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Rodin Museum

The Rodin Museum is an art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that contains one of the largest collections of sculptor Auguste Rodin's works outside Paris. Opened in 1929, the museum is administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  The museum houses a collection of nearly 150 objects containing bronzes, marbles, and plasters by Rodin.

In 2012, the museum re-opened after a three-year, $9 million renovation that brought the museum back to its original vision of displaying Rodin's works.

Founding
The Museum was the gift of movie-theatre magnate Jules Mastbaum (1872–1926) to the city of Philadelphia. Mastbaum began collecting works by Rodin in 1923 with the intent of founding a museum to enrich the lives of his fellow citizens. Within just three years, he had assembled the largest collection of Rodin's works outside Paris, including bronze castings, plaster studies, drawings, prints, letters, and books. In 1926, Mastbaum commissioned French architects Paul Cret and Jacques Gréber to design the museum building and gardens. The collector did not live to see his dream realized, but his widow, Etta Wedell Mastbaum honored his commitment to the city, and the Museum opened on November 29, 1929. Murals in the museum were executed by the painter Franklin C. Watkins.

Collection

The best-known of Rodin's works, The Thinker (1880–1882), sits outside the museum in the entry courtyard. Visitors once entered through a cast of The Gates of Hell, located at the main entrance to the museum, which is no longer used.  This massive 5.5-m-tall bronze doorway was originally created for the Museum of Decorative Arts (which was to have been located in Paris but never came into existence).  Rodin sculpted more than 100 figures for these doors from 1880 until his death in 1917. This casting is one of the three originals; several others have been made since. Several of his most famous works, including The Thinker, are actually studies for these doors which were later expanded into separate works.

The museum's several rooms house many more of the artist's works, including The Kiss (1886), Eternal Springtime (1884), The Age of Bronze (1875–76), and The Burghers of Calais, a monument commissioned by the City of Calais in 1884.

In 2019, the Rodin museum mounted a two-year special exhibition titled Rethinking the Modern Monument, curated by Alexander Kauffman, which paired 16 works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art with selected Rodin sculptures.  The special exhibition featured bronze sculptures by Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Marino Marini, Chana Orloff, and Alberto Giacometti, among others.

Image gallery

See also

 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
 List of single-artist museums

References

External links

Listing at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings

1929 establishments in Pennsylvania
Art museums established in 1929
Art museums and galleries in Philadelphia
Auguste Rodin
Paul Philippe Cret buildings
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
Sculpture gardens, trails and parks in the United States
Spring Garden, Philadelphia
Blencow

Blencow or Blencowe is a small village near Penrith, Cumbria, England. It is divided by the River Petteril into Great Blencow to the south and Little Blencow to the north. Great Blencow is in the civil parish of Dacre while Little Blencow is within Greystoke parish.

History 
The village shares its name with the Blencowe family. The "cow" part of the name is compared with the "gow" in Glasgow.

Adam de Blencowe was awarded land by Edward III in 1358 and the original family home was built in Great Blencow. Now little remains. Subsequently, in the 15th or 16th century the family built a new home, the current Blencowe Hall, just to the west of Little Blencow. It consists of two fortified pele towers joined by connecting buildings. It sustained substantial damage during the English Civil War, now evident externally as a deep gash on the front of the western tower. This was imaginatively restored in the late 20th century. The family continued to own the hall until 1802, when it was sold to the Duke of Norfolk. There is an active Blencowe Families Association who celebrate their connections with this village.

Blencow at one time had a very well known grammar school founded by Thomas Burbank in 1577. It was the first free grammar school in the north of England. Among its pupils were Lord Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice and George Whitehead, a prominent Quaker.
The original school was rebuilt in 1795 and continued to provide an education for boys (although no longer free) until 1911, when it closed. For a time it was used as a meeting place for the village, but was converted to a private residence, Burbank House, in 1917.

Modern times 
The post office and village pub were situated in Little Blencow, but both are now closed. Another pub called the Clickham Inn to the south of the village towards Newbiggin. Also at Newbiggin is the Hanson plc Blencowe Limestone Quarry and Blockworks, and the former Blencow railway station on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway.

The mansion of Ennim just south of the village was the home for many years of the Blencow family. From 1956, Conservative politician and cabinet minister William (Willie) later Viscount Whitelaw lived at Ennim until his death in 1999.  During his residence, a substantial police presence was maintained at the house even after Whitelaw's retirement, owing to his time as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Notable residents

Arthur Wannop FRSE (1900-1972) Director of Hill Farming Research Organisation and government advisor including on sheep farming in the Falkland Islands; born and raised at Little Blencow Farm.

See also

Listed buildings in Dacre, Cumbria
Listed buildings in Greystoke, Cumbria
List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)

References

External links
  Cumbria County History Trust: Dacre (nb: provisional research only - see Talk page)
  Cumbria County History Trust: Greystoke (nb: provisional research only - see Talk page)

Villages in Cumbria
Eden District
Inglewood Forest
Grand Beach Provincial Park

Grand Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park in Manitoba, Canada, noted for its large white sand dunes and ancient beaches from the end of the last ice age. It is located on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, and the largest lake completely within the borders of southern Canada.

