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Ann Scott (French novelist)

Ann Scott (born 3 November 1965) is a French novelist. She is regarded as a social realist for her novels which paint portraits of contemporary youth and her second novel Superstars has given her a cult status in France.

Biography
She was born and raised in Paris, France. Her mother is a photographer of Russian descent, and her father, a French businessman and art collector.

During the mid eighties, at age 17, she left home and moved to London, England, where she became a musician, playing drums with local rock bands. She then later turned to fashion modelling for two years and was one of the first tattooed fashion model to break through in prêt-à-porter and couture in the eighties. Then at 21, on her return to Paris, she started writing fiction.

She is now the author of eight novels including Superstars which has become a cult novel translated in several countries. She also co-wrote Paradize for French band Indochine for their album of the same title which sold over a million copies in France.

Her penultimate novel Cortex depicts a domestic terrorist attack at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles and parts ways with her previous themes.

Her latest novel, La Grâce et les ténèbres (Grace and Darkness), highlights cyber-surveillance and the fight against jihadist propaganda on social networks alongside a group of French citizens named the Katiba des Narvalos.

Personal life
She has been romantically involved with several rock musicians and is also known to have had bisexual affairs. She dated French deejay Sextoy for three years, to whom she paid tribute after her death in her third book.

Before she became published, she shared a flat in Paris with French writer Virginie Despentes. She was close friends to Daul Kim and Lee Alexander McQueen and paid them tribute in the French magazine Libération.

Controversy
She was strongly rejected by a part of the French gay and lesbian community after declaring on the set of French TV show Nulle Part Ailleurs that she found homosexuality "immature": "Being bisexual has often brought some kind of balance to my life, but having strict homosexual relationships led to pathological experiences for me".

Bibliography

References

External links 

 Official Ann Scott website

1965 births
Living people
Novelists from Paris
French people of Russian descent
Bisexual women writers
Bisexual novelists
French women novelists
Postmodern writers
French women short story writers
French short story writers
French LGBT novelists
21st-century French LGBT people
Stanley A. Prokop

Stanley A. Prokop (July 29, 1909 – November 11, 1977) was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1961.

Biography
Born on July 29, 1909, in Throop, Pennsylvania, a community in Lackawanna County, Prokop attended Villanova University in Philadelphia.

At the beginning of World War II, he enlisted in the United States Army as a private, and was assigned to the 30th Infantry Division. He subsequently rose to the rank of captain.

Post-war, he served on the North Pococno Joint Board of Education for ten years, and was then elected to the United States Congress in 1958, defeating incumbent Republican Congressman Joseph L. Carrigg.

A one-term member, Prokop was defeated for re-election in 1960 by future Pennsylvania governor William Scranton, a moderate Republican. He was then hired as Lackawanna County's director of Veterans' Affairs, a position he held for fourteen years.

Final years, death and interment 
Prokop moved to Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, during his county government tenure, and remained in that job until his death on Veterans Day in 1977. His remains were interred at the St. Catherine Cemetery in Moscow, Pennsylvania.

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1909 births
1977 deaths
United States Army personnel of World War II
Villanova University alumni
People from Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
American politicians of Polish descent
Military personnel from Pennsylvania
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
20th-century American politicians
School board members in Pennsylvania
United States Army officers
HMS Sepoy (1856)

HMS Sepoy was a 4-gun Albacore-class gunboat of the Royal Navy launched in 1856 and broken up in 1868.

Construction

The Albacore class was ordered to meet the sudden need for shallow-draft vessels in the Black Sea and Baltic Sea during the Crimean War.  Many of them were built of unseasoned timber, and their lives were consequently short.  Sepoy was launched on 13 February 1856 at the North Shields yard of T & W Smith, and commissioned seven weeks later under Lieutenant-in-command Henry Needham Knox.

Career

According to The Times of 12 March 1856, the gunboats Sepoy and Erne left the Tyne in tow of the Cock-o'-the-North, for Woolwich.  She was present at the Fleet Review, Spithead on 23 April the same year, as part of the White Squadron, and paid off at Sheerness on 28 May 1856.

In company with HM gunboats Bullfrog, Carnation and Spanker, from the 1st Division of Steam Reserve at Sheerness, she went to Gravesend on 5 March 1863 to take on board the RN Volunteers of the London division.  They were embarked to fire a Royal salute on the arrival of the Princess Alexandra.

On 10 October 1865, Sepoy was driven ashore and severely damaged at the mouth of the River Tweed.

Disposal

Sepoy was broken up in 1868.

References 

 

Victorian-era gunboats of the United Kingdom
Albacore-class gunboats (1855)
1856 ships
Ships built on the River Tyne
Maritime incidents in October 1865
Deep-sea smelt

The deep-sea smelts are any members of the family Bathylagidae, a distinct group of marine smelts.

Deep-sea smelts are marine fishes found in deep waters throughout the oceans, down to  in depth. They are small fishes, growing up to  long. They feed on plankton, especially krill.

