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Ernest Emenyonu

Chief Sir Ernest Emenyonu is a Nigerian academic, who is an African literature critic and professor. He was formerly head of the department of English and Literary Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, in that order, through the 1980s and 1990s. He was also Provost of Alvan Ikoku College of Education now Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Educationˌ Owerri in Imo stateˌ Nigeria (1992–1995).

Ernest Nneji Emenyonu is one of the preeminent scholars in the world on African Literature. He has published biographies on notable writers such as Chinua Achebe and Cyprian Ekwensi. While at the University of Calabar, Emenyonu founded and chaired the Calabar annual International Conference on African Literature and the English Language (ICALEL). This promoted interaction of African writers and critics with visiting international scholars.

Emenyonu is a research professor at University of Michigan. He held the position of Head of Department of Africana Studies. Presently, he is the Editor of the oldest journal in the world on African literature, African Literature Today. He has made notable contributions to the University of Michigan-Flint such as bringing Nobel Prize winner in Literature Wole Soyinka, to the campus, as well as women's rights activist Nawal El Saadawi.

Emenyonu is a Knight of Saint Christopher, Anglican Communion. He is also a Chief in his hometown of Imo State, Nigeria. He was given the title Ugwu Mba 1 of Mbieri translated to mean "pride of his people." He is married to his longtime wife Patricia Emenyonu with four children and has three granddaughters.

Bibliography
 "Introduction", Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature, Trenton: AWP 2000.  (hb)  (pb)
 Tales of our Motherland, Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books, 1999.
 The rise of the Igbo novel, Oxford University Press, 1978 , 
 (Editor) New Women's Writing in African Literature,  Department of Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint
 Literature and society: selected essays on African literature, Oguta, Nigeria: Zim Pan African Publishers, 1986
 (Editor) A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, James Currey/Boydell and Brewer, 2017,

References 

Year of birth missing
University of Michigan faculty
Academic staff of the University of Calabar
Nigerian writers
Scholars of African literature
Wolfius

Wolfius is a monotypic genus of seed bugs in the tribe Colpurini, erected by William Lucas Distant in 1902.  It contains the single species Wolfius exemplificatus, recorded from Thailand and Burma.

References

External links
 

Coreidae genera
Monotypic Hemiptera genera
Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area

Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area is located along the St. Johns River east of Orlando in Christmas on Taylor Creek Road, off SR 50.

Flora
The wildlife management area (WMA) contains 1000 acres of old growth floodplain swamp, twenty to forty acres of old growth mesic flatwoods and an unknown acreage of old growth hydric hammock.

Fauna
Among the wildlife of this  wildlife management area (WMA) are song birds, wading birds and migratory waterfowl. The WMA is home to bald eagle, turkey, hawks, and  owls, as well as white-tailed deer, bobcat, fox squirrel, and  gray fox. Other animals that can be seen at the park are alligator, otter, and turtles. The WMA also contains rare and endangered plants.

Recreational Activities
Activities include hiking, biking, and primitive back-pack camping, as well as horseback riding, hunting, fishing, geocaching,and nature study.

Amenities include access to the St. Johns River, a horse camp, a youth camp, two primitive backpack campsites, and more than fifty miles of trails. However, during the rainy season the trails may be under water.

References

 http://funandsun.com/parks/Tosohatchee/tosohatchee.html
 http://www.nbbd.com/godo/tosohatchee/index.html
 http://myfwc.com/viewing/recreation/wmas/lead/tosohatchee Florida Fish and Wildlife Management Conservation Commission

Protected areas of Orange County, Florida
Wildlife management areas of Florida
Calabar International Conference on African Literature and the English Language

ICALEL is an acronym for the Calabar International Conference on African Literature and the English Language founded and chaired by African scholar and critic Ernest Emenyonu. At the centre of the conference are African writers and critics from all over the world. The first conference entitled “The Woman as a Writer in Africa” was held at the University of Calabar auditorium in May 1981 and Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo was keynote speaker. The themes of 1982, namely "Literature in African Languages" and "Writing Books for Children", featured Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Bessie Head as keynote speakers. The many notable African writers who have featured at the conference over the years include Cyprian Ekwensi, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Chinweizu, Dennis Brutus, Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Elechi Amadi, Ken Saro Wiwa, Chukwuemeka Ike, Nuruddin Farah, Syl Cheney-Coker, to mention a few.

References

 E. N. Emenyonu, "Introduction", Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature, Trenton: AWP, 2000.  (hb),  (pb)

African literature
Literary criticism
Cultural conferences
International conferences
Recurring events established in 1981
Tommy Wright

Tommy Wright may refer to:

 Tommy A. Wright (born 1952), member of the Florida Senate

 Tommy Wright (footballer, born 1928) (1928–2011), Scottish footballer, played for Sunderland
 Tommy Wright (footballer, born 1944), English footballer who played for Everton
 Tommy Wright (footballer, born 1963), Northern Ireland footballer
 Tommy Wright (footballer, born 1966), Scottish footballer who played for Leicester City
 Tommy Wright (footballer, born 1984), English footballer and manager who has played for Aberdeen, Forest Green Rovers and Darlington
 Tommy Wright III (born 1976), American rapper and record producer
 Tommy Wright (actor) (1926–1999), appeared in The Elephant Man and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

See also 
 Thomas Wright (disambiguation)
 Tom Wright (disambiguation)
DSR Proteus-Eretes

DSR Proteus-Eretes ( - Delft Student Rowing Club) is a student rowing club in Delft, Netherlands, with more than 850 members. 