The park, which is  in size, is approximately an hour and twenty minutes drive from Winnipeg and is located in the westernmost part of the Rural Municipality of Alexander and the northernmost part of the Rural Municipality of St. Clements. The Government of Manitoba designated the area a provincial park in 1961.

The park is considered a Class II protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories. It is a sanctuary for the piping plover, an endangered species of bird that nests on the beach. Bald eagles, bears, sea gulls, terns, and pelicans are among the wide variety of species that inhabit the area.

Grand Beach
 
Grand Beach is one of a series of beaches on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg. Its fine white sand has made it an attractive summer destination since the early years of the twentieth century when the Canadian Northern Railway established an excursion line to the area. The resort developed by the railway included many amenities including a dance hall, piers and a carousel. Most of the visitors were Winnipeg residents travelling by train and returning to the city the same day.
The increase in car ownership and concurrent road improvement after the end of World War II resulted in a declining number of customers for the excursion trains. The railway did not rebuild the dance hall when it burnt down in 1950 and in 1963, the tracks were removed. Today, beachgoers still flock to Grand Beach, arriving by car along Manitoba Highway 59.

Activities 
The park attracts thousands of visitors a year and is a very popular tourist destination. Available activities include excellent bird watching, cycling and hiking trails, boating, fishing, kiteboarding, and berry picking (saskatoons, chokecherries, and blueberries).  In the winter, the park offers snowmobiling and cross-country skiing. There are numerous tourist attractions, which include food and merchandise vendors, recreation facilities, bike, hiking, and ski trails, a fishing dock, a boardwalk, and camping facilities. Forty-eight seasonal camp sites, all of which have electricity, are located in the park. There are 306 casual campsites, of which about half offer electricity.

A park pass is required for vehicle entry to the park. Passes are available from regional businesses or at the park gate. There are also a few "free park entry weekends" per year, including Family Fishing Weekend, Canada Parks Day, and the September Long Weekend.

Gallery

See also
List of protected areas of Manitoba
Grand Marais, Manitoba

External links

Find your Favourite Park: Grand Beach Provincial Park

References

Provincial parks of Manitoba
Parks in Eastman Region, Manitoba
Protected areas of Manitoba
Muiz ud din Bahram

Muiz ud-Din Bahram (9 July 1212 – 15 May 1242, ) was the sixth sultan of the Mamluk Dynasty.

Life 
He was the son of Shams ud din Iltutmish (1211–36) and the half-brother of Razia Sultan (1236–40). While his sister was imprisoned in Bathinda by subedar Malik Altunia (both Altunia and Bahram Shah planned conspiracy against Razia Sultan) he declared himself the king with the support of forty chiefs. Even so, during Muiz ud din Bahram's two years as king, the chiefs that had originally supported him became disordered and constantly bickered among each other. It was during this period of unrest that he was murdered by his own army in 1242 (died 15 May 1242). After his death, he was succeeded by his nephew Ala ud din Masud, a son of his half-brother Rukn ud din Firuz.

Ögedei Khan of the Mongol Empire appointed Dayir commander of Ghazni and Menggetu commander in Kunduz. In winter 1241 the Mongol force invaded the Indus valley and besieged Lahore. Dayir died storming the town, however, on 30 December 1241, and the Mongols butchered the town before withdrawing from the Delhi Sultanate. The sultan was too weak to take step against them. The "Forty Chiefs" besieged him in the White Fort of Delhi and put him to death.

After the death of Razia Sultan (1240) the forty chiefs decided to put Iltutmish's third Son Bahram shah on the throne. He was put on throne on 21 April 1240 at Lal Mahal but after some time the 40 chiefs decided to take all the power of Bahram shah in their hands. At that time the Minister was Muhajbuddin, so in this way there was three rulers of that dynasty. Muiz ud din Bahram built a mosque in Delhi during his reign.

See also
Mamluk dynasty
History of India
Islamic history
List of Indian monarchs
Bathinda

References

External links
India Through the Ages
The Slave Dynasty

Sultans of the Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)
Year of birth missing
1242 deaths
Indian Sunni Muslims
13th-century Indian monarchs
13th-century monarchs in Asia
13th-century Mamluk sultans
Kudu dung-spitting

Kudu dung-spitting (Bokdrol Spoeg in Afrikaans) is a sport practiced by the Afrikaner community in South Africa.  In the competition small, hard pellets of dung from the kudu antelope, are spat, with the farthest distance reached being the winner.

Kudu dung-spitting is popular enough to have an annual world championship competition, with the formal sport beginning in 1994. Contests are held at some community bazaars, game festivals or tourism shows in the bushveld, Natal and Eastern Cape. Unlike many similar sports, the distance is measured from the marker to the place the dung pellet comes to rest, rather than where it initially hit the ground.

The world record in the sport is a distance of  set  by Shaun van Rensburg of Addo. It is said that hunters began using the pellets in spitting competitions to "retaliate" at their prey, as the kudu is a notoriously difficult animal to hunt, and infamous for leaving a trail of dung pellets while managing to elude the hunter.

"Similar" sports
Records are also kept for cherry pit spitting, watermelon seed spitting, prune pit spitting, brown cricket spitting and tobacco juice spitting. In 2015, a sheep dung-spitting competition was introduced to Northern Ireland's Lady of The Lake Festival in County Fermanagh.

