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Byrkjelandsvatnet

Byrkjelandsvatnet or Storavatnet is a lake in the municipality of Bjerkreim in Rogaland county, Norway.  The  lake lies about  north of the village of Øvrebygd.  The lake flows out through the short river Malmeisåna which flows into the lake Hofreistæ.

See also
List of lakes in Norway

References

Bjerkreim
Lakes of Rogaland
British Formula One Racing Team

British Formula One Racing Team was a Formula One team run by Brian Henton in 1977. Henton, a racing driver who had been competing in Formula One and Two, set up his own team to compete regularly in Formula One. The team purchased a March 761B from March Engineering together with a Cosworth DFV engine, to compete in selected World Championship and Shellsport International Series races. Henton and Bernard de Dryver entered four World Championship races, but failed to qualify for any. The team later shut down through lack of funds.

Complete Formula One World Championship results
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

References 

Formula One entrants
Auto racing teams in the United Kingdom
Auto racing teams established in 1977
Auto racing teams disestablished in 1977
Harumi Takahashi

is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and currently a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). She served as governor of the prefecture of Hokkaido for four terms from 2003 to 2019. She graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a Bachelor of Economics degree in 1976. She started her career as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and quit in 2003. She was elected in April 2003, becoming the first female governor of Hokkaido and the fourth female governor in Japanese history.

External links 
 An article on the electoral campaign of Harumi Takahashi, published by the American Political Science Association (PDF)
 Governor of Hokkaido website 
 Personal website 

1954 births
Living people
People from Toyama (city)
Hitotsubashi University alumni
Governors of Hokkaido
Female Japanese governors
Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
Politicians from Hokkaido
Christopher Duplanty

Christopher David "Chris" Duplanty (born October 21, 1965, in Palo Alto, California) is a former water polo goalkeeper from the United States, who competed in three Summer Olympics (1988, 1992 and 1996) for his native country. He won the silver medal with the US Men's National Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. In 2001, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.

See also
 List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
 List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers

References

External links
 
 Chris Duplanty profile at The Washington Post

1965 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Palo Alto, California
American male water polo players
Water polo goalkeepers
Water polo players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in water polo
American water polo coaches
Punahou School alumni
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Water polo players at the 1995 Pan American Games
Pan American Games medalists in water polo
Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
Gold Ridge, Georgia

Gold Ridge is the historical name of an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States.

The area was settled in the mid-1800s and is located between Canton and the Sixes community, home to the now-defunct Sixes Gold Mine.  Gold Ridge is located in the Georgia Gold Belt, which runs southwest to northeast along the southern edge of the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains.

Gold Ridge is located between Georgia State Route 20 (Knox Bridge Highway), Marietta Highway (former Georgia State Route 5), the Sixes community and the Etowah River / Lake Allatoona. Bells Ferry Road (former Georgia State Route 205), Ridge Road and Butterworth Road traverse the area, which is now mostly residential.

Gold Ridge ("Goldridge") had its own post office in the early 1900s.

References

Unincorporated communities in Cherokee County, Georgia
Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Vigdarvatnet

Vigdarvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Sveio in Vestland county, Norway.  A small arm off the main lake juts to the south and runs along the municipal-county border between Sveio in Vestland county and the town of Haugesund in Rogaland county.  The  long lake forms a U-shape.  It is fed by the nearby lake Stakkastadvatnet to the south, and it empties into the Ålfjorden, a small fjord arm off the main Hardangerfjorden.  The village of Sveio lies on the northwestern shore of the lake.

See also
List of lakes in Norway

References

Sveio
Haugesund
Lakes of Vestland
Lakes of Rogaland
Chevrens

Chevrens is a hamlet of Anières in Geneva, Switzerland.  A wine growing area  in a slender body of land between the French border and the left bank of Lake Geneva.

References

Geography of the canton of Geneva
Populated places on Lake Geneva
Achi language

Achi (Achí in Spanish) is a Mayan language very closely related to Kʼicheʼ (Quiché in the older orthography). It is spoken by the Achi people, primarily in the department of Baja Verapaz in Guatemala.

There are two Achi dialects. Rabinal Achi is spoken in the Rabinal area, and Cubulco Achi is spoken in the Cubulco area west of Rabinal.

One of the masterpieces of precolumbian literature is the Rabinal Achí, a theatrical play written in the Achi language.

Phonology 
The tables present the consonant and vowel phonemes of Achi. On the left is the spelling in use.

Consonants 

 Voiceless plosives can have aspirated allophones , either when preceding a consonant or in word-final position.
 A uvular consonant  can also be heard as velar  in some environments. 
  when preceding a velar consonant can be heard as a velar nasal .
 Sonorants  when preceding a voiceless consonant or in word-final position can occur sounding voiceless .

Vowels

References

External links
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Pronouncing the Maya Achi Alphabet
New Testament in Achi
OLAC resources in and about the Achi language
 Listen to a sample of Achi from Global Recordings Network

Mayan languages
Indigenous languages of Central America
Mesoamerican languages
Languages of Guatemala
Baja Verapaz Department
Tamaki Titans

The Tamaki Titans (originally Tamaki Leopards) were a franchise in the now defunct New Zealand rugby league Bartercard Cup competition. They represented Eastern Auckland, this area was previously represented by the Otahuhu Ellerslie Leopards and the Eastern Tornadoes. Their coach, Dean Clark, was a former standoff who played for the Kiwis, New Zealand Māori, Hull KR & the Counties Manukau Heroes.

