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The Junction (disambiguation)

The Junction may refer to:

Places
 The Junction, a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 The Junction, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
 The Junction (Vancouver), a gay bar and nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 The Junction, former name of Vaughan, Victoria, Australia
 The intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S., locally called "The Junction"

Music and media
 The Junction (band), a rock band from Brampton, Ontario, Canada
 The Junction (The Junction album), their self-titled album
 The Junction (The Manhattan Transfer album), a 2018 album by jazz vocal group The Manhattan Transfer
 "The Junction" (The Twilight Zone), an episode of The New Twilight Zone

See also
 Junction (disambiguation)
 The Junction Boys (film), a 2002 American made-for-television sports drama film
 Up the Junction (song), a 1979 single by Squeeze
 Up the Junction (soundtrack), a 1968 studio album by Manfred Mann
 Up the Junction (The Wednesday Play), a 1965 episode of the BBC anthology drama series The Wednesday Play
Avalon, Missouri

Avalon is an unincorporated community in southern Livingston County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Route H, approximately one mile east of U.S. Route 65 and ten miles southeast of Chillicothe.

Avalon was platted in 1869. The community's name is a transfer from Avallon, in France. A post office called Avalon was established in 1872, and remained in operation until 1985.

References

Unincorporated communities in Livingston County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Paul Vaessen

Paul Leon Vaessen (16 October 1961 – 8 August 2001) was an English footballer.

Football career
Vaessen was born in Gillingham to a footballing family – his father Leon had played for Millwall and Gillingham. A centre-forward, he joined Arsenal in 1977 as an apprentice, and made his debut aged 16 against Lokomotive Leipzig in the UEFA Cup on 27 September 1978. He made his league debut the following year, against Chelsea on 14 May 1979. He turned professional in July the same year, scoring five goals in 13 appearances in 1979–80.

The most famous of these goals was the one Vaessen scored against Juventus at the Stadio Comunale, in the second leg of a 1980 Cup Winners Cup Semi Final on 23 April 1980. Arsenal had drawn the first leg 1–1 and thus, trailing on the away goals rule, needed to score to stand any chance of getting to the final. Arsenal manager Terry Neill sent Vaessen on as a substitute after 75 minutes and he headed home a late goal from a Graham Rix cross in the 88th minute to make the score 2–1 to Arsenal, which put them into the final. It was the first time Juventus had lost to a British team on home soil. Vaessen did not play in the final, which Arsenal lost on penalties to Valencia at Heysel Stadium.

Vaessen's career was blighted by injury; he was unable to play regularly over the next two seasons. He ruptured ligaments in his knee and had to have three operations. He was forced to retire from football in the summer of 1982, before he was 21. In all, he scored 9 goals in 39 matches for Arsenal.

Later life
After leaving Arsenal, Vaessen performed a variety of jobs, such as postman and also worked on a construction site. In 1985, Vaessen almost died from stab wounds suffered when a drug deal went wrong and dealers knifed him in a side street off the Old Kent Road in South East London. Vaessen was stabbed six times, from his armpit to his waist. He lost 40 pints of blood and his heart stopped twice on the operating table.

In 1998, he was charged with assaulting a policeman after stealing women's tights from a supermarket in Farnborough, Hampshire. Vaessen's solicitor told magistrates: "This is a very tragic case. Twenty years ago, my client was on top of the world with everything to look forward to. But, at 21, he was told by doctors he would be crippled if he played professional football again. His whole life was turned upside down and he was totally desperate."

Death
In August 2001, he was found dead in the bathroom of his Bristol flat, aged 39. A post mortem found he had a high level of drugs in his bloodstream and the coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. It was later revealed that Vaessen had been a heroin addict for several years and had several convictions for crimes including robberies and muggings.

References

1961 births
2001 deaths
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Arsenal F.C. players
Drug-related deaths in England
Accidental deaths in England
Sportspeople from Gillingham, Kent
English people of Dutch descent
Footballers from Kent
Dawn, Missouri

Dawn is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Livingston County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 100.

Dawn was platted in 1853. A post office called Dawn has been in operation since 1852.

Geography
Dawn is located in southwestern Livingston County on Missouri Supplemental Route C, approximately  southwest of Chillicothe, the county seat.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Dawn CDP has an area of , all of it recorded as land. The community is on high ground on the east bank of Shoal Creek, a northeast-flowing tributary of the Grand River and part of the Missouri River watershed.

Demographics

References

Unincorporated communities in Livingston County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Census-designated places in Livingston County, Missouri
Census-designated places in Missouri
Money Island (Branford, Connecticut)

Money Island is one of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut. It is named after a legend that Captain Kidd buried his treasure there. The island, 12 acres (49,000 m2) in size, bears an entire village of 32 houses, a post office, and one library. Former buildings included a school, a church, and a grocery store. There are three roads and several piers. At this time, none of the houses are occupied year-round.

The three roads are Montowese Avenue, Pequot Avenue, and Kidd's Lane.

