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George Washington Jones (Tennessee politician)

George Washington Jones (March 15, 1806 – November 14, 1884) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's fifth district in the United States House of Representatives. He served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.

Biography
Jones was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, on March 15, 1806. He moved to Tennessee with his parents, who settled in Fayetteville. He received a common school and academical education, also apprenticed to the saddler's trade.

Career
Jones was a justice of the peace from 1832 to 1835. He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1835 to 1839. He served in the Tennessee Senate from 1839 to 1841. He was Clerk of Lincoln County Court from 1840 to 1843.

Elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses, Jones served in the U.S. House of Representatives from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1853, for the fifth district and from March 4, 1853, to March 4, 1859, for the sixth district.  During the Thirty-first Congress and the Thirty-second Congresses he was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Rules, and during the Thirty-fifth Congress he was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Roads and Canals. Jones represented the U.S. Congress at the swearing in of the terminally ill, newly elected Vice-President Willam Rufus deVane King in Matanzas, Cuba.

With war impending, Jones was a delegate to the Peace Convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the conflict, but he did not attend. He was elected from Tennessee as a member of the Confederate House of Representatives in the First Confederate Congress and served from February 18, 1862, to February 18, 1864. He was not a candidate for re-election. Friend and former political ally President Andrew Johnson pardoned Jones for his Civil War activities in June 1865.

Jones was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1870. Jones strongly opposed the Poll Tax provision of the 1870 Tennessee Constitution.

Death
Jones died in Fayetteville, Tennessee, on November 14, 1884 (age 78 years, 244 days). He is interred at Rose Hill Cemetery.

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1806 births
1884 deaths
People from King and Queen County, Virginia
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee
Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Tennessee
Democratic Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Democratic Party Tennessee state senators
People from Fayetteville, Tennessee
19th-century American politicians
Members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves
American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist

The American Music Awards for Favorite Artist – Adult Contemporary has been awarded since 1992. Years reflect the year during which the awards were presented, for works released in the previous year (until 2003 onward, when awards were handed out on November of the same year). The all-time winner in this category is Celine Dion with 4 wins, she is also the most nominated artist with 6 nominations.

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Category facts

Multiple wins

 4 wins
 Celine Dion

 3 wins
 Adele
 Taylor Swift

 2 wins
 Michael Bolton
 Kelly Clarkson
 Shawn Mendes

Multiple nominations

 6 nominations
 Celine Dion

 4 nominations
 Michael Bolton
 Maroon 5

 3 nominations
 Adele
 Mariah Carey
 Kelly Clarkson
 Daughtry
 Whitney Houston
 Norah Jones
 Bruno Mars
 P!nk
 Ed Sheeran
 Taylor Swift

 2 nominations
 Michael Bublé
 Cher
 Eagles
 John Mayer
 Shawn Mendes
 Katy Perry
 Train
 Meghan Trainor
 Shania Twain
 Phil Collins (once as a solo artist and once as a member of Genesis)

References

American Music Awards
Awards established in 1992
Léon Jean Marie Dufour

Léon Jean Marie (or Jean-Marie Léon) Dufour (10 April 1780, Saint-Sever – 18 April 1865) was a French medical doctor and naturalist.

Between 1799 and 1806 he studied medicine in Paris then returned to Saint-Sever in the Landes. He participated as an army doctor in the Peninsular War and returned to his birthplace at the end of the war. In 1854, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Dufour’s gland, an abdominal gland found in the females of nearly all members of the suborder Apocrita, is named after him.

During his life he published 232 articles on arthropods (twenty on spiders) and was the author of  Recherches anatomiques sur les Carabiques et sur plusieurs autres Coléoptères (1824–1826, Paris).

He was honoured in 1810, in the naming of Dufourea, which is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the subfamily Xanthorioideae of the family Teloschistaceae.

Additional writings
 Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les hémiptères : accompagnées de considérations relatives a l'histoire naturelle et a la classification des ces insectes 1833 – Anatomical and physiological research of Hemiptera, along with considerations regarding the natural history and classification of insects.
 Notice botanique et culinaire sur les champignons comestibles du département des Landes, 1840 – Botanical and culinary notes on edible mushrooms from the département of Landes.
 Explications, notes, errata et addenda concernant les Recherches anatomiques et phisiologiques sur les orthoptères, les hyménoptères et les névroptères : part of the seventh volume of the Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, 1841 – Explanations, notes, errata and addenda for anatomical and physiological research of Orthoptera, Hymenoptera and Neuroptera.
 Histoire Anatomique Et Physiologique Des Scorpions, 1856 – Anatomical and physiological history of scorpions.
 Anatomie, physiologie et histoire naturelle des galéodes, 1861 – Anatomy, physiology and natural history of Galeodes.

References

Other sources
 Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Dufour (Jean-Marie, dit Léon) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. ()
 Chantal Boone (2003). Léon Dufour (1780–1865). Savant naturaliste et médecin. Atlantica (Anglet) : 336 p.

External links
 IPNI List of botanical species described.

1780 births
1865 deaths
French entomologists
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
People from Landes (department)
American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Album

The American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Album was first awarded in 1992, but discontinued since 1994.

