alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Royd Moor Wind Farm

The Royd Moor Wind Farm is located at Penistone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, and consists of thirteen 450 kW turbines. The site is located approximately  north west of Penistone, above the A628 trunk road between Barnsley and Manchester. The turbines are set in two parallel, staggered rows of six and seven, on a ridge in hilly fell land lying  above sea level.

These turbines were completed in 1993 and are  in height to the hub and have a rotor diameter of . The maximum output is 6 mW, equivalent to the annual energy required to power 3,300 homes.

The original planning application was for a 25-year operation but an extension until the end of 2027 was granted in 2021.

References

External links

Renewables: Building a Sustainable future for generations to come

Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley
Wind farms in England
Penistone
Power stations in Yorkshire and the Humber
Murutic languages

The Murutic languages are a family of half a dozen closely related Austronesian languages, spoken in the northern inland regions of Borneo by the Murut and Tidung.

Languages
The Murutic languages are (Lobel 2013):
Murut proper
Timugon Murut and Tagol Murut
Murut dialects
Keningau Murut, Beaufort Murut (Binta’), Tabalunan/Serudung Murut, Selungai Murut, Sembakung Murut, Okolod, Bookan, Tanggala Murut, Paluan, Agabag/Tinggalan Murut.

Tidung language
Burusu, Kalabakan, Nonukan Tidong, Sesayap Tidong

Tagol Murut is commonly used and understood by a large majority of the Murut peoples.

Lobel (2013:360) also lists the languages Abai Sembuak, Abai Tubu, and Bulusu (all spoken near Malinau town in North Kalimantan) as Murutic languages. On the other hand, Abai Sungai, spoken in eastern Sabah, is a Paitanic language.

Lobel (2016)
Lobel (2016) covers the following Greater Murutic languages, including Tidong:
Tatana
Papar
Murut Nabaay
Ganaʼ
Murut Timugon
Murut Paluan
Murut Tagol
Kolod
Western Tingalan
Eastern Tingalan
Murut Kalabakan
Abai Sembuak
Abai Tubu
Bulusu
Tidung Bengawong
Tidung Sumbol
Tidung Kalabakan
Tidung Mensalong
Tidung Malinau

Innovations
Lobel (2013:367) lists the following Murutic phonological innovations. (Note: PSWSAB stands for Proto-Southwest Sabahan, while PMP stands for Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.)
PMP/PSWSAB *R > *h / __ V (except after *ə, where it had already shifted to *g in PSWSAB). Subsequently, Proto-Greater Murutic *h > Ø occurred in all daughter languages except Papar.
PMP/PSWSAB *R > *g / __ #
PMP/PSWSAB *aw > *ow; *ay > *oy
PMP/PSWSAB *iw > *uy
PGMUR *g- > Ø after the adjectival prefix *ma-
PMP/PSWSAB *ə > *a in non-final syllables, except in the environment *_Cə, where it is reflected as /o/

References

Lobel, Jason William. 2013. Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Lobel, Jason William. 2016. North Borneo Sourcebook: Vocabularies and Functors. University of Hawaii Press.
Trial of Champions

Trial of Champions is a single-player roleplaying gamebook, written by Ian Livingstone, illustrated by Brian Williams and originally published in 1986 by Puffin Books. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2003. 

It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 21st in the series in the original Puffin series () and 12th in the modern Wizard series ().

Rules

Story
The story is a sequel to Fighting Fantasy title Deathtrap Dungeon, with the player assuming the role of a slave. The slave is owned by Lord Carnuss, brother of Baron Sukumvit, the designer of the original infamous dungeon. 

The player must endure a series of gladiatorial trials to be chosen as Carnuss' champion and then enter a revised "Deathtrap Dungeon", competing against five other warriors for a prize of 20,000 gold pieces. The principal character reappears in a different storyline in the title Armies of Death.

Other media
The gamebook was converted into a 40-page d20 System role-playing adventure by Jamie Wallis. It was published by Myriador in 2004 and reissued in pdf format by Greywood Publishing in 2009.

References

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1986 fiction books
Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
Books by Ian Livingstone
Gladiatorial combat in fiction
ThingLab

ThingLab is a visual programming environment implemented in Smalltalk and designed at Xerox PARC by Alan Borning.

A conventional system allows a user to provide inputs that produce outputs.  A constraint-oriented system, such as ThingLab, allows the user to provide arbitrary inputs or outputs, then solves for whatever is unknown. ThingLab is viewed as one of the earliest constraint-oriented systems.

ThingLab is credited in "Fumbling the Future" as a big reason Xerox continued to fund computer development.

