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Type 72Z

The Type 72Z tank (also known as the T-72Z and the Safir-74, and the Al-Zubair I in Sudan) is a highly modernized version of the Type 59 and T-54/T-55 tanks, with upgrades carried out by the Iranian Defense Industries Organization.

The tank is not to be confused with an Iraqi modernization also known as T-72Z, said to carry a 125 mm gun.

History

The Type 72Z was first announced by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 1996. The upgrades to the Type 59 and T-54/T-55 tanks were carried out by the Vehicle Industries Group of the Defence Industries Organization, in order to extend the service life of tanks already in use with the Iranian army.

Upgrades
The 100mm gun of the T-55/Type 59 was replaced with an Iranian-produced derivative of the 105mm M68 gun, capable of firing 9M117 Bastion anti-tank guided missiles as well as NATO standard ammunition. The Slovenian Fotona Electronic Fire Control System (EFCS-3-55) was added, with automatic and manual gun stabilizers, a laser rangefinder, second-generation night sights, a ballistic computer, and an independent viewer and target designation system for the commander. Electric smoke grenade dischargers were also added to provide concealment on top of the existing ability to create a smoke screen by injecting diesel fuel into the left exhaust outlet.

Explosive reactive armor (ERA) developed by the Shahid Kolah Dooz Industrial Complex can be fitted to the Type 72Z, providing protection against projectiles and napalm-type weapons. Side track skirts similar to those on the Type 59 were added to T-54/T-55 tanks upgraded with ERA. 

The engine was replaced with a Ukrainian 780 hp V46-6 diesel engine, together with the SPAT-1200 transmission system. Air conditioning, power steering and a fire suppression system are also believed to have been installed.

Variants
 Safir-74 - Iranian T-54/T-55 tanks which have gone through similar upgrades. Safir means "messenger" in Persian.
 Al-Zubair I - Sudanese variant of the Type 72Z manufactured by the Military Industry Corporation, with the engine upgraded with a supercharger.

Operators 

 
 Ground Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
 Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces
 : First purchased in 2006.

Non-state operators

  Kata'ib Hezbollah

See also
 Karrar MBT
 Tiam MBT
 Zulfiqar MBT

References

Main battle tanks of Iran
Post–Cold War main battle tanks
Iran–Soviet Union relations
Military vehicles introduced in the 1990s
Cobra BMT-2 APC

The Cobra BMT-2 () is an Iranian Infantry fighting vehicle armed with a 30 mm autocannon or a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun.

History
The Cobra began field testing with the Iranian Military in May 1996. In July 1997, Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani of Iran formally opened a production line that would produce the BMT-2 as well as the Zulfiqar main battle tank and Boragh tracked armored personnel carriers.

Operators
 Iran

References

See also
Military of Iran
Iranian military industry
Equipment of the Iranian army

Armoured fighting vehicles of Iran
Wheeled armoured personnel carriers
Military vehicles introduced in the 1990s
The Real McCoy

The Real McCoy may refer to:

Film and television 
The Real McCoy (film), a 1993 film starring Kim Basinger
The Real McCoy, a 1999 film starring Andy McCoy
The Real McCoy (TV series), a 1991–1996 British comedy television series
The Real McCoys, a 1957–1962 American television series starring Walter Brennan and Richard Crenna that aired on CBS

Music 
Real McCoy (band), a Eurodance group popular in the 1990s
The Real McCoy, 1960s–70s era Irish showband

Albums
The Real McCoy, album by Charlie McCoy
The Real McCoy (Van McCoy album), 1976
The Real McCoy (McCoy Tyner album), 1967

Songs
"The Real McCoy", a 1988 song by Scottish rock band The Silencers
"The Real McCoy", a 2012 song by Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
"The Real McCoy", a 1970s track by Klaus Schulze released in the box set Historic Edition

Other uses 
The real McCoy, a phrase meaning "the real thing" or "the genuine article"
McCoy's (crisp), a brand of potato chips marketed under the slogan "The Real McCoy"
Dundas Real McCoys, a hockey team in Dundas, Ontario
The Real McCoy (book), a 2003 novel by American writer Darin Strauss, based on the life of the boxer Charles "Kid" McCoy
The Real McCoy (play) a 2006 stage play by Canadian playwright Andrew Moodie based on the life of inventor Elijah McCoy
Real McCoy (ferry), a ferryboat that operated for 63 years from Rio Vista, California
Scud (disambiguation)

Scud refers to a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Scud or SCUD may also refer to:
 Scud (crustacean), Amphipoda, a shrimplike aquatic animal
 Scud (dog), a character in the animation Toy Story
 Scud FM, nickname of BBC Radio 4's continuous 1991 Gulf War news service
 Scud Mountain Boys, an American country music band

Acronym 
 Septicemic cutaneous ulcerative disease, a disease found in turtles
 Socle pour le changement, l'unité et la démocratie, a Chadian rebel group

Aviation and meteorology
 Scud (cloud), scattered cumulus under deck
 Scud running, flying at a reduced altitude to avoid clouds

