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Brian Glencross

Brian Alan Glencross OAM (1 May 1941 – 30 December 2022) was an Australian field hockey player and coach.  As a member of the Australian National Men's Hockey Team, he won a bronze medal and a silver medal at consecutive Olympic Games – the bronze at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the silver four years later, when Mexico City hosted the Games. As a player, he represented Australia from 1964 to 1974, playing in 93 games. He coached the Australian women's hockey team from 1980 to 1992.

Glencross died after a long battle with neurological disease on 30 December 2022, at the age of 81.

Coaching results at major tournaments:

1981: 4th – World Cup
1983: 3rd – World Cup
1984: 4th – Los Angeles Olympic Games
1986: 6th – World Cup
1987: 2nd – Champions Trophy
1988: 1st – Seoul Olympic Games
1989: 1st – Champions Trophy
1990: 2nd – World Cup
1991: 1st – Champions Trophy
1992: 5th – Barcelona Olympic Games

Glencross was appointed the inaugural Australian Institute of Sport women's coach in 1984 and held the position to 1995.

Recognition
1968 – WA Sports Federation's Sportsman of the Year
1991 – Medal of the Order of Australia 
1991 – inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame
1996 – inducted into the WA Hall of Champions.
2000 – Australian Sports Medal
2001 – Centenary Medal in 2001.
2008 – Hockey Australia Hall of Fame

Notes

References

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1941 births
2022 deaths
Australian male field hockey players
Australian field hockey coaches
Olympic field hockey players for Australia
Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Australia
Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Field hockey people from Western Australia
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal
Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
Olympic medalists in field hockey
People from Narrogin, Western Australia
Olympic coaches for Australia
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Richard Bagot (writer)

Richard Bagot (8 November 1860 – 11 or 12 December 1921) was an English novelist and essayist with a prominent Italian background. He was known most widely for his articles and reviews of Italian art and letters. His best known works of fiction were Donna Diana, Love's Proxy, and The Passport. To many, however, he was known solely as the writer of My Italian Year and of other books and articles on the land he visited many times. He held high honors in Italy, and was a member of the more important Italian clubs.

Family history
Bagot was the member of a well-known family-line of Staffordshire. He was the fourth child of Col. Charles (1801-1881) and Sophia Louisa (Percy; d. 1908) Bagot, the daughter of Vice-Admiral Josceline Percy, son of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley. His great grandfather was William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot. His great uncle, also named Richard Bagot (1782-1854), was Dean of Canterbury and Bishop of Oxford. His father was a Justice of the Peace for the county, and also the Assistant Master of Ceremonies to HM Queen Victoria.

Awards and recognition
In 1917, Bagot was presented with an illuminated address of appreciation from the Italian nation signed by the Cabinet, Senate, and Chamber of Deputies and leaders of Italian science, literature, art and industry . He was invested as a Grand Officer in the Order of the Crown of Italy, and as a Knight in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. 

Bagot died at his home in Milnthorpe, Westmorland, England.

Works

A Roman Mystery (1899)
The Just And The Unjust (1901)
Casting Of Nets (1901)
Donna Diana (1902)
Love's Proxy (1904)
The Passport (1905)
Temptation (1907)
Anthony Cuthbert (1908)
Lakes Of Northern Italy (1908)
The House Of Serravalle (1910)
My Italian Year (1911)
Italians Of To-day (1912)
Darneley Place (1912)
The Gods Decide (1919)

References
New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors. URL accessed 2006-03-12.
Cousin, John W. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. 1910.
"The Peerage of Great Britain". RootsWeb. URL accessed 2006-03-12.
The Washington Post. December 13, 1921. Washington, D.C.
Oakland Tribune.  December 12, 1921. Oakland, California.

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1860 births
1921 deaths
20th-century English novelists
English essayists
Knights of Malta
People from Milnthorpe
Male essayists
English male novelists
20th-century essayists
20th-century English male writers
Carrot fly

The carrot fly (Chamaepsila rosae) is a pest of gardens and farms, and mainly affects the crop of carrots, but can also attack parsnips, parsley and celery. It is a member of the family Psilidae (order Diptera).

Larvae
Crop damage is caused by the creamy-yellow larvae (maggots) feeding on the outer layers of the carrot root. In autumn, they may penetrate further into the root. The legless larvae are up to 10 mm in length.

Symptoms of infestation
Foliage becomes wilted and discoloured. Leaves turn rusty red to scarlet with some yellowing. Rusty-brown tunnels are seen under the outer skin of mature roots.

Control
The flies lay their eggs around the developing carrots; the larvae, once hatched, burrow into the root. As female carrot flies are very low flying, the best method of prevention is to erect a barrier around the crop at least 2 feet (60 cm) high. Alternatively horticultural fleece may be used as a floating mulch to cover the crop. Because the carrot fly is attracted to host plants by odor, masking the smell of the host plant by planting odoriferous companion crops such as onions, chives, and garlic can successfully deter attack. Intermixing of crops can also be a fruitful way to confuse and avoid carrot fly attack. Some plants such as rosemary, sage, and marigold are also used to deter the carrot fly. Newer varieties of carrot which claim to be resistant to carrot fly (e.g. "Flyaway") may be used.
Another method of control is to use heavier, fine plastic mesh available from garden centers and over the internet made specially for the purpose. This can be in the form of a surrounding wall or a complete "cage". Some form of support framework is necessary to prevent the netting from flattening the foliage. Also the bottom of the netting needs to be in close contact or buried in the soil as it is believed that the eggs are laid on bare soil. When the maggots hatch they then crawl towards the carrots so a soil level barrier is necessary.

