alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Bernard Kabanda

Bernard Kabanda Sslongo (1959 – 4 September 1999) was an Ugandan guitarist. He had just realised fame in the world music circuit through his appearances at WOMAD in the US and the UK in 1999 before he died of AIDS less than two months after his performance at Womad's Reading festival, aged only 40.

Before he died, he recorded an album with Womad, called Olugendo.

He was discovered in the streets of Kampala, Uganda's capital, playing on a guitar he had made himself out of scrap. He was content to play solo, or with simple tin-can percussion as he played in pubs in Kampala, and he did so also in his Womad tour, where he played with Samuel Bakkabulindi Sslongo, who played makeshift shakers and tin-cans with drum sticks.

External links
The Womad Select Information Page
A Tribute to Bernard Kabanda

1959 births
1999 deaths
AIDS-related deaths in Uganda
Real World Records artists
Ugandan musicians
Dioncophyllaceae

The Dioncophyllaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of three species of lianas native to the rainforests of western Africa.

Their closest relatives are Ancistrocladaceae.  Both families lie within a clade of mostly carnivorous plants which, since 1998 or so, have been moved to the order Caryophyllales.  This clade also includes the families Droseraceae (sundews and Venus' flytrap) and Nepenthaceae (an Old World genus of pitcher plants), as well as Drosophyllaceae.

All species in the family are lianas at some point in their lifecycles, and climb by the use of pairs of hooks or tendrils formed by the end of the leaf midribs.  The best-known member is the carnivorous Triphyophyllum peltatum, although the family contains two other species: Habropetalum dawei and Dioncophyllum thollonii.

History of classification
The Cronquist system (1981) had placed the family in order Violales.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does recognize this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots.

References

External links
 

Caryophyllales families
Caryophyllales
Adlan Khasanov

Adlan Khasanov ( 25 May 1970 – 9 May 2004) was a Russian Chechen journalist and photographer, killed in action in Grozny.

Khasanov studied journalism at the Chechen State University, and later worked in newspapers as a reporter and photographer. He also worked for Reuters and Radio Liberty.

He was killed during a 9 May Victory Day parade at the "Dynamo" stadium in Grozny, in a bomb blast carried out by Chechen separatists in an attempt to eliminate Kremlin-backed Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov. The stadium had undergone remodeling and reconstruction, and, according to reports, a bomb placed inside a concrete part of the structure escaped security detection sweeps.

See also
 List of journalists killed in Russia

References

External links
 Workshop in Memory of Reuters Photojournalist Adlan Khasanov
 Report on Khasanov's death - IFEX

1970 births
2004 deaths
Chechen journalists
Journalists killed while covering the Chechen wars
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty people
Reuters people
Russian photojournalists
War photographers
Russian people of Chechen descent
20th-century Russian journalists
Banteer

Banteer () is a village in north County Cork, Ireland located in the Civic Parish of Clonmeen in the Barony of Duhallow. It is near the town of Mallow. Banteer is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency.

History
In 1651, the Battle of Knocknaclashy, the last pitched battle of the Irish Confederate Wars, took place near the village, when English Parliamentarians under Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery defeated an Irish force under Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry.

Organizations
Local sporting organizations include a Gaelic football club known simply as "Lyre" after a nearby village and a hurling club known as Banteer.

The Glen Theatre is a community-owned and managed centre for the arts.  The theatre was originally Banteer National School (built 1840).

Transport
Banteer railway station opened on 16 April 1853 and was closed for goods traffic on 2 September 1976. It is on the Mallow to Tralee railway line.

The Banter to Nadd road was widened and surfaced in 1838 and a large stone was placed at the roadside along the way, commemorating the ganger in charge with the inscription: "JOHN O'NEILL BROSNA 1838".

People 

 Áine Collins (b. 1969), former Fine Gael politician.
Frank Crowley (1939–2022), Fine Gael politician.
 Eddie Dunbar (b. 1996), professional road racing cyclist.
 Denis Horgan (1871–1922), Olympic shot putter.
Conor Lane (b. 1978), Gaelic football referee.
 Pat O'Callaghan (1906–1991), Irish athlete and Olympic gold medallist, was born near Banteer and played for Banteer GAA.

See also
 List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

Towns and villages in County Cork
Oh No, Not You Again

"Oh No, Not You Again" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones, included on their 2005 hit album A Bigger Bang. The song is listed as the tenth track on the album, and was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Features Mick Jagger on lead, backing vocals and bass, Keith Richards on lead guitar, Ronnie Wood on rhythm guitars, and Watts on drums.

Brief history
"Oh No, Not You Again" is one of the most well-known tracks from A Bigger Bang, the Stones' first new studio album since 1997's Bridges to Babylon. The song was used in media campaigns and tour promotions for the band. It was the first new song from A Bigger Bang played for a public audience in a surprise performance at the Juilliard School in New York City.

Throughout the 2005–2006 A Bigger Bang Tour, which has carried the Stones throughout North America and Europe, "Oh No, Not You Again" has been played continuously and received generally well by fans and critics alike, although critics have noted the similarities in structure to previous Rolling Stones efforts from the early 1970s.

The song got significant rock radio airplay in the US, reaching #34 on Billboards Mainstream Rock Tracks in December 2005.

Charlie Watts jokingly said that the song's title should also be the name of the album, referring to the band's constant return to the studio.

Next single rumors
The tune was erroneously believed to be the next single released from A Bigger Bang in Spring 2006. This rumor was proved false when in April 2006 it was announced that the European summer single would be "Biggest Mistake".

