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Bingham railway station

Bingham railway station serves the market town of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England. The station is 8½ miles (14 km) east of Nottingham on the Nottingham-Skegness Line. The station is operated and served by East Midlands Railway.

History

Passenger services started on 15 July 1850. It is located on the line first opened by the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway and taken over by the Great Northern Railway. The buildings were designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.

In 1851 the first station master, Thomas Hand, absconded with five days' takings from passengers travelling to the Nottingham Fair.

Between 1879 and 1953, Bingham was also served by Bingham Road station on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway. It was used for London and North Western Railway services between Nottingham London Road and stations to Northampton.

From 7 January 1963 passenger steam trains between Grantham, Bottesford, Elton and Orston, Aslockton, Bingham, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Netherfield and Colwick, Nottingham London-road (High Level) and Nottingham (Victoria) were replaced by diesel multiple-unit trains.

Station masters

Thomas Hand, 1850–1851
Robert Nicholson, c. 1865
J. W. Page (afterwards station master at Harby and Stathern)
Charles Richardson, 1877–1898
George Tagg
Mr Chandler, up to 1902 (afterwards station master at Little Bytham)
John Thomas James, c. 1913
A. Smith, up to 1937 (afterwards station master at Loughborough Central)
Albert S. Langford, c. 1940 – c. 1945
F. L. Cantwell, c. 1959–1961
J. H. Fisher, from 1961

Services
There is generally an hourly service daily westbound to Nottingham and eastbound towards Grantham and Skegness.

References

External links

Evacuees arriving at Bingham station

Railway stations in Nottinghamshire
DfT Category F1 stations
Former Great Northern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850
Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway
Thomas Chambers Hine railway stations
1850 establishments in England
Bingham, Nottinghamshire
Horn OK Please

Horn OK Please or Sound Horn is a phrase commonly painted on commercial vehicles like trucks, buses and local taxis in India, to alert drivers of vehicles approaching from behind to sound their horns if they wish to overtake.

On April 30, 2015, the Government of Maharashtra banned the use of "Horn OK Please" on the rear of commercial vehicles, on the grounds that it encouraged motorists to honk unnecessarily and caused noise pollution. In Maharashtra, such signage is a violation of Section 134 (1) of the Maharashtra Motor Vehicle Rules. 

Bal Malkit Singh, former president of the All India Motor Transport Congress, welcomed the ban, stating that the phrase was required in the past when the roads were narrow; but that on modern wide roads and multi-lane highways, drivers could use lights and indicators to overtake other vehicles.

See also 

Autorickshaw
Indian English
Truck art in South Asia

References

External links
 Marketplace: India's Cheap Car Stirring Up Noise Radio report on "horn not OK" campaign in India

Indian English idioms
Transport culture of India
Trucking subculture
Indian trucking industry
Herzlake (Samtgemeinde)

Samtgemeinde Herzlake is a Samtgemeinde in the district Emsland in Lower Saxony, Germany at the Hase river.

Following villages are situated in Herzlake:

(Population 2005)

References 

Herzlake
New Zealand black goby

Gobiopsis atrata, the New Zealand black goby, is a species of goby endemic to the marine waters around northern New Zealand where it occurs in tide pools and on reefs down to depths of about .  It lives in narrow crevices and is most commonly seen with its head poking out of its lair to which it will hastily retreat if disturbed.  This species can reach a length of  TL.

References
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 

Gobiidae
Endemic marine fish of New Zealand
Fish described in 1933
Bundesautobahn 45

is an autobahn in Germany, connecting Dortmund in the west with Aschaffenburg in the southwest. It is colloquially known as the Sauerlandlinie (Sauerland line) as it runs through the hilly, rural Sauerland region between Hagen and Siegen. The A45 has many bridges to cross valleys, the highest of which is the Sichter Valley bridge (Talbrücke Sichter) between Lüdenscheid and Meinerzhagen at 530 metres above mean sea level. It is mostly two lanes each way with frequent climbing lanes between Dortmund-Hafen and the Gambacher Kreuz intersection. In March 2013 30 people were injured in a pile-up on the A45.

History 
During the 1960s and 1970s a southward extension was proposed as the „Odenwald-Neckar-Alb-Autobahn“ (ONAA), to pass through  Groß-Umstadt, Michelstadt, Schwaigern, Neckarwestheim, Mundelsheim, Berglen, Remshalden, Lichtenwald and Schlierbach, linking the ONAA to the A 8 near Kirchheim unter Teck, however the project was abandoned for ecological reasons in 1979 by the state government of Baden-Württemberg.

