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Watari Station (Miyagi)

is a railway station in the town of Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Watari Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 334.6 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at  in Tokyo.

Station layout
The station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Watari Station opened on 10 November 1897. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987. The station building was rebuilt in 2008 in the form of a faux Japanese castle, and incorporates the Watari Town Library and the Watari Local History Museum.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the JR East portion of the station was used by an average of 2,130 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The

Surrounding area
Watari Town Hall
 Watari Post Office

See also
 List of Railway Stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Jōban Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1897
Watari, Miyagi
Princess Tuoba

Princess Tuoba also known by her Dynasty of Northern Wei (386 to 534/535) title Princess Wuwei (武威公主), was the daughter of Emperor Mingyuan of Northern Wei and who later was a princess of the Chinese/Xiongnu state Northern Liang.  Her husband was Juqu Mujian (Prince Ai).

It is not known when she was created Princess Wuwei, either by her father or by her brother Emperor Taiwu, but in a move to ensure Juqu Mujian's loyalty, Emperor Taiwu married her to Juqu Mujian in 437, forcing Juqu Mujian to divorce his prior wife, Princess Li Jingshou.

However, Juqu Mujian also carried on an affair with his brother's wife, Lady Li, and Lady Li and Juqu Mujian's sisters carried out a plot to poison Princess Tuoba.  Emperor Taiwu, hearing that his sister had been poisoned, sent a number of doctors to the Northern Liang capital Guzang (姑臧, in modern Wuwei, Gansu), and they were able to save her.  Emperor Taiwu demanded that Lady Li be turned over, but Juqu Mujian refused and sent Lady Li away instead.

In 439, Emperor Taiwu conquered Northern Liang, and took Juqu Mujian as a captive to the Northern Wei capital Pingcheng (平城, in modern Datong, Shanxi), but because of Princess Wuwei's sake, continued to honor Juqu Mujian as a brother-in-law with the title Prince of Hexi.  During the marriage, Princess Wuwei bore Juqu Mujian a daughter (Princess Wuwei), but no sons.  In 447, Emperor Taiwu suspected Juqu Mujian of planning a rebellion and forced him to commit suicide, but buried him with honors.  Princess Wuwei survived her husband, and later after her death was buried with her husband.  (Some historical records indicate that she married Li Gai (李蓋) the Duke of Nan Commandery, but these are not conclusive.)  Her daughter inherited her title as Princess Wuwei.

Notes and references 

 Book of Wei, vol. 99.
 Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 123.

 Neither Juqu Wuhui nor Juqu Anzhou, Juqu Mujian's brothers who are sometimes regarded as succeeding princes of Northern Liang, was recorded to have created a princess, although they probably did; their wives' names, however, are lost to history.

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Tuoba, Princess
Tuoba, Princess
5th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
Ōkuma Station

is a railway station in the town of Watari, Miyagi, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Ōkuma Station is served by the Joban Line, and is located 337.8 km from the official starting point of the line at  in Tokyo.

Station layout
The station has one island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is not staffed.

Platforms

History
Ōkuma Station opened on August 2, 1988.

Surrounding area

 Former Ōkuma Town Hall
 Watari-Ōkuma Post Office
Sanjūsangendō Kanga ruins

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

External links

  

Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Jōban Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1988
Watari, Miyagi
Multiple-effect humidification

Multiple-effect humidification (MEH) is a method used for thermal desalination of sea water. It uses multiple evaporation–condensation cycles at separate temperature levels to minimize the total energy consumption of solar humidification processes.

References 

Drinking water
Water desalination

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es:Desalación
eo:Sensaligo
fr:Dessalement
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Iwanuma Station

is a railway station in the city of Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Iwanuma Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 334.2 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at . It is also served by the Jōban Line, and is 343.1 rail kilometers from the starting point of that line Nippori Station in Tokyo.

Station layout
The station has one side platform and two island platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Iwanuma Station opened on 15 December 1887, on the Tōhoku Main Line. The Joban Line opened on 10 November 1897. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987. A new station building was completed in June 1998.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 7,093 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
 Iwanuma City Hall
 Takekoma Shrine
Iwanuma Post Office

See also
 List of Railway Stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Tōhoku Main Line
Jōban Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1887
Iwanuma, Miyagi
Meditation (disambiguation)

Meditation is a technique to train attention and awareness, achieve mental clearity, and reach an emotionally calm, stable state.

