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Birkenhead Central railway station

Birkenhead Central is a railway station serving the town of Birkenhead, in Merseyside, England. Located on the south side of Birkenhead town centre, it lies on the Chester and Ellesmere Port branches of the Wirral Line, part of the Merseyrail network.

History 
Birkenhead Central station was opened in 1886 as part of the Mersey Railway's route from Liverpool, via the Mersey Railway Tunnel under the River Mersey.  The station was the location of the Mersey Railway's headquarters. The disused building of Birkenhead Central depot, which closed in the 1990s, remains adjacent to the platforms. The station platforms were refurbished and finished in 2012.

Facilities
The station is staffed, during all opening hours, and has platform CCTV. There are toilets, several payphones, a vending machine, booking office and live departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. Each platform has a waiting shelter, as well as sheltered seating. The station does not have a car park, but does have a secure cycle locker with 28 spaces. Access to the station is by ramp, and there is step-free access to the platforms, for wheelchairs and prams, via the lifts. The station also has a snack bar, in the main booking hall.

Services 
Trains operate every 15 minutes between Chester and Liverpool on weekdays and Saturdays until late evening when the service becomes half-hourly, as it is on Sundays. Additionally there is a half-hourly service between Liverpool and Ellesmere Port all day, every day. Northbound trains operate via Hamilton Square station in Birkenhead and the Mersey Railway Tunnel to Liverpool.  Southbound trains all proceed as far as Hooton, where the lines to Chester and Ellesmere Port divide. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.

Gallery

See also
 List of underground stations of the Merseyrail network

References

Further reading

External links 

Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
DfT Category E stations
Former Mersey Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1886
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
Happy Hour (Ted Hawkins album)

Happy Hour is an album by Ted Hawkins. It was released in 1986.

Critical reception
AllMusic wrote that "Hawkins blended soul and urban blues stylings with country and rural blues inflections and rhythms, making another first-rate release." Trouser Press praised Hawkins's "sturdy emotional delivery."

Track listing
All tracks composed by Theodore Hawkins, Jnr.; except where indicated
 "Bad Dog"
 "Happy Hour" (Dave Mackechnie, Steve Gillette)
 "Don't Make Me Explain It"
 "The Constitution"
 "My Last Goodbye"
 "You Pushed My Head Away"
 "Revenge of Scorpio"
 "California Song"
 "Cold & Bitter Tears"
 "Gypsy Woman" (Curtis Mayfield)
 "Ain't That Pretty"
 "One Hundred Miles"

Personnel
Ted Hawkins – vocals, guitar
Dale Wilson – lead guitar
Augie Brown – guitar
Dennis Walker – bass
Johnny Greer – drums
Elizabeth Hawkins – vocals
Robert Cray as "Night Train Clemons" – guitar on "You Pushed My Head Away" and "Gypsy Woman"

References 

1985 albums
Ted Hawkins albums
Rounder Records albums
187 (number)

187 (one hundred [and] eighty-seven) is the natural number following 186 and preceding 188.

In mathematics
There are 187 ways of forming a sum of positive integers that adds to 11, counting two sums as equivalent when they are cyclic permutations of each other. There are also 187 unordered triples of 5-bit binary numbers whose bitwise exclusive or is zero.

Per Miller's rules, the triakis tetrahedron produces 187 distinct stellations. It is the smallest Catalan solid, dual to the truncated tetrahedron, which only has 9 distinct stellations.

In other fields
There are 187 chapters in the Hebrew Torah.

See also
 187 (disambiguation)

References

Integers
Pancyprian Public Servants' Trade Union

The Pancyprian Public Servants' Trade Union (PASY-DY) is a trade union centre in Cyprus. It was founded in 1927 as the Cyprus Civil Service Association. It is affiliated with the Public Services International.

References

External links
www.pasydy.org

Trade unions in Cyprus
Public Services International
1927 establishments in Cyprus
Trade unions established in 1927
Rock & Religion Radio Show

Rock & Religion (a.k.a. Rock Scope) was a syndicated radio program based in Sacramento, California, USA. The program began in 1977 and ran through 1981. The show was produced by Mary Neely, and hosted by Neely, and singer Michael Roe. Although it is not currently being broadcast, recordings and original promotional vinyl copies of the shows are heavily traded to this day. The program generally aired on Sunday nights. 

The show, which focused on spiritual themes in rock music, featured music and interviews from artists like Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, The Who, Daniel Amos, Phil Keaggy, Randy Stonehill, Joe English of Paul McCartney's Wings, T-Bone Burnett & The Alpha Band, Mark Heard, Keith Green (there is a recording of the Rock & Religion broadcast of the 1979 Keith Green interview on the Last Days Ministries website; see "Keith Green Interview" link below) and many others. 

In certain cases, the show included rare or unreleased music from artists. Popular examples included Roe's own band The 77s, which was featured on the show in 1980 when they were still known as The Scratch Band. Music from Daniel Amos' long delayed Horrendous Disc appeared on the radio show more than a year before the album was finally released.

External links 
 Keith Green Interview

Christian rock radio programs
American Christian radio programs
American music radio programs
1977 establishments in California
1981 disestablishments in California
John Young (Scottish politician)

John Henderson Young (21 December 1930 – 3 November 2011) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician. He served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003.

Early life 
John Henderson Young was born on 21 December 1930 in Glasgow, where he attended Hillhead High School before enrolling in the Scottish College of Commerce. He also studied a management course at Glasgow University.

