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Nevada State Route 88

State Route 88 (SR 88) is a  north–south state highway in the Carson Valley in western Douglas County, Nevada, United States. It runs from the California state line along Woodfords Road to U.S. Route 395 in Minden. Prior to 1957, the highway existed as State Route 37.

The highway continues into California as California State Route 88; both highways are closely related. Although Route 88 is a secondary route today, the highway is a historical route from when Carson Pass was a major crossing of the Sierra Nevada.

Route description
The route enters Nevada from California near Woodfords, California. Just after exiting the Sierra Nevada via the Carson River. The road loosely follows the river and the Carson Valley on the western edge of communities of Centerville, Gardnerville Ranchos, and Minden where the highway ends at a Y junction with U.S. Route 395. Despite the fact that California State Route 88 is an east-west highway, Nevada State Route 88 follows a nearly straight north-south path.  There are no curves along its entire length other than at the north end to intersect with US 395.

History

The highway shares much of its history with its California counterpart. Both formed part of a trail that went under such names as "Emigrant Trail", "Kit Carson Emigrant Trail" which has existed since the 1840s. The Carson Pass route was one of two primary divisions of the California Trail. The trail's use diminished with the establishment of the First transcontinental railroad which was completed in 1869 and follows a path closer to modern Interstate 80 across the Sierra Nevada. Newer names for the road have included "Carson Pass Road" after Carson Pass in California.

Woodsford Road first appears on state maps in 1934 as a gravel and graded highway. By 1935, State Route 37 had been established along the roadway. The route remained unchanged until being renumbered as State Route 88 by 1957.

Major intersections

See also

 List of state routes in Nevada
 List of highways numbered 88

References

External links

088
Transportation in Douglas County, Nevada
Limnodynastidae

Limnodynastidae, commonly known as the Australian ground frogs, is a family of frogs found in Australia, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands. They were formerly considered a subfamily of the Myobatrachidae, the other large radiation of terrestrial frogs in Australia, but are now considered a distinct family. Both Limnodynastidae and Myobatrachidae are thought to be the only members of the superfamily Myobatrachoidea.

Taxonomy
The following genera are recognised in the family Limnodynastidae:

References

Limnodynastidae
Myobatrachoidea
Amphibian families
Amphibians of Australia
Amphibians of New Guinea
Amphibians of Papua New Guinea
NGC 3384

NGC 3384 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 as part of the Herschel 400 Catalogue. The high age of the stars in the central region of NGC 3384 was confirmed after analysis of their color. More than 80% were found to be Population II stars which are over a billion years old. The supermassive black hole at the core has a mass of .

Galaxy group information 

NGC 3384 is a member of the M96 Group, a group of galaxies in the constellation Leo that is sometimes referred to as the Leo I Group.  This group also includes the Messier objects M95, M96, and M105.  All of these objects are conspicuously close to each other in the sky.

References

External links 

 NGC 3384, position and other data
 NGC 3384 SIMBAD entry
 Pdf document: Stellar population analysis applied to NGC 3384
 Wikisky.org: SDSS image, NGC 3384
 

Lenticular galaxies
Barred lenticular galaxies
M96 Group
Leo (constellation)
3384
05911
32292
17840311
Mijnden

Mijnden is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It was a part of the former municipality of Loenen. Since 2011 it has made part of the new formed municipality of Stichtse Vecht and lies about 12 km west of Hilversum.

The hamlet was first mentioned in 1235 as Minden. The etymology is unclear. The postal authorities have placed it under . In 1840, it was home to 270 people.

References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Stichtse Vecht
Klatretøsen

Klatretøsen () is a 2002 Danish crime comedy film directed by . A remake from this Danish blockbuster was made in 2004 with the name Catch That Kid. The film's tagline is "The gutsiest girl since Pippi Longstocking."

Klatretøsen was produced by Nimbus Film.

Plot 
Ida, with help from her two best friends Sebastian and Jonas, robs the bank where her mother works, to get the money to save her dying father. During the heist, the kids overcome high-tech security systems, guard dogs, and a nasty head of security to get to a bank vault suspended 100 feet off the ground.

Cast 
  as Ida Johansen
  as Sebastian Klausen
 Mads Ravn as Jonas Balgaard
 William Haugaard Petersen as William Johansen
 Lars Bom as Klaus Johansen – Ida's father
  as Maria Johansen – Ida's mother
 Anders W. Berthelsen as Henrik (guard)
 Casper Jexlev Fomsgaard as Johnny Klausen
  as Hartmann

Reception 
The film has been recognised as "a good film for kids" and "all good fun".

Accolades 
The film won the Starboy award for the best children's film at Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival in 2002. It won the Robert Award for Best Children's Film at the 2003 Robert Awards.

References

External links 
 
 

2000s adventure films
2000s heist films
2002 films
Danish teen films
2000s Danish-language films
Nimbus Film films
Antonio Veneziano (poet)

Antonio Veneziano  (1543 - 19 August 1593) was an Italian poet who wrote mainly in the Sicilian language. He is considered among the greatest poets who wrote in Sicilian, which include Giovanni Meli, Domenico Tempio and Nino Martoglio.  He is perhaps the first major figure in Sicilian literature following the Sicilian School which predates him by three centuries.  During his lifetime, he was well known for his poetry both within Sicily and far beyond.  He also wrote in Italian and Latin.