Meditation may also refer to:

Forms 
 Buddhist meditation
 Christian meditation
 Daoist meditation
 Hinduism meditation
 Jain meditation
 Jewish meditation
 Meditation in the Ravidasi Faith
 Monastic silence
 Transcendental Meditation
 Sensual Meditation
 Sikh meditation
 Sahaja Yoga meditation
 Heartfulness Meditation (Sahaj Marg)

Literature 
 Meditation (writing), a discourse that expresses an author's reflections, or that guides others in contemplation
 Meditations, a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy
 Meditations on First Philosophy, a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes and first published in 1641
 Meditation, later published as Passage Meditation, a 1978 book by Eknath Easwaran

Music 
 The Meditations, a Jamaican reggae group
 "Méditation" (Thaïs), an symphonic intermezzo from the 1894 opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet
 Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, a composition by Olivier Messiaen

Albums
 Meditations (Kataklysm album), 2018
 Meditation, classical album by Elina Garanca, 2014
 Meditation (Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet album), 1971
Meditation (George Coleman and Tete Montoliu album), 1977
 Meditation: Solo Guitar, a live album by Joe Pass, recorded in 1992 and released posthumously in 2002
 Meditation (Bobby Miller album), released 2003
 Meditations (John Coltrane album), 1965
 Meditations (Elmo Hope album), 1955
 Meditations (Mal Waldron album), 1972

Songs
 "Meditation" (Antônio Carlos Jobim song), a bossa nova song composed by "Tom" Jobim and Newton Mendonça and English lyrics by Norman Gimbel
"Meditation", song by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, written B. T. Jones, B-side of "Slum Baby" 1969

Art 
 Meditation, an 1885 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
 Meditation, a 1918 painting by Alexej von Jawlensky

See also
 Brain activity and meditation
 Dhyana in Hinduism
 Divine Meditations (disambiguation)
 Mantra
 Meditation in popular culture
 Muraqaba
 Research on meditation
 Samadhi
 Simran
HMS Cricket (1915)

HMS Cricket was a Royal Navy Insect-class gunboat. She was built by Barclay Curle and launched on 17 December 1915.

During the First World War, Cricket took part in the Mesopotamian Campaign as part of the gunboat squadron operating on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. During the Russian Civil War, Cricket served as part of the British intervention forces fighting in support of White Russian forces on the Dvina River during 1919-1920.

During the Second World War, Cricket was in China until 1940 then transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet's Inshore Squadron. On 12 July 1941 she was crippled in an air attack by Regia Aeronautica unit 97 Gruppo (Group) and its 239 Squadriglia (Squadron), led by Major Giuseppe Cenni. One of Cenni's crew took a picture of her during the attack.

She was declared a constructive total loss on 30 June 1942 and stripped for spares at Alexandria, Egypt in 1942. Her hull was towed to Cyprus and used as a target for Royal Air Force training off Dhekelia where the hull is an attraction for scuba divers.

References

Bibliography
  Lenton, H. T. and Colledge, J.J. (1973) Warships of World War II,  2nd ed., Shepperton : Ian Allan, 653 p., 
 Smith, Peter C. The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka: A Complete History. London: Crécy Publishing, 2011. .

External links 
 HMS Cricket, Lost and Found
 HMS Cricket, More Information

Insect-class gunboats
World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea
1915 ships
Maritime incidents in June 1941
Maritime incidents in June 1942
Ships sunk as targets
Wilson Lake (Alabama)

Wilson Lake is the reservoir created by Wilson Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority.  The lake stretches from Wilson Dam to Wheeler Dam.

See also
Dams and reservoirs of the Tennessee River
List of Alabama dams and reservoirs

References

Tennessee River
Reservoirs in Alabama
Bodies of water of Colbert County, Alabama
Bodies of water of Lauderdale County, Alabama
Bodies of water of Lawrence County, Alabama
Tennessee Valley Authority
Huntsville-Decatur, AL Combined Statistical Area
Decatur metropolitan area, Alabama
Landmarks in Alabama
Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area
Tatekoshi Station

is a railway station in the city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Until the introduction of the Sendai Airport Access Line, it was the most direct point of access to Sendai Airport by a connecting bus service. The bus service still operates.

Lines
Tatekoshi Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 337.9 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at . It is also served by the Joban Line, whose trains run past the official terminus at Iwanuma Station on to .

Station layout
The station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

Platforms

History
Tatekoshi Station opened on April 22, 1985. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 2,350 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
 Tatekoshi Post Office
 Tatekoshi Shrine
Sendai Airport

See also
 List of Railway Stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Tōhoku Main Line
Jōban Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1985
Natori, Miyagi
1941: Counter Attack

1941: Counter Attack is a  vertical scrolling shooter arcade game by Capcom, released in February 1990. It is the prequel to 1942, and the third game in the 19XX series. It was ported to the SuperGrafx in 1991 and to GameTap. It was released on Capcom Classics Collection Remixed for the PlayStation Portable and Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It was followed by 19XX: The War Against Destiny in 1996.

Gameplay 

The goal is to shoot down enemy airplanes and collect weapon power-ups (POW). The game uses a vitality system instead of life system in which if the player is hit, it loses one point of vitality and the player is destroyed if hit with 0 vitality then the player is given the option to continue. Lightning attacks can be used by pressing the B button which sacrifices a portion of life energy. Three loops can be performed per level and a bonus is awarded at the end of the level for unused loops. Player 1 uses a P-38 Lightning and Player 2 uses a new plane: DH.98 Mosquito. The game shifts from the original Pacific Front setting with that of the Western Front, in the north Atlantic Ocean.

