alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Internal pudendal veins

The internal pudendal veins (internal pudic veins) are a set of veins in the pelvis. They are the venae comitantes of the internal pudendal artery. Internal pudendal veins are enclosed by pudendal canal, with internal pudendal artery and pudendal nerve.

They begin in the deep veins of the vulva and of the penis, issuing from the bulb of the vestibule and the bulb of the penis, respectively. They accompany the internal pudendal artery, and unite to form a single vessel, which ends in the internal iliac vein.

They receive the veins from the urethral bulb, the perineal and inferior hemorrhoidal veins.

The deep dorsal vein of the penis communicates with the internal pudendal veins, but ends mainly in the pudendal plexus.

References

External links
  - "Gluteal Region: Pudendal Nerve and Internal Pudendal Vessels"
  - "The Female Perineum: The Sacrotuberous and the Sacrospinous Ligaments"

Veins of the torso
Indu

Indu or INDU may refer to:
 $INDU, a symbol for the Dow Jones Industrial Average
 Chandra, the Hindu moon deity
 Indu, peoples of Indian (or South Asian) descent, e.g. Indu-Chinese, Indu-Trini etc.
Indu, an Indian film starring Roja Selvamani
 Indu Film, an Indian company
 Indu chakra, a group of 6 musical scales in Carnatic music
 Indu, a Bengali Kayastha surname in India
 the official acronym for the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology
Indu R. Sakseria, character in the 2010 Indian film Raajneeti, played by Katrina Kaif

See also
Inda (disambiguation)
Overpool railway station

Overpool railway station was opened on 17 August 1988 and serves the central area of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.  It is situated on the Hooton–Helsby line and is served by the Wirral Line which is part of the Merseyrail network.

It became part of the Merseyrail network in 1994, when the branch from Hooton to Ellesmere Port was electrified, and through train services to Liverpool via Birkenhead commenced.

Facilities
The station has platform CCTV. Each platform has a sheltered waiting area. There are live electronic departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. There is a payphone, next to the entrance, on platform 1. There is ramp access, to each platform, from the Overpool Road bridge, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams.

Overpool is one of four stations on the Merseyrail network that are unstaffed, the others being Bache, Capenhurst and Little Sutton. Passengers purchase tickets from the Ticket Vending Machine located on the platform. This machine can issue tickets to any destination on the rail network. Passengers failing to purchase a ticket will be liable for a Penalty Fare if they board a Merseyrail service without obtaining a valid ticket.

This station became part of the Merseyrail Penalty Fares Area on 15 June 2009.

Services 
Overpool is served by trains every 30 minutes (all day every day, including Sundays) between Ellesmere Port and Liverpool. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

Gallery

References

Further reading

External links

Railway stations in Cheshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Railway stations opened by British Rail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1988
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
Ellesmere Port
John Hallet

John Halletis a British actor, probably best known for his role as Barney in the 1970s television drama Survivors.

Other TV credits include: Z-Cars, The Regiment as regular Pte Hodge, Oil Strike North, All Creatures Great and Small, Call Me Mister and the uncompleted Doctor Who serial Shada.

External links 
 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British male television actors
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society

The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS) is an American non-profit organization that was founded in 1904. The society was created "to provide, in partnership with the Navy and Marine Corps, financial, educational, and other assistance to members of the Naval Services of the United States, eligible family members, and survivors when in need; and to receive and manage funds to administer these programs."

NMCRS makes interest-free loans to cover basic living expenses including utilities, housing and food. It also distributes funds for funeral costs, car repairs, insurance, medical bills, and other expenses. In 2020, the society helped more than 28,000 retired and active duty Marines and their families.

In 2020, NMCRS launched an interest-free program to cover the cost of moving pets during a permanent change of station or move.

Fundraising 
Every year during the month of March, the Department of the Navy hosts its annual Active Duty Fund Drive in support of the NMCRS.

References

External links
www.nmcrs.org—Official web site

Non-profit organizations based in Arlington, Virginia
United States Navy support organizations
Organizations established in 1904
Organizations associated with the United States Marine Corps
Punga (mythology)

In Māori mythology, Punga is a supernatural being, the ancestor of sharks, lizards, rays, and all deformed, ugly things. All ugly and strange animals are Punga's children. Hence the saying Te aitanga a Punga (the offspring of Punga) used to describe an ugly person.

Family and mythology
Punga is a son of Tangaroa, the god of the sea, and when Tāwhirimātea (god of storms) made war against his brothers after they separated Rangi and Papa (sky and earth), the two sons of Punga, Ikatere and Tū-te-wehiwehi, had to flee for their lives. Ikatere fled to the sea, and became the ancestor of certain fish, while Tū-te-wehiwehi took refuge in the forest, and became the ancestor of lizards.

Etymology
As is appropriate for a son of Tangaroa, Punga's name has a maritime origin - in the Māori language, 'punga' means 'anchor stone' - in tropical Polynesia, related words refer to coral stone, also used as an anchor (Craig 1989:219, Tregear 1891:374).

