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Koumac

Koumac  is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

History
On 5 January 1977 about 46% of the territory of Koumac was detached and became the commune of Poum.

Climate 
Koumac has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw), although there is still some rain in the dry season which peaks between July and October.

Famous people
Athlete Arnjolt Beer was born here.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
La Foa

La Foa  is a commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

Although the provincial seat of the South Province is in Nouméa, La Foa was made the chief town of the administrative subdivision of the South in order to counterbalance the overwhelming weight of Nouméa in New Caledonia. Both entities share an almost identical territory, but their status and role is quite different: the South Province, with its provincial assembly in Nouméa, is a full political division, whereas the administrative subdivision of the South is only an administrative division of the French central state, akin to an arrondissement of Metropolitan France, with a Deputy Commissioner of the Republic (commissaire délégué de la République), akin to a subprefect of metropolitan France, in residence in La Foa.

Geography

Climate

La Foa has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am). The average annual temperature in La Foa is . The average annual rainfall is  with February as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around , and lowest in July, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in La Foa was  on 12 December 1952; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 29 July 1968.

References

External links 
 Commune de La Foa - Official site

Foa
Leitrim, Ontario

Leitrim is a dispersed rural community in the South Gloucester section of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and is named for the Irish County Leitrim. The area comprises the rapidly growing Findlay Creek suburban neighbourhood.

The area is bounded by Leitrim Road to the north and Rideau Road to the south, generally between Bank Street on the east and Albion Road to the west. The community design plan outlines the development for the area in the coming years. Findlay Creek Village is currently the only area under development within this region.  Southbrooke is another community planned within the area.

Located nearby are the Leitrim Wetlands, the Rideau Carleton Raceway, a storm water system and military intelligence gathering station CFS Leitrim.

In September 2005, OC Transpo bus route 144 (now Local Route 93) was extended from Blossom Park to serve the area.  A planned extension of the O-Train Trillium Line to Leitrim Station was cancelled in 2006, but is now planned for 2022.

References

Neighbourhoods in Ottawa
Moindou

Moindou  is a commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
Bhauma dynasty

The Bhauma dynasty is the second legendary dynasty of Pragjyotisha, after the Danava dynasty.  Narakasura, who is said to have established this dynasty, and his descendants Bhagadatta and Vajradatta are first mentioned in the epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana in the sections that were composed in the first few centuries though they place them variously in either northwestern or eastern India.  Narakasura's legend is further embellished in the locally composed Kalika Purana (10th–12th century), the Yogini Tantra (16th/17th century) and local lores and the legends became firmly attached to Assam and North Bengal.  The late embellishment of the Naraka legends point to legitimization of the three dynasties of the Kamarupa kings.

According to the 10th-century Kalika Purana, the dynasty was established by Naraka of Videha, by removing the Kirata chief Ghataka, the last of the Danava dynasty. The development of the details of the Naraka story are considered as myths though historically he could have been a native Kirata chief, or a Hinduized tribal youth.   The glorification and assimilation of a local chief and the making of myths follow a pattern that is observed in other parts of India.  The last ruler, Suparna, was killed by his ministers. The existence of this dynasty is not supported by any tenable evidence.

Rulers

References

Bibliography

 
 
 

 

Mythological kingdoms, empires, and countries
Kamarupa (former kingdom)
Pragjyotisha Kingdom
Ouégoa

Ouégoa  is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
Workers Trade Union Law

The Workers Trade Union Law was passed by Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, on September 24, 2002.

It recognizes the right of workers to organize collectively, although Bahrain has not ratified the International Labour Organization Conventions Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948, and Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949.

The law contains provisions for striking, but restricts activities in a number of essential services.

The legislation was part of a number of key labour reforms introduced under the Minister of Labour, Majeed Al Alawi.

See also

 General Federation of Workers Trade Unions in Bahrain

References

2002 in Bahrain
Trade unions in Bahrain
Politics of Bahrain
Human rights in Bahrain
Malam Jabba

Malam Jabba (also Maalam Jabba, Urdu: مالم جبہ) is a hill station and ski resort in the Hindu Kush mountain ranges. It is nearly 40 km far from Saidu Sharif in the Swat Valley of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is 314 km far from Islamabad and 51 km from Saidu Sharif Airport.

Description

Malam Jabba is home to one of the two ski resorts in Pakistan, the other being situated in Naltar, Gilgit Baltistan. Along the main Madyan-Kalam road, a pivotal juncture emerges at Manglor town, approximately 12 km from Saidu Sharif. Here, the route takes a divergent path, veering towards the Malam-Jabba Dara. There are several settlements, such as Salanda, Jehanabad, Talegraam, Badar, Ser, Malam, Kishora, Spine Oba, culminating in Jabba.

The village of Malam, positioned prior to Kishora village on the principal Malam-Jabba route, is situated at an approximate distance of 17 km from Manglor. Continuing along the trajectory, Kishora Village materializes 18 km further. Ascending yet higher, Jabba emerges as the zenith of this expansive Dara or gorge, standing 12 km from Kishora.