Notable players

New Zealand Warriors associated with the club included: George Tuakura, Manu Vatuvei, Cooper Vuna, Ruben Wiki while other players included Elijah Taylor, Constantine Mika, Leeson Ah Mau and Paul Atkins.

2006 Results

In 2006 they performed strongly, finishing fourth. They then went on to defeat the Counties Manukau Jetz in the first week of the playoffs and then pip the Waitakere Rangers 25–24 in an extra time thriller. They then lost in the preliminary final to the Canterbury Bulls.

2007 Results

The Titans finished fifth overall, just missing out on a playoff position.

Gallery

Auckland rugby league clubs
Defunct rugby league teams in New Zealand
Rugby clubs established in 2006
2006 establishments in New Zealand
2008 disestablishments in New Zealand
Askevatnet

Askevatnet is a lake in the municipality of Askøy in Vestland county, Norway.  The  lake lies just northeast of the village of Ask on the eastern side of the island of Askøy.  The lake is regulated by a small dam on the southeastern part of the lake.

See also
List of lakes in Norway

References

Lakes of Vestland
Askøy
Reservoirs in Norway
Askjelldalsvatnet

Askjelldalsvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Vaksdal in Vestland county, Norway.  The small lake lies at an elevation of  in the Vikafjell mountains between the valleys of Modalen and Eksingedalen.  The  lake has a dam at the southern end of the lake.  The Askjelldalsvatnet dam is used to regulate the water level so that the water can be used for water power at a nearby power plant.  The lake Skjerjavatnet lies about  to the west.

See also
List of lakes in Norway

References

Lakes of Vestland
Vaksdal
Reservoirs in Norway
Harbour League

Harbour League were a franchise in the now defunct Bartercard Cup rugby league competition in New Zealand. They represented Aucklands North Shore City. They were formed in 2006 to take over from the Hibiscus Coast Raiders and the North Harbour Tigers due to the New Zealand Rugby League wishing to reduce the number of Auckland teams in favour of more regional sides.

Notable players
New Zealand Warriors associated with the club included: Louis Anderson and Tony Martin while other squad members included Jeremiah Pai, Kevin Locke and Kimi Uasi.

2006 season

In 2006 Harbour League finished sixth on the table, missing out on a finals berth by one point. They were the only Auckland club not to make the finals.

2007 Results

The 2007 Bartercard Cup kicked off on April 14 and Harbour finished the regular season in second place, only one win behind the Auckland Lions. They were defeated 28–4 in the Grand Final by the Auckland Lions who claimed their second successive title.

Auckland rugby league clubs
Defunct rugby league teams in New Zealand
Rugby clubs established in 2006
2006 establishments in New Zealand
2008 disestablishments in New Zealand
Northland rugby league team

The Northland rugby league team are a rugby league team that represents the Northland Region in New Zealand Rugby League competitions. They are based in Whangārei. They currently compete in the Albert Baskerville Trophy as the Northern Swords.

Between 2006 and 2007 they were part of the Bartercard Cup, playing under the name the Northern Storm. Northland was originally known as North Auckland and has previously used the nickname the Wild Boars.

The 2015 captain is Chris Bamford.

History
Northlands first season was 1929 and they challenged Auckland for the Northern Union Cup, losing 22–19.

2006-2007: Bartercard Cup

The Northern Storm joined the Bartercard Cup in time for the 2006 season. There inclusion was due to the work of Anthony Murray and Harry Clyde.

The Storm's first win was 40–22 against Wellington and was dedicated to Murray who had died earlier that week.

Notable players
New Zealand Warriors associated with the Northern Storm included Todd Byrne & Grant Rovelli.

2006 results

In the Northern Storm's debut season in 2006 the club performed poorly, managing only two wins and two draws from eighteen matches. They finished in last position on the table, collecting the Wooden Spoon.

A bright point of the season was that fullback Brendon Hikaka, centre Mason Pure and hooker Linton Price were all selected for the Junior Kiwis.

2007 results

Before the season started 2006 Head Coach Geoff Morton moved South and joined the Counties Manukau Jetz. He was replaced by Phil Marsh.
The Storm started the season strongly with big wins against the Jetz (54-28) and Central Falcons (48-24). However they then suffered heavy losses to both the Waitakere Rangers (66-16) and league leaders the Auckland Lions (70-8). The squad showed improvement since 2006 but they again finished near the bottom of the table.

Notable players
Frank Pickrang (played for New Zealand before moving to Whangārei to play for City in 1939).

References

External links
Northern Swords NZRL.co.nz

Rugby league teams in New Zealand
Rugby league in Northland
1929 establishments in New Zealand
Ernst Oppert

Ernst Jakob Oppert (5 December 1832 – 19 September 1903) was a Jewish businessman from Germany best known for his unsuccessful attempt in 1867 to remove the remains of the father of regent Yi Ha-eung from their grave in order to use them to blackmail the regent into removing Korean trade barriers.

