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Dance of Death (novel)

Dance of Death is a novel by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, published on June 2, 2005 by Warner Books. This is the sixth book in the Special Agent Pendergast series. Also, this novel is the second book in the Diogenes trilogy: the first book is Brimstone, released in 2004, and the last book is The Book of the Dead, released in 2006.

Synopsis
The book follows FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast and his sidekick, Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta. Pendergast was last seen at the end of the previous novel, Brimstone, where he was buried alive behind a brick wall in Castel Fosco. His estranged brother, Diogenes, rescues him and nurses him back to health. However this is not a true act of kindness; Diogenes has a dark agenda and needs his brother alive in order to carry out his nefarious plans.

Pendergast's ward Constance Greene requests Vincent D'Agosta's presence for a very important meeting. D'Agosta is shown a letter written many months previously by Pendergast about his brother Diogenes. In the letter, Pendergast writes that he does not know of Diogenes's whereabouts, but does in fact know one thing—a date, January 28. D'Agosta presumes that this will be the date of Diogenes's greatest crime. Having been hated by and hating his family, Diogenes obviously cannot be trusted.

Reviews
Reviews of the book were generally positive. Publishers Weekly noted that "While it's not as good as some of their earlier efforts, it's still pretty darn good." Similarly, Barbara Lipkien of Bookreporter wrote that "Dance of Death may be a bit more melodramatic than the others in this series, but overall the book holds up." Writing for the Library Journal, Jim Ayers called the novel "A rare second book in a trilogy that actually improves on the first." Reviewers also commented favorably on the cliffhanger ending.

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External links

Official website

2005 American novels
Techno-thriller novels
Sequel novels
American thriller novels
Novels by Douglas Preston
Novels by Lincoln Child
Collaborative novels
Jefferson City National Cemetery

Jefferson City National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Jefferson City, in Cole County, Missouri. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses , and as of the end of 2005, had 1,792 interments. It is administered by Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

History 
The first interments took place in Jefferson City National Cemetery in 1861, and were American Civil War soldiers who died in the skirmishes that took place in the region. Though, the area did not see any wide-scale combat, it was officially designated a National Cemetery in 1867.

Jefferson City National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1998.

Noteworthy monuments 
The 39th Regiment Monument of Centralia, Missouri, erected circa 1968 to commemorate those members of the Missouri Volunteer Infantry who died at the hands of William T. Anderson's bushwhacker forces in the Centralia Massacre (Missouri).

References

External links
 National Cemetery Administration
 Jefferson City National Cemetery
 
 
 

Second Empire architecture in Missouri
Neoclassical architecture in Missouri
Buildings and structures in Jefferson City, Missouri
United States national cemeteries
Missouri in the American Civil War
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Historic American Landscapes Survey in Missouri
Protected areas of Cole County, Missouri
Tourist attractions in Jefferson City, Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Cole County, Missouri
Deeping Gate

Deeping Gate is a village and civil parish, lying on the River Welland in Cambridgeshire. Traditionally, the area was part of the Soke of Peterborough, geographically considered a part of Northamptonshire; it now falls within the City of Peterborough unitary authority area of Cambridgeshire. With a very small population, void of any major services, including a post office or even a chapel, the community depends on nearby Market Deeping,  north of the river in Lincolnshire, for economic and market services. The parish had a population of 258 males and 257 females according to the 2011 Census. Renaissance composer Robert Fayrfax (Fairfax) was a native of the village. Fairfax House, the most prominent and grand property in the village, was home to the Fairfax Family.

In the 1870s Wilson described Deeping Gate as:a hamlet in Maxey parish, Northampton; at the boundary with Lincoln, 1 mile SE of Market-Deeping. Real property, £1, 867. Pop., 224. Houses, 47St. Peter's, Maxey, the most northerly ecclesiastical parish in the Diocese of Peterborough, includes Deeping Gate. For local government purposes it forms part of Northborough ward, within North West Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency. Deeping Gate falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board.

This time series shows the total population of the parish of Deeping Gate over the course of 130 years:

See also
The Deepings

References

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Geography of Peterborough
Villages in Cambridgeshire
The Deepings
Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire
Van Phillips (golfer)

Vanslow Luke Phillips (born 27 March 1972) is an English professional golfer.

Phillips was born in London. As an amateur, he won the Berkshire Trophy twice before turning professional after playing in the Walker Cup at the end of 1993. In 1996 he won the Interlaken Open on the second tier Challenge Tour, and graduated to the European Tour for the following season by finishing in 6th place on the tour rankings at the end of the year.

Phillips made steady progress, finishing inside the top 100 on the Order of Merit in each of his first four seasons on the European Tour. He captured his maiden win in 1999, at the Algarve Portuguese Open, where he overcame John Bickerton in a playoff. In 2001, he struggled to hold on to his tour card, and has competed mostly on the Challenge Tour since then. He won the Mauritius Open, a non-tour event in 2006.

Early in his professional career Phillips regularly played in a shirt and tie as part of a sponsorship deal.

Amateur wins
1992 Berkshire Trophy
1993 Berkshire Trophy, Golf Illustrated Gold Vase

Professional wins (4)

European Tour wins (1)

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Jamega Pro Golf Tour wins (1)

Other wins (1)
2006 Mauritius Open

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
Note: Phillips only played in The Open Championship.