Commercially available beneficial nematodes (Steinernema spp.) can be applied to the soil surrounding the carrot crop, where they will infect the damaging carrot root fly larvae.

Latin name
The original species name of Musca rosae (Fabricius in Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta (1794)) was originally occupied by Musca rosae (De Geer 1776), which was itself a synonym for the hoverfly species Musca pyrastri Linnaeus, 1758 (now Scaeva pyrastri). The new name of Chamaepsila hennigi was proposed for the Carrot fly by Thompson & Pont in 1994. As the name rosae Fabricius was well known for this major crop pest, applications were made to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for suppression of the name rosae of De Geer and the conservation of rosae of Fabricius. In 2006 they ruled under their plenary powers that rosae Fabricius, 1794 was not to be regarded as invalid by reason of being a junior primary homonym of Musca rosae De Geer, 1776.

References

External links
 Pest Information Wiki
 Web page on carrot fly

Psilidae
Agricultural pest insects
Insects described in 1794
Carrot
DIRFOR

DIRFOR stands for Sindacato nazionale dei dirigenti e direttivi forestali, an Italian trade union of the Forestry Police. It is no longer active since December 2016.

Trade unions in Italy
Forestry in Italy
Panamá, Goiás

Panamá is a municipality in south Goiás state, Brazil.

Location
Panamá is located in the Meia Ponte Microregion and is about 25 kilometers north of the border with the state of Minas Gerais.  It is a short distance west of the important BR-153 highway which links São Paulo to Belém.  Panamá is 26 kilometers south of Goiatuba and 25 kilometers from Itumbiara.  The distance to Goiânia is 188 km.

Neighboring municipalities are:
north:  Goiatuba
south and west:  Itumbiara
east: Bom Jesus de Goiás

History
Panamá began with the building of a chapel by a local landowner.  In 1931 it became a district of Santa Rita do Paranaíba, present-day Itumbiara with the name Divinópolis.  In 1943 the name was changed to Panamá and Santa Rita changed to Itumbiara.  In 1950 it was dismembered from Itumbiara.  The name comes from a small river called Panamá.

Political Information
Mayor: Divino Alexandre da Silva (January 2013)
City council: 9

Demographics
Population density: 6.04 inhabitants/km2 (2007)
Urban population: 1,995 (2007)
Rural population: 623 (2007)
Population growth 2000-2007:  -0,83%

Economy
The economy is based on agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.  
Industrial units: 2 (2007)
Commercial units: 24 (2007)
Cattle herd: 27,800 head (2006)
Main crops (2006): cotton (700 hectares), rice (400 hectares), sugarcane, oranges, manioc, corn, and soybeans (5,700 hectares).
In 2006 there were 221 farmers with a planted area of 6,368 hectares.  The total agricultural area was 16,567 ha..  Pasture made up 9,290 ha.

Education
Schools: 3
Students: 795
Middle schools and students: 1 with 155 students
Higher education: none
Adult literacy rate: 81.9% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

Health
Hospitals: 0
Hospital beds: 0
Ambulatory clinics: 1
Infant mortality rate: 23.05 (2000) (national average was 33.0)

The United Nations Human Development Index (2000) ranked Panamá 131 out of 242 municipalities in the state of Goiás with a score of 0.733.

For the complete list see Frigoletto

See also 
 List of municipalities in Goiás

References

Frigoletto
 Sepin

Municipalities in Goiás
Huna Kingdom

Hunas were a tribe close to Himalayas that, because of limited interaction with Indian kingdoms, were mentioned in the epic Mahabharata. They belonged to the Xinjiang province of China, east of Jammu-Kashmir. However, they were nomadic people who changed their settlements from time to time.

References in Mahabharata

Huna mentioned as a kingdom of Ancient India (Bharata Varsha) 

Among the tribes of the north are the Mlecchas, and the Kruras, the Yavanas, the Chinas, the Kambojas, the Darunas, and many Mleccha tribes; the Sukritvahas, the Kulatthas, the Hunas, and the Parasikas; the Ramanas, and the Dasamalikas. (6,9).

According to Dr V. A. Smith, this verse of Mahabharata is reminiscent of the period (4th/5th century AD)  when the Hunas first came into contact with the Sassanians dynasty of Persia (See: Early History of India, p 339, Dr V. A. Smith; See also Early Empire of Central Asia, W. M. McGovern).

The origin myth of Huna tribe 

Mahabharata links the origin of Hunas with sage Vasishta. Viswamitra attacked the cow of Vasishta. Then many armies emerged for the protection of that cow and they attacked the armies of Viswamitra. Thus this war was fought with the tribes allied with Vasishta for their own land. Other tribes that were mentioned along with the Hunas in this incident were Sakas, Yavanas, Savaras, Savaras, Paundras and Kiratas, and the barbarous tribes of Khasas, Chivukas, Pulindas, Chinas and numerous other Mlechchhas. (1,177)

From the list it seems that it is a compiled list of tribes formerly unknown to the Vedic Kingdoms.