External links
ThingLab Sources

Visual programming languages
Integrated development environments
Basterna

A basterna was a kind of vehicle, or litter, in which Ancient Roman women were carried. It appears to have resembled the lectica; and the only difference apparently was, that the lectica was carried on the shoulders of slaves, and the basterna by two mules, according to Isaac Casaubon. Several etymologies of the word have been proposed. Salmasius proposes it to be derived from the Greek  (Salm. ad Lamprid. Heliog. 21).
Cassius Dio links it to the people known as the Bastarnae, living in what is now southern Ukraine.. A description of a basterna is given by a poet in the Anth. Lat. iii. 183.

Others call it a kind of chariot, and say it was drawn by oxen to go more gently. Gregory de Tours gives an instance of it being carried by wild bulls.

The interior was called cavea, 'cage'; and it had soft cushions or beds. The mode of basterna's passed from Italy into Gaul, and then into other countries. Modern coach or stagecoach transportation has its origins in the basterna.

References

Smith, William. "Basterna". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. John Murray: London. 1875.

Carts
Ancient Roman vehicles
Alsager railway station

Alsager railway station serves the town of Alsager in Cheshire, England. It stands next to a level crossing and is approximately 600 yards from the town centre. The station is  east of  on the Crewe to Derby Line which is also a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway.

The station is unstaffed. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost.

History 

It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway company on 9 October 1848; later becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland 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 Rail.

The line through Alsager was electrified in 2003, so that it could be used as a diversionary route between Kidsgrove and Crewe during West Coast Main Line improvement work.

Services 
Services at Alsager are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 158 and Class 170 DMUs and by London Northwestern Railway using Class 350 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 1 tph to 
 1 tph to  via  and 
 2 tph to 

On Sundays, there is an hourly service between Crewe and Birmingham throughout the day. Hourly Sunday services operate between Crewe and Derby after 14:00 only.

References 
Notes

Sources
 
 
 
 Station on navigable O.S. map

External links 

Pictures of the station during diversions

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Gaston Péloquin

Gaston Péloquin (11 December 1939 – 1 September 1994) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Brome—Missisquoi in the House of Commons from 1993 to 1994.

He was born in Granby, Quebec. Péloquin, who was a teacher before entering politics, was elected in the 1993 election as a Bloc Québécois candidate. However, after less than a year in office, he died in a car accident on 1 September 1994, when he crashed his car while driving on a curve near Sutton, Quebec. He was pronounced dead a local hospital, at the age of 54.

Péloquin had a son, whom he adopted from Haiti while working there as a teacher.

In the resulting byelection, he was succeeded by Denis Paradis.

Electoral record

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Gdynia Wielki Kack railway station

Gdynia Wielki Kack railway station is a railway station serving the city of Gdynia, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1921 and is located on the Nowa Wieś Wielka–Gdynia Port railway. The train services are operated by SKM Tricity.

Modernisation
The station was modernised in 2015 as part of the works for the Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna services (R) Gdansk - Gdansk Airport - Gdansk Osowa - Gdynia
Regional services (R) Koscierzyna - Zukowo - Gdansk Osowa - Gdynia

References

 This article is based upon a translation of the Polish language version as of July 2016.

External links

Wielki Kack
Railway stations in Poland opened in 1921
Tagol language

The Tagol Murut language is spoken by the Tagol (lowland) subgroup of the Murut people, and serves as the lingua franca of the whole group. It belongs to the Bornean subdivision of the Austronesian language family. Tagol Murut people can be found in Sabah and Sarawak, usually in areas around Sipitang, Tenom, Lawas, Limbang, and along the border areas shared with Brunei and Indonesia.

References

Murutic languages
Endangered Austronesian languages
Languages of Malaysia
Languages of Indonesia
USS Aggressive

USS Aggressive (MSO-422) (originally designated AM-422) was an . She is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named Aggressive. This was later regarded as a mistake by President John F. Kennedy who stated that the ships should only be employed for "Peace keeping".

She was built by Luders Marine Construction Co. of Stamford, Connecticut, sponsored by Mrs. Stephen M. Archer, and commissioned at Brooklyn, New York, in the New York Naval Shipyard.

Service history
For most of 1954, Aggressive remained in the shipyard for alteration. In February 1955, her designation was changed to MSO-422. Her first deployment, immediately afterwards, had her take part in a mine warfare exercise off the south-east coast of the United States. She took part in the landing of American forces during the Lebanon crisis of 1958.

The ship was home ported at Charleston for her whole naval career. She also provided services to the Naval Mine Warfare School, Charleston; Naval Mine Defense Laboratory, Panama City, Florida; Mine Evaluation Detachment, Key West, Florida; and the Naval Ordnance Laboratory Test Facility, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Aggressive also took part in several fleet exercises and operations along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean.

On 1 October 1970, preparations to deactivate the ship were begun, and she was decommissioned on 2 July 1971. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 28 February 1975, and she was sold to R. E. Williams in May 1980.

References

External links

hazegray.org: USS Aggressive (AM/MSO-422)

Agile-class minesweepers
Ships built in Stamford, Connecticut
1952 ships
Herbert Dyer

Herbert Dyer (1898–1974) was an English coppersmith who worked in Mousehole, near Penzance,  during the 1920s, influenced by the Newlyn Industrial Class near Penzance, Cornwall.

