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Cantus (disambiguation)

Cantus may refer to:

 Cantus, an activity organised by Flemish and Dutch and Baltic student organisations and fraternities
 Cantus (database), a database for Latin ecclesiastical chant
 Cantus (vocal ensemble), an eight-member a cappella ensemble in Minnesota
 Cantus firmus, a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition
 Cantus Records of Madrid, Spain
 Cantus the Minstrel, a character from Fraggle Rock
 Cantus may refer to the uppermost voice in medieval music manuscripts
 Cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft, a railway company in Germany
 Cantus (software)
 Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, a composition by Arvo Pärt
 Cantus (Norwegian female choir)
 Cantus, a song by 'Faith and the Muse' from their 1996 album Annwyn, Beneath the Waves
Hyundai Cantus, the name of the Hyundai Creta sport utility vehicle model in the Dominican Republic
Ultimate Collection (Shanice album)

Ultimate Collection is a compilation by American R&B singer Shanice, containing songs from her first three albums. The collection was released on November 16, 1999, but does not include any tracks from her fourth album Shanice, released earlier that year, or any of her previous contributions to soundtracks or other artists' albums.

As a result, the singles omitted include "Saving Forever For You" (a Billboard Hot 100 #4 hit - one of only two of her singles to make the top 10), "This Time" (a #2 US R&B hit recorded with Kiara for Kiara's album To Change and/or Make a Difference), "It's for You" (a #14 US R&B hit recorded for The Meteor Man soundtrack) and "When I Close My Eyes" (a #4 US R&B hit recorded for Shanice).

Track listings

Personnel and credits
Credits taken from album liner notes.

Executive-Producer – Pat Lawrence
Producer – Bryan Loren (track: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) – Narada Michael Walden (track: 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) – Christopher Williams, Ike Lee III, Kiyamma Griffin (track: 14) – Chris Stokes (track: 15) – Lance Alexander, Tony Tolbert (track: 16) – Bo Watson, McArthur (track: 17) – Guy Roche (track: 18)
Art Direction – Laura Graven, Vartan 
Compilation Producer – Dana G. Smart, David Nathan 
Coordinator [Project Coordination] – Laura Graven
Design – Ryan Rogers
Liner Notes [Essay By] – David Nathan 
Mastered By [Digitally Mastered By] – Kevin Reeves

Phonographic Copyright (p) – A&M Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Motown Record Company, L.P.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Universal Music Special Markets, Inc.
Copyright (c) – Universal Music Special Markets, Inc.
Distributed By – Universal Music & Video Distribution, Inc.

References

1999 compilation albums
Shanice albums
Albums produced by Narada Michael Walden
Contemporary R&B compilation albums
Pop compilation albums
New jack swing compilation albums
Duan Jifei

Duan Jifei () was an empress of the Xianbei-led Chinese Southern Yan dynasty. Her husband was the founding emperor Murong De (Emperor Xianwu).  Her given name is lost to history, but her courtesy name Jifei was recorded and used by historians.  Her father was Duan Yi (段儀).

Duan Jifei's older sister Duan Yuanfei was the empress of Murong De's older brother, Murong Chui, the founding emperor of Later Yan.  She married Murong De in or slightly before 388, when he was the Prince of Fanyang.  They did not have any sons.

In 398, Murong De, displeased at how Murong Chui's son and successor Murong Bao had, through incompetence, lost most of the Later Yan territory, declared himself the Prince of Yan and established the separate Southern Yan state.  In 400, he declared himself emperor and created Duan Jifei empress.  After Murong De died in 405 and was succeeded by his nephew Murong Chao, she became empress dowager, but in 406 became embroiled in a plot with Murong Zhong (慕容鍾) the Prince of Beidi and the generals Murong Fa (慕容法) and Duan Hong (段宏) to overthrow Murong Chao, but after one of the coconspirators, Feng Song (封嵩) was arrested, she became fearful and revealed the entire plot to Murong Chao, who then defeated the coup attempt.

The 406 plot was the last reference to Empress Dowager Duan in history.  In 408, after Murong Chao ransomed his mother Lady Duan back from Later Qin, he honored his mother as empress dowager, implying that Empress Dowager Duan Jifei might not be still alive at that point, or was deprived of her empress dowager title.  (There was a reference in the Zizhi Tongjian that stated, "Empress Dowager Duan of Yan's title was removed, and she went to reside in a different palace"; the modern Chinese historian Bo Yang opined that referred to Later Yan's Empress Dowager Duan.)

Notes and references 

 Book of Jin, vol. 96.
 Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 108, 111, 114.

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4th-century births
5th-century deaths
Southern Yan empresses
Later Yan people
5th-century Chinese women
5th-century Chinese people
Again to Carthage

Again to Carthage is a novel by American author [[John L. Parker
Jr.]] initially published April 1, 2008. It is the sequel to 1978 book Once a Runner.

References
John Parker's "Again to Carthage" picks up where Parker's "Once a Runner" left off.  Star college miler, Quenton Cassidy has returned home from the Olympic games where he has taken the silver medal in the 1500 meter "metric mile" race.  After some time working as a lawyer he decides that he left the running life too soon and now in his early thirties (or thereabouts) decides to take up the rigorous, spartan distance running-training life again.  This time aiming to make the United States Olympic marathon team.