Gliders
 Abbott-Baynes Scud 1
 Abbott-Baynes Scud 2
 Abbott-Baynes Scud 3

Comics and games
 Scud: The Disposable Assassin, a science fiction comic book series
 Scud: The Disposable Assassin (video game), a Sega Saturn game based on the comic book series
 Scud Race, a Sega arcade racing game

People
 Scud (filmmaker), working name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung
 Scud, a fictional character in the film Blade II
 Scud Stud, nickname of British journalist Rageh Omaar 
 The Scud, nickname of Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis
 The Scud Stud, nickname of Canadian journalist Arthur Kent
Zembla (TV series)

Zembla is a Dutch television documentary programme produced by BNNVARA (previously VARA, and until 2010, also NPS). The documentaries are based on in-depth research. The program often deals with controversial topics.

A documentary in 2001 about fraud in the Dutch construction sector led to parliamentary inquiries.

In May 2006, the programme exposed the fact that politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali had lied in her claim for asylum, which led to her resignation from parliament.

In May 2017, Zembla aired a two-part documentary investigating ties between Donald Trump and the Russian mafia, entitled The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump (De omstreden vrienden van Trump). An English-language version of the documentary with additional reference materials in English was also put online. There is now a third part to the series.

In May 2019 Zembla published a report, Victim of the WWF, criticising policies condoned by the World Wildlife Fund and their infringements of the human rights of the native population of the Kaziranga National Park in India.

References

External links
Official website

Dutch documentary television series
Lara, Antalya

Lara is a district of Antalya city, Turkey. Lara is a balneoclimatic and balneoclimateric location bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It is home to many luxury-themed hotels, mainly at the popular Lara Beach area which includes the Lara, Kundu, Aksu and Muratpaşa municipalities of Antalya province. Most of the hotels are replicas of famous places around the world, luxury design hotels and theme hotels (for example Topkapi Palace, Venice Palace, Kremlin Palace, Titanic Beach Lara, Concorde De Luxe Resort) with All inclusive concept.

"Lara" is Luwian for sand.

Beach
Lara Beach, together with Konyaaltı Beach, is one of the two important beaches of Antalya.

Lara Beach is one of the longest sand beaches and popular beach holiday destination with Blue Flag, Beach clubs, water sports centers and hotel zone in Turkey. It is host to a yearly sand art competition named Sandland.

References

External links
 Lara-Beach.com

Turkish Riviera
Lara, Antalya
Muratpaşa District
Epihipparch

Epihipparch () is an Ancient Greek military title for a cavalry commander of 1,000 horses. They were powerful and respected. This unit was divided into two hipparchiai of 500. Each of these was commanded by a hipparchos.

Military ranks of ancient Greece
Larry Wright (cartoonist)

Larry Wright (February 2, 1940 - May 21, 2017) was an American cartoonist, known for his conservative editorial cartoons published in The Detroit News from 1976 to 2009.

He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 1980 and 1984.  He was also the author of the comic strips Wright Angles and Kit 'N' Carlyle. The latter, about a woman named Carlyle who owns a cat named Kit, was introduced in 1980.

Wright died on May 21, 2017, at the age of 77.

References 

1940 births
2017 deaths
American comic strip cartoonists
American editorial cartoonists
People from Youngstown, Ohio
Leslie Graves

Leslie Marie Graves (September 29, 1959 – August 23, 1995) was an American actress.

Early years
Leslie Graves's father, Michael Graves, was a theatre actor and introduced her to the entertainment industry when she was about 10. She started her career with a small role in the Broadway play A Cry of Players (1968–1969), written by William Gibson. She then moved to acting for TV series, including Sesame Street (1969, first 13 episodes), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1971, in the episode titled "Baby Sit-Com"), and Here We Go Again (1973).

In the late 1970s, she left Hollywood, supposedly to move with a boyfriend to Texas, where she worked on a shrimp boat for three years.

Career
Graves's return to Hollywood in early 1980 was marked by some nude photoshoots. Phillip Dixon shot her for Oui, a Playboy corporation affiliate and put her on the cover in November 1980 and again in May 1981 with a shoot by five photographers). At that time, rumors arose about her involvement with Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and an argument with Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner.

She had small roles in two exploitation movies: Piranha II: The Spawning (1982) and Death Wish II (1982). In 1982, CBS cast her in the role of Brenda Clegg in the daytime soap Capitol.

In late summer 1984, Graves left the CBS show due to a serious drug problem and a heroin overdose, but her departure was reported as stress-related. Her last public appearance was a nude photo shoot by Jean Rougeron published in the October 1984 issue of Oui.

Filmography

Personal life
Leslie Graves was married and had two children. On August 23, 1995, she died of an AIDS-related illness in Los Angeles.

