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Mohamad Ahansal

Mohamad Ahansal (born January 1, 1973) is a Moroccan ultramarathon runner best known for his 5 wins of the Marathon des Sables and has taken part in it 19 times. His first victory in this race came in 1995. His brother Lahcen has won the race 10 times. He first started running at the age of 17. He was born to a nomadic family near Zagora in the Sahara desert.

Mohamad has also run many half-marathons and full marathons. He holds the Guinness World Records title for the fastest crossing of the Sahara desert and has the podium record for the Marathon des Sables (MDS) 16 times out of 19 entries.

In 2010, he won the Marathon des Sables, winning all the steps. Mohamad won the Volcano Marathon in 2013, on an elevation of 4500m.

In 2015 he and his brother created their own ultramarathon in Morocco, the Trans Atlas Marathon. Mohamad Ahansal lives in the German city of Ingolstadt and runs for MTV Ingolstadt.

Accomplishments 

 Marathon des Sables - 5 time winner
 Volcano Marathon - winner 2013
 Silk Road Ultra Marathon - winner 2016

Half Marathon 
 1999: 4th Berlin Half Marathon - 1:05.49
 2004: 4the Ingolstadt Half Marathon  - 1:10.14
 2007: Ingolstadt Half Marathon - 1:12.09
 2009: 5th Ingolstadt Half Marathon - 1:12.04
 2009: 4th Regensburg Half Marathon - 1:12.05

Marathon 
 2000: Davos Marathon - 3:04.33,1
 2001: 9th Jungfrau Marathon - 3:07.40,2
 2001: Munich Marathon - 2:28.37
 2002: 8th Jungfrau Marathon - 3:08.35,8
 2002: Davos Marathon - 3:09.00,3
 2003: 13th Jungfrau Marathon - 3:21.09,0
 2005: Davos Marathon - 3:12.53
 2005: Menden Marathon - 2:39.12
 2006: 32nd Jungfrau Marathon - 3:35.33,2
 2007: 11th Jungfrau Marathon - 3:16.28,2
 2007: 7th Luxembourg Marathon - 2:38.31
 2007: 4th Triesenberg Marathon - 3:14.50,2
 2007: 6th Riffelberg Marathon - 3:20.44,3
 2009: Van Boise Marathon - 2:43.25
 2010: 6th Regensburg Marathon - 2:36.48
 2011: Kourci Dial Zaid Marathon - 3:10.45

Ultramarathon 
 1998: Marathon des Sables - 16:22.29 (220 km)
 2001: Swiss Alpine in Davos (78 km) - 6:09.51
 2007: Swiss Alpine in Davos (78 km) - 6:19.57
 2008: Marathon des Sables - 19:27.46 (245 km)
 2009: Marathon des Sables - 16:27.26 (202 km)
 2010: Marathon des Sables - 19:45.08 (250 km)

Cross-Country 
 2002: 5th Hornlauf in Kitzbühel - 1:04.14
 2003: Zugspitz Extremberglauf in Ehrwald - 2:16.17,5
 2005: Zugspitz Extremberglauf in Ehrwald - 2:03.46,7
 2007: Zugspitz Extremberglauf in Ehrwald - 1:46.28

References

1973 births
Living people
Orlando Huff

Orlando Huff (born August 14, 1978) is a former American Football linebacker. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Fresno State.

Huff was also a member of the Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, and New York Sentinels.

Early years
Huff attended Upland High School, where he was on the football, basketball, and track and field teams.

College career
Huff played college football at Eastern Arizona College and Fresno State University.

Professional career

Seattle Seahawks
Huff was drafted in the fourth round (104th overall) of the 2001 NFL Draft.

Arizona Cardinals
In the 2005 season, Huff started in 15 games, making 69 tackles, one quarterback sack, and one interception for two yards.

References

External links
California Redwoods bio

1978 births
Living people
Players of American football from Mobile, Alabama
American football outside linebackers
African-American players of American football
Fresno State Bulldogs football players
Seattle Seahawks players
Arizona Cardinals players
Atlanta Falcons players
Sacramento Mountain Lions players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American sportspeople
Upland High School alumni
Balscaddan

Balscaddan (, also spelt Balscadden) is a village in Fingal, Ireland. It is the most northerly village of County Dublin, approx 5 km north of Balbriggan and close to the border with County Meath.

Balscaddan is also the name of the townland around the village, and the civil parish of which it is part.

The district has a population of under 700 people, and the area around the village is completely rural in character, although close to the expanding Balbriggan.

The village is not to be confused with Balscaddan Bay which is located on Howth Head and which takes its name from the same source.

History
Balscadden village is said to derive its name from the Irish Baile na Scadán (The Town of the Herrings); despite this, the village is situated at least two miles from the coast. Local tradition relates that in days gone by herrings were transported inland from a small fishing port, in the townland of Bremore, commonly called Balscadden Bay or "Cromwell's harbour." The fish was prepared at Balscadden village for transportation to the Dublin market. 

Balscaddan was the birthplace of Saint Benignus, who was a disciple of Saint Patrick and eventually became the Archbishop of Armagh in the 5th century.

Sport
Balscadden FC was formed in 2006 and currently plays in the AUL Division 1. The team plays its home games at the Ringcommon Sports centre and consists of players from the Balscaddan and Balbriggan areas. O'Dwyers GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.

