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Choummaly Sayasone

Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone (Lao: ຈູມມະລີ ໄຊຍະສອນ; born 6 March 1936) is a Laotian politician who was General Secretary (supreme leader) of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos (head of state) from 2006 to 2016.

History 
Choummaly Sayasone was born in Attapeu. He joined the Party's Politburo in 1991 and was Minister of Defence from 1991 to 2001. Subsequently he was the third Vice President of Laos from 2001 to 2006.

He was elected as the LPRP's General Secretary on 21 March 2006, in the aftermath of the Party's 8th Congress, by the first plenum of the eighth Central Committee, succeeding Khamtai Siphandone as de facto leader of Laos. He subsequently succeeded Siphandon as the 6th President of Laos on 8 June 2006.

In March 2011, he was reelected to his position as the LPRP's General Secretary at the 9th LPRP Congress. In June 2011, he was re-elected as President of Laos at the seventh National Assembly. He did not seek re-election to the LPRP Central Committee at the 10th LPRP Congress in January 2016, indicating his retirement. Bounnhang Vorachit was elected to succeed him as General Secretary on 22 January 2016.

On 4 April 2021, Sayasone and his family were on a yacht in Nam Ngum Lake, when there was a storm and the vessel capsized. Although initially feared dead, Sayasone survived, but nine people died, including those of his wife, Keosaychay Sayasone, and his son.

Awards and honors
:
 Order of José Martí (2015)
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 Gold Star Order (2006)

References 

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1936 births
Heads of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 3rd Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 4th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 5th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 7th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 8th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 9th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Alternate members of the 4th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 5th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 6th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 7th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 8th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 9th Politburo of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 4th Secretariat of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Members of the 9th Secretariat of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
Lao People's Revolutionary Party politicians
Living people
People from Attapeu province
Presidents of Laos
Vice presidents of Laos
Deputy Prime Ministers of Laos
Defense Ministers of Laos
Laotian military leaders
Marines, Val-d'Oise

Marines () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

Twinning
Marines has been twinned with the town of Kington in England since 1979. The two places are of a similar population. In Marines there is a residential side-street called "Place Kington", whilst in Kington there is a covered space by the market hall called "Place-de-Marines".

Education
Schools in Marines:
Ecole maternelle des Murgers (preschool)
Ecole élémentaire Paul Cézanne
Collège des Hautiers (junior high school)

Trivia

Marines is located next to a village called Us. In the surrounding area, both villages are indicated with signs showing both names listed, which reads as "US MARINES". A regular joke in the region is to make people believe that these signs indicate a nearby U.S Marine Corps base.

See also
Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

References

External links

Official website 

Land use (IAURIF) 
Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise 

Communes of Val-d'Oise
Justin-Siena High School

Justin-Siena High School is a Roman Catholic preparatory school in the Lasallian tradition, located in Napa, California within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California. The school was created when Justin High School for males, sponsored by the Christian Brothers of the San Francisco District, merged with St. Catherine of Siena High School for females, sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael in 1972. The student population currently numbers approximately 600. It provides education to a diverse student population including North Bay residents from Napa, Solano, and Sonoma Counties, as well as international students. Justin-Siena has awarded more than $3.5 million in tuition assistance for the 2020-21 school year. Approximately 32.87% of students receive tuition assistance with the average grant covering 48.6% of tuition.  The School is administered by a President and is staffed by religious and lay men and women.

Growth plans

In 2011, the school had announced preliminary plans to lease 10 acres of its property to Lowe's. Revenue from the lease would have provided capital to finance campus improvements, including the construction of a new science and academic research center, an aquatics center, a renovated performing arts center and renovations to classrooms, the cafeteria and locker rooms.
Later in the 2011, Lowes announced plans to close 20 stores and scale back future expansion plans,  The company did not indicate how plans for the Justin Siena site would be affected by this announcement.
In 2014, the school announced scaled back plans to remodel, expand and upgrade the facility. The school announced plans to lease 6.42 acres of school property for commercial development with the goal of funding tuition assistance. At the time of the announcement, several residents in the surrounding neighborhood expressed concerns regarding increased traffic and other environmental impacts.

Notable alumni
Josh Jackson, basketball player, attended the school but did not play for the team
Andy Miller (golfer), Professional golfer
Olivia O'Brien, singer and songwriter
Brett Wallace, baseball

References

External links

California
Catholic secondary schools in California
High schools in Napa County, California
Educational institutions established in 1966
1966 establishments in California
Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa
SS Uriah M. Rose

SS Uriah M. Rose (MC contract 2729) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Uriah M. Rose, an influential Arkansas lawyer.

