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2,100 | Waterberg dwarf gecko | The Waterberg dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus waterbergensis) is a species of gecko endemic to Limpopo in South Africa. References Category:Lygodactylus Category:Reptiles described in 1992 |
2,101 | Greene, North Dakota | Greene is an unincorporated community in Renville County in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Greene was a stop on the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, but now the line is operated by the Northern Plains Railroad. The town was once booming, with many homes, and possibly even a hotel. As of 2016, however, only a single grain elevator, and a few occupied homes remained. References Category:Unincorporated communities in North Dakota Category:Renville County, North Dakota |
2,102 | Ciss | Ciss is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amadou Ciss (born 1999), Senegalese footballer who plays for Fortuna Sittard Elhadji Ciss (born 1994), Senegalese footballer who plays for Sion Khadija Ciss (born 1983), Senegalese swimmer Saliou Ciss (born 1989), Senegalese football player who plays for Valenciennes |
2,103 | Olympic Stadium (Grenoble) | Olympic Stadium, also known as Opening Stadium, was a temporary stadium in Grenoble, France. Built to only host the opening ceremonies for the 1968 Winter Olympics, the stadium was immediately disassembled following the games. The stadium held 60,000 spectators. References 1968 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 86–7. Further information on stadium External links I.N.A.: Video in technicolor of opening ceremony, Grenoble, 1968 (french) Life: Images from 1968 Opening Ceremony Category:Venues of the 1968 Winter Olympics Category:Sports venues in Grenoble Category:Olympic stadiums Category:Defunct sports venues in France Category:Sports venues completed in 1968 Category:Sports venues demolished in 1968 Category:Demolished buildings and structures in France |
2,104 | Container Corporation of America | Container Corporation of America (CCA) was founded in 1926 and manufactured corrugated boxes. In 1968 CCA merged with Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc., becoming MARCOR. MARCOR maintained separate management for the operations of each company, but had a joint board of directors. In 1986, Mobil Corporation, which had bought MARCOR in the early 1970s, sold the CCA company to the Jefferson Smurfit Corporation, which merged with the Stone Container Corporation in 1998 to become part of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation. Under the leadership of Walter Paepcke, CCA was a patron of graphic arts and design. The company amassed a collection of art works which eventually found their way to the National Museum of American Art. In the late 1940s, CCA commissioned Herbert Bayer to create a World Geo-Graphic Atlas which was distributed free to more than 150 colleges and universities. A review described it as the "handsomest and best atlas ever published in America." The Container Corporation of America headquarters were located in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. References External links 1995 Superfund penalty (U.S. Department of Justice) TIME magazine article, 1961 Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1926 Category:American companies established in 1926 Category:Manufacturing companies based in St. Louis Category:Privately held companies based in Missouri Category:Packaging companies of the United States Category:1998 mergers and acquisitions |
2,105 | Francis Sanford | Francis Ariioehau Sanford (May 11, 1912 – December 21, 1996) was a French Polynesian politician. He served as a member of the French National Assembly from 1967 until 1978. Early life Sanford was born in Papeete and had an American grandfather. He initially worked in the docks, before becoming a waiter and then a teacher. After 1932, he became a civil servant, becoming Station chief in the Gambier Islands. In 1939 he married Elisa Snow, with whom he had five children. During World War II he rallied the "Free French" and acted as liaison officer to the Americans in Bora Bora. After the war he returned to education, working as a teacher in Bora Bora. In 1956 he was appointed Director of Primary Education in the French Polynesian government. Political career In 1965 Sanford was elected mayor of Faa'a. In the 1967 elections to the French National Assembly, he was elected as the French Polynesian deputy, defeating incumbent MP John Teariki by 13,633 votes to 13,285. In the National Assembly he initially joined the Independent Republicans, before switching to the Progress and Modern Democracy group following the 1968 elections. He later joined the Reformist Movement after its foundation in 1972. He remained a member of the National Assembly until 1978, and later served as President of French Polynesia's Council of Government. He was also the founder of the Aia Api party. He retired from politics in 1985. References Category:1912 births Category:People from Papeete Category:French Polynesian educators Category:French Polynesian civil servants Category:Mayors of places in French Polynesia Category:Members of the National Assembly (France) Category:Aia Api politicians Category:1996 deaths |
