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Gilgit District

The Gilgit District () is one of the 14 districts of Pakistan-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.  The headquarters of the district is the town of Gilgit. According to the 1998 census, the Gilgit District had a population of 243,324.  The district includes Gilgit (the capital city), the Bagrot Valley, Juglot, Danyore, Sultanabad, Naltar Peak, and the Nomal Valley. The highest peak in the district is Distaghil Sar , which is the seventh-highest peak in Pakistan and 19th highest in the world.

Administration

The Gilgit District is divided into three tehsils:

 Danyor Tehsil
 Gilgit Tehsil
 Juglot Tehsil

Education 

According to the Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings of 2015, the Gilgit District was ranked 35th out of 148 districts in terms of education. In terms of facilities and infrastructure, the district was ranked 67th out of 148.

Geography

The Gilgit District is bounded on the north by the Nagar District, on the east by the Shigar District and the Rondu District, on the south by the Tangir District, the Diamer District, and the Astore District, and on the west by the Ghizer District.

Rivers
The main rivers in the district are:

 Astore River
 Gilgit River – enters the Gilgit District from the west, south of the Bichhar Pass (Naltar Valley) and flows west through the town of Gilgit
 .Hunza River – flows further south and joins the Gilgit River northeast of the town of Gilgit
 Indus River – enters the Gilgit District from the Shigar District about six kilometers north of Jaglot, where the Gilgit River joins the Indus River and flows south along the Karakoram Highway.
 Khunjerab River – flows south along the Karakoram Highway from the Khunjerab Valley and is known as the Hunza River south of Sost

There are many tributaries of the main rivers, some of which are the Ghujerab River, the Hispar River, the Naltar River, the Shimshal River, and the Yaheen River.

Lakes
 Borit Lake
 Naltar Lake
 Nomal Lake
 Pahote Lake
 Rush Lake

Demographics 
In the 1941 census, the Gilgit District (then a tehsil) had a population of 22,495, distributed in 46 villages divided further into 12 subdivisions.  Roughly 50% of the population followed Shia Islam and 49% other forms of Islam (Sunni). According to scholar Martin Sökefeld, the Sunni missionaries came from the south, Shia from the east and Ismaili from the north.

See also
List of districts in Gilgit-Baltistan
1988 Gilgit massacre

References

 
Districts of Gilgit-Baltistan
Rakhsh

Rakhsh (in , meaning "luminous") is a wondrous stallion -the brave and faithful steed of the preeminent hero Rostam in the Persian national epic, Shahnameh by the poet Ferdowsi.

The color of Rakhsh is described as "rose leaves that have been scattered upon a saffron ground" and it is first noticed by Rostam amongst the herds of horses brought over from Zabulistan and Kabul. In this first encounter Rakhsh is described as a mighty colt with the chest and shoulders of a lion and it appears to have the strength of an elephant. He is highly intelligent and his loyalty is legendary. No one but Rostam ever rides Rakhsh, and Rakhsh recognizes no one but Rostam as his master. Also, he is the only horse ever that Rostam could ride, since his great strength and weight would kill other horses.

Due to divine favor protecting Rostam, Rakhsh lives an unusually long life. Rostam and Rakhsh both die by the treason of Rostam's half-brother, Shaghad.

Raḵšā (Rakhsha) in Aramaic means horse.

See also
 List of fictional horses

References

Persian mythology
Shahnameh characters
Fictional horses
Chapman High School

Chapman High School may refer to:

Chapman High School (Kansas)
Chapman High School (Inman, South Carolina)
Alfons Oscar Saligny

Alfons Oscar Saligny (April 3, 1853 – May 4, 1903) was a Romanian chemist.

The brother of engineer Anghel Saligny, he was the first child born to a family of intellectuals in Focșani in Moldavia; his father Alfred, of French origin, had settled in the region in the late 1840s. Saligny began his education in a school for wealthy families founded by his father, which emphasized mastery of the French language. He went on to study at the Focșani Gymnasium. He then enrolled in Berlin University, studying under August Wilhelm von Hofmann. He obtained a doctorate in 1875, with a dissertation on organic chemistry.

Returning home the same year, he secured a position as chemist at the Colțea Hospital laboratory in Bucharest. Also in 1875, he became professor of mineralogy at the School of Bridges and Roads. His research involved tests on the concrete needed for building silos in Brăila, Galați and Constanța. He also studied the properties of iron and steel, required for the building of King Carol I Bridge, designed by his brother. In 1886, he founded a materials testing laboratory within the school. In 1889, he was named full professor of general and applied chemistry, leading the department until his death. From 1879 to 1899, he headed the laboratory at the State Mint. Saligny performed laboratory tests on building materials for railroads, and from 1899 to 1903, he was affiliated with Căile Ferate Române state railway. In 1902, Saligny was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Although his activity was cut off by a premature death, he published numerous studies in specialty magazines.

Notes

1853 births
1903 deaths
People from Focșani
Romanian people of French descent
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Bucharest
Romanian chemists
Corresponding members of the Romanian Academy
Panmah Glacier

Panmah Glacier is a glacier in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It is included in the Central Karakoram National Park.