Mr. Parker's unique writing skill is to immerse the attentive reader in the peculiar (by modern American standards) life of the serious distance runner while avoiding the mind-numbing attention to the daily grind of the athlete himself.  Parker's achievement as a writer with his background as an accomplished distance runner, is to show how the stoicism and discipline of the serious runner manages to transform a mere man through a transcendent undertaking into what can almost be characterized as an apotheosis.

As Cassidy runs his race (the U.S. Olympic marathon trial) two strange, arguably metaphysical events leave the reader wondering what is real and what is being imagined.   Through this crucible of the will, the protagonist, Quenton Cassidy is transformed from a mere mortal yet again (as in Parker's prequel, "Once a Runner").  As is the attentive reader in some small way.

Running books
Novels set in Florida
2008 American novels
Sequel novels
Guelph Royals (ice hockey)

The Guelph Royals name has been used for several hockey teams based in Guelph, Ontario. The most prominent was a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association from 1960 to 1963, that played home games at the Guelph Memorial Gardens. The junior Royals were affiliated with the NHL's New York Rangers. 

Other Guelph Royals teams played from 1908, and briefly in 1909 (6 games) in the Ontario Professional Hockey League, and also circa 1920s as Ontario Hockey Association senior teams. The Royals namesake is the City of Guelph's nickname as the "Royal City."

History
The junior Guelph Royals arose when the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters were sold in 1960, and the new ownership renamed the team. Emile Francis was head coach of the Royals for the 1960–61 OHA season and the 1961–62 OHA season.

Guelph won the Hamilton Spectator Trophy during the 1960–61 OHA season, finishing 1st overall. The Royals' Rod Gilbert led the OHA in goals scored with 54, points scored with 103, and Jean Ratelle led the league in assists with 61. Gilbert won Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy with the most goals in the league, and was also awarded the Red Tilson Trophy as the most outstanding player. In the playoffs, the Royals lost in the league finals to the Toronto St. Michael's Majors, 4 games to 2 with a tie.

Many players graduated from junior hockey after the 1960–61 OHA season, and the Royals did not recover their previous form. After two declining seasons the franchise was in financial trouble again. At the end of the 1962–63 OHA season, the team moved to nearby Kitchener, Ontario, becoming the Kitchener Rangers, taking the name of the NHL parent club.

Some of the Guelph Royals players who graduated from the junior ranks played on the newly formed Senior OHA Guelph Regals team.

NHL alumni
Twenty-one former Guelph Royals have played in the National Hockey League, and two have elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame; Rod Gilbert and Jean Ratelle.

Season-by-season results
Regular season results

Playoff results
1960-61 Defeated Niagara Falls Flyers 10 points to 4 in quarter-finals. Received second-round bye. Lost to Toronto St. Michael's Majors 9 points to 5 in finals.
1961-62 Out of playoffs.
1962-63 Out of playoffs.

References

Defunct Ontario Hockey League teams
Sport in Guelph
1960 establishments in Ontario
1963 disestablishments in Ontario
Ice hockey clubs established in 1960
Fog season

The fog season is a season of fog that occurs in some places, because of special meteorological and topographical characteristics, after a rainy period. The fog season is usually based in the cooler months (late autumn, winter and early spring).

An example is found in the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley areas of California's Great Central Valley, where a thick ground fog, known as Tule fog, may form, in particular in the months from November through March. In the Tampa Bay area of Florida, the fog season is from December to February. Sydney's fog season is longer, starting from April through to October. Though it's more frequent in June due to more rain.

It is not generally true that fog season in a given area is during autumn or winter (the cooler months); for example, the Japanese coast of the Pacific Ocean has a dense fog season from May to August. The June Gloom, a cloudy and foggy phenomena, experienced in the southern coast of California occurs in late spring and early summer (May and June). 

Seasons
IC 4406

IC 4406, sometimes known as the Retina Nebula, is a planetary nebula near the western border of the constellation Lupus, the Wolf. It has dust clouds and has the shape of a torus. Despite this, it looks somewhat rectangular because it is seen from its side as viewed from Earth, almost in the plane of its equator.

Structure
IC 4406 is bipolar and appears to be a prolate spheroid with strong concentrations of material in its equator. This kind of structure is a natural product of a bipolar model.  The knots of IC 4406 have a "lacy" appearance and have no ordered symmetry towards the central star.  The knots have no tails.  None of the features have bright edges. At least 5 faint ring-like structures, seen as arcs north and south of the main nebula, have been detected in Very Large Telescope observations.

The central star of the planetary nebula has a spectral type similar to that of a Wolf–Rayet star. An analysis of Gaia data suggests that it may be a binary system.

Gallery

See also
 Planetary nebula

References

External links 
 

Planetary nebulae
Lupus (constellation)
4406
Mr. E

Mr. E may refer to:

 Mister E, a DC Comics character and member of The Trenchcoat Brigade
 Mister E (Timely Comics), a Timely Comics (now Marvel Comics) character
 Mr. E (Ninjago), a character in Ninjago
 Mr. E, a character in the TV series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
 Mark Oliver Everett (b. 1963), American lead vocalist and guitarist for Eels
 Nathan Ellery, a DC comics character who masterminded the murder of Alec Holland
 The ring name of professional wrestler Abe Zvonkin while masked
"Mr. E", a song by Red Velvet from the 2018 EP Summer Magic

See also
 E (disambiguation)
 E (name)
 "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues", a 2000 song by Eels
Mouli Island

Mouli Island (sometimes also spelled Mouly Island; also known as Hwakaiö) is one of the Loyalty Islands, in the archipelago of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island is part of the commune (municipality) of Ouvéa, in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia.

