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Sikinos

Sikinos () is a Greek island and municipality in the Cyclades. It is located midway between the islands of Ios and Folegandros. Sikinos is part of the Thira regional unit.

It was known as Oenoe or Oinoe (, Island of Wine) in Ancient Greece. It contrasts with nearby islands, such as Ios, in being quiet and relatively less developed. There are two villages, "Allopronia" on the south sea side, being the port, and another higher up in the hills being the chora. The chora up on the hills is composed of two settlements adjacent to each other, "Castro" to the west and "Chorio" to the east. There are a handful of tavernas in the chora and harbor. The beach at the harbor is one of two large sandy beaches on the island. Several ancient ruins rest on the island, although some are remote. There are three paved roads, one built to connect to the heliport and the other sandy beach, and there are several well-maintained dirt roads, and seven mapped footpaths. Much of the island is very difficult to access due to the terrain. Nearly all of the island's area is covered by terraces once used for extensive agriculture. Now only a handful are used across the island, most operating on government subsidies. The municipality had 273 inhabitants at the 2011 census. It includes the uninhabited island of Kardiotissa and other uninhabited islets. Its total land area is .

In antiquity, the island contained a town of the same name. It is said to have been originally called Oenoë from its cultivation of the vine, but to have been named Sicinos after a son of Thoas and Oenoe. It was probably colonised by Ionians. Like most of the other Grecian islands, it submitted to Xerxes I in the Greco-Persian Wars, but it afterwards formed part of the Athenian maritime empire. There are some remains of the ancient city situated upon a lofty and rugged mountain.

There is also still extant an ancient temple of the Pythian Apollo, now converted into the church Episkopí (ἡ Ἐπισκοπή). It stands in a depression between the main range of mountains, and the summit lying more to the left, upon which the ruins of the ancient city stand. We learn from an inscription found there by Ross that it was the temple of the Pythian Apollo.The site was visited by the British explorer Theodore Bent and his wife in January 1884. In 2022, the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades was granted the Europa Nostra Award for its work excavating and restoring the monument, now considered a Roman mausoleum and later Byzantine church.

References

External links
Official website 

Cyclades
Municipalities of the South Aegean
Populated places in Thira (regional unit)
Islands of Greece
Landforms of Thira (regional unit)
Islands of the South Aegean
Members of the Delian League
Populated places in the ancient Aegean islands
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Greece
Greek city-states
Bartolomeo Sanvito

Bartolomeo Sanvito (February/March 1433–July 1511) was a scribe from Padua in Italy, but trained in Rome. He was a master of Humanist italic script. Square capital letters alternating colored and gold are a characteristic of his style.

The most detailed account of Sanvito in English is by A. C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: the Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, (Paris: Association internationala de Bibliophilie, 2009). See also James Wardrop, The Script of Humanism: Some Aspects of Humanistic Script 1460 - 1560 (Oxford University Press, 1963), although some information here is outdated.

External links
 Short biography and bibliography, by the Vatican Library

1433 births
1511 deaths
Eschati

Eschati (Εσχάτη) (meaning the last one) is an uninhabited reef which is part of the volcanic Christiana Islands group, lying to southwest of Santorini, in the Cyclades island group in Greece.

References

Cyclades
Islands of the South Aegean
Islands of Greece
Fort Scott National Cemetery

Fort Scott National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Fort Scott, in Bourbon County, Kansas. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses , and as of 2021, had more than 8,000 interments. It is one of three national cemeteries in Kansas (the other two being Fort Leavenworth and Leavenworth).

History 
Fort Scott was established in 1842, on what was known as Military Road, between Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. It was named for Lieutenant General Winfield Scott. During the initial years, a small plot on the west side of the fort was used as a cemetery. In 1861, a new plot was purchased, and named Presbyterian Graveyard as it was maintained by the Presbyterian Church. During the American Civil War, it was used to inter soldiers who died in battles near in the area. The plot and an adjacent tract of land became Fort Scott National Cemetery on November 15, 1862. One of the twelve original United States National Cemeteries designated by Abraham Lincoln, it has the distinction of being listed as U.S. National Cemetery #1.

At the end of the Civil War, the original fort cemetery interments were moved into the National Cemetery, as well, at the close of the Indian Wars, many frontier posts, such as Fort Lincoln, were abandoned and had their cemeteries transferred to Fort Scott.

The cemetery also contains the Commonwealth war graves of two Royal Canadian Air Force officers of World War II.

Fort Scott National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Commemorative monuments

A large sandstone boulder marks the grave of Eugene Fitch Ware, and his wife Jeannette Huntington Ware.  Ware served in the Union Army during the Civil War, eventually reaching the rank of captain.  He was subsequently admitted to the bar, and served two terms in the Kansas state legislature.  He was noted in his time as an author and poet, writing under the pseudonym "Ironquill".  Shortly before his death in 1911, he asked that the boulder, whose natural beauty appealed to him, be used as his grave marker.

A gray granite monument commemorates the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, which was based at Fort Scott during the Civil War.  The regiment was recruited as a Kansas state unit in August 1862, and mustered into federal service in January 1863, following the Emancipation Proclamation.  The monument lists the names of soldiers killed in a May 18, 1863 fight near Sherwood, Missouri.

