alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
2003 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election

Elections to Wigan Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003 with one-third of the council was up for election. Prior to the election, there had been two vacancies in Leigh Central, with Labour winning a by-election in June and the seat being fought in this election filled unopposed by Barbara Jarvis.

The election boasted a record number of candidates for an election of thirds, with 90 spread across all 24 wards. Whilst the Conservative's fielded a strong showing of all but three wards and the Lib Dems improved to fight half the wards, the bulk of the increase came from Community Action and the Socialist Alliance more than doubling their last year's totals, with the Socialist Alliance now contesting all but four wards and Community Action just under half. Labour reliably put up candidates for all wards, and the BNP a second candidate in Orrell.

Labour's share fell to under half of the votes for only the second time in the council's history, with the only other time being their low-point in 1975, with one of their lowest votes achieved. The main beneficiaries were the rapidly advancing Community Action Party, and to a lesser extent the Lib Dems, helping them to narrowly retain their third place in vote share behind the second place, and largely unchanged, Conservatives. The Socialist Alliance made little headway despite their near-full slate, and significantly fell back in their most competitive wards.

Labour lost five seats on the night, with each of three main competitors picking up seats. Community Action accounted for three, gaining further representation in Bryn and Lightshaw and also making another breakthrough in the formerly uninterrupted Labour territory of Ashton-Golborne. The Lib Dems picked up a seat in the historically competitive Aspull-Standish ward for the first time in over a decade, as well as comfortably defending their seat in Hindsford. The Tories strengthened their footing on the council with another gain in Swinley, a ward which had reliably elected Conservatives throughout the eighties, but had progressively been routed in the early nineties. This left Labour's majority at 58, the lowest in just under twenty years.  
  
Overall turnout dropped from last year's partly recovered figure of just over a quarter of the electorate, to 22.7%.

Election result

This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:

Ward results

References

2003 English local elections
2003
2000s in Greater Manchester
Y-class lifeboat

The Y-class lifeboat is a class of small inflatable rescue boat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The Y-class is mainly used as a small tender carried on board the larger RNLI all-weather lifeboats that serve the shores of the UK, and is normally found on the Severn-class and Tamar-class lifeboats, the Arun-class having been retired. They are also used as part of the RNLI's flood rescue team.

When in use, it carries up to a crew of two and is primarily used in cliff incidents where the casualty is near the shore and the all-weather lifeboat cannot safely get to the base of the cliffs due to rocks.

Other small boats operated by the RNLI include the Arancia-class beach rescue boats, the X-class and the XP-class lifeboats.

Launching from Tamar class 
Within the stern section of the Tamar-class lifeboat is a built-in recessed chamber which houses the small inflatable Y-class lifeboat. Access to this inflatable tender is achieved by lifting a section of deck and lowering a transom which doubles as a ramp. This allows the tender to be easily launched and recovered.

References

External links 
RNLI Fleet

Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats
Inflatable boats
Franchise (short story)

"Franchise" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the August 1955 issue of the magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957) and Robot Dreams (1986). It is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. It is the first story in which Asimov dealt with computers as computers and not as immobile robots.

Plot summary
In the future, the United States has converted to an "electronic democracy" where the computer Multivac selects a single person to answer a number of questions. Multivac will then use the answers and other data to determine what the results of an election would be, avoiding the need for an actual election to be held.

The story centers around Norman Muller of Bloomington, Indiana, the man chosen as "Voter of the Year" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Although the law requires him to accept the dubious honour, he is not sure that he wants the responsibility of representing the entire electorate, worrying that the result will be unfavorable and he will be blamed.

However, after "voting", he is very proud that the citizens of the United States had, through him, "exercised once again their free, untrammeled franchise" – a statement that is somewhat ironic as the citizens did not actually get to vote; even he himself did not vote for any candidate, law, or issue.

The idea of a computer predicting whom the electorate would vote for instead of actually holding an election was probably inspired by the UNIVAC I's correct prediction of the result of the U.S. presidential election in 1952.

Influence
The use of a single representative individual to stand in for the entire population can help in evaluating the sensitivity of a statistical method. "Franchise" was cited as the inspiration of the term "Asimov data set", where an ensemble of simulated experiments can be replaced by a single representative experiment.

Franchise (Isaac Asimov Collection)
"Franchise" was the title story of a 1989 compilation Franchise illustrated by David Shannon (, ).

References

External links
 
 "Franchise" at the Internet Archive

Multivac short stories by Isaac Asimov
1955 short stories
Works originally published in If (magazine)
Fiction set in 2008
Spooks (group)

Spooks was an American hip-hop group, active from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. The members of the group got together in 1994, taking their name from the 1969 novel by Sam Greenlee, The Spook Who Sat by the Door.