Mouli Island lies in the atoll of Ouvéa, separated from Ouvéa Island by a pass about 200 yards wide. A bridge opened to car traffic spans the pass between the two islands and offers very scenic views of the lagoon.

Mouli Island is  long and only  wide. At the 1996 census there were 364 people living on the island.

Islands of New Caledonia
Loyalty Islands
Palatki Heritage Site

The Palatki Heritage Site is an archaeological site and park located in the Coconino National Forest, near Sedona, in Arizona, United States at approximately 34 55' 4"N, 111 53' 59"W. In the Hopi language Palatki means 'red house'.

History
Cliff dwellings
The Palatki site has a set of ancient cliff dwellings in the red sandstone cliffs, built from 1100 to 1400 CE by the Sinagua people of the Ancestral Puebloans. The cliff dwellings were built under south-facing overhangs for shelter and winter sun. The Sinagua people planted crops and made pottery in the area. Palatki and Honanki, another nearby archaeological site, had the largest cliff dwellings in the Red Rock formation area from .

Palatki consists of two separate pueblos, suggesting two family or kin groups may have lived here, one in each pueblo. The circular shield-like pictographs above the eastern pueblo have been interpreted by some archaeologists as being a kin or clan symbol.

Rock art
There are pictographs and petroglyphs at the Palatki site, including some that predate the cliff dwellings.  Many of the pictographs on the rock walls are from the Sinagua. However, those created by peoples of the Archaic period in North America include some of the more abstract pictograph symbols and drawings that are 3,000 to 6,000 years old, and some of the petroglyphs, estimated to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old.

Archaeology
Visitation to the site for over a century has caused degradation of the archaeological elements. It was begun by 19th century Euro-American settlers, with little archaeological awareness for the area. 

Photographs from the early 1900s show that an estimated 70 to 90 percent of the original structures have disappeared since then.

Access
The Palatki Heritage Site is open to visitors seven days a week from 9:30am to 3:00pm.  The site is accessible by guided tours only, with the last tour at 2:00 PM. Reserve a tour at Recreation.gov. There are two trails in the park, one to view the Sinagua cliff dwellings, and a second to view the  pictographs and petroglyphs. The tour includes both sites, for a total  distance of 1 mile. The trails are not handicapped accessible.  Purchase of a Red Rock Parking Pass is also needed for park entry.

Gallery

References

External links

 US Forest Service: Palatki Heritage Site website
 Rockart.com: Palatki Heritage Site
 DreamSedona.com: Palatki Ruins and Petroglyph Rock Art
 SedonaHikingTrails.com: Palatki Heritage Site

Parks in Yavapai County, Arizona
Archaeological sites in Arizona
Ancient Puebloan archaeological sites in Arizona
Petroglyphs in Arizona
Archaic period in North America
Pre-historic cities in the United States
Buildings and structures in Yavapai County, Arizona
12th century in North America
Coconino National Forest
Sinagua
One Thousand Roads to Mecca

One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage is a collection of travel journals edited by Michael Wolfe and published in 1999. Covering over 20 accounts made over 10 centuries, this work shows many sides of the Hajj, the Pilgrimage to Mecca required of every able Muslim.

Included are accounts of Naser-e Khosraw, Ibn Jubayr, Ibn Battuta and ultimately the pilgrimage of Michael Wolfe himself.

Contributors 
Naser-e Khosraw, Persia, 1050
Ibn Jubayr, Spain, 1183-84
Ibn Battuta, Morocco, 1326
Ludovico di Varthema, Bologna, 1503
A Pilgrim with No Name, Italy, 1575
Joseph Pitts, England, 1685
Ali Bey al-Abbasi, Spain, 1807
John Lewis Burckhardt, Switzerland, 1814
Sir Richard Burton, Great Britain, 1953
Her Highness Sikandar, the Begum of Bhopal, India, 1864
John F. Keane, Anglo-India, 1877-78
Mohammad Hosayn Farahani, Persia, 1885-86
Arthur J. B. Wavell, Anglo-Africa, 1908
Eldon Rutter, Great Britain, 1925
Winifred Stegar, Australia, 1927
Muhammad Asad, Galicia, 1927
Harry St. John Philby, Great Britain, 1931
Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Great Britain, 1933
Hamza Bogary, Mecca, 1947
Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Iran, 1964
Malcolm X, United States, 1964
Saida Miller Khalifa, Great Britain, 1970
Michael Wolfe, United States, 1990

References 

 

1999 non-fiction books
Non-Islamic Islam studies literature
Hajj accounts
American travel books
Jillian Parry Fry

Jillian Parry (born January 31, 1982) is a former Miss Teen USA, having held the title for the year 2000, representing her home town of Newtown and state of Pennsylvania. She was the first titleholder from Pennsylvania to win the national competition.

Parry entered the Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA pageant on a whim, after a postcard was dropped in her mail, and won on her first attempt. 

While a freshman at Pennsylvania State University Parry represented Pennsylvania at the Miss Teen USA pageant televised live from Shreveport, Louisiana on August 26, 2000.  She won the pageant and was crowned Miss Teen USA 2000 by Ashley Coleman of Delaware, Miss Teen USA 1999. For her win she received more than $150,000 in cash and prizes.