See also
Central Karakoram National Park
List of glaciers
Panmah Muztagh

References 

Glaciers of Gilgit-Baltistan
Council Grove High School

Council Grove High School is a public high school located in Council Grove, Kansas, United States, and operated by Morris County USD 417 school district.  The school serves students in grades 9 to 12 and educates approximately 226 students.  The principal is Jay Doornbos. The school mascot is the Brave Indian and the school colors are blue and gold. Throughout its history, the athletic teams have won several state championships.

Extracurricular activities
Owing to the school's small size, Council Grove offers a relatively small number of clubs and programs. The school is a member of the Kansas State High School Activities Association and is classified as a 3A school. The athletic teams at Council Grove are known as the "Braves". Throughout the school's history, the Braves have won several state championships and have produced a few Division I, Division II, and Division III athletics.

Athletics

State championships

See also

 List of high schools in Kansas
 List of unified school districts in Kansas

References

External links
 Official Site
 USD 417 School District Boundary Map, KDOT
 Council Grove City Map, KDOT

Public high schools in Kansas
Schools in Morris County, Kansas
The Carp

The Carp may refer to:

 WGNW, a radio station (99.9 FM) licensed to Cornell, Wisconsin, United States
 The Carp (opera), a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Frank Desprez and music by Alfred Cellier
 The Carp (Band), a post-grunge folk influenced rock band from Wilmington, North Carolina. Formed by J.J Storniolo and Gary Miller.

See also
 Carp (disambiguation)
Emporia High School

Emporia High School is a public secondary school in Emporia, Kansas, United States.  It is the sole high school operated by Emporia USD 253 school district, and serves students of grades 9 to 12.  Emporia has an enrollment of approximately 1,400 students and a teaching staff of 130. The principal is Dathan Fischer. The school mascot is the Spartan and the school colors are red and black.

Emporia High was established in the early 1900s in order to help educate the increasing population of Emporia. Emporia High is a member of the Kansas State High School Activities Association and offers a variety of sports programs. Athletic teams compete in the 5A division and are known as the "Spartans". Extracurricular activities are also offered in the form of performing arts, school publications, and clubs.

Extracurricular activities
The Spartans compete in the Centennial League and are classified as a 5A school, the second-largest classification in Kansas according to the Kansas State High School Activities Association. Throughout its history, Emporia has won several state championships in various sports. Many graduates have gone on to participate in collegiate athletics.

Wrestling
Emporia's wrestling team has been successful for many years, having won eleven team state championships in 1980, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2009, and 2010. As of 2013, the Spartans have been the Centennial League Champions for 30 consecutive years.

Cross country

Emporia's cross country team has won the state title 5 times, occurring in 1969, 1988, 1991, 1993, and 2007.

State championships

Notable alumni
 Clint Bowyer - NASCAR driver
 Clarence Clay Jr. - geophysicist specialized in oceanography.
 Dale Corson - 8th President of Cornell University
 Tex Johnston - Test pilot
 J. L. Lewis - professional golfer on the PGA Tour
 Evan Lindquist - Artist, Printmaker, Arkansas Artist Laureate
 John Lohmeyer - NFL player
 Brock Pemberton - Broadway producer, originator of the Tony Awards
 Harold See - former Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
 Dean Smith - former Hall of Fame basketball coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels
 Oscar Stauffer - founder of Stauffer Communications. 
 Grant Timmerman - World War II Medal of Honor recipient

References

External links
 

Emporia, Kansas
Public high schools in Kansas
Schools in Lyon County, Kansas
1864 establishments in Kansas
Protestant Methodists

The Protestant Methodists were a small Methodist church based in Leeds. They left the Methodist conference in 1827 in protest at the installation of an organ in Brunswick Chapel in Leeds. This grew into a wider dispute around the style of government of the conference, though it continued to be known as the Leeds Organ Dispute. The Protestant Methodists constituted themselves as a separate body in 1828.

In 1836, the group joined the Wesleyan Association, by which time they consisted of several thousand members, mostly in Leeds. Through subsequent mergers, the Wesleyan Association became part of the United Methodist Church in 1907 and in 1932 became part of the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

References

The Penguin Dictionary of British History, Ed. Juliet Gardiner

Methodist churches in West Yorkshire
Protestant
Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong

The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) is an international non-governmental organization established in the United States on April 5, 2006, by the Falun Dafa Association. The organization also has offices in Canada.

In 2006, the organization asked former Canadian Secretary of State David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas to investigate allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China. The Kilgour–Matas report concluded that, "the government of China and its agencies in numerous parts of the country, in particular hospitals but also detention centres and 'people's courts', since 1999 have put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience.

History 

In December 2006, the Australian government responded to the newly formed CIPFG's petition alleging unethical organ transplant procedures in China by announcing the abolition of training programs for Chinese doctors in organ transplant procedures in the Prince Charles and the Princess Alexandra Hospitals as well as ending their joint research programs into organ transplantation with China.