The above story of Mahabharata differs somewhat from the Shavala cow story of Valmiki Ramayana. According to Valmiki Ramayana which is older than the Mahabharata, the list of the tribes connected with Vasishtha-Vishwamitra war over the possession of Shavala/Kamdhenu cow includes the Kambojas, Pahlavas, Yavanas, Shakas, Mlecchas, Haritas, Kiratas etc [Ramayana, Bala Kanda, 55.1-4]. Ramayana list being older is often taken more authentic of the two lists.

Role in Kurukshetra War 

Yudhishthira, followed by the Patachcharas, the Hunas, the Pauravakas and the Nishadas, the Pisachas, with the Kundavishas, and the Mandakas, the Ladakas (Ladakh), the Tanganas, and the Uddras, the Saravas, the Tumbhumas, the Vatsas and the Nakulas stood in the two wings of the battle-array named Krauncharuma, formed by the Pandava generalissimo, Dhristadyumna, on the second day of the Kurukshetra War. (6,50)

See also 
 36 royal races
 Middle Kingdoms of India
 Hunas

References 

Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

External links

Kingdoms in the Mahabharata
The Red Tree (album)

The Red Tree is the third full-length album by the rock band Moneen. There was also a documentary that chronicled the writing and recording of this album. A music video was released for If Tragedy’s Appealing, Then Disaster’s An Addiction, and it has had some play-time on MuchMusic and FUSE.

Track listing

Additional information

Don't Ever Tell Locke What He Can't Do is a reference to John Locke, a character on the television series Lost.
The East Has Stolen What the West May Want tells the story of two lovers who were separated by the Berlin Wall.
If you rewind it on your CD player for 1:09 seconds there is a short acoustic clip of The Last Song I Will Ever Want to Sing, which vocalist Kenny Bridges recorded by himself and added to the cd without the band's knowledge. The clip is supposed to make the transition between the Red Tree and the band's previous release, Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now?
A limited run of The Red Tree was available on vinyl in early 2007 through the band's website and at shows only. Each copy is numbered, only 300 were available and includes a bonus track not available on the CD version.
The Red Tree was repressed on white and red vinyl for Record Store Day 2012. It featured bonus tracks "His Own Anomaly (39 42' 10" N 044 16' 30" E)" and previously released "Prepare Yourself...The Worst Is Yet To Come". A 7" single was also included, featuring two demos, "Hating Makes Hate OK" and "I'm Afraid Of The Lost Parade". The pressing was limited to 500 copies.

References

Moneen albums
2006 albums
Dine Alone Records albums
Slate Fell

Slate Fell is a low hill in the North Western part of the English Lake District. It lies only about a mile from the busy market town of Cockermouth, and as such is a popular walk for local dog walkers, the amount of climb being only about 80 metres (250 feet). A public right of way passes over the summit. It is an outlier of the Marilyn Watch Hill, and gives good views of the Lord's Seat group of hills, although it is too low to afford views towards the central Lake District. It lies just inside the boundary of the Lake District National Park.

Fells of the Lake District
Erling Havnå

Erling Mathias Havnå  (born 2 November 1957) of Arendal, Norway, is a former kickboxer and convicted criminal.

In 2005, Erling Havnå was charged and prosecuted for participating in the NOKAS armed robbery of 2004, together with David Toska and twelve other men. On 10 March 2006 the Stavanger court of law sentenced Havnå to 17 years of imprisonment for this felony. This was later reduced to 14 years. One police officer was shot and killed in the robbery.

Havnå won a silver medal in full-contact at the W.A.K.O. European Championships 1979 and stepped up to be the European Champion in 1980. Eleven years later, in 1991, he won the silver medal in the World Championship. With his fifth degree  black belt, acquired in 2003, Erling Havnå is the highest ranked Norwegian kickboxer of all time.  He is the brother of former professional boxer Magne Havnå.

References

21st-century Norwegian criminals
Norwegian male criminals
Norwegian bank robbers
Norwegian prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Norway
Norwegian male kickboxers
1957 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Arendal
Sportspeople convicted of crimes
Sơn Tây, Hanoi



Sơn Tây () is a district-level town ("thị xã") in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It was the capital of Sơn Tây province before merging with Hà Đông province to form Hà Tây province in 1965. Sơn Tây lies 35 km west of the capital Hanoi. It had a city status in Hà Tây province. However, when Hà Tây was absorbed into Hanoi, Sơn Tây was demoted from a city to a town.

It is often referred to as “soldier town” due to the proliferation of army barracks and military institutions that surrounds the town, including the Vietnamese People's Army Infantry Academy.

Sơn Tây's future is seen as being very much that of a satellite city of Hanoi and as a result there are plans to relocate universities and other public facilities to Sơn Tây where land is cheaper and more plentiful. The government has planned to complete this project by duplicating the main Hanoi—Sơn Tây carriageway which is expected to be completed in 2009.

History 

Sơn Tây is known for its thousand year old villages, such as Đường Lâm which retains a collection of vernacular architecture with buildings and temples built using laterite bricks. Và Temple, or Đông Cung, dedicated to Tản Viên, is located on a hill covered with ironwood trees in Vân Giã hamlet, Trung Hưng commune. Phạm Văn Đổng, a general, was from Sơn Tây.

Climate

Administrative Divisions
The town of Sơn Tây occupies most of the district, and is subdivided in wards. Eight wards form the urban core, while Xuân Khanh, to the west, is a distant ward, discontinuous with the central area.  The district also includes six rural communes: Cổ Đông, Đường Lâm, Kim Sơn, Sơn Đông, Thanh Mỹ, and Xuân Sơn.