As Miss Teen USA, Parry represented the Miss Universe Organization making appearances throughout the United States. Her "sister" 2000 titleholders were Lynnette Cole (Miss USA, from Tennessee) and Lara Dutta (Miss Universe, of India). She passed her title on to her successor, Marissa Whitley of Missouri, on August 22, 2001.

As Miss Teen USA Parry appeared in a Mothers Against Drunk Driving campaign that released after she gave up her title.

Personal life
Parry has been a vegan since 2002, and she is an active public health scientist in the field of environmental health policy.

References

External links
Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA official site
Miss Teen USA official site 

Living people
Miss Teen USA winners
University of New Mexico alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
2000 beauty pageant contestants
20th-century Miss Teen USA delegates
People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania
1982 births
20th-century American people
Marcus Wills

Marcus Wills (born 1972) is an Australian painter, winner of the 2006 Archibald Prize and finalist in many other art competitions.

Early life and education
Wills was born in Kaniva, Victoria in 1972.

He studied for an Advanced Certificate of Art and Design between 1989 and 1991 at the Wimmera Community College of TAFE (now Federation University Australia's Horsham Campus).  He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1995.

Career
His work has been displayed in a number of exhibitions, and he has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne since 1992. He paints in the style which mixes  figurative and realist styles.

Awards
He was the winner of the 2006 Archibald Prize for his painting of The Paul Juraszek Monolith, which was based on an engraving by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.

In 2000, he won the second Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.

He has been a finalist in the Sir John Sulman Prize (2003, 2010 and 2013) and Wynne Prize (2010). 

He was a finalist of the Archibald Prize in 2015 with El cabeceo, 2016 with The ersatz (James Batchelor)., 2018 and 2020 with Requiem (JR) (Portrait of Jack Riley).

In 2017 he was again a finalist in the Archibald, with a portrait of filmmaker Thomas M. Wright called Antagonist, Protagonist (Thomas M. Wright). Wills set up the scene to look like a crime drama, with Wright as protagonist.

References

Australian painters
Archibald Prize winners
Living people
1972 births
Victorian College of the Arts alumni
Federation University Australia alumni
Archibald Prize finalists
Wynne Prize

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Bab as-Saghir

Bāb aṣ-Ṣaghīr (, "Small Gate"), also called Goristan-e-Ghariban, may refer to one of the seven gates in the Old City of Damascus, and street in the modern city of Damascus, Syria. It has qubūr (, graves) on either side of the road, and is located in the Dimashq Neighborhood, southwest of the Umayyad Mosque.

History
The bāb (, gate) was initially built by the Arameans, then it was dedicated to Zeus during the Seleucid era. During the Roman era, the gate was dedicated to Jupiter. In medieval times, Bab as-Saghir was the main southern entrance into Damascus. It was refortified by General Nūr al-Dīn at around 1156 BCE (550 in Islamic years) and then later by the Ayyūbid sultans. Bab as-Saghir was constructed out of mud bricks, causing it to be the weakest entrance to the city. Because of this, it is probable that during the Siege of Damascus (1148), the Crusaders planned on concentrating their forces on the gate. Before any possible plan could be implemented, Damascus's military commander (or atabeg) Mu'in al-Din Abu Mansur Anur launched large-scale attacks on the Crusaders- made up of anyone who could fight- while strengthening the fortifications. After a four-day siege, the Crusaders withdrew from Damascus.

Cemetery

Maqbarat al-Bāb aṣ-Ṣaghīr () is the ancient cemetery, which is adjacent to the gate, and is a site of significant religious importance to Muslims.

See also

 Holiest sites in Shia Islam
 Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque
 Religious significance of the Syrian region
 Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque

References

External links
 TripAdvisor: Photo: "The Ahl-e-Bait cemetery, also called Bab-as-Saghir"
 Syria conflict: Damascus twin bombing kills 40 Iraqis

Cemeteries in Syria
Buildings and structures in Damascus
Family of Muhammad
Islamic shrines
Gates of Damascus
Streets in Damascus
Hot Metal Bridge

The Hot Metal Bridge is a truss bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that crosses the Monongahela River. The bridge consists of two parallel spans on a single set of piers: the former Monongahela Connecting Railroad Bridge, built in 1887, on the upstream side and the former Hot Metal Bridge, built in 1900, on the downstream side. The Monongahela Connecting Railroad Bridge carried conventional railroad traffic, while the Hot Metal Bridge connected parts of the J&L Steel mill, carrying crucibles of molten iron from the blast furnaces in ladle transfer cars to the open hearth furnaces on the opposite bank to be converted to steel. During World War II 15% of America's steel making capacity crossed over the Hot Metal Bridge, up to 180 tons per hour. The upstream span was converted to road use after a $14.6 million restoration, and opened by Mayor Tom Murphy with a ceremony honoring former steel workers on June 23, 2000.  The bridge connects 2nd Avenue at the Pittsburgh Technology Center in South Oakland with Hot Metal Street (South 29th Street) in the South Side. The downstream span reopened for pedestrian and bicycle use in late 2007 after two years of work. The Great Allegheny Passage hiker/biker trail passes over this bridge as it approaches  Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle area.

The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation was responsible for managing the decorative lighting project for the bridge, which was lit with energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) and optical fiber technology on June 12, 2008.

The Hot Metal Bridge was inducted into the North America Railway Hall of Fame in 2016.

Popular culture
The Hot Metal Bridge is the namesake of the defunct Hot Metal Grille at the nearby SouthSide Works shopping center and also is the name of the online magazine of the University of Pittsburgh, a literary magazine.

