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Alex Jacob

Alex Jacob (born October 27, 1984) is a former professional poker player and game show contestant.

Jacob is perhaps best known in poker for winning the 2006 main event at the United States Poker Championship, a no-limit Texas hold 'em event televised by ESPN. He has also appeared at televised final tables at the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour. In 2015, after leaving professional poker, Jacob became a contestant on Jeopardy!, where he won six games and the show's Tournament of Champions.

Education

In 2002, Jacob was the valedictorian of Deerfield Beach High School, where he was in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. 

In May 2006, he graduated from Yale University with a degree in economics and mathematics.

Poker career

Among Jacob's biggest poker accomplishments are winning the Peter A. Fabrizio Memorial Poker Classic in 2003 and finishing runner-up at the 2006 World Poker Tour (WPT) tournament in Foxwoods Resort Casino on April 9, 2006, winning $655,507. Jacob secured his biggest paycheck to date by winning the 2006 U.S. Poker Championship with a first-place prize of $878,500. Jacob has 4 WSOP Final Tables, including a 3rd in Event 3 in No-Limit hold'em at the 2007 World Series of Poker.

At Yale, Jacob's poker talent was spotted by James McManus as early as 2004, when McManus sat down one night to play with Jacob. Months later, McManus mentioned Jacob in an article about the experience. 

As of 2012, Jacob's total live tournament winnings exceed $2,600,000. His 25 cashes at the WSOP account for $832,559 of those winnings. He is known for his graciousness and sportsmanship in tournament play.

Jeopardy!

Jacob has also appeared on the game show Jeopardy! He won in his first appearance on the show on April 10, 2015, and went on to win five more games before losing on April 20, 2015. Jacob won a grand total of $151,802 in seven appearances. His victories qualified him for the 2015 Tournament of Champions, which he won, collecting the grand prize of $250,000. In addition to using the "Forrest Bounce" originated by Chuck Forrest, Jacob also pioneered the strategy of aggressive Daily Double wagers that was used with even greater success by James Holzhauer in 2019.

Jacob later appeared in the All-Star Games with team captain Buzzy Cohen and 2015 Teachers' Tournament champion Jennifer Giles. His team went home with $75,000 after losing the wild card match.

Endorsements 
Jacob is a frequent player on the trivia app FleetWit, especially in the high-stakes races where top prizes are in the hundreds of dollars. He has won over $24,000 to date. He was also noted for winning a $20,000 prize on the HQ Trivia app in June 2019, which HQ Trivia had failed to pay a month after his win. (Jacob received his payout in August.)

References

External links
 Alex Jacob in the CardPlayer.com Player Database

1984 births
American poker players
Living people
People from Houston
Deerfield Beach High School alumni
Jeopardy! contestants
Michael R. Arietti

Michael Ray Arietti (born October 25, 1947) is a United States diplomat and a career foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State. He served as United States Ambassador to Rwanda from 2005 to 2008.

Early life and education
Raised in Enfield, Connecticut, Arietti graduated from Enfield High School in 1965. He received a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1970.

Career
After graduating college, he volunteered for the Peace Corps and served in India before joining the Department of State.

Awards and Recognitions
In 2009 he was given the State Department's Charles E. Cobb Jr. Award for Initiative and Success in Trade Development in recognition of his work in Rwanda.

Personal life
Arietti is the son of Michael John Arietti (November 20, 1919 – May 18, 1993) and Margaret M. (Schiller) Arietti (September 6, 1920 – February 22, 2003). Arietti's father served in the Marine Corps during World War II and the couple were married on November 20, 1945 in California. The couple moved back near his father's family in Connecticut in 1948. They had two sons and three grandchildren. His mother was the first female police officer in Enfield, Connecticut.

References

External links
United States Department of State: Biography of Michael R. Arietti
United States Embassy in Kigali: Biography of the Ambassador
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Foreign Affairs Oral History Project. MICHAEL ARIETTI. Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy; Initial Interview Date: August 23, 2011; Copyright 2012 ADST
Personnel Announcement, George W. Bush White House, September 13, 2005.

1947 births
Living people
People from Los Angeles County, California
People from Enfield, Connecticut
Johns Hopkins University alumni
United States Foreign Service personnel
Ambassadors of the United States to Rwanda
Page Industries

Page Industries Limited is an Indian manufacturer and retailer of innerwear, loungewear and socks, headquartered in Bangalore. It is the exclusive licensee of Jockey International in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Maldives and Bhutan. In 2011, it licensed Speedo swimwear from Pentland Group for India and Sri Lanka.

The company was founded in 1994 by Sunder Genomal and his brothers Nari and Ramesh, and together they hold a 54% stake in it. It has 9 operational manufacturing plants in Bangalore, and 1 each in Hassan, Mysore, Tiptur, Gauribidanur, Mandya and Tiruppur.

References

External links
 

Clothing companies of India
Clothing companies established in 1994
Companies based in Bangalore
Indian companies established in 1994
1994 establishments in Karnataka
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Albert Nozaki

Albert Nozaki (1 January 1912 – 16 November 2003) was a Japanese American art director who worked on various films for Paramount Pictures. He is perhaps best known for his memorable design of the Martian war machines from the 1953 film The War of the Worlds and for his Academy Award-nominated art direction on the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic, The Ten Commandments. He retired in 1969 due to retinitis pigmentosa, which ultimately cost him his sight. Starting out at Paramount as a draftsman in the Paramount set-design department in 1934, he retired in 1969 as the studio's supervising art director for feature films.