References

 

 
Deep sea fish
Empress Dowager Duan

Empress Dowager Duan is the name of:

 Empress Dowager Duan (Zhaowen), mother of Murong Xi, emperor of Later Yan
 Empress Dowager Duan (Murong Chao), mother of Murong Chao, emperor of Southern Yan
Southern Pacific 5021

Southern Pacific 5021 is an SP-2 class 4-10-2 steam locomotive built in 1926 by ALCO at their Schenectady, New York, shops. It is the only member of this class of SP locomotives to be preserved, and it is one of only five three-cylinder locomotives preserved in North America.

History
The locomotive was built in 1926 by the American Locomotive Company, it was designed to haul mixed freight and passenger trains over the Sierra Nevada range between northern California and Nevada. Later in its career, No. 5021 was shifted to service in Oregon, where it remained until its retirement in 1955.

Southern Pacific donated No. 5021 to the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society on March 8, 1956. In 1961, it was fired up and used for operation on the museum's spur line. However, the Southern Pacific did not like this, so they were forced to pull the tracks in 1963. Following this, No. 5021 was stored in the roundhouse of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. While it was stored, a possible excursion career for the No. 5021 was being arranged by the Santa Fe, but the plans were dropped.

5021 sat in Southern Pacific's San Bernardino yard until 1975, when it was moved to the Southern Pacific Taylor Yard in Glendale, CA. Shortly after, it was moved back to the RailGiants Train Museum, when Southern Pacific 4449 was on display with the American Freedom Train in the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds. As of 2023, No. 5021 is on permanent display at the Fairplex railway exhibit in Pomona, California.

In popular culture 

 No. 5021 made an appearance as The Ghost Train in a 1991 made-for-television horror film Sometimes They Come Back, using Norfolk and Western 1218's whistle instead of its real whistle.

References

External links 
 Southern Pacific 5021

5021
ALCO locomotives
4-10-2 locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1926
Preserved steam locomotives of California
Individual locomotives of the United States
Sierra de Collserola

The Sierra de Collserola (catalan. Serra de Collserola, ), or simply Collserola, is a mountain range between the rivers Besòs and Llobregat. It is part of the Catalan Coastal Range.

These mountains separate Barcelona from the Vallès plain and their tallest peak is the Tibidabo, at 512 m. Other main summits are: Turó del Puig, Puig d'Olorda, Turó de Valldaura, Turó de la Magarola, Puig d'Ossa, and Puig Madrona. The valleys of the Llobregat and Besós Rivers, the plain of Barcelona, and the Vallès basin, mark the geographical boundaries of the Collserola massif.

Collserola Park

To preserve the area, in 1987 the Parc de Collserola (Collserola Park), which has an area of 84.65 km², was established. It is one of the largest metropolitan parks in the world - 8 times larger than the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, and 22 times larger than Central Park in New York.

In the park, over a thousand major plants and around thirty plant communities have been catalogued; including forests of Aleppo pines and nut pines, evergreen oaklands, riverside copses, maquis and scrublands, brush, and savannah grasslands. This diversity allows for the existence of a rich, varied wildlife; including wild boar,  fox,  genet, stone marten, badger, rabbit, and squirrel; blue tits, whitethroats, treecreepers, woodpeckers, bee eaters, doves, goshawks, sparrowhawk, and rat-catching eagles; salamanders, newts,  green tree frog, the small southern frog, toads, the small spotted toad, the Mediterranean turtle, the giant turtle, the ocellated lizard, snakes, and so on.

On the Vilana hill, of 445 m, stands the Torre de Collserola (Collserola Tower), a telecommunications tower built in 1992 for the use of Olympic games. It is 288.4 m and was built by the British architect Sir Norman Foster.

The Collserola Park is used extensively by the inhabitants of Barcelona and the other towns that border it.  It is popular for walking, cycling and birdwatching. There are numerous restaurants where families go during the weekends.  A path that follows the ridge of the Serra, known as the "Carretera de les Aigües" (Water Road), has been extensively improved for cyclists.  The Barcelona city plan intends to include it in a cycle track that completely circles the city.

References

External links

 Parc de Collserola

Geography of Barcelona
Collserola
GD

GD may refer to:

Arts and entertainment 

 G-Dragon (born 1988), leader of the South Korean musical group Big Bang
 Grateful Dead, an American rock band
 Green Day, an American rock band
 Geometry Dash, a rhythm-based video game for mobile and PC

Business and economics
 Gardner Denver, a US-based manufacturer of industrial equipment
 General Dynamics, a US-based defense conglomerate
 Good Delivery, a specification for gold and silver bars
 Composite Index on the Athens Stock Exchange (stock symbol GD)

Mathematics, science and technology

Biology and medicine
 Gaucher's disease, a lipid storage diseases
 Gender dysphoria, distress caused by a difference between the sex and gender a person was assigned at birth
 Generalized dystonia, a neurological movement disorder
 Gestational diabetes, a form of diabetes associated with pregnancy
 Graves' disease, an autoimmune thyroid disorder
 Gain of deiodinases or Sum activity of peripheral deiodinases, used in diagnosis of thyroid disorders
 Grover's disease, another name for Transient acantholytic dermatosis
 Video game addiction, also known as gaming disorder

Chemistry
 Gadolinium, symbol Gd, a chemical element
 Soman, a toxic chemical (NATO designation GD)

