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Dado Polumenta

Damir "Dado" Polumenta (born 29 August 1982) is a Montenegrin pop-folk recording artist.

Life and career
Polumenta was born into a Muslim family in Bijelo Polje, in northern Montenegro. His uncle Šako Polumenta is also a singer. In 2008 they released a duet single "Ljepša od noći" (More Beautiful Than Night) on Šako's album Sanjao sam san....

His first album, Jasmina, released in 2001 through the label Best Records, found little success. However, after a hiatus, Dado became prominent in the Balkans music industry after the release of his second album 100 stepeni (2005) under the label Grand Production.

In due course, he left Grand Production and, through his uncle, signed with Gold Music and recorded Volim te... (2007). On 26 June 2008, Dado released a single, a ballad titled "Moja srno", which was performed in the "Vogošća Festival 2008" in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Polumenta's fourth studio album Zauvijek tvoj was released 15 December 2008.

Polumenta released his fifth studio album Buntovnik (Rebel) on 18 November 2010 under Grand Production, his second project with the label.

Personal life
Polumenta has a son named Dorijan with Serbian model Anamarija Kikoš, with whom he lived for three years. She was his unmarried partner at the time but they broke up shortly after the child was born.

Polumenta is a practicing Muslim. His wedding to his first wife Selma Mekić in her hometown Novi Pazar on 12 December 2012 was in accordance with the Islamic faith. They divorced in June 2013. Polumeta had a daughter, Alea Polumenta on 25 October 2017 with his fiancé Ivona Ivković.

Discography

Albums

Jasmina (2001)
100 stepeni (2005)
Volim te... (2007)
Zauvijek tvoj (2008)
Buntovnik (2010)
Virus (2011)
Ne dam ja na tebe (2013)

Singles
Revolucija (2014) feat. DJ Denial X and MC Mickelly
Gužva je u gradu (2014)
Premija (2014) with Nikolija
Za tebe uvjek biću tu, s kraja svjeta ja ću doći (2015)
Ovisan sam o njoj (2015)
Balkan (2015) with Rasta

References

1982 births
Living people
People from Bijelo Polje
Bosniaks of Montenegro
21st-century Montenegrin male singers
Montenegrin Muslims
Montenegrin folk singers
Grand Production artists
The Unconsoled

The Unconsoled is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, first published in 1995 by Faber and Faber, and winner of the Cheltenham Prize that year.

Plot introduction 
The novel takes place over a period of three days. It is about Ryder, a famous pianist who arrives in a central European city to perform a concert. He is entangled in a web of appointments and promises which he cannot seem to remember, struggling to fulfil his commitments before Thursday night's performance and frustrated with his inability to take control.

Characters

Ryder – Renowned concert pianist
Sophie – Gustav's daughter and Boris' mother
Boris – Sophie's son
Gustav – Bellhop of the hotel and Boris' grandfather
Miss Collins – Former lover of Brodsky
Hoffman – Manager of the hotel
Mrs Hoffman – Hoffman's wife; has photo albums dedicated to Ryder
Stephan – Hoffman's son. Also a pianist, yet is insecure about his parents' disapproval 
Brodsky – Washed up conductor the town tries to revive
Bruno – Brodsky's deceased dog
Fiona – Train ticketer, Ryder's childhood friend
Geoffrey Saunders – Another childhood friend of Ryder. Pops up sporadically throughout the town.
Miss Stratmann – in charge of planning Ryder's concert
Christoff – Musician disliked by the town

Reception 
The Unconsoled was described as a "sprawling, almost indecipherable 500-page work" that "left readers and reviewers baffled". It received strong negative reviews with a few positive ones. Literary critic James Wood said that the novel had "invented its own category of badness". However, a 2006 poll of various literary critics voted the novel as the third "best British, Irish, or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005", tied with Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Ian McEwan's Atonement, and Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower. John Carey, book critic for the Sunday Times, also placed the novel on his list of the 20th century's 50 most enjoyable books. It has come to be generally regarded as one of Ishiguro’s best works.

References

External links 
 Random House profile
 Random House Reading Group Center
Confucianism in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled

1995 British novels
Fiction with unreliable narrators
Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro
Novels about music
Faber and Faber books
Red Armenian Army (militant organization)

The Red Armenian Army (RAA), also known as the Armenian Red Army, was a small militant organization, which organized a single unsuccessful attack against the Turkish Consul General, Kemalettin Demirer, on 1 July 1982 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The group used a gun in the assassination attempt.

The Armenian Red Army has not claimed any attacks in over two decades and is presumed to be disbanded and inactive.