Career
After attaining success throughout Europe with their album S.I.O.S.O.S., Vol. 1, Spooks garnered a hit with the single, "Things I've Seen", which featured in the Laurence Fishburne film Once in the Life (2000) as well as the intro for the European version of the American TV series Dark Angel.  Shortly afterwards, Spooks followed up with the number 16 on the top 40 charts hit "Karma Hotel." Spooks had sold several million records internationally and was eligible for a European platinum plaque. They also reached gold status in five countries. Back home in America, "Things I`ve Seen" hit number 11 on the hip hop singles charts and "Sweet Revenge" hit number 6 on the r&b singles charts. Water-Water left the group before their second album Faster Than You Know, and died in a car accident in September 2003, days before the album's release. The group never actually disbanded. Hypno, Ming Xia and Mr. Booka T formed Tongue Productions in 2002 and  produced tracks and wrote choruses that were placed with other acts  under the supervision of Riggs Morales at Shady Records. In 2007 the Spooks drifted apart to tackle new ventures but never officially called it quits. In 2009 Ming Xia appeared on Chali 2na's Fish Outta Water as well as AZ`s single "Super Star", all of which choruses and Bridges were written by Tongue Productions. In 2022, Mr. Booka T had changed his name to TUCK 88 and dropped the new single "Beautiful Ghetto" featuring Hypno as Mr. Chenjerai. Fun Fact: Beautiful Ghetto was actually written for a film soundtrack and later slated to be on the Spooks third album; which amount to about thirty unreleased tracks. TUCK 88 also released a track by his daughter N`Dea titled, "No Daisies". N`Dea had studied under the tutelage of Ming Xia and had first appeared on the Spooks song "Dead Beat" when she was only three years old. Spooks were discovered by Philadelphia hip-hop legend "Parry P", who signed them to the Antra Records, where he was the Vice President of A&R.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links
[ The Spooks] on Allmusic
The Spooks on imusic.am
Spooks Biography
http://www.last.fm/music/Spooks
Ming-Xia's solo recordings
Interview with Joe Davis and Booker T  on drownedinsound.com

Musical groups from Philadelphia
American dance musicians
East Coast hip hop groups
Hip hop collectives
Rappers from Philadelphia
Vachellia erioloba

Vachellia erioloba, the camel thorn, also known as the giraffe thorn, mokala tree, or Kameeldoring in Afrikaans, still more commonly known as Acacia erioloba, is a tree of southern Africa in the family Fabaceae. Its preferred habitat is the deep dry sandy soils in parts of South Africa, Botswana, the western areas of Zimbabwe and Namibia. It is also native to Angola, south-west Mozambique, Zambia and Eswatini. The tree was first described by Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer and Johann Franz Drège in 1836. The camel thorn is a protected tree in South Africa.

The tree can grow up to 20 metres high. It is slow-growing, very hardy to drought and fairly frost-resistant. The light-grey colored thorns reflect sunlight, and the bipinnate leaves close when it is hot. The wood is dark reddish-brown in colour and extremely dense and strong. It is good for fires, which leads to widespread clearing of dead trees and the felling of healthy trees. It produces ear-shaped pods, favoured by many herbivores including cattle. The seeds can be roasted and used as a substitute for coffee beans.

The name 'camel thorn' refers to the fact that giraffe (kameelperd in Afrikaans) commonly feed on the leaves with their specially-adapted tongue and lips that can avoid the thorns. The scientific name 'erioloba' means "wooly lobe", a reference to the ear-shaped pods.

It is commonly associated with the long running PBS wildlife program Nature, as the tree is used in the title sequence and program logo.

Gallery

References

External links
 

erioloba
Flora of South Tropical Africa
Flora of Southern Africa
Trees of Africa
Protected trees of South Africa
Glack

Glack () is a hamlet and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is 4 km south of Ballykelly, in a raised spot overlooking Lough Foyle. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 183 people. It is situated within Causeway Coast and Glens district.

Glack is made up of three clusters of buildings. It has a primary school (St Finlough's, in neighbouring Sistrakeel townland) and a business called Paragon Health Ltd.

It has a Gaelic club called Glack GAC, a Community Association and numerous other clubs to include camogie, bowling and knitting clubs.

History

Sport
Glack has its own bowling team called St Finlough's.
Glack GAC is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club

References 

Villages in County Londonderry
Causeway Coast and Glens district
Nana, Rajasthan

Nana is a village in the Bali,  tehsil of Pali District of the Rajasthan state in India. It is located three kilometres from the railway station of the same name on the Ahmedabad-Ajmer railway line. Virampura, Bhagal, Chamunderi, Velar, Bhimana, Amalia, Serla, Chimanpura are nearly village. Pindwada-Bali road is just passing near by Nana. Virampura is close to Nana just one km. Nana just became sub-block division declared. Nana police station is also located at railway station just two km from town.nearby city is pindwara 20 km, Sumerpur 40 km, Sheoganj 40 km, Shirohi 42 km, Aburoad 70 km from Nana.  nearest airport is udaipur 120 km away. and jodhpurs is 200 km. District headquarter pali is 100 km from Nana.

Demographics 
Nana had a population of 12,298 according to the Census 2001. Males were 6288 of the population and females were 6010.
The neighbour surroundings are villages like Virampura,  Chamunderi Ranawatan, Bera, Kothar, Pindwara, Malnoo.

References

 Nana Population
 Nana Geographical details

Villages in Pali district
Asahigaoka Station

Asahigaoka Station is the name of several train stations in Japan.