He first became interested in the art of copper work with trench art whilst serving with the Royal Horse Artillery in 1916. After service in France, Belgium, and Egypt he returned to Cumbria in 1922 but had to walk south to find work. He eventually  set up a workshop in Mousehole and starting by making items to suit local needs.

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20060208101652/http://oldcopper.org/newlyn.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20050315221549/http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/copper/dyer.htm

1898 births
1974 deaths
Arts and Crafts movement artists
Artists from Cornwall
20th-century English male artists
Royal Artillery personnel
British Army personnel of World War I
Gdańsk Osowa railway station

Gdańsk Osowa railway station is a railway station serving the Osowa district of Gdańsk, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1930 and is located on the Nowa Wieś Wielka–Gdynia Port railway, Gdańsk Kokoszki–Gdańsk Osowa railway and Gdańsk Wrzeszcz–Gdańsk Osowa railway. The train services are operated by SKM Tricity.

Modernisation
Between 2014 and 2015 the station was modernised as part of the works for the Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna.

Train services
The station is served by the following services:

Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna services (R) Gdynia Główna — Gdańsk Osowa — Gdańsk Port Lotniczy (Airport) — Gdańsk Wrzeszcz
Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna services (R) Kościerzyna — Gdańsk Osowa — Gdynia Główna

References

 This article is based upon a translation of the Polish language version as of July 2016.

External links

Osowa
Railway stations in Poland opened in 1930
De Vijverberg

Stadion De Vijverberg (; ) is the football stadium in Doetinchem, Netherlands. It has a capacity of 12,600 seats.

The name is derived from a hotel with the same name, which stood on the present location of the stadium. Because of all the ponds that had to be filled up, the name Vijverberg arose. The stadium, which was built in 1954, was renovated in 1970, with the construction of the Vijverberg-, Groenendaal- and Spinnekop stands and the light installation.
After the construction of the roofs above the stands in the late eighties, the radical renovation of the Vijverberg began in the summer of 1998. However, with the positioning of seats on the Spinnekop stand, named after the famous Spion Kop, one of the characteristic parts went lost, so in 2008 De Graafschap decided to remove the seats again. The stadium used to have its own train station, but it was closed in 2005. Like many clubs in the Netherlands, the board of De Graafschap in 2012 considered switching to artificial turf in the stadium. However, a big supporter's group fiercely protested against these plans, calling Super Farmers are supposed to play in the "mud" as they have always done.

The venue opened on 4 September 1954.

References

External links
De Vijverberg at Soccerway

De Graafschap
Football venues in the Netherlands
Sports venues in Gelderland
UEFA Women's Euro 2017 venues
Toad (instrumental)

"Toad" is an instrumental by British rock band Cream and was released on their 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream. Composed by drummer Ginger Baker, the piece is a five-minute drum solo (with a brief guitar and bass introduction and ending). Although drum solos are common in jazz, "Toad" is one of the earliest recorded by a rock group.

Background
"Toad" grew out of "Camels and Elephants", a composition Baker had recorded with the Graham Bond Organisation in 1965. When he formed Cream, "Toad" was first recorded for their debut album, Fresh Cream (1966). Baker plays a sequence of drum patterns that are built up, varied, and then dropped, giving way to a new pattern. On the piece, Baker often produced complementary rhythms on the hi-hat, ride cymbal, double-bass drums and tom-toms simultaneously.

Other recordings
An extended sixteen-minute live version (of which 13 minutes is drum solo) appears on Cream's 1968 album Wheels of Fire.  A slightly longer version of this recording, with some additional guitar and bass edited into the introduction from another performance, appears on Cream's four-disc compilation album Those Were the Days (1997). "Toad" also featured in Cream's reunion concert in May 2005 at the Royal Albert Hall, and appears on the Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 album.

"Toad" was performed by Ginger Baker's Air Force, and a 13-minute version with drum solos by Baker, Remi Kabaka and Phil Seamen appears on their 1970 live album, Ginger Baker's Air Force, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in January 1970. "Toad" later evolved into "Toady", which featured on Ginger Baker's Air Force 2 (1970).

Reception and influence
The Cream website, Those Were the Days, described "Toad" as "a coherent drums solo that remains unequalled in Rock Music. It influenced many contemporaries and innumerable budding drummers." "Toad" has been "widely imitated", and "paved the way for a decade of heavy-metal drum solos". Spin magazine gave it the "dubious distinction of introducing the drum solo to the rock LP", and The Drummer: 100 Years of Rhythmic Power and Invention called Baker's drumming on "Toad" "a milestone in drum soloing". In a review of Cream, Life magazine said that "Toad" "features sustained, imaginative drumming that would knock out a Carnegie jazz audience".