Trajectory 
The A 45 branches off the A 2 at the Dortmund Nord-West intersection, passes through the eastern Ruhr area and enters the Sauerland near Hagen. It then enters the Siegerland and the state of Hesse, where the A 45 is joined by the A 66 between the interchanges Hanauer Kreuz and Langenselbolder Dreieck. A short stretch of road, between junctions Alzenau and Mainhausen, is on Bavarian territory, then the A 45 merges with the A 3 at the interchange Seligenstädter Dreieck in the state of Hesse, just to the west of the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. The Rahmede viaduct near Lüdenscheid was closed on 2 December 2021, due to damage to its structure. It is to be demolished and replaced.

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UTC−02:30

UTC−02:30 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −02:30.

As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer)
Principal city: St. John's

North America
Canada – Newfoundland Time Zone
Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador 
The area between L'Anse-au-Clair and Norman Bay
Newfoundland

References

UTC offsets
Instant Karma (record label)

Instant Karma is an independent record label created by former Warner Music Group chairman and head of the BPI, Rob Dickins, in 1999.
The label was founded by Dickins after his resignation from Warner Music, where he gained fame for his track record of signing female vocalists such as Enya and the Corrs. Instant Karma's first release was Helicopter Girl's How to Steal the World album in June 2000; the label received attention for the fact that its very first release was short-listed for the Mercury Prize. Helicopter Girl signed with Instant Karma on the condition that she be permitted not to tour.

Dickins noted that he was pleased to have How to Steal the World as the label's "calling card", but that he planned other releases to have more immediate commercial appeal.

The label was funded by Sony Music UK. British DJ/producer K-Gee's first solo single and album were released on Instant Karma in October 2000 and October 2002, respectively.

Acts
 Addis Black Widow
 The Alice Band
 Bleached Bones
 Blossomer
 Derek Jarman
 Donna McKevitt
 Eberg
 Fuzz Light Years
 Ghostland
 Helicopter Girl
 I Monster
 Jaed
 Jonatha Brooke
 K-Gee
 The Kennedy Soundtrack
 Lorien
 Louie Austen
 Panjabi MC
 The Past Present Organisation
 WigWam

See also
 List of record labels

External links
Official website

References

Instant Karma
Instant Karma
Pop record labels
Electronic music record labels
IFPI members
Cavalier (fortification)

A cavalier is a fortification which is built within a larger fortification, and which is higher than the rest of the work. It usually consists of a raised platform within a fort or bastion, so as to be able to fire over the main parapet without interfering with the fire of the latter. Through the use of cavaliers, a greater volume of fire can be obtained, but its great height also makes it an easy target for a besieger's guns.

There are two types of cavaliers:
Common cavalier – a raised gun platform without any additional defensive features
Defensible cavalier – a raised gun platform surrounded by a ditch. If the ditch cuts across the bastion's terreplein and is supported by cuts, the cavalier can also be considered as a retrenchment.

Gallery

References

Fortification (architectural elements)
UTA AEC

Following the end of World War II, most railways throughout the world were looking to either update their fleet of steam locomotives with new and more economical designs or look towards alternatives, which for many meant a programme of dieselisation. The main considerations were the rising cost of coal against diesel oil and the weight of the trains causing wear and tear on the track. In looking to the dieselisation of their system the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) made early inroads with small, lightweight diesel units, based on those built for the Great Western Railway in England, using the same manufacturers to supply parts and undertaking construction in their own workshops.

History
AEC (Associated Equipment Company Limited) of Southall, London were a well known bus chassis, engine and body builders responsible for many types of London's famous red buses. They also provided engines for many diesel railcars built for, or by, the Great Western Railway and later British Railways. In the early 1950s, with dieselisation being undertaken on the GNR(I) and the UTA systems, their products were supplied to both companies.

In August 1951 UTA's York Road works outshopped two new power cars which, following on the first diesel acquisitions, were numbered 6 and 7. They lasted well, 15 July 1966 seeing their last recorded working, after which they were not used again, although not officially withdrawn. On the formation of NIR they were included in the stock transferred over, to be officially withdrawn in December 1968. To increase capacity the unit ran with coach 279, as a centre trailer car, which was converted to work with this set. It became 528 in 1958.

At the same time, (1950/1), AEC were also responsible for power cars supplied to the GNR(I) and on the division of stock of that company in 1958 ten of these entered the UTA lists. Numbered from 111 to 120 inclusive they were, in order, originally GNR(I) No's. 603/602/607/606/611/610/615/614/619/618. Trailers from these railcars were converted from existing GNR steam coaches and retained their GNR numbers (Except vehicles 8 and 9, later UTA 585+586, which were built new as AEC driving trailers). Those that were acquired by UTA became 554 555 580 581 582 585 586 593 (The gaps being due to their numbering in the same series as BUT trailers). Kitchen Car 166 was converted to an AEC trailer in 1967 and retained its number

Withdrawal
All NIR AEC railcars were withdrawn by 1972. The last set in service was 114-586-115 stopped in September of that year

No's 6 & 7 were involved in the Lisburn accident on 5 February 1963 (which also involved Class WT, No.2) and were sent to Dunluce Street for repairs.

