alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
University of Botswana Non-Academic Staff Union

The University of Botswana Staff Union, formerly the University of Botswana Non-Academic Staff Union (UBNASU) is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU).

Gadzani Mhotsha, General Secretary of the UBNASU, also served as general secretary of the BFTU.

Strikes 
In November 2006, UBNASU took strike action against university management in a dispute over access to parking. In September 2010, UBNASU along with the University of Botswana Academic and Senior Support Staff Union (UBASSSU), opposed salary adjustments at the university which would have seen the vice-chancellor's salary increase 100 percent. Both unions called off strike actions when the salary increase was scrapped.

References

Botswana Federation of Trade Unions
Organisations based in Gaborone
Trade unions in Botswana
1989 establishments in Botswana
Trade unions established in 1989
University of Botswana

Labor disputes in Botswana
Goumois

Goumois () was a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.  On 1 January 2009, the formerly independent municipalities of Goumois and Les Pommerats merged into Saignelégier.

References

External links

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Le Peuchapatte

Le Peuchapatte is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.  On 1 January 2009, the formerly independent municipality of Le Peuchapatte merged into the municipality of Muriaux.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Siayan Island

Siayan is one of the Batanes Islands. Also known as Ditarem Island in the native language, the island is about 1/2 mile to 3/4 miles in diameter and lies about  north-northeastward of Itbayat Island. The closest island is Mavulis Island which is about  north-northeastward of Siayan. There are several detached rocks off Siayan's northeast side, rendering the channel between it and Mabudis unsafe for larger vessels.

Siayan has an elevation of  and is listed as an inactive volcano by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

See also
 List of islands of the Philippines

References

Islands of Batanes
Les Pommerats

Les Pommerats () is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.  On 1 January 2009, the formerly independent municipalities of Goumois and Les Pommerats merged into Saignelégier.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Jamaican vomiting sickness

Jamaican vomiting sickness, also known as toxic hypoglycemic syndrome (THS), acute ackee fruit intoxication, or ackee poisoning, is an acute illness caused by the toxins hypoglycin A and hypoglycin B, which are present in fruit of the ackee tree.  While in the fully ripened arils, hypoglycin A is at levels of less than 0.1 ppm, in unripe arils it can be over 1000 ppm and can cause vomiting and even death. Some countries in the Caribbean and Western Africa experience frequent cases.

Presentation
Abdominal discomfort begins two to six hours after eating unripe ackee fruit, followed by sudden onset vomiting. In severe cases, profound dehydration, seizures, coma, and death may ensue.  Children and those who are malnourished are more susceptible to the disease.

Pathophysiology
When ingested, hypoglycin A is metabolized to produce methylenecyclopropylacetic acid (MCPA). MCPA acts to inhibit the beta-oxidation of fatty acids in two ways.  First, it interferes with the transport of long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria.  Also, it inhibits acyl-CoA dehydrogenases, so that only unsaturated fatty acids can be fully oxidized.  Fatty acids accumulate in the liver in a microvesicular pattern that can be seen on biopsy. In the absence of fatty acid metabolism, the body becomes dependent on glucose and glycogen for energy. Octreotide can be used to reduce the secretion of insulin by the pancreas, thereby preventing severe hypoglycemia.

Inhibition of beta-oxidation of fatty acids, however, also depletes a necessary cofactor for gluconeogenesis.  Once the liver glycogen stores are depleted, the body cannot synthesize glucose, and severe hypoglycemia results.

Initial symptoms appear after about four hours, and deaths have been reported from 12 to 48 hours following consumption.  Supportive care involves carefully metered IV glucose infusion and fluid/eletrolyte replacement; Mortality was 80% before glucose infusion was introduced in 1954. 

A similar outbreak of lethal hypoglycemic encephalopathy has been linked to the consumption of lychee fruit in Muzaffarpur, India. Urinalysis of children affected by the disease has shown all affected have elevated levels of hypoglycin suggesting the same underlying pathophysiology as Jamaican vomiting sickness.

Diagnosis

In popular culture 
The disease appears in the ER episode "Great Expectations", where the symptoms are recognised by Dr Mallucci who, it is later revealed, attended medical school in Grenada.

See also
 Reye syndrome
 Methylene cyclopropyl acetic acid

References 

Toxic effect of noxious substances eaten as food
Brian James (actor)

Brian James (5 July 1918 – 2 November 2009) was an Australian radio, stage, television and film actor.

Early life and theatre 
Brian James was born in Melbourne, the son of the Bishop of St. Arnaud and started his career as a teacher at Ivanhoe Grammar School for four years, in 1933 joining the Royal Australian Navy, after which he was demobilised five years later, and decided to pursue a career as an actor, attending Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, making his stage debut in 1947 and he featured in the 1952 J.C. Williamson production of Seagulls Over Sorrento. He would also appear in the 1960 TV production of the play.

Television and film
According to screenwriter Richard Lane "in that first decade of television it seemed that Brian James was everywhere."

James appeared in several ABC drama plays in the late 1950s, including Duke In Darkness and Killer in Close-Up: The Wallace Case in 1957, Gaslight, The Small Victory, The Public Prosecutor, and The Governess (all 1958), Crime Passionel, Treason, and The House By The Stable (1959). 

