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Stadion Balgarska Armia

Stadion Balgarska Armia (, , ) is the club stadium of the Bulgarian football club CSKA Sofia. It's situated in the Borisova gradina in the centre of Sofia. The stadium has four sectors and a total of 22,995 (18,495) seats, of which 2,100 are covered. The pitch length is 106 meters and the width is 66 meters.

The capacity of the stadium is divided in four sectors:
Sector A: 6417 seats
Sector B: 4889 seats
Sector V: 5689 seats
Sector G: 6000 (1500 seats)

The sports complex also includes tennis courts, a basketball court, and gymnastics facilities, as well the CSKA Sofia Glory Museum. The press conference room has 80 seats.

History

Built in 1923 for AS-23, the stadium was known as Athletic Park until 1944, when AS-23 merged with two other clubs to form Chavdar Sofia. From 1944 until 1948 it was called Chavdar Stadium. Between 1948 and 1990 it was the People's Army Stadium, and since 1990 it is the Balgarska Armia Stadium. The current structure was built by architect Anton Karavelov in the period between 1965 and 1967 on the old grounds of AS-23. It was reconstructed again in 1982, which included the introduction of floodlights.

In 2000, the stadium was equipped with a new Dynacord surround sound system, capable of 48 kilowatts and 107 decibels. The electric lighting is also of the latest generation and is covering the pitch with 2100 lux. 

Despite the improvements over the years, parts of the stadium are in a deteriorating condition, especially sector B, which has been completely closed down for spectators and covered with advertising instead, in order to hide the growing plant and fungi life underneath. The seating of the stadium is also in a poor condition, with many seats being either partially broken or missing completely, with the main cause being hooliganism over the years.

Reconstruction plan 
In 2023 CSKA and the Ministry of Youth and Sports established a joint venture, which should undertake reconstruction of the stadium. The reconstructed stadium will have 16 000 seats and meet UEFA Category 4 criteria.

In October 2023 a building permit was granted by Sofia municipality.

References

PFC CSKA Sofia
Football venues in Bulgaria
Sports venues in Sofia
Business Day (Nigeria)

Business Day, established in 2001, is a daily business newspaper based in Lagos. 
It is the only Nigerian newspaper with a bureau in Accra, Ghana. 
It has both daily and Sunday titles. It circulates in Nigeria and Ghana.

Publisher
The publisher of Businessday, Frank Aigbogun, a former editor of the Vanguard newspaper. The editor of the daily paper is Tayo Fagbule. Lolade Akinmurele  is the deputy editor supported by several assistant editors. Temi Bamgbose is the online editor while the editor of the Sunday title is Zebulon Agomuo. 
The newspaper has creative writers such as Iheanyi Nwachukwu, Onyinye Nwachukwu, Jumoke Akiyode, Chuka Uroko, Ifeoma Okeke, Hope Moses Ashike, Olusola Bello, Odinaka Anudu, Obinna Emelike, Teliat Sule, and Chuks Oluigbo, among others.

The newspaper has produced many award-winning journalists. Obodo Ejiro, Teliat Sule and Peter Olowa all distinguished themselves by winning the Citi Journalistic Award for excellence in financial journalism, while Iheanyi Nwachukwu and Patrick Atuanya won the Securities and Exchange Commission Capital Market Essay Competition in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

Anthony Osae-Brown, a former editor, was a finalist for Best Business News Story in May 2011, a Diageo Africa Business Reporting Award. 
Godwin Nnanna, a former assistant editor, has won several international journalism awards including gold and silver medals in UN Foundation Prize for humanitarian and development reporting, and the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize for written media.

The newspaper worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers on the "Most Respected Company and CEO" survey in 2006. Survey results showed the opinions of Nigerian CEOs. Awards based on the survey were presented in a ceremony in Lagos.
In February 2011, Business Day organized its annual Capital Market conference.
In March 2011 the newspaper organized the Business Day SME Forum 2011 in Lagos. The forum was attended by entrepreneurs, consultants, financiers and representatives from various industries.

References

External links 
 

Economy of Nigeria
Newspapers established in 2001
2001 establishments in Nigeria
Companies based in Lagos
Newspapers published in Lagos
English-language newspapers published in Africa
Daily newspapers published in Nigeria
Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke

Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke, 2nd Earl of Montgomery (1621 – 11 December 1669), was an English nobleman and politician. He was the son of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and his first wife Susan de Vere. He succeeded his father in 1649.

In 1639, he married Penelope Naunton, widow of Paul Bayning, 2nd Viscount Bayning, and daughter of Sir Robert Naunton by his second wife, Penelope Perrot, widow of the astronomer Sir William Lower, and daughter of Sir Thomas Perrot and Dorothy Devereux. They had one child, William, who succeeded his father as 6th Earl. In 1649, after the death of his first wife, he married Catherine Villiers, daughter of Sir William Villiers, 1st Baronet. They had one daughter and two sons, Philip and Thomas. Both sons later succeeded to their father's titles. Their daughter, Susan, married John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett. The younger Philip became notorious as "the infamous Earl", due to his frequent bouts of homicidal mania, during which he committed several murders.

He was MP for Wiltshire in 1640 and Glamorgan in 1640–1649.