According to some versions, Punga is the son of Rangi-potiki (father sky) and Papatūānuku (mother earth) and a twin brother to Here. In a version of the epic of Tāwhaki attributed by White to the Ngāti Hau tribe, Punga is named as a brother of Karihi and Hemā; however, in many versions, he is a cousin of the brothers Karihi and Tāwhaki (Craig 1989:219, Tregear 1891:374, White 1887:95, 125).

Elsewhere in Polynesia
In some Hawaiian stories, Hema and Punga are sons of Aikanaka and Hinahanaiakamalama (Tregear 1891:374).

References
 R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (Greenwood Press: New York), 1989.
 E. R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891.
 J. White, The Ancient History of the Maori, Volume I (Government Printer: Wellington), 1887.

Māori gods
Hydraulic bicycle

A hydraulic bicycle is a chainless bicycle that transfers power to the pedals by means of a liquid passing through tubes from hydraulic pump to hydraulic motor and back.

Advantages 
Advantages include:

 Shifting, through valves and displacement, provides either continuously variable gearing or more steps than traditional bicycles.
 Shifts smoothly under full power.
 Drive transmits power while pedaling forward and backward. Thus racers can power bicycle through turns by alternating short forward and backward pedal strokes. No slack or backlash occurs, in either direction. Ability to coast is maintained.
 Mechanism is clean and operates silently.
 Fewer moving parts (about 10 vs over 70), all of which are continuously bathed in clean lubricating fluid.
 Sealed systems require less maintenance than open chain system.
 Front-wheel drive and two-wheel drive systems can be implemented. (See two-wheel drive)
 Drive can double as a hydraulic brake, eliminating the weight, cost, and maintenance of regular brakes.
 The hydraulic (hydrostatic) transmission could be useful for recumbent bicycles because the hoses may be easier to route than a long chain.
 Energy recuperation, storage and power assist could be added.

Disadvantages 
Disadvantages include:
 Implementations to date are heavier than those of bicycle chain and sprocket designs.
 Though some of the components in a sealed hydraulic system maintain constant efficiency upwards of 95% in all conditions (see hydristor), the overall losses usually result in an efficiency of about 75% (power loss of about 25%, see hydraulic machinery). In contrast, a chain-and-sprocket system loses efficiency in bad weather and dirt – from 97% for clean new components down to less than 80% when worn and dirty.
 The system may leak fluid causing a mess and eventual failure.

References

External links 
 Cannondale Jacknife (Hydraulic Concept Bike)
 Engineering Students Compete To Redesign The Bicycle: hydraulic and pneumatic designs
 The Purdue Tracer: An Energy-Efficient Human-Powered Hydraulic Bicycle

Cycle types
Victoria Burgoyne

Victoria Burgoyne (born 3 April 1953) is an English actress.

She is known for being a guest actress in the infamously uncompleted 1979 Doctor Who serial Shada, the making of which was abandoned as the result of a BBC strike. She provided her voice to complete the serial using animation in 2017. Burgoyne was a regular cast member on the series Howards' Way as Vicki Rockwell during its 1989 series.

Other TV credits include: Doctors Daughters, where she was one of the leads, The Professionals, Give Us a Break and Ever Decreasing Circles.

Her film credits include Mr Smith (1976), Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973), Death Ship (1980), Where Is Parsifal? (1984), and a role as a prostitute in the costume drama Stealing Heaven (1988).

Filmography

External links
 

1953 births
English television actresses
Living people
Actresses from London
LKL (disambiguation)

LKL or Lkl may refer to:

 Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga, the Lithuanian Basketball League
 Lakselv Airport, Banak, Norway, IATA airport code
 Lakeland (Amtrak station), Florida, US, Amtrak station code
Little Sutton railway station

Little Sutton railway station serves the village of Little Sutton, near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.  It is situated on the Hooton–Helsby line and is served by the Wirral Line which is part of the Merseyrail network. The station is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The station opened in 1863 as "Sutton" and was renamed Little Sutton in 1886. It became part of the Merseyrail network in 1994, when the branch from Hooton to Ellesmere Port was electrified by British Rail, and through train services to Liverpool via Birkenhead commenced.

Between the 2013/14 and 2019/20 periods, Little Sutton was the least-used station on the Merseyrail network. Since 2020/21 it is the second least-used station on the network.

Facilities
The station has platform CCTV. Each platform has a sheltered waiting area. There are electronic departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. There is a payphone, next to the entrance, on platform 2. There is ramp access, to each platform, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams. However, cross-platform access, within the station, is by staircase only. Platform access has not been modernised to the standard of that at Hooton.

Little Sutton is one of four stations on the Merseyrail network that is Unstaffed, the others being Bache, Capenhurst and Overpool. Passengers purchase tickets from the Ticket Vending Machine located on the platform. This machine can issue tickets to any destination on the rail network. Passengers failing to purchase a ticket will be liable for a Penalty Fare if they board a Merseyrail service without obtaining a valid ticket. The station became part of the Merseyrail Penalty Fares Area on 15 June 2009.

Services 
This station is served by trains bound for Liverpool Central and Ellesmere Port, with platform 1 serving Ellesmere Port bound services and platform 2 serving Liverpool bound services, and is classed by Merseyrail as part of the Ellesmere Port branch of the Wirral Line.