Technically, and theoretically, No's. 6 and 7 were compatible with 111 - 120 but never ran with them.

AEC
AEC vehicles
Scrapped locomotives
Elton and Orston railway station

Elton and Orston (formerly Elton) railway station serves the villages of Elton on the Hill and Orston in Nottinghamshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, but now provides minimal rail services.

History
The station lies on the line first opened by the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway. Passenger services began on 15 July 1850. The line was taken over by the Great Northern Railway in 1855. The master's lodge and ticket office building was designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.

From 7 January 1963 passenger steam trains between Grantham, Bottesford, Elton and Orston, Aslockton, Bingham, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Netherfield and Colwick, Nottingham London-road (High Level) and Nottingham (Victoria) were replaced by diesel multiple-unit trains.

Images show how the station looked in 1967. No station buildings by Hine survived by 2008. There is a small 1980s brick-built shelter on one platform. The name of the station was still "Elton" in 1904.

The 2021/22 statistics record only 40 entries/exits at the station, making it Britain’s least used station. It is Nottinghamshire's least used station and is one stop down the line from Leicestershire's least used station, Bottesford.

Services
The station is unstaffed and offers no facilities other than two shelters, bicycle storage, timetables and modern "Help Points". The full range of tickets for travel can be purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost. There are no retail facilities at the station.

There is one service to Nottingham per day at 07:04 and one service to Skegness per day at 17:12. There is no Sunday service. The service operates on most bank holidays.

References

External links

Web page about the station

Railway stations in Nottinghamshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Great Northern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850
Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway
Low usage railway stations in the United Kingdom
Thomas Chambers Hine railway stations
Barents

Barents may refer to:

René Barents (born 1951), Dutch judge and legal scholar
Willem Barents (c. 1550–1597), Dutch navigator and explorer
Barents AirLink, a Swedish airline
Barents Island (), an island in the Svalbard archipelago, part of Norway
Barents Sea, a part of the Arctic Ocean north of Norway and Russia
Barents Region, the land along the coast of the Barents Sea
Barents Basin, a sedimentary basin in the Barents Sea
Barents Euro-Arctic Council, the official body for inter-governmental co-operation in the Barents Region

See also
Barentsburg, second largest settlement in the Svalbard archipelago
Barentsjøkulen, a glacier on Barentsøya
Roundhead (weapon)

A roundhead was a type of mace used during the English Civil War. It is described as having a head about , a staff  long inserted into the head, twelve iron spikes round about, with another spike in the end. In 1643 an article in Mercurius Civicus claimed the weapon was called a roundhead by the Cavaliers because they were to be used to beat the Roundheads into subjection.

References and notes

Attribution:

Polearms
Charles Degeorge

Charles Jean Marie Degeorge (1837 Lyon – 1888 Paris) was a French sculptor, and medallist, whose best-known work, La jeunesse d'Aristote (The Youth of Aristotle) (1875) depicts the philosopher as a semi-nude  teenage boy sitting in a large chair, looking bored as he studies a scroll. The statue is  in the Musée d'Orsay.

Degeorge also sculpted a bust of Henri Regnault which was incorporated into Regnault's monument at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris.

External links

Courtauld Institute: Monument to Henri Regnault

References 

1837 births
1888 deaths
Prix de Rome for engraving
Sculptors from Lyon
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
19th-century French male artists
Bundesautobahn 42

is an autobahn in western Germany. It connects Kamp-Lintfort with Castrop-Rauxel, linking several large cities in the Ruhr area, such as Dortmund, Duisburg, the North of Essen and Gelsenkirchen. It is colloquially known as Emscherschnellweg, after the river Emscher, which it roughly follows. Construction went underway in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Hana Mašková

Hana Mašková () (26 September 1949 – 31 March 1972) was a Czech figure skater who competed for Czechoslovakia. She was the 1968 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World bronze medalist (1967, 1968), and the 1968 European champion.

Career 
As a child, Mašková spent her days on the ice at the Štvanice Stadium. Karel Glogar, who had been instrumental in the early career of two-time World champion Ája Vrzáňová, identified her talent. Her next coach was Jaroslav Sadílek, followed by Míla Nováková in 1963.

Mašková's international career started at the 1963 European Championships in Budapest. The next year, she competed in the 1964 World Championships in Dortmund. As a fifteen-year-old, she represented Czechoslovakia at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and placed 15th.

In 1967, Mašková won the silver medal at the European Championships in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, finishing second to Gabriele Seyfert from East Germany (GDR). One year later, Mašková won the gold medal in Västerås in Sweden. She competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, winning the bronze medal behind Peggy Fleming of the United States, who had already won two World titles, and Seyfert. She is the only Czech woman to win an Olympic medal in figure skating.