Education
Balscadden has one mixed primary school, St. Benignus National School, located in the village which caters for approximately 250 pupils.

Religion
Balscadden is a parish in the Fingal North deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. The parish church is the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady.

The original church in Balscadden was built in 1412. However, it was destroyed by soldiers led by Oliver Cromwell during his reign of terror. The present church was built in 1819 at a total cost of IR£ 500, as a symbol of the Balscadden community's resilience and determination. Today, its rustic nature makes it a very popular venue for weddings.

The Church of Ireland Church of Balscaddan was merged with Balrothery parish in 1871.

See also
 List of towns and villages in Ireland

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20050819035406/http://www.balscaddendistrict.com/
 Census 2006 Preliminary Report — Table 4: Population of each Province, County, City, urban area, rural area and Electoral Division, 2002 - 2006

References 

Civil parishes of the barony of Balrothery East
Townlands of Fingal
Delve, Schleswig-Holstein

Delve is a municipality belonging to the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde ("collective municipality") Eider in the district Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany.

The municipality covers an area of . Of a total population of 734, 364 are male, 374 are female (Dec 31, 2004). The population density of the community is .

References

External links
 www.delve.de

Dithmarschen
Eschede

Eschede () is a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Situated approximately 15 km northeast of Celle, Eschede lies at the border of the Südheide Nature Park, a protected area of large forests and heaths. Today around 20 small villages are part of the "Gemeinde Eschede".

In 1975, the largest forest fire in the history of Germany destroyed vast tracts of forests in the area. The place is also known for the 1998 Eschede train disaster, in which an ICE 1 train crashed, killing 101 and making it the worst German rail accident since the Second World War.

The painter Albert König (1881–1944) was born in Eschede, and the "Albert-König-Museum" can be visited in Unterlüß nearby.

Eschede was the seat of the former Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") of Eschede.

Notable people
Wilhelm Brese (1896–1994), German politician (DNVP, CNBL, CDU), was chairman of the savings and loan association in Eschede and was leader of the church council in Eschede
Erich Schell House (1901–1983), German civil servant and politician (NSDAP, later GB / BHE, GDP, CDU), lived after the war in the rectory in Eschede
Goede Gendrich (1912–2000), German forester and author
Hans-Hubertus Bühmann (1921–2014), German forestry and Lower Saxony state politician (CDU), was a board member of the forestry association and Eschede Samtgemeinde mayor of the municipality Eschede
Ernst Bauerochse (born 1925), German missionary and church representatives, went to school in Eschede

Sister town
 Barneville-Carteret, Manche, Normandy, France

References

External links 
 Eschede Official Website 
 

Celle (district)
Carras

Carras may refer to:

Porto Carras, northern Greece Resort
Yiannis Carras (1907-1989), shipowner

See also 
Karras

Greek-language surnames
Kermesite

Kermesite or antimony oxysulfide is also known as red antimony (Sb2S2O) . The mineral's color ranges from cherry red to a dark red to a black. Kermesite is the result of partial oxidation between stibnite (Sb2S3) and other antimony oxides such as valentinite (Sb2O3) or stibiconite (Sb3O6(OH)). Under certain conditions with oxygenated fluids the transformation of all sulfur to oxygen would occur but kermesite occurs when that transformation is halted.

Mining and specimens
 
Deposits of this mineral have been found all over the world, however notable deposits have been found in Braunsdorf, near Freiberg, Saxony, Germany; Pernek, Pezinok, and Pribram, Czechoslovakia; the Lac Nicolet mine, South Ham Township, Wolfe County, Quebec, Canada; Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico; Santa Cruz and San Francisco mines, Poopo, Oruro, Bolivia; Que Que, Zimbabwe; Djebel Haminate, Algeria; Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; Mohave, Kern County, California and Burke, Shoshone County, Idaho.

History and uses
Kermesite is named after a formerly used red dye, kermes (dye), and was so named because of the grainy reddish color the mineral often has. The name dates from 1832. Earlier in English (17th and 18th centuries) certain antimony compounds were called "kermes mineral" for the same reason.

Kermesite or red antimony has been used as early as the Old Kingdom’s 6th Dynasty in ancient Egypt (c. 2345–2181 BCE) in lip cosmetics and in the 18th Dynasty Queen Hatshepsut (Maatkare) (1498–1483 BCE) negotiated with the Land of Punt for its colored antimony deposits. Besides stibnite, which was used for eye liner red, antimony is one of the oldest minerals used in cosmetics. Further archaeological evidence indicates that antimony levels were higher in ancient Egyptian female remains which had exposure to both antimony compounds (Bencze, 1994). Because of its color, the precipitate of kermesite was used as a coloring agent and in alchemy. Because of alchemy’s focus on material transformation as evidenced by color, red antimony was used to produce the red state. Kermesite is the mineral state for Kermes mineral which was used extensively in the medical field for centuries

Presently, kermesite is collected for the beauty of its crystal metallic structure and not used in either cosmetics or the medical field any longer due to the toxic effects that it shares with antimony; less harmful substitutes have been found using both organic and pharmaceutical production.

References

 Bencze, Koloman. “Antimony” pp. 227–235. Handbook on Metals in Clinical and Analytical Chemistry (ed.) Hans G Seiler (1994) 
 Sneader, Walter. Drug Discovery: A History (2005).