The ship was laid down by Permanente Metals in their Richmond Yard #2 on December 19, 1943, then launched on January 10, 1944. Uriah M. Rose was operated by American President Lines under charter with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration.
American President Lines. In 1947 she was sold to French Gov't.(Cie.Generale Transatlantique) and renamed Aurray. In 1950 she was sold to Messageries Maritimes, Paris. In 1961 she was sold to Zim Israel Nav.Co, Haifa under an Israeli flag and renamed Pan. Zim Israel Nav.Co converted to motor ship, removing her steam engines. In 1964 she was sold to Pagan SS Corp, Nassau, a British flag and renamed Orchidea. In 1970 she was sold to Ardena Shipping Company, a Cyprus flag and renamed Ardena. In 1972 she was scrapped at Bilbao.

References 

Liberty ships
Ships built in Richmond, California
1943 ships
Respublika (Lithuanian newspaper)

Respublika is a right-wing Lithuanian newspaper, published since September 16, 1989. Since January 7, 1991, it has published a Russian language edition (Республика).

In 1993 one of the founders, deputy editor-in-chief, and investigative journalist Vitas Lingys was shot to death in Vilnius after several death threats. Lingys wrote about organized crime and published several revealing stories about "Vilnius Brigade" crimes. Boris Dekanidze was found guilty of this crime and sentenced to death. He became the last person to be executed in July 1995 before the death sentence was abolished.

According to the TNS Gallup data, Respublika publication group used to be dominating in the country's press market. Newspaper by Respublika publication group (dailies Respublika (Lithuanian and Russian), Vakaro žinios, Šiaulių kraštas and Vakarų ekspresas) were read in average by 79.2% of all newspaper readers in early 2008. It became a weekly newspaper, rather than daily one starting from 2014. According to the Lithuanian influencer and a former advisor to the Prime Minister of Lithuania Skirmantas Malinauskas who worked in the newspaper for a short time in the past, Respublika.lt falls out of the top 15 of the most readable Lithuanian portals as of 2022.

Circulation of Lithuanian edition of Respublika reached 38,000 copies on Mondays–Thursdays and 55,000 copies on Fridays–Saturdays in 2005. In March 2007 26-year-old Ramunė Vaičiulytė became Respublika's first female editor-in-chief.

Content
In 2006, the paper published a story that called former Israeli general and Soviet partisan Yitzhak Arad a "war criminal" for his alleged role in the Koniuchy massacre which was perpetrated by anti-Nazi Soviet partisans. As a result, the Lithuanian state prosecutor initiated an investigation of Arad. However, following an international outcry, the investigation was dropped in the fall of 2008.

The newspaper republished few fake news about the Covid vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as a claim that vaccines killed more Israelis than the Covid virus would have killed without vaccines, quoting an institute named after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. From 2021 and 2022 the newspaper was a vocal supporter of the Big Family Defence March, a nationalist euroskeptic movement fighting against the ratification of Istanbul Convention, LGBT rights and vaccine passports.

The newspaper further gained notoriety when it kept criticizing Lithuanian foreign policy of supporting Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The newspaper took a sympathetic stance towards the Russian government. As a result, two biggest retail chains in Lithuania (Rimi Baltic and Iki) and the Lithuanian Post stopped distributing the newspaper Respublika and its filial tabloid Vakaro žinios.

References

External links
 

Newspapers published in Vilnius
Newspapers established in 1989
Daily newspapers published in Lithuania
Sophus Claussen

Sophus Claussen (12 September 1865 Helletofte – 11 April 1931 Gentofte) was a Danish writer. He is best remembered for his neo-romanticism poems.

Biography
Born in 1865, Claussen was the son of politician Rasmus Claussen and Hanne Sophie (). He began his studies in 1884 and published his first collection of poetry, , which attracted attention due to its daringness and bold eroticism along the lines of Emil Aarestrup's work. For a number of years Claussen was involved with the local press. He first began to make a name for himself through two partially symbolic, partially realistic idylls about life in market towns, "" (1894) and "Kitty" (1895), which through a blend of prose and poetry as well as playfulness and grace captivated readers (particularly his introduction to "": "", likely his most significant work [revised edition 1912]). Claussen later continued his depictions of Danish island life in "" (1899) and "" (1900). His small travel novels "" and "" (both 1896) are unique among his works with their poetically chatty tone. Additionally, he wrote the play "".

Claussen lived in Paris for a number of years and published several smaller books ("" [1901], "" [1904], "" [1910]). After returning to Denmark, he published a comprehensive and characteristic collection of poetry, , which defines the capricious nature of his body of work.

Among his later works, "" (1925) and "" (1927) can be highlighted as particularly representative of his poetic nature. Claussen's complete works are available in nine volumes.

Claussen and author Johannes Jørgensen co-wrote the journal Taarnet as part of the Danish Symbolism movement. To Claussen's regret, he never had a big breakthrough. Recognition eventually came among the Heretica circle and author Karen Blixen.

Claussen was closely linked with painter Albert Gottschalk.

He is buried in Gentofte cemetery.

Honors 
Ekbatana, from 1896, is included in the Danish culture canon.