Proteus-Eretes has a fleet of more than 100 rowing boats, which is the largest number of boats owned by a student rowing club in the Netherlands.

About 60 members of Proteus-Eretes are racerowers, who train to reach a worldclass level of rowing and start competing at a high level instantly. In 2012, 5 members competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and Sytske de Groot and Chantal Achterberg won bronze medals as a part of women's eight team. The other members are more recreational rowers, but also have the opportunity to compete in a competitive environment. During the season they can participate in competitions almost every weekend.

History
Proteus-Eretes is a result of a fusion between two student rowing clubs, VRV Proteus and DSR Eretes. VRV (Virgilius Roei Vereniging) Proteus was founded in 1947 by Gerrit Athmer and was at first a rowing club only for members of Sanctus Virgilius. Other students were not granted membership of Proteus. 

In 1966 DSR Eretes was founded as a student rowing club open to all students. DSR Eretes was growing at a very fast rate whereas Proteus was struggling to survive. Because of problems with Sanctus Virgilius and a shortage of new members, Proteus became an open rowing club in 1969. In 1970 a fusion with Eretes followed, forming DSR Proteus-Eretes.

References 

Rowing clubs in the Netherlands
Sports clubs and teams established in 1970
Organisations based in South Holland
1970 establishments in the Netherlands
Corn crib

A corn crib or corncrib is a type of granary used to dry and store corn. It may also be known as a cornhouse or corn house.

Overview

After the harvest and while still on the cob, corn is placed in the crib either with or without the husk. The typical corn crib has slats in its walls to allow air to circulate through the corn, both allowing it to dry initially and helping it stay dry. The slats expose the corn to pests, so corn cribs are elevated beyond the reach of rodents.

Although granaries had been used around the world in many cultures who grew grain for food, corn cribs were first used by Native Americans and then quickly adopted by European settlers. Struggling European settlers often raided corn cribs for food. As a result, at least some Native groups abandoned the corn crib and buried food in caches.

Corn crib designs vary greatly. They were originally made of wood, but other materials such as concrete have also been used. The basic corn crib consists of a roofed bin elevated on posts. Another typical early American design has walls slanted outward. Most of the larger designs have an open space in the middle for accessing corn and promoting airflow. In larger designs, this space was often used to store wagons. By the early 20th century, the term "corn crib" was applied to large barns that contained many individual bins of corn. Today a typical corn crib on many farms is a cylindrical cage of galvanized wire fencing covered by a metal roof formed of corrugated galvanised iron.

See also
 Hambar – corn cribs in the Balkans and surrounding region
 Hórreo
 Raccard

Gallery

References

External links

 Grain Quality Task Force, Purdue U. 10/1996

Granaries
Maize production
Native American architecture
Castelar

Castelar is a city in Morón Partido (county), Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, some 30 km west of the nation's capital, the autonomous city of Buenos Aires. It is part of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

Castelar is the westernmost city of the Morón Partido, and borders on Ituzaingó Partido. 

It is the second most populated city in Morón, and it's located in the western side of it.

Climate

Economy
The Sero electric factory is located in Castelar.

History 
The first owner of the land now known as Castelar was Mateo Sanchez, who received a squared portion of land laid upon Moron Creek ―the zone previously known as Cañada de Ruiz― according to the orders of the governor Juan Ramirez de Velasco. Surprisingly, the limits of that land were almost double the size of the current city. In 1610 the land suffered its first change of owner, since Mateo Sanchez had sold it to captain Francisco Romero from Santa Cruz. The lot continued to be in the hands of Romero's descendants until 1673, the year that Sebastian de Gilles acquired it, which led to a slow fragmenting of the land.

Notable residents
Daniel Guerrero - television and film actor, radio announcer and television show host
Brian Smith - racing driver

See also
2013 Castelar train crash

References

External links

  Castelar railway station on Google Maps
 Castelar Digital
 Historia y actualidad de Moron, Argentina

Morón Partido
Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
Cities in Argentina
Master of International Affairs

A Master in International Affairs (MIA), Master in Global Affairs (MGA), Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR), Master of International Policy and Practice (MIPP), or Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) is a professional master's degree in international affairs.

Subject matter
Details can vary between degree-granting institutions, but such a degree typically includes these core courses:
 Interstate relations
 Forms of government
 Diplomacy
 Sociology
 Political philosophy
 Defence policy
 International law
 International relations
 International political economy
 International history
 International finance
 International economics and economic diplomacy
Additionally, certificates in functional concentrations (international business diplomacy, global gender policy, etc.) and regional concentrations (Asian studies, Arab studies, etc.) are offered to complement the core degree. Some programs also require proficiency in foreign languages, in addition to completing free electives outside the main program.