1990s

American Music Awards
Awards established in 1992
Awards disestablished in 1994
Album awards
Downtown Science (group)

Downtown Science was a short-lived American hip hop duo composed of rapper/producer Kenneth "Bosco Money" Carabello and producer Sam "Sever" Citrin; they were signed to Def Jam Recordings. The group has released four singles from 1988 to 1991, and one and only self-titled studio album in 1991. Their song "If I Was" appeared in Livin' Large! Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

Discography
Albums
1991: Downtown Science
Singles
 1988: "Now Listen"
 1991: "Big Yellow 12-Inch"
 1991: "Radioactive"
 1991: "Room to Breathe"

Musical duos from New York (state)
Def Jam Recordings artists
American hip hop duos
Hip hop groups from New York City
Musical groups established in 1988
Musical groups disestablished in 1992
Musical groups from Queens, New York
1991 establishments in New York City
American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary New Artist

The American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary New Artist was first awarded in 1992, but discontinued since 1994. Years reflect the year during which the awards were presented, for works released in the previous year. New Artists are still recognized, but the prize is awarded without regard to music genre.

Winners and nominees

1990s

References

American Music Awards
Music awards for breakthrough artist
Awards established in 1992
Awards disestablished in 1994
Spanner Trust

The Spanner Trust is a United Kingdom organisation set up to campaign for the right for adults to take part in consensual BDSM activities without fear of prosecution. It was set up after the Operation Spanner court case. As part of its campaign, the Spanner Trust has made a number of submissions to government consultations regarding sadomasochistic activities.

In 2005 the Spanner Trust helped create Backlash, a group opposed to the Government's plans to criminalise possession of what it has termed "extreme pornography". The law covers acts between consenting adults, and realistic depictions of acts.

In the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, the British Government cited the Spanner case (Brown [1994] 1 AC 212) as justification for criminalising images of consensual acts, as part of its proposed criminalisation of possession of "extreme pornography".

Sources

External links 
 The Spanner Trust

BDSM organizations
Political advocacy groups in the United Kingdom
Sexuality in the United Kingdom
Ivy League Records

Ivy League Records is a record label based in Sydney, Australia.

History
Ivy League Records is an Australian-based record label established in 1997 by three musician friends: the late Pete Lusty (John Reed Club) (RIP), Andy Cassell (Youth Group) and Andy Kelly (Glide), who also founded Winterman & Goldstein Management. Ivy League albums have won the prestigious Australian Music Prize (AMP Award) twice via The Mess Hall and Cloud Control. The label has achieved gold/platinum albums via The Rubens, Josh Pyke and Lanie Lane. Other artists on the label include Alpine, Hatchie, The Teskey Brothers, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Tiny Little Houses, Bad Dreems, Sparkadia, Youth Group, 78 Saab, The City Lights, The Vines, Hoolahan.

Rise to prominence
Ivy League experienced its first significant success with the Sydney band, Youth Group. Ivy League subsequently reached prominence through the label with Josh Pyke and Cloud Control; management success was experienced with The Vines, Jet and The Sleepy Jackson.

Equity deal
In March 2006, Ivy League announced that they had entered into an equity relationship with Michael Gudinski, a well-known figure in the Australian music scene.

Past releases
In the past, the label released music from the likes of The Vines, Red Riders, Bridezilla, Wild Billy Childish and the Buff Medways, The Silents, 78 Saab, The City Lights, The Whigs, Snob Scrilla and Neon and The John Reed Club.

Distribution
Ivy League is distributed by Universal Music Australia.

Bands (Current)

A. Swayze & the Ghosts
Hatchie
The Mess Hall
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
The Rubens
The Teskey Brothers
Tiny Little Houses
Wilsn
Youth Group

Bands (Alumni)
Alpine
Bad Dreems
Cabins
Catcall
Cloud Control
Deep Sea Arcade
The Vines
Red Riders
78 Saab
The City Lights
The Silents
Neon
Bridezilla
Snob Scrilla
Sparkadia
Lanie Lane
Wons Phreely
Hoolahan
 John Reed Club

Awards and nominations

AIR Awards
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

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See also
 List of record labels

References

External links
 
 Ivy League Records' official Facebook page
 

Australian companies established in 1997
Record labels established in 1997
Australian record labels
Alternative rock record labels
Rock record labels
Record labels based in Sydney
American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Artist

The American Music Award for Favorite Rock Artist has been awarded since 1995. Years reflect the year in which the awards were presented, for works released in the previous year (until 2003 onward when awards were handed out on November of the same year). The all-time winner in this category is Linkin Park with 6 wins, they are also the most nominated act with 8 nominations.

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Category facts

Multiple wins

 6 wins
 Linkin Park

 2 wins
 Creed
 Green Day
 Imagine Dragons
 Pearl Jam
 Red Hot Chili Peppers
 Twenty One Pilots
 Machine Gun Kelly

Multiple nominations

 8 nominations
 Linkin Park

 5 nominations
 Green Day
 Imagine Dragons

 4 nominations
 Coldplay

 3 nominations
 Foo Fighters
 Limp Bizkit
 Pearl Jam
 Red Hot Chili Peppers
 Twenty One Pilots

 2 nominations
 Billie Eilish
 The Black Keys
 Bush
 Creed
 Mumford & Sons
 Nine Inch Nails
 Panic! at the Disco
 System of a Down

References

American Music Awards
Awards established in 1995
Susanne Lautenbacher

Susanne Lautenbacher (born 19 April 1932, in Augsburg) is a German violinist.  She studied violin with the Munich-based violin pedagogue Karl Freund (first violin of the Freund Quartet) and later with Henryk Szeryng.  She was a prizewinner in the  early years of the Munich ARD Violin Competition. On some early recordings her name appears as Suzanne or Susi.