External links
Mineral Gallery
Kermesite at the Smithsonian

Oxide minerals
Sulfide minerals
Antimony minerals
Triclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 2
Land of Punt
Hatshepsut

Minerals described in 1832
Flotwedel

Flotwedel is a Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Aller, approx. 10 km southeast of Celle. Its seat is in Wienhausen.

The Samtgemeinde Flotwedel consists of the following municipalities:

 Bröckel 
 Eicklingen 
 Langlingen 
 Wienhausen

Samtgemeinden in Lower Saxony
Manchester South (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester South was one of six parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, England.  It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was abolished in 1918.

Boundaries 
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and consisted of the following areas:
The part of the civil parish of Chorlton upon Medlock south of the centres of the following roads: Cavendish Street, Grosvenor Street, Upper Brook Street, Dover Street,  St. Leonards Street. (The remainder of the parish was included in the Manchester East constituency.)
The Local Government district of Moss Side
The Local Government District of Rusholme
The detached part of the parish of Gorton included within the former parliamentary borough.
The Hamlet of Kirkmanshulme (a detached part of the parish of Newton).

Redistribution
The seat was abolished in 1918, when the Representation of the People Act redrew constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Manchester's representation was increased to ten members of parliament, and the former Manchester South was divided between the areas of the new Moss Side and Rusholme constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; 
Unionist: Philip Glazebrook
Liberal:

References

Sources 
Election Results:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060520143104/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1900.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20060520143047/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1945.htm
Viscount Emlyn:
http://yba.llgc.org.uk/AnaServer?ybawbo+1281713+aview.anv+v=av&l=e&show=1
Leifchild Stratten Leif-Jones:

South
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918
Halcyon House

Halcyon House is a Federal-style home in Washington, D.C.  Located in the heart of Georgetown, the house was built beginning in 1787 by the first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddert. Its gardens were designed by Pierre L'Enfant, and for several decades in the early 19th century Halcyon House was the center of much of Washington's social life.

History
After the death of his wife and his finances declining, Stoddert transferred ownership of Halcyon House in 1802 to his daughter, Elizabeth Ewell, and her husband, Thomas. Thomas and Elizabeth's sixth child, Richard S. Ewell, was born in the house in 1817, and he went on to become a noted Confederate general during the American Civil War under Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. The Ewells vacated the home in 1818. A succession of owners had possession of the house over the next 80 years.

Halcyon House was sold in 1900 to Albert Clemens, a nephew of Mark Twain. The original structure was heavily altered over the next 38 years as Clemens renovated the house and added structures. Clemens believed that perpetually rebuilding the house would extend his life. The coach house was joined to the building, the north face and rear of the house added onto extensively with apartments, rooms were built within rooms, hallways added and then walled off, and even a small crypt added in one room. After Clemens' death, the house stood unoccupied for four years until purchased by Dorothy W. Sterling, the wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Sweden. Ownership changed again in 1951, and Georgetown University bought the property in 1961 and used it as a dormitory.

Halcyon House was purchased by architect Edmund Dreyfuss in 1966 and, as of 2009, was occupied by his son, noted sculptor John Dreyfuss. The historic home was extensively reconstructed from 1978 to 1995 to restore it to its original appearance. The house and grounds are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and during the period Dreyfuss maintained residency and ownership, served primarily as a venue for special events. Halcyon House was put on the market in 2008 for $30 million.  It was re-listed in January 2010 and, as of September 20, 2010, had been on the market for 250 days and was listed at $19.5 million.

In November 2011 the Halcyon House sold for a price of $12.5 million to Dr. Sachiko Kuno, and Dr. Ryuji Ueno, just two weeks after the price was lowered from $15 million. The house is currently used as headquarters for Halcyon, a non-profit whose mission is to "accelerate the impact-driven future of business."

References

External links

Halcyon Official Website

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Federal architecture in Washington, D.C.
Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)
Houses completed in 1787
1787 establishments in Maryland
Former Georgetown University buildings
Lachendorf

Lachendorf (West Low German: Lachendörp) is a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km east of Celle.

Lachendorf is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Lachendorf.

History
In older records Lachendorf is mentioned under the name of Lachtendorp, meaning village at the river Lachte. In 1538 Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg chose it as a proper place for a paper mill, which marks the beginning of settlement and commercial development. In  1845 the paper mill was extended to a factory, creating a remarkable amount of workspace in this agricultural region.

Famous residents 
 Wilhelm Trumann, great-great grandfather of the 33rd president of the USA Harry S. Truman
 Heinrich Severloh (1923–2006), platoon of the Wehrmacht and rifleman on Omaha Beach
 Konstantin Rausch (born 1990), football/soccer player for Hannover 96

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities
Lachendorf is twinned with:
 Bricquebec, Manche, Normandy, France

References

Bibliography 
 Martin Wittmann, Kurt W. Seebo: Lachendorf. Ed. I, Lachendorf 1988

Sources

External links
Gossamer Wump

Gossamer Wump is a children's record, published in 1949 by Capitol Records, about a boy who learns to play the triangle. The story is narrated by Frank Morgan, a Hollywood actor best known for his role as the Wizard in the classic film The Wizard of Oz, with music by Billy May, and written by Hollywood screenwriters Roger Price and Helen Mack. The character of Gossamer Wump is voiced by June Foray, the prolific voice artist who is perhaps best known as the voice of "Rocket J. Squirrel" in The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.