It is the first shoot 'em up to add +1 to the score when a continue is used.

Release 
1941: Counter Attack was first released in arcades by Capcom and Electrocoin in 1990, running on the CP System board. In February 2021, it was re-released in pack 2 of the Capcom Arcade Stadium compilation for Nintendo Switch.

Reception 

In Japan, Game Machine listed 1941: Counter Attack in its March 15, 1990 issue as the third most popular arcade game of the month. The game garnered positive reception from reviewers and awards from Gamest magazine. However, the original arcade version had mixed reception from western publications. In contrast, the SuperGrafx conversion had very positive reception from Japanese and western critics. Readers of PC Engine Fan voted to give the SuperGrafx version a 19.44 out of 30 score, ranking at the number 368 spot in a poll.

Notes

References

External links 
 1941: Counter Attack at GameFAQs
 1941: Counter Attack at Giant Bomb
 1941: Counter Attack at Killer List of Videogames
 1941: Counter Attack at MobyGames

1990 video games
Anti-war video games
Arcade video games
Capcom games
CP System games
SuperGrafx games
Vertically scrolling shooters
Video games set in 1941
Video games developed in Japan
World War II video games
Natori Station

is a junction railway station in the city of Natori, Miyagi, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station also has a freight terminal operated by the Japan Freight Railway Company.

Lines
Natori Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 341.4 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at . It is also served by the Joban Line, whose trains run past the official terminus at Iwanuma Station on to , and is the terminal station for the Sendai Airport Line.

Station layout
The station has one side platform and one island platform, serving three tracks in total, connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Natori Station opened on October 11, 1888 as . It adopted its present name on May 25, 1963. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 12,927 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

Natori City Hall
Natori Post Office
 Sapporo Beer Sendai Factory
 Sendai Beer Garden

See also
 List of Railway Stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Tōhoku Main Line
Jōban Line
Sendai Airport Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1888
Stations of Japan Freight Railway Company
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Natori, Miyagi
Wilson Dam (disambiguation)

Wilson Dam is the name of several dams:

India
Wilson Dam (Pravara River)

United States
Wilson Dam (Alabama)
Wilson Dam (Huerfano County, Colorado)
Wilson Dam (Moffat County, Colorado)
Wilson Dam (Rio Blanco County, Colorado)
Wilson Dam (Teller County, Colorado)
Wilson Dam (Georgia)
Wilson Dam (Kansas)
Wilson Dam (Missouri)
Wilson Dam (Montana)
Wilson Dam (North Dakota)
Wilson Dam (Nebraska)
Wilson Dam (Oregon)
Wilson Dam (Pennsylvania)
Wilson Dam (South Dakota)
Wilson Dam (Texas)
Wilson Dam (Virginia)
Béja Governorate

Béja Governorate (  ; ) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is in northern Tunisia and has a brief coastline relative to its size. It covers an area of 3,740 km² and had a population of 303,032 as at the 2014 census. The capital is Béja and it spans the moderately high Tell Atlas hills and part of the plain between the Tell Atlas and the Dorsal Atlas further south.

Geography 
The governorate is  from the capital and surrounded by the governorates of Bizerte, Zaghouan, Manouba, Siliana, and Jendouba.

The average temperature is 18 °C and annual rainfall is 350-1000 millimeters.

Administrative divisions
Administratively, the governorate is divided into nine delegations (mutamadiyat), eight municipalities, eight rural councils, and 101 sectors (imadas). The delegations and their populations from the 2004 and 2014 censuses, are listed below:

The following eight municipalities are located in Béja Governorate:

References

 
Governorates of Tunisia
National performing arts companies of Scotland

Scotland's national performing arts companies are directly funded by the Scottish Government.  In the country's performing arts circles, they are often referred to as the Big Five.

 Scottish Ballet
 Scottish Opera
 Royal Scottish National Orchestra
 Scottish Chamber Orchestra
 National Theatre of Scotland

References

 
Scottish culture
Arts in Scotland
Minami-Sendai Station

is a junction railway station in Taihaku-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Minami-Sendai Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 344.1 rail kilometers from the official starting point of the line at . It is also served by the Joban Line, whose trains run past the official terminus at Iwanuma Station on to  and by the Sendai Airport Line.

Station layout
The station has a single side platform and a single island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Minami-Sendai Station opened on September 10, 1924 as . It adopted its present name on May 25, 1963. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 9,998 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
 
Sendai-Tanaka Post Office

See also
 List of Railway Stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Railway stations in Sendai
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Tōhoku Main Line
Jōban Line
Sendai Airport Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1924
Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941) is the second volume in the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

Plot 
Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are three eight-year-old girls who live in Deep Valley, Minnesota. At a carnival, they are mesmerized by the Flying Lady. When they learn that her act used a see-saw, they put on a show for their neighbors, recreating the act with a see-saw they assemble themselves. The three girls and Tib's brother Freddie build a playhouse in Tib's basement, using her family's store of firewood. Tib's father convinces them to demolish the playhouse by reenacting the fable of The Three Little Pigs with the little girls as the pigs and Freddie as the wolf.