Life
Oppert was born into a wealthy banker family in Hamburg. Two of his brothers, Julius and Gustav, became leading German orientalists, while Ernst opened a trading business in 1851 in Hong Kong. When that company went bankrupt in 1867, he became interested in trading with Korea, which at that time followed a strict isolationist policy and was a hermit kingdom, and a closed market to westerners. Oppert visited the country clandestinely several times. Although Oppert himself had no experience in learning the Korean language he judged the Korean language to be much harder to learn than either Chinese or Japanese. Oppert based this judgment on a scarcity of sources and in his opinion,

Prince Namyeon body snatching incident
Whilst in Shanghai, Oppert met a French priest named Féron, who had devised a plan to excavate and hold hostage the remains of the father of regent Yi Haeung, who ruled the country for his son, King Gojong, to use them to blackmail him into opening the country for trade. Supplied by an American, E. F. B. Jenkins, with money and arms, they set out on 30 April 1867. When they reached the tomb, they tried to steal the body, but were stopped by the massive stone slab that covered Prince Namyeon's remains and had to leave without having achieved their objective. That stone was thought to be steel, but it was in fact quicklime. On their way back, they were engaged by Korean soldiers in a battle and their party had to flee the country. The incident enraged the Koreans, who were now even less inclined to trade with the foreigners.

According to A. H. S. Landor, the tale of Oppert's unsuccessful tomb raiding was still well known in Korea around the end of the 19th century and was being told to foreigners on arriving, with one member of the raid party allegedly still living in Chemulpo.

Later life
Oppert returned to Germany, where he thereafter had an unremarkable businessman's life. Some sources claim that he spent a few months in jail for this grave robbing episode. In 1880 he published a book about Korea titled Ein verschlossenes Land. Reisen nach Corea. It was originally published by Brockhaus in Leipzig and was also translated into English.

See also
Germans in Korea

References

Works 
 Ein verschlossenes Land. - Brockhaus, Leipzig 1880 (Digital)

External links 
 Kneider, H.-A.: Ernst Jacob Oppert: Ein deutscher Kaufmann auf Raubzug im alten Korea, 2003. URL last accessed April 26, 2006.
 Jewish Encyclopedia: Oppert, Ernst Jacob. URL last accessed April 26, 2006.
 Neff, Robert: "German merchant's Bodysnatching Expedition in 1868," The Korea Times July 22, 2010, p. 15.

1832 births
1903 deaths
19th-century German businesspeople
Businesspeople from Hamburg
German expatriates in Korea
19th-century German Jews
Cispus River

The Cispus River  is about  long and flows into the Cowlitz River at Lake Scanewa in the Cascade Range of Washington. Its tributaries drain most of south-central and southeastern Lewis County, extreme northeast Skamania County, and some of western Yakima County.

Its main stem begins in Lewis County in a high, glacial valley to the north of Snowgrass Flats in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, located on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. From here the river flows in a southwesterly direction and takes on the waters of several important headwater tributaries such as Walupt Creek.

About  from its mouth, the Cispus River receives Muddy Fork from the left. Muddy Fork starts  from this junction, at Mount Adams' Lava Glacier and is named for the glacial debris and silt in the water which give the river a muddy appearance. The Cispus River flows through a heavily forested valley, much of the forest regrown after the Cispus Burn, which occurred the first decade of the 20th century and consumed most of the lower drainage.

The rushing Canyon Creek enters the river originating high on the slopes of Mount Adams. A few miles down the North Fork Cispus enters the main branch about  from its start. From here on, the Cispus River flows westerly, passing campgrounds and trails in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Two tributaries, Yellowjacket and McCoy Creeks, flow into the river from the south about midway though its course. Beyond here, the river passes beneath Tower Rock, a prominent quartz diorite monolith on the south side of the river. Soon after this the river leaves the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and enters the Weyerhaeuser Cowlitz Tree Farm. The Cispus River ends its course entering the Cowlitz River at Lake Scanewa, just upstream from Cowlitz Falls and Riffe Lake.

There is a stream flow monitoring station on the river which sends its data live to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Whitewater rafting also takes place on the Cispus River.

See also
List of Washington rivers
List of tributaries of the Columbia River

References

External links
 USGS map showing Cispus River
 Water flow on the Cispus River
 

Rivers of Washington (state)
Rivers of Lewis County, Washington
Rivers of Skamania County, Washington
Rivers of Yakima County, Washington
Mount Adams (Washington)
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Midway High Lakes Area
Geography of Skamania County, Washington
Goat Rocks
Władysław Podkowiński

Władysław Podkowiński (; 4 February 1866  – 5 January 1895) was a Polish master painter and illustrator associated with the Young Poland movement during the Partition period.

Career
Podkowiński was born in Warsaw and began his artistic training at Wojciech Gerson's drawing school, He then transferred to the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts where he studied between 1880 and 1884. After graduating, Podkowinski began to contribute to many of the leading art journals in Warsaw at the time. In 1885, he travelled, along with Józef Pankiewicz, to the Imperial Academy of Arts where he studied from 1885 to 1886. Returning from St. Petersburg in 1886, Podkowiński obtained a position of an illustrator for the Tygodnik Ilustrowany magazine where he became one its most renowned artists.