See also
Thimble Islands
Outer Lands

References
Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles, "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
Half a Mile Off the Coast; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", New York Times, July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10.

Branford, Connecticut
Thimble Islands
Long Island Sound
Landforms of Middlesex County, Connecticut
Horse Island (Connecticut)

Horse Island, at 17 acres (69,000 m²), is the largest of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut. It is owned by Yale University and is maintained as an ecological laboratory by Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.  It was purchased and donated to the university in 1971 as a convenient addition to the Yale Coastal Field Station in nearby Guilford, which has its own dock and boats, and is also managed by Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.

A large house on the island has been kept in good repair and can serve as a base for experimenters or others remaining on the island for overnight stays or longer. According to the Yale Alumni Magazine, "Horse Island used to be a summer retreat; there’s still an eight-room house and evidence of a tennis court. The island now functions as a natural classroom, used for research and teaching. It’s also visited by a wide variety of migrating birds, which are actively studied by Yale researchers."  In 2020, Yale faculty and students from the School of Architecture partnered with the Peabody Museum to build a teaching and coastal research center for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The center was built using a "regenerative approach." This approach aims to reduce the carbon footprint of the building, from construction to daily use, and limits the number of toxic materials used during construction. The Center will function off-grid with a kitchenette, toilet (which incinerate waste into ash), and two bunks for sleeping. The Center will feature a 30-foot-by-16-foot classroom with projection screens and barn-style doors.

The origins of the island's name are not known.  Some say that at some point a cargo of horses may have found its way to the island from a capsized or wrecked ship, but no physical or documentary traces of such an event exist. Others speculate that the island's horseshoe shape may have influenced its name. For many years it was owned by an executive of Standard Oil named Clark, and was called "Clark's Island" by everyone. When James and Esther Rettger purchased the island in 1946 they restored the original name as found on the geodetic survey maps.

See also
Thimble Islands
Outer Lands

References

Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles, "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
Half a Mile Off the Coast; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", New York Times, July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10.

External links
 Peabody Museum of Natural History

Thimble Islands
Long Island Sound
Yale University
St. Catharine, Missouri

Saint Catharine or St. Catharine is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southeast Linn County, Missouri, United States. Saint Catharine is located approximately four miles east of Brookfield on Missouri Route 11. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad passes the south side of the community.

St. Catharine was founded in 1856, and is not named for Catherine of Alexandria, but instead for Mrs. Catherine Elliot, by her husband, William Elliot. A post office called Saint Catherine was established in 1859, and remained in operation until 1993.

Demographics

References

Saint Catharine, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Custos Rotulorum of Somerset

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Somerset.

 Sir William Portman bef. 1554–1557
 Sir Hugh Paulet bef. 1558–1573
 Sir Amias Paulet bef. 1577–1588
 Sir John Popham bef. 1594–1607
 Sir Edward Phelips 1608–1614
 James Ley, 1st Baron Ley bef. 1621–1625
 Henry Ley, 2nd Earl of Marlborough 1625–1636
 John Coventry 1636–1646
 Interregnum
 William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset 1660
 Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1660–1668
 Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester 1668–1672
 John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset 1672–1675
 Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1675–1688
 Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave 1688
 Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1688–1690
 John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge 1690–1712
 John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett 1713–1714
 Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery 1714–1721
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Somerset.

References
Institute of Historical Research (pre-1646)
Institute of Historical Research (post 1660)

Somerset
History of Somerset
Bache Peninsula

Bache Peninsula is a geological formation in Canada, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut. The peninsula is considered a cape', meaning that it is a headland that dramatically affects the ocean currents. It is primarily known for being the site of the world's northernmost permanent settlement from 1926 to 1933, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police post.

Geography 
The peninsula is adjacent to water on three sides: Peary Bay to the north, named after United States explorer Robert Peary, Bartlett Bay to the east, and Buchanan Bay to the south. A relatively narrow isthmus connects the peninsula to the rest of Ellesmere Island to the west.

Archaeological history 
The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited approximately 4,200 years ago by hunting bands originating in northeast Asia and Alaska. Stone tools and artistic carvings have been found, dating back to the Dorset culture. Researchers have also found Thule hunting artifacts at strategic locations for hunting sea mammals.

References

External links 

Peninsulas of Qikiqtaaluk Region
Ellesmere Island
Michigan Park (Washington, D.C.)

Michigan Park is a neighborhood in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington, D.C. in the Upper Northeast area element. The boundaries of Michigan Park and North Michigan Park neighborhoods are contested due to the history of racial disparity between the two, but in general Michigan Park is considered to be contained between South Dakota Avenue to the west, Eastern Avenue to the east, Galloway Street NE to the north and Taylor Street NE to the South. Both neighborhoods are in DC Neighborhood Cluster 20 along with the University Heights neighborhood.  Michigan Park is home to two established Civic Associations: the North Michigan Park Civic Association which has its established boundaries that include both Michigan Park and North Michigan Park and the Queens Chapel Civic Association (that is separate from the Queens Chapel neighborhood which borders Michigan Park to the north). The Queens Chapel association meets regularly at Union Wesley African Methodist Zion Church and its boundaries are between 16th Street NE and Webster Street NE to the north, Michigan Avenue NE to the south, and South Dakota Avenue NE to the west. 