The Rolling Stones songs
2005 songs
Songs written by Jagger–Richards
Song recordings produced by Don Was
Dirty data

Dirty data, also known as rogue data, are inaccurate, incomplete or inconsistent data, especially in a computer system or database.

Dirty data can contain such mistakes as spelling or punctuation errors, incorrect data associated with a field, incomplete or outdated data, or even data that has been duplicated in the database. They can be cleaned through a process known as data cleansing.

Dirty Data (Social Science) 
In sociology, dirty data refer to secretive data the discovery of which is discrediting to those who kept the data secret. Following the definition of Gary T. Marx, Professor Emeritus of MIT, dirty data are one among four types of data:
 Nonsecretive and nondiscrediting data: 
Routinely available information.
 Secretive and nondiscrediting data: 
Strategic and fraternal secrets, privacy.
 Nonsecretive and discrediting data:
 sanction immunity,
 normative dissensus,
 selective dissensus,
 making good on a threat for credibility,
 discovered dirty data.
 Secretive and discrediting data: Hidden and dirty data.

See also
Data janitor
Signal noise

References 

Data quality
Yang Song

Yang Song (born 23 June 1989 in Yuxi) is a Chinese tumbling trampoline gymnast, representing his nation at international competitions. He won medals at world championships, including at the 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Trampoline World Championships.

He took up gymnastics in 1995, and began trampolining in 2000 in Yunnan Province. He was named an International Elite Athlete by the General Administration of Sport of China in 2008.

In March 2018, Yang was convicted of contractual fraud and sentenced to 10 years and four months in prison.

Personal
He pursued higher education at the Beijing Sport University.

References

External links
 

1989 births
Living people
Chinese male trampolinists
People from Yuxi
Medalists at the Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships
Gymnasts from Yunnan
20th-century Chinese people
21st-century Chinese people
Fiddler's Green (band)

Fiddler's Green is a German band that plays Irish folk music. Formed in 1990, their first concert under the name of Fiddler's Green was at the Newcomer-Festival in Erlangen in November 1990. Their debut album entitled "Fiddler's Green" was released in 1992 and featured both live and studio tracks, some traditional and some original material. It was released on their own label, Deaf Shepherd Recordings. The band has been signed to a major label, but chose to go back to being independent. The band members themselves refer to their music as Irish Speedfolk, as opposed to Folk rock or Irish folk.

The band has kept up the mix of traditional Irish or Scottish songs and self-written tracks, though the self-written tracks have progressively become less and less folky. The band's influences are wide and varied, but obviously heavily influenced by Celtic rock bands like the Pogues, the Waterboys and Great Big Sea. Recent albums also see a clear influence from Gothic rock music. Having enjoyed growing success in and around Germany, the band reached 1000 played concerts in 2004 (the only band member to play them all is bass player Rainer Schulz), which was celebrated with a concert at Castle Hoheneck. This concert was filmed and released on two DVDs: Celebrate! and Jubilate! The concert saw participation from former band members and other guest musicians. Main lyric and music writer Peter Pathos left the band in summer 2006 and was replaced by Patrick 'Pat' Prziwara. A live DVD Folk's not dead was released to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary in 2010.

Members

Current lineup
 Ralf "Albi" Albers - vocals, guitar, Irish bouzouki, mandolin (1990–present)
 Rainer Schulz - bass (1990–present)
 Stefan Klug - accordion, bodhrán (1991–present)
 Tobias Heindl - violin, vocals (2000–present)
 Frank Jooss - drums, percussion (2001–present)
 Patrick "Pat" Prziwara - vocals, guitar (2006–present)

Former members
 Robert Oppel - violin (1990–1991)
 Eric Obst - drums (1990–1995)
 Tobias Rempe - violin (1991–1995)
 Tobias Schäfer - violin (1995–2000)
 Wolfram Kellner - drums (1995–2001)
 Peter Pathos - guitar, mandolin, banjo, flute (1990–2006)

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

References

External links 

 Official website
 German Fansite
 Der grüne Geiger - Tobias Heindl

 Not to be confused with Fiddler's Green also the name of an Indian jam band playing acoustic folk music from all around the world. Band members are Arko Mukherjee, Diptanshu Roy, Ritoban Das & Shamik Chatterjee 
Image https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037b73x/p037bbsl http://fiddlersgreen.in

People from Erlangen
Folk punk groups
Celtic punk groups
German folk rock groups
Wörgl

Wörgl () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, in the Kufstein district. It is  from the international border with Bavaria, Germany.

Population

Transport
Wörgl is an important railway junction between the line from Innsbruck to Munich, and the inner-Austrian line to Salzburg. Its railway station has been designated as a Hauptbahnhof () since 10 December 2006.

European route E641 connects Wörgl with Salzburg, the routes E45 and E60 (Austrian autobahn A12) pass through Wörgl.

History

World War II 
Nearby Itter Castle was the site of one of the last European and most unusual battles of World War II.  The Battle for Itter Castle was fought on 5 May 1945 by surrendered Wehrmacht troops, the United States Army, Austrian Resistance fighters and former French political prisoners against the 17th Waffen-SS Panzer Grenadier Division.  The leader of the surrendered Wehrmacht troops, Major Josef Gangl, was killed during the battle and is buried in Wörgl's municipal cemetery.  A street in the city is named for Gangl.