In a review of Wheels of Fire in Rolling Stone, Jann S. Wenner described Cream's live performance of "Toad" as "pretty good", and "much better" than the studio version on Fresh Cream. Wenner remarked that Baker's "tendency to be sloppy is not evident, and he gets moving quickly and sustains the tension well".

References

Cream (band) songs
1966 songs
1960s instrumentals
Song recordings produced by Felix Pappalardi
Song recordings produced by Robert Stigwood
Fern Fitzgerald

Fern Fitzgerald (born January 7, 1947 in Valley Stream, New York) is an American actress, best known for her recurring role as oil cartel businesswoman Marilee Stone in the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas from 1979 to 1989. She guest-starred in the number of other television series, like Archie Bunker's Place, Hill Street Blues, Hotel, Who's the Boss?, Life Goes On, and Seinfeld. In film, Fitzgerald appeared in The Beach Girls (1982). She also appeared in the original productions of Chicago and A Chorus Line on Broadway.

Filmography

All My Children (1978)
A Cry for Love as Barbara (1980)
Too Close for Comfort as Masseuse (1 episode, 1980)
Hart to Hart as Female Passenger (1 episode, 1981)
The Beach Girls as Julie (1982)
Madame's Place as Rhoda Royale (1 episode, 1982)
Archie Bunker's Place as Pat McBride (3 episodes, 1983)
Hill Street Blues (1 episode, 1983)
Silver Spoons as Corinne Taylor (2 episodes, 1983—1984)
Stingray as Marcia Finch (1985)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Jill Halsman (1 episode, 1985)
It's a Living as Louise (1 episode, 1986)
Hotel as Myra Fields (1 episode, 1986)
Who's the Boss? as Dr. Isabel Schaeffer (2 episodes, 1985—1986)
Hunter as Shelly Kurtz (1 episode, 1987)
The Oldest Rookie as Karen (1 episode, 1987)
Who Gets the Friends? (1988)
Nightingales (1988)
Hooperman (1 episode, 1989)
Dallas as Marilee Stone (73 episodes, 1979–1987, 1989)
They Came from Outer Space as Ramona (1 episode, 1990)
Shades of L.A. as Katherine (1 episode, 1991)
Life Goes On as Robin Benchfield (3 episodes, 1990—1992)
Vanishing Son (1 episode, 1995)
Seinfeld as Ms. Wilkie (1 episode, 1996)

References

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Ben Chasny

Ben Chasny is an American indie rock and psychedelic folk guitarist. His primary projects are Six Organs of Admittance (his solo psych folk project) and Comets on Fire (a psychedelic rock band).

Biography
Chasny made his recording debut in 1996 with his heavy, free rock project Plague Lounge on The Wicker Image, an LP released conjointly between the New World of Sound and Holy Mountain labels. Holy Mountain went on to become the "home" of many of his releases under the Six Organs of Admittance moniker. He has also released an album with Hiroyuki Usui under the name August Born. 

Chasny has lent his talents to other projects such as Badgerlore, Double Leopards, Current 93, Magik Markers, and a duo with Dredd Foole, both in live performance and studio albums. More recent musical projects of his include the avant-folk trio Rangda (along with guitarist Richard Bishop and drummer Chris Corsano) and the more melodic and conventional 200 Years with Magik Markers' Elisa Ambrogio.

Discography
 The Wicker Image (1996, New World of Sound/ Holy Mountain)

References

External links 

 Homecoming King - An Interview with Ben Chasny 
 Set of Six Organs of Admittance at scheduletwo.com

American rock guitarists
American folk musicians
American folk guitarists
American male guitarists
Psychedelic folk musicians
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Rębiechowo railway station

Rębiechowo railway station is a railway station serving the town of Rębiechowo, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1938 and is located on the Nowa Wieś Wielka–Gdynia Port railway and Gdańsk Rębiechowo–Rębiechowo railway. The train services are operated by SKM Tricity.

Modernisation
In 2014 the station was modernised as part of the works for the Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna.

Train services
The station is served by the following services:

Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna services (R) Kościerzyna — Gdańsk Port Lotniczy (Airport) — Gdańsk Wrzeszcz — Gdynia Główna
Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna services (R) Kościerzyna — Gdańsk Osowa — Gdynia Główna

References

 This article is based upon a translation of the Polish language version as of July 2016.

External links

Railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kartuzy County
Railway stations in Poland opened in 1938
Train speed optimization

Train speed optimization, also known as Zuglaufoptimierung, is a system that reduces the need for trains to brake and accelerate, resulting in smoother and more efficient operation.

While train speed optimization needs some technical infrastructure, it is more of an operational concept than a technical installation. One can relatively easily implement train speed optimization using for instance cab signalling (e.g. using ETCS), but the presence of a cab signalling system does not necessarily mean that it uses train speed optimization. Train speed optimization may also be implemented using conventional signalling.