See also
 United States National Cemetery System

Notes

External links

 Fort Scott National Cemetery – photo tour
 National Cemetery Administration
 Fort Scott National Cemetery
 
 
 
 

Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
Protected areas of Bourbon County, Kansas
Cemeteries in Kansas
United States national cemeteries
Kansas in the American Civil War
Historic American Landscapes Survey in Kansas
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
National Register of Historic Places in Bourbon County, Kansas
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in the United States
Pat Boutette

Patrick Michael Boutette (born March 1, 1952) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Hartford Whalers, and Pittsburgh Penguins between 1975 and 1985. Internationally he played for the Canadian national team at the 1981 World Championships.

Playing career
Born in Windsor, Ontario, Boutette began playing hockey at the University of Minnesota-Duluth from 1970-1973. He would play with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Hartford Whalers, and Pittsburgh Penguins. Boutette retired from the National Hockey League following 752 games, recording 171 goals and 282 assists for 453 points as well as 1354 penalty minutes.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honors

References

External links
 

1952 births
Living people
AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans
Binghamton Whalers players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian ice hockey centres
Franco-Ontarian people
Hartford Whalers players
London Knights players
Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs men's ice hockey players
Oklahoma City Blazers (1965–1977) players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Ice hockey people from Windsor, Ontario
Toronto Maple Leafs draft picks
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Gyali

Gyali ( "glass", also spelled Giali or Yali, pronounced ) is a volcanic Greek island in the Dodecanese, located halfway between the south coast of Kos (Kardamaina) and Nisyros. It consists of rhyolitic obsidian lava domes and pumice deposits (which are mined in huge quantities). No historical eruptions are known, but the most recent pumice eruptions overlie soils containing pottery and obsidian artifacts from the Neolithic period (10,000–4,500 BC). The island has two distinct segments, with the northeastern part almost entirely made of obsidian and the southwestern part of pumice. These are connected by a narrow isthmus and beach made of modern reef sediments. Anciently, the island was known as Istros ().

Geography

The island is  long and between  and  across. It has a  cave. Parts of the island undergoing pumice strip mining are barren of vegetation. The 2001 census reported a resident population of 10 people. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Nisyros.

Settlement 
Occupation at Gyali probably started in the early 4th millennium as a seasonal occupation. One settlement was at the site of 2 Laimos on the coast. Later in the 4th millennium BC, the occupation was at the north-west part of the island. The higher lands on the island were occupied mainly during the winter for cattle grazing.

Islanders were engaged in grain production, and some millstones were found. Large coarse ware pots were used for grain storage. They also practised animal husbandry and milk processing using cheese-pots. They processed obsidian and made pottery.

Early metalworking was practised on the island in the mid-4th millennium BC. Two crucibles with copper adhering have been found. This represents rare evidence for the earliest phase of Aegean metallurgy during the Final Neolithic period. Also one lead rivet has been found.

Yali was abandoned by the end of the 4th millennium BC.

See also
List of volcanoes in Greece

References

External links

Official website of Municipality of Nisyros 

Islands of Greece
Dodecanese
Volcanoes of Greece
Volcanoes of the Aegean
Holocene lava domes
Dormant volcanoes
Landforms of Kos (regional unit)
Islands of the South Aegean
Fuel gas-powered scooter

A fuel gas-powered scooter is a scooter powered by fuel gas. Fuel gases include such fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), compressed natural gas (CNG), biogas and hydrogen (HICE). Hydrogen (hydrogen internal combustion) use in two-wheelers has only recently being started to be looked into, mainly by developing countries, to decrease local pollution at an affordable cost.

Geographical use of fuel-gas scooters and related vehicles
LPG scooters are in use in China and many parts of Southern Asia.

Incentives for using fuel gas in scooters

Fuel costs
Each different fuel comes at a different price. These prices depend on the country, and even differ between gas stations.
Scooter owners may decide to use whatever fuel that is cheapest and which is also locally available.

Petrol bans in cities
Shanghai has banned petrol scooters/mopeds and only allows LPG scooters to be used in the city due to air pollution. About 190,000 gasoline mopeds were eliminated between 2001 and 2004, replaced by 140,000 LPG mopeds as of 2004, at which time the city had over 100 LPG refueling stations. In 1996 the city's 500,000 gasoline mopeds were blamed for one fifth of the air pollution in Shanghai, so in 1997 the city stopped issuing new license plates for them. In 2000, the city stopped renewing plates for existing gasoline mopeds, so all of them expired by 2008.

Low emission zones in cities
Low emission zones are present in many cities. Fuel gases such as hydrogen, CNG, LPG, ... may allow for reaching the appropriate limit to enter the city in which such LEZ's are present (depending on which European emission standard or US emission standard is being used in the LEZ).

Conversion kits for petrol scooters
Petrol-powered scooters can be fitted with a conversion kit. Conversion kits for CNG for example exist for some popular motorcycle models.

See also
 Alternative fuel vehicle
 CNG auto rickshaw
 European emission standards
 Emissions levels of scooters
 Formic acid vehicle: a type of hydrogen-based vehicle
 Emission levels of hydrogen in HICEV's
 International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies
 United States emission standards

Notes

References

 Prospective products
 Motor Scooter Burns LPG Popular Mechanics. 276. December 1955
Green Management . 2005
 Kinetic ropes in Italy's Lovato to manufacture LPG-driven scooter (press release) 16 January 2000
"Indian Co Kinetic Researches Use Of Lpg For Scooter Fuel." (press release) AsiaPulse News 17 Jan. 2000: 470. General OneFile. Web. 12 Apr. 2011.
"India: TVS-Suzuki ready with LPG scooter." (press release) Business Line 1 Sept. 2000: BSLN12636424. General OneFile. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. 
 TVS plans LPG-fuelled scooter Swati Prasad. The Indian Express.  22 July 1999

Existing products

 

Motor scooters
Liquefied petroleum gas
National First Aid Society

National First Aid Society was founded in 1905 by Clara Barton after her resignation from the American Red Cross. Its mission was to promote local first aid programs. It later became part of the American Red Cross.

