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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Critical Hour

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Critical Hour is a 2006 tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft exclusively for the Xbox. It is the fifth game in the Rainbow Six series. The game's plot, set during John Clark's retirement as leader of international counterterrorist organization Rainbow, recaps several past missions Clark handled during his time commanding Rainbow.

Critical Hour primarily consists of remastered levels from Rainbow Six, Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, and Rogue Spear Mission Pack: Urban Operations. Fitting with the game's theme, gameplay is reminiscent of these titles, contrasting with the gameplay changes introduced in Rainbow Six: Lockdown.

Critical Hour was released on March 14, 2006. The game received mixed reception due to its small amount of content, though it was praised for following the roots of the first two Rainbow Six games. A PlayStation 2 port was planned, but never released.

A sequel, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, was released in November 2006.

Gameplay
Critical Hour returns to the more realistic tactical formula seen in previous Rainbow Six games. The game returns to the classic gameplay from the original Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear, removing the "run and gun" element seen in Lockdown. Classic weapons and the tactical map return to Critical Hour from the previous games. Weapon accuracy is affected by injuries and running. The game features nonlinear levels.

Multiplayer
There are eight new multiplayer maps for Critical Hour, with 18 maps in all. The game modes include the standard Rainbow Six game modes, an assassin mode, sharpshooter, and last man standing. There is also a new skill for every PEC character type, and players can now have up to four PEC characters stored on one gamertag.

Plot
In Critical Hour, John Clark is retiring and passing the leadership of Rainbow on to Domingo Chavez. While cleaning out his office, he reminisces on seven missions from his years as the head of Rainbow. He leaves these missions for future members of Rainbow to study and use for training.

Development
A PlayStation 2 port was planned, but never released.

Reception

Critical Hour was met with very mixed reception. Video game review aggregator GameRankings displays a score of 56.58%, while Metacritic displays a score of 54 out of 100.

References

External links
Official Rainbow Six website

2006 video games
 05
Xbox games
Xbox-only games
Cancelled PlayStation 2 games
Cooperative video games
North America-exclusive video games
Tactical shooter video games
Video games developed in Canada
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Bill Brown
Ubisoft games
Tom Clancy games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Chief of Defence (Norway)

The Chief of Defence (Forsvarssjefen) is the highest-ranking officer of the Norwegian Armed Forces, second only to the King of Norway. Even though he holds the same rank as the King of Norway, according to the Norwegian Constitution the King holds the highest command of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Home Guard.

The Chief of Defence is the top advisor to the Government regarding military issues. He is responsible for carrying out the mission the King or Minister of Defence gives to the Military. He is also Norway's representative to NATO's military committee.

The post was first established in 1940, and is currently held by General Eirik Kristoffersen.

List of Chiefs of Defence

References and footnotes

 
Norway
Sittacene

Sittacene was an ancient region of Babylonia and Assyria situated about the main city of Sittace.  Pliny in his Natural History, Book 6, §§ 205-206, places Sittacene between Chalonitis, Persis and Mesene and also between Arbelitis and Palestine (or that it also bore those names, id., vi. 27. s. 31).  Besides Sittace, Sabata, and Antiochia are identified as important cities.  The district of Sittacene appears to have been called in later times Apolloniatis (Strabo xi. p. 524), and which adjoined the province of Susis (xv. p. 732). It is probably the same country which Curtius calls Satrapene (v. 2).

Alexander the Great's forces marched through Sittacene on their way from Babylon to Susa. Curtius and Diodorus place Alexander's major reorganization of his forces between their reinforcement at Babylon and the campaign against Susa in Sittacene. (Curt. v. 1. 40-42, v. 2. 1–7; Diod. xvii. 65) A depiction of the games which were held to boost morale became the subject of a famous painting in the collection of the Getty Museum.

When Alexander the Great visited the region, he found a settlement of Greek Boeotians established there since the time of Xerxes' campaign against Greece. (Diod. 17, 110, 4-5).

Notes

References

External links
 Pliny's Natural History
 Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer

 
Wars of Alexander the Great
Lotus Mark VI

The Lotus Mark VI is the first production car by Lotus Cars. It was introduced by Colin Chapman in 1952 after previously building multiple trials and road racing cars. The heart of the Mark VI is a semi-space frame chassis. Rather than a complete car, it was available to the general public as kit, wherein the customer could install any preferred engine and gearbox, making it eligible for a wider number of formulae.

Design
The Mark VI in many ways reflected Chapman's background in engineering: his designs resulted from a stress analysis of loads into the frame, they were extremely light (the 6' space frame weighed only 55 lbs (25 kg)), and the suspension incorporated the latest advances. The prototype chassis was built up by the Progress Chassis Company and the aluminium body was constructed by panel beaters Williams and Prichard. (Both firms would later furnish bodies and chassis for subsequent models.) The cheap and easily available mechanical parts were sourced from the Ford Prefect. The Mark VI became a common sight on Britain's racetracks and was a frequent winner, beating many more powerful and expensive cars; it earned praise for its handling and acceleration.