His first watercolor and oil paintings were produced during this time, but Podkowiński still considered them personal, not a public endeavor. Those early paintings were mainly influenced by Aleksander Gierymski. He adopted painting as a profession after a trip to Paris in 1889, where he was profoundly influenced by French Impressionist painters including Claude Monet. Podkowiński was later credited for bringing the Impressionist movement to Poland, but toward the end of his life, his failing health inclined him toward Symbolism. He died in Warsaw at the very early age of 28 due to tuberculosis.

His best known painting, Frenzy of Exultations (Szał uniesień), exhibited first in Zachęta, is surrounded by the turn-of-the-century atmosphere of scandal and public outcry. In 1894, it was featured in a Warsaw art exhibition and violently criticized. The exhibition lasted only 36 days because Podkowinski brought a knife on the 37th day, and slashed his work on display. The painting was restored after his death. Today, it is prominently exhibited at the Sukiennice Museum in Kraków.

Selected paintings

See also
Polish Impressionism
Young Poland movement

References

External links 
 Władysław Podkowiński at Culture.pl

1866 births
1895 deaths
Painters from Warsaw
Polish Impressionist painters
Polish illustrators
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
19th-century Polish painters
19th-century Polish male artists
Polish male painters
Tuberculosis deaths in the Russian Empire
People from Congress Poland
Batil

Batil () is an Arabic word meaning falsehood, and can be used to describe a nullified or invalid act or contract according to the sharia. 

In contract law, the opposite of batil is sahih. Batil can be distinguished from fasid ("defective") in that a fasid contract might go through completion, whereas a batil contract would not.

References

Arabic words and phrases in Sharia
Sharia legal terminology
Awakatek language

Awakatek (also known as Aguateco, Awaketec, Coyotin, and Balamiha, and natively as Qa'yol) is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala, primarily in Huehuetenango and around Aguacatán. The language only has fewer than 10,000 speakers, and is considered vulnerable by UNESCO. In addition, the language in Mexico is at high risk of endangerment, with fewer than 2,000 speakers in the state of Campeche in 2010 (although the number of speakers was unknown  as of 2000).

Awakatek is closely related to Ixil and the two languages together form the sub-branch Ixilean, which together with the Mamean languages, Mam and Tektitek, form a sub-branch Greater-Mamean, which again, together with the Greater-Quichean languages, ten Mayan languages, including Kʼicheʼ, form the branch Quichean–Mamean.

Chalchitek
Chalchitek (or Chalchitec) is sometimes considered a dialect of Awakatek. In recent years, however, it has been recognized as a distinct language by the Guatemalan government. Chalchitek is primarily spoken in the Chalchitán neighborhood of Aguacatán.

Etymology

The Awakatek people themselves refer to their language as qaʼyol, literally meaning 'our word'. They also call themselves qatanum, which means 'our people' and is distinct from the word Awakatec, which is used in Spanish in reference to the municipality of Aguacatán (which means place of abundant avocados and refers to agricultural production and not specifically to the indigenous people).

Phonology

Vowels

Diphthongs
There are four diphthongs: ay , ey , oy , uy .

Consonants

The coronal ejectives may be allophonically pre-voiced.

References 

Agglutinative languages
Mayan languages
Indigenous languages of Central America
Mesoamerican languages
Languages of Guatemala
Huehuetenango Department
Inlecypris jayarami

Inlecypris jayarami is a danionin cyprinid from Lake Inle, Myanmar. Fishbase place this species in the monotypic genus Inlecypris but it is considered by some authorities.e.g. the IUCN, to be better placed in the genus Devario

References

 

Devario
Freshwater fish of Southeast Asia
Endemic fauna of Myanmar
Fish described in 1984
Ola Schubert

Ola Schubert (formerly Ola Bergner; born 19 March 1972 in Täby) is a Swedish Flash animator whose films have won awards in film festivals and on popular internet sites such as Newgrounds and FWA. In 2019 he lost a copyright suit against the Hatten company over the design for the babblers and was ordered to pay 2.5 million Swedish kronor.

Filmography
 1999—A Christmas Tale
 2000—A Winter Story
 2001—Gooberstory
 2002—Nim's Winter Tale
 2005—Sumo the Bamboo Man
 2007—Captain Flame
 2014— Bath House, co-animator with Johanna Schubert and Niki Lindroth von Bahr

Awards
 2002—2nd place Jury Award in the Linear Category at Flash Award 2002 for Gooberstory
 2003 (28 May)—Nim's Winter Tale wins Favorite Website Awards
 2003 (7 June)—Gooberstory wins FWA One award
 2003 (10 July)—Gooberstory wins the Story category in Flashforward 2003 in New York; Nim's Winter Tale is nominated.

See also
 Flash cartoon

References

External links
 Ola Schubert's movies on Newgrounds

1972 births
Living people
People from Täby Municipality
Swedish animated film directors
Swedish animators
Flash artists
Phil Sgrosso

Phil Sgrosso (born September 16, 1985) is an American heavy metal musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist of the American metalcore band As I Lay Dying, the former rhythm guitarist of the band Wovenwar and the touring lead guitarist for Saosin and Nails.

Career
Before joining the band that jumpstarted his musical career, Sgrosso was a part of a local act known as Tomra, a melodic metalcore band from San Diego, which disbanded in 2003. Joining As I Lay Dying at the age of 17, Sgrosso had honed his creative talents as one of the songwriters on 2005's Shadows Are Security. His work with the band extends from solely instrumentation, with producing credits on the bands latter releases.