The Malam Jabba Ski Resort, owned by the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation, occupies a central role in the area. Noteworthy for its ski slope extending over 800 meters, the resort's apex rests at an elevation of 2804 m (9200 ft) above sea level. This ski resort is the fruit of collaborative efforts between Pakistan and its Austrian counterpart. The resort was equipped with modern facilities including roller/ice-skating rinks, chair lifts, skiing platforms, telephones and snow clearing equipment. There was a wooden motel which had been built to house the construction workers of the ski slope and then opened to the public.

2008 Taliban attack 
The resort was destroyed by Taliban militants in June 2008 during the War in North-West Pakistan when they held Swat Valley. A large portion of the resort was reduced to ashes, including the hotel, several houses and the chairlift.

2016 reconstruction and reopening 
After government restored control in the area, the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa awarded the rebuilding to a private company, which restored the hotel, the ski resort and other facilities. A five star hotel with 76 rooms was opened by Pearl-Continental Hotels & Resorts in 2020. A new 800 meter long ski chairlift was inaugurated in September 2016.

See also
Miandam
Naltar ski resort
Saidu Sharif
Swat Valley

References

External links

Tourist attractions in Swat
Tourism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Hill stations in Pakistan
Ski areas and resorts in Pakistan
Drammensfjord

Drammensfjord () is a fjord in Norway that connects to Ytre Oslofjord on the west side.  It stretches to the north and northeast. The Drammenselva river discharges into the head of the fjord.  The municipality and city of Drammen which is named after the fjord is also found there. 

The majority of the fjord is within the county of Buskerud, but in the west and southwest it lies in Vestfold county. The land on the east side of the fjord is called Hurumhalvøya or the Hurum peninsula; it separates the Drammensfjord from the Oslofjord.

The fjord narrows to a strait at Svelvik in Vestfold on the west side and Verket in Hurum on the east side. The strait is crossed by an automobile ferry. This narrowing, some 200 meters broad and 10 meters deep, combined with the large freshwater inflow from the Drammenselva (one of Norway's largest rivers) and from Lierelva (river), results in the water north of the strait being brackish water. On the surface the water is fairly fresh, resulting in bathing areas that are free of jelly fish, while deeper the water has a higher salt concentration, with saltwater fish such as cod, pollock, flounder, and mackerel. The tide sets up one of Norway's strongest currents through the strait (outflow can reach speeds of 5 knots and the strait is known Selvikstrømmen (the Svelvik current) in Norwegian. Large ships can only sail in daylight and the largest only when assisted by tugboats. The strait has been made wider and deeper to accommodate traffic. Dead coral reefs are also found at 10–20 meters deep in the fjord. The maximum depth of the fjord northwards of the strait is 117 meters.

For a number of decades the Drammensfjord was polluted. The sewage and industrial discharges by industries in Drammen have been corrected so that the water is now much cleaner. Salmon and sea trout are again found in both the fjord and the Drammenselva.

In old Norse times the Drammensfjord was known by the name Dramn or Drofn, meaning hazy waters. In the Norse sagas Snorre Sturlason tells that Saint Olav hid himself from Canute the Great at a fjord which was called Dramn. At that time the water stood 4-5 meters higher and the fjord reached up to Hokksund. During the Viking Age, Drammensfjorden north of the Svelvik Strait was regarded as a lake and the Svelvik Strait was regarded as the mouth of the Drammen River.

References and notes

Fjords of Viken
Fjords of Vestfold og Telemark
Drammen
Røyken
Joan McCall

Joan McCall (January 31, 1940 – April 14, 2023) was an American screenwriter, film producer, actress and religious minister.

Life and career
McCall was born in Grahn, Kentucky on January 31, 1940. 

Her first film roles were in the 1974 movies Devil Times Five and Act of Vengeance and the 1976 horror film Grizzly. She starred on Broadway in A Race of Hairy Men, Barefoot in the Park and Star-Spangled Girl.

A prolific screenwriter, she wrote the original screenplay of Heart Like a Wheel and 250 scripts for Days of Our Lives, Another World, Santa Barbara, Divorce Court and Search for Tomorrow.

McCall was a Science of Mind minister, and served as the Spiritual Director of Creative Arts Center for Spiritual Living (CACSL) in Los Angeles until January 2011. She was married to Hollywood motion picture producer David Sheldon.

McCall died on April 14, 2023, at the age of 83.