Team appearances
Amateur
Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1993

References

External links

English male golfers
European Tour golfers
Golfers from London
People from Camberley
1972 births
Living people
Renate Loll

Renate Loll (born 19 June 1962, Aachen) Is a German physicist. She is a  Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands.  She previously worked at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University. She received her Ph.D. from Imperial College, London, in 1989. In 2001 she joined the permanent staff of the ITP, after spending several years at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm, Germany.  With Jan Ambjørn and Polish physicist Jerzy Jurkiewicz she helped develop a new approach to  nonperturbative quantization of gravity, that of Causal Dynamical Triangulations.

She has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2015.

References

External links 

 Prof Loll's website
 
 

1962 births
20th-century German  physicists
20th-century German women scientists
21st-century German physicists
21st-century German women scientists
Alumni of Imperial College London
German women physicists
Living people
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
People from Aachen
Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen
University of Freiburg alumni
University of Potsdam alumni
Academic staff of Utrecht University
20th-century German women
21st-century German women
Denis Novato

Denis Novato (born 1976) is a Slovene musician from Italy, and world champion player of the diatonic accordion. He has been a musician since the late 1980s.

Novato was born in Dolina near Trieste, Italy. From the age of ten he studied for Susanne Zerial. At the international accordion festival in Urbino in 1988 his solo performance won the first prize, and he has later won more than 20 international competitions. Since 1991 he has also teaching, both in Austria and Slovenia. His first recording on cassette was released in 1995 and on CD in 1997. In 1999 he was awarded the title of world champion of the diatonic accordion. He has composed more than 50 original songs. He has toured Russia in 1995, Australia in 1997 and again in 1999, and later also the United States and Canada. In November 2005 he visited the Florida Accordion Association Annual Smash and in March 2006 he visited the Texas Accordion Association Festival.

Discography 
Denis Novato, A la Salute dei Nostri Padri, CD, 1997, FreeDB
Denis Novato, Od Trsta do Triglava, CD, 1998, FreeDB
Denis Novato, O du mein Osterreich - O moja Avstrija - O tu mia Austria, CD, 1999, FreeDB
Denis Novato & seine Freunde, Oberkrainer Spezialitäten, CD, Bogner Records (BOG010173), March 22, 2002, FreeDB
Denis Novato Trio, Gruss aus Triest, CD, Bogner Records (BOG011193), January 2, 2004, FreeDB
Denis Novato Trio, Mit Dir Unterwegs, CD, Bogner Records (BOG011783), February 1, 2005

References

1976 births
Living people
Slovenian accordionists
Italian Slovenes
People from the Province of Trieste
21st-century accordionists
Chelsea Field

Chelsea Field (born May 27, 1957) is an American actress.

Career 
Field started her career as a Solid Gold Dancer, and one of her first television roles was on Airwolf. She also played Teela in the 1987 film adaptation of Masters of the Universe. She began portraying attorney Rita Devereaux on NCIS: New Orleans during the program's third season. The character was changed from recurring to regular effective with the seventh season.

Personal life 
Field is married to actor Scott Bakula, and she appeared on several episodes of NCIS: New Orleans, in which he stars. According to a December 2010 Tyler 'n Todd radio interview with Bakula, he and Field had been together for "16 years, almost" but married for only "a year".

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

 
 

Living people
1957 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869.

The 1908, 1909 and 1931 "New Editions" have four encyclopedic volumes covering the geography, history, economics, and administration of India; 20 volumes of the alphabetically arranged gazetteer, listing places' names and providing statistics and summary information; and one volume each comprising the index and atlas. The New Editions were all published by the Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Editions
The first edition of The Imperial Gazetteer of India was published in nine volumes in 1881. A second edition, augmented to fourteen volumes, was issued in the years 1885–87. After the death of Sir William Wilson Hunter in 1900, Sir Herbert Hope Risley, William Stevenson Meyer, Sir Richard Burn and James Sutherland Cotton compiled the twenty-six volume Imperial Gazetteer of India.

A revised form of the article on India, greatly enlarged and with statistics brought up to date, appeared as an independent volume in 1893, under the title of The Indian Empire: Its Peoples, History, and Products.

All of these were edited by Hunter, who formed the original plan of the work in 1869. A parallel series of publications known as the Imperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series were prepared.

Volumes 

 
 v. 1: A–B
 v. 2: B-C
 v. 3: C-G
 v. 4: G-J
 v. 5: J-K
 v. 6: K-N
 v. 7: N-R
 v. 8: R-T
 v. 9: T-Z

 
 v. 1: A–B
 v. 2: B
 v. 3: B–C
 v. 4: C–G
 v. 5: G–I
 v. 6: I
 v. 7: I–K
 v. 8: K–M
 v. 9: M
 v. 10: M–P
 v. 11: P–R
 v. 12: R–S
 v. 13: S–Z
 v. 14: Index

 
 v. 1: Descriptive
 v. 2: Historical
 v. 3: Economic
 v. 4: Administrative
 v. 5: A
 v. 6: A–B
 v. 7: B
 v. 8: B
 v. 9: B–C
 v. 10: C
 v. 11: C–E
 v. 12: E–G
 v. 13: G–J
 v. 14: J–K
 v. 15: K
 v. 16: K–M
 v. 17: M
 v. 18: M–N
 v. 19: N–P
 v. 20: P
 v. 21: P–S
 v. 22: S
 v. 23: S–T
 v. 24: T–Z
 v. 25: Index
 v. 26: Atlas

References

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1881 books
19th-century Indian books
Books about British India
Gazetteers of India
Historiography of India
Historiography of Pakistan
Reference works in the public domain
Kashket

A kashket (, ; ; also known as a kashkettel or kasket) is a cap, usually made of felt, worn mainly by Hasidic Jewish children as an alternative to the kippah. It has a crown, a band and peak. From the beginning of the 20th century until World War II, many Russian Jews and Polish Jews wore this cap as part of their everyday dress.