These programs are typically offered by members of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), an association of schools of international affairs. It has member schools and departments from across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

See also
 Inside the Ivory Tower, a ranking of master's programs in international relations by Foreign Policy
 List of master's degrees
 Master of International Business
 Master of Public Policy
 International relations

References

External links
 Graduate Program in International Affairs at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
 School of Government, LUISS Guido Carli
 School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Master's degrees
International relations education
Blake High School

Blake High School may refer to:

In the United States:
 Howard W. Blake High School - Tampa, Florida
 James Hubert Blake High School - Silver Spring, Maryland

See also
Blake School (disambiguation)
Kpelle language

The Kpelle  language (endonym: "Kpɛlɛɛ") is spoken by the Kpelle people of Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast and is part of the Mande language family. Guinean Kpelle (also known as Guerze in French), spoken by half a million people, is concentrated primarily, but not exclusively, in the southeastern forest regions of Guinea bordering Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone. Half a million Liberians speak Liberian Kpelle, which is taught in Liberian schools.

Sample 
The Lord's Prayer in Kpelle:
Kunâŋ gáa ŋele sui,
Tɔɔ ku iláai siɣe a maa waa. 
Tɔɔ Ikâloŋ-laai é pá, 
Tɔɔ ínîa-mɛni é kέ, 
Nɔii ma ɓɛ yɛ̂ɛ berei gáa la Ɣâla-taai. 
I kukɔ sâa a kuɣele-kuu tɔnɔ-tɔnɔ mii-sɛŋ; 
I ipôlu fe kutɔ̂ŋ-karaa-ŋai dîa, 
Yɛ̂ɛ berei kwa kupôlu fè la kuɓarâai ditɔ̂ŋ-karaa-ŋai dîai; 
Tɔɔ kutúɛ kufe pili yee-laa-maa su, 
Kέlɛ, i kukúla mɛni nyɔ́mɔɔ su.

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

References

External links
PanAfriL10n page on Kpelle/Guerzé
Omniglot: Kpelle syllabary

Languages of Liberia
Languages of Guinea
Mande languages
Kpelle people
Astram Line

, also known as the , is a rubber-tired transit system operated by Hiroshima Rapid Transit in Hiroshima, Japan. Astram opened on August 20, 1994, for the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima. The line connects central Hiroshima and Hiroshima Big Arch, which was the main stadium of the Asian Games. On March 14, 2015, a new station, Shin-Hakushima, opened to make a new connection between the Astram Line and JR lines.

Stations

Rolling stock
 6000 series 6-car EMUs (23 sets)
 1000 series 6-car EMU (1 set)
 7000 series 6-car EMUs (11 sets on order)

, services on the line are operated using a fleet of 23 six-car 6000 series trainsets (sets 01 to 23) and one six-car 1000 series (set 24).

The entire fleet of 24 sets is scheduled to be replaced with a new fleet of six-car trains delivered in two batches. The first of 11 new 7000 series sets was delivered in 2019. They are scheduled to enter service in March 2020.

6000 series

The 6000 series trainsets (01 to 23) are formed as follows, with all cars motored.

Priority seating is provided in each car, and wheelchair spaces are provided in the end cars.

1000 series

The 1000 series trainset (24) is formed as follows, with four of the six cars motored.

Priority seating is provided in each car, and wheelchair spaces are provided in the end cars.

History
Plans to build a new transit system linking the city centre of Hiroshima with the suburban area to the northwest were first proposed in July 1977.

The third-sector Hiroshima Rapid Transit was founded in 1987, funded primarily by the city of Hiroshima.  Groundbreaking for the rapid transit line project began on February 28, 1989, and construction would continue over a five-year period. However, on March 14, 1991, 15 people were killed when a girder collapsed on a section of the line's elevated viaduct near the  station's construction site. The line opened for revenue service on August 20, 1994.

When the line originally opened in 1994, it had 21 stations, of which  provided the line's only transfer with a JR West line (the Kabe Line). On March 14, 2015,  opened as an infill station between Hakushima and Jōhoku in order to provide a transfer point with the Sanyo Main Line.

See also
 List of rapid transit systems

References

External links

  
 Map of Hiroshima rail transit network

 
Hiroshima Rapid Transit
Railway lines opened in 1994
750 V DC railway electrification
1994 establishments in Japan
International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture

The International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture (IRCALC) is an online non-profit, non-governmental confederation of writers, scholars and researchers from all over the world. IRCALC's scholarly initiative is mainly in research in African literature and providing a common ground for interaction between organizations, college departments, libraries and individuals for the exchange of information, ideas, and research findings that enrich the understanding of Africa's cultural heritage. The IRCALC board edits the Journal of African Literature and Culture (JALC) and the New Poetry (NP), both published by Progeny (Africa Research) International.

References

External links
 Official site

African literature
Writers Union of Armenia

The Writers' Union of Armenia was founded in August 1934, simultaneously with the USSR Union of Writers and as a component part of the USSR Union.

1930s
The Constituent Assembly was held during 1 August - 5 August, after which the Armenian delegation of writers took part in USSR Writers' Union Constituent Assembly.

World War II
In Armenia in September 1939 the millennial anniversary of Sasuntsi Davit epos was celebrated. On this occasion the USSR Writers' Union directorate's plenary session was held in Armenia. In 1941, from 10 May until 20 May the Armenian Literature Decade was organized in Moscow.