The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong organized the international Global Human Rights Torch Relay that traveled through 150 cities in 35 countries of Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia to support a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The relay started in Athens on 9 August 2007, one year before the start of the Olympic Games. According to CIPFG, the role of the Human Rights Torch Relay was to raise awareness of Human rights in the People's Republic of China, especially the persecution of Falun Gong. Some celebrities participated in the march, such as Chen Kai, a former member of China's national basketball team.

See also 
Concerns over the 2008 Summer Olympics
Falun Gong
Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China
Persecution of Falun Gong

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080511183558/http://www.cipfg.org/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080516200142/http://www.cipfg.org/en/ (English)

Falun Gong
Political repression in China
Religious persecution
International human rights organizations
Human rights organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 2006
2008 Summer Olympics
Professor of Divinity (Glasgow)

Professor of Divinity is an academic position at the University of Glasgow.

Although divinity was taught from the foundations of the University in 1451, it was in 1577, as part of James VI's Nova Erectio, that a Chair was established, to be held by the Principal of the University of Glasgow. The last Principal to hold the Chair of Divinity was Herbert Story, from 1898 to 1907.

In 1640, a second Chair of Divinity was established, with the holder considered the Professor of Divinity.

Note, there is also a Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism.

Professors of Divinity 

 David Dickson MA (1640)
 Robert Baillie MA (1642)
 John Young MA (1653)
 Gilbert Burnet MA (1669)
 David Liddell MA (1674)
 Alexander Ross MA (1682)
 James Wemyss DD (1688)
 James Wodrow MA (1692)
 Alexander Wodrow MA (1705)
 John Simson MA (1708)
 Michael Potter MA (1740)
 William Leechman MA DD (1744)
 Robert Trail MA DD (1761)
 James Baillie MA DD (1775)
 William Wight MA DD (1778)
 Robert Findlay MA DD (1782)
 Stevenson Macgill MA DD (1814)
 Alexander Hill MA DD (1840)
 John Caird MA LLD DD (1862)
 William Purdie Dickson MA LLD DD (1873)
 William Hastie MA DD (1895)
 Henry Martyn Beckwith Reid MA DD (1903)
 William Fulton MA BSc LLD DD (1927)
 John Gervase Riddell MA DD (1947)
 Ronald Gregor Smith MA ThD DD (1956)
 Allan Douglas Galloway MA BD PhD STM (1969)
 George McLeod Newlands MA BD PhD DLitt (1986-2008)
 Werner Jeanrond MA PhD (2008-2012)
 George Pattison MA BD PhD DD (2013- Present)

See also
 List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow

References

Citations

Sources

Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow.  Compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond

Divinity
Divinity, *, Glasgow
1640 establishments in Scotland
High Street (disambiguation)

High Street is the main shopping and business street in towns in the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere.

High Street may also refer to:

Streets 
 High Street, Bristol, England
 High Street, Cambridge or Trinity Street, Cambridge, England
 St Mary Street/High Street, Cardiff, Wales
 High Street (Columbus, Ohio), United States
 High Street (Doncaster), England
 High Street, Dublin, Ireland
 High Street, Edinburgh, part of the Royal Mile
 High Street, Fremantle, Western Australia
 High Street, Glasgow, Scotland
 High Street, Hong Kong
 High Street, Lincoln, England
 High Street, Newport, Wales
 High Street, Oxford, England
 High Street, Sheffield, England
 High Street, Swansea, Wales
 High Street, Worthing, England

Other uses 
 High Street (film), 1976 Belgian film
 High Street (Lake District), fell in the Lake District, England
 High Street, Oxford (painting), 1810 oil painting by J. M. W. Turner
 High Street, Cornwall, a hamlet in England, UK
 High Street Phoenix, shopping mall in Mumbai, India
 High Street Records, an American record label
 High Street School, Dunedin, former school in Dunedin, New Zealand

See also
 High Street Historic District (disambiguation)
 High Street station (disambiguation)
 High Road (disambiguation)
 High (disambiguation)
 Market Street (Philadelphia), formerly named High Street
Blue wren

Blue wren is: 

a colloquial name used to refer to several species of fairywren

Superb fairywren, found in south-eastern Australia
Splendid fairywren, found in central and south-western Australia

 a Code Name
 Ana Montes, American, convicted Cuban spy
Div-e Sepid

In the Persian epic of Shahnameh Div-e Sepid (, lit. White Demon), is the chieftain of the Divs (demons) of Mazandaran. He is a huge being. He possesses great physical strength and is skilled in sorcery and necromancy. He destroys the army of Kay Kavus by conjuring a dark storm of hail, boulders, and tree trunks using his magical skills. He then captures Kay Kavus, his commanders, and paladins; blinds them, and imprisons them in a dungeon. The greatest Persian mythical hero Rostam undertakes his "Seven Labors" to free his sovereign. At the end, Rostam slays Div-e Sepid and uses his heart and blood to cure the blindness of the king and the captured Persian heroes. Rostam also takes the Div's head as a helmet and is often pictured wearing it.