References

Feces
Individual sports
Sport in Africa
Cheney State Park

Cheney State Park is a state park of Kansas in the United States. Completed in 1964, the park is located in Kingman and Reno counties in Kansas, 5 miles north of Cheney and 20 miles west of Wichita.

The park is divided into two areas  comprising , straddling the  Cheney Reservoir, one of the top sailing lakes in the United States. The Ninnescah Sailing Association has facilities in the West Shore Area. A marina in the East Shore Area offers supplies and services for boaters and anglers.

There are nature and hiking trails at Giefer Creek and Spring Creek. A handicapped-accessible fishing complex is available at the Toadstool Loop Jetty.

The park features 29 miles of asphalt roads and parking areas; a park office; 2 marinas; 223 electrical hookup sites with water; over 400 primitive camp sites; 4 trailer dumpstations; 6 boat ramps with 22 launching lanes; 4 courtesy docks; 2 fish cleaning stations; 7 modern pit toilets; 9 showerhouses; 1 shelter with restrooms; 2 large group shelters; 2 medium group shelters; 29 small picnic shelters; 1 group camping area with 20 utility sites, a large shelter and a restroom; 2 nature trails; and 7 modern cabins.

The  Cheney Wildlife Area adjacent to the park provides opportunities for wildlife watching, nature photography, and hunting. A refuge has been set aside within the wildlife area for migratory waterfowl. The area is closed to all activities from September 15 through March 15, when it is reopened for fishing and non-hunting day use activities.

See also
 List of Kansas state parks
 List of lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas
 List of rivers of Kansas

References

External links 

Cheney State Park Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
Ninnescah Sailing Association

State parks of Kansas
Protected areas of Kingman County, Kansas
Protected areas of Reno County, Kansas
Protected areas established in 1964
1964 establishments in Kansas
Dried vine fruit

Dried vine fruit is a term given to all the varieties of dried grape produced. The need for this term came from the fact that the United Kingdom is the only country in the European Union which differentiates dried vine fruit into different types. On mainland Europe, they are all simply called raisins, whereas in the UK they are differentiated into raisins, sultanas and currants. In this instance the term currant refers to the Zante currant, not the fruit of the Ribes genus.

The sultana was brought to Europe from the Ottoman Empire, and is known for its golden colour and delicate, sweet flavour.

"Golden raisins" are a Californian attempt to replicate the sultana industrially. They are made from the same variety (sultana=Thompson Seedless), treated with sulfur dioxide (SO2), and flame dried to give them their characteristic colour.

A particular variety of seedless grape, the Black Corinth, is also sun dried to produce Zante currants, which are much smaller than other vine fruit, darker in colour and have a tart, tangy flavour.

Several varieties of raisins are produced in Asia and are only available at ethnic grocers. Green raisins are produced in Iran. Dried grapes in a variety of colors (green, black, white) and sizes are also produced in India.

References

Vine

es:Pasa
NeoRacer

The NeoRacer is a portable magnetic fitness bike that interacts with video games on several platforms. This includes the Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and the PC.

Description
The pedal motion controls speed in the game. It comes with a DualShock controller for all of the other functions. The pedal motion can be assigned to any button on the DualShock controller. The NeoRacer works best with driving and racing games.

Developer
NeoRacer was developed by Deep Ridge Ltd. They also hold copyright and licensing of NeoRacer.  The company is located in the United Kingdom.

References

External links
Official Website
ConsoleTuner Titan Two

Fitness games
Xbox (console) accessories
GameCube accessories
PlayStation (console) accessories
PlayStation 2 accessories
NGC 7217

NGC 7217 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus.

Features 
NGC 7217 is a gas-poor system whose main features are the presence of several rings of stars concentric to its nucleus: three main ones –the outermost one being of the most prominent and the one that features most of the gas and star formation of this galaxy – plus several others inside the innermost one discovered with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope; a feature that suggests NGC 7217's central regions have suffered several starbursts. There is also a very large and massive spheroid that extends beyond its disk.

Other noteworthy features this galaxy has are the presence of a number of stars rotating in the opposite direction around the galaxy's center to most of them and two distinct stellar populations: one of intermediate age on its innermost regions and a younger, metal-poor version  on its outermost ones.

It has been suggested these features were caused by a merger with another galaxy and, in fact, computer simulations show that NGC 7217 could have been a large lenticular galaxy that merged with one or two smaller gas-rich ones of late Hubble type becoming the spiral galaxy we see today; however right now this galaxy is isolated in space, with no nearby major companions. More recent research, however, presents a somewhat different scenario in which NGC 7217's massive bulge and halo would have been formed in a merger and the disk formed later (and is still growing) either accreting gas from the intergalactic medium or smaller gas-rich galaxies, or most likely from a previously existing reserve.

See also
 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512
 NGC 7742, a very similar galaxy in the same constellation

References

External links

 NGC 7217 
 http://atlas.zevallos.com.br/
 

Unbarred spiral galaxies
Ring galaxies
Pegasus (constellation)
7217
11914
68096
NGC 4567 and NGC 4568

NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 (nicknamed the Butterfly Galaxies or Siamese Twins) are a set of unbarred spiral galaxies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. They were both discovered by William Herschel in 1784. They are part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. 