See also 
 Sơn Tây Campaign
 Operation Ivory Coast

References

External links
 Duong Lam village travel guide and tips
 Cổng thông tin Người Sơn Tây
 Diễn đàn Người Sơn Tây
  Hanoi province and its subdivisions

Districts of Hanoi
Populated places in Hanoi
County-level towns in Vietnam
Hara Huna Kingdom

Hara-Huna (White Huns) was an ancient kingdom and inhabited by the Hara Hunas tribe close to the Himalayas who had limited interaction with the Indian kingdoms, thus they were identified in the epic Mahabharata.

They lived in the Xinjiang province of China, east of Kashmir. However they were nomadic people who changed their settlements time to time.

The Pandava hero Nakula visited this place during his western military campaign for collecting tribute for Yudhishthira's Rajasuya sacrifice. This could be a branch of Hara-Hunas migrated to the west of Ancient India.

References in the Mahabharata

Nakula's conquests 

Nakula, after defeating the mighty Gramaniya that dwelt on the shore of the sea, and the Sudras and the Abhiras that dwelt on the banks of the Sarasvati River, and all those tribes that lived upon fisheries, and those also that dwelt on the mountains, and the whole of the country called after the five rivers (Punjab), and the mountains called Amara, and the country called Uttarayotisha and the city of Divyakutta and the tribe called Dwarapala, by sheer force, reduced to subjection the Ramathas, the Harahunas, and various kings of the west. (2,31)

Presence in Yudhishthira's Rajasuya sacrifice 

Numberless Chinas and Sakas and Uddras and many barbarous tribes living in the woods, and many Vrishnis and Harahunas, and dusky tribes of the Himavat, and many Nipas and people residing in regions on the sea-coast came to the Rajasuya sacrifice performed by Pandava king Yudhishthira. (2,50)

The Vangas and Angas and Paundras and Odras and Cholas and Dravidas and Andhakas, and the chiefs of many islands and countries on the seaboard as also of frontier states, including the rulers of the Sinhalas, the barbarous mlecchas, the natives of Lanka, and all the kings of the West by hundreds, and all the chiefs of the sea-coast, and the kings of the Pahlavas and the Daradas and the various tribes of the Kiratas and Yavanas and Sakras and the Harahunas and Chinas and Tukharas and the Sindhavas and the Jagudas and the Ramathas and the Mundas and the inhabitants of the kingdom of women and the Tanganas and the Kekayas and the Malavas and the inhabitants of Kasmira, waited upon Yudhishthira, performing various offices in his palace. (3,51)

See also 

 Kingdoms of Ancient India
 Abhiras
 Huna Kingdom
 Huna (disambiguation)

References 

Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

External links

Kingdoms in the Mahabharata
Rishika Kingdom

Rishika was an ancient kingdom inhabited by the Rishikas who were originally a tribe north to Himalayas who had limited interaction with early Indian kingdoms and mentioned in the epic Mahabharata. They belonged to the Xinjiang province of China, east of Kashmir. The Pandava hero, Arjuna visited this place during his northern military campaign for collecting tribute for Yudhishthira's Rajasuya sacrifice (Lohan.paramaKambojanRishikan uttaranapi).

References in Mahabharata

Rishika Kingdom near Vidarbha 
Rishikas were mentioned as kingdom of Bharata Varsha (Ancient India), located in Southern Division at (6:9). Here they are mentioned along with the Vidarbha Kingdom (in central India). It is likely that Bhargava Rama belonged to this tribe of Rishikas. An ancestor of Bhargava Rama was named Richika (3:99).

Rishika Kingdom near Kamboja 

The kings of the Kamboja and the Richika tribes were mentioned at (5:4). Thus this Rishikas were certainly a northern tribe.

Arjuna's expedition to Rishika 

Arjuna encountered the northern Rishikas close to the Kamboja territory.

Arjuna, the son of Pandu, taking with him a select force, defeated the Daradas along with the Kambojas. Then he vanquished the robber tribes that dwelt in the north-eastern frontier and those also that dwelt in the woods. He also subjugated the allied tribes of the Lohas, the eastern Kambojas, and northern Rishikas.  And the battle with the Rishikas was fierce in the extreme.  And defeating, the Rishikas in the field of battle, Arjuna took from them as tribute eight horses that were of the colour of the parrot's breast, as also other horses of the hues of the peacock, born in northern and other climes and endued with high speed. At last having conquered all the Himalayas and the Nishkuta mountains, that bull among men, arriving at the White mountains, encamped on its breast (2:26).

Karna's expedition to Rishika 

Karna also is mentioned as defeating Rishikas (8:8). He is stated have subjugated many invincible and mighty foes, viz * the Gandharas, the Madrakas, the Matsyas, the Trigartas, the Tanganas, the Khasas, the Pancalas, the Videhas, the Kulindas, the Kasi-kosalas, the Suhmas, the Angas, the Nishadhas, the Pundras, the Kichakas, the Vatsas, the Kalingas, the Taralas, the Asmakas, and the Rishikas (8.8) and also the Kambojas, Ambasthas, Kaikeyas, Gandharas and Vedehas (8.9). Subjugating all these brave races, by means of his keen and whetted arrows equipped with kanka feathers, that foremost of car-warriors, Radha's son, had caused all of them to pay tribute to us for the aggrandisement of Duryodhana.

Since the kingdom Asmaka also falls in central India, this Rishikas seems to be the central Indian Rishikas.