Works
 , 1887
  1899
  1894
 , 1904
 , 1912
  1925

References

External links
Sophus Claussen; Danish Wikisource

1865 births
1931 deaths
Danish male poets
19th-century Danish poets
20th-century Danish poets
19th-century male writers
20th-century Danish male writers
Sophonias

Sophonias may refer to:

 Sophonias (fl. c. 600 BC), Greco-Latin form of the name of the Hebrew religious leader, Zephaniah
 Sophonias (commentator) (fl. c. 1300), commentator on Aristotle
Biker-Jens

Jens Romundstad, commonly known as Biker-Jens (born 1971) is a Danish television personality. He is a former professional soldier and educated Civiløkonom (literally "civil economist"). In 2002, he served in Kyrgyzstan with the Royal Danish Air Force in mission Enduring Freedom. Currently he is employed by COOP.

In his spare time, he gives frequent lectures about communication, branding and health management.

Robinson Ekspeditionen
Jens participated in Denmark's first version of Survivor, called Robinson Ekspeditionen in 1998, and later  participated in "the final showdown" with some of the contestants returning in 2002, losing a close draw just before the finals in both cases.
After Robinson Ekspeditionen, Biker-Jens gained a lot of local fame, and made several travel programs for Danish TV Danmark and TV3+. Biker Jens' travel documentaries from the United States, the Far East and Australia are the most re-run TV-series ever broadcast in Denmark.

Biker Jens in the United States
His most famous show, Biker Jens in the USA, is a travel documentary series, where he rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle from Key West, Florida, to San Francisco, California. During the 3½ month ride he experienced the extremes as well as everyday life in the States. He tried everything from alligator-wrestling to gatecrashing a Ku Klux Klan meeting, while also meeting a handful of Danes living in America and having successful careers, such as NFL kicker Morten Andersen, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, and actor/stuntman Sven-Ole Thorsen. The show became the No. 1 show on TV Danmark in late 1999, and he signed a new contract with the TV channel to make two more travel documentary series, that would take place in Asia and Australia. They were both filmed and aired in 2000. After driving 45,000 km on Harley-Davidsons within 1½ years, Romundstad started a career as team builder, but then later returned to the screen to host the Danish version of Fear Factor, filmed in South Africa in 2002.

In 2003 he went back to the US for TV3 to film the series Biker Jens - A Life on the Edge, where he examined extreme lifestyles, not only describing it, but actually living the life himself, as a stunt driver, male stripper, human cannonball, pro wrestler, rodeo cowboy, bullfighter, rapper, freediver and a homeless person. He was injured several times during the filming, but was later awarded the "Brigitte Bardot International Award" at the Humane Society of the United States' "Genesis Award" Ceremony in 2003, for the episode about bullfighting in Mexico.

External links
 Biker-Jens online
 

1970 births
Danish television presenters
Danish television personalities
Survivor (franchise) contestants
Living people
2000 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election

Elections to Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 4 May 2000.  One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 18.0%.  The election in Longview ward was postponed until June.

After the election, the composition of the council was
Labour 61
Liberal Democrat 4

Election result

Ward results

References

2000
2000 English local elections
2000s in Merseyside
Francesco Accolti

Francesco Accolti (c. 1416 – 1488), also called Francesco d'Arezzo, was an Italian jurist. The brother of Benedetto Accolti, he professed jurisprudence at Bologna from 1440 to 1445, and afterwards at Ferrara, Siena, and Pisa.

He possessed a strong understanding and powerful eloquence. The distinction which he acquired was so great, that he flattered himself with the expectation of obtaining a cardinal's hat, on the accession of Sixtus IV to the pontifical throne; and when it was refused him, the pope though it necessary to accompany the refusal with this complimentary apology: "I would gladly have granted you the honor, had I not feared, that your preferment, by removing you from your school, would have hindered the progress of science." The reputation of Accolti was tarnished by the parsimony with which he amassed vast treasures. He wrote several treatises on law, and translated some of the writings of Chrysostom.

See also
Accolti, other members of the family

References

External links
Francesco Accolti works at Somni
Francisci Aretini in Phalaridis tyranni agrigentini Epistolas, digitized manuscript.
Epistole di Phalari, digitized manuscript.

1416 births
1488 deaths
People from Arezzo
15th-century Italian jurists
Pine Lake, Alberta

Pine Lake is an unincorporated community in Red Deer County in the province of Alberta.

Name
Pine Lake got its name from the adjacent lake, the lake used to be known as Ghost Pine Lake from a native legend.

History
The Pine Lake post office opened in 1895. Telephone lines arrived in 1912. On July 14, 2000, it was hit by the Pine Lake tornado, a killer F3 tornado.

Attractions
Pine Lake is home to a number of campgrounds and cottages, including Salvation Army Pine Lake Camp Whispering Pines G&CC, Leisure Campground and Pelican Bay.

References

Localities in Red Deer County
Sophia Charlotte

Sophia Charlotte may refer to:

 Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (1668 – 1705), Queen of Prussia as wife of Frederick I of Prussia
 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744 – 1818), Queen of the United Kingdom as wife of George III

See also
 Sophie Charlotte (disambiguation), a similar name
Amos (band)

Amos is an American Christian rock band. They released their first record in February 2003.