References

External links
Clara Barton National Historic Site
Remembering and Honoring Clara Barton

American Red Cross
Gemini (Portuguese band)

Gemini was a Portuguese band from the 1970s. The members were Fatima Padinha, Teresa Miguel, Tozé Brito and Mike Sergeant.

In 1977 they participated in the Portuguese national final in order to represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Portugal no coração". The song won. However, every song was sung by two performers, and the audience preferred Os Amigos over Gemini. Toze Brito and Mike Sergeant had previously been in the grupo Quarteto IIII in the Portuguese National Finals.

They won the national final in 1978 with the song "Dai li dou". However, they only reached the 17th position.

Teresa and Fatima would represent Portugal once more in 1982 in the band Doce.

Discography

LPS
Pensando em Ti (LP, 1977)
Dai Li Dou (LP, 1979)
Os Maiores Êxitos dos Gemini (LP, Polygram)

Singles
Pensando Em Ti / Pequenas Coisas (Single, Polygram, 1976)
Portugal No Coração / Cantiga de Namorar (Single, Polygram, 1977)
Uma Flor À Janela/Vidas Fáceis (Single, Polygram, 1977)
É Natal, Feliz Natal / Natal de Um Homem Só (Single, Polygram, 1977)
O Circo E A Cidade / Ano Novo é Vida Nova (Single, Polygram, 1978)
Dai Li Dou / Gente Lá da Minha Rua (Single, Polygram, 1978)
Dancemos Juntos / O Tempo E O Nada (Single, Polygram, 197*)
Quero Abraçar-te Sexta-Feira à Noite (Single, Polygram, 1979)

Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Portugal
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1978
Portuguese pop music groups
Pak Doo-ik

Pak Doo-ik (Chosungul: 박두익; Hanja: 朴斗翼; born 17 December 1943) is a North Korean former football player. He is well known for being the footballer who scored the goal which knocked out Italy from the group stage of the 1966 World Cup.

Career
Pak Doo-ik was born in Pyongyang. He represented North Korea at the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England, scoring the winning goal in their 1–0 win over Italy at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough, a game since documented in the film The Game of Their Lives by British filmmaker Daniel Gordon.

The result is still considered one of the World Cup's biggest ever upsets, with Italy – holders of a then joint-record two world titles – having been widely expected to face no difficulty in comfortably beating North Korea, who were making their tournament debut.

Drawn in a group with Italy, Chile and the USSR, the North Koreans were based in the north-eastern English industrial town of Middlesbrough during the tournament, playing their matches at Ayresome Park stadium. After a 0–3 defeat against the USSR, their courageous and spirited display in an exciting 1–1 draw against Chile won the hearts of the local people. Their surprising win against the powerful Italians further cemented their popularity in the town. Pak, speaking in 2002 on a return to Middlesbrough with the surviving members of the 1966 North Korea team, recalled that "It was the day I learnt football is not all about winning. I learnt that playing football can improve diplomatic relations and promote peace."

After the victory, Pak, who was, at the time, a corporal in the North Korean army, was promoted to sergeant.

An original ticket to the match is on display among other historical football items at the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich.

Although the North Koreans – having led 3–0 – eventually lost 3–5 to Portugal in their quarter-final match played at Goodison Park stadium in Liverpool, they did so cheered on by 3,000 fans from Middlesbrough who had made the coast-to-coast journey of 150 miles to support them. Pak and his team-mates had made their mark on a town and a region, and written their names into World Cup folklore.

After the championship, Pak left the military and retired from football and became a gymnastics instructor. An Italian urban legend that persisted for a long time in the press had it that Pak was a dentist, although this was not the case.

Ayresome Park stadium was demolished in 1997 and a housing estate was built on the site. In honour of the famous goal, in the front garden of one new house were permanently placed cast-iron football boot stud marks in the earth, at the exact position of Pak Doo-ik's feet when he scored against Italy with his shot from the edge of the penalty area.

During the 2008 Olympic torch relay in Pyongyang, he was the first to carry the Olympic torch.

References

 

1942 births
Living people
Men's association football forwards
North Korean men's footballers
North Korea men's international footballers
1966 FIFA World Cup players
Moranbong Sports Club players
Footballers from Pyongyang
North Korean football managers
North Korean military personnel
People's Athletes
The Plague Lords of Ruel

The Plague Lords of Ruel is the thirteenth book in the award-winning Lone Wolf book series created by Joe Dever.  This is the first book in the "Grand Master" series, in which Lone Wolf founds a new order of the Kai.  Starting from this book, the remaining books which were published in the US were abridged versions with a reduced number of sections.

Gameplay

Lone Wolf books rely on a combination of thought and luck. Certain statistics such as combat skill and endurance attributes are determined randomly before play. The player is then allowed to choose Grandmaster Kai disciplines and a selection of Dessi and Crystal Star magics. This number depends directly on how many books in the series have been completed ("Grandmaster rank"). With each additional book completed, the player chooses one additional discipline. The Grandmaster series is different from any in the previous series of books because it gives Lone Wolf spells to use which grow more numerous as his Grandmaster Rank increases.