He had the lead role as Dr Geoffrey Thompson in the early medical drama Emergency (1959). He also appeared in commercial dramas Shadow of a Pale Horse and Seagulls Over Sorrento in 1960, along with ABC dramas Heart Attack, Eye of the Night, and Mine Own Executioner, and was awarded the TV Week Logie award for "Best Actor" for the plum role of Governor William Bligh in the 1960 ABC drama serial Stormy Petrel (a role which he reprised in a 1974 episode of the anthology series Behind The Legend).

Other ABC drama play appearances included The Ides Of March (1961), The Physicists, Luther, and The Wind From The Icy Country (all 1964).

In 1962, he took the lead role of Jonah Locke in the ATN-7 drama series Jonah.

In 1964, James appeared as a presenter on This Is It!, the opening night program for ATV-0 in Melbourne.

He also featured as Ian Bennett in Bellbird. He appeared as George Tippett in the soap opera Skyways (1979–81) – a character he continued in the ill-fated series Holiday Island in 1981.

He is probably best known to international audiences for his part in the cult soap opera Prisoner (aka Prisoner: Cell Block H) as friendly officer and later prison handyman Stan Dobson, having previously appeared in the series briefly as Dr. Kennedy. He also appeared as John Worthington in Neighbours in the late 1980s.

On film, he made an uncredited appearance as a naval officer in the 1959 Stanley Kramer film On the Beach. He also played screen father to Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark, the 1988 movie about the Lindy Chamberlain court case.

Personal life and death 
Brian James had served with the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. He died at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, of complications following a fall in 2009 aged 91.

Filmography

Television

References

External links
 

1918 births
2009 deaths
Australian male film actors
Australian male television actors
Logie Award winners
Miécourt

Miécourt is a village and a former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. Since January 1, 2009 it is a part of the new municipality La Baroche.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Soo Line Building

The Soo Line Building is a 19-story residential highrise in Minneapolis, Minnesota which was the tallest commercial building in the city from the time it was completed in 1915 until the 26-story Foshay Tower was built in 1929.

History 
The Soo Line Building was built for the First National Bank of Minneapolis, a predecessor of today's U.S. Bancorp (U.S. Bank). The building was designed by the Beaux-Arts master Robert W. Gibson. The building later served for many years as headquarters of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, which added an iconic clock to the corner of the building's street level. For commercial purposes, it was sometimes referred to by its address, 501 Marquette.

The Canadian Pacific Railway became a major shareholder for the Soo Line in 1890. The MStP&SSM merged with numerous CP subsidiaries in 1961 to form the "new" Soo Line Railroad.

During the 1960s, a remodeling operation transformed the building into small offices. The marble floors were covered with carpet.

In 1985, the Soo purchased trackage from the bankrupt Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad ("Milwaukee Road") and usurped it a year later. CP purchased the company outright in 1990; the Calgary-based railway's U.S. headquarters then took over the space for its 400 employees.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 2008.

In 2011, the building was purchased by Michigan-based developer Village Green Properties for $11.3 million; after the commercial tenants were relocated, Village Green began conversion of the property in October 2012 into a 254-unit luxury apartment building with a street-level restaurant, scheduled for completion in Fall 2013. In 2012, the CP moved out of the building.

The first residents of the remodeled building moved in by the end of 2013.

Location 
The building is located across Marquette Avenue from the 510 Marquette Building, the original Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. A skyway connects the building to its neighbor across 5th Street South. Residents' amenities include a rooftop, an indoor/outdoor pool, and a hot tub on the 20th floor.

In front of that building is the Nicollet Mall station of the Blue and Green light rail lines. Nearby is Canadian Pacific Plaza, renamed after the Canadian Pacific Railroad moved in after vacating the Soo Line Building.

Gallery

References

External links

Soo Line Building at the Hennepin County Library.
Soo Line Building at the Minnesota Historical Society.

National Register of Historic Places in Minneapolis
Office buildings completed in 1915
Residential skyscrapers in Minneapolis
Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Soo Line Railroad
Montenol

Montenol is a village and former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Since January 1, 2009 it is a part of the new municipality Clos du Doubs.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Clos du Doubs
Incarnate (The Obsessed album)

Incarnate is a compilation album by American doom metal band The Obsessed. It consists of tracks taken from a number of rare and unreleased sources, namely their Sodden Jackal and Altamont Nation 7"s, the Hellhound Records What the Hell! compilation, and some unreleased demos. There are also two cover songs -- "On the Hunt" (originally by Lynyrd Skynyrd) and "Inside-Looking Out" (originally by The Animals and later covered by Grand Funk Railroad). The track "Streetside" is a video clip.

The album was re-released on double vinyl, digipak CD and digital by Blues Funeral Recordings on October 23, 2020, as part of Record Store Day. All formats included two bonus tracks, demos of "No Blame" and "Neatz Brigade", the final versions of which appeared on the Lunar Womb and The Church Within albums respectively.