Twin towns – sister cities
 Albrechtice nad Orlicí, Czech Republic
 Suwa, Japan

The Wörgl Experiment

Wörgl was the site of the "Miracle of Wörgl" during the Great Depression. It was started on July 31, 1932, with the issuing of "Certified Compensation Bills", a form of local currency commonly known as Stamp Scrip, or Freigeld. This was an application of the monetary theories of the economist Silvio Gesell by the town's then-mayor, .

The experiment resulted in a growth in employment and meant that local government projects such as new houses, a reservoir, a ski jump and a bridge could all be completed, seeming to defy the depression in the rest of the country. Inflation and deflation are also reputed to have been non-existent for the duration of the experiment.

Despite attracting great interest at the time, including from French Premier Edouard Daladier and the economist Irving Fisher, the "experiment" was terminated by Austria's central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank on 1 September 1933.

British economist John Maynard Keynes also thought that "future economics will learn more from Gesell's ideas than from Marx's".

In 2006, milestones were placed across the town to commemorate this event.

Notable people
Reinhard Furrer, a German scientist and astronaut, was born in Wörgl.
Gerhard Berger, a former Formula One driver and former co-owner of Scuderia Toro Rosso, was born in Wörgl.
Stefan Horngacher, an Olympic ski jumper, was born in Wörgl.
Hans Peter Haselsteiner, a building tycoon and former deputy chair of the Liberal Forum, was born in Wörgl.
Richard Kitzbichler, a former Austria national football team player and current assistant manager of Premier League side Southampton F.C., was born in Wörgl.

Gallery

See also 
Local currency
Ithaca Hours
Silvio Gesell
Freigeld

References

External links

Wörgl's attempt in the 1930s to establish a local currency
Wörgl Gigapixel Panorama (11.000 Megapixel)
Community Currency Online Magazine
Website of the Wörgl Tourist Board

 
Cities and towns in Kufstein District
Freiwirtschaft
Kufstein District
Bucov

Bucov () is a commune in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania, just east of Ploiești, the county seat. It is composed of five villages: Bighilin, Bucov, Chițorani, Pleașa and Valea Orlei.

The commune is located in the south-central part of the county. It is traversed by the DN1B road, which runs from Ploiești to Buzău. 

The river Teleajen flows through the commune north to south, separating it from Ploiești. The Bucovel is a left tributary of the Teleajen; it discharges into the Iazul Morilor Teleajen in Bucov.

The Battle of Bucov (also: Bukowo) was fought here in 1600.

References

Communes in Prahova County
Localities in Muntenia
Place names of Slavic origin in Romania
Sanad

Sanad may refer to:

People

Given name
Sanad Al Warfali (born 1992), Libyan footballer
Sanad Ali (born 1988), Emirati footballer
Sanad Bushara Abdel-Nadief (born 1947), Sudanese footballer
Sanad ibn Ali, 9th century Iraqi Jewish astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer
Sanad ibn Rumaythah, Emir of Mecca from 1359 to 1360
Sanad Sharahili (born 1986), Saudi Arabian footballer

Surname
Ali Sanad (born 1986), Qatari footballer
Maikel Nabil Sanad (born 1985), Egyptian-American political activist
Mohamed Sanad, Egyptian antenna scientist
Nesrin Sanad, Egyptian actress

Places
Sanad, Bahrain, a place in Bahrain
Sanad (Čoka), a village in Serbia
Sanad, Tunisia, a place in Tunisia

Other uses
Sanad, the chain of citations or "backings" used to verify the legitimacy of a hadith
Sanad (deed), in British India, a deed granted to the native princely state rulers confirming them in their states, in return for their allegiance

See also
Imtiazi Sanad, a Pakistani military award for gallantry or distinguished service in combat 
SANAD, a film lab at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Sanad Rashed, Iran, a village in Iran
Thomas Geitner

Thomas Geitner (born 14 March 1955) is a German businessman.

Career
Geitner is the chairman of Riskmethods, a supply chain risk management company with offices in Boston, Munich, and Wrocław, and a member of the supervisory board at HolidayCheck Group AG since .

He joined the board of BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s main commercial subsidiary, as a non-executive director in April 2007 to advise on new media developments, investments and international growth.

Previously, he was the CEO at new businesses and innovation of Vodafone, since April 2006, and a board director since May 2000. During the restructuring of Vodafone, he left the company in late 2006. Geitner had joined Vodafone in 2000, as an executive director, establishing and managing global products and services, he was responsible for establishing Vodafone as a global brand, and for the creation and launch of Vodafone live!, in 2002, and the establishment of a global supply chain organisation. In July 2003, Geitner was appointed Vodafone's CTO, where he initiated and led the One Vodafone programme, established a set of shared service organizations, and created the company's leadership position on 3G across Europe.

He was a director of several of the Group's overseas subsidiaries including chairman of the board of Arcor, a member of the board of Vodafone and a member of the management boards of Vodafone Holding GmbH and Vodafone Deutschland GmbH. He was a member of the supervisory board of Singulus from 1997 to 2009.

Prior to Vodafone, Geitner led a number of engineering businesses and later was responsible for telecommunications at RWE Group and a member of the management board. He was CEO of Otelo Communications GmbH and E-Plus, two German telecommunications companies.

References

1955 births
Chief technology officers
German chief executives
German corporate directors
Living people
People from Heidenheim
Vodafone people
Black Radical Mk II

Black Radical Mk II (born Felix Joseph in 1971) is a British hip hop artist from Tottenham, London, England. He was one of the pioneers of the British scene, releasing his first single in 1987 and continuing to release records until 1998. He is most well known for his strident political views, which he often used as the basis for his records.