References 

1940 births
2023 deaths
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American women television writers
American soap opera writers
Women soap opera writers
21st-century American women
Writers from Kentucky
Andrew Williams

Andrew or Andy Williams may refer to:

Arts and entertainment
Andy Williams (1927–2012), American singer
Andy Williams (album), eponymous 1958 compilation album
Andrew Williams (novelist) (born 1962), British novelist
Andy Williams (Doves) (born 1970), English musician, member of the band Doves
Andy Williams (drummer) (born 1970), British musician, Casting Crowns member
Andy Williams (guitarist) (born 1977), American guitarist and professional wrestler
Andy Williams, (fl. 1990s), British musician, member of the dance band K-Klass
Andy Williams (The X Factor) (fl. 2007), contestant in series 4 of The X Factor UK
Andy Williams (visual effects), visual effects supervisor

Politics and law
Andrew Williams (congressman) (1828–1907), U.S. Representative from New York
Andrew Williams (New Zealand politician) (born 1959), New Zealand politician, mayor of North Shore City
Andrew Williams, American politician, candidate in the United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2010

Sports

Association football (soccer)
Andy Williams (footballer, born 1962), English footballer
Andy Williams (Jamaican footballer) (born September 1977), Canadian-born Jamaican football (soccer) player
Andy Williams (Welsh footballer) (born October 1977), Wales international footballer
Andy Williams (footballer, born 1986), English footballer for Cheltenham Town

Other sports
String Bean Williams (Andrew Williams, 1873–1929), American baseball player
Andrew Williams (Shropshire cricketer) (born 1965), Welsh cricketer
Andrew Williams (Cumberland cricketer) (born 1970), English cricketer
Andrew Williams (Australian footballer) (born 1979), Australian rules footballer
Andrew Williams (American football) (born 1979), American NFL football player for the San Francisco 49ers
Andy Williams (rugby union) (born 1981), Welsh international rugby union player
Andy Williams (American football) (fl. 1990s), American football coach for Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas

Others
Andy Williams (surgeon) (born 1964), British surgeon
Andrew Williams (bishop), British-born American Anglican bishop
Andy Williams (born 1986), American perpetrator of the Santana High School shooting
Andrew B. Williams, American academic in the field of engineering
Renard

Renard may refer to:

Engineering and design 
 Renard series, a system of preferred numbers divided into intervals from 1 to 10, and with 5, 10, 20 or 40 steps

Fictional characters and art
Reynard, anthropomorphic fox of European folklore
Renard, or Reynardine, a fox-like character in webcomic Gunnerkrigg Court
 Renard (Stravinsky), 1916 opera-ballet by Igor Stravinsky premiered by the Ballets Russes with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska
Renard, the Anarchist, villain from the James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough
Renard IV, the King of Foxville in L. Frank Baum's The Road to Oz, called "King Dox" by Button-Bright
Maria Renard, fictional character in the Castlevania video game series
Halcyon Renard, character from the cartoon Gargoyles
Sean Renard, character from the television series Grimm
"Le Renard Subtil", Magua in The Last of the Mohicans
Renard Queenston, an alias under Lapfox Trax that produces raggacore

People
 Renard (surname), including a list of people with the name

 Alan II, Duke of Brittany (died 952), known as Le Renard
 Renard Cox (born 1978), Canadian football player  who formerly played for the Maryland Terrapins

Organisations
 Constructions Aéronautiques G. Renard, Belgian aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s and 1940s
 Renard Motorcycles, an Estonian motorcycle brand

Places 
 Cape Renard, a cape on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula
 False Cape Renard, a cape southwest of Cape Renard, Antarctica
 Renard, Guadeloupe, a settlement on the island of Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe
 Renard Glacier, a glacier on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica
 Renard Islands, an island of Papua New Guinea
 Renard Isle, a man-made island in the lower Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Ships
 HMS Renard, or HMS Reynard, ten ships of the Royal Navy
 HMCS Renard (S13), later reclassified Z13, armed yacht which served in the Royal Canadian Navy as a patrol vessel from 1940 to 1944
 French cutter Renard (1812), privateer cutter commissioned by Robert Surcouf in 1812
 French ship Renard, eleven ships of the French Navy

Other uses 
 Renard diamond mine, a diamond mine in Canada which opened in July 2014
 Renard Field, an airport on Mbanika in the Solomon Island
 Renard GAA, a Gaelic Athletic Association club from County Kerry, Ireland

See also
 Reenard, townland in County Kerry, Ireland
 Monsignor Renard, a four-part ITV television drama set in occupied France during World War II
 Renaud (disambiguation)
 Reynard (disambiguation)
Poindimié

Poindimié  is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The Poindimié Islands, a group of seven tiny islets where seabirds and sea turtles nest, lies off the coast of the commune.

Climate 
Poindimié has a trade-wind tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Although there is no dry season, rainfall does show a strong peak in the late southern summer, and a minimum from August to October.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
Johannes Knolleisen

Johannes Knolleisen (1450–1513) was a German theological professor.

Nothing is known about his parents and his youth, aside from his being born in Allenstein (Olsztyn), Ermland (Warmia), State of the Teutonic Order. He received his magister degree in theology from the University of Leipzig, becoming rector of the university in 1478. Knolleisen became canon at Merseburg Cathedral in Merseburg in 1489. By the time of his death in 1511, Knolleisen and Lucas David had created a stipend of 700 Rhenish gulden to help two worthy students from Allenstein study in Leipzig.

References
Monumenta historiæ Warmiensis, oder, Quellensammlung zur Geschichte Ermlands. Band IV. Verlag von Eduard Peter. Braunsberg and Leipzig, 1872.