The story is of a little boy named Gossamer Wump (a boy "with red hair, one blue eye, one green eye, and freckles all over - even his face") who learns to play the triangle to start a musical career. He makes unsuccessful musical attempts at Gaylord Gout's dance club, and then again with Stanislav Hudnut's Orchestra. His rather disastrous debut with the orchestra leaves Gossamer defeated and confused, until a certain man gives Gossamer a very important job - the job of playing the triangle on the ice cream wagon.

The main theme of the record is an adaptation of the "Dance of the Hours" by Amilcare Ponchielli.

Gossamer Wump was one of the first children's records to be issued on a 12 inch 78 rpm vinyl disk.  The standard format at that time was a 10 inch disk.

Dealers of antique records report that Gossamer Wump is one of the most popular collector's items today - one dealer reports that it is in the top three. However, it is difficult to know how popular the record was when it was issued, as there were no charts maintained by Capitol Records at the time. Gossamer Wump did appear on Billboard magazine's Children's Records sales chart. The record has been reissued by EMI in New Zealand.

In 1960, Mel-O-Toons made a cartoon called Gosomer Wump, using a slightly abbreviated version of the recording. Capitol Records included Morgan's recording in 1963 on side 2 of a Mel Blanc album titled Woody Woodpecker's Picnic.

Popular roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival considered naming their band after Gossamer Wump, and band member John Fogerty dedicated his 1985 solo album Centerfield to Gossamer Wump.

References

External links
 Website where EMI NZ reissue can be purchased

1949 albums
Capitol Records albums
Frank Morgan albums
Children's albums
1,4,7-Triazacyclononane

1,4,7-Triazacyclononane, known as "TACN" which is pronounced "tack-en," is an aza-crown ether with the formula (C2H4NH)3. TACN is derived, formally speaking, from cyclononane by replacing three equidistant CH2 groups with NH groups. TACN is one of the oligomers derived from aziridine, C2H4NH. Other members of the series include piperazine, C4H8(NH)2, and the cyclic tetramer 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane.

Synthesis
The ligand is prepared from diethylene triamine as follows by macrocyclization using ethyleneglycol ditosylate.
H2NCH2CH2NHCH2CH2NH2  +  3 TsCl  →  Ts(H)NCH2CH2N(Ts)CH2CHH2N(H)Ts  +  3 HCl
Ts(H)NCH2CH2N(Ts)CH2CH2N(H)Ts  +  2 NaOEt →  Ts(Na)NCH2CH2N(Ts)CH2CH2N(Na)Ts
Ts(Na)NCHH2CH2N(Ts)CH2CH2N(Na)Ts  + TsOCH2CH2OTs  +  →  [(CH2CH2N(Ts)]3  +  2 NaOTs
[(CH2CH2N(Ts)]3  +  3 H2O  →  [CH2CH2NH]3  +  3 HOTs

Coordination chemistry
TACN is a popular tridentate ligand. It is threefold symmetric and binds to one face of an octahedron of metalloids and transition metals. The (TACN)M unit is kinetically inert, allowing further synthetic transformations on the other coordination sites.  A bulky analogue of TACN, is the N,N',N"-trimethylated analogue trimethyltriazacyclononane.

Illustrative complexes
Although TACN characteristically coordinates to metals in mid- and high oxidation states,  e.g. Ni(III), Mn(IV), Mo(III), W(III), exceptions occur. To illustrate, 1,4,7-triazacyclononane reacts readily with Mo(CO)6 and W(CO)6 to produce the respective air-stable tricarbonyl compounds, [(κ3 -TACN)Mo(CO)3] and [(κ3-TACN)W(CO)3]. Both have an oxidation state of zero. After further reacting with 30% H2O2, the products are [(κ3-TACN)MoO3] and [(κ3-TACN)WO3]. Both of these oxo complexes have an oxidation state of 6. The macrocyclic ligand does dissociate in the course of this dramatic change in formal oxidation state of the metal.
The complex, [κ3-TACN)Cu(II)Cl2], a catalyst for hydrolytic cleavage of phosphodiester bonds in DNA, is prepared as follows from TACN trihydrochloride:

TACN·3HCl + CuCl2·3H2O + 3 NaOH → [(κ3-TACN)CuCl2] + 6 H2O + 3 NaCl

Mn-TACN complexes catalyze epoxidation of alkenes such as styrene using H2O2 as an oxidant in a carbonate buffered methanol solution at a pH of 8.0.  These reagents are considered environmentally benign,

[(κ3-TACN)Mn] + H2O2 + NaHCO3 + (C6H5)C2H3→ [(κ3-TACN)Mn]  + 2H2O + CO2 +  (C6H5)C2H2O

Chromium (II) sources, e.g. created by heating CrCl3.6H2O in DMSO react with TACN to form both 1:1 Cr:and 2:1 complexes,  e.g. yellow [(TACN)2Cr]3+.

References

Ethyleneamines
Chelating agents
Macrocycles
Secondary amines
Tridentate ligands
Wathlingen

Wathlingen (Eastphalian: Wateln) is a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km southeast of Celle.

Wathlingen is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Wathlingen.

References

Celle (district)
Texas banded gecko

The Texas banded gecko (Coleonyx brevis) is a species of small gecko native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Description 

Texas banded geckos are small, terrestrial lizards, rarely exceeding  in length. They have alternating bands of yellow and brown or pink colored banding down their body, generally with black accenting on the bands, and sometimes with varying degrees of black speckling. Hatchlings and juveniles display a banded pattern; the banded pattern gets a more mottled appearance as the gecko becomes an adult.