Veneziano was born in Monreale, a contemporary of the great Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes (Sicily was under Spanish rule at this time).  As it happens, both shared a cell after being captured by Barbary pirates around 1575.  He wrote his greatest work, Celia during his period of imprisonment in Algeria (he was released in 1579).  Cervantes is reported as having said that Veneziano had earned a passage to Paradise through this collection of poems  (Celia means a jest or joke in both Sicilian and Italian).  He wrote other works of poetry, also delving in satire and bawdy rhymes. He died in Palermo.

When once asked why he chose to write in Sicilian rather than a recognised literary language such as Italian or Spanish, he replied to the effect that if a man is to seduce a woman, he must do so in her mother tongue.  It is unclear whether a pun was intended.

The whole of his works were assembled in 1967 in a publication entitled: Ottave, edited by A. Rigoli.

Examples of his poetry

Some extracts from his collection,  Celia, appear below (circa 1575 - 1580).  While the subject matter of the first poem, love, is typical enough of early Sicilian poetry, the second is a bit more atypical, possessing a whimsical quality.

No. vii

No. viii

References 

 Arba Sicula Volume II, 1980 (bilingual: Sicilian and English) - source of the examples of poetry and English translation.

1543 births
1593 deaths
People from Monreale
Sicilian-language poets
Italian male poets
Writers from the Province of Palermo
Kim Myeong-sun

Kim Myeong-sun (; 20 January 1896 – 22 June 1951) was a female Korean novelist and poet of the early 20th century. She wrote under the art names Tansil () and Mangyangcho ().

Life
Kim Myeong-sun was born in Pyongyang, Joseon in 1896. Kim attended Chinmyeong Girls' School in Seoul in 1908 where she was considered a good student, but she was bullied due to her mother's status as a kisaeng. She was also mistreatment by her step-mother's family, leading her to drop out of school in 1911. In 1913, she went to Tokyo to study at Kojimachi's Girls' School, but did not complete her studies there. She soon returned to Korea to earn her degree at Sungmyeon's Girls' School.

In 1919, she joined the Creation group, Korea's first literary circle, which was organized by Kim Dong-in and other Korean students in Tokyo. She briefly worked as a reporter for the newspaper Maeil Shinmun, and from 1927 to 1930 she worked in film. She then suffered from financial problems and succumbed to mental illness late in life.

Work
Kim made her literary debut in 1917, in a magazine edited by Choe Nam-seon called Youth (소년, Sonyeon), with a novella titled Mysterious Girl (의문의 소녀, Uimun-ui sonyeo) She began publishing her poetry in 1921, and became known for her keen psychological portraits, with her 1921 novella Turkey (칠면조, Chilmyeonjo), which was published in the magazine Enlightenment (개벽, Gaebyeog). She continued publishing as late as 1925.

Relatively little is currently known about her work because, as Kim Yung-Hee notes, scholars have not studied her and are currently "attempting to excavate her lost works in order to better assess her position in the lineage of modern Korean women fiction writers."

Works

Translated into English 
A Girl of Mystery, in Questioning Minds (University of Hawaii Press, 2009) 

  Collected Works of the First Korean Female Writer Kim Myeong-sun  (BookLab, 2022) ISBN 979-11-6836-249-9 03810

In Korean 
 Dubious Girl (의문의 소녀), 1917
 Turkey (칠면조 七面鳥), 1921
 Lonely People (외로운 사람들), 1924
 When I Look Back (돌아다 볼 때), 1924
 Tansil and Juyeong (탄실이와 주영이), 1924
 Night of Burning (뭇는 날 밤), 1925
 The Vault of Heaven (창궁 蒼穹), 1925
 The Guest (손님), 1926
 I Love (나는 사랑한다), 1926
 Like a Stranger (모르는 사람갓치), 1929

See also
Korean literature
List of Korean-language poets
List of Korean female writers

References

Sources

External links

 Kim Myong-sun 
  중앙일보 2009.01.14 
 성의 갈등과 상실을 민족사랑으로 승화시킨 여류문인 
 The 'Modern' Japanese (and Korean) Taisho Woman 
 Kim Myong-sun:Translation by Don Mee Choi 

1896 births
1971 deaths
Korean writers
Literature of Korea under Japanese rule
People from Pyongyang
Korean women poets
Korean educators
Korean scholars
20th-century Korean women
Korean journalists
South Korean feminists
Women Korean independence activists
20th-century Korean poets
20th-century women writers
20th-century journalists
Oud-Maarsseveen

Oud-Maarsseveen is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Stichtse Vecht, and lies about 7 km north of Utrecht.

The hamlet was first mentioned around 1200 as Marsenrevene, and means "moorland belonging to Maarssen". The oud (old) was later added to distinguish from Maarsseveen. Oud-Maarsseveen has place name signs. The hamlet started as a land cultivation project. It was home to 507 in 1840.