Track listing 
"Yen Sleep" – 4:26
"Concrete Cancer" – 3:05
"Peckerwood Stomp" – 2:12
"Inside-Looking Out" (John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, Eric Burdon, Chas Chandler) – 6:17
"Mental Kingdom" – 2:55
"Sodden Jackal" – 4:15
"Iron & Stone" – 2:58
"Indestroy" – 1:29
"Streetside" – 4:24
"Mourning" – 3:54
"Spirit Caravan" – 3:09
"Skybone" – 4:09
"On the Hunt" (Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) – 5:00
"River of Soul" (live) – 4:30
"Climate of Despair" – 3:04
"Decimation" – 4:18
"Fears Machine" – 3:40
"Field of Hours" – 8:09
"Streetside" (video) – 7:32

Personnel 
Scott Weinrich – vocals, guitar
Scott Reeder – bass
Guy Pinhas – bass
Greg Rogers – drums
Mark Laue – bass
Dale Crover – drums, background vocals
Ed Gulli – drums

References

The Obsessed albums
1999 compilation albums
Southern Lord Records compilation albums
Montfavergier

Montfavergier is a former municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.  On 1 January 2009 the former municipality of Montfavergier merged into Montfaucon.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Montignez

Montignez is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.  

On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Buix, Courtemaîche and Montignez merged to form the new municipality of Basse-Allaine.

References

Municipalities of the canton of Jura
Populated places disestablished in 2009
2009 disestablishments in Finland
General Confederation of Workers

General Confederation of Workers may refer to:

General Confederation of Workers (Mexico)
Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores, General Confederation of Workers (Brazil)
General Confederation of Workers (Puerto Rico)
Ocourt

Ocourt is a village and former municipality in the district of Porrentruy of the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Since January 1, 2009 it is a part of the new municipality Clos du Doubs.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Clos du Doubs
Pleujouse

Pleujouse is a village and a former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. Since January 1, 2009, it has been part of the new municipality La Baroche.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Réclère

Réclère is a village and former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. Since 1 January 2009 it is a part of the new municipality Haute-Ajoie.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Roche-d'Or

Roche-d'Or is a village and former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. Since 1. January 2009 it is a part of the new municipality Haute-Ajoie.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Objdump

objdump is a command-line program for displaying various information about object files on Unix-like operating systems. For instance, it can be used as a disassembler to view an executable in assembly form. It is part of the GNU Binutils for fine-grained control over executables and other binary data. objdump uses the BFD library to read the contents of object files. Similar utilities are Borland TDUMP, Microsoft DUMPBIN and readelf.

Note that on certain platforms (e.g. macOS), the objdump binary may actually be a link to llvm's objdump, with different command-line options and behavior.

Example
For example,

 $ objdump -D -M intel file.bin | grep main.: -A20

This performs disassembly on the file «file.bin», with the assembly code shown in Intel syntax. We then redirect it to grep, which searches the main function and displays 20 lines of its code.

Example output:
  4004ed	<main>:
  4004ed:	55                   	push   rbp
  4004ee:	48 89 e5             	mov    rbp,rsp
  4004f1:	c7 45 ec 00 00 00 00 	mov    DWORD PTR [rbp-0x14],0x0
  4004f8:	c7 45 f0 01 00 00 00 	mov    DWORD PTR [rbp-0x10],0x1
  4004ff:	c7 45 f4 02 00 00 00 	mov    DWORD PTR [rbp-0xc],0x2
  400506:	c7 45 f8 03 00 00 00 	mov    DWORD PTR [rbp-0x8],0x3
  40050d:	c7 45 fc 04 00 00 00 	mov    DWORD PTR [rbp-0x4],0x4
  400514:	c7 45 ec 00 00 00 00 	mov    DWORD PTR [rbp-0x14],0x0
  40051b:	eb 13                	jmp    400530 <main+0x43>
  40051d:	8b 05 15 0b 20 00    	mov    eax,DWORD PTR [rip+0x200b15]        # 601038 <globalA>
  400523:	83 e8 01             	sub    eax,0x1
  400526:	89 05 0c 0b 20 00    	mov    DWORD PTR [rip+0x200b0c],eax        # 601038 <globalA>
  40052c:	83 45 ec 01          	add    DWORD PTR [rbp-0x14],0x1
  400530:	8b 05 02 0b 20 00    	mov    eax,DWORD PTR [rip+0x200b02]        # 601038 <globalA>
  400536:	39 45 ec             	cmp    DWORD PTR [rbp-0x14],eax
  400539:	7c e2                	jl     40051d <main+0x30>
  40053b:	5d                   	pop    rbp
  40053c:	c3                   	ret    
  40053d:	0f 1f 00             	nop    DWORD PTR [rax]

See also

 GNU Binutils

External links
 
 
 Binutils::Objdump - Perl interface to objdump

Unix programming tools
Disassemblers
Seleute

Seleute is a village and former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Since January 1, 2009 it has been part of the municipality of Clos du Doubs.

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Jura
Clos du Doubs
GNU Binutils

The GNU Binary Utilities, or , are a set of programming tools for creating and managing binary programs, object files, libraries, profile data, and assembly source code.

Tools
They were originally written by programmers at Cygnus Solutions.

The GNU Binutils are typically used in conjunction with compilers such as the GNU Compiler Collection (), build tools like , and the GNU Debugger ().