Services call at this station every thirty minutes or less, including Sundays. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

Gallery

References

Further reading

External links

Railway stations in Cheshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
Former Birkenhead Railway stations
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
Grade II listed railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863
EAHS

EAHS may refer to:
 Elgin Area Historical Society, Elgin, Illinois, United States

Schools 
 East Anchorage High School, Anchorage, Alaska, United States
 East Ascension High School, Gonzales, Louisiana, United States
 East Aurora High School, Aurora, Illinois, United States
 East Aurora High School (New York), East Aurora, New York, United States
 Eastern Alamance High School, Mebane, North Carolina, United States
 Easton Area High School, Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
 Elsie Allen High School, Santa Rosa, California, United States
Danish Union of Professional Technicians

The Danish Union of Professional Technicians (Danish: Teknisk Landsforbund, TL) is a trade union in Denmark. It is an affiliate of the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions.

History
The Danish Union of Professional Technicians was founded in 1919. It became a member of LO in 1994.

Location
The Danish Union of Professional Technicians is based in Teknikernes Hus ("The Technicians' House") at Nørre Voldgade 12 in central Copenhagen. The building is the former headquarters of Kastrup Glasværk. It is from 1892 and was designed by the architect Philip Smidth.

References

External links
 Official site

Danish Confederation of Trade Unions
Trade unions in Denmark
1919 establishments in Denmark
List of U.S. cities with most pedestrian commuters

The following is a list of United States incorporated places with at least 5,000 workers with the 25 highest rates of pedestrian commuting (walking to work) (pedestrian mode share), according to data from the 2019 American Community Survey, five-year average. The Census Bureau, through the American Community Survey, measured the percentage of commuters who walk to work, as opposed to bicycling, taking public transit, driving an automobile, boat, or some other means.

See also
List of U.S. cities with most bicycle commuters
List of U.S. cities with high transit ridership

References

Cities with most pedestrian commuters
Transportation in the United States
Pedestrian commuters
Walking in the United States
Scandola Nature Reserve

The Scandola Nature Reserve  is located on the west coast of the French island of Corsica, within the Corsica Regional Park.  The reserve was established in 1975. The park and reserve has been recognized by the United Nations as a Natural UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983 because of its beauty, rich biodiversity, and maquis shrubland.

Location 
The Scandola Reserve is situated on the west coast of Corsica between Punta Muchillina and Punta Nera and includes Cape Girolata and Cape Porto. The reserve covers an area of  of which  is land and  is sea.

Physical features 
The reserve has two sectors, the Elpa Nera inlet and the peninsula of Scandola.  The jagged and sheer cliffs contain many grottos and are flanked by numerous stacks and almost inaccessible islets and coves, such as Tuara.  The coastline is also noted for its red cliffs, sand beaches, and headlands.

The reserve has a Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry summers. The average yearly maximum temperature is 28 degrees C, whereas the average minimum temperature is 3 degrees C.

Biodiversity 
The coastal area around the Scandola Nature Reserve have open cliff-top  grass  swards  and  tall  maquis shrubland, although it has been degraded by historical fires and agriculture. Many species of lizards, snakes, birds, and geckos have been recorded within the park. Precious coral lives in the littoral zone directly off of the coast, and the strong currents in the Gulf of Porto allow for large numbers of fish to congregate. There was once a population of endangered Mediterranean monk seals of the coast of the nature reserve, but they have since disappeared.

Protection 
In 1930, a law was passed prohibiting destruction or modification within Corsica Regional Park.  Scandola Nature Reserve is strictly protected in order to return the area to its natural state.

Gallery

References 

 Bacar, H.  "A survey of Existing and Potential Marine Parks and Reserves of the Mediterranean Region." 1977.  IUCN/UNEP.
 Gryn-Ambroes, P. Preliminary Annotated Lists of Existing and Potential Mediterranean Protected Areas. 1980.  UNEP/IUCN.

External links 

UNESCO World Heritage Site profile
 UNEP-WCMC World Heritage Site datasheet 
 Pictures and description on https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231030/http://www.wikisailing.com/Ilot_Palazzu

World Heritage Sites in France
Geography of Corsica
Tourist attractions in Corsica
Boys Will Be Boys (The Ordinary Boys song)

"Boys Will Be Boys" is a single by British rock group the Ordinary Boys. It was released in 2005, when it reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart, but it re-entered the charts in January 2006 following singer Samuel Preston's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart and number 22 on the Irish Singles Chart. The toasted verse towards the end of the song is performed by Ranking Junior, the son of Ranking Roger of 2-Tone group the Beat.

Track listings
7-inch
 "Boys Will Be Boys"
 "The KKK Took My Baby Away"

CD1
 "Boys Will Be Boys"
 "We Soldier On"

CD2
 "Boys Will Be Boys"
 "Quarter Life Crisis"
 "Boys Will Be Boys" (Lady Sovereign Remix)
 "Boys Will Be Boys" (Video)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

In other media
In the film Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj the song is used in the intro. In the film The Best Man, the song is part of the soundtrack, and it can be heard during a scene on a train of the London Underground "The Tube" (at min. 28:32).