 Asahigaoka Station (Miyagi) - (旭ヶ丘駅) in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
 Asahigaoka Station (Miyazaki) - (旭ヶ丘駅) in Miyazaki Prefecture
 Asahigaoka Station (Shimane) - (朝日ヶ丘駅) in Shimane Prefecture
 Asahigaoka Station (Toyama) - (旭ヶ丘駅) in Toyama Prefecture
Jean-Paul Maunick

Jean-Paul Maunick (born 19 February 1957, Mauritius), known by his stage name Bluey is a British guitarist, bandleader, composer and record producer.  He has led the British acid jazz band Incognito since its formation in 1979.  With Incognito, he has released fifteen studio albums as well as a number of live albums, remix albums and compilation albums.  Prior to forming Incognito, Bluey was an original member of the group Light of the World.

His record production credits include artists such as Paul Weller, George Benson, Maxi Priest and Terry Callier; he has also collaborated with Stevie Wonder.

Maunick formed STR4TA with Gilles Peterson and released the album Aspects on Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings label in March 2021.

Solo career
He released his solo debut album Leap of Faith in March 2013.  Neil Kelly of PopMatters said of the album, "An undoubtedly listenable creation, Bluey has blended the club-infused soul-jazz sounds that made him famous with the sensibility of an elder statesman, which he is."

Personal life
He is the son of the Mauritian poet Edouard Maunick and Armande Mallet.  He was born in Mauritius, and moved to the United Kingdom when he was nine years old.

Discography

Studio albums

EP albums

Citrus Sun albums

Incognito albums
See Incognito discography

References

External links
Incognito official website

1957 births
Living people
Mauritian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Incognito (band) members
Kuromatsu Station

Kuromatsu Station may refer to either of two train stations in Japan:

 Kuromatsu Station (Miyagi) (黒松駅), in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
 Kuromatsu Station (Shimane) (黒松駅), in Shimane Prefecture
Gortnahey

Gortnahey (), also transliterated as Gortnaghey, is a townland and small hamlet in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is 5 km northwest of Dungiven and 13 km south of Limavady. In the 2001 Census its population was 285. It is situated within Causeway Coast and Glens district.

Features
Altahullion Hill lies west of the hamlet, and there are extensive views to the east over the River Roe to Benbradagh. Gortnahey has grown as two clusters of housing, with an area of mainly public housing at Gortnahey Road and private housing at Beech Road. There is a primary school and Roman Catholic church, but there are no commercial services.  There are proposals to provide a community hall and two retail units on the site of the existing McCartney Memorial Hall.

References

Villages in County Londonderry
Causeway Coast and Glens district
National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director

The National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal).

The award was instituted in 1989, at 37th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners 

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

References

External links 
 Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
 National Film Awards Archives

First Non-Feature Film
Directorial debut film awards
The Sweet Singles Album

The Sweet Singles Album is a 1975 compilation album by Sweet released on RCA Records for the Australia and New Zealand market only. It was released by RCA Australia, mainly to capitalise on The Sweet's various heavier singles from the 1973-74 period, ahead of the band visiting the region and touring. The Sweet Singles Album does not replace any of the original European Sweet release albums but complements them. The track listing shows a harder rock style and a move away from the softer bubblegum tracks of the earlier 1968-72 period.

The Sweet toured Australia and New Zealand later in 1975, to much success. By the end of 1975, The Sweet had a number of albums in the charts plus two big hit singles, "Peppermint Twist" and "Fox on the Run". "Peppermint Twist" was also an Australian only release, being taken as a single, from the Sweet Fanny Adams album.

The Sweet Singles Album itself was available right through the 1970s, before being deleted by RCA Australia, around 1979. To date, it is one of the last few Sweet albums yet to make it to compact disc, both in original running track order plus artwork.

LP track listing

Side one
"The Ballroom Blitz" (Chapman, Chinn) – 3:59
"Man From Mecca" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 2:45
"New York Connection" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:35
"Need A Lot Of Lovin'" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:00
"Burning" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 4:04
"Teenage Rampage" (Chapman, Chinn) – 3:32

Side two
"Block Buster!" (Chapman, Chinn) – 3:12
"Rock and Roll Disgrace" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:50
"Own Up, Take A Look At Yourself" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:55
"Burn On The Flame" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:37
"Hellraiser" (Chapman, Chinn) – 3:15

Cassette track listing

Side one
"Man from Mecca" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 2:45
"New York Connection" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:35
"Need a Lot of Lovin'" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:00
"Teenage Rampage" (Chinn, Chapman) – 3:32
"Hellraiser" (Chinn, Chapman) – 3:15
"Block Buster!" (Chinn, Chapman) – 3:12

Side two
"Rock and Roll Disgrace" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:50
"Own Up, Take a Look at Yourself" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:55
"Burn On The Flame" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 3:37
"The Ballroom Blitz" (Chinn, Chapman) – 3:59
"Burning" (Connolly, Priest, Scott, Tucker) – 4:04

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

The Sweet albums
1975 compilation albums
Albums produced by Phil Wainman
RCA Records compilation albums
Glam rock compilation albums
Apemantus

Apemantus is a character in the play Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare. He is a cynical and misanthropic philosopher.  His name means "feeling no pain".