Lautenbacher has made a large number of gramophone recordings, and featured in numerous recordings of concertos and chamber music between the late 1950s and early 1990s, on labels such as Vox, Turnabout, Intercord, Bärenreiter-Musicaphon, Bayer, and many others. She has recorded works by Biber, Locatelli, Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart including two of the five Violin Concertos and the Concertone K. 190, Beethoven including the Concerto, both Romances and the 'Spring' and 'Kreutzer' Sonatas, J.N. Hummel, Schubert, Rolla, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Spohr, Viotti, Brahms, Reger, Béla Bartók, Kurt Weill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Hans Pfitzner, Hans Werner Henze, Hans Schaeuble, Giorgio Federico Ghedini (Concerto dell'albatro) and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. She also made numerous concert appearances, especially with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, Heilbronn, conducted by Jörg Faerber. Among other works, Lautenbacher instigated and premièred the Concerto for violin and voices Orpheus (1978/9) by Arthur Dangel and the Violin Concerto Septuarchie (1975) by Eva Schorr. She also performed regularly in chamber music, principally with the Bell'Arte Trio (Stuttgart), Ulrich Koch (viola), Thomas Blees then Martin Ostertag (cello), and the pianist Martin Galling. With other instrumentalists, the Trio also appeared as the Bell'Arte Ensemble.

Lautenbacher taught the violin for many years at the Stuttgart Conservatoire where she was appointed to a professorship in 1965.  Her husband, Heinz Jansen (1906–2002), a violinist in the Armin Lutz and Karl Freund String Quartets and also a viola player in the Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra, after the War became a recording engineer and producer who founded and directed his own classical music recording company, the Südwest-Tonstudio Stuttgart, where many of Susanne Lautenbacher's numerous recordings were made.

References

Further Reading
Jansen, Heinz: Von der Wiege über die Geige zur Schallplatte - Lebenserinnerungen. Privatdruck, 1988

Reif, Ruth Renée: die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, ein historisches Porträt. Tübingen: Silberburg-Verlag, 1999

1932 births
Living people
German women musicians
Women classical violinists
21st-century violinists
21st-century women musicians
Chris Miller (writer)

John Christian Miller (born 1942 in Brooklyn) is an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for his work on National Lampoon magazine and the film Animal House, which he also acted in with co-writer/actor Douglas Kenney. The latter was inspired by Miller's own experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College, in which he went by the name "Pinto". Miller graduated from Dartmouth in 1963.

Filmography

Bibliography

Screw (1968) 
National Lampoon (1970)
National Lampoon's Animal House: The Full-Color, Illustrated Novel from the Hit Movie (1978) 
The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie (2006)

Notes

External links
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1942 births
Living people
American humorists
American male screenwriters
Tuck School of Business alumni
National Lampoon people
American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist

The American Music Award for Favorite Artist – Latin has been awarded since 1998. On the list below, the year reflects the year in which the awards were presented for works released in the previous year (until 2003 onward when awards were handed out on November of the same year). The all-time winner in this category is Enrique Iglesias with 8 wins. He is also the most nominated artist with 12 nominations. For the 48th American Music Awards in 2020, the category was split into Favorite Male Artist – Latin and Favorite Female Artist – Latin in recognition of the increasing popularity of the Latin genre in the US.

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Category facts

Multiple wins

 8 wins
 Enrique Iglesias

 5 wins
 Shakira

 3 wins
 Bad Bunny

 2 wins
 Marc Anthony
 Becky G
 Jennifer Lopez
 Ricky Martin

Multiple nominations

 12 nominations
 Enrique Iglesias

 8 nominations
 Shakira

 5 nominations
 Marc Anthony
 Daddy Yankee

 4 nominations
 Bad Bunny
 Ricky Martin

 3 nominations
 Becky G
 Karol G
 Jennifer Lopez
 Luis Miguel
 Romeo Santos
 Rosalía

 2 nominations
 Luis Fonsi
 Don Omar
 Kali Uchis
 Pitbull
 Wisin & Yandel

See also
 Latin American Music Awards

References

American Music Awards
Latin music awards
Awards established in 1998
Taragarh Fort, Ajmer

Taragarh Fort is a fortress built upon a steep hillside in the city of Ajmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was constructed in the 8th century by Ajayaraja Chauhan (721–734) and it was originally called Ajaymeru Durg.

History
This fort was known for its strength and strategic importance. First attack on this fort was made by Muhammad of Ghazni in 1024 AD. He laid down the siege, was wounded and failed to take the fort.

Prithviraj, son of Rana Raimal of Mewar and elder brother of Rana Sanga, captured Taragarh fort  of Ajmer during the end of 15th century, after slaying Governor Mallu Khan. The fort is also called Taragarh, named after Prithviraj's wife Tarabai. It remained under control of Mewar and later Rana Sanga granted it to Karamchand Panwar

Architecture
There are three gateways to the fort known as Lakshmi Pol, Phuta Darwaza, and Gagudi ki Phatak. There were 14 bastions in the wall of this fort. 
Most parts of these gateways are now in ruins. The largest of its battlements is the 16th-century bastion known as the Bhim Burj, on which was once mounted a large cannon called Garbh Gunjam, or 'Thunder from the Womb'. In the fort are water reservoirs.

The fort also holds a shrine dedicated to Miran Saheb ki Dargah, who lost his life in 1202 CE during a Rajput attack. He was slain in a perfidious Rajput attack that took place while him and his men were conducting their prostration (namaaz).