Biography
Born in Japan, Nozaki's family moved to the United States when he was 3 and settled in Los Angeles.  Nozaki earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Southern California in 1933 and a master's degree in architectural engineering from the University of Illinois in 1934.

In 1938, and for many years thereafter, Al Nozaki lived in Echo Park, California. Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Nozaki was abruptly dismissed from his job at Paramount. Following the signing of Executive Order 9066 in the spring of 1942, and the subsequent roundup of 120,000 West Coast residents of Japanese descent, he and his wife, Lorna, were sent to the Manzanar internment camp in California's Owens Valley.

Among his many other credits as an art director are  When Worlds Collide, The Big Clock, Sorrowful Jones, Appointment with Danger, Pony Express, Houdini, The Buccaneer, and Loving You.

Nozaki died on November 16, 2003, in Los Angeles, California from complications of pneumonia.

Documentaries
Albert Nozaki appeared in the documentary The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985) (produced and directed by Arnold Leibovit).

Albert Nozaki appeared in the documentary ‘’Something’s Gonna Live’’  (2009) (produced and directed
by Daniel Raim).

References

External links
 
 "War of the Worlds" page compiled by Roger Russell at roger-russell.com including information about Al [Albert] Nozaki retrieved 2 February 2012
 Albert Nozaki papers, 1950-1956., Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Click on Production Art inventory to see examples of Nozaki's work.)

American art directors
People from Tokyo
Japanese emigrants to the United States
USC School of Architecture alumni
University of Illinois alumni
Japanese-American internees
1912 births
2003 deaths
People from Echo Park, Los Angeles
Nordre Isfjorden National Park

Nordre Isfjorden National Park () lies on Spitsbergen Island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. It lies across the Isfjorden north of Barentsburg. The park was opened in 2003.

The park carries the name of the fjord Isfjorden, one of the largest fjords in Svalbard. On the northern section of this fjord lies a virgin coastal landscape that sustains considerable vegetation and wildlife.

Wildlife
During certain points in the year there is an inflow of warm, saline water into the Isfjorden, which results in the circulation of water layers that foster the growth of plankton, which sustains large number of crustaceans. The crustaceans attract fish like the capelin and polar cod, which in turn draw seabirds and mammals.

Birds
Only a few species of birds live in or visit the park, but the ones that are found here often gather in huge numbers. The birds found in Isfjorden include Brünnich's guillemot, little auk, Atlantic puffin, glaucous gull, northern fulmar and black-legged kittiwake. Other notable species recorded here are barnacle and pink-footed geese, and the Svalbard rock ptarmigan.

References

 Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management on Nordre Isfjorden Land National Park

National parks of Svalbard
Protected areas established in 2003
2003 establishments in Norway
Spitsbergen
Mystical Anarchism

Mystical Anarchism was a tendency within the Russian Symbolist movement after 1906, especially between 1906 and late 1908. It was created and popularized by Georgy Chulkov. 

In 1906, Chulkov edited Fakely (Torches), an anthology of Symbolist writing, which called on Russian writers to:

abandon Symbolism and Decadence and move forward to "new mystical experience".

Later in the year Chulkov followed up with a "Mystical Anarchism" manifesto.

The doctrine has been described as:

a mish-mash of Nietzsche, Herzen, Bakunin, Merezhkovsky (Chulkov was a former editor of New Path), Ibsen, Byron, utopian socialism, Tolstoy's Christian anarchism, and Dostoyevsky's rejection of necessity.

Alexander Blok and especially Vyacheslav Ivanov were supportive of the new doctrine while Valery Bryusov, the editor of the leading Symbolist magazine The Balance, and Andrei Bely were opposed to it. The resulting controversy raged on the pages of Russian Symbolist magazines until late 1908.

See also
Russian avant-garde

Notes

References
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. "The Transmutation of the Symbolist Ethos: Mystical Anarchism and the Revolution of 1905" in Slavic Review 36, No. 4 (December 1977), pp. 608–627.

Literary movements
Modern art
Anarchist culture
Russian art movements
Symbolism (arts)
Anarchist schools of thought
Capital Radio Network

Capital Radio Network is an Australian radio company, which owns stations in Canberra, Goulburn, Cooma, the Snowy Mountains, Gippsland and Perth. The company is a subsidiary of Blyton Group, with Kevin James Blyton as managing director for both. The company first acquired 2XL (now XLFM) in the Snowy Mountains, as well as 2CC and 2CA in Canberra - the latter two offloaded from parent companies Australian Radio Network and Austereo respectively in order for them to launch joint-venture stations 104.7 and Mix 106.3.

In February 2015, Capital Radio Network acquired Gippsland-based 3GG.

With the exception of XLFM, Snow FM and 3GG, all stations are operated as a 50/50 joint-venture with Grant Broadcasters.