Role in the play
Early in the play, when Timon is wealthy, Apemantus attends Timon's banquet in order to insult him and his guests. He is the only character at the time who treats Timon badly. The rest of the city highly respects him for his wealth and generosity. Apemantus has several witty exchanges with Timon, in which he argues that mankind is untrustworthy and that they are merely Timon's friends because of his money. Timon eventually loses all of his money and is abandoned by his friends. He turns his back on Athens to live in a cave, and takes the same opinions about mankind which Apemantus had. Apemantus visits him to accuse Timon of copying his ideals. The two of them then proceed to elaborately insult each other.

The best known recent Apemantus was portrayed by the Irish actor Norman Rodway, who played the role both for BBC television and for The Arkangel Shakespeare audiobook. His performance in these differ significantly, as neither the rest of the cast nor the interpretation is the same.

References

External links
 Apemantus' lines in Timon of Athens

Male Shakespearean characters
Fictional philosophers
Rupp

Rupp or RUPP can refer to:

 Rational Unified Process Product
 Royal University of Phnom Penh
 Roads used as public paths,
 Rights of way in England and Wales
 Rights of way in Scotland
 Warren Rupp Observatory
 Rupp Industries, a Mansfield, Ohio producer of go-karts, mini-bikes, and snowmobiles from the late 1950s until 1978; founded by car racer Mickey Rupp

People called Rupp or Ruppe:

 Adolph Rupp (1901–1977), an American basketball coach
 Adolph Rupp Trophy, an American basketball trophy
 Rupp Arena, an American basketball arena
 Bernd Rupp (b. 1942), a German football player 
 Debra Jo Rupp (b. 1951), an American television actress
 Duane Rupp (b. 1938), a Canadian ice hockey player
 Ernest Gordon Rupp (1910–1986), a British preacher and historian
 Ernst Rupp (1892-1943) Wehrmacht General 
 Galen Rupp (b. 1986), an American athlete
 George Erik Rupp (b. 1942), an American educator and theologian
 Hans Georg Rupp (1907-1989), German judge
 Heinrich Bernhard Rupp (1688-1719), a German botanist
 Herman Rupp (1872–1956), an Australian clergyman and botanist
 James H. Rupp (1918-1998), an American politician and businessman
 Jean Rupp (1905–1983), French bishop and Vatican diplomat 
 Jennifer Rupp (b. 1980), materials engineer
 Kerry Rupp, an American basketball coach
 Leila J. Rupp (b. 1950), an American historian and feminist
 Loret Miller Ruppe (1936–1996), an American administrator and diplomat
 Lukas Rupp (born 1991), German footballer
 Michael Rupp (b. 1980), an American ice hockey player
 Mickey Rupp (b. 1936), an American racecar driver
 Pat Rupp (1942–2006), an American ice hockey player
 Philip Ruppe (b. 1926), an American politician
 Rainer Rupp (b. 1945), East German spy
 Scott T. Rupp, an American politician
 Sieghardt Rupp (1931–2015), an Austrian actor
 Terry Rupp (born 1966), an American college baseball coach

Surnames from given names
Killywool

Killywool (possibly ) is a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 132 people. It is situated within Causeway Coast and Glens district.

References 

NI Neighbourhood Information System

Villages in County Londonderry
Causeway Coast and Glens district
Peabody High School (Pennsylvania)

Peabody High School was a public school in  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the neighborhood of East Liberty. The school opened in 1911 after the renovations of the former Margaretta Street elementary school and was rededicated in honor of Highland Park Doctor Benjamin H. Peabody. After 100 years in operation, the school board of the Pittsburgh Public Schools voted to close the school and graduate its final class in 2011.

The Barack Obama Academy of International Studies 6-12 relocated to the building starting in the 2012–2013 school year. The Peabody name was no longer used.

Notable alumni
 Kevan Barlow – NFL player
 Mike Barnes – NFL player
 Romare Bearden – artist and writer
 Mel Bennett – NBA player
 Kenneth Burke – literary theorist who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory 
 Malcolm Cowley – novelist, poet, literary critic and journalist
 Billy Eckstine – singer and bandleader
 Ed Gainey – politician
 George Otto Gey – cell biologist
 Jack Gilbert – poet
Barry Goldberg – volleyball coach
 Frank Gorshin – actor and comedian
 Charles Grodin – actor, comedian, author and television talk show host
Gene Kelly – dancer, actor and choreographer
Marie S. Klooz  – lawyer, pacifist
 David Logan – NFL player Tampa Bay Buccaneers
 Lorin Maazel – conductor, violinist and composer
 Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa – jazz pianist
 Natalie Moorhead – actress
 Zelda Rubinstein – actor, and human rights activist
 Edith S. Sampson – lawyer, judge and United Nations delegate
 Robert Schmertz – artist
 Bob Smizik – newspaper sportswriter and columnist
 David Stock – composer and conductor, founder of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
 Burton Tansky – department store executive
 David Tepper – hedge fund manager and philanthropist
 Regis Toomey – actor
 Fritz Weaver – actor
 John Edgar Wideman – writer and professor
 Jonathan Wolken – dancer, co-founder, artistic director of Pilobolus dance company.
 Louise Fulton - professional bowler
 Yitzchok Scheiner Israeli–American rabbi.