Other References 

A royal sage named Rishika is mentioned at (1:67)
The Salwa prince Dyutimat of great splendour attained to the highest regions by giving his kingdom to Richika (13:137), (12:233).
Richika is mentioned as son of Div, and is considered as one of the Devas (1:1)

See also 

Kingdoms of Ancient India

Rishikas

References 

Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Kingdoms in the Mahabharata
Kokopo

Kokopo is the capital of East New Britain Province in Papua New Guinea. It is administered under Kokopo/Vunamami Urban LLG. The capital was moved from Rabaul in 1994 when the volcanoes Tavurvur and Vulcan erupted. As a result, the population of the town increased more than sixfold from 3,150 in 1990 to 20,262 in 2000.

Kokopo was known as Herbertshöhe (Herbert's Heights), named in honour of Herbert, eldest son of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, during the German New Guinea administration, which controlled the area between 1884 and formally until 1919. Until 1910, it was the capital of German New Guinea.

On Sunday, March 29, 2015, a strong earthquake, of a preliminary magnitude of at least 7.5, which at that time was the largest earthquake of 2015, was recorded near Kokopo, and a tsunami warning was issued. This was surpassed a month later by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, which measured a magnitude 7.8.

In 2015, a research and conservation project was suggested to study and protect spinner dolphins living around Kokopo beach, as this population may be threatened if construction of a new port for larger shipping lanes is initiated.

Communication links
The remains of the former capital Rabaul are located some  to the north-west of Kokopo, when using the Kokopo-Rabaul Highway. There are around 4,000 inhabitants in Rabaul, down from over 17,000 before the latest volcanic eruption.

Rabaul Airport (also called "Tokua Airport"), one of Papua New Guinea's largest domestic airports, is located a few kilometres east of Kokopo.

Climate
Kokopo has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) with heavy rainfall and hot temperatures year-round.

PNG Hunters
The Papua New Guinea Hunters (PNG Hunters) are a rugby league football club based in Kokopo. They were established in 2013 and currently compete in the QRL's Intrust Super Cup. The Hunters' home ground is Kalabond Oval in Kokopo and their team colours are red, black and gold.

See also

References

Populated places in East New Britain Province
Ostorhinchus fleurieu

Ostorhinchus fleurieu (flower cardinalfish, gold cardinalfish, bullseye cardinalfish, cardinalfish, ring-tail cardinalfish or ringtailed cardinalfish) is a species of cardinalfish native to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, and the waters around East Africa, Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, the Indo-Malayan region, and Hong Kong., south to the Ashmore Reef, Western Australia. It is the type species of the genus Ostorhinchus. The specific name honours the French explorer and hydrographer Charles Pierre Claret, comte de Fleurieu (1738-1810) who was a colleague and friend  of Lacepède's.

Description
A coppery-coloured fish with a broad blackish bar at the base of the tail, it is up to 12.5 cm in length. In juveniles, the base of the tail has a spot rather than a bar. The upper jaw has a narrow blue streak, and a broad, blackish stripe extends from the front of the snout to the eye. It is easily confused with Ostorhinchus aureus, where the black tail bar is narrower in the centre than at the ends.

Habitat
Adults occur in small schools made up of pairs of fish from 7 to at least 73 m in depth, associated with coral reefs. It normally occurs in shallow areas with coral reefswhere there are moderate currents. It is found with small to large schools which shelter in crevices.

References

fleurieu
Fish of the Red Sea
Fish described in 1802
Ben Griffin

Ben or Benjamin Griffin may refer to:

 Ben Griffin (British Army soldier) (born 1977), former British SAS soldier and anti-war activist
 Ben Griffin (soccer) (born 1986), Australian football (soccer) player
 Ben Hill Griffin Jr. (1910–1990), Florida politician
 Benjamin Griffin (actor) (1680–1740), dramatist and actor
 Benjamin Griffin (alpine skier) (born 1986), New Zealand skier
 Benjamin S. Griffin (born 1946), U.S. Army general
Hermann Heller

Hermann Heller may refer to:

Hermann Heller (legal scholar) (1891–1933), German legal scholar and philosopher
Hermann Heller (Swiss politician) (1850–1917)
Knifefish

Knifefish may refer to several knife-shaped fishes:
The Neotropical or weakly electric knifefishes, order Gymnotiformes, containing five families:
Family Gymnotidae (banded knifefishes and the electric eel)
Family Rhamphichthyidae (sand knifefishes)
Family Hypopomidae (bluntnose knifefishes)
Family Sternopygidae (glass and rat-tail knifefishes)
Family Apteronotidae (ghost knifefishes)
The featherbacks, family Notopteridae.
The aba, Gymnarchus niloticus
Four other unrelated fish species not in any of the above families:
Grey knifefish, Bathystethus cultratus.
Blue knifefish, Labracoglossa nitida.
Collared knifefish or finscale razorfish, Cymolutes torquatus.
Jack-knifefish, Equetus lanceolatus.

See also
Knifefish (robot), an American military robot

Gymnotiformes
Parama China Kingdom

Parama Chinas were a kingdom to the north east of the Himalayas. The Parama Chinas were mentioned in Mahabharata along with another kingdom named China.

See also 
Kingdoms of Ancient India

References 

Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Kingdoms in the Mahabharata
Turners Hill, West Midlands

Turners Hill or Turner's Hill is the highest hill in the county of West Midlands, United Kingdom at  above sea level. The hill is in the Rowley Hills range, situated in Rowley Regis, near the boundary with Dudley.