Michigan Park is easily accessible by Fort Totten and Brookland-CUA Metro Stations on the Washington Metropolitan Area Red Line. 

Michigan Park also has Barnard Hill, a Fort Circle Park named for Major General John G. Barnard, that has excellent views of Upper Northeast.

References

Neighborhoods in Northeast (Washington, D.C.)
Snyder, Missouri

Snyder is an unincorporated community in western Chariton County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route Z, approximately eighteen miles northeast of Carrollton. Snyder's post office has closed, and mail is now delivered from nearby Triplett.

References 

 

Unincorporated communities in Chariton County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
North Michigan Park

North Michigan Park is a neighborhood located in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington, D.C. North Michigan Park is contained between Eastern Avenue N.E. to the east, Gallatin Street N.E. to the north, Michigan Avenue N.E. to the south, and South Dakota Avenue N.E. to the west. North Michigan Park borders the neighborhoods of Michigan Park, Queens Chapel, and Woodridge, which also are located in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington D.C.  In addition to these neighborhoods in Ward 5 of Northeast Washington D.C., North Michigan Park also borders the adjacent neighborhoods of Avondale and Chillum, which are both located in Prince George's County, Maryland. North Michigan Park neighborhood is often confused with the North Michigan Park Civic Association which has boundaries that include both North Michigan Park and Michigan Park. North Michigan Park and Michigan Park neighborhoods have been historically designated as separate neighborhoods due to the fact that they were segregated by race. North Michigan Park was the less desirable neighborhood where African-Americans lived while Michigan Park was a much more desirable neighborhood where the neighborhood where their white counterparts lived. Both neighborhoods are separated from each other by South Dakota Avenue N.E. The Washington Metropolitan Area Green Line train tracks pass through the North Michigan Park neighborhood, notably, through a tunnel when traveling between the West Hyattsville and Fort Totten Metro Stations. The Washington Metropolitan Area Green Line train tracks initially are above ground when traveling between the West Hyattsville Metro Station and a certain portion of the neighborhood of Avondale. The Washington Metropolitan Area Green Line tracks then gradually enter a tunnel, which they use throughout the rest of the Avondale neighborhood, a small portion of the Chillum neighborhood, the North Michigan Park neighborhood, and Queens Chapel neighborhood before entering the lower level portion of the Fort Totten Metro Station, located below the Washington Metropolitan Area Red Line train tracks.

References

Neighborhoods in Northeast (Washington, D.C.)
Wakenda, Missouri

Wakenda is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

History
Wakenda was platted in 1869, and took its name from Wakenda Township. A post office called Wakenda was established in 1876, and remained in operation until 1995.

Notable person
James Fergason, an inventor, was born in Wakenda.

References

Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Stet, Missouri

Stet is an unincorporated community on the Ray/Carroll County line and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is located approximately fourteen miles northwest of Carrollton at the intersection of Missouri Supplemental Routes K and JJ.

History
A post office called Stet was established in 1890, and remained in operation until 1973. That same year, the rural route was consolidated with Norborne but the building stayed open as a contract office until 2011. The origin of the name "Stet" is obscure. The meaning of Stet in Latin is "let it stand."

References

Unincorporated communities in Ray County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
RMNP (disambiguation)

RMNP is the Rocky Mountain National Park in the state of Colorado, United States.

RMNP may also refer to:
 Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda
 Royal Manas National Park in Bhutan
 Riding Mountain National Park in the province of Manitoba, Canada

See also 

 List of national parks
Governor Island (Connecticut)

Governor Island is one of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut. It has 14 residences, although none are inhabited year-round. 

Inhabited initially as an oyster company's base of operations.  Since pigs will feed from an oyster shucker's waste pile, a "watch pig" was installed rather than a dog, eliminating the daily row out to feed the animal.  The assertiveness of this pig quickly earned it the name "Governor".  By the fourth season, the pig had grown so large and onerous that it kept even the oystermen off the island.  Something had to be done since this was a commercial operation.  In memory of the first pig roast, the island was named "Governor's".  There remains a debate among the older islanders if Governor was a pig or a goat; with recent gentrification looking down upon "goat roasts".

One of the oldest houses on the island was built in 1880 by R.H. Brown and is still held by his family's descendants. R.H. Brown was a notable Connecticut brass manufacturer and is known to have made some of the finest yacht cannons ever made.

See also
Thimble Islands
Outer Lands

References
Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles, "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
Half a Mile Off the Coast; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", New York Times, July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10.