References

External links
 

1959 births
1995 deaths
American television actresses
American soap opera actresses
AIDS-related deaths in California
Actresses from New Mexico
20th-century American actresses
People from Silver City, New Mexico
Alexander le Pargiter

Alexander of St Albans (died circa 1220), said to have been known by the surnames of Cementarius or le Pargiter (the Plasterer), was an English ecclesiastic of the thirteenth century. He was first a Benedictine monk of the monastery of St. Augustine, at Canterbury, of which house he was made abbot in 1213. He was distinguished by his steady adherence to King John, who sent him in Rome to protest Pope Innocent III. He was excommunicated by Legate Pandulph after the death of the king, and he was deprived of his clerical station. He died in great poverty about the year 1220, though some place his death in 1217. He wrote several works, which are enumerated by Tanner.

Alexander may be confused with Alexander Neckam, also called Alexander of St Albans. Both were abbots and writers operating at the same time.

Notes

References

12th-century births
1220s deaths
Abbots of St Augustine's
English religious writers
People excommunicated by the Catholic Church
English Christian monks
13th-century English people
English Benedictines
Timeline of geopolitical changes (1900–1999)

This is a timeline of country and capital changes around the world between 1900 and 1999. It includes dates of declarations of independence, changes in country name, changes of capital city or name, and changes in territory such as the annexation, cession, concession, occupation, or secession of land. Territorial conquests as a result of war are included on the timeline at the conclusion of military campaigns, but changes in the course of specific battles and day-to-day operations are generally not included. Changes in airspace and maritime territory are included only when they are subject to a dispute.

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

See also

Notes

References

20th-century timelines
Geography-related lists
Geopolitics
History-related lists
Maps
École des Pionniers (British Columbia)

École des Pionniers de Maillardville is a  French first language school located in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. It serves the French speaking population of the Metro Vancouver area.

The school was founded in 2000 and is located on the former Terry Fox Secondary School grounds.  It incorporates classes formerly held at Millside Elementary, Como Lake Middle and Centennial Secondary School in Coquitlam. The school now has the IB Diploma Programme in French for grade 11 and 12 students, and has the MYP IB Programme for grade 7 to 10 students.  Not directly affiliated with École des Pionniers, but located within it and often a stepping stone to attending the school, is an independent non-profit francophone preschool called Prématernelle Les p'tits lutins.

New School Construction 
In 2013 the provincial government announced plans to build a new facility for the school, which has since been completed during the winter of 2018. The 32.7 million dollar project received joint funding from the Government of British Columbia ($27.3 million contributed for the replacement), the Government of Canada ($3.7 million contributed for community and child-care spaces within the school), and the Conseil Scolaire Francophone de la Colombie-Britannique ($1.7 million contributed for generalities and additional classrooms). Since the old school's demolition, the space has since been turned into a playing field and parking area.

References

External links
http://pionniers.csf.bc.ca/
http://www.achievebc.ca/spt/school.aspx?id=9343092
http://www.lesptitslutins.ca/
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016EDUC0143-001973
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id54924/--new-ecole-des-pionniers-school-planned-for-coquitlam
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016EDUC0143-001973

Elementary schools in British Columbia
French-language schools in British Columbia
High schools in British Columbia
International Baccalaureate schools in British Columbia
Port Coquitlam
Educational institutions established in 1998
1998 establishments in British Columbia
Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant (CY) was a nuclear power plant located in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. The power plant is on the Connecticut River near the East Haddam Swing Bridge. The plant was commissioned in 1968, ceased electricity production in 1996, and was decommissioned by 2004. The reason for the closure was because operation of the nuclear power station was no longer cost effective. The plant had a capacity of 582MW. Demolition of the containment dome was completed the week of July 17, 2006.

Kenneth Nichols, the deputy to Leslie Groves on the Manhattan Project, was a consultant for the Connecticut Yankee and Yankee Rowe nuclear power plants. He said that while the plants were considered "experimental" and were not expected to be competitive with coal and oil, they "became competitive because of inflation … and the large increase in price of coal and oil." The Connecticut Yankee plant was estimated to cost $100 million.

See also

 Lelan Sillin, Jr.

References

External links 

Connecticut Yankee Website
Connecticut Yankee To Leave A Legacy Hartford Courant article

All of the following are filed under 362 Injun Hollow Road, Haddam, Middlesex County, CT:

Energy infrastructure completed in 1968
Haddam, Connecticut
Historic American Engineering Record in Connecticut
Nuclear power plants in Connecticut
Former nuclear power stations in the United States
Buildings and structures in Middlesex County, Connecticut
Nuclear power stations using pressurized water reactors
This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death

This Wild Darkness is a compilation of essays written by Harold Brodkey as he neared death from AIDS and  first published in 1996.  The memoirs were written from when he was first diagnosed with AIDS until it left him too feeble to write, as he details in the later entries.  Many were first printed in The New Yorker, where Brodkey's works most often appeared.  They are written reflectively, regarding both recent events caused by his affliction (including the consideration of when to reveal his illness to friends and family, his activities such as a final trip to Venice, the treatment and care he receives for AIDS, and the current state of his health) and past memories revived by his condition (including his abusive stepfather, friends and relatives who had been in similar situations, a homosexual experience, and, as is described in most of his works, a childhood in St. Louis, Missouri). Brodkey died on January 26, 1996, at the age of 65.

