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Karachi Division

Karachi Division () is an administrative division of the Sindh Province of Pakistan. There are seven districts of Karachi.

History 
In December 1960 Lasbela became a separate district from Kalat division and was placed to form Karachi-Bela division.

In 1972, Lasbela district transferred back to Kalat division and Karachi district divided into three (03) districts; East, West and South.

In 1996, Two (02) more districts Central and Malir was created in Karachi division.

The Karachi Division was abolished in 2001 and five districts of Karachi were merged in City District Karachi. The City District Karachi was divided in 18 Towns and 178 union councils. Commissioner Karachi division was made DCO City District government Karachi.

On 11 July 2011, Sindh Government restored 5 districts of Karachi division.

In November 2013, a new district (sixth), Korangi was formed by splitting District Karachi East.

In August 2020, Sindh cabinet approved formation of the seventh district in Karachi - Keamari District. Keamari District was formed by splitting District West.

Recently, Sindh Government renamed the four existing Districts to their famous areas names.

Currently, Sindh government is planning to create Bin Qasim district after bifurcating Malir district.

Districts of Karachi Division 

There are seven districts of Karachi, namely:
 Nazimabad District (officially renamed)
 Gulshan District (officially renamed)
 Karachi South District (officially renamed)
 Orangi District (officially renamed)
 Korangi District
 Malir District
 Keamari District

References

Division
Divisions of Sindh
Countries and territories where Urdu is an official language
Larkana Division

Larkana Division  () is an administrative division of the Sindh Province of Pakistan. It was created in 1980 by bifurcation of Sukkur Division. In 2000 abolished by General Pervaiz Musharraf rule but Sindh government restored it again on 11 July 2011.

Larkana is the divisional headquarters of Larkana Division. It comprises the following districts:

Jacobabad District 

 Garhi Khairo Tehsil
 Jacobabad Tehsil
 Thul Tehsil

Kashmore District 

 Kandhkot Tehsil
 Kashmore Tehsil
 Tangwani Tehsil

Larkana District 

 Bakrani Tehsil
 Dokri Tehsil
 Larkana Tehsil
 Ratodero Tehsil

Qambar-Shahdadkot District 

 Mirokhan Tehsil
 Nasirabad Tehsil
 Qambar Tehsil
 Qubo Saeed Khan Tehsil
 Shahdadkot Tehsil
 Sijawal Junejo Tehsil
 Warah Tehsil

Shikarpur District 

 Garhi Yasin Tehsil
 Khanpur Tehsil
 Lakhi Tehsil
 Shikarpur Tehsil

References

See also
 Jacobabad District
 Larkana District
 Kashmore District
 Qambar Shahdadkot District
 Shikarpur District
 Larkana

Divisions of Sindh
Mirpur Khas Division

Mirpur Khas Division  () is an administrative division of the Sindh Province of Pakistan. It was abolished in 2000 but restored again on 11 July 2011. formerly a part of Hyderabad Division.

Mirpur Khas is the divisional headquarter of Mirpur Khas Division. It comprises the following three districts:

Mirpur Khas District

 Mirpur Khas Tehsil
 Sindhri Tehsil
 Shujabad Tehsil
 Jhuddo Tehsil
 Digri Tehsil
 Hussain Bux Mari Tehsil
 Kot Ghulam Muhammad Tehsil

Tharparkar District

 Mithi Tehsil
 Chachro Tehsil
 Islamkot Tehsil
 Nagarparkar Tehsil
 Diplo Tehsil
 Dahli Tehsil
 Kaloi Tehsil

Umerkot District

 Umarkot Tehsil
 Kunri Tehsil
 Pithoro Tehsil
 Samaro Tehsil

Religion

The Mir Khas Pur division had a population of 4,228,683 as per 2017 Census of Pakistan. The Muslim population is 2,324,929 (54.98% of the division population), and the Hindu population is 1,892,758 (44.76% of the division population).

References

Divisions of Sindh
Bagan Datuk (town)

Bagan Datuk (formerly spelled Bagan Datoh), is a town and mukim in Bagan Datuk District, Perak, Malaysia.

Location 
Bagan Datuk is the most southwest district in the state of Perak. It is about 130 km (by car) from the state capital Ipoh and 46 km from Teluk Intan. Across the Bernam River is Sabak, Selangor.

Economy
The main economic activity in Bagan Datuk is fishing. There are also, however, many coconut plantations nearby, visible along the road to Bagan Datuk from Teluk Intan.

There are also a few fishing villages scattered around Bagan Datuk, for example Sungai Tiang and Sungai Burong, and their corresponding seaside village Bagan Sungai Tiang and Bagan Sungai Burong. On the way from Teluk Intan there will be a few small township which are Hutan Melintang, Selekoh and Simpang Tiga. One popular spot for angling is Sungai Dulang, situated about 8 km from Bagan Datuk. It is famous for lobster fishing where an angler's night spent there could harvest up to 5 kilograms of lobsters.

Transportation
Highway 69 is the main ingress to Bagan Datuk town. KTM Intercity does not serve the area.

Politics
Bagan Datuk is represented in the Dewan Rakyat of the Malaysian Parliament by Deputy Prime Minister Dato' Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi from UMNO.

On the state level, Bagan Datuk provides two seats to the Perak State Legislative Assembly:
 Rungkup
 Hutan Melintang

Rungkup is currently held by Shahrul Zaman bin Yahya while Hutan Melintang is currently held by Khairuddin bin Tarmizi. Both politicians are from UMNO.