Distribution 
It is found in western Texas and in southeastern New Mexico in the United States, and in Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Durango in Mexico. They prefer semi-arid habitats, and are often found around rock piles or canyon crevices.

Behavior 
Primarily nocturnal and carnivorous, they will consume almost any kind of small arthropods. They are capable of vocalizing, and sometimes emit squeaking noises, most often when harassed or handled. Reproduction occurs in the late spring, and they lay one or two eggs, which are surprisingly large compared to the size of the gecko.

In captivity 
Texas banded geckos are not frequently found in captivity, but due to their small size and docile nature, they can make good captives. They do not hold any particular conservation status.

References 

Herps of Texas: Coleonyx brevis

Coleonyx
Reptiles described in 1893
Fauna of the Chihuahuan Desert
Reptiles of Mexico
Reptiles of the United States
Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger
Brazilian Athletics Confederation

The Brazilian Athletics Confederation (CBAt; Confederação Brasileira de Atletismo) is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Brazil.  President for the period 2013-2016 is José Antonio Martins Fernandes.

History 
CBAt was founded on December 2, 1977.  It replaced the Federação Brasileira de Sportes Atleticos, which was founded in 1914.

Former president until 2013 was Roberto Gesta de Melo.

Affiliations 
CBAt is the national member federation for Brazil in the following international organisations:
World Athletics
Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo (CONSUDATLE; South American Athletics Confederation)
Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA)
Asociación Iberoamericana de Atletismo (AIA; Ibero-American Athletics Association)
Moreover, it is part of the following national organisations:
Brazilian Olympic Committee

Member federations 

CBAt comprises the athletics federations of the Brazilian federal states.

Kit suppliers 
Brazil's kits are currently supplied by Nike.

National records 
CBAt maintains the Brazilian records in athletics

References

External links 
 

Athletics
Brazil
 
National governing bodies for athletics
Sports organizations established in 1977
Faßberg

Faßberg (ang. Fassberg) is a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 35 km north of Celle, and 30 km west of Uelzen.

History
The pre-war history of Fassberg air base includes a number of interesting details and well-known names. From the spring of 1933, not only airfields and planes were built for the German Air Force, numerous training centres were also created, and in the first years, because of the Versailles Treaty, they were called by names that veiled their real purpose.

Places of interest
 Historic village centre of Müden (Örtze)
 Berlin Airlift memorial
 St. Laurentius church
 Treppenspeicher barns from the 18th and 19th centuries
 Old village square with its old smithy with Sod and Wippe
 Old cemetery with the graves of poet Felicitas Rose and artist Fritz Flebbe
 Former residence of the heath poet Felicitas Rose
 Hermann Löns memorial plaque on house at Salzmoor 2a
 Heath farmsteads with Treppenspeicher barns in Schmarbeck and Oberohe
 Löns Stone with area of heathland on the Wietzer Berg (towards Hermannsburg on the L214 state road)
 Haußelberg with large areas of heath near Gerdehus
 Juniper wood and shattered glacial erratic boulders in the heathland of Schmarbeck
 Kiehnmoor nature reserve near Schmarbeck
 Historic water mill in Müden (now a tourist office, bookshop and marriage office)
 Deer park and adventurous climbing park in Heuweg in Müden (Örtze)
 German Aerospace Center Trauen Institute of Propulsion Technology, Engine / Fire Safety (Abt. Triebwerk, Gruppe Brandschutz)

Bibliography 
 Matthias Blazek: Die geheime Großbaustelle in der Heide – Faßberg und sein Fliegerhorst 1933–2013. Ibidem, Stuttgart 2013, .
 Michael Ende, Peter Müller, Urs Müller: Celle – Stadt und Landkreis. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2007, .
 Christoph M. Glombek: Chronik der Gemeinde Faßberg mit den Ortschaften Müden/Örtze, Poitzen und Schmarbeck. Faßberg 2002.
 Hans Stärk: Geschichte von Faßberg. Faßberg 1971.
 Faßberg – Luft- und Raumfahrt in der Heide. Magazine for the AeroSpaceDay Faßberg, edited by the municipality of Faßberg, Faßberg 2013, .

References

External links 
 Generalmajor Dipl.Ing. Robert Krauß (1894–1953) at the Bomber-Flying-School Faßberg (01 Oct 1936-31 Dec 1936)

Celle (district)
Australian anchovy

The Australian anchovy, Engraulis australis, is a species of anchovy of the family Engraulidae, found off south-east Australia, and around New Zealand.

The Australian anchovy feeds on plankton and is of minor importance to commercial fisheries. It is usually utilized as bait.

References
 
 
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 

Engraulis
Fish of Australia
Fish of the Pacific Ocean
Fish described in 1790
Lubber fiend

The lubber fiend, Lob, lubberkin, lurdane or Lob Lie-By-The-Fire is a legendary creature of English folklore that is similar to the "brownie"  (or "Urisk") of Scotland and northern England, the "hob" of northern England and the Scottish Borders, the Slavic "domovoi" and Scandinavian "tomte". It has been related also to Robin Goodfellow, and Hobgoblins. It is best known for being mentioned by John Milton.

