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Dirk Cussler

Dirk Cussler (born 1961) is an American author. He is the son of best selling author Clive Cussler and a co-author of several Dirk Pitt adventure novels, as well as being the namesake of the Pitt character.

Early life and education
Cussler was born in 1961; he has an MBA from Berkeley.

Career
Cussler worked for many years in finance before assisting his father in writing the latest novels in the Dirk Pitt series. Cussler also plays an integral part in the non-profit foundation National Underwater and Marine Agency, which was founded by his father. Cussler is head of the council of NUMA and is also a member of the NUMA's Board of Trustees.

Bibliography
Black Wind (2004), co-written with Clive Cussler
Treasure of Khan (2006), co-written with Clive Cussler
Arctic Drift (2008), co-written with Clive Cussler
Crescent Dawn (2010), co-written with Clive Cussler
Poseidon's Arrow (2012), co-written with Clive Cussler
Havana Storm (2014), co-written with Clive Cussler    -    New York Times #1 Best Seller (November 2017)
Odessa Sea (2016), co-written with Clive Cussler
Celtic Empire (2019), co-written with Clive Cussler    -    Winner of 2020 Colorado Book Award for Best Mystery
The Devil's Sea (2021)

References

External links
 

American adventure novelists
21st-century American novelists
Haas School of Business alumni
1961 births
Living people
American male novelists
21st-century American male writers
Heliópolis

Heliópolis is a favela in the Sacomã district of São Paulo. It has around 200,000 inhabitants and has developed into a serviced neighbourhood from its beginnings as a squatted settlement in the 1970s.

Geography
Heliopolis had about 120,000 inhabitants in 2007 and 200,000 in 2018. Its area covers 1.2 km².  This makes it the largest slum population in the city, but the second in area behind Paraisópolis. Once considered the largest favela in Brazil, through a process of urbanization Heliopolis today has the status of a neighborhood.

The neighborhood abuts the city of São Caetano do Sul and a creek, but due to the conurbation process these limits are not noticeable. On the banks of the creek there are electricity towers and undergrowth, representing the only green area on the border between São Paulo and São Caetano do Sul, since the other border is Avenida do Estado, a densely urbanized avenue bordering both margins of Tamanduateí River.

History
Heliópolis began as a series of vacant lots and a few homes of factory workers, but from the 1960s and 1970s onwards there was a large land invasion. The informal settlement was built illegally, then was consolidated and turned into a neighborhood.

In the area housing estates were built and CDHU COHAB replaced degraded horizontal buildings, although there are still several tracts in this condition. The dirt roads were replaced by asphalt, and thus consolidated in structure.

In March 2008, international delegations visited the urbanization works in Heliopolis to study urban design and model the use of public space. Delegations were present from Lagos (Nigeria), La Paz (Bolivia), Cairo (Egypt), Manila (Philippines) and Ekurhuleni (South Africa).

Development
Since 1992, Community Radio Heliopolis, a community radio station whose operation was authorized by the Ministry of Communications in 2008, broadcasts in the neighborhood. Between 1992 and 1997, the station's programming was transmitted by horns hung on poles at central points of the neighborhood.

Foreign volunteer workers help with sex education, Aids prevention, recycling of waste and teaching courses.

In the 2010s, Heliópolis now has connections to the grid for sewage, water and electricity. The district has already received WiFi, which makes it possible for the residents to use the Internet.

Gallery

References

Favelas
Neighbourhoods in São Paulo
Squats
Squatting in Brazil
Lanišće

Lanišće () is a village and municipality in the mountainous Ćićarija area, Istria, Croatia. In 2011, the population of the village itself is 88, with a total of 329 residents in the municipality. Over 92.40% of the population are Croats. There are fourteen settlements in the municipality: Brest, Brgudac, Dane, Jelovice, Klenovšćak, Kropinjak, Lanišće, Podgaće, Prapoće, Račja Vas, Rašpor, Slum, Trstenik and Vodice.

Description
Municipality Lanišće was formed in 1992, with total area as the largest municipality in the Istria county, while by population density the smallest. There are fourteen settlements in the municipality, Brest, Brgudac, Dane, Jelovice, Klenovšćak, Kropinjak, Lanišće, Podgaće, Prapoće, Račja Vas, Rašpor, Slum, Trstenik and Vodice, and two hamlets, Brljavci and Črnehi, which are according to the statistical data attributed to the village Kropinjak. Almost all villages are mentioned since the 13th-14th century, and all villages are of mountainous character, located at altitudes from 500 m (Podgaće) to 740 m (Brgudac) above sea level.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 268, with 68 living in the village proper.

Until 1900 and 1910, population has grown steadily, and the largest density was in 1900 with 33,8/km2. Until 1900, Vodice was the largest village in municipality, and after 1910 remained the second after Lanišće. Both villages until 1910 with population outnumbered Buzet. Many families and individuals in the period from the late 1800s until 1941 emigrated, mostly to countries in North and South America. The first stagnation was at the time of World War I, between 1910 and 1921, but it was followed by sudden increase until 1931 and 1936. The second and permanent period of stagnation followed after World War II (1945-1948). According to the 2011 census, municipality of Lanišće had 398 residents.