Notes

References

Surveys of the Manors of Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, 1631-2, ed. E. Kerridge (Wiltshire Record Society vol. 9, 1953)

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1621 births
1669 deaths
Herbert family
Chancellors of the University of Oxford
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Lord-Lieutenants of Somerset
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales
English MPs 1640 (April)
English MPs 1640–1648
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Wiltshire
Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of science fiction novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.

Works

The Books of Ember 
 The City of Ember (2003)
 The People of Sparks (2004)
 The Prophet of Yonwood (2006) 
 The Diamond of Darkhold (2008)

Other fiction 
 Car Trouble (2005)
 Voyagers: Escape the Vortex (2016)

Nonfiction
 The Earth House
 Adoption: The Facts, Feelings, and Issues of a Double Heritage
 Cells
 Cloning
 Daily Life in the American Colonies

Short stories
 "Pearl's Fateful Wish" included in the young adult short story collection What You Wish For, published September 2011.

Film adaptations

A film adaptation of The City of Ember, called City of Ember, was released in October 2008. It was filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland and stars Bill Murray as the Mayor of Ember, Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins and Martin Landau.

References

External links

 
 
 

20th-century American novelists
Living people
1944 births
People from Menlo Park, California
21st-century American novelists
American children's writers
American women novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
Writers of young adult science fiction
Novelists from California
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Le Canonnier

Le Canonnier may refer to:
 		 		
 Le Canonnier (Hotel) - a hotel in Mauritius 	
 Stade Le Canonnier -  a Football stadium in Belgium
EADS 3 Sigma Nearchos

The EADS 3 Sigma Nearchos is a medium distance reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) introduced in 1996, one of several UAVs developed by the Greek 3 Sigma (since 2002 EADS 3 Sigma) aerospace company, in collaboration with Greek universities.

Uses

Military
 Battlefield surveillance
 Aerial reconnaissance
 Target acquisition
 Damage assessment
 ESM/ECM
 Communication data relay

Civilian
 Geological and maritime applications
 Traffic surveillance
 Localization of polluted areas and natural disaster areas
 Border and forestry patrolling
 Forest fire detection

Specifications (Nearchos)

Further development was terminated after the company went out of business in 2012.

See also

External links/References 
Company website (archived)

Airbus Defence and Space aircraft
Unmanned military aircraft of Greece
Watercress darter

The watercress darter (Etheostoma nuchale) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is endemic to the eastern United States where it is only known from the Black Warrior River drainage basin near Birmingham, Alabama.

Description
This species can reach a length of  TL though most only reach a length of around .

Distribution and habitat
The watercress darter is only known to exist in four specific bodies of water, two in the Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge and two at the Seven Springs in the Powderly neighborhood of Birmingham. The Seven Springs populations were discovered in 2003. The species can be found in the watercress zone of springs where the water is slow-moving. They are usually found in dense mats of watercress or other aquatic vegetation, where they rest on the leaves and stems well above the stream bed. They feed on snails, crustaceans, and insect larvae in slow-moving water.

Conservation and status
The species is endangered and is protected in areas such as the Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County. The IUCN lists it as being "Endangered" due to its small range, small total population size and vulnerability to deterioration in the quality of the water in the springs in which it occurs.

On September 22, 2008, more than 12,000  watercress darters were killed when workers from the city of Birmingham removed a beaver dam at Roebuck Springs, emptying a pond that was the darters' habitat. An alternative solution would have been to install a flow device in the dam to regulate the pond height. The pond was emptied because it often flooded a nearby tennis court. The city emptied the beaver pond without the permission of the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The FWS has ordered the dam to be restored and the pond refilled in an effort to save the remaining darters.

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is suing the City of Birmingham for destroying endangered species and their wetland habitat.

References

External links
 Village Creek in Roebuck Springs, Alabama - Video by Glynn Wilson
 Outdoor Alabama - Watercress Darter
 

Etheostoma
Endemic fish of the United States
Endemic fauna of Alabama
Fish described in 1965
ESA endangered species
27th Lancers

The 27th Lancers was a British Army cavalry regiment from 1941 to 1945.

History
The regiment was raised in June 1941 from a cadre of personnel taken from the 12th Royal Lancers. It was assigned to the 11th Armoured Division as the divisional reconnaissance regiment and was known as 'Porterforce' after its commanding officer, Lt Col Andrew Horsbrugh-Porter. It was later withdrawn and held under command of GHQ.

In 1943, it was shipped to Egypt; in 1944 it moved to Italy, where it served as an independent reconnaissance regiment for the Allied Force Headquarters, and finished the war in Austria, where it was disbanded in August 1945. Some personnel were transferred to the 12th Lancers.

(In a film made in 1936 (The Charge of the Light Brigade), there was a fictional regiment called the 27th Lancers.)

References 

 

Cavalry regiments of the British Army
Military units and formations established in 1941
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27th Lancers officers
Priscilla Lawson

Priscilla Jones Lawson (née Shortridge, March 8, 1914 – August 27, 1958), was an American actress best known for her role as Princess Aura in the original Flash Gordon serial (1936).

Early years
Born in St. Paul, Indiana, Lawson was the daughter of Elmer Shortridge, a railroad yard foreman and machinist, and his wife, Elizabeth Shortridge née Hess.