The book was adapted into a performance piece by Italian playwright Pippo Delbono.  Entitled Questo buio feroce, it debuted in Rome on October 3, 2006.

Essay dates
Spring, 1993
Summer, 1993
Late Winter, 1994
Spring, 1994
Summer, 1994
Early Fall, 1995
Late Fall, 1995

See also
The Mad Man

References

External links
Professional Finance Essay Writing

1996 non-fiction books
American essay collections
HIV/AIDS in literature
Literary autobiographies
Henry Holt and Company books
Los Twist

Los Twist was an Argentine rock group formed on March 30, 1982, in Buenos Aires. Their music was inspired in the rockabilly of the 1950s, and their lyrics contained strong political statements disguised with humor. The band officially broke up on April 30, 2012.

Among their most famous songs are: Pensé que se trataba de cieguitos, El rockabilly de los narcisos, Ricardo Rubén, El estudiante, and Estoy herido, etc.

Members of Los Twist 
 Pipo Cipolatti (guitar and voice)
 Daniel Melingo (guitar)
 Fabiana Cantilo (vocals: first 2 albums)
 Eduardo Cano (bass: first 2 albums)
 Bruno Toppino (drums: first 2 albums)
 Gonzalo Palacios (wind instruments)
 Damian Toppino (vocals: third album)
 Santiago Toppino and Gustavo Pintos (vocals 1991-1996)

Discography
The band started playing in the early 1980s; their albums include: 
"La dicha en movimiento" (1983), 
"Cachetazo al vicio" (1984), 
"La máquina del tiempo" (1985), 
"Cataratas musicales" (1991), 
"El álbum" (1993), 
"Con el 5 en la espalda" (1994) 
"Explosivo '96" (1995)

Singles
Some of their hits include: "Pensé que se trataba de cieguitos", "Ritmo colocado", "Jugando hula-hula" from "La dicha en movimiento" "El hombre de la barra de hielo" (1983), and "El estudiante" from "Cataratas musicales" (1991).

References

Argentine rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1982
1982 establishments in Argentina
Lansing Center

Lansing Center, officially the Lansing Convention Center, is the primary and largest convention center in Lansing, Michigan. The center is located along Michigan Avenue, with its western facade fronting the Grand River. The center's location includes a riverfront plaza that has been home to outdoor events. It is also directly connected to the Lansing Radisson Hotel by an enclosed, climate-controlled skybridge spanning the Grand River. Since 1996, Lansing Center has been managed by the non-profit Lansing Entertainment & Public Facilities Authority (LEPFA).

The center has a total square footage of 124,118 (11,531 m²), of which 71,760 ft² (6,667 m²) is column-free exhibit space.  

Designed by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK), the center was opened in 1987, and renovated and expanded in 1995 with Hobbs + Black Associates as the renovation architects. The center currently holds  of space, including a main exhibition hall, meeting rooms, conference centers, banquet facilities, a restaurants and lounge, a full kitchen, and a 500-space underground parking garage.

The center underwent its first extensive renovation since the 1995 addition in 2007 and 2008. The renovation included cosmetic upgrades, as well as structural upgrades.

External links
 Lansing Center Official Website
 Lansing Entertainment & Public Facilities Authority (LEPFA)

Buildings and structures completed in 1987
Convention centers in Michigan
Economy of Lansing, Michigan
Buildings and structures in Lansing, Michigan
Tourist attractions in Lansing, Michigan
Event venues established in 1987
HOK (firm) buildings
Alfred Malone

Alfred Wayne Malone (born February 21, 1982) is a former American football defensive tackle. He was signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at Troy.

Malone has also played for the Green Bay Packers and Las Vegas Locomotives.

Early years
Malone attended Frisco City High School where he played defensive end and tight end.

College career
Malone started his college career at Georgia Tech before transferring to Troy. During his college time he recorded 50 sacks.

External links
Just Sports Stats
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets bio
Green Bay Packers bio

1982 births
Living people
People from Monroe County, Alabama
Players of American football from Alabama
American football defensive tackles
American football defensive ends
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
Troy Trojans football players
Houston Texans players
Green Bay Packers players
Las Vegas Locomotives players
BCTV

BCTV may refer to:
 Beet curly top virus, a pathogen of a variety of garden plants
 Berks Community Television in Berks County, Pennsylvania
 Boston Catholic Television, now CatholicTV
 Boston College Television at Boston College
 BCTV or British Columbia Television, now CHAN-DT
 Business Channel Television, now Kompas TV Jawa Timur
Hindu Temples of Kabul

Kabul was the capital of the great Hindu Shahi kings. Afghanistan was a great center of Vedic culture. There were many Hindu temples in Afghanistan.  Some temples in Kabul have survived the recent turmoil.