Throughout his tenure with As I Lay Dying, the band was named "Artist of the Year" at the San Diego Music Awards in 2005, 2007, and 2008, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for the song "Nothing Left" in 2008. Sgrosso received the "Ultimate Metal God" award from MTV2 in 2007. Through six studio albums and one split release, As I Lay Dying sold more than 1,000,000 albums worldwide, with their DVD, This Is Who We Are, being Certified Gold within one month of its release. As I Lay Dying's sixth album, Awakened, was released on September 25, 2012, to high critical acclaim.

Following the incarceration of As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis in 2013, the remaining members of the band formed Wovenwar with Oh, Sleeper guitarist Shane Blay. They released their debut album, Wovenwar, in 2014 via Metal Blade Records. As I Lay Dying reunited in June 2018.

While touring on the Mayhem Festival in 2012, Sgrosso pulled double-duty performing with As I Lay Dying and Slipknot, filling in for Jim Root on the first leg of the run. Beginning in 2016, he became a permanent fixture to Saosin's touring lineup, taking over after Justin Shekoski's departure. Sgrosso is also a touring guitar player for American powerviolence band Nails. Sgrosso also has a band called Poison Headache with him playing guitars, bass, and vocals, Andy Kutka (formerly of Internal Affairs) on vocals and guitar and Kyle Rosa (formerly of Thieves and Liars) on drums and they are signed to Metal Blade Records.

Discography 

As I Lay Dying
 Shadows Are Security (2005)
 A Long March: The First Recordings  (compilation, 2006)
 An Ocean Between Us (2007)
 The Powerless Rise (2010)
 Decas (compilation, 2011)
 Awakened (2012)
 Shaped by Fire (2019)

Wovenwar
 Wovenwar (2014)
 Honor Is Dead (2016)

Poison Headache
 Poison Headache (2016)

Author & Punisher
 Krüller (2022) (session guitar)

References 

Living people
American heavy metal guitarists
1985 births
American performers of Christian music
As I Lay Dying (band) members
Wovenwar members
21st-century American guitarists
Musicians from San Diego
People from Mission Viejo, California
Guitarists from California
Mount Juneau

Mount Juneau (Tlingit: Yadaa.at Kalé) is a  massif in Southeast Alaska just one and a half miles (2.4 km) east of downtown Juneau, Alaska, in the Boundary Ranges.

History
Mount Juneau is steeped in mining history. Originally named Gold Mountain in 1881 by miners, it was also named Bald Mountain in roughly 1896. The name "Juneau Mountain" was first used in the mining records by Pierre "French Pete" Erussard when he located mining claims on the mountain in 1888.

In 1976, it was proposed by Chuck Keen of Alaska Trams (later to become Mount Juneau Enterprises) that a jigback aerial tramway be built to the top of the mountain. The venture never reached fruition although Goldbelt Inc. did end up building Mount Roberts Tramway to the neighboring Mount Roberts.

Weather

Mount Juneau receives an estimated 300% more rain than downtown Juneau (which receives  per year on average).

During winter, Mount Juneau is one of the preeminent avalanche threats to a major population center.

Access
The trail to Mount Juneau's summit can be accessed via the Perseverance Trail about  in from the trailhead. The trail features an assortment of alpine views as well although it traverses many steep slopes and caution is prudent in wet or snowy weather.

1962 avalanche 
In March of 1962 an avalanche slid down the south side of Mount Juneau. It started with a lot of snowfall coming from the north-east. Some of the snow at about 220 meters came loose causing the avalanche.

Damage 
The avalanche caused damage to 34 houses. 7 were severely damaged, 9 were moderately damaged, and 18 had minor damage

To this day there is still a visible path that the avalanche took down the mountain.

Future prevention 
After the avalanche the local government brought in a Swiss avalanche expert to assess the damage and propose possible prevention methods for when another avalanche occurred. They assessed that the avalanche could have been worse as it stopped right before hitting the neighborhood. They also said that building mounds that could divert the avalanche away is the best option. Future avalanche experts rebuked the idea since while this avalanche was powerful, more powerful ones are likely to occur in the same area. They stated that the best course of action is to move the neighborhood. Locals on the other hand were not fully convinced on moving, so the local government decided to mitigate further damages by banning the construction of add-ons in avalanche zones and by buying lots that could go to building homes in avalanche zones.

References

Mountains of Juneau, Alaska
Mountains of Alaska
Jonathan Whitehead

Jonathan Whitehead (21 October 1960 – 26 May 2020) was an English musician and composer, born in Denton, Lancashire. He wrote music for television comedies such as The Day Today, Brass Eye, Black Books, Green Wing, Campus and Nathan Barley. He studied music at the University of Bristol and later lived in London.  He sometimes wrote under the name "Trellis".

His music for Green Wing was nominated for a BAFTA and won the RTS Award for Best Original Music.  A selection of music from the series was released on CD under Whitehead's artistic nom de plume, Trellis.

Serious documentary and drama scores composed by Whitehead include War In Europe and The Clintons' Marriage of Power for MBC, Metropolis (with James Purefoy), three series of Medics for Granada and Kay Mellor's latest drama series Strictly Confidential for ITV.

He died on 26 May 2020 at the age of 59, with his death being announced the following month by the Radio 4 programme, Last Word.