After conquering the fort of Kandahar, Emperor Jahangir built this Marble Cage (Kathera) in the dargah of Meera Syed Hussain in 1615.

References

Further reading

 
 
 
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Forts in Rajasthan
Rajput architecture
Buildings and structures in Ajmer
Tourist attractions in Ajmer
Hamala, Bahrain

Hamala () is a village located in the Kingdom of Bahrain, an island country in the Persian Gulf.

Batelco, Bahrain's largest telecommunications company, has its HQ based in Hamala.

References 

Populated places in the Northern Governorate, Bahrain
Populated coastal places in Bahrain

fr:Hamala
Lisa Breckenridge

Lisa Breckenridge is a former American television personality and news anchor. She currently runs a blog called happy.com.

Biography
Breckenridge dropped out from Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley in 1987 and struggled with issues relating to hair loss in the late 1980s.

She worked at KYMA-DT in Yuma, Arizona, then at KOLO-TV in Reno, Nevada and at KCRA in Sacramento, California, before settling at KTTV as a reporter, fill-in anchor, and lifestyle correspondent for Good Day L.A., a job she held for  years from 1999 to 2017. She was let go from the channel in January 2017, due to declining viewership on her segments.

She was married to talent manager Andy Cohen for 15 years; they announced their divorce in 2018.  Breckenridge is known for her unusual haircut which she has unsuccessfully tried to trademark.

References

External links
Lisa Breckenridge official biography on KTTV FOX 11 website, myfoxla.com.
Lisa Breckenridge's blog
[http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/GoodDay FOX 11 Morning News and Good Day LA]
TWIST OF FATE: Lisa Breckenridge & Andy Cohen
http://www.puc.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/62063/Winter-2010-Viewpoint-.pdf

1965 births
Living people
Pacific Union College alumni
Stanford University alumni
American women television journalists
Television anchors from Los Angeles
People from Lodi, California
21st-century American women
American Music Award for Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist

The American Music Award for Favorite Artist – Contemporary Inspirational has been awarded since 2002. Years reflect the year in which the awards were presented, for works released in the previous year (until 2003 onward when awards were handed out on November of the same year). The all-time winners in this category are Casting Crowns and Lauren Daigle with four wins each. Casting Crowns is the most nominated act with eight nominations.

Winners and nominees

2000s

2010s

2020s

Category facts

Multiple wins
Four wins
 Casting Crowns
 Lauren Daigle (Consecutive)

Two wins
 Mary Mary
 MercyMe

Multiple nominations
Eight nominations
 Casting Crowns

Six nominations
 MercyMe
 Lauren Daigle

Five nominations
 tobyMac

Four nominations
 Third Day

Three nominations
 Jeremy Camp
 Steven Curtis Chapman
 Hillsong United
 Chris Tomlin

Two nominations
 Jars of Clay
 Mary Mary
 Newsboys

See also

 List of religion-related awards

References

American Music Awards
Christian music awards
Awards established in 2002
CATS (trading system)

CATS (Computer Assisted Trading System) was an automated exchange system developed by the Toronto Stock Exchange. It went live on November 18, 1977, with 90 stocks. The first trader to use the system was Ralph W. Varney of Jones Gable, who also served on the development committee. CATS was introduced, piloted and developed by Harold B. Hofmann, then the Vice President of Operations at the Toronto Stock Exchange. CATS was one of the first technologies allowing for a full automation of the price-setting process in a stock exchange. This technology was implemented in several other stock exchanges in the 1980s. In some cases, it was used as an assistance to open-outcry, but in others it allowed for a full dismantlement of the open-outcry institution. The Paris Bourse purchased this system in the early 1980s and implemented it as CAC (Cotation Assistée en Continu).

CATS handled the process of order matching and price setting through a "double auction" algorithm. It is credited for having been the first system to allow for a full automation of the price setting process in a centralized, order-driven stock market.

Notes

References
Domowitz, I. 1990 "The Mechanics of Automated Trade Execution Systems", Journal of Financial Intermediation 1(2): 167–194.
Domowitz, I. and Wang, J. 1994 "Auctions as Algorithms: Computerized Trade Execution and Price Discovery", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 18(1): 29–60.
Toronto Stock Exchange, 1982 CATS The First Five Years

Stock exchanges in Canada
Former electronic trading platforms
1977 software
Online auction tools
Reg

Reg or REG may refer to:
 Reginald (disambiguation)
 Reg or desert pavement
 Raising for Effective Giving, a charity
 Random event generator (parapsychology)
 Raptor Education Group
 Regal Entertainment Group
 Regular language
 .reg MS Windows registry file extension
 Registration, such as for a motor vehicle
 Abbreviation of regina, queen, on coins or in law
 Reg (film), a BBC television drama
 Reg, the robot in the children's animated TV show Rubbadubbers
 Reg group in the C-lectin protein family
 Richard E. Grant
 Reg, a character from the Made in Abyss franchise
 Regulation CPA exam

Places 
 Reg, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province
 Reg, Gilan, a village in Gilan Province
 Reg District (Helmand), Afghanistan
 Reg District (Kandahar), Afghanistan
 Reggio Calabria Airport

See also 
 Regular (disambiguation)
Surf kayaking

Surf kayaking is the sport, technique, and equipment, used in surfing ocean waves with kayaks. Surf kayaking has many similarities to surf board surfing, but with boats designed for use in surf zones, and with a paddle. A number of kayak designs are used, but all are aimed at better using the waves to propel the craft.