Origins
Caps of this type were introduced during the early 19th century, as cheap and practical workwear for sailors and factory workers in Europe. These became popular among the urban Russian Jewish community in response to the Tsarist authorities banning more traditional Jewish headwear.

By the mid-19th century, the earlier workman's cap had evolved into the kashket recognisable today, with a narrow crown and a band embroidered with foliage similar to that on a military Kepi. Around this time it gained the alternative name of Hamburg cap due to the large number of Russian Jewish immigrants using the Northern German ports as a stopping point on the route to America. This hat was worn daily by Hasidic Jewish boys in Britain, Germany, Russia, Poland, and America from the Victorian era until the mid 20th century, but in the present day it is generally restricted to Shabbat and other formal occasions.

In popular culture
In the animated film An American Tail, the main character Fievel's trademark hat, given to him by his father, is a blue kasket.

Kashkets were worn by Zero Mostel and Topol as Tevye the Milkman in the stage and film adaptations of Fiddler on the Roof.

See also
Peaked cap
Mariner's cap
 Scott Kashket (born 1996), England, striker for Wycombe Wanderers

References

Caps
Hasidic clothing
Jewish religious clothing
20th-century fashion
Jean Guillaume

Jean Guillaume (Fosses-la-Ville, 28 October 1918 – Namur, 9 February 2001) was a Belgian writer in Wallon. He investigated this language and he published in French Œuvres Poétiques Wallonnes (Wallon Poetic Works).  Among his associates were Hubert Haas and Georges Smal.

Works
Djusqu' au solia (1947)
Gregnes d' awousse (1949)
Aurzîye (1951)
Œuvres Poétiques Wallonnes (1989)
Padrî l's-uréyes (posthume) (2001)

External links
 Ene pådje sol pere Guillaume

Belgian writers in Walloon
1918 births
2001 deaths
Rho Leonis

Rho Leonis (ρ Leo) is a binary star in the zodiac constellation of Leo, and, like the prominent nearby star Regulus, is near the ecliptic. With an apparent visual magnitude of 3.9, this star can be readily seen with the naked eye. Parallax measurements give a distance estimate of about  from the Earth. Rho Leonis is an Alpha Cygni-type variable star, showing 0.032 magnitude brightness variations with a period of 3.427 days, in Hipparcos data.

This is an enormous star with about 21 times the Sun's mass () and 37 times the Sun's radius. Its spectrum matches a stellar classification of B1 Iab, with the 'Iab' luminosity class indicating that it is in the supergiant stage of its evolution. Rho Leonis is radiating about 45,000 times the Sun's luminosity at an effective temperature of 22,000 K, giving it the blue-white hue typical of a B-type star. A strong stellar wind is expelling mass from the outer envelope at a rate of  per year, or the equivalent of 1  every 2.8 million years. The rotation rate is probably about once per 7 days, with an upper limit of 47 days.

Rho Leonis is classified as a runaway star, which means it has a peculiar velocity of at least 30 km s−1 relative to the surrounding stars. It has radial velocity of  away from the Sun and a proper motion that is carrying it about 1.56 Astronomical Units per year, equivalent to 7 km s−1, in a transverse direction. The star is situated about  above the galactic plane.

Rho Leo is 0.15 degree north of the ecliptic, so it can be occulted by the moon. Unusual light variation during these occultations has been explained as the result of a possible close companion.  The companion would be just over one magnitude fainter and separated by 0.01 arcsec. The companion has not been detected by any other means although it should be easily detected with modern observations.

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Leo (constellation)
B-type supergiants
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Kunar River

The Kūnaṛ River (), also known in its upper reaches as the Mastuj (), Chitral (; ), or Kama River (), is about  long, located in eastern Afghanistan (Nuristan, Kunar, Nangarhar) and northern Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). It emerges just south of the Broghil Pass, in the upper part of Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa near the Afghan border. The river system is fed by melting glaciers and snow of the Hindu Kush mountains. The Kunar River is a tributary of the Kabul River, which is in turn a tributary of the Indus River.

Origin and course of flow
The river rises in the far north glaciated Hindu Kush mountains of Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.  Downstream as far as the town of Mastuj it is known as the "Mastuj River" from there to its confluence with the Lotkoh River just north of the important regional centre of Chitral.  It is then called the "Chitral River", before flowing south into the upper Kunar Valley of Afghanistan. 
At the confluence in Asadabad, historically Chaga Sarai, it meets with Pech River and finally empties into the Kabul River just to the east of the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan. The combined rivers then flow eastwards into Pakistan again, roughly following the Grand Trunk Road through the Khyber Pass, and joining the Indus River at the city of Attock.