Ája Vrzáňová invited her to join a professional show, but Mašková decided to compete one more year. She took the silver medal at the 1969 European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, behind Gabriele Seyfert. In 1969, Mašková left competition and joined the Holiday on Ice tour.

Death 

On 31 March 1972, Mašková was killed in a car crash near the French town Vouvray. Her tomb is at the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague, decorated by a winged female torso made by Jan Štursa.

Competitive highlights

References

External links
 
 
 
 

1949 births
1972 deaths
Czech female single skaters
Figure skaters from Prague
Olympic figure skaters for Czechoslovakia
Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia
Road incident deaths in France
Czechoslovak female single skaters
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery
China national baseball team

The China national baseball team also known as Team China is the national representative team of the People's Republic of China.

Results and fixtures 
The following is a list of professional baseball match results currently active in the latest version of the WBSC World Rankings, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

2019

2023

Current roster

Uniforms

Olympic Games

China secured qualification to the 2008 Summer Olympics automatically as host nation, giving the country its first Olympics berth.

World Baseball Classic

China competed in the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic and finished 15th in the tournament. It also competed in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, managed by Terry Collins. In the 2009 tournament, China recorded a 4–1 win over Chinese Taipei but was eliminated after losses to Japan and South Korea.

Results

International

Asian

References

Sources

Baseball America
2006 World Baseball Classic

Baseball in China
National baseball teams in Asia
Baseball
List of highways numbered 99



International
 European route E99

Australia
 Springbrook Road, Queensland

Canada 
 British Columbia Highway 99
 Ontario Highway 99 (former)
 Saskatchewan Highway 99

China 
  G99 Expressway

India 
  National Highway 99 (India)

Iran 
  Road 99

Israel 
  Highway 99 (Israel)

New Zealand
  New Zealand State Highway 99

Poland 
   (former; 1986–2000)

United States 
  Interstate 99
  Interstate 99 (Delaware-North Carolina) (proposed) 
  U.S. Route 99 (former)
  U.S. Route 99T (former)
  Alabama State Route 99
  Arizona State Route 99
  Arkansas Highway 99 (former)
  California State Route 99
  Connecticut Route 99
  Florida State Road 99 (former)
  County Road 99 (Escambia County, Florida)
  County Road 99A (Escambia County, Florida)
  Georgia State Route 99
  Hawaii Route 99
  Idaho State Highway 99
  Illinois Route 99
  Iowa Highway 99 (former)
  County Road 99 (Des Moines County, Iowa)
  County Road 99 (Louisa County, Iowa)
  K-99 (Kansas highway)
  Kentucky Route 99
  Louisiana Highway 99
  Maine State Route 99
  Maryland Route 99
  Massachusetts Route 99
  M-99 (Michigan highway)
  Minnesota State Highway 99
  Missouri Route 99
 Missouri Route 99 (1929) (former)
  Nebraska Highway 99
  County Route 99 (Bergen County, New Jersey)
  New Mexico State Road 99 (former)
  New York State Route 99 (former)
  County Route 99 (Dutchess County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Herkimer County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Madison County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Montgomery County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Onondaga County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Orleans County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Saratoga County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Schenectady County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Steuben County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Suffolk County, New York)
  County Route 99 (Westchester County, New York)
  North Carolina Highway 99
  Ohio State Route 99
  Oklahoma State Highway 99
  Oklahoma State Highway 99A
  Oregon Route 99
  Pennsylvania Route 99
  Rhode Island Route 99
  South Carolina Highway 99
  Tennessee State Route 99
  Texas State Highway 99
  Texas State Highway Spur 99 (1940–1966) (former)
  Texas State Highway Spur 99 (1981–1984) (former)
  Farm to Market Road 99
  Utah State Route 99
  Virginia State Route 99
  Washington State Route 99
  Washington State Route 99T (former)
  West Virginia Route 99
  Wisconsin Highway 99 (former)

See also
List of highways numbered 99E
List of highways numbered 99W
A99
B99
E 99 road (United Arab Emirates)
YCW

YCW may refer to:

Young Christian Workers, an international Roman Catholic organization
Chilliwack Airport, the IATA airport code
Crested blenny

The crested blenny (Parablennius laticlavius) is a species of combtooth blenny found off New South Wales, Australia, New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands to depths of between .  This species reaches a length of  TL.

References

External links
 
 Ayling, Tony & Geoffrey Cox (1982). Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. 

crested blenny
Fauna of New South Wales
Fish of the Kermadec Islands
Marine fish of New Zealand
crested blenny
Shakunamanojaya

After the Yenne Saastra, at the beginning of the  Hindu marriage rituals, auspicious omens are looked for. When pleasing or agreeable omens are observed, Shakunamanojaya (which literally means the conquering of one's mind by omens) is said to be achieved. The way is then clear for the performance of the next ritual, which is Balle Mallarada Puje.