An important facet of the success of the kit was Chapman's offering a comprehensive package in the Mark VI, including most of the special parts needed, and not just the chassis. The Mark VI chassis came with mounting points for several different engines including the 1172 cc (71.5ci) Ford 10, the 1250 cc or 1500 cc MG TF, the 1500 cc (92 ci) Consul, and the exalted Coventry Climax. Standardized as far as possible for volume production, some units were customized per the owners wishes. Lotus even modified the owner's parts, if needed. The success of the Mark VI in competition and sales (100 built by 1955) established Chapman as a manufacturer of specialty cars.

Specifications
 Number built: approximately 110
 Weight:

Drivetrain
 Engine: Ford E93A straight 4
 Engine location: front, longitudinally mounted
 Displacement: 1172 cc / 71.5 in³
 Valvetrain: 2 valves per cylinder, sidevalve
 Fuel feed: SU carburettors
 Aspiration: naturally aspirated
 Gearbox: Ford 3-speed manual
 Drive: rear wheel drive

Performance
 Power: 50 bhp / 37 kW at 5000 rpm
 Torque: 77 Nm / 57 ft·lbf at 3000 rpm
 BHP/litre: 43 bhp / litre (0.7 hp/ci)
 Power-to-weight ratio: 0.12 bhp / kg
 0-60 mph: 15.0 s
 Top speed:

References

Bibliography 

 
 William Taylor, The Lotus Book: The Complete History of Lotus Cars  Coterie Press, Limited.1998, pp. 20–21.

Mark VI
Sports cars
Cars introduced in 1952
Spetsnaz (band)

Spetsnaz (named for the Russian word for "Special Forces") is an EBM duo, formed in Örebro, Sweden by Stefan Nilsson and Pontus Stålberg in 2001.

Inspired by pioneering artists such as Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Die Krupps and DAF, Spetsnaz was formed as a reaction against Futurepop and to revive what Nilsson and Stålberg saw as "old school" EBM music. The band name was taken from one of the street gangs in the 1979 film The Warriors.

History 
The band's 2004 single "Perfect Body" took the top spot on the German Alternative Charts (DAC) and ranked #18 on the DAC Top Singles of 2005. In 2006, the album Totalitär peaked at #3 on the DAC and ranked #26 on that year's DAC Top Albums chart.

In November 2006, the duo cancelled their then upcoming tour with And One. Side-Line and other members of the alternative music press reported that they had split, citing differences between the two members. However, only a day later, their record company Out of Line posted a news story denying the split. They have since "reunited" for a gig with DAF.Partei, and released "Deadpan" in November 2007.

In 2008, Pontus Stålberg formed the side project Turnbull A.C's with Lars Karlsson and released the album Let's Get Pissed!, which sounds very similar to Spetsnaz but with a more raw feel.

Discography

Studio albums 

 Grand Design (2003, re-released in 2004)
 Totalitär (2006)
 Deadpan (2007)
 For Generations To Come (2013)

EPs 

 Choose Your Weapon EP (2003)
 Perfect Body (2004)
 Degenerate Ones (2005)
 Hardcore Hooligans (2006)

External links 
 Official site (archived)
 Detailed discography at Discogs
 Interview

References

Electronic body music groups
Swedish musical duos
Electronic music duos
Musical groups established in 2001
Tornadotus

Tornadotus () or Tornadatus or Physcon is a small river of Assyria (now in Iraq) that falls into the Tigris at Opis.

Pliny the Elder uses the name Tornadotus, but it is probably the same stream as that noticed by Xenophon under the name of the Physcus or Physcon. Writing in the early 9th century, Theophanes the Confessor calls the river the Torna in his Chronicle. Authors in the 19th century identified it with the modern Odorneh.

References

External links
Hazlitt's Classical Gazetteer

Rivers of Iraq
Tributaries of the Tigris River
Piet Kleine

Pieter "Piet" Kleine (born 17 September 1951) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands who specialized in the longer distances.

Short biography
At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Piet Kleine became Olympic Champion on the 10,000 m, beating world record holder Sten Stensen – who won silver – in a close race. This was a reversal of the roles in the Olympic 5,000 m (which had been held three days earlier), in which Stensen had won gold and Kleine silver. In both the 5,000 m and the 10,000 m, Dutch – later French – speed skater Hans van Helden (then world record holder on the 5,000 m) won bronze. Later that same year (1976), Kleine broke 4 worlds records (including Van Helden's 5,000 m world record) and also became World Allround Champion.

Kleine participated again in the Winter Olympics of Lake Placid (1980), winning Olympic silver on the 10,000 m behind Eric Heiden. He ended his career as a speed skater in 1981 and started a successful career in amateur bicycle racing. In 1985, as a member of the Dutch national team, he finished 5th at the World Championships on the 100 km team time trial.