Computing
 GD Graphics Library, for dynamically manipulating images
 GD-ROM, storage media for the Sega Dreamcast
 .gd, the country code top-level domain for Grenada
 GDScript, the built-in language for the Godot game engine

Mathematics
 Gaussian distribution, also called the normal distribution, an important family of continuous probability distributions
 Generalized Dirichlet distribution, a probability distribution used in statistics 
 Gudermannian function, used in map-making

Places
 Georgia Dome, a stadium in Atlanta, Georgia and the home of the Atlanta Falcons
 Grenada (ISO 3166 country code)
 Guangdong, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation GD)

Other uses
 Gangster Disciples, a black street gang in the United States 
 General Delivery (French: Poste restante), a service where the post office holds mail until the recipient calls for it
 Georgian Dream, a political party in the country of Georgia
 Goal difference, in sport
 Scottish Gaelic language (ISO 639-1 code )
 Subaru Impreza (second generation) sedan (ID code: GD)
 G-d, a substitution of God used by some religiously observant Jews to refer to YHWH
 Toyota GD engine, a straight-4 piston diesel engine developed by Toyota in 2015
Charles Taylor (Conservative politician)

Sir Charles Stuart Taylor  (10 April 1910 – 29 March 1989) was an English businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1935 to 1974. He was the son of Alfred George Taylor and Mary Kirwan. His elder brother was Alfred Suenson-Taylor. He was educated at Epsom College, Surrey and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1935, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne in East Sussex, in an unopposed by-election on 29 March following the death of Conservative MP John Slater. At the age of 25 he was the youngest member in the house. He was awarded MA from Cambridge in 1937.

Taylor fought in the Second World War in the Royal Artillery and became a Temporary Major in 1941. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration. He was managing director of Cow and Gate and later Unigate. In 1946 he became President of Grosvenor House (Park Lane) Ltd, Residential Hotels Association. He became  Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex in 1948 and was knighted in 1954. In 1958 he became Honorary Colonel in the 3rd (Sussex Battalion) Mobile Defence Corps. He was invested as a Serving Brother, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.

Taylor held Eastbourne until he was de-selected by his local party prior to the February 1974 general election. He was succeeded by Ian Gow.

Taylor married actress Constance Ada Shotter, daughter of Frederick E Shotter and sister of Winifred Shotter, on 20 May 1936. They had three sons and a daughter and lived at Ratton Wood, Willingdon, Eastbourne, Sussex.

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1910 births
1989 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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People educated at Epsom College
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UK MPs 1931–1935
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Intel Hub Architecture

Intel Hub Architecture (IHA), also known as Accelerated Hub Architecture (AHA) was Intel's architecture for the 8xx family of chipsets, starting in 1999 with the Intel 810. It uses a memory controller hub (MCH) that is connected to an I/O controller hub (ICH) via a 266 MB/s bus. The MCH chip supports memory and AGP (replaced by PCI Express in 9xx series chipsets), while the ICH chip provides connectivity for PCI (revision 2.2 before ICH5 series and revision 2.3 since ICH5 series), USB (version 1.1 before ICH4 series and version 2.0 since ICH4 series), sound (originally AC'97, Azalia added in ICH6 series), IDE hard disks (supplemented by Serial ATA since ICH5 series, fully replaced IDE since ICH8 series for desktops and ICH9 series for notebooks) and LAN (uncommonly activated on desktop motherboards and notebooks, usually independent LAN controller were placed instead of PHY chip).

Intel claimed that, because of the high-speed channel between the sections, the IHA was faster than the earlier northbridge/southbridge design, which hooked all low-speed ports to the PCI bus. The IHA also optimized data transfer based on data type.

Next generation
Intel Hub Interface 2.0 was employed in Intel's line of E7xxx server chipsets. This new revision allowed for dedicated data paths for transferring greater than 1.0 GB/s of data to and from the MCH, which support I/O segments with greater reliability and faster access to high-speed networks.

Current status
IHA is now considered obsolete and no longer used, being superseded by the Direct Media Interface architecture. The Platform Controller Hub (PCH) providing most of the features previously seen in ICH chips while moving memory, graphics and PCI Express controllers to the CPU, introduced with the Intel 5 Series chipsets in 2009. This chipset architecture is still used in desktops, in some notebooks it is going to be replaced by SoC processor designs.

References

External links
First Intel chipset to use IHA

Hub Architecture
Computer buses
Argentinidae

The herring smelts or argentines are a family, Argentinidae, of marine smelts. They are similar in appearance to smelts (family Osmeridae) but have much smaller mouths.
 
They are found in oceans throughout the world. They are small fishes, growing up to  long, except the greater argentine, Argentina silus, which reaches .

They form large schools close to the sea floor, and feed on plankton, especially krill, amphipods, small cephalopods, chaetognaths, and ctenophores.

Several species are fished commercially and processed into fish meal.

References
 

 
Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Ray-finned fish families
Dicarbon monoxide

Dicarbon monoxide () is a molecule that contains two carbon atoms and one oxygen atom. It is a linear molecule that, because of its simplicity, is of interest in a variety of areas.  It is, however, so extremely reactive that it is not encountered in everyday life.  It is classified as a carbene, cumulene and an oxocarbon.