Owned and Operated Stations

Canberra
2CC Talking Canberra 1206 2CC - 1206AM and DAB+ 2cc.net.au
2CA Forever Classic 2CA  - 1053 AM and DAB+
KIX Country Radio 97.5FM and DAB+
My Canberra Digital DAB+
Snow FM, relayed on DAB+
Cooma/Jindabyne/Snowy Mountains
XLFM 
96.1FM Cooma
107.3FM Jindabyne 
98.7FM Perisher Valley
92.1FM Thredbo
92.5FM Bombala
92.5FM Charlotte Pass
Snow FM 
97.7 FM,  Cooma
94.7FM Jindabyne 
101.9FM Perisher 
92.9FM Thredbo
91.7FM Bombala 
91.7FM Charlotte Pass
DAB+ Canberra
KIX Country Radio - Cooma 87.6FM, Jindabyne 88.0FM
Gippsland
3GG 531 AM
Goulburn
GNFM 107.7 FM
Eagle FM 93.5 FM
KIX Country Radio 100.7FM
Perth
6iX 1080 AM, 105.7FM & DAB+
KIX Country Radio DAB+
My Perth Digital DAB+
X Digital DAB+

Networks 
Some Capital Radio Network stations broadcast identical formats and programming in the networks below:

Former Stations 
In the 1990s, Kevin Blyton held a 40% stake in Newcastle's NXFM.

Outside of buying and selling stations in the same stations/territories as current stations, he has also held stations in Tasmania and Queenstown, New Zealand.

Notes

References

External links 
 2CC
 2CA
 2GN
 
3GG
EagleFM
 XLFM
 SnowFM
 6iX
 My Perth Digital
 My Canberra Digital
 X Digital

 
Australian radio networks
Custos Rotulorum of Merionethshire

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Merionethshire.
 John "Wynn" ap Maredudd 1543 – bef. 1558
 Lewis ap Owen 1553–1555 
 Ellis Price bef. 1558 – bef. 1562
 Owen ap John ap Howell Vaughan bef. 1562 – bef. 1564
 Ellis Price bef. 1564 – aft.1577
 Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester bef. 1579 –1588
 Sir Robert Salusbury bef. 1594–1599
 Sir Thomas Myddelton bef. 1599 –1617
 William Salusbury 1617 – aft. 1626
 Hugh Nanney 1629–1646
 Interregnum
 Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet 1660–1663
 Sir John Owen 1663–1666
 William Owen 1666–1678
 Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet 1678–1688
 William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis 1688–1689
 Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet 1689–1690
 Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet 1690–1711
 Edward Vaughan 1711–1718
 Lewis Owen 1722–1729
 William Vaughan 1731–1775
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire.

References

Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1544-1646
Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1660-1828

Merionethshire
North Queensland Young Guns

The North Queensland Young Guns were a rugby league team competing in the Queensland Cup. They acted as a feeder team for the North Queensland Cowboys. The Cowboys had previously entered reserve grade teams in the Australian Rugby League and Super League competitions. However, to prevent a drain on travelling expenses, the Cowboys applied to join the Queensland Cup for the 1998 season. Competing as the Townsville Stingers, the reserve grade team had some initial success before narrowly missing the finals. The team was excluded from the 1999 Queensland Cup season, and the Cowboys decided to enter their teams into the predominantly New South Wales-based First Division for the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Readmitted to the Queensland Cup in 2002, the Young Guns (as they were then known) would win the competition in 2005 with a 36–6 win against defending premiers Burleigh Bears in the grand final. 

The Stingers/Young Guns record in the Queensland Cup is 67 wins, 5 draws and 38 losses.

2007 - final Queensland Cup season
Their 2007 coach was Matt Parish, replacing Mick Crawley for the season. They narrowly won the Minor Premiers Trophy by beating the Dolphins by 2 points in a match in last round of the regular season at Dairy Farmers Stadium on 18 August. The regular season had a tight finish as usual: the teams below the Dolphins, the Tweed Heads Seagulls and the Ipswich Jets all finished 3 points below the Young Guns.

After such a great season, the Young Guns went into the finals as favourites. 
In the finals, the Young Guns were given a bye in the first round. In the 2nd round they faced the 2nd placed Dolphins but lost 28–18. They still had a 2nd chance, however, and they just needed to beat the Tweed Heads Seagulls who were in red hot form to make their 2nd Queensland Cup Grand Final appearance. They didn't, they choked at the last hurdle before the Grand Final and lost by a whopping margin of 24 points to the Seagulls, the final score was an embarrassing 34–10.

This would be the Young Guns final Queensland Cup Match as they were now officially out of the Cup due to the fact they had been merged/replaced with/by Northern Pride, based in Cairns and owned by the Cairns Taipans Australian NBL Team.

The last Young Guns squad (2007) was :
James Andersen 
Brett Anderson
Daniel Backo
Ryan Bartlett 
Steven Beaumont 
Scott Bolton
Brandon Boor 
Samuel James Bowie
Greg Byrnes 
Sam Faust
John Frith
Jamie Frizzo 
Obadiah Geia 
Luke Hume 
Toshio Laiseni 
Keiron Lander 
Ben Lowe 
Ryan Mahoney
Shane Muspratt 
Jackson Nicolau
Brady Payne 
Dean Payne 
Scott Smith 
Ben Vaeau
Colin Wilkie

After 2007

Results
 1998 (as Townsville Stingers)  - 7th
 2002 - 6th
 2003 - 7th
 2004 - 7th
 2005 - Premiers
 2006 - 4th
 2007 - 1st(Minor Premiers)