Gallery

References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Stichtse Vecht
Solomon Pond Mall

The Solomon Pond Mall is a two-level enclosed shopping mall located off Interstate 290, near its terminus at Interstate 495, in Marlborough and Berlin, Massachusetts. The mall features JCPenney and  Macy's (originally Filene's) as anchors with one vacant anchor last occupied by Sears.

History

The mall opened in 1996 and was one of many that opened along the Interstate 495 corridor from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Initially the mall's location seemed remote as it was located far from other retail. However, the mall was able to strategically target both the affluent and booming western crescent of suburbs of Boston, while simultaneously serving as the largest mall for the Worcester area.

In comparison to other mid-range malls along the Interstate 495 corridor, the Solomon Pond Mall attempted to shoot for the upscale by courting some higher end tenants such as Victoria's Secret, Swarovski Crystal and several jeweler chains. The mall also includes an Apple Store.

On February 15, 2021, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 34 stores nationwide. The store closed on May 2, 2021.

As of 2021, the mall is currently managed by Pacific Retail Capital Partners. It was managed by Simon Property Group as recently as May 2021.

Gallery

References

External links
 

Buildings and structures in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Shopping malls established in 1996
Shopping malls in Massachusetts
Tourist attractions in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Kristi Angus

Kristi Angus (born August 21, 1971 in Kelowna, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress who has appeared as a guest star in episodic roles in TV series, such as The Twilight Zone, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070 or Instant Star. Angus has also played supporting roles in feature films such as Jason X and White Chicks and also appeared in the TV series KidZone as herself in 2000.

Angus has also appeared in several commercials, including spots for Mars candy bars and Orbit chewing gum. She has gained popularity for her portrayal as the angry girlfriend in the comical Orbit gum for strong teeth commercial, in which she destroys her boyfriend's property with her teeth.

Angus is involved with the comedy troupes Face Full of Theatre and The Chesterfields appearing in many projects including Sketch With Kevin MacDonald and The Flaws of Attraction.

Angus appeared in TV movies When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story and Harriet the Spy in 2010. Angus recently had guest star roles on the TV shows Mayday, Living in Your Car, Lost Girl, the Syfy show Warehouse 13, the comedy series Good Dog, Really Me and King. She will appear in the 2nd season of XIII: The Series as Mischa Martin.

Filmography

Film

Television

Web

References

External links
 

1971 births
Living people
Canadian television actresses
Actresses from British Columbia
People from Kelowna
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
Canadian film actresses
Neal Hallford

William Neal Hallford (born October 17, 1966) is an American game designer, book author, screenwriter, and independent film director. He is best known for his work on the fantasy role-playing games Betrayal at Krondor, Dungeon Siege, and Champions of Norrath.

Personal life 
On October 9, 1995, Hallford was in a train wreck aboard Amtrak's Sunset Limited, westbound from Miami to Los Angeles. An unknown perpetrator or perpetrators signing themselves the "Sons of the Gestapo" left four notes on the site claiming responsibility, two of which were found by Hallford. Hallford had been asleep, waking just before to the sounds the train braking and screaming passengers. Since that time, Hallford has appeared in two television specials about the event, When Trains Crash: Blood on the Tracks and Derail: America's Worst Train Wrecks, which were broadcast in the US, UK and Canada.

Career 
Hallford created the film The Case of Evil in 2014. The film premiered at Horrible Imaginings Film Festival. Hallford was among a panel of locals at San Diego Comic Con in 2016.

Works

Games
Planet's Edge: The Point of No Return (1992) – New World Computing
Betrayal at Krondor (1993) – Dynamix
Return to Krondor (1998) – Sierra Online Inc.
Dungeon Siege (2002) – Gas Powered Games

Books
Krondor: the Betrayal (1999) (co-author of original story with Raymond E. Feist and John Cutter)
Swords & Circuitry: A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (2001) (with Jana Hallford)
The Derailment of the Sunset Limited (2012)

Films
Beauty and the Beast: 20 Years of Remembering (2007) — an online documentary about the CBS television series, Beauty and the Beast, produced and directed by Neal Hallford's production company, Swords & Circuitry Studios
The Case of Evil (2014) — a narrative fiction horror short film, produced and directed by Neal Hallford's production company, Swords & Circuitry Studios

Radio

"Uncharted Regions" radio dramas
Shadow of the Bulldog Man (1984) – KTOW Radio
Calls Waiting (1987) – KTOW Radio
The October Harvest (1989) – KTOW Radio

References

External links

Living people
1966 births
American video game designers
People from San Diego
Film directors from California
American film directors
Yeshivat Ma'alot

Yeshivat Ma'alot Ya'akov () is a Hesder Yeshiva, founded in 1975 in the town of Maalot following the Ma'alot massacre. The Yeshiva is named after Rabbi Dr. Ya'akov Herzog, son of the late Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog and brother of the late President of Israel Chaim Herzog. The Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Yehoshua Weitzman.