Thimble Islands
Long Island Sound
Mogneville, Oise

Mogneville () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

History
Though inhabited from the Stone Age, the existence of the village first dates from the Romans. One of the merchants who followed Caesar and his camp to Catenoy, placed himself on the site of the modern village. The name of the village derives from the Latin Monnachivilla, "settlement of the monks", which is Moineville in French. Monks inhabited this territory in the 10th and 11th centuries. The Abbey of Chaalis, the Abbey of Lannoy and the Priory of Wariville  possessed benefices here.

Population

Sights
The Church of Saint-Denis is the oldest monument in the village of Mogneville. It was proclaimed a historic building by a decree of July 1937. The current building is a reconstruction of the XII  structure. First it was reconstructed into a Roman church, later on – into Gothic.

See also
Communes of the Oise department

References

External links

 Official website of Mogneville

Communes of Oise
Weihrauch HW45

The Weihrauch HW 45 is an air pistol manufactured by Weihrauch & Weihrauch in Germany and originally developed as a collaboration between American importer Robert Beeman and Weihrauch. It is more commonly known in North America as the Beeman P-1 after the US importers and is a large, full power air pistol with an ambidextrous grip, available in three different calibres: .177, .20 (as a special order) and .22.  The HW 45 is suitable for informal target shooting and plinking.

Specifications
 Weight: 1.15kg (2.54lbs)
 Cocking Effort: 
 Overall Length: 28cm (11inches)
 Barrel Length: 17cm (6.6inches)
 Muzzle energy: 5.1  ft•lbf (6.8 J)

Details
The HW 45 is a spring powered, single-shot, air pistol with spring compression being achieved via an overarm cocking lever incorporating the barrel. The HW 45 features an adjustable two-stage trigger, fibre optic open sights and a grooved 11mm dovetail rail for mounting an optical sight.  The pistol has a manual safety catch and comes in four different levels of finish with all but the basic HW45 having contoured wood laminate grips.  Its design was based on the Colt Government, M1911 and the rear hammer acts as the release, for the overarm cocking lever

The .177 (4.5 mm) pistol has two power levels: low power is  and full power , dependent on weight of pellet.  The different power levels are created by cocking the gun to different lock points.

References

External links
 Dave Hoffman -  Weihrauch HW45 (Beeman p1) overview
 The HW45 at Weihrauch.co.uk
 HW45 Manual

Air pistols
Air guns
High Island (Connecticut)

One of the Thimble Islands, High Island once served as a hideout for famed pirate Captain Kidd. Kidd's Harbor on the island, as well as nearby Kidd's Island, were named for him. Money Island was named for the legend that he allegedly buried a portion of his treasure here.

References

Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles, "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
Half a Mile Off the Coast; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", New York Times, July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10.

Thimble Islands
Riverton, Manitoba

Riverton is an unincorporated urban community in the Municipality of Bifrost – Riverton within the Canadian province of Manitoba that held village status prior to January 1, 2015. It is located approximately 110 kilometres north of Winnipeg. The CPR's train conductor is reputed to have named the community.

Riverton is a descriptive which replaced the earlier name, Icelandic River.  Icelandic River was named in 1875 by an Icelandic expedition as a prelude to Riverton.  Originally known as White River, it appears on Arrowsmith's map of 1821, and as White Mud on Palliser's map of 1865.

The main economy is fishing. The Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation operates a fish-packing factory on the banks of the Icelandic River, which passes through the centre of Riverton. Other industries include agriculture and the service sector, with manufacturing being done by ECB (Erosion Control Blanket) a distant third. Being in a unique position on the west shore of Lake Winnipeg, Riverton services the northern communities via a winter road. It is on the way to Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park and many people from Winnipeg stop in or pass by the community on the way to cottage country each summer.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Riverton had a population of 475 living in 215 of its 254 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 538. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Education
Riverton Collegiate Institute
Riverton Early Middle School

Notable people
 Reggie Leach, former professional ice hockey player 
 Gunnar Thorvaldson, Conservative senator, Senate of Canada.

Solar eclipse
Riverton was the closest community to the point of maximum totality for the solar eclipse of February 26, 1979. This total solar eclipse was part of Saros cycle 120, Series 59. Riverton hosted astronomers and eclipse chasers from across the world, providing free rooms to many of the visitors.

References

External links 

 

Designated places in Manitoba
Former villages in Manitoba
Populated places disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Manitoba
Unincorporated communities in Interlake Region, Manitoba
Ballinamuck

Ballinamuck () is a village in north County Longford, Ireland. It is around 15 km north of Longford town.

It was the scene of the Battle of Ballinamuck, where a French army aiding the United Irishmen rebellion of 1798 was defeated. The French soldiers were eventually repatriated. The Irish prisoners were taken to St Johnstown - today's Ballinalee - where they were executed in what is known locally as Bullys Acre and buried there. Ballinamuck is twinned with the French town of Essert.