References

External links
 Official website
 Pittsburgh Public Schools

High schools in Pittsburgh
Defunct schools in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 1911
Educational institutions disestablished in 2011
1911 establishments in Pennsylvania
Uranium pentafluoride

Uranium pentafluoride is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula UF5.  It is a pale yellow paramagnetic solid.  The compound has attracted interest because it is related to uranium hexafluoride, which is widely used to produce uranium fuel. It crystallizes in two polymorphs, called α- and β-UF5.

Synthesis and structure
Uranium pentafluoride is an intermediate in the conversion of uranium tetrafluoride to volatile UF6:
2UF4  +  F2  →  2UF5
2UF5  +  F2  →  2UF6

It can be produced by reduction of the hexafluoride with carbon monoxide at elevated temperatures. 
 2UF6  +  CO   →  2UF5  +  COF2
Other reducing agents have been examined.

The α form is a linear coordination polymer consisting of chains of octahedral uranium centers in which one of the five fluoride anion forms a bridge to the next uranium atom.  The structure is reminiscent of that for vanadium pentafluoride.

In the β form, the uranium centers adopt a square antiprismatic structure. The β polymorph gradually converts to α at 130 °C.

Monomeric UF5
Of theoretical interest, molecular UF5 can be generated as a transient monomer by UV-photolysis of uranium hexafluoride. It is thought to adopt a square pyramidal geometry.

References

Uranium(V) compounds
Nuclear materials
Fluorides
Actinide halides
Inorganic polymers
Coordination polymers
Purple Toupee

"Purple Toupee" is a 1988 song by alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants from their second album, Lincoln. It was released as a promotional single in 1989. In 1994, a live performance of the song was recorded for the promotional live album, Live!! New York City 10/14/94, which was released by Elektra Records.

According to John Linnell, the song's disjointed lyrics recount a warped memory of the 1960s. The song comments on a contemporary "sixties revival", which Linnell perceived as a "one-dimensional caricature" of the decade. In a nod to this inauthenticity, the lyrics are intentionally misleading, and do not accurately represent the events that they reference. Two Prince songs—"Purple Rain" and "Raspberry Beret"—also served as sources of inspiration for "Purple Toupee".

Promotion 
Bar/None Records advertised "Purple Toupee" by pasting fake labels on 8-track tapes by other artists. The cartridges, disguised as a release from TMBG, were mailed to radio stations, in addition to CDs that actually contained the song.

The song had a music video directed by Helene Silverman, who had previously done graphic design work with the band. The video was filmed at Coney Island and features John Linnell and John Flansburgh playing accordion and guitar, respectively, at Astroland Park.

Terminated EP 
"Purple Toupee" was intended for release as an EP with three B-sides. It was listed as a release for 12" vinyl, CD, and cassette. The following tracks were presented on the band's B-side compilation, Miscellaneous T:
 "Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal"
 "Lady Is a Tramp"
 "Birds Fly"

The songs were also included on a 2013 reissue of Lincoln in Australian markets by Breakaway Records.

Notes
"Lady Is a Tramp" is a cover of the Rogers & Hart song.

Reception 
In his review of Lincoln, Robert Christgau cited "Purple Toupee" as a potential highlight from the album's A-side, though not as strong as the lead single "Ana Ng". He describes the song as "antiboomer". The track was also designated as an Allmusic "pick". Writing for Allmusic, Stewart Mason lauds the song's "infectious tune" and adds that the chorus is "among the duo's most endearing and memorable". Like Christgau, Mason speculates that it carries a baby-boomer theme from the perspective of a confused child of the 1960s. In an Allmusic review of the full album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine also names "Purple Toupee" one of the album's strong "pop hooks".

Personnel 
They Might Be Giants
John Linnell - accordion 
John Flansburgh - guitar

Production
Bill Krauss – Producer
Al Houghton – Engineer

References

External links 
Purple Toupee EP on This Might Be A Wiki
"Purple Toupee" (song) on This Might Be A Wiki
 Issue of SPIN containing an advertisement for the aborted EP

1989 singles
They Might Be Giants songs
1988 songs
Restless Records singles
Songs written by John Linnell
Songs written by John Flansburgh
Splunge, Mississippi

Splunge, (also known as Lannsdale or Lanndale), is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.

Splunge is located on Splunge Creek, east of Hatley and north of Greenwood Springs.

History
In 1900, Splunge had a population of 18.

A post office operated under the name Splung from 1848 to 1867 and the name Splunge from 1881 to 1918.

The Splunge Free Will Baptist Church was built in 1844 and is the oldest surviving church building in Monroe County and the oldest Free Will Baptist church in Mississippi.

The Splunge Lookout Tower is listed on the National Historic Lookout Register.

The community is served by two volunteer fire departments.

In 1973, natural gas reserves were discovered in Splunge.

References

Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
Globule (CDN)

Globule was an open-source collaborative content delivery network developed at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam since 2006. It is implemented as a third-party module for the Apache HTTP Server that allows any given server to replicate its documents to other Globule servers. This can improve the site's performance, maintain the site available to its clients even if some servers are down, and to a certain extent help to resist to flash crowds and the Slashdot effect.  the project is discontinued and is no longer maintained.