More than fifty Armenian writers fought in the Great Patriotic War.

1940s
In 1946 the Second Assembly was held. It resolved that Avetik Isahakyan be the president of the Writers' Union of Armenia.

1950s, 60 & 70s
The Third Assembly was held in July 1954 and Avetik Isahakya was re-elected. As a result of the fourth (January 1959), the fifth (November 1966) and the sixth (January 1971) Assemblies Edward Topchyan was elected as the Secretary-in-Charge of the Union.

The Seventh Assembly (April 1976 of the Writers' Union elected Vardges Petrosyan as the Secretary-in-Charge.

1980s
As a result of the eighth (May 1981) and the ninth (May 1986) Assemblies he became the president of the Union. In 1988 a special session was held after which Hrachya Hovhannisyan was elected as the president.

1990s
On 15 June 1990, the directorate of Writers' Union self-published the organization's project. In the September of the same year the Writers' Union building was transferred to a special army detachment as a general headquarters.

Armenian writers took active part in the reconstruction of the Armenian National State system and in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Several writers fought in different battles. One of them, Samvel Shahmuradyan, fell in the battle of Gandzasar.

Vazgen Sargsyan became the defence minister and then the prime minister of Armenia. In September 1990 and February 1991 the Tenth Assembly was held in two phases. Vahagn Davtyan was elected president.

In January 1994 the special session elected Razmik Davoyan as the president. Another special session in 1996 elected Hrant Matevosyan to lead the Union.

2000s
In 2001 the thirteenth Assembly was held and Levon Ananyan was elected WUA president. In June 2002 the Writers' Union of Armenia organized the first Pan-Armenian Congress and in June 2004 a second was held.

The WUA's publishing house was established in 2002. A young writers' book series called Mutk was published. Alongside existing literary magazines and newspapers (Grakan Tert, Nork, Nor dar, Literaturnaya Armenia) 'Artasahmanyan Grakanutyun magazine, Satirikon (a humorous newspaper), Tsolker and Lusapsak young people's magazines are being published.

In June 2004 the seventy-year Anniversary of Writers' Union of Armenia was celebrated.

External links
 Official website

1934 establishments in Armenia
Armenian literature
Armenian writers' organizations
Levon Ananyan

Levon Ananyan (; 13 October 1946 – 2 September 2013) was an Armenian journalist and translator.

Biography 
Born in Koghb, Tavush, Levon Ananyan was a graduate of the Yerevan State University, Department of Philology. He worked for a number of state journals. For approximately 25 years, he worked for the Garoun monthly.

In 1989, he became a member of the Writers Union of Armenia, and from 1990 – 2001 he was chief editor for Garoun.

In 2001, he was elected President of the Writers' Union of Armenia. He was re-elected as the RA Writers' Union chairman in 2009. He lectures at the Yerevan State University Department of Journalism. He was the president of the Noyemberyan NGO. He was also a member of the Journalists' Union.

He authored many articles on social and political issues, which have been printed in the state press. He also translated and published Russian and English books to the Armenian language; he founded "Apollo" Publishers.

Works

 Turmoil, Yerevan, 2004
 Drama on Stage and on the Screen, Yerevan, 1996
 Roots and Foliage, Yerevan, 1987

Translations From Russian and English to Armenian
 Contemporary Russian Statue, Yerevan, 2005
 Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, 1986

References

1946 births
People from Tavush Province
2013 deaths
Armenian journalists
Armenian translators
Yerevan State University alumni
21st-century Armenian male writers
20th-century translators
21st-century Armenian writers
20th-century Armenian writers
20th-century male writers
Warrior Princess

Warrior Princess may refer to:

"Warrior Princess", the 2014 Mongolian hit film about the life of Queen Anu
Xena: Warrior Princess, a 1995-2001 American television series 
"The Warrior Princess" (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys), an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Xena: Warrior Princess (comics)
X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Warrior Princess, a 1996 story arc of the X-wing: Rogue Squadron comics series
Diana: Warrior Princess, a 2003 roleplaying game by Heliograph Incorporated
Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender, a 2013 memoir of Kristin Beck, a former United States Navy SEAL who came out as a trans woman
nickname of English professional kickboxer Ruqsana Begum (born 1983)

See also
Women warriors in literature and culture
List of female action heroes
List of women warriors in folklore
Ohanes

Ohanes is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

Demographics

References

External links
  Ohanes - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
  Ohanes - Diputación Provincial de Almería
 The School Beam in Ohanes

Municipalities in the Province of Almería
Police Minstrels

The Police Minstrels was a concert party consisting of members of the London Metropolitan Police.

Founded in 1872 by ten officers from "A" Division (Whitehall), the Minstrels consisted of police officers who could sing or play a musical instrument. They performed at police stations to entertain the officers, and also gave public concerts in aid of police charities. The Minstrels wore evening dress and blackface makeup, in the manner of the typical minstrel shows of the period, and sang negro spirituals and popular ballads and songs, as well as playing instrumentals. They also performed comedy sketches, originally written for them by the popular music hall artiste and pantomime dame Clarkson Rose. The Minstrels were very popular - in the 1928/29 season alone, they gave about 140 performances.

