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Shiv Charan Mathur

Shiv Charan Mathur (14 February 1927 – 25 June 2009) was an Indian politician. A leader of the Indian National Congress, he was Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1981 to 1985 and again from 1988 to 1989; later, he was Governor of Assam from 2008 to 2009.

Mathur became Chief Minister of Rajasthan on 14 July 1981 and held that post until 23 February 1985. The killing of Raja Man Singh, the then titular head of the erstwhile princely state of Bharatpur caused a political storm, leading to his resignation. Subsequently, he became Chief Minister again from 20 January 1988 to 4 December 1989. In 2003 he was elected as a MLA from Mandalgarh (Bhilwara).

Appointed Governor of Assam in 2008, he remained in that post until his death from cardiac arrest on 25 June 2009.

Positions held
General Secretary, Rajasthan Students Congress (1945–1947)

Chairman, Municipal Board, Bhilwara (1956–57)

Member of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (1967)

Member of All India Congress Committee (1972-till date)

Pramukh, Zila Parishad, Bhilwara (1960–64)

Member Third Lok Sabha (1964–1967)

Member, Rajasthan State Legislative Assembly (1967–72, 1972–77, 1980–85, 1985–90, 1990–91, 1998–2003, 2003-)

Chairman Public Undertakings Committee of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (1980–81)

Convenor, Rules Committee of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (1985–87)

Chairman, Subordinate Legislation Committee of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (1987–88)

Minister for Education, Power, PWD, Public Relations in the Rajasthan Cabinet (1967–72)

Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Planning in the Rajasthan Cabinet (1973–77)

Chief Minister of Rajasthan (1981–85 and 1988–89)

Member, Tenth Lok Sabha (1991–96)

Chairman, Committee on Privileges, Lok Sabha, (1991–96)

Convenor of Sub-Committee on Energy, Lok Sabha (1994–96)

Member, Executive Committee, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (1994–96)

Life Chairman, Social Policy Research Institute, Jaipur (1985)

Chairman, Estimates Committee, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (1998–2003)

Chairman, Administrative Reforms Commission Rajasthan (1999–2003)

Member, Rules Committee of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (2004)

References

External links
 Shiv charan Mathur Dead
 Photographs of Former Chief Ministers of Rajasthan
Mr S C Mathur sworn as Assam Governor

1927 births
2009 deaths
Chief Ministers of Rajasthan
Rajasthani people
Governors of Assam
India MPs 1991–1996
Lok Sabha members from Rajasthan
People from Bhilwara
Chief ministers from Indian National Congress
India MPs 1962–1967
Indian National Congress politicians from Rajasthan
Rajasthan MLAs 1967–1972
Rajasthan MLAs 1972–1977
Rajasthan MLAs 1980–1985
Rajasthan MLAs 1990–1992
Rajasthan MLAs 1998–2003
Rajasthan MLAs 2003–2008
1996–97 Danish 1st Division

The 1996–97 Danish 1st Division season was the 52nd season of the Danish 1st Division league championship and the 11th consecutive as a second tier competition governed by the Danish Football Association.

The division-champion and runner-up promoted to the 1997–98 Danish Superliga. The teams in the 13th to 16th spots relegated to the 1997–98 Danish 2nd Division.

Table

Top goalscorers

See also
 1996–97 in Danish football
 1996–97 Danish Superliga

References

External links
 Peders Fodboldstatistik

Danish 1st Division seasons
Denmark
2
Mihály Dresch

Mihály Dresch (born 1955) is a Hungarian saxophone player. He plays a combination of American free jazz and traditional Hungarian folk music.

Dresch was studying to become an engineer when he turned to jazz. He was a member of the Károly Binder Quartet. Since 1998 he has performed in a quartet with István Baló (drums), Ferenc Kovács (violin), Miklós Lukács (dulcimer), Mátyás Szandai (double bass) has existed since 1998. 

Dresch has worked with John Tchicai, Archie Shepp, Roscoe Mitchell, Chico Freeman, David Murray, Hamid Drake, and Dewey Redman. The project with Archie Shepp led to the Hungarian Bebop recording of 2002, on which Shepp plays Dresch's compositions. Dresch has performed at jazz festivals worldwide, including the London Jazz Festival.

Dresch is a member of György Szabados's band, the MAKUZ Ensemble. Szabados is part of the free music movement in Hungary.

Discography

As leader or co-leader
 Cool Sky (2001)
 Quiet as It Is (Budapest Music Center Records, 2002)
 Egyenes Zene (Straight Music) (BMC, 2004)
 Argyelus (BMC, 2007)
 Gondellied in the Sahara with Miklos Lukacs, Michael Schiefel, Matyas Szandai (BMC, 2010)
 Sharing the Shed with Hamid Drake, Lafayette Gilchrist, Matyas Szandai (BMC, 2010)
 Labirintus with Miklos Lukacs (Fono, 2013)
 Zea with Chris Potter (BMC, 2017)

1985  Sóhajkeserű (Bem rakpart, Budapest, 1985. május 3.)  Hungaroton  Jazz Studium No. 3 (MC)
1985  Kvartet Drech - Peti Jubilarni Internacionalni Susret Dzez Muzicara "Naissus Jazz '85"  Magánkiadás
1987  Hazafelé  Magánkiadás  Jazz Studium No. 6. (MC)
1989  Sóhajkeserű (10. Kölni Jazzhaus Fesztivál, 1988. április 2.)  Hungaroton
1990  Gondolatok a régiekről  Adyton
1993  Dresch Dudás Mihály Quartet: Zeng a lélek  Adyton
1995  Dresch Dudás Mihály Quartett: Folyondár  Adyton
1996  Túl a vizen  (Fonó)
1997  Dresch Dudás Mihály: Hűs-ég  (Fonó)
1998  Dresch Dudás Mihály Quartet: Révészem, révészem...  (Fonó)
2000  Riding the Wind (Mozdulatlan Utazás)  (November Music)
2002  Hungarian Bebop with Archie Shepp  (BMC)
2006  Live Reed (Élő nád) (X-Production)
2009  Ritka madár (X-Production)

References

Dresch, Mihaly
Dresch, Mihaly
Dresch, Mihaly
Stephen Tiller

Stephen Tiller (born 26 March 1987) is an Australian rules footballer for the Western Bulldogs of the AFL. The 54th overall pick in the 2004 AFL Draft, Tiller was recruited from the West Adelaide Football Club.