These galaxies are in the process of colliding and merging with each other, as studies of their distributions of neutral and molecular hydrogen show, with the highest star-formation activity in the part where they overlap. However, the system is still in an early phase of interaction.

Four supernovae have been observed in the Butterfly Galaxies:  SN 1990B (type Ib, mag. 16), SN 2004cc (type Ic, mag. 17.5), SN 2020fqv (type IIb, mag. 19), and SN 2023ijd (type II, mag. 16.8).

Naming controversy
The two galaxies were nicknamed "Siamese Twins" because they appear to be connected. On August 5, 2020, NASA announced that they would not use that nickname in an effort to avoid systemic discrimination in their terminology.

See also 

 Antennae Galaxies
 Eyes Galaxies

Notes

References

External links 
 Kopernik Space Images, Spiral Galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC 4567 aka "The Siamese Twins" : Supernova 2004cc, George Normandin (29 June 2004)
 Skyhound, The Siamese Twins
 SIMBAD, VCC 1673 : NGC 4567 -- Galaxy in Pair of Galaxies
 SIMBAD, VCC 1676 : NGC 4568 -- Galaxy in Pair of Galaxies
 NED, VV 219
 NED, NGC 4567
 NED, NGC 4568

Virgo (constellation)
Virgo Cluster
4567
42064
Interacting galaxies
Unbarred spiral galaxies
Overlapping galaxies
Yeji

Yeji is a town in the centre of Ghana and the capital of the Pru East District of the Bono East Region in Ghana. Yeji is adjacent to Lake Volta. Yeji is connected by highway to Ejura and Kwadjokrom. It had a population of 29,515 at the census of 2010.

Yeji and its surroundings form the homeland of a branch of the Chumburu people, who also have a traditional area in the kingdom of Chumburung, at the other side of Lake Volta. They speak the Chumburung language, but the Yeji dialect is quite different from the one spoken in Chumburung itself. Apart from the Chumburu, Konkombas, Gonjas and others are also native in Yeji.

References

External links
 Yeji, Ghana at Google Maps
 Yeji at GhanaWeb
 	
	 	
		
 	 	

Populated places in the Bono East Region
Ethnic groups in Ghana
History of Ghana
Former monarchies of Africa
Brong-Ahafo Region
Former countries in Africa
Mata Nihal Kaur

Mata Nihal Kaur (died 29 September 1644), popularly known as Mata Natti, also known as Ananti, Nihalo, and Bassi, was the wife of Baba Gurditta.

Biography 
She was the daughter of father Bhai Rama and mother Sukhdevi, both of whom were Khatri Sikhs from the locality of Batala located in present-day Gurdaspur district. She was wed to Baba Gurditta on 17 April 1624. Nihal Kaur was the daughter-in-law of the sixth Sikh Guru, Guru Hargobind. She bore two sons, Dhir Mal (born 11 January 1627) and the seventh Sikh Guru, Guru Har Rai (born 18 January 1630).

When Guru Hargobind passed and Mata Nanaki relocated to Bakala in 1644, Nihal Kaur was the head of the Guru's household during the Guruship periods of Har Rai and Har Krishan.

She was responsible for the upbringing of the seventh Guru and infused the spiritual values of the House of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. She taught the young Guru-to-be the value of compassion, love, kindness, bravery, humility, etc. as was the case with all the mothers of the Gurus.

She died in Kiratpur on 29 September 1644.

References

External links 
 Article on Mata Nihal Kaur

Indian Sikhs
Family members of the Sikh gurus
Year of birth missing
Punjabi people
1644 deaths
Kwadjokrom

Kwadjokrom is a small town and is the capital of Sene District in the Bono Eat region of Ghana. Kwadjokrom is in the east of Bono East region, and is situated by Lake Volta. Kwadjokrom is connected by road highway to Ejura and Yeji. Kwadjokrom is connected by a ferry to the town of Kete Krachi.

References 

Populated places in the Brong-Ahafo Region
Lobotomizer

Lobotomizer is the debut album by Norwegian band Motorpsycho, released in 1991. The album has a raw sound and style (mostly heavy metal and grunge). However, it has been called the band's weakest record. The album includes the live-performance crowd-favourite "Hogwash". The title track and  the song "Eternity" show a less aggressive side of the band's sound.

Track listing
"Lobotomizer" – 1:02
"Grinder" – 3:48
"Hogwash" – 8:19
"Home of the Brave" – 6:42
Frances" – 3:39
"Wasted" – 3:58
"Eternity" – 2:08
"TFC" – 11:52
 Nr. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 by Sæther.
 Nr. 1 by Sæther/Ryan.
 Nr. 2 by Sæther/Ryan/Jensen.
 Nr. 7 by Sæther/Ryan/Blake.
 Vinyl edition track list: Side A: #1–#4, Side B: #5–#8.

Personnel
Bent Sæther: vocals, bass, violin, guitars, percussion
Hans Magnus Ryan: guitars, back. vocals
Kjell Runar "Killer" Jensen: drums

with:
Geir Nilsen: hammond organ on "Hogwash"

References 

1991 debut albums
Motorpsycho albums
Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park

Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is home to the second largest natural hot springs in Canada, after Deer River Hot Springs 15 km to the north east. It is a natural river of hot water rather than a spring fed man made pool. The park is part of the larger Muskwa-Kechika Management Area.  The community of Liard River, British Columbia is located nearby.