The bridge was in several scenes of the 2011 film Warrior starring Jennifer Morrison and Nick Nolte.

See also
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
List of crossings of the Monongahela River
Pittsburgh bridges
Great Allegheny Passage
Pig iron

References

External links

Hot Metal Bridge at pghbridges.com
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Official reopening of the bridge after the conversion
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Article on conversion of bridge to pedestrian and bicycle use
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - High bids threaten the conversion project
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Groundbreaking on the new project

Bridges in Pittsburgh
Bridges over the Monongahela River
Bridges completed in 1887
Bridges completed in 1900
Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks
Road bridges in Pennsylvania
Railroad bridges in Pennsylvania
Pedestrian bridges in Pennsylvania
Truss bridges in the United States
Metal bridges in the United States
1887 establishments in Pennsylvania
Retiro railway station

Retiro is the name of a railway station complex in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that includes three main terminal train stations (Retiro-Mitre, Retiro-Belgrano and Retiro-San Martín) and two terminal subway stations (Retiro of Line C and Retiro of Line E).

The complex is named after the neighborhood where it is located, Retiro. It is close to Retiro Bus Terminal Station, the country´s biggest bus terminal.

Overview
The stations are very close to the Retiro bus station (Terminal de Omnibus), the principal long-distance bus terminal in Buenos Aires. The complex is also accessible by the C line of the Buenos Aires Metro system and by numerous local public bus services. The stations will also be accessible by both Line E and Line H of the metro once their extensions are complete.

Three stations are located opposite Plaza San Martín, a large park.

Services

Commuter rail

Retiro is the largest railway complex in Buenos Aires and more commuter trains arrive and depart from here than in any other station in the city. As of 2015, the following companies operate regular services to the suburbs of Buenos Aires along three principal lines:

 Mitre service calling at José León Suárez (General San Martín Partido), Tigre, and Bartolomé Mitre along its three branches. Long-distance services to Rosario and Tucumán cities. Both operated by Trenes Argentinos.
 Belgrano Norte service to Villa Rosa (Pilar Partido). Operated by private company Ferrovías.
 San Martín service calling at Villa Devoto, El Palomar, Caseros and Pilar, amongst others. Operated by Trenes Argentinos.

Long-distance

In addition to its status as the hub of an extensive commuter railway network, Retiro stations are also the terminus of a few long-distance passenger services which provide access to cities in the north and west of the country. As of 2015, state-owned Trenes Argentinos manages long-distance services to the cities of Córdoba, Tucumán and Rosario. Those services had been run by defunct company Ferrocentral.

From the Retiro San Martín station trains depart to Rufino station in Santa Fe Province.

Gallery

See also

Retiro Belgrano railway station
Retiro Mitre railway station
Retiro San Martín railway station
Rail transport in Argentina
Retiro (Line C Buenos Aires Underground)
Retiro (Line E Buenos Aires Underground)
Retiro (Line G Buenos Aires Underground)
Retiro (Line H Buenos Aires Underground)

References

External links

Railway stations in Buenos Aires
Railway stations opened in 1915
Mangtong

The mangtong () is a Chinese end-blown free reed wind instrument. It is used primarily by the Miao and Dong ethnic groups of the southern Chinese provinces of Guizhou and Guangxi, although it is sometimes used in contemporary Chinese compositions for the traditional instrument orchestra.

The instrument consists of a bamboo-free reed pipe without finger holes, which is fitted with a metal free reed; the instrument's playing pipe is placed inside a bamboo resonator of larger diameter.  The mangtong is made in several different sizes, with the largest up to two meters in length.  As the mangtong produces only a single pitch, several mangtong are normally played together in hocket.  Mangtong are often played together with an ensemble of free reed mouth organs called lusheng, serving as the bass instruments of that ensemble.

A modernized version of the mangtong, called gǎigé mángtǒng (), was developed in the 20th century.

See also
Lusheng
Yu (wind instrument)
Sheng (instrument)
Traditional Chinese musical instruments
Music of China

External links
Mangtong photo
Mangtong article (Chinese)
Mangtong article (Chinese)
Photo of mangtong ensemble

Chinese musical instruments
Free reed aerophones
Mouth organs
This Is Not a Dream

This Is Not A Dream is an album by New Zealand band Dadamah. It was originally released on vinyl by the Majora label in 1992, and later re-released on CD by Kranky label in 1995. The CD compiles the material they recorded for Majora; the original 6-track LP and two 7"s.

Track listing

Personnel 
Adapted from the This Is Not a Dream liner notes.
Dadamah
 Roy Montgomery – guitar, vocals
 Kim Pieters – bass guitar, vocals, engineering, illustrations
 Janine Stagg – organ
 Peter Stapleton – drums

Release history

References

External links 
 
 Profile at Kranky website

1992 albums
Dadamah albums
Kranky albums
The Emcee's Properganda

The Emcee's Properganda is Jin's second studio album. It was released on October 25, 2005. The whole album was produced by Golden Child with the exception of "Properganda", which was produced by Demo. The album was recorded at No Mystery Studios and engineered by Vinny Nicoletti. The album was mixed at Storm Studios by Storm. "Top 5 (Dead or Alive)" was released as a 12" vinyl single with "Perspectives" as the B-side. The music video for "Top 5 (Dead or Alive)" was directed by Todd Angkasuwan. The song "G.O.L.D.E.N." was used on the soundtrack of the video-game Saints Row on the fictional radio station KRHYME 95.4.