In the Shabrangnama 
In the Shabrangnama it is revealed that the white demon sired a son.

Alternative views 
It is written in the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society that the struggle between Rostam and the white demon represents a struggle between Iranians and invaders from the north, from the Caspian provinces.

The Div-e Sepid is believed by Joseph J. Reed to have been a northern prince. Warner believes that he is a personification of the Mazandaranians, who were believed to have skin of an unhealthily pale colour caused by the climate of their homeland Some scholars hold the opinion that these divs of Mazandaran are merely wild people of the forest. Others are of the opinion that they are a group of enemy kings of ancient Mazandaran (which might have been different from its modern location) and Tabaristan. Alexander Krappe theorized that Ahriman himself was believed to have white skin. P. Molesworth Sykes believes that the name "White Div" represents a white nation.

According to one source Zal spoke of the horrid race of white-skinned people. This however contradicts with the fact that Zal was an albino himself. Zal means albino in Persian language.

References

External links

Demons
Daevas
Persian literature
Persian mythology
Shahnameh characters
David Borwein

David Borwein (March 24, 1924 – September 3, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born Canadian mathematician, known for his research in the summability theory of series and integrals. He also did work in measure theory and probability theory, number theory, and approximate subgradients and coderivatives. He latterly collaborated with his son, Jonathan Borwein, and with B.A. Mares Jr. on the properties of single-variable and many-variable sinc integrals.

Biography 
Borwein was born in March 1924 in Lithuania to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. He formerly resided and worked in St. Andrews, Scotland, before moving to London, Ontario where he eventually became Head of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario.  He was also the president of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS).  The David Borwein Distinguished Career Award given out by the CMS is named after him.  He was an active researcher in summability theory, classical analysis, inequalities, matrix transformations, and was professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, department of Mathematics.

His wife of over 60 years, Bessie Borwein, is a prominent anatomist, and is professor emerita of anatomy at the University of Western Ontario.

In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.

Borwein died in his sleep on September 3, 2021, at the age of 97.

See also
Borwein integral
Jonathan Borwein (son and co-researcher)
Peter Borwein (son and mathematician)

References

External links
 Curriculum Vitae, University of Western Ontario
 The David Borwein Distinguished Career Award
 

1924 births
2021 deaths
Canadian mathematicians
Lithuanian emigrants to Canada
Lithuanian Jews
Jewish Canadian scientists
Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario
Scientists from Kaunas
Fellows of the Canadian Mathematical Society
Presidents of the Canadian Mathematical Society
Lithuanian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Hesperus Mountain (Colorado)

Hesperus Mountain (Navajo: ) is the highest summit of the La Plata Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.  The prominent  thirteener is located in San Juan National Forest,  northeast by east (bearing 59°) of the Town of Mancos in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States.  The summit of Hesperus Mountain is the highest point in Montezuma County.

Mountain
Though not of particularly high elevation for the region, Hesperus Mountain is visually quite prominent, as it is near the southern edge of the San Juan Mountains and rises over  above the area.

Hesperus is notable as the Navajo People's Sacred Mountain of the North, , which marks the northern boundary of the Dinetah, their traditional homeland. It is associated with the color black, and is said to be impregnated with jet. When First Man created the mountain as a replica of mountains in the Fourth World, he fastened it to the ground with a rainbow and covered it in darkness.

The San Juan Mountains have been the traditional homeland of the Ute People.  http://www.dargnet.org
http://uintahbasintah.org/maps/ubsw.jpg

Along with Ute the La Plata Mountain Range has also been the early homeland of the Navajo People who had settled on and near this mountain and the La Plata Mountain Range.

Gallery

See also
List of mountain peaks of Colorado
List of Colorado county high points

References

External links

Hesperus Mountain on Hikearizona.com

Mountains of Montezuma County, Colorado
San Juan Mountains (Colorado)
San Juan National Forest
North American 4000 m summits
Sacred mountains
Religious places of the indigenous peoples of North America
Mountains of Colorado
Christian Gille

Christian Gille (born 6 January 1979 in Wolfen) is a German flatwater canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s.

A junior world champion (C-4 1000 m) in 1993, he won two senior world championship gold medals with Thomas Zereske in the C-2 200 m sprint in 1997 and 1998. They also competed at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, placing fifth in the C-2 500 m final.

In 2002 Gille won the only C-1 world championship medal of his career. He crossed the line in fourth place in the C-1 200 m final in Seville, Spain, but was later awarded the bronze medal after Ukrainian Dmytro Sablin tested positive for cannabis. Of more significance for the future however was the formation that year of a new C-2 partnership with 19-year-old Tomasz Wylenzek. They finished third in the European Championships and seventh in the C-2 500 m in Seville.

Two years later they won a surprise gold medal in the C-2 1000m. Gille wore a black armband in memory of his former partner Thomas Zereske who had died earlier that summer.

In 2005 Gille and Wylenzek completely dominated the C-2 event. A clean sweep of medals (200 m, 500 m and 1000 m) at the European Championships in Poznań, Poland, in May was followed by two golds (500m and 1000m) at the World Championships in Zagreb.