Surf kayaking is popular in many areas frequented by surf board surfers. The sport has grown in popularity over the last decades, in pace with the rise of sea kayaking, and modern materials and techniques.

Equipment

Surf kayaks
There are a number of speciality surf kayak designs available. They are often equipped with up to four fins with a three fin thruster set up being the most common. Speciality surf kayaks typically have flat bottoms, and hard rails, similar to surf boards. The design of a surf kayak promotes the use of an ocean surf wave (moving wave) as opposed to a river or feature wave (moving water). They are typically made from glass composites (mixtures of carbon fiber, Kevlar and fiberglass) or rotomolded plastic.

Many kayaks, such as those used in whitewater kayaking on rivers or tidal rapids, are used. Many whitewater designs can be fitted with fins, to assist in control on moving surf waves. (See: Ocean surface wave, Whitewater)

Sea kayaks, generally used for day-trip or expedition kayaking, are used in surf kayaking. Due to their length, sea kayaks are difficult to manoeuvre in surf. The techniques and strategies utilized in landing kayaks safely through large, open ocean surf, even when heavily loaded, could be considered a sub-discipline of surf kayaking.

Paddles
Typically double sided kayak paddles. Length is generally proportional to dimensions of boat and paddler, but can range from 160 to 230 cm. Kayak blades are often 'feathered' (set on an angle in relation to each other), allowing the paddle to pass smoothly through the lip of a wave when paddling into breaking waves. It is not unusual for un-feathered paddles to be used as personal preference.

Occasionally single-sided 'canoe' paddles are used. This is perhaps attributed to whitewater canoe influence.

Surf kayak paddles are generally made from robust materials to last the rigours of the surf zone. Fiberglass, plastic, and carbon fiber are most common.

Surfing Open Ocean Swell 
When paddling in open ocean swell, it is possible to surf a kayak, thereby increasing one's speed. Ocean swell, having a longer distance between crests than wind waves, allows sea kayaks and other longer boats to surf down the front of the wave. This technique, especially when used on extended expedition trips, can add miles to a day trip.

References

Kayaking
Surfing
Crofts (surname)

Crofts is a surname of English origin. The name refers to:
Andrew Crofts (b. 1953), English writer
Andrew Crofts (b. 1984), Welsh professional football player
Daniel Webster Crofts (1828–1852), American lawyer and Mason; founder of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
Dash Crofts (1940–), American musician; half of the 1970s singing duo Seals and Crofts
Ernest Crofts (1847–1911), English painter
Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957), Irish-English mystery author
Hayley Crofts (b. 1988), New Zealand netball player
Lewis Crofts (b. 1977), English journalist and author
Marion Crofts (1966–1981), murder victim 
Stella Rebecca Crofts (1898–1964), English artist
Thomas Crofts (1722–1781), English Anglican priest, bibliophile, and Fellow of the Royal Society
William Carr Crofts (1846–1894), English lawyer and entrepreneur
William Crofts, 1st Baron Crofts (b. unknown, d. 1677), English nobleman

References

See also 
 Croft (disambiguation)
 Croft (surname)

Surnames of British Isles origin
English-language surnames
Occupational surnames
English-language occupational surnames
1929 Greek Senate election

Senate elections were held in Greece on 21 April 1929. The Senate was a new institution introduced with the Greek Constitution of 1927 and these were the first elections for it. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 64 of the 92 directly-elected seats. It was regarded as a public approval of the policies of Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.

Results

References

Parliamentary elections in Greece
Greece
1929 in Greece
1920s in Greek politics
Eleftherios Venizelos
Election 1929
History of Greece (1924–1941)
Greece
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results
Micheal R. Williams

Micheal R. Williams (born February 6, 1955 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a Tennessee politician who formerly served in the Tennessee State Senate and was elected county mayor of Union County in August 2010.

A resident of Maynardville, in the Tennessee State Senate Williams represented the 4th district, which encompasses Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, and Union counties.

He attended Lincoln Memorial University and obtained a B.A. in Health and Physical Education in 1985. He currently works in antique automobile restoration.

Williams was first elected to the 97th General Assembly as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. He served as a state senator since being elected to the 100th General Assembly as a member of the Republican Party.

Williams was Speaker pro Tempore of the Tennessee Senate during the 104th General Assembly (2005–2006). During the 100th General Assembly, he was the Senate Republican Whip, and he was the Senate Republican Assistant floor leader during the 101st General Assembly. He serves on the Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee, the Senate Commerce, Labor, and Agriculture Committee, and the Senate Rules Committee.

On March 14, 2007, he announced that he was leaving the Senate Republican Caucus and becoming an Independent. This left the Senate evenly divided, with 16 Democrats, 16 Republicans, and one Independent. In explaining his move, Williams said: "Some in the [Republican] party are leading us down a path of bitterness and divisiveness and, in doing so, they have left me. I have not left them." Senate leaders from both parties said Williams' move would make little difference because, as Senate Democratic Leader Jim Kyle stated, "Mike Williams has never been a guaranteed vote for anyone." Williams said he had not decided whether to seek re-election in 2008. The district he represents is generally regarded as strongly Republican, but Williams said he believes voters appreciate independence. "The largest voting bloc in the state of Tennessee is Independents," he said. "They're just not organized."