References

External links
 The Armenian red army attacked a diplomatic target (archive)

Armenian militant groups
Failed assassination attempts in Europe
Defunct Armenian paramilitary organizations
Guerrilla organizations
Antigonia Psaphara

Antigonia Psaphara or Antigoneia Psaphara (), or simply Antigonia, Antigonea, or Antigoneia (Ἀντιγόνεια) was a Hellenistic city in Macedon in the district Crusis (Krousis) in Chalcidice, placed by Livy between Aeneia and Pallene. It is called Psaphara by Ptolemy probably in order to distinguish it from Antigonia in Paeonia.

The site of Antigonia Psaphara is about 3 miles (5 km) north of Nea Kallikrateia.

References

External links
Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Antigoneia", London, (1854)
Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer, "Antigonia"
https://web.archive.org/web/20110928155211/http://www.macedonia.se/en/Load/56/psaphara/

Hellenistic colonies in Chalcidice
Antigonid colonies in Macedonia
Former populated places in Greece
Populated places in ancient Macedonia
Joseph Winlock

Joseph Winlock (February 6, 1826 – June 11, 1875) was an American astronomer and mathematician.

Biography
He was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, the grandson of General Joseph Winlock (1758–1831). After graduating from Shelby College in Kentucky in 1845, he was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy at that institution.

From 1852 until 1857 he worked as a computer for the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, and relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He briefly served as head of the department of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy, but returned as superintendent of the Almanac office. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1853.

He married Isabella Washington in Shelbyville, Kentucky on December 10, 1856, and they had six children.

In 1863 he was one of the fifty charter members of the National Academy of Sciences. Three year later in 1866 he became director of the Harvard College Observatory, succeeding George Bond, and making many improvements in the facility. He was also appointed professor of astronomy at Harvard. He remained at the university, eventually becoming professor of geodesy until his sudden death in Cambridge on June 11, 1875.

Much of his astronomical work included measurements with the meridian circle, a catalogue of double stars and stellar photometry investigations. He also led solar eclipse expeditions to Kentucky in 1860 and Spain in 1870.

The crater Winlock on the Moon is named after him.

References

External links
 Memoir at the National Academy of Sciences

1826 births
1875 deaths
19th-century American mathematicians
American astronomers
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
People from Shelby County, Kentucky
United States Naval Academy faculty
Harvard College Observatory people
Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Buxton baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Buxton, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extinct while the other is extant.

The Buxton Baronetcy, of Shadwell Lodge in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 25 November 1800 for Robert Buxton. The Norfolk Buxtons are thought to have taken their name from the Norfolk village of that name and to have descended from Robert Buxton MP (1533–1607), an attorney in the service of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. The first Baronet was the grandson of John Buxton who designed and built Shadwell Lodge at Rushford, Norfolk. He was member of parliament for Thetford 1790–96 and for Great Bedwyn 1797–1806. His son, the second Baronet represented Great Bedwyn 1818–32 and served as High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1841. His son, the third Baronet, was member for South Norfolk 1871–85 and High Sheriff in 1870. The baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1888. His daughter sold the estates in 1898.

The Buxton Baronetcy, of Belfield in the County of Dorset, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 July 1840 for the brewer, Liberal politician, anti-slavery campaigner, philanthropist, and social reformer Thomas Buxton. His eldest son Edward, the second Baronet, represented Essex South and Norfolk East in Parliament. His son Thomas, the third Baronet, was Governor of South Australia between 1895 and 1899.

Three other members of the family have been elevated to the peerage. Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton was the son of Charles Buxton, third son of the first Baronet. Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton was the second son of the third Baronet. Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, was the son Leland William Wilberforce Buxton (1884–1967), youngest son of the third Baronet.

Buxton baronets, of Shadwell Lodge (1800)
Sir Robert John Buxton, 1st Baronet (1753–1839)
Sir John Jacob Buxton, 2nd Baronet (1788–1842)
Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, 3rd Baronet (1829–1888)

Buxton baronets, of Belfield (1840)
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet (1786–1845)
Sir Edward North Buxton, 2nd Baronet (1812–1858)
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 3rd Baronet,  (1837–1915)
Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 4th Baronet (1865–1919)
Sir Thomas Buxton, 5th Baronet (1889–1945)
Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 6th Baronet (1925–1996)
Sir Jocelyn Charles Roden Buxton, 7th Baronet (1924–2014)
Sir Crispin Charles Gerard Buxton, 8th Baronet (born 1958)

The heir presumptive is the present holder's second cousin, Jonathan Buxton (born 1950)

See also
Baron Noel-Buxton
Earl Buxton

Notes

References 

Baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain
Buxton family
RV Maria S. Merian

RV Maria S. Merian is Germany's second most modern research vessel, named after the naturalist and illustrator Maria Sybilla Merian. As of March 2006, Germany operates three other research vessels of its class, none of which is as well-equipped.