See also

References

External links
Official Website

Sport in Townsville
Rugby league teams in Queensland
North Queensland Cowboys
Rugby clubs established in 1998
Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire.
 Sir John Salusbury before 1544 – c. 1548
 Edward Herbert before 1558–1593
 Richard Herbert 1594–1596
 Richard Broughton 1596–1602
 William Herbert, 1st Baron Powis 1602–1641
 Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 1641–1643
 Herbert Vaughan 1643–1646
 Interregnum
 Edward Vaughan Mar–July 1660 
 Edward Herbert, 3rd Baron Herbert of Chirbury 1660–1678
 Hon. Andrew Newport Jan – Dec 1679
 Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury 1679–1685
 Hon. Andrew Newport 1685–1687
 William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis 1687–1689
 Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury 1689–1691
 Hon. Andrew Newport 1691–1699
 Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield 1700–1701
 Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford 1701–1711
 Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford 1711–1714
 Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford 1714–1723
 Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford 1724–1734
 Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis 1735–1772
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire.

References

Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1544-1646
Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1660-1828

Montgomeryshire
Duke Sims

Duane B. "Duke" Sims (born June 5, 1941) is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1964 to 1974 for the Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, and Texas Rangers.

From 1964 through 1970 he was a mainstay of the Cleveland Indians and caught Indians pitcher Sam McDowell through his minor and major league career. The Indians pitching staff of 1965-1970 was recognized as one of the best 4 men staffs in an era with starters going every fourth day. After posting his best offensive year in 1971 playing left field, right field, first base and catching, Sims was traded 2 for 1 to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Alan Foster and Ray Lamb and hit a career high .274 in 1971.

Placed on waivers by the Dodgers, Billy Martin took him to the Detroit Tigers in August 1972. His first game as a Tiger resulted in a 3 for 5 day with a game-tying double and  the game-winning single off of Gaylord Perry, who would win the Cy Young Award that year. He subsequently  hit .316 with 10 game-winning or game-tying hits while catching for the Tigers for the rest of that season, in which the Tigers won in the A.L. East Championship. Sims played in all 5 games in the championship series, both in left field and catching. He was the catcher in Game 2 when Oakland Athletics shortstop Bert Campaneris threw the bat at Tigers pitcher Lerrin LaGrow after being hit on the ankle.

Duke left the Tigers in September 1973, and caught the final game in Yankee Stadium before it was torn down and gutted. He joined the Yankees in the 1974 season in which they played their home games at Shea Stadium before being traded to the Texas Rangers on May 7 for Larry Gura and cash. Sims retired at the end of that 1974 season.

Duke holds the distinction of finishing his career with exactly 100 home runs, the current record for a player hailing from the state of Utah. Sims is also credited as the last person to hit a home run in the original Yankee Stadium in 1973. He did it as a member of the Yankees in an 8–5 loss to the Detroit Tigers on September 30.

References

External links

Living people
1941 births
Major League Baseball catchers
Cleveland Indians players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Detroit Tigers players
New York Yankees players
Texas Rangers players
Baseball players from Salt Lake City
North Platte Indians players
Selma Cloverleafs players
Burlington Indians players (1958–1964)
Charleston Indians players
Nashville Vols players
Portland Beavers players
Varga (band)

Varga is a Canadian metal band that was formed in 1985.  "Freeze Don't Move" and "Greed", from their Prototype album, were minor hits on MuchMusic throughout 1993. Dan Fila and Sean Williamson were later members of Hypodust, an industrial metal band hailing from Hamilton, Ontario.
In 2012 Varga reformed, going back to their progressive metal roots, and released two new full-length albums, Enter The Metal (2013) and Return of the Metal (2014).

History

1985-1992
Varga was formed in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1985. Their first independent cassette, Multiple Wargasms, was released in 1991, garnering positive reviews both locally and internationally, featuring a progressive/thrash metal sound.
In 1992, the band recorded a full-length album for New York independent label Maze America, but the label folded and the CD was never released.

1993-1997
Varga signed with Zoo/BMG in 1993, and released Prototype the following year, introducing some industrial elements to their sound. The band was nominated for a Canadian Juno award for "Best Hard Rock Act", and was one of the first bands to perform live on MuchMusic's Power 30, and toured extensively in the U.S. and Canada. In the U.S. the band's video for "Greed" was picked up on Headbangers Ball, and was featured in an episode of Beavis and Butthead.
In 1995, the band released Oxygen, but with little support from the label, and no hit songs, the band parted ways with BMG, but not before opening for international acts such as White Zombie and Metallica.

1998-2010
After disbanding in 1998, the members continued to perform individually. From 2002 to 2008, Dan Fila and Sean Williamson were members of industrial/metal band "Hypodust". Dan, Sean, and Joe Varga also performed during this time in a classic-metal cover band called "SuperBlaster".

2011-Present
Through social media, the band reconnected with Adam Alex in 2011. It quickly became apparent that the old chemistry was still there, and the band decided to once again enter the studio, with producer Julius Butty (Alexisonfire, Protest The Hero).