In 1986, Kleine became a marathon skater. This led to some controversy in 1997 when he finished 5th in the Elfstedentocht, but was subsequently removed from the final list of results because of a missing stamp on his stamp card. The controversy lay in the fact that, afterwards, it became clear that in the past several winners of the Elfstedentocht had missed stamps too, but were still declared the winners.

Kleine ended his skating career in 2001 and continued his profession as a postman, a profession he had always kept alongside his sports careers. In his free time, Kleine is the leader of a team of marathon skaters.

He later coached Dan Jansen.

Records

World records
Over the course of his career, Kleine skated 4 world records:

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

Personal records

Kleine has an Adelskalender score of 164.899 points. His highest ranking on the Adelskalender was 2nd place.

Tournament overview

source:

Medals won

Medals
An overview of medals won by Kleine at important championships he participated in, listing the years in which he won each:

References

External links
Piet Kleine at speedskatinghalloffame.com
Piet Kleine's ranking and personal records on the current Adelskalender

1951 births
Living people
People from Hoogeveen
Dutch male speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands
Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in speed skating
World record setters in speed skating
Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Drenthe
Manami Wakayama

is a Japanese idol. She has had the role of Sailor Mercury and Berthier in the Sailor Moon Musicals or Seramyu. She held the role of Mercury from 2002 to 2005, graduating from the role with the musical Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu - Kaiteiban. She has also released several idol DVDs and appeared in various other musicals.

Musicals
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (Kaiteiban) - Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo - Berthier
Mugen Gakuen - Mistress Labyrinth - Sailor Mercury
Mugen Gakuen - Mistress Labyrinth (Kaiteiban) - Sailor Mercury
Starlights - Ryuusei Densetsu - Sailor Mercury
Kakyuu-Ouhi Kourin - The Second Stage Final - Sailor Mercury
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu - Sailor Mercury
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) - Marinamoon Final - Sailor Mercury

References

1986 births
Living people
Japanese gravure models
Japanese actresses
Japanese idols
North Platte High School

North Platte High School may refer to:

North Platte High School (Missouri), Dearborn, Missouri, US
North Platte High School (Nebraska), North Platte, Nebraska, US
Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market

The Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market, officially Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market, also simply known as the Fruit Market, is a wholesale fruit market in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Etymology
It is known as gwo laan () in Cantonese. gwo () means fruit while laan () means wholesale market, derived from railing and enclosed area.

History
The market was founded in 1913 between Ferry Street, Waterloo Road and Reclamation Street with Shek Lung Street passing through it. The name of the market was originally Government Vegetables Market () which sold fruit and vegetables. Fish traders joined in the 1930s. With the opening of Cheung Sha Wan Vegetables Wholesaling Market () and Cheung Sha Wan Fishery Wholesaling Market () in Cheung Sha Wan in 1965, the vegetables and fish stalls moved out. From then on the market has operated as a specialist fruit wholesaling market. The market was then officially known as Kowloon Wholesale Fruit Market until the name was transferred to Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Market Complex in 1990.

Features
The market is a historically valuable site and is classified as a Grade II Historic Building since 2009. It consists of several blocks of one or two storey brick and stone buildings. Pre-World War II signboards are on the outer walls of the buildings.

Another historical building, Yau Ma Tei Theatre is adjacent to the market, across Reclamation Street.

Market operation
Many wholesalers still operate in the market. The busiest hours are 4 to 6 o'clock in the morning. Lorries and carts deliver boxes of fruit in and out of the market.

Transportation
 Yau Ma Tei station Exit B2
 KMB Route 10 and Citybus Route 20

In popular culture
Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market is used as a backdrop for 2018 TVB drama series Apple-Colada.

References

Further reading
 

Yau Ma Tei
Retail markets in Hong Kong
Grade II historic buildings in Hong Kong
Food markets in China
Wholesale markets in China
Vouli Tileorasi

Voulí Tileórasi (, Parliament TV) is a Greek network dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming. The name comes from Greek Βουλή Voulí, meaning 'assembly', 'council', or  'parliament'; and Tileórasi, meaning television.

Overview
The primary aim of the channel is to give each citizen direct access to the inner workings of the Hellenic Parliament. It broadcasts live all sessions of parliament and the meetings of the department of parliamentary recess. Also broadcast recorded not live, the work of the various permanent parliamentary committees. Voulí TV broadcasts a daily parliamentary newscast that gives briefings on the day-to-day business of parliament, as well as information on democratic institutions and the parliamentary history of Greece.

It also features updates on the European Parliament with special emphasis on the Greek members of parliament. The network also features non-political type programming, a block of cultural programming airs daily from 6pm-Midnight, with documentaries (covering various topics such as the arts, society, nature, history and science), films, theatre, dance, opera and classical music.

Voulí TV is the only channel of its kind in Europe that broadcasts terrestrially, FTA without the need for any special equipment or subscription fees. The signal is transmitted from 19 broadcast centres on the country which enable it to reach over 50% of the population. Efforts are underway to increase transmission so that the entire country can receive the signal. Voulí is also available on satellite, the signal transmits on Hotbird 3 and HellasSat.