The Merian was financed by the German government and is assigned to the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research at Warnemünde, with Rostock as its home port. It is also available to several other German research institutes. Its tasks are Arctic research, research on the Gulf Stream, and seabed research to a depth of 10 km. It is crewed by a complement of 21, and can additionally accommodate 22 scientists.  The vessel is equipped with several laboratories. It has room for 150 tonnes of additional scientific equipment in accessible containers, providing flexibility in research assignments.

The ship is equipped with two azimuth thrusters, a lateral pump-jet, and satellite navigation, enabling it to automatically maintain an exact position. It can operate without any polluting emissions for 48 hours (apart from the normal engine exhaust), allowing it to conduct research in ecologically sensitive areas. The Merian is capable of operating in near-polar regions and can handle drift ice up to a thickness of 50 cm. It is 94.80 m long, 19.20 m wide, and has a maximum draft of 6.50 m. Flank speed is , and range is up to  and 35 days.

The Merian's keel was laid in June 2003 at the Maritim Ltd. wharf in Gdańsk, Poland, which belongs to the German Kröger Werft company. Construction was completed at Schacht-Audorf, Germany, and the ship was named and launched in July 2005. The vessel set course for intensive tests in the Bay of Biscay in September 2005, and in February 2006 it was handed over to the Warnemünde-based institute. Its first research assignment took it to the Baltic Sea in early 2006.

References

External links

Institute for Maritime Research, Hamburg 
Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock 
Cruise reports Maria S. Merian (list of all cruises with links to cruise reports and data)

Research vessels of Germany
Ships built in Gdańsk
Ships built in Rendsburg
2005 ships
Diaptomus

Diaptomus is a genus of copepods with a single eye spot. It is superficially similar in size and appearance to Cyclops. However it has characteristically very long first antennae that exceed the body length. In addition, the females carry the eggs in a single sac rather than the twin sacs seen in Cyclops. It is a copepod of larger freshwater ponds, lakes and still waters.

Species
Diaptomus contains more than 60 species; many species formerly included in Diaptomus are now in separate genera such as Aglaodiaptomus and Notodiaptomus. One species, the German endemic D. rostripes, is included on the IUCN Red List as a Data Deficient species.

Diaptomus affinis Ulyanin, 1875
Diaptomus africanus Daday, 1910
Diaptomus alpestris (Vogt, 1845)
Diaptomus angustaensis Turner, 1910
Diaptomus armatus Herrick, 1882
Diaptomus azureus Reid, 1985
Diaptomus barabinensis Stepanova, 2008
Diaptomus bidens Brehm, 1924
Diaptomus biseratus Gjorgjewic, 1907
Diaptomus borealis (Fischer, 1851)
Diaptomus caeruleus (Koch, 1844)
Diaptomus caesius (Koch, 1844)
Diaptomus carinifera Lowndes, 1934
Diaptomus carnicus Senna, 1890
Diaptomus castaneti Burckhardt, 1920
Diaptomus castor (Jurine, 1820)
Diaptomus claviger O. F. Müller, 1785
Diaptomus cookii King, 1855
Diaptomus cyaneus Gurney, 1909
Diaptomus falcifer Daday, 1905
Diaptomus falsomirus Kiefer, 1972
Diaptomus flagellatus Ulyanin, 1874
Diaptomus flagellifer Brehm, 1953
Diaptomus fluminensis Reid, 1985
Diaptomus fuscatus Brady, 1913
Diaptomus ganesa (Brehm, 1950)
Diaptomus gatunensis Marsh, 1913
Diaptomus giganteus Herrick, 1881
Diaptomus glacialis Lilljeborg, 1889
Diaptomus guernei Imhof, 1891
Diaptomus helveticus Imhof, 1885
Diaptomus hyalinus (Koch, 1844)
Diaptomus informis (Kiefer, 1936)
Diaptomus innominatus Brady, 1907
Diaptomus kenitraensis Kiefer, 1926
Diaptomus kentuckyensis Chambers, 1881
Diaptomus kincaidi Damkaer, 1988
Diaptomus leoninicollinus Marsh, 1913
Diaptomus ligericus Labbé, 1927
Diaptomus lighti M. S. Wilson, 1941
Diaptomus ligusticus Brian, 1927
Diaptomus linus Brandorff, 1973
Diaptomus longicornis Nicolet, 1848
Diaptomus maria King, 1855
Diaptomus meridionalis Kiefer, 1933
Diaptomus mirus Lilljeborg in Guerne & Richard, 1889
Diaptomus muelleri (Ferussac, 1806)
Diaptomus negrensis Andrade & Brandorff, 1975
Diaptomus nigerianus Brady, 1910
Diaptomus ovatus (Koch, 1844)
Diaptomus palustris Kiss, 1960
Diaptomus pattersonii (Templeton, 1838)
Diaptomus pictus Brady, 1913
Diaptomus pollux King, 1855
Diaptomus rehmanni Grochmalicki, 1913
Diaptomus rostripes Herbst, 1955
Diaptomus rubens (O. F. Müller, 1785)
Diaptomus rubens (Koch, 1844)
Diaptomus santafesinus Ringuelet & Ferrato, 1967
Diaptomus silvaticus S. Wright, 1927
Diaptomus staphylinus (Milne Edwards, 1840)
Diaptomus tenuicornis (Dana, 1849)
Diaptomus trybomi Lilljeborg in Guerne & Richard, 1889
Diaptomus uxorius King, 1855
Diaptomus vexillifer Brehm, 1933
Diaptomus wolterecki (Brehm, 1933)
Diaptomus zografi Kritchagin, 1887