Plot

After the events of the previous series of books, Lone Wolf has taken up training new Kai recruits, and under his tutelage, the Kai have been re-founded.  Even though peace reigns for the moment, chaos is once again poised to unfold, as a group of Cenerese druids plot to unleash a massive plague upon all of Magnamund.  Lone Wolf and the reader must find the source of this plague and destroy it before it can be released.

External links
Gamebooks - Lone Wolf
Gamebooks - The Plague Lords of Ruel
Project Aon - The Plague Lords of Ruel

1990 fiction books
Lone Wolf (gamebooks)
Berkley Books books
Business diagram

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Flowcharts: Basic flowchart, Audit Flowcharts, Cause-Effect (Fishbone) Diagrams, cross-functional vertical and horizontal diagrams, data flow diagrams, opportunity flowchart, workflow diagram
Organizational Charts (Org charts)
Project management: Gantt chart, Project Schedules, PERT Charts, Calendar, Timelines
Comparison charts
Block diagrams and Bar Charts
Venn diagrams, other marketing diagrams
Business Processes
IDEF0 Diagram
TQM Diagram
The Captives of Kaag

The Captives of Kaag is the fourteenth book in the Lone Wolf book series created by Joe Dever.  As with most of the later books in the series, this one is illustrated by Brian Williams.

Gameplay

Lone Wolf books rely on a combination of thought and luck. Certain statistics such as combat skill and endurance attributes are determined randomly before play. The player is then allowed to choose Grandmaster Kai disciplines and a selection of Dessi and Crystal Star magics. This number depends directly on how many books in the series have been completed ("Grandmaster rank"). With each additional book completed, the player chooses one additional discipline. The Grandmaster series is different from any in the previous series of books because it gives Lone Wolf spells to use which grow more numerous as his Grandmaster Rank increases.

Plot

Three months after the events of The Plague Lords of Ruel, Lone Wolf learns that his friend, Guildmaster Banedon, has been abducted by a band of Giaks under the command of Nadziranim sorcerers.  It is theorized that they are planning to torture him to extract magical techniques which can be united with their own dark sorcery.  Lone Wolf and the reader must venture to Kaag, where Banedon is held, and attempt a rescue before he meets his demise, or worse, yields the coveted magical secrets of left-handed magic.

External links
Gamebooks - Lone Wolf
Gamebooks - The Captives of Kaag
Project Aon - The Captives of Kaag

1991 fiction books
Lone Wolf (gamebooks)
Berkley Books books
Doce

Doce was a Portuguese female band from the 1980s. It was one of the first girl bands in Europe.

The girls took part in the Portuguese national final in order to represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 with the song "Doce" ("Sweet"), but came second, and in 1981 with the song "Ali-Bábá, um homem das Arábias" ("Ali Baba, a man of the Arabias"), reaching 4th place in the national final. One year later, they won with "Bem bom" ("Very good") and went on the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 to reach the 13th position. There is also an English version of this song, called "Bim Bom", as well as a Spanish version, called "Bingo".

The members were Laura Diogo, Lena Coelho (who later also became an actress), Fátima Padinha (first wife of Pedro Passos Coelho), and Teresa Miguel. Those last two were the female half of the band Gemini who represented Portugal in 1978. Fernanda da Sousa, who would later have notable success in Portugal as Ágata, temporarily replaced Coelho during the latter's pregnancy in 1985 and then replaced Padinha after her departure in the same year.

Discography 
Source:

Albums 

OK KO (LP, Polygram, 1980)
É Demais (LP, Polygram, 1981)

Singles 

"Amanhã de Manhã/Depois de Ti" (Single, Polygram, 1980)
"Doce/Um Beijo Só" (Single, Polygram, 1980)
"OK KO/Doce Caseiro" (Single, Polygram, 1980)
"Ali-Bábá (Um Homem das Arábias)/Jingle Tónico" (Single, Polygram, 1981)
"É Demais/Dói-dói" (Single, Polygram, 1981)
"Bem Bom/Perfumada" (Single, Polygram, 1982)
"For The Love Of Conchita/Choose Again" (Single, Polygram, 1983)
"Starlight/Stepping Stone" (Single, Polygram, 1983)
"Quente, Quente, Quente/Eu e o meu namorado" (Single, Polygram, 1984)
"O Barquinho da Esperança/A história do barquinho" (Single, Polygram, 1984)
“Bem Bom“ (CD, Universal Music Portugal, 2003)

The Compilations 
Doce 1979-1987  (Compilation, Polygram, 1986)
15 anos Depois (Compilation, Universal, 2002), CD
Docemania (Compilation, Universal, 2003), CD/Comp
A Arte E A Música (Compilation, Universal Music Portugal, 2004) CD/Comp
Bandas Míticas || Volume 24 (Compilation, Levoir, 2011) CD/Comp
Os Maiores Êxitos Das Doce (Compilation, Lisbon Records, N.D) LP/Album/Comp

References

Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Portugal
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1982
Portuguese girl groups
Portuguese musical groups
Wilbur Cush

Wilbur W. Cush (10 June 1928 – 28 July 1981) was a Northern Irish football striker.