Occurrence
Dicarbon monoxide is a product of the photolysis of carbon suboxide:

C3O2  → CO  + C2O

It is stable enough to observe reactions with NO and NO2.

Called ketenylidene in organometallic chemistry, it is a ligand observed in metal carbonyl clusters, e.g. [OC2Co3(CO)9]+.  Ketenylidenes are proposed as intermediates in the chain growth mechanism of the Fischer-Tropsch Process, which converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen to hydrocarbon fuels.

The organophosphorus compound (C6H5)3PCCO (CAS# 15596-07-3) contains the C2O functionality.  Sometimes called Bestmann's Ylide, it is a yellow solid.

References

Carbenes
Oxocarbons
Loudness monitoring

Loudness monitoring of programme levels is needed in radio and television broadcasting, as well as in audio post production. Traditional methods of measuring signal levels, such as the peak programme meter and VU meter, do not give the subjectively valid measure of loudness that many would argue is needed to optimise the listening experience when changing channels or swapping disks.

The need for proper loudness monitoring is apparent in the loudness war that is now found everywhere in the audio field, and the extreme compression that is now applied to programme levels.

Loudness meters
Meters have been introduced that aim to measure the human perceived loudness by taking account of the equal-loudness contours and other factors, such as audio spectrum, duration, compression and intensity. One such device was developed by CBS Laboratories in the 1980s. Complaints to broadcasters about the intrusive level of interstitials programs (advertisements, commercials) has resulted in projects to develop such meters. Based on loudness metering, many manufacturers have developed real-time audio processors that adjust the audio signal to match a specified target loudness level that preserves volume consistency at home listeners.

EBU Mode meters
In August 2010, the European Broadcasting Union published a new metering specification EBU Tech 3341, which builds on ITU-R BS.1770. To make sure meters from different manufacturers provide the same reading in LUFS units, EBU Tech 3341 specifies the EBU Mode, which includes a Momentary (400ms), Short term (3s) and Integrated (from start to stop) meter and a set of audio signals to test the meters.

See also
 Audio normalization

References

External links
EBU Tech 3341 audio test signals
ITU-R BS.1770: Algorithms to measure audio programme loudness and true-peak audio level
EBU publishes loudness test material

Audio engineering
Broadcast engineering
Sound production technology
Sound recording
Carl Kölling

Carl Kölling (28 February 1831  3 May 1914) was a German composer of piano music.

Two works available for the intermediate piano student are (Lose Blätter) Flying Leaves in C Major, Op. 147, No. 1 and Fluttering Leaves in A Minor, Op. 147, No. 2 found in Masterpieces with Flair published by Alfred Publishing Company, Inc.

Hungary (Rapsodie Mignonne),  Op. 410, is in Your Favorite Solos for Piano compiled and edited by George Walter Anthony from Th. Presser.

References

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1831 births
1914 deaths
German composers
19th-century German musicians
Gaighat, Nepal

Gaighat () is an administrative centre within Triyuga Municipality and the headquarter of Udayapur District located in Province No. 1 of Nepal. Gaighat is divided into 2 wards called Gaighat Bazar and Old Gaighat. The Gaighat (Gaighat Bazar) is located in Ward No. 11 and Old Gaighat is in Ward No. 12 of Triyuga Municipality. Total area of two wards is  and total population is 14,243 with 2832 households.

Background
The headquarter of Udayapur District was situated on the hill of Udayapurgadhi in Panchawati village before 1972. Government took decision to move the headquarter to the plain of Gaighat in 1972 and in 1972 it moved to Gaighat. It was a Village development committee until 1997. It incorporated to Triyuga Municipality along with Deuri and Bhumarashuwa on 26 March 1997.

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 12,132 people living in 2319 individual households.

Transportation

The town in connected to Indian border via Thadi in Nepal and Laukaha in India which is 51 km South of Gaighat are a part of one of the agreed route for Mutual Trade between India and Nepal. Nepal Government of Nepal has set up a dedicated customs office in the town. and Government of India has set up a Land Customs Station with a Superintendent level officer. So in simple Import and Export are allowed in this location.  
Laukaha has Laukaha Bazar railway station which is a big line and connects to rest of India.

Administration

See also
Jogidaha
Saune

References

Populated places in Udayapur District
Triyuga Municipality
Wards and electoral divisions of Nepal
Hybrid language

Hybrid language may refer to:

A multi-paradigm programming language, a programming language that draws on elements from more than one programming paradigm, in computer science
In natural language, a mixed language deriving from several languages simultaneously 
Any result of language contact

See also
Hybrid (disambiguation)
Jersey (band)

Jersey was a Canadian ska punk band from Burlington, Ontario. Active from 1996 to 2005, the band reunited in 2011 and 2014 but has not released new material since 2004.

History
In 1997, the band released a demo tape which they sold at local concerts. The band received media attention partially because frontman Greg Taylor was known from his previous band, Grade.

The band was signed to Southern Ontario punk label Raw Energy and released No Turning Back in 1998. American record label Fueled by Ramen put out the band's second release, The Battle's Just Begun, a year later. The band began touring Canada and the United States heavily in support of the album as well as 2001's release Definition Recorded and produced by Brian McTernan at Salad Days in Baltimore. In November, 2001 they performed in Toronto with Ensign and Suicide Machines.