Municipality Lanišće 

Note: Emerged from old Buzet municipality. In 1921 part of data is contained in Buzet.

Lanišće (village) 

Note: In 1921 part of data is contained in Roč (near Buzet). In 1931 contains data from villages Brgudac, Podgaće, Prapoće, Račja Vas and Rašpor.

See also
Ćići

References

Bibliography

 

Sources

External links 

Lanišće homepage 
Reading room "Gorska Vila", Lanišće
KARST underground project "Speleo House", Vodice

Populated places in Istria County
Municipalities of Croatia
Enjoy the Ride (Marie Serneholt album)

Enjoy The Ride is the debut studio album from Swedish pop music singer Marie Serneholt, led by the first single and number two hit "That's The Way My Heart Goes". The album was released on March 29, 2006, debuting at number nine in Sweden, but falling quickly on the charts. The album's second single, "I Need A House", did nothing for the album's success despite peaking at number 40 on the Swedish Singles Chart and number two on the Swedish Download Chart. The album's third single "Oxygen" was premiered on radio in mid-October and the video was premiered on October 26. The single has been released as a digital download in Sweden but no official release date has been announced for a release on CD.

Serneholt was said to be preparing for the international release of the album in Germany, Switzerland and other European countries, however plans for worldwide distribution never came to fruition, aside from the album being released in Taiwan as a limited edition.

Background
Serneholt knew that she wanted to embark on a solo career after A*Teens' parted ways, but wanted to absorb all the impressions of the past years first. She needed the right people to work with as well as the right material.

Serneholt first contacted Jörgen Elofsson several years ago. At that point, however, Elofsson's schedule was full, and Marie wasn't yet sure in what direction to take her career. And in 2005 she felt she had a vision and called him again. This time, all the pieces fell into place. Elofsson had just started collaborating with two relatively young and unknown producers, Richard Brandén and Pär Westerlund.

Serneholt decided she wanted to make a Pop album, Elofsson was relieved, There are so many artists that suddenly want to start working with R&B with cool beats or riff-based rock.

Elofsson is listed as co-writer of every track on the album. Besides writing with his co-producers, he has also co-written with the legendary Nicky Chinn and Swedish colleague Andreas Carlsson among others.

Elofsson started his own record company Planet Six, a part of SonyBMG. With this, Serneholt and Elofsson could work undisturbed and at their own pace, with no involvement of any record companies, media or outside opinions. Elofsson had saved choice tidbits, songs that would have been guaranteed hits with established artists.

Track listing
"Enjoy the Ride" – 3:10  
"Wasted Love" – 3:15
"That's the Way My Heart Goes" – 3:34
"I Need a House" – 3:00
"Beyond Tonight" – 4:20
"I Love Making Love in the Morning" – 3:31
"The Boy I Used To Know" – 2:50
"Calling All Detectives" – 3:56
"Can't Be Loved" – 3:53
"Oxygen" – 4:23

Charts

References
Notes:

2006 debut albums
Marie Serneholt albums
Zapple Monitor

The Zapple Monitor was a firmware-based product developed by Roger Amidon at Technical Design Laboratories (also known as TDL). TDL was based in Princeton, New Jersey, USA in the 1970s and early 1980s.

The Zapple monitor was a primitive operating system which could be expanded and used as a Basic Input/Output Services (BIOS) 8080 and Z80 based computers. Much of the functionality of Zapple would find its way into applications like 'Debug' in MS-DOS.

Zapple commands would allow a user to examine and modify memory, I/O, execute software (Goto or Call) and had a variety of other commands. The program required little in the way of then expensive Read Only Memory or RAM. An experienced user could use Zapple to test and debug code, verify hardware function, test memory, and so on.

A typical command line would start with a letter such as 'X' (examine memory) followed by a hexadecimal word (the memory address 01AB) and [enter] or [space]. After this sequence the content of the memory location would be shown [FF] and the user could enter a hexadecimal byte [00] to replace the contents of the address, or hit [space] or [enter] to move to the next address [01AB]. An experienced user could enter a small program in this manner, entering machine language from memory.
 
Because of the simple structure of the program, consisting of a vector table (one for each letter) and a small number of subroutines, and because the source code was readily available, adding or modifying Zapple was straightforward. The dominant operating system of the era, CP/M, required the computer manufacturer or hobbyist to develop hardware specific BIOS. Many users tested their BIOS subroutines using Zapple to verify, for example, a floppy disk track seek command, or read sector command, etc., was functioning correctly by extending Zapple to accommodate these operations in the hardware environment.

The general structure of Zapple lives on in the code of many older programmers working on embedded systems as it provides a simple mechanism to test the hardware before moving to more advanced user interfaces.