Biography
Black Radical was born in South London in 1971, and was inspired by Public Enemy's unflinching political stance to start making his own music. This resulted in him releasing his first single, "We Outta Here/B.Boys Be Wise" (Independent, 1987), at a time when the British hip hop scene was just starting. Black Radical moved to 2-Bone Records to release "Monsoon" (2-Bone, 1989) before signing with UK label Mango Records. This led to the release of the single "Rippin' Up The Industry" (Mango Records, 1990) in which Black Radical let rip at the practices of the UK record industry – a typically uncompromising move from an artist who had just moved to one of the UK's biggest hip hop record labels.

Two further singles and his debut album followed: The Undiluted Truth: A Black Man's Leviathan (Mango Records, 1991) is widely regarded as Black Radical's best album and showcases his political and religious views. The song "Sumarli" expresses his belief that black men and women should only date members of their own race, whilst "Sign of the Beast" details an apocalyptic vision and makes reference to the Nation of Islam's belief that the white man was created out of genetic experiments on black men carried out by the scientist Yakub. The album was popular, but Black Radical's views also caused an angry reaction from many people – including his own record company, who unceremoniously dropped the artist after the album was released.

Black Radical took three years before he released his next single, "This Iz War" (Copasetic Records, 1993), which was a response to the Roland Adams murder. An album – Double Edged Sword: The Pre LP (Black Foundation, 1995) – followed, but whilst the artist's delivery and lyrics were still up to their old standard, the album failed to achieve the same success of his debut. The move to a small, independent record label and the widespread collapse of the British hip hop scene were partly to blame in keeping the record from its audience, although equally it has been suggested that the music and production missed the attention of the Mango producers.

Again, Black Radical moved labels before releasing his final (to date) album, Khaos & Konfusion: The Spell of Leviathan (Blueprint Records, 1998). As before, this album failed to relaunch Black Radical's career and since then, the artist has gone underground again.

Discography
 The Undiluted Truth: A Black Man's Leviathan (Mango Records, 1991)
 Double Edged Sword: The Pre LP (Black Foundation, 1995)
 Khaos & Konfusion: The Spell of Leviathan (Blueprint Records, 1998)

References

External links
 Discog's Black Radical Mk II page

English male rappers
Rappers from London
Living people
1971 births
Musicians from Tottenham
Laurence Godfrey (physicist)

Dr. Laurence Godfrey (born 21 November 1952) was educated at the independent The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, at Westfield College, University of London (BSc Physics, first class honours, 1975) and at University College London (PhD, High Energy Nuclear Physics, 1982). He established a legal precedent for libel on Usenet, in the landmark Godfrey v Demon Internet Service case. He lives in France with his younger son Waylan and is unmarried, having twice been divorced. He is self-employed inter alia as an expert witness, consultant and technical adviser in Internet-related litigation.

History
In 1993 he and CERN colleague Phillip Hallam-Baker became immersed in a very public dispute on Usenet, which culminated in a libel action (settled out of court in Godfrey's favour).

Godfrey was a regular and controversial presence to the Usenet newsgroups soc.culture.british, soc.culture.canada, soc.culture.german and soc.culture.thai. His main topics of discourse there were the perceived and real shortcomings of the inhabitants of those countries.

He launched a series of court cases including Godfrey v Demon Internet Service. Godfrey has used Britain's strict libel laws to bring successful libel actions, suing in British courts a number of organizations based in other countries, including Cornell University and the University of Minnesota.

Libel cases 

 1995, Godfrey v. Hallam-Baker
 1997, Godfrey v. Demon Internet
 1998, Godfrey v. Cornell University/Dolenga
 1998, Godfrey v. University of Minnesota/Starnet/Quanchairut
 1998, Godfrey v. Melbourne PC Users Group
 (unknown) Godfrey v. New Zealand TeleCom
 (unknown) Godfrey v. Toronto Star

References

External links 
Cornell University & Minnesota cases story from 1998
New Scientist article freelance writing from 1992
Recent case in which Laurence Godfrey acted as expert/ technical consultant, his main occupation since 2001.

1952 births
Living people
People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School
List of banks in the Dominican Republic

This is a list of banks in Dominican Republic as of November 2010, published by the Bank Superintendency, including credit unions and other financial services companies that offer banking services and may be popularly referred to as "banks".

Central bank

Central Bank of the Dominican Republic

Local banks
The main local banks: Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Banco Popular Dominicano, Banreservas and Banco BHD Leon contribute more than 60% market share.

Government-owned banks

BanReservas

Commercial banks

Banco Popular Dominicano
Banco BHD (Merged from Banco BHD and Banco Leon)
Banco Santa Cruz
Banco Caribe
Banco BDI
Banco Vimenca
Banco Lopez de Haro
Bancamérica

Foreign banks

Banesco
Scotiabank
Banco Promerica

Savings and credit banks

Banco Atlántico
Banco Bancotuí
Banco BDA
Banco Adopem
Banco Agrícola De La Republica Dominicana
Banco Pyme Bhd
Banco Ademi
Banco Capital
Banco Confisa
Banco De Desarrollo Idecosa
Banco Empire
Banco Motor Credito
Banco Río
Banco Providencial
Banco Del Caribe
Banco Inmobiliario (Banaci)
Banco Gruficorp
Banco Cofaci
Banco Atlas
Banco Bonanza
Banco Bellbank
Banco Fihogar
Banco Federal
Banco Micro
Banco Unión
Kneutt F.Bank