History
Before the political division of the area divided the Kunar and Chitral Valley between the modern nation states of Afghanistan and Pakistan, it had formed an important trade route, being the easiest way to travel from the Pamir Mountains' passes to the plains of the Indian subcontinent.  While navigable in parts by expert kayakers, etc..., it is more precise to say its valley forms a trade route since, like nearly all of the rivers in Africa and Asia, it is not navigable for commerce or transport.
"At about six miles from Jellalabad, we quitted the valley of the Cabul river, and entered that of the Kama or Kooner river. I have not seen so fine a valley as this anywhere. The Kama is a large rapid stream, with about a mile of rich soil on either side, sometimes considerably more. The villages are large and well peopled." - Major - General Augustus Abbott, mid 19th century

See also
Konar Dam
Chitral
Kunar Province

References

Further reading 
 

Rivers of Afghanistan
Rivers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Kabul River
Landforms of Nuristan Province
Landforms of Kunar Province
Landforms of Nangarhar Province
Chitral
Chitral District
International rivers of Asia
Rivers of Pakistan
Pech River

The Pech River () is located in eastern Afghanistan.

Course
The Pech River system is fed from glaciers and snow from the Hindu Kush range to its north. The river rises in central Nuristan Province and flows south and southeasterly through the center of Kunar Province, joining the Kunar River (Asmar River, Loy Seend) at the provincial capital of Asadabad. The Kunar River is a tributary of the Kabul River, part of the Indus River basin.

The river has numerous tributaries forming valleys on both sides. These include the Chapa Dara, Waygal, Korangal Valley (site of the film Restrepo), Watapur, and Sharyak valleys.

Culture
In the Pech Valley, Pashto as well as Askunu language is spoken. The Safi tribe of Pashtuns are the majority population in the Pech Valley.

The river's largest settlement is Nangalam, at the confluence of the Waygal River with the Pech River.

Military history
There were a series of U.S. military bases along the Pech River Valley in Kunar Province, including COP Honaker-Miracle, COP Able Main, COP Michigan, and the largest −  FOB Blessing. Most were closed after 2011. In 2011 former FOB Blessing was abandoned by the Afghan National Army (ANA), and the 25th Infantry Division returned to reestablish the area of influence. The new name was COP Nangalam, with a majority of control in the hands of the ANA. In late 2012 with the ANA in control of and the establishment of ANA Fire bases in and along the area that COP Michigan was the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team. U.S. President Barack Obama then pulled the American forces from the valley again, ceding it to the Taliban due to the questionable ability and loyalty of the ANA.

The 2012 book Siren's Song: The Allure of War, by Antonio Salinas, depicts the experience of an American platoon operating in the Pech River Valley.

The 2016 book Hammerhead Six: How Green Berets Waged an Unconventional War Against the Taliban to Win in Afghanistan's Deadly Pech Valley, by Ronald Fry with Tad Tuleja, depicts the experience of an American Special Forces.

See also
 
 List of rivers of Afghanistan

References

External links

Rivers of Afghanistan
Kabul River
Landforms of Kunar Province
Landforms of Nuristan Province
Rivers of Pakistan

simple:Peche River
Veleka

The Veleka ( ,  ) is a river in the very southeast of Bulgaria (Burgas Province), as well as the very northeast of European Turkey. It is 147 km long, of which 108 km lies in Bulgaria and 25 km lie in Turkey, and has its sources from a number of Karst springs in the Turkish part of the Strandzha (İstranca) mountains. It flows into the Black Sea at the Bulgarian village of Sinemorets. Veleka is situated in Strandzha Nature Park.

The river's width near the mouth is from 8 to 10 m and its depth ranges from 2 to 4 m. At its mouth, the Veleka is 50 m wide and 7 to 8 m deep, overflowing shortly before making a turn and pouring into the sea.

The waters of the Veleka are rich in flora and fauna, with more than 30 species of freshwater fish present, the most frequent one being the chub. Five endangered animal species inhabit the river, as well as important regional plants.

Namesakes
Veleka Ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Veleka River.

References

Rivers of Bulgaria
Rivers of Turkey
Landforms of Burgas Province
Strandzha
International rivers of Europe
Tributaries of the Black Sea
Patrick Finucane

Patrick Finucane may refer to:

 Pat Finucane (1949–1989), Belfast solicitor killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989
 Pat Finucane Centre, Northern Irish nationalist advocacy and lobbying entity
 Patrick Finucane (Irish politician) (1890–1984), Irish Clann na Talmhan TD for Kerry North
 Paddy Finucane, World War II hero killed in 1942
Shraga Feivish Hager

Grand Rabbi Shraga Feivish Hager, also known as the Kosover Rebbe, is the rebbe of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, a dayan ("rabbinic judge"), and noted orator. He is known as a creative and insightful thinker, whose original teachings are nevertheless rooted in Hasidic mystical tradition. He is also a powerful prayer-leader, and has attracted a large following among younger Hasidim.

Rabbinic career
Hager is the dayan of the Vizhnitz community in Borough Park as well as posek for Chesed shel Emes.

Hager is well known for his role regarding contemporary Halacha and is not afraid to be actively involved on taboo issues among Haredim, and more specifically, on controversies where the old traditional Jewish lifestyle clashes with the modern world. He is on the board of the internet filtering service provider J net and has been involved in a controversy concerning Kapparos.

