alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Fourth Military District

The Fourth Military District of the U.S. Army was one of five temporary administrative units of the U.S. War Department that existed in the American South. The district was stipulated by the Reconstruction Acts during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War. It included the occupation troops in the states of Arkansas and Mississippi. At various times, the district was commanded by generals Edward Ord, Alvan Cullem Gillem, and Adelbert Ames.

Following the completion of the Civil War, the Federal government under President of the United States Andrew Johnson sought to restore order within the states that had composed the defeated Confederate States of America. Johnson, a loyal Tennesseean, advocated a lenient strategy to remove all commercial and social restrictions between the states, with the intention for the South to return to its former position in the Union. He believed that former Confederates should receive amnesty for their actions during the war and regain full rights of citizenship. However, the Radical Republicans in Congress vehemently disagreed, and passed the 1867 Reconstruction Acts, which divided the former Confederacy into military districts, in which a military commander controlled all social, economic, and political activity in the region. The Fourth Military District comprised the states of Mississippi and Arkansas, with its headquarters in Vicksburg.

Edward Ord served as the district's first commander, with Alvan C. Gillem, like Johnson a loyal Tennessean, in charge of the sub-district of Mississippi. Gillem was later appointed as the district's commander. He favored the policy of leniency towards the former Confederates, invoking the displeasure of the Radicals in Congress. When Ulysses S. Grant became president, he removed Gillem from command and reassigned him to Texas, replacing him again with Ord, a personal friend who had served under Grant during the Civil War. When Ord was later assigned command of the District of California, another former Civil War general, Adelbert Ames, assumed command in 1868, and was also named as Governor of Mississippi, replacing former Confederate general Benjamin G. Humphreys.

When Mississippi was readmitted to the Union in 1870, the Fourth Military District was abolished and control of the state reverted to the newly elected state government.

See also
 Reconstruction military districts
 First Military District (Virginia)
 Second Military District (North Carolina, South Carolina)
 Third Military District (Georgia, Alabama and Florida)
 Fifth Military District (Texas and Louisiana)

References

 University of Southern Mississippi archives
 Mississippi history

Reconstruction Era
Departments and districts of the United States Army
Derek Corrigan

Derek Richard Corrigan is a Canadian politician and the former longtime mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Early life and education
Corrigan is a graduate of Vancouver's Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School and studied political science and philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He then obtained his law degree from the same university in 1977 and joined the Bar of British Columbia in 1978.

Corrigan first articled to and then practised as associate counsel with James Lorimer until May 1978. He was a partner in Corrigan, Bernardino, Dorman and Baker from 1978 until 1990. After that he practised in association with Joanne Challenger and Paul McMurray, both criminal defence counsel, for several years, and then was associate counsel with the Vancouver law firm Lindsay Kenney. Corrigan practised primarily as criminal defence counsel. 

After several unsuccessful attempts, he became a city councillor of the Burnaby City Council in 1987 and served for 15 years. He was elected mayor in 2002 and re-elected in 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2014. 

In the 2018 election, Corrigan lost to Mike Hurley. Corrigan's loss is credited to his stance on affordable housing and the rapid rate of renters being evicted in favour of condo development.

Personal life
In 2009, Corrigan's wife, Kathy, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as the New Democratic MLA for Burnaby-Deer Lake.  She did not seek re-election in 2017.

References

Living people
Lawyers in British Columbia
Mayors of Burnaby
Politicians from Vancouver
Peter A. Allard School of Law alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
S.T.U.N. Runner

S.T.U.N. Runner (Spread Tunnel Underground Network Runner) is 3D racing/shooter game released in arcades by Atari Games in 1989. The player pilots a futuristic vehicle which can exceed 900 mph, through various tunnels and courses with changing environments, hazards and enemies. S.T.U.N. Runner uses polygonal graphics for the vehicles and track, and is based on an evolution of Atari's Hard Drivin' hardware. The custom cabinet was designed to resemble the craft that the player pilots in-game.

The arcade game was released in Europe by Jaleco, and in Japan by Namco and Sega. Home ports were released for the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum. An Atari Lynx version was published by Atari Corporation in 1991.

Gameplay

The final goal is to reach the "Ultimate Challenge", an endless race filled with surprises, where the player must simply get as far as possible in the allotted time. Markers on the Ultimate Challenge course show the names of the five players who have traveled the farthest, who are tracked independently of the game's traditional high score table.

Twin triggers fire laser cannons mounted atop the craft, and the Start buttons double as the triggers for the Shockwave "smart bomb" weapon.

Development 
The game immediately began as a remake of Atari's Tunnel Hunt.

The Lynx version was programmed by D. Scott Williamson, an employee of Atari who went on to form the development group Solid Software.

Reception
Commodore User reviewed the arcade game, giving it a 90% rating.

Legacy
S.T.U.N. Runner is included in Midway Arcade Treasures 3 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. It was also released for Microsoft Windows as part of Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition in 2006.

References

Game info, Midway Arcade Treasures 3
Manual, Midway Arcade Treasures 3

External links

S.T.U.N. Runner at the Arcade History database

1989 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Arcade video games
Atari arcade games
Atari Lynx games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Science fiction racing games
Namco arcade games
Sega arcade games
Vehicular combat games
Video games developed in the United States
ZX Spectrum games
Jaleco games
Bayamo (wind)

A bayamo is a violent wind blowing from the land on the south coast of Cuba, especially near the Bight of Bayamo.
It is also the namesake for Giddings and Webster's most popular tuba mouthpiece.