Globule takes care of maintaining consistency between the replicas, monitoring the servers, and automatically redirecting clients to one of the available replicas. Globule also supports the replication of PHP documents accessing MySQL databases. It runs on Unix and Windows systems.

See also
 Codeen

References

External links
 A paper describing Globule's architecture as a collaborative content delivery network

Distributed data storage
Apache httpd modules
Napasoq

Napasoq (old spelling: Napassoq/Napâssoq) is an island settlement in the Qeqqata municipality, in central-western Greenland. Located on a small island on the shores of Davis Strait, it had 80 inhabitants in 2020.

Population 
Napasoq is the smallest settlement in the municipality, and has been depopulating for the last two decades. Its population has decreased more than a half relative to the 1990 levels, and by nearly 16 percent relative to the 2000 levels.

References 

Davis Strait
Populated places in Greenland
Qeqqata
Largy

Largy () is a small hamlet and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is 5 km south of Limavady, beside the B192 Limavady to Dungiven road. In 1991, its population was 90 but in the 2001 Census this had risen to 144. It is situated within Causeway Coast and Glens district.

Features

Education

Religion

This Village belongs to the "Prots", a subdivision of modern day Presbyterianism headed by cult leader Dylan 'sal' Brown, son of Gilbert.

References 

Villages in County Londonderry
Townlands of County Londonderry
Causeway Coast and Glens district
National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film

The National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners 

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

References

External links 
 Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
 National Film Awards Archives

Anthropological Ethnographic Film
Question (short story)

"Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the March 1955 issue of Computers and Automation (thought to be the first computer magazine), and was reprinted in the April 30, 1957, issue of Science World. It is the first of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional supercomputer called Multivac.

The story concerns two technicians who are servicing Multivac, and their argument over whether or not the machine is truly intelligent and able to think. Multivac, however, supplies the answer on its own.

After the reprint, another author, Robert Sherman Townes, noticed the climax in the last sentence was very similar to one of his own stories, "Problem for Emmy" (Startling Stories, June 1952), and wrote to Asimov about it. After searching in his library, Asimov did find the original story and, although he did not recall having read it, admitted that the endings were pretty similar. He then replied to Townes, apologizing and promising the story would never again be published, and it never was. Asimov mentioned "Question" in an editorial called "Plagiarism" which appeared in the August 1985 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction (although he did not mention Townes' name or the title of either story). "Plagiarism" was reprinted in Asimov's collection Gold (1995).

Sources
 "Question" at AsimovReviews.net

External links 
 
 "Question" at the Internet Archive

Multivac short stories by Isaac Asimov
1955 short stories
Works originally published in American magazines
Works originally published in science and technology magazines
Shirin Taylor

Shirin Taylor (born 1956) is an English actress, best known for playing Jackie Ingram in the television soap opera Coronation Street from 1990 to 1992 as well as Tina, girlfriend to Robert Lindsay's character in comedy drama Give Us a Break and Rosa in sitcom I Woke Up One Morning.

Acting career 
Doctor Who serials The Stones of Blood and Dragonfire 
Crown Court
The Cleopatras
Shine on Harvey Moon
One by One
Crossroads (as Sue Kirk in 1985)
Boon
Dramarama
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
The Bill
Casualty
A Touch of Frost
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
London's Burning
Holby City
Night & Day
Doctors

Theatre work
On stage, Taylor made her West End debut in Educating Rita, firstly as understudy to star Julie Walters and then taking over the role of the leading lady.

References

External links
 
 Shirin Taylor at Theatricalia

British television actresses
Living people
1956 births
Wren, Mississippi

Wren, (also known as Wrens), is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.

Wren is located between Amory and Okolona. The nearby community of New Wren is located on U.S. Route 45 (US 45), near its intersection with US 278.

History
In 1900, Wren had three stores and a high school.

A post office operated under the name Wren from 1900 to 1904.

The Wren Lookout Tower is listed on the National Historic Lookout Register.

The community is served by two volunteer fire departments.

Wren was hit by a fast-moving EF3 tornado on March 24, 2023. Prior to impacting Wren, the tornado struck Amory. An A 172-year-old church was demolished during the storms. There were two fatalities, along with a serious injury that occurred during the tornadic event.

The Wren Field is a natural gas field located in Wren.

Notable person
 John Johnson, former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and the Mississippi Senate

References

Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
Itilleq

Itilleq (old spelling: Itivdleq) is a settlement in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. It is located on a small island around 1 km from the mainland, 45 km south of Sisimiut and 2 km north of the Arctic Circle on the shores of Davis Strait. It had 89 inhabitants in 2020.

History 
Itilleq was founded in 1847 on another island, but was later moved 1 kilometer east to its present location.

Economy 
The main trade in the settlement is fishing and hunting, with a fish factory being the principal employer in the settlement. The island has no freshwater, and for this reason Itilleq makes use of a facility for forming freshwater from seawater. The village is served by the communal all-purpose Pilersuisoq store.

Transport 
There is no road connection to any other settlement, but that is so for most other settlements in Greenland.