The band signed to Virgin Records in 2003 and producer Dan Brodbeck (Headstrong, Garnet Rogers) signed on to produce Jersey's third album, Generation Genocide. Generation Genocide was released in Fall 2003. The album was released in the United States in the Spring 2004.

Jersey toured with and/or shared the stage with Grade, Reach the Sky, NOFX, Hi Standard, Less Than Jake, MXPX, PTC, One Man Army, Anti Flag, The Unseen, Cooter, Slick Shoes, Propagandhi, The Offspring, The Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Criminals, Ann Beretta, Trunk, Hot Water Music, Citizen Fish, Alexisonfire, Simple Plan, Sum 41, Yellowcard, and Eve 6.

In 2005, they announced they were splitting up citing creative differences.

The band performed several reunion shows through 2011 and 2014, without creating any new music together.

Members
Last members
 Greg Taylor - guitar, lead vocals
 Johnny Lubera - bass
 Sean McNab - guitar, vocals
 Jordan Hastings - drums

Former members
 Kevin Harris - drums
 Ian Blackwood - drums
 Sarah Brooksbank - vocals
 Bob Shaw - sax
 Tracy Brown - sax
Gene Figgley - bass

Discography

Albums
No Turning Back (1998)
In Friends We Trust - Jersey/Outspan split - Raw Energy (1998)
The Battle's Just Begun (1999)
Definition (2001)
Generation Genocide (2004)

Subsequent projects
As of August 2006, the members of Jersey have gone on to other endeavours.
 Greg Taylor is currently playing with The Saint Alvia Cartel.
 Sean McNab plays standup bass with psychobilly band The Creepshow.
 Jordan Hastings is the drummer for Alexisonfire and is also part of the trio Say Yes. As of January 2016 He is a touring/session drummer for Billy Talent.
 Johnny Lubera was married in the fall of 2006.
 Ian Blackwood sings and plays guitar in The Artist Life.
 Sarah Brooksbank is now married to Beau Beau from Avail.

References

See also
List of bands from Canada

Canadian post-hardcore musical groups
Canadian pop punk groups
Canadian punk rock groups
Fueled by Ramen artists
Virgin Records artists
Beautiful Child

Beautiful Child is a drama by American playwright Nicky Silver. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2004.

Production
Beautiful Child premiered at the Vineyard Theatre in New York on February 24, 2004 (previews from February 6) and ran to March 28. Directed by Terry Kinney the cast featured George Grizzard, Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, and Penny Fuller.

Plot 
Harry and Nan, a middle-aged couple, are constantly at odds. Harry is having an affair with his emotionally unstable secretary. "Your secretary, Harry?" snipes Nan. "You're past cliché and into archetype." This tone of acid comedy is replaced, however, by deep anguish, when their adult son, Isaac, announces that he has fallen in love with a child. He wants to return home and live with his parents, who have to struggle between their love for him and their guilt and horror at his transgression. They finally come to a compromise, which is almost as shocking as Isaac's offense: he can live with them, but must be blinded first, to keep him from ever being attracted to another boy.

Critical response
Reviews were mixed. Most reviewers were struck by its similarity to Edward Albee's recent international success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, and indeed, The  Goat and Beautiful Child are similar in their explorations of sexual transgression in affluent domestic settings, as well as their edgy amalgams of comedy and horror.  Some critics, like Adrienne Onofri, dismissed Silver's play as a poor imitation of Albee  Others, like Simon Stoltzman, acknowledged the similarity to Albee's work, but found Silver's approach distinctive.  

Penny Fuller and George Grizzard were widely praised for their performances. Reviewer Dan Bacalzo observed, "Grizzard has the uncanny ability to convey volumes with a murmured word or dismissive gesture."

Ben Brantley in his New York Times review called the play a "grim comic drama", and wrote: "Swerving from the brittle, accusatory dialogue of a bitterly married couple to a scene of ritualistic sacrifice à la Sophocles, Mr. Silver has composed an ambitious but ungainly answer to Edward Albee's plays of domestic existentialism, works like 'A Delicate Balance' and 'All Over.' Ultimately 'Beautiful Child' isn't much more than ersatz Albee."

Notes

External links
Nicky Silver, Doollee.com
Internet Off-Broadway database listing

Plays by Nicky Silver
2004 plays
Enrique Alférez

Enrique Alférez (1901–1999) was a Mexican artist who specialized in sculpting architectural reliefs and the human form.

Early life and education 
Born in a rural village in northern Mexico, Alférez was introduced to sculpture by his father, a woodworker who was trained . He ran away at age 12, and was conscripted into the Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revolution. In 1920, he fled his home country and made his way to El Paso, Texas, where he found work as a photographer's assistant. It was here he attended a lecture presented by art teacher Lorado Taft, who was visiting El Paso on an Art Institute of Chicago tour. Seeing potential in the young man, Taft encouraged Alferez to come study under him in Chicago, which he did from 1927 through 1929.

Career 
After completing his education in 1929, he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He later married an American woman named Margaret, with whom he had a daughter.