List of Hindu temples in Kabul
In Kabul, there are several Hindu temples:
 Asamai Hindu temple, Old city, Dargaa, Asamayi: The Asamai temple is at the foothills of  the central hill Asamayi (Koh-i-Asamayi) of the Afghan capital. The hill is named Asamai after Asha, the goddess of hope said to be present on the hilltop since ancient times. The Akhand Jyoti (continuous fire) there has been burning uninterrupted for many centuries. The temple and the Jyoti have survived numerous conflicts in Kabul and are reminders of Afghanistan under the Hindu Shahi kings. The Asamai temples of New York, Maryland  London, Faridabad, Frankfurt Cologne and Amsterdam Belgium are named after the famous Kabul temple. 
 Baba Jothi Sorup Mandir, Darwaza Lahuri
 Bhairo Mandir, Shor Bazaar
 Guru Hari Rai Gurudwara, Shor Bazaar 
 Mangalwar Mandir, Shor Bazaar

Hindu temples in Kandahar
In Kandahar, there were Hindu temples in Shikarpuri Bazaar, Kabuli Bazaar and Jhampeer Sahib (near Sarpooza) and Devi-dwara (near Dand).

Hindu temples in other cities of Afghanistan
There have also been Hindu temples and Gurudwaras at Chasma Sahib, Sultanpur, Jalalabad, Ghazni, Helmand (Lashkerga).

Hindus of Afghanistan
The main Hindu residents of Afghanistan have been Mohyals, Khatris and Aroras, some other communities like Bhatias, and Brahmins other than Mohyals have also been present there.

See also
Hindu and Buddhist heritage of Afghanistan
Hinduism in Afghanistan
List of Hindu temples all over the world
Hindu Temples outside of India

References

Sources 
 
 

Hinduism in Kabul
Hinduism in South Asia
Hindu temples in Afghanistan
Religious buildings and structures in Kabul

Hinduism in Afghanistan
Immanuel Bible Church

Immanuel Bible Church is a non-denominational church located in Springfield, Virginia, United States.

History
The church was founded in 1964 as a Baptist church (part of the General Association of Regular Baptists).  The groundbreaking for the church's building took place in 1966.  In 1984 the church became non-denominational.

Immanuel Christian School 

The school has been criticized for their anti-LGBT policies, which ban LGBTQ students and employees. This followed the decision of Karen Pence, second lady, to return as an art teacher in early 2019. The attention the school received as a result of this caused a media debate as to whether their policies are discriminatory. A result of this controversy is the decision of The Sheridan School to refuse to play division basketball games with ICS.

References

External links
 Official website

Evangelical megachurches in the United States
Megachurches in Virginia
Evangelical churches in Virginia
Christian organizations established in 1964
20th-century Protestant churches
1964 establishments in Virginia
Nami Miyahara

is a Japanese voice actress and singer associated by Atomic Monkey. Miyahara debuted as a voice actress in 1998 as Shouko Yamanobe in Mamotte Shugogetten. Notable roles she has played include Momoko Asuka and Masaru Yada from the Ojamajo Doremi series, Wallace from Digimon Adventure 02, Miyako Gōtokuji/Rolling Bubbles from Powerpuff Girls Z, Lyuze from Casshern Sins, and Akari Tsukumo from Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal.

In addition to her voice acting, Miyahara also pursued a singing career and released her first extended play, Reason, in 2003. She also provided vocals for Genki Rockets.

Early life 
When Miyahara was in junior high, she and her family moved to Austria, where she attended an international school and learned English.

Career

Voice acting career 
Miyahara began her voice acting career in 1997.

Musical career 
Miyahara pursued a musical career alongside her voice acting works. Aside from performing image songs associated with some of the characters she voiced, she performs at open mics. She released her first indies album, titled REASON, in 2003. Miyahara also lent her vocals to some of Genki Rockets' songs as part of fictional space girl Lumi's image.

Miyahara was also a featured artist in one of FreeTEMPO's albums.

Personal life
Miyahara gave birth to a boy on July 29, 2019.

Discography

Extended plays

Singles

As featured artist

Filmography

Film and television

Video games

References

External links 
 

1978 births
Living people
Japanese child actresses
Japanese video game actresses
Japanese voice actresses
Singers from Tokyo
Voice actresses from Tokyo
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese women singers
Frondarola

Frondarola is a small town in the province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of Italy, population about 200. It lies at an altitude of 1502 feet above sea level and is located about 5 miles from Teramo, of which it is a frazione.

History
Archeological evidence points to the existence of Frondarola in the pre-Roman era, although the name comes from the Latin furnus arola, land belonging to the Furnus family.

The earliest known public document referencing the town is found in an act in which Count Trasmondo di Sifredo donates the Castle of Fornarolo to the church "Aprutina" in the year 1076.  Approximately 10 years later Count Teutone di Ranieri mentions the passing of this donation to Ugone, Bishop of Teramo.  Following its destruction 1156 by the Loretello's mercenary troops, the  noblemen living in Frondarola fled to the surrounding countryside and villas. Later the Melatini family took possession of the land and became the most important feudal leaders of the area.

The city is located at the watershed of the Tordino and Vomano valleys. Looking out from Frondarola one can see the peaks of the Gran Sasso and the Monti della Laga mountains, as well as the hills of the Pescara and Ascoli Piceno areas of Abruzzo.