References

External links 

JPN Bagan Datoh

Bagan Datuk District
Towns in Perak
Mukims of Perak
Britannia Monument

The Nelson's Monument is a commemorative column or tower built in memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson, situated on the Denes, Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, England. It was designated as a Grade I listed structure in 1953.

History
Designed by architect William Wilkins, it was raised in the period 1817–19 from money raised by a committee of local magnates.
The first custodian of the monument was former Able Seaman James Sharman, a member of the crew of HMS Victory from Norfolk and one of those who carried Nelson below decks after he was shot.

The monument, correctly called the Norfolk Naval Pillar, is in the style of a Doric column topped by six caryatid figures that support a statue of Britannia proudly standing atop a globe inscribed with the motto from Nelson's coat of arms Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat (translates to 'Let him who has merited it take the palm'), she holds an olive branch in her outstretched right hand, a trident in her left and looks inland – said to be towards Nelson's birthplace in Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk. The whole monument is  high, compared to  for the monument in Trafalgar Square and the top is reached by some two hundred and seventeen steps. The structure was completely restored in time for the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005.  In 2006 it was removed from English Heritage's Buildings At Risk register. In August 2006 it was rededicated. It currently stands, albeit separated in its own small railed plot, in an industrial estate.
The monument is open to the public on a limited basis.

In the late nineteenth century, the original synthetic Coade Stone caryatids were replaced with concrete replicas. The figure of Britannia and the six caryatids were replaced by a fibreglass copy in 1982.

Dedications

At the base inscriptions commemorate Nelson's four main victories over Britain's enemies the French and Spanish:

The Nile (Aboukir), 1, 2 August 1798, HMS Vanguard
Copenhagen, 1 April 1801, HMS Elephant
St Vincent, 14 February 1797, HMS Captain
Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, HMS Victory

On the top plinth are named four of the ships he sailed on for each battle.

On the western face - i.e. inland again - a Latin inscription reads: "This great man Norfolk boasts her own, not only as born there of a respectable family, and as there having received his early education, but her own also in talents, manners and mind."

Song and poem
There is a song called "Nelson's Monument" which refers to the monument.

The Irish poet George Croly wrote the poem 'Nelson's Pillar' about this monument. The poem was written on the beach at Great Yarmouth on a stormy evening, and was first published in 1818:

See also
Nelson Monument, Edinburgh
Nelson Monument, Liverpool
Nelson's Monument on Birchen Edge, in England's Peak District
Nelson's Column, London
Nelson's Pillar, Dublin

References

External links

Norfolk Coast
song

Columns related to the Napoleonic Wars
Monuments and memorials in Norfolk
Great Yarmouth
Monumental columns in England
Towers completed in 1819
Monuments and memorials to Horatio Nelson
Grade I listed buildings in Norfolk
Paul Burke (rugby union, born 1973)

Paul Burke (born 1 May 1973), educated at Epsom College in Surrey, is an Irish rugby union player who played at Fly Half.  He has formerly played for Cork Constitution, London Irish, Munster, Bristol, Cardiff and Harlequins. He signed for English club Leicester Tigers for the 2006–7 season and helped take the team to three finals in that year.  The 2007–2008 season was plagued by injury and he retired at the end of that season.  He has since become kicking coach for Leicester Tigers.

References

External links
Leicester profile
Premiership profile
Sporting Heroes
Career Stats@Statbunker 

1973 births
Living people
Bristol Bears players
Cork Constitution players
Harlequin F.C. players
Ireland international rugby union players
Irish Exiles rugby union players
English rugby union players
English people of Irish descent
Irish rugby union coaches
Leicester Tigers players
London Irish players
Loughborough Students RUFC players
Munster Rugby players
People educated at Epsom College
Rugby union fly-halves
Sportspeople from Paddington
Rugby union players from the City of Westminster
1995 Rugby World Cup players
T-Bone (disambiguation)

T-bone is a steak of beef.

T-bone may also refer to:

Music
 Trombone (nickname)
 T-Bone Concerto, a concerto for trombone and wind orchestra by Johan de Meij
 The T-Bones, an American instrumental pop/rock group
 "T-Bone", a song from the album Re·ac·tor by Neil Young and Crazy Horse

People
 T Bone Burnett (born 1948), American musician, songwriter and producer
 T-Bone Slim (1890–1942), pen name for American poet, songwriter and labour activist Matti Valentine Huhta
 T-Bone Walker (1910–1975), American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
 T-Bone Wilson, Guyanese-British actor, dramatist and poet
 T-Bone (rapper), American Christian rapper
 Tony "T-Bone" Bellamy (1946–2009), lead guitarist, pianist and vocalist for the band Redbone
 Tom "T-Bone" Stankus, American children's musician
 Tom "T-Bone" Wolk (1951–2010), American bassist
 Teebone, British UK garage/drum and bass producer and DJ

Fictional characters
 Captain T-Bone, from the One Piece manga series
 Chance "T-Bone" Furlong, an anthropomorphic feline from the series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
 T-Bone, an arsonist and George Bluth's cell-mate in Arrested Development
 T-Bone, a canine character in the television series Clifford the Big Red Dog
 T-Bone Mendez, in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
 Raymond Kenney, also known as T-Bone from Watch Dogs series
 T-Bone, a skeleton who is a minor character in Skylanders series
 T-Bone, a skeleton who is a villain in the video game Cuphead
 T-Bone, a bull villager from the video game series Animal Crossing

Other uses
 T Bone N Weasel, a 1992 television film directed by Lewis Teague
 Beechcraft Twin Bonanza, a light twin-engined airplane popularly nicknamed "T-Bone" in the aviation community
 Kansas City T-Bones, an Independent Northern League minor league baseball team in Kansas City
 T-bone accident, where one vehicle crashes into the side of another vehicle
Clark Conservatory of Music

The Clark Conservatory of Music is a music school that was founded in 1979 in Detroit, Michigan by the late, Dr. Mattie Moss Clark It established itself as one of the most prestigious schools of its kind in the country. Now headed by her daughter Dorinda Clark-Cole.