External links
Domkapitel zu Frauenburg und die Stadt Allenstein 

1450 births
1513 deaths
15th-century German Catholic theologians
People from the State of the Teutonic Order
People from Olsztyn
Leipzig University alumni
Academic staff of Leipzig University
Rectors of Leipzig University
Ponérihouen

Ponérihouen  is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

Ponérihouen is the birthplace of the writer, feminist and politician Déwé Gorodey, who served as vice-president of the congress from 2001 to 2009.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
I'll Be There for You (album)

I'll Be There for You is the twelfth studio album by KC and the Sunshine Band, released in 2001. The album followed eight years after their previous studio album.

Track listing
"When I Close My Eyes" (Pete Masitti) – 4:14
"Higher Love" – 3:44
"Wanna Be Your Lover" (Casey, Masitti) – 4:12
"All That Good Stuff" – 3:52
"Get Up Off Your Love" – 3:57
"All I Really Wanna Do" (Casey, David Cabrera, Curtis Williams) – 3:49
"Down Again" – 4:31
"Come Back" – 4:45
"Party Zone" (Casey, Masitti, Carlos Sarli) – 3:25
"When It Comes to Love" – 3:45
"I'll Be There for You" (Casey, Cabrera) – 3:32
"All That Good Stuff" (Latin Remix) – 5:10
"Higher Love" (Latin Remix) – 4:08
"I'll Be There for You" (Remix) (Casey, Cabrera) – 4:54

All songs were written by Harry Wayne Casey, except where noted.

Personnel
Harry Wayne Casey – keyboards, vocal
Pete Masitti – keyboards, drum programming, background vocal
Curtis Williams – keyboards
David Cabrera – guitar
Ralph Hunter – drums
Carlos Sarli – drum programming, background vocal
Fermin Goytisolo – percussion
Ivan Palma – percussion
Mark Jenkins – steel drums
William Spencer – trumpet
Brian MacDonald – trumpet
Joel Behrman – trombone
John Turros – saxophone
Mike Scaglione – saxophone
Alex Dean – saxophone
John Di Puccio – violin
Bruce Wethy – violin
MeiMei Lou – violin
Huifang Cher – violin
Laslo Pap – violin
D. Chappell – violin
Debra Spring – violin
Jill Clark – French horn
P. Lakofsky – cello
Robert Moore – cello
Maria DeCrescenzo – background vocals
Donna Allen – background vocals
Diane Williams (DeDe Wild) – background vocals
Tessie Porter – background vocals

KC and the Sunshine Band albums
2001 albums
Carl Sagan Memorial Award

The Carl Sagan Memorial Award is an award presented jointly by the American Astronautical Society and The Planetary Society to an individual or group "who has demonstrated leadership in research or policies advancing exploration of the Cosmos." The annual award, first presented in 1997, was created in honor of American astronomer, astrobiologist and science popularizer, Carl Sagan (1934–1996).

Recipients
Source: American Astronautical Society

1997 Bruce Murray
1998 Wesley Huntress
1999 Ed Stone
2000 Arnauld Nicogossian
2001 Edward Weiler
2002 California and Carnegie Planet Search Team
2003 Roald Sagdeev
2004 Steve Squyres and the Athena Team
2005 Michael Malin
2006 Scott Hubbard
2007 Maria Zuber
2008 Lennard A. Fisk
2009 Award not offered
2010 Award not offered
2011 Charles Elachi
2012 Riccardo Giacconi
2013 Eileen K. Stansbery
2014 William J. Borucki
2015 Frank Cepollina
2016 Alan Stern
2017 AURA "HST &  Beyond" Committee
2018 no award
2019 Michael W. Werner
2020 Leslie Livesay
2021 Nicola Fox

See also
 List of astronomy awards
 List of space technology awards

References

External links
Carl Sagan Memorial Award

Awards of the American Astronautical Society
Astronomy prizes
Carl Sagan
Bingo Gazingo

Murray Wachs (June 2, 1924 – January 1, 2010), better known as Bingo Gazingo, was a poet from New York City, who was a postal worker for most of his career. Two versions, each also titled Bingo Gazingo, were released of the only single-artist album ever released by WFMU—the first on cassette, the second on CD. (Among other changes, the CD replaced Ravel's Boléro with an improvised bolero as accompaniment to "Bingo's Bolero".)
Bingo's parents were big fans of the game of Bingo, which resulted in him getting his notable name.

Career
The album consists of Bingo's reading his poems to an improvised musical accompaniment by WFMU DJs R. Stevie Moore, Bob Brainen, Dennis Diken, Dave Amels, Chris Bolger and Chris Butler, and engineered by Amels. Often, while performing live, the background music to his frantic, poetic incantations is nothing more than a cassette tape inserted into a cheap cigar-box tape recorder and miked.

Bingo's poetry often contains complicated rhyme schemes, extended stream-of-consciousness rambling, and crude language, with titles like "Up Your Jurassic Park" and "I Love You So Fucking Much I Can't Shit". He penned hyper-caffeinated odes to Madonna, Tupac Shakur, and Beavis and Butthead, and had his "Everything's O.K. at the O.K. Corral" (a dreamy reminiscence of the cowboy movie serials by an old nurse-attended man) featured on a 1996 CD produced by the famed Greenwich Village coffeehouse Fast Folk Cafe.