The lubberkin is typically described as a large, hairy man with a tail who performs housework in exchange for a saucer of milk and a place in front of the fire. One story claims he is the giant son of a witch and the Devil.

The abbey lubber is a minor demon that haunts the wine cellars and kitchens of abbeys, tempting the monks into drunkenness, gluttony and lasciviousness. The best known abbey lubber tale is that of Friar Rush.

Lubber fiend in literature
The lubber fiend appears also in The Red Axe by S. R. Crockett (1900):

Lob is the title of a poem by Edward Thomas.

It also appears in Lob Lie-By-The-Fire by Juliana H. Ewing, Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish, Abbeychurch by Charlotte M. Yonge and Dear Brutus by J. M. Barrie (as "Lob, the ancient Puck").

The comic book character Hellboy fills in some of the credentials of a lubber fiend. He was born of a witch and the devil, he has a tail, and he serves men, though not for milk. He can therefore be seen as a modern-day lubber fiend.

A creature called a lubberkin appears in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, in which it is a type of protective household spirit (a  from Slavic folklore). The title character Geralt explicitly compares it to a hob.

See also
 Wirry-cow

References

External links
 Lob Lie-By-The-Fire, by Juliana H. Ewing
 The Red Axe, by S. R. Crocket

English folklore
Northumbrian folklore
European demons
English legendary creatures
Hobgoblins
Hambühren

Hambühren is a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately  west of Celle.

History
From the summer of 1944 to February 1945, a satellite camp of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was in operation at Hambühren. Guarded by SS staff, around 400 female prisoners were forced to expand the former potash mine and to lay train tracks to it, work carried out by the company Hochtief. The tunnels were intended as an underground production site for Bremen plane manufacturer Focke-Wulf.

References

Celle (district)
Polyeuctus of Constantinople

Polyeuctus (, died 5 February 970) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (956–970). His orthodox feast is on February 5.

History
Polyeuctus was raised from being a simple monk to the Patriarchate in 956, as successor to the imperial prince Theophylact Lekapenos, and remained on the patriarchal throne in Constantinople until his death on 16 January 970. For his great mind, zeal for the Faith and power of oratory, he was called a "second Chrysostom".

Although he was given his position by Constantine VII, he did not show much loyalty to him. He began by questioning the legitimacy of Constantine's parents' marriage, and then went as far as to restore the good name of Patriarch Euthymius who had so vigorously opposed that union.

The Russian Princess Saint Olga came to Constantinople in the time of Patriarch Polyeuctus during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, and was baptised there in 957. The Patriarch baptised her, and the Emperor stood godfather. St Polyeuctus prophesied: "Blessed are you among Russian women, for you have loved light and cast off darkness; the sons of Russia will bless you to the last generation."

He raised bishop Petrus of Otranto (958) to the dignity of metropolitan, with the obligation to establish the Greek Rite throughout the province; the Latin Rite was introduced again after the Norman conquest, but the Greek Rite remained in use in several towns of the archdiocese and of its suffragans, until the 16th century.

Although he had supported his rise to the throne, against the machinations of Joseph Bringas, Polyeuctus excommunicated Nikephoros II for having married Theophano on the grounds that he had been the godfather to one or more of her sons. He had previously refused Nikephoras communion for a whole year for the sin of having contracted a second marriage. Nikephoros' first wife had been dead several years when he married Theophano, but in the religious views prevalent in the Eastern Roman Empire, especially in the 10th Century, remarriage after the death of one's first wife was a sin only begrudgingly tolerated.

He excommunicated the assassins of the Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas and refused to crown the new Emperor John I Tzimiskes, nephew of the late Emperor (and one of the assassins) until he punished the assassins and exiled his lover Empress Theophano who allegedly organised her husband's assassination.

References

External links
Neobyzantine church - liturgical calendar

Polyeuctus, Constantinople
10th-century patriarchs of Constantinople
Year of birth unknown
Constantine VII
Treason Act 1702

The Treason Act 1702 (1 Anne Stat. 2 c. 21) is an Act of the Parliament of England, passed to enforce the line of succession to the English throne (today the British throne), previously established by the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701.

The Act makes it treason to "endeavour to deprive or hinder any person who shall be the next in succession to the crown for the time being ... from succeeding after the decease of her Majesty (whom God long preserve) to the imperial crown of this realm and the dominions and territories thereunto belonging".

Originally a capital offence, the penalty was reduced in 1998 to life imprisonment.

Although the Act was passed by the English Parliament, it was later extended to Scotland by the Treason Act 1708, following the Union of the two kingdoms in the previous year. The Parliament of Ireland passed a law to the same effect in 1703, the Treason Act (Ireland) 1703 (c.5). This is still in force in Northern Ireland.

In fiction
 In the movie King Ralph, Ralph used the Treason Act of 1702 as his justification in ordering the arrest of Lord Graves (John Hurt) on the grounds that Graves had interfered with Ralph's succession to the throne. After silently going through the Mnemonic Verse, he mentioned it was passed by William III, when in fact it was passed in the first year of Queen Anne's reign.
 In the movie Johnny English, the "jumped-up Frenchman" Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich) is tried for treason under this Act when his plot to seize the throne is foiled, and the audience is told that the crime still carries a penalty of death by hanging. However, as the film was released in 2003 (the penalty was downgraded to life imprisonment in 1998), it renders the imposition of the death penalty inaccurate.