History and conservation

The Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park was created in April 1957. The first boardwalk and pool facilities were built by the United States Army in 1942.  The Liard River Hot Springs proper are located at .  They were originally named the Theresa Hot Springs.

The park contains a warm water swamp and boreal forest which supports rich and diverse plant communities as well as mammal and bird species. Watch for moose feeding in the warm water swamps. Bears, as well, are a common hazard in summer months, and may be feeding only  away from bathers. Due to the lush plant life (including 14 species of orchids) influenced by the warmth of the springs, the area used to be known as the "Tropical Valley". A rare predatory black bear attack occurred on August 14, 1997, claiming two lives.

Recreation

Alpha pool with water temperatures ranging from ; 
There are raised walkways from the parking area to the springs so that the delicate muskeg that forms the swamp is not disturbed. The walkway was the scene of a much-publicized black bear attack that killed two tourists on August 14, 1997. 

The campground is open year-round

Amenities

Bathing pools
Change houses
Wheelchair access
Playground
A  long wooden walkway leads from the parking lot to the hotsprings pool, crossing picturesque muskeg.

Location
The park is located at mile 475 (or km 765) on the Alaska Highway, between Fort Nelson ( south-east) and Watson Lake ( north-west).  The community of Liard River is just west of the park, at the 499 Milepost.

Size
1082 hectares in size.

Photo gallery

See also
List of British Columbia Provincial Parks
List of Canadian provincial parks
List of National Parks of Canada
Muncho Lake Provincial Park
Stone Mountain Provincial Park
Toad River Hot Springs Provincial Park

References

External links

Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park - on BC Parks (Ministry of Environment) website
 

Hot springs of British Columbia
Liard Country
Provincial parks of British Columbia
1957 establishments in British Columbia
Protected areas established in 1957
Clinton State Park

Clinton State Park is a public recreation area located on the north shore of Clinton Lake at the western edge of Lawrence, Kansas, United States.

The  state park lies on the north shore of Clinton Lake, known for its clear water and good channel catfish, walleye, and crappie fishing.

Visitors will find a large number of bird species that vary with the seasons.

An extensive hiking/biking trail system make this park and adjacent  wildlife area an attractive destination for outdoors enthusiasts including hikers, nature photographers, mountain bicyclists, wildflower enthusiasts, wildlife observers, and even cross-country skiers.

Park staff work closely with Lawrence and University of Kansas individuals and organizations to present several concerts and other special events each year. The park is the former to host the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival. Since 2008, Clinton State Park is the annual site of the Ironman Kansas 70.3 triathlon. The swim portion of the competition is held in Clinton Lake, and the run portion of the competition occurs on the park campgrounds and roads.

See also
 List of Kansas state parks
 List of lakes, reservoirs, and dams in Kansas
 List of rivers of Kansas

References

External links
Clinton State Park Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
Clinton State Park Map Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
https://www.ksbirds.org/checklist/Douglas.pdf

State parks of Kansas
Protected areas of Douglas County, Kansas
Triathlon venues
Matthew Miller

Matthew or Matt Miller may refer to:

Arts and entertainment
Matt K. Miller (born 1960), American voice actor
Matisyahu (Matthew Paul Miller, born 1979), American musician and reggae performer
Matthew Mercer (Matthew Christopher Miller, born 1982), American voice actor
Matt Miller (musician) (fl. 2002), American musician, bassist for the post-hardcore band Sparta
Matthew Miller (drummer) (fl. 2007–2017), American musician, drummer for Cymbals Eat Guitars
Matthew Miller (filmmaker) Canadian screenwriter and producer, notably 2023 BlackBerry
Matt Miller (The Young and the Restless), a character from the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless

Sports

American football
Matt Miller (offensive lineman) (born 1956), American football offensive lineman
Matt Miller (wide receiver) (born 1991), American football wide receiver
Matt Miller (quarterback) (fl. 1995), American football quarterback

Other sports
Matt Miller (right-handed pitcher) (born 1971), American MLB baseball pitcher with the Colorado Rockies and Cleveland Indians
Matt Miller (left-handed pitcher) (born 1974), American MLB baseball pitcher with the Detroit Tigers
Matthew Miller (basketball) (born 1982), American basketball player for Rwandan national team
Matthew Miller (rower) (born 1989), American rower

Others
Matthew Miller (journalist) (born 1962), American journalist and broadcaster
Matthew Todd Miller (born 1989), American citizen detained in North Korea in 2014
Matthew Miller (academic), American physician and professor at Harvard School of Public Health
Matthew Miller (spokesperson) (born 1973 or 1974), American communications operative and current spokesperson for the United States Department of State
Matthew Miller (journalist)

Matthew Miller (born 1962) is an American journalist, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a monthly columnist for Fortune, regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic Monthly, and author of The Two Percent Solution. He also appears regularly on CNN.

Miller was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in California's 33rd congressional district during the 2014 election. The primary followed Henry Waxman's announced retirement from the House of Representatives.