Conventional signal operation
Usually, trains are allowed to run at the maximum speed the track allows until the distant signal of next occupied block. This is inefficient in many cases, because this way the train comes to a halt in front of the red signal and has to accelerate again from zero.

Advantages using train speed optimization
If the train slows down much earlier, given the right timing, it reaches the distant signal just when the home signal switches to green, and so does not need to stop. Thus, wear on the brakes is reduced and the train uses less energy. But the main reason, especially for trains that accelerate slowly, is that the train passes the home signal at high speed, compared to the conventional case where the train often has to accelerate from standstill. This effectively increases track capacity, because the time it takes for the train to run from the distant signal (that has just turned green) to the home signal is often much less than the time it takes for a train to accelerate from the home signal.

Equipment
For a train speed optimization system to work, it is necessary to have a signalling system which is capable of displaying several different speeds, for instance 40, 60, 90 km/h and the full line speed, which also requires a train protection system that is able to handle these cases (cab signalling may replace these installations). Further, the track must be equipped with inductive loops that detect the presence of trains with sufficient precision (or other means of detecting the positions of the trains). Finally a computer system is needed that is able to reasonably predict the movements of the trains for the next few minutes.

Train speed optimization in practice
The expensive and complicated installations usually only make sense for heavily used routes.

Swiss Federal Railways:
 Lenzburg-Killwangen (since 2000)
 Zurich-Altstetten
 Around Olten (installed 2004, current status unknown)
 Probably other places (Zürich S-Bahn?)

External links
 Train speed optimization: SBB's funnel into Zurich

Rail technologies
Daniel Pilon

Daniel Pilon (November 13, 1940 – June 26, 2018) was a Canadian actor, known for his role on Dallas as Renaldo "Naldo" Marchetta.

Pilon was born in Montreal, Quebec.  In addition to Dallas, he  appeared in daytime soap operas such as Ryan's Hope, Guiding Light and Days of Our Lives.

Personal life
Pilon was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was the brother of actor Donald Pilon.

After his house was destroyed by the 1994 Northridge earthquake in January 1994, he declared his first bankruptcy in April 1994. That same year, he divorced his wife.

Pilon died in Montreal following a long illness on June 26th, 2018, according to his talent agency. He was 77.

Career
Pilon made his film debut in Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce, directed by Canadian director Gilles Carle.

Pilon was considered for the role of James Bond twice, in 1968 and in 1984.

Filmography

References

External links

1940 births
2018 deaths
Canadian male film actors
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Canadian male voice actors
French Quebecers
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21st-century Canadian male actors
USS Fall River

USS Fall River may refer to:

 was a , commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1947
 is a 

United States Navy ship names
Goldberg Variations discography

This is a list of commercial or professional recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, organized chronologically.  The list is sortable by clicking on the small arrows at the top of each column.

Without recording date – To be inserted in the list
Jörg Demus – mid-1950s – Westminster WL 5241 – piano
Ito Ema – MA Recordings M024A – digitally recorded February 1994
Zuzana Růžičková – Erato – ERA 9034 – Neupert (Mercier-Ythier) harpsichord

References

Discographies of compositions by J. S. Bach
Beth Toussaint

Elizabeth Toussaint (born September 25, 1962) is an American former actress and model. She is best known for her television performances.

Life and career
Before television roles, Toussaint worked as a model, and appeared in the 1984 music video for Bon Jovi's song "She Don't Know Me", Bob Seger's 1986 song "Like a Rock", and in the 1987 music video for SAGA's song "Only Time Will Tell". Additionally she appeared in the 1987 music video for the song "Big Mistake" by Peter Cetera.

From 1988 to 1989, she was a recurring cast member in the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas as Tracey Lawton, and from 1996 to 1997 in The WB primetime soap opera Savannah. Toussaint also appeared in Cheers, Star Trek: The Next Generation (as Ishara Yar in the episode "Legacy", 1990), Melrose Place, Matlock, Babylon 5 (episode "Revelations", 1994) and Martial Law. In July 2006, she appeared on The Young and the Restless playing Hope Wilson, in her final screen role to date.

Personal life
Toussaint is married to actor Jack Coleman. The couple have a daughter, born in 1999.  Her parents are Leona and Maynard Toussaint, and she is the elder sister of writer David Toussaint.

Filmography

References

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List of mayors of Newark, New Jersey

The Mayor of Newark is the head of the executive branch of government of Newark, New Jersey, United States. The mayor has the duty to enforce the municipal charter and ordinances; prepare the annual budget; appoint deputy mayors, department heads, and aides; and approve or veto ordinances passed by the Municipal Council.

Newark, New Jersey, was founded in 1666 and became a township on October 31, 1693, and granted a Royal charter on April 27, 1713. It was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, and reincorporated as city in 1836. The city is governed within the Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, under the Mayor-Council Plan C form of local government, which became effective as of July 1, 1954, after the voters of the city passed a referendum held on November 3, 1953.

