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Litton Reservoirs

Litton Reservoirs (also known as Coley Reservoirs) () are two reservoirs near the village of Litton, Somerset, England. They are operated by Bristol Water.

They lie on the boundary between Bath and North East Somerset and Mendip districts.

The individual lakes are called Lower Litton and Upper Litton. The former is  in size, the latter  and much deeper. They were built around 1850 by the Bristol Waterworks Company in conjunction with the "Line of Works" to bring water from the Mendip Hills to Bristol.

A public footpath goes around the lakes and across the dam. The banks are home to a variety of flowers including; Primroses (Primula vulgaris), Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta, sometimes Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta), Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa), Violets and Campion.

Several species of birds are frequent visitors including; Moorhen (Gallinula), Coot (Fulica), Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), Swan and Tufted duck (Aythya fuligula).

Fishing (under permit) is generally for rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and brown trout (Salmo trutta). Fish breeding takes place in the netted area immediately below the upper dam is the site for fish breeding.

Photographs

References

External links
 River Chew web site

Drinking water reservoirs in England
Mendip Hills
Reservoirs in Somerset
Connel Ferry railway station

Connel Ferry railway station is a railway station serving the village of Connel in western Scotland. This station is on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, originally part of the Callander and Oban Railway, between Oban and Taynuilt, sited  from Callander via Glen Ogle. All services are operated by ScotRail, who also manage the station.

History 

The station was opened in either 1880 or 1903, and in its heyday, when it served a branch to Ballachulish, it had five platforms, a goods yard and a turntable. Later this was reduced to just the single platform, after the branch closed in 1966, as it remains today.

Accidents and incidents 
During the 1968 demolition of Connel Ferry West signal box, contractors burning the wooden remains set fire to the track formation. Despite efforts to put the fire out, it continued to burn for several days, causing the embankment to crumble and smoke to issue from fissures in the trackbed. This resulted in a 5 mph speed restriction being imposed and, at the time, caused concerns that the line may be forced to close.

Facilities 
Facilities at the station are basic, consisting of just a shelter, a bench, bike racks, a help point and a small car park. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Passenger volume 

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

There are 7 departures in each direction weekdays, with 6 on Saturdays, with trains heading eastbound to  and westbound to . On weekdays only, the 7th service in each direction runs from Oban to  and back. On Sundays, there are three departures each way throughout the year, plus a fourth in the summer months only to Edinburgh Waverley, which only runs from late June–August.

References

Bibliography

External links 

 Video footage of the station on YouTube

Railway stations in Argyll and Bute
Former Caledonian Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1880
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Beas, Spain

Beas is a municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the village had a population of 4,162 inhabitants.

Demographics

References

External links
Beas - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía

Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
Maria Kaczyńska

Maria Helena Kaczyńska (;  ; 21 August 1942 – 10 April 2010) was the First Lady of Poland from 2005 to 2010 as the wife of President Lech Kaczyński. She and her husband died in a plane crash in the Russian city of Smolensk.

Early and personal life 
Kaczyńska was born in Machava (near Kabylnik, now Belarus), the daughter of Lidia and Czesław Mackiewicz. Her father fought in the Vilnius Armia Krajowa (Home Army), while an uncle fought in the Polish II Corps of Gen. Władysław Anders at the Battle of Monte Cassino; another uncle was murdered by the  NKVD (Soviet secret police) at Katyń.

Kaczyńska attended primary and secondary schools in Rabka Zdrój in southern Poland. She studied transport economics and foreign trade in Sopot at what is now the University of Gdańsk. After graduating in 1966, she worked at the Maritime Institute in Gdańsk, where she met Lech Kaczyński in 1976. They married in 1978, and had a daughter. In addition to her native Polish, Maria Kaczyńska spoke four languages such as English, French and some Spanish and Russian.

Death 

On 10 April 2010, 10:41 MSD (06:41 UTC), Maria Kaczyńska, and her husband, Polish President Lech Kaczyński, both died when the Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M they were aboard crashed while attempting to land at Smolensk-North Airport in the Russian city of Smolensk. All 89 passengers on board and the seven crew members were killed. The Kaczyńskis were traveling with several senior government figures on a trip to mark the 70-year anniversary of the World War II Katyn Massacre, where thousands of Polish military officers were executed by the NKVD.

She was buried along with her husband on 18 April 2010 in the Wawel Cathedral. Her diary was found by her daughter after her death, sparking an interest among many publishers who desired to buy it and release it. However, Marta Kaczyńska-Dubieniecka said the diary was too precious for her to sell and also explained that she was not likely to reveal its content.

Honours and awards 
Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (16 April 2010, posthumously)
Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (15 April 2009, Lithuania)
Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika (26 January 2009, Malta)
Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry (1 September 2008, Portugal)
Dame Grand Cross of the Order pro merito Melitensi (14 May 2007)

Notes 
 According to the list of passports of the Tu-154 flight. Some media gives her date of birth as 21 August 1943.