Billy Cush represented Northern Ireland at the 1958 World Cup, scoring the winning goal in their first ever final stages World Cup match, a 1–0 win over Czechoslovakia in Sweden.

He started his career in his native Northern Ireland with Glenavon F.C. In 1951/52 he helped Glenavon become the first club from outside of Belfast to win the Irish League and 5 years later followed it up with a second league title.  In 1956/57, he was named as the Ulster Footballer of the Year. He moved to Leeds United in 1957 and took over the captaincy from recently departed Leeds legend John Charles. Cush was a very versatile player who could play at centre-back and centre-forward. His performances at Elland Road earned him his call up to Northern Ireland for the 1958 World Cup. Overall at Leeds he made 90 appearances and scored 9 goals. In 1960 he moved to Portadown F.C. later moving back to his first club, Glenavon F.C., as a player and later a coach. With his football career over, Wilbur became a butcher in Lurgan. He died in 1981.

Wilbur Cush was also a platoon Sergeant in the Ulster Special Constabulary. He served in Lurgan (J division County Armagh) and The Birches station County Armagh. He received the USC Long Service Medal.

See also
Ulster Footballer of the Year

References

External links
 
 Profile`

1928 births
1981 deaths
Association footballers from County Armagh
NIFL Premiership players
Northern Ireland men's international footballers
Ulster Footballers of the Year
1958 FIFA World Cup players
Glenavon F.C. players
Leeds United F.C. players
Portadown F.C. players
Sportspeople from Lurgan
Men's association football wing halves
Pracs Institute

PRACS Institute, Ltd., established in 1983, is a company that tests new or developing types of medicine. Its CEO is Dr. James Carlson, a former pharmacy professor at North Dakota State University.  The company currently has locations in East Grand Forks, Minnesota and Fargo, North Dakota.

In February 2006, PRACS announced it would become a wholly owned subsidiary of Contract Research Solutions (CRS).  CRS was formed as a holding company by investors, including Carlson and two others: KRG Capital Partners, and the Weinberg & Bell Group.  In August 2006, CRS announced the acquisition of Gateway Medical Research, a St. Louis-based competitor of PRACS.  CRS also announced in late 2006 that it had acquired Ba Research International of Houston, TX.  The three companies (PRACS, Gateway and Ba) will combine their operations under the name Cetero Research.

On October 5, 2006, Dr. Carlson announced a $1 million pledge to the city of Fargo towards the construction of a new branch of the city's public library.  The project (with a total cost of $2.5 million) will be named the "Dr. James D. Carlson Library".

On March 20, 2013, PRACS laid off its employees in Fargo, St. Louis, and Toronto after filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy.

External links
PRACS Institute website
Gateway Medical Research website
Ba Research website
Cetero website

References

Companies based in Fargo–Moorhead
Fargo–Moorhead
Fort Smith National Cemetery

Fort Smith National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Garland Avenue and Sixth Street in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It encompasses , and as of the end of 2005, had 13,127 interments.

History 
Fort Smith was a frontier fort first established in 1817, by Maj. William Bradford as a post to prevent hostilities between the Cherokees and the Osage. Despite the strategic importance of the post, the army closed it after a severe outbreak of disease which had taken the lives of several of the men stationed there by 1824. The initial interments were made in the area during this time.

In 1838, a new fort was constructed on the site, including an officer's quarters where General Zachary Taylor lived from 1841 until 1845. At this time, the original post cemetery was repaired, expanded, and improved.

On April 23, 1861, as the American Civil War was beginning, the post was abandoned by the U.S. Army forces stationed there; it was then subsequently occupied by a Confederate garrison. During this occupation, nearly 400 Confederate soldiers died and were buried at the fort's cemetery. On September 1, 1863, the fort was then retaken by Union forces. In 1867, the post cemetery officially became a National Cemetery when many of the remains from soldiers who had been interred on nearby battlefields were exhumed and reinterred at Fort Smith. The cemetery includes more than 1,400 unmarked graves, many of them of Union and Confederate soldiers.

Noteworthy monuments 
 A memorial to Unknown Confederate Dead, made of marble. It also commemorates Brigadier General James M. McIntosh, who died at the Battle of Pea Ridge and Brigadier General Alexander E. Steen, who was killed at the Battle of Prairie Grove.
 A Vietnam Veterans memorial, constructed of granite and bronze, erected in 1998.

Notable interments 

 W.H.H. Clayton (1840–1920), lawyer and judge in post-Civil War Arkansas
 Brigadier General William Orlando Darby (1911–1945), World War II veteran, leader of Darby's Rangers
 Jack Fleck (1921–2014), World War II Navy veteran and professional golfer
 Richard C. Gatlin (1809–1896), Civil War Confederate general
 James M. McIntosh (1828–1862), Civil War Confederate brigadier general
 Isaac C. Parker (1838–1896), U.S. representative, frontier judge known as "The Hanging Judge"
 Hal Smith (1931–2014), United States Air Force veteran and MLB catcher
 Alexander E. Steen (1827–1862), Missouri State Guard (Confederate) general

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Sebastian County, Arkansas
 List of cemeteries in Arkansas

References

External links 
 National Cemetery Administration
 Fort Smith National Cemetery
 Fort Smith National Cemetery List of Burials
 
 
 

Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Historic American Landscapes Survey in Arkansas
Buildings and structures in Fort Smith, Arkansas
Culture of Fort Smith, Arkansas
United States national cemeteries
Arkansas in the American Civil War
Protected areas of Sebastian County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Sebastian County, Arkansas
Cemeteries established in the 1860s
The Darke Crusade

The Darke Crusade is the fifteenth book in the Lone Wolf book series created by Joe Dever and now illustrated by Brian Williams.