Stephen Tiller was born in the town of Wanilla, near Port Lincoln in South Australia. Previously attending Cummins High School, he also has two older brothers.

Following several years of development playing for the former Bulldogs VFL affiliate Werribee, Tiller was called up for his AFL debut against the West Coast Eagles in Round 17, 2007.
He was delisted by the Bulldogs on Wednesday 10 November 2010.

External links

Australian rules footballers from South Australia
Western Bulldogs players
West Adelaide Football Club players
Werribee Football Club players
1987 births
Living people
1995–96 Danish 1st Division

The 1995–96 Danish 1st Division season was the 51st season of the Danish 1st Division league championship and the 10th consecutive as a second-tier competition governed by the Danish Football Association.

The division-champion and runner-up promoted to the 1996–97 Danish Superliga. The teams in the 13th to 16th spots relegated between the Danish 2nd Division East and West 1996-97.

Table

Top goalscorers

See also
 1995–96 in Danish football
 1995–96 Danish Superliga

External links
 Peders Fodboldstatistik

Danish 1st Division seasons
Denmark
2
Jodie Dry

Jodie Dry (born 20 January 1974) is an Australian actress.

Career 
She is known for her role as Nicole Brown, a former model and a former girlfriend of Joe Hill, in White Collar Blue; and as Biddy Marchant in ABC's Grassroots, having replaced Sophie Heathcote in the role. She also appeared in the 2001 Network 10  (13 episode)  television series, Sit Down, Shut Up, as well in [[All Saints (TV series)|All Saints]], Farscape, Stingers and Wildside.

In 2002, Jodie played Sally Diver in a telemovie titled Heroes' Mountain'', based on the Thredbo disaster, which also starred Craig McLachlan as Stuart Diver.

Dry graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia.

References

External links  

1974 births
Living people
Australian television actresses
21st-century Australian actresses
Place of birth missing (living people)
Rückersdorf

Rückersdorf could be any one of the following places:

 Germany:
 Rückersdorf, Thuringia
 Rückersdorf, Bavaria,  a town in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria
 Rückersdorf, Brandenburg
 Austria:
 Rückersdorf, Lower Austria
 Rückersdorf, Carinthia
 Switzerland:
 Rückersdorf, Switzerland
Eriophyidae

Eriophyidae is a family of more than 200 genera of mites, which live as plant parasites, commonly causing galls or other damage to the plant tissues and hence known as gall mites. About 3,600 species have been described, but this is probably less than 10% of the actual number existing in this poorly researched family. They are microscopic mites and are yellow to pinkish white to purplish in color. The mites are worm like, and have only two pairs of legs. Their primary method of population spread is by wind. They affect a wide range of plants, and several are major pest species causing substantial economic damage to crops. Some species, however, are used as biological agents to control weeds and invasive plant species.

Notable species
Notable species in this family include:
Abacarus hystrix, the cereal rust mite
Abacarus sacchari, the sugarcane rust mite
Acalitus essigi, the redberry mite, which affects blackberries
Aceria chondrillae, the chondrilla gall mite, an agent of biological control against skeleton weed (Chondrilla juncea)
Aceria guerreronis, a mite of coconuts
Aceria malherbae, the bindweed gall mite, an agent of biological control against field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)
Cecidophyopsis ribis, blackcurrant gall mite, important pest of several Ribes
Eriophyes padi, a mite that causes cherry pouch galls on black cherry trees

Selected genera

Abacarus
Aberoptus
Acalitus
Acaphylla
Acaphyllisa
Acaralox
Acarelliptus
Acaricalus
Aceria
Achaetocoptes
Acritonotus
Aculochetus
Aculodes
Aculops
Aculus
Adenoptus
Aequsomatus
Anthocoptes
Bariella
Boczekiana
Brachendus
Calacarus
Calepitrimerus
Callyntrotus
Cecidophyes
Cecidophyopsis
Cisaberiptus
Colomerus
Coptophylla
Cosetacus
Criotacus
Cupacarus
Cymoptus
Dichopelmus
Ditrymacus
Epitrimerus
Eriophyes
Gilarovella
Glyptacus
Keiferella
Leipothrix
Liroella
Mesalox
Metaculus
Monochetus
Neooxycenus
Neotegonotus
Oxycenus
Paraphytoptus
"Pentamerus" Roivainen, 1951 (non Sowerby, 1813: preoccupied)
Phyllocoptes
Phyllocoptruta
Platyphytoptus
Reckella
Shevtchenkella
Stenacis
Tegolophus
Tegonotus
Tegoprionus
Tetra
Tetraspinus
Thamnacus
Tumescoptes
Vasates

References
Digital museum of Nature: Classification of Eriophyoid Mites
Fauna Europaea
 Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Eriophyidae

External links

 Acalitus vaccinii, blueberry bud mite on the UF/IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
 Acathrix trymatus, a coconut mite on the UF/IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
 Aceria guerreronis, a coconut mite on the UF/IFAS Featured Creatures Web site

 
Acari families
Agricultural pest mites
Sarcoptiformes
KPIT

KPIT may refer to:

 KPIT Technologies
 Pittsburgh International Airport (ICAO code KPIT)
 KPIT (FM), a radio station (91.7 FM) licensed to Pittsburg, Texas, United States
Balatonlelle

Balatonlelle is a resort town located in Hungary on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, about 35 km west of Siófok. It is known for its numerous tourist attractions, some of those being a 3 km long beach, an aqua park, a go-cart course, and an annual wine festival. It is reachable from Budapest by train (approximately 2.5 hours). It is a family-oriented tourist resort during the summer season. Some other attractions also include a public grass beach and bars located around the town. The wine festival is often held in the first week of August.