Seats for the public concerts were sold door-to-door by uniformed Sergeants. Commissioners Sir William Horwood and Lord Byng both objected to this, as did the Police Federation, claiming that people may feel intimidated into buying tickets and that it detracted from the dignity of the rank. The Minstrels survived by pointing to the amounts of money they raised for charity. However, Lord Trenchard discovered that ticket sales were entirely dependent on this method of selling and felt that this was a form of blackmail. In 1932, he ordered that the door-to-door selling should cease. The Minstrels attempted to continue by selling tickets from theatre box offices and police stations, but were disbanded the following year.

The Minstrels raised a total of £250,000 for the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, the Metropolitan and City Police Convalescent Home Fund, and the Widows' and Relief Funds. Trenchard set up the Commissioner's Fund to replace this vital source of income for these police charities.

The most prominent member of the Minstrels was Sir James Olive, the first Deputy Commissioner, who had been a founder member in 1872 and later became the group's president.

References
The Times Digital Archive
Martin Fido & Keith Skinner, The Official Encyclopedia of Scotland Yard (Virgin Books, London:1999)
Rachel Cowgill, 'On the Beat: The Victorian Policeman as Musician', in Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain, ed. Paul Rodmell (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), 221-245

External links
 Ralph Wilcocks and the Police Minstrels

Musical groups established in 1872
History of the Metropolitan Police
Blackface minstrel troupes
1872 establishments in England
British comedy troupes
Anti-black racism in England
Liu Liankun

Liu Liankun () (20 January 1933 – 15 August 1999), was a major general (shao jiang) in the People's Liberation Army who provided the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan with secret intelligence about the status of missiles from the People's Republic of China (PRC). During the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1996, the ROC Ministry of National Defense notified the public that the missiles launched by the PRC actually carried unarmed warheads. This tipped off Beijing that Taipei had a high-level mole working on the mainland. Liu, a top Chinese military logistics officer, was arrested, court-martialed and executed in 1999.

The ROC's Military Intelligence Bureau confirmed that Liu was one of its spies in 2018.

See also
Tong Daning

References

1933 births
1999 deaths
20th-century executions by China
20th-century spies
Executed Chinese people
Executed military leaders
Executed people from Heilongjiang
Executed People's Republic of China people
Executed spies
Expelled members of the Chinese Communist Party
People executed by China by lethal injection
People from Qiqihar
People's Liberation Army generals from Heilongjiang
Post–Cold War spies
Taiwanese spies
Lake Hood Seaplane Base

Lake Hood Seaplane Base  is a state-owned seaplane base located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. The Lake Hood Strip  is a gravel runway located adjacent to the seaplane base. The gravel strip airport's previous code of  has been decommissioned and combined with  as another landing surface.

Operating continuously and open to the public, Lake Hood is the world's busiest seaplane base, handling an average of 190 flights per day. It is located on Lakes Hood and Spenard (Niłkidal'iy in the indigenous Dena'ina language), next to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport three miles from downtown Anchorage.  The base has an operating control tower, and during the winter months the frozen lake surface is maintained for ski-equipped airplanes.

Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Lake Hood is assigned LHD by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is PALH.

Facilities and aircraft

Lake Hood Seaplane Base has three seaplane landing areas: E/W is 4,540 by 188 feet (1,384 x 57 m); N/S is 1,930 by 200 feet (588 x 61 m); NW/SE is 1,370 by 150 feet (418 x 46 m).

Lake Hood Strip has one runway designated 14/32 with a gravel surface measuring 2,200 by 75 feet (671 x 23 m).

For 12-month period ending August 1, 2005, the seaplane base had 69,400 aircraft operations, an average of 190 per day: 88% general aviation, 12% air taxi and <1% military. There are 781 aircraft based at this seaplane base: 97% single engine and 3% multi-engine.

References

External links
 Alaska Airmen's Association webcam on Lake Hood
 FAA Alaska airport diagram (GIF)

Airports in Anchorage, Alaska
Seaplane bases in Alaska
The Edge of Forever (The Dream Academy song)

"The Edge of Forever" is a song by The Dream Academy from their eponymous first album, released in 1985.

The song was only originally released as a promotional single. However, a brief excerpt was used under dialogue near the end of the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The song appears on the limited-edition soundtrack album released in 2016.

References

1985 singles
The Dream Academy songs
Songs written by Nick Laird-Clowes
1984 songs
Warner Records singles
Song recordings produced by David Gilmour
Bunak language

The Bunak language (also known as Bunaq, Buna', Bunake, pronounced ) is the language of the Bunak people of the mountainous region of central Timor, split between the political boundary between West Timor, Indonesia, particularly in Lamaknen District and East Timor. It is one of the few on Timor which is not an Austronesian language, but rather a Papuan language of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family. The language is surrounded by Malayo-Polynesian languages, like Uab Meto and Tetum.

Bunak distinguishes between animate and inanimate noun classes.

Phonology 

 Plosive sounds /p t k/ can be heard as unreleased allophones [p̚ t̚ k̚], in word-final position.

 Sounds /b d ɡ/ can be heard as [β r ɣ] in intervocalic positions.

 /ɡ/ can be heard as [dʒ] when preceding /i/.

 /z/ can have allophones [ʒ dʒ] in free variation.