Sights 
The town is known for its church, Holy Salvatore.

References

External links 

Frondarola Town Website

Frazioni of the Province of Teramo
Teramo
Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad

The Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad (SF&GC) was a 56-mile railroad that ran from Williams, Arizona to take mining supplies and people to the copper mines near Anita.  In 1901, the SF&GC was sold at foreclosure and became the Grand Canyon Railway, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.  Today the line is a heritage railway owned by the Grand Canyon Railway  (not related to the earlier railway) providing excursions to the Grand Canyon.

History
The SF&GC was incorporated on July 31, 1897.  On June 1, 1899, grading commenced and by October 1899 rails were being laid.  By June 1900 the railroad was operating over a 56-mile line between Williams and Anita.  Although the railway was named after the Grand Canyon, it never reached the canyon, stopping about 15 miles south of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon at the mining town of Anita.  The railway quickly fell into financial problems and on September 5, 1900 was placed in receivership.  In July 1901 the SF&GC was sold under foreclosure to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

The ATSF quickly began construction of the fifteen remaining miles of track to extend the line to the Grand Canyon.  The line to the Grand Canyon was completed on September 16, 1901, and was renamed the Grand Canyon Railway.

See also
 List of defunct Arizona railroads

References
 
 
 

Defunct Arizona railroads
Predecessors of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Grand Canyon
Railway companies established in 1897
Railway companies disestablished in 1901
1897 establishments in Arizona Territory
1901 disestablishments in Arizona Territory
Alfred H. Moses

Alfred H. Moses (born July 24, 1929) is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Romania from 1994 to 1997.

Biography
Moses was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating from Baltimore City College  (a high school), he attended Dartmouth College from which he received his B.A. degree in 1951. He attended Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School in 1951-52, served in the U.S. Navy, and received his law degree from Georgetown University in 1956, where he was an editor of the Georgetown Law Review.

Moses joined the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington & Burling practicing in the areas of litigation, corporate and securities matters, and arbitration. He represented clients in important litigation as trial and appellant counsel and has structured major corporate, financial and real estate transactions nationally and internationally. Except for his public service, he has remained with Covington & Burling. He also serves as chief strategy officer of Promontory Financial Group, a global financial services consulting firm, and is vice chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network, a fintech company based in Arlington, Virginia.

Moses was lead counsel to President Jimmy Carter in the "Billygate" hearings in the U.S. Senate. He served as Special Advisor and Special Counsel to President Carter, 1980-81. Under President Bill Clinton, Moses was U.S. Ambassador to Romania, 1994–97, and Special Presidential Emissary for the Cyprus problem 1999-2001. In 2002, he was awarded Romania's Mare Cruce Medal (Order For Merit) by the President of Romania, Ion Iliescu, the only American to have been so honored.

Moses has published numerous articles on Central European and Middle East issues in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications.

He has been active in religious life and served as President of the American Jewish Committee in 1991–1995.

In July 2018, he published his book Bucharest Diary: An American Ambassador’s Journey.

In May 2023, Moses purchased the Codex Sassoon 1053, the oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, on behalf of the American Friends of ANU as a gift to the ANU -  Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.

References

External links
Bucharest Diary: Romania's Journey from Darkness to Light by Alfred H. Moses (Brookings Institution Press), on Amazon.com
Do Human Rights Matter? Ambassador Alfred H Moses at Geneva Summit 2017, on UN Watch, March 5, 2017.

1929 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States to Romania
United States Senate lawyers
Jewish American attorneys
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni
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2006–07 A1 Grand Prix season

The 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix season was the second season for the A1 Grand Prix series. 
It began on 1 October 2006, at Circuit Park Zandvoort, and the season ended at Brands Hatch on 29 April 2007. A1 Team Germany won it with 128 points, 35 points lead ahead Team New Zealand.

Calendar
The second A1 Grand Prix season consisted of 11 races held in 10 different countries. Each race is to be run over a three-day weekend, including a practice session on each of Friday and Saturday before a qualifying session on Saturday, and then two races on Sunday. Changes in the weekend program for second season included changing the time certain limits of the Sprint race to 20 minutes and Feature race to 70 minutes, and reducing the pointscore in the Sprint race to only the top six positions.

Calendar changes
 A 12th race had been scheduled to have been held in Brazil; however, on 17 January 2007 the A1GP organisation announced that as a result of a delay in obtaining a local terrestrial television agreement then the event would be cancelled.
 After the finish to the Australian Feature race resulted in time certainty confusion, the time certain limits were reduced by a minute with an additional lap added after the time expired.

Entry list
24 teams, each representing a different country, signed up for the second A1 Grand Prix season. All teams and drivers competed in Zytek-powered, Cooper Avon-shod and Lola A1GP chassis. Teams representing Greece and Singapore made their debuts, whilst the representatives of Austria, Japan and Russia did not return from the previous season.

Mid-season changes
 A1 Team Greece only participated in the opening two rounds.
 A1 Team Singapore missed the last three races allegedly due to an injury suffered by their driver Christian Murchison in South Africa.
 A1 Team Portugal started their season in South Africa.