See also
High treason in the United Kingdom
Succession to the Crown Act 1707
Treason Act

References

External links
Official text of the Act 1 Anne Stat. 2 1702 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from the UK Statute Law Database
Official text of the Treason Act (Ireland) 1703 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from the UK Statute Law Database

1702 in law
1702 in England
Acts of the Parliament of England
Acts of the Parliament of England still in force
English monarchy
English criminal law
Treason in England
Alison Bell (journalist)

Alison Bell (born 21 September 1966) is an English journalist and radio presenter.

Career 
In the mid-1990s Bell lived in Wellington, New Zealand and was briefly a presenter on local radio station The Breeze.

Bell was one of the launch presenters for the ITN News Channel in August 2000, presenting various programmes during the day, most notably the lunchtime slot between 12 noon and 2pm. 2003 saw her move to Sky News, where she presented the Sunrise programme weekday mornings.

A year later, she moved to CNN International. She resigned from that position in July 2004, after her arrest outside a restaurant with James Hewitt.

She then joined London radio station LBC 97.3, presenting shows in various timeslots, before presenting a regular show on Friday nights until April 2006. She remained with the station thereafter as a fill-in presenter.

In late 2004 she launched Globell Communications, a media consultancy firm for business professionals and companies.

From 24 September 2007 and until 4 January 2008, Bell presented an afternoon show on LBC 97.3 from 1pm-4pm, in a topical debate show called "Afternoon Delight".

Personal life 
Bell's hobbies include music, travel, tennis, swimming and rollerblading.  A frequent traveller, she is a regular visitor to Australia where her parents now live.

In July 2004, Bell was arrested outside a restaurant on suspicion of possessing cocaine, together with former British Army officer James Hewitt, who had been romantically linked with Diana, Princess of Wales in the 1990s. Hewitt and Bell had met in April 2004 when presenting a programme for LBC radio. Hewitt was given a warning and Bell was released without charge. She has also appeared as a poker player on Celebrity Poker Club, on which Hewitt also participated.

References 

1966 births
Living people
English women journalists
English radio presenters
ITN newsreaders and journalists
British women television journalists
British women radio presenters
Dom Jacques Alexandre

Dom Jacques Alexandre (24 January 1653 at Orléans, France – 23 June 1734 at Bonne-Nouvelle) was a learned Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St. Maur. He made his profession in the abbey of Vendôme, 26 August 1673, and after completing his philosophical and theological studies, was sent to the monastery of Bonne-Nouvelle, where he spent the remainder of his life.

Biography
He died as sub-prior of the monastery. Though somewhat delicate in health, he was a man of great industry and all his leisure was devoted to the study of mathematics and physical and mechanical science. He wrote much, though apparently without thought of publication, for most of his writings were merely transcribed into a large folio volume which was preserved in the library of Bonne-Nouvelle.

Alexandre is known chiefly by his two works, Traité du flux et du reflux de la mer and the Traité général des horloges. The former had already been written when the Academy of Bordeaux proposed the cause of the tides as the subject of a prize essay. 

He submitted an extract which was deemed worthy of the prize and his success led him to publish the entire work at Paris, 1726. This treatise, based as it is upon the supposed rotation of the earth about the moon, is of interest only from an historical point of view, as a contribution to the solution of a problem which has engaged the attention of the most skilful analysts since the time of Newton. The "Traité général des horloges", Paris, 1734, as its name indicates, is a general treatise on the history and the art of constructing time-pieces. 

It contains a catalogue of writers on the subject with a brief account of their principal works. Besides his manuscript works on subjects in mathematics, mechanics, etc., Alexandre added a sixth part to Huygens' treatise "De horologio oscillatorio", in which he describes a clock the length of whose pendulum was automatically varied to enable it to indicate apparent solar instead of mean solar time. A description of the pendulum mechanism, which never came into practical use, may be found in Berthoud's "Essai sur l'horlogerie", Paris, 1786, I, xvii, where some of its defects are pointed out.

References

1653 births
1734 deaths
French Benedictines
Wietze

Wietze is a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It lies at the confluence of the Aller River and its tributary, the Wietze, approximately  west of Celle. It is the site of the German Oil Museum.

References

Celle (district)
Edward Canfor-Dumas

Edward Canfor-Dumas (born 1957) is a novelist and an award-winning TV scriptwriter - and a specialist in conflict management.

After winning a scholarship to Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, he read English Literature at New College, Oxford. Soon after, he started penning scripts for popular television series such as The Bill and Kavanagh QC. His first major feature-length programme was Tough Love, a powerful drama about police corruption, starring Ray Winstone. He then wrote the drama for the highly acclaimed BBC drama-documentary Pompeii: The Last Day, which was nominated for a BAFTA, and followed this in 2005 with Supervolcano.

He branched out into novels in the same year, with the successful modern story The Buddha, Geoff and Me, which he followed in 2014 with Bodhisattva Blues. Edward is a practising Buddhist and both books have Buddhist themes. He also ghostwrote The Buddha in Daily Life (1988) for Richard Causton.

In 2006 Edward took a lead role in establishing the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues, which was launched in February 2007, and in 2011 he co-founded Engi, a social enterprise that works with the private sector, civil society, government and the military to manage conflict and reduce violence. He is currently co-leading a multinational project - Understand to Prevent - which is exploring an expanded role for the military in the prevention of violent conflict, and has recently joined the Strategy Forum of the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff.