When Betsy's mother allows Betsy, Tacy, and Tib to stay at the house by themselves, they amuse themselves by cooking a dish Betsy calls Everything. They put a little of every ingredient in the kitchen into the pot. After tasting the results, they toss it out, but that night, all three have stomach-aches. Betsy, Tacy, and Tib explore Tib's house by looking into mirrors, calling the rooms that they see in the mirrors part of the Mirror Palace.

After Tacy recovers from a bout of diphtheria, the girls decide to cut off locks of their hair so they each have a keepsake of the others. They cut off one of Betsy's braids, half of Tacy's long red ringlets, and half of Tib's yellow curls, and divide the hair into pillboxes that they can each wear as lockets. Their parents are furious until they hear the girls' reasoning which makes them laugh. Tib's mother cuts of the rest of the girls' hair to even it up.

Annoyed that their older sisters created a club that they were left out of, Betsy, Tacy, and Tib form The Christian Kindness Club. The club is supposed to encourage good behavior by punishing bad behavior. The girls end up competing to do more bad behavior than the others.

References

Betsy-Tacy
1941 American novels
Novels set in Minnesota
1941 children's books
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. books
Children's books set in Minnesota
Children's books set in the 1900s
Wilson Lake

Wilson Lake may refer to

Canada
 Wilson Lake, a lake of Nova Scotia

United States
 Wilson Lake (Alabama)
 Wilson Lake (Cleveland County, Arkansas), a lake of Cleveland County, Arkansas
 Wilson Lake (Columbia County, Arkansas), a lake of Columbia County, Arkansas
 Wilson Lake (Nevada County, Arkansas), a lake of Nevada County, Arkansas
 Wilson Lake (Pulaski County, Arkansas), a lake of Pulaski County, Arkansas
 Wilson Lake (Randolph County, Arkansas), a lake of Randolph County, Arkansas
 Wilson Lake (Kansas)
 Wilson Lake (Maine)
 Wilson Lake, part of the Elk River Chain of Lakes Watershed, Michigan
 Wilson Lake, a lake in Mineral County, Montana
 Wilson Lake (Wisconsin), seven lakes, including:
 Wilson Lake (Iron County, Wisconsin)

See also 
 Lake Wilson (disambiguation)
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (1942) is the third volume in the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

Plot overview
While the first two volumes are something like collections of vignettes about Betsy, Tacy, and Tib, this one has a story through the whole volume.

The girls are competing with Betsy's and Tacy's older sisters about having a Queen of Summer.  When they go out to collect votes, they find themselves making friends with a surprising little girl their own age in the Little Syria section of Deep Valley, Minnesota.

Trivia
Betsy and Tacy first sing their "Cat Duet" at the school entertainment in this book.

References

Betsy-Tacy
1942 American novels
Novels set in Minnesota
1942 children's books
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. books
Children's books set in the 1900s
Children's books set in Minnesota
Novels set in the 1900s
Sakamoto Station

Sakamoto Station may refer to:

 Sakamoto Station (Kumamoto) (坂本駅) in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
 Sakamoto Station (Miyagi) (坂元駅) in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

It may also refer to:
 Sakamoto-hieizanguchi Station in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
 Cable Sakamoto Station in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
 Hieizan Sakamoto Station in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (1943) is the fourth volume in the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

Plot
In this volume in the series, horseless carriages arrive in Deep Valley for the first time when Mr. Poppy, the owner of the Opera House, buys an automobile. Betsy's friend Tib is his first passenger — along with his wife — due simply to her having the boldness to ask for a ride. Although the girls' classmate Winona Root is initially jealous of Tib over this experience, she soon gets over it and invites Betsy, Tacy, and Tib to their first real theatrical experience, a dramatized version of Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Opera House. Betsy befriends the lonely Mrs. Poppy, who welcomes the chance to share the little girls' affection after having lost her only daughter in the years before moving to town. Through this friendship, the girls not only enjoy parties at the Poppy Hotel, but also participate in a theatrical production of Rip Van Winkle that lets Mrs. Poppy reunite Betsy's mother, Mrs. Ray, with her long-lost brother.

Betsy and her friends also discover the temptations of dime novels, prompting Betsy to try her hand at writing her own. Eventually, Betsy shares her secret writings with her mother, who successfully encourages her to write fiction of more elevated character. Betsy's parents decide that in order to foster a love of classic literature and make Betsy a better writer, she will be allowed to go alone to the new Carnegie library every two weeks, with spending money for a special mid-day treat to let her stay all day.