References

External links 

Polish First Lady's official website
Maria Kaczyńska official biography (in English)

1942 births
2010 deaths
People from Myadzyel District
Burials at Wawel Cathedral
First ladies of Poland
Polish Roman Catholics
People from Opole Lubelskie County
University of Gdańsk alumni
Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Grand Crosses of the Order of Vytautas the Great
Grand Crosses of the Order of Prince Henry
Victims of the Smolensk air disaster
Ben Komproe

Benard Komproe (22 October 1942 – 11 October 2004) was a Curaçaoan politician who briefly served as the 24th prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles from 22 July 2003 to 11 August 2003. 

Komproe was a member of the local party Frente Obrero Liberashon 30 di Mei (FOL), and was fifth on the ballot for the 2003 Curaçao general election. When party leader Anthony Godett was blocked from being appointed formateur pending a police investigation, Komproe was appointed  instead. Komproe was named Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles from 22 July until 11 August 2003. After that, he was replaced by Mirna Louisa-Godett, and became Minister of Justice.

As Minister of Justice, Komproe attempted to order the local authorities to cease investigations into his brother Hedwig Komproe. Additionally, he tried to have the Attorney General fired. when it became known that he violated his oath of office, the Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles forced Komproe to resign, leading to the fall of the Godett Cabinet. 

After his resignation, a judicial investigation was started on Komproe's tenure as minister. The investigation included what went on at an open-air brothel Campo Alegre. Komproe was alleged to have given out signed letters, basically to allow dozens of prostitutes from Colombia and the Dominican Republic to reside on Curaçao. He was said to have plans to process each prostitute's permit of residence personally, and to have ordered a special stamp just for this purpose. In July 2004, a judge determined that Komproe was not authorized to issue letters of that nature. Additionally, Komproe did favors for Giovanni van Ierland, the incarcerated owner of the brothel.

In September 2004, Komproe was to be on the Curaçao Island Council for the FOL. However, he was arrested on 6 September 2004, and charged with corruption, fraud, and being member of a criminal organisation. On 24 September his imprisonment was delayed, followings complications from an abdominal operation he underwent a few days earlier. He never regained consciousness and died at the age of 62.

References

External links
 Frente Obrero Liberashon (FOL)

1942 births
2004 deaths
Prime Ministers of the Netherlands Antilles
Government ministers of the Netherlands Antilles
Party Workers' Liberation Front 30 May politicians
Heads of government who were later imprisoned
List of Lutheran colleges and universities in the United States

This is a list of higher education Lutheran colleges and universities in the United States:

Current institutions
Affiliations:

CLC = Church of the Lutheran Confession
ELCA = Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
ELS = Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Ind. = Independent Lutheran
LCMS = Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
WELS = Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

Former institutions

See also
Concordia University System
List of ELCA colleges and universities
List of Calvinist educational institutions in North America
List of Lutheran denominations in North America
List of Lutheran seminaries in North America

References

 
Lutheran
Lutheran
Paul Khoury

Paul Khoury is a Lebanese-Australian television personality and voice talent.

Khoury was bass guitarist in a Melbourne band called Gravel, before entering and winning the Cleo Bachelor of the Year award in 2002. He has had roles on Australian TV shows such as Blue Heelers.

In 2009, Khoury provided commentary for Fox8's Crown Australian Celebrity Poker Challenge, hosted Miss World Australia for the Seven Network, and his voice was his ticket to working with television legend Bert Newton as his voice-over and sidekick on Bert's Family Feud on the Nine Network. Khoury left the show to take up an international project for cable television. He hosted a series shown around the world, Coffee Lovers’ Guide to Italy. which has been played in Australia on Foxtel's Lifestyle Channel and AFC (Asian Food Channel), and many countries around the world. Foxtel.  Khoury is the lead anchor for the Asia Pacific Poker Tour series shown on ESPN and has also become the leading commentator in the international poker arena working with 441 Productions in New York City. From 2010 to 2015, he hosted one of the richest poker events in the world, The Aussie Millions- aired on GSN in the United States -Prime Time - ESPN and One-HD,

References

External links
Paul Khoury MySpace Page

Australian male voice actors
Australian bass guitarists
Poker commentators
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Television personalities from Melbourne
Year of birth missing (living people)
Gopichand Hinduja

Gopichand Parmanand Hinduja (Sindhi: गोपीचंद परमानंद हिंदुजा) (born 29 January 1940) is a British billionaire businessman controlling the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group. For many years he was co-chairman with his brother Srichand "S. P." Hinduja who died in May 2023. He and his brother were frequently named among the wealthiest people in the UK and Asia, and in the Sunday Times Rich List 2023 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 1st with an estimated family fortune of £35billion.

Business career 
The Hinduja brothers began their careers in their father's textile and trading businesses in Bombay, India, and Tehran, Iran. Successful early businesses included the sale of food commodities (onions and potatoes) and iron ore from India to Iran.