His sculptures and reliefs adorn many parks, buildings, and landmarks in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, many of them commissioned by the Works Progress Administration. Some of the most notable include those in City Park, as well as the "Molly Marine" statue, the first American sculpture to depict a woman in military uniform. His fountain at New Orleans Lakefront Airport is a well known local landmark.  He made reliefs for a number of buildings, including the Charity Hospital Building in New Orleans and the Palmolive Building in Chicago.

Alférez was not only a sculptor, and actively produced work in other artistic disciplines. Notably, he painted an official portrait of Senator Huey P. Long (who he personally loathed, as he revealed decades later).

Alférez remained active into his later years, both as a working artist and an art teacher.  In 1993, he appeared in a PBS American Experience documentary entitled "The Hunt for Pancho Villa".

External links 
 Enrique Alferez in The Hunt For Pancho Villa

References

1901 births
1999 deaths
Artists from New Orleans
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
Mexican sculptors
Male sculptors
Works Progress Administration workers
20th-century American sculptors
20th-century Mexican male artists
Mexican-American culture
American male sculptors
Artists from Zacatecas
Art Deco artists
20th-century American male artists
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka

was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. He competed in the 400 m, 1500 m and 4 × 200 m events at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won four silver medals; he also helped Japan win a bronze relay medal in 1964 by swimming in the heat, and placed fourth in the 4 × 200 m relay in 1956 and in the 1500m in 1960. At the 1960 Olympics, he swam the fastest leg in the 4 × 200 m relay, yet his team lost to the United States.  Yamanaka won the 400 m and 1500 m events at the 1958 Asian Games.

Yamanaka studied in college at the University of Southern California, where he broke the 200 m world record three times within two months in 1961. He set two more records over 200 m earlier in 1958–59, but unfortunately for him this distance was not an Olympic event in those years. Yamanaka also set a world record over 400 m in 1959 and three world records in the 4 × 200 m relay in 1959 and 1963. Yamanaka graduated from Waseda University and later headed the Itoman Swimming School in Osaka. In 1983 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. In 1995, he unsuccessfully ran for the House of Councillors.

Yamanaka's coach used pebbles to communicate with him during the training sessions – whenever Yamanaka would relax the coach would throw a pebble in his back. After the training Yamanaka had to collect the pebbles from the pool bottom.

Yamanaka died from pneumonia on 10 February 2017 in Tokyo, at the age of 78.

See also
 List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

References

1939 births
2017 deaths
Olympic swimmers for Japan
Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
World record setters in swimming
Japanese male freestyle swimmers
People from Wajima, Ishikawa
Sportspeople from Ishikawa Prefecture
Asian Games medalists in swimming
Swimmers at the 1958 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Olympic silver medalists for Japan
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Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games
Deaths from pneumonia in Japan
20th-century Japanese people
Andrzej Stanisław Załuski

Andrzej Stanisław Kostka Załuski (2 December 1695 – 16 December 1758) was a priest (bishop) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In his religious career he held the posts of abbot and later Bishop of Płock (from 1723), bishop of Łuck (1736), Bishop of Chełmno (1739) and Bishop of Cracow (1746).  He was a supporter of the Jesuits in Poland.

A member of the Polish nobility (szlachta) of the Junosza coat of arms, he also held the position of the Great Crown Chancellor from 1735 to 1746. As a politician he was engaged in the movement that wanted to reform the failing political system of the Commonwealth.

He studied in Danzig and Rome.

Załuski was a corresponding member of Societas eruditorum incognitorum in terris Austriacis, the first learned society in Habsuburg Austria.

He is perhaps most famous as co-founder (together with his brother Józef Andrzej Załuski, bishop of Kiev) of Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th-century collections of books in the world. He also sponsored the seminary in Pułtusk.

See also
 History of philosophy in Poland

Footnotes

References
 Piotr Nitecki, Biskupi Kościoła w Polsce w latach 965–1999 (Church Bishops in Poland from 965 to 1999), Instytut Wydawniczy Pax, Warszawa 2000

External links
 Works by Andrzej Stanisław Załuski in digital library Polona

Ecclesiastical senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1695 births
1758 deaths
Bishops of Kraków
18th-century Polish nobility
18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Bishops of Płock
Canons of Kraków
Abbots of Czerwińsk
Polish book and manuscript collectors
Burials at Wawel Cathedral
Polish bibliophiles
Abbots of Płock
Polish Hebraists
18th-century Polish–Lithuanian philosophers
Polish Enlightenment
Château de Miral

The Château de Miral (13th century) is a castle in the commune of Bédouès, in the Lozère département, in the Cevennes mountains of south-central France. It is about 10 km east of Florac going towards Le Pont-de-Montvert on road D998. The castle overlooks the confluence of the Rûnes and Tarn rivers.

It belonged in the 13th century to the Cahbrieres family and from the 14th century to the Malbosc family.

Its keep was built towards the end of the 13th century as the seat of the Malbosc-Miral family. Its ramparts defended access to the upper Tarn valley. From the 14th to the 16th centuries, the Lords of Malbosc-Miral constructed their residence and outbuildings around the keep.

At the time of the French Revolution, the last proprietor, Charles, Count of Altier was guillotined with his son in 1794 and the castle was sold for 34,719 livres in 1796. The castle began to decline into ruins. Restoration work on the castle began in 1980.