2006 proved a disappointment after the highs of the previous two years. Replaced by Stefan Holtz and Robert Nuck as Germany's C-2 500 m representatives, they were therefore unable to defend their European and world titles over that distance. They also lost their other titles in competition, coming away with just two silver medals at the major championships (European C-2 1000 m and world C-2 200 m), compared with the five golds of 2005.

Gille won two more Olympic medals at Beijing in 2008 with a silver in the C-2 1000 m and a bronze in the C-2 500 m events.

Gille is a member of the Leipzig club. He is  tall and weighs .

References
 
 
 Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Pairs 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 484.

External links
 
 

1979 births
Living people
People from Bitterfeld-Wolfen
German male canoeists
Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeists for Germany
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Saxony-Anhalt
People from Bezirk Halle
Tekel Birası

Tekel Birası is a Turkish beer brand. Having first been brewed in Bomonti, Istanbul in 1890, it is known as the oldest brewery brand in the country.

Tekel Birası was a state monopoly brand until 2004. Following the privatisation, the era of Tekel state monopoly has ended and now production is under control of a private company called MEY.

See also 
 List of food companies

External links
Tekel Beer Official site

Beer in Turkey
Food and drink companies established in 1890
Turkish brands
1890 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
Economy of Istanbul
Regius Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics

The Regius Chair of Medicine and Therapeutics is considered the oldest chair at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. It was formed in 1989 from the merge of the Regius Chairs of the Practice of Medicine (founded in 1637) and of Materia Medica (founded in 1831). The chair has so far had two occupants, Professor John Reid, who was previously Regius Professor of Materia Medica and - since 2010 - Professor Anna Felicja Dominiczak, the first woman to have ever held the post.

Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine
The Chair of the Practice of Medicine was founded in 1637 and, after a lapse, revived in 1712. It was endowed by Queen Anne in 1713, becoming the Regius Chair.

Practice of Medicine Professors
 Robert Mayne MA (1637–1646)

Practice of Medicine Regius Professors
 John Johnstoun MD (1714)
 William Cullen MD (1751)
 Robert Hamilton (1756)
 Joseph Black MD (1757)
 Alexander Stevenson MD (1766)
 Thomas Charles Hope MD FRS (1789)
 Robert Freer FRSE MA MD (1796)
 Charles Badham MA MD FRS (1827)
 William Thomson MD (1841)
 John MacFarlane (1852)
 Sir William Tennant Gairdner KCB MD LLD FRS (1862)
 Sir Thomas McCall Anderson MD (1900)
 Samson Gemmell (1908)
 Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro MA MD LLD (1913)
 Sir John William McNee DSO MD DSc LLD (1936)
 Sir Edward Johnson Wayne MSc MD PhD (1953)
 Graham Malcolm Wilson MD DSc (1967)
 Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg KB MD DSc FRCP FRSE (1978–1989)

Regius Professor of Materia Medica
The Regius Chair of Materia Medica was founded in 1831 by King William IV from the lectureship in Materia Medica, instituted in 1766.

Materia Medica Regius Professors
 Richard Millar (1831)
 John Couper (1833)
 John Black Cowan (1865)
 Matthew Charteris FRSE (1880)
 Ralph Stockman (1897)
 Noah Morris (1937)
 Stanley Alstead (1948)
 Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg (1970)
 John Low Reid (1978)

Medicine and Therapeutics Regius Professors
 John Low Reid BD DM FRCP FRSE FMedSci (1989–2010)
 Anna Felicja Dominiczak, OBE, FRCP, FRSE, FAHA, FMedSci (2010-)

See also
List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow

References

Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow, compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond.

Medicine
Professorships in medicine
Glasgow
Medicine and Therapeutics
Cy Bahakel

Cy Nesbe Bahakel (April 12, 1919 – April 20, 2006) was an American politician. He was a North Carolina state senator and a media magnate. He was a member of the Democratic Party.  His son-in-law is former US Representative Robert Pittenger (R-NC).

Bahakel was born to a poor Lebanese family in Birmingham, Alabama on April 12, 1919. He helped pay his way through University of Alabama School of Law by doing sports play-by-play and other announcing duties at Tuscaloosa's WJRD radio, a sideline that made him question his goals to become a lawyer. He practiced law for six months, but the lure of the microphone was too strong. He and a friend put up $12,500 each and launched a radio station in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Within a year, Bahakel bought out his partner and found that one of the best investments in business was an hour spent talking to customers over a cup of coffee. He went on to build radio stations from scratch in Greenwood, Mississippi, Kingsport, Tennessee, and Roanoke, Virginia. One of his larger-market radio purchases was WDOD-FM, Chattanooga and its now-defunct counterpart, WDOD, and later WDEF and WDEF-FM, also Chattanooga, all still owned by Bahakel Communications.  As the era of television dawned in the  1950s, Bahakel tried his hand in this new fad as well, and founded WABG-TV in Greenwood, the Mississippi Delta's first TV station, in 1959. Bahakel later acquired stations in Charlotte, North Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (WCCA-TV), and Montgomery, Alabama.