There are over 300 students in the yeshiva and kollel. The yeshiva also has a program for overseas students headed by Rabbi Ariel Friedman.

Yeshivat Ma'alot is known for its emphasis on learning Torat Eretz Yisrael according to Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook’s teachings.

Graduates of the yeshiva have founded four other branches in different locations:
 Acre (hesder) headed by Rabbi Yosef Stern.
 Holon (hesder) headed by Rabbi Elazar Aharonson.
 Ashdod (formerly Neve Dekalim), headed by Rabbi David Gavrieli. The Yeshiva was removed from original location as a result of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip during the summer of 2005.
 Netiv Tefachot, a post high-school yeshiva where students pursue both yeshiva and technological studies headed by Rabbi Avigdor Weitzman and Rabbi Eyal Griner.

References
Yeshivat Hesder Maalot
Yeshivat Hesder Maalot Overseas Program
Yeshivat Maalot Hebrew Site
Torat Eretz Yisrael

Ma'alot
Educational institutions established in 1975
Challans

Challans () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Challans station has rail connections to Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and Nantes.

Population

Notable people 

 Pauline de Lézardière, born in Challans, 25 March 1754, died Proustière Castle, Poiroux, 8 February 1835. Historian.
 Constance Picaud, born in Challans, 5 July 1998. Footballer for France.

Twin towns — sister cities
Challans is twinned with:
  Saronno, Italy (2004)

See also
 Communes of the Vendée department

References

Communes of Vendée
Poitou
Vendée communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Saemangeum Seawall

The Saemangeum Seawall, located on the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring . It runs between two headlands, and separates the Yellow Sea and the former Saemangeum estuary.

History 

In 1991, the South Korean government announced that a dyke would be constructed to link three headlands just south of the South Korean industrial port city of Gunsan,  southwest of Seoul, to create  of farmland and a freshwater reservoir. Since then, the government spent nearly 2 trillion won ( billion USD) on construction of the dyke, with another 220 billion won ( million USD) budgeted on strengthening the dyke and a further 1.31 trillion won ( billion USD) to transform the tidal flats into arable land and the reservoir. The average width of the sea wall/earth dam is  (it is  at its widest) and the average height is  ( at its highest).

The construction of the Saemangeum Seawall has caused controversy from the moment it was announced as environmental groups protested against the impact of the dyke on the local environment. Supreme Court challenges in 1999 and 2005 led to temporary production stoppages but ultimately failed to stop the project. Major construction was completed in April 2006, with the seawall  longer than the Afsluitdijk in the IJsselmeer, the Netherlands, previously the longest seawall-dyke in the world.

With remaining minor construction and inspection finished, the seawall was officially open to the public on 27 April 2010. Then South Korean president Lee Myung Bak commented that Saemangeum would be "the kernel and the gateway of South Korea's west coast industrial belt", and is "another effort by us for low-carbon and green growth, along with the four-rivers project". A ceremony was held in Saemangeum the same day, with cabinet officials, politicians, and delegates from other countries.

, a floating solar PV plant of 2.1 GW capacity is planned using the coastal reservoir area of the Saemangeum Seawall.

Composition 

The road on Saemangeum Seawall with the length of 33 km, connects Buan County to Gunsan is a part of National Route 77.

IS: Intersection, IC: Interchange

See also
Saemangeum
Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station
Environment of South Korea
The Four Major Rivers Restoration Project
Kalpasar Project

References

 "Saemangum seawall completed", The Korea Herald, 22 April 2006, Seoul.
 Google Earth view
 Google Maps view
Article in New York Review of Books Mentions Saemangeum Seawall as prime example of bird habitat loss

Seawalls
Buildings and structures in South Korea

Nature conservation in South Korea
Buildings and structures in North Jeolla Province
Environmental disasters in Asia
2006 in South Korea
2006 in the environment
Internal territorial disputes of South Korea
Saemangeum
La Châtaigneraie

For the school, see La Châtaigneraie (School)

La Châtaigneraie () is a commune of the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

It lies halfway between Nantes-Poitiers-Angers, about an hour from the beaches of Les Sables d'Olonne. Located on the sunny side of the Gatines hills, it is greatly attached to its past and values.

See also
Communes of the Vendée department

References

Communes of Vendée
Bernard Rickart Hepburn

Bernard Rickart Hepburn (May 27, 1876 – February 23, 1939) was born in Picton, Ontario.

The son of A.W. Hepburn and the former Miss McCuaig, he was educated in Picton and Port Hope. In 1901, he married Bertha E. Wright.
Hepburn served overseas with the Canadian Forestry Corps during World War I, reaching the rank of brigadier general. A businessman, he became a Member of the House of Commons of Canada in 1911 as a Conservative representative for Prince Edward, before representing the Unionist for the same district upon the Conservative Party's merger with segments of the Liberal Party of Canada.  He remained a member of the Commons until 1921.

Hepburn was president and general manager of the Ontario and Quebec Navigation Company. He was named a Companion in the Order of St Michael and St George in 1918. He died in London, England at the age of 62.