Track listing
All tracks produced by Golden Child, with the exception of track 6 "Properganda" produced by Demo.

Samples
The Emcee
Samples speech said by KRS-One in the DVD "The MC: Why We Do It"
Perspectives
Contains additional sampled speech from KRS-One
Contains lyrics from "I Can" by Nas
Top 5 (Dead or Alive)
Contains vocal samples from Nas as performed in "Ether"
Contains vocal samples from Jadakiss as performed in "Made You Look (Remix)" by Nas
Mr. Popular
Contains vocal samples from Big L as performed in "Put It On"
Contains vocal samples from James Brown as performed in "Hot Pants"
Properganda
Contains an interpolation of "If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)" by Nas
No More Fans
Contains an interpolation of "Urvashi Urvashi" by Humse hai Muqabala
G.O.L.D.E.N.
Contains lyrics from "We Gonna Make It" as performed by Jadakiss,
Contains Just Blaze's phrase
Foolish Little Girls
 Samples "Foolish Little Girl" by The Shirelles
The Craftiest
 Voice clips of fans
No Concept
 Contains an interpolation of "Check the Rhime" by A Tribe Called Quest

References

MC Jin albums
2005 albums
Bonerama

Bonerama is a brass funk rock band from New Orleans.

Bonerama was formed in 1998 by trombone players Mark Mullins and Craig Klein, who, from 1990 up until late 2006, were also members of Harry Connick Jr.'s big band. Shortly thereafter, they added trombone players Steve Suter, Brian O'Neill, and Rick Trolsen, sousaphone player Matt Perrine, guitarist Bert Cotton, and drummer Eric Bolivar. New Orleans drummers Russell Batiste, Stanton Moore, Doug Belote, Chad Gilmore, Terence Higgins, and Kevin O'Day have also been playing with Bonerama for periods of time. Later, Charlie Wooton and Nori Naraoka electric bass replaced Matt Perrine before his return to the band in 2013. Brian O'Neill had a heart attack and died while on a solo piano gig in New Orleans in December 2005. 

Bonerama released their debut album in 2001. On January 2, 2008, Bonerama performed the national anthem at the 2008 Sugar Bowl. On February 5, they released a joint EP with OK Go, entitled You're Not Alone, to raise money for New Orleans musicians displaced by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. After the departure of Rick Trolsen and Steve Suter in early 2009, trombonist Greg Hicks joined the band.

Discography
 Live at the Old Point (Bonerama, 2001)
 Live from New York (Mule Train, 2004)
 Bringing It Home (MTP, 2007)
 Shake It Baby (Bonerama, 2013)
 Hot Like Fire (Basin Street, 2017)
 Bonerama Plays Zeppelin (Basin Street, 2019)

References

External links

Facebook fan page

Musical groups from New Orleans
American jazz ensembles from New Orleans
Jazz-funk trombonists
Gaoqiao, Kai County

Gaoqiao () is a town located in a valley in Kai County, in the northeast of Chongqing municipality in Southwest China. Central Chongqing lies  to the southwest.

On 23 December 2003 at 21:15, a gas well burst and released highly toxic hydrogen sulfide. According to China Daily, 233 people died and at least 9,000 were injured.

The well was called “” and belonged to PetroChina's Southwest Oil and Gas Field Branch (). It was located in the Chuandongbei gas field () in Gaoqiao's Xiaoyang village ().

In 2007, Chevron Corporation and China National Petroleum Corporation signed a contract to share production in Chuandongbei, with Chevron getting 49 percent of the venture, operating the project and supplying the technology.

References

External links 
 Gas well blowout kills at least 191 – Article in the China Daily, dated 2003-12-25
 China tries to plug burst natural gas well – Article on MSNBC, dated 2003-12-25

Man-made disasters in China
Chemical disasters
Township-level divisions of Chongqing
McKenzie Seeds

McKenzie Seeds is a seed packaging company founded in Brandon, Manitoba in 1896. Jiffy has moved production outside of Canada with over 70 people working at their location in Brandon. It was established in 1896 by Dr. Albert Edward McKenzie, and claims to supply 60% of Canada's packet seed market.

Its retail division sells seed under the brands McKenzie, Thompson & Morgan, Gusto Italia, and Pike, as well as other gardening products and accessories. Through a direct mail division it operates the brands McFayden and McConnell catalogues.

History
In 1945, 90% of the company shares passed from its founder to the Manitoba Government to benefit Brandon College, the forerunner to Brandon University. The remaining shares were given to the government in 1975. McKenzie Seeds was run as a Crown Corporation until 1994 at which time it was sold to Regal Greetings and Gifts.

In 2002, the management of McKenzie Seeds bought the company.

In 2008, Jiffy International AS acquired McKenzie, and in 2012, it was acquired by Seed Holdings Inc. but would continue selling products under the "Jiffy" name. The business was merged into Plantation Products, a privately owned gardening company based in Massachusetts. Plantation Products later changed its name to Green Garden Products.

In 2021, Central Garden & Pet acquired Green Garden Products and its brand names Ferry-Morse, American Seed, Livingston Seed, McKenzie, NK Lawn & Garden, Jiffy, SUPERthrive, Dyna-Gro and Seeds of Change.