Savings and loan associations

Asociación Popular de Ahorros y Préstamos
Asociación Cibao
Asociación Nortena
Asociación Romana
Asociación Higuamo
Asociación La Vega Real
Asociación Duarte
Asociación Barahona
Asociación Maguana
Asociación Mocana
Asociación Bonao
Asociación La Nacional
Asociación Noroestana

Defunct or merged banks

Banco Intercontinental (BANINTER; fell in 2003)
Bancrédito (fell in 2003)
Banco Mercantil (fell in 2003)
Republic Bank  (local operations bought by Banco BHD in 2007)
Banco Altas Cumbres (local operations bought by Scotiabank in 2008)
Banco Peravia; Asociación Peravia (disestablished in 2014)

Automated teller machines
There are 2462 automated teller machine

Bank penetration in Dominican Republic
The bank penetration is approximately 33.7% and the main banks in DR are Banco Popular Dominicano, Banco de Reservas de la Republica Dominicana, Banco BHD.

External links
Bank Superintendency of the Dominican Republic (Superintendencia de Bancos de la República Dominicana)
Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (Banco Central de la República Dominicana)
Detailed List of all banks in the Dominican Republic  (Lista detallada de todos los bancos de la República Dominicana)

 
Banks
Dominican Republic
Economy of the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Arvicanthis

Arvicanthis is a genus of rodent from Africa.  They are commonly referred to as unstriped grass mice, unstriped grass rats, and kusu rats.

Species
Genus Arvicanthis - unstriped grass mice
Abyssinian grass rat, Arvicanthis abyssinicus Rüppell, 1842
Sudanian grass rat, Arvicanthis ansorgei Thomas, 1910
Blick's grass rat, Arvicanthis blicki Frick, 1914
Nairobi grass rat, Arvicanthis nairobae J. A. Allen, 1909
Neumann's grass rat, Arvicanthis neumanni Matschie, 1894
African grass rat, Arvicanthis niloticus É. Geoffroy, 1803
Guinean grass rat, Arvicanthis rufinus Temminck, 1853
Genetic evidence indicates that the extinct Canariomys is also nested within this genus.

References

Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

 
Rodent genera
Taxa named by René Lesson
Kenan Erim

Kenan Tevfik Erim (13 February 1929, İstanbul – 3 November 1990, Ankara) was a Turkish archaeologist who excavated from 1961 until his death at the site of Aphrodisias in Turkey.

Life
Erim's father, Tevfik Erim, was a diplomat who was a member of the Political Section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in the 1930s (attending as such the Évian Conference) and of the Turkish delegation to the United Nations in the 1950s. Kenan Erim was raised and educated in Geneva, Switzerland, and undertook university studies in the United States. He took his first degree in Classical archaeology at New York University (NYU) in 1953, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1958.

In 1957, he lectured at Indiana University, and from 1958 onwards he was employed by NYU, where he became full professor in 1971. The NYU Institute of Fine Arts, alongside Oxford University, continues to supervise the excavations at Aphrodisias to this day. There is a grave memorial to Professor Erim near the reconstructed Tetraplyon.

Honours
1961: Guggenheim Fellowship
1986: Liberty Medal of New York City
1987: Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy
1988: National Geographic Society Centennial Medal

Bibliography
 'Morgantina', American Journal of Archaeology 62 (1958), pp. 79–90 (reprinted in Morgantina Studies II, Princeton University Press, 1989)
 'Two inscriptions from Aphrodisias', Papers of the British School at Rome 37 (1969), 92-5
 'A letter of Gordian III from Aphrodisias in Caria' (with J. Reynolds), Journal of Roman Studies 59 (1969), 56-58
 'The copy of Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices from Aphrodisias in Caria' (with J. Reynolds), Journal of Roman Studies 60 (1970), 120-140
 'Diocletian's Currency Reform, a new inscription from Aphrodisias' (with J. Reynolds & M. Crawford), Journal of Roman Studies 61 (1971), 171-77
 'Aphrodisias, Awakened City of Ancient Art', 'National Geographic Magazine' Vol. 141, No. 6 (1972), 766-791
 'A portrait sculpture of Domitian from Aphrodisias, Opuscula Romana 9 (1973), 135-42
 'The Aphrodisias copy of Diocletian's Price Edict' (with J. Reynolds), Journal of Roman Studies 63 (1973), 99-110
 'Aphrodisias' (with J. Reynolds) in (edd. Inan, Alföldi), Römische und frühbyzantinische Porträtplastik aus der Turkei (Mainz, 1979), nos. 173-209
 'A relief showing Claudius and Britannia from Aphrodisias', Britannia 13 (1982), 277-81
 'Sculptors from Aphrodisias: some new inscriptions' (with C. Roueché), Papers of the British School at Rome 50 (1982), 102-15
 Aphrodisias, City of Venus Aphrodite, 1986
 Aphrodisias Bibliography (with J. de la Genière) in Aphrodisias de Carie: Colloque Lille 1985, Paris, 1987, 159-165
 'Sculptors of Aphrodisias in the inscriptions of the city', Festschrift J. Inan (Istanbul, 1989, appeared 1991), 517-538.

References

1929 births
1990 deaths
Archaeologists from Istanbul
Classical archaeologists
Classical scholars of New York University
20th-century archaeologists
Bandicota

Bandicota is a genus of rodents from Asia known as the bandicoot rats. Their common name and genus name are derived from the Telugu language word pandikokku (పందికొక్కు). DNA studies have found the group to be a monophyletic clade sister to the radiation of Molucca and Australian Rattus species as part of the paraphyletic Rattus sensu lato.