Bahakel was instrumental in bringing the Charlotte Hornets National Basketball Association franchise to Charlotte in 1987.  He was a primary investor in the team and was the guarantor of the $32 million loan for the franchise fee to bring the team to Charlotte.

Bahakel ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1970, losing to incumbent Republican Charles R. Jonas.
Bahakel served in the North Carolina Senate from 1972 until 1976.

Bahakel died at his home in Charlotte on April 20, 2006, at the age of 87. He is survived by his wife, six children, and five grandchildren.

References

External links
 Chattanoogan

1919 births
2006 deaths
American radio company founders
American politicians of Lebanese descent
Politicians from Birmingham, Alabama
Politicians from Charlotte, North Carolina
North Carolina Dixiecrats
Democratic Party North Carolina state senators
Businesspeople from Charlotte, North Carolina
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American businesspeople
University of Alabama School of Law alumni
Diamer District

The Diamer District (), also spelled Diamir District,) is a district in the disputed Gilgit-Baltistan territory administered by Pakistan. The headquarters of the district is the town of Chilas. The district is bounded on the north by the Tangir and the Gilgit districts, on the east by the Astore District, on the south by the Mansehra district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and the Neelum District of Azad Kashmir, and on the west by the Upper Kohistan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The Karakoram Highway passes through the Diamer District.

History

Ancient India 
Thalpan, located opposite to the Chilas town, bears the most abundant collection of rock-art in Pakistan — the Pakistan-German Archaeological Mission has published about them in six dedicated volumes and traced them to Greco-Buddhist antiquity. Buddhist Stupas and anthropomorphic Buddhas remain the most common subject of rock-carvings in and around Chilas.

Karl Jettmar suggests that Chilas might have had been a Buddhist sanctuary while Harald Hauptmann hypothesizes Thalpan to be the "Talilo" of Chinese sources; however, in absence of excavations, such claims remain in the realm of speculations.

British India 
During the British Raj, the area was known as Chilas and regarded as a tribal area, a subsidiary of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Its original name was apparently .

The region was brought under the control of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir in 1851, and an agent of the Kashmir durbar was stationed there. In 1893, Chilas was taken over by the British-run Gilgit Agency. An Assistant Political Agent of the Agency was stationed in Chilas town. The Raja was soon deposed and Chilas functioned as a 'republican community' under the aegis of jirga, a body of local landowning men.

Pakistan 
Prior to 2019, the Darel District and the Tangir District were part of the Diamer District but were subsequently elevated to district status. The jirga continues to play a significant role in governance.

Demographics 
The district is the only Sunni-majority district in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Transportation 
Before the Karakoram Highway was opened in 1978, the only road from the south to the town of Gilgit was a rough track north from Balakot to the Babusar Pass (via Kaghan, Naran, Besal, and Gittidas) and further north from Babusar Gah to Chilas. The road up to Besal is better than it was previously, and the road from Besal to the Babusar Pass is good, having been recently metaled.

See also

Districts of Gilgit–Baltistan

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Road Tasted

Road Tasted is a television program shown on Food Network in the USA. The show was originally hosted by Jamie Deen and Bobby Deen, the sons of the popular Food Network host Paula Deen, as they drove around the United States searching for the best in family-run food businesses. It premiered on July 11, 2006.

Road Tasted was created by Gordon Elliott, a long-time friend of Paula Deen.

One of the show's primary appeals is that the businesses featured on the show can ship many of their products directly to customers. As such, the program always includes information about how to order the items shown.

Before Food Network settled on "Road Tasted", the show had the working title Two for the Road.

The Deen brothers eventually decided that they wanted to devote more time to their family restaurant, and thus did not continue as hosts. The show has since been renamed Road Tasted with the Neelys featuring the Food Network hosts Pat and Gina Neely.

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Astore District

Astore District () is a district of Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region.  It is one of the 14 districts of the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit−Baltistan. Its administrative headquarters are located at Eidgah in the Astore Valley. The Astore District is bounded by Gilgit District to the north, Roundu District to the northeast, Skardu District to the east, Kharmang District to the southeast, Diamer District to the west, the Neelum District of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to the southwest, and the Bandipore District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir to the south.

Astore Valley

The Astore Valley has an area of 5,092 km2 and is at an altitude of . The valley has approximately  of glacier cover. The nearest glacier after entering the valley is the Harcho Glacier, and the most accessible glacier is the Siachen Glacier.

Accessibility 
Eidgah is connected to Gilgit, which is well connected by air with Islamabad and by road with Peshawar, Swat, Islamabad-Rawalpindi, Chitral, and Skardu. There are two ways of access to Eidgah. The first is from Skardu via the Deosai Plateau , but that route cannot be used from November to June due to heavy snowfall.  The second way, year round, is from Gilgit via Jaglot .