Bingo was accompanied and interpreted by My Robot Friend performing his "You're Out of the Computer" at the Outsider Music Festival at Time Cafe (downstairs from Fez) in New York City and, according to what My Robot Friend said there, also at appearances in Europe.

Bingo would always introduce NYC band Crambone when they would play at local downtown clubs like CBGB's, Arlene's Grocery, Baby Jupiter, The Continental, The Mercury Lounge and other New York venues. His image appeared on Crambone's breakout CD "Go Getcha Shinebox" in 2001.

Bingo Gazingo recorded for GRANDGOOD in May 2003 in Centerport, Long Island. Versions of 'Everyday I Leave $10 On The Table', 'J-Lo', and 'OK Corral' were recorded. 'Everynight Man', 'Old Man River', and 'Freey Zeeky' were also recorded.

Born in Queens in 1924, Bingo Gazingo wrote music for most of his life, struggling on the edge of obscurity. He continued to actively write, record and perform perverse, edgy music until the day he died (New Year's Day 2010) at 85 years old, struck down by a cab on his way to perform at the Bowery Poetry Club.

Prior to his death. Bingo performed every Monday night, at 6:00 PM, at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

Filmography
 Kiss Loves You (2007)

References

Bibliography
(2003). "". villagevoice.com. Retrieved September 9.
Kennedy, Randy (1997). "The Ballads of Bingo Gazingo." The New York Times. January 5.

External links
 Bingo Gazingo on WFMU blog
 R. Stevie Moore's Bingo CD pages

1924 births
2010 deaths
Fast Folk artists
Outsider musicians
Bahrain Workers' Union

The Bahrain Workers' Union is a trade union in Bahrain. It is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions, but the International Centre for Trade Union Rights notes that the union does not appear to have any real presence in the country.

References

Trade unions in Bahrain
World Federation of Trade Unions
National federations of trade unions
Turnau, Styria

Turnau is a market town at the foot of the Hochschwab in the Styrian District of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag.

Boroughs
Turnau has five boroughs: Turnau, Göriach, Seewiesen, Stübming, and Thal.

Politics
Turnau's mayor is Stefan Hofer of the SPÖ. In its municipal council (15 seats) the party mandates are as follows:
 7 SPÖ
 7 ÖVP
 1 FPÖ

References

Cities and towns in Bruck-Mürzzuschlag District
Packard 300

The Packard 300 is an automobile built and sold by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan for model years 1951 and 1952.  The 300 represented the upper mid-range Packard model and provided better appointments than the Packard 200 or the Packard 250 models, and replaced the Packard Super Eight, and the Packard Patrician 400 became the top level "senior" Packard.

For both model years the 300 model was built as a four-door sedan only and was mounted on Packard's  wheelbase. The car included the basic trim appointments found in the 200 and 200 Deluxe model lines and included tinted windows, a robe rail for backseat passengers and striped interior fabrics. Exterior trim included full wheel covers as well as Packard's graceful pelican hood ornament. The 300 also received a wrap around rear window which it shared with the Patrician models.

Power for the car in both years came from Packard's venerable Super Eight engine, the  "Thunderbolt" inline eight which was shared with the 250 line.  A three-speed manual shift was standard while Packard's Ultramatic automatic transmission was offered as optional equipment.

In 1953 the 300 was renamed the Packard Cavalier as Packard moved away from its strict numeric model naming structure.  A total of 22,309 Packard 300s were built in the model's two years on the market with 1951's total of 15,309 representing the high sales mark for the 300 model.

Sources

 
 

300
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 1951
Pouébo

Pouébo  is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

Geography

Climate
Pouébo has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am). The average annual temperature in Pouébo is . The average annual rainfall is  with March as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around , and lowest in August, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Pouébo was  on 7 February 2016; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 24 July 2004.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
Montreal Road

Montreal Road (French: Chemin de Montréal), also known as Ottawa Road #34, is a major east-west Ottawa road that links Lowertown to Vanier and the farther eastern neighbourhoods of Ottawa. Until downloading in 1998, it was part of the provincially managed Highway 17B.

Since the early 20th century, Montreal Road has been the cultural core of Vanier. It is one of a string of variously named roads that form an uninterrupted route between Parliament Hill and the City of Montreal, originally part of Ontario Highway 17, later bypassed by the freeway now known as Ottawa Road 174.

In French, it is  known as Chemin de Montréal for most of its distance. The insertion of de in the 2010s marked a departure from the City's general bilingual street-naming policy to align with Francophone practice for streets that refer to place names.

At its western end, Montreal Road begins at the Cummings Bridge, which spans the Rideau River and is an extension of Rideau Street. It becomes Vanier's main street as it passes through the commercial heart of the community.

East of St. Laurent Boulevard, it becomes a four-lane arterial road that divides several neighbourhoods such as Beacon Hill.