Career 
Lawson was a professional model by her early twenties and was named Miss Miami Beach in 1935, after which she was employed as an Earl Carroll chorus girl at the Miami Casino. This gained her a contract with Universal Studios, which used her in a variety of small roles. However, in 1936 she was cast in the serial Flash Gordon as the voluptuous daughter of the villain, Ming the Merciless. Princess Aura's rivalry with Dale Arden for Flash Gordon's affection was one of the centerpieces of the serial and gained Lawson cult figure status.

Roy Kinnard wrote in Science Fiction Serials that "Lawson's notable physical assets were responsible for incurring the wrath of censors" in the filming of Flash Gordon. Co-star Jean Rogers told him that censors ordered retakes of Chapter 1 of the serial with Lawson "wearing slightly less revealing garb."

Her screen career ended in 1941.

Personal life 
Lawson was married to:
Gerald A. Lawson (1906-1933), a furniture salesman, on 8 March 1932; he died the following year of croupous pneumonia.
Alan Curtis (1909-1953), an American movie star, in November 1937. They divorced in 1940.

Later life 
After her second marriage ended, Lawson enlisted in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. An unverified rumor claims she lost a leg in an accident while serving in the Army. Another version is that she lost a leg in a 1937 car crash. However, her Flash Gordon co-star Jean Rogers denied that Lawson had lost a leg, and it was also rejected in a biographical review in an Indianapolis journal.

In later life, she managed a stationery shop in Los Angeles, California, and worked for two pottery companies as a finisher.

Death 

On August 27, 1958, Lawson died at 44 in Monrovia, California, due to cirrhosis and upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by a duodenal ulcer. She was interred at Live Oak Memorial Park in Monrovia.

Filmography

References

External links
 
 
 Priscilla Lawson in a clip from the Flash Gordon serial from YouTube

1914 births
1958 deaths
American film actresses
Film serial actresses
Actresses from Indianapolis
Deaths from ulcers
20th-century American actresses
Salavea

Salavea (also spelled Salave'a) is a Samoan surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Joe Salave'a (born 1975), American football defensive lineman and coach
 Manaia Salavea (born 1986), Samoan rugby union footballer

Samoan culture
Samoan-language surnames
Bika

Bika may refer to
Bika (surname)
Bika, Iran, a village in Iran
Bika, Nawanshahr, a village in India
Bika Snacks, a Malaysian Snacks
Bika Ambon, a dessert from Indonesia

See also
Bikas (disambiguation)
26th Hussars

The 26th Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1941 to 1943.

The regiment was raised at Meerut in June 1941 from a cadre of personnel taken from the 14th/20th King's Hussars. It was assigned to the 2nd Indian Armoured Brigade and was later moved to the 255th Indian Armoured Brigade at Sialkot.

Its badge was based on the Prussian eagle borne by the 14th/20th (but with the orb and sceptre reversed) with the addition of the regimental number on a scroll underneath.

It was disbanded at Bolarum, near Secunderabad, in October 1943. Some of the personnel were transferred to the 3rd Carabiniers, but the majority joined the Chindits force under Orde Wingate.

References

Hussars 026
Hussar regiments of the British Army
Military units and formations established in 1941
Military units and formations disestablished in 1943
Aqsis

Aqsis is a free rendering suite compliant with the RenderMan standard. It is available under the BSD, previously under GPL. Its main author and project manager is Paul Gregory.

The Aqsis project consists of a renderer, shader compiler and a few other supporting components. Like the original PRMan from Pixar, it is an implementation of the Reyes rendering algorithm, which is famous for its high speed and efficiency in handling even very large scenes, and has good support for displacement shaders. Like many other open source projects, Aqsis is hosted on SourceForge and is in continuous and active development.

Because of its Reyes heritage, Aqsis lacks some advanced global illumination features like ray tracing, although active efforts are underway to support some such features. Its current stable version is 1.8.2.

The MakeHuman project uses Aqsis to produce realistic renderings of the human body.

References

External links
 Home page
 wiki.aqsis.org - Aqsis wiki
https://github.com/aqsis/aqsis - Source Code

Free 3D graphics software
3D graphics software
3D rendering software for Linux
1999 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election

Elections to Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 6 May 1999. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was
Labour 64
Liberal Democrat 2

Election result

5 Labour councillors were uncontested.

Ward results

References

1999
1999 English local elections
1990s in Merseyside
25th Dragoons

The 25th Dragoons was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1941 to 1947.

Previous regiments bearing the number have been:
 De La Bouchetiere's Regiment of Dragoons was re-formed in 1716 as the 25th Dragoons and disbanded in 1718.
 25th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons was raised for service in India by Colonel Francis Edward Gwyn on 9 March 1794 and renumbered the 22nd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons later that year.

The 1941 regiment was raised in Sialkot, India, in February 1941 from a cadre of personnel taken from the 3rd Carabiniers along with volunteers from infantry regiments. It was initially assigned to the 4th Indian Armoured Brigade (which later became 254th Indian Armoured Brigade and, still later, the 254th Indian Tank Brigade). In 1943, it was reassigned to the Indian XV Corps and transported in great secrecy to Arakan prior to taking part in the Battle of the Admin Box, in which its M3 Lee tanks proved decisive.

The 25th Dragoons was the home of British communist, painter, and former International Brigadeer Clive Branson, who was killed by the Japanese at the Battle of the Admin Box.

It spent the remainder of the war in India and Burma. It was part of the 50th Indian Tank Brigade and based in Madras and Bangalore prior to being disbanded in 1947.