The song was also covered in a 'Oompa-ska' style by Goldfrapp for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on 27 April 2006. It was subsequently released by Goldfrapp on their single "Satin Boys, Flaming Chic".
The song was ranked at number 49 in the 100 biggest selling singles of 2006.

In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, this song is heard in the Gryffindor Common Room where Seamus Finnigan argues with  Harry Potter about he and Albus Dumbledore's claims of Voldemort's return. According to Rupert Grint, David Yates used it to create a more "casual" feel to the Common Room.

References

2005 singles
2005 songs
2006 singles
Goldfrapp songs
The Ordinary Boys songs
B-Unique Records singles
Song recordings produced by Stephen Street
Songs written by Preston (singer)
Living Colombia Movement

The Living Colombia Movement (Movimiento Colombia Viva) was a political party in Colombia. The party took part in the parliamentary elections of 2006, in which the movement won 166 deputy seats and two senators out of one hundred.

External links
www.movimientocolombiaviva.org  

Political parties in Colombia
Brookmans Park railway station

Brookmans Park railway station serves the village of Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire, England. The station is located  north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line, on the stretch between  and .

History

The station was opened by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) on 19 July 1926.

During World War II, the station played a small part in the signing of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty. On 21 May 1942, LNER Class A4 locomotive number 4495 Golden Fleece brought Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov to the station, where he was met by his British counterpart Anthony Eden. The pair and their staff were then driven to the Chequers estate, where the treaty was negotiated.

Facilities

The station is only staffed part-time, with the ticket office being open 06:5010:00, Monday to Friday. Customer help points are available for assistance out of hours. Other facilities include passenger information displays and waiting shelters. Oyster Cards are not valid at the station. However, contactless bank cards may be used.

Station layout

The station has four platforms in total, consisting of two island platforms; only platforms 1 and 4, facing the route's slow lines, are used regularly. Both platforms are accessible only via a footbridge, with no step-free access available. A station car park with 69 spaces parallels the island platforms to the east. The station building (an LNER survivor) at the north-west of the station serves as the part-time ticket office.

Services
All services at Brookmans Park are operated by Great Northern Route using  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 2 tph to 
 2 tph to 

During the peak hours, the service is increased to 4 tph in each direction.

Late evening and weekend services used to run to and from  rather than Moorgate, but from 13 December 2015 Great Northern introduced a weekend service on the line and extended evening hours until the end of service.

References

External links

Railway stations in Hertfordshire
DfT Category E stations
Former London and North Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1926
Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway
For the Country of Our Dreams

For the Country of Our Dreams (Por el País que soñamos) is a political party in Colombia. The party took part in the parliamentary elections of 2006, in which it won 2 out of 166 deputies and no senators.

Political parties in Colombia
Rob da Bank

Robert John Gorham (born 24 June 1973 in Portsmouth, Hampshire), known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is an English DJ and co-founder of music festivals Bestival, originally on the Isle of Wight and now moved to Lulworth, Dorset and Camp Bestival, also in Lulworth. He presented a show on BBC Radio 1 which focused on promoting new left field music. Examples of artists featured on his show include Tipper, Moloko and a host of unsigned acts.

Until September 2006, he and Chris Coco were the presenters of the Blue Room on Radio 1. He hosted the Radio One Music Show on Thursday nights, the content of which was more similar to the music played on his current show. Rob da Bank filled in for John Peel's show for several weeks following his death in 2004.

In 2007, he produced the Together in Electric Dreams EP.

In 2009, he gave BBC Blast an exclusive look behind the scenes of his show. Until 2014, he hosted a Friday-night/Saturday-morning BBC Radio 1 show focused on left-field electronica.

He is also the owner of a number of business ventures under the name Sunday Best, which originated as a Sunday night event in a Battersea tea-room.

The music played by Rob da Bank on Sunday Best helped launch the "bar culture" (as opposed to "club culture"), which features more relaxed activities than dancing.

Sunday Best has grown to incorporate a record label and two offshoot music festivals, Bestival on the Isle of Wight and in 2008, Camp Bestival, which is more family orientated and held in the grounds of Lulworth Castle in Dorset. In 2018 Bestival went into administration, leaving many workers unpaid. However, a festival of the same name, curated by Gorham and his wife Josie, was announced for 2019, at the same site and on the equivalent weekend. Gorham has also compiled a mix LP for the Fabric night club's series of mix compilations, entitled Fabric 24 (2006).

In June 2014, it was announced that in September 2014, da Bank would leave BBC Radio 1 and that he would join the 6 Music family. His last show was on Saturday 30 August 2014. Da Bank hosts a weekly radio show on Evolution I Heart Radio in America.

In 2014, alongside Graphite Media he set up the company 'Earworm', a Music Supervision, Original Composition and Talent Procurement service for Film, TV, Video Games and Advertising. Recent work includes the music supervision for BBC Drama – From There To Here, original compositions for the new HBO show 'The Left Overs', the title music for Annie Mac's 'Superstar DJs' on Channel 4 and music supervision for forthcoming Xbox One game – Forza Horizon 2.

Da Bank was awarded The Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2014 AIF Festival Congress Awards.