References

External links
 
 TDL Apple and Zapple monitor

History of software
Heinz Friedrich Hartig

Heinz Friedrich Hartig (September 10, 1907 in Kassel – September 16, 1969 in Berlin) was a German composer and harpsichordist.

In 1948 he began teaching at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik. Seven years  later, he took up a professorship there. He became acquainted with Boris Blacher, a composer with whom he collaborated extensively.

As harpsichordist, Hartig made numerous recordings, mostly in the role of continuo player rather than soloist. His compositional output consists mainly of concertos, sonatas, songs, oratorios and choral works. He also gained a distinguished reputation as a pedagogue. His students included Carlo Domeniconi and Roland Pfrengle.

Selected works
Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 7
Concerto for violin and orchestra, op. 10
Der Trinker und die Spiegel for baritone and choir, op. 16
Concerto for piano and orchestra, op. 30
Songs for baritone and orchestra, op. 40
Variationen über einen siebentönigen Klang für Orchester op. 39
Wohin (oratorio)

References

1907 births
1969 deaths
20th-century classical composers
German classical composers
German male classical composers
20th-century German composers
20th-century German male musicians
Russian Industrial Leaders Index

The Russian Industrial Leaders Index (RUXX) is a composite index of Russian companies traded on global exchanges. The RUXX is calculated by Dow Jones & Company and managed by Press Release Group and RIA Novosti, the Russian State Information Agency.

It is a free-float market capitalization index: the higher the free-float market capitalization of the company, the higher its respective weight in the RIXX. A 20% weight cap factor is applied to the Index constituents. Usually, changes in the market capitalization and weights are implemented during quarterly review of the Index, according to the Dow Jones Indexes procedures.

The Index is computed using the last sale price for the trading day (5.30 pm, New York time). Its constituents include Russian companies whose stocks or Global Depository Receipts are listed on global exchanges: New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Nasdaq or AMEX.

References

External links
 RUXX Media Kit (Press Release Group)
 RUXX – New index of investment attractiveness of Russian companies on foreign markets (RIA Novosti)
 RUXX on Yahoo! Finance

Russian stock market indices
Dow Jones & Company
Ližnjan

Ližnjan () is a village and municipality in Istria, Croatia. It has high biodiversity.

There is a small church named Crkva Majke Božje od Kuj that dates back to the 17th century but was built on ancient foundations. It has a glass floor with an ornamental painting underneath. Importantly, the municipality also includes the remains of the ancient city of Nesactium, built by the ancient Histri.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 4,087, with 1,445 living in the town proper. It was 3,965 in 2011.

The municipality contains 5 villages:
 Jadreški (Giadreschi)
 Ližnjan (Lisignano)
 Muntić (Monticchio)
 Šišan (Sissano)
 Valtura (Altura)

Sport
Ližnjan has a football team named Liznjan. They came first in the 2 league and now they are fighting for progress.

References

External links

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
Populated places in Croatia where Italian is an official language
Evelina Papantoniou

Evelina Papantoniou (; born 7 June 1979) is a Greek actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Star Hellas 2001 and represented Greece at Miss Universe 2001 pageant where she placed 1st Runner-Up.

Miss Universe 2001
Papantoniou won Star Hellas 2001 gaining the right to represent Greece at the Miss Universe 2001 pageant in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, where she finished as 1st Runner-Up to Denise Quiñones of Puerto Rico.

Personal
She started modeling at the age of 15, and worked as a bartender and waitress. She was part of an elite volunteer team that supported and counseled victims after the earthquake which hit Athens in 1999. She has a diploma in Arts and Interior Design and enjoys sculpting, painting and photography. Aside from modeling, she has also had some parts in various films. At the moment, she is pursuing a modeling career, represented by Ace Models Agency and appearing on the covers of numerous fashion magazines, such as Close Up, Vogue, and Madam.

Papantoniou was engaged to marry the Indian arms dealer Abhishek Verma in 2002.

References

External links

Evelina's profile at Ace Models
Evelina Papantoniou @ Miss Universe Gateway Tribute

1979 births
Greek beauty pageant winners
Greek female models
Living people
Miss Universe 2001 contestants
Actresses from Athens
Models from Athens
Ministry of Information and Communication (South Korea)

The Ministry of Information and Communication or MIC was a ministry of the government of South Korea. Its headquarters are located in Jongno-gu, central Seoul. The last minister was Rho Jun-hyong, who began serving in March 2006. The ministry was dissolved on February 28, 2008 and combined with the former Korean Broadcasting Commission to form the Korea Communications Commission.

See also
Korea Post
Government of South Korea
Communications in South Korea

External links
Official English-language site

Information and Communication
Communications in South Korea
Korea, South
Korea, South
Horst Antes

Horst Antes (born 28 October 1936 Heppenheim, Germany) is a German artist and sculptor.