2,106 | Bernice Morton | Bernice Morton (born 9 April 1969) she is a Saint Kitts and Nevis athlete. She was part of the first ever team to represent Saint Kitts and Nevis at the Olympic Games when she competed at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in the 4 x 100 metres relay, but the team failed to finish so didn't qualify for the next round. References Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis female sprinters Category:Olympic athletes of Saint Kitts and Nevis Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games competitors for Saint Kitts and Nevis Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics |
2,107 | Biro Jade | Nilson Machado dos Santos (born 24 January 1973), commonly known as Biro Jade, was a Brazil born, Azerbaijani futsal player who plays for Araz Naxçivan as a field player. He won Golden Boot award as join top scorer with five goals in UEFA European Futsal Championship 2010. He is now an assistant manager in Azerbaijan national futsal team. Honours European Futsal Golden Boot winner: (2010) References Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:Azerbaijani men's futsal players Category:Uragan Ivano-Frankivsk players |
2,108 | George S. Brooks | George Sprague Brooks (1895–1961) was a playwright, author, editor and lecturer whose work appeared frequently in the Saturday Evening Post. Early life Born February 7, 1895 in Pearl Creek, Wyoming County, New York, George S. Brooks was the great-great-grandson of Revolutionary War brigadier general and chaplain David Brooks. George S. Brooks attended Middleburg Academy, Salt Lake Collegiate Institute and the high school at Warsaw, New York. He then attended University of Rochester in fall 1931. He was friends with classics scholar James Marshall Campbell. The two had youthful plans of building a law practice together, but when Brooks failed the freshman English course he withdrew from college and pursued other career paths. World War I service In 1914, he attempted to enlist in the Canadian Army. However, he was deported back to the US for making a false declaration of citizenship. When the US entered World War I, he enlisted in 302nd Ammunition Train with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas, and became what is otherwise known as a "doughboy". He saw action in the Chateau-Thierry offensive, the Aisne offensive, and the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Brooks was one of a group of 249 American soldiers—both officers and enlisted men—who briefly attended the University of Poitiers as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front. The University of Poitiers is one of France's oldest universities, founded in 1431. The Poitiers group was part of a larger experiment involving soldier-students at 15 other French universities as well as the Universities of London, Edinburgh, Oxford, and Cambridge. The experiment foreshadows later efforts on behalf of veterans' education such as the G.I. Bill of 1944 and subsequent programs. Career in journalism After Poitiers, he held eleven different newspaper jobs before returning to Rochester. In 1922 he became a reporter for the Rochester Herald until 1925. Here he began collaborating on fiction pieces with correspondent and sketch-writer Henry Clune. S. S. McClure was impressed by Brooks’ Herald articles invited him to New York. Brooks became managing editor of McClure's. When the publication was bought by the Hearst Corporation, Brooks resigned. He became managing editor of Shrine Magazine. Whilst in New York, Brooks renewed his acquaintance with Walter Lister, the city editor of the New York Evening Post. With Lister, Brooks embarked on writing his first play. Spread Eagle and other plays Initially titled Patriots, Inc., Brooks' and Lister's first play was produced by Jed Harris under the title, Spread Eagle and staged by George Abbott. It opened on Broadway on April 4, 1927 and ran for eighty performances. Raymond Massey, who starred as the Hearst-inspired Joe Cobb, directed the subsequent London production. It garnered mixed reviews. Long thought to be lost, the play was rediscovered in the basement of the 5th Avenue New York public library and was revived by the L.A. Theatre Works radio theatre company who made an audio recording of the play in 1999 with actors Fred Savage, Ed Asner and Sharon Gless. Spread Eagle is shaped in part by Brooks’ experience in World War I, as well as criticism of the Hearst |
2,109 | Crave (play) | Crave is a one-act play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 by the theatre company Paines Plough, with which Kane was writer-in-residence for the year, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. The play was initially presented under the pseudonym Marie Kelvedon; Kane used a pseudonym to avoid the distraction of her reputation for graphic staged violence from her previous works. Crave was Kane's fourth play. It is dedicated by the author to Mark Ravenhill. Structure The play reflects a stylistic departure from Kane's previous works, using a non-linear, poetic style, and is notable for its lack of staged violence that had been a hallmark of the author's previous work; this style is continued in her next and final work, 4.48 Psychosis. The dialogue is intertextual, and often it is unclear whom each line is addressed to. Much of the delivery of the text is left up to directorial interpretation. The author does not provide context, stage directions or descriptions of characters. The sex and gender of the four characters (A, B, C, and M) is only identifiable from context within the play. Themes and allusions Crave continues the theme of pain in love that Kane had explored with previous plays, but is stylistically