Personal life
Rob da Bank divides his time between London and the Isle of Wight with his illustrator wife Josie and their four sons.

References

External links
 
 
 
 
 Sunday Best Website
 
 Behind the scenes with Rob at Radio 1
 Rob da Bank Tracklistings and Downloads

 

1973 births
English radio DJs
English record producers
Club DJs
BBC Radio 1 presenters
Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
Musicians from Portsmouth
Living people
Mass media people from Portsmouth
Welham Green railway station

Welham Green railway station serves the village of Welham Green in Hertfordshire, England.  It is  measured from King's Cross on the East Coast Main Line.

Welham Green is just south of the scene of the Hatfield rail crash in 2000 and was initially identified in BBC broadcasts as the location of the accident.

History

Welham Green station was opened on 29 September 1986 on the site of the former Marshmoor Sidings. It has two platforms and was opened by British Rail.

The station was built with funding from Welwyn District Council, Hertfordshire County Council, Hatfield Parish Council and British Rail.

The booking office at Welham Green was equipped with APTIS in December 1986, making it one of the first stations with the ticketing system which was eventually found across the UK at all staffed British Rail stations by the end of the 1980s.

Facilities

A booking office, open during the morning rush hour, is located on the northbound platform and is reached, from the west, through the station car park. A self-service 'Shere' ticket machine was installed in Autumn 2008 on the road overbridge, at the entrance to the northbound platform.

There are shelters on both platforms, and a small amount of seating near them.

Services
The typical off-peak service is two trains per hour to . Moorgate trains formerly ran only on weekdays up until 10 pm (running to Kings Cross outside of these times), but now run there at all times (including weekends) since the December 2015 timetable change.

Ticket Office Opening Times & Station Staffing Hours

Below are the current opening and staffing times for Welham Green, .

Route

References

External links

Railway stations in Hertfordshire
DfT Category E stations
Railway stations opened by British Rail
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1986
Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway
Hexacene

Hexacene is an aromatic compound consisting of six linearly-fused benzene rings. It is a blue-green, air-stable solid with low solubility.

Hexacene is one of a series of linear polycyclic molecules created by such aromatic ring fusions, a series termed acenes—the previous in the series being pentacene (with five fused rings) and the next being heptacene (with seven). It and other acenes and their derivatives have been investigated in potential applications related to organic semiconductors.  Like larger acenes, hexacene is poorly soluble, but derivatives have been prepared with improved solubility. 6,15-Bis(tri-t-butylsilylethynyl)hexacene, which melts with decomposition at 96 °C.

Syntheses and structure
Hexacene has been the subject of many syntheses. One route entails by thermal decarbonylation of monoketone precursor.

Further reading
First synthesis: 
Marschalk, C. Linear hexacenes. Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr. 6, 1112–1121 (1939).

By dehydrogenation of hexacosahydrohexacene by palladium on carbon
Isolation: 
By decarbonylation of a diketone precursor:
Deoxygenation route:

External links
  Molecular graphics representation of the X-ray crystallographic structure determined for 6,15-bis(tri-t-butylsilylethynyl)hexacene—hexacene with bulky, protective substituents in the reactive 6- and 15- ring positions, see rotating graphic at base of page.
 Sander-Wise Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Structure Index entry for hexacene, NIST Special Publication 922.

References

Organic semiconductors
Acenes
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Guanacaste National Park (Costa Rica)

Guanacaste National Park, in Spanish  is a National Park in the northern part of Costa Rica. It is part of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site, and it stretches from the slopes of the Orosí and Cacao volcanoes west to the Interamerican Highway where it is adjacent to the Santa Rosa National Park. It was created in 1989, partially due to the campaigning and fund-raising of Dr. Daniel Janzen to allow a corridor between the dry forest and rain forest areas which many species migrate between seasonally. The park covers an area of approximately 340 square kilometers, and includes 140 species of mammals, over 300 birds, 100 amphibians and reptiles, and over 10,000 species of insects that have been identified. It was this high density of bio-diversity that encouraged the Costa Rican government to protect this area. The Guanacaste National Park weaves the neighboring Santa Rosa National Park with the high altitude forests of the two volcanoes, Orosi and Cacao, and the rainforest of the Caribbean in the country's north.

The Tempisque River flows through the park's lowland areas. There are dry forests at lower elevations and cloud forests at higher elevations. There are several trails running through the park that offer up good hiking. The trail leading to the Orosi Volcano has pre-Columbian petroglyphs near the plain at El Pedregal.

The nearest city is La Cruz to the northwest, and the park contains several facilities notably the headquarters of the Guanacaste Conservation Area, as well as stations at Pitilla in the northeastern corner of the park, Cacao on the southwestern slope of the eponymous volcano, and Maritza which is situated near both volcanoes.

History 
In 1989 the park was first established by Executive Decree 19124-MIRENEM/89, to become part of Area de Conservación Guanacaste along with the already existing Santa Rosa and Rincón de la Vieja National Parks. As a whole these formally became part of National System of Conservation Units (SINAC) in 1994 and then later in 1999 a World Heritage Site. In 1995 the Junquillal Bay Wildlife Refuge was added to the group of sites.