References

Diaptomidae
Antigonia (Paeonia)

Antigonia () also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia was a Hellenistic city in Paeonia, modern North Macedonia, placed in the Peutinger Table between Stenae (now named Prosek, near modern Demir Kapija) and Stobi. It is tentatively located near modern Negotino.

Classical sources
Our written sources about Antigonia of Paeonia are quite obscure. In a description of Paeonia, Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) lists a number of tribes, regions and towns. He tells us that Stobi is a town with many Roman citizens, followed by the phrase "next comes Antigonea, Europus, upon the river Axius" and so on. Thus, we know that Antigonia is located somewhere near Stobi and that Antigonia is not placed on the bank of the river Axius like Aeropus as said by Pliny. In 272 BC Antigonus II Gonatas gained full control of Macedonia and we know that he founded at least three cities with this name; an Antigonia on the mainland of Chalkidike near Cassandreia (Antigonia Psaphara), another in Atintania, Epirus, as a useful barrier against the Illyrians (Chaonian Antigonia) and a third one as we assume in Paeonia, with the aim of controlling the conquered province. Livy (59 BC - 17 AD) who described the events of the Third Macedonian War gives details of the formation of the Macedonian troops before the Battle of Pydna (168 BC). He writes that on the right wing were the Macedonian cavalry and Cretan light infantry; Midon of Beroea was in charge of the latter force, Menon of Antigonia commanded the cavalry and the formation as a whole. Next to the wings were posted the royal cavalry and mixed units of the picked auxiliaries of many nations; Petrocles of Antigonia and Didas, the governor of Paeonia were in command of these. From this description of the forces we are informed that lower Paeonia (Macedonian Paeonia) was commanded by a Macedonian governor and that Paeonia played a central role for providing troops and cavalry to the Macedonian army. After the defeat of the battle at Pydna, the kingdom of Macedon was severely punished and reduced to a Roman Province. Antigonia as one of the main suppliers of cavalry to the Macedonian army was by no means spared. However, in spite of that, we know that Antigonia continued to exist as a city since Ptolemy (90 -168 AD) listed it in his work Geographiae.

References
Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Antigoneia", London, (1854)

Notes

Hellenistic colonies in Macedonia
Geography of ancient Paeonia
Antigonid colonies in Macedonia
Former populated places in the Balkans
Populated places in ancient Macedonia
Electron-withdrawing group

An electron-withdrawing group (EWG) is a group or an atom which attracts electron density towards itself and away from other adjacent atoms. An electron-withdrawing substituent has the following chemical implications:
With regards to electron transfer, electron-withdrawing groups enhance the oxidizing power tendency of the appended species. Tetracyanoethylene is an oxidant because the alkene is appended to four cyano substituents, which are electron-withdrawing.
With regards to acid-base reactions, acids with electron-withdrawing groups species have high acid dissociation constants. For EWG's attached to benzoic acids, this effect is described by the Hammett equation, which allows EWGs to be discussed quantitatively.
With regards to nucleophilic substitution reactions, electron-withdrawing groups are susceptible to attack by weak nucleophiles. For example, compared to chlorobenzene, chlorodinitrobenzene is susceptible to reactions that displace chloride.
Electron-withdrawing substituents enhance the Lewis acidity. Relative to methyl, fluorine is a strong EWG. It follows that boron trifluoride is a stronger Lewis acid than is trimethylborane.
Electron-withdrawing substituents often lower the Lewis basicity.