Life and career 
Miller is the son of Marianne (née Petrie) and Tilden E. Miller. His grandfather was retail executive Milton Petrie. He is a graduate of Blind Brook High School in Rye Brook, New York. He received a B.A. degree from Brown University (1983) and a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School (1986). 

In the 1990s, Miller served as an advisor to the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration. Miller is a senior advisor to global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and to the firm's in-house economics think-tank McKinsey Global Institute. Miller was a co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program Left, Right & Center from the mid-1990s until January 2015, representing the center. Miller's last episode as co-host was January 30, 2015.

On February 14, 2014, Miller announced his candidacy for the seat of Henry Waxman retiring member for California's 33rd congressional district He finished fifth in the primary election, with 12%.

Politics 
Miller has been characterized as a leading radical centrist, and has written columns defining and supporting radical centrism. Miller supports universal health insurance, increased education spending, school vouchers and other goals detailed in his book. Miller supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq but later stated that he was wrong in supporting the war, stating, "If I'd known beforehand that Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, I would not have supported the war."

Personal life
In 1995 he married Jody Greenstone Miller.

Bibliography

References

External links 
 
 Biography at the Center for American Progress
 KCRW's Left Right & Center
 

1962 births
American columnists
American male journalists
American political commentators
American political writers
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Columbia Law School alumni
Living people
Journalists from Los Angeles
Radical centrist writers
Center for American Progress people
César Ramírez (footballer)

César Augusto Ramírez Caje (born 24 March 1977), nicknamed El Tigre (Tiger), is a Paraguayan retired footballer who played as a forward.

He spent most of his professional career with Cerro Porteño (two spells, nine seasons in total), but also competed in Argentina and Portugal.

A Paraguayan international for nine years, Ramírez represented the nation at the 1998 World Cup.

Club career
Born in Curuguaty, Ramírez made his Paraguayan Primera División on 24 June 1995 at the age of 18, featuring for Club Cerro Corá in a 0–0 draw against Club Olimpia. In January 1997 he moved abroad for the first time, going on to spend two 1/2-seasons with Sporting Clube de Portugal, for whom he rarely played.

In 1999, following a spell in Argentina with Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield, Ramírez signed with Cerro Porteño back in his homeland, scoring seven goals in 22 games in the 2001 national championship to help his team lift the trophy. He bettered that to a career-high 13 goals three years later, with the tournament also ending in conquest.

Ramírez joined Brazil's Clube de Regatas do Flamengo in 2005, netting 11 times in 32 matches all competitions comprised during his one-year spell and ranking tenth-alltime foreign top scorer at the time of his retirement. Subsequently, he returned to Cerro for a further four top level campaigns, calling it quits at 33.

International career
Ramírez made his debut for the Paraguay national team in 1997. He was selected by manager Paulo César Carpegiani for his 1998 FIFA World Cup squad, and appeared in two group stage contests in France, against Bulgaria and Spain (both 0–0 draws).

Additionally, Ramírez played six World Cup qualifiers during his international tenure.

Honours

Club
Flamengo
Brazilian Cup: 2006

Cerro Porteño
Paraguayan League: 2001, 2004, Apertura 2009

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
Paraguayan men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Paraguayan Primera División players
Cerro Porteño players
Primeira Liga players
Sporting CP footballers
Argentine Primera División players
Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield footballers
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
CR Flamengo footballers
Paraguay men's under-20 international footballers
Paraguay men's international footballers
1998 FIFA World Cup players
Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil
Paraguayan expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Kete Krachi

Kete Krachi is the capital of the Krachi West District, in the western part of the Oti Region of Ghana, adjacent to Lake Volta. Kete Krachi is connected by a ferry to the town of Kwadjokrom, and by road to Bimbila and Dambai. Kete Krachi is the seventy-second most populous settlement in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 11,788 people.

Climate 

 Notable residents 

 Joseph Kodzo

References

Populated places in the Oti Region
David Marks (disambiguation)

David Marks (born 1948) is an American musician and songwriter, member of the Beach Boys.

David Marks may also refer to:
 David Marks (architect) (1952–2017), British architect
 David Marks (songwriter) (born 1944), South African-born songwriter, singer and producer
 David Marks (psychologist) (born 1945), British psychologist
 David J. Marks, woodworker who hosts a TV show on DIY Network
 David Woolf Marks (1811–1909), English Reform Jewish minister
 David Marks (preacher) (1805–1845), early evangelist in the Free Will Baptist Church
 David H. Marks, American engineer
 David Marks, main character in the film All Good Things

See also
David Mark (disambiguation)
World Ag Expo

World Ag Expo is the largest annual outdoor agricultural exposition with over 1,200 exhibitors and an attendance of more than 100,000 each year. It is held at the International Agri-Center in Tulare, California, in the United States, starting on the second Tuesday of February. It has officially been designated by the U.S. Department of Commerce as an affiliate of the Foreign Buyer Program, which encourages export of American-made goods. Prior to its 2001 rename, the event was called the California Farm Equipment Show and International Exposition.

Contests
The show features an innovation contest among its exhibitors each year. The World Ag Expo Top-10 New Products Contest highlights new agtech, equipment, services, and more. Exhibitors must apply for the contest and their submissions are reviewed by a panel of judges. The winners are featured at the show and are covered widely in the media.