The Mayor of Newark is elected for a four-year term. Municipal elections (for mayor and Municipal Council) are nonpartisan and are held on the 2nd Tuesday in May. The 2018 Newark mayoral election took place on May 8, 2018.

The current mayor Ras Baraka was first elected in the Newark mayoral election on May 13, 2014.

Mayors

See also
List of elected officials in Newark, New Jersey
2014 Newark mayoral election
History of Newark, New Jersey

References

 
Newark
Brad Thompson

Bradley Joseph Thompson (born January 31, 1982) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals from 2005 to 2010.

Career
Thompson was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 16th round of the 2002 amateur draft out of Dixie State College of Utah. He holds the AA single-season scoreless innings streak. He made his major league debut on May 8, 2005.  In his rookie season, he had 40 appearances and a 2.95 ERA in 55 innings pitched. On July 3, 2006, Thompson was sent down to the Cardinals' AAA affiliate, the Memphis Redbirds.

In 2007, Thompson, who had been in and out of the Cardinals' starting rotation, finished with an 8–6 record and a 4.73 ERA to go with 53 strikeouts. In 2008, he pitched 6.2 scoreless innings and picked up the win in his first start. He was then optioned to Memphis on April 23, 2008, then released on November 4, 2009.

Thompson signed with the Kansas City Royals for the 2010 season but was released on June 3 when he chose to become a free agent after he was designated for assignment.  He then signed with the Houston Astros but was released in August.

He was injured for the 2011 season and played winter baseball in the Dominican Republic to get ready for the 2012 season.

The Minnesota Twins signed him to a minor league contract on January 19, 2012; he pitched for their AAA affiliate, The Rochester Red Wings.

Thompson currently co-hosts The Fast Lane, a sports radio show in St. Louis, on 101 ESPN with Anthony Stalter and Jamie Rivers and serves as a color commentator and analyst for Bally Sports Midwest.

Personal life
Thompson married his wife, Andrea Kotys Thompson, in 2008. They reside in St. Louis, Missouri with their son and daughter.

References

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Bat-fowling

Bat-fowling is an archaic method of catching birds at night, while they are at roost. The process involves lighting straw or torches near their roost. After awakening them from their roost, the birds fly toward the flames, where, being amazed, they are easily caught in nets, or beaten with bats. The phrase "beating about the bush" is said to be derived from this practice as the trapper's accomplices would go around the bushes to disturb the birds. The practice was also called lanciatoia in Italy and a variation was called low-belling. The low-belling process involves approaching birds with bright lights and using cow bells, which the birds were accustomed to, to approach the birds up close and capture them with a long-handled net.

References

Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (page 90). 

Hunting methods
Fowling
Bird mortality
Treaty of Vienna (1738)

The Treaty of Vienna or Peace of Vienna of 1738 ended the War of the Polish Succession.  By the terms of the treaty, Stanisław Leszczyński renounced his claim on the Polish throne and recognized Augustus III, Duke of Saxony.  As compensation he received instead the duchies of Lorraine and Bar, which was to pass to France upon his death.  He died in 1766.

Francis Stephen, who was the Duke of Lorraine, was indemnified with the vacant throne of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the last Medici having died in 1737. France also agreed to the Pragmatic Sanction in the Treaty of Vienna. In another provision of the treaty, the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily were ceded by Austria to Duke Charles of Parma and Piacenza, the younger son of King Philip V of Spain.  Charles, in turn, had to cede Parma to Austria, and to give up his claims to the throne of Tuscany in favor of Francis Stephen.

Signed on 18 November 1738, the treaty was one of the last international treaties written in Latin (together with the Treaty of Belgrade signed the following year).

See also
List of treaties

Notes

External links 
  (original French and Latin text of the treaty)

War of the Polish Succession
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Nils Karlsson

Nils Emanuel Karlsson (25 June 1917 – 16 June 2012), better known as Mora-Nisse, was a Swedish cross-country skier. Karlsson won gold in the 50 km event at the 1948 Winter Olympics and nine Vasaloppet victories.

Biography
He was born near Mora.

He won the Olympic gold medal in the 50 km at the 1948 Winter Olympics, a bronze medal in 50 km at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and a total of 37 gold medals in Swedish national championships, 17 in individual competition. He also won Vasaloppet nine times (in 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1953). Karlsson won the Holmenkollen ski festival 50 km event twice (1947 and 1951) as well. For his success in cross-country skiing, Karlsson was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1952 (shared with Stein Eriksen, Torbjørn Falkanger and Heikki Hasu). Eight years earlier, Karlsson was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.

Karlsson has meant a lot to Vasaloppet, initially through his many victories.  With the aid of Sven Jerring's radio sports commentary, he made Vasaloppet known throughout the country. After his active career, he participated in the administration of Vasaloppet, both as a leader and as chief of the course. Two of his grandchildren have been successful in the Vasaloppet - Erik Eriksson has repeatedly finished within the top ten, once ending up in a fourth place; meanwhile Anders Eriksson was once 38th.