Transport
Whartons Travel operates bus route 975 on behalf of the National Transport Authority. It serves the village six times a day (not Sundays) providing services to Longford via Drumlish and to Cavan via Arva. Bus Éireann route 463 (Carrigallen-Longford) serves the village on Wednesdays. The nearest rail services can be accessed at Longford railway station.

References

Towns and villages in County Longford
Ravanna, Missouri

Ravanna is a census-designated place in Mercer County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately seven miles northeast of Princeton on U.S. Route 136. The population was 60 at the 2020 census.

Ravanna was platted in 1857. A variant name was "Sonoma". A post office called Sonoma was established in 1855, the name was changed to Ravanna in 1858, and the post office closed in 1975. The present name most likely is a transfer from Ravenna, Ohio.

Education
The northern half is in the North Mercer School District, including the main townsite, while other parts are in the Princeton R-5 School District. The community was previously part of the Ravanna R-IV School District until the school closed in 1977 due to financial problems. Ravanna's mascot was the Ranger.

Demographics

References

Unincorporated communities in Mercer County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Chocolate truffle

A chocolate truffle is a type of chocolate confectionery traditionally made with a chocolate ganache center and coated in cocoa powder, coconut, or chopped nuts. A chocolate truffle is handrolled into a spherical or ball shape. The name derives from the chocolate truffle's similarity in appearance to truffles, a French tuber fungus.

Varieties

Major types of chocolate truffle include:

The Swiss truffle, made by combining melted chocolate into a boiling mixture of dairy cream and butter, which is poured into molds to set before sprinkling with cocoa powder. Like the French truffles, these have a very short shelf life and must be consumed within a few days of making.
The French truffle, made with fresh cream and chocolate, and then rolled in cocoa or nut powder.
The Spanish truffle, prepared with dark chocolate, condensed milk, rum (or any preferred liqueur), and chocolate sprinkles.
The typical European truffle, made with syrup and a base of cocoa powder, milk powder, fats, and other such ingredients to create an oil-in-water type of emulsion.
The American truffle, a half-oval-shaped, chocolate-coated truffle, a mixture of dark or milk chocolates with butterfat, and in some cases, hardened coconut oil. Joseph Schmidt, a San Francisco chocolatier and founder of Joseph Schmidt Confections, is credited with its creation in the mid-1980s.

Other styles include:
The Belgian truffle or praline, made with dark or milk chocolate filled with ganache, buttercream, or nut pastes.
The Californian truffle, a larger, lumpier version of the French truffle, first made by Alice Medrich in 1973 after she tasted truffles in France. She sold these larger truffles in a charcuterie in the Gourmet Ghetto neighborhood of Berkeley; then, in 1977, she began selling them in her own store, Cocolat, which soon expanded into a chain. The American craze for truffles started with Medrich.

See also

 Bourbon ball
 Brigadeiro
 Chokladboll
 Rum ball

References

External links

Confectionery
Chocolate desserts
Mill Grove, Missouri

Mill Grove is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately one mile west of U.S. Route 65 on Missouri Supplemental Route D or six miles south of Princeton. The Weldon River flows past the west side of the community.

Mill Grove was platted in 1870, and named for a mill near the original town site. A post office called Mill Grove was established in 1873, and remained in operation until 1974.

References

Unincorporated communities in Mercer County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Pot Island

Pot Island is one of the Thimble Islands in Branford, Connecticut. It was named for the numerous glacial potholes of various sizes.

References
Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles, "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
Half a Mile Off the Coast; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", New York Times, July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10.

Thimble Islands
Faith (dog)

Faith (December 22, 2002 - September 22, 2014) was a bipedal dog, born with three legs; two fully developed hind legs and a deformed front leg, which was amputated when she was seven months old after it began to atrophy. Her owner, Jude Stringfellow, adopted Faith when the mother dog was found trying to smother the deformed puppy—her son rescued the puppy and brought her home. Many people, including veterinarians, advised that Faith be euthanized. Instead, using a spoon with peanut butter as an incentive, Jude taught Faith to hop. Faith began to walk on her own. The family's corgi would bark at Faith from another room, or nip her heels to urge her to walk.

Faith was given a non-commission rank of E5 Sgt. at Ft. Lewis, Washington in June 2006. She visited more than 2,300 wounded warriors in hospitals and wards throughout the world, and was seen by more than 2,000,000 active soldiers at bases, airports, and ceremonies. She wore an ACU jacket and would get excited when it was pulled out of the closet, as she knew it meant she was about to meet soldiers.

Her death was announced on September 22, 2014.

Media coverage 

A book has been published detailing Faith's story entitled "Faith Walks...A Memoir of a Beautiful Life". Faith and her owner, Jude Stringfellow, have also been featured on Maury, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, Animal Attractions Television and Ripley's Believe it or Not. Faith also had a brief mention on the PBS show NOVA in the episode The Family That Walks On All Fours. 