In the 2007-2008 edition of the Tennessee Blue Book, Williams listed his party affiliation as "Independent NASCAR Fan." In 2008 he ran for re-election to the State Senate as an independent candidate, narrowly losing to Church Hill attorney Mike Faulk, a Republican, by a vote of 29,417 to 29,171.

Williams won election to the office of county mayor in Union County on August 5, 2010, receiving 52.2% of the vote and defeating incumbent Larry Lay.

References

External links
Micheal Williams' profile at the Tennessee General Assembly

Heads of county government in Tennessee
Living people
People from Maynardville, Tennessee
Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Republican Party Tennessee state senators
1955 births
Einarr Helgason

Einarr Helgason, known by the epithet skálaglamm ("tinkle-scales") was a 10th-century Icelandic skald.
He was a court poet of Lord Hákon to whom he dedicated his magnum opus, the Vellekla (Gold Dearth). Einarr's added name skálaglamm means "tinkle-scales" and refers to a set of balances and weights with divinatory powers, given to him by Hákon.

The part of Einarr's poetry that has come down to us is preserved in the Kings' sagas, the Prose Edda, Egils saga and Jómsvíkinga saga. According to Egils saga, Einarr was a friend of Egill Skalla-Grímsson and once gave him a decorated shield which he had received in Norway. Egill was greatly displeased since tradition compelled him to compose a drápa on the shield.

According to Landnámabók and other sources, Einarr drowned in Breiðafjörður.

References
Of Einar Helgi's son and Egil A chapter from Egils saga
Heimskringla : King Olaf Trygvason's Saga: Part I Includes many quotations from Vellekla translated by Laing
Einarr skálaglamm All of Einarr's poetry with short notes on the skald in Icelandic
Vellekla Text of the poem with short notes on the skald in Norwegian

Footnotes

10th-century Icelandic poets
BAPCo

Bapco, BAPCo or BAPCO may refer to:

 BAPCo consortium, Business Application Performance Corporation
 Bahrain Petroleum Company
 BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corporation
Traful Lake

Traful Lake is a lake in the Los Lagos Department of the Argentine province of Neuquén with an area of 76 km². The lake is the starting point of the Traful River that empties into the Nahuel Huapi Lake.  It is contained inside Nahuel Huapi National Park.

This lake is famous for a scenic view from a 102-meter-high glacier cliff which offers a complete view of the lake and the entire valley. On the lake's shore lies the mountain town of Villa Traful, the main settlement in the lake area.  It has campgrounds, a gas station, and hotels.

The waters of the lake are very transparent and well oxygenated.  The irregular coasts of the lake have cliffs and beaches.  Fishing is possible both from boats and from the shore.  The north shore has good fishing for landlocked salmon, rainbow trout, brook trout, and brown trout.

Northern arm, “Pichi Traful” 

The lake has a long, thin northern arm, known as Lake Pichi Traful. It extends to the northwest of the main body of the lake, accessible by the lake road or by highways RP 65 and RP 234.  Upon arrival, there is a park guard station, which provides information about places to spend the night or camp.  This branch of the lake is fed by the Pichi Traful river, which contributes oxygenated water.  It's an excellent place for fly-fishing.  At its mouth, there are beaches for camping.

Submerged forest 

The lake contains a dead forest of some 60 cypress trees, which stand in some 15 meters of water.  Previously they stood on a nearby hill, but a landslide, probably in the 1960s, plunged them into the lake, where they still stand today.  Due to the water's great transparency, their roots are visible from the surface when it is calm.

References

External links

Villa and Lake Traful 
Traful Lake 
Traful Lake 
Picture of the Viewpoint

Lakes of Neuquén Province
Francesco Selmi

Francesco Selmi (7 April 1817 – 13 August 1881) was an Italian chemist and patriot, one of the founders of colloid chemistry.

Selmi was born in Vignola, then part of the Duchy of Modena and Reggio. He became head of a chemistry laboratory in Modena in 1840, and a professor of chemical pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Bologna in 1867. He published the first systematic study of inorganic colloids, in particular silver chloride, Prussian blue, and sulfur, in the period 1845–50.

He died in Vignola on 13 August 1881.

References

External links
 Fondo Documentario Francesco Selmi, Biblioteca Comunale di Vignola
 Francesco Selmi, books and articles, Google Book Search
 Celebri Vignolesi

1817 births
1881 deaths
Italian chemists
People from Vignola
Colloid chemists
Tetovo Municipality

Tetovo (, ; ) is a municipality in the northwest part of North Macedonia. Tetovo's municipal seat is located in the town of the same name. Tetovo Municipality is part of the Polog Statistical Region.

Geography
The municipality borders Kosovo to the north and west, Tearce Municipality to the northeast, Jegunovce Municipality to the east, Želino Municipality to the southeast, Brvenica Municipality to the south, and Bogovinje Municipality to the southwest.

History
As a result of the redrawing of municipality borders in 2003, the rural Šipkovica Municipality and Džepčište Municipality were attached to Tetovo Municipality. Without these two municipalities, the population of the Municipality of Tetovo was 65,318 according to the census of 1994, and 70,841 at the last census. The population of the former Šipkovica Municipality in 1994 was 6,797, and according to the last census was 7,820. The population of the former Džepčište Municipality in 1994 was 7,286, and according to the last census was 7,919. The population of the present-day combined municipality is 86,580.

On 26 November 2019, an earthquake struck Albania and Tetovo Municipality held 2 days of mourning for the earthquake victims and sent humanitarian aid and 500,000 denars for relief efforts.