References

External links
 

Agriculture companies of Canada
Companies based in Brandon, Manitoba
Agricultural organizations based in Manitoba
Seed companies
Boobera Lagoon

Boobera Lagoon is a permanent water hole in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 20 kilometres west of Goondiwindi in Queensland. It is located at . It lies several kilometres south of the Macintyre River, which forms the border between Queensland (to the north) and New South Wales, and is just north of the Mungindi - Goondiwindi road. Its outflow, which connects to the river, is named Boobera Watercourse.

The lagoon is 7 kilometres in length and supports a wide variety of aquatic and bird life.

The Indigenous people of the area believe the lagoon is the resting place of Garriya,
the Rainbow Serpent, an important figure in dreamtime legend. The lagoon was particularly significant to the Bigambul and Kamilaroi people, who held the third stage of their joint male initiation ceremonies at this site.

Today Boobera Lagoon is recognised as a culturally significant site and motorised water sport is prohibited on the Lagoon.

References

Lakes of New South Wales
Glenwood Bridge

The Glenwood Bridge is a cantilever bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which carries Pennsylvania Route 885 over the Monongahela River.  It started construction on June 3, 1958. It was completed in 1966 to replace an old, decayed, unsafe iron bridge built in 1894, which carried Pittsburgh Railways streetcar tracks and vehicle traffic on a wooden deck.

History

Glenwood bridge (1894)
The original bridge was built by the Penn Bridge Company of Beaver Falls and carried trolley tracks between Pittsburgh and Homestead. It was later paved with wood to allow vehicle traffic to share the crossing. Permission was given by the Public Utilities Commission on November 8, 1962, for Pittsburgh Railways to convert trolley routes 55 East Pittsburgh via Homestead and Braddock and 98 Glassport to bus service, as the replacement bridge planned did not incorporate trolley tracks. Trolley service 55 across the bridge ended on July 4, 1964.

South interchange
At the southern end of the bridge is an expressway-style interchange with Pennsylvania Route 837. This interchange was built for a spur of the canceled "East-West Expressway", which was at the proposal stage when the bridge was built.

See also

List of crossings of the Monongahela River

References

Bridges in Pittsburgh
Bridges over the Monongahela River
Bridges completed in 1966
Road bridges in Pennsylvania
Cantilever bridges in the United States
Metal bridges in the United States
2006 OFC Club Championship

The 2006 OFC Club Championship was the 5th edition of the top-level Oceanic club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the last tournament before it was rebranded as the OFC Champions League. The qualifying round was held at Govind Park in Ba, Fiji, from 6 February until 10 February 2006, with the main competition taking place at the North Harbour Stadium in Albany, New Zealand from 10 May until 21 May 2006.

The tournament was the first of its kind to not have a representative from Australia competing, due to the nation's migration to the Asian Football Confederation, meaning the winners of the competition would for the first time be from a nation outside of Australia.

Australia's departure from the OFC meant that qualification for the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup was under question – in March 2006 it was reported that the Oceania champions would have to play a preliminary match against the J. League champions for a place in the main competition. However, later that month, it was announced that FIFA president Sepp Blatter had been unable to get the necessary support for the new format and as a result Oceania retained direct entry to 2006 FIFA Club World Cup. FIFA reviewed the format the following year.

The winner of the tournament was Auckland City of New Zealand, who beat AS Pirae of Tahiti in the final.

Participants

The following teams entered the competition.

Notes

Preliminary round
A preliminary round was held to determine the 8th and final participant in the final. The format was a group stage, with each team playing each other once. The winner of the group would qualify for the main draw.

First round
The eight remaining teams were separated into two groups, each team playing the other teams once. The top two teams from each group progress to the semi-finals. This First Round was held in Albany, New Zealand.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Semi finals
The top two teams from both groups progressed to the semifinals.

Third Place Playoff

Final

Auckland City are the 2006 Oceania Club Champions and qualify for the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup.

See also
Oceania Club Championship

References

External links
 RSSSF archive of the 2006 Oceania Club Championship
 Oceania Football OFC Event Report

2006
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2006
OFC
2006 in Fiji
IC 444

IC 444 is a small, 32 square arcminute reflection nebula in the constellation Gemini.

References
 nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
 Simbad

IC 0444
IC 0444
0444
Big 8 (Usenet)

The Big 8 (previously the Big 7) are a group of newsgroup hierarchies established after the Great Renaming, a restructuring of Usenet that took place in 1987. These hierarchies are managed by the Big 8 Management Board. Groups are added through a process of nomination, discussion and voting.

History 

The original seven hierarchies were comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*. They were open and free for anyone to participate in (except for the moderated newsgroups), though they were subject to a few general rules governing their naming and distribution.

alt.* was not part of the original seven but created separately as a place with more freedom and fewer rules than the Big 7.

In April 1995, when Usenet traffic grew significantly, humanities.* was introduced and it and the seven hierarchies created by the Renaming make up today's so-called "Big 8".

Hierarchies

The Big 8 Management Board 
The Big 8 Management Board was originally created in 2005 from former moderators of the news.announce.newgroups. The board's mission is to:

 creates well-named, well-used newsgroups in the Big-8 Usenet hierarchies;
 makes necessary adjustments to existing groups;
 removes groups that are not well-used; and
 assists and encourages the support of a canonical Big-8 newsgroup list by Usenet sites.

See also
alt.* hierarchy
Great Renaming

References

External links
The Big-8 Management Board

 
Computer-related introductions in 1987
R. A. Stewart Macalister

Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (8 July 1870 – 26 April 1950) was an Irish archaeologist.