References

Cavalry regiments of the British Army
Dragoons
Dragoon regiments of the British Army
Military units and formations established in 1941
Military units and formations disestablished in 1947
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Feliks Gromov

Fleet Admiral Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov (; 29 August 1937 – 22 January 2021) was a Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy. Gromov was married and had a daughter and a son.

Gromov was born in Vladivostok and joined the navy in 1955. He completed the S.O. Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in 1959. He served as an officer on a destroyer and in 1961 served in the strategic missile troops on an exchange programme. Gromov returned to the navy in 1962 and served on the   and the  Vdokhnovennyy. He subsequently commanded the cruisers Senyavin and Dmitriy Pozharsky.

In 1977 Gromov became commander of a squadron of surface ships in the Baltic Fleet and was transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet in 1982. In 1984 he became deputy commander of the Soviet Northern Fleet and was promoted to its commander in 1988.

In 1992 Gromov was given command of the Russian Navy following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet by Boris Yeltsin in 1996 and retired on 7 November 1997 at age 60, the mandated retirement age for Admirals and Fleet Admirals.

The Jamestown Foundation speculated that Gromov was dismissed because of a Russian Pacific Fleet ammunition explosion which seems to have attracted wide attention. He died in his dacha and was buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery.

References

Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20061021000536/http://www.jamestown.org/email-to-friend.php?article_id=3219
  Morskoy sbornik, No. 4, April 1992, p. 13.

Russian admirals
Commanders-in-chief of the Russian Navy
Soviet Navy personnel
Soviet admirals
1937 births
2021 deaths
Military personnel from Vladivostok
Recipients of the Order of Military Merit (Russia)
Recipients of the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 2nd class
N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy alumni
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
Burials at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery
Boriwen

Boriwen () were subdivisions of three of the larger Thai monthon. Several mueang were grouped together into one boriwen. In 1908 the boriwen were renamed to changwat, which became the name of provinces countrywide in 1916.

The monthon with between three and five boriwen were Phayap, Udon Thani and Isan. Each boriwen was administrated by a commissioner (khaluang boriwen, ข้าหลวงบริเวณ). The administrative headquarters of the boriwen were located in the provincial town listed first:

Monthon Phayap
Boriwen Northern Chiangmai: Chiang Rai, Chiang Saen, Papao, Nongkhwang, and Fang
Boriwen Western Chiangmai: Mae Hong Son, Yuam, Khun Yuam, and Pai
Boriwen Northern Nan: Chiangkhong, Thoeng, Chiangkham, Chianglaeng, Chianglom, Chianghon (Khop and Kutsawadi were seceded to France in 1904)
Monthon Udon Thani
Boriwen Makkhaeng: Ban Makkhaeng (Udonthani), Nongkhai, Nonglahan, Kumphawapi, Kamutthasai, Phonphisai, and Rattanawapi
Boriwen Phachi: Khonkaen, Chonnabot, and Phuwiang
Boriwen That Phanom: Nakhon Phanom, Chaiburi, Tha Uthen and Mukdahan
Boriwen Sakon: Sakon Nakhon
Boriwen Nam Huang: Loei, Kaen Thao, Bo Tha
Monthon Isan
Boriwen Ubon: Ubon Ratchathani, Khemmarat, Yasothon
Boriwen Champassak (Bassac): Champassak (Bassac)
Boriwen Khukhan: Khukhan, Sisaket, and Det-udom
Boriwen Surin: Surin, and Sangkha
Boriwen Roi-et: Roi Et, Mahasarakham, Kalasin, Kammalasai, Suwannaphum

See also
Subdivisions of Thailand

References

Subdivisions of Thailand
Coley (surname)

Coley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Andre Coley (born 1974), Jamaican cricketer
Andy Coley (born 1978), British rugby league player
Craig Coley (born 1947), American wrongfully convicted of murder
Doris Coley (1941–2000), American singer with The Shirelles
Henry Coley (1633–1704), English astrologer
John Ford Coley (born 1948), American singer and musician
Stacy Coley (born 1994), American football player
Trevon Coley (born 1994), American football player
William Coley (1862–1936), American surgeon and cancer researcher

See also
Coley (disambiguation)
Colley (disambiguation)
High Profile: The Original Rhymes

High Profile: The Original Rhymes is a compilation album of Run-D.M.C.'s material.

Track listing
 "Bounce"
 "You Be Illin'"
 "Sucker M.C.'s"
 "It's Like That"
 "King of Rock"
 "It's Tricky"
 "Can You Rock It Like This"
 "Walk This Way" (featuring Aerosmith)
 "Rock Box"
 "You Talk Too Much" [Video Edit]
 "Run's House"
 "Peter Piper"
 "My Adidas"
 "Beats to the Rhyme"
 "Jam Master Jay"
 "Hard Times"
 "Down with the King"
 "Mary, Mary"
 "Ghostbusters"
 "Christmas in Hollis"

2002 greatest hits albums
Run-DMC albums
Langley Park, Perth

Langley Park is an open space in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. Running alongside Riverside Drive, it is grassed, rectangular in shape and has approximate dimensions . It was created by reclaiming land from the adjacent Swan River between 1921 and 1935, to provide open space near the city.