Programming
The main objective of the TV channel is to give every citizen, direct access to the inner workings of the Greek Parliament. Broadcast live, all sessions of Parliament, and the part of the parliamentary progress. Also on the broadcast channel, but no live recordings works of various standing committees.
Morning Reading - Information broadcast on the parliamentary activities of the day. Airs Monday to Friday at 9-10am.
Notebooks of parliamentary speech - Emission series based on the eponymous edition of the Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament. Presented and discussed major Greek political speeches of our modern history.
Parliamentary Stories - Documented facts of modern and contemporary history since the foundation of the Greek state as today, that took place in the Parliament.
What the law says - Discussion with parties rapporteurs for the legislative work.
Membership Card - Information series programs for lives in the European Union.

External links
Official Site 

Hellenic Television
Television channels in Greece
Greek-language television stations
Legislature broadcasters
Hellenic Parliament
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Greece
Antiochia Paraliou

Antiochia Paraliou () is an ancient city known only from its coinage which bears the legend "ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΛΙΟΥ".  Although the location is considered unknown, some numismatists equate the city with Antiochia ad Cragum, but the association is not universally accepted.

External links
 homepage.uibk.ac.at

Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Seleucid colonies in Anatolia
Former populated places in Turkey
Sumita Devi

Sumita Devi () was a Bangladeshi actress. In 45 years of her career, she acted in around 200 films and 150 radio and television dramas. She was an artist at the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra in 1971.

Early life and career
Devi was born in Manikganj District in the then Bengal Presidency. She moved with her parents, first to Dhaka in 1944, then to Calcutta in 1951. She debuted her acting in the film Asiya (1960). She was the first actress of the then East Pakistan to act in the film Dhupchhaya produced in West Pakistan. Later she produced five films.

Works
Actress

Producer
 Agun Niye Khela (1967)
 Momer Alo (1968)
 Mayar Sangsar (1969)
 Adarsha Chapakhana (1970)
 Notun Probhat (1970)

Personal life and death
Devi's first marriage to Amulya Lahiri was short. Later she married filmmaker Zahir Raihan in 1962. Upon marriage she converted to Islam and took the name Nilufar Begum. With Raihan, she had two sons, Anal and Bipul. She had another son and a daughter. After  the disappearance of Raihan in 1972, the government allotted an abandoned house on 7.5 kathas in Mohammadpur Thana to Devi.

Devi died from a brain haemorrhage on 6 January 2004 at Bangladesh Medical Hospital in Dhaka. Both her kidneys and liver had been malfunctioning before she was admitted to the hospital. She had been in a coma since her treatment began.

Awards

 All Pakistan Critic Award (1962)
 Nigar Award for Best Supporting Actress (1964)
 Bangladesh Film Journalist Association Award
 Television Reporters Association of Bangladesh Award
 Agartala Muktijoddha Award (2002)
 Janakantha Gunijan and Pratibha Sammanona (2002)

References

External links
 

1936 births
2004 deaths
People from Manikganj District
Bangladeshi film actresses
Bangladeshi film producers
Nigar Award winners
Burials at Mirpur Martyred Intellectual Graveyard
Bangladeshi women film producers
The Egoist (novel)

The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879.

Synopsis
The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton.  More importantly, the novel follows Clara's attempts to escape from her engagement to Sir Willoughby, who desires women to serve as a mirror for him and consequently cannot understand why she would not want to marry him.  Thus, The Egoist dramatises the difficulty contingent upon being a woman in Victorian society, when women's bodies and minds are trafficked between fathers and husbands to cement male bonds.

Critical response
In an afterword by Angus Wilson, The Egoist was called "the turning point in George Meredith's career."  Wilson saw Meredith as "the first great art novelist"; his afterword interprets the book as an adaptation of a stage comedy, an achievement he arrogates to few English authors, who, he suggests, present only "farce or satire." He compliments Meredith most when he is detached from his characters, as "it is then that our laughter is most thoughtful." Wilson is most taken by "the absolute truth of much of the dialogue," such as how "the way Sir Willoughby continues to speak through the answers of other characters, returning to notice their replies only when his own vein of thought is exhausted" is a "wonderful observation of human speech."

In his essay "Books Which Have Influenced Me," Robert Louis Stevenson reports the following story:
"A young friend of Mr. Meredith's (as I have the story) came to him in agony.  'This is too bad of you,' he cried. 'Willoughby is me!' 'No, my dear fellow,' said the author; 'he is all of us.'"

E. M. Forster discussed the book in his lecture series Aspects of the Novel, using it as an example of a "highly organised" plot.  Much of his discussion, however, focuses on Meredith and his popularity as an author.

More materially, Forster compliments Meredith on not revealing Laetitia Dale's changed feelings for Willoughby until she rejects him in their midnight meeting; "[i]t would have spoiled his high comedy if we had been kept in touch throughout ... in fact it would be boorish. ... Meredith with his unerring good sense here lets the plot triumph" rather than explaining Dale's character more fully.