Local politics 
Having originally been elected as a councillor in Glasgow in 1961, Young became leader of Glasgow District Council in 1977, a role he held until 1980.

Scottish Parliament 
Young was elected as an MSP for the West of Scotland region in 1999. At the time of his election he was 69, making him the second oldest MSP after Winnie Ewing of the Scottish National Party.

In the Scottish Parliament he was the Conservative group's Deputy Spokesman on Transport and Environment and was a member of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. He retired at the 2003 election.

Death 
John Young died on 3 November 2011, at the age of 80. He was predeceased by his wife, Doris, and survived by one son, Peter.

References

External links 
 
 Herald obituary
 Scotsman obituary

1930 births
2011 deaths
Conservative MSPs
Councillors in Glasgow
Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003
People educated at Hillhead High School
Scottish Conservative councillors
Leaders of local authorities of Scotland
List of tallest buildings in Winnipeg

This is a list of tallest buildings in Winnipeg, the capital and largest city in Manitoba, Canada. Winnipeg has 8 buildings that stand taller than .

As of 2011, Winnipeg had 144 completed high-rise buildings, with 4 more under construction, 3 approved for construction, and 2 proposed.

History 
Winnipeg's history of towers began with the Union Bank Tower (1904), the National Bank Building (1911), and the Hotel Fort Garry in 1913. Buildings in the city remained relatively short in the city until the late 1960s when the city experienced its first skyscraper boom, with the construction of the Richardson Building, Holiday Towers, and Grain Exchange Tower, all being constructed during this time. From 1980 to 1990, Winnipeg witnessed a major expansion of skyscraper and high-rise construction. Many of the city's office towers were completed during this period, such as Canwest Place and the Evergreen Place towers. A 20-year lull in building construction came after this expansion, though Winnipeg has experienced a much smaller second building expansion beginning in the late 2000s and continuing into the present.

The most recent tall building to be constructed in Winnipeg is 300 Main Street, which opened in 2023. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, which opened in 2014, was the 2nd most recent at  tall. In March of 2021, 300 Main (Artis REIT) became Winnipeg's tallest building during construction, surpassing 201 Portage.

Tallest buildings
This list ranks buildings in Winnipeg that stand at least  tall, based on CTBUH height measurement standards. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts.

Projects

This is a list of projects over  that are under construction, approved, on-hold and proposed in the city of Winnipeg.

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Timeline of tallest buildings

See also

 Winnipeg arts and culture
 Canadian Centre for Architecture
 Society of Architectural Historians
 Canadian architecture
 List of tallest buildings in Canada
 List of tallest buildings in Saskatoon
 List of tallest buildings in Regina

References

External links
 Emporis.com - Winnipeg

 
Winnipeg
Buildings, Tallest
Tallest buildings in Winnipeg
Makafeke

A makafeke is a Tongan octopus snare which consists of a shell lashed to a line. The word is derived from the Tongan words maka ("stone" or "rock") and feke ("octopus").

External links

Tongan culture
Phycidae

The Phycidae are a family of hakes in the order Gadiformes. They are native to the Atlantic Ocean, but the juveniles of some species enter estuaries.
 Sometimes this family is classified as the subfamily Phycinae of the cod family, Gadidae.

References

External links
Squaw root

Squaw root (also spelled Squawroot or Squaw-root) is a common name which can refer to a number of different herbs native to North America:
Actaea racemosa
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Conopholis americana
Perideridia gairdneri
Campo San Polo

The Campo San Polo is the largest campo in Venice, Italy, the second largest Venetian public square after the Piazza San Marco. It is located in the Sestiere San Polo.

Originally dedicated to grazing and agriculture, in 1493 it was entirely paved, a well (one of the few fountains to be found in Venice) being placed in the middle. It was subsequently used as the scene of many a bullfight, mass sermons and masked balls. After the 17th century the poor's market was moved here from Piazza San Marco.

It remains to this day one of the most popular Carnival venues and is also used for open-air concerts and screenings during the Venice Film Festival. 

Lorenzino de' Medici was assassinated here in 1548.

Facing the church are the following buildings:

Church of San Polo
Palazzo Tiepolo
Palazzo Soranzo
Palazzo Donà
Palazzo Corner Mocenigo

External links 

 The Campo San Polo: The Second Largest Public Square  	in Venice

San Polo
San Polo
Carnivals in Italy
1493 establishments in Europe
15th-century establishments in the Republic of Venice
Broom (album)

Broom is a full-length album from American indie pop/rock band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. It was released in the United States in 2005.

Track listing

 "Pangea" – 2:48
 "I Am Warm & Powerful" – 2:39
 "What'll We Do" – 2:16
 "Travel Song" – 3:21
 "Oregon Girl" – 2:26
 "House Fire" – 3:19
 "Yr Broom" – 1:37
 "Anna Lee" – 3:16
 "Anne Elephant" – 4:49
 "Gwyneth" – 2:33

The Polyvinyl LP-reissue includes three bonus songs: "Let's Get Tired", "Warm & Powerful" (acoustic), and "Song W".