Species 

Greater bandicoot rat (B. indica) Bechstein, 1800
Lesser bandicoot rat (B. bengalensis) Gray and Hardwicke, 1833
Savile's bandicoot rat (B. savilei) Thomas, 1916

References 

 
Rodent genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
Batomys

Batomys is a genus of rodent endemic to the Philippines. It has six extant described species.

Species
Genus Batomys - Luzon and Mindanao forest rats, 7 species recognized, six extant and one extinct:
Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat, Batomys dentatus 
Luzon hairy-tailed rat, Batomys granti 
Hamiguitan hairy-tailed rat, Batomys hamiguitan  
Dinagat hairy-tailed rat, Batomys russatus  
Mindanao hairy-tailed rat, Batomys salomonseni 
Batomys uragon 
 Batomys cagayanensis

References

 
Rodents of the Philippines
Rodent genera
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Batomys
Kairat Almaty

Kairat Almaty may refer to:

 FC Kairat, football club
 AFC Kairat, futsal club
Virginia Falls

Virginia Falls may refer to:
 Virginia Falls (Montana), a waterfall in Glacier National Park (U.S.)
 Virginia Falls (Northwest Territories), a waterfall of the South Nahanni River (see Nahanni National Park Reserve)
White-toothed rat

The white-toothed rats, genus Berylmys, are a group of Old World rats from Asia.

Species
Genus Berylmys
small white-toothed rat, Berylmys berdmorei Blyth, 1851
Bower's white-toothed rat, Berylmys bowersi Anderson, 1879
Kenneth's white-toothed rat, Berylmys mackenziei Thomas, 1916
Manipur white-toothed rat, Berylmys manipulus Thomas, 1916

References
A. S. Laxmi Narayanan

A. S. Lakshmi Narayanan is an audiographer - Sound Designer, Production sound mixer and sound editor from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is based in Trinity Digi Labs Studio. He won the National Film Award for Best Audiography for his works on acclaimed feature films Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), directed by Mani Ratnam  and Kadhalan (1994), directed by S.Shankar. He has also won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Audiographer and Kerala State Film Awards for the various regional films over the years.

Some of the iconic films Lakshminarayanan has provided sound design for include Sarkar (2018), 24 (2016), Papanasam (2015), Kaththi (2014), Thuppakki (2012), Ko (2011), 13B (2009), Sivaji: The Boss (2007), Anniyan (2005), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Aayitha Ezhuthu (2004), Indian (1996), Bombay (1995) and Iruvar (1997) .

Career
Lakshminarayanan  started his career in the Tamil Nadu Film and Television Institute in 1979, and met his fellow audio professional Moorthy at Sujatha Dubbing Theatre, the first computerised dubbing theatre in South India. By 1995, the pair had overseen audiography for  over 200 films, working on a number of projects directed by K.  Viswanath, Balu  Mahendra, Mani  Ratnam and K. Balachander. For Aabavanan's Oomai Vizhigal (1986), the duo also completed work on the film's background score.

Filmography

Sound Designer

References

External links
 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Indian audio engineers
Best Audiography National Film Award winners
Bullimus

Bullimus is a genus of rodent from the Philippines, as first catalogued by Mearns, in 1905.

Species
Genus Bullimus
Bagobo rat, Bullimus bagobus, Mindanao
Carleton's forest rat, Bullimus carletoni, Luzon - Described in 2021.
Camiguin forest rat, Bullimus gamay, Camiguin
Large Luzon forest rat, Bullimus luzonicus, Luzon

References

 
Rodent genera
Taxa named by Edgar Alexander Mearns
Bullimus
Cueva del Guácharo National Park

The Guácharo Cave National Park () is located  from the town of Caripe, Monagas, Venezuela.  It has as its centerpiece a large limestone cave.

The cave was visited in 1799 by Alexander von Humboldt, who realised that the thousands of oilbirds ( in Spanish; scientific name Steatornis caripensis) which live in the cave belonged to a species unknown to science. Humboldt named the frugivorous, nocturnal species after the town of Caripe.

The cave 

The cave is a limestone cavern over  long, with a number of large chambers and spectacular rock formations.  The temperature inside the cave generally remains near  and the humidity at 100%.

Guácharo bird 

Oilbirds are fruit-eating birds that live within the first section of the cave; they leave at night in search of food. The Spanish name  is onomatopoeic, and comes from an old Castilian word for one who shrieks or cries, because of their characteristic sound. They are brown with black and white spots, have a long tail and bristles around their beak. They measure around  in length, including the tail. The  produce an organic layer in the cave called guano, formed by excrement and vomited seeds, which provide the basic nutrients for the cave's ecosystem.

The most important daily event in the park occurs in the evening, as dusk falls, when the birds exit the cave in great flocks, in search of food.  Visitors are able to view the birds leaving the cave.

Conservation 
The cave was designated as Venezuela's first National Monument in 1949.

The National Park was created in 1975 to conserve the cave and the forest ecosystem where the oilbirds feed.  The altitude of the national park is .
There are 367 species of bird in the national park, which has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA). Although the oilbird is not an endangered species, several other resident birds fall into this category, for example the Venezuelan flowerpiercer (Diglossa venezuelensis) and the Venezuelan sylph.  The national park is part of Cordillera de Caripe Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) site, along with another IBA, the .

Humboldt Museum 
Near to the cave entrance is the Humboldt Museum. It offers information about the cave, the national park, the oilbird (), and Alexander von Humboldt.