A short article on Faith that appeared in the "racy" London lad mag Bizarre in 2004 was allegedly the cause of owner Stringfellow's dismissal from her culinary college teaching job. The dog was also rumoured to have been considered for an appearance in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

In February 2007, MSNBC reported that American Airlines had accidentally sent Faith to a different destination than her owner, after changing planes in Dallas during a flight back from Oklahoma City to Orlando.

See also
 List of individual dogs

References

External links 
 

Animal amputees
2002 animal births
2014 animal deaths
Individual dogs in the United States
Sheepscombe

Sheepscombe is a small village in the civil parish of Painswick, in the Stroud district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Sheepscombe is located some  south-east of the city of Gloucester,  north-east of the town of Stroud, and  east of the village of Painswick. It lies in a narrow valley, hidden behind the Cotswold scarp, and just off the A46 and B4070 roads.

Origin and name 

The first record of the village dates from around 1260, with the original name of Sebbescumbe – the name possibly comes from the names of early local settlers named Ebba or Sebba. 'Combe' means valley. Variations of the name over the centuries have included Sebbescumbe, Sciapp'scombe, Sheppescombe, Sheppiscombe, Shepescombe, Shepyscombe, Shipscombe and Shepscombe.

History
Since the early 17th century, Sheepscombe was involved in cloth making like many of the Cotswold towns in the area and its near neighbour Painswick. It enjoyed its industrial heyday during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the last mill closed in 1839. Following this, Sheepscombe suffered from increasing poverty and a falling population.

Historic buildings
The village church, St John the Apostle, was built and opened in 1820. It was designed by John Wight, and later expanded in 1872 by Francis Niblett. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a stone slate roof to coped gables. English Heritage has listed the church as Grade II for its special architectural and historic interest.

The school was opened in 1822, a modernised building opening on the same site in 1882. Many of the houses in the village, at the northern end, date from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The village pub is the Butcher's Arms.

Gentrification
During the early part of the 20th century, Sheepscombe was still a rural, agricultural village, but today it has become, like many Cotswold villages, an expensive and select place to live. Most of its inhabitants are of the professional middle classes, who pay considerably for the privilege of living there. Situated at the bottom of a steep valley, Sheepscombe is a relatively inaccessible village, and not easy to live in for those without a car.

Notable people
Sheepscombe is the childhood home of the actor William Moseley.

Government
For the purposes of local government, Sheepscombe is within the civil parish of Painswick, the district of Stroud and the county of Gloucestershire. The civil parish of Painswick also contains the neighbouring villages of Slad and Edge.

For parliamentary purposes, Sheepscombe is within the UK constituency of Stroud. Before Brexit in 2020, it was in the European constituency of South West England.

References

External links

Village website
School website
Pub website
History Society website
 Stroud Voices (Sheepscombe filter) - oral history site

Villages in Gloucestershire
Painswick
Modena, Missouri

Modena is an unincorporated community in southwestern Mercer County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately eight miles southeast of Princeton on Missouri Supplemental Route A.

Modena was originally called Madisonville, and it was platted under the latter name in 1856. A post office called Modena was established in 1858, and remained in operation until 1971. The present name most likely is a transfer from Mòdena, Italy.

References

Italian-American culture in Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Mercer County, Missouri
Populated places established in 1856
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Ballykinler

Ballykinler (), often transcribed as Ballykinlar, is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies 12 kilometres south west of Downpatrick, in the parish of Tyrella and Dundrum. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 348 people. It is within the Newry, Mourne and Down area and runs parallel to the Irish Sea coast. Located within the Lecale Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the village is surrounded by low drumlins and marshes. It is also the site of a former British Army base known as Abercorn Barracks.

Etymology
At the time of the conquest of Ulster by John de Courcy around 1177, Ballykinlar was called Lesscummalscig. The tithes from the area went to Christ Church, Dublin to pay for wax candles hence it became .

Amenities 
Public houses in the area include the Minerstown Tavern (located 3 miles to the east along the coast) and The Four Roads Inn (2 miles from the village).

The village was selected for an award from the Big Lottery Fund of £128,472 to provide a new children's playgroup area.

Visitors include walkers and hikers who wish to observe the coastline of County Down, and undertake the Ballykinlar to Killough walk which passes the Blue Flag beach at Tyrella. A nearby coastal path is maintained by the Ministry of Defence, although access is prohibited when shooting ranges are active.

Transport 
Ballykinlar Halt railway station was opened in March 1915, but closed on 16 January 1950.

A regular bus service runs between Downpatrick and Ballykinlar, via Clough.

Sport 
Ballykinlar has three sports pitches, including two changing facilities. It also has several association football teams including U13's, U15's, U17's and a second and first team.

Ballykinlar also has a Gaelic Football team called Baile Choinnleora (which is Irish for Ballykinlar), founded in 1932. The club's ground is named Tadhg Barry Memorial Park, in memory of Irish nationalist, trade unionist and journalist Tadhg Barry.

Civil parish 
The civil parish is in the historic barony of Lecale Upper and contains the settlement of Ballykinler.