Through the use of the Binary File Descriptor library (), most tools support the various object file formats supported by .

Commands
The  include the following commands:

elfutils
Ulrich Drepper wrote , to partially replace GNU Binutils, purely for Linux and with support only for ELF and DWARF. It distributes three libraries with it for programmatic access.

See also

 GNU Core Utilities
 GNU Debugger
ldd (Unix), list symbols imported by the object file; similar to 
 List of Unix commands
llvm provides similar set of tools
 strace, a tool for system call debugging (enabled by kernel functionality) available on many distributions

References

External links
 
 The ELF Tool Chain Project : the BSD license similar project (mirror)

Programming tools
Free compilers and interpreters
GNU Project software
Caballo

Caballo may refer to:

Places
 Caballo, New Mexico
 Caballo Island (in the Philippines)
 Caballo Lake
 Caballo Mountain, Spain
 Caballo Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Other uses
 Caballero, one of the face cards in a Spanish playing card deck
Little London, Buckinghamshire

Little London is a hamlet consisting of approximately 70 houses located immediately east of the village of Oakley in Buckinghamshire and about  northwest of the market town of Thame in neighbouring Oxfordshire.

Little London Green is the largest area of common land in the parish of Oakley.

History
The earliest known records of Little London are from the 16th century. Little London is clearly visible on the New College, Oxford map of Bernwood Forest of 1590. Originally the boundary between Brill and Oakley followed the stream in Oakley, meaning that Oakley parish church, 'the Nap' and 'Little London Green' would have been in Little London.

Little London has several 17th-century cottages. A Congregational chapel was built there in 1847.

In 1934 Buckinghamshire County Council revised parish council boundaries and made Little London part of Oakley. Until the 1960s the hamlet had its own shop.

Toponymy
The  Toponymy (naming) of Little London is not clear. Some locals thought it was founded during the Black Death in the 14th century by Londoners fleeing the capital.  The fact that the hamlet is one field distant from the rest of Oakley may support this theory.

Little London may have been established by Welsh cattle drovers. Cattle drovers established at least 70 communities established in England and Wales, many of which still exist. They were temporary homes for long distance drovers, driving their cattle to the great fairs and markets of London and other centres in England. They were on common land, separated from local communities. The drovers had a licence to travel, granted by Elizabeth I, and were regarded as "foreigners" by the local parishioners who could not travel without a "settlement certificate". One of the Old English words for "foreigners" was utlenden ("outlanders"), which could be corrupted to "Little London".

References

Sources

Hamlets in Buckinghamshire
Phase-coherent holography

Phase-coherent holography is a type of holography, in which undiffracted beams are deflected phase-coherent. It can be used to reconstruct a three-dimensional image from optical field distribution

References

Holography
Stanford Andress

Stanford E. "Andy" Andress is a Colorado author and political candidate.

Andress is the author of the 1996 book, The Civil War: The Sound of Thunder (), which he co-authored with his wife, Irene M. Deasy.

In 2002, Andress ran as a write-in candidate for Colorado Congressional Delegation in the 108th United States Congress with a slogan of "Andress for Congress: Honesty". He placed 6th with 109 votes. Republican Bob Beauprez won the seat in a close election over Democrat Mike Feeley by a margin of 101 votes after a recount.

In 2004, he ran on the ballot in Colorado as an Independent for United States President with his wife as his running mate. They received 804 votes, which while a small number compared to the millions both George W. Bush and John Kerry received, was still more than some of the party-affiliated candidates received in Colorado. In particular, the Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Equality Party, Socialist Party, as well as the combined two competing tickets of the Prohibition Party all received a smaller number of votes.

References 

Living people
Candidates in the 2004 United States presidential election
21st-century American politicians
Colorado Independents
Year of birth missing (living people)
Big-scale pomfret

The big-scale pomfret (Taractichthys longipinnis) also known as the long-finned bream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a pomfret of the family Bramidae. It is found in the Atlantic ocean, at depths down to . This species reaches a length of up to  SL.  This species is of minor importance to the commercial fisheries industry.
From Ireland there are only two records of this fish. The last being from Co. Wicklow.

References
 
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 

Taractichthys
Taxa named by Richard Thomas Lowe
Fish described in 1843
Guyana at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Guyana competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Women
Field events

Boxing

See also
Guyana at the 1995 Pan American Games

References
Official Olympic Reports

Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics
Olympics
Konohana Bridge

The  is a self-anchored suspension bridge located in Osaka, Japan. Opened for traffic in 1990, it has a main span of . The bridge's unusual design has only a single main cable. At the time of its completion it was the largest self-anchored suspension bridge in the world. Its centre span has been tied by the Yeongjong Grand Bridge in Korea which has slightly larger side spans. As of late 2012, the single tower eastern span replacement of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge has a longer span of .