Notes

References

External links

Guácharo Cave spelunking site
Caripe.net - Spanish site about Caripe 

National parks of Venezuela
Birdwatching sites in Venezuela
Important Bird Areas of Venezuela
Caves of Venezuela
Protected areas established in 1949
Geography of Monagas
Natural monuments of Venezuela
Tourist attractions in Monagas
Bunomys

Bunomys is a genus of rodent from Sulawesi and Buton Island.

Currently, eight species are recognised in two species-groups.

Species
Genus Bunomys
chrysocomus-group:
Yellow-haired hill rat, Bunomys chrysocomus Hoffmann, 1887
Heavenly hill rat, Bunomys coelestis Thomas, 1896
Long-headed hill rat, Bunomys prolatus Musser, 1991
Tana Toraja hill rat, Bunomys torajae Musser, 2014
fratrorum-group:
Fraternal hill rat, Bunomys fratrorum Thomas, 1896
Andrew's hill rat, Bunomys andrewsi J. A. Allen, 1911
Karoko hill rat, Bunomys karokophilus Musser, 2014
Inland hill rat, Bunomys penitus Miller and Hollister, 1921

References

 
Rodents of Sulawesi
Rodent genera
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Ma'ameer

Ma'ameer () is a village in Bahrain. Nationally, the village is known for its Industrial Area, which consists of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) refinery and a large number of factories, production units such as Awal Ready-mixed Concrete (ARMCON), Eastern Asphalt, Gulf Petrochemical Industrial Corp (GPIC), Aluminium Bahrain and Al Zamil Aluminium. Villagers have long complained of health problems as a result of pollution from the Industrial Area.

History

Ma'ameer during the 2011-2012 uprising

Since the start of the 2011-2012 Bahraini uprising, unrest became more common in villages containing large Shia population, with Ma'ameer being one of those villages. Clashes between security forces and anti-government rioters and vandals continued throughout the uprising with riot police often being attacked by Molotov cocktails and blunt weapons. At least two people from the village died during the uprising.

Pollution

Villagers in Ma'ameer have long complained of air and sea pollution as a result of the factories present in the Industrial Area.  Villagers allege that fumes, smoke and gases with strong smells, from the factories, have led to a spike in the number of long-term illnesses emerging in the village, and had also led to the death of several people in the village over the past years. They also allege that the discharge of waste from ALBA and GPIC factories into the sea, off the village's coast, has led to the death of aquatic life in the sea.

Villagers have formed the Ma'ameer Environmentalist Committee (MEC) which actively campaigns, both in Bahrain and abroad, for greater pollution controls in the village and the country.  The MEC regularly calls upon the Commission for the Protection of Marine Resources, Environment and Wildlife, which is responsible for the environment in the country, to take action over the pollution. In 2006, Bahrain's lower house of parliament ruled that BAPCO had to pay compensation to villagers who had skin allergy, cancer, miscarriages or other environment-related diseases. Parliament also ordered BAPCO to finance awareness campaigns and studies in the village.

See also
 Nuwaidrat
 Sitra

References

External links
 Ma'ameer village site

Populated places in Bahrain
Donald Kendrick

Donald M. Kendrick (born 1947) is the Calgary, Alberta-born director of choral activities at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS)  and the director of music at Sacred Heart Church where he conducts Schola Cantorum and Vox Nova (Men's Chorus), and the founder and artistic director of the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra (a 200 voice volunteer/auditioned symphony chorus and professional orchestra). He is also the founder and past artistic director of the Sacramento Children's Chorus.

Life

Kendrick taught, led choirs and played the organ in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he was on the faculty at the then-University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, was the organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's Cathedral (Regina), the Anglican Cathedral in that city, and led the choral section of the summer arts school at Fort San, Saskatchewan, was organist and choirmaster at Christ's Church Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton, Ontario where he conducted the Bach-Elgar Choir, and established the Hamilton Children's Choir.  He also conducted the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus.

Kendrick holds academic qualifications from: 
the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago,
the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,
Stanford University and the
Eastman School of Music whose doctorate he holds, as well as the American Guild of Organists CHM (choirmaster) certificate, and received the American Choral Federation in New York’s Louise Rogers Goucher Memorial Scholarship.

He has been on the faculties of 
 the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus
 the Eastman School of Music
 Louisiana State University
 the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music
 The New York Philharmonic
 Harvard University

Guest appearances and tours

Kendrick debuted in Carnegie Hall with the Verdi Requiem in 1995 and has frequently been featured on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio as a recitalist and conductor; he has been active as a guest conductor and adjudicator for choral festivals throughout Canada and the USA. At the California State University, Sacramento he directs the graduate degree program in choral conducting.

Kendrick has taken his CSUS choirs on three Canadian tours. In July 2004 he combined the CSUS program with the Sacramento Choral Society and conducted a European tour performing in Munich, Prague, Vienna and Budapest. In July 2006 the Sacramento Choral Society made its debut in the People's Republic of China, performing in Tianjin, Beijing, Xi'an and Jinan.

Notes

External links
Biography and photo at Schola Cantorum

1947 births
Living people
Male conductors (music)
California State University, Sacramento faculty
21st-century Canadian conductors (music)
21st-century Canadian male musicians
Keith Hawkins

Keith Hawkins (born 1967) is an English professional poker player, based in North Yorkshire.

Early years

Hawkins claims he got hooked on gambling after placing his first winning bet on the 1974 Derby (10p on Snow Knight at 66/1.) He began playing five card draw at school as a teenager, and was later introduced to Texas hold 'em by Neil Channing.