References

Music schools in Michigan
Music of Detroit
Schools in Detroit
Sarah Lockett

Sarah Lockett (born in Surrey) is a TV news anchor and reporter.

Professional
Lockett started out recording 0898 information telephone lines, before working for Capital Radio, London. Lockett then became a TV news anchor and reporter, who has worked for Sky News, Channel Four News,  BBC News 24, ITN and Forces TV. She has also written for newspapers including The Scotsman (for 18 months). Lockett has written articles for various magazines alongside her broadcast news career and she also has a food/cooking blog at Money Magpie

Stalker
In January 2000 a 30-year-old man was jailed for 30 months for stalking Lockett. He wrote some 80 letters, stalked the Meridian studios, and tried to find out her home address. He told Lockett: "Every celebrity needs a stalker." The court case preceded cases involving Emily Maitlis and Julia Somerville.

Career history
 1987 - 0898 telephone services + local radio.
 1988 - Capital Radio, London
 1991/2001 - BBC Newsroom Southeast
 1994-96 - ITN/Channel4: inc 'House to House', 'The Big Breakfast', and 'Channel4 News'. 'ITN Morning News' (as Reporter and Producer). Channel 5 News
 1995-96 - Reuters Business TV
 1998-2000 - Meridian TV: anchor of the local evening news programme, "Meridian Tonight"
 2000-2002 - Freelance, incl Sky News, Channel 4 News, BBC News24
 2004 – Local Government Channel (presenter), corporate TV reporter/presenter, Conference facilitator
 2010-2011 BBC London News (presenter cover), Websedge TV (media trainer)
 2010 to date - ITN Productions (presenter/reporter), ITN Industry News (presenter/reporter), The Business Channel (presenter), Topline Communications (Presenter, media trainer)
 2014 - Forces TV News (reporter), Media Training Associates (trainer), ITN Industry News, The Business Channel

Books
"The Dish " by Penny Isaacs and Sarah Lockett (published by Troubador, February 2009, £9.95)

"Feed Your Family for Less"  (published by Moneymagpie.com, 2010, £4.99)

Newspapers & Magazines
Specialises in writing health, food & diet features and humour, and is a member of the Guild of Food Writers.

 London Evening Standard
 The Scotsman: wrote a daily cookery column for 18 months (2000–2001)
 The Sunday Post
 Healthy magazine
 Shape magazine

See also
BBC News

References

External links
MoneyMagpie.com, Food & Family - Lockett's personal blog on healthy eating

1968 births
Living people
BBC newsreaders and journalists
English reporters and correspondents
English food writers
British television newsreaders and news presenters
English journalists
People from Surrey
Peshawar Division

Peshawar Division is an administrative division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It was abolished in the reforms of 2000, like all divisions, but reinstated in 2008. At independence in 1947, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) was split into two divisions, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. Until 1976, Peshawar Division contained the districts of Hazara and Kohat, when they both became divisions themselves. Later in the mid-1990s, the district of Mardan (and its tehsils) also became a division itself.

Districts 
Peshawar Division contains the following districts:

 Charsadda District
 Nowshera District
 Peshawar District
 Khyber District
 Mohmand District

Tehsils in Peshawar Division
Following are Tehsils of Peshawar division 

 Peshawar City Tehsil
 Shahalam Tehsil 
  Badabher Tehsil
 Mathra Tehsil
 Chamkani Tehsil
 Pashtakhar Tehsil
 Hassan Khel Tehsil
 Charsadda Tehsil
 Tangi Tehsil
 Shabqadar Tehsil
 Nowshera
 Jahangira Tehsil 
 Pabbi Teshil 
 Jamrud Tehsil
 Bara Tehsil
 Landikotal Tehsil 
 Upper Mohmand Tehsil
 Lower Mohmand Tehsil
 Central Mohmand Tehsil

See also
 Hazara Division
 Kohat Division
 Mardan Division

References

Divisions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Peshawar
Pneumatoarthrus

Pneumatoarthrus is an extinct genus of sea turtle known from the Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) Mount Laurel Formation of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Only a single species, P. peloreus, is known.

Taxonomy
The holotype of Pneumatoarthrus, ANSP 9225, was originally identified as a sacrum belonging to Hadrosaurus by Joseph Leidy in an 1865 monograph on Cretaceous reptiles from the US. Edward Drinker Cope later identified it belonging to a dinosaur more closely related to Anchisaurus, Efraasia, and Clepsysaurus than to Dryptosaurus and Ornithopsis, and in his 1872 description of the sea turtle Protostega he decided that Pneumatoarthrus was likely a sea turtle as well, which he reiterated in his 1875 monograph on Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from the Western Interior. Later authors overlooked Cope's 1875 monograph and considered it either a theropod or a hadrosaur (Huene 1932 considered Pneumatoarthrus the sacral vertebrae of Dryptosaurus). Baird (1979) confirmed the protostegid identification of Pneumatoarthrus by Cope (1872, 1875) based on examination of ANSP 9225.