The settlement is part of the Balatonboglár wine region.

Between 1979 and 1991 Balatonlelle formed a single settlement together with Balatonboglár under the name Boglárlelle.

Sport
Balatonlelle SE, association football team

Gallery

Twin towns — sister cities
Balatonlelle is twinned with:

  Vlăhița, Romania
  Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany

External links 
 Balatonlfamily-orientated 
 Street map

References 

Populated places in Somogy County
Damien McCormack

Damien McCormack (born 28 January 1987) is an Australian rules footballer formerly on the Western Bulldogs list in the Australian Football League (AFL). Recruited from the Dandenong Stingrays Under 18's with the 38th pick in the 2004 National Draft, McCormack showed enough improvement throughout season 2005 to make the Werribee Tigers Grand Final side in the Victorian Football League competition. Having been allocated the number 28 guernsey, McCormack is listed at 183 cm and 80 kg.

He was delisted following the completion of the 2007 AFL season after failing to play any games with the senior team for the year.

McCormack spent the 2009 season with the South Australian National Football League team of Glenelg. After a promising pre-season, he underwent reconstructive surgery on his shoulder which ended his season. He has signed in 2009 for the MPNFL side Seaford Tigers, where he played his junior football and participated in the club's third consecutive premiership.

References

External links

Western Bulldogs players
1987 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Werribee Football Club players
Dandenong Stingrays players
Gisborne

Gisborne may refer to:

People
Gisborne (surname)

Places
Gisborne District, a local government area of New Zealand
Gisborne, New Zealand, a city in Gisborne District
Gisborne (New Zealand electorate), a former parliamentary electorate
Gisborne, Victoria, a town in Australia
Electoral district of Gisborne, an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Sassenburg

Sassenburg is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 7 km northeast of Gifhorn, and 15 km northwest of Wolfsburg. Sassenburg includes the villages of Dannenbüttel, Grußendorf, Neudorf-Platendorf, Stüde, Triangel and Westerbeck. The seat of the municipality is in the village Westerbeck.

References

Gifhorn (district)
KFLL

KFLL may refer to:

 KFLL-LD, a low-power television station (channel 25) licensed to serve Boise, Idaho, United States
 Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport (ICAO code KFLL)
Wittingen

Wittingen () is a town in the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is about  northeast of Gifhorn, and  southeast of Uelzen.

Division of the town 
Wittingen consists of 27 districts:

History 
The earliest identified record of Wittingen appears in a document dated 781 which defines the territorial borders of the Bishopric of Hildesheim. Another early mention dates from 803 during the reign of Charlemagne, this time identifying the borders of the newly established Bishopric of Halberstadt. Neither of these sources pins down a date for the foundation of Wittingen, however.

During the Medieval period Wittingen was not merely a frontier point, but also a focus for traffic crossing into and out of the Altmark. The town was a trading point and an overnight stop for east-west commerce. Its significance was signaled in the ninth century when The Bishopric had the Church of St Stephen built. By the beginning of the thirteenth century Wittingen had been granted Town privileges, and was a part owner of the Lüneburg Mint. The fourteenth century was a period of political instability in this part of Europe and in 1340 ownership of Wittingen was transferred to the Welfs of Celle. Later, with the outbreak of the Hildesheim Diocesan Feud, the town was almost completely destroyed in 1519. Consequently, the building of town fortifications began shortly afterwards.

Demographic data 
According to the Lower Saxony State Department for Statistics 12,291 people lived in the town of Wittingen in 2005 in 3,745 buildings with a total of 5,399 homes at an average floor space of  per person. Since the formation of the borough, the population grew steadily, both by natural population increase as well as immigration. 21.3% of the population in 2005 were under 18 years old, 7.1% from 18 to 25, 27.0% from 25 to 45, 24.4% from 45 to 64, and 20.3% were 65 years old or older. The unemployment rate stood at an average of 11.3% (men: 9.4%, women: 14.0%). 2,247 people commute regularly out of the town and 1745 into it daily.

Mayors

1974-1985: Robert Leipelt
1985-1989: Paul Degenhardt
1990-1991: Wilfried Wolter
1991-1996: Lothar Schoss
1996-2001: Günther Schulze
2001-2002: Hans-Jürgen Schindler
2002–2019: Karl Ridder (CDU)
since 2019: Andreas Ritter

Infrastructure

Health and medicine 
Wittingen has one hospital (Städtisches Krankenhaus), four pharmacies and six dentists.

Transport 

Wittingen is situated at the Brunswick-Uelzen railway and offers connections to Braunschweig.

Sons and daughters of the town

 Friedrich Spitta (1852-1924), theologian
 Bernd Fix (born 1962), computer specialist, member of the Chaos Computer Club
 Lars Nieberg (born 1963), jumping rider

Notable people
 Philipp Spitta (1801-1859), Lutheran theologian and poet, Superintendent in Wittingen 1847-1853
 Friedrich Spitta (1852-1924), German Protestant theologian, born in Wittingen, son of Philipp

Industry

The Privatbrauerei Wittingen produces with 100 employees 365 000 hectolitres of beer per year.