Their debut CD in February 2003, For Life the Dream to Live was  a full-length concept album about how even the most sinful can be redeemed.

In April 2005, their national debut radio single "Indian Song" from For Life the Dream to Live, Amos' debut CD, reached number 7 on the American Christian Music Exchange Alternative Tracks & Singles charts and has been featured on more than 50 Christian rock and college radio stations across the U.S.

In April 2006 they released "Rise Above", the band's first single from their second CD, Faith Knows No Fear. It reached number 3 on Radio Active Journal's Christian indie chart.

The band has also shared the stage with many popular national acts including Newsboys (Sparrow), 10,000 Maniacs (Elektra), Spin Doctors (Sony), Fastball (Hollywood), Cary Pierce (Aware Records) and others.

A cornerstone of Amos success is their live show. They were nominated for best live performance of 2003 by Spin 180s Listener Choice Awards, a nationally syndicated Christian rock radio program.  The band was also nominated for Band of the Month by Christian Indies MAGazine in February 2004.

Amos has developed and hosted three charity music festivals titled Amos Fest I, Amos Fest II and Amos Fest III. The festivals showcased top D/FW bands and have attracted more than 600 people in attendance. To date the GRAMMY Foundation, Young Life and Boy Scouts of America have been beneficiaries.

Amos released their second CD Faith Knows No Fear on the (Faith, Hope and Love Label) in May 2006.

Amos is made up of:
 Christian Coffield  lead vocals & guitar;
Tom Coffield  lead guitar & background vocals;
Dan Slider  bass & background vocals;
Mark Slider  keyboards & special efx;
Dan Yost  drums.

The Coffield brothers started the band as an alternative rock group that focused on both gospel and rock markets. The band broke up in 2007.

American Christian rock groups
Artakama

Artakama (fl. 324 BC) was a Persian noblewoman and the second wife of Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great and the first Pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.

Biography
Artakama (or as Plutarch calls her Apama Eum. 18.1) was a daughter of Artabazus of Phrygia, a grandson of king Artaxerxes II and queen Strateira. Her father was a Satrap of Dascylium under Artaxerxes III and Darius III, and a Satrap of Bactria under Alexander. Her mother was most likely the only known wife of Artabazus, an anonymous sister of the Rhodian generals Memnon and Mentor, who were in Persian service in the late 340 BCs and the 330 BCs.

Artakama married Ptolemy (then a general) in April 324 BC at a marriage festival in the city of Susa, as ordered by Alexander the Great. Many of the Macedonian and other Greek officers took Persian wives shortly afterward. Artakama was not mentioned in historical texts again, probably because Ptolemy quietly discarded her when he left Babylon for Egypt after Alexander's death. If so, his action was a contrast to that of his friend Seleucus, whose Persian wife, Apama, married also on that occasion, remained with him permanently. Seleucus and Apama became the ancestors of the kings of the Seleucid dynasty and, through a future dynastic marriage, of the last rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Artakama is called Apama by Plutarch, but this is likely an error. 

Ptolemy had no known children by Artakama.

References

External links
Genealogy

Queens consort of the Ptolemaic dynasty
4th-century BC women
Women of the Achaemenid Empire
4th-century BC Iranian people
Shadowserver Foundation

Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization that gathers and analyzes data on malicious Internet activity (including malware, botnets, and computer fraud), sends daily network reports to subscribers, and works with law enforcement organizations around the world in cybercrime investigations. Established in 2004 as a "volunteer watchdog group," it liaises with national governments, CSIRTs, network providers, academic institutions, financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and end users to improve Internet security, enhance product capability, advance research, and dismantle criminal infrastructure.

Funding 
In early 2020, Cisco, which has been the primary funder for 15 years, announced they would be withdrawing their funding. In late May 2020 it was announced that the Shadowserver Foundation had received funding from various sources to enable “the group to continue in a more sustainable way without becoming dependent on a single backer again.”

Activities

Data collection 
Shadowserver scans the IPv4 Internet 45 times per day. It harvests data on malware, spam, bots, and botnets using large-scale sensor networks of honeypots and honeyclients placed throughout the world. It uses sinkholes to collect data on bots and DDOS attacks. It also receives additional malware and sinkhole data from governments, industry partners, and law enforcement agencies that have established reciprocal data-sharing agreements with Shadowserver.

Data analysis 
Shadowserver stores raw malware data permanently in its repository. As new data are collected, Shadowserver analyzes them using thousands of virtual sandboxes and hundreds of bare metal sandboxes. It regularly re-analyzes raw data previously collected. The results of these analyses are stored in the organization's analysis cluster.

Network reporting 
Shadowserver sends free daily network reports to users who have subscribed to them. The reports contain all the data that Shadowserver has collected and analyzed about any suspicious activity it was able to detect within the specific networks or regions for which the subscriber is responsible. For example, a national government might receive data aggregated by geo-spatial coordinates defined by latitude and longitude, while an international network provider might receive data filtered by ASN.