References

Protostegidae
Cretaceous turtles of North America
Prehistoric turtle genera
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
Extinct turtles
Battle of Dunaverty

The Battle of Dunaverty involved a battle and the siege of Dunaverty Castle in Kintyre, Scotland, in 1647. The events involved the Covenanter Army under the command of General David Leslie on one side and 200–300 Highland troops under the command of Archibald Og of Sanda on the other.

After the Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss, the remaining royalist army of Alasdair Mac Colla fled to Kinlochkilkerran, where a fleet of birlinns transported many of the troops to Ireland, while others fled to Dunaverty to be transported to Ireland as well as Dunyvaig Castle. About 200–300 men who could not be transported or did not wish to leave Scotland prepared to defend the castle.

When the Covenanter Army arrived, they laid siege to the castle and made small raids against the forces inside. Once the attackers had captured the stronghold's water supply, the defendersby now running out of waterrequested a surrender on fair terms. After agreeing to surrender and leaving the castle, the men, women and children were put to the sword at the request of Reverend John Naves and Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll. More than 300 MacDonalds and followers, men, women and children, were slaughtered at Dunaverty, despite the promised quarter from the Covenanters. However, a number of people appear to have survived the massacre, including Flora McCambridge, the infant Ranald MacDonald of Sanda, James Stewart and a MacDougall of Kilmun.

Citations

References

General references

1647 in Scotland
Dunaverty
Dunaverty
Conflicts in 1647
Nyele

The nyele is a small horn made from hollowed out animal horn or matete reed. The nyele is played in groups; one man plays one note and others play different pitches, which combine to form a certain combination of sounds.  Traditionally, the nyele were played along with the budima drums at funerals of the so-called Valley Tonga in Zambia.

The nyele is sometimes decorated with European paints, a sleeve of snakeskin or seed beads pressed into bees wax. They are used by men and youth at both formal and informal dances.

They are commonly played with drums and not by themselves alone, and are employed for funerals, large gatherings, and other ceremonial occasions. They vary in size from about 5 inches to 18 inches (13 cm to 46 cm) long.

External links
Group of seventeen Tonga men playing nyele at Smithsonian Global Sound

Natural horns and trumpets
Zambian musical instruments
Panday

Panday or Ang Panday may refer to:
 Panday (comics), a Philippine comics character created by Carlo J. Caparas and Steve Gan
Ang Panday (1980 film), a series of fantasy films from the Philippines, starring Fernando Poe, Jr.
Panday (2005 TV series), a TV series produced by ABS-CBN
 Ang Panday (2009 film), a film produced by GMA Films
 Ang Panday 2, a sequel for Panday; a film produced by GMA Films
 Panday Kids, a sequel to the 2009 GMA film
 Ang Panday (2016 TV series), a TV series produced by TV5
 Ang Panday (2017 film), seventh installment of the film series distributed by Star Cinema, and produced by CCM Productions and Viva Films.
"Ang Panday" (song), single from 2017 film

People with the name or surname
 Panday Pira (1488–1576), Filipino blacksmith acknowledged as "The First Filipino Cannon-maker"

A variation of the Pandey surname
Pandey, a surname found among the Hindu Brahmin communities of India and both the Brahmin and Chhetri communities of Nepal
Pande family, a noble dynasty of Nepal also spelled as Panday
 Basdeo Panday (born 1933), former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, of Indian origin

See also
Pandey (disambiguation)
First News

First News is a UK tabloid for young readers. It is published in a full colour tabloid format every Friday, and aims to present current events and politics in a child-friendly format, alongside news on entertainment, sport and computer games. The paper is aimed at seven to fourteen-year-olds, and regularly features written work from readers of that age. The paper's weekly circulation in 2017 was 79,362.

First News was founded by Sarah and Steve Thomson and launched by editor Nicky Cox, with Piers Morgan as editorial director, in May 2006 at 11 Downing Street, the official residence of the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer. The first issues were priced at £1, with 5 per cent of proceeds benefiting children's charities.

From 2006, the paper was published by First News (UK) Ltd, an independently financed publishing house established in January 2006. In February 2018, First News (UK) Ltd was renamed First Group Enterprises. Following the name change, the company went on to launch two new products: First Wonder Box and First Careers. The first, a subscription box for ages four to eight; the latter, a careers guidance website. The management team of First Group Enterprises is composed of newspaper editor Cox, former editorial director of BBC Children's Magazines, with a steering role from the Thomsons, who were investors.

As of 2018, First News began leading the annual Takeover Challenge event. Formally an initiative by the Children's Commissioner for England, the event is designed to allow children and young people the opportunity to "gain experience of a workplace, while organisations benefit from a fresh perspective on their work."

Educational usage 
In 2015, First News commissioned the National Literacy Trust to evaluate the use of a children's newspaper in the classroom and its benefit to reading comprehension. The evaluation found that children's reading progressed significantly over the eight-week period of activity, and reported reading more widely (particularly non-fiction) after having taken part in the activity.