See also
Electron-donating group

References

Physical organic chemistry
Chemical bonding
Moldavian–Ottoman Wars

The first conflict between Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire for which there is a historical account occurred during the reign of Alexandru cel Bun, in 1420, when the Ottomans tried to capture Chilia. The attack was unsuccessful.

In 1439, King Sigismund of Hungary argued with King Wladislaw of Poland about dividing Moldavia between their two countries. Sigismund complained that the Moldavians refused to aid him in his expeditions against the Turks, but King Wladyslaw argued that the Moldavians couldn't aid Sigismund with troops because they aided him, instead, and Sigismund had to give up on his claims. 

In 1444, Moldavia sent troops that joined King Władysław III of Varna at the Battle of Varna. The Turks had camels with them and in case of defeat, they would spill gold and silver coins on the ground in order to slacken the enemy. The Moldavians went after the camels for the money. 

Between 1451 and 1457, Moldavia was in civil turmoil and under Petru Aron, the principality paid the Porte an annual tribute of 2,000 gold coins. In 1470, during the rule of Stephen the Great, the relationship between Moldavia and the Porte became hostile, and resulted in several confrontations, most notable being the Battle of Vaslui, where the Ottomans were heavily defeated, and the Battle of Valea Albă, where Mehmed II was victorious, but was forced to retreat. In 1484, the Ottomans managed to annex Chilia and Akkerman. After the death of Stephen the Great, 1504, Moldavia fell into decline and was forced to accept vassalage for the Porte in 1512, but conflicts continued to rage until the 19th century, giving the country brief periods of independence.

Footnotes

References

 Długosz, Jan. "The Annals of Jan Długosz" 

15th-century conflicts
16th-century conflicts
Wars involving the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman period in Moldova
Ottoman period in Romania
Medieval Moldavia
Instep borer

The instep borer was a putative medieval German instrument of torture that externally resembled an iron boot. Turning the crank slowly advanced the blade into the boot, punching a hole through the center of the instep.

References

Medieval instruments of torture
European instruments of torture
Billy Pauch

Billy Pauch ( ; born March 1, 1957, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American racecar driver. He resides in Frenchtown, New Jersey, where he runs the Bill Pauch Driving School.

Personal life
Pauch attended Hunterdon Central Regional High School, which was located near the Flemington Speedway.

Career
Known for racing Modifieds, dirt small-block and big-block Modifieds, and dirt sprint cars throughout the eastern United States, Pauch had over 600 career feature wins. Pauch was the 1999, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2011, and 2013 New Egypt Speedway Modified division champion claiming over 100 wins at the track (the second place only has 29), among many other track championships.  Pauch has also made four NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series starts, with his best finish coming in 1998 at Flemington Speedway where he finished in sixth place in the No. 06 Dick Greenfield Dodge.  In 1988, Pauch won 42 feature races and earned three track championships. He is still racing in weekly races in New Jersey as of June 2020.

His son Billy Pauch Jr. raced the full schedule of the Whelen Modified Tour in 2007.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Craftsman Truck Series

Winston Modified Tour

Gallery

References

External links
 

NASCAR drivers
1957 births
Living people
People from Frenchtown, New Jersey
Racing drivers from New Jersey
Racing drivers from Pennsylvania
Sportspeople from Hunterdon County, New Jersey
World of Outlaws drivers
Clementon Township, New Jersey

Clementon Township is a now dissolved township in Camden County, New Jersey, which existed from 1903 until 1941. It was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 24, 1903, from portions of Gloucester Township.

Laurel Springs was created from portions of the township on April 2, 1913, based on the results of a referendum on May 1, 1913. Magnolia was formed on April 14, 1915, from portions of Clementon Township and Centre Township, based on a May 12, 1915, referendum.

Two boroughs were created on February 13, 1925, Clementon Borough  and Stratford Borough, both based on referendums held on March 17, 1925. Five more boroughs were created on April 23, 1929; Hi-Nella Borough,  Lindenwold Borough, Pine Hill Borough, Pine Valley Borough, and Somerdale Borough.

The township survived until May 16, 1941, when the remaining rump of the township was absorbed by Laurel Springs and the township was dissolved.

See also
 List of historical Camden County, New Jersey municipalities

References

Former townships in New Jersey
Geography of Camden County, New Jersey
Cole Harris

Richard Colebrook Harris  (July 4, 1936 – September 26, 2022), better known as Cole Harris, was a Canadian geographer and university professor.