Personal life
Rabbi Hager is an alumnus of the Chachmei Lublin, Ponevezh, and Lakewood yeshivos. He currently resides in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York.

In January 2023, several orthodox Jewish news outlets reported that Hager was ill and requested prayers for his recovery.

Family
Rabbi Hager is the successor and eldest son of Holocaust-survivor Rabbi Avrohom Yehoshua Heshel Hager, Kosover-Zalishchiker Rebbe of Borough Park (Died 1999), who was the son of Rabbi Shraga Feivish Hager (1870–1937), Zalishchiker Rebbe; son of Rabbi Boruch Hager (1845–1892) of Vizhnitz. The Zalishchiker Rebbe was a son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Hager (1860–1925), Kosover Rebbe and author of Leket Oni.
 
Rabbi Hager is a son-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Wosner, Rav of Zichron Meir in Bnei Brak (son of Rabbi Shmuel Wosner, preeminent posek).

Rabbi Hager's younger brother was crowned as Zalishchiker Rebbe.
The brothers jointly republished the Leket Oni in 1996.

Published works
Avdah D'Malka, a 2 volume set in hebrew  on the topic of prayer.
Shabbos Malka Kadisha Volume 1, a book in hebrew on the topic of the jewish sabbath.
Shabbos Malka Kadisha Volume 2, a 684 page book in hebrew on the topic of the jewish sabbath, published in 2019.

References

External links
Kosover Rebbe: Do Not Go To Palm Readers, or Fortunetellers (Yeshiva World News)
9th Grade of Wiznitz school of Williamsburg in the study of the Kosover Rebbe 
Sefer Leket Oni (Google Books)

American Hasidic rabbis
Hasidic rebbes
Jews and Judaism in Brooklyn
Living people
Vizhnitz (Hasidic dynasty)
Rabbis from New York (state)
People from Borough Park, Brooklyn
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ushoji language

Ushoji (natively known as Ushojo) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Kohistan and Swat districts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Status 
Ushoji may be incredibly endangered due to the dominance of the Pashto language in the region, especially in Swat.

Numerals

Orthography 
Ushojo is written in a variety of the Torwali and Shina alphabets in the Perso-Arabic script in the Nastaliq style.

References

Decker 1992 Ushojo

Dardic languages
Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Buddy Shuman

Buddy Shuman (September 8, 1915 – November 13, 1955) was a stock car driver who competed in the NASCAR Grand National Series.  He raced between 1951 until 1955, achieving one victory, four top 5s, and 16 top 10s.  Shuman is best known for winning his one and only race in 1952 at Stamford Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the first NASCAR Grand National Series race held in Canada.

Shuman died in a hotel fire the night before the start of the 1956 NASCAR Grand National campaign.  He had been tasked to head Ford's effort to succeed in NASCAR.

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1955 deaths
Racing drivers from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Robert Watts

Robert Watts (born 23 May 1938) is a British retired film producer who is best known for his involvement with the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series.

Career
Watts began working in the film industry in 1960, after two years' National Service. His first film work was as a runner on the Boulting brothers production A French Mistress. Watts earned his union membership during two years as a runner, and later production manager, at a company based at England's Shepperton Studios which made TV commercials and documentaries. He then returned to feature films as a second assistant director on the film Man in the Middle.

During the 1960s, Watts worked extensively as a production manager and location manager, including on Darling (1965) starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde, the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

Watts was employed by producer Gary Kurtz as production supervisor on Star Wars. He had met Kurtz several years earlier in Los Angeles. Watts then enjoyed a long collaboration with George Lucas and Lucasfilm, working as associate producer on The Empire Strikes Back and co-producer on Return of the Jedi; and as associate producer on Raiders of the Lost Ark and producer on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  He also worked on other Steven Spielberg-presented productions, including as producer on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and with Spielberg's long-term producer Frank Marshall on Marshall's second feature as director, Alive.

Personal life
Watts' half brother was Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy.

Filmography

References

External links

British film producers
Living people
1938 births
Cwenthryth

Cwenthryth (also Quendreda, ) was a princess of Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in central England, who lived in the early 9th century.

She was the daughter of Coenwulf of Mercia and the sister of Saint Kenelm and also the sister of Burgenilda. Roger of Wendover names "Quendridam et Burgenildam" as the daughters of Kenulfus. And William of Malmesbury identifies "Quendrida" as the older sister of St Kenelm. In 811 she subscribed a charter (S 165) of King Coenwulf of Mercia to Beornmod, Bishop of Rochester, in which she is identified as "Quoenðryð filia regis", Quendreda the king's daughter.

After Coenwulf's death, his son was killed fighting the Welsh, possibly due to Cwenthryth's treachery.

Cwenthryth was also the Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet who inherited property and authority from Coenwulf. Wulfred, Archbishop of Canterbury, challenged her for the authority over her abbey estates. She was ultimately compelled to resign.

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Anglo-Saxon abbesses
Anglo-Saxon royalty
9th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
Mercian people
English princesses
9th-century English women
9th-century English people
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Illinois Route 102

Illinois Route 102 (IL 102) is a state route in northeast Illinois. It runs from IL 53 in Wilmington to the concurrency of U.S. Route 45 (US 45) and US 52 in Bourbonnais, just north of Kankakee. This is a distance of .