See also
Squall

References
 Winds

Winds
Apamea (Media)

Apamea or Apameia () was a Hellenistic city in Media founded by Seleucus I Nicator, near Laodicea (now Nahavand, Iran) and Heraclea.  (Strabo xi. p. 524 ; Stephanus of Byzantium "Laodikeia").  Apamea's precise location is not known, but it was located near Nahavand.Apamea is old Phrygien Kelainai in Afyonkarahisar Province Turkey.(Near Leodekia-Denizli Province)

See also
 List of ancient Greek cities

Seleucid colonies
Former populated places in Iran
Hamadan Province
Seleucus I Nicator
Endurance 100

The Endurance 100 was a hundred-mile (162 km) mountain bike race held annually in late August in Utah. The race was discontinued after the 2007 event.

See also
 Wilderness 101 Mountain Bicycle Race
 Mohican MTB 100
 Lumberjack 100
 Shenandoah 100
 Breckenridge 100

External links
 Team Health Fx Review of the E100

Mountain biking events in the United States
Endurance games
Defunct cycling races in the United States
2007 disestablishments in Utah
Go-Bugyō

The  or Five Commissioners, was an administrative organ of feudal Japan which later evolved into the Go-Tairō (Council of Five Elders). It was established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi when he became kampaku (Imperial regent) in 1585.

Duty
The Commissioners were charged with governing the capital city of Kyoto and the surrounding areas, which were called kinai or the Home Provinces. Hideyoshi, however, still maintained a very active interest in administrative matters, and it has been theorized by some scholars that the Go-Bugyō, unlike the Go-Tairō that replaced it, served more as a committee of specialists and advisors than a group that actually enacted policy decisions.

The original five appointed were Asano Nagamasa, Maeda Gen'i, Mashita Nagamori, Natsuka Masaie, and Ishida Mitsunari. All five were samurai from Ōmi and Owari provinces, and strong supporters of Hideyoshi's former lord, Oda Nobunaga.

Asano Nagamasa, held seniority over the Commissioners, who were charged with governing the capital of Kyoto and the Home Provinces or Kinai. A close advisor to Hideyoshi, Asano devised the land survey and a number of other policies enacted under his rule.

Maeda Gen'i, a Buddhist abbot also known as Abbot Tokuzen-in, was given the post of Shoshi-dai, or Commissioner for the Metropolitan Area (of Kyoto). As a result, he addressed a variety of religious matters, as well as acting as a judge in civil disputes. 

Ishida Mitsunari was made Commissioner of Police, and also governed the area of Sakai near Osaka. Sakai was a major port, and so Ishida dealt heavily with the governance and control of various aspects of trade as well.

Natsuka Masaie became Commissioner of Finance, and Mashida Nagamori was assigned to Public Works.

List of go-bugyō
 Asano Nagamasa
 Maeda Gen'i
 Mashita Nagamori
 Ishida Mitsunari
 Natsuka Masaie

Notes

References
 Sansom, George. (1961). "A History of Japan: 1334-1615." Stanford: Stanford University Press.

See also
 Bugyō

Government of feudal Japan
1585 in Japan
Břetislav Benda

Břetislav Benda (28 March 1897 – 19 August 1983) was a Czech sculptor, student of Josef Václav Myslbek and member of Mánes Union of Fine Arts from 1923. He was born in Sepekov.

Benda's bronzes often focused on the female body, being one of the few sculptors to focus on this almost exclusively. His architectural sculpture includes interior work at the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, the Komerční banka in Náchod (with the architect Pavel Janák) and a relief for a 1935 savings bank in České Budějovice. In 1968, the Council of Czech Jewish Religious Communities commissioned Benda to create a memorial sculpture at the former trade fair building in Prague where most of the Jews of Prague were rounded up by the Nazis and deported to Terezín, onward to Theresienstadt and other concentration camps. The three-part sculpture included an inscription describing the function of the building during the Nazi regime, but the sculpture was never unveiled at the site due to government opposition. It was eventually placed in the town of Terezín itself, on the wall of the Theresienstadt fortifications adjacent to the road that leads to the crematorium and Jewish victims' cemetery.

He died in Prague, where he is buried at the Vyšehrad Cemetery.

References

External links
 Short Biography 

1897 births
1983 deaths
Czech architectural sculptors
Czech male sculptors
20th-century Czech sculptors
20th-century Czech male artists
People from Sepekov
National Centre for Biological Sciences

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, is a research centre specialising in biological research. It is a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) under the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India. The mandate of NCBS is basic and interdisciplinary research in the frontier areas of biology.  The research interests of the faculty are in four broad areas ranging from the study of single molecules to systems biology.  Obaid Siddiqi FRS (7 January 1932 – 26 July 2013) was an Indian National Research Professor and the Founder-Director of NCBS. He made seminal contributions to the field of behavioural neurogenetics using the genetics and neurobiology of Drosophila.

Research areas 
NCBS focuses on fundamental research from diverse fields of biology including biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, neurobiology, cellular organization and signalling, genetics and development, theory and modelling of biological systems, ecology and evolution etc. NCBS offers PhD, Integrated PhD and M.Sc. by Research in these areas. It also offers M.Sc. in Wildlife Biology and Conservation every alternative year. Till 2016, it has produced over 182 PhD holders and 65 M.Sc. degree holders in Wildlife Biology and Conservation.