Forster further compares Meredith with Thomas Hardy, complimenting Hardy on his pastoral sensibilities and Meredith on his powerful plots, "[knowing] what [his] novel[s] could stand."

References

External links

Sources
 
 
 

1879 British novels
English novels
Victorian novels
Novels by George Meredith
Tragicomedy novels
Edmunds

Edmunds may refer to:

People
Edmunds (given name)
Edmunds (surname)

Places
 Edmunds Center, an arena in Deland, Florida
 Edmunds County, South Dakota

Companies
 Edmunds (company), provider of automotive information

See also
 Edmonds (disambiguation)
 Edmund (disambiguation)
Bryan High School

Bryan High School may refer to:

Bryan High School (Ohio), located in Bryan, Ohio
Bryan High School (Texas), located in Bryan, Texas
Omaha Bryan High School in Omaha, Nebraska

See also
Bryan Station High School in Lexington, Kentucky
Bryant High School (disambiguation)
Iowa Field House

The Iowa Field House is a multi-purpose arena in Iowa City, Iowa. Opened in 1927, it held up to 13,365 people at its height. At one time, it housed all Iowa athletic teams and coaching offices before the construction of additional facilities. The Field House was a regional site for the NCAA basketball tournament four times, in 1954, 1956, 1964 and 1966. The Iowa Wrestling team hosted the 1959 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at the Field House.

The pool inside the facility was the home of the Iowa Hawkeyes men's and women's swimming team from its construction through the 2009–2010 season. This field house was believed to be the largest indoor pool in the world at the time of its construction. The building has been host to the University of Iowa Table Tennis Team since 2015.

Since the basketball team's departure, parts of the arena have been converted into classroom and office space for the university's Health and Human Physiology Department and Recreational Services. The swimming team continued to host events there until the construction of the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center in 2010. The gymnastics team also continue to host events at the Field House.

References 

1927 establishments in Iowa
College gymnastics venues in the United States
College wrestling venues in the United States
Iowa Hawkeyes basketball venues
Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling venues
Sports venues completed in 1927
Sports venues in Iowa
University of Iowa campus
Hyrrokkin

Hyrrokkin (Old Norse: ) is a female jötunn in Norse mythology. According to 13th-century poet Snorri Sturluson, she launched the largest of all ships at Baldr's funeral after the Æsir gods were unable to budge the vessel.

Hyrrokkin was a relatively important figure in the last decades of paganism in Iceland. She appears to be depicted on one of the DR 284 stone from the Hunnestad Monument near Marsvinsholm, Sweden.

Name 
The Old Norse name Hyrrokkin has been translated as 'fire-withered' or 'fire-steamer'. According to linguist Jan de Vries, it is compound formed with the root hyr- ('fire') attached to hrokkinn ('curly; wrinkle'). Scholar John Lindow has proposed the translation 'fire-smoked', perhaps referring to a dark,  shrivelled appearance.

Attestations

Prose Edda
It is told in Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning that at Baldr's funeral his wife Nanna died of grief and was placed alongside him on his pyre, thus joining her husband in Hel. Hringhorni, Baldr's ship, was the largest of all such vessels and was to serve as the god's funeral ship. No one, however, could seem to launch the boat out to sea.

The gods then enlisted the help of Hyrrokkin, who came from Jötunheimr, arriving on a giant wolf with vipers as reins. When she dismounted, Odin summoned four berserkers to look after the animal but they were unable to control it without first rendering it unconscious. With her seismic strength, the giantess rolled the boat into the water. This caused the earth to quake and the rollers to set on fire, which angered Thor. He was about to kill Hyrrokkin with his hammer Mjöllnir, but the other gods insisted that he spare her.

She is also mentioned in a list of troll women by an anonymous skald:
Gjölp, Hyrrokkin,
Hengikepta,
Gneip ok Gnepja,
Geysa, Hála,
Hörn ok Hrúga,
Harðgreip, Forað,
Hryðja, Hveðra
ok Hölgabrúðr.

Skaldic poetry 
The late 10th-century skald Þorbjörn dísarskáld, in two preserved fragments addressed directly to Thor, mentions Hyrrokkin among the jötnar killed by the thunder-god at Baldur's funeral:

The poem Húsdrápa (House-Lay), composed by Úlfr Uggason around 985 AD in western Iceland and partially preserved in the Prose Edda, also appears to refer to Hyrrokkin at Baldr's funeral:
"The very powerful Hild of the mountains [giantess] caused the sea-Sleipnir [ship] to lumber forward, but the wielders of the helmet flames [warriors] of Hropt [Odin] felled her mount."