History
Around 1600, according to the Imperial Gazetteer of India:

References

 
Districts of Gilgit-Baltistan
James Bridges

James Bridges (February 3, 1936June 6, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director, producer, and actor. He is a two-time Oscar nominee: once for Best Original Screenplay for The China Syndrome and once for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Paper Chase.

Life and career
Bridges was born February 3, 1936, in Little Rock, Arkansas and grew up in Paris, Arkansas. His mother was Celestine Wiggins, his sister was Mary Ann Wiggins, and his life partner from 1958 until his death was actor, librettist, screenwriter, and producer Jack Larson.  Bridges got his start as a writer for Alfred Hitchcock Presents after catching the attention of Norman Lloyd, a producer for the series. One of his episodes, "An Unlocked Window", earned him a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode in a TV Series.

Bridges went on to write and direct a number of notable films, including The Baby Maker; The Paper Chase; September 30, 1955; The China Syndrome; Urban Cowboy; Mike's Murder; Perfect; and Bright Lights, Big City.  Bridges was a mentor to actress Debra Winger.

Death
In 1990, Bridges was diagnosed with intestinal cancer. He died of kidney failure  at the UCLA Medical Center on June 6, 1993, at 57 years old. He was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in his hometown of Paris, Arkansas.

The James Bridges Theater at University of California, Los Angeles was named in his honor in November 1999. Bridges was a faculty member there early in his career.

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Lee Garden

Lee Gardens () was a theme park, then present day a collection of shopping malls and property development in East Point west of Causeway Bay on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, approximately the area between Percival Street, Hennessy Road and Leighton Road. It was built on a hill called East Point Hill also known as Jardine's Hill.

In the early 19th century, the land of East Point, including the hill, was largely owned by Jardine Matheson and as a result the hill was known as Jardine's Hill. In 1923, Hong Kong tycoon Lee Hysan bought the Jardine's Hill property, west of Causeway Bay from Jardines for HK$3.8 million, and developed the property into a hotel. The site has since been redeveloped as a commercial development which includes office accommodation and a shopping mall

The area now contains Lee Garden One (formerly called Manulife Plaza), Two, Three, Five and Six. They are owned by Hysan Development.

See also
 Mount Parish
 Leighton Hill

 Morrison Hill
 Government Hill

 Kornhill

References

Causeway Bay
East Point, Hong Kong
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Richard Morton (physician)

Richard Morton (1637–1698) was an English physician who was the first to state that tubercles were always present in the tuberculosis disease of the lungs. In Morton's time, this wasting disease was termed consumption, or by its Greek name of phthisis.  Recognition of the many possible symptoms of this infection belonging to a single disease was not until the 1820s and it was J.L. Schönlein in 1839 who introduced the term "tuberculosis".

Life
He was born in Worcestershire, England and, having trained at Oxford's Magdalen Hall, elected to enter the Church, becoming Vicar of Kinver in Staffordshire. With his refusal to acquiesce to the Act of Uniformity 1662 following the Restoration of Charles II, he was forced to resign. His whereabouts for the following eight years are unclear, although he probably travelled to Holland. Reappearing in 1670, he was awarded doctorate of medicine by Oxford University.

Works
His landmark paper Phthisiologia, seu exercitationes de phthisi, tribus libris comprehensæ. Totumque opus variis historiis illustratum was published in Latin in 1689, with an English translation appearing in 1694.  A second English edition was published in 1720.   Its significance is partly due to the disease receiving little study by other doctors of the time despite it being a major cause of death; accounting for over 18% all deaths in the City of London in 1700. The paper is also significant in that it also contains the first recognised medical descriptions of the wasting condition now known as Anorexia Nervosa. 

Medicine of that time was deferential to the ideas of Galen and so Morton understandably mistook tubercles for being caused by glandular degenerations; mycobacterium tuberculosis not being identified until 1882 by Robert Koch.

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Professor of Humanity

The Professor of Humanity is a Professorship at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Under the Nova Erectio of James VI the teaching of Latin was in the responsibility of the Regents.  The title of Professor of Humanity was, on occasion, attached to one of the Regents' number from 1618.

A separate Chair was created in 1682.  After lapse it was revived in 1706.

Humanity Professors
 James Young MA (1682)
 Andrew Ross MA (1706)
 George Ross MA (1735)
 George Muirhead MA (1754)
 William Richardson MA (1773)
 Josiah Walker MA (1815)
 William Ramsay MA (1831-1863)
 George Gilbert Ramsay MA LLD DLitt (1863-1906)
 John Swinnerton Phillimore MA LLD LittD (1906-1927)
 William Rennie CBE MA LLD LittD (1927-1934)
 Christian James Fordyce MA LLD (1934-1971)
 Peter Gerald Walsh MA PhD DLitt FRSE (1971-1991)
 Roger Philip Hywell Green BA BLitt (1995-2008)

See also
Humanity

(Sources: Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow.  Compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond)

Humanity
1682 establishments in Scotland
Uccellina Mountains

The Uccellina Mountains (Italian: Monti dell'Uccellina) are a group of hills located in the Maremma Regional Park, province of Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy.These mountains divide the Ombrone plain in the north from the Albegna plain in the south.