Composer 
The Day Today - (1994)
The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show - (1994-95)
Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge - (1994-95)
Fist of Fun - (1995-96)
The Saturday Night Armistice - (1995-99)
Where's Elvis This Week? - (1996)
Nancy Lam - (1997)
Brass Eye - (1997-2001)
In the Red - (1998)
You Are Here - (1998)
Los Dos Bros - (1999-2001)
Smack the Pony - (1999-2003)
Perfect World - (2000-01)
Metropolis - (2000)
Black Books - (2000-04)
The Estate Agents - (2002)
Peep Show- (2003-) (Jeremy's music)
Green Wing - (2004-2007)
Nathan Barley - (2005)
Twisted Tales - (2005)
Feel the Force - (2006)
Richard Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show - (2006)
Strictly Confidential - (2007)
Secret Diary of a Call Girl - (2007)
Moving Wallpaper - (2008)
The Empress's New Clothes - (2008)
Campus - (2009-2011)
Rev. series 1&2 (2010)
Mount Pleasant (8 x 1 hour comedy drama for Tiger aspect/Sky 2011)

Discography 
Green Wing: Original Television Soundtrack (as "Trellis") - (2007)

Awards 
RTS Craft and Design Award for "Best Original Score" for Green Wing  in 2005, and also nominated for a BAFTA.

References

External links 
 
 Jonathan Whitehead | Film & TV Composer

1960 births
2020 deaths
Alumni of the University of Bristol
English television composers
English male composers
People from Denton, Greater Manchester
St. Andrew's Church, Kraków

The Church of St. Andrew in the Old Town district of Kraków, Poland () located at Grodzka Street, is a historical Romanesque church built between 1079 and 1098 by a medieval Polish statesman Palatine Sieciech. It is a rare surviving example of the European fortress church used for defensive purposes.

Built in Romanesque style, it is one of the oldest buildings in Kraków and one of the best-preserved Romanesque buildings in Poland. It was the only church in Kraków to withstand the Mongol attack of 1241. Along the lower part of the broader section of its façade are small openings that served as defensive windows at a time when the church was a place of refuge from military assaults.

From 1320 it was used by the Religious Order of Poor Clares.  The building has been renovated many times.  The present Baroque interiors have decorations by Baltazar Fontana, paintings by Karol Dankwart and gilded altars.  The Baroque domes atop the octagonal towers were added in 1639.

History

The church is possibly the best preserved example of early Romanesque architecture in the city of Kraków and in Poland. The massive building was constructed from stone blocks towards the end of the 11th century, and also fulfilled important defensive functions. The two octagonal looking towers, with the doubled arcade windows are perfect examples and characteristic of Romanesque architecture. They extend high over the body of the church. The apse decorated with a modest arcade freeze and numerous details (including stairs and window frames) maintain the same character.

The structure was probably expanded, extended and strengthened up until the mid-12th century. The church successfully withstood the Tatar-Mongol raid of 1241, providing shelter for the majority of residents and inhabitants of the city. At that time, it was – quite rightly – called “the lower castle” to be distinguished from the nearby “upper” standing on top of the Wawel Hill. It was also sometimes referred to as the second church of Kraków after the Wawel Cathedral. In 1320, the church was entrusted to the Order of Poor Clares, whose convent was built south of the church. Also the brick, Gothic oratorio that today plays the role of the sacristy dates back to that period.

The baroque decoration of the interior, with rich stucco decoration by Italian painter and architect Baldassare "Baltazar" Fontana, comes from the refurbishment that took place after 1700, while the construction of the high altar, attributed to Francesco Placidi was initiated in the upcoming years. Attention is drawn to the pulpit in the shape of a boat, and the musical choir with 18th-century organ in the chancel, decorated in the rococo manner. The baroque steeples added in 1639 contrast with the severity of the Romanesque form of the church.

Images

References

 St. Andrew's Church in Kraków. Virtual reconstruction
 "Kościół św. Andrzeja w Krakowie." Short history and photographs

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11th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Poland
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Pullet Surprise

Pullet Surprise is a 1997 7-minute Looney Tunes short released in theaters with Cats Don't Dance. It was produced by Chuck Jones Film Productions. Since this cartoon was produced after the death of legendary Looney Tunes voice artist Mel Blanc on July 10, 1989, the voice of Foghorn Leghorn is supplied by Frank Gorshin, while Stan Freberg reprises his role as Pete Puma from the 1952 short, Rabbit's Kin. The term "pullet" in the title refers to a young female chicken, while the title is a pun on "Pulitzer Prize". The short was not included in the DVD release of Cats Don't Dance, though it was included as a bonus feature on the DVD release of The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.

Plot 
In the cartoon, Pete Puma is trying to raid the henhouse Foghorn Leghorn is guarding; Foghorn decides to have some fun with Pete. He tells Pete what he really wants is a Venezuelan Racing Chicken which has unfortunately run back to Venezuela. Pete runs there and back in time. Next, he really wants an Irish Wrestling Chicken, which turns out to be a rope tied to a bull's tail (this bull resembles Toro from Bully for Bugs). When Pete makes off with a chicken, nest and all, Foghorn grabs the chicken, then says Pete's found the rare Mongolian Disappearing Chicken, and the only way to make it reappear is tap dancing; Pete dances into a hole; Foggy drops an anvil on Pete's head ("a whole lotta lumps!"). Foggy walks away, chuckling at his cleverness, when a genuine Irish Wrestling Chicken pins him down ("I'm glad I say I'm glad I didn't show him the Norwegian Exploding Chicken").