a departure. The play contains several dark themes, presented as issues haunting the four characters. These themes include rape, incest, pedophilia, anorexia, drug addiction, mental instability, murder, and suicide. Kane incorporates numerous literary allusions in the text of the play, especially to The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. She also makes several references to biblical scripture, especially through the character of "A". "Marie Kelvedon" The pseudonym "Marie Kelvedon" was based on the village of Kelvedon Hatch, where Kane grew up. Kane included the following fictitious biography in the programme notes: Popular culture The lyrics to Icelandic singer Björk's song "An Echo, A Stain", released on the album Vespertine in 2001, are based on this play. References Sarah Kane: Complete Plays. London 2001 Category:Plays by Sarah Kane Category:1998 plays |
2,110 | Himmler (surname) | Himmler is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ernst Hermann Himmler (1905–1945), German Nazi functionary and younger brother of Heinrich Himmler Gebhard Ludwig Himmler (1898–1989), German Nazi functionary and older brother of Heinrich Himmler Gudrun Burwitz, née Himmler (1929–2018), daughter of Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Nazi Germany Katrin Himmler (born 1967), a German author, the granddaughter of Ernst Hermann Himmler, great-niece of Heinrich Himmler Margarete Himmler (1893–1967), wife of Heinrich Himmler See also Operation Himmler (less often known as: Operation Konserve, Operation Canned Goods), a Nazi Germany false flag project Category:German-language surnames |
2,111 | Equilateral pentagon | In geometry an equilateral pentagon is a polygon with five sides of equal length. Its five internal angles, in turn, can take a range of sets of values, thus permitting it to form a family of pentagons. The requirement is that all angles must add up to 540 degrees and must be between 0 and 360 degrees but not equal to 180 degrees. In contrast, the regular pentagon is unique, because it is equilateral and moreover it is equiangular (its five angles are equal; the measure is 108 degrees). Four intersecting equal circles arranged in a closed chain are sufficient to determine a convex equilateral pentagon. Each circle's center is one of four vertices of the pentagon. The remaining vertex is determined by one of the intersection points of the first and the last circle of the chain. It is possible to describe the five angles of any convex equilateral pentagon with only two angles α and β, provided α ≥ β and δ is the smallest of the other angles. Thus the general equilateral pentagon can be regarded as a bivariate function f(α, β) where the rest of the angles can be obtained by using trigonometric relations. The equilateral pentagon described in this manner will be unique up to a rotation in the plane. Examples Internal angles When the equilateral pentagon is dissected into triangles, two of them appear as isosceles (triangles in orange and blue) while the other one is more general (triangle in green). We assume that we are given the adjacent angles and . According to the law of sines the length of the line dividing the green and blue triangles is: The square of the length of the line dividing the orange and green triangles is: According to the law of cosines, the cosine of δ can be seen from the figure: Simplifying, δ is obtained as function of α and β: The remaining angles of the pentagon can be found geometrically: The remaining angles of the orange and blue triangles are readily found by noting that two angles of an isosceles triangle are equal while all three angles sum to 180°. Then and the two remaining angles of the green triangle can be found from four equations stating that the sum of the angles of the pentagon is 540°, the sum of the angles of the green triangle is 180°, the angle is the sum of its three components, and the angle is the sum of its two components. A cyclic pentagon is equiangular if and only if it has equal sides and thus is regular. Likewise, a tangential pentagon is equilateral if and only if it has equal angles and thus is regular. Two-dimensional mapping The equilateral pentagon as a function of two variables can be plotted in the two-dimensional plane. Each pair of values (α, β) maps to a single point of the plane and also maps to a single pentagon. The periodicity of the values of α and β and the condition α ≥ β ≥ δ permit the size of the mapping |
2,112 | Game of Chefs | Game of Chefs () is a reality cooking competition show that debuted on 19 January 2014 on Channel 2. The format was developed by Reshet, one of the two concessionaires running the Israeli Channel 2, in collaboration with ITV. The final episode of the first season aired on 8 April 2014, reaching a rating of 32.9%. A second season began on 28 February 2016. A recurring theme throughout the show is the competition being decided using blind taste tests in almost all stages of the format. The format was sold to RTL Group. Format The show is a competition open for both amateur and professional chefs, competing for the title of "Israel's most talented chef". It is hosted by Miri Bohadana. The show has four stages: The blind auditions, training camp, kitchen battles, and finals. The blind auditions During this stage, candidates have one hour to prepare a dish, which is then sent to the show's three judges for a blind taste test. The judges don't see the candidate, and know nothing about him or her. During the test, the