References

1876 births
1939 deaths
People from Prince Edward County, Ontario
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Myobatrachidae

Myobatrachidae, commonly known as Australian ground frogs or Australian water frogs, is a family of frogs found in Australia and New Guinea. Members of this family vary greatly in size, from species less than  long, to the second-largest frog in Australia, the giant barred frog (Mixophyes iteratus), at  in length. The entire family is either terrestrial or aquatic frogs, with no arboreal species.

Characteristics
The family Myobatrachidae contains forms of parental care unique in the animal kingdom. The two species of gastric-brooding frog (genus: Rheobatrachus), are found in this family. The females of these species swallow their young, where they develop until metamorphosis. The pouched frog (Assa darlingtoni) has pouches on the sides of its body. The male will guard the eggs until hatching, and assist the tadpoles into its side, where they stay until metamorphosis. Another form of parental care, although not unique, is found in many species of the genus Limnodynastes, where the male buries himself near an egg mass, and protects the eggs.

While many species are adapted to burrowing, helping them survive in semiarid or seasonally arid environments, the turtle frog and sandhill frog go so far as to lay their eggs directly into moist sand several feet below the surface, rather than into water. These species lack tadpoles, with the eggs hatching directly into miniature frogs.

These frogs lack adhesive toe discs found in the tree frogs. The family is broken into subfamilies based mainly upon their egg-laying habits. Those of the subfamily Limnodynastinae lay foam nests. The female creates foam by agitating a chemical on her skin with her hands. The foam may float on top of water, or be on land. The subfamily Rheobatrachinae contains the two species of gastric-brooding frogs, and the rest are within the subfamily Myobatrachinae.

Taxonomy
The following genera are recognised in the family Myobatrachidae. Some taxonomists split these genera into two subfamilies, Myobatrachinae and Rheobatrachinae, while other sources include Limnodynastinae as a subfamily of Myobatrachidae.

Notes

References

 

 
Myobatrachoidea
Amphibian families
Amphibians of Australia
Amphibians of New Guinea
Amphibians of Papua New Guinea
Oligocene amphibians
Extant Chattian first appearances
Taxa named by Hermann Schlegel
Australasian realm fauna
Lézat-sur-Lèze

Lézat-sur-Lèze (, literally Lézat on Lèze; Languedocien: Lesat) is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.

Geography
The Lèze forms part of the commune's southern border, flows north through the commune, then forms part of its northern border.

Population

Twin town 
Lézat-sur-Lèze is twinned with Ateca in Spain.

See also
Communes of the Ariège department

References

Communes of Ariège (department)
Ariège communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Mourenx

Mourenx (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

History
A settlement of Mourengs existed in the eleventh century. A secular abbey existed, belonging to the Viscount of Béarn. In 1385 the village had 27 hearths.

Natural gas deposits were discovered in nearby Lacq in 1951. A new town was constructed in 1958 to provide accommodation for the workers required at the gas processing plant. The town was designed by architects and urbanists Coulon, Douillet and Maneval. It consisted of three groups of collective housing, three groups of family housing, all around a central area of support facilities.

The well-known French sociologist Henri Lefebvre carried out a study of Mourenx and its inhabitants at the time of its creation.

Population

See also
Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

References

Communes of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Planned communities in France
New towns started in the 1950s
Pyrénées-Atlantiques communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Reibnitz

Reibnitz may refer to:

Günther von Reibnitz (1894–1983), a German cavalry officer
Karl Gustav Hans Otto Freiherr von Reibnitz, a minister-president of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Princess Michael of Kent (born 1945), a member of the British royal family, born Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz
Rybnica, Jelenia Góra County, a Polish village known as Reibnitz in German

See also
Rybnica (disambiguation)
Intertubercular plane

A lower transverse plane midway between the upper transverse and the upper border of the pubic symphysis; this is termed the intertubercular plane (or transtubercular), since it practically corresponds to that passing through the iliac tubercles; behind, its plane cuts the body of the fifth lumbar vertebra.

Additional images

See also
 Transpyloric plane

References

External links
 http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/_/viewer.aspx?path=dorland&name=plane(2).jpg

Anatomical planes
Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub

Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub () (born October 16, 1966; in Qatif, Saudi Arabia) is wanted by the United States government in connection with the June 25, 1996 attack on the Khobar Towers complex near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.  He was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on June 21, 2001 on 46 separate criminal counts including murder for his role in the attack, which was led by Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Mughassil.

Months after his 2001 indictment in the 1996 attack, Al-Yacoub, then still a U.S. fugitive, was placed on the initial list of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists, which was released to the public by President Bush on October 10, 2001.

Al Yacoub is alleged to be a member of the pro-Iran Saudi Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Al-Hijaz, meaning Party of God, being led by Al-Mughassil. The group is one of a number of related Hezbollah terrorist organizations operating in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait and Bahrain, among other places, and was outlawed in Saudi Arabia.

A reward of up to $5 million is being offered by the Rewards for Justice Program for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub.