Gameplay

Lone Wolf books rely on a combination of thought and luck. Certain statistics such as combat skill and endurance attributes are determined randomly before play. The player is then allowed to choose Grandmaster Kai disciplines and a selection of Dessi and Crystal Star magics. This number depends directly on how many books in the series have been completed ("Grandmaster rank"). With each additional book completed, the player chooses one additional discipline. The Grandmaster series is different from any in the previous series of books because it gives Lone Wolf spells to use which grow more numerous as his Grandmaster Rank increases.

Plot

Once more, Lone Wolf's help is sought by a monarch, this time King Sarnac of Lencia.  While battling the Drakkarim under control of Magnaarn, the High Warlord of Darke, the Lencians have discovered that Magnaarn seeks an ancient artifact, the Doomstone of Darke.  It is feared that he is close to discovering this artifact, and with it, the power to rally the Nadziranim sorcerers and other Darklord allies against Lencia.  Lone Wolf and the reader take up the cause of Lencia to thwart Magnaarn's aims.

External links
Gamebooks - Lone Wolf
Gamebooks - The Darke Crusade
Project Aon - The Darke Crusade

1991 fiction books
Lone Wolf (gamebooks)
Berkley Books books
26th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 26th Armoured Brigade was part of the British Army during the Second World War.

History
This brigade was converted from the British 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade on 12 October 1940. It served with British 6th Armoured Division during the North African Campaign and then through the Italian Campaign. During this time it was briefly attached to the British 4th Infantry Division and the British 78th Infantry Division.

Commanders
Brigadier Charles Anderson Lane Dunphie 1942−1943
Brigadier Philip George Bradley Roberts March−June 1943
Brigadier Richard Amyatt Hull June−December 1943
Brigadier Francis Mitchell January 1944−July 1945
Brigadier David Dawnay August 1945−1946

Units
 16th/5th Lancers
 17th/21st Lancers
 2nd Lothians and Border Horse
 4th Queen's Own Hussars
 10th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Tower Hamlets Rifles)
 1st Battalion The King's Royal Rifle Corps
165th Light Field Ambulance
B/72 Anti Tank Regiment
8 Field Squadron Royal Engineers
C Squadron 1 Derby Yeomanry
1 Guards Brigade
153 Light Anti-Aircraft Battery

See also

 British Armoured formations of World War II
 List of British brigades of the Second World War

References

External links
 
 History of Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry

Armoured brigades of the British Army
Military units and formations established in 1940
Armoured brigades of the British Army in World War II
Seriefrämjandet

Seriefrämjandet (literally the promotion of comics, but internationally, the name The Swedish Comics Association is generally used) is a Swedish association for everybody with an interest in comics, founded in 1968 by Henri Holmgren, Janne Lundström and Sture Hegerfors. The association acts to promote the status of the medium as a means of expression, and to increase the knowledge of the characteristics of the medium. With government funding, Seriefrämjandet has started Svenskt Seriearkiv, an archive devoted to preservering and documenting the history of the Swedish comics business. In 2005, Seriefrämjandet opened Seriecenter (literally Comics Centre) in Malmö, with offices, exhibition space and small studio for creators. The association also has local chapters in several major cities.

The association produces Bild & Bubbla (literally Image & Balloon), a quarterly magazine about comics aimed at both creators and fans. Seriefrämjandet also publishes books about comics, and even an own imprint of comics set in a rural environment, "Lantis".

Since 1987, Seriefrämjandet presents an annual award, the Urhunden Prizes, to one Swedish and one foreign work of art.

Since the summer of 2005, Seriefrämjandet runs Seriewikin, a Swedish language wiki about comics.

Seriefrämjandet's current chairman is Fredrik Strömberg, who is also a well-respected journalist specializing in comics, published both domestically and internationally.

See also
Adamson Awards

External links
Official Site (Swedish)
Seriewikin (Swedish)

1968 establishments in Sweden
Cultural organizations based in Sweden
Swedish comics
Organizations established in 1968
Pharasmanes I of Iberia

Pharasmanes I () (died 58) was a king of Iberia. He plays a prominent role in the historian Tacitus’ account of policy and campaigns in the eastern lands of the Roman Empire under Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero. According to Cyril Toumanoff, Pharasmanes was a member of the third Pharnavazid dynasty and reigned from 1 to 58. Pharasmanes is mentioned on the Stele of Vespasian. During his reign, Iberia was transformed into the Transcaucasian empire, that would dominate the kingdoms of Armenia and Albania.

Life
As allies of Rome, his brother Mithridates was installed as king of Armenia by Roman emperor Tiberius, who invaded Armenia in 35. When the Parthian prince Orodes, son of Artabanus II of Parthia, attempted to dispossess Mithridates of his newly acquired kingdom, Pharasmanes led a large Iberian army and defeated the Parthians in a pitched battle (Tacitus, Annals. vi. 32–35). Pharasmanes personally smashed Orod's helmet with one blow: Orod galloped off, and the rumours of his death demoralized the Parthians.