Personnel 
 John Robert Cardwell – vocals, guitars
 Will Knauer – guitars
 Tom Hembree – bass
 Philip Dickey – drums, vocals, guitars, piano
 Mark Bilyeu – mastering
 Jonathan James – mixing
 Aaron Scott – photography, layout design

Additional personnel 
 Lauren Slater – Rhodes on "Pangea", "I Am Warm and Powerful", "Anne Elephant"
 Gwyn Knauer and Beth Cain – additional vocals on "What'll We Do"

References 

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin albums
2005 albums
Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions

The Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (Czech: Českomoravská konfederace odborových svazů, ČMKOS) is a trade union centre in the Czech Republic. It was founded in March, 1990 as the Czechoslovak Confederation of Trade Unions. It was re-formed in 1992 as the ČMKOS.

References

External links
www.cmkos.cz

Trade unions in the Czech Republic
National federations of trade unions
International Trade Union Confederation
European Trade Union Confederation
Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
Trade unions established in 1990
1990 establishments in Czechoslovakia
Black Hills National Cemetery

Black Hills National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in South Dakota, located three miles (5 km) southeast of Sturgis in Meade County. It encompasses , and as 2021, had over 30,000 interments. Located at exit 34 of Interstate 90, it is administered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which also administers the nearby Fort Meade National Cemetery. It is one of three national cemeteries in South Dakota (the other two being Fort Meade and Hot Springs).

History 
The area around the Black Hills Cemetery was originally inhabited by the Lakota Indians.  French explorers went through the region in the 1740s, and Spain laid claim to the area in 1762 until it was acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.  Fort Randall was established in 1856, and the 1861 establishment of Dakota Territory brought more settlers to the region, but it wasn't until gold was discovered in the Black Hills that the area acquired a large white settler population.  Under the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Lakota retained possession of the land of the Black Hills, but there was no stopping the settlers from entering the region, which led to several conflicts.  Most of the original interments in the cemetery were soldiers who fell in battles of the Indian Wars, but it has since been used to inter veterans from every major campaign the United States has been involved in.  The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

Expansion
In 2018, Kristi Noem sponsored the Black Hills Cemetery Act in Congress that approved of an expansion of the Black Hills cemetery.

Notable interments 
 Medal of Honor recipient
 U.S. Sergeant Charles Windolph, Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of Little Bighorn during the Indian Wars
 Others
 U.S. Army veteran, Lakota actor and stuntman Dave Bald Eagle
 U.S. Senator Francis Higbee Case, World War I veteran, U.S. Representative for the 75th–81st congresses, United States Senate from 1951 until his death in 1962
 U.S. Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth
 U.S. Representative and South Dakota Governor William J. Janklow
 U.S. Lieutenant Commander John Charles Waldron, Distinguished Flying Cross

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Meade County, South Dakota

References

External links 
 National Cemetery Administration
 Black Hills National Cemetery
 
 
 

Cemeteries in South Dakota
Protected areas of Meade County, South Dakota
United States national cemeteries
Historic American Landscapes Survey in South Dakota
Sturgis, South Dakota
Black Hills
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota
National Register of Historic Places in Meade County, South Dakota
1948 establishments in South Dakota
Anboto

Anboto () is a limestone mountain of the Western Basque Country, the highest peak of the Urkiola range and not far from the Urkiola mountain pass between Durango and Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Description 
An immense mass of limestone, very compact and of gray color, the mountain contains fossil remnants of massive prehistoric corals and large seashells.

The north face has impressive  high cliffs, towering over the valley of Atxondo. The south face descends more smoothly toward the pass of Urkiolamendi; more even, it is used for the more popular routes of ascent.

The ascent, which can be carried out on any of its faces, requires in all cases certain care when passing next to the cliffs.

The Anboto is one of the most known and most characteristic summits of Biscay and of the Basque Country.

On its summit there is a geodesic vertex of second order.

Mythology 

Anboto has always been related to magic and mythology. In a cave close to its summit, the legend tells us that Mari, the "Lady of Anboto", has her main dwelling. Legend says that it is usual to see her in the mouth of the cave, on days with good weather, combing her pretty blond hair with a comb of gold in the sunshine. It is not rare either to see her spend nights as a great ball of fire in the sky above Anboto or other places of the Basque Country where she possesses dwellings like the nearby Oiz or Aizkorri. Depending on where she is found there will be good or bad weather.

Ascents 

Anboto can be reached from a great number of places. From the north it is a  ascent from the Atxondo valley. From Urkiolamendi the road begins at the famous sanctuary of San Antonio (). From the valley of Atxarte begins the complete ascent of the crests, long but simple along Alluitz () and Anboto (). From Otxandio () or Aramaio (), stopping at the extensive grassy hillock of Zabalaundi (), being able to climb from here directly to the top passing near the caves of the Lady of Amboto and the "Eye of Eskilar".

 
The most popular way consists of leaving from Urkiolamendi pass, to flank Mount Urkiolamendi () arriving at Asuntze (), then climbing right under the summit, to the hillock Pagozelai () ascending its stony slopes (Arrueta) to the hillock of Agindi () just west of the summit.

The North face is a rocky  climb that requires some rock climbing and can be very dangerous in bad weather conditions or ice.
 
Climbing times:
Urkiolamendi (2h)
Atxarte (4h, up to the crest)
Atxarte (2h 30 m, by Asuntze)
Aramaio (3h)
Arrazola (2h 15 m, north face)
Arrazola (3h, by Zabalaundi)

References

Sources
Mendikat
Web sobre Amboto
Las montañas

Geography of Biscay
Basque Mountains
Mountains of the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Miss Washington Teen USA

The Miss Washington Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Washington in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Washington is one of the more successful states at Miss Teen USA, having placed on eight occasions. Their highest placement came in 1985, when Dru Homer placed 2nd runner-up to Kelly Hu of Hawaii. Their most successful decades have been the 1980s and 2000s. The state failed to place in the 1990s.