With the acquisition of Ashok Leyland (from British Leyland) and Gulf Oil (from Chevron) in the 1980s and the establishment of banks in Switzerland and India in the 1990s, Hinduja Group became one of India's best known businesses alongside such names as Tata, Birla, and Ambani. In 2012, the Group acquired the US firm Houghton International, the world's largest metal fluids manufacturer, for $1.045 billion, forming a consortium with the help of Ghouse Mohammed Asif, (Director of Private Equity of JP Morgan) and Hank Paulson, former United States Secretary of the Treasury and formerly of Goldman Sachs.

Wealth
As of August 2022, together with his late brother Srichand he is the UK's richest man. Since the 1990s, he has been consistently ranked among the UK and Asia's wealthiest people. In May 2017, Hinduja topped the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated wealth of GBP 16.2 billion ($21 billion). Based on the rich list compiled by Asian Media & Marketing Group, Hinduja's wealth is estimated at GBP 19 billion ($24.7 billion). The Forbes List in March 2018 ranked he and his brother GP as the world's 55th richest billionaire family with an estimated wealth of $19.5 billion.

In May 2019 The Hinduja brothers, Gopichand and Srichand, were once again named by the Time UK as the UK's wealthiest people, according to the annual Rich List survey.

Early life
Gopichand Parmanand Hinduja was born on 29 January 1940, the son of Parmanand Hinduja, and educated at Jai Hind College, Bombay.

Personal life
He is married to Sunita Hinduja, and they have two sons and one daughter, Sanjay Hinduja, Dheeraj Hinduja and Rita Hinduja. The Hinduja family is of Sindhi heritage.

In 2015, their son Sanjay Hinduja married his long-time girlfriend, the designer Anu Mahtani, in Udaipur, India. The wedding cost £15 million and entertainment included the pop singers Jennifer Lopez, Arjun Kapoor and Nicole Scherzinger.

Citizenship
Gopichand obtained British citizenship in 1997.

References

1940 births
British people of Indian descent
British billionaires
British businesspeople of Indian descent
Gopichand
Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Living people
British people of Sindhi descent
21st-century British businesspeople
English people of Indian descent
21st-century Indian businesspeople
Sindhi Hindus
Micro Cornucopia

Micro Cornucopia, sometimes shortened to Micro C, was a 1980s magazine for microcomputer hobbyists and enthusiasts. It was published in Bend, Oregon by former Tektronix engineer David J. Thompson.  

The magazine, conceived as a newsletter for users of the Ferguson Big Board (a single-board CP/M computer), was published bi-monthly beginning in July 1981. It soon expanded its coverage to other board-level computers, the Kaypro computer, and general hobbyist/experimental computing, with special interest areas being robotics, interfacing, embedded systems and programming languages. The magazine routinely published circuit diagrams and source code.   

Micro C carried articles on a wide range of subjects, some system-specific and newsletter-like, but also covering (then) off-mainstream topics, e.g. 3D graphics, artificial intelligence, or the special needs of disabled users. They published a 32-page catalog of CP/M and MS-DOS software, cover date Fall/Winter 1986, describing it as the second, the first having been the Spring issue.

The publishers of Micro C organized free annual user conference dubbed "SOG" (Semi-Official Get-together) in Oregon.

Final issue
In issue 53, May 1990, Thompson wrote, "I'm closing down Micro C and I don't know what I'll be doing next." He explained his loss of interest in the magazine, and subscribers were offered the choice to switch to one of several other magazines, including Computer Language.

Personnel
 Publisher: David J. Thompson
 Technical Editor: Larry Fogg
 Regular contributors & staff:
 Scott Robert Ladd
 Bruce Eckel
 Tony & Becky Ozrelic

References

External links
 
 Issue 12, June 1983 page images

1980s establishments in Oregon
1990 disestablishments in Oregon
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1981
Magazines disestablished in 1990
Magazines published in Oregon
Robotics magazines
Bonares

Bonares is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. According to the 2013 census, the city has a population of 6,282 inhabitants.

Demographics

References

External links
Bonares - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía

Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
Microregion of Rio Vermelho

The Rio Vermelho Microregion is a geographical region in central Goiás state, Brazil.  The most important city is Goiás, also known as Goiás Velho, the only World Heritage Site in the state of Goiás. It takes its name from the Vermelho River, a tributary of the Araguaia River that flows through the region.  A region of varied geography with rugged terrain in the south and low watery lands in the north.

Municipalities 
The microregion consists of the following municipalities:

Araguapaz--7,482
Aruanã--6,476 
Britânia--5,073
Faina--6,918
Goiás--24,472 
Itapirapuã--8,208
Jussara--18,814 
Matrinchã--4,325
Santa Fé de Goiás--4,594
Population figures are from 2007 and are from Sepin

See also
List of municipalities in Goiás
Microregions of Goiás

References

Microregions of Goiás
Moominland Midwinter

Moominland Midwinter (Swedish title: Trollvinter) is the sixth in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomins books, published in 1957. This book sees Jansson adopt a darker, more introspective tone compared to the earlier books that is continued in the remainder of the series. Often in the book Moomintroll is either lonely, miserable, angry or scared - the result of being forced to survive in a world to which he feels he does not belong. While preserving the charm of the previous novels, the story involves a more in-depth exploration of Moomintroll's character than before.