Results and standings

Results summary

Championship standings

References

External links

 Official season standings and results at results.a1gp.com

 
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The Deathlord of Ixia

The Deathlord of Ixia was the seventeenth book of the Lone Wolf book series, written by Joe Dever and now illustrated by Brian Williams.

Gameplay

Lone Wolf books rely on a combination of thought and luck. Certain statistics such as combat skill and endurance attributes are determined randomly before play. The player is then allowed to choose Grandmaster Kai disciplines and a selection of Dessi and Crystal Star magics. This number depends directly on how many books in the series have been completed ("Grandmaster rank"). With each additional book completed, the player chooses one additional discipline. The Grandmaster series is different from any in the previous series of books because it gives Lone Wolf spells to use which grow more numerous as his Grandmaster Rank increases.

Plot

Reception
This game is notable for the very elaborate plot and the extremely difficult combat skill of the Deathlord, making him one of the hardest of all opponents in the entire gameseries.

External links
Gamebooks - Lone Wolf
Gamebooks - The Deathlord of Ixia
Project Aon - Online editions of Lone Wolf books
Book Review

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John Swift (politician)

John Swift (27 June 1790, in Philadelphia – 9 June 1873, in Philadelphia) was an American lawyer and politician and long-time mayor of Philadelphia. He was admitted to the bar in 1810. He was a leader of the Whigs of Philadelphia and served as mayor 1832–1838, 1839–1841, and 1845–1849. In 1840, Swift became the first mayor to be elected by popular election. He is buried at Christ Church Burial Ground.

Personal life 
John Swift was born in Philadelphia on January 21, 1790, his father was Charles Swift, one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Swift graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1808 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Swift married Mary Truxton, daughter of Commodore Thomas Truxton, on March 11, 1808. Swift was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar five days later on March 16, 1811.

Swift was elected a member of the State in Schuylkill, otherwise known as the Schuylkill Fishing Company on October 2, 1822. His name appears first in the charter granted by the commonwealth to the State in the Schuylkill on April 27, 1838.

Military career 
Swift was Captain of the second company of the Washington Guards during the War of 1812. Post-war Swift became a Colonel.

Mayor of Philadelphia 
Swift served 12 years as a Mayor of Philadelphia over three terms. Swift won the first Philadelphia Mayoral election with popular vote on October 15, 1839. The following year, on October 20, 1840, Swift won the first Philadelphia Mayoral election purely decided by popular vote.

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List of Intel Pentium M processors

This is a list of Intel Pentium M processors. They are all single-core 32-bit CPUs codenamed Banias and Dothan, and targeted at the consumer market of mobile computers.

Mobile processors

Pentium M

"Banias" (130 nm)   
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
 Die size: 83 mm²

"Dothan" (90 nm)   
 All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
 PAE, XD bit (an NX bit implementation): supported by C0 stepping
 Die size: 87 mm²
 Steppings: B0, B1, C0
C1 stepping Pentium M's are fabbed on a 65 nm process with an actual C0 stepping

See also

 List of Intel Pentium processors
  List of Intel Pentium 4 processors § Mobile processors
 Pentium M (microarchitecture)

References 

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Ginzburg–Landau equation

The Ginzburg–Landau equation, named after Vitaly Ginzburg and Lev Landau, describes the nonlinear evolution of small disturbances near a finite wavelength bifurcation from a stable to an unstable state of a system. At the onset of finite wavelength bifurcation, the system becomes unstable for a critical wavenumber  which is non-zero. In the neighbourhood of this bifurcation, the evolution of disturbances is characterised by the particular Fourier mode for  with slowly varying amplitude . The Ginzburg–Landau equation is the governing equation for . The unstable modes can either be non-oscillatory (stationary) or oscillatory.

For non-oscillatory bifurcation,  satisfies the real Ginzburg–Landau equation

which was first derived by Alan C. Newell and John A. Whitehead and by Lee Segel in 1969. For oscillatory bifurcation,  satisfies the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation

which was first derived by Keith Stewartson and John Trevor Stuart in 1971.

See also
Davey–Stewartson equation
Stuart–Landau equation
Gross–Pitaevskii equation

References

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Mechanics
Lev Landau
Bill Stuart

William Alexander "Chauncey" Stuart was a Major League Baseball middle infielder. He played in 1895 and 1899, with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1895 and the New York Giants in 1899.

Biography 

Stuart was born on August 28, 1873, in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. He threw and batted right-handed, he was 5'11", 170 pounds and he attended Penn State University where he was a half back for the varsity football team. Stuart died on October 14, 1928, in Fort Worth, Texas. His body was laid to rest in Branch Cemetery in State College, Pennsylvania.

Baseball career 

Stuart made his big league debut on August 15, 1895, with the Pittsburgh Pirates at the age of 21, playing 19 games that year (2 at second base and 17 as shortstop) and hitting .247 with 0 home runs and 10 RBI. He returned to the Major Leagues in 1899 to play for the New York Giants (playing only one game at second base that season) and collected zero hits in three at-bats. Stuart's overall career fielding percentage was unremarkable, at .912.