Alex Carlson-Helo is the first Miss Washington Teen USA who also won Miss Washington USA. Washington was the last state to have a Teen to Miss crossover. Two more former Teen winners later won the Miss state title, including one in Nevada.

Kate Dixon was crowned Miss Washington Teen USA 2022 on February 5, 2022 at Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center in Renton, Washington. She will represent Washington for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022. However much controversy has arisen after a video resurfaced of her using a racial slur and making inappropriate statements on social media. Dixon said, "They coerced me into saying a racial slur. I told them ‘no, I don’t want to say that,’" said Kate. "I know that it’s not appropriate. And they told me ‘you have a free pass just this one time, it would be funny."

Results summary

Placements
2nd runner-up: Dru Homer (1985)
Top 10: Rhonda Monroe (1983), Amy Travis (1989), Megan Munroe (2000), Shannon Hulbert (2001), Jasmine Jorgensen (2003)
Top 15: Sadie Porter (2009), Camilla Cyr (2010)
Top 20: Mackenzie Kuiken (2023)
Washington holds a record of 9 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards
Miss Congeniality: Marianne Bautista (2020)
Miss Photogenic: Anjelie Eldredge (1994)
Best State Costume: Novalee Lewis (2021; 3rd place)

Winners 

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

External links
Official website

Washington
Women in Washington (state)
Sullana Province

The Sullana Province is a landlocked province in the Piura Region in northwestern Peru. It is the northernmost province in the Piura Region.

Boundaries 
North Contralmirante Villar Province (Tumbes Region)
East Ecuador, Ayabaca Province
South Piura Province
West Paita Province, Talara Province

Political division 
The Province has an area of  and is divided into eight districts

Sullana - part of the Metropolitan Region of Sullana
Bellavista - part of the Metropolitan Region of Sullana
Marcavelica - part of the Metropolitan Region of Sullana
Miguel Checa
Ignacio Escudero
Lancones
Querecotillo
Salitral

Population 
The province has an approximate population of 250,000 residents.

Capital 
The capital of the province is the city of Sullana which is the second largest city in the Piura Region.

See also 
Piura Region
Peru

External links 
  SullanaOnline

Provinces of the Piura Region
Three Brothers (New South Wales)

Three Brothers, three separate mountains of the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, are situated approximately  north of Sydney.

Location and features
Collectively referred to as the Three Brothers, the mountains are three separate mountains named and located as follows:
North Brother: with an elevation of   
Middle Brother: with an elevation of   
South Brother: with an elevation of   

The South Brother lies within the Mid-Coast Council local government area; while the Middle and North Brothers are located with the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council area,

The North and Middle Brothers have been declared national parks, named Dooragan National Park and Middle Brother National Park respectively.

The main radio and television transmitters for the Mid North Coast region are located on the summit of Middle Brother.

Etymology

The Australian Aboriginal local Birpai people tell a dreamtime story of three brothers who were killed by a witch called Widjirriejuggi and were buried where the mountains stand. The youngest of the three was Dooragan, that now carries the name for one of the national parks.

Coincidentally, when Captain James Cook passed the area on 12 May 1770, he also named the mountains Three Brothers, since "these Hills bore some resemblance to each other". During his apprenticeship with John and Henry Walker, ship owners of Whitby, the second ship Cook served on was named Three Brothers.

References

Mountains of New South Wales
Mid North Coast
Mid-Coast Council
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
Miss West Virginia Teen USA

The Miss West Virginia Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of West Virginia in the Miss Teen USA pageant.  This pageant is independently conducted and produced by Sanders & Associates, Inc., dba- Pageant Associates based in Buckhannon, West Virginia.

Despite a relatively strong start in the 1980s, with two semi-finals finishes, no Miss West Virginia Teen USA placed from 1988 to 2005, when Andrea Turner placed 2nd runner-up to Allie LaForce of Ohio. After this, West Virginia had more success, with more placements in 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018.

Four Miss West Virginia Teen USA's have also won the Miss West Virginia USA title and competed at Miss USA.

Emma Kitchen of Buckhannon was crowned Miss West Virginia Teen USA 2022 on June 5, 2022 at Virginia Thomas Law Center for the Performing Arts in West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon. She will represent West Virginia for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

Results summary

Placements
1st runners-up: Elizabeth Sabatino (2012)
2nd runners-up: Andrea Turner (2005), Haley Holloway (2013)
4th runners-up: Chelsea Welch  (2007)
Top 10: Jodi Caldwell (1986), Wendy Stephens (1988)
Top 15: Susan Hines King (2011), Lexsey Marrara (2014), Olivia Hutchison (2017), Trinity Tiffany (2018)
West Virginia holds a record of 10 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards
Miss Congeniality: Jasmine Lemons of Wheeling (2020)
Miss Photogenic: Cayton Carder of Masontown (2020)

Winners 

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

External links

References

West Virginia
Three Brothers

Three Brothers may refer to:

Film and television
 Three Brothers (1944 film), a U.S. Army animated short by Friz Freleng
 Three Brothers (1981 film), an Italian film by Francesco Rosi
 Three Brothers (2014 film), a film by Jan Svěrák
 Three Brothers (TV series), a 2009 South Korean drama
 The Three Brothers (film), a 1995 French comedy film

Literature
 "The Three Brothers", a story from Grimms' Fairy Tales
 Three brothers of Mémoires de M. d'Artagnan: Henri d'Aramitz, Armand d'Athos and Isaac de Porthau 
 Three sworn brothers of Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei

Places
 Three Brothers (New South Wales), three mountains in Australia
 Three Brothers, Chagos, a group of coral islands
 Three Brothers, Lancashire, a group of rocks in England
 Three Brothers (islands), Indonesia, or Rukan Islands
 Three Brothers, Okhotsk Sea, three large rocks off Eastern Cape, Kamchatka, Russia
 Tri Brata ('Three Brothers'), three rocks in the Avacha Bay, Kamchatka, Russia
 Three Brothers, South Georgia, a group of three mountain peaks
 Three Brothers (islands), Alaska, U.S.
 Three Brothers, Arkansas, U.S., an unincorporated community 
 Three Brothers (Ozarks), a group of summits in Arkansas, U.S.
 Three Brothers (Yosemite), a rock formation in Yosemite Valley, California, U.S.
 Three Brothers (Washington), U.S.,  triple-peak mountain summit 
 "Ostrova Tri Brata" ('Three Brothers Islands') in Antarctica: Aspland Island, Eadie Island, O'Brien Island 
 Three Brothers Hill, King George Island, South Shetland Islands

Ships
 Three Brothers (ship), a steam freighter that sank in 1911 near South Manitou Island on the Great Lakes
 USS Vanderbilt (1862) or Three Brothers, a steamship in the Civil War convert to a sailing ship for transporting grain

Other uses
 The Three Brothers (jewel), a lost medieval pendant once owned by Jakob Fugger, Elizabeth I, and others
 Three Brothers, Riga, a cluster of medieval houses in Riga
 Three Brothers Serbian Restaurant, in Milwaukee, U.S.

See also

 The Brothers Three, a pizza company
 "The Tale of the Three Brothers", a story in J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Bala, Ankara

Bala (also: Balâ), formerly known as Balbadon, is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,851 km2, and its population is 20,521 (2022). It is 67 km south-east of the city of Ankara. Its elevation is .

Bala stands on a high plain, summers are hot, winters are cold and snowy. The town of Bala is small but busy with shops and light manufacturing workshops, the surrounding countryside is used for farming, especially grains and sunflower seeds. Recently Ankara's wealthier citizens have begun building luxury housing in some villages of Bala. However the town stands on a fault line and experiences many earthquakes.

Places of interest
The forest of Beynam and the Kesikköprü reservoir are two of Ankara's most popular picnic spots.

Composition
There are 55 neighbourhoods in Bala District:

 Abazlı
 Afşar
 Ahmetçayırı
 Akkoyunlu
 Aşağıhacıbekir
 Aşıkoğlu
 Aydoğan
 Bahçekaradalak
 Bektaşlı
 Belçarşak
 Beynam
 Büyükbayat
 Büyükbıyık
 Büyükboyalık
 Büyükcamili
 Çatalçeşme
 Çatalören
 Çiğdemli
 Davdanlı
 Derekışla
 Eğribasan
 Erdemli
 Ergin
 Göztepe
 Gülbağı
 Hamidiye
 Hanburun
 İsmetpaşa
 Karahamzalı
 Kartaltepe
 Kerişli
 Kesikköprü
 Kızılırmak
 Koçyayla
 Köseli
 Küçükbayat
 Küçükbıyık
 Küçükboyalık
 Küçükcamili
 Sarıhüyük
 Şehriban
 Şentepe
 Sırapınar
 Sofular
 Suyugüzel
 Tatarhüyük
 Tepeköy
 Tolköy
 Üçem
 Yaylalıözü
 Yeniköy
 Yeniyapançarşak
 Yeniyapanşeyhli
 Yöreli
 Yukarıhacıbekir

References

External links

 District governor's official website 
 District municipality's official website 
 

 
Populated places in Ankara Province
Districts of Ankara Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Raad-2

Raad-2 (Persian:رعد-۲, means Thunder-2) is an Iranian self-propelled howitzer.

Development
In early September 1997, it was reported that Iran had successfully tested a locally built rapid fire mobile field gun known as Raad-2 (Thunder-2).

It uses a turret that has a similar layout to the M109A1 155mm/39-cal self-propelled howitzer. The Iranian Defense Industries Organization claimed that the 155 mm HM44 howitzer manufactured by the Hadid facility of the Iranian Defense Industries Organization had a high firing rate and accuracy. The gun's range was reported as , and it also includes features such as a laser range-finder and a semi-automatic loading system.

The gun looks exactly like 155mm/39-cal M185 gun from M109A1 and is fitted with a double baffle muzzle brake, fume extractor, screw breech mechanism, hydro-pneumatic recuperator and a hydraulic recoil brake. DIO says that the barrel life is around 5,000 rounds.

The vehicle uses a chassis based on the T-72, distinctive due to the cover of the cooling fan on the chassis. The hull is apparently based on the BMP-1.

The Raad-2 is crewed by 5 persons, with the driver stationed at the left with the power pack at the right.