In popular culture
Hyrokkin is featured in the 2020 video game, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, during the missions taking place in Jötunheimr. The missions being merely vision interpretations of the fictional precursor race, the Isu's history, an equivalence is made to Juno, who was mentioned in Assassin's Creed II but made her first appearance in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

See also
Snake-witch stone, a picture stone depicting a female grasping two snakes

References

References

External links

Gýgjar
Vashon Island High School

Vashon Island High School (VHS) is a public high school located on Vashon Island, Washington. Vashon Island High School, a part of the Vashon Island School District, is the only high school to serve the island. VHS runs 9th through 12th grade. The school has two language courses available: French and Spanish. VHS puts on three plays a year within the three drama classes; Theater Arts I, II and Musical Theater. VHS also has a band which puts on three concerts, including a Christmas concert and a Pops concert. The band also competes at a band competition at Stadium High School. The school's athletic mascot is the Pirates.

Campus
In 2018, some of the restroom facilities were to be converted into gender-neutral ones.

Despite being accessible only by ferries, VHS has a large number of off-island commuter students who come from West Seattle, the Kitsap Peninsula (predominantly from Port Orchard), and Tacoma.

Awards and recognition
Vashon Island High School was a 2013 Washington Achievement Award winner for Overall Excellence and High Improvement.

The school was named a national Blue Ribbon School in 2008.

Sports

Vashon Island's sports teams compete in the Nisqually League of WIAA's West Central District.

 Debate (Lincoln-Douglas and Policy).
 Soccer (Boys and Girls)
 Baseball
 Softball
 Boys' football
 Basketball (Boys and Girls)
 Track
 Cross-Country (Boys and Girls)
 Wrestling (Boys and Girls)
 Golf
 Volleyball
 Tennis

Notable alumni
 Mary Matsuda Gruenewald - (memoirist)
 Jason Chorak - Washington Huskies football player - 1996 Pac 10 Defensive Player of the year and All American.

References

External links
Official webpage
School District webpage
The Riptide website
School's OSPI report card 2010-2011

High schools in King County, Washington
Public high schools in Washington (state)
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs

The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) is an agency within the United States Department of State that is responsible for the U.S. government's relations with countries in the South and Central Asian region. The bureau is headed by the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, who reports to the Secretary of State through the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. The current Assistant Secretary is Donald Lu, incumbent since September 15, 2021.

History

After six years of trying, Congress allocated the funds to create an independent Bureau of South Asian Affairs in 1991. Pursuant to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993, the Bureau of South Asian Affairs was established on August 24, 1992,  after having been a part of the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs since 1958. In February 2006 the bureau absorbed the Office of Central Asian Affairs from the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.

Organization
The offices of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs direct, coordinate, and supervise U.S. government activities within the region, including political, economic, consular, public diplomacy, and administrative management issues.

SCA Front Office – The office of the Assistant Secretary and other principals in the bureau
Office of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Maldives Affairs – Informs policy and coordinates with U.S. Missions in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and the Maldives
Office of Pakistan Affairs – Oversees Pakistan–United States relations, and liaises with the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan
Office of Central Asian Affairs – Informs policy and coordinates with U.S. Missions in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
Office of Security and Transnational Affairs
Office of Press and Public Diplomacy – Coordinates public outreach and digital engagement, and prepares press guidance for the Department Spokesperson in the Bureau of Public Affairs
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Chemistry Education Research and Practice

Chemistry Education Research and Practice is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry covering chemistry education. The editor-in-chief is Gwen Lawrie of the University of Queensland. The Associate Editors are Ajda Kahveci of DePaul University, Scott E. Lewis of the University of South Florida, and Michael K. Seery of the University of Edinburgh. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.959.

The journal was originally published by the University of Ioannina, but switched to the Royal Society of Chemistry at the end of 2005 when it merged with University Chemistry Education. The society also publishes Education in Chemistry, a news magazine on the same topic.

Sponsorship by the RSC 
The journal is able to be open-access, yet not have page or process charges levied against authors, due to sponsorship from the Education Division of the RSC. The RSC is a charity, as well as a learned society, and support for an open-access educational journal is seen as furthering its educational mission.

Theme issues 
The journal includes an annual issue on a specific theme. Past theme issues are listed on the journal website.

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Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet

Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet,  (10 October 1820 – 2 February 1893) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament for several constituencies.

Life
A member of an ancient Sussex family, Barttelot was the son of George Barttelot and his wife Emma (née Woodbridge). He was educated at Rugby School and then served in the 1st Royal Dragoons, purchasing his captaincy on 7 February 1845. After retirement from the army he raised the 6th (Petworth) Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps on 15 February 1860 and was promoted to major to command the 2nd Administrative Battalion, Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps on 26 April 1860. He continued to command the 2nd Sussex Rifle Volunteers until he became its Honorary Colonel in 1882.

In December 1860 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for West Sussex, which he served until 1885 when he became member for Horsham, serving until his death. Horsham's Barttelot Road off the Brighton Road was named after him. Sussex Police Headquarters was located there and current photographs of Barttelot Road are featured (Hidden Horsham). Barttelot was created a baronet, of Stopham in the County of Sussex, on 14 June 1875, and made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1880. In 1892 he was admitted to the Privy Council.