Investigation support 
Shadowserver liaises with security organizations, national governments, and CSIRTs to dismantle global cybercrime networks; for example, it worked with the FBI, Europol, and Interpol to take down the Avalanche network in 2016. It also helps law enforcement partners to develop strategies against cyber security threats and to mitigate threats as they emerge, focusing on cases that involve criminal abuse of the Internet’s infrastructure.

References

External links
 

Computer security organizations
Custos Rotulorum of Kent

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Kent.

 Sir John Baker bef. 1544–1558
 Thomas Wotton bef. 1562–1587
 Sir Henry Cobham 1587–1592
 Sir Edward Hoby bef. 1594–1617
 Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox 1617–1624
 Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 1624–1642
 Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester 1642–1646
Interregnum
 Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 1660–1688
 Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham 1688–1689
 Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 1689
 Henry Sidney, 1st Earl of Romney 1689–1704
 Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea 1704–1705
 Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham 1705–1724
 Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset 1724–1765
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Kent.

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

Kent
Rich Williams

Richard John Williams (born February 1, 1950) is an American guitarist, primarily known for being one of the only consistent original members of the rock band Kansas alongside drummer Phil Ehart. Both have appeared on every Kansas album to date.

Career 
Williams shared guitar duties with keyboardist/guitarist Kerry Livgren until 1984 when Kansas first broke up, and later from 1990 to 1991 and 1999 to 2000. From 1985 to 1991, he shared guitar-playing with Steve Morse, and later with Zak Rizvi from 2016 to 2021. Since April 2021, Williams has served as the band's only dedicated guitarist, as he also did from 1991 to 1999, and 2000 to 2016. In live performances, violinist Joe Deninzon serves as a second guitarist little or no violin, as did his predecessor, David Ragsdale. Williams and Phil Ehart are the only two founding members of Kansas who have never left the band and have played on all Kansas albums. Among the songs Williams co-wrote with the band are "Can I Tell You", "No Room for a Stranger", and the hit "Play the Game Tonight".

In 2009, Williams, along with fellow Kansas members Ehart, Billy Greer, and David Ragsdale, formed a group called Native Window that released one album.

Discography

Kansas

Native Window 

 Native Window (2009)

As a guest 

 Steve Walsh – Schemer-Dreamer (1980) (on "Schemer-Dreamer/That's All Right")
 Seventh Key – Seventh Key (2001) (on "Missy", "Every Time It Rains" and "No Man's Land")
 John Elefante – On My Way to The Sun (2013) (on "This Is How The Story Goes")

Personal life 
Williams lost his right eye in a childhood fireworks accident. He wore a prosthetic eye for many years but now wears an eye patch instead. As a child, Williams began playing a ukulele but quickly transitioned to guitar. His early influences included the Beatles and the overall British Invasion. In 2020, Williams and his wife, Debbie, relocated to Linville, North Carolina. Williams is also a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs.

External links 
 Richard Williams fan site

References 

1951 births
Living people
Musicians from Topeka, Kansas
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
American musicians with disabilities
Kansas (band) members
Progressive rock guitarists
Guitarists from Kansas
20th-century American guitarists
Eyepatch wearers
List of Scottish loch-monsters

List of Scottish loch-monsters is a list of lochs in Scotland said to contain monsters in Scottish folklore.

See also
 List of lake monsters

References

Loch-monsters
National Confederation of Workers of Burkina

The Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs Burkinabé (trans. National Confederation of Workers of Burkina; CNTB) is a trade union centre in Burkina Faso. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. CNTB emerged from the Confédération africaine des travailleurs croyants.

References

 
 International Labour Standards Archived Report

International Trade Union Confederation
Trade unions in Burkina Faso
Trade unions established in 1950
Marine (book)

Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit is a 1996 book written by Tom Clancy about the inner workings of a Marine Expeditionary Unit.

External links 
 

Books by Tom Clancy
Non-fiction books about the United States Marine Corps
Berkley Books books
1996 non-fiction books
Sofar

Sofar may refer to:

 Sofar bomb (SOund Fixing And Ranging bomb), a long-range position-fixing system that uses explosive sounds in the deep sound channel of the ocean
 SOFAR channel (SOund Fixing And Ranging channel), a horizontal layer of water in the ocean centered on the depth at which the speed of sound is minimum
 Sofar Sounds, music events company

See also
 Shofar, a musical instrument
 Sawfar, a village in Lebanon
Paul Hermann (botanist)

Paul Hermann (30 June 1646, Halle – 29 January 1695, Leiden) was a German-born physician and botanist who for 15 years was director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden.