Operators
The Raad-2 is operated by both the Islamic Republic of Iran Army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Variants
Raad-2 - basic SPG version with a Russian V12-type V-84MS diesel engine
Raad-2M - Raad-2 upgraded with a Ukrainian-made 5TDF engine instead of a V-8 Diesel engine.

References

Armoured fighting vehicles of Iran
Self-propelled artillery of Iran
Post–Cold War weapons of Iran
Military vehicles introduced in the 1990s
Ragged-jacket

A ragged-jacket (or, occasionally, "raggedy-jacket") is the name given to a harp or grey seal pup when it is undergoing its first moult, and the intermediate stage between a "whitecoat" and a "beater". The moulting begins when the pup is at an age of about 12–14 days, at which time they cease nursing. At this young age, the pups are not yet capable of swimming. The pup stays on the ice for about two weeks before the fur has moulted. It does not feed during this time and therefore loses weight. When the white fur has been completely shed at around four weeks of age, the seal is called a "beater."

See also
Sealing

References

True seals
Seal hunting
Raad-1

Raad-1 ("Thunder-1") is an Iranian self-propelled howitzer.

History
In May 1996, Iran claimed to have successfully tested its first locally made self-propelled howitzer, the 122 mm Raad-1 ("Thunder-1").

The Raad-1 did not enter production. Analysts think most likely it was just a prototype used to develop the Raad-2.

Description
It is armed with 122 mm 2A18 howitzer from 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer or a modification of one with an effective firing range of 15,200 meters. The turret is also from the 2S1 Gvozdika. It uses the Iranian-made Boragh APC chassis, a conversion of either the Russian BMP-1 or Chinese Type 86 (WZ-501) IFV. The engine is believed to be the 12.8 l German BF8L diesel engine, but this is not known for sure.

See also
Tanks of Iran
Raad - Iranian anti tank missile.
Raad-2

References

Self-propelled artillery of Iran
Military vehicles introduced in the 1990s
Greasbrough

Greasbrough is a small suburb in Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, England. The suburb falls in the Greasbrough  Ward of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council.  Greasbrough had its own local council, Greasbrough UDC (Urban District Council), until its absorption into the County Borough of Rotherham in 1936.

Greasbrough has 2,038 inhabitants and  of land belonging to Earl FitzWilliam.  It is located two miles (3 km) north of Rotherham. Greasbrough has a gothic-style church called St. Mary's, which was completed in 1828. A schoolroom is built into the rear lower part of the building. There are also Wesleyan and Independent chapels, also with attached schools.
There is a main school in Greasbrough named Greasbrough Junior & Infant School, situated on Munsbrough Rise. This also has a nursery in the same building, starting from the age of 3. 
Greasbrough also has a football team called Greasbrough Youth, with players from ages 6.
It is also well known for its Working Men's Club which has been host to many famous acts over the years such as Johnnie Ray, Bob Monkhouse, Matt Monro and Adam Faith.

Notable residents
Omar Ebrahim, baritone (b. 1956)
Jack Lambert, footballer (1902–1940)
John Rose, industrial chemist (1911–1976)
Laura Jane Suisted, journalist (1840–1903)

See also
Listed buildings in Rotherham (Wingfield Ward)
Masbrough Independent Chapel
Greasbrough War Memorial

References

External links

Greasbrough page

Villages in South Yorkshire
Geography of Rotherham
Christian Labour Confederation

The Christian Labour Confederation (KOK) () is a trade union centre in the Czech Republic. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.

References

External links
Christian Labour Confederation (KOK) website
former, outdated website

Trade unions in the Czech Republic
International Trade Union Confederation
1991 establishments in Czechoslovakia
Trade unions established in 1991
Washington State Route 19

State Route 19 (SR 19) is a  state highway serving rural Jefferson County on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. The highway travels from SR 104 south of Port Ludlow and travels north through Chimacum and Port Hadlock-Irondale, intersecting SR 116, to end at SR 20 southwest of Port Townsend near the Jefferson County International Airport. SR 19 was established in 1991 on a roadway that had been built in the 1950s and paved in the 1960s.

Route description

SR 19 begins as Beaver Valley Road at an intersection with SR 104, a connector highway linking U.S. Route 101 to the Hood Canal Bridge, southwest the census-designated place of Port Ludlow. The highway travels north as the western boundary of Port Ludlow and intersects Oak Bay Road, the primary access road for the community, before leaving Port Ludlow along Chimacum Creek to the west and Oak Bay to the east. SR 19 crosses Chimacum Creek into the unincorporated community of Chimacum and becomes Rhody Drive and continues north into Port Hadlock-Irondale and intersecting Ness Corner Road, signed as SR 116, a connector to Indian Island and Fort Flagler State Park to the east. The highway leaves Port Hadlock-Irondale as the Airport Cutoff Road and serves Jefferson County International Airport before ending at an intersection with SR 20 southwest of Port Townsend west of Fort Townsend State Park.

Every year, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) conducts a series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume. This is expressed in terms of average annual daily traffic (AADT), which is a measure of traffic volume for any average day of the year. In 2011, WSDOT calculated that between 6,400 and 13,000 vehicles per day used the highway, mostly in near the Jefferson County International Airport. SR 19 is designated as a part of the National Highway System from SR 104 to SR 116 and as a Highway of Statewide Significance for its whole route.