As a pioneer of civil aviation in Western Australia, Major Norman Brearley used the park as an airstrip in the 1920s. That tradition continues with "fly-ins", where small aircraft land in the park. In 2003, to celebrate 100 years of powered flight, 10 aircraft – one representing each decade of the 20th century – landed. Aircraft have also used the park to perform emergency landings. In 1997 a Tiger Moth TMK had an engine failure and put down in the park. While not an official airfield, Langley Park makes Perth a place where fixed-wing aircraft can land in proximity to the central business district.

Modern usage

For many years, Langley Park's location made it a popular place to view the annual City of Perth Skyworks fireworks show on Australia Day, which were held over the river. After Skyworks' retirement in 2022, for 2023 Langley Park hosted a smaller fireworks display and drone show as a replacement for the event.

The Telstra Rally Australia World Rally Championship held events at the park for 11 years from 1992 to 2002, and once more in 2005.

During November 2006, 2007 and 2008, the final stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Series was held over the Swan River and Perth Water, using Langley Park as the airfield.

Cirque du Soleil has used the park many times for its shows whenever a big top touring production visits Australia. Shows performed at Langley Park have included Saltimbanco, Alegria, Quidam, Dralion, and Ovo.

On 30 September 2018, the park was the site of the West Coast Eagles homecoming celebrations after winning the 2018 AFL Grand Final.

References

External links

Parks in Perth, Western Australia
Perth waterfront
State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Perth
East Perth, Western Australia
Diana (ship)

Many vessels have held the name of Diana.  They include:

Merchant vessels
 , of 288 tons burthen, was launched at Newbury. Between 1785 and 1794 she was a whaler in the British northern whale fishery, based in Hull. She then became a transport and a Baltic trader, and was last listed in 1801.
  was launched as a West Indiaman. From 1805 she made four voyages as an East Indiaman under charter to the British East India Company. She made a fifth voyage to India in 1817 under a license from the EIC. She ran into difficulties in the Hooghly River while homeward bound and was condemned in Bengal in June 1818.
  was launched as a West Indiaman. In 1802 she wrecked on the Isle of Pines, Cuba.
 , a merchant vessel built at Cochin that wrecked in 1820 while participating in a punitive expedition against pirates at Ras al Khaimah
  was a steam paddle steamer built as a merchant vessel and purchased by the Bengal Government in 1824. During the First Anglo-Burmese War she became the first steam-powered warship of the Honourable East India Company to see action. She was transferred to the Burmese Government in 1826 and to back to the company for use by Singapore in 1837.
  was built at Whitby, England. She made a number of voyages between England, India and Quebec with cargo and undertook one voyage transporting convicts to New South Wales. She was last listed in 1848.
 , whaling ship, home port in Hull
 , was a steam screw barque of , built in Drammen. She took part in the 1892 Dundee Whaling Expedition to the Antarctic.
 Diana (HBC vessel), built in 1880, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels

Naval vessels
  - any of 10 ships of the Royal Navy 
 , an aviso of the Italian Regia Marina
  was a frigateship of 4 guns the Dutch Navy purchased in 1799. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1804
 , an early 19th-century navy vessel
 , a cruiser of the Imperial Russian Navy

Diana
Tian Yi

Tian Yi (, 1534 - 1605) was a eunuch serving at the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty. He served under the Jiajing, the Longqing, and the Wanli emperors for a total of 63 years 
and eventually rose to a high position in the court, overseeing the 
Directorate of Ceremonies ("Master of the Seal in charge of rituals 
) which ranked first among the twelve eunuch directorates. 
By the time of this death, he had become the favorite eunuch of the Wanli emperor. 
 
Tian Yi was born in Shaanxi Province and was 
castrated at age 9. He entered the imperial court 
immediately afterwards. When he died in 1605, the 
Wanli Emperor ordered three days of mourning and the construction of a tomb with many features of 
an imperial mausoleum to commemorate him.

Tomb
Tian Yi's tomb () has a traditional layout in which a spirit way serves as a central axis and a division 
between a front portion used by visitors to pay their respects and a 
closed off back portion. Four eunuchs, who lived 
at the tomb as monks during the Qing dynasty are buried next to 
Tian Yi. 
 
The tomb is particularly rich in stone carvings. The masonry artworks include 
three gates (front gate, Lingxing gate, and the graveyard gate), sculptures 
that line the spirit way, steles, ceremonial vessels, and stone altars 
for sacrifices. The names of 259 eunuchs who 
participated in his funeral are also inscribed at the tomb. Notably, the stone statues of the guards before the tomb both wear the uniforms of officials of the first rank, a sign of exceptional favour from the Emperor. 
 
The tomb was looted during the period of the Republic of China. Today, it houses the Eunuch Museum, the 
address is 80 Moshikou Street, Shijingshan district, Beijing.

References

1534 births
1605 deaths
Ming dynasty eunuchs
Abraham Usque

Abraham ben Salomon Usque (given the Christian name Duarte Pinhel) was a 16th-century publisher.  Usque was born in Portugal to a Jewish family and fled the Portuguese Inquisition for Ferrara, Italy, around 1543.