Hindu wedding rituals
Michael O'Neill (politician)

Michael O'Neill (7 October 1909 – 4 October 1976) was an Irish politician in the United Kingdom.

O'Neill was educated at Dromore National School and Bellisle Academy. He was a farmer and a chairman of the Gaelic Athletic Association. He served as a councillor on Tyrone County Council and resigned as a member of Omagh rural council as a protest about the allocation of housing.

O'Neill was elected Member of Parliament for the Mid Ulster constituency in 1951 as an Independent Nationalist, serving in the House of Commons.

He was later associated with the Anti-Partition of Ireland League. He retired at the 1955 general election and the Mid Ulster seat was narrowly won by Tom Mitchell of Sinn Féin. At the 1956 Mid Ulster by-election the League stood O'Neill in an attempt to unseat the abstentionist Mitchell, but this split the nationalist vote and independent Unionist George Forrest was elected.

References

External links 
 

Politicians from Northern Ireland
Members of Tyrone County Council
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Mid Ulster
Politicians from County Tyrone
Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
UK MPs 1951–1955
1909 births
1976 deaths
Echt, Aberdeenshire

Echt () is an Aberdeenshire crossroads village in northeast Scotland with a population of approximately 300 people. Echt has a number of prehistoric remains, including the Barmekin of Echt which is on a hill to the northwest. There is also the Cullerlie stone circle near Sunhoney Farm, which may date from the Bronze Age.

Echt contains a church, village shop/post office, restaurant (Echt Tandoori) and pleasure park with a designated area of children's play equipment and local football matches are held.  The annual Echt Show, a farmers' show, is held on the 2nd Saturday in July.

It is centred on the junction of the B977 Dunecht—Banchory road and the B9119 Kingsford—Ordie road. It is some  from the city of Aberdeen.

References

 AA Touring Guide to Scotland (1978)

External links 

Echt in the Gazetteer for Scotland

 Virtual Eagle Tour of Barmekin Hill

Villages in Aberdeenshire
Balle Mallarada Puje

Balle Mallarada Puje is a Hindu marriage ritual performed in some parts of Karnataka.Worship of bangles and presentation of bangles to married women is believed to be productive for an ideal married life to the person whoso worships and presents them. This ceremony is known as Balle Mallarada Puje

The next ritual is Pade Puje

Hindu wedding rituals
Hydrangea petiolaris

Hydrangea petiolaris,  a climbing hydrangea (syn: Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris), is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae native to the woodlands of Japan, the Korean peninsula, and on Sakhalin island of easternmost Siberia in the Russian Far East.

Hydrangea petiolaris is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the closely related Hydrangea anomala from China, Myanmar, and the Himalaya, as Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris. The Hydrangea anomala species differs in being smaller (to  ) and having flower corymbs up to 15 cm diameter. The common name Climbing hydrangea is applied to both species, or to species and subspecies.

Description
Hydrangea petiolaris is a vigorous woody climbing vine plant, growing to  height and  wide. It grows up trees and rock faces in its native Asian habitats, climbing by means of small aerial roots on the stems. The leaves are deciduous, ovate, 4–11 cm long and 3–8 cm broad, with a heart-shaped base, coarsely serrated margin and acute apex.

The flowers are produced in flat corymbs 15–25 cm diameter in mid-summer; each corymb includes a small number of peripheral sterile white flowers 2.5–4.5 cm across, and numerous small, off-white fertile flowers 1–2 mm diameter. The fruit is a dry urn-shaped capsule 3–5 mm diameter containing several small winged seeds.

Cultivation
Hydrangea petiolaris is cultivated as an ornamental plant in Europe and North America. Climbing hydrangea is grown either on masonry walls or on sturdy trellises or fences. It is at its best where it gets morning sun and afternoon shade, however it can tolerate dense shade, and is therefore often selected for shady, north-facing areas with little or no sun. Its clinging rootlets are not as strong as some other wall-climbing vines, and so is often anchored with supplemental gardening ties. Its outward-reaching side shoots can be pruned back to a pair of buds to espalier it flatter against its support. When pruned during flowering, the blooms are useful in bouquets.

It can also be grown as a ground cover, to eventually grow over an area of up to .

It is an USDA climatic Zone 4a plant, so it can resist temperatures down to between -34.4 °C (-30 °F) and -31.7 °C (-25 °F).

The young leaves of climbing hydrangea are edible when cooked. Tasting like cucumber, they're sometimes added to Miso in Japan.

Gallery

Etymology
‘Hydrangea’ is derived from Greek and means ‘water vessel’, which is in reference to the shape of its seed capsules.

See also

Hydrangea anomala

References

petiolaris
Flora of Northeast Asia
Flora of Japan
Flora of Korea
Flora of Siberia
Garden plants of Asia
Vines
Plants described in 1839
Taxa named by Philipp Franz von Siebold
Taxa named by Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
Dumbarton People's Theatre

Dumbarton People's Theatre (often abbreviated to DPT) is an amateur theatre group which exists in the town of Dumbarton in Scotland.