During the cartoon, Foghorn tries to convince Pete to go hunting for rabbits to which Pete quickly and frantically declines ("uh-uh! No rabbits!"). This is most likely referencing Pete's previous run in with Bugs Bunny during the cartoon Rabbit's Kin.

References

External links 

 
 Pullet Surprise on Voice Chasers.

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1997 short films
1990s American animated films
Films directed by Darrell Van Citters
1997 animated films
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Films about cougars
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1990s English-language films
Marcus Melchior

Marcus Melchior (1897 – 1969) was a Danish rabbi. The rabbi of the main synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the time of the rescue of the Danish Jews in October 1943, during the Second World War. After escaping with his family and other Danish Jews to Sweden, he served as the acting rabbi for the Jewish refugees in Sweden until the end of the war, in mid 1945. In 1947 he became the chief rabbi of Denmark, a post he held until his death, in 1969.

Biography
Melchior came from a prominent Jewish family in Denmark. After receiving his rabbinical diploma from the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary, in Berlin, Germany, in 1921, he served as a rabbi in Tarnowskie Góry, Poland, from 1921 to 1923, and in Beuthen, Germany (today, Bytom, Poland), from 1925 to 1934. He then moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, and became rabbi for the Jewish community there. There he edited a magazine entitled Jodisk Familieblad. From 1943 to 1945 he was acting rabbi for the Jewish refugees from Denmark in Sweden. Following the death of Max Friediger,  in 1947, he became chief rabbi in Denmark. After World War II he pleaded for reconciliation with the new Germany.

Though his background was Orthodox, his rhetorical skills and his culturally open attitudes made him a popular lecturer also outside Jewish circles.

He fathered four sons and two daughters, among them Arne Melchior (who became a frontbench Danish politician and government minister) and Binyamin (Bent) Melchior. In 1969, the latter succeeded his father as chief rabbi in Copenhagen, and is the father of Michael Melchior, who is chief rabbi in Norway and emigrated to Israel in 1986 where he became a member of the Knesset for the Labour-Meimad faction. He was also the grandfather of Rabbi Ove "Uri" Schwarz who served as the Chief Rabbi of Finland 1982–1987.

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The tip-off from a Nazi that saved my grandparents

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1897 births
1969 deaths
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Sharpshin Island

Sharpshin Island is an island on the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland, near Algonkian Regional Park. It is  in area, but is very narrow, measuring only  across at its broadest point. Because of its plentiful shoreline, it provides habitat for waterfowl, molluscs, crustaceans, amphibians, and reptiles. A land patent for the island for "Harry D. Johnson et. al" in 1903.

See also
List of islands of Maryland
List of islands on the Potomac River

References 

River islands of Maryland
Landforms of Montgomery County, Maryland
Islands of the Potomac River
1950 NBA Finals

The 1950 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s inaugural 1949–50 season. The Central Division champion Minneapolis Lakers faced the Eastern Division champion Syracuse Nationals in a best-of-seven series with Syracuse having home-court advantage.

The NBA recognizes three preceding Basketball Association of America (BAA) seasons as part of its own history, and thus presents the 1950 Finals as its fourth championship series. Minneapolis had won the 1949 BAA Finals and its 1950 win over Syracuse is officially the Lakers second of five titles in Minneapolis.

In the event, six games were played in 16 days, beginning Saturday and Sunday, April 8 and 9, in Syracuse and incorporating two subsequent Sunday games in Minneapolis. Counting a Central Division tiebreaker played on Monday, March 20, the entire postseason tournament spanned five full weeks to Sunday, April 23.

The NBA was arranged in three divisions (for its first season only) and the first two rounds of the 1950 NBA Playoffs generated three Division champions. With the league's best regular season record, Syracuse had earned a place in the Finals by winning the Eastern Division title on the preceding Sunday, and had been five days idle while the Central and Western champions had played a best-of-three series mid-week.

In Game 1, The Lakers won on a buzzer beating shot by sub Bob "Tiger" Harrison, the first known case of a buzzer beater in the Finals. 6'8" Dolph Schayes of Syracuse led his team out to the finals after a 16.8 ppg average during the regular season. George Mikan, however, averaged 27.4 ppg and led the league. Mikan would lead the Lakers past Syracuse in six games.

Series summary

Lakers win series 4−2

Rosters

References

External links
 1950 Finals at NBA.com
 1950 NBA Playoffs at Basketball-Reference.com

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Nitzanei Sinai

Nitzanei Sinai ( or ), also known as Kadesh Barnea (), is a community settlement in the western Negev desert in Israel. Located near Nitzana, it falls under the juridisction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council. In  it had a population of .

History 

The settlement was occupied by Israel in 1980 and moved to its present site in 1986 following the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. It was named for its proximity to the Sinai, as well as after biblical Kadesh Barnea, one of the stations on the Israelites' journey during the Exodus.

Olive cultivar 
Barnea is a modern dual-purpose olive cultivar bred originally from Kadesh Barnea in southern Israel to be disease-resistant and to produce a generous crop. The oil has a strong flavour with a hint of green leaf. Barnea is widely grown in Israel (especially in the south) and in the southern hemisphere, particularly in Australia and New Zealand.