Biography
Macalister was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Alexander Macalister, then Professor of Zoology, University of Dublin.  His father was appointed professor of anatomy at Cambridge University in 1883, and he was educated at The Perse School, and then studied at Cambridge University.

Although his earliest interest was in the archaeology of Ireland, he soon developed a strong interest in biblical archaeology.  Along with Frederick J. Bliss, he excavated several towns in the Shephelah region of Ottoman Palestine from 1898 to 1900.  Using advances in stratigraphy building on the work of Flinders Petrie, they developed a chronology for the region using ceramic typology.  Upon Bliss' retirement, Macalister became director of excavations for the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) in 1901.

From 1902 to 1909 he was responsible for the excavations at Gezer, in the modern state of Israel, just west of Jerusalem.  This was one of the earliest large-scale scientific archaeological excavations in the region.  The Gezer calendar found there is a very early paleo-Hebrew calendrical inscription. Macalister also documents his findings of child sacrifices around the High Place of Gezer, by the Amorites, a tribe of Canaan. He associates his findings with biblical records of the sins of the Amorites, which he calls "the iniquity of the Amorites" in his 1906 publication "Bible side-lights from the mound of Gezer".

Macalister left the field of Biblical archaeology in 1909 to accept a position as professor of Celtic archaeology at University College, Dublin, where he taught until his retirement in 1943.   During this period, he worked at the ancient Irish royal site at the Hill of Tara and was responsible for editing the catalogue of all known ogham inscriptions from Great Britain and Ireland.  Many of his translations of Irish myths and legends are still widely used today. He was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 1910 and served as their president from 1926 to 1931. He was also president of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland from 1924 to 1928.

He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his wife Margaret A. M. Macalister.

Published works

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Vol.II, alt link
Vol.III [Plates], alt link

Part I, 34, 1938, 
Part II, 35, 1939, 
Part III, 39, 1940, 
Part IV, 41, 1941, 
Part V, 44, 1956,

See also
Lebor Gabála Érenn

References

Sources

External links

 
 
 
 

1870 births
1950 deaths
Archaeologists from Dublin (city)
Archaeologists of the Near East
Biblical archaeologists
Oghamologists
Presidents of the Royal Irish Academy
People educated at The Perse School
19th-century Irish archaeologists
20th-century Irish archaeologists
Gezer
Big Eight

Big Eight or Big 8 may refer to:

Sports
Big Eight Conference, a former American college athletic association
Big 8 Conference (California), an American college conference in the California Community College Athletic Association
Big 8 Conference (Missouri), an American high school athletic association in Missouri
Big Eight Conference (IHSAA), an American high school athletic association in Indiana
WIAA Big Eight Conference, an American high school athletic association in Wisconsin

Other uses
The Big Eight, an Irish showband fronted by Brendan Bowyer
Big 8 (Usenet), a group of Usenet newsgroup hierarchies
Big 8 Beverages, a Canadian soft drink company
Big Eight auditors, a group of accounting firms that have since been reduced to the Big Four
Big Eight film studios, a group of American film studios
CKLW, a Canadian Radio station formerly known as The Big 8
"Big Eight", a song by English reggae musician Judge Dread

See also

 Big One (disambiguation)
 Big Two (disambiguation)
 Big Three (disambiguation) 
 Big Four (disambiguation)
 Big Five (disambiguation)
 Big Six (disambiguation)
 Big Seven (disambiguation)
 Big Eight Conference (disambiguation)
 Big Ten (disambiguation)
 Big 12
Deptford Township Schools

The Deptford Township Schools is a comprehensive community public school district, comprising eight school facilities, that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in Deptford Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey.

As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of eight schools, had an enrollment of 3,942 students and 329.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.0:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

Schools
Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
Early childhood
Central Early Childhood Center with 489 students in grades PreK-1
Maria Gioffre, principal
Pine Acres Early Childhood Center with 240 students in grades PreK-1
Shelli Jones, principal
Elementary schools
Good Intent School with 334 students in grades 2-5
Kimberly Matthews, principal
Lake Tract School with 382 students in grades 2-5
Cheryl Battee, principal
Oak Valley School with 354 students in grades 2-5
John Schilling, principal
Shady Lane School with 361 students in grades 2-5
Heather Jackson, principal
Middle school
Monongahela Middle School with 704 students in grades 6-8
Jonathan Collins, principal
High school
Deptford Township High School with 1,009 students in grades 9-12
Jeff Lebb, principal
Special education
Deptford Transitional Learning Academy which helps students with developmental or cognitive disabilities ages 14 to 21 learn life and career skills.
Michael Nicely, principal

Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Arthur Dietz, superintendent
Todd D. Reitzel, business administrator and board secretary

Board of education
The district's board of education is comprised of nine members who set policy and oversee the operation of the district by its administration. As a Type II school district, the members are directly elected by voters to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, so that three seats are up for election each year held as part of the November general election since 2012. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district.

References

External links
Deptford Township Schools
 
School Data for the Deptford Township Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

Deptford Township, New Jersey
New Jersey District Factor Group CD
School districts in Gloucester County, New Jersey
Salera Hill

Salera Hill is a pilgrimage centre (ziyarat) in Damascus, Syria. The following sacred spots are located on it:

 Cave of Ashab al-Kahf
 Koh-e Raqim
 Masjid Sulayman
 Footprint of Imam Ali
 Sermon (khutba) written by Imam Ali on stone with his finger.

Ziyarat
Geography of Damascus
Mausoleums in Syria