It was formed in 1945. Since then they have normally performed four plays a year.  This usually includes a Christmas pantomime, which club members write themselves, and is normally set in the town of "Drumtartan".

Writers who have been involved with the group include Tom Gallacher and Dave Watson.

External links
DPT web page

Organisations based in West Dunbartonshire
Theatres in Scotland
Dumbarton
Switchyard

Switchyard may refer to:

 Railway switchyard
 Electrical substation
Jeff Rudom

Jeffrey Zade Rudom (July 30, 1960 – October 19, 2011) was an American professional basketball player and actor who played in films such as Revolver and District 13. He regularly appeared in Time Gentlemen Please.  He played professional basketball in Israel, where he served in the armed forces and lived for around 10 years. He was born in Bangor, Maine.

He stood 7' 1" (216 cm) and weighed 455 lb (206 kg) but dropped down to 363 lb (165 kg) after his appearance on Celebrity Fit Club in 2006

Jeff died in his home in Bangor, Maine on Wednesday, October 19, 2011, age .

Filmography

References

External links

Jeff Rudom at Willow Management

1960 births
2011 deaths
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Maine
Male actors from Maine
Sportspeople from Bangor, Maine
Ancaster railway station

Ancaster railway station serves the village of Ancaster in Lincolnshire, England. The station is  north of Grantham on the Nottingham to Skegness Line.

The station is now owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, who provide all rail services.

It still has a working signal box at west end of the station but is regarded as unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than two shelters, bicycle storage, timetables and modern help points. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost, there are no retail facilities at this station.

History
Opened by the Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway, then run by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Services
As of December 2015 there are four daily services in both directions which run to  and , with three services on a Saturday. A normal service operates on most bank holidays. There are no Sunday services.

References

External links

 Station on navigable O.S. map.

Railway stations in Lincolnshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Great Northern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1857
Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway
1857 establishments in England
Spotted wood quail

The spotted wood quail (Odontophorus guttatus) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It is a resident breeder in the mountains of Central America from southern Mexico to western Panama.

It occurs in highlands from 1000 m or higher up to the timberline, usually in dense understory thickets or bamboos. The nest, as with several other wood-quails remains undescribed, but the eggs are known to be creamy-white with brown spots.

The spotted wood quail is 25 cm long and weighs 300 g. It has an orange crest which is raised when it is excited. The upperparts are dark brown with black and rufous flecking. The underparts are normally olive brown, but there is a colour morph with rufous underparts. In both cases, the underparts are boldly spotted with white. The forehead is dark brown and the cheeks and throat are black streaked with white.

The sexes are similar, but the male averages slightly larger and the female has a duller crest. Immature birds have smaller, more buff-tinted spotting, and the throat is dusky rather than black. There are no subspecies.

The advertising call of the spotted wood quail, actually a duet, is a clear whistled coowit CAWwit coowit COO, and the contact calls are clear chirps and peeps.

Spotted wood quails are found in groups of 4 to 10; they forage on the ground, scratching at the soil for seeds, fallen fruit and insects. This is a shy and wary species, which will normally make its escape on foot, but if startled it will explode into a short fast flight into cover. The best chance of seeing this species is at dawn, when it may feed at the side of a road or on a forest track.

This species is reported as locally common in suitable habitat in Costa Rica and Panama, but has been adversely in much of its range by rampant deforestation.

References

Madge and McGowan,Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse 
Stiles and Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica 

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Birds of Mexico
Birds of Belize
Birds of Guatemala
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Electoral district of Mount Gambier

Mount Gambier is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the far south-east corner of the state containing the City of Mount Gambier and District Council of Grant local government areas. It is centred on the city and extinct volcano of Mount Gambier.

History
The electorate was created in the 1936 redistribution, taking effect at the 1938 election, but the name was not used between the 1993 and 2002 elections – the area was covered by the electoral district of Gordon during that time. It was one of the few country electoral districts that had never been held by the Liberal and Country League during the Playmander era. It was held by long-serving independent John Fletcher for the first two decades of its existence. Labor took the electorate at a 1958 by-election, and it was usually a marginal to fairly safe Labor electorate from then until the Liberals won it at the 1975 election on a 15.5 percent swing. Mount Gambier was one of several rural electorates where Labor suffered large swings in that election–13.5 percent in Chaffey and 16.4 percent in Millicent. Labor has only come reasonably close to retaking the seat once since then, in 1982.

The electorate, both in its current incarnation and as Gordon, has a recent history of electing independent MPs. It was held between 2002 and 2010 by Rory McEwen, a former Liberal who won as an independent in Gordon at the 1997 election after losing a preselection battle to succeed longtime Liberal member Harold Allison. While he did not put Labor into office after the 2002 election, he held various ministerial portfolios in the Rann Labor government from nine months after the election until his retirement at the 2010 election.