References

Betsy-Tacy
1943 American novels
Novels set in Minnesota
Novels about writers
1943 children's books
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. books
Children's books set in the 1900s
Children's books set in Minnesota
Heaven to Betsy

Heaven to Betsy (1945) is the fifth volume in the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. Heaven to Betsy, describing Betsy's first year in high school,  is written for an older age group than the earlier Betsy-Tacy books. The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

Background 
The events of the novel span Betsy and Tacy's freshman, or ninth-grade, year of school. A major character is added to the series' cast when Betsy meets Joe Willard, an orphan working for his aunt and uncle in their store at Butternut Center. The story differs from the first four books, by expanding the Betsy-Tacy-Tib circle to "The Crowd," a group of boys and girls that frequently meet at Betsy's house.  Although Joe Willard was based on Maud Hart Lovelace's husband, Delos Lovelace, the book concentrates more on Betsy's adventures with the Crowd, including her self-described first love, Tony Markham, and the effect of the Crowd on Betsy's burgeoning talent for writing.

References

Betsy-Tacy
1945 American novels
Novels set in Minnesota
Novels about writers
1945 children's books
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. books
Children's books set in Minnesota
Children's books set in the 1900s
Sturkö

Sturkö is a locality located on the island Sturkö in Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 1,264 inhabitants in 2010.

Sports
The following sports clubs are located in Sturkö:

 AIK Atlas

References 

Populated places in Karlskrona Municipality
Islands of Blekinge County
Betsy in Spite of Herself

Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946) is the sixth volume in the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

The story covers Betsy and Tacy's sophomore, or tenth grade, year in high school and re-introduces the character of Tib Muller, now living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

During a visit to Tib's family in Milwaukee, Betsy decides to re-invent her image, changing the spelling of her name to Betsye and attempting to adopt characteristics that will make her seem mysterious and alluring. On her return to her hometown of Deep Valley, her new image helps her to attract a boyfriend whose good looks and automobile draw considerable attention in town. However, over time Betsy becomes dissatisfied with having to pretend continually to be a very different kind of person. She also finds that this behavior is not endearing her to friends or family nor helping her achieve her goals as a writer, so she ends the relationship. Despite the disappointment, she decides that the experience has been good for her by helping her to develop different aspects of herself.

A visit to a chum who is a day student at the "seminary" (high school) of Milwaukee-Downer College (rather lightly disguised as "Browner College" in Milwaukee) plays a prominent role in the novel.

References

Betsy-Tacy
1946 American novels
Novels set in Milwaukee
Milwaukee-Downer College
1946 children's books
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. books
Children's books set in the 1900s
Children's books set in Minnesota
Children's books set in Wisconsin
Novels set in Minneapolis
Watari Station

Watari Station is the name of multiple train stations in Japan:

 Watari Station (Kumamoto) - (渡駅) in Kumamoto Prefecture
 Watari Station (Miyagi) - (亘理駅) in Miyagi Prefecture
Sturkö Parish

The islands of Sturkö and Tjurkö () form the Sturkö Parish of the Eastern Hundred, Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge, Sweden.

Islands of Blekinge County
Ben Arous Governorate

Ben Arous Governorate (  ; ) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is in the north-east of Tunisia and adjoins smaller Tunis Governorate. It covers an area of 761 km² and had a population of 712,172 as at the 2019 census. The capital is Ben Arous.

Geography 
The governorate is centred  from the capital and surrounded by the governorates of Tunis, Zaghouan, Manouba, and Nabeul.  It has a short coastline, along the Gulf of Tunis to the northeast including the country's main commercial port, Radès.

The average temperature is between 6.8 °C and 17.9 °C, and annual rainfall is 275–515 millimeters.

Economy

Agriculture

Administrative divisions

Administratively, the governorate is divided into twelve delegations (mutamadiyat), eleven municipalities, six rural councils, and 75 sectors (imadas). The delegations and their populations from the 2004 and 2014 censuses, are listed below:

Eleven municipalities are in Ben Arous Governorate:

References

 
Governorates of Tunisia
Yamashita Station

Yamashita Station is the name of multiple railway stations in Japan.

 Yamashita Station (Hyogo) - (山下駅) in Hyogo Prefecture
 Yamashita Station (Miyagi) - (山下駅) in Miyagi Prefecture
 Yamashita Station (Tokyo) - (山下駅) in Tokyo
Betsy Was a Junior

Betsy Was a Junior (1947) is the seventh volume in the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. The story spans the title character's junior, or eleventh grade, year in high school. The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

Plot summary
The novel begins with the return of Betsy's childhood friend Thelma (Tib) Muller, who had been living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin since her parents were independent and they wanted to return to their old life, and the departure of Betsy's older sister, Julia, for college at the University of Minnesota. Julia's desire to bypass college and begin a musical career cause her to be relatively uninterested in classes and to focus instead on her desire to join a sorority. Excited by her sister's stories of college life, Betsy and her friends Tacy and Tib join with five other girls in establishing a local sorority at the high school level.