The hill can be seen from many miles away, and offers good views to Clent Hills, Kinver Edge, Shatterford Hill, Barr Beacon and on a clear day to the Shropshire and Malvern Hills. There are good views of the hill from the M5 Motorway between Junctions 1 and 2.

Features
There are working quarries on the southern end of the hill that are used to obtain diabase.

On top of the hill are two large radio transmission towers which can be seen for many miles.

Dudley Golf Club is also situated on the hill.

Notes

Hills of the West Midlands (county)
Rowley Regis
Highest points of English counties
Hermann Heller (Swiss politician)

Hermann Heller (28 January 1850, in Lucerne – 25 June 1917) was a Swiss politician, mayor of Lucerne, member of the Swiss National Council (1891–1917) and its president in 1899 (June–December).

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1850 births
1917 deaths
People from Lucerne
Free Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians
Members of the National Council (Switzerland)
Presidents of the National Council (Switzerland)
Mayors of places in Switzerland
Jordan Valley, Hong Kong

Jordan Valley () is a neighborhood north of Ngau Tau Kok, which is located in the north-west of Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong. It includes Amoy Gardens.

Features 

Jordan Valley is a valley-like place, which is divided into northern and southern sections. The northern Jordan Valley is now Shun Lee Public Housing Area, next to the Fei Ngo Shan; and the southern Jordan Valley can be further divided into 2 areas: the eastern ecological recreation area and the western residential area.

The quarry in the southern Jordan Valley is now under base development and will become one of the residential areas therein. 

Jordan Valley can be divided into the following parts:
 Jordan Valley Public Housing Area (Currently an ecological recreation area)
 Choi Ha Estate
 Amoy Gardens and surrounds

History 
Jordan Valley was named after Gregory Paul Jordan, a British-Indian doctor for his contribution in plague fighting efforts.

The reservoir was built in the 1950s which provided flushing water to residents in Ngau Tau Kok. The reservoir has since become disused and is now a refuse reclamation area. A battery was also found in Jordan Valley quarry but was later removed due to the urban development project.

Education
Jordan Valley is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 46. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government primary schools are in this net.

See also

 Jordan Valley Factory Estate

References 

 
Valleys of Hong Kong
New Kowloon
Trancoso, Portugal

Trancoso () is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The municipality population in 2011 was 9,878, in an area of . The city (cidade) population is about 3.000.

The municipality is located in the District of Guarda, Region Centro, sub-region Beira Interior Norte.

The present Mayor is Amilcar Salvador. The municipal holiday is May 29. Principal monument: Castle of Trancoso. The municipality is served by the Vila Franca das Naves train station on the Beira Alta line from Pampilhosa to the Spanish border.

Trancoso is well known as the place where the 16th-century poet and shoemaker António Gonçalves de Bandarra lived and made his prophetic texts. A statue of him was erected in front of the city hall.

Trancoso is also the birthplace of Isaac Cardoso, born in 1603 or 1604. He was a renowned Jewish author, philosopher, and physicist. Cardoso died in Verona in 1683. His parents were members of the extensive Marrano community in Trancoso that left behind 300 Hebrew inscriptions. 700 Trancoso Jews were persecuted during the Inquisition.

Parishes
   
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 21 civil parishes (freguesias):

 Aldeia Nova
 Castanheira
 Cogula
 Cótimos
 Fiães
 Freches e Torres
 Granja
 Guilheiro
 Moimentinha
 Moreira de Rei
 Palhais
 Póvoa do Concelho
 Reboleiro
 Rio de Mel
 Trancoso (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Souto Maior
 Tamanhos
 Torre do Terrenho, Sebadelhe da Serra e Terrenho
 Valdujo
 Vale do Seixo e Vila Garcia
 Vila Franca das Naves e Feital
 Vilares e Carnicães

Notable people 
 António Gonçalves de Bandarra (1500 in Trancoso - 1556) a Portuguese writer and shoemaker
 Isaac Cardoso (1603/4 at Trancoso - 1683) a Jewish physician, philosopher and polemic writer.
 Eduarda Lapa (1895 in Trancoso — 1976) a painter and painting teacher, specialized in naturalist still lifes

Gallery

References

External links
Municipality official website

Municipalities of Guarda District
Cities in Portugal
Bybrua

Bybrua is a Norwegian word that means "town bridge". It may refer to:

Bybrua, Rogaland, a bridge in the city of Stavanger in Rogaland county, Norway
Bybrua, Innlandet, a village in Gjøvik municipality in Innlandet county, Norway
Lakshmi N. Menon

Lakshmi N. Menon (29 March 1899 – 30 November 1994) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She was Minister of State from 1962 to 1966.

Early life 
Born in Trivandrum, she was the child of Rama Varma Thampan and Madhavikutty Amma. In 1930, she married Professor V. K. Nandan Menon, who later became vice-chancellor of the University of Travancore (1950–1951) and of Patna University, as well as director for the Indian Institute of Public Administration.

Career 

She was a Rajya Sabha member from 1952 to 1966. She served in the Ministry of External Affairs as parliamentary secretary from 1952 to 1957, as deputy minister from 1957 to 1962 and as Minister of State to 1966. Retiring from political service in 1967, she turned to social work and also to writing, authoring among other things a book on Indian women for the Oxford Pamphlets on Indian Affairs series, published by Oxford University Press. She helped to found the Federation of University Women in India. In recognition of her services, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1957 and she was the second Malayali to receive the award.