Between 1954 and 1966 Karlsson trained the national cross-country skiing team, yet he lived all his life in his native village Östnor near Mora, where a road was named after him during his lifetime, and where he ran the sport equipment store "Mora-Nisse Sports". The Mora-Nisse's Jubilee Fund was established on his 65th birthday, which supports young Swedish skiers.

Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games
 1 medal – (1 gold)

World Championships
 1 medal – (1 bronze)

References

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1917 births
2012 deaths
People from Mora Municipality
Cross-country skiers from Dalarna County
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Vine Street

Vine Street is a street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that runs north–south between Franklin Avenue and Melrose Avenue. The intersection with Hollywood Boulevard was once a symbol of Hollywood itself. The famed intersection fell into disrepair during the 1970s but has since been redeveloped, with several high valued projects currently under construction. Three blocks of the Hollywood Walk of Fame lie along this street with names such as John Lennon, Johnny Carson, and Audrey Hepburn. South of Melrose Avenue, Vine turns into Rossmore Avenue, a residential Hancock Park thoroughfare that ends at Wilshire Boulevard.

Radio Row
In contrast to other American cities, where it referred to a concentration of radio stores, in Los Angeles, Radio Row was understood in the 1940s and 1950s as the area around the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, where the broadcasting facilities of all four major radio networks were located. The last radio station to broadcast from a studio on Vine Street, KNX-AM, closed its Vine Street studio in 2005.

Buildings

The California Laundry was located on the street in 1920s. The Capitol Records Building, Capitol Tower, is located just north of the intersection of Hollywood & Vine. Miss Brewster's Millions (1926) starring Bebe Daniels, was shot on Vine Street at Franklin Avenue, near the site what is now the Capitol Records Building. An underground station for the Metro B Line is located one block east at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue. Metro Local line 210 serves Vine Street and Rossmore Avenue.

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Streets in Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Mike Lincoln

Michael George Lincoln (born April 10, 1975) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He played at Casa Roble High School, American River College and the University of Tennessee. Drafted in the 13th round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft by the Minnesota Twins, he made his major league debut on April 7, 1999.

Lincoln had played for the Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals before signing as a free agent with the Cincinnati Reds on February 5, , to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. He made the team out of spring training and went 2-5 with a 4.48 ERA in 64 games. On December 4, , Lincoln signed a two-year contract to stay with the Reds.

References

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Merete Van Kamp

Merete Van Kamp is a Danish born model turned actress and singer.

Van Kamp's first film role was in the 1983 espionage thriller The Osterman Weekend, directed by Sam Peckinpah playing opposite John Hurt. She was then chosen from 700 hopefuls  to play the lead roles of Princess Daisy Valenski and Dani Valenski in the NBC blockbuster TV miniseries Princess Daisy, written by Judith Krantz. In 1985-86 she was a series regular in the TV series Dallas, playing Grace Van Owen in the 1985–86 season.

She guest-starred in several episodes of Hotel and Remington Steele and has appeared in many feature films, including You Can't Hurry Love with Bridget Fonda, and Mission Kill, with Robert Ginty and Olivia d'Abo, directed by David Winters. She was the lead in Lethal Woman (with Shannon Tweed), The Most Dangerous Woman Alive, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (the third of the four-film series), and Westbrick Murders with Eric Roberts.

From 1990 to 1994, Van Kamp recorded an album for EMI-France entitled Pleasure and Pain, produced by Frank Langolff, who composed seven of the nine tracks (the other two were Rick F. James compositions). Van Kamp appeared on the series De Syv Drab in 2012 and the 2013 Shaun Rana film Murders of Westbrick.

Van Kamp is the founder of her own acting studio in Paris  and is currently writing a drama thriller series of ten episodes.

References

External links 
 
 Documentary (41 minutes) on DR1, Danish National talk radio
 Www.Thevankampstudio.com

Living people
People from Kolding
Danish female models
Danish television actresses
American television actresses
Danish film actresses
American film actresses
20th-century Danish actresses
21st-century Danish actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Imperforate lacrimal punctum

An imperforate lacrimal punctum is a congenital disorder of dogs involving the lack of an opening to the nasolacrimal duct (tear duct) in the conjunctiva.  Dogs normally have two lacrimal puncta, the superior and inferior.  This condition can affect either or both.  Symptoms include excessive tearing and tear staining of the hair around the eye.  Affected breeds include the American Cocker Spaniel, Bedlington Terrier, Golden Retriever, Poodle, and Samoyed.  Imperforate lacrimal puncta can be corrected by surgical opening of the punctum.