References

External links
 
 A picture of the bridge

Self-anchored suspension bridges
Bridges completed in 1990
1990 establishments in Japan
Suspension bridges in Japan
Bridges in Osaka Prefecture
Konohana-ku, Osaka
Western Samoa at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Western Samoa competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

Results by event

Athletics
Men's Discus Throw 
 Chris Mene
 Qualification — 51.28m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw
 Iloai Suaniu
 Qualification — 38.08m (→ did not advance)

Boxing
Men's Middleweight (75 kg)
Bob Gasio
 First Round — Lost to Ricardo Rodríguez (Brazil), 4-11

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)
Samuela Leu
 First Round — Lost to Lee Seung-bae (South Korea), 0-14

Weightlifting
Men's Middleweight (76 kg)
Ofisa Ofisa 18th (out of 24 competitors)
Snatch 127.5 kg, Clean & Jerk 160 kg, Total 287.5 kg

References
Official Olympic Reports

Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996
1996 in Samoan sport
Baloži

Baloži (; ) is a town of Latvia situated in the Ķekava Municipality just 12 kilometres from the centre of Riga. In 2021, the city had a population of 6,746.

Baloži was founded soon after the Second World War; as a village at the time, it was developed for the nearby peat factory workers. The oldest part of the town is built in a Stalinist style. During the 1970s, territory of the village was expanded towards the A7 highway. During the 1980s this part was built as a modern residential district and called Titurga. In 1991 Baloži received town rights. After the Latvian administrative territorial reform of 2009, Baloži became part of Ķekava Municipality and thus became one of the few Latvian towns which are not municipal centres. Baloži is defined by Latvian law as a part of the region of Vidzeme.

Rail network 
Baloži had a small rail network. It was 28 kilometres long and was built to transport peat from the local factory.

See also
List of cities in Latvia

References 

Towns in Latvia
Populated places established in 1991
1991 establishments in Latvia
Ķekava Municipality
Vidzeme
Big Girl's Blouse

Big Girl's Blouse was an Australian skit program that aired in the mid-1990s on the Seven Network. The show was created by Gina Riley, Jane Turner and Magda Szubanski who all went on to star in Kath & Kim and the characters Kath, Kim and Sharon all feature together in several sketches on the show. There were four one-hour episodes, plus the pilot, which are usually shown as eight half-hour episodes. The phrase "Big Girl's Blouse" is a British English idiom meaning "ineffectual or weak, someone failing to show masculine strength or determination." Many of the sketches from it are still available on YouTube. This was the third sketch show created by Riley, Turner and Szubanski following "Fast Forward" and "Something Stupid".

Reruns 
In Australia, it periodically airs on The Comedy Channel. In America it occasionally appears on the Sundance Channel.

DVD release 
The show was released in its entirety by Shock DVD in Australia on 17 October 2003.

References

External links
Big Girl's Blouse at the National Film and Sound Archive

1994 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings
Australian television sketch shows
Seven Network original programming
Ojuela Bridge

The Ojuela Bridge  or the Mapimi Bridge (Puente de Ojuela, Spanish name) is a suspension bridge located in Mapimí, in the Mexican state of Durango, at the site of the Ojuela Goldmine. The Ojuela Bridge was designed by Wilhelm Hildenbrand and built by the firm of John A. Roebling Sons Company, New York. Completed in 1898 the bridge was restored as a tourist attraction in 1991. It has a main span of 271.5 metres and the distance between the pylons is 315.5 metres. Currently this bridge is only used for pedestrians.

Two plaques were posted on the bridge to commemorate 100 years since its setting it up.
The Ojuela Bridge Plaque reads:

Gallery

References

External links
 
 Photographs of Ojuela Bridge ca. 1910

Suspension bridges in Mexico
Bridges completed in 1898
Buildings and structures in Durango
Mülheim Bridge, Cologne

The Mülheim Bridge ( ;  ) in Cologne is a suspension bridge on the river Rhine in western Germany. It has a main span of 315 metres. The bridge was originally completed in 1929. On October 14–15, 1944, an American bomb struck the chamber containing the demolition charges, destroying the bridge.  The bridge was rebuilt between 1949 and 1951. It connects the city district Riehl on the west side of the river with Mülheim on the east side, after which the bridge is named.

References

See also 
 List of bridges in Germany

Buildings and structures in Cologne
Mülheim, Cologne
Suspension bridges in Germany
Road bridges in Germany
Bridges over the Rhine
Bridges completed in 1951
Bridges in North Rhine-Westphalia
Mitane, Akita

is a town located in Akita Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 14,936, in 6729 households, and a population density of 60 persons per km2 The total area of the town is .

Geography
Mitane is located in northwestern Akita Prefecture, bordered by the Sea of Japan to the west.

Neighboring municipalities
Akita Prefecture
Noshiro
Oga
Hachirōgata
Gojōme
Ōgata
Kamikoani

Climate
Mitane has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is heaviest from August to October.  The average annual temperature in Mitane is 11.1 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1527 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.1 °C, and lowest in January, at around -1.0 °C.

Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Mitane peaked at around the year 1950 and has been in steady decline since then.

History
The area of present-day Mitane was part of ancient Dewa Province, dominated by the Satake clan during the Edo period, who ruled Kubota Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The area was organized into towns and villages within Yamamoto District, Akita with the establishment of the modern municipalities system in 1889. The town of Mitane was created on March 20, 2006, by merging the towns of Hachiryū, Koto'oka, and Yamamoto. The town name comes from the Mitane River that flows through the three original towns. After the merger, the town hall was set up in the former Hachiryū town hall, but the center of transportation and economy is the Shikado district of the former Koto'oka town.