Demographics
The number of the inhabited places in the municipality is 20. There is one city and 19 villages. The population of the municipality is 84,770. Ethnic groups in the municipality include:

Inhabited places

There are 20 inhabited places in this municipality.

Historical photographs from Tetovo

References

External links
 Official website
 Tetovo municipality info

 
Polog Statistical Region
Municipalities of North Macedonia
Amazulu (disambiguation)

The amaZulu are the Zulu people of southern Africa.

Amazulu or AmaZulu may also refer to:

 AmaZulu F.C., a South African football club
 Amazulu FC (Zimbabwe), a defunct Zimbabwean football club
 Amazulu (band), a British ska band of the 1980s
 AmaZulu: The Children of Heaven, a 2006 British documentary film directed by Hannan Majid and Richard York
 Amazulu (album), debut studio album of South African singer-songwriter Amanda Black
 "Amazulu" (song), a 2016 song by Amanda Black

See also
 Zulu (disambiguation)
 Zululand (disambiguation)
Ion Popescu-Gopo

Ion Popescu-Gopo (; 1 May 1923 – 29 November 1989) was a Romanian graphic artist and animator, but also writer, film director, and actor.

He was born in Bucharest, Romania. He was a prominent personality in the Romanian cinematography and the founder of the modern Romanian cartoon school. He was, together with Liviu Ciulei and Mirel Ilieșiu, one of the few Romanian film artists who won an award at the Cannes Film Festival in the 20th century. His film, "Scurtă Istorie" (A Brief History), won the Short Film Palme d'Or for best short film in 1957. His 1965 film,  The White Moor, was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival, where he won the award for Best Director. In 1969, and again in  1977 and 1983 he was a member of the jury at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival, the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.  and the 13th Moscow International Film Festival.

Ion Popescu-Gopo attended (but never graduated from) the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest. He also attended animation courses in Moscow. He made Maria, Mirabela, which is a Romanian-Russian co-production.

His career started as a designer and cartoonist in 1939, publishing caricatures and editorial cartoons in newspapers. 1949 brought his debut in the film industry with "Punguța cu doi bani" (Bag with two coins). Since 1950 he started working for Studioul Cinematografic București (Cinematographic Studio Bucharest) in the animation department, that later broke into a separate animation studio, Animafilm.

His most known cartoon character is a little black and white man sometimes referred to as "Gopo's Little Man" after his creator. Later in his life Popescu-Gopo confessed that he tried to start an "anti-Disney rebellion". Unable to surpass Disney's animation characters in color and beauty, Popescu-Gopo tried to be more profound in message and substance and simplify the form and techniques used. Unlike Disney's cartoon characters, Popescu-Gopo's cartoon characters were black and white, designed in simple lines.

Ion Popescu-Gopo died in Bucharest on 29 November 1989, just weeks before the Romanian Revolution. He suffered a heart attack while trying to push his car, stuck in snow, into his garage. His death was the first step into the downfall of the Romanian animation studios Animafilm, which later suffered from financial issues after the 1989 revolution.

References

External links
 
 Ion Popescu-Gopo in agenda.liternet.ro (Romanian)

1923 births
1989 deaths
Artists from Bucharest
Film people from Bucharest
Romanian animators
Romanian male actors
Romanian film directors
Romanian animated film directors
Romanian caricaturists
Romanian editorial cartoonists
Romanian comics artists
Romanian graphic artists
20th-century Romanian male actors
Waratah Bay, Victoria

Waratah Bay is a town in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, on the shore of Waratah Bay. It is home to around 300 people, of whom 56 are permanent residents. 2016 Census

The town is named after the bay which was named after a ship the Waratah which anchored here for repairs when damaged.

A Post Office named Waratah Bay opened on 10 August 1885, but was at nearby Walkerville and was renamed as such in 1892.

References

Coastal towns in Victoria (state)
Towns in Victoria (state)
Shire of South Gippsland
Heroin (disambiguation)

Heroin is an opioid drug, but the term may also refer to:

 Heroin (band), a hardcore punk band
 Heroin (Heroin album)
 Heroin (Z-Ro album), 2010
 "Heroin" (The Velvet Underground song), 1967
 "Heroin" (Buck-Tick song), a 1997 single by Buck-Tick
 "Heroin / Never Never", a 1998 single by Human Drama
"Heroin", a song by Superpitcher
"Heroin", a song by Lana Del Rey from Lust for Life

See also
 Heroine (disambiguation)
 Heroina (fish), a genus of fish belonging to the family Cichlidae
House Beautiful

House Beautiful is an interior decorating magazine that focuses on decorating and the domestic arts. First published in 1896, it is currently published by the Hearst Corporation, who began publishing it in 1934. It is the oldest still-published magazine in what is known as the "shelter magazine" genre.

The magazine was launched in the United Kingdom in the early 1950s, positioned for young 'home-makers.' It is still sold in the UK, where it has a circulation of 93,992.