He became a director of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in August 1864, and served as its chairman from April to July 1867.

Barttelot married firstly Harriet, daughter of Sir Christopher Musgrave, 9th Baronet, in 1852. They had two sons and five daughters, including Dame Edith Sclater. After his first wife's death in 1863 he married secondly Margaret, daughter of Henry Boldero, in 1868. They had no children. Lady Barttelot died in January 1893. Barttelot survived her by only a few days and died in early February 1893, aged 72. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Walter.

See also 
 Barttelot baronets
 Sir Walter George Barttelot, 2nd Baronet
 Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, 3rd Baronet

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Burke High School

Burke High School can refer to:

Omaha Burke High School in Omaha, Nebraska
Burke High School (South Carolina) in Charleston, South Carolina
Burke High School (South Dakota) in Burke, South Dakota
Burke High School (Massachusetts) in Boston, Massachusetts
John S. Burke Catholic High School ("Burke Catholic"), Goshen, Orange County, New York
Gerhard Wagner (physician)

Gerhard Wagner (18 August 1888 – 25 March 1939) was the first Reich Doctors' Leader (Reichsärzteführer) in the time of Nazi Germany.

Life

Pre-Nazism 
Born a surgery professor's son, he studied medicine in Munich and served as a doctor at the front in World War I (1914–1918). Among other things, he was awarded the Iron Cross, first class.

From 1919, Wagner ran his own medical practice in Munich, while also being a member of two Freikorps between 1921 and 1923, von Epp and Oberland. Just because of his Upper Silesian origins, Wagner stayed on (till 1924) as leader of the Upper Silesia German Community Associations (Deutschtumsverbände Oberschlesiens) and was chef of Munich´s division of the Loyal Upper Silesians („Verbände heimattreuer Oberschlesier"). In May 1929, he switched to the NSDAP.

1930s 
Wagner was co-founder and as of 1932 leader of the National Socialist German Doctors' League, and also functioned from 1933 as a member of the Palatinate Landtag. A year later, in 1934, Wagner was ordered to the position of Reich Doctors' Leader. Moreover, he was "The Führer's Commissioner for National Health". By 1933, he had already become leader of the Main Office for National Health, and in 1936 came his appointment as that office's Main Service Leader (Hauptdienstleiter).

In December 1935, Wagner became leader of the Reichsärztekammer (Physicians' Chamber). At the 1936 Nuremberg Rally, he discussed the racial laws. As was typical of Nazi propaganda at this time, this was more in terms of the pure and growing race than the evil of the Jews.  A shift in his political career came in 1937 when he was promoted to SA Obergruppenführer. Meanwhile, he was also commissioner for collegiate issues on Rudolf Hess's staff. Wagner died of cancer in 1939. His successor was Leonardo Conti.

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Giovanni Nanni

Giovanni Nanni may refer to:

 Annio da Viterbo, Dominican friar and forger of documents
 Giovanni da Udine, painter
Māhoenui

Māhoenui is a small community in the western North Island of New Zealand, on the Awakino River, near Piopio and Te Kuiti.

History
The Croall family lived on the Awakino River in the 1920s and 1930s, eventually having to leave the land as uneconomic to survive by traditional farming methods. Charles Croall, sr., relocated to Hamilton, setting up a construction business (Croall Construction) to build houses en-masse for the government. These subdivisions became known as 'State house areas' and were typically inhabited by lower socio-economic communities. Large numbers of those houses have been sold to private buyers, both individually and in bulk. 

Lewis Robert Ridling (commonly known as Bob) and his wife Margaret Marina Ridling née Jackson along with their 5 sons and 3 daughters cleared the land by hand of scrub and bush in this area. The Ridlings worked their Māhoenui farm from the 1920s onward after Bob Ridling won the land in a returned veterans ballot after returning wounded from Gallipoli, Turkey from World War I. Many ex servicemen simply walked off the land due to the difficulty of turning it into viable farm land. The Moss's were also well known in the area as Mr Moss was the local school teacher in the 1930s. 

Māhoenui is in meshblocks 1016005, 1016101-2, and 1016203-4, which had a population of 78 people in the 2018 census.

Education
Until 2005, Māhoenui had a small primary school, with a roll of six children in 2004. In 2005, the school closed down due to lack of students, with the property now privately owned.

Geography
Māhoenui is located in the King Country approx  inland from the west coast of the North Island, the topography is hilly to mountainous, with small alluvial areas near the streams and river.

Economics
The primary activity is sheep farming, with beef and dairy farming to a lesser degree.

References

External links
Map of Māhoenui area
Croall and Moss Family memorial site
Mahoenui School
Map and demographic data source for New Zealand

Populated places in Waikato
Waitomo District
The Newspaper

The Newspaper is the largest independent student newspaper in Canada with circulation on and around the University of Toronto. It has been published by non-profit corporation Planet Publications Inc. and financially self-supported since its founding in 1978. It was briefly circulated as The Independent Weekly before returning to its original title, which is now commonly stylized as the newspaper with intentional lowercase. 