Over time, Betsy finds that the social whirl of the sorority distracts her from her studies and also eventually causes a backlash of resentment among the rest of the student body, which leads to her group's being excluded from their usual leading role in school activities. Moreover, the exclusiveness of the sorority concept pushes away others she would like to welcome into her social circle. Julia likewise becomes less interested in sororities after she is temporarily blackballed for having attracted the romantic attentions of a man who had dated other sorority members. By April, both girls have decided against sorority membership — Betsy in order to have a wider circle of friends and Julia to have the long-awaited chance to travel abroad and begin her musical training in earnest.

The novel also revisits a theme from the previous novel in the series, Betsy in Spite of Herself. Having been reunited with her old friends Betsy and Tacy, and re-entering a co-educational setting after years in a girls-only school, Tib is initially very interested in her friends' advice on attracting young men by seeming less practical and knowledgeable than she really is. However, at various points in the novel the narrator portrays this dumbing-down as a silly and unnecessary self-denial that is not very satisfying.

References

Betsy-Tacy
1947 American novels
Novels set in Minnesota
Novels set in high schools and secondary schools
1947 children's books
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. books
Children's books set in the 1900s
Children's books set in Minnesota
Children's books set in schools
Betsy and the Great World

Betsy and the Great World (1952) is the ninth volume in the Betsy-Tacy series of children's fiction by Maud Hart Lovelace. The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

The novel is set in 1914 and focuses on the newly adult Betsy Ray's adventures while spending a year traveling through Europe in place of attending college.  The novel is based on the journals of the author's own trip to Europe during 1914.  The novel discusses the buildup of troops in Germany prior to World War I, and also includes an account of England's declaration of war.

Places visited by Betsy Ray in the novel
The Azores (boat excursion)
Madeira (boat excursion)
Gibraltar (boat excursion)
Algiers (boat excursion)
Genoa (briefly: goes ashore and hops on train)
Munich (extended stay)
Sonneberg
Bayreuth
Oberammergau
Venice (extended stay)
Lucerne
Paris
London (extended stay)

References

Betsy-Tacy
1952 American novels
Fiction set in 1914
Novels set during World War I
Novels set in Europe
Children's historical novels
1952 children's books
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. books
Children's books set in the 1910s
Children's books set in Europe
Luke Warrington

Luke Warrington  is a fictional character from the British soap opera Family Affairs, played by Royce Cronin. The character debuted on-screen on 31 January 2000 and made departed on 3 May 2002.

Development
Nikki arrives in Charnham with his father Andrew (Simon Cook) step-mother Nikki (Rebecca Blake), sister Sara (Beth Cordingly) and step siblings Becky (Chandra Reugg) and Darren Scott (Joe Fox). He develops feelings for Nikki and they begin an affair. But Nikki's ex-husband Adrian Scott (Ariyon Bakare) soon learns of their affair. So Luke decides to go to university in Scotland. When he next sees Nikki they sleep together despite vowing not too.

Blake told Diana Hollingsworth from Soaplife that "there's a strong sexual chemistry between Nikki and Luke, but I think she's actually fallen in love with him now." But their affair would destroy the Warrington family due to the nuclear family they worked hard to build. Blake added "It would blow the family apart completely. He's a very straight guy - I don't think he could envisage a bigger betrayal. It couldn't be worse." Blake observed that Nikki only gave into their attraction when she consumed alcohol.

Their affair is later discovered by Sara. She decides the truth must out and Andrew catches them in bed together. Cook said that his character was in a numb state of "utter devastation" as the betrayal came from his son and wife. Andrew thinks his family see him as a fool. Though he blames Nikki entirely for the affair because she is eleven years Luke's senior. Cook added "Andrew feels that she corrupted his son for the sake of a sordid little affair and completely abandoned her responsibilities." But Andrew also feels foolish as he treated Luke as his confidant when he suspected Nikki of infidelity. Cook added "it never crossed his mind that his wife would be making out with his son."

Storylines
Luke first arrived in Charnham in January 2000 with his father, Andrew, his sister Sara, their stepmother Nikki, and step-siblings Darren and Becky. Luke quickly landed work at the Cybercafe and dated local barmaid Siobhan Jones for a while.

In the summer of 2000 Luke and his stepmother Nikki began a sordid love affair which they struggled to keep secret from the rest of the family. The secret was exposed at Christmas 2000 and tore the family apart. Luke and Nikki remained together a short time after this but ended the relationship when Luke went travelling.

In December 2001 Luke returned to Charnham in search of Sara, and this time began a romance with former stepsister Becky. This romance did not last long and Luke eventually left Charnham for good.

Reception
Di Hollingsworth of Soaplife said that Luke was one of "the great seducers" of soap opera and gave him a home wrecker rating of two out of five.