Government
Mitane has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral town council of 15 members. Mitane, together with the city of Noshiro and the other municipalities of Yamamoto District contributes four members to the Akita Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Akita 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Economy
The economy of Mitane is based on agriculture. The town produces over 90% of the junsai sold commercially in Japan. The center of transportation and economy is the Shikato district in former Kotooka town.

Education
Mitane has five public elementary schools and three public middle schools operated by the town government. The town does not have a high school.

Transportation

Railway
 East Japan Railway Company - Ōu Main Line
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Highway

Noted people from Mitane
Takashi Miura, professional boxer

References

External links

Official Website 

 
Towns in Akita Prefecture
Populated coastal places in Japan
Los Robles La Paz

Los Robles La Paz () or simply La Paz is a municipality and a town in the Department of Cesar, Colombia. The town is close to the Capital city of the Department of Cesar; Valledupar. The municipality of La Paz borders to the north with La Guajira Department, to the northeast with the municipality of Manaure. To the east with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela sharing the Serranía del Perijá mountain range. To the south with the municipality of Codazzi, southwest with the municipality of El Paso, Cesar (sharing the Magdalena River as border). To the west with the municipality of San Diego and to the northwest with the municipality of Valledupar.

The eastern part of the territory, near the Serranía del Perijá is inhabited by the Yukpa indigenous people.

History

The first inhabitants of what is present-day the municipality of Los Robles La Paz were the indigenous peoples known as Chimila, which populated the plains of the valley of the Cesar River. On the Serranía del Perijá mountains the Yukpas were also part of the Chimila confederation of tribes.

The Spanish arrived in the area in 1531 but the region of Los Robles La Paz remained dominated by the Chimila. In 1700 Spanish Captain Salvador Felix de Arias was sent to "pacify" the indigenous tribes. Arias founded Los Robles La Paz this same year.

FARC encampment
An encampment for decommissioned FARC fighters was established in 2016 near La Paz as a part of the Colombian peace process.

Notable people
 
 
Jorge Oñate (born 1949), musician
Einer Viveros (born 1970), former footballer

References

External links
 Robles La Paaz official website

Municipalities of Cesar Department
Populated places established in 1700
1700 establishments in the Spanish Empire
Dent Bridge

The Dent Bridge is a suspension bridge in the northwest United States, located in north central Idaho in Clearwater County, north of Orofino. It is  up the North Fork of the Clearwater River, now Dworshak Reservoir. Completed  in 1971 at a cost of $7,848,950, it has a main span of , and an overall length of .

History
Built in conjunction with the Dworshak Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the early 1970s, this bridge provides local access over the flooded river, now Dworshak Reservoir. It replaced a smaller bridge which crossed the river prior to the flooding by the reservoir. Without the bridge, vehicle access from Ahsahka to the small community of Elk River would be blocked off. The Corps of Engineers carefully weighed the possibilities for getting traffic to Elk River from the Orofino side of the Clearwater River. Building a new road all the way around the  long reservoir would not only be expensive, cutting into miles and miles of extremely rocky terrain, but would also be a painful inconvenience for travelers. The only reasonable answer was a bridge somewhere in the middle of the future reservoir.  The exact location was based on the topography most suitable for road access as well as for the bridge construction itself.

The bridge takes its name from Charles and Katherine Dent, who in 1895 owned land on the western side of where the bridge now stands. The settlement of Dent was razed prior to being flooded by the reservoir.

References

External links
Dent Bridge – Highest Bridges
Dent Bridge – Bridgehunter
Dent Bridge – Bridgemeister

Bridges completed in 1971
Suspension bridges in the United States
Buildings and structures in Clearwater County, Idaho
Transportation in Clearwater County, Idaho
Road bridges in Idaho
Towers in Idaho
Pembroke School

Pembroke School may refer to:

Pembroke School, Adelaide, a school in Adelaide, South Australia
Pembroke School, Wales, a school in Pembrokeshire
Pembroke School, New Zealand, a school in Pembroke, New Zealand

See also
Pembroke College (disambiguation)
Wally Rae

Sir Wallace Alexander Ramsay Rae (31 March 1913 – 18 March 2006) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Australia. He served in various Queensland Government ministries.

Biography 
Rae worked as a stock and station agent before serving as a bomber pilot in World War II. After the war, he bought a property located between Blackall and Isisford.

A member of the Country Party he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Gregory in 1957. During his long career in Parliament, he held several ministerial positions including Minister for Local Government and Electricity and Minister for Lands and Forestry.  He was later appointed Queensland's Agent-General in London.

In the 1976 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was made a knight bachelor.

He died in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, on 18 March 2006.

References

Further reading
 

1913 births
2006 deaths
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Australian Knights Bachelor
National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland
20th-century Australian politicians
Australian World War II bomber pilots
Australian stock and station agents
La Jagua de Ibirico, Cesar

La Jagua de Ibirico ((), literally "The Jagua of Ibirico") is a town and municipality in the Department of Cesar, Colombia. This region of La Jagua is rich in coal which is exploited extensively and is second only to El Cerrejon in La Guajira. The area is also known for being a hot spot in the Colombian conflict.