References

External links 

 www.wittingen.de 
 H. BUTTING GmbH & Co. KG

 
Towns in Lower Saxony
Gifhorn (district)
Juliet Winters Carpenter

Juliet Winters Carpenter (born 1948) is an American translator of modern Japanese literature. Born in the American Midwest, she studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. After completing her graduate studies in 1973, she returned to Japan in 1975, where she became involved in translation efforts and teaching.

Carpenter is a devotee of traditional Japanese music and is a licensed instructor of the koto and shamisen. She is professor emeritus at  Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto and has been involved in the Japanese Literature Publishing Project(JLPP), a government-supported project translating and publishing Japanese books overseas.

Carpenter retired to Whidbey Island in Washington State with her husband Bruce, professor emeritus of Tezukayama University. They have three children: Matthew Edwin Carpenter, Graham, and Mark.

Carpenter's translation of Abe Kobo's novel Secret Rendezvous (Mikkai in Japanese) won the 1980 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Her translation of Minae Mizumura's novel Honkaku Shosetsu, "A True Novel," won that same award for 2014-2015 and earned numerous other awards including the 2014 Lewis Galantière Award of the American Translators Association.
Once Upon a Time in Japan, a book of folk tales which she co-translated with Roger Pulvers, received the 2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award for Best Multicultural Book.

Carpenter won the 2021-2022 Lindsey and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for a lifetime achievement as a translator of modern Japanese literature, with particular reference to her recent translation of Mizumura Minae’s An I-Novel (Columbia University Press, 2021)

An I-Novel, translated by Carpenter, won the 2019-20 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation.

Her translation of The Great Passage by Miura Shion, an audio Book read by Brian Nishii, won the 2017 Golden Earphones Award.

Selected works

Translations

Other works 
Carpenter is also the author of the book Seeing Kyoto.

References
 Televised nostalgia in Japan: Those were the days 
 A translator's work from Abe to Zen/Professor continues wide-ranging literary pursuits with epic novel by Ryotaro Shiba
  The Asian Bookshelf by Donald Richie: Blood, sweat and tears of Zen 
 Strange Moors: 'A True Novel,' by Minae Mizumura

1948 births
Living people
American speculative fiction translators
Japanese–English translators
American expatriates in Japan
Koto players
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
Japanese literature academics
American women writers
20th-century American translators
21st-century American translators
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
Thomas Gisborne (politician)

Thomas Gisborne (1789 – 20 July 1852) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1830 and 1852.

Life
Gisborne was the son of Thomas Gisborne, Prebendary of Durham. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge being awarded B.A. in 1810.

At the 1830 UK general election Gisborne was elected Member of Parliament for Stafford and held the seat until 1832. In the reformed parliament after the 1832 UK general election he was elected MP for North Derbyshire and held the seat until 1837. On 27 Feb. 1839 he was elected MP for Carlow until 1841.  He failed to win a seat in Ipswich in a by-election in 1842. He was elected MP for Nottingham in 1843 and held the seat until his defeat in 1847.
 
Gisborne lived at Horwick House, Derbyshire and at Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire where he died at the age of 62.

Gisborne married firstly Elizabeth Fysche Palmer, daughter of John Palmer, of Ickwell, Bedfordshire and secondly in 1826, Susan Astley, widow of Francis Duckenfield Astley. He was survived by his eldest son Thomas Guy Gisborne (1812–69). His second son Henry Fyshe Gisborne (1813–41), a colonial commissioner, predeceased him.

References

External links 

1789 births
1852 deaths
Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies
Whig (British political party) MPs for Irish constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stafford
UK MPs 1830–1831
UK MPs 1831–1832
UK MPs 1832–1835
UK MPs 1835–1837
UK MPs 1837–1841
UK MPs 1841–1847
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Carlow constituencies (1801–1922)
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Boldecker Land

Boldecker Land is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated along the river Aller, approx. 12 km east of Gifhorn, and 8 km northwest of Wolfsburg. Its seat is in the village Weyhausen.

Politics

Samtgemeinde council
 CDU 8 Seats
 SPD 9 Seats
 WBL 6 Seats
 BBB 1 Seat

Structure of Boldecker Land

References

External links
Samtgemeinde Boldecker Land

Samtgemeinden in Lower Saxony
Gifhorn (district)
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (disambiguation)

Get Rich or Die Tryin' is a 2003 album by American rapper 50 Cent.

Get Rich or Die Tryin' may also refer to:

Get Rich or Die Tryin' (film), 2005 crime drama starring 50 Cent
''Get Rich or Die Tryin''' (soundtrack), the film's soundtrack
Brome, Germany

Brome is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Ohre, approx. 25 km northeast of Wolfsburg.

The municipality consists of the following villages:
 Altendorf
 Benitz
 Brome
 Wiswedel
 Zicherie

Brome is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde Brome ("collective municipality").

During the Cold War, Brome was by the Inner German border separating West Germany and Communist East Germany (German Democratic Republic). The Brome Castle Museum has local artifacts from the Cold War and from other periods of history.