The territory is included into the municipalities of Grosseto, Magliano in Toscana and Orbetello.

The Uccellina mountains are home to many wild animals such as wild boars, deer, fallow deer, red foxes, porcupines, turtles(Caretta caretta, Testudo hermanni and Emys orbicularis), and many species of rare Italian birds. The flora are composed of numerous species, including endemics.

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Professor of Mathematics (Glasgow)

The Chair of  Mathematics in the University of Glasgow in Scotland was established in 1691.  Previously, under James VI's Nova Erectio, the teaching of Mathematics had been the responsibility of the Regents.

List of Mathematics Professors 
 George Sinclair MA (1691-1696)
 Robert Sinclair MA MD (1699)
 Robert Simson MA MD (1711)
 Rev Prof James Williamson FRSE MA DD (1761)
 James Millar MA (1796)
 James Thomson MA LLD (1832)
 Hugh Blackburn MA (1849)
 William Jack MA LLD (1879)
 George Alexander Gibson MA LLD (1909)
 Thomas Murray MacRobert MA DSc LLD (1927)
 Robert Alexander Rankin MA PhD DSc FRSE (1954-1982)
 Robert Winston Keith Odoni BSc PhD FRSE (1989-2001) 
 Peter Kropholler (2003-2013)
 Michael Wemyss (2016-)

References
Who, What and Where: The History and Constitution of the University of Glasgow.  Compiled by Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond)
https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1773&type=P
https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~mwemyss/

See also
List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow

Mathematics
Glasgow
1691 establishments in Scotland
Mathematics education in the United Kingdom
Pierlucio Tinazzi

Pierlucio Tinazzi (; 27 December 1962 – 24 March 1999) was an Italian security guard who died while trying to rescue victims of the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire. Tinazzi was on the French side of the tunnel, from where he donned breathing equipment and drove into the tunnel on his BMW K75 motorcycle in an attempt to save people trapped in the tunnel; after finding unconscious truck driver Maurice Lebras, who was too heavy to be loaded on his motorcycle, he dragged him to a refuge station in the tunnel, where both were killed by smoke or flames. Tinazzi was in radio contact with the Italian side for over an hour before succumbing to the intense heat, which caused his motorcycle to melt into the pavement.

Having died trying to save another man, Tinazzi was lauded as a hero, buried with honors, and posthumously awarded Italy's Medaglia d'Oro al Valore Civile (Gold Medal for Civil Valor). He was also given a special gold medal by the motorcycle sport governing body Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). A commemorative plaque at the Italian entrance honours his sacrifice.

For several years, Tinazzi was also wrongly credited by newspapers with saving between ten and twelve people by ferrying them to safety on his motorcycle before dying in the fire. However, in 2019, a writer researching the story found the full description of the events in French police reports: A motorcycle security guard, Patrick Devouassoux, who survived the fire, did indeed save several people while driving a Renault Express minivan. Tinazzi's and Devouassoux's actions were apparently intermingled in subsequent press accounts.

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Italian decoration "Medaglia d'Oro al Valore Civile"

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Wilson Hirschfeld

Wilson Hirschfeld (September 4, 1916 — March 2, 1974) was a journalist and former managing editor of The Plain Dealer.

In his teenage years Wilson attended Glenville High School along with Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, graduating in 1934. He served on Glenville High School's student newspaper, "The Torch", alongside Siegel and Shuster. It is believed that Wilson was the model for Superman's alter-ego, Clark Kent.

In 1936 he started his career at The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), delivering newspapers inside the building. Wilson attended Cleveland College of Western Reserve University as a night student, working at the Plain Dealer during the day.

During World War II Wilson served with the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945 in England, France, and Italy. He was inducted into military service as a private and left active duty as a captain.

After the war Wilson returned to the Plain Dealer as a reporter, covering a variety of assignments and winning numerous awards for his work.  Among the variety of posts Wilson held were those of police beat reporter, general assignment reporter, City Editor, State Editor, Transportation Editor, Business Editor and finally the above mentioned Managing Editor.  He left the Plain Dealer in 1973.

In 1971 The Plain Dealer was one of five entries recommended by the jury for a Pulitzer Prize in public service.  Wilson, along with fellow Plain Dealer staff members David Hopcraft, Richard Zimmerman, Robert Burdock, Richard Widman and Donald Barlett, contributed to the stories.

Wilson's sister, Mary Hirschfeld, was also a career journalist employed by The Plain Dealer from approximately 1929 to 1990, working for the paper to the age of 81.  Mary died in 1991. While she covered many reporting and feature writing assignments Mary will probably be best remembered for her "Mary Hears" society column and specialty in covering Latin American affairs.

 As cited in an essay by Dennis Dooley  entitled "The Man of Tomorrow and the Boys of Yesterday" within the book (on page 30) "Superman at Fifty - The Persistence of a Legend!" edited by Dennis Dooley and Gary Engle, copyright 1987 by Octavia Press of Cleveland, Ohio.

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 About Wilson Hirschfeld

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