Born in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Paul Hermann was the son of Johann Hermann, a well-known organist, and Maria Magdalena Röber, a clergyman's daughter. Hermann studied theology and medicine in Wittenberg and botany in Leipzig.
After graduating from Europe's finest medical school, Padua in 1670, he was then engaged by the Dutch East India Company and went to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as a Ship's Medical Officer. He was in their employ from 1672 to 1677. During his stay there, he made a scientific collection of this island's plants and other organisms. He was then offered the job at Leiden and took up the Chair of Botany at the University of Leiden in 1679 and took up his residence in 1680 at Leiden where he spent the rest of his professional life.  He immediately set to making it the finest botanical garden in Europe.

Hermann's Paradisus batavus, a description of the plants of the Leyden university botanical garden, was published three years after his death in 1698 and edited by William Sherard.  There was a second edition published in 1705. Sherard edited his notes and solicited patronage for the publication of this important book. They were students together of Tournefort in Paris in 1688. This is where Hermann perfected his botanical draughtsmanship. Later Sherard collected more of his notes and produced a catalog published as Musaeum Zeylanicum (1717, 2nd edn.: 1727). Hermann's original Ceylon collection was used by Carl Linnaeus when he wrote his Flora Zeylanica (1747) and Species plantarum (1753), using the abbreviation "Hermann herb." in those publications. After Hermann's collections had passed through many hands, they were eventually purchased by Sir Joseph Banks. Now they are kept at the Natural History Museum in London.  Hermann was a very good botanical illustrator and had an excellent botanical grasp as declared by Linnaeus himself.

Works 
 Cynosura materiae medicae : ante sedecim annos in lucem emissa, brevibusque annotatis exornata a Joh. Sigismundo Henningero, nunc diffusius explanata, et compositorum Medicamentorum Recensione aucta.... Argentorati : Beck, 1726 Digital edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
 Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus. 1687 (Internet Archive, BSB).
 Florae Lugduno-Batavae flores. 1690 (BSB).
 
 Cynosura Materiae Medicae…. Spoor, Straßburg 1710 (online; edited by Johann Sigismund Henninger), (1726 edition at University and State Library Düsseldorf).

References

External links 
 The Paul Hermann Herbarium, Natural History Museum includes biography

1646 births
1695 deaths
17th-century German botanists
17th-century German physicians
Botanical illustrators
Hortus Malabaricus
Academic staff of Leiden University
Scientists from Halle (Saale)
Dutch East India Company people
George N. Morgan

George Nelson Morgan (September 7, 1825 – July 24, 1866) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War.

Early life
George Nelson Morgan was born on Long Sault Island, between Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York, September 7, 1825, to William Sidney Morgan Jr. (1786-1847) from Stormont County, and Mary Moore (1791-1870). William S. Morgan Jr. served as a Sergeant in the Stormont Militia at the Battle of Ogdensburg during the War of 1812. His father, William S. Morgan Sr. (1752-1836), was born in Ireland and joined the 53rd Regiment of Foot in 1776, sailing from Ireland to fight for the British Army in the American Revolution. He fought at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, Battle of Valcour Island, and at the Battle of Saratoga where he was captured when John Burgoyne surrendered. William Morgan Sr. was granted land in Canada after the war in 1784, settling in Osnabruck Township, Stormont County. He commanded the Flank Companies of the Stormont Militia during the War of 1812 at the Battle of Ogdensburg. 

George N. Morgan moved St. Catharines, Ontario in the late 1840s, before immigrating to Minnesota in 1856, where he was a foundry and machine shop operator.

Civil War 
Morgan joined the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry and was appointed captain, May 29, 1861, major, October 23, 1861, lieutenant colonel, October 2, 1862, and colonel, November 14, 1862. He commanded the regiment at the Battle of Fredericksburg. He had temporary command of a brigade in the Army of the Potomac, beginning December 14, 1862.

Because of tuberculosis, he resigned, May 4, 1863, but was recovered sufficiently to be appointed major of the 2nd Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, May 26, 1863 and colonel, September 25, 1863. He commanded Fort Snelling, Minnesota, a training facility and frontier outpost during the Sioux and Dakota Wars.

Post War
On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Morgan for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866. Morgan was mustered out of the volunteers on June 30, 1866.

Morgan's tuberculosis worsened and he died at Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 24, 1866. He was buried at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis.

His eldest son, George H. Morgan, became a cavalry officer and was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars, while his younger son, Colonel Alfred Sully Morgan, named for George's tentmate and commanding officer in the 1st Minnesota, Alfred Sully, served in the Spanish–American War at the Battle of Manila (1898), the Philippine–American War, and World War 1.

Namesake
Morgan Avenue in Minneapolis is named for George N. Morgan.

See also

List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union)

References

External links

1825 births
1866 deaths
Union Army colonels
People of Minnesota in the American Civil War
Canadian people of the American Civil War
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis deaths in Minnesota
Sofer (disambiguation)

A sofer is a ritual scribe in Judaism.