First News launched a digital literacy platform, with content based on the weekly newspaper in 2016. Named the 'First News iHub', the platform received the BETT Award for Primary Digital Content in 2017

References

External links
 
 First News iHub
 First News on YouTube
 First News on Twitter

National newspapers published in the United Kingdom
Newspapers established in 2006
Weekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom
21st-century British children's literature
2006 establishments in the United Kingdom
Svenskt Diplomatarium

Svenskt Diplomatarium (also known under the Latin name Diplomatarium Suecanum) is a series of critical editions of medieval Swedish documents or documents pertaining to the history of Sweden (in Swedish, Latin and other languages).

Begun in the 1820s by the antiquarian Johan Gustaf Liljegren and inactive for periods, the work is since 1976 in the hands of a department within the Swedish National Archives. The editorial committee works through the material in chronological order, and the fascicle published in 2004 included documents dating to the 1370s. 

Since 1999, the editorial committee has published the index of known medieval documents (including those from the periods not yet covered by the printed fascicles in a database available first on a compact disc, later on the World Wide Web. Many documents are also available online in full text and with colour images of the originals.

Historiography of Sweden
Online databases
Orr's Island

Orr's Island is an island in Casco Bay and the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean. The island is within the town of Harpswell, Maine, United States, and forms an archipelago with Sebascodegan Island (also known as Great Island) to its north and Bailey Island (reached by the Bailey Island (or Cribstone) Bridge) to its south.

Orr's Island is connected to Great Island by the Orr's Island/Great Island Bridge, and is connected to the town of Brunswick on the mainland by Route 24 north over the Gurnet Bridge. Bowdoin College operates a  coastal studies center on Orr's Island.

Demographics

As of 2010, Orr's Island had an estimated population of 539 people. 48.8% of the population was male, and 51.2% of the population was female. 98.3% of the population was white, 0.7% was Asian, 0.9% was two or more races, and 0.3% was some other race. Additionally, 90.2% of the population was 18 years or older, 32.7% was 65 years or older, and 1.7% was under 5 years of age.

In Popular Culture
Orr's island is the setting for the story in the 2000 American sci-fi horror movie They Nest.

Utilities
Orr's Island, like the rest of Harpswell is served power by Central Maine Power. There is no public water or sewer on the island, with most households having septic systems and drilled wells. Communications providers include Cribstone Communications, Consolidated Communications and Comcast.

See also
 List of islands of Maine

Further reading
 The Pearl of Orr's Island by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1862.  
 Brunhilda of Orr's Island by William Jasper Nicolls, 1908.  
 The Story of Orr's Island, Maine by Annie Haven Thwing. 1926.

References

External links

 Town of Harpswell, Maine
 Orr's Island Library
 Orr's-Bailey Yacht Club
 Orr's Island Library
 Bowdoin Coastal Studies Center

Islands of Cumberland County, Maine
Harpswell, Maine
Islands of Casco Bay
Islands of Maine
Knievel

Knievel is a surname of German origin. Notable people with the surname include:

Evel Knievel (1938–2007), American stuntman and daredevil
Robbie Knievel (1962–2023), American daredevil, son of Evel

See also
Evel Knievel (disambiguation)

German-language surnames
Stan Woodell

Stan Woodell (1928 – 24 April 2004) was a British botanist.

Stanley Reginald John Woodell was born in Shepherd's Bush, London.

He obtained a degree in Botany from Durham University. An undergraduate at Hatfield College, Woodell was a member of the Durham University Exploration Society. He studied the pollination biology of the genus Primula for his PhD at the same university.

Career
He was a University Lecturer in Botany at Oxford University (1959–88). At Wolfson College, Oxford, he was successively a Governing Body Fellow (1967–88), Supernumerary Fellow (1988–89) and Emeritus Fellow (1989–2004). From 1984 to 2004 he was also the Fellow Librarian of the College.

As a botanist, Woodell co-wrote the Flora of Oxfordshire published in 1998, to which his fellow botanist and colleague Humphry Bowen contributed.

Woodell died aged 75. A black poplar tree (Populus nigra) was planted at Wolfson College on 22 November 2004 in his memory.

References

External links 
 Oxford University Gazette notice
 Wolfson College notice

1928 births
2004 deaths
English botanists
English librarians
English non-fiction writers
British nature writers
People from Shepherd's Bush
Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford
English male non-fiction writers
Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham
20th-century English male writers
Paul Drayton (composer)

Paul Drayton (born 28 December 1944) is a British composer, conductor, pianist, and teacher.

He was educated at High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from 1956 to 1962. He studied music at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was subsequently Director of Music at New College School, Oxford. He later taught and was composer-in-residence at Stowe School near Buckingham.

Many of his compositions are vocal. His piece entitled "Masterpiece" was sung by the King's Singers in their 2005 DVD release From Byrd to the Beatles. 
He is the author of a listeners' guide to music entitled Unheard Melodies or Trampolining in the Vatican (Athena Press 2008)

He now lives in Cornwall where he has lectured at Truro College on both A-Level and International Baccalaureate courses.  He is also a lecturer in adult education.

His opera The Hanging Oak, based on a story by M.R. James, was premiered in October 2009 in several church locations in the south-west of England. 2015 saw the premiere of his choral/orchestral work The Passion of Christ as told by Mark the Evangelist, in Truro Cathedral.

He is the musical director of Duchy Opera.