Route description 
IL 102 runs parallel to and north of the Kankakee River for its entire length. For , IL 102 is located next to the Kankakee River State Park. Entrances to the park's two major campgrounds are located off Illinois 102.

IL 113 takes a mostly parallel route, but on the south side of the river.

The road is two lanes for its entire length, except for a four-lane stretch with center turn lanes measuring approximately  near its eastern end in Bourbonnais.  A center turn lane also exists within a two-lane section for a few blocks inside the city of Wilmington.

History

IL 102 and IL 113 were both established in 1924, and originally both routes were numbered as IL 113. In 1935, IL 113 north of the river became IL 113N, and the south branch became IL 113S. From 1936 to 1940, US 52 was formed to run along IL 113S, renumbering IL 113N to IL 113. In 1940, US 52 was rerouted to go through downtown Joliet, reverting to the IL 113N and IL 113S layout. In 1961, Illinois 113N was renumbered as IL 102, and IL 113S became IL 113 again.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

102
Transportation in Will County, Illinois
Transportation in Kankakee County, Illinois
NFL '95

NFL '95 is the sixth video game in the Joe Montana Football/NFL series. It is the last Sega football game to feature Joe Montana. Its sequel, Prime Time NFL Football, featured Deion Sanders.

Summary
This video game is similar to the previous, NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana, except in this version, there is no play by play commentary. The rosters of the NFL teams are updated to reflect the 1994 NFL season, and there are more plays for the player's football team to perform on offense and defense. Once again, Joe Montana appears on the title screen.

Despite the updated rosters, the game is notable in that it still had Deion Sanders as a member of the Atlanta Falcons instead of the San Francisco 49ers, with whom Sanders signed as a free agent during the offseason. The 49ers went on to win Super Bowl XXIX in Sanders' only season with the team before signing with the rival Dallas Cowboys the following offseason.

The game featured Free Agency (which was introduced to the NFL a year prior to this game's release) and varied in-game music.

The game was followed by similar releases, Prime Time NFL Football Starring Deion Sanders, NFL '97 and NFL 98.

Reception
Electronic Gaming Monthly'''s two sports game reviewers both hailed the game as potentially "the best football game of the year", citing new features such as the option to control the receiver. They gave it scores of 87% and 92%. GamePro hailed it as a strong contender with Madden '95 for the title of the Genesis's best football game, citing the use of both real teams and contemporary player rosters, the updating of stats during gameplay, and the realistically balanced gameplay. They concluded that while Madden '95 is better for quick games and arcade style-play, NFL '95 is the more realistic and detail-oriented game.Next Generation reviewed the Genesis version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "EA's John Madden Football still plays faster and harder, but the realism of NFL '95 makes the slightly slower gameplay tolerable and leaves NFL '95'' a football fan must."

References

External links
 NFL '95 at IGN
 NFL '95 (Sega Genesis) at GameFAQs
 NFL '95 (Sega Game Gear) at GameFAQs

1994 video games
BlueSky Software games
Game Gear games
Sega Genesis games
NFL Sports Talk Football video games
Sega video games
Joe Montana video games
FarSight Studios games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Andy Armer
Video games scored by Sam Powell
Lanaria

Lanaria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants containing a single species, Lanaria lanata, endemic to the southern coast of South Africa where it is associated with the fynbos belt. Lanaria lanata is commonly known as Cape edelweiss or lambtails. The genus is placed in the monotypic family Lanariaceae, a family only recently recognized by taxonomists. The APG IV system of 2016 (unchanged from the 1998, the 2003 and 2009 versions) does recognize this family.

This species occurs on clay and sandstone soils throughout its distribution range. The stiff, ribbed leaves arise from a woody rootstock and are evergreen, channelled, and finely serrate along the margins. The densely woolly, white heads enclose mauve flowers and are peculiar to the species. Flowering is profuse following fires.

Etymology
Both 'lanaria' and 'lanata' are derived from 'lana', Latin for 'wool'.

References

External links
photographs of lambtails

Monotypic Asparagales genera
Flora of Southern Africa
Asparagales
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

Leap of Faith : Memoirs of an Unexpected Life (2003) is a book written by Queen Noor of Jordan, wife of the late Jordanian King Hussein I. Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Leap of Faith highlights Queen Noor's views on Islam and the West; the challenges of rearing her family; her work as Queen and humanitarian activist; and her struggles to protect her husband as he slipped into the illness that would kill him in 1999. Her story is filled with recollections of the world's most powerful and interesting people: Queen Elizabeth, Jimmy Carter, Pierre Trudeau, Ted Turner, Sean Connery, Richard Branson, Yassar Arafat and Anwar Sadat. She wrote this story after his death, describing her own life before and during their marriage, describing most of the political crisis he went through, including Black September.

External Links

2003 non-fiction books
Books about Jordan
Biographies about royalty
Political autobiographies
Hussein of Jordan
MerleFest

MerleFest is an annual "traditional plus" music festival held in Wilkesboro, North Carolina on the campus of Wilkes Community College. The festival, which is held the last weekend in April, was hosted by Grammy Award winner Doc Watson prior to his death and is named in memory and honor of his son, Eddy Merle Watson, who died in a farm tractor accident in 1985.