After his Abitur, he studied from 1957 to 1959 under the important woodcutter HAP Grieshaber at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (today known as the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe) in Karlsruhe. In 1959, the artist's work was honoured with two prizes, art prize of the city of Hanover and the Pankofer prize on the occasion of the German Youth Art prize.

In his early paintings, Antes sought a path somewhere between figurative painting and the L'Art Informel. One of his most important role models was Willem de Kooning.
Around 1960 Antes discovered his 'Kopffüßler' (literal translation: Head-Footer), a form which preoccupied the artist in numerous variations and artistic techniques.
By 1963 his 'Kopffüßler' was fully developed in its stylistic and contextual premises and became also compulsory for his sculptural work, which began the same year.
The artist was given several scholarships and awards in the 1960s, including the Villa-Romana-Prize in Florence in 1962 and the Villa Massimo scholarship in Rome in 1963.
Three years later, aged only 29, Antes accepted a teaching post at the Akademie in Karlsruhe.
This was followed by a post as a professor also in Karlsruhe which he held from 1967 to 1973, as well as a one-year guest-professorship at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin.
The artist resumed teaching at the Akademie in Karlsruhe in 1984 and continued teaching there for another 16 years. The regional capital awarded him the Hans-Molfenter-prize in 1989.

Since 1990 Antes has been living and working in Karlsruhe, Florence and Berlin. His oeuvre includes not only paintings and graphic art, but also sculptures in public spaces. His works are exhibited throughout the world and are represented in all the most important German collections, et al. at the Kunsthall Hamburg, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Nationalgalerie Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art.

References

External links
 Horst Antes on Artcyclopedia
 "Horst Antes", Artnet
 

1936 births
German artists
Living people
Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
La Ceiba Wildlife Refuge

The La Ceiba Wildlife Refuge is a private wildlife refuge in Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, which protects tropical forest on the Nicoya Peninsula  near the small village of San Rafael in Paquera District in the Puntarenas Province.

The area protected is covered by tropical dry forest and contains a small camping site and two cabins inside the reserve used by ecotourists, which helps fund the project.

References

Nature reserves in Costa Rica
Geography of Puntarenas Province
Ritmo Deportivo

Ritmo Deportivo (translated as Sporty Rhythm  in English) is a weekly television series airing Saturdays at 5pm/4C on Spanish-language network Telemundo, part of the NBC Deportes line of programming.  It premiered in October 2002 and is one of the longest standing alternative sports shows in Spanish language TV.

About the show
The series is hosted by Leti Coo, Karim Mendiburu and Omar Amador and is geared generally towards men ages 18 to 34. Each week's episode is filmed in different exterior locations around the United States, Mexico and around the world.

The show has a variety of content: long-form stories, technology segments, automotive profiles, video game previews and modeling vignettes. It also covers sporting events, eco-tourism, modeling contests and worldwide attractions.  Its segments are also featured in “NBC Universal on American”, a variety show of NBC Universal properties shown during American Airlines flights. The show ended it run on September 27, 2015

References

External links
Official Site
Official Facebook Page
Official Twitter Page
Deportes Telemundo iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad App

American sports television series
Telemundo original programming
NBC Deportes
2002 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
Lupoglav, Istria County

Lupoglav () is a village and municipality in Istria, Croatia.

The Lupoglav Municipality is situated on the northeast of the Istrian Region. To the east it borders with the Primorsko-Goranska County and with the Istrian municipalities of Lanišće and Cerovlje and the City of Buzet. The municipality is crossed by the arterial roads that connect the Istrian region with the rest of Croatia – the Istrian Y and the tunnel of Učka. The municipality has a surface area of 92.19 km2, i.e. it accounts for 3.27% of the territory of the Istrian Region.

The Castle Mahrenfels which belonged to the family Herberstein and later to the counts Brigido is situated over the village.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 836, with 298 living in the village proper. The village population was 288 in 2011, with a total of 924 in the municipality (2011).

The settlements in the municipality are as follows:
 Boljun, population 82
 Boljunsko Polje, population 162
 Brest pod Učkom, population 55
 Dolenja Vas, population 70
 Lesišćina, population 75
 Lupoglav, population 288
 Semić, population 94
 Vranja, population 98

References

External links

 

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
Big Springs (Idaho)

Big Springs is the name of a first-magnitude spring located in Island Park, Idaho in Fremont County. The spring produces over 120 million gallons of water each day. It is a primary source of the North Fork or Henrys Fork of the Snake River. The other major source is the Henry's Lake outlet. The Big Springs is also famous for its large rainbow trout which congregate at the foot of the bridge waiting to be fed by the tourists (there are coin-operated feeding dispensers) No fishing is allowed until below the outlet to Henry's Lake, several miles away. Big Springs is the only first-magnitude spring that issues from rhyolite lava flows. It is a National Natural Landmark designated in August 1980. The spring is in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest and the site is managed by the National Forest Service.  There is a half mile handicap-accessible trail that offers wildlife viewing of osprey, bald eagles, waterfowl and the occasional moose, white-tailed deer, and muskrat.