Centres and programs
In addition to various research labs, NCBS hosts following research centres or programs:
 The Simons Centre for the study of Living Machines
 NCBS-Max Planck Lipid Center
 Chemical Ecology
 Accelerator program for Discovery in Brain disorders using Stem cells (ADBS)
 Masters in Wildlife Biology & Conservation
 Archives at NCBS

Bangalore bio-cluster
NCBS engages in a number of collaborative initiatives, such as Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP). Together these three institutions serve as part of the Bangalore bio-cluster, bringing together fundamental research, translational studies, and technology development.

Controversies and allegations 
in 2020–2021, multiple allegations appeared in PubPeer, where some faculties at NCBS were alleged to be involved in data manipulation in their publications and lead to internal investigation and retraction from journal.

See also
TIFR
CCAMP

References

External links

Official Website

 
Research institutes in Bangalore
1992 establishments in Karnataka
Research institutes established in 1992
Henry Hall (American boxer)

William "Henry" Hall (August 29, 1922 – May 25, 2016) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1942 to 1960. His birth name was William Hall.

Early life
Born in Napoleonville, Louisiana, Hall was the second of five children of Louis and Ida Hall. After his mother's death, the family moved to New Orleans, where he began boxing at the Rampart Street gym.

Professional career
Hall turned professional in 1942 and adopted "Henry" Hall as his ring name at the suggestion of his manager, who said the name sounded more sporty.

On October 15, 1948, he defeated Archie Moore, the future world light-heavyweight champion, in New Orleans. Hall was ranked as the ninth-best light heavyweight in the world that year in The Ring's annual ratings. He fought in exhibition bouts against Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles in 1950 and 1951, respectively. He also held Heinz Neuhaus to a ten-round draw in Germany in 1955. He retired in 1960.

Later life
Hall moved to Milwaukee in the 1950s. After retirement, he worked as a cement mason and a school bus driver. He suffered from dementia in his later years and died on May 25, 2016, at age 93.

References

External links
 

1922 births
2016 deaths
Boxers from Louisiana
American male boxers
Light-heavyweight boxers
People from Napoleonville, Louisiana
Sportspeople from New Orleans
Shenandoah 100

The Shenandoah 100 is an ultra-endurance 100 mile (162 km) mountain bike race held in central Western Virginia near Stokesville.  The race is normally held on the Sunday during Labor Day weekend. The race has been run continuously since 1998. 

The organizer, Shenandoah Mountain Touring based in Harrisonburg, VA also runs the Wilderness 101 in Central Pennsylvania along with numerous other cycling races, events and tours. The SM100 is part of a Nationwide series of endurance races the National Ultra Endurance Series since 2006.

The SM100 course starts and finishes in Stokesville Campground near the Stokesville Observatory. The majority of the course is in George Washington National Forest and uses part of the Wild Oak Trail. The course is primarily in Virginia but a small section crosses into West Virginia. The course covers the USGS Topo Maps of Stokesville, Palo Alto, Reddish Knob and West Augusta. As the name implies, the course is 100 miles long and has nearly 12,500 feet of vertical climbing.

Notable Records
Larry Camp, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, is the only rider to have completed the first 20 editions of the event, finishing again in 2018 in 13:43 (unofficial). Jeremiah Bishop holds the record for fastest male finisher at 6:49 in 2015 and Andrea Dvorak holds the record for fastest female finisher at 8:09 in 2017. The longest finisher recorded was Neil Curtis in 1999 taking 18:07 to finish.

Results

See also
 Wilderness 101 Mountain Bicycle Race

External links
 US National Ultra Endurance Mountain Bike Series
 The Shenandoah 100 Home Page

Cycle races in the United States
Mountain biking events in the United States
Endurance games
Recurring sporting events established in 1998
1998 establishments in Virginia
Match of the Day 2

Match of the Day 2 is a Premier League football highlights programme. It is a companion show to Match of the Day, usually broadcast on BBC One on Sunday evenings, thus facilitating coverage of the respective week's PL matches that were played since the broadcast of the initial programme.

Format
Match of the Day 2 follows the same format as Match of the Day, with highlights of the day's Premier League football, followed by post-match interviews and tactical analysis.

The show originally featured a "Top 5" countdown based around a current event or a guest analyst on the show, such as "Worst Haircuts", "Shocking Refereeing Decisions", or "Golden Oldies." This was replaced by "2 Good, 2 Bad", which offered a humorous look at the goings on of the football weekend in England, such as embarrassing gaffes, unusual celebrations, intimacy between players and managers, or supporters falling asleep.

Studio
Ahead of the 2019–20 Premier League season BBC Sport upgraded the studio that Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2, Football Focus, and Final Score broadcasts from.

The facility uses a "4K UHD ready virtual reality studio" and uses Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4 rendering technology.

The studio is located at dock10 studios, MediaCityUK.

Scheduling
From the beginning of the 2012–13 season, Match of the Day 2 moved from BBC Two to BBC One. The BBC stated this was because "of the increased number of Premier League games played on a Sunday."

Occasionally, Match of the Day 2 either switches back to BBC Two or moves its broadcast time, to make way for other sporting events. These have included the Super Bowl, the Augusta Masters Golf Tournament, and the World Snooker Championships. On other occasions, Match of the Day 2 has been delayed to Monday night to cover a particular fixture that took place that on the Monday evening.