Geography

The municipality of La Jagua de Ibirico borders to the north with the municipality of Becerril; to the east with Venezuela; to the south with the municipality of Chiriguana and to the west with the municipality of El Paso.

History

The first inhabitants in the region were the Chiriguanás. During the Spanish conquest of the Americas period, some remnants of indigenous tribes pertaining to the Arhuacos and Yucos established in the area. The village of La Jagua was founded in 1771 by the Spanish Juan Ramon de Ibirico.

La Jagua de Ibirico became a municipality by ordinance 005 of 1979. In 1985 the rudimentary exploitation of coal began but with little results due to inexperience. In 1990 the government sponsored Carbocol gave concessions to mining companies.

References

External links
 Information, La Jagua de Ibirico
 La Jagua de Ibirico official website
 Gobernacion del Cesar, La Jagua de Ibirico

Municipalities of Cesar Department
Populated places established in 1771
The Shocker (band)

The Shocker is an American punk rock band, featuring L7 bassist Jennifer Finch as key songwriter performing vocals. The band also includes lead and rhythm guitarists, drums, and bass.

History
Finch formed the band in Los Angeles in 2002 and stated that the first members were temporary, which led to a revolving line-up. The band takes its name from the hand gesture the shocker, a sexual innuendo.

In July 2003, The Shocker released their debut EP, Up Your Ass Tray, which contained seven songs.  Finch was the primary songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for the group.  Finch said that they wanted to show more of their "darker side"; some of the songs were considered more pop than rock.  News-Times music reviewer Laurel Tuohy described The Shocker as “gritty, raw and infectious”.

The group toured Europe in 2003 and performed on the Vans Warped Tour music festival in 2003 and 2005.

In 2006, the group released a full-length album entitled Up Your Ass Tray: The Full Length, with songs apropos of a hard rock band added.

Discography
Up Your Ass Tray EP (Oglio Records, 2003)
Up Your Ass Tray – The Full Length (Go Kart, 2006)

References

Punk rock groups from California
Musical groups established in 2002
2002 establishments in California
Spotted fanfish

The spotted fanfish (Pteraclis velifera) is a species of pomfret found in the Indian and western Pacific oceans from South Africa to New Zealand.  It is found at depths to . It reaches a length of  TL.

References
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 

Bramidae
Fish described in 1770
Mount Cardrona

Mount Cardrona in Central Otago, New Zealand is 1,936 metres (6,352 feet) high, and is most easily accessed from the Cardrona Ski Field. Mount Cardrona is in the Crown Range between Wānaka and Queenstown. The often photographed and historic Cardrona Hotel is located at the bottom of the access road that leads up to the Cardrona ski field.

References

Mountains of Otago
Silver Swan (automaton)

The Silver Swan is an automaton dating from the 18th century and now housed in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, England. It was acquired by John Bowes, the museum's founder, from a Parisian jeweller in 1872.

The swan, which is life-sized, is a clockwork-driven device that includes a music box. The swan sits in a "stream" made of glass rods and surrounded by silver leaves. Small silver fish can be seen "swimming" in the stream.

When the clockwork is wound, the music box plays and the glass rods rotate giving the illusion of flowing water. The swan turns its head from side to side and also preens itself. After a few moments the swan notices the swimming fish and bends down to catch and eat one. The swan's head then returns to the upright position and the performance, which lasts about 32 seconds, is over. To help preserve the mechanism, the swan was only operated once each day, at 2pm. The museum was closed during 2020 and 2021 so the daily display did not take place; when the exhibit was being prepared for reopening in May 2021 the clockwork mechanism was found to have seized up and it was withdrawn from display for further conservation.

The mechanism was designed and built by the Low Countries inventor John Joseph Merlin (1735–1803) in conjunction with the London inventor James Cox (1723–1800) in 1773.

The swan was described in the Cox's Museum Act 1772 (13 Geo. 3. c. 41) as being 3 feet (0.91 m) in diameter and 18 feet (5.49 m) high. This would seem to indicate that at one time there was more to the swan than remains today as it is no longer that high. It is said that there was originally a waterfall behind the swan, which was stolen while it was on tour – this could possibly explain the height which is now 'missing'.

It is known that the swan was sold several times and was shown at the Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1867. The American novelist Mark Twain observed the swan and recorded his observation in a chapter of the Innocents Abroad, writing that the swan "had a living grace about his movement and a living intelligence in his eyes."

In 2017 starting in February  the swan spent 6 weeks at the Science Museum as part of an exhibition on robots. In October 2021, the Bowes Museum hosted a 'Silver Swan Study Week', led by clockmaker-conservator Matthew Read. During the week, visitors were able to watch a group of specialist conservators and curators dismantle the swan as they explored the mechanical condition of the object, ahead of creating a conservation plan for its preservation.

The Bowes Museum believes that the Swan is their best-known artefact, and it is the basis of the museum's logo.