Milestones
The show started in 1968 and was attended by 28,000 people. It outgrew its original home and moved to its current permanent location where it occupies 2.6 million square feet of exhibit space, the International Agri-Center in 1982.

World Ag Expo celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017.

The 2018 edition included a visit by US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, 1,480 exhibitors and 106,700 attendees came from 49 states and 63 countries.

The 2019 edition included a visit by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. 1,452 exhibitors and 102,878 attendees came from 48 states, the District of Columbia, and 65 countries.

The 2020 edition was visited by American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall. 1,442 exhibitors and 106,357 attendees came from 46 states and 56 countries. This was the first year Hemp related exhibitors were invited to be involved in the show.

The 2021 edition went online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The digital show was a success - 752 exhibitors and an impressive 24,639 visits over three days came from users in 70 countries, 49 states, and the District of Columbia. The 2021 Digital Show featured more than 120 education seminars and can be viewed online.

References

External links 

 Official website
 International Agri-Center® Facebook page

Agricultural shows in the United States
Agriculture in California
Tourist attractions in Tulare County, California
Festivals in California
Festivals established in 1968
NGC 2736

NGC 2736 (also known as the Pencil Nebula) is a small part of the Vela Supernova Remnant, located near the Vela Pulsar in the constellation Vela.  The nebula's linear appearance triggered its popular name. It resides about 815 light-years (250 parsecs) away from the Solar System.  It is thought to be formed from part of the shock wave of the larger Vela Supernova Remnant.  The Pencil Nebula is moving at roughly 644,000 kilometers per hour (400,000 miles per hour).

History 

On 1 March 1835, John Herschel discovered this object at the Cape of Good Hope and described it as "eeF, L, vvmE; an extraordinary long narrow ray of excessively feeble light; position 19 ±. At least 20' long, extending much beyond the limits of the field...". This agrees perfectly with the ESO- Uppsala listing N2736 = E260-N14, a nebula with dimensions 30'x7', position angle of 20 and notes "Luminous filament". Harold Corwin adds that on the ESO IIIa-F film this nebula is the brightest patch of a huge supernova remnant (Gum Nebula) whose delicate whisps cover the field. A relatively bright star is immersed in N2736 (mentioned by Herschel).

References

External links 

 Space.com article about NGC 2736
 NASA feature 

Gum Nebula
2736
Vela (constellation)
Tracy Krohn

Tracy W. Krohn (born August 26, 1954, in Houston, Texas) is an entrepreneur and auto racing enthusiast who was a new addition to the 2006 Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, at #320.

Biography
He has a petroleum engineering degree from Louisiana State University and has worked as an engineer and drilling supervisor for Mobil Oil. Krohn founded W&T Offshore with $12,000 in 1983. He resides in Houston.

His racing team, Krohn Racing currently competes in the European Le Mans Series. In March 2007 he and Lola Racing Cars created Proto-Auto LLC and purchased a chassis design and Grand American Daytona Prototype Constructors Licence from Multimatic Motorsports, a racing car constructor, to build a Lola chassis for Grand-Am Daytona Prototype competition in 2008 and beyond.

Krohn entered the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup in 2011, finishing second in the GTE-Am class standings. Since 2012, the team competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship. They started off with a Ferrari F458 Italia in GTE-Am, but since 2015 they compete in the LMP2 class with a Ligier JS P2 powered by Judd.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete European Le Mans Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

See also
 Krohn Racing

External links

Forbes – The 400 Richest Americans
Tracy W. Krohn
W&T Offshore
Krohn Racing

American energy industry businesspeople
Louisiana State University alumni
Rolex Sports Car Series drivers
1954 births
Living people
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
24 Hours of Daytona drivers
American Le Mans Series drivers
European Le Mans Series drivers
Racing drivers from Houston
FIA World Endurance Championship drivers
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers
21st-century American businesspeople
24H Series drivers

20th-century American businesspeople
Eurasia Motorsport drivers
AF Corse drivers
Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
Sports car racing team owners
Hartsel, Colorado

Hartsel is a census-designated place (CDP) in and governed by Park County, Colorado United States. The population was 38 at the 2020 census. The Hartsel post office has the ZIP Code 80449. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History
Founded in 1880, Hartsel is close to the geographic center of the state, and is often referred to as "The Heart of Colorado". The namesake of the community is Samuel Hartsel, a local farmer and cattle rancher who came to Park County in 1860 and left in 1908. He developed the Hartsel hot springs and built a sawmill, blacksmith shop, and a trading post to lay the groundwork for the town.

Geography
The Hartsel CDP has an area of , including  of water.

Demographics
The United States Census Bureau defined the  for the

Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Hartsel has a Cold Semi-arid climate (BSk). According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the Plant Hardiness zone is 3b with an average annual extreme minimum temperature of .

Summers are warm with chilly nights in the 30s and 40s (°F) and some thunderstorm activity during the months of July and August. Winters are cold and dry with lows below zero.  A climate writeup consisting of interpolated data is below.

Ecology
According to the A. W. Kuchler U.S. Potential natural vegetation Types, Hartsel would have a Wheatgrass / Needlegrass (66) vegetation type and a North Mixed grass prairie (7) vegetation form.