Presenters and analysts
Mark Chapman serves as the predominant presenter. Gabby Logan, Jason Mohammad and Alex Scott serve as fill ins for Chapman

The predominant analysts as of the 2022–23 season, include: Tim Cahill, Dion Dublin, Jermaine Jenas, Martin Keown, Danny Murphy, Micah Richards, Alan Shearer, and Ian Wright.

Premier League licensing

2019–20 to 2021–22 seasons
In January 2018, the Premier League announced that it had awarded the UK highlights to BBC Sport. The rights package cost £211.5 million and covers three seasons from 2019 to 2020.

The January 2018 agreement also includes Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2 Extra, Match of the Day Kickabout, Football Focus, Final Score, and The Premier League Show.

References

External links

 
 
 Match of the Day 2 Extra
 Match of the Day 3

BBC Television shows
BBC Sport
2004 British television series debuts
2000s British sports television series
2010s British sports television series
2020s British sports television series
Premier League on television
William Yates

William, Bill, or Billy Yates may refer to:

William Yates (died 1558 or 1559) (1505–1558/1559), Member of Parliament for Lincoln
William Yates (college president) (1720–1764), College of William & Mary's fifth president (1761–1764)
William Yates (missionary) (1792–1845), Baptist missionary to India
William Yates (athlete) (1880–1967), British Olympic racewalker
William Yates (footballer) (1883–?), English footballer
William Yates (politician) (1921–2010), British and Australian politician
William H. Yates (died 1868), American abolitionist and writer
Bill Yates (footballer) (1903–1978), English footballer and cricketer
Bill Yates (1921–2001), American cartoonist
Billy Yates (American football) (born 1980), professional offensive lineman
Billy Yates (singer) (born 1963), American country singer
Billy Yates (album), his self-titled debut album

See also
William Butler Yeats (pronounced Yates, 1865–1939), poet & dramatist
Billy Yeats (pronounced Yates, 1951–2013), English footballer
William Yates Atkinson (1854–1899), governor of Georgia, US
William Yates Peel (1789–1858), British Tory politician
William Yates Redpath (1922–1989), Scottish footballer
Pinus squamata

Pinus squamata, the Qiaojia pine (zh: 巧家五针松) or southern lacebark pine, is a critically endangered pine native to a single locality consisting of about 20 trees in Qiaojia County, northeast Yunnan, China, at about  elevation.

The Qiaojia pine was discovered in April 1991 by Pangzhao J.Q. It was studied later that year and described the following year by Li Xiang-Wang. It shows similarities to Rzedowski's Pinyon and some other pinyon pines.

Description
Its mature height is unknown because none of the living trees are yet mature, but they could possibly grow to  or greater. Its habitat is open secondary woodland, scrub, and grassland mixed with Yunnan pine.

The Qiaojia pine has a conic crown with flaky pale gray-green bark becoming dark brown with age, similar to the closely related lacebark pine. The shoots are reddish to greenish brown and may be pubescent or glabrous. The leaves are drooping in fascicles of 4 or 5,  long by  wide, glossy green above with white stomatal bands on the underside.

The cones are conic to ovoid, reddish brown, and  long by  broad when open. They open at maturity in September to October of the second year to release the oblong black seeds,  long with a  wing.

Conservation
Pinus squamata is the rarest of world pine species, with the endangered Torrey pine, Pinus torreyana, being the next most rare pine species.  This species has an extremely restricted range, known from only a very small area which is essentially one location. It seems to be a naturally very rare taxon and there is no indication for there having been any past reduction and likewise no evidence for any continuing decline. Hence the species is listed as Critically Endangered under criterion D on the basis of the very small population – around 18-20 mature individuals.

References

External links
Flora of China
Photo of cones

Squamata
Endemic flora of China
Trees of China
Critically endangered flora of Asia
Edible nuts and seeds
Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

The Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria. The presiding officer of the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria, the Victorian Legislative Council, is the President of the Victorian Legislative Council.

A Speaker is elected at the beginning of each new parliamentary term by the Legislative Assembly from one of its members. The Assembly may re-elect an incumbent Speaker by passing a motion; otherwise, a secret ballot is held. The Assembly can dismiss the Speaker by a majority vote, and the Speaker can resign.

In practice, the Speaker is usually a member of the governing party or parties, who have the majority in the Assembly. The Speaker continues to be a member of a political party, and may or may not attend party meetings. The Speaker also continues to carry out ordinary electorate duties as a member of Parliament and must take part in an election campaign to be re-elected as a member of Parliament.

The Deputy Speaker, also elected by the Assembly, supports and assists the Speaker and fulfils the role as Speaker in their absence or during a vacancy in the position.

Speakers of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

References

Victoria
Your Saving Grace

Your Saving Grace is the fourth album by American rock group the Steve Miller Band, released in November 1969. It reached number 38 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.

Track listing

References

External links

Steve Miller Band albums
1969 albums
Albums produced by Glyn Johns
Capitol Records albums
Albums recorded at Wally Heider Studios
Laodicea (Mesopotamia)

Laodicea (); also transliterated as Laodikeia or Laodiceia was a Hellenistic city in Mesopotamia.  Pliny (vi. 30) places Laodicea along with Seleucia and Artemita. Laodicea's precise location is unknown, but it is in modern-day Iraq.