Description
Built on the edge of a precipice, the castle can only be approached from one side.

Dating from the 13th century, the castle was closely related to the history of the disorders and wars in Gévaudan over five centuries. The fortifications include a massive square keep with a high round tower on one side, an assortment of buildings and defensive works. Mullioned windows in the old seigniorial residence and the interior murals in the vault and the western building date from the Renaissance. The military architecture of 13th and 14th centuries is evident from the use of a natural defensive site with a double enceinte. It was an important local seigniory which exploited nearby silver mines. The castle has carved and painted decorations, one of the few civil buildings in this area to have preserved them.

The castle is privately owned. It has been listed since 1984 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

See also
List of castles in France

References

External links

 Ministry of Culture listing for Château de Miral with 89 photos 
 Webpage about the castle

Lozère
Castles in Lozère
Buildings and structures in Lozère
Monuments historiques of Occitania (administrative region)
George W. Drum

George W. Drum (October 3, 1925–December 16, 1997) was an early leader in automobile club circles, and the first director of the Crosley Car Owners Club in 1952. With Edward Herzog, he worked to preserve the stock of spare parts for Crosley automobiles and trucks when the parent company Crosley Motors, Incorporated was sold to General Tire in July 1952 and production halted on July 3 of that year. George W. Drum resided at 2101 Greenway Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina.

People in the automobile industry
1925 births
1997 deaths
Indian Mounds Park (Whitewater, Wisconsin)

Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve (also known as The Indian Mounds Park or as the Maples Mounds Group) is a park operated by the city of Whitewater, Wisconsin. The 21.5-acre park is located on the west side of the city. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Description 
Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve is located on the west side of Whitewater, Wisconsin near Indian Mounds Parkway and Wildwood Road. It is a prehistoric, Native American ceremonial and burial site that dates to between 200 and 1000 A.D. The park contains a collection of animal and geometric mounds. Located on the eastern bank of an old river bed, and among the park's thick native oak trees, the effigy mounds once included a community area with 30 circular huts, inhabited by the mound builders. The 12 (possibly 13) effigy mounds at the site are what survive of this village today. The site continues to be used for Native American ceremonial pow-wows. Entrance into the Effigy Mounds Park is free and open to the public daily.

History 

The Potawatomi people, after being displaced from their native lands further east, most likely in the mid-17th century during the Beaver Wars, settled in the area now known as Indian Mounds Park and near the Whitewater River, now Whitewater Creek. The area was given this name because of the white clay and sands that collect at the bottom of the river.

When the construction of a U.S. Route 12 in Wisconsin bypass threatened the mounds, a group of local residents convinced the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to preserve the mounds.

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Restoration 
After regular maintenance, efforts in the park have removed non-native species and other underbrush to return the park to its original state, that of an oak savanna.

Recent plans for the west side of Whitewater by the Whitewater Community Development Authority]show a possible expansion of the park that would include an area north of the park and south of West Main Street. It would include woodlands, wetlands, and space for a playground, playfield and trail. This expansion plan also includes degraded mound remnants southwest of the current park, which would provide a buffer to the existing mounds in the park.

See also
Mound
Mound builder (people)
Earthwork (archaeology)
 List of burial mounds in the United States

References

External links
 Whitewater Indian Mounds Park
 Whitewater Community Development Authority, West Neighborhood Plan

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Mounds in Wisconsin
Native American history of Wisconsin
Protected areas of Jefferson County, Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Publication history of DC Comics crossover events

DC Comics has produced many crossover stories combining characters from different series of comics. Some of these are set in the fictional DC Universe, or any number of settings within the DC Multiverse.

Publication history

Pre-Crisis

Crisis on Infinite Earths and Post-Crisis

Post-Flashpoint

Post-DC Rebirth

Post-Dark Nights: Metal

Post-Dark Nights: Death Metal

Post-Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths 

Note: All bolded events are considered "company-wide".

Intercompany crossovers

See also
 Publication history of Marvel Comics crossover events

Notes

References

 
DC Comics-related lists
Comic book publication histories
Crossover comics
Intercompany crossovers
Pere de Montagut

Pere de Montagut was a Catalan squire who helped, in the 1230s, King James I of Aragon to conquer some zones of the kingdom of Valencia from the Moors. As a reward, he was given some territories under the condition that he had to repopulate them with Christian settlers. L’Alcúdia was undoubtedly the most important of his possessions, and he set up his home in this town till his death.

13th-century Catalan people
Spanish soldiers
Royal Palace, Wrocław

The Royal Palace (; ) is a palace in Wrocław, Poland. Originally a palace of the Prussian monarchy, it now houses the city museum.

History

Initially a Baroque palace of Heinrich Gottfried von Spätgen, chancellor of Bishop Francis Louis of Neuburg, it was built in 1717 in a Viennese style. In 1750, after Prussia took control over Silesia in the First Silesian War, the palace was purchased by the Prussian king Frederick the Great and was converted into his residence. The palace was extended from 1751 to 1753 in the Baroque style with Rococo interiors designed by the royal architect Johann Boumann. Boumann's additions included a transverse wing with a festive hall, throne hall and Frederick the Great's private quarters.