Plot summary

While the rest of the Moomin family are in the deep slumber of their winter hibernation, Moomintroll finds himself awake and unable to get back to sleep.

He discovers a world hitherto unknown to him, where the sun does not rise and the ground is covered with cold, white, wet powder.

Moomintroll is lonely at first but soon meets Too-ticky, a wise spirit who sings mysterious songs, and his old friend Little My (who takes delight in sledging down the snowy hills on Moominmamma's silver tea tray).

The friends build a snow horse for the Lady Of The Cold and mourn the passing of an absent-minded squirrel who gazed into the Lady's eyes and froze to death. However, a squirrel is spotted alive by Moomintroll at the end of the book, and it seems that it may have come back to life.

As the haunting winter progresses, many characters (notably the Groke, Sorry-oo the small dog, and a boisterous skiing Hemulen) come to Moominvalley in search of warmth, shelter and Moominmamma's stores of jam.

Adaptations
Moominland Midwinter was adapted into episodes 23-33 of the 1977 stop motion series which was compiled into the 2017 feature film Moomins and the Winter Wonderland, as well as episodes 22, 23 and 37 in the 1990 TV series. 

The book was adapted by BBC Radio 4, as part of their Christmas Day 2021 Schedule, starring John Finnemore as Moomintroll

References

External links

The Moomin Trove

1957 children's books
1957 fantasy novels
20th-century Finnish novels
Moomin books
Swedish-language novels
1957 Finnish novels

ja:ムーミン#小説作品
Cala, Spain

Cala is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 1,324 inhabitants.

The region has been mined since Carthaginian times and the local mines, Minas de Cala are well known for the minerals Skutterudite and Nickeline.

Demographics

References

Mineralogy and origin of the skarn from Cala (Huelva, Spain), F. Velasco, and J. M. Amigo, Economic Geology, v. 76, no. 3, p. 719-727, May 1981

External links
Cala - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Minas de Cala

Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
Mount Vernon railway station

Mount Vernon railway station is a railway station located in the Mount Vernon area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is on the Whifflet Line (a branch of the more extensive Argyle Line),  east of Glasgow Central. Train services are provided by ScotRail.

History 
The Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway opened a station on this site in 1866. It was closed to passengers in 1943, although the line through it remained open for passenger services until 1966. It was rebuilt and reopened as Mount Vernon on 4 October 1993 by British Rail.

Services

From 1993 
Following the electrification of the line in 2014, a half-hourly service has operated to and from  on Mondays to Saturdays. One train per hour each way is extended to/from Motherwell. There is also an all-year hourly service each way on Sundays for the first time since the line reopened in 1993 (Sunday services had previously operated only on the four weeks up to Christmas for shoppers). Prior to electrification, the service was operated by Class 156s and 158s, and ran to/from Glasgow Central High Level.

References

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Railway stations in Glasgow
Former Caledonian Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1943
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1993
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
1866 establishments in Scotland
1943 disestablishments in Scotland
Calañas

Calañas is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 4,478 inhabitants.

Demographics

References

External links
Calañas - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía

Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
Alternative display facility

Alternative display facility (ADF) is an equity trading facility created in the United States by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory organization (SRO). The ADF is an alternative to the exchange for publishing quotations and for comparing and reporting trades. This differs from a trading facility with execution capabilities (stock exchange) in that the exchange would simply send back to the owner of the displayed order a notice of execution.  FINRA has operated an ADF since July 29, 2002.

References

Stock exchanges in the United States
Stock market
Percy Adams (cricketer)

Percy Webster Adams (5 September 1900 – 28 September 1962) was an English first-class cricketer.

Biography
He was born at St Pancras, London and died at Westminster Hospital, Pimlico, London. Adams achieved fame by being selected by Wisden as one of its five Cricketers of the Year in 1919 when the choice was restricted because of the lack of first-class cricket the previous summer.

Adams was a batsman and wicketkeeper at Cheltenham College. Unlike others of the schoolboys selected by Wisden in both 1918 and 1919, he did not go on to a prominent career in first-class cricket: he played just one match for Sussex, against Cambridge University in 1922, scoring two runs and making one stumping.

In his later life he was known as "Peter", rather than Percy, and it was as Peter Adams that his death notice appeared in The Times the day after he died.

References

External links
Percy Adams at Cricket Archive

1900 births
1962 deaths
English cricketers
Sussex cricketers
Wisden Cricketers of the Year
People educated at Cheltenham College
Cricketers from Greater London
El Campillo, Huelva

El Campillo, or Campillo, is a municipality in the province of Huelva, Spain. It was reported in the 2005 census with 2,318 inhabitants.

Demographics

Notable people
 Fermín López (born 2003), footballer who plays for FC Barcelona.