 /tʃ/ is heard as [s] when preceding /i/.

 /l/ in word-final position can also be heard as a fricative [ɬ] in free variation.

Pronouns
Pronouns seem to tie Bunak more closely to the Alor–Pantar languages, in a group Ross (2005) calls "West Timor", than with the Papuan East Timor languages. The independent pronouns and object prefixes, which appear to retain the proto-Trans–New Guinea dual suffix *-li, are as follows:

Notes

References

External links 
 ELAR archive of Zapal, an oral literature genre of the Bunaq Lamaknen
 Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Bunaq

Languages of Indonesia
Languages of East Timor
Timor–Alor–Pantar languages
Guy Provost

Guy Provost,  (May 19, 1925 – February 10, 2004) was a French Canadian actor.

In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being a "giant of the performing arts, admired and respected for his sensitivity and discipline, [he] is also a model for the new generation of actors". In 2003, he was made a chevalier of the National Order of Quebec.

See also
 Compagnons de Saint-Laurent

References

External links
 

1925 births
2004 deaths
Knights of the National Order of Quebec
Officers of the Order of Canada
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male film actors
Male actors from Quebec
People from Gatineau
French Quebecers
Parc Festyland

Parc Festyland is a relatively small theme park situated within the Caen ringroad (A13/A84) in Lower Normandy, France. Sometimes referred to as being in Carpiquet in Greater Caen, the theme park receives approximately 110,000 visitors a year.

Background

Parc Festyland is a true theme park as it has a central unifying theme in accordance with which the whole park - from rides to restaurants to surroundings - is built. The theme of Parc Festyland 
is the 1066 era. Being a family theme park, it concentrates on the architecture and personalities of the time. The park's logo is a friendly, young-looking dragon's head sporting a Viking hat and a large grin.

Visiting Figures
In 2005, the park received 110,000 visitors, compared to Caen's five museums which received 550,000 visitors between them (source: Caen tourist office).

Advertising
Parc Festyland runs an advertising campaign in association with the Caen tourist office. In all language versions of the booklet, the first inner page is a full colour advert for the park. It consists of the Parc Festyland name and logo, the catchphrase ("defiez le!!!"), contact details (website address and phone number), and two pictures of females appearing to enjoy themselves at the park, with a large rollercoaster in the background.

Catchphrase
The park's motto is Défiez le!. The English version of the Caen tourist office booklet translates this phrase as 'brave it'. It refers to braving the main attraction (a 59 second long roller coaster).

Features

Rides in the Park 
The Drakkar Express is a steel roller coaster, the cars of which are designed to resemble Viking ships.
The bumper boats are waterborne dodgem cars. The cars seat either one person, or an adult and a small child, however height restrictions do apply. Each car consists of a plastic moulded steering platform supported by an inflated rubber cushion.

The bateaux les pentes vertigineuses du Piratak are a water slide with boats.

Prehistyland 
A section of the park is themed to the prehistoric era, instead of 1066 as is the rest of the park. The prehistoric area includes life size models of dinosaurs and a rope bridge traversing a lake.

Floral Decorations 
There are gardens with floral decorations and snail-shaped vehicles on a fixed tracks that take visitors on tours.

External links 
 Park's website

Amusement parks in France
Buildings and structures in Caen
Tourist attractions in Normandy
Amusement parks opened in 1989
1989 establishments in France
Madagascar Biodiversity Center

The Madagascar Biodiversity Center or Bibikely Biodiversity  Center is Madagascar's first and only biodiversity research center, and is a joint project of the Bibikely Biodiversity Institute, and the California Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Malagasy government.

Introduction

The Bibikely Biodiversity Institute is an NGO founded and presently directed by Dr. Brian Fisher, preeminent field biologist, and the curator and chairman of the entomology department of the California Academy of Sciences.

The center began operations in rented facilities in 1996 and moved into its permanent facility in late 2004, which is leased at no cost from the Malagasy government until 2055.

Located within the Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza in Madagascar's capital city, Antananarivo, the new facility is adjacent to the Malagasy Academy of Sciences, the Academy Library, and the Academy Herbarium.

Goals

Conservation
The center was conceived in 2001 as a means to provide a safe and permanent home for the Bibikely Biodiversity Institute to continue its work of cataloging and understanding the rich biological endowment that is Madagascar's biodiversity.

Center's research will help to identify and protect more than three times the currently protected land in Madagascar.

Understanding
The center will enable the Bibikely Biodiversity Institute to expand its work in understanding the ecosystems of Madagascar, particularly as they relate to arthropods.

Education
The center will provide the facilities required to train a larger number of students, particularly those from Madagascar itself, in the science and practice of systematics, ecology, conservation and entomology.

Collection
The center will also provide space to house the Malagasy government's National Arthropod Collection, a repository of thousands of specimens of arthropods collected on Madagascar.  The collection makes possible a large part of the needed research on arthropods of Madagascar.

See also
California Academy of Sciences

References

External links 
Bibikely Biodiversity Institute
Antweb

Nature conservation in Madagascar
Research institutes in Madagascar
Biological research institutes
World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men

The International Skating Union has organised the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men since 1893. Unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889–1892.