References

Gifhorn (district)
Pravec

Pravec could mean:
 Petr Pravec, a Czech astronomer
 Pravec, Bulgarian computers produced from 1979 until the early 1990s
 Pravec, a town in central-western Bulgaria
Hankensbüttel

Hankensbüttel is a municipality in the Samtgemeinde Hankensbüttel in the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 25 km south of Uelzen, and 30 km north of Gifhorn. The Municipality Hankensbüttel includes the villages of Alt Isenhagen, Emmen and Hankensbüttel,

History
The first documentary mentioning of Hankensbüttel was in the year 1051 by the name Honengesbuthele. The document is from Henry III. In this time the Saxon dynasty of Billung owned the region

Politics

Administration
Hankensbüttel is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde Hankensbüttel ("collective municipality"), which consists of the following municipalities:
Dedelstorf
Hankensbüttel
Obernholz
Sprakensehl
Steinhorst

Community council
The Community council consists of 15 community members and was elected on 10 September 2006:
 CDU - 7 Seats
 SPD - 2 Seats
 Green Party - 2 Seats
 FDP - 2 Seats
 Independent - 2 Seats

References

Gifhorn (district)
Isenbüttel

Isenbüttel is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 6 km southeast of Gifhorn, and 20 km north of Braunschweig.

Isenbüttel is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde Isenbüttel ("collective municipality").

References

Gifhorn (district)
Saint-Nicolas-de-Campagnac Bridge

The Saint-Nicolas-de-Campagnac Bridge (French Pont Saint-Nicolas-de-Campagnac) is an arch bridge crossing the river Gardon near Sainte-Anastasie, in the southern French department of Gard.

The bridge was built between 1245 and 1260.

It is crossed by departmental route 979 ((D 979) from Nîmes to Uzès.

See also
List of medieval bridges in France

External links

 
 Webpage about the bridge (in French)

Bridges in France
Buildings and structures completed in 1260
Buildings and structures in Gard
Transport in Occitania (administrative region)
Bridges completed in the 13th century
Nonprocedural language

NPL (for NonProcedural Language) was a relational database language developed by T.D. Truitt et al. in 1980 for Apple II and, later, for MS-DOS. In general, a non-procedural language (also called a declarative language) requires the programmer to specify what the program should do, rather than (as with a procedural language) providing the sequential steps indicating how the program should perform its task(s).

Notes and references

Query languages
Meinersen

Meinersen is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated between the rivers Oker and Aller, approx. 12 km west of Gifhorn, and 25 km southeast of Celle. The Municipality Meinersen includes the villages of Ahnsen, Böckelse, Hardesse, Höfen, Hünenberg, Meinersen, Ohof, Päse, Seershausen, Siedersdamm and Warmse.

Meinersen is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde Meinersen ("collective municipality"), which consists of the following municipalities:

Hillerse
Leiferde
Meinersen
Müden (Aller)

References

Gifhorn (district)
Real Things (2 Unlimited album)

Real Things is the third album by Belgian/Dutch Eurodance act 2 Unlimited, released in 1994. It was the band's second number one album in the UK and despite spending just nine weeks in the UK Albums Chart Top 75, it was certified gold there and platinum in The Netherlands. "The Real Thing", "Here I Go", "No One" and "Nothing Like the Rain" were released as singles. Unlike their previous album, Ray Slijngaard's raps on the verses were not cut for the UK release.

Critical reception

Generally, the music press were kinder to this album than previous album No Limits!. Beau Quantick from NME gave it eight out of ten. Tim Marsh from Select noted that "The Real Thing" "has a funky key riff", while "Sensuality" and "Something Wild" "explore darker sounds." Smash Hits''' Mark Sutherland stated that "every song is a potential top 10 record" and that "for techno [...] mayhem, you can't beat Real Things''".

Track listing
 "The Real Thing"  – 3:40
 "Do What I Like"  – 4:07
 "Here I Go"  – 5:10
 "Burning Like Fire"  – 4:54
 "Info Superhighway"  – 4:35
 "Hypnotised"  – 4:22
 "Tuning Into Something Wild"  – 4:05
 "Escape In Music"  – 3:52
 "Sensuality"  – 4:27
 "No One"  – 3:25
 "Face To Face"  – 4:03
 "What's Mine Is Mine"  – 4:57
 "Nothing Like the Rain"  – 4:39

Personnel
Adapted from AllMusic.

2 Unlimited – primary artist
Peter Bauwens – arranger, producer, vocal arrangement
Peter Bulkens – mixing
Jean-Paul DeCoster – arranger, executive producer, producer
Andy Janssens – remixing
Phil Wilde – arranger, composer, engineer, producer

Charts

Certifications and sales

References

1994 albums
2 Unlimited albums
Byte Records albums
World Tenpin Masters

The World Tenpin Masters (founded in 1998) is an annual Ten-pin bowling tournament. It consists of a single lane surrounded by banked seating on both sides to give the event the kind of high-pressure atmosphere that makes the Masters the world’s leading televised bowling tournament. 

The event is televised by Matchroom Sport Television and will be subsequently broadcast as 15 x 1 hour programmes both at home on Sky Sports and around the world.

History 
It is second to and starts where the Weber Cup left off. It features 16 of the world’s best bowlers, representing twelve countries, going head-to-head in a straight knockout format. Each match is played over two games with the bowler with the highest aggregate (highest total pinfall) over the two games determining the winner and proceeding. It stands next to the Weber Cup and AMF World Cup as one of the world’s largest annual international sports Ten-pin bowling championships in terms of number of participating nations. In 2009 19-year-old Matt Chamberlain of England became the youngest ever qualifier of the event after winning the PTBC 2008 Tournament.

All tournament officials are supplied by the British Tenpin Bowling Association.

2008 Tournament

The 2008 World Tenpin Masters was held at the Barnsley Metrodome from April 18 to April 20 and featured 16 of the top male and female bowlers from around the world.

Tournament Format

Prize Fund 

Winner US$30,000
Runner–Up US$10,000
Losing Semi-Finalists US$5,000
Losing Quarter Finalists US$2,000
First Round Losers US$1,500
TOTAL US$70,000

Past Tournaments

Previous Finals

External links
Bowlinglinks all over the World, sorted by categories

Tenpin bowling in the United Kingdom
Ten-pin bowling competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 1998
1998 establishments in the United Kingdom
Grange Fell

Grange Fell is a small fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria, situated in the Borrowdale valley overlooking the villages of Grange in Borrowdale and Rosthwaite.