In 1989, 12,000 tonnes of orange waste was dumped on barren soil in agreement with park authorities. 15 years later, the area had grown into a variety of plants.

See also
Guanacaste Conservation Area
Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage Site

References

National parks of Costa Rica
Geography of Guanacaste Province
Protected areas established in 1991
Tourist attractions in Guanacaste Province
1991 establishments in Costa Rica
Carl Abrahams

Carl Myrie Abrahams OD (14 May 1911 – 10 April 2005) was a Jamaican painter from Saint Andrew Parish.

Biography
Abrahams was born in St Andrew, Jamaica to a middle class family. He began his career in commercial art at the age of 17 as a cartoonist and an illustrator for The Daily Gleaner and the Jamaica Times  as well as creating ads for Myers Rum and the Jamaica Biscuit Company.

In 1937, while on a working holiday in Jamaica, Augustus John, the iconic British artist, encouraged Abrahams to begin painting professionally. Abrahams taught himself to paint through self-study courses and manuals and by copying masterpieces from art books.

In 1944, during World War II Abrahams served in the Royal Air Force in England. By the mid-1950s he had found his calling as a painter of religious subjects.

The National Gallery of Jamaica said of his monumental series of 20 paintings of The Passion of Christ that "the devout sentiment of a true believer marked Abrahams as Jamaica and the Caribbean's finest religious painter."

Abrahams was a devout Christian and many of works revolved around religious themes with undeniable authenticity, paintings such as The Last Supper showcase Abrahams ability to add contemporary elements and twists to iconic religious parables.

He was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal for his work by the Institute of Jamaica in 1987.

His final decades saw few new developments in his style and he often repeated or created variations on many of his earlier paintings. Abrahams described himself as an internationalist and was regarded by others as artistically a "citizen of the world". Abrahams died peacefully at his home in 2005 of cancer and a brain tumor.

Works
Last Supper
Destruction of Port Royal
Woman I Must Be About My Father's Business
Adam and Eve
Thirteen Israelites
The Henry Ford Show
Pan and His Musicians
Backyard Preacher
The Hand of Columbus
The Ascension
Hallelujah
"Afro Jewess"

Awards
Royal Air Force (RAF) Award
New York Critics Award
Silver Musgrave Medal of the Institution of Jamaica
Order of Distinction (Jamaica)
Gold Musgrave Medal of The Institution of Jamaica (1987)

References

Further reading 
Annie Paul. Father Carl Abrahams. Issue 75 (September/October 2005) Caribbean Beat Magazine 
Veerle Poupeye. Caribbean Art.  London; Thames and Hudson; 1998.

1911 births
2005 deaths
People from Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica
Artists from Kingston, Jamaica
Recipients of the Musgrave Medal
Recipients of the Order of Distinction
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
20th-century Jamaican painters
National Union Party (Costa Rica)

The National Union Party () is the name of several parties in Costa Rica, generally located on the centre-right of the political spectrum.

The first party using that name was led by Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra as leader and candidate for the 1901 and 1913 elections. Ibarra was liberal as most of the Costa Rican political elite at the time. The party also took part in the 1915 parliamentary election. Carlos Durán Cartín was also candidate for the party in latter elections.

Liberal journalist Otilio Ulate Blanco took control of the party and was part of an oppositional alliance of parties against Republican candidate Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia in 1948 allegedly winning the election. The results were contested and latter annulled by the government causing the short-lived 48's Civil War.

Ulate's supporters won the war and name him president-elect (even when the military leader José Figueres took temporary control of the government with a de facto Junta) and a Constituent Assembly was called to draft a new Constitution, with PUN winning most of the seats.

Unable to participate in the 1953 election (the first since restoration of democracy) due to a very criticized decision from the Electoral Tribunal, it was until 1958 that its candidate Mario Echandi would win the election, thanks in part to Calderon's support. Even when Echandi and Ulate were enemies of Calderon in the past, they joint forces against the now common enemy; Figueres’ party, PLN.

Nevertheless, the following election Ulate's PUN and Calderón's PRN went separate postulating each of the parties’ leaders, splitting the opposition's vote and with PLN gaining triumph. PRN won more votes than PUN on that election. PUN and PRN agree to stand together in the 1966 election with a consensus candidate; college professor José Joaquín Trejos earning a very tight victory.

PUN diminishes after this election never achieving power again. In 2005 Mario Echandi's nephew and former Costa Rican Ombudsman José Manuel Echandi funded a party with the same name and was endorsed by his uncle, yet the party receive only 1.6% of the presidential vote and one legislative seat for Echandi himself. Echandi abandoned the party mid-term with mutual accusations of corruption among him and the party's National Committee. The party supported the candidacy of Libertarian Movement’s party Otto Guevara for the 2014 election with party's president Arturo Acosta entering the campaign team.

References 

Political parties in Costa Rica
Danish Timber, Industry, and Construction Workers' Union

The Danish Timber, Industry, and Construction Workers' Union (TIB) was a trade union representing construction, wood and furniture workers in Denmark.

The union was founded in 1997, when the Danish Union of Joiners and Carpenters merged with the Danish Woodworkers' Union.  On formation, it had 71,572 members, around one-third of whom worked in construction, with the remainder in the wood, furniture and related industries.  Like its predecessors, it affiliated to the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions.