Air 
The closest aerodrome is Sisimiut Airport in Sisimiut, with connections to Ilulissat, Kangerlussuaq, Maniitsoq, and Nuuk operated by Air Greenland. There are no regular helicopter services to coastal settlements of Davis Strait in the Qeqqata and Sermersooq municipalities. But Itilleq has a helipad (20m, gravel) referenced also in the AIP (BGIQ), so there is on-demand air service possible.

Sea 
Royal Arctic Line provides weekly ferry services to Sarfannguit and Sisimiut, a port of call for the Arctic Umiaq Line, with connections to Ilulissat and Aasiaat in the Disko Bay region, and to coastal towns in southwestern and southern Greenland.

Population 
The population of Itilleq has been stable in the last two decades.

Notable residents
 Hans Enoksen − the fourth Prime Minister of Greenland (2002-2009)

References

Davis Strait
Populated places in Greenland
Populated places of Arctic Greenland
Populated places established in 1847
Qeqqata
1847 establishments in Greenland
Kuranty

The Kuranty (occasionally titled Vesti, Vedomosti, or Vestovye pisma) was the first Russian hand-written newspaper, published in the 17th century in Tsardom of Russia. The earliest extant issue is dated 1621. 

The Kuranty was established by a ukase of Emperor Michael of Russia was issued by the Posolsky Prikaz for selected government officials in order to inform them about foreign events. Diaks who compiled the newspaper used such sources as German and Dutch newspapers — one of which apparently inspired the newspaper's name — as well as letters of Russians travelling abroad. As foreign newspapers were delivered to Moscow via Riga and Wilna, they were frequently outdated and contained stale news, which resulted in the Russian tsar sending letters and embassies to deceased foreign monarchs. Peter the Great replaced the Kuranty with the first printed newspaper in Russian, the Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti.

Further reading 
Shamin, Stepan Mikhailovich Kuranty XVII stoletiia : evropeiskaia pressa v Rossii i vozniknovenie russkoi periodicheskoi pechati. Moskva; Sankt-Peterburg, 2011,

References 

Defunct newspapers published in Russia
Russian-language newspapers
Church of St Petka of the Saddlers

The Church of St Petka of the Saddlers () is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. 

It is a small one-naved building partially dug into the ground located in the very centre of both the modern and the antique city, in the TZUM underpass. The church features a semi-cylindrical vault, a hemispherical apse, and a crypt discovered during excavations after the Second World War. The walls are 1 m thick and made from brick and stone.

The church was first mentioned in the 16th century and was constructed at the place of a former Roman religious building. It is today a monument of culture known for its mural paintings from the 14th, 15th, 17th and 19th century depicting biblical scenes.

The church is dedicated to St Petka, an 11th-century Bulgarian saint. The Church of Saint Petka acquired its present name due to it being a patron of the saddlers in the Middle Ages, who performed their rituals in the church. The adjective samardzhiyski ("of the saddlers") was derived from the Ottoman Turkish word semerci, meaning "saddlemaker".

According to one theory, Bulgarian national hero Vasil Levski is buried in the church. Press reports from 1937 retelling the stories of those who carried out a reburial, which might have been for Levski and reports from the 1956 excavation speculating that bones found might have been those indicated by the 1937 press, led to the skeleton labeled "No. 95", being sent for professional examination. When Magdalina Stancheva museologist and head of the Archaeology Department at the Sofia Regional Historical Museum received the bones, she sent them to the laboratory run by Petîr Boev at the Archaeological Institute for examination. The bones were either destroyed by mice or lost. Nikolai Khaitov, a popular writer, accused Stancheva; archaeologists Georgi Dzhingov and Stamen Mikhailov; Krîstiu Miiatev, director of the Archaeological Institute; and Todor Pavlov, president of the National Academy of Bulgaria of participating in a conspiracy to prevent investigation into Levski's burial site and publicly accused Stancheva of mishandling the remains. Two commissions met over the controversy in the 1980s, and confirmed that there was no proof which could substantiate that the bones were Levski's, as the bones were missing.

References

See also

List of churches in Sofia

Petka, Church of St
Semi-subterranean structures
Sarfannguit

Sarfannguit (old spelling: Sarfannguaq / Sarfánguaq) is a settlement in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. Its population was 96 in 2020. The settlement was founded in 1843. The town is located within the Aasivissuit – Nipisat UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2018 for its outstanding archeological sites representing the human occupation of Greenland for over 4000 years.

Geography 
Sarfannguit is located on the eastern promontory of an island of the same name, approximately  east of Sisimiut, facing the mainland of Greenland across the Imartuninnguaq Strait, at this point only  wide. The strait opens into the Amerloq Fjord in the west, which then heads to the west, emptying into Davis Strait south of Sisimiut. Ikertooq Fjord bounds the island from the south.

Economy 
The first wind turbine in Greenland was constructed in Sarfannguit in 2010. The wind turbine is  tall, providing 6,000 liter of petrol worth of savings per month for the village.

Transport

Air 
The closest aerodrome is Sisimiut Airport in Sisimiut, with connections to Ilulissat, Kangerlussuaq, Maniitsoq, and Nuuk operated by Air Greenland. There are no helicopter services to coastal settlements of Davis Strait in the Qeqqata and Sermersooq municipalities. The AIP references a 20m round helipad (ICAO code: BGSA) with gravel surface at Sarfannguit.