Topography
The fell has a summit plateau which consist of many heather-covered hummocks, drystone walls and clumps of trees. Well-known Lake District writer Alfred Wainwright credits Grange Fell as a single fell with three main summits, namely Brund Fell, King's How and Ether Knott. The lesser known Ether Knott is now identified as the highest point at a height of   and is less frequently visited by walkers.  Brund Fell is at  while King's How is the best viewpoint and has an altitude of . On the other hand, another Lakes walking expert Bill Birkett lists Brund Fell and King's How as separate fells in his “Complete Lakeland Fells” volume, while Mark Richards includes all three.

There are also two small hills on the fringes of the fell, both unfrequented although they lie on access land. Shepherds Crag above the more famous rockface of that name, adjacent to the Lodore Falls and Hotel, and Grange Crags above Grange.

History
Grange Fell is owned by the National Trust and was one of its first acquisitions in the Lake District in 1910; the fell was purchased by public subscription as a memorial to King Edward VII at the bequest of the King's sister Princess Louise, who then was President of the Trust. The magnificent viewpoint of King's How was named after the King as a memorial, and a commemorative slate plaque is situated just below the summit. It reads:

Geology
The geology of the fell is complex with outcropping of various members of the Birker Fell Formation (andesite lavas), the Eagle Crag Member (siltstone and sandstone conglomerates), and intrusions of dolerite.

Ascents
Ascents of Grange Fell can be started from Rosthwaite, Grange in Borrowdale or Watendlath. The Rosthwaite to Watendlath bridleway can be utilised to its highest point before striking northerly to the summit of Brund Fell following a high dry stone wall for much of the way. The climb from Grange goes through the deciduous woodland at the foot of the fell and skirts round Greatend Crag before reaching King's How and is ranked as one of the "loveliest short walks in the Lake District". The two principal summits of Brund Fell and King's How should both be climbed by any visitor to the fell and they are linked by an undulating path through the hillocks.

Summit
The main summit bears a number of rock tors, protruding sharply from the heathery plateau. King's How has a steep sided domed top. Both bear cairns. The view from the top of the fell takes in Derwentwater with Skiddaw in the background, while Borrowdale and the high fells round its head show well in the opposite direction.

References

Fells of the Lake District
Silence procedure

A silence procedure or tacit consent or tacit acceptance procedure (French: procédure d'approbation tacite; Latin: qui tacet consentire videtur, "he who is silent is taken to agree", "silence implies/means consent") is a way of formally adopting texts, often, but not exclusively in international political context. 

A textbook on diplomacy describes the silence procedure thus:

In the context of international organisations, the subject of the procedure is often a joint statement or a procedural document, a formal vote on which with the members meeting in person is deemed unnecessary. Indeed, it is often impractical to try to stage a meeting between representatives of all member states either due to the limited importance of the text to be agreed upon or due to time constraints in the case of a joint declaration prompted by recent events. Organisations making extensive use of the procedure are, among others, the European Union, NATO and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

A draft version of the text is circulated among participants who have a last opportunity to propose changes or amendments to the text. If no amendments are proposed  (if no one 'breaks the silence') before the deadline of the procedure, the text is considered adopted by all participants. Often this procedure is the last step in adopting the text, after the basic premises of the text have been agreed upon in previous negotiations. 'Breaking the silence' is only a last resort in case a participant still has fundamental problems with parts of the text and is therefore the exception rather than the rule.

Council of the European Union
Article 12(2) of the Rules of Procedure of the Council of the European Union states:

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
An expression of the silence procedure is contained in Annex 1(A) "Application of a silence procedure in the Permanent Council and the Forum for Security Co-operation" of the Rules of Procedure of the OSCE (2006):

See also
 Unanimous consent

References

Diplomacy
Procedure
Consent
Papenteich

Papenteich is a Samtgemeinde in the district of Gifhorn in Lower Saxony, Germany, situated approximately 10 km south of Gifhorn, and 15 km north of Braunschweig. Papenteich was founded on October 2, 1970 and includes 6 local municipalities with 19 villages. At present its population is 23,458.

Geography

Structure
Papenteich was founded with eighteen member municipalities. With the reform of 1974, five municipalities with eighteen villages were constructed. The last reform was in 1981 with the integration of the village of Didderse as the sixth municipality. The administration of Papenteich is situated in the central village of Meine.

Neighbourhood

Structure of Papenteich

References

Samtgemeinden in Lower Saxony
Gifhorn (district)
Wesendorf

Wesendorf is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 12 km north of Gifhorn.

Wesendorf is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde Wesendorf ("collective municipality"). The municipality consists of the following villages:

 Wesendorf
 Westerholz

References

Gifhorn (district)
Deitsch

Deitsch may refer to:
Deitsch (surname)
Pennsylvania Dutch
Pennsylvania Dutch language
Svoge

Svoge (, ) is a town in western Bulgaria, part of Sofia Province. It is located in the gorge of the Iskar River, at the place where the mountains Mala planina, Golema planina and Ponor meet, 40 km north of the capital Sofia. Svoge is the main town of the Svoge Municipality which is one of the largest municipalities in Bulgaria and includes also 37 villages & the town of Svoge itself. By Decree No. 546 of the Presidium of the National Assembly on 7 September 1964 Svoge was declared as a city.

Etymology 
Svoge's name comes from the Bulgarian word svod (свод), meaning "vault, arch", due to the town's location as a vault where the rivers Iskar and Iskretska meet. In the local vernacular, svod got transformed to svoge.