See also
List of ancient Greek cities
Nahavand

External links
Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Laodiceia", London, (1854)

Seleucid colonies
Former populated places in Iraq
Section Eight Productions

Section Eight Productions, or just Section Eight, was an American film production company founded in 2000 by film director Steven Soderbergh and actor/director George Clooney.

It produced the critical hits Far from Heaven, Insomnia, Syriana, A Scanner Darkly and Michael Clayton, as well as Clooney-directed films Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Good Night, and Good Luck. In 2005, Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck picked up eight Oscars nominations between them.

With Soderbergh citing a desire to focus on directing, and Clooney forming production company Smokehouse Pictures with Grant Heslov, the two decided to shut down Section Eight at the end of 2006.

Films

Notes and references

External links 
New York Times, January 18, 2005: Trying to Combine Art and Box Office in Hollywood — article about Section Eight, Clooney, & Soderbergh.

Entertainment companies established in 2000
Mass media companies established in 2000
Mass media companies disestablished in 2006
Defunct American film studios
Film production companies of the United States
Entertainment companies based in California
2000 establishments in California
2006 disestablishments in California
Baldy Mountain (Manitoba)

Baldy Mountain is the highest peak in Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the Duck Mountain Provincial Park, North of Grand View. It is  tall, making it the highest mountain in the  long Manitoba Escarpment.

References 

Mountains of Manitoba
Duck Mountain Provincial Park (Manitoba)
Mountains of Canada under 1000 metres
Book of Dreams

Book of Dreams is the tenth studio album by Steve Miller Band. The album was released in May 1977 on Capitol Records in the United States, Canada and Japan and by Mercury Records in Europe. Three singles were released from the album in 1977 with the first single, "Jet Airliner", being the most successful.

The album peaked in the top 10 of the trade charts in four countries, including Canada where the album topped RPM magazine's 100 Albums chart. The album has gone on to become one of the group's most successful studio outings.

Recording and production
The songs on Book of Dreams were recorded at CBS Studios in San Francisco, California; the basic tracks were recorded at the same time as the basic tracks for Fly Like an Eagle. The sessions were produced by the group's leader, Steve Miller, who had been producing the group's albums since Number 5 in 1970. John Palladino was the album's executive producer and the recording engineer was Mike Fusaro. The recordings were later mixed by Jim Gains with assistance from Win Kutz and were mastered by Ken Perry.

Artwork
The winged horse art was created by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse, who were credited as "Kelly and Mouse". The art director for the album was Roy Kohara. The cover illustration was also used on the record label on the vinyl version of the album.

Reception

AllMusic gave the album a rating of 4/5 stars, calling it "a highlight of the '70s classic rock era and one of Miller's finest releases." The review also comments that it is an unnecessary album for the casual fan to consider, as the compilation album Greatest Hits 1974–78 contains seven highlight tracks from Book of Dreams.

Track listing

Personnel
 Steve Miller – vocals, guitar, synthesizer, sitar, producer
 David Denny – guitar
 Greg Douglass – guitar, slide guitar
 Byron Allred – piano, synthesizer
 Lonnie Turner – bass guitar
 Gary Mallaber – drums, percussion

Additional personnel
 Norton Buffalo – harmonica on "Winter Time" and "The Stake"
 Les Dudek – lead guitar on "Sacrifice"
 Kenny Johnson – drums on "Sacrifice"
 Jachym Young – piano on "Sacrifice"
 Charles Calamise – bass guitar on "Sacrifice"
 Curley Cooke – acoustic guitar on "Sacrifice"
 Bob Glaub – bass guitar on "Winter Time"

Technical
 John Palladino – executive producer
 Mike Fusaro – recording engineer
 Jim Gains – mixing
 Win Kutz – assistant mixer
 Ken Perry – mastering
 Roy Kohara – art direction
 Kelly – illustration
 Mouse – illustration

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

1977 albums
Steve Miller Band albums
Capitol Records albums
Alonso Manso

Alonso Manso (1460 – September 27, 1539) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Puerto Rico (1511–1539), and first Bishop of Magua (1504–1511), and as the eighth governor of Puerto Rico.

Biography
Alonso Manso was born in Becerril de Campos, Spain and studied theology at the University of Salamanca. He became the canon of Salamanca and the chaplain of the prince Don Juan. On November 15, 1504, he was appointed bishop of Magua, Dominican Republic. On August 8, 1511, Pope Julius II created three dioceses in the New World, two in Hispaniola (Santo Domingo and Concepción de la Vega) and one in Puerto Rico (San Juan), and Manso was appointed bishop of the diocese of Puerto Rico. On March 3, 1512, he was consecrated bishop by Diego de Deza, Archbishop of Sevilla.  Before even arriving to Puerto Rico on September 26, 1512, he founded the first school of advanced studies. In 1513, he became the first bishop to arrive in the New World. In 1519, at the request of Bishop Manso the diocese of Puerto Rico was expanded to cover all the Leeward Islands. That same year he was appointed as the first Inquisitor General of the Indies and two years later he directed the construction of the Cathedral of San Juan. However, the cathedral would be completely destroyed by a hurricane in 1539, shortly after his death.

Bishop Manso, as was customary at the time, became involved in politics. He became the eighth governor of Puerto Rico in 1523. However, his stay in power was short lived as he was replaced a year later by Pedro Moreno, the man who, incidentally, he had replaced.