Notes

References and further reading

External links

The Silver Swan, description on the website of the Bowes Museum
Silver Swan, photos and a description on an educational site 
HD video of the silver swan in motion

Tourist attractions in County Durham
Automata (mechanical)
Robots of the United Kingdom
18th-century robots
Swans
Robotic animals
Russelia

Russelia is a genus of flowering plants in the plantain family, Plantaginaceae. It is sometimes placed in the families Scrophulariaceae or Veronicaceae. The name honours Scottish naturalist Alexander Russell (1715–1768). Members of the genus are commonly known as firecracker plants or coralblows.  Russelia species grow in many parts of the world and are mildly drought resistant.

Russelia equisetiformis and Russelia sarmentosa are commonly used to hide unattractive retaining walls or fences because they grow quickly and have dense foliage. Growing to a maximum height of , they are shrubs which will tolerate full sun to partial shade. As evergreens they bloom for most of the year.

Due to their attractively coloured flowers, these bushes attract birds and insects (such as bees) that feed on flower nectar.

Species
, Plants of the World Online recognises the following species:

Sources

References

External links
 Coral Plant

Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae genera
Serranía del Perijá

The Serranía del Perijá, Cordillera de Perijá or Sierra de Perijá  is a mountain range, an extension of the eastern Andean branch (Cordillera Oriental), in northern South America, between Colombia and Venezuela, ending further north in the Guajira Desert, a total distance of about . It separates the Maracaibo Basin from the Cesar-Ranchería Basin. Some of the area has been considered as a Flora and Fauna Sanctuary.

Geography 
Starting at the southernmost point, near Ocaña, Colombia, this mountain range forms the boundary between the Colombian departments of Norte de Santander and Cesar, and then as the range progresses north, it forms the international boundary between Venezuela (Zulia State) and Colombia (Cesar Department).  Included in the range are the Sierra Motilones, Sierra Valledupar, and Sierra Oca.  The highest point is Cerro de Las Tetas at 3630 meters, followed by Cerro Irapa at 3540 m., Serranía de Macuira at 864 m., and Cerro Aceite at 853 m.

Peoples 
The range is 58% in Venezuela, and 42% in Colombia.  Venezuela has set aside a substantial part of the central part of the range as a national park (Sierra de Perijá National Park), and Colombia has a smaller one.  In the Venezuelan portion there are Amerindian reservations for the Yucpa and Barí people, and in Colombia for the Iroko and Sokorpa people. Venezuela has started a colonialization border plan building new communities along the border in the Perijá. The town of Cojoro was the first one completed, followed by communities for the Wayuu and Goajira peoples.

Economy and politics 
The climate is mostly tropical humid forests, with cultivation of coffee and papaver flowers. It is also a hot spot in the Colombian conflict serving as home to parts of two FARC blocs called the Caribbean Bloc of the FARC-EP and the Middle Magdalena Bloc of the FARC-EP., and an ELN guerrilla column, that have also strayed into Venezuelan territory.

References 

—Peakbagger.com: Perija-Guajira
 fac.mil.co,Accessed March 9, 2007, Colombian Air Force; "The New Corridors of Arms, Drugs and Death"

Mountain ranges of the Andes
Mountain ranges of Colombia
Mountain ranges of Venezuela
Geographical regions of Venezuela
Protected areas of Colombia
Brocēni

Brocēni (; ) is a town in Saldus Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. The town is situated along the river Ciecere, near lake Cieceres, which contains a large deposit of limestone, which is used in the manufacturing of cement. From 2009 to 2021, the town was the center of Brocēni Municipality.

A Portland cement and slate factory, currently the only one in Latvia, was built from 1936 to 1938 by the Riga-based A/S Ch. Schmit cement factory of H. H. Šmits. The initial capacity was 60 thousand tons of cement per year. In 1948, during the Soviet occupation of Latvia, operations were expanded with the start of the nationalized Brocēni Cement and Roofing Slate Plant, Brocēni Lime Plant and Saldus Brick Plant. After the restoration of the independence of Latvia, the factory continued work and in 2005 was acquired by Cemex. In 2019, Cemex sold its assets in the Baltic states and the Nordic countries to the German .

Brocēni is also home to the Starts Brocēni football club and one of its successors, Brocēni NBJSS (Brocēni Municipality Children and Youth Sports School).

See also
List of cities in Latvia

References

 
Towns in Latvia
Populated places established in 1992
Saldus Municipality
Courland
La Guajira Desert

The La Guajira Desert (Wayuu: Woumainkat Wajiira) is a desert located in northern Colombia and Venezuela, approximately  north of Bogotá, covering most of the La Guajira Peninsula at the northernmost tip of South America. It is the continent's largest desert north of the equator. Most of the region is within Colombia's La Guajira Department, though a small portion is in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. The area holds immense coal reserves which are exploited in a zone known as El Cerrejón. It is also home to the indigenous Wayuu people. The Wayuu are mostly herders but also master deep-sea divers, known for collecting pearls from the Caribbean Sea.

The peninsula is populated chiefly by xeric scrubland, which is home to a large variety of flora and fauna. The National Natural Park of Macuira, established in 1977, is a tropical oasis located in the La Guajira Desert. The park covers  in La Guajira's only mountain chain and ranges in altitude from sea level to . It has a warm climate that averages about .

References

External links

Deserts of Colombia
Deserts of Venezuela
Geography of La Guajira Department