Honour 

Svoge Knoll on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Svoge.

References

External links
 Local news site

Towns in Bulgaria
Populated places in Sofia Province
Gigen

Gigen (, ) is a village in northern Bulgaria, part of Gulyantsi Municipality, Pleven Province. It is located near the  Danube River, close to the place where the Iskar River empties into it, opposite the Romanian town of Corabia.

Gigen is most famous for being built on the site of the important Roman colony of Oescus. The extensive ruins are located in the northwestern part of the village and were first associated with the ancient colony in the end of the 17th century. A bridge, built or reconstructed by Constantine I and named Constantine's Bridge in his honour, linked Oescus with Sucidava (modern Corabia) across the Danube in the 4th century.

Gigen is also known for an anti-Bogomil inscription in Old Bulgarian dating to the 10th century, the rule of Tsar Peter I of Bulgaria. The text was discovered in the old village church, inscribed on a stone block 85 centimetres in width. According to the scientifically accepted reading, the text of the inscription is as follows:

, Gigen has a population of 2,192 inhabitants. It lies at , at 39 m above sea level.

Honour
Gigen Peak on Graham Land in Antarctica is named after the village.

References

Villages in Pleven Province
Old Bulgarian inscriptions
Langelsheim

Langelsheim is a town in the district of Goslar in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Geography
The municipality is situated between the river Innerste and its tributary the river Grane, on the northern edge of the Harz mountain range and the Harz National Park, located about  northwest of Goslar.

Subdivisions
Langelsheim is divided into eight Ortschaften with the following population as of 30 June 2020:
 Astfeld (2,097 inhabitants)
 Bredelem (438 inhabitants)
 Hahausen (765 inhabitants)
 Langelsheim (5,067 inhabitants)
 Lautenthal (1,511 inhabitants)
 Lutter am Barenberge (2,296 inhabitants)
 Wallmoden (907 inhabitants)
 Wolfshagen im Harz (2,192 inhabitants)

History
The place once called Langenizze developed in the 10th century out of a hill fort at the Kahnstein mountain, erected by the Ottonian dynasty. Langelsheim was the site of historic ironworks, first documented in the 13th century, where ore from the Mines of Rammelsberg was smelted. The former municipalities Hahausen, Lutter am Barenberge and Wallmoden are part of Langelsheim since 1 November 2021.

Demographics
As of 30 June 2020 there were 11,305 inhabitants in Langelsheim.

Politics

Town council
2006 local elections:
 SPD: 17 seats
 CDU: 9 seats
2016 local elections:

SPD: 12
FDP: 1
WGL: 6
CDU: 7

Mayors
Since November 2013: Ingo Henze (SPD)
2006-2013: Henning Schrader (SPD)

International relations

Langelsheim is twinned with:
  Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen, Netherlands
  Nieuw-Weerdinge, Emmen, Netherlands
  Roswinkel, Emmen, Netherlands

Notable people

 Henry E. Steinway, (1797-1871), born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg in Wolfshagen in Harz,  was a piano maker
 Jan Assmann, (born 1938), an Egyptologist
 Hans-Werner Bothe, (born 1952), philosopher and neurosurgeon
 Timo Rose, (born 1977), motion picture director and musician

References

External links

 

Towns in Lower Saxony
Goslar (district)
Towns in the Harz
Duchy of Brunswick
Burlak

A burlak () was a towpath puller in Russian Empire.

Overview
The exact origin of the word is unknown. Different versions include old middle-German bûrlach (working team with fixed rules, artel), or Tatar bujdak, 'homeless'.

Burlaks appeared in Russia at the end of 16th century and beginning of the 17th century. With the expansion of freight-hauling, the number of burlaks increased.

The chief of a burlak gang was called Vodoliv (), the next in line was the Dyadya (, captain), followed by the Shishka (, first in the line of haulers), while the last in line was called Kosny (, last in the line of haulers). 

There were seasonal burlaks, who worked from spring to autumn, and temporary burlaks, who worked occasionally. Burlaks did not work in winter, when most Russian rivers were frozen over.

The main areas of the burlaks' trade in the Russian Empire were the Volga river, from Moscow to Astrakhan, the White Sea route (Belomor'e), from Moscow to Arkhangelsk, and the Dnieper river, in Ukraine.

Most burlaks were landless or poor peasants from Simbirsk, Saratov, Samara, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ryazan, Tambov and Penza areas.

Burlaks joined up in an artel (typically from four to six, sometimes ten to forty, and occasionally up 150 people) mainly in winter, despite that at this time clients paid the lowest price, because in winter burlaks were often otherwise unemployed. The final payments were in autumn, after finishing work.

With the coming of the industrial revolution, the number of burlaks declined: at the beginning of the nineteenth century about 600,000 burlaks worked on the Volga and Oka rivers; in the middle of nineteenth century, 150,000, and by the beginning of the twentieth burlaks had all but disappeared.

The burlak was a subject of Russian songs (, famously performed by Feodor Chaliapin, The Volga Boatmen's Song etc.), and artwork (Burlaks on the Volga by Ilya Yefimovich Repin).

See also
 Towpath

External links
Vladimir Gilyarovsky, "My Travels (Мои скитания)" This book contains a chapter on his Volga boat-puller experience in 1871. 
The Volga river's boatmen or The enchanted wanderers of river "Ra", a photogallery

Russian Empire
Obsolete occupations
Maritime history of Russia
Bill Stephen

William Stephen (1 April 1928 – 23 August 2020) was an Australian rules footballer with Fitzroy Football Club. He also coached Fitzroy and Essendon.