References

External links
  Statistics Institute of Andalusia

Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
Liquidity premium

In economics, a liquidity premium is the explanation for a difference between two types of financial securities (e.g. stocks), that have all the same qualities except liquidity. It is a segment of a three-part theory that works to explain the behavior of yield curves for interest rates. The upwards-curving component of the interest yield can be explained by the liquidity premium. The reason behind this is that short term securities are less risky compared to long term rates due to the difference in maturity dates. Therefore investors expect a premium, or risk premium for investing in the risky security. Liquidity risk premiums are recommended to be used with longer-term investments, where those particular investments are illiquid.

Assets that are traded on an organized market are more liquid. Financial disclosure requirements are more stringent for quoted companies. For a given economic result, organized liquidity and transparency make the value of quoted share higher than the market value of an unquoted share.

Pricing Liquidity Premium 

Practitioners struggle with the valuation of illiquid securities. Longstaff (1995) calculates the upper bound for this premium by assuming that without trading restrictions, an investor with perfect market-timing ability can sell a security at its maximum price during the  period in which the security is restricted from trading. Thus, the upper bound for the liquidity premium is priced as the difference between this maximum price during the restricted trading period and the security price at the end of this period. Abudy and Raviv (2016)  extend this framework for the special case of corporate bonds by using a structural approach for pricing a corporate security. Consistent with the empirical literature the liquidity premium is positively related to the issuing firm's asset risk and leverage ratio and increases with a bond's credit quality. The term structure of illiquidity spread has a humped shape, where its maximum level depends on the firm's leverage ratio.

See also 

 Liquidity preference

References 

Economic theories
Investment
Baillieston railway station

Baillieston railway station is located in Caledonia Road on the southern boundary of the Baillieston area of Glasgow, Scotland, with the Broomhouse area on the other side of the tracks. It is on the Whifflet Line (a branch of the more extensive Argyle Line),  east of Glasgow Central railway station. Train services are provided by ScotRail.

The line was built in the period 1864-1866 by the Caledonian Railway and was called the Rutherglen to Coatbridge branch. 
The new station opened by British Rail on 4 October 1993 under the financial management of the Strathclyde PTE.

History

The original station, which was situated 1 km east of the present, was opened by the Caledonian Railway in January 1866 when passenger traffic started. The line became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The old station closed to passenger traffic in 1964.

Services

A half-hourly service operates between Glasgow Central (Low Level) and  stations, on Mondays to Saturdays.  Services run to/from  , and one train per hour each way extends to/from .

Sunday services formerly only ran for the month prior to Christmas and were extended to , but since the December 2014 timetable change and the start of EMU operation now run hourly each way all day throughout the year (to  and Motherwell). Several freight trains also pass the halt every day.

References

 
 
 
 Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

Railway stations in Glasgow
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1993
Beeching closures in Scotland
Former Caledonian Railway stations
1866 establishments in Scotland
Baillieston
Richard West

Richard West may refer to:

Academics and scientists
Richard West (priest) (1670?–1716), English churchman and academic, archdeacon of Berkshire
Richard C. West, Tolkien scholar
Richard Gilbert West (born 1926), British botanist and geologist
Richard Martin West (born 1941), Danish astronomer
Richard Temple West (1827–1893), English clergyman and academic
W. Richard West Sr. (1912–1996), Cheyenne, artist and director of Bacone College's art program
W. Richard West Jr. (born 1943), Cheyenne, founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Musicians
Richard West (keyboardist) (born 1967), member of British rock band Threshold
Mr. C (Richard West, born 1968), British DJ and musician

Politicians
Richard West (died 1674) (1636–1674), English landowner and politician
Richard West (Lord Chancellor of Ireland) (c. 1691–1726), 18th-century Irish politician and lawyer
Richard West (politician), member of the Missouri House of Representatives
Richard W. West (1932–1936), mayor of Newport News, Virginia

Sportspeople
Dick West (baseball) (1915–1996), baseball player
Richard West (cricketer, born 1916), English cricketer
Richard West (cricketer, born 1920) (1920–1985), English cricketer
Richard West (footballer), (born 1985), Jamaican footballer
Richard West (rugby union) (born 1971), former English rugby union footballer

Other people
Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr and 4th Baron West (1430–1475/6)
Richard West (journalist) (1930–2015), British journalist and author
Richard West (outlaw) (1860–1898), outlaw of the Old West
Richard Annesley West (1878–1918), British army officer, Victoria Cross recipient

Other uses
Richard West Houses, a building in Toronto, Canada
Bargeddie railway station

Bargeddie railway station is located in the village of Bargeddie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated between the city of Glasgow and the town of Coatbridge. It opened in 1993 under British Rail and SPTE, and is on the site of an earlier station called 'Drumpark'. It is on the Whifflet Line (a branch of the more extensive Argyle Line), 9¼ miles (15 km) east of Glasgow Central railway station. Train services are provided by ScotRail.