On 1 January 2011, the union merged into the United Federation of Danish Workers.

Presidents
1997: Arne Johansen
2008: Johnny Skovengaard

References

External links

Danish Confederation of Trade Unions
Building and construction trade unions
Trade unions in Denmark
Organizations based in Copenhagen
Trade unions established in 1997
Trade unions disestablished in 2010
Union for Change Party

The Union for Change Party (Partido Unión para el Cambio) was a political party in Costa Rica founded by the former minister and congressman Antonio Álvarez Desanti after he left the National Liberation Party unhappy with his faction's results in the internal elections against Óscar Arias. Desanti was the party's presidential nominee.

In the 2006 general elections, it won 2.4% of the legislative votes and 2.44% of the Presidential vote. It wase unable to win any seats in the legislature gaining only one single municipal councilor. The party disbanded in March 2010.

References

Defunct political parties in Costa Rica
Forest–savanna mosaic

Forest–savanna mosaic is a transitory ecotone between the tropical moist broadleaf forests of Equatorial Africa and the drier savannas and open woodlands to the north and south of the forest belt. The forest–savanna mosaic consists of drier forests, often gallery forest, interspersed with savannas and open grasslands.

Flora
This band of marginal savannas bordering the dense dry forest extends from the Atlantic coast of Guinea to South Sudan, corresponding to a climatic zone with relatively high rainfall, between 800 and 1400 mm. It is an often unresolvable, complex of secondary forests and mixed savannas, resulting from intense erosion of primary forests by fire and clearing. The vegetation ceases to have an evergreen character, and becomes more and more seasonal. A species of acacia, Faidherbia albida, marks, with its geographical distribution, the Guinean area of the savannas together with the area of the forest-savanna, arboreal and shrub, and a good part of the dense dry forest with prevalently deciduous trees.

Ecoregions
The World Wildlife Fund recognizes several distinct forest-savanna mosaic ecoregions:

 The Guinean forest–savanna mosaic is the transition between the Upper and Lower Guinean forests of West Africa and the West Sudanian savanna. The ecoregion extends from Senegal on the west to the Cameroon Highlands on the east. The Dahomey Gap is a region of Togo and Benin where the forest-savanna mosaic extends to the coast, separating the Upper and Lower Guinean forests.
 The Northern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic lies between the Congolian forests of Central Africa and the East Sudanian savanna. It extends from the Cameroon Highlands in the west to the East African Rift in the east, encompassing portions of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and southwestern Sudan.
 The Western Congolian forest–savanna mosaic lies southwest of the Congolian forest belt, covering portions of southern Gabon, southern Republic of the Congo, western Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northwestern Angola.
 The Southern Congolian forest–savanna mosaic lies east of the Western Congolian forest savanna mosaic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, separating the Congolian forests to the north from the Miombo woodlands to the south.
 The Victoria Basin forest–savanna mosaic lies to the east and north of Lake Victoria in East Africa, and is surrounded on the east and west by the montane forests of the East African Rift's Western and Eastern arcs. The ecoregion covers much of Uganda, extending into portions of eastern Kenya, northwestern Tanzania, and eastern Rwanda.

References

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Forests
Grasslands
Afrotropical ecoregions
Homeland First Party

The Homeland First Party (Partido Patria Primero) was a political party in Costa Rica. Funded by PAC’s dissident and motivational speaker Juan José Vargas, the party contested the 2006 general elections with Vargas as presidential candidate and former professional soccer player Evaristo Coronado as deputy candidate. They gain 1.6% of the legislative votes, and 1.1% of the Presidential vote unable to win any seats in the legislature. The party disbanded in March, 2010.

References

Defunct political parties in Costa Rica
National Rescue Party

The National Rescue Party () is a political party in Costa Rica.

The party first contested general elections in 1998, but received only 0.7% of the vote and failed to win a seat. In 2002 they received only 0.3% of the vote, whilst José Hine García, the party's presidential candidate, finished last with 0.01%. In the 2006 elections support for the party did not allow it to win a single seat. It did not contest the 2010 elections.

References

Defunct political parties in Costa Rica
Accessibility without Exclusion

Accessibility without Exclusion (Partido Accesibilidad sin Exclusión, "PASE") is a political party in Costa Rica with a special focus on fighting for the rights of people with disabilities. PASE generally takes socially conservative stances, opposing LGBT rights, in vitro fertilization, and the separation of church and state.

In the 2006 general elections, the party won 1.59% of the legislative vote, gaining one seat in the legislature. In 2010, the party surged to 9.17% of the vote, winning four seats in the legislature and entering into coalition with the governing National Liberation Party. In 2014, the party's vote fell to 3.95%, and it lost all but one of its seats. In the next election, party's support dropped even further gaining only 0.38% and losing its only seat.