See also
 Congenital lacrimal duct obstruction

References

Dog diseases
Charles Brun

Charles Brun may refer to:
Charles Brun (France) (1821–1897), French engineer and politician
Charles Brun (Denmark) (1866–1919), Danish politician, Finance Minister of Denmark between 1908–1909

See also 
 Charles Le Brun (1619–1690), French painter and art theorist
Robert-Jan Derksen

Robert-Jan Derksen (born 3 January 1974) is a Dutch professional golfer.

Derksen was born in Nijmegen. He won the Dutch Amateur Championship four years in a row from 1993 to 1996 and turned professional in 1996.

Derksen began his professional career on the Asian Tour in 1997. At the end of the year, he returned to Europe and earned his European Tour card for the 1998 season via qualifying school. He initially struggled to maintain his place on the main tour and has returned to qualifying school on five occasions. He has not always been successful in regaining his card, dropping down to the second tier Challenge Tour twice, where he finished 8th on the end of season rankings in 2001. His first win on the European Tour came in 2003 at the prestigious Dubai Desert Classic. His only other title to date was the 2005 Madeira Island Open Caixa Geral de Depositos, a European and Challenge tour dual ranking event.

His best year-end ranking on the Order of Merit has been 36th in 2007.

In 2014 he said that he planned to retire at the end of the season.

Amateur wins (5)
1993 Dutch Amateur Championship
1994 Dutch Amateur Championship
1995 Dutch Amateur Championship
1996 Dutch Amateur Championship, Dutch Amateur Stroke Play Championship

Professional wins (2)

European Tour wins (2)

1Dual-ranking event with the Challenge Tour

Challenge Tour wins (1)

1Dual-ranking event with the European Tour

Results in major championships

Note: Derksen only played in The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut

Results in World Golf Championships

"T" = Tied

Team appearances
Amateur
European Youths' Team Championship (representing the Netherlands): 1994
Eisenhower Trophy (representing the Netherlands): 1994

Professional
World Cup (representing the Netherlands): 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013

References

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Dutch male golfers
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Sportspeople from Nijmegen
Sportspeople from North Holland
People from Blaricum
1974 births
Living people
21st-century Dutch people
Nicolae Kirculescu

Nicolae Kirculescu (December 28, 1903, in Corabia – December 31, 1985, in Recas) was a Romanian composer. He wrote music particularly for the stage and screen. One of his well-known works is Musical Moment for piano and orchestra, the musical theme of a Romanian television science program named Teleenciclopedia.

His compositions also include operetta, musical comedy/canzonetta and instrumental songs.

Nicolae Kirculescu was the last descendant of the Prince of Colona, Count of Coles, a family with confirmed records dating back to the year 400. Around 1920, Nicolae Kirculescu received his doctorate in law in Paris and also graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Vienna.

He made his debut as a composer in 1940 with the song "La căsuța cu zorele" and by 1963 he had composed music for 35 variety shows and more than 200 songs. Nicolae Kirculescu was married twice. He was married to Lizette Kirculescu and Marieta Bratu.

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1903 births
1985 deaths
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Kirby 23

The Kirby 23 is a sailboat that was designed by Canadian Bruce Kirby as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1985.

The Kirby 23 is a development of the Sonar, with a cabin modified for cruising use. It is very similar to the Blazer 23.

Production
The design was built by Ross Marine starting in 1985, with six boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Kirby 23 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel and is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and manoeuvring.

The design has a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

Related development
Blazer 23
Sonar (keelboat)

References

External links

Photo of a Kirby 23

Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Bruce Kirby
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Peter McDonald (actor)

Peter McDonald (born 28 January 1972) is an Irish Oscar nominated stage and screen actor and director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his short film Pentecost.

Early life and education
He grew up in Mount Merrion, County Dublin.  He was educated at St. Michael's College, Dublin and graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Arts, English and a Master of Fine Arts, English in 1994. He got his start in theatre as part of UCD's Drama Society and was a member of the Fly by Night Theatre Company.

Career

McDonald has appeared in films including Felicia's Journey (written and directed by Atom Egoyan, 1999) and When Brendan Met Trudy (written by Roddy Doyle and directed by Kieron J. Walsh, 2000); television series (the BBC's Sea of Souls and Channel 4's Green Wing); and theatre productions both in Dublin and London, including The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Days of Wine and Roses.

He co-starred with Jonathan Pryce and Aidan Gillen in Glengarry Glen Ross at the Apollo Theatre in 2007. He features prominently in RTÉ's comedy show Your Bad Self. He made his debut in 1997 as the character Git Hynes in the Irish comedy I Went Down, co-starring with Brendan Gleeson.

He wrote and directed Pentecost, a live action short film which was nominated for the 2012 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He co-wrote and acted in the full-length movie, The Stag, which was nominated for six Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards in 2014.

He is currently filming for the new BBC Drama "This Town" a BBC drama by Steven Knight.

Theatre

Filmography

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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1972 births
Irish male film actors
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Living people
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People educated at St Michael's College, Dublin