 Kupsh returned to be a creative consultant.

Balousek describes Jordan as "a shadowy figure as reclusive as the late multi-millionaire Howard Hughes" Moe agrees that "Alex Jordan did not like or seek personal publicity."

Jordan tried a variety of conventional paths in life before focusing on his childhood love of architecture and electronic gadgets. Atop his favorite wilderness retreat, the 450' tall Deer Shelter Rock, Jordan began construction of a peculiar Japanese House in 1945. The structure imitated the "fusion with nature" design style of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Although he initially tried to keep curious onlookers away, Jordan found that he could finance additional electronic and architectural projects at the site by charging a tour fee. Using this money, Jordan continued to build his complex of uncommon interests until his death in 1989, aged 75.

In March 1964, Jordan traveled with friend Homer Fieldhouse to New York to help landscape the Wisconsin Pavilion exhibit at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Fieldhouse had been hired by Wisconsin's Lieutenant Governor, Jack Olson, to do the outdoor landscaping and to construct an indoor waterfall. Of particular interest to Jordan was a "talking" Abraham Lincoln, an audio-animatronic robot.

Jordan died at Meriter Hospital in Madison on November 6, 1989 following a heart attack.

References

External links 
Roadside America
 

1914 births
1989 deaths
20th-century American architects
Architects from Wisconsin
Businesspeople from Madison, Wisconsin
20th-century American businesspeople