Around 52, Pharasmanes instigated his son, Rhadamistus, whose ambitious and aspiring character began to give him umbrage, to make war upon his uncle Mithridates, and supported him in his enterprise. After a short reign, Rhadamistus was in turn expelled by the Parthians in 55, and took refuge again in his father's dominions. The Romans had expressed their displeasure at the proceedings of Rhadamistus, and in order to curry their favor, Pharasmanes put his son to death. Pharasmanes was apparently succeeded by Mithridates (Mihrdat) I.

Family
At an unknown date, Pharasmanes married an unnamed Armenian princess of the Artaxiad dynasty. She was the daughter of the Artaxiad Armenian monarchs Tigranes IV and his sister-wife Erato. His Armenian wife bore him three sons: Mithridates I (Mihrdat), Rhadamistus, and Amazaspus (Amazasp), who is known from the Epigram of Amazaspos found in Rome.

Diarchy
Toumanoff has tentatively suggested the identification of Pharasmanes with the Aderki (or Rok) of the medieval Georgian chronicles whose reign is said to have coincided with the appearance of the first Christian communities in Iberia, and the travel of the Jews from Mtskheta to Jerusalem whence they witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus and brought the Holy Tunic to Iberia. According to the Georgian chronicles, Aderki's division of his kingdom between his two sons, Kartam (Kardzam) and Bartom (Bratman), inaugurated the start of dyarchy in Iberia which would last for five generations. Many modern scholars, however, doubt the existence of the diarchy, for the contemporary foreign source make references only to sole monarch.

See also
 War between Armenia and Iberia

References

Bibliography 

58 deaths
1st-century BC births 
1st-century monarchs in Asia
1st-century monarchs in Europe 
Filicides
Pharnavazid kings of Iberia
Roman client monarchs
Year of birth unknown
Moshe Halberstam

Rabbi Moshe Halberstam (April 1, 1932 – April 26, 2006) was the son of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam of Tschakava, a scion of the Sanz dynasty, and of the daughter of Rabbi Sholom Moskowitz of Shotz of London. 

He was the Rosh Yeshivah of the Tschakava Yeshivah in Jerusalem and one of the most prominent members of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical court of Jerusalem. He was known as a well-versed Torah scholar and a decisor of Halachic law. He wrote approbations to many works of Torah literature.

Rabbi Halberstam served at the President of Hatzolah Israel. He was also the Rabbi of the Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. He was known for his tolerance towards other streams of thought in Orthodox Judaism. Despite his own Chareidi anti-Zionist background, he also maintained contacts with Modern Orthodox, Religious Zionist leaders.

He was buried in the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem.

External links
 News report Arutz Sheva
 Obituary

Hasidic rosh yeshivas
Hasidic rabbis in Israel
1932 births
2006 deaths
Rabbis of the Edah HaChareidis
Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives
Geomagnetic latitude

Geomagnetic latitude, or magnetic latitude (MLAT), is a parameter analogous to geographic latitude, except that, instead of being defined relative to the geographic poles, it is defined by the axis of the geomagnetic dipole, which can be accurately extracted from the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF).

See also
 Earth's magnetic field
 Geomagnetic equator
 Ionosphere
 L-shell
 Magnetosphere
 World Magnetic Model (WMM)

References

External links
 Space Weather: Maps of Geomagnetic Latitude (Northwest Research Associates)
 Tips on Viewing the Aurora (SWPC)
 Magnetic Field Calculator (NCEI)
 Ionospheric Electrodynamics Using Magnetic Apex Coordinates (Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity)

Geomagnetism
Geographic coordinate systems
Fleisher Yarn

Fleisher Yarn began as an amateur company soccer club of the SB & BW Fleisher Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia and quickly became a national amateur soccer power. They won the Philadelphia Industrial League championship in 1920/21, both the Allied Amateur Cup of Philadelphia and Philadelphia's Telegraph Cup in 1922, a "quadruple" in 1923 winning the Allied Amateur League, the Allied Amateur League Cup, the Allied Amateur Cup, and the American Cup (the last by defeating the professional J&P Coats of the American Soccer League), and the inaugural National Amateur Cup.

Fleisher became a professional team and joined the American Soccer League in 1924. After one mediocre season the club folded.

Year-by-year

References

Soccer clubs in Philadelphia
Defunct soccer clubs in Pennsylvania
American Soccer League (1921–1933) teams
1925 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
Association football clubs disestablished in 1925
Works soccer clubs in the United States
Icebound (novel)

Icebound is a novel written by Dean Koontz. The book was originally published in 1976 under the title Prison of Ice under Koontz's pseudonym David Axton, and was revised and re-released as Icebound in 1995.

Plot summary
The plot concerns a group of international scientists working for the project of towing an iceberg to be used as relief for droughts.  It is headed up by the husband and wife team of Rita and Harold (Harry) Carpenter. Rita secretly suffers from the fear of cold, ice and snow.  Due to an unexpected storm, the scientists become stranded on the iceberg with bombs ticking under them.  If they do not find a way out, they will perish.  A Russian submarine is trying to rescue them, but the rescue is complicated by the ice.  Meanwhile, another problem arises.  One of the crew members is secretly an assassin with an agenda of his own.

Critical reception

External links
Icebound book review

American thriller novels
1995 American novels
Novels by Dean Koontz
Novels set in the Arctic
Works published under a pseudonym
Ballantine Books books
Psychological thriller novels
Myadestes

Myadestes is a genus of solitaires, medium-sized mostly insectivorous birds in the thrush family, Turdidae.