Personal Information

Terrorist Activity

Khobar Towers plot 1996 
The 2001 indictment traces the carefully organized 1996 bomb plot back to on or about 1993 when Al-Yacoub was part of a team instructed by Al Mughassil to begin surveillance of Americans in Saudi Arabia, including at the location of Khobar Towers as early as 1994.

Al-Yacoub remained one of the planners of the attack on Khobar Towers through at least early June 1996. The cell finalized plans on the evening of June 25, 1996, for the attack that night. In the subsequent blast, 19 American servicemen were killed, and 372 were wounded.

Following the terrorist attack, the leaders fled the Khobar area and Saudi Arabia using fake passports.

The United States indicts that Ibrahim Al-Yacoub was also heavily involved in the recruitment of new terrorist members, assisting and executing terror attacks.

Terrorist Liaison 
Al-Yacoub is also said to have worked as a liaison between his organisation and the Lebanese and Iranian branches of Hezbollah, especially information transfer.

References

External links
 Rewards for Justice
 Al-Yacoub profile at FBI Most Wanted Terrorists Site

1966 births
Bombers (people)
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
Fugitives wanted by the United States
Individuals designated as terrorists by the United States government
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Saudi Arabian mass murderers
Saudi Arabian Shia Muslims
Saint-Lary-Soulan

Saint-Lary-Soulan (; , ) is a commune of Southwestern France, located in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania.

Geography
Saint-Lary is located in Hautes-Pyrénées 80 km south of the département's capital Tarbes, next to the Le Néouvielle Nature Reserve and the Pyrenees National Park and is a 20-minute drive to Spain.

Sports

Skiing
Saint-Lary-Soulan is one of the largest ski resorts in the French Pyrenees with over 100 km of downhill slopes. There are 53 pistes spread over three linked, and yet distinct sectors. Saint Lary 1700 is known as the Pla d'Adet sector and provides family skiing including snow kindergarten, toboggan run and a 'Kidpark', a snowpark aimed at young skiers aged between 6 and 12 years. Saint Lary 1900 is known as the Espiaube sector and is frequented by more experienced skiers. The showpiece ski run is the Mirabelle which descends 700 metres over its  length. Saint Lary 2400 has a snowpark which doubles as a skate park in the summer, mogul and slalom stadiums and also provides access to Lake Oule for snow-shoeing.

Hiking
Saint-Lary-Soulan is also a popular base camp for walkers. The coast to coast GR10 footpath passes through Saint-Lary itself and both the Pyrenees National Park and The Néouvielle Nature Reserve are close by.

Cycling
The Tour de France frequently runs through Saint-Lary-Soulan, most recently in 2022 and is close to a number of mountain climbs used on the tour including the ski resort Pla d'Adet, the Col d'Aspin, the Col de Peyresourde and the Col du Tourmalet. Stage 17 of the 2014 Tour de France finished at Pla d'Adet, above the commune. Stage 17 of the 2018 Tour de France and Stage 17 of the 2021 Tour de France finished here on the Col du Portet.

See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department

References

External links
 Official Saint Lary Website
 Pyrenees Travel information guide
 Official Tour de France Website
  George Hincapie Performance Village

Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
Hautes-Pyrénées communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
Benzoyl group

In organic chemistry, benzoyl (, ) is the functional group with the formula  and structure . It can be viewed as benzaldehyde missing one hydrogen. The benzoyl group has a mass of 105 amu.

The term "benzoyl" should not be confused with benzyl, which has the formula . The benzoyl group is given the symbol "Bz" whereas benzyl is commonly abbreviated "Bn".

Sources
Benzoyl chloride is a favored source of benzoyl groups, being used to prepare benzoyl ketones, benzamides (benzoyl amides), and benzoate esters. The source of many naturally occurring benzoyl compounds is the thioester benzoyl-CoA. Irradiation of benzil generates benzoyl radicals, which have the formula PhCO.

Benzoyl compounds
Many ketones contain the benzoyl group. They have the formula C6H5CO–R, an important example being benzophenone.

Benzoyl esters and amides are common in organic chemistry. The esters are used as a protecting groups in organic synthesis, which can be easily removed by hydrolysis in dilute basic solution. Benzoyl-β-D-glucoside is a natural substance that can be found in Pteris ensiformis.

References

Acyl groups
Phenyl compounds
Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens

Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens (Languedocien: Sent Sulpici de Faleirens) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

It is one of eight municipalities forming the jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion, which is  a UNESCO World Heritage of Humanity for its historic vineyard landscape that has survived intact and in use.

Geography
Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens is located  northeast of Bordeaux, between Libourne and Branne.

Population

Economy
The main activity of the town is related to viticulture.

Sights
 The Peyrefitte menhir is the largest menhir of Aquitaine. It was classified as a historical monument in 1889.

See also
 Communes of the Gironde department

References

External links 

 

Communes of Gironde
Aziz M. Osman

Aziz M. Osman is a Singaporean-born Malaysian actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He is currently the director general of his own production company, Ace Motion Pictures Sdn Bhd.