People with the surname Sofer, Sofaer or Sopher
 Sofer of Prague (Abraham Niederländer), 16th-century Jewish-Austrian mathematician
 Abraham Sofaer (1896–1988), British stage actor
 Abraham David Sofaer (born 1938), federal judge for the United States District Court
 Ariela Sofer, Israeli and American operations researcher
 Chaim Sofer (1821–1886), Hungarian rabbi
 Jekuthiel Sofer, 18th-century Jewish scribe from Amsterdam
 Moses Sofer (1762–1839), Orthodox rabbi also known by the name of his most famous work the Chatam Sofer
 Ofir Sofer, Israeli politician and minister (from Jan 2023)
 Rena Sofer (born 1968), American actress
 Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer  (1815–1871), Hungarian rabbi also known as the Ktav Sofer
 Yaakov Chaim Sofer (1870–1939), Iraqi rabbi and author of Kaf HaChaim
 Yehoshua Sofer, Israeli martial artist
 Aaron Sopher (1905–1972), American artist

Other
 Rube John Sofer, a character played by Mandy Patinkin in the American television series Dead Like Me

See also
Soferet (disambiguation)

Surnames of Jewish origin
E3000

E3000 may refer to:
 Eurostar E3000, a satellite platform manufactured by Airbus
 A variant of the HP 3000, a minicomputer line manufactured by Hewlett-Packard
The Ambassador (TV series)

The Ambassador is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and created by Hugh Costello.

The series starred Pauline Collins in the title role as Harriet Smith, the new British ambassador to Ireland and dealt with the personal and professional pressures in her life, as well as wider political themes. Other notable cast members were Denis Lawson and Peter Egan.

Cast and characters

Main
 Pauline Collins as Harriet Smith, the British Ambassador to Ireland. Harriet continually tries to maintain the pressures of her personal and private life whilst trying to move on from her guilt regarding the murder of her husband, David, who was killed by a car bomb intended for Harriet.
 Denis Lawson as John Stone, Commercial Attaché for the British Ambassador to Ireland and a clandestine operative for MI6. He is affectionately nicknamed "Spook" by Harriet.

Recurring
 Owen Roe as Kevin Flaherty, the Irish Minister for External Affairs.
 William Chubb as Stephen Tyler, the Deputy British Ambassador to Ireland.
 Tom Connolly as Sam Smith, the 13-year-old son of Harriet Smith.
 Alison McKenna as Jennifer, Personal Assistant to the British Ambassador (Series 1)
 Sara Markland as Becky (Series 1)
 Dominic Mafham as Julian Wadham (Series 1)
 Tim Matthews as Nate Smith, the 19-year-old son of Harriet Smith and a second-year politics student at Trinity College in Dublin. (Series 1)
 Peter Egan as Michael Cochrane, CEO of Cochrane Construction and Harriet's lover (Series 2)
 Eve Matheson as Catherine Grieve, the Consul General of the British Embassy in Dublin. (Series 2)
 Gina Moxley as Eileen (Series 2)

Episodes

Series 1 (1998)

Series 2 (1999)

References

External links

BBC television dramas
1990s British drama television series
1998 British television series debuts
1999 British television series endings
English-language television shows
Virginia State Route 86

State Route 86 (SR 86) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.  The state highway runs  from the North Carolina state line, where the highway continues south as North Carolina Highway 86 (NC 86) to U.S. Route 29 Business (US 29 Bus.) and SR 413. The entire route is contained within the independent city of Danville.

Route description

SR 86 begins at the North Carolina state line, which also serves as the southern limit of the independent city of Danville.  The road continues south as NC 86 toward Yanceyville and Chapel Hill.  SR 86 heads north as South Main Street, which expands from two lanes to a four-lane divided highway just north of the border and has a diamond interchange with the Danville Expressway, which carries US 29 and US 58 around the south side of the city.  North of College Park Drive, the state highway becomes a five-lane road with a center left-turn lane and passes Danville Community College.  At its crossing of Norfolk Southern Railway's Danville District, SR 86 expands to a divided highway and its name changes to Central Boulevard.  The state highway has a partial cloverleaf interchange with SR 293 (West Main Street) next to Danville Regional Medical Center before reaching a cloverleaf interchange with US 29 Business and SR 413 just south of the Dan River. Memorial Drive heads west as US 29 Bus. toward Greensboro and east as SR 413 toward downtown Danville. US 29 Bus. continues north as Central Boulevard across the Dan River.

Though official documents show SR 86 ending at the Memorial Drive interchange, signage exists along a  segment of Central Boulevard and intersecting roads showing Central Boulevard as a part of SR 86. On Memorial Drive, the road to the north is signed as SR 86, signs at the Riverside Drive (US 58 Bus.) and Piedmont Drive interchanges show the road to the south as SR 86, and an "End North SR 86" sign is posted at Central Boulevard's end at Piney Forest Road.

Major intersections

References

External links

Virginia Highways Project: VA 86

086
State Route 086
Trade Union Confederation of Burkina

The Trade Union Confederation of Burkina (CSB) is a trade union centre in Burkina Faso. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.

References
 

Trade unions in Burkina Faso
International Trade Union Confederation
Burkina Faso
Crescent (architecture)

A crescent is an architectural structure where a number of houses, normally terraced houses, are laid out in an arc to form a crescent shape. A famous historic crescent is the Royal Crescent in Bath, England.