Menon dedicated her active life after politics for the cause of the nation. She served the All India Women's Conference as president and patron for many years. She was the vice president of All India Prohibition Council along with Morarji Desai. In 1988, she along with A. P. Udhayabhanu and Johnson J. Edayaranmula established Alcohol & Drug Information Centre (ADIC)-India and served as its president till her death. She also served as president of the All India Committee for the Eradication of Illiteracy Among Women and as chairman of the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust from 1972 to 1985.

Lakshmi Menon's tenure as Minister of State in Nehru Government was instrumental in smoothing the bureaucratic procedure involved in setting up Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station at Trivandrum.

Bibliography

References

External links
 Biographical details from the blog Maddy's Ramblings (2016)
  Personal Reminiscences of great niece (2021)

1899 births
1994 deaths
Malayali politicians
Politicians from Thiruvananthapuram
Graduate Women International
Union deputy ministers of India
Union ministers of state of India
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in public affairs
Rajya Sabha members from Bihar
Malayalam-language writers
Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala
Women in Kerala politics
20th-century Indian women politicians
20th-century Indian politicians
Women union ministers of state of India
Women members of the Rajya Sabha
Rigobert

Rigobert (died c. 743) was a Benedictine monk and later abbot of the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Orbais who subsequently succeeded Saint Rieul as bishop of Reims in 698. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

Rigobert baptized Charles Martel, but Charles afterwards had him brutally driven from the see and replaced, for political reasons, by the warlike and unpriestly Milo, who was already Archbishop of Trier. Rigobert took refuge in Aquitaine and then retired to Gernicourt, in the Diocese of Soissons, where he led a life in the exercises of penance and prayer.

He died about the year 743, and was buried in the church of Saint Peter at Gernicourt, which he had built. Hincmar translated his relics to the abbey of Saint Theodoric, and later, to the church of Saint Dionysius at Reims. Fulk, Hincmar's successor, removed them into the metropolitan Church of Our Lady of Reims, in which the greater part is preserved in a rich shrine, though a portion is kept in the church of Saint Dionysius at Reims, and another portion in the cathedral of Paris, where a chapel bears his name.

His feast day is 4 January.

References

External links
Rigobert at Patron Saints Index

St. Rigobert's dinner
The Golden Legend — The Life of Saint Rigobert

Year of birth missing
745 deaths
7th-century Frankish bishops
Bishops of Reims
8th-century Frankish bishops
8th-century Frankish saints
Red Rain

Red Rain may refer to:

 Blood rain, red precipitation that resembles blood
 Red rain in Kerala, a phenomenon observed sporadically during the summers in the southern Indian state
 Red rainstorm warning signal in Hong Kong, colloquially called “red rain” in Cantonese()

Books and film
 Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, a comic book from DC Comics
 Red Rain (novel), a 2012 horror novel by R. L. Stine
 Red Rain (film), a 2013 Malayalam science fiction thriller

Music
 Red Rain (album), an album by Dice
 "Red Rain" (song), a song by Peter Gabriel
 "Red Rain," a song by The White Stripes on their album Get Behind Me Satan
 "Red Rain", a song by the Power Metal band Primal Fear on their album Nuclear Fire

See also
 Blood rain (disambiguation)
Petr Zelenka (director)

Petr Zelenka (born 21 August 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech playwright and director of theatre and film. His films have been recognized at international festivals in Moscow and Rotterdam. In 2008, his film Karamazovi was the Czech Republic's official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.

Career
An early notable work is a black comedy, Tales of Common Insanity (2004) (), which he directed at Dejvické divadlo. He received the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Play. The play was later staged in other Czech theatres as well as in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Germany. It was also published in English and translated to Russian. 
For his film Mnâga – Happy End  he won the 1996 Findling Award at the Filmfestival Cottbus.

In 2005 Zelenka adapted the comedy as a film, released as Wrong Side Up, which won two movie festival awards in 2006 and was nominated for six other awards. His second most notable play is Teremin, inspired by the life of Russian inventor Léon Theremin.

His 2008 film, Karamazovi, was the Czech Republic's official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.

His 2010 election advertisement "Přemluv bábu a dědu" caused controversy as critics believed it was offensive against elder people and "an imperfect copy of Sarah Silverman's stand-up video."

Filmography

References

External links
Short bio plus info about Tales of Common Insanity at divadlo.cz (in English)

 
20th-century Czech dramatists and playwrights
Czech male dramatists and playwrights
Czech theatre directors
1967 births
Living people
Film directors from Prague
Writers from Prague
2003 Liverpool City Council election

Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 May 2003.  One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrat party kept overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 21.7%.

After the election, the composition of the council was

Election result

Ward results

Abercromby

Aigburth

Allerton

Anfield

Arundel

Breckfield

Broadgreen

Childwall

Church

Clubmoor

County

Croxteth

Dingle

Dovecot

Everton

Fazakerley

Gillmoss

Granby

Grasswndale

Kensington

Melrose

Netherley

Old Swan

Picton

Pirrie

St. Mary's

Smithdown

Speke

Tuebrook

Valley

Vauxhall

Warbreck

Woolton

References

2003
2003 English local elections
2000s in Liverpool
Prayer Before Birth

"Prayer Before Birth" is a poem written by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) at the height of the Second World War. Written from the perspective of an unborn child, the poem expresses the author's fear at what the world's tyranny can do to the innocence of a child and blames the human race for the destruction that was gripping the world at the time.