In Ferrara, Usque worked with Yom-Tob ben Levi Athias (the Marrano Jerónimo de Vargas), a Spanish typographer. Drawing on various earlier translations, Usque produced a new translation of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) into Spanish.  It was entitled  "Biblia en Lengua Española Traducida Palabra por Palabra de la Verdad Hebrayca por Muy Excelentes Letrados, Vista y Examinada por el Oficio de la Inquisicion. Con Privilegio del Ylustrissimo Señor Duque de Ferrara."  Usque intended the book for sale both to  the Sephardic diaspora and to Christian Spaniards. For this purpose, he submitted a copy to the Inquisition, hoping to receive an imprimatur, and printed some books with a dedication to the Duke of Ferrara.  Copies intended for sale to Jews were dedicated to Dona Gracia Nasi.   It was published in folio at Ferrara in 1553 and known as the Ferrara Bible. This edition has become scarce, but a second was published in Holland in 1630. In this translation, the Hebrew text is rendered verbatim.

Other books published by Usque included the Portuguese classic Menina e Moça by Bernardim Ribeiro, and Consolação às Tribulações de Israel by  Samuel Usque, whose kinship with Abraham has not yet been clarified.

References

16th-century Portuguese people
Translators from Hebrew
Translators to Spanish
Translators of the Bible into Spanish
Portuguese translators
Portuguese publishers (people)
Jewish Portuguese writers
Jewish translators of the Bible
European Sephardi Jews
Hammons Student Center

The John Q. Hammons Student Center is an 8,846-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. It was built in 1976 and is the home of the Missouri State Bears.  The arena was replaced by the Great Southern Bank Arena in 2008.

References

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Defunct college basketball venues in the United States
Indoor arenas in Missouri
Defunct sports venues in Missouri
Sports venues in Springfield, Missouri
Missouri State Bears basketball
Sports venues in Missouri
Pixie (renderer)

Pixie is a free (open source), photorealistic raytracing renderer for generating photorealistic images, developed by Okan Arikan in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas At Austin. It is RenderMan-compliant (meaning it reads conformant RIB, and supports full SL shading language shaders) and is based on the Reyes rendering architecture, but also support raytracing for hidden surface determination.

Like the proprietary BMRT, Pixie is popular with students learning the RenderMan Interface, and is a suitable replacement for it.
Contributions to Pixie are facilitated by SourceForge and the Internet where it can also be downloaded free of charge as source code or precompiled. It compiles for Windows (using Visual Studio 2005), Linux and on Mac OS X (using Xcode or Unix-style configure script).

Key features include:
 64-bit Capable
 Fast multi-threaded execution.
 Possibility to distribute the rendering process to several machines.
 Motion blur and depth of field.
 Programmable shading (using RenderMan Shading Language) including full displacement support.
 Scalable, multi-resolution raytracing using ray differentials.
 Global illumination.
 Support for conditional RIB.
 Point cloud baking and 3D textures.

Pixie is developed by Okan Arikan and George Harker.

External links
 Home page
 Pixie Wiki
 Blender - Open Source 3D Creator
 Rib Mosaic - Blender Rib Export

Free 3D graphics software
3D rendering software for Linux
Pixie (disambiguation)

A pixie is a small humanoid creature in British folklore.

Pixie, pixies, or pixy may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Books
 Pixy, a graphic novel by the Swedish cartoonist Max Andersson
 Pixie (comics), several comic book characters

Film and television
 Pixies (film), a 2015 animated film
 Pixie (film), a 2020 Irish comedy thriller film
 Pixie, one of the main characters of the animated television series Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks
 The Pixies (The Fairly OddParents), a large group of fairy-like entities in the animated television series The Fairly OddParents
 "Pixies", an episode of the television series Mona the Vampire

Music
 Pixies (band), American alternative rock band (1986–1993, 2004–present)
Pixies (EP)
 Pixy (group), South Korean girl group formed in 2021.

Computing and technology
 Pixie (CMS), content management system
 Pixie (renderer), photorealistic renderer
 Pixie, a magnifying glass application included in Apple Developer Tools 
 Palm Pixi, a smartphone developed by Palm

Confections
 Pixies, a popular Fannie May confection consisting of caramel and pecans coated in milk chocolate
 Pixy Stix, a sugary candy in straw-like packaging

Other uses
 Pixie (name), list of people with the name
 Pixie, a type of upper-atmospheric lightning
 Pixie cut, short layered women's hairstyle with a shaggy fringe
 Pixies, the common name for butterflies in the genus Melanis
 Pixie mandarin, a cultivar of Citrus reticulata

See also
Pixel
PXE (disambiguation)
Pyx
Pixey, English indie pop musician
Particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE), a technique for analyzing the composition of materials
Satellite digital imaging system

The satellite digital imaging system (SDIS) is a simple system composed of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and custom integration software, which allows the operator to transmit digital photos from an aircraft in flight to a ground station.  It is currently used by the United States Civil Air Patrol (CAP) for domestic search and rescue operations and commercial photography.

Components
 Nikon D100 digital SLR camera.
 Panasonic Toughbook laptop computer with SDIS software installed.
 Satellite telephone.

The SDIS consists essentially of connecting these three devices to one another.  No hardware is physically installed in the aircraft.

Operation
Prior to takeoff, the operator connects the laptop to the web mission information reporting system (WMIRS) and obtains a mission identifier.  During flight, photos are downloaded to the laptop computer and e-mailed to the customer or CAP base using the satellite phone.  Images are also captured to a memory card in the digital camera, and may be edited or uploaded to the WMIRS after landing.