History

Distances used
 In 1889, three distances had to be skated: 1/2 mile (805 m) — 1 mile (1,609 m) — 2 miles (3,219 m).
 In the years 1890–1892, four distances had to be skated: 1/2 mile (805 m) — 1 mile (1,609 m) — 2 miles (3,219 m) — 5 miles (8,047 m).
 Since 1893, four distances have to be skated:  —  —  —  (the big combination).

Ranking systems used
 In 1889, one could only win the World Championships by winning all three distances. If no one won all three distances, no winner would be declared. Silver and bronze medals were not awarded.
 In the years 1890–1907, one could only win the World Championships by winning at least three of the four distances, so there would be no World Champion if no skater won at least three distances. Silver and bronze medals were never awarded.
 In the years 1908–1925, ranking points were awarded (1 point for 1st place, 2 points for 2nd place, and so on); the final ranking was then decided by ordering the skaters by lowest point totals. The rule that a skater winning at least three distances was automatically World Champion was still in effect, though, so the ranking could be affected by that. Silver and bronze medals were awarded now as well.
 In the years 1926–1927, the ranking points on each distance were percentage points, calculated from a skater's time and the current world record time. Apart from that, the system used was the same as in the immediately preceding years.
 Since 1928, the samalog system has been in use. However, the rule that a skater winning at least three distances was automatically World Champion remained in effect until (and including) 1986. It was abolished as a result of three-distance-winner (and thus World Champion) Rolf Falk-Larssen having a worse samalog score than silver medal winner Tomas Gustafson in 1983.

Records
 Sven Kramer has won a total of nine world championships, in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Before Kramer, Clas Thunberg and Oscar Mathisen held the record with five world championships.
 Kramer has won four consecutive world championships, in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Medal winners

Unofficial championships

Official championships

All-time medal count

Unofficial World Championships of 1889–1892, 1940 and 1946 (not recognized by the ISU) included

Multiple medalists
Boldface denotes active skaters and highest medal count among all skaters (including those who are not included in these tables) per type.

See also
 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women

Notes

References

Allround
All-round speed skating
Recurring sporting events established in 1893
World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women

The International Skating Union has organised the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women since 1936. Unofficial championships were held in the years 1933–1935.

History

Distances used
 In the years 1933–1935, three distances were skated: 500 m, 1000 m and 1500 m.
 In the years 1936–1955, four distances were skated: 500 m, 1000 m, 3000 m and 5000 m (the old combination).
 In the years 1956–1982, four distances were skated: 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m and 3000 m (the mini combination).
 Since 1983, four distances are skated: 500 m, 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m (the small combination).

Ranking systems used
 Since 1933, the samalog system has been in use.

Records
 Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (nee Kleemann) of East Germany won a total of 8 world championship titles, three consecutive in 1991–1993, and another five consecutive titles in 1995–1999.
 Ireen Wüst has a record 13 medals, 12 of each which were won in consecutive championships (2007–2018) – seven golds (2007, 2011–2014, 2017, 2020), four silvers (2008, 2015, 2016, 2018) and two bronzes (2009, 2010). Previously, this record belonged to Claudia Pechstein of Germany – 11 medals in consecutive championships (1996–2006) with one gold (2000), eight silvers (1996–1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006) and two bronzes (2002, 2005).

Medal winners

Unofficial championships

Official championships

All-time medal count

Unofficial World Championships of 1933–1935 (not recognized by the ISU) included

Multiple medalists
Boldface denotes active skaters and highest medal count among all skaters (including those not included in these tables) per type.

* including one medal won at the unofficial championship of 1935.

See also
 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men

Notes

References

Allround
All-round speed skating
Recurring sporting events established in 1936
Asbach (Westerwald)

Asbach is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Westerwald, approx. 25 km north of Neuwied, and 25 km south-east of Bonn.

Asbach is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Asbach.

References

Neuwied (district)
André Prévost (composer)

André Prévost,  (30 July 193427 January 2001) was a Canadian composer and music educator. He was awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal in 1977 and in 1985 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He also received the "Trophy for Concert Music" from the Performing Rights Organization of Canada.

Early life and education
He was born in Hawkesbury, Ontario. He grew up in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.

Prévost was trained at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Isabelle Delorme, Jean Papineau-Couture, and Clermont Pépin. Following graduation, he was awarded grants from the Canada Council and the Government of Québec which enabled him to study with Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux in Paris. In 1963 he won the Prix d'Europe, an award which provided him with the opportunity to study electroacoustic music under Michel Philippot.

Career

During the 1960s Prévost taught at the Tanglewood Music Centre with fellow faculty members Aaron Copland, Zoltán Kodály, Gunther Schuller and Elliott Carter. In April 1967, accompanied by Michèle Lalonde, he performed the oratorio Terre des hommes at the Place des arts opening ceremonies of the Expo 67 world's fair in Montreal, attended by the official delegations of its participating countries, where they strongly projected French writer's Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 'idealist rhetoric'. From the mid-1970s until his retirement in 1996, he was a professor of music at the Université de Montréal. Among his notable students were composers José Evangelista, Denis Gougeon, Anne Lauber, José Manuel Montañés, and Michel Longtin.

His composition style has been compared to that of Alban Berg.