Sea 
Royal Arctic Line provides weekly ferry services to Itilleq and Sisimiut, a port of call for the Arctic Umiaq Line, with connections to Ilulissat and Aasiaat in the Disko Bay region, and to coastal towns in southwestern and southern Greenland.

Land 
There is no road reaching Sarfannguit, but it would be connected to the proposed Sisimiut-Kangerlussuaq road, which has been discussed for several years, but not built. Snowmobiles are used in winter to connect to Sisimiut, roughly 50 km away.

Population 
The population of Sarfannguit has been stable in the last four decades.

In 1986, the leading cause of death for young people in this city was suicide.

References 

Davis Strait
Populated places in Greenland
Populated places of Arctic Greenland
Populated places established in 1843
Qeqqata
1843 establishments in Greenland
Beatrix Lehmann

Beatrix Alice Lehmann (1 July 1903 – 31 July 1979) was a British actress, theatre director, writer and novelist.

Early life and family
Lehmann was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. She came from a family of notable achievers: the third of four children of author and publisher Rudolph Chambers Lehmann. Her great-uncle was Henri Lehmann the artist. Her brother was publisher John Lehmann and one of her two older sisters was the novelist Rosamond Lehmann.

Career
Lehmann trained at RADA and made her stage debut as Peggy in a 1924 production The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith. She also appeared in films and on television. She wrote short stories and two novels, including Rumour of Heaven, first published in 1934 (). In 1946 Lehmann became director and producer of the Arts Council Midland Theatre Company.

She was awarded Britain's Radio Actress of the Year in 1977. In 1962 she played the matriarch Bernadette Amorelle in a Maigret episode, The Dirty House. She played Susan Calvin in "The Prophet" (1967), a now lost episode of the British science fiction television series Out of the Unknown, and appeared in the Doctor Who serial The Stones of Blood (1978) as Professor Emilia Rumford. In 1979 she played Mrs Pleasant in a film version of The Cat and The Canary. Other roles include Z-Cars, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, War and Peace, Love for Lydia, Staircase, and Crime and Punishment.

Death
Lehmann died in Camden, London, aged 76.

There are 12 portraits of Lehmann in the British National Portrait Gallery Collection.

Filmography
 The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) as Miss Kite
 Strangers on Honeymoon (1936) as Elfrida
 The Rat (1937) as Marguerite
 Candles at Nine (1944) as Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper
 The Key (1958) as Housekeeper
 On the Fiddle (1961) as Lady Edith
 Psyche 59 (1964) as Mrs. Crawford
 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) as Tribunal President
 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) as Domina's Mother
 Wonderwall (1968) as Mother
 The Portrait of a Lady  (1968, TV Series) as Lydia Touchett
 Staircase (1969) as Charlie's Mother
 The Cat and the Canary (1978) as Mrs. Pleasant 
 The Stones of Blood (Doctor Who)  (1978) as Professor Rumford

References

External links
  Performances listed in Theatre Archive University of Bristol
 
 Beatrix Lehmann Obituary in The New York Times

1903 births
1979 deaths
Lehmann family
English stage actresses
English film actresses
English television actresses
Alumni of RADA
20th-century English actresses
Actresses from Buckinghamshire
20th-century British businesspeople
English LGBT actors
20th-century English LGBT people
Gary Wamsley

Gary L. Wamsley is public administration specialist and professor emeritus at Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration and Policy.  He is perhaps best known as the coordinating editor of Refounding Public Administration, a work that followed from a well-known public administration paper called the Blacksburg Manifesto.  He has also for many years edited the  journal Administration & Society.

He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Wamsley was a student of Charles Perrow and a co-author with Mayer Zald.  As with many scholars of his generation in the field of public administration, he is deeply influenced by Dwight Waldo.

As a budget theorist, Wamsley's work built on a framework started by Aaron Wildavsky.   In recent years, Wamsley has discussed budgeting in terms of the sociology of Erving Goffman and used other innovative approaches to underscore the political and theatrical nature of budget formation in government.

References

American political scientists
American sociologists
Virginia Tech faculty
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Pittsburgh alumni
People from Blacksburg, Virginia
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Public administration scholars
Place of birth missing (living people)
Lackey

Lackey may refer to:


Places
 Lackey, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
 Lackey, Mississippi, United States, an unincorporated community
 Lackey, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
 Lackey Ridge, Antarctica

Historic American buildings
 George W. Lackey House, a historic house in Mountain View, Arkansas
 John Alexander Lackey House, a historic house in Burke County, North Carolina
 Lackey General Merchandise and Warehouse, a historic commercial building in Mountain View, Arkansas

Other uses
 Lackey (surname)
 Lackey (manservant), a uniformed domestic worker
 "Lackey" (song), by the English indie rock band The Others
 Henry E. Lackey High School, a school in Charles County, Maryland
 Lackey Field, a former baseball and athletics field at Appalachian State University
 Lackey moth, a species of moth, Malacosoma neustria
 LackeyCCG, a computer application for playing CCG's online

See also