At Regional Road 174, Montreal Road becomes St. Joseph Boulevard, which runs through the older portions of Orléans Village until Trim Road.  It continues east of Trim Road under the name Old Montreal Road. This road, which was known as Queen Street prior to amalgamation in 2001, goes through the old Cumberland Village and ends at Regional Road 174 just past Becketts Creek.

Points of interest along this road are (from west to east):
 Montfort Hospital (Ontario's largest Francophone hospital)
 National Research Council labs
 Greens Creek Conservation Area
 Place d'Orléans Shopping Centre
 Orléans Town Centre.

There are bus lanes between North River Road and St. Laurent Boulevard to speed transit service during rush hours. Future plans by the city could include an LRT corridor on this stretch as far as Blair Road, where the City has plans for a new "main street" development of shops and apartment towers.

Neighbourhoods
Montreal Road goes through the following neighbourhoods:
 Vanier
 Cardinal Glen
 Rothwell Heights
 Beacon Hill

St. Joseph Boulevard goes through the following neighbourhoods (all part of Orléans):
 Convent Glen
 Queenswood
 Fallingbrook

Major intersections
On Montreal Road:
 Vanier Parkway (Ottawa Road 19)
 St. Laurent Boulevard (Ottawa Road 26)
 Aviation Parkway
 Blair Road (Ottawa Road 27)
 Ogilvie Road (Ottawa Road 50)
 Ottawa Road 174

On St. Joseph Boulevard:
 Jeanne d'Arc Boulevard (Ottawa Road 55)
 Orléans Boulevard (Ottawa Road 56)
 Tenth Line Road (Ottawa Road 36)
 Trim Road (Ottawa Road 57)

References 

Roads in Ottawa
Pouembout

Pouembout  is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

Geography

Climate
Pouembout has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw). The average annual temperature in Pouembout is . The average annual rainfall is  with January as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around , and lowest in July, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Pouembout was  on 19 November 1968; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 26 July 1970.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
Poum

Poum  is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The small town of Poum (Latitude: 20° 13' 59 south, longitude: 164° 1' 23 east) is located in the far northwest, located on the southern part of Banare Bay, with Mouac Island just offshore. Aside from French, the native language of the Kanak inhabitants is nêlêmwa-nixumwak, an Austronesian language spoken by about 1,100 people. British fishermen came to the islands in 1855 seeking sea cucumbers, and settled and intermarried, and this is reflected in the last names of some clan members and on gravestones (e.g. Williams, Winchester). In the 1850s, a hundred Europeans lived on Mouac Island and John Henry Williams established a presence on Néba island.

Geography
The Poum massif south of Poum and Titch rises to 414 m and is rich in nickel. Other minerals like cobalt have been mined out. The hills around Poum are bare of trees and distinctively rose and red-tinged. Seasonal water shortages and bush fires are common.

Economy
There is one boarding middle school near Poum village. The Kanak population pursue diverse subsistence activities, sometimes combined with paid work. There is one service station and store, opened in the 2010s. Tourists can stay at a western style hotel complex, the Malabou Beach hotel on Nehoue Bay, which is owned by the Northern Province corporation, Grands Hôtels - it has 35 employees. There are also two tourist cottages (Golone and Poingam),  a campsite (Pagop) and home stays are also possible.

Fishing is still pursued mainly by the islanders, especially from Tiabet, although commercial fish sales are affected by the long distances to market in Nouméa and accreditation systems. Agriculture is practised, and there is some European-owned cattle ranching.

The Poum nickel mine was not heavily exploited fully for many years following its acquisition by SLN after the Accords de Bercy in the 1990s, and had about thirty employees in 2014. In 2015, plans to increase production to 100,000 tonnes of ore per year from 'Spur A' of the mine, with 2.5% nickel content, were announced. In 2019, a further announcement of increased production was made. The mine has been accused by the inhabitants of Titch, west of Poum centre, of creating water pollution problems.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
Alberta Highway 60

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 60, commonly referred to as Highway 60 and officially named Devonian Way, is a north–south highway west of Edmonton in the Canadian province of Alberta, connecting Highway 39 to Highway 16.  In tandem with Highway 19, it is often used as a southwest bypass of Edmonton for travellers wishing to avoid traffic within the city.

Highway 60 begins as a two-lane rural highway east of Calmar in central Leduc County, branching due north from Highway 39 to meet Highway 19 at the south end of Devon where it becomes a divided expressway. Passing west of Devon and entering Parkland County, it bends west to cross the North Saskatchewan River on twin bridges, curving back north across Highways 627 and 628 to reach an interchange with Highway 16A in Acheson. The divided highway briefly reverts to two lanes before expanding again to four lanes and ending at Highway 16 west of Edmonton.

Alberta Transportation has outlined plans to twin the section of Highway 60 between Highways 16 and 16A, as well as long-term plans to realign Highway 60 as a freeway slightly to the west of Devon allowing for a free-flowing connection into a newly twinned Highway 19.