Education
Harris received a Bachelor of Arts degree (1958) from the University of British Columbia, a Master of Science degree (1962), and a Ph.D. (1964) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Personal life and death
In 1964 Harris joined the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor, and became an Associate Professor in 1971. Later that year he joined the University of British Columbia as an Associate Professor, and became a Professor at that university in 1973. 

Harris died at home on September 26, 2022, at the age of 86.

Awards
Harris was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1982. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society awarded Harris a Gold Medal in 1988, and awarded him the Massey Medal in 2003. Harris was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004.

Selected publications
The Seigneurial System in Early Canada: A Geographical Study - 1966
Canada Before Confederation: A Study in Historical Geography - 1974 (edited with John Warkentin)
Letters from Windermere, 1912-1914 -  1984  (edited with Elizabeth Phillips)
Historical Atlas of Canada, vol. I: From the Beginning to 1800 - 1987
The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change - 1997
Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia - 2003 (nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize)
The Reluctant Land:  Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation - 2009

References

1936 births
2022 deaths
Canadian geographers
Historical geographers
Canadian non-fiction writers
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Officers of the Order of Canada
University of British Columbia alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Writers from Vancouver
Massey Medal recipients
George Amy

George Joseph Amy (October 15, 1903 – December 18, 1986) was an American film editor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and started his career at the age of  17, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s. It was Amy's editing that was one of the main reasons Warners' films got their reputation for their fluid style and breakneck pace.

He was a favorite of such top Warners directors as Michael Curtiz and Howard Hawks, and won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Hawks' Air Force (1943). He received Oscar nominations for Curtiz's Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942 and Raoul Walsh's fanciful war film Objective, Burma! in 1945. Although Amy directed several shorts and a few features (including She Had to Say Yes) on his own for Warners, they didn't meet with much success. In the 1950s, he turned to editing and directing for television.

Selected filmography 

 Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921)
 Rainbow Riley (1926)
 The Brown Derby (1926)
 The Wright Idea (1928)
Those Who Dance (1930)
The Ruling Voice (1931)
Dr. X (1932)
Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1933)
Footlight Parade (1933)
She Had to Say Yes (1933) (also co-director)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Lady Killer (1933)
Wonder Bar (1934)
Here Comes the Navy (1934)
He Was Her Man (1934)
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Mountain Justice (1937)
Kid Galahad (1937)
Varsity Show (1937)
Hollywood Hotel (1938)
Garden of the Moon (1938)
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
Kid Nightingale (1939)
Dodge City (1939)
The Sea Hawk (1939)
Gambling on the High Seas (1940) (also director)
Granny Get Your Gun (1940) (also director)
Virginia City (1940)
The Letter (1940)
The Santa Fe Trail (1940)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
Dive Bomber (1941)
Captains of the Clouds (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Air Force (1943)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)This Is the Army (1943)Uncertain Glory (1944)Objective, Burma! (1945)Confidential Agent (1945)Three Strangers (1946)Cinderella Jones (1946)Life with Father (1947)Romance on the High Seas (1948) (also assoc. producer)Flamingo Road (1949)My Dream Is Yours (1949)Clash by Night (1952)A Lion Is in the Streets'' (1953)

References

External links 

1903 births
1986 deaths
American film editors
American film directors
American television directors
Best Film Editing Academy Award winners
Warner Bros. people
Doug Strange

Joseph Douglas Strange (born April 13, 1964) is an American former Major League Baseball infielder who played for several teams from 1989 to 1998.

Amateur career
A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Strange is an alumnus of North Carolina State University, where he played college baseball for the NC State Wolfpack. In 1984, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Professional career
Strange played for six different ballclubs during his career: the Detroit Tigers (1989), Chicago Cubs (1991–1992), Texas Rangers (1993–1994), Seattle Mariners (1995–1996), Montreal Expos (1997), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1998).  He made his Major League Baseball debut on July 13, 1989, and played his final game on September 27, 1998. His career batting average was .233.

Front office career
Strange currently works in the front office for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

References

External links
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Story remembering Strange's role on the 1995 Mariners

1964 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Baseball players from South Carolina
Bristol Tigers players
Cardenales de Lara players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Carolina Mudcats players
Chicago Cubs players
Detroit Tigers players
Falmouth Commodores players
Glens Falls Tigers players
Greenville Braves players
Iowa Cubs players
Lakeland Tigers players
Major League Baseball second basemen
Major League Baseball third basemen
Montreal Expos players
Nashville Sounds players
NC State Wolfpack baseball players
Ottawa Lynx players
Pittsburgh Pirates players
Pittsburgh Pirates scouts
Seattle Mariners players
Sportspeople from Greenville, South Carolina
Texas Rangers players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Tucson Toros players
Benburb Castle

Benburb Castle is a castle situated in Benburb, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.  It is built on a limestone cliff overlooking the River Blackwater, the border between County Tyrone and County Armagh. A 19th-century tower house occupies the south west area of the bawn. The castle has been restored and stands in the grounds of the imposing Servite Priory, a religious order based in the village.