History

SR 19 was designated in 1991 to serve the Jefferson County International Airport and connect to SR 116 in Port Hadlock-Irondale. The highway was formally added to the state highway system on April 1, 1992. The route of SR 19 roughly follows an existing unpaved road built by the 1950s and paved in the 1960s.

Major intersections

References

External links

Highways of Washington State

019
Transportation in Jefferson County, Washington
Moulamein

Moulamein  is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, in the Murray River Council local government area. At the , Moulamein had a population of 484 .  Moulamein is the oldest town in the Riverina.

The town is located between Balranald, Hay, Deniliquin and Swan Hill, at the junction of the Edward River and Billabong Creek. The name Moulamein is derived from a local Aboriginal word meaning "the meeting of the waters".

The climate of this area is semi-arid, and the area is rich in birdlife such as waterfowl, wedge-tailed eagles and emus. This area also has many kangaroos.

History
Some accounts of Moulamein’s history make unsourced statements such as: "settled as early as 1830". However it is highly unlikely the township was established as early as 1830 considering that this was about the time of Charles Sturt’s exploration along the Murrumbidgee River just to the north of this region.

In about 1842 Augustus Morris came to the Riverina seeking grazing land in association with the entrepreneur and speculator Benjamin Boyd. Morris took up pastoral runs on the Edward River and explored the country surrounding the site of present-day Moulamein. Morris was apparently the first European to describe the confluence of the Edward River and Billabong Creek as "The Moulamein".

Existing records of the Moulamein Court of Petty Sessions begin in 1847.  In June 1848 a contract was let for a court-house and lock-up to be built at Moulamein (to be finished within six weeks).  Moulamein Post Office opened on 1 October 1849  and the Clerk of Petty Sessions at Moulamein, Cornelius de Witt Jebb, applied for the position of postmaster. The post office closed in 1851 and was not reopened until 1859.  Moulamein's court-house pre-dated the one at Albury, so prisoners were brought there to be tried from far-flung regions of the Riverina.  Richard Edward Wright established the Moulamein Inn at the location in 1848 and was granted a licence for the hotel in February 1849.  In November 1849 approval was granted for Moulamein to be laid out as a township.  It was surveyed by Thomas Townsend in 1851 and its township status gazetted on 9 September that year.  Moulamein's first court-house was demolished in 1860.

During the period 1864 to 1866 George Ashcroft held the licence of the Traveller's Rest Hotel at Moulamein.

In 1866 it was reported that Moulamein had a population of 100 persons.   At that time the township had two hotels, a post-office and "some stores".  A tender was accepted for a school to be built at Moulamein in June 1866.

Notes

External links 

 Moulamein Rail Siding

Towns in the Riverina
Towns in New South Wales
River ports of Australia
Murray River Council
Miss Wisconsin Teen USA

The Miss Wisconsin Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Wisconsin in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Wisconsin has placed at Miss Teen-USA on six occasions. The first placement was in 1984, when Adrianne Hazelwood made the ten semi-finalists, and then endured an eighteen-year dry spell until Vanessa Semrow won the Miss Teen USA crown in 2002. Then lastly with two consecutive semi-final placements with Katherine (Kate) Patrice Redeker (2013) and Patience Ann Vallier (2014), followed by Shreya Gundelly in 2021 and her sister Sage Gundelly in 2022.

Five Wisconsin teen titleholders have competed at Miss USA, (four as Miss Wisconsin-USA in 1995, 2014, 2010, and 2016; and one as Miss Connecticut USA in 1985). One teen, Maria Kim, has also competed at Miss America in 1987 and won two talent awards. In 2007, Bishara Abridasheed Dorre, Miss Wisconsin Teen-USA 2006, became the first former Miss Teen-USA state titleholder to win a Miss America's Outstanding Teen state title, when she was crowned Miss Wisconsin's Outstanding Teen 2007.

Sage Gundelly of Mequon was crowned Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2022 on May 8, 2022 at Madison Marriott West Hotel in Middleton. She will represent Wisconsin for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

Results summary

Placements
Miss Teen USA: Vanessa Marie Semrow (2002)
Top 10: Adrianne Hazelwood (1984)
Top 15: Patience Ann Vallier  (2014)
Top 16: Katherine Patrice Redeker (2013), Shreya Gundelly (2021), Sage Gundelly (2022)
Top 20: Shelby Hohneke (2023)
Wisconsin holds a record of 7 placements at Miss Teen-USA.

Winners 

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

External links
Official website

Wisconsin
Women in Wisconsin
The Starjets

The Starjets are a Northern Irish power pop group from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

History
The band was formed in June 1976. The Starjets consists of guitarist/vocalist Terry Sharpe, guitarist/vocalist Paul Bowen, bassist Sean Martin and drummer Liam L'Estrange. The group sported a mix of punk and mainstream pop influences. Early sets consisted of such 1960s pop standards as "Please Please Me" by The Beatles and "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies. They opened for groups as diverse as the Bay City Rollers and Stiff Little Fingers.

The group secured a major record label recording contract with Epic Records; they were signed by Muff Winwood. They released a number of singles in 1979, with their only chart hit  being "War Stories" b/w "Do the Push", which peaked at No. 51 on the UK Singles Chart. The A-side is a celebration of World War II comic book stories, such as those of Sgt. Fury. They released one album, 1979's God Bless the Starjets, but it failed commercially. Following the release of the "Shiraleo" single in March 1980, the band changed its name to Tango Brigade and released one more single, "Donegal", before finally splitting up. After a brief stint performing vocal duties with the Angelic Upstarts (most notably taking lead vocals on the song "Reason Why?" from the album of the same title), Sharpe went on co-write a couple of tracks on Bananarama's debut album Deep Sea Skiving, before scoring a Top 20 hit in 1988 with his new band The Adventures.