Deputies
Óscar Andrés López Arias

Electoral performance

Presidential

Parliamentary

References

External links
Official website (in Spanish)

2010 establishments in Costa Rica
Conservative parties in Costa Rica
Disability organizations based in Costa Rica
Disability rights organizations
Political parties established in 2010
Political parties in Costa Rica
Social conservative parties
Single-issue political parties
Broad Front (Costa Rica)

The Broad Front (Frente Amplio) is a left-wing political party in Costa Rica, the main component of the front is the Alternative of the Lefts Movement (Movimiento Alternativa de Izquierdas). They are defined by progressive, socialist and social justice ideas. The party is a member of the Foro de Sao Paulo, part of the international Latin American Left Movement (pink tide) of democratic socialism.

History
In the 2006 general elections, they won 1.1% of the legislative votes, and won one seat in the legislature, occupied by José Merino del Río. In the 2010 general elections they kept their seat, occupied by José María Villalta Florez-Estrada. Their presidential nominee was Eugenio Trejos Benavides, then the rector of the Costa Rica Institute of Technology. For the 2014 election the party’s nominee was then congressman Villalta, who was receiving a lot of support according to the polls, something unusual in Costa Rica for a left-wing candidate, and even appearing in some as the frontrunner. Nevertheless, lost momentum after a very negative campaign especially from right-wing party Libertarian Movement and PAC's recovery after the party's candidate Luis Guillermo Solís improved his image in the debates, attracting votes from the more moderate leftist electors.

Villalta ended third in the presidential race with 17% of the votes, below PLN's nominee Johnny Araya and PAC’s Luis Guillermo Solís, but increased its parliamentary representation from one to nine seats. It also won one mayor in the 2016 municipal elections in the Barva canton and in alliance with PAC in Acosta and Montes de Oca.

During the 2014-2018 legislative period the party suffered several minor scandals involving its deputies including Guanacaste’s representative and former Catholic priest Ronal Vargas's resignation after being accused of sexual harassment, deputy Ligia Falla’s use of her parliamentary office for alleged romantic encounters of her advisors, and domestic abuse accusations against two parties' deputies.

Electoral performance

Presidential

Parliamentary

References

2004 establishments in Costa Rica
Democratic socialist parties in North America
Green parties in North America
Political parties established in 2004
Political parties in Costa Rica
Progressive International
Progressive parties
São Paulo Forum
Socialism in Costa Rica
Merton Street tennis court

Merton Street tennis court is the home of the Oxford University Real Tennis Club. It stands on the north side of Merton Street in central Oxford, England, and forms part of Merton College.

There has been a tennis court in Oxford since 1450 and one at the Merton Street site since c. 1494, according to one source. Alternatively, according to another source, Oxford has had a court since 1595 and one at this site when it was rebuilt in 1798. The Merton Street court, being early, has somewhat non-standard dimensions, and in particular an unusually flat tambour (a buttress used as part of the court). 

It is the smallest court in England and the second oldest.

See also
 Oriel Square tennis court

References

Bibliography
 Tennis and Oxford by Jeremy Potter; 1st edition of 1994; 152 pp in 8vo and dw.

Real tennis venues
Sport at the University of Oxford
History of Oxford
Merton College, Oxford
Buildings and structures of the University of Oxford
University sports venues in the United Kingdom
Palo Verde National Park

Palo Verde National Park (), is a national park of Costa Rica, part of the Arenal Tempisque Conservation Area, that contains much of the area of the valley of the Tempisque River and covers an area of 45,492 acres in Guanacaste Province, 30 km west of Canas. The surrounding region is mostly tropical dry forests, and the park concentrates on conserving vital floodplain, marshes, limestone ridges, and seasonal pools from the encroachment of civilization which was putting the ecology of the area at risk.

Geography
The park has a ranger station which is open for visitors from 8 am to dusk, and has potable water and restrooms. The Palo Verde Biological Station is on site operated by the Organization for Tropical Studies. A major feature of the park is the density and variety of bird species, a major factor in the creation of the reserve, due in part to its diverse ecology, with 15 topographical zones from evergreen forests to mangrove swamps. Birds spotted regularly in the park include great curassows, scarlet macaws, white ibis, roseate spoonbills, anhingas, jabirus, and wood storks.

During the dry season water is scarce in other parts of the country. Due to this, many birds flock to the park and its river basin. Parajos Island, which is located in the middle of the Tempisque River, is usually a great place to spot birds. This island is the largest nesting site for the black-crowned night-herons in Costa Rica.

The park protects one of the most endangered ecosystems. It is one of the last remaining tropical dry rainforests that once covered most of Central America. Tropical dry rainforests now exist in less than 0.1% of their original size and are considered to be the most endangered ecosystems in the tropics.

History
Palo Verde National Park was declared a wildlife refuge during the 1970s because over 60 species of birds used the laguna, or wetland, as a migratory stop. There were once 35,000 black bellied whistling ducks, 25,000 blue winged teal, and several hundred migrating ducks during the dry season. Later the park was declared a national park and operated under the government agency MINAE (Ministry of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications). In the 1990s, the park was put on the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance and also on the Montreux Record.

References

External links
 
 Palo Verde National Park at Costa Rica National Parks

National parks of Costa Rica
Protected areas established in 1978
Ramsar sites in Costa Rica
Geography of Guanacaste Province
Tourist attractions in Guanacaste Province
Central American dry forests

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