Personnel
Joe Varga (Bass & Lead Vocals)
Dan Fila (Drums)
Sean Williamson (Guitar)
Adam Alex (Guitar)

Discography

Albums
Multiple Wargasms (1991)
Prototype (1994)
Oxygen (1995)
Enter The Metal (2013)
Return of the Metal (2014)

Compilation appearances
Raw M.E.A.T. 2 (1990)

External links

References

Musical groups with year of establishment missing
Musical groups from Hamilton, Ontario
Canadian heavy metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1989
1989 establishments in Ontario
JSK

JSK may refer to:
Jai Shree Krishna (in his form as Lord Purushottama).
 JS Kabylie, an Algerian football club
 JS Kairouan, a Tunisian football club
 Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh, an Indian population concern organization
 Janette Sadik-Khan, former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation
 Jumper skirt
Joburg Super Kings, Cricket team in South africa premier league
John Boyd Thacher II

John Boyd Thacher II (October 26, 1882 – April 25, 1957) was the Mayor of Albany, New York from 1926 to 1941.  He was the nephew of Albany mayor John Boyd Thacher and grandson of another Albany mayor, George H. Thacher.  Thacher was the brother of Ebby Thacher, who brought Bill Wilson into the Oxford Group, which was the model for Wilson's Alcoholics Anonymous.

John Boyd Thacher II was born in Leadville, Colorado to the younger George H. Thacher (son of Mayor Thacher) and Emma Louise Bennett, who spent the early 1880s on business in Colorado.  The Thachers returned to Albany while John was a toddler and George Thacher re-established ties with his father's Albany business.  John Thacher attended The Albany Academy and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1904.  He graduated with a Doctor of Laws from Union College in 1906 and was admitted to the New York state bar association.  He practiced law in Schoharie County for a year before returning to practice in Albany. He married Lulu Abel Cameron of Middle Bridge on June 17, 1918.

World War I interrupted Thacher's law practice when he saw action in the Air corps and Ambulance corps, with a considerable amount of his time spent in France.  Thacher then ventured into Albany government, becoming a member of the Common Council of Albany as well as city treasurer.

On March 4, 1926, Albany mayor William Stormont Hackett was killed in a car accident in Cuba.  John Boyd Thacher II was named as his temporary successor.  That November, he was officially elected mayor in a landslide.  Thacher was subsequently reelected as mayor in 1929, 1933 and 1937. In 1932, he was nominated as a Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, but yielded to Herbert H. Lehman, who was elected.

Thacher resigned from his position as mayor in 1940 to become Judge of Albany County's Children's Court, a position he held until 1947. A long-term advocate for education and children's rights, he was also instrumental in developing the summer camp that came to bear his name: Camp Thacher.

Upon Thacher's resignation as mayor, President of the Common Council Herman F. Hoogkamp was appointed acting mayor in 1940 and served out the remainder of Thacher's term. In 1941, Erastus Corning II was elected mayor; Corning served for over 40 years until his death in 1983.

John Boyd Thacher II died in 1957 in Albany, and is interred in Albany Rural Cemetery.

References

External links
The History of New York State Biographies, Part 10, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1927 - edited by Dr. James Sullivan.
The Albany Common Council from 1929 through 1945 - by Candice Knight at the University at Albany, The State University of New York.

1882 births
1957 deaths
Princeton University alumni
Union College (New York) alumni
Mayors of Albany, New York
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I
Burials at Albany Rural Cemetery
20th-century American politicians
People from Leadville, Colorado
The Albany Academy alumni
Military personnel from Colorado
Bogyiszló Orchestra

The Bogyiszló Orchestra is a Hungarian folk orchestra that plays dance music, and was associated with the  Busójárás carnival in Mohács.

References

 

Hungarian folk music groups
WREV

WREV (1220 AM), the format of which is known as La Grande, is a radio station in Reidsville, North Carolina broadcasting music and news in Spanish. It is part of a five-station network.

Station history
Prior to purchase by Que Pasa Media, WREV broadcast a country music format and aired several community-oriented talk shows. The call letters refer to the local newspaper, The Reidsville Review. WWMO, now WJMH, was co-owned with the station.

References

External links

REV
REV
Radio stations established in 1948
1948 establishments in North Carolina
Reidsville, North Carolina
Spanish-language radio stations in North Carolina
List of awards received by Fairuz

List of awards and recognitions awarded to the Lebanese singer Fairuz.

1957
 Cavalier Order Medal of Honour, awarded by Lebanese President Camille Chamoun.

1962
 Order of Merit, awarded by Lebanese President Fouad Chehab.

1963
 Medal of Honour, awarded by King Hussein of Jordan.
 Order of Cedars, awarded by Lebanese President Fouad Chehab;

1967
 Order of Merit First Class, awarded by Syrian President Nureddin al-Atassi.

1968
 Key to the Holy City, awarded by Jerusalem Cultural Committee.

1969
 Memorial Lebanese Stamp, issued by the Lebanese Government.

1970
 Legion of Honour, awarded by Lebanese President Suleiman Frangieh.

1975
 Gold Medal of Honour, awarded by King Hussein of Jordan.

1988
 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by French President François Mitterrand

1997
 Highest Artistic Distinction, awarded by Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 
 Jerusalem Award, awarded by the Jerusalem Culture and Arts Committee.

1998
 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, awarded by French President Jacques Chirac 
 Highest Distinction, awarded by King Hussein of Jordan

2005
Honorary Doctorate from the American University of Beirut

References 
 FairuzFan - The Web Site of Every Fairuz Fan
https://theuselessweb.com/

Fairuz
Belmont Courthouse State Historic Park

Belmont Courthouse is in the Toquima Range of Nye County.  It is located in the ghost town of Belmont,  northeast of Tonopah, Nevada.