Bishop Manso was the precursor of many acts in the New World. Aside from establishing the first advanced studies school he performed the first episcopal consecration in the New World when in 1529, at the Cathedral of San Juan, he consecrated Sebastián Ramírez de Fuenleal, elected bishop of Santo Domingo. He also founded two hospitals, Concepción (which was the first hospital built in Puerto Rico) and San Ildefonso hospital. Bishop Manso died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1539 at the age of 79. He was succeeded as bishop of Puerto Rico by Rodrigo de Bastidas y Rodriguez de Romera in 1541.

References

Catholic Encyclopedia - Porto Rico

External links and additional sources
 (for Chronology of Bishops) 
 (for Chronology of Bishops) 

1460 births
1539 deaths
Royal Governors of Puerto Rico
Spanish Roman Catholic bishops in North America
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Puerto Rico
16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in New Spain
15th-century Castilian Roman Catholic priests
University of Salamanca alumni
Colonial Puerto Rico
Spanish West Indies
16th century in Puerto Rico
Roman Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico
ESPN NFL Football

ESPN NFL Football (alternatively known as NFL 2K4) is the first Sega football game using the ESPN in the name. It is published by Sega and developed by Visual Concepts. It was released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive lineman Warren Sapp is featured on the cover.

Reception

The game received "universal acclaim" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GameSpot named it the best Xbox game of September 2003.

References

External links
 

PlayStation 2 games
Xbox games
National Football League video games
2003 video games
Sega video games
Video games developed in the United States
ESPN NFL video games
Visual Concepts games
Espen Beranek Holm

Espen Beranek Holm (born 23 March 1960) is a Norwegian pop artist and comedian.

Career
Beranek is a Norwegian solo artist. His debut single Dra te' hælvete (1981), which was a great success, caused controversy when the song was banned by NRK. It was followed up by the albums Sound of Danger (1981), X-Ray (1983), Trigger (1984), Daylight In the Dark (1986), The Red File (1988) and Tacoma Bridge (1994). He provided synth, guitar, bass, drums and vocal on all albums, and produced all albums himself. Jean Jaques Burnel from the Stranglers recorded one track together with Beranek on Trigger. He also produced a couple of tracks for Daylight In the Dark as well as providing bass and backing vocals. Dave Greenfield from the Stranglers also contributed to the album with some synth-work together with pedal steel guitarist B.J.Cole.

Beranek has been a member of the bands Dei Nye Kappelanane, Langsomt Mot Nord, Spastisk Ekstase and Ung Pike Forsvunnet. He is currently the vocalist and playing guitar in the Oslo-based power trio Oslo Plektrum.

Beranek was also one of the main participants in the satiric radio program Hallo i uken in NRK P2 until the summer of 2009, together with Are Kalvø and Else Michelet, and was very frequently on the comedy television show Løvebakken, a local version of If I Ruled The World, aired from 2002 through 2012 on NRK.

Beranek´s first release in nearly 20 years, Sensitive Dependence, was released in October 2013.

Discography

Singles:
Dra te' Hælvete/Balls'n Calls (Mind Expanding Records, May 1981)
City Lights/A Song of Kindess (Snowflake Records, January 1983)
It's So Strong/I Believe in You (Snowflake Records, February 1983)
She's a Great Dancer/High Fly (Snowflake Records, September 1984)
Dancing in the Wind/Teardrop (Epic / Animal Voice, October 1986)
Dum-dee-dum-dee/Hotter Than the Sun (CBS / Animal Voice, September 1988)
Tacoma Bridge/Trick of Sounds (Animal Voice, March 1994)
One Day (Animal Voice, April 2013)
I Wish The Sky Was Blue (Animal Voice, June 2013)
Fly like a bird (radio edit) (Animal Voice, October 2013)
Album 
Sound of Danger (Mind Expanding Records, November 1981)
X-Ray''' (Snowflake Records, February 1983)Trigger (Snowflake Records, February 1984)She´s a Great Dancer (Snowflake Records, September 1985)Daylight in the Dark (Epic / Animal Voice, October 986)The Red File (CBS / Animal Voice, September 1988)Vintage Tapes (Animal Voice, April 1993)Tacoma Bridge (Animal Voice, March 1994)Sensitive Dependence'' (Animal Voice, October 21, 2013)

References

External links

1960 births
Living people
Norwegian guitarists
Male bass guitarists
Norwegian male bass guitarists
20th-century Norwegian drummers
Norwegian rock drummers
Male drummers
English-language singers from Norway
Norwegian record producers
Norwegian radio personalities
NRK people
Norwegian male comedians
Norwegian multi-instrumentalists
20th-century Norwegian bass guitarists
20th-century Norwegian male musicians
Beránek

Beránek (feminine Beránková) is a Czech surname (meaning "little lamb"). Notable people with that surname include:

 Alois Beranek (1900–1983), Austrian football player, manager and referee
 Bohuslav Beránek (1946−2007), Czech orienteer
 Christian Beranek (born 1974), American graphic novelist and filmmaker
 Espen Beranek Holm (born 1960), Norwegian pop artist and comedian
 Jan Beránek (born 1970), Czech ecological activist and politician
 Jana Beránková, Czech figure skater
 Josef Beránek (born 1969), Czech ice hockey player
 Kateřina Beránková (born 1977), Czech figure skater
 Leo Beranek (1914−2016), American acoustician
 Miroslav Beránek (born 1957), Czech football coach
 Renata Beránková (born 1971), Czech rower

Czech-language surnames
Strawberry Jam Comics

Strawberry Jam Comics was a Canadian publisher of comic books during the black-and-white comics boom of the mid and late 1980s.  Inspired by the creative success of Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark, founders Paul Stockton and Derek McCulloch launched Strawberry Jam with the publication of To Be Announced #1 in 1985. The commercial success of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles provided further inspiration.