Major intersections 
From south to north:

References 

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Poya, New Caledonia

Poya  is a commune in New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The largest part of the commune (including the main settlement of Poya itself) lies in the North Province of New Caledonia, and a smaller part of the commune lies in the South Province, an odd situation resulting from the creation of New Caledonia's provinces in 1989. At the 2019 census, 2,592 of the 2,802 inhabitants of Poya lived on the North Province's side of the commune, while only 210 inhabitants lived on the South Province's side.

Climate

Poya has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification Aw). The average annual temperature in Poya is . The average annual rainfall is  with March as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around , and lowest in July, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Poya was  on 19 November 1968; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 24 May 1957.

See also
AS Poya

References

Communes of New Caledonia
Mohammad Hossein Barkhah

Mohammad Hossein Barkhah (, born 24 January 1977 in Tehran) is a retired Iranian weightlifting champion. In 2003, while in Vancouver, Canada, at a competition, he twisted one of his arms while performing a snatch. He represented the Islamic Republic of Iran in weightlifting in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.

Major results

References 
 Iran Weightlifting Federation

External links
 
 
 
 

1977 births
Living people
Iranian male weightlifters
Iranian strength athletes
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Olympic weightlifters for Iran
Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Iranian sportspeople in doping cases
Asian Games silver medalists for Iran
Asian Games medalists in weightlifting
Weightlifters at the 1998 Asian Games
Weightlifters at the 2002 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Sportspeople from Tehran
Spruce Grove Saints

The Spruce Grove Saints are a junior A ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). They play in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada, with home games at Grant Fuhr Arena.

History
The Saints' franchise is the only franchise remaining from the inception of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). The franchise began as the Edmonton Movers in 1963 before it merged with the Edmonton Maple Leafs organization to become the Edmonton Mets for the 1972–73 season. It then relocated to Spruce Grove as the Spruce Grove Mets for the 1974–75 season. During its first stint in Spruce Grove, the Mets won the 1975 Centennial Cup as Canadian Jr. A national champions and two league championships. After three years in Spruce Grove, the franchise relocated again to nearby St. Albert to become the St. Albert Saints in 1977. The franchise captured four AJHL championships during its time in St. Albert.

After 27 years in St. Albert, arena issues caused the franchise to return to Spruce Grove as the Spruce Grove Saints in 2004. Since returning to Spruce Grove, the team has won five AJHL playoff championships and five regular season titles, but have not advanced to the National Junior A Championship after failing to advance past the Doyle Cup or Western Canada Cup qualifiers.

Over 50 former Saints' players have gone on to play in the National Hockey League, including Mark Messier, Stu Barnes, Mike Comrie, and Steven Reinprecht.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T/OTL = Ties/Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Western Canada Cup
The Western Canada Cup was a postseason tournament between the playoff champions of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL), British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL), Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL), Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL), and a previously selected host team from one of the leagues. It ran from 2013 to 2017 with the top two teams qualifying for the Royal Bank Cup Junior A national championship tournament. It replaced the Doyle Cup, which had been the qualifier for the AJHL and BCHL champions, and the ANAVET Cup, which had been the qualifier for the MJHL and SJHL champions. The qualifying system reverted the Doyle and ANAVET Cups in 2018.

The tournament began with round-robin play between the five team followed by the top two teams playing in championship game and the third and fourth place teams playing in a semifinal game. The loser of the championship game then faced the winner of the semifinal game for the runner-up qualifier. The winner of the championship and the runner-up game advanced to the Royal Bank Cup.

See also
 List of ice hockey teams in Alberta

External links
Spruce Grove Saints website
Alberta Junior Hockey League website

Alberta Junior Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in Alberta
Ice hockey clubs established in 2004
Spruce Grove
Sarraméa

Sarraméa is a landlocked commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It and neighbouring Farino are the only two communes on the island that do not border the sea. With a population of (rounded by the nearest hundred) 500, Sarraméa is the least populous commune of not only South Province, but all of New Caledonia.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
Marie Jakober

Marie Jakober (August 27, 1941 – March 26, 2017) was a Canadian novelist.

Based in Calgary, Alberta, Jakober wrote historical fiction and fantasy. Sandinista: A Novel of Nicaragua (1985) won the Writer's Guild of Alberta Novel Award in 1985. She received the 2002 Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction for her novel Only Call Us Faithful (2002). Her second Civil War novel, Sons of Liberty, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel at the Alberta Book Awards in 2006.

Bibliography
The Mind Gods: A Novel of the Future (London: Macmillan, 1976; Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1976)
Sandinista: A Novel of Nicaragua (Vancouver: New Star, 1985)
A People in Arms (Vancouver: New Star, 1987)
High Kamilan: A Novel (Calgary: Gullveig, 1993; republished as Even the Stones by Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing, 2004)
The Black Chalice (Calgary: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2000)
Only Call Us Faithful (New York: Forge, 2002)
Even the Stones (Calgary: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2004)
Sons of Liberty (New York: Forge, 2005)
The Halifax Connection (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2007)
The Demon Left Behind (Calgary: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2011)

References

External links
sfnet author's homepage
Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Author's Full Biography

Notice at locusmag.com

1941 births
2017 deaths
Canadian science fiction writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Writers from Calgary
Prussica-Sammlung Trunz

The Prussica-Sammlung Trunz (the formal title can be informally translated as the "Prussianica Collection [belonging to or assembled by] Trunz") is a collection of over 40,000 books about former German territories in Eastern and Central Europe, mainly Prussia. It was founded by Dr. August Trunz (1875-1963) from Allenstein, East Prussia.