The partially restored courthouse, which is open to the public, was built in 1876. Most of the restoration was completed by Brett Perchetti. It was the seat of Nye County government until 1905. There are limited picnic tables and public toilets available in Belmont; however, picnic and camping facilities are available at the U.S. Forest Service Pine Creek Campground in the Monitor Valley, located  north of Belmont.

The Courthouse was deeded to the Nevada State Parks in 1974 and transferred to Nye County in 2012.

References

External links 

Belmont Courthouse

History museums in Nevada
Museums in Nye County, Nevada
Buildings and structures in Nye County, Nevada
Protected areas established in 1974
Courthouses in Nevada
Akeem

Akeem is a name of Arabic origin, being a variation of Hakeem, and commonly used in Africa and among the African diaspora. Persons with the name Akeem include:

 Akeem Adams (1991–2013), Trinidadian footballer
 Akeem Anifowoshe (1968–1994), Nigerian boxer
 Akeem Auguste (born 1989), American football player
 Akeem Ayers (born 1989), American football player
 Akeem Bostick (born 1995), American baseball player
 Akeem Davis (born 1989), American football player
 Akeem Davis-Gaither (born 1997), American football player
 Akeem Dent (born 1987), American football player
 Akeem Dodson (born 1987), American cricketer
 Akeem Foster (born 1987), Canadian football player
 Akeem Garcia (born 1996), Trinidadian footballer
 Akeem Haynes (born 1992), Canadian sprinter
 Akeem Hunt (born 1993), American football player
 Akeem Jordan (born 1985), American football player
 Akeem Latifu (born 1989), Nigerian footballer
 Akeem Omolade (born 1983), Nigerian footballer
 Akeem Priestley (born 1985), Jamaican footballer
 Akeem Richmond (born 1991), American basketball player
 Akeem Shavers (born 1990), American football player
 Akeem Spence (born 1991), American football player
 Akeem Thomas (born 1990), Antiguan footballer
 Akeem Vargas (born 1990), German basketball player
 Hakeem Olajuwon (born 1963), Nigerian-American basketball player born Akeem Olajuwon
 One Man Gang (born 1960), American professional wrestler, also appearing as "Akeem the African Dream"

Fictional characters
 Akeem Joffer, the protagonist of Coming to America and its sequel

See also
 Akim

Arabic-language masculine given names
Masculine given names
Sassen–Bünsow Land National Park

Sassen–Bünsow Land National Park () lies on Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. The park was opened in 2003 and includes both glaciers and several glacially carved valleys.  The sealer/whaler Hilmar Nøis built the hunting station Fredheim on the north side of the Sassen river outlet in this area.  One of Spitsbergen's highest waterfalls lies in Eskerdalen (Esker Valley) inside the park.

External links
  Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management on Sassen-Bünsow Land National Park

National parks of Svalbard
Protected areas established in 2003
2003 establishments in Norway
Spitsbergen
TIGHAR

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) is an American nonprofit organization based in Pennsylvania.  It was founded by Richard Gillespie in 1985. According to TIGHAR's Federal Tax Exemption Form 990 for Non Profits, the organization's mission is to "promote responsible aviation archaeological and historic preservation".

Amelia Earhart
TIGHAR has long been involved with the search for Amelia Earhart and advocates the theory that Earhart successfully landed on Gardner Island, now known as Nikumaroro.

In 2012, TIGHAR was searching for clues around the Kiribati Islands using sonar equipment with the help of the State Department and undersea explorer Robert Ballard.

Ballard led a 2019 expedition to locate Earhart's Electra or evidence that it landed on Nikumaroro as supposed by the Gardner/Nikumaroro hypothesis. After days of searching the deep cliffs supporting the island and the nearby ocean using state of the art equipment and technology, Ballard did not find any evidence of the plane or any associated wreckage of it. Allison Fundis, Ballard's Chief Operating Officer of the expedition, stated, “We felt like if her plane was there, we would have found it pretty early in the expedition.” Although Ballard maintains that the plane or significant portions still exist and will eventually be found, TIGHAR argues that the Electra has been "broken up" by the surf and other harsh environmental elements.

Glenn Miller
In January 2019, it was reported that TIGHAR would investigate Glenn Miller's disappearance. Per a BBC report, TIGHAR's interest in Glenn Miller was inspired by a fisherman's claims that he caught a plane wreck in his nets, then released it. Although TIGHAR has failed to independently corroborate the claims to date, and have not seen or verified the wreck, they maintain that there is a possibility that the reported debris could be associated with Glenn Miller. "These things often start with stories", says TIGHAR Executive Director Ric Gillespie.

References

External links 

Panel discussion on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart with members of TIGHAR, March 12, 2014

Non-profit organizations based in Delaware
Amelia Earhart
1985 establishments in Delaware
Egbe Omo Oduduwa

Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà () is a Nigerian political organisation established in 1945 by Yoruba leaders in London. Its initial purpose was to unite the Yoruba people in a manner similar to the tenets of the Ibibio State Union and the Ibo Federal Union.  The organization grew in popularity from 1948 to 1951. In 1951, Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà supported the formation of the Nigerian Political Party Action Group.