Works
New College Service (unaccompanied choral Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, written for New College, Oxford)
Nero (cantata)
Six Characters in Search of an Opera (cantata, circa 1988)
Lotos-Land (SATB and piano; words by Tennyson)
Pavane (organ)
Choral Prelude and Fugue on "Nun Ruhen Alle Walder" (organ)
Dance in a Desolate Place (organ)
Ecce Ancilla Domini (choir)
The World's Desire (SATB)
This Starry Stranger (SATB and organ; words by Richard Crashaw)
Jesu Dulcis Memoria (SSATTB)
My Soul, There is a Country (SATB)
The Spacious Firmament (SSATTBB)
Templa Quam Dilecta (cantata SATB and orchestra; words from Psalm 84)
Now Glad of Heart Be Everyone (SATB and organ)
How Like an Angel (SATB and organ)
Come Rejoicing (SATB)
Love's Redeeming Work is Done (chorus)
Corpus Christi Carol (unison)
The Hanging Oak (opera)
Masterpiece (1986 or earlier, for choral ensemble) 
The Mermaid of Zennor (opera, circa 2011, based on the legend of the mermaid of Zennor)
The Lark Ascending (choral arrangement, 2019)

References

External links 
 Duchy Opera
 Paul Drayton Composer

1944 births
Living people
British composers
People educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
Fellows of New College, Oxford
Treaty of Venice

The Treaty or Peace of Venice, 1177, was a peace treaty between the papacy and its allies, the north Italian city-states of the Lombard League, and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor. The Norman Kingdom of Sicily also took part in negotiations and the treaty thereby determined the political course of all Italy for the next several years.

The treaty followed on the heels of the Battle of Legnano of 29 May 1176, a defeat for Frederick Barbarossa. Frederick quickly thereafter sent envoys to Pope Alexander III at Anagni, asking for an end to the schism between him and Frederick's antipope, Callixtus III. After a preliminary agreement was reached, a conference was scheduled for July 1177. Frederick spent some time in the interim interfering in Venetian rivalries in hopes of securing a pro-Imperial group in power at the time of the confrontation.

On 24 July, the pope from the Basilica di San Marco sent a delegation of cardinals to the emperor in the Lido, at the mouth of the Venetian Lagoon. The emperor formally acknowledged Alexander as pope and abandoned his own antipope; the cardinals formally lifted the excommunication that had hitherto been placed upon him. Sebastian Ziani, the doge of Venice, and Ulrich II von Treven, the patriarch of Aquileia, then escorted the emperor into Venice itself. The delegates of the king of Sicily were Romuald, Archbishop of Salerno, a chronicler who left an eyewitness account of the scene, and Count Roger of Andria.

After the treaty, Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy wife of Frederick was no longer referred to as Imperatrix ('empress') in the chancery productions, as her coronation as such had been made by an anti-pope and was thus declared nullified. The treaty also claimed that if Frederick died and was succeeded by a young emperor, then Beatrice, as the queen dowager regent, should still observe it. (Such event never occurred, as Beatrice predeceased Frederick.)

In the treaty that was concluded, the rights of the emperor and the pope in the city of Rome were left vague. A clause in the preliminary agreement of Anagni referring to the pope's regalia in Rome was dropped in the final treaty and papal rights were recognized "saving all the rights of the empire". The city did not surrender to the pope and forced him to leave in 1179.

A fifteen-year peace was concluded between Frederick and William II of Sicily, paving the way for Sicily's golden years of peace and prosperity. Likewise, a six-year truce was concluded with the Lombard League, but negotiations were to continue, and the emperor finally recognised the independence of the Lombard cities in the Peace of Constance of 1183.

See also
List of treaties

References

Sources
The treaty itself: text at Yale Law School and the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
Norwich, John Julius. The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194. Longman: London, 1970.

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Gordon Borrie, Baron Borrie

Gordon Johnson Borrie, Baron Borrie,  (13 March 1931 – 30 September 2016) was an English lawyer and Labour Party life peer.

Born in Croydon, he was educated at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno, North Wales. A lawyer by training, he practised at the Bar before becoming a law lecturer. Knighted in 1982, he was professor of law and dean of the faculty of law at Birmingham University and became a Queen's Counsel in 1986. 

He was a bencher of the Middle Temple. As director general of fair trading, he was in charge of the Office of Fair Trading from 1976 to 1992. He chaired the Labour Party's Commission on Social Justice from 1992 to 1994 and was created a life peer as Baron Borrie, of Abbots Morton in the County of Hereford and Worcester on 21 December 1995. 

He served on the Council of the Consumers' Association and has written on consumer law. He was also president of the Institute of Trading Standards from 1992 to 1996, and was chairman of the Direct Marketing Authority from 1997 to 2000. 

Lord Borrie was the Advertising Standards Authority's chairman from January 2001 until 2007. He  was a trustee of the Reform Club.

He twice stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate for the House of Commons: in Croydon North East at the 1955 general election and in Ilford South at the 1959 general election.

By investigating the division between brokers and jobbers at the London Stock Exchange while at the OFT, 

Borrie set in motion events which would lead to Big Bang in 1986. By forcing breweries to sell their extensive pub estates, he is credited with increasing competition and diversity in the industry.

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2016 deaths
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Labour Party (UK) life peers
People from Croydon
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Academics of the University of Birmingham
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Lawyers awarded knighthoods
20th-century King's Counsel
Members of the Middle Temple
20th-century English lawyers
Life peers created by Elizabeth II
Hersha Parady

Hersha Parady (born Betty Sandhoff; May 25, 1945 – August 23, 2023) was an American actress best known for her role of Alice Garvey in Little House on the Prairie.