Strawberry Jam never achieved significant renown or commercial success, and folded in 1992 after seven years of intermittent publication.  Strawberry Jam's series night life has been recalled by some observers as a precursor to the style of writer-driven comics later to emerge from DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.

Titles 
 To Be Announced (7 issues, written by Derek McCulloch, drawn by Mike Bannon)
 night life (7 issues, written by Derek McCulloch, drawn by Simon Tristam)
 Open Season (7th issue, written and drawn by Jim Bricker; first six published by Renegade Press)
 Oombah, Jungle Moon Man (1 issue, written and drawn by Mike Bannon)

References

External links 
 paul Stockton's Strawberry Jam Comics page
 University of Alberta's Strawberry Jam Comics Collection

Defunct comics and manga publishing companies
Comic book publishing companies of Canada
Companies based in Edmonton
Publishing companies established in 1985
Publishing companies disestablished in 1992
1985 establishments in Alberta
1992 disestablishments in Alberta
Mona monkey

The mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona) is an Old World monkey that lives in  western Africa between Ghana and Cameroon. The mona monkey can also be found on the island of Grenada as it was transported to the island aboard slave ships headed to the New World during the 18th century.  This guenon lives in groups of up to thirty-five in forests. It mainly feeds on fruit, but sometimes eats insects and leaves. The mona monkey has brown agouti fur with a white rump. Its tail and legs are black and the face is blue-grey with a dark stripe across the face. The mona monkey carries food in cheek pouches.

Description
The male mona monkey has a head-and-body length of  and a tail of . The female's head-and-body length is . The head has a brown crown, broad whitish brow band, grey mask of bare skin and bushy pale cheek fur. The upper parts of the body and the outer sides of the limbs are deep brown while the underparts and the insides of the limbs are creamy-white. On either side of the base of the tail are a pair of patches of white hair which closely resemble the ischial callosities found in baboons and other Old World monkeys in this position.

Distribution and habitat
The mona monkey is native to the lowland forests of eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and western Cameroon. It has also been introduced into Grenada and São Tomé and Príncipe. Although mainly a forest species, it is able to adapt to heavily degraded forest, gallery forest in savannah regions, and mangrove forest in the delta region of the Niger River, and is generally the commonest monkey near rivers.

Ecology
The mona monkey is usually found in groups of about twelve individuals, with a single mature male, but larger aggregations also occur. The troop moves through the canopy foraging mainly for fruit, but also eating flowers, seeds and insects and other invertebrates. It is a vocal species with a harsh grating call, and the male issues a "ooer" alarm call. It often associates with other species of monkeys including Lowe's mona monkey (Cercopithecus lowei) and the crested mona monkey (Cercopithecus pogonias).

Status
The mona monkey is a common and adaptable species. Its natural forest habitat has been impacted by much habitat destruction and it suffers from being hunted for food. However the population does not seem to be declining significantly, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being near-threatened.

See also
Lowe's mona monkey
Wolf's mona monkey
Dent's mona monkey

References

BBC Science and Nature

External links
Weissella confusa Infection in Primate (Cercopithecus mona)

Guenons
Mammals of Cameroon
Mammals of Grenada
Mammals of the Caribbean
Mammals of West Africa
Mammals described in 1774
Taxa named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
Articles containing video clips
Sidronio Camacho

Sidronio Camacho was one of the soldiers of Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution and the killer of Emiliano's brother, Eufemio.

On June 18, 1917, Camacho killed Emiliano's brother, Eufemio Zapata, who had beaten up Camacho's father, at the time Eufemio's second in command, supposedly for drunkenness (according to some sources, it was Eufemio who was drunk, not Sidronio's father ), at Cuautla, Mexico. Sidronio avenged his father by shooting Eufemio in the abdomen. He then threw his still-living victim on an anthill. This event earned him the nickname "el loco Sidronio" ("the crazy Sidronio").

Knowing Emiliano would want to avenge his brother, Sidronio sought out sanctuary with Zapata's enemies, the Carrancistas (followers of Venustiano Carranza), who granted him an amnesty.

See also
Emiliano Zapata
Eufemio Zapata
Pancho Villa
List of people from Morelos, Mexico

References

External links
 http://www.latinoartcommunity.org/community/Gallery/1910/CourseRev/Leaders/Zapata/Zapata02.html

Camacho, Sidronio
The Children of Vallenato

The Children of Vallenato () is a vallenato musical group of children. The group was created by the Vallenato Legend Festival Foundation, to promote future artist for this musical genre. The group has performed throughout the world, in many countries, including a personal presentation for former US president Bill Clinton at the White House.