candidate watches the judges on a monitor and hears some of what the judges say, until just before they deliver their decision. Afterwards the candidate meets the judges and each judge reveals his decision. A "pass" decision is signified by the judge giving a kitchen knife to the candidate. A candidate receiving at least two knives continues to the next stage, the training camp. The training camp 30 candidates (in the second season, 33) that successfully pass the blind auditions stage arrive at the training camp. They are tested in three missions, one from each chef (judge): An accuracy and technique mission, a taste balance mission, and an imagination mission. At the end of each mission, each chef picks two candidates for his team, so that every team grows to 6 contestants. The kitchen battles In this stage each episode has two parts. In the first part, the teams competes against each other. Each team must prepare a single dish to be served to 14 expert judges brought especially for each episode based on the changing episodes` topics (Carnivores for a meat mission, Italians for a pizza mission and etc.) The chefs cannot taste the dishes or touch it, each chef can help his team by consultation only. The winning team gains immunity for this episode, and doesn't participate in the second part. The remaining contestants then compete against each other, with each preparing his or her own dish. The three chef judges grade each dish in a blind taste test, without knowing who made it, or to which team he or she belongs to. The contestant with the lowest grade is eliminated from the show. When only 7 contestants remain (one stage before the quarter finals), the number of external expert judges drops to 7, and the winning team doesn't receive immunity. Instead the chef of the winning team gives immunity to one of his team members. Final episodes In the semi-final, 5 contestants compete against each other preparing dishes invented |
2,113 | Club Valencia | Club Valencia is a Maldivian football club based in Malé, Maldives that plays in the Dhivehi Premier League. Club Valencia was the first Maldivian club to pay a salary for its players. Club Valencia has won 05 National Championships, 05 Maldives FA Cups, 06 Maldives Cup Winners' Cups, and 03 POMIS Cups and Youth Championship 2013. History The notion of establishing a football club named Club Valencia arose in the late 1970s from the players of blue and gold teams participating in the Junior Football Pool organized by National Sports Academy. The first two names proposed to the government for approval as the name of the club were Youth Recreation Movement and Juvenile Valencia Athletico; both were rejected. The third name, Club Valencia was then approved by the government. The present chairman of the club is Mr. Adheel Jaleel who was elected to the post in 2015. Players Current Squad Honours League/Championship Maldives National Championship: 5 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2008 Dhivehi League: 5 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008 Male' League: 1 2005 Maldives FA Cup: 5 1988, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2016 FAM Youth Championship: 1 2013 Maldives Cup Winners' Cup: 6 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2007 POMIS Cup: 3 1992, 1996, 2001 Inter-cone trophy held at Sri Lanka: 1 1993 Charity Shield: 1 2009 Veterans Veterans Cup: 3 2010,2011,2012 Veterans Association Cup – Veterans: 1 2014 Veterans Association Cup – Masters: 1 2014 Performance in AFC competitions AFC Champions League: 1 appearance 2002–03: Qualifying East – 2nd Round Asian Club Championship: 6 appearances 1986: Qualifying Stage 1995: Preliminary Round 1995: First Round 1996: Second Round 1999: First Round 2000: Second Round AFC Cup: 4 appearances 2004: Group Stage 2005: Group Stage 2009: Group Stage 2017: Asian Cup Winners Cup: 2 appearances 1996/97: Second Round 2000/01: First Round External links Official site Category:Football clubs in the Maldives Category:Football clubs in Malé Category:Association football clubs established in 1979 Category:1979 establishments in the Maldives |
2,114 | The Melomaniac | The Melomaniac () is a 1903 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Plot A music master leads his band to a field where five telegraph lines are strung on utility poles. Hoisting up a giant treble clef, he turns the set of lines into a giant musical staff. He then uses copies of his own head to spell out the tune for "God Save the King," and his band joins in. Production and release Méliès himself plays the lead role of the music master. The superimposition effects in The Mélomaniac, allowing multiple Méliès heads to appear on the staff, were created by a multiple exposure technique requiring the same strip of film to be run through the camera seven times. The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 479–480 in its catalogues. The film was registered for American copyright at the Library of Congress on 30 June 1903. The French film scholars Jacques Malthête and Laurent Mannoni believe The Mélomaniac to be Méliès's most famous trick film. References External links Category:Films directed by Georges Méliès Category:1903 films Category:French films Category:French silent short films Category:French black-and-white films |