The civil parish contains the townlands of Ballykinler Lower, Ballykinler Middle, and Ballykinler Upper.

See also 
List of villages in Northern Ireland
List of civil parishes of County Down

References

Bibliography
 Prisoners of War - Ballykinlar Internment Camp 1920-1921, Liam O'Duibhir 2013 
 The Ulster Defence Regiment: An Instrument of Peace?, Chris Ryder 1991

External links 
Drumaroad History
Ballykinler Catholic Church
BFBS radio in Ballykinler on 107.5 fm
 http://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/prisoners_of_war_ballykinlar_internment_camp_1920_1921/

Villages in County Down
Davis Island

Davis Island may refer to:

Landforms

Antarctica
Davis Island (Palmer Archipelago)

Asia
Davis Island (Mergui Archipelago)

North America
Davis Island (Connecticut)
Witch Island (a.k.a. Davis Island), Maine
Davis Island (Mississippi)
Davis Island (Pennsylvania)

Oceania
Davis Island, New Zealand, Auckland Islands
Davis Land, a phantom island

Townships
Davis Islands (Tampa), a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, U.S.
 Davis Island Town Site, Island Falls, Saskatchewan, Canada

See also
 David Island, Antarctica
 Davids Island (disambiguation), several places
Predominance

Predominance is the debut album by the Norwegian thrash metal band Susperia. Produced at the Abyss Studios, it combines thrash metal with black metal.

Track listing 
"I Am Pain" – 4:34
"Vainglory" – 4:35
"Illusions of Evil" – 5:44
"Specimen" – 3:57
"Journey into Black" – 3:50
"Of Hate We Breed" – 4:57
"Objects of Desire" – 4:03
"The Hellchild" – 4:43
"Blood on My Hands" – 5:14
"The Coming of a Darker Time" – 3:34

Personnel 
Athera – vocals
Cyrus – lead guitar
Elvorn – rhythm guitar
Memnock – bass
Tjodalv – drums

References 

2001 debut albums
Susperia albums
Davis Island (Connecticut)

Davis Island, one of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut, was the site of President William Howard Taft's "Summer White House".

See also
Thimble Islands
Outer Lands

References
Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles, "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
Half a Mile Off the Coast; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", The New York Times, July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10.

Thimble Islands
Long Island Sound
Russian Church, Sofia

The Russian Church (), officially known as the Church of St Nicholas the Miracle-Maker (, ), is a Russian Orthodox church in central Sofia, Bulgaria situated on Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard.

History and architecture
The church was built on the site of the Saray Mosque, which was destroyed in 1882, after the liberation of Bulgaria by Russia from the Ottoman Empire. It was built as the official church of the Russian Embassy, which was located next door, and of the Russian community in Sofia, and was named, as was the tradition for diplomatic churches, for the patron saint of the Emperor who ruled Russia at the time, Nicholas II of Russia. The church was designed by the Russian architect Mikhail Preobrazhenski in the style of Russian Revival architecture, with decoration inspired by the Muscovite Russian churches of the 17th century. The construction was supervised by the architect A. Smirnov, who was building the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral nearby.  The exterior decoration of multicolored  tiles was done by G. Kislichev, and the interior murals were painted by a team of artists led by Vasily Perminov, who also painted those in Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The five domes are coated with gold.  The bells were donated by Emperor Nicholas II.

Construction began in 1907 and the church was consecrated in 1914.  The church remained open after the Russian Revolution and during the Communist period in Bulgaria (1944–1989), though priests and church-goers were carefully watched by the State Security police.

The exterior was recently restored by the Russian Government. The interior murals are darkened by smoke from candles and from time, and are in need of restoration.

The crypt housing the remains of Saint Archbishop Seraphim is located beneath the Russian Church's main floor. Dozens of people still visit the grave of the archbishop, who died in 1950, praying and leaving notes asking for wishes to be granted.

See also
List of churches in Sofia

References
Official Guide to the Russian Church by N. Neshkov and N. Lobanova (in Russian and Bulgarian)
Historical Plaque in front of the Russian Church, placed by the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria

External links

 Official site
 Historical photographs of the church

Churches in Sofia
Churches completed in 1914
20th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings
Russian Orthodox church buildings
Russian Revival architecture
Eastern Orthodox church buildings in Bulgaria
20th-century churches in Bulgaria
Combe railway station

Combe railway station serves the village of Combe in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cotswold Line. This station and all trains serving it are run by Great Western Railway.

It was opened as Combe Halt by the Great Western Railway in 1935, originally having two platforms. In 2012, it was equipped with the modern Customer Information display screen now found on most First Great Western stations, plus an automatic train announcement system.

The station is about half a mile from the village of Combe (to the NW) and the hamlet of Combe East End (to the NE).

Services
Since at least February 1999 the station has been served by a minimal service of two trains per day, one in each direction.

This service is currently formed of the 08:13 train to  and the 17:35 train to  which operate Monday-Friday only. There are currently no weekend services at the station with a normal service running on most Bank Holidays.