Playing career

Fitzroy Football Club
Recruited from Thornbury CYMS and making his debut with the Fitzroy Football Club in the VFL in 1947, Stephen was one of the best defenders in the league. He won the Fitzroy Football Club best and fairest in 1950 and 1954 and played for Victoria 14 times. He went on to play 162 games and kicked 4 goals for the club, playing prominently from the back pocket position.

Coaching career

Fitzroy Football Club
Bill Stephen coached Fitzroy as senior coach on three separate occasions from 1955 to 1957, 1965 to 1970 and 1979 to 1980.  His overall VFL coaching record stands at 258 matches, 84 wins, 172 losses and 2 draws, including the all time VFL/AFL record for most games coached without a grand final appearance. He was sacked from Fitzroy in 1970 as he was recovering in hospital from pneumonia and resigned from his final VFL coaching appointment at the end of the 1980 season, after coaching the Lions into the finals in 1979 for the first time since 1960. Stephen was replaced by Robert Walls as Fitzroy Football Club senior coach at the end of the 1980 season.

Yarrawonga Football Club
Stephen was captain / coach of Yarrawonga in the Ovens & Murray Football League from 1958 to 1963, then was their non playing coach in 1964. Stephen led Yarrawonga to their first O&MFL premiership against Bob Rose's Wangaratta Rovers in 1959.

Stephen was also the non playing coach of the Ovens & Murray Football League inter-league side in 1964.

Essendon Football Club 
Stephen also coached Essendon as senior coach from 1976 to 1977, with a 16 win, 27 losses and 1 draw record. Stephen was sacked as Essendon Football Club senior coach at the end of the 1977 season. Stephen was then replaced by Barry Davis as Essendon Football Club senior coach.

Other coaching roles
He was also an assistant coach for South Melbourne and North Melbourne in between his stints at Fitzroy, Essendon, and St Kilda.

References

External links

Coaching statistics

1928 births
2020 deaths
Essendon Football Club coaches
Fitzroy Football Club players
Fitzroy Football Club coaches
Mitchell Medal winners
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Seesen

Seesen is a town and municipality in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the northwestern edge of the Harz mountain range, approx.  west of Goslar.

History
The Saxon settlement of Sehusa was first mentioned in a 974 deed issued by Emperor Otto II and Chancellor Willigis, from 1235 on it belonged to the Welf dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg who had a castle erected. In 1428 Seesen received town privileges by Duke Otto II the One-Eyed of Brunswick-Göttingen. On 17 July 1810, Israel Jacobson dedicated in Seesen the first synagogue which employed an organ and a choir during prayer and introduced some German liturgy. This day is celebrated by Reform Judaism worldwide as its foundation date. In 1836 Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later named Henry E. Steinway) built his first grand piano in his kitchen in Seesen; the instrument is today on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Politics
Seats in the municipal assembly (Stadtrat) as of 2006 elections:
 Christian Democratic Union (CDU): 17
 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): 15
 Free Democratic Party (FDP): 2

Twin towns – sister cities

Seesen is twinned with:
 Wantage, England, United Kingdom (1978)
 Thale, Germany (1990)
 Carpentras, France (1993)
 Montecorvino Rovella, Italy (2006)

Notable people

 Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz (1809–1877), Prussian general, born in Seesen
 Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter, spent his last years at the Mechtshausen vicarage
 Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848–1890), cellist, composer and university teacher, born in Seesen
 Israel Jacobson (1768–1828), established the first Haskalah interdenominational school in Germany at Seesen in 1801
 Louis Spohr (1784–1859), composer that spent his childhood at Seesen
 William Steinway, Piano manufacturer that was born at Seesen on 5 March 1835 as Wilhelm Steinweg. His father Henry E. Steinway (Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg) built his first grand piano at a Seesen washkitchen in 1836
 Emil Wohlwill (1835–1912), chemist, born at Seesen

See also
Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg

References

Towns in the Harz
Duchy of Brunswick
Birch gun

The Birch Gun was the first practical British self-propelled artillery gun, built at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich in 1925.

Despite proving itself a practical proposition the Birch Gun was never highly regarded by the British High Command, not for any particular defect or capability issue, but due to the belief that such an innovation was unrequired, expensive and unnecessary. Named after General Sir Noel Birch, who was Master General of Ordnance at the time, the Birch gun comprised a Vickers Medium Mark II tank chassis originally fitted with a QF 18-pounder (83.8 mm) gun. This remained the armament in all the models, although the latest version, generally called the Mk III, had limited elevation. Birch Guns were used in the Experimental Mechanized Force manoeuvres of 1928, but by 1931 they had been removed from service and political pressure was applied to prevent any plans to complete the third revision of the weapon.

Armament
The armament for the original Birch Gun consisted of an Ordnance QF 18 pounder field gun (3.3 inch, 84 mm). The mounting and sighting arrangements varied in the various versions but the gun remained the same.

Powerplant
The Armstrong Siddeley engine was only moderately powerful by later standards, an 8-cylinder 90 horse power unit which gave a maximum speed of 28 mph/45 km/h, however, by comparison with tracked armour of the era – the Medium Mark A Whippet 'cavalry tank' of World War I was twenty miles per hour slower – it was considered more than adequate and had twice the Whippet's range.

Use
The Birch gun was tested as part of the Experimental Mechanized Force (EMF) in the 1920s. The Force undertook various experiments in mechanized warfare combining tanks and infantry with their own motorised transport.

The components of the EMF were:
 reconnaissance group with tankettes and armoured cars
 battalion of 48 Vickers medium tanks
 motorised machine gun battalion
 mechanised artillery regiment
 including one battery of Birch guns
 motorised field engineer company

References

Bibliography

External links
 Self-Propelled Field and Medium Guns

Self-propelled artillery of the United Kingdom
85 mm artillery
Abandoned military projects of the United Kingdom