History

Foundation 
Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà was established in 1945 by Adeyemo Alakija as President, Yekini Ojikutu as Vice President, Obafemi Awolowo as General Secretary, Akinola Maja, Oni Akerele, Akintola Williams, Saburi Biobaku, Abiodun Akinrele, D.O.A. Oguntoye, Ayo Rosiji and others in London, England. Their stated aim in setting up the organisation was to unite the Yorùbá people in a manner similar to the tenets of the Ibibio State Union and the Ibo Federal Union; which were  political action committees of the Ibibio people and the Igbo people respectively.

Expansion 
The Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà grew in importance in 1948 when it was launched in Lagos with great fanfare by prominent Yoruba politicians associated with the Nigerian Youth Movement. These politicians included Chief Bode Thomas, Chief H. O. Davies, Sir Kofo Abayomi, Chief Akintola Williams, Dr. Akinola Maja and others. The revival of the Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà in 1948 was not accidental, because that was the year heated debates were being held to decide Nigeria's political orientation; nationalism or parochialism. During this period of the struggle for independence from the British, radical nationalism had been in the ascendancy since 1938, but it became very pronounced between 1945 and 1948. This period was marked by the General Strike of 1945 and the 1946 Nigeria-wide NCNC campaign against the imposition of the Richards Constitution.

Yoruba politicians in Lagos led by Chief Bode Thomas formed the group in response to the afore-mentioned ethnically specific organisations, and also to chart a specific course for the development of Nigeria's Western Region, populated overwhelmingly by the Yorubas. On March 21, 1951, the Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà set up a political party called the Action Group. The party was to serve as the vehicle for realizing its primary objective of mobilizing the Yoruba under one political umbrella. The Action Group was therefore formed to implement the ideals and objectives of the Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà; and was led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

Relaunch 
The Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà was relaunched a number of years after the first Egbé Ọmọ Odùduwà . 

Other organisations within Egbe Omo Oduduwa are the Oduduwa Economic Agency (OEA), the Oduduwa Education Foundation (OEF), and the Oduduwa Development Agency (ODA).

References

Some facts and dates were drawn from the book, by Yusufu Bala Usman and Alkasum Abba, entitled The Misrepresentation of Nigeria: The Facts and the Figures, CEDDERT, Zaria, 2005 reprint.

Defunct political parties in Nigeria
Political parties established in 1945
1945 establishments in Nigeria
Yoruba politics
Political parties in Lagos
Raphael Kühner

Raphael Kühner (22 March 1802 – 16 April 1878) was a German classical scholar.

He was born in Gotha and educated at the Illustrious Gymnasium and the University of Göttingen.

From 1824 to 1863, Kühner taught classes at the lyceum in Hanover.

He published an edition of the Tusculanae Disputationes of Cicero (1829; fifth edition, 1874). His large Greek grammar, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (two volumes, 1834–35), was translated by William Edward Jelf (1842–45). An enlarged third edition in four volumes was produced by Friedrich Wilhelm Blass and Bernhard Gerth (1890–1904). His large Latin grammar, Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache (two volumes, 1877–79), has been reëdited in enlarged form by Friedrich Holzweissig and Carl Stegmann (Hannover, 1912–14). His smaller Greek and Latin grammars passed through many editions.

He died in Hanover.

References

External links
 
 

German classical scholars
German lexicographers
University of Göttingen alumni
People from Gotha (town)
German classical philologists
1802 births
1878 deaths
German male non-fiction writers
19th-century lexicographers
Protocol Entertainment

Protocol Entertainment is a Canadian television production company that was founded in 1993. It is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Films and series 
 Animorphs
 Code Name: Eternity
 Dinner Along the Amazon
 Goosebumps
 Mama's Boy
 Metropia
 Pocahontas: The Legend
 Police Academy: The Series
 The Saddle Club
 Spenser for Hire: The Judas Goat
 Spenser for Hire: The Savage Place
 Train 48
 Young Heroes: Seeing-Fingers-The Louis

External links 
 Official website

Television production companies of Canada
Mass media companies established in 1993
Film production companies of Canada
ESPN SpeedWorld (video game)

ESPN SpeedWorld is a Super NES and Sega Genesis video game that was released in 1994 exclusively for North America based on the television series of the same name. The title screen of the video game was partially inspired by the 1993 running of the First Union 400 racing event; which occurred on April 18, 1993. The real-life drivers from the mid-1990s are missing because the game only has an ESPN license and not an official NASCAR license.

Gameplay

Players control NASCAR Winston Cup stock cars as they do laps around various oval tracks, road courses, and superspeedways that are based on the actual NASCAR circuits of the 1990s. All the stock cars in the game have the capability to go up to 200 miles per hour (approximately 322 kilometers per hour). The object of the game is to get as close to first place as possible. This game uses Dr. Jerry Punch and an interactive pit crew to simulate the feeling of racing during the 1993 Winston Cup season. Like most racing games, being in the top positions gives the player more points than being in the bottom positions. Stock cars can be customized with a choice of colors and styles.

Reception
Reviewing the Super NES version, GamePro described the game as "fast, smart, and flat-out fun", praising the inclusion of elements from the TV show, the customization options, and the impressive graphics. Their review of the Genesis version described it as "virtually identical" to the Super NES version.

References

1994 video games
NASCAR video games
North America-exclusive video games
Epic/Sony Records games
Racing video games set in the United States
Sega Genesis games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video games set in 1993
ESPN video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Park Place Productions games
Ciwan Haco

Ciwan Haco (born 1957) is a Kurdish singer. He was born in Tirbespî near Qamişlo in Syria. His grandfather was originally from Doğançay in Turkey. After finishing high school, he left for Germany in order to continue his studies. He studied musicology at the Ruhr University Bochum. He is now residing in Sweden.