Next to Big Springs is a log cabin built by Johnny Sack  in 1929. The cabin is open to visitors.

Johnny Sack Cabin

Aerial View of Cabin and Big Springs

Plaque at Big Springs
Mill run by spring water at Johnny Sack Cabin.

Bibliography
Lopez, Tom (2000). Idaho, a Climbing Guide: Climbs, Scrambles, and Hikes. Seattle: Mountaineers' Press.
Tolman, Cyrus Fisher (1937).  Ground Water. New York: McGraw-Hill.

References

National Natural Landmarks in Idaho
Springs of Idaho
Bodies of water of Fremont County, Idaho
Caribou-Targhee National Forest
DMP

DMP may refer to:

In science and technology
 2,2-Dimethoxypropane, a chemical reagent
 2,6-dimethylphenol, a monomer
 Data management plan, generally submitted as part of research grant proposals
 Data management platform, software for managing online advertising and customer data as part of personalized marketing
 Dess–Martin periodinane, a chemical reagent used to oxidise alcohols
 Dot matrix printer, a type of printers used very commonly in the late 20th century
 Dialer management platform, a computer that manages least-cost routing dialers
 Digital media player, a category within the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard
 Dimethyl phthalate, a plasticizer
 Dimethyl pimelimidate, also known as dimethyl pimelimidate dihydrochloride, a cross-linking reagent
 Disease management programmes for chronic diseases  
 Dynamic multipathing, a system of computer storage
 Dynamics of Markovian particles, in statistical mechanics, the basis of a theory for kinetics of particles
 DMP, a file suffix in Microsoft Windows used to indicate a file containing core dump data
 Digital Media Professionals, a Japanese GPU design company who designed the PICA200 chip

Medical
 Doctor of Medical Physics, a degree in medical physics
 Dance movement therapy (in the UK) or "dance therapy" (in the US and Australia)
 Differentially Methylated Positions, DMPs, part of Differentially methylated region

In entertainment
 Demotivational poster
 Digital Manga Publishing, a North American company that publishes manga
 Digital matte painter
 Digital matte painting, a form of matte painting
 DMP Digital Music Products, a jazz record label founded in 1983 by Tom Jung
 Donaldson, Moir and Paterson, a Scottish rock band
 Drayton Manor Theme Park, a theme park in Staffordshire, England

Other uses
 Debt management plan
 Desert Memorial Park, a cemetery near Palm Springs, California
 Dhaka Metropolitan Police
 Disability management program, used by employers to assist employees who are unable to work due to injury or illness
 Dublin Metropolitan Police, the police force of Dublin, Ireland, from 1836 to 1925
 Dual-member proportional representation, a proposed voting system developed in Canada
MOQ

MOQ, Moq, Moq., moq, or MoQ may refer to:

 Pirsig's metaphysics of quality (MOQ) – a theory of reality
 Alfred Moquin-Tandon – a botanist whose author abbreviation is Moq.
 Morondava Airport – a Madagascan airport with the IATA code MOQ
 Mor language (Papuan) – a human language with the language code moq
 Moquegua Region – a region in Peru with ISO 3166 code PE-MOQ
Max Morgan-Witts

Max Morgan-Witts (born 27 September 1931) is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin.

Biography
Morgan-Witts was a Director/Producer at Granada TV which he joined on 9 January 1956. He directed television shows for Granada, including The Army Game, which was the UK's No. 1 television show during each of the approximately 50 episodes he directed. Afterwards Morgan-Witts directed 15 of the earliest episodes of Coronation Street (between July & August 1961 and January and April 1963), which followed The Army Game as Britain's top-rated TV show.

After Granada TV, Morgan-Witts moved to BBC TV, as a producer and executive producer in the Science & Features Department.  He was editor and executive producer of Tomorrow's World, a live, weekly, popular science programme. He was responsible for 14 one-hour episodes of The British Empire, a historical documentary series. It was filmed in 40 countries and at the time was the most expensive and ambitious documentary series the BBC had made. He was Director and Producer of many one-hour film documentaries made for peak time viewing on BBC One, most of which he wrote himself but for one of which he hired Gordon Thomas. This was the beginning of their writing partnership.

Morgan-Witts wrote 10 non-fiction books with Thomas, four of which were made into feature films, including Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb, which was first a four-hour NBC special and then re-cut as a feature. Another was Voyage of the Damned, a highly rated feature film which is frequently repeated on TV worldwide.

Morgan-Witts has been awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award and is a Knight of Mark Twain.

Now retired, Morgan-Witts and his wife, Pauline, live in London. They have two children, Paul and Michele, and four grandchildren.