Benburb or Wingfield's Castle is a State Care Historic Monument in the townland of Benburb, in Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council area, at grid ref: H8146 5199.

See also 

Castles in Northern Ireland

References 

Benburb Castle

Castles in County Tyrone
Marigliano

Marigliano is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, southern Italy.

The town lies 19 km from Naples. Nearby towns include: Acerra, Brusciano, Mariglianella, Nola, San Vitaliano, Scisciano, Somma Vesuviana.

Main sights
Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, built around 1000. It was enlarged in the early 18th century by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro. The tuff bell tower, standing at c. 40.3 m, is from 1494. The upper small cupola, covered by yellow maiolica, was destroyed in the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, but has been rebuilt in the same shape but with different materials.
Ducal Castle, known from the 12th century. Of the medieval edifice, the square plan with the angular towers remain.
Church of the Annunziata with a late-Gothic apse. It houses a polychrome wooden polyptych in the high altar, in turn including a late 15th-century triptych
Monastery of St. Vitus

Organised crime

In October 2000, the Italian Parliament approved the findings of a commission which studied Camorra activities in Campania. According to this source, Marigliano is firmly under the control of the Camorra, in particular the group led by Antonio Capasso. This group took advantage of the efforts of law enforcement that eliminated its main enemy, a Camorra group led by the Mazzarella family that was located in Ponte Citra, a district of Marigliano.

Marigliano is a suburb of Naples. In the 1990s to the 2000s, a waste management crisis broke out in the city as a result of illegal dumping by the Camorra. Majority of the waste was dumped in the region between Marigliano, Acerra, and Nola, referred to as the "Triangle of Death". A 2004 study by Alfredo Mazza published in The Lancet Oncology revealed that deaths by cancer in the area are much higher than the European average.

Twin towns
 Madison, New Jersey, USA, since 2006

References

Marigliano
Castles in Italy
Ragamuffin

Ragamuffin or Raggamuffin may refer to:

Film
 The Ragamuffin, a 1916 American silent film by William C. deMille
 Ragamuffin, a 2014 film directed by David Schultz about Rich Mullins

Music
 Raggamuffin music, or ragga, a reggae and dancehall subgenre
 Raggamuffin Music Festival, an annual touring festival in Australia and New Zealand
 Stephen Marley (musician) (born 1972), nicknamed Raggamuffin, Jamaican-American reggae musician
 "Raggamuffin" (song), a 2010 song by Selah Sue
 "Raggamuffin", a 2019 song by Koffee from Rapture
 Ragamuffin, a 1920 piano composition from London Pieces by John Ireland

Other uses
 Ragamuffin (novel), a 2007 novel by Tobias S. Buckell
 Ragamuffin cat, a breed of domestic cat
 Ragamuffin, a series of Australian racing yachts run by Syd Fischer
 Ragamuffin, a character in the comic book series Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl
 Ragamuffins, an English term for the farrapos in the Ragamuffin War in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1835–1845

See also
Big Pharma (book)

Big Pharma: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness is a 2006 book by British journalist Jacky Law. The book examines how major pharmaceutical companies determine which health care problems are publicised and researched.

Outlining the history of the pharmaceutical industry, Law identifies what she says is the failure of a regulatory framework that assumes pharmaceutical companies always produce worthwhile products that society will want.

Law has written about healthcare for 25 years, seven of them as associate editor of Scrip Magazine, a monthly magazine for the drugs industry.

Reception 
Ike Iheanacho writes about the book that "The author is clearly no great fan of the industry. But, refreshingly, she avoids the sort of lazy polemic that casts major pharmaceutical companies as an evil empire that continually foists its products on unwilling and unsuspecting healthcare professionals and patients."

See also
Bad Pharma (2012) by Ben Goldacre
 Side Effects (2008) by Alison Bass
 Lists about the pharmaceutical industry

References

External links
 Excerpt from the book

2006 non-fiction books
British non-fiction books
Medical books
Pharmaceutical industry
National Register of Historic Places listings in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania



This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.

There are 254 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 10 National Historic Landmarks. Pittsburgh is the location of 182 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately, while the properties and districts elsewhere in the county, including 5 National Historic Landmarks, are listed here. Four properties are split between Pittsburgh and other parts of the county.