They are found in the Americas and Hawaii, where several island species have become extinct.

Taxonomy
The genus Myadestes was introduced in 1838 by the English naturalist William Swainson to accommodate a single species, the rufous-throated solitaire, which is therefore the type species of the genus. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek mua meaning "fly" and edestēs meaning "eater".

The genus contains 12 species:

 Brown-backed solitaire, Myadestes occidentalis Stejneger, 1882 – northwest Mexico to Honduras
 Slate-colored solitaire, Myadestes unicolor Sclater, PL, 1857 – south Mexico to Nicaragua
 Townsend's solitaire, Myadestes townsendi (Audubon, 1838) – west Canada to central Mexico
 † Kamao, Myadestes myadestinus (Stejneger, 1887) – Kauai (Hawaiian Islands, extinct)
 Puaiohi, Myadestes palmeri (Rothschild, 1893) – Kauai (Hawaiian Islands)
 Oloma'o, Myadestes lanaiensis (Wilson, SB, 1891) – Hawaiian Islands
 ʻŌmaʻo, Myadestes obscurus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) – Hawaii (Hawaiian Islands)
 Cuban solitaire, Myadestes elisabeth (Lembeye, 1850) – Cuba
 Rufous-throated solitaire, Myadestes genibarbis Swainson, 1838 – West Indies
 Black-faced solitaire, Myadestes melanops Salvin, 1865 – Costa Rica and Panama
 Varied solitaire, Myadestes coloratus Nelson, 1912 – Panama
 Andean solitaire, Myadestes ralloides (d'Orbigny, 1840) – north Venezuela to west Bolivia

References

 
Bird genera

Taxa named by William John Swainson
Geocast

Geocast refers to the delivery of information to a subset of destinations in a wireless peer-to-peer network identified by their geographical locations. It is  used by some mobile ad hoc network routing protocols, but not applicable to Internet routing.

Geographic addressing

A geographic destination address is expressed in three ways: point, circle (with center point and radius), and polygon (a list of points, e.g., P(1), P(2), ..., P(n–1), P(n)). A geographic router (Geo Router) calculates its service area (geographic area it serves) as the union of the geographic areas covered by the networks attached to it. This service area is approximated by a single closed polygon. Geo Routers exchange service area polygons to build routing tables. The routers are organized in a hierarchy.

Applications
Geographic addressing and routing has many potential applications in geographic messaging, geographic advertising, delivery of geographically restricted services, and presence discovery of a service or mobile network participant in a limited geographic area (see Navas, Imieliński, 'GeoCast - Geographic Addressing and Routing'.)

See also
Abiding Geocast / Stored Geocast

References

External links
 RFC 2009 GPS-Based Addressing and Routing
 A Survey of Geocast Routing Protocols
 Efficient Point to Multipoint Transfers Across Datacenters

Ad hoc routing protocols
Lametasaurus

Lametasaurus ( - meaning "Lameta lizard") named for the Lameta Formation, Jabalpur, India, is the generic name given to a possibly chimeric dinosaur species.

History of discovery
Between October 1917 and 1919 Charles Alfred Matley excavated fossils near Jabalpur. In 1921 he reported the find in the "Carnosaur Bed" of what he considered to be two megalosaurians, theropod dinosaurs. In 1923/1924 he named one of these as the type species Lametasaurus indicus. The generic name refers to the Lameta Formation, dating from the Maastrichtian, the specific name refers to India. However, Matley no longer identified it as a theropod but as a member of the Stegosauria instead, which concept at the time also included the armoured dinosaurs today assigned to the Ankylosauria; at first Matley had seen it as a stegosaurian in the modern sense and even intended to name it as a species of Omosaurus. The type specimen consisted of a number of dermal scutes, a sacrum of at least five sacral vertebrae, a pelvis, a tibia and teeth. In 1933 Matley and Friedrich von Huene described some more remains collected by Barnum Brown, thought to have been part of a tail club; later this was shown to be a large osteoderm.

However, in 1935 Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti contested the interpretation as an armoured dinosaur. He claimed that the specimen was a chimera including titanosaurid armor, crocodile teeth and theropod hindlimb material. In 1964 Alick Walker chose the scutes as the lectotype, thus removing the teeth and the bones from the type material. The name Lametasaurus now designated the scutes only and was generally considered to represent a member of the Nodosauridae. The pelvis and hindlimb bones have in 2003 been suggested to belong to Rajasaurus, based on shared features in the . In 2008 Matthew Carrano e.a. discarded the possibility the scutes were ankylosaurian, stating they were probably titanosaurian, but noted that a comparison to the osteoderms of Ceratosaurus would help in determining its affinities. If in which case the species were to be found ceratosaurian, it would possibly be a senior synonym of Indosaurus and/or Rajasaurus. Most recently, it has been suggested that some of the osteoderms assigned to Lametasaurus show ankylosaurian synapomorphies, which renders Lametasaurus a chimera regardless of the affinities of the other material. 

The type material has been lost, lacking a known inventory number, making it difficult to test the several hypotheses. The taxon is today commonly seen as a nomen dubium.

Notes

External links
Dinosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide
http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicTaxonInfo&taxon_no=57450

Invalid dinosaurs
Late Cretaceous dinosaurs
Dinosaurs of India and Madagascar
Paleontological chimeras
Taxa named by Charles Alfred Matley
Fossil taxa described in 1923