Bibliography
with Gordon Thomas
The Day the World Ended (1969) – a factual novel about the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902 and the basis for the 1980 film When Time Ran Out...
The San Francisco Earthquake (1971)
Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle (1972)
Voyage of the Damned (1974)
Guernica: The Crucible of World War II (1975)
Ruin from the Air: The Enola Gay's Atomic Mission to Hiroshima (1977)
The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (1979)
Pontiff (1983)
Anatomy of an Epidemic: The True Story of a Town, a Hotel, a Silent Killer, and a Medical Detection Team (1984)
The Year of Armageddon: The Pope and the Bomb (1984)

Sources
Source of information is from historic records and from the author's biographical notes

External links 

Futerman, Rose & Associates Literary Agents
Edgar Award Best Fact Crime
New York Times
Three Dot blog
University California, Berkeley, The Books of the Century: 1970-1979

British television directors
British non-fiction writers
Edgar Award winners
Living people
1931 births
British male writers
Male non-fiction writers
Canadian emigrants to England
Jenny Ryan (disambiguation)

Jenny Ryan (born 1982) is an English game show personality.

Jennifer Ryan may refer to:

 Jenny Ryan, a character on Castle; see List of Castle characters#Jenny Ryan
 Jennifer Ann Ryan (born 1963), real name of Australian romance writer Jennie Adams
 Jennifer A. Ryan, 2004 candidate for U.S. vice president for the Christian Freedom Party (see presidential candidate Thomas Harens)
Marčana

Marčana () is a village and municipality in the southern part of Istria, Croatia, 15 km northeast of Pula. The village is situated on the D66 state road (Pula - Rijeka).

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 4,250, with 1,099 living in the town proper. It was 3,903 in 2001.
Marčana is over 3000 years old and preserves old Croatian culture. There are many rustic houses. There are old and damaged houses, as well as new and renovated houses. The village has markets, a pizzeria and three local pubs.

Villages

References

External links
 Marčana Official website
 www.marcana.info Local Information website
 Overall tourist offer of Marcana

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
Oprtalj

Oprtalj () is a village and municipality in Istria, Croatia. Oprtalj is a community in the central northern part of Istria County, situated across the Mirna river valley from the village of Motovun, about 20 km northwest of Pazin.

Oprtalj used to be a fortress surrounded by walls. In front of the former door, there is a large Venetian loggia with a lapidary.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 748, with 75 living in the village proper. At the 2011 census it was 850.

Gallery

References

External links

 Official site

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
Populated places in Croatia where Italian is an official language
Robert Kirk (philosopher)

Robert Kirk (born 1933) is a British philosopher. He is emeritus professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.  

Kirk is best known for his work on philosophical zombies—putatively unconscious beings physically and behaviourally identical to human beings.  Although Kirk did not invent this idea, he introduced the term zombie in his 1974 papers "Sentience and Behaviour" and "Zombies v. Materialists". In the latter he offered a formulation of physicalism that aimed to make clear that if zombies are possible, physicalism is false: an argument that was not much noticed until David Chalmers's development of it in The Conscious Mind. Kirk himself had reversed his position earlier, and has argued against the zombie idea in a number of books and articles on physicalism and consciousness.

As well as working on other topics in the philosophy of mind, Kirk has published on the question of how far translation and interpretation are determined by objective facts (see W. V. Quine's Word and Object (1960)). His own book on this topic, Translation Determined, appeared in 1986. Another main interest is relativism.

Selected bibliography

References

External links
Robert Kirk home page at the University of Nottingham
Zombies entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
publisher's webpage about "Robots, Zombies and Us"

1933 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Nottingham
Philosophers of mind
21st-century British philosophers
Mata Redonda Wildlife Refuge

The Mata Redonda Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, which protects tropical forest and wetlands near the Tempisque River and the town of Rosario, Guanacaste.

It consists of seasonal palustrine wetland and contains habitats suitable for over 60 species of resident and migratory water birds, including black-bellied whistling ducks and jabiru.

References

External links
 Mata Redonda Biodiversity Video Documentary at UNED
 Mata Redonda Wildlife Refuge at Costa Rica National Parks

Nature reserves in Costa Rica
Geography of Guanacaste Province
Special purpose visa

Australia operates a universal visa regime which requires that every non-Australian citizen entering or who is present within the Australian migration zone holds a valid visa. In Australian migration law, to exempt certain persons from the visa and immigration clearance arrangements, a so-called special purpose visa applies by operation of law to certain non-citizens.

The special purpose visa arises under section 33 of the Migration Act 1958 to effectively exempt certain persons from the normal processes for entry into Australia, including:

 members of the Royal Family (however, the King of Australia is outside the scope of any Australian immigration requirements)
 members of the royal party accompanying the Royal Family
 official guests of the Australian government, including dependents and staff members
 members of the crew of a non-military ship visiting an Australian port or being imported into Australia, provided they hold valid passports and seafarers' documentation
 crews of foreign naval ships visiting Australia
 members of the armed forces of certain countries with status of forces agreements with Australia (including certain civilians attached to these armed forces) with valid military documents and travel orders, together with spouses and children holding valid national passports and military identification
 airline crew, with valid passports and employer documentation
 persons visiting Macquarie Island with advance permission of the Tasmanian Environment Department
 transit passengers from specified (gazetted) countries in airside transit in Australia for less than eight hours
 traditional Indonesian fishermen visiting the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands.