Career 
Aziz started his acting career as an infant in 1963 film, Ibu Ayam directed by Salleh Ghani. In 1976, at the age of 13, he alongside his three siblings took a role in 1976 film, Sayang Anakku Sayang directed by Jamil Sulong and is a remake of a 1970 Shaw Brothers film, The Younger Generation. The film earned Aziz won the Best Child Star at the 22nd Asia Pacific Film Festival.

His directing career begin in 1990 when he directed his debut film, Fenomena, which starring Ramona Rahman and M. Nasir. Aziz a fan of science fiction films made by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, which inspired him to write and direct Malaysia's first science fiction film, XX Ray. He also took the main role as a university student named Amir. The success of XX Ray led him to directed its two sequels, which released in 1995 and 2019 respectively. The third sequel received negative reviews upon its release. Since then, he directed more commercially successful films including Puteri Impian (1997) and Leftenan Adnan (2000).

Personal life 
He was born in Hougang, Singapore and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

His father is M. Osman, a Malaysian singer in 1960s, while his mother Afida Es is an actress. His brother Zulkifli is also a film director. Aziz is married three times and has 7 children from these marriages.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Telemovie

Awards and nominations 
 Best Director (Baginda) ... TV3's Anugerah Skrin 97/98, 1998
 Best Editor (Femina) ... 11th Malaysia Film Festival, 1994
 Best Art Director (Femina) ... 11th Malaysia Film Festival, 1994
 Promising New Director (Fenomena) ... 9th Malaysia Film Festival, 1990
 Best Child Actor (Sayang Anakku Sayang) ... 22nd Asia Film Festival, South Korea, 1976

References

External links
 

1962 births
Living people
Malaysian male actors
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian film directors
People from Kuala Lumpur
Malay-language film directors
La Barthe-de-Neste

La Barthe-de-Neste (, literally La Barthe of Neste; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in southwestern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department

References

Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
Armagnac
Arreau

Arreau (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in southwestern France.

It is situated on the former Route nationale 618, the Route of the Pyrénées. Arreau is at the crossroads of the Louron valley and the Aure valley.

Geography

Climate

Arreau has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Arreau is . The average annual rainfall is  with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Arreau was  on 30 July 1983; the coldest temperature ever recorded was  on 3 February 1956.

Population

See also
Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department

References

Communes of Hautes-Pyrénées
Francis James Grant

Sir Francis James Grant  (1863–1953) was a Scottish officer of arms who eventually rose to the office of Lord Lyon King of Arms. Grant served in the Court of the Lord Lyon as Carrick Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary beginning on 17 May 1886. This appointment lasted until his promotion to the office of Rothesay Herald of Arms in Ordinary and Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records on 8 September 1898. 

On 10 May 1929, he was appointed Lord Lyon King of Arms and Secretary of the Order of the Thistle. He was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1935. Grant retired from the office on 30 June 1945. He was the representative of Grant of Corrimony, and was the son of John Grant, Marchmont Herald of Arms in Ordinary from 1884 to 1888.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists in 1944.

Arms

See also
King of Arms
Heraldry
Pursuivant
Herald

References

External links
Court of the Lord Lyon
The Heraldry Society of Scotland

1863 births
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Scottish genealogists
Lord Lyon Kings of Arms
Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists
1953 deaths
Henri Poincaré Prize

The Henri Poincaré Prize is awarded every three years since 1997 for exceptional achievements in mathematical physics and foundational contributions 
leading to new developments in the field. The prize is sponsored by the Daniel Iagolnitzer Foundation and is awarded to approximately three scientists at the International Congress on Mathematical Physics. The prize was also established to support promising young researchers that already made outstanding contributions in mathematical physics.

Prize recipients

See also 

 Henri Poincaré
 List of physics awards
 List of mathematics awards

References

External links 
 Webpage of the prize
 Daniel Iagolnitzer Foundation

Physics awards
Research awards
Mathematical physics
Triennial events
Helium (disambiguation)

Helium is a chemical element with symbol He and atomic number 2.

Helium may also refer to:

In science
Helium dating, a method of determining the age of rocks 
Helium fusion, a type of nuclear fusion in stars
Helium flash, the sudden beginning of helium fusion in certain kinds of stars
Isotopes of helium
Helium-3
Helium-4

Music
Helium (band), American rock band
Helium (Pram album), 1994
Helium (H3llb3nt album), 1998
Helium (Homeshake album)
"Helium" (Sia song), song from Fifty Shades Darker: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Helium", song on the 1996 album West by Mark Eitzel
"Helium", song on the 1997 album The Answer Machine? by Skyclad
"Helium", song on the 1999 EP Total Eclipse of the Sun by Einstürzende Neubauten
"Helium", song on the 2002 album Comfort in Sound by Feeder
"Helium", 2002 song and single by the Dallas Superstars
"Helium", 2016 song and single by Mikey Wax
"Helium", 2016 song and single by Mikael Gabriel

Other
Helium (film), a 2014 short film
Helium, a fictional city-state in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series of novels
The Late B.P. Helium, recording project and stage name of Bryan Poole
Helium Network, a decentralized wireless network

See also

Helios (disambiguation)
Heliu (disambiguation)
He (disambiguation)
Helius (fly), a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae
Pfalzgrafenstein Castle

Pfalzgrafenstein Castle () is a toll castle on the Falkenau island, otherwise known as Pfalz Island in the River Rhine near Kaub, Germany.  Known as "the Pfalz", this former stronghold is famous for its picturesque and unique setting.