Services 

A half-hourly service operates between Glasgow Central (Low Level) and Whifflet stations, on Mondays to Saturdays. Westbound and Eastbound services run to and from  and one train per hour each way extends to/from Motherwell.

Sunday services formerly only ran for the month prior to Christmas and were extended to Shotts, but since the December 2014 timetable change and the start of EMU operation now run hourly each way all day throughout the year (to  and Motherwell).

References 

Railway stations in North Lanarkshire
Railway stations opened by British Rail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1993
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Cortegana

Cortegana  is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 4,952 inhabitants.

Localities
 

Puerto Lucia

References

External links
Cortegana - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Información sobre la Sierra de Aracena

Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
Dan Curtis Johnson

Dan Curtis Johnson (also DC Johnson, D. Curtis Johnson) is an American programmer and comic book writer, known primarily for his creation (with J. H. Williams III) of the DC Comics series Chase, numerous Secret Files stories, and for having converted the character of Mister Bones from a former low-level supervillain to a high-level bureaucrat of the Department of Extranormal Operations (also created by Johnson).

Gail Simone has described him as "belong(ing) in (her) personal hall of fame".

Also a participant in the DHMO hoax, in which he created a foil website for DHMO.org.

References

External links
 D. Curtis Johnson's personal website
 D. Curtis Johnson's Livejournal
 D. Curtis Johnson's bibliography

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American comics writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Usenet people
Fernand Backes

Fernand Backes (born 30 January 1930 in Differdange) was a boxer from Luxembourg. Backes was member of the Luxembourgish Olympic team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. After a bye in the first round of the light-welterweight division, he was eliminated in the second round by Belgian Jean-Louis Paternotte. In 2008 he was promoted to the rank of Chevalier in the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

References

External links
Association Luxembourgeoise des Olympiens
Fernand Backes' profile at Sports Reference.com

1930 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Differdange
Light-welterweight boxers
Luxembourgian male boxers
Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Luxembourg
Knights of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Magma (Jonathan Darque)

Magma (Jonathan Darque) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Marvel Team-Up #110, as an enemy of Spider-Man and Iron Man.

Fictional character biography
Jonathan Darque was the chief executive officer of a mining company investigating new and cheap sources of energy. His investigations were opposed by environmental activists, who held demonstrations at his trial bore sites. His wife died in a car crash when attempting to evade the activists' blockade. Darque used his engineering skills to design a battle suit allowing him to become Magma. He then developed an underground crime organization.

Darque/Magma created a device he called the Long Range Sonic Stata Scanner (LRSSS), which enabled him to discover the epicentres of earthquakes before they erupted. He also used the machine to generate waves causing earthquakes; this enabled him to blackmail the Mayor of New York City. (At the publication time of this story, the historical Mayor was Ed Koch). Magma held a press conference to reveal his plans. Spider-Man and Iron Man joined forces to drill down vertically to reach the source of the earthquake, where they discovered his hidden base. After Magma was defeated by Spider-Man and Iron Man in a battle on the surface, he escaped in a pod into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.  Spider-Man aimed the LRSSS at this location and Magma was engulfed by the resultant waves and he disappeared into the depths of the ocean.

Magma was eventually arrested after several attempts to take over Stark Industries and some battles on the surface with Jim Rhodes in the Iron Man armor.

Subsequently Darque was paid by Roxxon Oil Company and offered a job to lead a secret research laboratory located in the middle of a mountain, part of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians in Virginia. With the unwilling assistance of "idiot savant" Seth Hanks, a local boy, Darque attempted to develop a new electron projector that would allow powerful beams to be directed at Earth from a satellite. Spider-Man saved his colleague, the child and his mother from Magma's base and, accidentally, caused the collapse of the cave destroying the laboratory.

He fought the Human Torch in Brooklyn, where the Fantastic Four member's fire proved to be greater than the fire resistance of Magma's metal body. The fire melted Magma's equipment, and the asphalt under his feet, meaning that he was unable to continue the fight.

Powers and abilities
Magma's body armor was strong enough to survive a freefall from a ten-story building and was able to withstand 1200 degrees Celsius (the temperature of the magma under the Earth's crust). His armor was also able to protect him from intense nuclear radiation. Magma wore a spiked vest made of the same material as his armor. In addition, Magma had a blast gun implanted in his right arm that was able to fire balls of lava, which were created by a generator worn on his back.

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Comics characters introduced in 1981
Fictional businesspeople
Marvel Comics supervillains
Kirkwood railway station

Kirkwood railway station is located in the Kirkwood area of Coatbridge, Scotland. It is on the Whifflet Line (a branch of the more extensive Argyle Line),  east of Glasgow Central railway station. Train services are provided by ScotRail.
The station was opened by British Rail in 1993, and is virtually on the site of the old Woodside Steel and Iron Works. It is located some 250m west of the previous Langloan station, which was opened by the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway in August 1866 and closed when passenger trains over the line were withdrawn on 7 November 1966.