McEwen was succeeded by another independent, Don Pegler, who narrowly defeated the Liberal candidate on a 0.4 percent two-candidate preferred margin. Pegler was defeated by Liberal candidate Troy Bell at the 2014 election, who also became an independent in 2017.

In the lead up to the 2018 election, a ReachTEL poll of 655 voters in the electorate was conducted on 13 February 2018, a month before the election. The results of the poll unexpectedly showed that Bell, who was running as an independent candidate, would easily retain the electorate after preferences, and was strongly leading with 36 percent of the primary vote. The Liberals were on 28.5 percent (−23.3), Labor was on 13 percent (+2.1), new SA Best was on 11 percent, others were collectively on 6 percent, with the remaining 5 percent undecided. The election results reflected the poll, and Bell was comfortably returned as the member.

Members for Mount Gambier

Election results

Notes

References
 ECSA profile for Mount Gambier: 2018
 ABC profile for Mount Gambier: 2018
 Poll Bludger profile for Mount Gambier: 2018

Electoral districts of South Australia
Limestone Coast
1938 establishments in Australia
1993 disestablishments in Australia
2002 establishments in Australia
Mount Gambier, South Australia
Constituencies established in 1938
Constituencies established in 2002
Constituencies disestablished in 1993
Hubble Heritage Project

The Hubble Heritage Project was founded in 1998 by Keith Noll, Howard Bond, Forrest Hamilton, Anne Kinney, and Zoltan Levay at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Until its end in 2016, the Hubble Heritage Project released, on an almost monthly basis, pictures of celestial objects like planets, stars, galaxies and galaxy clusters.

Description
The team of astronomers and image processing specialists selected images from the Hubble Space Telescope's public data archive and planned new observations with the goal of producing aesthetically impactful, full color images that preserved the scientific integrity of the data. 

The Project was recognized for its contribution to public inspiration. Achievements for the team include the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 Klumpke-Roberts Award for "outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy." In 2002, two Heritage images were selected in the Rochester Institute of Technology's "Images From Science" traveling gallery exhibit. Several images have been selected by the US and UK postal systems. In 2000, a first-class US postage stamp showing the Ring Nebula was one of five Hubble images selected to be part of a commemorative series of stamps honoring astronomer Edwin P. Hubble. 

The website of the project contained information about the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the images are now preserved on the Hubble Space Telescope's outreach website, Hubblesite (see link below).

See also
 List of astronomical societies

References

External links

The Hubble Space Telescope outreach website
The Hubble Space Telescope imaging blog
The European Homepage for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility
European Space Agency

Astronomy organizations
Hubble Space Telescope
Scientific organizations established in 1998
Loretta Kelley

Loretta A. Kelley is an American Hardanger fiddle player. She is President of The Hardanger Fiddle Association of America, and is described by her recording company as the foremost Hardanger fiddle player in the U.S.

Recently , there has been a substantial revival of the Hardanger fiddle tradition in the U.S. Today there are more than 150 active players, and the number is growing. Kelley has made a considerable number of study travels and performances in Norway, where she is well known in folk music and folk dance circles. She is one of the core members of Scandia DC, a Scandinavian Folk Dance Group serving the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.

Discography
Loretta A. Kelley, Amerikaspel CD - disc ACCD-9603, Azalea City Recordings 1996.
The album contains 20 Norwegian folk tunes and folk dances learned by listening, playing and singing in authentic Norwegian style with American performers on Norwegian instruments.

References

External links
The Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
Artist page, Azalea City Recordings
Andrea Hoag, Loretta Kelley, and Charlie Pilzer, official website
Scandia DC, Scandia DC] Scandia DC - Washington DC area Scandinavian folk dancing group
Seljord 2011

American fiddlers
Norwegian folk music
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century violinists
Thomas Olive

Thomas Olive was a deputy-governor of West Jersey from 1684–1685.

The original name of Wellingborough for present-day Willingboro Township, New Jersey was after the community in England which was the home of Olive. Olive was the one who led the original settlers into that township.

In 1676, along with the other proprietors of West Jersey, Olive signed the Concession and Agreement. Olive owned one share of West Jersey land as a proprietor.

References

See also
List of governors of New Jersey

Governors of New Jersey
Deputy Governors of West New Jersey
People from Wellingborough
People from Willingboro Township, New Jersey
British Quakers
English emigrants
Members of the West New Jersey Provincial Council
1692 deaths
Year of birth unknown
People of colonial New Jersey
Prospect Hill (Arlington, Virginia)

Prospect Hill in Arlington County, Virginia is the former location of a Federal style mansion built in 1841 by successful contractor James Roach in Arlington County (then named Alexandria County). The house was built on Arlington Ridge Road. In 1861, the land was seized and vandalized by Union soldiers during the construction of Fort Runyon and Fort Albany. The house was demolished in 1965, but an historic marker has been placed at the site. Roach had also supplied most of the materials for the Alexandria Canal, the Aqueduct Bridge, and the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad.