Life and career 
Parady was born as Betty Sandhoff in Berea, Ohio, and attended Berea High School. She began acting locally at age 14 in Cleveland area theatrical productions. She moved west in the early 1970s to further her acting career and landed a role opposite Jon Voight in a touring production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Parady began her career in television with guest-appearances in Mannix, Bearcats! and The Waltons. Hersha was considered to play Caroline Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie, but lost out to Karen Grassle.  Later, in 1976 episode "Journey in the Spring", Paraday played Eliza Anne Ingalls, Charles' sister-in-law.
Then, in 1977, she was given the role of Alice Garvey in Little House on the Prairie, which she played until 1980 when her character was killed in a fire accidentally set by Albert Quinn Ingalls. After Little House on the Prairie, she made only rare appearances in television, including Kenan & Kel.

Parady was once married to Oscar-winning producer John Peverall and had one child with him. 

Parady died of complications from a brain tumor in Norfolk, Virginia, on August 23, 2023. Her death was announced on Alison Arngrim's Facebook page.

Filmography

References

External links 
 
 Hersha Parady Interview, HERSHA PARADY, Alice Garvey (+Eliza Ingalls)

1945 births
2023 deaths
American film actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Actresses from Ohio
21st-century American women
People from Berea, Ohio
Playing for sheep stations

The phrase is a traditional Australian English term. It is used to describe the terms of a game, sport or competition, often a game of chance. A sheep station is a large sheep farm in Australia or New Zealand, hence denoting something important, large or valuable.  

The phrase "playing for sheep stations" has both a literal and ironic usage. In the negative, it is used to encourage participants to play in a friendly and not too competitive manner. Playing sport or cards or a game of some sort, but not for prizes, one might say "take it easy, we're not playing for sheep stations". It could be used starting a game of cards or pool for example, to check whether the game would be played for money, beer, or just pride, asking "so, are we playing for sheep stations or what?"

In typical Australian fashion, it can also be used to mean the exact opposite, because a sheep station is such an expensive item that nobody would bet it on a game, the phrase "we're playing for sheep stations" can also be used to mean that the game is purely for sport, and there is no bet or prize involved.

References

Australian slang
The Alarmist

The Alarmist, also known as Life During Wartime, is a 1997 dark comedy film written and directed by Evan Dunsky, and starring David Arquette, Stanley Tucci, Kate Capshaw and Ryan Reynolds. It is an adaptation of a 1990 play written by Keith Reddin.

Cast
 David Arquette as Tommy Hudler
 Stanley Tucci as Heinrich Grigoris
 Kate Capshaw as Gale Ancona
 Mary McCormack as Sally
 Ryan Reynolds as Howard Ancona
 Tricia Vessey as April Brody
 Ruth Miller as Mrs. Fielding
 Hoke Howell as Mr. Fielding
 Michael Learned as Beth Hudler
 Lewis Arquette as Bruce Hudler
 Richmond Arquette as Andrew Hudler
 Gabriel Dell Jr. as Skippy Hudler
 Clea DuVall as Suzy (as Clea Duvall)
 David Brisbin as Detective Flinkman
 Matt Malloy as Morgue Technician
 Alex Nepomniaschy as Installer

Reception
The Alarmist was reviewed by several mainstream critics. Most of them praised Stanley Tucci's performance, but criticized the film itself.

Stephen Holden from The New York Times called Tucci's performance "one of the subtlest, most delicious performances of his career". He found the first part of the film very entertaining, but considered that the movie deteriorates in its second part when it becomes more serious. "Shortly after the halfway point, "The Alarmist" takes a dramatic U-turn into a murder mystery in which Tommy suspects his boss of being the killer. At this point a movie that succeeded as a light, loopy satire of sex, salesmanship, shoddy ethics, gun nuts and geeky teen-agers finds itself seriously in over its head. Unable to decide where to go or what tone to adopt, it ends up treading water."

Edward Guthmann from San Francisco Chronicle also praised Tucci's performance, but criticized the film indecision. "As a showcase for Tucci's comic skills, "The Alarmist" succeeds. We start the film feeling buoyed by his roosterlike energy and audacity, and we end it feeling let down by a script that can't quite decide what it wants to say." Steve Davis from The Austin Chronicle called The Alarmist a "near-pointless movie" and wrote: "Perhaps the greatest sin of The Alarmist is its complete waste of Tucci in the role of Heinreich Grigoris, Hudler's paternal but unscrupulous mentor. Tucci never takes off; it's a stillborn performance. Maybe if Tucci had found something with which to work, the movie in turn might have found the center it so badly needs. As it is, The Alarmist is a movie that doesn't ring any bells."

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James Twining

James Twining (born 13 December 1972) is a British thriller writer.

Life 
Although born in London, Twining spent most of his childhood in France after his family moved to Paris when he was four. On his return to the United Kingdom when aged eleven, he went to Merchant Taylors' School, eventually winning a place to Christ Church, Oxford where he read French Literature and Linguistics and graduated with a First Class degree in 1995.

Twining's early career was spent in the business world.  His first job was in the Corporate Finance Department of SBC Warburg (now known as UBS), where he worked mainly on hostile bids and defences and leveraged buyouts.