Background and publishing history 
Unlike most of his countrymen, MacNeice opposed Ireland's neutral stance in the war, disdaining the lack of opposition to fascism. To this effect, he published a poem called "Neutrality" in 1943, which criticized his country's stance and spent the war years in London, contributing to the war effort by writing propaganda for the BBC.

"Prayer Before Birth" first appeared in print in 1944, the first poem in MacNeice's volume Springboard.

Interpretation
The poem is an agonized plea from the mouth of an unborn infant in its mother's womb. The unborn baby pleads with God to hear him out before he is born into this ruthless world. The child seeks protection from the Divine and begs forgiveness for all the deeds of evil that it shall commit once it is out of the mother's protective care. Dramatic in intensity, the poem makes a sweeping statement on the deplorable state of the world. Living is a painful experience, being born is a terrifying one.

The child's plea is a representation of the poet's anguish, grief and fear in a world that has steadily metamorphosed into a hell. The poet paints a picture of a world devoid of compassion, love and remorse through the haunting appeal of the unborn infant. The poem reflects the poet's utter dejection and hopelessness expressing the thought that the world will not correct itself, but perpetuate its evils in an ever-ascending spiraling pattern of violence. The foregone conclusion that the child will live a life of treason and its apology proffered in advance for its death after it has lived as a "lethal automaton", offers a picture of a world akin to nothing but hell.

MacNeice makes use of alliteration and assonance: "strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me" to create rhythm in the poem. The repetition of "I am not yet born" is used to give it the ritualised quality of a prayer.

The author also talks of being a "cog in a machine" - this shows that he feels that society will mould the child to become part of everything else around him, he will be worthless, insignificant and merely a part of an entire collaboration. The uses "I" and "me" as the first and last words of each stanza contributes to an assertion of individuality in a time of mass mobilisation and of the mass extermination of individuals who belonged to the wrong category.

The poem also contains many religious themes and overtones through the use of double-imagery; the child could be seen as a metaphor for Christ, making reference to certain themes and events said to have occurred during his ministry on earth.

References 

1940s poems
Irish poems
World War II poems
Ranikhola

The  Ranikhola is a river in Sikkim, India, that flows near the state capital Gangtok. It is a tributary of the Teesta River. The Mangar queen committed suicide on this river after the death of her husband at Mangarzong in 1642, so this river is named Ranikhola. Ranikhola originates from Himalayas and flows below Gangtok where it is joined by Ratey River and flows towards Ranipool where it is again joined by another river called Roro River, than the river borders villages of Gangtok Subdivision in Gangtok District and Pakyong Subdivision of Pakyong District. National Highway 10 runs parallel to Rani khola from Ranipool to Singtam and then the river ultimately flows into River Teesta at Singtam.

Hydropower project
The first hydropower project commissioned in Sikkim was a micro-hydel on Rani Khola below Gangtok in 1927. This one had an installed capacity of 50 kW.

References

Rivers of Sikkim
Tributaries of the Teesta River
Electoral district of Bright

Bright is a former electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was named in honour of Charles Bright, at various times South Australian Supreme Court Judge, Flinders University Chancellor, Health Commission chairman, and Electoral Boundaries Commission chairman. Prior to its 2018 abolition, the seat covered southern coastal suburbs of Adelaide including Brighton, North Brighton, South Brighton, Hallett Cove, Hove, Kingston Park, Marino, Seacliff, Seacliff Park and part of Somerton Park.

The electorate was created at the 1983 redistribution, to replace the abolished seat of Brighton, as a marginal Liberal seat with a notional one percent two-party margin. However, it was won by the Labor's Derek Robertson at the 1985 election, before being won by Liberal Wayne Matthew at the 1989 election. He held the seat until his retirement at the 2006 election. Liberal shadow minister Angus Redford left the South Australian Legislative Council to contest the seat but was defeated by Labor's Chloë Fox from a 14.4 percent swing, the largest in the state, amidst a statewide landslide averaging a 7.7 percent swing.

After the enactment of the "fairness clause," Bright's boundaries were frequently altered by the Electoral Commission of South Australia in order to produce "fairer" electoral boundaries. A shift of a few kilometres along O'Halloran Hill significantly altered the seat's political landscape. Moving the seat to the south shifted the margin in favour of Labor, while moving it to the north benefited the Liberals. As evidence of this, the redistribution ahead of the 2010 election pared Fox's margin from safe 9.2 percent–just on the edge of being safe–to 6.6 percent. At that election, the Liberals picked up a 6.2 percent swing, just short of picking up the seat, with Labor retaining the seat on a 0.4 percent margin, making Bright Labor's most marginal seat following the 2010 election. Liberal David Speirs won the seat from a 3.7 percent swing at the 2014 election.

Bright was abolished at the 2018 state election following the 2016 electoral redistribution. On paper, it was replaced by Gibson.

Speirs decided to contest Black, which had absorbed much of Bright's southern portion, at the 2018 state election.

Members for Bright

Election results

References

External links
 ABC profile for Bright: 2014
 ECSA profile for Bright: 2014
 Poll Bludger profile for Bright: 2014

Former electoral districts of South Australia
1985 establishments in Australia
2018 disestablishments in Australia
Constituencies established in 1985
Constituencies disestablished in 2018