The Newspaper is officially recognized by the University of Toronto under the campus media policy of its Governing Council, a unique policy protecting the rights of independent publishers on the University of Toronto campus.

The paper currently publishes biweekly with print issues distributed across the University of Toronto St. George campus in addition to various locations in downtown Toronto.

History 
The founding editors of The Newspaper were former editors of The Varsity, Steven Petranik, Thomas Simpson and Ken Whitehurst. In The Newspaper'''s first year of publication, prominent professors at the University of Toronto contributed articles, including Allan Bloom, Denis Duffy, and Robertson Davies. In 1994, The Newspaper interviewed influential hip hop duo Gang Starr. The Newspaper's offices were originally located at 1 Spadina Crescent and were moved to 256 McCaul Street in 2013 due to renovations.

 Special editions 
Since 2003, The Newspaper's last print issue of every publishing season is a large compact alcohol-themed issue called The Boozepaper, often comprising a centerfold poster and beer reviews. There is also a Love and Sex Edition of the paper that centers around the themes of romance, sex, and dating published every February.

In November 2015, The Newspaper published a food-themed issue called The Foodpaper, though it is unknown whether this will be a recurring edition.

 Notable alumni 
Film director Atom Egoyan, novelists Rohinton Mistry and Ray Robertson, and television public affairs host Steve Paikin all contributed to The Newspaper'' while attending the University of Toronto.

See also
List of student newspapers in Canada
List of newspapers in Canada

External links
Official website

Newspapers published in Toronto
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Swansea Devil

The Swansea Devil, also called Old Nick, is a wood carving of the Devil in Swansea, Wales. It was carved by an architect whose designs for St. Mary's Church had been rejected by a committee. Some years later when designing an office building across the road, he placed a carving of Satan facing the church and prophesied "When your church is destroyed and burnt to the ground my devil will remain laughing". This prophecy later came true when the church was bombed during the Second World War.

History
In the 1890s it was decided that St. Mary's Church in the centre of Swansea would be rebuilt. The task of designing the new church was put to tender. Among those who applied were a local architect and Sir Arthur Blomfield. The committee accepted Blomfield's designs and the church was built. The local man took his rejection as a slight against his talent. After several years a row of cottages adjacent to the church became available for purchase. The offended architect bought these houses, and tore them down. In their place he erected a red brick building to house the brewery offices, on which he placed a carving of Satan, facing the church. The local man is reputed to have prophesied: "When your church is destroyed and burnt to the ground my devil will remain laughing."

Blitz
Swansea, being a major strategic target in South Wales, was bombed heavily during World War II. One of the buildings destroyed during the three night blitz in February 1941 was St. Mary's Church. The building on which Old Nick was mounted was not hit and remained standing through the war thus allowing Old Nick to continue laughing over the burnt remains of the church.

Post war
In 1962 the brewery offices were torn down, while St. Mary's was rebuilt to the original designs. The devil was left to rot in a garage in Hereford,until a local historian returned him to Swansea during the 1980s.

Present day
Occupying the land of the brewery offices is now the Quadrant Shopping Centre, opened in 1979. Once returned to Swansea the devil was placed as close to his original location inside the shopping centre as possible without directly offending the church goers. There was notable religious objection to its reinstallation, and when the Quadrant was refurbished the carving was placed in storage. After public outcry aided by the local newspaper the South Wales Evening Post, the Devil was placed back once more to watch over St. Mary's.

In 2019, the carving was donated to the Swansea museum by the owners of the Quadrant.

References

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Curling at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics.  The competition was held in the patinoire olympique of Pralognan-la-Vanoise, a venue about 50 km from the host city, Albertville. The 1992 Winter Games was the third time curling was a demonstration sport at the Winter Olympics.

Medal summary

Medal table

Events

Men
The men's competition had eight countries in two groups.

Teams

Round robin

Pool A

Standings

Results

Pool B

Standings

Results

Ranking games

5th/6th place

7th/8th place

Playoffs

Semi-finals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Women
The women's curling event at the 1992 Winter Olympics had eight countries in two groups.

Teams

Round robin

Pool A

Standings

Results

Tie-breakers

Pool B

Standings

Results

Ranking games

5th/6th place

7th/8th place

Playoffs

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

References

External links
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1992 in curling
1992
Curling competitions in France
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Osceola High School

Osceola High School may refer to:

Osceola High School (Arkansas) in Osceola, Arkansas
Osceola High School (Seminole, Florida) in Seminole, Florida
Osceola High School (Kissimmee, Florida) in Kissimmee, Florida
Osceola High School (Nebraska) in Osceola, Nebraska
Osceola High School (Wisconsin) in Osceola, Wisconsin
Osceola High School (Osceola, Missouri) in Osceola, Missouri
4011

4011 may refer to:

 4011, a 4000-series integrated circuit consisting of quad 2-input NAND gates
 4011, the PLU code for bananas