References

Vallenato musical groups
Wide River

Wide River is the fifteenth album by American rock band the Steve Miller Band, released in 1993. The title track was their last Billboard Hot 100 single, peaking at No. 64. It is their last album of original material to date, and would also be their last studio album until Bingo! in 2010. , sales in the United States have exceeded 258,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.  It was re-released  on vinyl by Sailor Records in 2016. In addition, May 24, 2019 saw the re-release again of Wide River on exclusive translucent light blue vinyl, by UMe Label, and on black vinyl.

Track listing

Personnel 
 Steve Miller – vocals, guitar, producer, mixing
 Billy Peterson – bass guitar, piano
 Gordy Knutson – drums, percussion
 Bob Mallach – saxophone
 Norton Buffalo – harmonica

 Additional personnel

 Ben Sidran – keyboards
 Leo Sidran – keyboards, guitar
 David Denny – guitar
 Jay Bird Koder – guitar
 Joey Heinemann – piano

 Production
 Steve Wiese – recording engineer, mixing
 Rick Fisher – recording engineer

Notes 

Steve Miller Band albums
1993 albums
Polydor Records albums
Beckman

Beckman may refer to:

Beckman (surname)
Arnold Orville Beckman, chemist and entrepreneur
Beckman Coulter, a biomedical laboratory instruments company founded by Arnold O. Beckman
3737 Beckman, an asteroid
 Institutes and research centers supported by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
 Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford, California 
 Beckman Institute at Caltech, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
 Beckman Institute Laser Resource Center (BILRC) at Caltech
 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
 Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, in Irvine, California
  Beckman Research Institute (BRI) at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, United States
 Schools
Arnold O. Beckman High School, a high school in Irvine, California named after Arnold Orville Beckman
Beckman High School (Dyersville, Iowa), a Roman Catholic high school in Dyersville, Iowa, named for Archbishop Francis J. L. Beckman

See also 

 Beckmann (disambiguation)
 

ru:Бекман
The Long Wait

The Long Wait is a 1954 American crime drama film noir directed by Victor Saville starring Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans and Peggie Castle. The film is based on the 1951 novel of the same title by Mickey Spillane. It was an independent production distributed by United Artists.

Plot
Johnny McBride is badly hurt while hitch hiking and loses his memory when the car he is riding in crashes; he also has his fingerprints burned off. Two years later, a clue leads him to his old home town, where he finds he is a murder suspect. McBride tries to clear his name of the presumed murder charges. Thugs working for the local mob boss try to end his meddling.

Cast
 Anthony Quinn as Johnny McBride
 Charles Coburn as Gardiner
 Gene Evans as Servo
 Peggie Castle as Venus
 Mary Ellen Kay as Wendy Miller
 Shirley Patterson as Carol Shay
 Dolores Donlon as Troy Avalon
 Barry Kelley as Tucker
 James Millican as Police Capt. Lindsey
 Bruno VeSota as Eddie Packman 
 Jay Adler as Joe—Bellhop
 John Damler as Alan Logan
 Frank Marlowe as Pop Henderson

Reception
The New York Times called it slow-paced, boring, and likely to disappoint fans of the novel.

Noir analysis
Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward writes: "The inclusion of amnesia, giving the hero a sense of hopelessness compounded by the frustration of his loss of identity, instills a distinct existential bias into McBride's search. This attitude combines with a pervading sense of corruption and dehumanization to give The Long Wait a fatalistic noir ethos."

References

Further reading

External links
 
 
 
 

1954 films
American black-and-white films
Film noir
Films about amnesia
Films based on American novels
Films based on works by Mickey Spillane
Films directed by Victor Saville
United Artists films
Films with screenplays by Lesser Samuels
Films scored by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
American crime drama films
1954 crime drama films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
Inverness, Sweden

Inverness () is a community located in upper-middle-class suburb Stocksund in Danderyd Municipality in Metropolitan Stockholm, Sweden.

Geography of Stockholm
Yara, Cuba

Yara is a small town and municipality in the Granma Province of Cuba, located halfway between the cities of Bayamo and Manzanillo, in the Gulf of Guacanayabo. Yara means "place" in the Taíno language.

History
The Taíno Cacique (chief) Hatuey was burnt at the stake in Yara, on February 2, 1512, after he organized a guerrilla war against the Spaniards. Hatuey is known as "Cuba's First National Hero". This action gave birth to one of Cuban mayor's myths; "La Luz de Yara", The Light of Yara.

On October 10, 1868, the beginning of the Ten Years' War in Cuba occurred and is known as El Grito de Yara (The Cry of Yara) and was the beginning of the First Cuban War of Independence.

Yara was established as a municipality in 1912, when Manzanillo was split up.

Geography
The municipality is divided into the barrios of Yara, Yara Arriba, Veguitas, Buey de Gallego, Coco, Caboa, Cabagán, Calambrosio, Canabacoa, Cayo Redondo, José Martí, Los Cayos, Mateo Romás and Sofía.

Demographics
In 2004, the municipality of Yara had a population of 59,415. With a total area of , it has a population density of .

Personalities
Bartolomé Masó (1830–1907), soldier and politician
Tete Puebla (born 1940), Cuban politician
Harry Villegas (1940–2019), Cuban revolutionary
Huber Matos (1918–2014), Cuban revolutionary military leader, political dissident against Castro's marxist regime, political prisoner, activist and writer

See also
Circuito Sur de Oriente
Municipalities of Cuba
List of cities in Cuba

References

External links

Populated places in Granma Province