The successor of Frederick the Great, who died in 1786, was his nephew Frederick William II of Prussia (1744–1797). He performed remodelling of the royal palace according to the design of Karl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808). The remodelling took place in 1795 to 1796 in the classical style. As a result, the wings surrounding the northern courtyard, a new staircase and utility rooms were added.

In March 1813, during the War of the Sixth Coalition with Napoleon, King Frederick William III of Prussia announced two famous manifestos: "To My People" and “To My Military Commanders”. In April 1813, in the Yellow Living Room of the Palace, the king proclaimed the Iron Cross as a war medal.

In the middle of the 19th century, drawing on a Florentine Renaissance style, architect Friedrich August Stüler added a new southern wing (1844–1846) and a new courtyard wings along with the gate and railing (1858).
In 1918 the palace was donated to the city of Breslau. On 20 September 1926 the Palace Museum (Schlossmuseum) was opened, displaying an exposition devoted to Frederick the Great, reconstruction of original interiors, and a collection of Silesian art.

1945-present
In May 1945 the palace was heavily damaged during the siege of the city at the end of the Second World War. Breslau was transferred from Germany to Poland after the war and renamed Wrocław. In the 1960s the palace was partially demolished, while the remaining wings were adapted to host the Archaeological Museum (until 1999) and the Ethnographic Museum (until 2004). In 2008 a renovation was finished and a new museum was established, presenting 1,000 year history of Wrocław.

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External links
 Wroclaw City Museum 

Houses completed in 1717
Palace
Baroque palaces in Poland
Royal residences in Poland
Prussian cultural sites
Tourist attractions in Wrocław
Royal Palace
History museums in Poland
Historic house museums in Poland
Rebuilt buildings and structures in Wrocław
Frederick the Great
Karen Tei Yamashita

Karen Tei Yamashita ( ; born January 8, 1951) is a Japanese American writer.

Early life 
Yamashita was born on January 8, 1951, in Oakland, California.

Career 
Yamashita is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches creative writing and Asian American literature. Her works, several of which contain elements of magic realism, include novels  I Hotel (2010), Circle K Cycles (2001), Tropic of Orange (1997), Brazil-Maru (1992), and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990).  Yamashita's novels emphasize the necessity of polyglot, multicultural communities in an increasingly globalized age, even as they destabilize orthodox notions of borders and national/ethnic identity.

She has also written a number of plays, including Hannah Kusoh, Noh Bozos and O-Men which was produced by the Asian American theatre group, East West Players.

Awards 
In 2009, Yamashita received the Chancellor’s Award for Diversity from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. In 2011 she was named a Fellow of United States Artists. In 2013 she was co-appointed with Bettina Aptheker as the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; a position offered to distinguished members of the university's faculty intended to encourage new or interdisciplinary program development.

Yamashita was named the recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2021.

Selected writings 

 Through the Arc of the Rain Forest. (Coffee House Press, 1990).
 Brazil-Maru. (Coffee House Press, 1992).
 Tropic of Orange. (Coffee House Press, 1997).
 Circle K Cycles. (Coffee House Press, 2001).
 I Hotel. (Coffee House Press, 2010).
 Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, edited with an afterword by Stephen Hong Sohn. (Coffee House Press, 2014).
 Letters to Memory. (Coffee House Press, 2017).
 Sansei and Sensibility: Stories. (Coffee House Press, 2020).

References

External links 
 
 
 
 Includes a list of critical work on the author and additional biographical details
 
 
Karen Tei Yamashita Papers. MS 465. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 23 April 2020.

American writers of Japanese descent
1951 births
Living people
American dramatists and playwrights of Japanese descent
Writers from Oakland, California
American women dramatists and playwrights
American novelists of Asian descent
American women writers of Asian descent
American women novelists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
20th-century Japanese women writers
20th-century Japanese writers
Carleton College alumni
American Book Award winners
National Book Award winners
21st-century American women
Essentially surjective functor

In mathematics, specifically in category theory, a functor 

 

is essentially surjective (or dense) if each object  of  is isomorphic to an object of the form  for some object  of .

Any functor that is part of an equivalence of categories is essentially surjective. As a partial converse, any full and faithful functor that is essentially surjective is part of an equivalence of categories.

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Functors
Najdi.si

Najdi.si is a Slovenian search engine and web portal created by Interseek. It uses a technology created by Interseek. The technology is written entirely in Java.
 Today najdi.si is owned and managed by the company TSmedia.

See also
 Noviforum

References

External links
Najdi.si website
Interseek ltd., the company that created Najdi.si and InterSeek Technology

Internet search engines
Internet in Slovenia
Slovenian websites
Slovenian brands
Myt Vesny – Dzvinkyi Viter

Мить весни. Дзвінкий вітер () (1998) is the debut studio album by Ukrainian singer-songwriter Ruslana. Released on 14 February 1998 in her home country, there are two albums on this CD. "Myt Vesny", the first one, was recorded in the Luxen Studio and "Dzvinkyi Viter", the second one, contains songs performed live by Ruslana.

Track listing

Disc 1 : Myt vesny'

Disc 2 : Dzvinky viter

Charts
Album

Singles

References

Ruslana albums
1998 debut albums