History

Originally, the festival was an annual homecoming event in memory of Merle Watson. It is believed the festival got its name when a woman called asking for tickets to "Merlefest".

The festival, founded in 1988 by Doc Watson, is the primary fundraising event for Wilkes Community College and attracts crowds consistently exceeding 75,000 in number, making it one of the largest music festivals in the United States. It is estimated that the festival brings over $10 million in business and tourist revenue to Wilkes County and surrounding areas each year. 

The music is spread across 13 different stages and four days, which provides festival visitors with a wide variety of musical venues, groups, and styles to choose from. MerleFest offers a mix of traditional and contemporary roots music, a music blend that Doc himself named "traditional plus."  It brings together Bluegrass, contemporary acoustic, blues, folk, old-time music, Cajun, jazz, country, Celtic, Americana, rock and singer-songwriter music. Artists can often be enjoyed in on-stage jam sessions featuring unusual combinations of musicians, such as Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead singing with Sam Bush and Gillian Welch with the Waybacks. 
 
Other artists who have performed on MerleFest's 14 stages over the first 24 years have included Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Earl Scruggs, The Kruger Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, John Prine, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Donna the Buffalo, Natalie MacMaster, Vassar Clements, Hot Tuna, Alan Jackson, Darius Rucker, David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris, Jerry Douglas, Del McCoury, Billy Strings, Junior Brown, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Claire Lynch, Elvis Costello, Howard Armstrong, Randy Travis, Lyle Lovett, The Doobie Brothers, Robert Plant and the Band of Joy, Sharon Gilchrist, The Avett Brothers, Tony Rice, François Vola, Old Crow Medicine Show, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Zac Brown Band, Dierks Bentley, Linda Ronstadt, Levon Helm, Taj Mahal, Bruce Hornsby, Cadillac Sky and Vince Gill.

See also
List of bluegrass music festivals
List of country music festivals
List of folk festivals

References

External links

 
 

Music festivals in North Carolina
Festivals in North Carolina
Folk festivals in the United States
Bluegrass festivals
Tourist attractions in Wilkes County, North Carolina
Music festivals established in 1988
1988 establishments in North Carolina
TVR 1

TVR 1 (; spelled out as Televiziunea Română 1, "Romanian Television 1") is the main channel of the Romanian public broadcaster TVR.

The most important show of the channel is Jurnalul TVR, whose motto is  ("The news journal as it should be"), but on 28 March 2009 was replaced by Telejurnal, which is its name till today. In 1985, Programul 1 renamed again to TVR becoming the sole television channel in Romania.

In 1989, TVR1 broadcast live the events of the revolt which triggered the fall of the Communist regime, covering almost all the main events live, starting from the last speech of Nicolae Ceauşescu (on December 21, 1989) until the new power representatives arrived. At the time, fabricated and exaggerated stories were broadcast, nevertheless TVR1 was the first television channel to cover all the events of the regime change.

After TVR HD was closed, TVR 1 has launched an HD broadcast on November 3, 2019, with its other sister channel, TVR 2. TVR is also testing HD broadcasting on its other channels, but momentarily, the HD broadcasts are only available on its on-demand service, TVR+.

Popular programs

Serial television programs

TVR1 airs series such as:
Awake
Battlestar Galactica
Being Erica
Body of Proof
Brothers & Sisters
Castle
Cold Case
Combat Hospital
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Dallas
Deadwood
Desperate Housewives
Downton Abbey
Enlightened
Eureka
Flash Gordon
The Following
Girls
The Good Wife
Grey's Anatomy
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Homeland
Hot in Cleveland
The Hunger Games
Hunted
In Treatment
Iron Man: Armored Adventures
JAG
The Legend of Korra
Modern Family
NCIS
NCIS: Los Angeles
New Girl
Oggy and the Cockroaches
The Pacific
Primeval
Primeval: New World
Rescue Me
Rookie Blue
Rugrats
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Strike Back
The Walking Dead
Lost
Hannah Montana
Saw movie series
Mad Men
House M.D.

Entertainment programs
Down The Road: Aventura
Vedeta Populară

International competitions
Eurovision Song Contest
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Miss Universe Pageant

Program for minorities
Romanian TV airs the following channels for minority nationwide:
Kronika (Hungarian)
Magazin în limba maghiară (Hungarian)
Akzente (German)
Magazin în limba germană (German)

See also
 Television in Romania

References

External links
 tvr.ro
 http://tvr1.tvr.ro/

Eastern Bloc mass media
1
Television channels and stations established in 1956
Television stations in Romania
Artesia station

Artesia Station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located alongside the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway), at its intersection with Artesia Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the city of Compton, California.

Artesia is a park and ride station with 380 parking spaces. The station is near the southern border of Compton, California near the unincorporated community of Rancho Dominguez. It is on Artesia Boulevard near the intersection of Alameda Street. It is also close to the Artesia Freeway (SR 91).

A June 7, 2012, editorial in the Los Angeles Times described the station as,"extremely unfriendly to pedestrians" and,"a Third World train station."