His music
At the beginning he did not count with the support of his family due to fact at that time only the lower classes played music. But at 14 he released his first album and with 17 he performed for the first time in front of a larger public. Ciwan Haco is one of the first Kurdish singers to combine Kurdish folk music with western style pop music, rock, blues and jazz. In 2003 he received permission for a concert in Batman, which was attended by more than 200,000 people. Ciwan Haco is known for his lyrics that are often purposely simple and to which the main recurrent theme is love, with variations around this same theme. The main song from his last album Off (2006), Li hêviya te (Waiting for you) features vocals in both Kurmanci and French language (the latter being sung by a female vocalist).

Similar to other famous Kurdish musicians like Şivan Perwer, Haco sometimes uses poems by famous Kurdish poets such as Cegerxwîn or Qedrîcan in his songs ,. He has also recorded one of the novels of Mehmed Uzun named Destana Egîdekî.

Very popular in the Kurdish diaspora as with the Kurdish people in the Middle East, Ciwan Haco has given concerts in many parts of Europe.

Movies 
Wrote music for movies - Dol(2007),  E: xile(2012), Chaplin of the Mountains(2013) and Sîrusta Gerîla(2017). Also played as an actor in Dol(2007). His song was used in the soundtrack of the documentary "1001 Apples".

Albums 
To date he has released 17 albums and a live VCD and DVD

 Emîna Emîna (1970)
 Pêşmerge (1979)
 Diyarbekîr (1981)
 Welatperestî (1982)
 Gûla Sor (1983)
 Leyla (1985)
 Girtîyên Azadîyê (1987)
 Çaw Bella (1989)
 Sî û Sê Gule (1991)
 Dûrî (1994)
 Bilûra Min (1997)
 Destana Egîdekî (1998)
 Derya (2003)
 Konsera Batmanê (2003) (VCD & DVD) 
 Na Na (2004)
 Off (2006)
 Veger (2012)
 Esmer (ft. Hülya Avşar) (2012)
 Felek (2018 - Hamburg)

References

External links
Official Ciwan Haco Facebook Page
ciwan-haco.com
Official Ciwan Haco Homepage

1957 births
People from Qamishli
Kurdish musicians
Kurdish-language singers
Syrian Kurdish people
Syrian emigrants to Sweden
Living people
People from Midyat
Sør-Spitsbergen National Park

Sør-Spitsbergen National Park (, ) encompasses the southern end of Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. The park was opened in  1973 and includes Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Torell Land and Sørkapp Land. Over 65% of the region is ice cap, with much of the rest tundra.

Important Bird Area
The park contains bird sanctuaries which protect islands with grassy vegetation, freshwater ponds and areas of bare rock. One of these is the Isøyane Bird Sanctuary which has also recognised as a wetland of international importance by designation under the Ramsar Convention. The park has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports breeding populations of barnacle geese (850–950 pairs), common eiders (1000 pairs), black-legged kittiwakes (25,900 pairs) and thick-billed guillemots (over 200,000 pairs).

References

  Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management on Sør-Spitsbergen National Park

National parks of Svalbard
Protected areas established in 1973
1973 establishments in Norway
Ramsar sites in Norway
Important Bird Areas of Svalbard
Seabird colonies
Spitsbergen
Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop

The Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop is a 14-screen drive-in theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that doubles as the largest drive-in and largest daily flea market in the world. Local broadcast advertising states it to be Florida's second-biggest tourist attraction and the largest tourist attraction in the South Florida metropolitan area.  From 1989–2006 the Hanneford Family Circus performed daily (except Tuesdays) in the Swap Shop food court, entertaining the roughly 12 million people who visit each year.

History
On November 22, 1963, Betty and Preston Henn opened the Thunderbird Drive-in Theater.  In the beginning, there was one screen (still in use today as Screen 9) — and a reputation for showing adult movies, which concerned passing motorists. Initially the parking lot was divided by a fence to divide the white customers from the African American customers.

After a 1966 trip to the American West Coast, Henn decided to add a flea market, allowing the region to have a collective rummage sale and encouraging the start of many small businesses in southeastern Florida.  The addition ushered in a period of expansion (to 11 screens by 1980) and increased popularity.

An outdoor food court was added in 1979; a decade later, a stage was added and the food court was enclosed and air conditioned.  Initially, the circus shared the stage with 1960s and 1970s pop and country acts, most notably K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn and Three Dog Night. 

Expansion continued into the 1990s, when Screens 12 and 13 were put into use, and into 2005, when the former Thunderbird Drive-in started projecting onto its fourteenth screen. On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma damaged several of the screens, currently only 13 of the 14 are in use. 

In addition to the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, the Henns own and operate two others, the Margate Swap Shop (which closed in 2007), the Lake Worth Swap Shop and Drive-in and Tampa Fun-Lan Swap Shop and Drive-in.

References

External links
Official Swap Shop Site
Article on www.southflorida.com
Entry on www.driveinmovie.com
Update and recollections on www.drive-ins.com

Landmarks in Florida
Tourist attractions in Broward County, Florida
Buildings and structures in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Flea markets
Drive-in theaters in the United States