After the September 11 attacks, Prospect Hill became a popular spot for photographs to take photos of The Pentagon after it was crashed into by American Airlines Flight 77.

The site is also home to the 0.4 acre Prospect Hill Park.

References

Further reading 
 

Houses in Arlington County, Virginia
Houses completed in 1841
Gems of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s gem industry has a very long and colorful history. Sri Lanka was affectionately known as Ratna-Dweepa which means Gem Island. The name is a reflection of its natural wealth. Marco Polo wrote that the island had the best sapphires, topazes, amethysts, and other gems in the world. Ptolemy, the 2nd century astronomer recorded that beryl and sapphire were the mainstay of Sri Lanka’s gem industry. Records from sailors that visited the island states that they brought back “jewels of Serendib”. Serendib was the ancient name given to the island by middle – eastern and Persian traders that crossed the Indian Ocean to trade gems from Sri Lanka to the East during the 4th and 5th century.

Sri Lanka, geologically speaking is an extremely old country. Ninety percent of the rocks of the island are of Precambrian age, 560 million to 2,400 million years ago. The gems form in sedimentary residual gem deposits, eluvial deposits, metamorphic deposits, skarn and calcium-rich rocks. Nearly all the gem formations in Sri Lanka are located in the central high-grade metamorphic terrain of the Highland Complex. The gem deposits are classified as sedimentary, metamorphic and magmatic; the sedimentary types being the most abundant. The mineralogy of the gem deposits varies widely with, among others, corundum (sapphire, ruby), chrysoberyl, beryl, spinel, topaz, zircon, tourmaline, garnet  being common.

Residual deposits are mainly found in flood plains of rivers and streams. The metamorphic types of gems constitute 90% of the gem deposits in Sri Lanka. It has been estimated that nearly 25% of the total land area of Sri Lanka is potentially gem-bearing, making Sri Lanka one of the countries with the highest density of gem deposits compared to its landmass.

Ratnapura contains the most gem deposits and derived its name from the gem industry. Ratnapura means “city of gems”.

References

 
Gemology
Rauceby railway station

Rauceby railway station is a station near the town of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, lying close to the western border of the Parish of Old Sleaford and Quarrington just over half-a-mile south of the village of South Rauceby.

History
The railway station originally served Rauceby Mental Hospital (the former Kesteven Lunatic Asylum, which lies immediately to the south of the railway station and was closed in 1998) and the village of South Rauceby in Lincolnshire, England. The line was built by the Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway. It now principally serves commuters living in the new housing estates that comprise the Greylees suburb of Sleaford.

The former leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, Nick Clegg, proposed to his wife on a platform at the station.

Station
The station is now owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, which provides all rail services.

A local road crosses the line at the western edge of the platforms, where a signal box and manually operated crossing gates can be seen. The main Grantham to Sleaford road runs to the north of the railway station and crosses the line about a quarter of a mile north east of the station, where automatic barriers are used.

Rauceby still has a working signal box at west end of the station, however the station is unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than two shelters, bicycle storage, timetables and modern 'Help Points'. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost, there are no retail facilities at this station.

Services
As of June 2012 there are three daily services in both directions which run to  and . There are no Sunday services.  A normal service operates on most Bank holidays.

References

External links

 ; Rauceby station on 1891 OS map.

Railway stations in Lincolnshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Great Northern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1881
Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway
1881 establishments in England
Sleaford
Klotz (violin makers)

Klotz is a family of violin makers. Members of the Klotz (or Kloz) family have made violins in Mittenwald, Bavaria from the mid-17th century to the present. Matthias Klotz (1656–1743) founded the Mittenwald school of violin making. Mittenwald prospered and became well known for its violins. 

In 1856, the Bavarian government founded a school in Mittenwald to continue the violin trade. Dictionaries of violin makers list more than 25 artisans by this name.

Typical labels:
 Mattias Klotz Geigenmacher zu Mittenwald an der Iser 1697
 Mathias Klotz Lauten und Geigenmacher in Mittenwald an der Iser Anno 1695
 Mathias Kloz Lautenmacher. A label of the family in Mittenwalt Anno 1725.

Instruments by Sebastian Klotz (1696–1768) are probably the most admired among the many existing examples by this family. 

Typical labels:
 Sebastian Klotz in Mittenwald an der Iser 1734
 Sebastian Kloz, in Mittenwald, an 1743
 Seb. G. Kloz in Mittenwald, 1732

References 

German luthiers
People from Garmisch-Partenkirchen (district)
German business families