See also

 List of census-designated places in Colorado

References

External links

 Hartsel @ Colorado.com
  Hartsel @ UncoverColorado.com
 Hartsel @ Sangres.com
 Hartsel @ GhostTowns.com
 Hartsel Area Historic Sites
 Park County website

Unincorporated communities in Park County, Colorado
Unincorporated communities in Colorado
Census-designated places in Park County, Colorado
Colorado
Giant Panda (group)

Giant Panda is an underground hip hop group from Los Angeles, California.

Giant Panda is composed of childhood friends Newman and Maanumental (hailing from Seattle), and Chikaramanga (a Tokyo native), with their foundation based out of Los Angeles, CA.

The trio's name is simply an analogy to their ethnic and cultural make-up. The first single released was "88 Remix" independently in December 2002, with airplay across the globe. The follow-up to that was the acclaimed 12-inch single "With It" in September 2004 on Tres Records. "With It" received raves from print critics such as Chairman Mao from XXL. 2005 saw the release of Giant Panda's first full-length, "Fly School Reunion" (Tres Records). "Fly School Reunion" received great reviews in URB (4 1/2 stars), XXL, XLR8R, HHC, NME, and a plethora of other international magazines. It was also a hit with college radio (3 on CMJ hip-hop charts).

Giant Panda made URB's list of Next 100 in 2005. This buzz allowed the group to tour the West Coast with fellow Angelino hip-hoppers People Under The Stairs and Time Machine. In 2006 GP hit the road with Ugly Duckling for a European tour, and then once again that year reached the EU shores with People Under The Stairs. 20 May 2008 saw the release of Giant Panda's sophomore effort, "Electric Laser". Overall "Electric Laser" was a forward step for Giant Panda, but not so forward to lose fans who appreciated their sound on previous works.

The group cites De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, EPMD and A Tribe Called Quest as key influences

Discography

Promos
Fresh Donuts (2002)

Albums
Fly School Reunion (2005)
Electric Laser (2008)

7" singles
Just Cause (2001)

12" singles
'88 Remix (2002)
With It (2005)
Super Fly (2005)
T.K.O. (2005)
Speakers Pop (2008)

Collaborations
Bloquera (2004) (Newman, Maanumental, Sir Kado, and Superbrush 427)

References

External links
Myspace Page - Currently their "official" site.
Tres Records Artist Page
Tres Records Official Site
PUTS Online - The "official" unofficial fan site of People Under The Stairs. Also has up to date information on Giant Panda.

American hip hop groups
Octave Garnier

Octave Garnier (25 December 1889 – 14 May 1912) was a French anarchist and founding member of the infamous Bonnot Gang.

Life
Born in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne on Christmas Day 1889, Garnier worked as a butcher and baker  at an early age. He took up theft at the age of thirteen and had served his first prison term by age seventeen. Garnier later wrote, "prison had made me even more rebellious."

Following his release from prison, Garnier dabbled in, and then became disillusioned with, both union syndicalism and revolutionary politics before turning to anarchism.

Following two additional stints in prison (one for assault), Garnier fled to Belgium in 1910 to avoid France's military draft. Abroad, he learned the art of burglary and counterfeiting from anarchist associates. In April 1911, Garnier and his partner Marie Vuillemin moved to Romainville to live with future gang members Raymond Callemin, Jean De Boe, and Edouard Carouy as well as Victor Kibalchich, then editor of l'Anarchie. Within this group, Garnier's political sympathies grew rapidly towards illegalism, a radical form of individualist anarchism that was heavily influenced by German philosopher Max Stirner.

Following an ideological split within l'Anarchie, Garnier and Vuillemin moved to Paris and he began work as a navvy, participating in strikes at Chars, Marin, and Cergy. Working as a burglar on the side to make ends meet, he was unhappy with his lot and dreamed of bigger heists. It was at this point that Garnier, in consultation with Callemin, began to plan the activities of an anarchist gang – a group that would be known in the press as first, "The Auto Bandits", and later, "The Bonnot Gang".

Death in Nogent-sur-Marne
On 14 May 1912 Garnier and René Valet were killed in a shootout with French authorities when their safe house in Nogent-sur-Marne was raided by police. Armed with seven 9 mm Browning semi-automatics and two long-barreled Mausers, the two outlaws, who had barricaded themselves inside the rental house, faced 50 detectives, 250 police from Paris, Republican Guards, and 400 Zouaves from Nogent. As the six-hour stand-off stretched on, Valet and Garnier burned 10,000 stolen francs but managed to hold back the army outside.

At midnight, having failed to remove the bandits, French authorities succeeded in positioning one and a half kilograms of melinite in the house. The resulting explosion rendered the structure's inhabitants unconscious, and Garnier was then executed by a 9 mm shot to the right temple. Both men were buried in unmarked graves.

A memoir, found by police on Garnier's body, explained his criminal activities and summed up: "It's for all these reasons that I rebelled, it's because I didn't want to live this life of present-day society, because I didn't want to wait and maybe die before I'd lived, that I defended myself against the oppressors with all the means at my disposal..."

References
 Parry, Richard. (1987) The Bonnot Gang. Rebel Press. .

1889 births
1912 deaths
People from Fontainebleau
Illegalists
French anarchists
French bank robbers
French gangsters
Bakers
People shot dead by law enforcement officers in France