Then in 1999 he set up an e-procurement business (GroupTrade) with a friend. The business was eventually sold to another entrepreneur in August 2002. Twining and his co-founder were both named as one of the eight "Best of Young British" entrepreneurs in The New Statesman.

Twining began writing thrillers in 2003.  He now lives in North London with his wife, two daughters and a son and is a lifelong Arsenal fan.

Work

Twining wrote his first book The Double Eagle in 2003 and was signed up by agency Curtis Brown.  It was published by Harper Collins in the United Kingdom and United States in 2005.

Three sequels, The Black Sun, The Gilded Seal and The Geneva Deception were published in 2006, 2008 and 2009 respectively.

All four books feature art thief Tom Kirk and are set in the art world and underworld.  In each case, Twining builds a modern-day thriller involving art theft around a series of historical events and/or artifacts.

In 2009 Twining announced on his website that he was working on the fifth Tom Kirk novel. As of yet there have been no further updates on this, and his website has not been updated since 2010

References

External links
Official James Twining website

McKinsey & Company people
1972 births
Living people
People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
English thriller writers
English crime fiction writers
English male novelists
Cautín

Cautín may refer to:

Cautín Province, a province in the Araucanía Region of southern Chile
Cautín River, a river in Chile that flows in Cautín Province
Bala Murghab District

Bala murghab (Pashto/) is a district situated in the northeast of Badghis Province, Afghanistan. The district capital is Bala Murghab city which is located along the Murghab River. Bala Murghab is surrounded by some other important districts such as Ab Kamari, Muqur, Jawand, and Qadis.

Demographics
The estimated population of Murghab District in 2003 was roughly 109,381. Based upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report, Pashtuns make up 95.0% of the total population, followed by  Aimaqs,  Turkmen and  Uzbeks.

Geography
Murghab is a hilly district located in the northeast of Badghis Province. Most of the population live in the valley of the Murghab River.

The district has 133 villages which covers an area of 4,491 km2. Murghab is surrounded by Turkmenistan, Muqur, Qadis, Jawand, Ghormach and Qaysar district of neighbouring Faryab Province.

Education
There are around 2 high schools, 3 secondary schools and 24 primary schools in the district.

History
During the Afghan Civil War the district was first besieged and then captured by the Taliban in May 2019 after the Afghan Armed Forces/Afghan National Police retreated from most strategic sites in the district center with the exception of a military base nearby, a base that they still hold today despite Taliban pressure. Nonetheless, Afghan Security Forces are still able to launch raids on the area via Helicopter with United States military support; in January 2020, both US and Afghan forces conducted a special operation in the district center liberating more than 60 prisoners from a Taliban prison.

References

UNHCR District Profile, compiled 2002-08-26, accessed 2006-05-05 (PDF).
Dupree, Nancy Hatch (1977): An Historical Guide to Afghanistan. 1st Edition: 1970. 2nd Edition. Revised and Enlarged. Afghan Tourist Organization

External links
Map of Murghab (PDF)

Districts of Badghis Province
Murghab basin
Jon Naismith

Jon Naismith (born 1965) is a producer mainly known for his work on BBC Radio, primarily comedy, including You'll Have Had Your Tea, The Unbelievable Truth and About a Dog.

Since 1991 he has been the producer of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Early life 
Jon Naismith attended Horris Hill School in Hampshire from 1973 to 1978.

Naismith was a member of Footlights at the University of Cambridge and Junior Treasurer from 1987–1988. He co-wrote and starred in the 1988 revue Sheep Go Bare alongside Mel Giedroyc, Simon Munnery, Tom Hollander, Dan Gooch and Sarah Dudman.

Work 
Naismith has been producer of the long-running radio panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue since 1991. The episodes are recorded before a live theatre audience, with two programmes being recorded at each performance and Naismith traditionally performs the duties of "warmup artist". This usually involves testing sound recording levels by means of a "patronising audience participation exercise" and a joke. Naismith also provides the voiceovers for the show, such as when the host talks about something appearing on the laser display board, he is "the mystery voice for listeners at home".

Personal life
He married Belinda Campbell in Oxfordshire in June 2002.

Books 
 The Little Book of Mornington Crescent. 2000. 
 with Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer: Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea?. 2005. 
 Uxbridge English Dictionary (I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue). 2005.

References

External links

1965 births
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
BBC radio producers
British radio producers
Living people
Seal of the Marshall Islands

The seal of the Marshall Islands consists of a blue background, which represents the sea.  On the blue background, there is an angel with outstretched wings symbolizing peace.  Behind the angel, there are two islands with an outrigger canoe and a palm tree.  On the upper left and right in the shield are a red and white stripe.  Behind the shield there is a stylized nautical chart.  In the ring above the shield is the phrase Republic of the Marshall Islands, and below, the national motto, Jepilpilin ke Ejukaan (Marshallese: "Accomplishment Through Joint Effort").

National symbols of the Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands
Marshall islands
Marshall islands
Marshall islands
Marshall islands
Marshall islands
Marshall islands
Marshall islands
Cautín River

The Cautín (Rio Cautín) is a river in Chile. It rises on the western slopes of the Cordillera de Las Raíces and flows in La Araucanía Region. The river's main tributary is the Quepe River. The city of Temuco is located on the Cautín River.

See also
 List of rivers of Chile

References 

Rivers of Araucanía Region
Rivers of Chile