The satellite digital imaging system (SDIS) was demonstrated successfully in the search and recovery efforts following hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

Advantages/disadvantages
Advantages
Near real-time
Low cost
Multi-facet use

Disadvantages
Unreliable (If high cloud-cover is present satellite acquisition is difficult)
Slow upload (due to sat. feed)

External links

Digital Photography

Digital photography
Harding Academy

Harding Academy may be:
 
 Harding Academy (Memphis)
 Harding Academy (Nashville)
 Harding Academy (Searcy, Arkansas)
List of demonyms for US states and territories

This is a list of official and notable unofficial terms used to designate the citizens of specific states, federal district, and territories of the United States of America.

List

See also

 Demonym
 List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for astronomical bodies
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for continental regions
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for subcontinental regions
 List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for Australia
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for Canada
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for Cuba
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for India
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for Malaysia
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for Mexico
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for New Zealand
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for the Philippines
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for former regions
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for Greco-Roman antiquity
 List of adjectivals and demonyms for fictional regions

References

External links

Demonyms
American regional nicknames
United States
James Blond

James Blond may refer to:
 James Bond
 Daniel Craig, the first blond actor to play James Bond
Tomoko Ishimura

is a Japanese voice actress who works for 81 Produce. She was formerly credited as  and .

Notable filmography
 Dante in Romeo's Blue Skies (1995)
Rumiya in Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (1995)
Princess Fatora in El Hazard (1995)
Kenta in Brave Command Dagwon: The Boy With The Crystal Eyes (1996)
Martina Xoana Mel Navratilova in Slayers Next (1996)
Ryousuke Shiroyama, Kensuke Watanabe in You're Under Arrest (TV series) (1996)
Mimi in Buttobi CPU (1997)
Chisa Shinohara in Fancy Lala (1998)
Millienium Feria Nocturne in Lost Universe (1998)
Larry (young) in Silent Möbius (1998)
Sister Akane in St. Luminous Mission High School (1998)
Saeno Hiiragi in Seraphim Call (1999)
Kyoko-chan in Hamtaro (2000)
Eris Williamette in Gear Fighter Dendoh (2000)

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Raichi in Mirmo!
Sho Aizawa in Figure 17
Tokuzo Sugiura in Chibi Maruko-chan
Dizzy in Bob the Builder
Kinako Monaka in Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto
Chisao Ohyama in Rockman.EXE series
Megumi Shinohara in Future GPX Cyber Formula SAGA
Emperor Rudolf Gerhard Zeppelin III in Zoids: Chaotic Century
Roan in Grandia II
Tsubasa in Matantei Loki Ragnarok (episoden: 3 und 13)
Kytes in Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

External links
 
 
Tomoko Ishimura (listed as Kyoko Tsuruno) at Ryu's Seiyuu Infos

1972 births
Living people
81 Produce voice actors
Japanese voice actresses
Voice actresses from Kanagawa Prefecture
People from Zama, Kanagawa
20th-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese actresses
Mike Tresh

Michael Tresh Jr (February 23, 1914 – October 4, 1966) was a professional baseball catcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox (1938–1948) and Cleveland Indians (1949). Tresh batted and threw right-handed. His son, Tom, also played in the big leagues, from 1961 to 1969.

In a 12-season career, Tresh posted a .249 batting average with two home runs and 297 RBI in 1027 games played. His best season was 1940, when he batted .281 with 64 RBIs, 62 runs, and 135 hits—all career-highs. Tresh was durable enough to catch all 150 White Sox games in 1945, and is just one of three 20th century catchers to catch every one of an MLB team's games in a season. The others are Frankie Hayes (Philadelphia Phillies) and Ray Mueller (Cincinnati Reds), each with 155 games caught in 1944.

After having suffered from a heart attack earlier in the year, Tresh died from cancer at the age of 52 in Detroit, Michigan, and is interred at Michigan Memorial Park in Flat Rock, Michigan.

Early life
Tresh was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania to Michael Tresh, a Galician immigrant, and Mary, a Pennsylvania native. He grew up with three sisters; Anna, Katherine, and Margaret. In the 1920s, his family moved from Pennsylvania to Detroit, and Michael worked as a truck driver before becoming a baseball player.  In the late 1930s, he moved in with his wife Doris's family in Allen Park, where his wife gave birth to their son, Thomas Michael Tresh.

See also

List of second-generation Major League Baseball players

References

External links

Mike Tresh - Baseballbiography.com
Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers
Iron Men Catchers

American League All-Stars
Chicago White Sox players
Cleveland Indians players
Springfield Senators players
Beaumont Exporters players
Moline Plowboys players
Henderson Oilers players
Wausau Timberjacks players
Shreveport Sports players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Portland Beavers players
Daytona Beach Islanders players
Major League Baseball catchers
People from Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Baseball players from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Deaths from cancer in Michigan
1914 births
1966 deaths
Geometric topology (object)

In mathematics, the geometric topology is a topology one can put on the set H of hyperbolic 3-manifolds of finite volume.

Use
Convergence in this topology is a crucial ingredient of hyperbolic Dehn surgery, a fundamental tool in the theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Definition
The following is a definition due to Troels Jorgensen:  

A sequence  in H converges to M in H if there are

 a sequence of positive real numbers  converging to 0, and 
 a sequence of -bi-Lipschitz diffeomorphisms 

where the domains and ranges of the maps are the -thick parts of either the 's or M.