The Starjets reformed in January 2019 and are performing live again. In 2020, Billie Joe Armstrong recorded a version of "War Stories" for his covers album No Fun Mondays. In March 2022, they appeared on The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read, as broadcast on Local and Talking Pictures TV, performing  live in the studio. The Starjets were voted the most successful Heritage Chart Act of 2021, with singles such as 2020's "Geordie Best" and 2022's "King Upon a London Hill" making it to the number one spot.

References

External links
Official website
Biography on the Mod-Pop-Punk Archives (via the Wayback  Machine)
Discussion on BBC Northern Ireland's "The Saturday Magazine"
[ Review] of God Bless the Starjets in AllMusic
Review of God Bless the Starjets in Trouser Press

British power pop groups
Punk rock groups from Northern Ireland
Musical groups from Belfast
Musical quartets from Northern Ireland
Rick Timmons

Rick Timmons (Oct 11, 1957-April 10, 2022), Dallas, Texas) was an American painter best known for equine art, large murals and portraits. After attending the Art Institute of Dallas, he joined the Dallas Fire Department in 1981 where he spent the next thirteen years. While doing more and more commissioned oil portrait paintings he was picked up by numerous southwest art galleries and in 1987/1988 was chosen to do commemorative paintings for both the New York and Texas Firefighter's Associations. In 1994 Timmons left the Dallas Fire Department and became a full-time painter. His works are mainly focused on firefighting, portraits, equine art, southwest art and bar murals.

External links
 Loco Gringo Studios - Timmons' website

20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
People from St. Petersburg, Florida
Living people
20th-century American male artists
1957 births
Jaap Penraat

Jaap Penraat (April 11, 1918 – June 25, 2006) was a Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War.

Life 
Penraat was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. As a child, he helped Jewish neighbors by switching lights for them on Shabbat, which they were forbidden to do. When the Nazis occupied The Netherlands and began acting against the Jews, Penraat was an interior designer, architect and sculptor of tiles and statues. He started his resistance activities by forging identity papers for Jews, but was discovered and jailed for several months. Later he made over 20 trips smuggling a total of 406 Jewish people to safety from the Netherlands to Spain via France by using his forgery skills to convince the Nazis they were slave laborers for the Atlantic Wall on France's coast. He lost only one man, who was hit by a train. Penraat was tortured by the Nazis, but revealed nothing about his operations. After his release, he continued his activities until 1944, when it became too risky to continue, and he spent the rest of the war hiding in a village, living on sugar beets.

After the war, Penraat became a noted designer in Amsterdam, until in 1958 he moved to the United States. In 1964, he designed the Dutch mill cafe, for the New York World's Fair.

He remained silent about his wartime activities until his daughters convinced him that his grandchildren should know about them. He went on to describe his experiences to school groups. In subsequent interviews, he insisted he had only "done the decent thing". Yad Vashem, the official Israeli memorial to victims of the Holocaust, awarded him the designation of Righteous Among the Nations and put him on its honor roll on June 11, 1988.

A longtime friend of Penraat's, Hudson Talbott, authored a children's book about Penraat's activities entitled Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust. Talbott said in an interview that Penraat "just loved the idea of putting one over on the Nazis".

Penraat died at his home in Catskill, New York at the age of 88, three years following the death of his wife, Jettie. He is survived by his three daughters, Marjolijn, Mir, and Noelle.

References
 Forging Freedom - A true story of heroism during the Holocaust, by Hudson Talbott. New York, 2000.

External links
New York Times "Jaap Penraat Dies at 88; Saved Hundreds in Holocaust" July 2, 2006 (registration may be required)
Jerusalem Post
Jaap Penraat at Yad Vashem website

Dutch resistance members
Dutch architects
Architects from Amsterdam
Dutch Righteous Among the Nations
1918 births
2006 deaths
People from Catskill, New York
Miss Wyoming Teen USA

The Miss Wyoming Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Wyoming in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Wyoming's highest placement was at Miss Teen USA 1985 when Emily Ernst placed first runner-up to Kelly Hu of Hawaii.

Five Miss Wyoming Teen USA winners have gone on to win the Miss Wyoming USA title and compete at Miss USA.

Results summary

Placements
Wyoming holds a record of 9 placements at Miss Teen USA:
1st runner-up: Emily Ernst (1985)
Top 5: Gina DeBernardi (1998)
Top 15/16: Mollie Smith (2007), Amy David (2009), Caroline Scott (2010), Sydney Graus (2012), Autumn Schieferstein (2017), Grace Turner (2019), Teryn Thatcher (2021)

Winners 

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

Wyoming
Women in Wyoming
1983 establishments in Wyoming
Alsvågvatnet

Alsvågvatnet is a lake which lies in Øksnes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.  It is on the island of Langøya in the Vesterålen archipelago.  There is birch woodland and bogland nearby.  The  lake sits at an elevation of  above sea level, about  west of the village of Alsvåg, along the road to Myre.

References

Øksnes
Lakes of Nordland
Vesterålen