No visa application is required to claim a special purpose visa, and no fee is charged. It is possible to hold a special purpose visa simultaneously with another type of Australian visa.

People holding a special purpose visa must abide by the legal conditions attaching to their status, otherwise they becomes an unlawful non-citizen liable to immigration detention and removal from Australia in the normal manner.

References

See also
Visa policy of Australia
Electronic Travel Authority
Australian permanent resident
Australian nationality law
Special Category Visa
Visa requirements for crew members

Visa policy of Australia
Pićan

Pićan ( Chakavian: Pićon, ) is a village and municipality in the central part of Istria, Croatia, 12 km southeast of Pazin; elevation 360 m. The chief occupations are agriculture and livestock breeding. It is situated on the D64 state road (Pazin-Kršan-Vozilići). There is a railway station on the former Lupoglav – Raša railway.

History 

In Roman times, a military stronghold called Petina was located here. The town was the seat of the first diocese in central Istria from the 5th to 18th centuries, and a medieval commune with governors and officers. The town gate (14th–15th century) has been preserved.

Diocese of Pićan 
Many of the local bishops are buried in the church nave. Its 48 m bell tower stands separate from the church; it is the third highest in Istria and offers a good view.

The treasury contains chalices from the 15th century and a monstrance from the 16th century.

Senj-Modruš's bishop Sebastijan Glavinić of Glamoč (1630–1697) was born in Potpićan near Pićan and was buried in St. George's Church in Slovenske Konjice, Slovenia.

Martin of Pićan, a bishop of Pićan, was the general vicar of Carniola and had his seat in Ljubljana (then named Laibach) before the establishment of the Diocese of Ljubljana in 1461. In 1456, he was buried in the town's St. Nicholas's Church, the predecessor of the modern Ljubljana Cathedral, and has retained a gravestone in the cathedral.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 1,722, with 304 living in the village proper. At the 2011 census it was 1,827.

See also
 Roman Catholic Diocese of Pedena

References

External links

 Pićan official tourist site

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
George Long Duyckinck

George Long Duyckinck (October 17, 1823 – March 30, 1863) was a New York City writer.

Biography
He was born on October 17, 1823, in New York City; his sibling was Evert Augustus Duyckinck.

He attended Geneva College and then entered New York University, and graduated in 1843. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced. After the completion of his legal studies he traveled extensively in Europe in 1847–1848, and on his return became joint editor with his brother Evert of The Literary World, afterward becoming joint author with his brother of the Cyclopaedia of American Literature. He then revisited Europe, and, on his return in 1857, entered on a separate career of authorship in a congenial department. During the 1850s, the Duyckinck brothers were the unofficial heads of the New York literary scene.

He was by early training and long-established choice warmly attached to the liturgy and order of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and especially interested in its biographical literature. To this he devoted himself, and, having been elected treasurer of the Sunday School union and Church book society, he began a series of biographies of English clergymen, with a view to attract the interest of American readers. The first of these was the "Life of George Herbert" (New York, 1858), followed by the lives of Bishop Thomas Ken (1859), Jeremy Taylor (1860), and Hugh Latimer (1861). These memoirs were condensed to a simple narrative; but they are regarded as contributions of high value. Duyckinck contemplated writing the life of Bishop Leighton, but before entering on its preparation he was seized with the illness that terminated his life.

He died on March 30, 1863.

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References

1823 births
1863 deaths
American male writers
Chez Hélène

Chez Hélène is a children's television series produced by and broadcast on CBC Television. The 15-minute weekday program was broadcast on the English television network to provide viewers with exposure to the French language.

The program was produced at CBC's Montreal studios. It began its 14-season run on 26 October 1959, with the final program airing 25 May 1973.

Hélène Baillargeon portrayed the title role. Other cast members were Madeline Kronby who portrayed the bilingual Louise, and a mouse puppet named Suzie who generally spoke English. Corinne Orr provided the voice for Suzie.

In terms of children's series, the program remained popular in its final season, with a reported 437,000 viewers recorded by BBM in November 1972. But CBC executives cancelled the series, claiming that it had run its course, and that the network's broadcasts of Sesame Street would incorporate five minutes of French-language segments per episode. By the end of the 1970s, a newer program, Passe-Partout started airing on CBC Television's French counterpart, Ici Radio-Canada Télé.