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 National Register of Historic Places listings in Pennsylvania
 List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
 List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations
 List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks
 List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Allegheny County

References

 
Allegheny County
National Register of Historic Places listings in Berks County, Pennsylvania

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

There are 140 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Two sites are further designated a National Historic Landmark and another is a National Historic Site.

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 List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Pennsylvania
 List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Berks County

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Berks County
History of Berks County, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern Chester County, Pennsylvania

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern Chester County, Pennsylvania.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in eastern Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. Eastern Chester County is defined for this list as being the municipalities south and east of a line extending from Phoenixville to Exton to West Chester. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

There are 320 properties and districts listed on the Register in Chester County, including 7 National Historic Landmarks. Eastern Chester County includes 113 properties and districts, including 4 National Historic Landmarks; the county's remaining properties and districts are listed elsewhere. One district, the Middle Pickering Rural Historic District, is split between Northern and Eastern Chester County, and is thus included on both lists.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Bucks County, Pennsylvania



This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

There are 163 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 12 National Historic Landmarks.  Another 3 sites were once listed on the Register but have since been removed.

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Bucks County
National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware County, Pennsylvania



This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

There are 96 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Seven sites are further designated as National Historic Landmarks.  Another property was once listed but has been removed.

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 List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Pennsylvania
 Listings in neighboring counties: Philadelphia, Chester, Montgomery, New Castle County, Delaware, 
 List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Delaware County

References

Delaware County
National Register of Historic Places listings in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania



This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.  The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

There are 209 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.  The city of Lancaster is the location of 57 of these properties and districts; they are listed separately, while the 153 properties and districts in the other parts of the county are listed here.  One property straddles the Lancaster city limits and appears on both lists.  Another three sites are further designated as National Historic Landmarks.  Yet another property was once listed but has been removed.

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 List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Pennsylvania
 List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Lancaster

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Lancaster County
National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania



This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

There are 159 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Eleven sites are further designated National Historic Landmarks and one is designated a National Historical Park.  Another three properties were once listed but have been removed.

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 List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Pennsylvania
 List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Montgomery County

References

Montgomery County
History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Pennsylvania



This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.  The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

There are 99 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Four sites are further designated as National Historic Landmarks.

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 List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in Washington County
 Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation

References

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Washington County
National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Pennsylvania

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Pennsylvania.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

There are 99 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.

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 List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Pennsylvania
 List of Pennsylvania state historical markers in York County

References

York County
History of York County, Pennsylvania
Seize

Seize or seise may refer to:
Seisin, legal possession of property
Seizing, a class of knots used to semi-permanently bind together two ropes
Seize (band), a British electronic band
The jamming of machine parts against each other, usually due to insufficient lubrication
Seize, a fictional town the anime TV series Sound of the Sky

See also
Confiscation
Detain
Impoundment (disambiguation)
Raptus
Seizure (disambiguation)
Sequester (disambiguation)
Usurper
Veronica persica

Veronica persica is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. Common names include birdeye speedwell, common field-speedwell, Persian speedwell, large field speedwell, bird's-eye, or winter speedwell. It is native to Eurasia and is widespread as an introduced species in the British Isles (where it was first recorded in 1825), North America, eastern Asia, including Japan and China, and Australia and New Zealand.

Description
Veronica persica is an annual that reproduces from seed.

Its cotyledons are triangular with truncated bases. The short-stalked leaves are broadly ovate with coarsely serrated margins, and measure  long. The leaves are paired on the lower stem and are alternately arranged on the upper parts. The plant has weak stems that form a dense, prostrate groundcover. The tips of stems often grow upright.

The flowers are roughly  wide and are sky-blue with dark stripes and white centers. They are zygomorphic, having only one vertical plane of symmetry. They are solitary on long, slender, hairy stalks in the leaf axils.

The seeds are transversely rugose and measure between  long. There are five to 10 seeds per locule in the fruit.

Veronica persica can be distinguished from similar species by its heart-shaped fruit with two widely-separated lobes.

Habitat
The plant grows in fields and lawns. It prefers moist conditions and grows well in loamy soil.

Horticultural uses
Although many species in the genus are used in gardens (such as V. exalta, V. incana, V. gentianoides, V. longifolia, V. perfoliata, and V. spicata), this species is generally seen as a weed and has no known horticultural uses.

Herbal medicine
Afghani herbalist, Mahomet Allum, used the plant to treat patients with heart trouble, in Adelaide, Australia, in the mid-20th century.
It is also used for snakebite treatment, hemorrhaging, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and as an expectorant.

References

persica
Plants described in 1808