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Mark Stuart

Mark Stuart is the name of:

 Mark Stuart (ice hockey) (born 1984), ice hockey player in the National Hockey League
 Mark Stuart (musician) (born 1968), former lead singer of Christian rock band Audio Adrenaline
 Mark Stuart (footballer) (born 1966), English footballer
 Mark Stuart, singer, guitarist and half of the duo Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart
 Mark Stuart, leader of country band Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

See also
 Mark Stewart (disambiguation)
Hugh Bicheno

Hugh Bicheno (born 1948) is a political risk analyst and an historian of conflict. He is best known for his interpretations of the Falklands War in Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War and of the American Revolution in Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Bicheno was born in Cuba to British parents in 1948. He was educated in Cuba, Chile and Scotland before winning a scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he won a first class honours degree in history. He was first an academic and then an officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service, serving in Buenos Aires during the 'Dirty War.'

Later he became a security consultant specialising in kidnap negotiations and was the adviser in 27 cases. He lived in Italy and then in Guatemala before moving to the United States for several years and becoming a naturalised citizen. He returned to England to pursue his life-long ambition to write books about conflict.

He is bilingual English-Spanish, speaks and reads Italian and French.

Writing
Reviewing Razor's Edge, the late and eminent military historian Sir John Keegan commented that "It may seem impossible for anything original to appear about the Falklands War, so much has been written about it, but Hugh Bicheno's book is that thing . . . readers will find this book gripping and discomfiting."

Sir Max Hastings, who took part in the campaign as a journalist and co-wrote the first and still highly regarded account of the war, commented: "Bicheno understands how battles are fought, and explains those of the Falklands better than any other writer has done . . . he knows how soldiers fight battles and has done us all a service by explaining them so well for a new generation."

Bicheno collaborated with his friend the late Richard Holmes on Battlefields of the Second World War, In the Footsteps of Churchill and The World at War. Holmes wrote the prefaces to Rebels and Redcoats and Razor's Edge and also made a television series adaptation of Rebels and Redcoats.

Works
 Gettysburg (Cassell, 2001) 
 Midway (Cassell, 2001) 
 Rebels & Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War (HarperCollins 2003) 
 Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto, 1571 (Cassell, 2003) 
 Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006) 
 Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) 
 Elizabeth's Sea Dogs: How the English Became the Scourge of the Seas (Conway, 2012) 
 Battle Royal: the Wars of Lancaster and York 1440-1462 (Head of Zeus, 2015) 
 Blood Royal: the Wars of Lancaster and York 1462-1485 (Head of Zeus, 2016) 
 Crescent and Cross (Endeavour Kindle Edition, 2019)  
 The Wars of the Roses (Head of Zeus, 2019)

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Steingaden Abbey

Steingaden Abbey (German: Kloster Steingaden) was a Premonstratensian monastery in Steingaden in Bavaria, Germany.

History

Dedicated to John the Baptist, the abbey was founded in 1147 as a Premonstratensian house by Welf VI, third son of Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria, and brother of Duke Henry the Proud. The first monks and their abbot came from the Premonstratensian Rot an der Rot Abbey. The Romanesque abbey church was dedicated in 1176. Between 1470 and 1491 the abbey buildings were refurbished under Abbot Caspar Suiter in the Late Gothic style.  Welf VI and his son Welf VII were both buried here.

The abbey was looted and burnt in 1525 during the German Peasants' War, and was later almost completely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. Reconstruction was completed in 1663 under Abbot Augustin Bonenmayr in the style of the early Baroque. During the 1740s the nave of the church was redecorated in the Rococo style.

The abbey's prestigious building projects, combined with its inaccessible location, brought it into financial difficulties which remained insuperable to the end of its existence.

Dissolution

Steingaden Abbey was dissolved in 1803 during the secularisation of Bavaria. The monastic buildings were bought at auction by the Meyer brothers from Aarau, who demolished them in 1819, except for the wing containing the Romanesque cloisters.

Welfenmünster

The former abbey church, the Welfenmünster, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, is a Romanesque building of the 1170s under an extravagant Rococo refurbishment carried out by Johann Georg Bergmüller throughout the whole of the 1740s. It survived the dissolution as the parish church of Steingaden, which it remains.

The abbey church was the place of burial of the founder, Welf VI, who died in 1191, and his son Welf VII, who predeceased his father in 1167. Their elaborate tomb was destroyed in 1525. The church retained however a carved sandstone panel of the Welf arms, dating from about 1200 which may well have formed part of the destroyed tomb. Apart from seals and seal impressions this is the oldest known surviving heraldic representation in Germany. The panel was acquired by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich in 1861.

Wies Church

The nearby pilgrimage church at Wies was closely connected to Steingaden Abbey. It was built under Abbot Marinus Mayer in 1745 when it became apparent that Wies had become an important centre of pilgrimage, and has continued ever since as one of the most popular pilgrimage churches in Bavaria.

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