Services 

A half-hourly service operates between Glasgow Central and  stations, on Mondays to Saturdays. This formerly ran to/from Central High Level and was DMU operated, but now runs to  via the Argyle Line.  Alternate services continue south of Whifflet through to Motherwell.

Sunday services previously only ran for the month prior to Christmas and were extended to Shotts.  However, since the December 2014 timetable change, they now run throughout the year.  An hourly service runs in each direction, to Motherwell and  via Glasgow Central Low Level.

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Railway stations in North Lanarkshire
Railway stations opened by British Rail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1993
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Coatbridge
Montemitro

Montemitro (also called Mundimitar) is a small town and comune in the province of Campobasso in the Molise region of Italy, near the Trigno river.

Like Acquaviva Collecroce and San Felice del Molise, Montemitro is home to a community of Molisian Croats, most of whom speak a particular Croatian dialect (they call it simply naš jezik, or "our language") as well as Italian.

Culture
Montemitro was granted an Honorary Consulate by Croatia.
 
The patron saint of Montemitro is Saint Lucia; the church dedicated to her is the church of Santa Lucia Vergine e Martire. However, the town does not celebrate the feast of Saint Lucia on its customary date (December 13), but rather on the first and last Fridays of May. This honors the crossing of the Adriatic Sea to Italy in the 15th century by the town's ancestors; they are believed to have carried a statue of Saint Lucia with them, arriving in Italy on a Friday in May.

The language of the three cities is considered an endangered diaspora language.

See also
 Molise Croats

References

External links
UNESCO Red Book on endangered languages and dialects: Europe
The coat of arms of Montemitro
Mundimitar.it

Cities and towns in Molise
Kadri Mälk

Kadri Mälk (27 January 1958 – 1 January 2023) was an Estonian artist and jewellery designer.

Life and career
Mälk was born in Tallinn and began her studies at the Tartu Art School in 1977 and graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1986, studying under professor Leili Kuldkepp. Between 1986 and 1993, Mälk worked as a freelance artist. In 1993, she enrolled at the Lahti Design Institute in Finland, studying gemmology under the direction of Esko Timonen and completed her studies at Bernd Munsteiner's lapidary studio in Germany. Mälk was assigned to the Estonian Academy of Arts from 1989 and was also a professor in the jewellery department at the school from 1996. 

Mälk had both solo and group exhibitions throughout the world. Her jewellery designs have been displayed in various museums and exhibitions in:  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the United States, South Korea, Russia, Slovakia, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain and Norway.

Mälk was married three times. Her final husband was writer and translator Mati Sirkel.

Mälk died on 1 January 2023, at the age of 64.

Awards
2017 Order of the White Star, V Class
1998 Estonian State Cultural Award
1997 Estonian Culture Capital Art Prize of the Year 
1997 Award of Excellence, Shippo Conference, Tokyo, Japan 
1995 Estfem, Estonian Woman prize 
1994 The Kristjan Raud Annual Art Prize 
1992 PRIX ARTICA Honourable Mention, Finland 
1988 Grand Prix at the IV Applied Art Triennial, Estonia 
1987 Young Artisan Prize of the Year, Estonia

References

External links

FATA MORGANA - the exhibition of jewels by Kadri Mälk in Lisbon (archived version)
Klimt 02: Interview with Kadri Mälk 

1958 births
2023 deaths
20th-century Estonian women artists
21st-century Estonian women artists
Artists from Tallinn
Estonian jewellery designers
Estonian Academy of Arts alumni
Academic staff of the Estonian Academy of Arts
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class
20th-century Estonian artists
21st-century Estonian artists
Cumbres Mayores

Cumbres Mayores is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. It holds a population of 2,022 inhabitants.

References

External links
Cumbres Mayores - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía

Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
Joachim Sørum

Joachim Sørum (born 11 February 1979) is a Norwegian footballer.

Career
Born in Dokka, Sørum is a defender, and normally plays in the mid-defence.

He started his career in Nordre Land, and went on to Faaberg which changed its name to Lillehammer. He went to Hamarkameratene ahead of the 2002 season. He made his debut against Tromsdalen on 21 April the same year. The highlight of his career is probably his 2–0 goal in the home match against Rosenborg in 2004. He was loaned out to Nybergsund in 2008, and played there regularly in 2009 and 2010 after spending the pre-season training period in Hamarkameratene. In 2011, he returned home to Nordre Land.

References

1979 births
Living people
People from Nordre Land
Norwegian men's footballers
Hamarkameratene players
Nybergsund IL-Trysil players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Innlandet
Buitenkaag

Buitenkaag is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, and lies about 8 km northeast of Leiden. The name Buitenkaag (Outer Kaag) refers to the town Kaag and the surrounding lake area, the Kagerplassen. The village officially received the name in 1859.

One of the most distinctive buildings in Buitenkaag is "Gemaal de Leeghwater", a pumping station named after Jan Leeghwater. Built in the mid-19th century to reclaim the Haarlemmermeer lake, it is still operational today. Originally, it was based on steam engine. In 1930, diesel engines were installed in the pumping station.