References

Family Affairs characters
Television characters introduced in 2000
British male characters in television
Fictional waiting staff
Crosland

Crosland or Crossland is a surname, and may refer to

In arts and media
 William Henry Crossland (1834-1909), British architect
 Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1865-1924), British author
 Alan Crosland (1894-1936), American film director
 Philip Crosland (1918-2012) British journalist
 Jalan Crossland (fl. from 2000), American bluegrass singer and musician
 Jill Crossland  (fl. from 2001), British pianist

In business
 Leonard Crossland (1914-1999), British automobile executive

In government, military, and politics
 Thomas Crosland MP, (1816-1868), English parliamentarian
 Edward Crossland (1827-1881), Confederate officer in the American Civil War
 Sir Joseph Crosland MP (1826-1904), English parliamentarian
 Anthony Crosland (1918-1977), British politician

In science and engineering
 Charles Crossland (1844–1916), English mycologist
 Cyril Crossland (1878-1943), English zoologist
 Bernard Crossland (born 1923), British engineer
 Ronald Crossland (1920-2006), English classical scholar

In sport
 John Crossland (1852-1903), English cricketer
 Samuel Crossland (1851-1908), English cricketer
 Nealy Crosland (1880-1929), English rugby league footballer
 John Crosland (1922-2006), English professional footballer

Places
Crossland, Kentucky, a town in the United States
Crossland, Ontario, a community in Canada
Crossland High School, a school in Maryland
William O'Donnell (Irish politician)

William Francis O'Donnell (died 4 February 1947) was an Irish politician who served for four years in Dáil Éireann.

He was first elected to the Dáil as a Clann na Talmhan Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency at the 1943 general election. He was re-elected at the 1944 general election, but died in 1947. After his death, the by-election for his Dáil seat was won on 29 October 1947 by the Clann na Poblachta candidate, Patrick Kinane.

References

1947 deaths
Members of the 11th Dáil
Members of the 12th Dáil
Clann na Talmhan TDs
20th-century Irish farmers
1878 births
Ben Arous

Ben Arous ( ) is a city in north-eastern Tunisia, part the agglomeration of Tunis, also called "Grand Tunis". It is located south of Tunis city center and is the capital of the Ben Arous Governorate.

Information about Ben Arous 
East Ben Arous is on the Sidi Fathallah Plain, and is named after Muslim saint Sidi Ben Arous who died in 1444. It is known in legend as a site for curing female infertility. A farm was laid out on the plain where Sousse Road is planned to be built. The Sidi Fathallah Plain is the site where the battle of Ad Decimum was fought. This battle was the beginning of the end of the domination by the Byzantine Army General Belisarius, on September 13, 523 AD.

As Tunisia was a French protectorate from (1881–1956), during this time North Ben Arous was renamed Fochville and was the home of many employees of the Tunisian Railway Firm Company, whose stores were on what is now the Sidi Fathallah Plain. However, south Ben Arous was mainly inhabited by businessmen from Tunis who were French merchants and immigrants. Northeast Ben Arous was well known for its agriculture, and was famous for wines, grapes, vegetables, fruit and other produce.

Today Ben Arous is primarily an industrial zone with food and railway factories.

References

External links 

Populated places in Ben Arous Governorate
Communes of Tunisia
Julius Weisbach

Julius Ludwig Weisbach (10 August 1806 – 24 February 1871) was a German mathematician and engineer.

Life and work
Weisbach was born on 10 August 1806 in Mittelschmiedeberg (now Mildenau municipality). He studied at the Bergakademie in Freiberg from 1822 to 1826. After that, he studied with Carl Friedrich Gauss in Göttingen and with Friedrich Mohs in Vienna.

In 1831 he returned to Freiberg where he worked as mathematics teacher at the local Gymnasium. In 1833 he became teacher for Mathematics and the Theory of Mountain Machines at the Freiberg Bergakademie. In 1836 he was promoted to Professor for applied mathematics, mechanics, theory of mountain machines and so-called Markscheidekunst.

Weisbach wrote an influential book for mechanical engineering students, called Lehrbuch der Ingenieur- und Maschinenmechanik, which has been expanded and reprinted on numerous occasions between 1845 and 1863.

He also refined the Darcy equation into the still widely used Darcy–Weisbach equation.

In 1868 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He died on 24 February 1871 in Freiberg, at the age of 64.

Family 
His daughter Maria Camilla Weisbach (1835–1908) met Edward Carl Hegeler (1835–1910) when he was studying with her father at Freiberg and later married him on 5 April, 1860. The couple settled in LaSalle, Illinois, where Hegeler had set up the Matthiessen-Hegeler Zinc Company. Their daughter Mary Hegeler, later Carus, was born on 10 January 1861, the first of ten children. Mary worked alongside her father as a young girl and was the first woman to graduate from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1882. In 1885 she became the first woman to be legally enrolled to study at her grandfather's university, Bergakademie Freiberg, following a letter of recommendation from her cousin Clemens Winkler.