Examples
The following are examples of architectural crescents:
 Adelaide Crescent, Hove, England
 Bofills båge, Stockholm, Sweden, by architect Ricardo Bofill
 Buxton Crescent, Buxton, Derbyshire, England
 The Crescent, Limerick, Ireland, double Georgian style crescent
 The Crescent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, England
 Marino Crescent, Dublin, Ireland developed by Charles Ffolliott
 Park Circus, Glasgow, Scotland
 Park Crescent, Brighton, England
 Park Town, Oxford, England
Plaça Manuel Malagrida, Olot, Catalonia, Spain
 Royal Crescent, Brighton, England
 Somerset Place, Bath, England
 Royal Crescent, Bath, England
 The Crescent, Wisbech, Isle of Ely, England
 Wellington Crescent, Ramsgate, England
 Tontine Crescent, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

References

 
House types
Types of streets
Theodor Philipsen

Theodor Esbern Philipsen (10 June 18403 March 1920) was a Danish painter of Jewish ancestry; known for landscapes and animal portraits. He also did small figures in wax and clay.

Biography
Theodor Philipsen was born at  Copenhagen to a cultured merchant family and learned to draw at an early age. At first, however, he was primarily interested in animals, so he went to study agriculture at his uncle's estate near Slangerup. In the 1860s, one of his brothers introduced him to the painter, Hans Smidth, which made him decide to become an artist. He began his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with Carl Bøgh and later came under the influence of Frederik Vermehren.

He was also familiar with the animal portraits of Johan Thomas Lundbye and the 17th-century painter Paulus Potter. In 1873, he was awarded the  for his painting of horses swimming. In the 1880s, he began painting en plein air and began to show some elements of Impressionism.

At the age of thirty-five, concerned that his images were not realistic enough, he went to Paris to study with Léon Bonnat. There, he practiced intensive croquis drawing; to capture the basics of position and movement. He also obtained knowledge of the radical trends in French art through his friend, Rémy Cogghe, with whom he spent some time in Spain and Italy. This all came together in a distinctive style. His favorite places for painting were  Saltholm and Amager.

In the winter of 1884–1885, Paul Gauguin made a visit to Copenhagen. Philipsen approached him for some advice and was shown how to use small brushes with quick, firm strokes. They remained friends for life.

In 1890, he received the Eckersberg Medal. Around 1905, he began to suffer from an eye disease that interfered with his ability to paint. In 1915, he was awarded the Thorvaldsen Medal. He is generally credited with establishing Impressionism as an important aspect of Danish painting.
He died in Copenhagen and was buried at Holmen Cemetery.

Selected paintings

References

Further reading 
 Karl Madsen, Maleren Theodor Philipsen, Kunstforeningen, 1912. Complete text @ the Internet Archive
 Finn Terman Frederiksen, Philipsen og Fynboerne, Randers Kunstmuseum, 2001 
 Thomas Lederballe, Philipsen og impressionismen, Ordrupgaard, 2001

External links 

Theodor Philipsen @ "A Mirror of Nature", travelling exhibition (2006-2008)
"Theodor Philipsen og Kastrup" @ Kastrupgårdsamlingen

1840 births
1920 deaths
20th-century Danish people
Animal artists
Danish Impressionist painters
Danish Jews
Jewish painters
Artists from Copenhagen
Danish landscape painters
Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal
Recipients of the Thorvaldsen Medal
19th-century Danish painters
Danish male painters
20th-century Danish painters
Burials at Holmen Cemetery
19th-century Danish male artists
20th-century Danish male artists
Abdelatif Benazzi

Abdelatif Benazzi (; born 20 August 1968) is a French-Moroccan rugby union player who represented both Morocco and France. He played as a lock or back row forward.

Abdel Benazzi started out with his homeland Morocco, but his ability was quickly spotted by France's selectors. He won his first France cap in 1990 against Australia and went on to make 78 appearances and score nine tries for Les Bleus. He played in three World Cups and was a member of the France team that reached the 1999 Rugby World Cup final. He was twice a Grand Slam winner and led Les Bleus in the 1997 tournament. His last international appearance was on 7 April 2001 against England.

He finished his club career with Saracens in England, retiring in 2003 ahead of his 35th birthday.

See also

 Rugby union in Morocco

References

External links

 ERC Rugby profile
 Sporting heroes

1968 births
Living people
French rugby union players
Moroccan rugby union players
French sportspeople of Moroccan descent
Rugby union locks
Rugby union flankers
Saracens F.C. players
France international rugby union players
People from Oujda
Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne players
Expatriate rugby union players in England
Expatriate rugby union players in Australia
French expatriate rugby union players
Moroccan expatriate rugby union players
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in England
French expatriate sportspeople in England
French expatriate sportspeople in Australia
Morocco international rugby union players
1991 Rugby World Cup players
1995 Rugby World Cup players
1999 Rugby World Cup players