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References

Populated places in North Holland
Haarlemmermeer
Hardman Lever

Sir Samuel Hardman Lever, 1st Baronet, KCB (18 April 1869 – 1 July 1947), generally known as Sir Hardman Lever, and as "Sammie" to his friends, was an English accountant and civil servant.

Lever was born in Bootle, Lancashire, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1890. He worked as an accountant in Liverpool, New York City and London.

In August 1915, he was appointed Assistant Financial Secretary at the Ministry of Munitions, where he was in charge of contracts and finance. At the end of 1916, he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, usually a political office, and nominally held the post until 1921. From 1917 he held the post jointly with Stanley Baldwin and after 1919 left most of the duties to the latter.

He also served as an Assistant Commissioner for Finance in the United States, 1917–1918, Treasury Representative at the Ministry of Transport, 1919–1921, a member of Weir Committee on Electricity which led to the establishment of the National Grid, and Chairman of the Telegraph Committee of Enquiry. He also headed Air Missions to Canada in 1938, and to Australia and New Zealand in 1939.

He was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1917 and created a baronet in the 1920 New Year Honours. He was also awarded the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Crown of Italy.

He is buried with his wife, Edythe, in the churchyard of St Mary's, Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire.

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1869 births
1947 deaths
People from Bootle
People educated at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
English accountants
English civil servants
Civil servants in the Ministry of Munitions
Civil servants in HM Treasury
Members of HM Government Finance Service
Lene Thiesen

Lene Thiesen (born 1947 in Copenhagen) is the former director of the Copenhagen International Theatre ().  In 1992, Thiesen was named 'Woman of the Year' by the Danish magazine Alt for damerne.

History
Thiesen earned a Ph.D. in French at the University of Copenhagen, with a thesis on the Armenian, Russian-born Theatre of the Absurd playwright Artur Adamov, who wrote in French after moving to Paris. She worked as an EU translator in Brussels for a time, but left to return to Denmark.  Thiesen worked with KIT for a number of years before becoming its director.

KIT has had a pioneering role in bringing a wide range of performers to Denmark; it is considered a cultural festival with global influences as much as it is a theatre.  Thiesen edited a book of essays and reviews on KIT, published in Danish as FOOLS 25 : 25 års teater, dans og performance med Københavns Internationale Teater (English: Fools 25: 25 years of theatre, dance and performance with the Copenhagen International Theatre). The book includes photographs of some performers, among them innovative dance companies, 'extreme' circuses such as Archaos, musicians, theatre companies, etc.

Thiesen took a particular interest in finding circus acts from around the world, some of which placed unusual demands on her as a director; at one point she found herself in sole charge of a team of circus horses which turned up at the Copenhagen railway station without their handler. Thiesen improvised by placing them, with the consent of the Queen, in the royal stables.

She later headed a cultural programme in which the Nordic governments set up cultural exchanges with African performance groups, particularly in Johannesburg and its Soweto community. The Nordic Council of Ministers' programme ran for a two-year period in 1998 and 1999, and encompassed more than 50 exchange projects in dance, theatre, music, literature and photography. It was followed by Shuttle 02, a Danish initiative which concentrated on dance and music as two vital art forms in the South African cultural heritage.

Thiesen lived in England for several years before taking up an appointment in 2005 with the Danish Arts Agency, an arm of the Ministry of Culture. She left the agency in 2007 but as a consultant helped to organise a significant theatre exchange with China. It involved 52 performances in eight theatres, three seminars on Danish children's theatre, four workshops and 4,300 km by bus, rail and plane crossing China. This was part of a programme in which three Danish children's theatre companies initiated a two-week-long tour to China, with visits to Beijing, Shanghai, Hefei and the old cultural capital Xi'an.

The title of the project was ‘Real Tales from Denmark’, linking contemporary issues and subjects to Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. It was the first time that China had officially invited an international programme of travelling children's theatre to visit China to give performances, workshops and seminars.

References

External links
Kvinfo profile

1947 births
Living people
Danish entertainers
People from Copenhagen
Espen Olsen

Espen Olsen (born 13 March 1979) is a retired Norwegian footballer. He was appointed manager of Strømmen IF ahead of the 2015 season. Ahead of the 2019 season he went on to HamKam as director of sports. He played for Lørenskog, HamKam, Stabæk, Start, Sogndal and Strømmen. He also played two matches for Norway national football team, against Mexico and USA in January 2006.

Career statistics

References

External links
Player profile at hamkam.no
Player profile at sogndalfotball.no

1979 births
Living people
Footballers from Oslo
Norwegian men's footballers
Eliteserien players
Norwegian First Division players
Norway men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
Strømmen IF players
Hamarkameratene players
Stabæk Fotball players
IK Start players
Sogndal Fotball players
Norwegian football managers
Strømmen IF managers
Hamarkameratene non-playing staff