References

Notes

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Railway stations in Oxfordshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1935
Railway stations served by Great Western Railway
Sanjrani

The Sanjrani () is a sub-branch of the Baloch  tribe settled in the Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan.

Origins 

The Sanjrani are a diverse tribe. According to Nabi Bakhsh Baloch, the Rind are divided into 11 sub-tribes and 60 clans which include the Sanjrani. Sanjrani is also a clan of the Rustamani sub-tribe of the Mazari. The present chief of Chagai and Sardar of Sanjrani tribe is Sardar Hakeem Ali Sanjrani.

Notable people 
 Current Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, Sadiq Sanjrani
 Former Minister and Ambassador to Kenya, Abdul Qadir Sanjrani 
 Former Chief Secretary Sindh, Muhammad Aslam Sanjrani

See also
Sanjrani Chiefdom

References

Baloch tribes
Vindication (Susperia album)

Vindication is the second studio album by Norwegian black metal band Susperia. It was produced by Peter Tägtgren completely free of charge before closing down his studio.

Track listing

Personnel 
Athera – vocals
Cyrus – lead and rhythm guitar
Elvorn – rhythm guitar
Memnock – bass
Tjodalv – drums

Production
Music recorded in Abyss Studio A – Sweden during November and December 2001
Music engineered and recorded by Lars Szöke
Vocals recorded in BBM Studio – Norway during December 2001
Vocals engineered and recorded by Bjorn Boge
Vocals produced by Athera. Assisted by Bjorn Boge
Album mixed by Peter Tägtgren
Album produced by Susperia and Peter Tägtgren
Album mastered at Cutting Room, Stockholm by Björn Engelmann
Cover design, artwork and logo by Rune Tyvold

References 

2002 albums
Susperia albums
Albums produced by Peter Tägtgren
Mount Yasur

Mount Yasur is a volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu,  high above sea level, on the coast near Sulphur Bay, northeast of the taller  Mount Tukosmera, which was active in the Pleistocene. It has a largely unvegetated pyroclastic cone with a nearly circular summit crater 400 m in diameter. It is a stratovolcano, caused by the eastward-moving Indo-Australian Plate being subducted under the westward-moving Pacific Plate. It has been erupting nearly continuously for several hundred years, although it can usually be approached safely. Its eruptions, which often occur several times an hour, are classified as Strombolian or Vulcanian. A large lava plain creeps across the valley at the base.

The glow of the volcano was apparently what attracted Captain James Cook on the first European journey to the island in 1774. Today, the mountain is a sacred area for the John Frum cargo cult. Members of the cult revere John Frum, a deified messenger who foretold the bringing of wealth to the island by American forces, and believe he resides in Mount Yasur with his countrymen. The village of Sulphur Bay, the center of the movement, claims the volcano as part of their territory.

Name
The name of this volcano comes from the Kwamera term iasur meaning "volcano".

IUGS geological heritage site
In respect of its 800-year long eruption and being called the lighthouse of the Pacific, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) included the Yasur–Yenkahe volcanic complex in its assemblage of 100 geological heritage sites around the world in a listing published in October 2022. The organisation defines an IUGS Geological Heritage Site as "a key place with geological elements and/or processes of international scientific relevance, used as a reference, and/or with a substantial contribution to the development of geological sciences through history."

Access restrictions 
Mount Yasur is an easily accessible active volcano, and is a major Vanuatu tourist attraction. The Vanuatu Government monitors the level of volcanic activity in the interests of the public, both tourists and locals alike. This monitoring is carried out by the Vanuatu Geo-Hazards Observatory.

The importance of the volcano to Tanna's tourism industry has resulted in the local government creating levels to alert people. These levels range from 0-5 and notes that An eruption may occur at any level
 Level 0 - Normal
 Level 1 - Signs of Volcanic Unrest
 Level 2 - Major Unrest
 Level 3 - Minor Eruption
 Level 4 - Moderate Eruption
 Level 5 - Very Large Eruption

References

External links

 Volcanoworld site, with pictures

Active volcanoes
Mountains of Vanuatu
Holocene stratovolcanoes
Volcanoes of Vanuatu
Articles containing video clips
VEI-4 volcanoes
Lava lakes
First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites
Unlimited (Susperia album)

Unlimited is third studio album by the Norwegian thrash metal band Susperia, released in 2004. Reviews specifically noted them as sounding like Testament.

Track listing

Personnel 
Athera – vocals
Cyrus – lead and rhythm guitar
Elvorn – rhythm guitar
Memnock – bass
Tjodalv – drums

References 

2004 albums
Susperia albums
Battle of Bornhöved

Battle of Bornhöved can refer to:
Battle of Bornhöved (798), or the first battle of Bornhöved, in 798
Battle of Bornhöved (1227), or the second Battle of Bornhöved, in 1227
Battle of Bornhöved (1813), or the third Battle of Bornhöved, in 1813, between Sweden and Denmark