Among others, the collection features chronicles by Kaspar Schuetz (1592), Caspar Henneberg (1595), Christoph Hartknoch (1684), Lucas David, and the Livonian chronicles of Balthasar Russow (1578).

In 1978, the collection was purchased by the library of the University of Münster.

External links
Prussica-Sammlung Trunz

Archives in Germany
Culture of Prussia
Culture in Münster
Thio, New Caledonia

Thio  is a commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

A novel Aerial tramway built by Adolf Bleichert & Co. company in 1906 existed here at the start of the 20th century to facilitate loading ore ships offshore.

References

https://archive.org/details/selectedbibliogr00amerrich 1916. pg 15 “about one thousand yards long”. Refers to Scientific American Supplement November 27, 1909 and Engineering & Mining Journal February 20, 1909 5 pages, illustrated.
http://www.zapgillou.fr/mondalazac/articleweb/partie2.htm has a postage stamp, a short description and a Google Earth view.

Communes of New Caledonia
Touho

Touho  is a municipality (commune) in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Touho lies on the east coast of the main island (Grande Terre) and is served by a road and an airfield.

The vocational school, Lycée Professionnel Augustin Ty, was officially opened in 1994. It is located directly opposite the airport.

Geography

Climate

Touho has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af). The average annual temperature in Touho is . The average annual rainfall is  with March as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around , and lowest in August, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Touho was  on 22 March 2016; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 23 September 1994.

References

Communes of New Caledonia
PAN Parks

The PAN Parks Foundation was a non-governmental organisation that aimed to protect Europe's wildernesses. The foundation filed for bankruptcy in May 2014 in The Netherlands, but was denied the status by the court and is currently in liquidation.

Details
The PAN Parks Foundation was founded in 1998 by the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Dutch travel company Molecaten, with the aim of creating national parks in Europe, along the model of the Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks in North America. The organisation aims to create a network of European wilderness areas where wilderness and high quality tourism facilities are balanced with environmental protection and sustainable local development. It attempts to achieve this through a process of auditing and verification, enabling it to certify parks owned by partners as meeting particular standards, combined with political advocacy on the local and European level.

List of PAN Certified parks
 Central Balkan National Park, Bulgaria
 Fulufjället National Park, Sweden
 Majella National Park, Italy
 Oulanka National Park, Finland
 Paanajärvi National Park, Russia
 Retezat National Park, Romania
 Rila National Park, Bulgaria
 Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park, Georgia
 Southwestern Archipelago National Park, Finland
 Peneda-Gerês National Park, Portugal
 Soomaa National Park, Estonia
 Dzūkija National Park, Lithuania
 Čepkēliai Reserve, Lithuania
 Küre Mountains National Park, Turkey

References

Environmental organizations based in Europe
Protected areas of Europe
Wilderness
Voh

Voh  is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

It has become famous for the aerial photography of what is known as The Heart of Voh, a large formation of vegetation that resembles a heart seen from above. Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand contributed to its popularity by using a photograph of the 'heart' as the dust jacket art to his books The Earth from the Air and Earth from Above.

Voh is also the closest large settlement to the enormous Koniambo mine, and it hosted indentured Vietnamese mineworkers from the late 1800s until the 1940s, termed the Chân Dăng.

Colonial establishment
In 1865 Kanak warriors  killed workers constructing a fort at Pouangué (Gatope), and it was abandoned in 1869. In 1891 the French administration decided the vallée de Voh would be a good place for French free settlers. Land for farming was reportedly renounced voluntarily by the Kanak inhabitants, on the right bank of the river. At this time, there were no roads. Some 950 ha was surveyed by Piarchi, and lots of 0.15 ha to 380 ha were handed out for housing and livestock farming. By late  1892  23 Europeans including Georges Weiss, Jean-François Jocteur, Alexandre Paulaud and Claude Rousson, Jean-Baptiste Mirandon and  former army officers Pancrace Mainard and  Marin Poncet arrived and began building and farming. The settlement later expanded to the left bank of the river, and Governor Paul Feillet visited in 1894. Settlers soon turned to coffee production. The town now features a Musée du Café.

Today
Mining has brought new wealth to the region, the growth of employment and new housing, and problems associated with the temporary workforce.

People of Voh
Its most famous son is André Dang Van Nha who was born in the Vietnamese labour camp in 1936, and who now has a controlling interest, as head of SMSP, in the huge Koniambo mine. His father, killed building a wharf in 1937, is buried in the Voh cemetery.

References

External links

 yannarthusbertrand.com - main page featuring Arthus-Bertrand's photograph of The Heart of Voh.

Communes of New Caledonia