Selected publications
Handbuch der Bergmaschinenmechanik (2 Bde., 1835/1836)
Lehrbuch der Ingenieur- und Maschinenmechanik (3 Bde., 1845/1863)
Der Ingenieur, Sammlung von Tafeln, Formeln und Regeln der Arithmetik, Geometrie und Mechanik (1848)
Die neue Markscheidekunst und ihre Anwendung auf die Anlage des Rothschönberger Stollns bei Freiberg (1851)
Anleitung zum axonometrischen Zeichnen (1857)

Notes

References

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19th-century German mathematicians
Engineers from Saxony
University of Göttingen alumni
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1806 births
1871 deaths
Scientists from Freiberg
Fluid dynamicists
Braccae

is the Latin term for "trousers", and in this context is today used to refer to a style of trousers made from wool. According to the Romans, this style of clothing originated from the Gauls.

 were typically made with a drawstring, and tended to reach from just above the knee at the shortest, to the ankles at the longest, with length generally increasing in tribes living further north.

For the Romans, to encircle the legs and thighs with fasciae, or bands, was understood, in the time of Pompey and Horace, to be a proof of ill health and effeminacy. Roman men typically wore tunics, which were one-piece outfits terminating at or above the knee.

Etymology
The word originates from the Gaulish , after going through a process of syncopation it gave rise to  "trouser, pants".

The word is cognate with the English breeches. It appears to derive from the Indo-European root - "break", here apparently used in the sense "divide", "separate", as in Scottish Gaelic  ("trousers"), in Breton  ("pants"), in Irish  ("trousers")  and  in Welsh. The Celtic form may have first passed to the Etruscan language, which did not distinguish between the  and  sounds. Transition through Etruscan accounts for the Greek  being rendered as Latin , Greek  () as Latin .

References

Bibliography 
Collis, John (2003). The Celts: Origins, Myths, Inventions, Tempus. 
Wells, Peter S (2001). Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians, Duckworth Debates in Archaeology. 
Oppenheimer, Stephen (2006). The Origins of the British, Constable & Robinson.
 Hazel Dodge, Peter Connolly: Die antike Stadt. Ein Leben in Athen und Rom. . Kapitel Kleidung.
 August Mau: Ἀναξυρίδες. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band I, 2, Stuttgart 1893ff., Sp. 2100 f.
 James Yates: Bracae. In: William Smith: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. John Murray, London 1875, S. 213 (online)

Celtic culture
Trousers and shorts
Moga

Moga may refer to:

Acronyms
 Molybdopterin adenylyltransferase, an enzyme
 MOGA, the video game controller series by PowerA
 Modern girl, shortened to moga in Japanese
 Multi-objective genetic algorithm, an algorithm for multiple objective optimization

Geography
 Moga district, in Panjab, India
 Moga, Punjab, a city and municipality in the district
 Moga, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran

People
 Moga, alternate name of the Indo-Scythian king Maues
 Moga inscription, an archaeological artifact found in the area of Taxila, Gandhara, Pakistan

Surname
Eva Moga (born 1968), Spanish alpine skier who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics
Marius Moga (born 1981), Romanian music producer, composer, and singer
James Moga (born 1983), South Sudanese association football player (Indian I-League)
Sergiu Moga (born 1992), Romanian association football player (Liga I)
Tautau Moga (born 1993), Australian rugby league footballer (National Rugby League) of Samoan descent
Vasile Moga (1774–1845), Romanian bishop

Others
Moga (mascot), mascot for the 2023 National Games of India

See also
 Mogas (disambiguation)

Romanian-language surnames
Long Michelson Interferometer

The Long Michelson Interferometer was a radio telescope interferometer built by Martin Ryle and co-workers in the late 1940s beside a rifle range to the west of Cambridge, England. The interferometer consisted of 2 fixed elements 440m apart to survey the sky using Earth rotation. It produced the Preliminary survey of the radio stars in the Northern Hemisphere at 45 MHz - 214 MHz. The telescope was operated by the Radio Astronomy Group of Cambridge University.

Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for this and later work in radio interferometry.

References
A preliminary survey of the radio stars in the Northern Hemisphere, Ryle, M.; Smith, F. G.; Elsmore, B., (1950), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 110, p. 508

Cavendish Laboratory
Radio telescopes
Interferometric telescopes
1940s establishments in England
Romancoke, Maryland

Romancoke is a census-designated place on Queen Anne's in Maryland, United States, located at the southern terminus of Maryland Route 8. Romancoke was changed from an unincorporated community to a census-designated place for the 2020 Census listing a population of 1,855. The name "Romancoke" comes from the Algonquian word for "circling of the water."  William Claiborne, who founded Kent Island, also had a plantation in Virginia named Romancoke.

Romancoke was once linked with Claiborne via the Romancoke-Claiborne ferry; however, the ferry service terminated on December 31, 1952. This was five months after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was opened. Today, Romancoke is almost purely residential and is part of Stevensville's postal area.

Demographics

2020 census

Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.

References

External links

Romancoke on the Bay Community Website

Kent Island, Maryland
Census-designated places in Maryland
Census-designated places in Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Maryland populated places on the Chesapeake Bay