Poker career

Hawkins is a regular on the European poker tournament circuit, with tournament wins in Southampton, Luton, Dundee, London and Sheffield.

Amongst these wins was the £1,500 no limit hold 'em event at the Grosvenor UK Open 2002, where he defeated Jan Sjavik to win the £39,000 first prize.

As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $700,000. This ranks him in the top 40,000 players of all time.

Online poker

On 14 May 2006, Hawkins finished 7th in the PokerStars $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament, for over $20,000. He plays online as The Camel.

Poker writing

Hawkins writes regular articles for Card Player Magazine and The Hendon Mob's website and also posts on their forum as The Camel. He also posts on the  BlondePoker and Two Plus Two forums.

Personal life

Outside of poker, Hawkins has one son, Jake, born 30 September 2005. He supports Queens Park Rangers F.C.

References

External links
 Official blog
 Poker425 Interview
 Index of articles by Hawkins

English non-fiction writers
English poker players
British gambling writers
Living people
1967 births
English male non-fiction writers
HMAS Success (H02)

HMAS Success was an Admiralty  destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built for the Royal Navy during World War I, the ship was not completed until 1919, and spent less than eight months in British service before being transferred to the RAN at the start of 1920. The destroyer's career was uneventful, with almost all of it spent in Australian waters. Success was decommissioned in 1930, and was sold for ship breaking in 1937.

Design and construction

Success was built to the Admiralty design of the S-class destroyer, which was designed and built as part of the British emergency war programme. The destroyer had a displacement of 1,075 tons, a length of  overall and  between perpendiculars, and a beam of . The propulsion machinery consisted of three Yarrow boilers feeding Brown-Curtis turbines, which supplied  to the ship's two propeller shafts. Success had a maximum speed of , and a range of  at . The ship's company was made up of 6 officers and 93 sailors.

The destroyer's primary armament consisted of three QF 4-inch Mark IV guns. These were supplemented by a 2-pounder pom-pom, two 9.5-inch howitzer bomb throwers, five .303 inch machine guns (a mix of Lewis and Maxim guns), two twin 21-inch torpedo tube sets, two depth charge throwers, and two depth charge chutes.

Success was laid down by William Doxford and Sons Limited at their Sunderland shipyard in 1917. The destroyer was launched on 29 June 1918, and completed on 15 April 1919. The ship was briefly commissioned into the Royal Navy in April 1919, but was quickly marked for transfer to the RAN, along with four sister ships. Success was commissioned into the RAN on 27 January 1920.

Operational history

Success and three of her sister ships sailed for Australia on 20 February, visiting ports in the Mediterranean, India, Singapore, and the Netherlands East Indies before reaching Sydney on 29 April. Success operated in Australian waters until 6 October 1921, when she was placed in reserve. The destroyer was reactivated on 1 December 1925. In late May 1926, Success visited Port Moresby.

Decommissioning and fate
Success paid off on 21 May 1930. She was sold to Penguins Limited for ship breaking in 1937.

Citations

References

S-class destroyers (1917) of the Royal Australian Navy
Ships built on the River Wear
1918 ships
The Possibility of an Island

The Possibility of an Island () is a 2005 novel by French novelist Michel Houellebecq, set within a cloning cult that resembles the real-world Raëlians.

Plot summary
There are three main characters - Daniel and two of his clones.

Daniel is a successful comedian who can't seem to enjoy life despite his wealth. He gets bored with his hedonist lifestyle, but can't escape from it either. In the meanwhile he is disgruntled with the state of current society, and philosophizes about the nature of sex and love.

His two clones live an uneventful life as hermits, in a post-apocalyptic future. They live in a time where the human species is on its last legs (or, alternatively, on its first legs, as they have returned to societies of hunter-gatherer tribes), destroyed by climate change and nuclear war. The two clones are confronted with the life of the first Daniel and have different views about their predecessor. Scattered around are the remnants of tourist resorts, cities and consumer items and some natural humans living in small tribes without any knowledge of the past or of civilization.

Related media
A film based on the novel, La Possibilité d'une île, premiered in France on September 10, 2008. The film was directed by Houellebecq himself.
An excerpt from the novel is featured on the music album Comme si de rien n'était by Carla Bruni (track 2).
In 2009, Iggy Pop released the music album Préliminaires, which was based on the novel.

References

2005 French novels
2005 science fiction novels
Novels by Michel Houellebecq
French science fiction novels
Fictional cults
Novels about cloning
French novels adapted into films
Prix Interallié-winning works
HMAS Success

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Success.

, an S-class destroyer launched in 1918, decommissioned in 1931, and sold for scrap
, a Durance-class replenishment oiler launched in 1984, decommissioned in 2019

Battle honours
Ships named HMAS Success are entitled to carry two battle honours:
Kuwait 1991
East Timor 1999

See also
 , sixteen ships of the Royal Navy

References

Royal Australian Navy ship names
Leggadina

Leggadina is a genus of rodents from Australia.

Species
Genus Leggadina
Forrest's mouse, Leggadina forresti Thomas, 1906
Lakeland Downs mouse, Leggadina lakedownensis Watts, 1976

References

 
Rodent genera
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Backdrop

Backdrop or Bankdrops may refer to:

 Backdrop (theater), painted scenery hung at the back of a stage
 Backdrop (wrestling), various types of throws in amateur and professional wrestling
 Painted photography backdrops, used in studio photography circa 1860-1920
 Backdrop CMS, a website content management system