History
The keep of this island castle, a pentagonal tower with its point upstream, was erected between 1326 and 1327 by King Ludwig the Bavarian. Around the tower, a defensive hexagonal wall was built between 1338 and 1340. In 1477 Pfalzgrafenstein was passed as deposit to the Count of Katzenelnbogen. Later additions were made in 1607 and 1755, consisting of corner turrets, the gun bastion pointing upstream, and the characteristic baroque tower cap.

The castle functioned as a toll-collecting station that was not to be ignored. It worked in concert with Gutenfels Castle and the fortified town of Kaub on the right side of the river. Due to a dangerous cataract on the river's left, about a kilometer upstream, every vessel would have to use the fairway nearer to the right bank, thus floating downstream between the mighty fortress on the vessel's left and the town and castle on its right. A chain across the river drawn between those two fortifications forced ships to submit, and uncooperative traders could be kept in the dungeon until a ransom was delivered. The dungeon was a wooden float in the well.

Unlike the vast majority of Rhine castles, "the Pfalz" was never conquered or destroyed, withstanding not only wars, but also the natural onslaughts of ice and floods by the river. Its spartan quarters held about twenty men.

Extensive measures of waterway engineering in the nineteenth century, above all straightening the river for better use as an international waterway and along this particular stretch, clearing it from the old cataract, relocated the regularly used fairway from the river's right arm to its left. Thus the tactical advantage may not be apparent to one unaware of the change in the watercourse.

The island of the castle was used for the Rhine crossing by 60,000 Prussian troops under Blücher in the winter of 1814 in his pursuit of Napoleon.

The castle was acquired by Prussia in 1866, and toll collections ceased in 1867. It continued to be used as a signal station for the river boat traffic for about another century. In 1946, the castle became the property of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Museum
The State eventually turned "the Pfalz" into a museum and restored the color scheme of the baroque period. The museum reflects the conditions of the 14th century, and the visitor will not find modern amenities such as electricity or a lavatory. It is accessible to the public via a ferry service from nearby Kaub as long as river conditions permit.

The area is part of the Rhine Gorge, a World Heritage Site.

Notes and references

External links

 History (German)
 Burg Pfalzgrafenstein – Tollstation at Kaub
 Aerial views of Pfalzgrafenstein castle
 History (English)

Buildings and structures completed in 1340
Pfalzgrafenstein
Landmarks in Germany
Museums in Rhineland-Palatinate
Historic house museums in Germany
Electoral Palatinate
Toll castles
The River (novel)

The River, also known as The Return and Hatchet: The Return, is a 1991 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen. It is the second installment in the Hatchet series, although Brian's Winter (1996) kicks off an alternative trilogy of sequels to Hatchet that disregard The River from canon.

The 1993 reprint includes a note (copied from Paulsen's handwriting) explaining about the survival aspects of The River that "like all my books it is based on things that happened to me."

Plot
Brian Robeson, a 13-year-old boy who spent 54 days surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness the previous summer, is hired by the government to again live in the woods and surviving only by his wits, so the military can learn his survival techniques. Though reluctant at first, Brian eventually agrees. This time, Brian sets out for a remote Canadian location accompanied by Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist.

Though the government stipulated the duo take emergency supplies, Brian insists they abandon everything but a knife and an emergency radio, saying that it would be impossible to eat bugs and sleep in the rain when a tent and prepared food is within reach. During their stay, things take a grim turn when their camp is struck by lightning, which knocks Derek into a coma and destroys the radio. Knowing that Derek will die of dehydration long before anyone finds them, Brian builds a raft in a desperate bid to navigate down the unknown river to Brannock's Trading Post, the nearest inhabited point, for emergency aid. The biggest problem is the trading post is  downriver. Despite rapids, the craft's unwieldiness, exhaustion, and a lack of geographical knowledge, they finally reach the trading post and Derek survives. After the two get back home, Derek buys Brian a canoe named The Raft as a thank you present.

References 

  

1991 American novels
American young adult novels
Novels by Gary Paulsen
Novels about survival skills
Novels set in Canada
Novels set in forests
Stefan Brockhoff

Stefan Brockhoff is a pseudonym that was used collectively by a group of three German co-authors of several detective novels, all of them having certain characteristics in common: they were all born in Germany at or about the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century; at one point or another they all of them became refugees from Nazism; and they all eventually lived out their lives in the United States of America. Moreover, to every one of them the writing of detective novels was a youthful avocation, their principal interests and activities in later life lying in different areas.
 Dieter Cunz (1910–1969)
 Richard Plant (1910–1998)
 Oskar Seidlin (1911–1984)

References

Collective pseudonyms
Fictional German people
German male writers