References

External links
Chez Helene – Canadian Communication Foundation
Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series (Chez Hélène archived listing link via archive.org)

1959 Canadian television series debuts
1973 Canadian television series endings
1950s Canadian children's television series
CBC Television original programming
Television shows filmed in Montreal
French-language education television programming
1960s Canadian children's television series
1970s Canadian children's television series
Black-and-white Canadian television shows
Canadian television shows featuring puppetry
Negritos Islands Biological Reserve

The Negritos Islands Biological Reserve is a nature reserve of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, containing two islands separated by a small channel in the Gulf of Nicoya which protects migratory bird species which use the island seasonally.

References

Nature reserves in Costa Rica
Geography of Guanacaste Province
1982 establishments in Costa Rica
Protected areas established in 1982
Raša, Istria County

Raša ( Chakavian: Aršija) is a  municipality in the inner part of the Raška Inlet in the south-eastern part of Istria, Croatia.  Raša lies  southwest of Labin at an elevation of . Raša was named after the river of the same name. 

Situated in the valley of the Krapanski Potok (a tributary of the river Raša), near the former village of Krapan in 1785. 

Raša was built as a "new town" during 1936-1937 as part of Mussolini's urban colonization of Istria. Planned and designed according to the rationalist principles by architect, Gustavo Pulitzer-Finali from Trieste, Italy, the mining town is organized along a linear axis connecting the Upper and Lower Raša. Lower Raša consists of houses for ordinary miners set along two parallel streets while Upper Raša is organized  along three parallel streets with similar houses but slightly larger in size, designated for senior miners and supervisors. Smaller residential enclaves were organized throughout the elongated plan, one of which is "villette", a gated series of small urban villas designated for mining executives. 

The town centre connecting the Lower and Upper Raša included a large square with hotels, post office, supermarket, movie theatre, pharmacy, administrative offices and small arcaded shops. Overlooking the square is the church of Santa Barbara (patron saint of miners).  The single nave church is constructed in the shape of an overturned coal wagon while its bell tower resembles a miner's lamp. Centrally located are also the town hospital, football field, bocci terrain and swimming pool with diving tower and bowling alley. Decades after the mine's closure, today, Raša's appearance is part of a memory album of town planning, whereas the sound of coal wagons belongs to bygone days.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 2,809, with 1,184 living in the village proper. At the 2011 census it was 3,183.

References

External links

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
Italian fascist architecture
ORP Warszawa (1988)

ORP Warszawa (formerly the Soviet Smely) was a large guided missile destroyer of the Polish Navy, one of the last ships of the modified Kashin class.

Construction
She was built in the 61st Communard's Shipyard in Nikolayev, Soviet Union, for the Soviet Navy. Commissioned in 1969, she was one of the ships of the CKB-53 class, dubbed s by NATO.

Soviet service
The ship was among the largest destroyers of the time; with 4950 tonnes of displacement she had similar displacement to many World War II cruisers. The flexible design allowed the ships of her class to serve as multi-purpose vessels rather than standard guided missile destroyers. Among the capabilities of the class were anti-surface and anti-submarine missions, convoy escort, long-range bombardment and a variety of other roles. The ship's armament was almost fully automated and was one of the first such ships in the Eastern Bloc.

Modernisation
Between 1972 and 1974 the ship was modernized to the new 61MP standard, dubbed the modified Kashin class by NATO countries. The modernization included a complete refurbishment, change of armament and mounting of detection and fire control systems.

Transfer to Poland
In 1987 the ship was leased by Poland as a replacement for the obsolete  . Smelyi was therefore renamed Warszawa on transfer in 1988. Between 1992 and 1993 she was permanently transferred to Poland (along with the submarines  and ) in exchange for Soviet debts at the Polish Navy Shipyard in Gdynia.

Fate
After 16 years of service in the Polish Navy, she was designated to be sold. In the end, no country was interested in purchasing the ship, and finally she was sent to the Navy's reserve. After two years in reserve she was sold for scrap. Breaking up was completed by the Gdańsk Shipyard.

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Kashin-class destroyers of the Soviet Navy
Ships built in the Soviet Union
1968 ships
Kashin-class destroyers of the Polish Navy
Cold War destroyers of the Soviet Union
Cold War destroyers of Poland
Svetvinčenat

Svetvinčenat (, Chakavian: Savičenta, or Savicjenta) is a village and municipality in the south of the central part of Istria, Croatia, about 16 km north of Vodnjan; elevation 250 m.

Description 
Svetvinčenat was first mentioned ca. 965 C.E., when the town began to grow around a Benedictine abbey. The town is dominated by Grimani Castle which has two round towers and a living quarters. The castle's current form dates from 1589 when the Venetian Marino Grimani renovated and bought it. The castle was burnt down in 1945 and abandoned until the 1990s. It was extensively renovated between 2017 and 2020. Grimani Castle is one of the best-preserved examples of Venetian architecture in Istria. 

The town also has a number of churches, the oldest dating form the 13th century.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 2,179 with 245 living in the village proper. It was 2,202 in 2011.

Villages
The municipality has 22 villages:

Gallery

References

External links

Svetvinčenat homepage 
Overall tourist offer of Svetvinčenat

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County