Editors
 Eugene Klapp and Henry B. Harvey (1896–1897)
 Eugene Klapp (1897–1898)
 Herbert S. Stone (1898–1913)
 Virginia Huntington Robie (1913–1915)
 Mabel Kent (1915–1916)
 Grace Atkinson Kimball (1916–1918)
 Mabel Rollins (1918–1920)
 Charlotte Lewis (1921)
 Ellery Sedgwick (1922)
 Ethel B. Power (1923–1934)
 Arthur H. Samuels (1934–1936)
 Kenneth K. Stowell (1936–1941)
 Elizabeth Gordon (1941–1964)
 Sarah Tomerlin Lee (1965–1969)
 Wallace Guenther (1969–1977)
 Doris Shaw (1977–1978)
 JoAnn Barwick (1978–1991)
 Louis Oliver Gropp (1991–2000)
 Marian McEvoy (2000–2002)
 Mark Mayfield (2002–2005)
 Stephen Drucker (2005–2010)
 Newell Turner (2010–2015)
 Sophie Donelson (2015–2018)
Joanna Saltz (2018–present)

References

External links 
  (US)
  (UK)
 House Beautiful (US) at the HathiTrust
 Voices of Oklahoma interview with Charles Faudree. First person interview conducted on October 8, 2012, with Charles Faudree, interior designer featured in House Beautiful. 
 Thoughts of Home: Reflections on Families, Houses, and Homelands from the Pages of House Beautiful Magazine

Women's magazines published in the United States
Lifestyle magazines published in the United States
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1896
Hearst Communications publications
Magazines published in New York City
Design magazines
Karrana

Karrana (, from  karāna, meaning "coast, bank") is a village located in the Northern Governorate, Bahrain. The village is nicknamed the "Green Village" because of the excellence of its green palms and its relative suitability for agriculture. The village is located west of the capital Manama

Population
Karrana is inhabited by 12,000 people, and is home to the Karrana Elementary School For Girls. Historically, Karrana was divided into a group of villages which were: Al Muqaysim, Rozkan, Al Harbadiya, Al Majrafat, but now is considered to be one village. Some of the distinct areas of the consolidated village include Al Mahmoodiyat, Fareeq Al Manai, Fareeq Al Loza, and others.

Notable people
Abduladhim Al Muhtadi Al Bahrani says in his book Ulama Al Bahrain Durus Wa Ibar (Arabic: علماء البحرين دروس و عبر) page 111 that a skilled author and scientist named Sayyid Abdullah Al Qarooni, who wrote Sharh Al Mughni, was from the village. However, little is known of Sayyid Abdullah Al Qarooni aside from what was noted by Al Bahrani's book and another book called Anwar Al Badrain. It is not known when Sayyid Abdullah died, but it is sometime in 1000 hijri.

Religious figures
Alama Abduladhim Al Muhtadi Al Bahrani
Sheikh Mirza Hussain Ali Abbas Al Aswad
Sayyid Makki Sayyid Hilal Al Wadai

Businessmen
Hajji Isa Hamza Abbas Al Aswad

References

External links
 Karrana.net - Photo Gallery
 - Karrana forum

Populated places in the Northern Governorate, Bahrain
Chimera (Mayhem album)

Chimera is the third full-length album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. It is the fourth and last main Mayhem release with the vocalist Sven Erik Kristiansen (Maniac). TurboNatas of the Norwegian band Red Harvest provided the album artwork. The cover image is a still from the 1922 Swedish silent film Häxan.

Track listing

Personnel
Mayhem
Maniac – vocals
Blasphemer – guitar
Necrobutcher – bass 
Hellhammer – drums
Production
Produced by Blasphemer
Engineered by Borge Finstad
Mixed by Blasphemer, Hellhammer and Borge Finstad
Mastered by Morten Lund

Charts

References

Mayhem (band) albums
2003 albums
Season of Mist albums
Northowram

Northowram () is a village lying north-east of the town of Halifax in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It stands on the north side of Shibden valley. Southowram stands on the southern side of the valley.

The village was documented in the 19th century as being in the parish of Halifax,  miles north-east of Halifax and  miles from Bradford. Its population at that point was 6,841 and Northowram Hall was the seat of J. F. Dyson, Esq. The ward is now called Northowram and Shelf. Following the 2021 census Northowram is defined by the Office for National Statistics as forming part of the Shelf and Northowram built-up area, which had a population of 9,195.

The village has three churches: St Matthew's Church of England parish church, a Methodist church, and a Heywood United Reformed Church. St Matthew's is a Grade II listed building which is constructed of snecked local sandstone with a graded stone-slate roof. The village has one school, Northowram Primary School.

The serial killer John Christie was born at Black Boy House near the village in 1899.

The village hosts an annual Scarecrow Festival.

Governance 
Northowram was historically a township in the ancient parish of Halifax. By 1866 part of the township was included in the borough boundaries of Halifax and another was included in the local government district of Queensbury. Early in 1866 the remainder of Northowram was declared to be its own local government district, administered by a local board. Later that year the whole township was made a civil parish. In 1891 the parish had a population of 20,517, of which 3,014 lived in the local government district of Northowram and the remainder lived in the parts of the parish within the borough of Halifax and the Queensbury district.

In 1894 local boards were reconstituted as urban district councils under the Local Government Act 1894, which also said that parishes could not straddle district boundaries. The parts of Northowram parish within the Halifax and Queensbury districts were transferred to those parishes, leaving a reduced Northowram parish covering just the urban district. The parish and urban district of Northowram was abolished on 9 November 1900, becoming part of the parish and county borough of Halifax. Halifax County Borough was abolished in 1974, becoming part of Calderdale. No successor parish was created for the former county borough and so it became an unparished area, directly administered by Calderdale Council.

See also
Listed buildings in Northowram

References

External links

A concise history of the parish and vicarage of Halifax, in the county of York  By John Crabtree Published 1836

 
Villages in West Yorkshire
Former civil parishes in West Yorkshire
Halifax, West Yorkshire