He lives with his wife, Coralyn, in Hertfordshire near London, and has a son and a daughter, Alexander and Emily.

References

External links
 

1957 births
Living people
English television writers
21st-century English novelists
People educated at Latymer Upper School
Alumni of New College, Oxford
English male novelists
21st-century English male writers
British male television writers
21st-century British screenwriters
Francisville, Philadelphia

Francisville is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, a section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its boundaries are Fairmount Avenue to the south, Girard Avenue to the north, Broad Street to the east, and Corinthian Avenue to the west. In 2000, it had a population of about 4,500. It is sometimes considered to be a part of the Fairmount neighborhood, but Fairmount more specifically lies to Francisville's west. To its south is the Spring Garden neighborhood.

Street grid
Francisville's street grid is unique because some of it is parallel to Ridge Avenue, rather than being oriented north-south. This is because this section was settled before the uniform street grid of Philadelphia had extended that far north. The community was likely a small village on the Ridge Avenue route from Philadelphia proper (today's Center City) to East Falls.

Recent history
In recent years the community has become more activist, with the Francisville Neighborhood Development Corporation, Concerned Citizens of Francisville, and the United Francisville Civic Association representing the neighborhood in efforts to improve housing and cut down on crime. A city program called the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative has brought the wrecking ball to many properties, with the hopes that building some new structures in the region is a better solution than costly renovations to blighted historic buildings. The famous rapper Lil Uzi Vert also originates from this area.

SEPTA service
The neighborhood is served by Broad Street subway stations at Fairmount and Girard, the SEPTA Route 15 trolley on Girard Avenue, in addition to the 2, 33, and 61 bus routes.

Playground
The Francisville Playground is located at 1737-39 Francis Street and has a full baseball field, children's play area, two basketball courts and a large community pool.

Notable person
Lil Uzi Vert, rapper and singer

References

Lower North Philadelphia
Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
Buffalo Castle

Buffalo Castle is a gamebook first published by Flying Buffalo in 1976 (). Using the Tunnels & Trolls role-playing system, Buffalo Castle consists of 150 paragraphs in A4 format.

Description
After a friend suggested that someone should make a dungeon adventure book that allows the player to choose an answer and turn to another page, Rick Loomis wrote Buffalo Castle (1976). Buffalo Castle was an introduction to Tunnels & Trolls, a basic dungeon for a warrior of level 1–2.

Although it is widely believed that the Fighting Fantasy series of books were the first gamebooks to use dice and allow the character to possess statistics and equipment, Buffalo Castle pre-dates the Fighting Fantasy series by six years and used the same types of mechanics. Buffalo Castle may have been the first published adventure gamebook.

Reception
Steve Jackson reviewed Buffalo Castle in The Space Gamer No. 9. Jackson concluded, "If you're into role-playing, you'll enjoy Buffalo Castle. If you're into solo role-playing, buy it."

In other media 
Buffalo Castle is included in the mobile game Tunnels and Trolls Adventures.

References

External links
Buffalo Castle at gamebooks.org

Fantasy gamebooks
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1976
Tunnels & Trolls adventures
Nick Sanders

Nicholas Mark Sanders  (born 1958) is a British bicyclist, motorcyclist and author noted for his long-distance riding and has ridden around the world seven times.

In 1992 he rode around the world on a Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle.

On 9 June 1997, Sanders completed a world record  motorbike circumnavigation of the world in a record riding time of 31 days 20 hours on a Triumph Daytona.

In 2005 Sanders completed a 2nd circumnavigation by motorbike taking 19 days 4 hours on a Yamaha R1.

In the summer of 2011, Sanders became the first person to ride from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and back in under 49 days, 17 hours, a ride he completed on a Yamaha XT1200Z Super Ténéré. The first leg of the trip was completed in 21 days, just a few hours short of Dick Fish's record ride and easily outpacing the Guinness World Record of 35 days, currently held by Globebusters' Kevin and Julia Sanders.

Sanders normally eschews the dual-sport motorcycles traditionally employed for these type of journeys in favour of Yamaha Motor Company's flagship sport bike, the R1.

Sanders has taken groups of riders around the world,
as well as Europe and the USA. He has also organised semi competitive road events in the UK. He has made films and written books about his journeys.

In 1981 Sanders set the original record for World record for cycling around the World, riding 13,609 miles (21,900 km) around the Northern Hemisphere in 138 days.
In 1984 he repeated the world cycling circumnavigation riding about 22,000 km in a time of 79 days. Guinness World Records set the rules in 2003 and did not record Sanders' time as he did not cross antipodal points on the globe
Sanders still holds the Guinness World Record for fastest ride around the coast of Great Britain, riding a verified 4,800 miles (7,720 km) in 22 days.
Sanders has also cycled to the source of the White Nile, across the Sahara to Timbuktu and the length of South America.

He has also taken two narrowboats across the English Channel and along the entire length of the Danube to the Black Sea.
Sanders holds a private pilot licence for a hot air balloon and flies microlights.

Born in 1958 in Manchester he now lives in Wales and has three children.

Sanders was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to endurance cycling and motorcycling.

Bibliography

References
Sanders, Nick Journey to the Source of the Nile, 1983

External links
Official website

Cycling writers
Long-distance motorcycle riders
Living people
Motorcycle touring writers
Motorcycle tour guides
Members of the Order of the British Empire
1958 births