Prévost died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

References

External links
 Journal d'une création - Film directed by James Dormeyer with Chantal Juillet, Charles Dutoit and André Prévost
 André Prévost and José Manuel Montañés at the University of Montreal
 André Prévost fonds (R15426) at Library and Archives Canada

1934 births
2001 deaths
Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal alumni
Academic staff of the Université de Montréal
Canadian music academics
Canadian male composers
Musicians from Ontario
Musicians from Quebec
People from Hawkesbury, Ontario
People from Saint-Jérôme
Officers of the Order of Canada
20th-century Canadian composers
20th-century musicologists
20th-century Canadian male musicians
Pierre Toura Gaba

Jules Pierre Toura Gaba (December 18, 1920 – September 29, 1998) was a Chadian politician and diplomat. Following the independence of Chad, he served as its first Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1960 to 1961.

Life and career
He was born on December 18, 1920, at Maibyan, near Moissala, in the prefecture of Moyen-Chari in southern Chad. He served as a diplomat at Brazzaville and worked for a long time as a teacher in places like Ati, Abéché, Bongor and Fort-Archambault (now called Sarh).

When Chad was still a French colony, a Representative Council for which some of the African inhabitants could vote was instituted. Toura entered politics and became a member of this council from 1946 to 1956. A year later, he founded the Chadian Progressive Party (PPT) with Gabriel Lisette, in which Toura became secretary-general and Lisette president. The 1956 reforms greatly boosted the suffrage, strengthening the PPT, which triumphed in the first democratic elections. Toura was among the PPT representatives elected and became Minister of Agriculture in the first black government led by Lisette in 1958. But in February, Lisette lost his position and a month later Toura lost his office in the party to François Tombalbaye, who, later in the same month, became the new head of the government. This position was strengthened by the following elections in May, which were triumphantly won by the PPT. A new government was formed, headed by Tombalbaye and with Toura as Minister of Public Works.

With the independence of Chad on August 11, 1960, Tombalbaye became President and Toura was made Minister of Foreign Affairs. As such he headed the Chadian delegation that on September 29, 1960, was present at the United Nations General Assembly that admitted Chad into the UN.

In 1961, Toura became Minister of National Education. Nevertheless, Tombalbaye had become increasingly suspicious and authoritarian. As a result, Toura fell in disgrace and was arrested in 1962. He remained in jail for several years, after which the President decided he could use him as a diplomat and sent him as Ambassador to West Germany in 1966. In 1973, Toura resigned and went into exile in France. In Paris he wrote Non à Tombalbaye! - Fragments autobiographiques, a critique of the Tombalbaye Regime (1974). By August, the work started circulating secretly in Chad among opponents of the President.

After the coup of 1975 that removed Tombalbaye, Toura returned to the diplomatic service and was made Ambassador to the United States in 1976. He served until 1979, when he resigned after the dissolution of any central authority in Chad. He found asylum in the United States and remained there until 1991, when he returned to Chad. He died on September 29, 1998, at N'Djamena.

References

External links
biographic note at Rulers

1920 births
1998 deaths
Chadian Progressive Party politicians
Foreign ministers of Chad
Chadian diplomats
People from Moyen-Chari Region
Chadian expatriates in the Republic of the Congo
Chadian expatriates in the United States
Demodocus (dialogue)

Demodocus (; ) is purported to be one of the dialogues of Plato. The dialogue is extant and was included in the Stephanus edition published in Geneva in 1578. It is now generally acknowledged to be a fabrication by a late sophist or rhetorician, probably later than mid-fourth century BC.

It appears to be a combination of two separate works. The first part is a monologue (addressed to Demodocus), which argues against collective decision-making. There then follows a trilogy of dialogues (with anonymous participants) which raise three elements of doubt against common sense.

References

External links 
Demodocus translated by George Burges
Free public domain audiobook version of ''Demodocus translated by George Burges
 . Collection includes Demodocus. George Burges, translator (1855).

Dialogues of Plato
Pseudepigraphy
Ancient Greek pseudepigrapha
Picon

Picon may refer to:

 Avatar (computing), used in the Apple Computer instant messaging program iChat
 Picón, Spain
 Picon (apéritif), an apéritif
 Picon Punch, a drink popularized by Basque-Americans
 One of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol in the television show Battlestar Galactica
 Personal icon, referenced in Vismon

People
 Gaëtan Picon (1915-1976), French essayist and art critic
 José Antonio Picón Sedano (born 1988), Spanish footballer known as Picón
 Mariano Picón Salas (1901–1965), Venezuelan diplomat
 Molly Picon (1898–1992), American actress
Dierdorf

Dierdorf is a town in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Westerwald, approx. 20 km northeast of Neuwied, and 20 km north of Koblenz.

Dierdorf is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Dierdorf.

Local council
The elections in May 2014 showed the following results.

Sister city
Dierdorf is the sister city of Fountain Hills (USA), Courtisols (France) and Krotoszyn (Poland).

Sons and daughters of the town

 Eva Grebel (born 1966), astronomer, professor at the Center for Astronomy at the University of Heidelberg
 Juan Holgado (born 1968), Spanish archer (Olympic champion 1992)
Samir El-Assal (born 1966), C.E.O of Frank GmbH

References

Neuwied (district)