Service

Station layout

Hours and frequency

Connections 
, the following connections  available:
Compton Renaissance Transit: 5
Long Beach Transit: , , 
Los Angeles Metro Bus: , , , 
Torrance Transit: 6, 13

Notable places nearby 
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
Compton College
Crystal Casino
Dominguez Rancho Adobe
Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy

References

External links 
 Metro website

A Line (Los Angeles Metro) stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1990
Compton, California
1990 establishments in California
Pacific Electric stations
Hannover Scorpions

The Hannover Scorpions are a professional ice hockey team, which plays in the Oberliga, Germany's third tier ice hockey league. They previously played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga from 1996 to 2013.

History
Founded in 1975 as ESC Wedemark, the team was renamed Wedemark Scorpions in their first DEL season in 1996 after the rock band Scorpions, who also call Hanover, Lower Saxony their home. The next season, the Scorpions relocated to Hanover proper and began playing their home games at TUI Arena in 2000.

Despite playing in the region's top venue, as well as enjoying sizeable corporate and political support, the team has struggled to generate sustained interest in Hanover.

Before relocating there in 1997, the Scorpions played their home games in Mellendorf, a small town located 20 km north in Wedemark township. They were actually considered rivals of Hanover. Thus, many local fans resented their longtime foe taking over the Hanover market at the expense of the city's historic hockey team, the less-favored Indians, and refused to support the Scorpions. 

With the club stricken by financial problems at the conclusion of the 2012–13 season, the Scorpions were forced to sell their DEL license to 2nd Bundesliga club the SERC Wild Wings on June 14, 2013. The Scorpions were then placed in the Oberliga, Germany's third tier league.

Honors

Champions
DEL championship (1): 2010
Champion 1.League (1): 1996
Oberliga Nord Champion (1): 1994
Regionalliga Nord Champion (2): 1977, 1991

Players

Honored members
10  Joe West
20  Len Soccio
85  Arthur Jamaev

Season records

References

External links

Official Team Website 

Deutsche Eishockey Liga teams
Sport in Hanover
Ice hockey teams in Germany
Ice hockey clubs established in 1975
1975 establishments in West Germany
Oberliga Nord
List of national parks in Ecuador

This is a list of national parks in Ecuador.

National parks
There are 11 national parks:

National Reserves

Ecological reserves
There are 9 national ecological reserves:

 Arenillas Ecological Reserve
 Manglares Churute Ecological Reserve
 Antisana Ecological Reserve
 Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve
 El Angel Ecological Reserve
 Illinizas Ecological Reserve
 Manglares Cayapas Mataje Ecological Reserve
 Cofán-Bemejo Ecological Reserve
 Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve

Biological reserves
There are 4 National biological reserves:

 Cerro Plateado (Silver Hill) Biological Reserve
 El Quimi Biological Reserve
 El Cóndor Biological Reserve
 Limoncocha National Biological Reserve

Geobotanical reserve
There is one National geobotanical reserve:

 Pululahua Geobotanical Reserve

Wildlife refuges
There are 10 National wildlife refuges:

 Pasochoa Wildlife Refuges
 Isla Santa Clara Wildlife Refuges
 Isla Corazón y Fragata Wildlife Refuges
 La Chiquita Wildlife Refuges
 El Zarza Wildlife Refuges
 El Pambilar Wildlife Refuges
 Pacoche Wildlife Refuges
 El Morro Swamps Wildlife Refuges
 Rio Muisne Estuary Swampland Wildlife Refuges
 Rio Esmereldas Estuary Swampland Wildlife Refuges

Private Reserves
In addition to the many National reserves, refuges and parks in Ecuador there are some privately owned and operated reserves and refuges not listed on this page which is exclusively National Parks and other National Ecological Assets.

References

External links 
 Official Map of Ecuador's Protected Areas
 Unofficial Map of Ecuador's National Protected Areas

 
E
National parks
National parks
Nelida Cabigayan

Nelida Cabigayan (a.k.a. Commander Lina) was a member of the New People's Army who fought the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. She was active in NPA for two years in the early 1970s, and became regarded as folk hero. She surrendered in 1974, and act that was considered as a major coup of the Marcos' government.

References

Filipino communists
Filipino rebels
Living people
Women in war in the Philippines
Women in war 1945–1999
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Filipino women politicians
20th-century Filipino politicians
Martin Potter

Martin Potter may refer to:

 Martin Potter (actor) (born 1944), British actor
 Martin Potter (surfer) (born 1965), British/South African surfer
Loch Aline

Loch Aline (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Àlainn) is a small salt water loch home to fish, birds and game, located in Morvern, Lochaber, Scotland. Key features of interest are Kinlochaline Castle, Ardtornish Castle and the Ardtornish estate located at its head.

Lochaline, the main village in Morvern, sits on the north shore, at the mouth of the loch.

External links

The Ardtornish Estate Website

Aline
Morvern
Aline
Aline
Wright (ADL)

In software architecture, Wright is an architecture description language developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Wright formalizes a software architecture in terms of concepts such as components, connectors, roles, and ports. The dynamic behavior of different ports of an individual component is described using the Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) process algebra. The roles that different components interacting through a connector can take are also described using CSP. Due to the formal nature of the behavior descriptions, automatic checks of port/role compatibility, and overall system consistency can be performed.

Wright was principally developed by Robert Allen and David Garlan.

References

External links 
 Wright website at CMU

Software architecture
Formal specification languages
Architecture description language