Alternate definition
There is an alternate definition due to Mikhail Gromov.  Gromov's topology utilizes the Gromov-Hausdorff metric and is defined on pointed hyperbolic 3-manifolds.  One essentially considers better and better bi-Lipschitz homeomorphisms on larger and larger balls.  This results in the same notion of convergence as above as the thick part is always connected; thus, a large ball will eventually encompass all of the thick part.

On framed manifolds
As a further refinement, Gromov's metric can also be defined on framed hyperbolic 3-manifolds.  This gives nothing new but this space can be explicitly identified with torsion-free Kleinian groups with the Chabauty topology.

See also
Algebraic topology (object)

References
 William Thurston, The geometry and topology of 3-manifolds, Princeton lecture notes (1978-1981).
 Canary, R. D.; Epstein, D. B. A.; Green, P., Notes on notes of Thurston.  Analytical and geometric aspects of hyperbolic space (Coventry/Durham, 1984), 3--92, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 111, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1987.

3-manifolds
Hyperbolic geometry
Topological spaces
Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983–1991

Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983–1991 is the first compilation album by American hip hop group Run-D.M.C. It was released in 1991 and was complemented by a greatest hits video collection (released separately). Some pressings included an uncensored version of "Beats To The Rhyme" as heard in the film "Tougher Than Leather".

In 1998, due to the success of the Jason Nevins remixes of "It's Like That" and "It's Tricky," the compilation was re-released as Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983–1998, with the two remixes added to the compilation.

Track listing

Songs
 "Sucker M.C.'s (Krush Groove 1)" (1983), "Rock Box" (1984), "Hard Times" (1983), "Jam-Master Jay" (1983) and "It's Like That" (1983) are taken from Run–D.M.C. (1984).
 "Here We Go" (Live at the Fun House)" (recorded 1983) is taken from the various artists compilation Rap 2 (1985).
 "King of Rock",  is taken from King of Rock (1985).
 "Together Forever (Krush Groove 4)" (live at Hollis Park 1984) is the b-side to "Can You Rock It Like This" (1985).
 "Walk This Way", "It's Tricky", "You Be Illin'", "My Adidas" and "Peter Piper" are taken from Raising Hell (1986).
 "Christmas in Hollis" is a single taken from the various artists compilation A Very Special Christmas (1987).
 "Run's House" and "Beats to the Rhyme" are taken from Tougher Than Leather (1988).
 "Pause" (1989) and "The Ave." (1990) are taken from Back from Hell (1990).

Chart positions

References

Run-DMC albums
1991 greatest hits albums
Arista Records compilation albums
Laurentius Abstemius

Laurentius Abstemius (c. 1440–1508) was an Italian writer and professor of philology, born at Macerata in Ancona. His learned name plays on his family name of Bevilaqua (Drinkwater), and he was also known by the Italian name Lorenzo Astemio. A Neo-Latin writer of considerable talents at the time of the Humanist revival of letters, his first published works appeared in the 1470s and were distinguished by minute scholarship. During that decade he moved to Urbino and became ducal librarian, although he was to move between there and other parts of Italy thereafter as a teacher.

The work for which he is principally remembered now is Hecatomythium (1495), a collection of a hundred fables written in Latin and largely of his own invention. However, the inclusion together with this work of the thirty-three Aesopic fables translated from the Greek by Lorenzo Valla gave the impression that his own work was of the same kind. Several of the fables of Abstemius, it is true, relate to Aesop's in various ways, either as variations on his, as in the case of De culice cibum et hospitium ab appetente (94), which is told of a gnat and a bee but relates to The Ant and the Grasshopper; or in the case of De leone et mure (52) it provides a sequel to The Lion and the Mouse, in which the mouse asks for the lion's daughter as a reward for freeing him from the net and is stepped on accidentally by the bride.

Still other fables, in the Aesopic manner, provide a frame for proverbs: for example 'Still waters run deep' (De rustico amnem transituro, 5) and 'The worse the wheel, the more it creaks' (De auriga et rota currus stridente, 84). But some quarter of Abstemius' stories belong to the genre of comic anecdotes associated with Poggio Bracciolini and known as Facetiae. One at least, De vidua virum petente (the widow seeking a husband, 31), borrows directly from the collection of Poggio. A few of these sorts of fable particularly were condemned as ludicrous and licentiously critical of the clergy and the work was added to the Vatican index of forbidden books. Abstemius later wrote a further 97 fables in a less extreme vein, Hecatomythium Secundum, published in Fano in 1505.

The fables of Abstemius were frequently reprinted in their own right, as well as added to other collections of Aesopic material, during the 16th century. In particular they can be found annexed to an edition of Aesop's Fables, published in eight volumes at Frankfurt in 1580, and were later translated very idiomatically by Roger L'Estrange in his Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692). Translated into French as Hécatomythium ou les fables de Laurent Abstemius traduit du latin (Orléans, 1572), they were the source for several in the later books of  La Fontaine's Fables, including "The Vultures and the Pigeons” (VII.8), “Death and the Dying Man” (VIII.1) and “The Women and the Secret” (VIII.6).

References

External links
The Latin text of the Hecatomythium with a literal translation and an idiomatic one by Roger L'Estrange

Italian male short story writers
Italian librarians
15th-century Italian writers
 
Year of birth uncertain
1440s births
1508 deaths