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Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
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Japan National Route 16

is a national highway in Japan. A beltway around Tokyo, it links the major prefectural capital cities of Yokohama (in Kanagawa Prefecture), Saitama (in Saitama Prefecture), and Chiba (in Chiba Prefecture) as well as Hachiōji (in Tokyo). It also serves Yokosuka and Sagamihara (in Kanagawa Prefecture), Kasukabe (in Saitama Prefecture), and Kisarazu (in Chiba Prefecture). The total length is 241 km.

Along with the Ken-Ō Expressway, Route 16 connects the entire length of the Technology Advanced Metropolitan Area (TAMA) Network region - an inland industrial area covering an area of 3000 km2, covering 74 municipalities and home to over 10 million people of whom 4 million work in the TAMA Network firms. In 1998 goods shipped from TAMA had twice the shipment value of the Silicon Valley.

History
Before 1963, the route did not follow a loop, but ran from Futtsu to Yokosuka to Yokohama. The Yokosuka-Yokohama section was designated as National Highway 45 on 8 July 1887 and became National Highway 31 in 1920 and Route 16 in 1952. On 1 April 1963, Route 16 was extended to Kisarazu, replacing a portion of Route 127 and all of Route 129 when these sections were promoted to Class 1 highways, forming the current route around Tokyo.

Route data
Length: 
Origin and Terminus: Nishi-ku, Yokohama (originates and ends at junction with Route 1)
Major cities: Yokosuka, Sagamihara, Hachioji, Kawagoe, Saitama, Kasukabe, Kashiwa, Chiba and Kisarazu

See also

References

External links 
 The National Route 16 - Google Map

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Roads in Kanagawa Prefecture
Roads in Saitama Prefecture
Roads in Tokyo
1949 BAA Finals

The 1949 BAA Finals was the championship round following the Basketball Association of America (BAA)'s 1948–49 season, its third and last. Later that year, the BAA and National Basketball League merged to create the National Basketball Association (NBA).

6'10" George Mikan and the Minneapolis Lakers proved dominant. They routed the Washington Capitols in six games. This was the first of several successive NBA titles for the Lakers. It was the beginning of the George Mikan and the Lakers Dynasty. As for the Capitols, they would never reach the Finals again, but their coach in Red Auerbach would do so several times over the next two decades, and this represented his only loss in a Final until 1958 (Auerbach would win nine of his eleven appearances in a Final); this would be the first of six overall finals that featured Auerbach against the Lakers, for which he beat them five times, including in 1959 when he beat Kundla in his last game as head coach of the Lakers.

The six games of the final series were played in ten days – Monday, April 4, to Wednesday, April 13 – with one day off except after game three, the first of three played in Washington (Minneapolis led 3–0). Prior to its start, however, Minneapolis had been idle for five days, having qualified on the preceding Tuesday; Washington idle for only one day, having qualified on Saturday. The entire playoff tournament extended 23 days.

Series summary

Lakers win series 4–2

Team rosters

Minneapolis Lakers

Washington Capitols

References

External links
 1949 Finals at NBA.com
 1949 BAA Playoffs at Basketball-Reference.com

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Amazona (song)

"Amazona" is the third track from Roxy Music's November 1973 album Stranded. It features a very high pitched guitar solo from Phil Manzanera. The intro features a Bo Diddley beat. The middle section is in 14/4 timing, 4 bars of 3/4 and one of 2/4.

Personnel
 Bryan Ferry: Voice and Piano
 Andy Mackay: Oboe and Saxophone (and Treatments)
 John Gustafson: Bass
 Paul Thompson: Drums and Timpani
 Phil Manzanera: Guitar (and Treatments)
 Eddie Jobson: Violin, Synthesizer and Keyboards

Roxy Music songs
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Songs written by Phil Manzanera
1948 BAA Finals

The 1948 BAA Finals was the championship round of the Basketball Association of America's 1947–48 season. The Philadelphia Warriors of the Eastern Division faced the Baltimore Bullets of the Western Division, with Philadelphia having home court advantage.

Baltimore was not the Western Division champion but advanced to the championship round by winning a four-team playoff among the Eastern and Western Division runners-up. Meanwhile, the Eastern and Western Division champions, Philadelphia Warriors and St. Louis Bombers, played one long series to determine the other finalist, a best-of-seven series that Philadelphia won 4–3. In the runners-up bracket, Baltimore and Chicago from the West had first eliminated New York and Boston from the East, then faced each other in a best-of-three series. The format was used only twice, in 1947 and 1948, and generated two champions from the runners-up bracket.

The six games of the final series were played in twelve days, with at least one day off except prior to the decisive game. Division champions Philadelphia and St. Louis had played the seven games of their semifinal series in fifteen days, March 23 to April 6, with at least one day off before every game. The entire playoff tournament extended 30 days.

As of 2023, this is the only BAA/NBA Finals which a now-defunct team won (as opposed to teams that changed names and/or moved to other cities in later years).

Series summary

Bullets win series 4–2

Team rosters

Baltimore Bullets

Philadelphia Warriors

References

External links
 1948 Finals at NBA.com
 1948 BAA Playoffs at Basketball-Reference.com

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