2,115 | Floating Staircase | Floating Staircase is a ghost story/mystery novel by American writer Ronald Malfi. It was published in 2011 by Medallion Press, with a limited edition hardcover collectors edition from Thunderstorm Books, which contained an original author's "Afterward" not in the paperback novel. The novel was nominated by the Horror Writers Association for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, and it won a Gold IPPY Award for best horror novel of 2011. Synopsis Following the success of his latest novel, Travis Glasgow and his wife Jodie buy their first house in the western Maryland town of Westlake, across the street from Travis' brother Adam and his family. At first, everything is picture perfect, from the beautiful lake behind the house to the rebirth of the friendship between Travis and Adam. Travis also begins to overcome the darkness of his childhood and the guilt he's harboured since his younger brother's tragic drowning for which Travis holds himself responsible. Soon, though, the new house begins to lose its allure. Strange noises wake Travis at night, and his dreams are plagued by ghosts. Barely glimpsed shapes flit through the darkened hallways, but strangest of all is the bizarre set of wooden stairs that rises cryptically out of the lake behind the house. Travis becomes drawn to the structure, but the more he investigates, the more he uncovers the truth about the Dentmans, the family who owned his house previously, and how young Elijah Dentman had drowned in the lake behind the house in circumstances eerily similar to Travis' brother. Connections to other novels The protagonist Travis Glasgow is also mentioned in Malfi's 2004 novel, The Fall of Never, although only peripherally, as the author of a novel titled Silent River. This is the name of one of Travis Glasgow's books as mentioned in Floating Staircase. In Chapter 17 of Floating Staircase, Travis hallucinates a dream in which he believes he is "married to a woman with a monster growing in her belly, and my name was Alan, and we lived by our own special lake in a different part of the country." This is a direct reference to Alan Hammerstun, the protagonist in Malfi's novel Cradle Lake. In Cradle Lake, Alan Hammerstun has a similar dream where he believes he is Travis Glasgow, although Travis's name is not used in that text. Reception The book received generally favorable reviews, with some reviewers touting it as "well-developed and unpredictable" and a "must-read novel." A reviewer for the New York Journal of Books stated, "Floating Staircase deserves to stand alongside a Stephen King or a Dean Koontz--at their best...[it is] a mature horror yarn, but, deep down, it is also an exploration of obsessions, and in particular the obsession it takes to be a writer." Publishers Weekly called the book's ending "surprising and expertly set up." References Category:2011 American novels Category:American horror novels Category:Novels set in Maryland Category:Western Maryland |
2,116 | Andy De Emmony | Andy De Emmony (born ; sometimes spelled DeEmmony) is a British television and film director. Career De Emmony has worked primarily in comedy, including Red Dwarf VI, Father Ted, Spitting Image. He has directed two features: the comedy sequel West is West and the comedy horror Love Bite. He has won one BAFTA (British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy (Programme or Series), Father Ted, 1999) and has picked up nominations for his work on Spitting Image, Cutting It, The Canterbury Tales and Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!. References External links Category:Living people Category:BAFTA winners (people) Category:English television directors Category:English television producers Category:1960s births |
2,117 | 1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship | The 1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the fifth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place at the Hyde Road Speedway in Belle Vue, Manchester, England. The championship was won by Sweden (28 points) from Australia (23 pts) and New Zealand (21 pts). Host nation England, represented by Peter Collins and Dave Jessup, finished 4th with 21 points. Swedish rider Anders Michanek, who successfully defended his World Pairs crown at this meeting, completed the double later in 1974 when he won the Individual World Championship. Semifinal 1 Prelog May 26 Semifinal 2 Rodenbach May 26 World final Manchester, Hyde Road 13 July See also 1974 Individual Speedway World Championship 1974 Speedway World Team Cup motorcycle speedway 1974 in sports References 1974 World Pairs |
2,118 | Pablo Pedraza | Pablo Elías Pedraza Bustos (born 10 March 1995) is a Bolivian footballer who plays for Barnechea in the Primera B de Chile. Club career In 2008 Pedraza began his career at the youth sector of Club Blooming. During 2011 he started training with the first team, and made his top flight debut the following year. In July 2015, he was hoping to get more playing time; he transferred to Real Potosí as he was unable to secure a place on the first team due to his inexperience. International career Pedraza was summoned for the Bolivian U-20 team to play in the 2015 South American Youth Football Championship. He was the team captain in the four matches that Bolivia played in the first round of the tournament. He was named in Bolivia's senior squad for a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Ecuador in October 2015. References External links Profile at Fichajes.com Category:1995 births Category:Living people Category:Bolivian footballers Category:Club Blooming players Category:Club Real Potosí players Category:2015 South American Youth Football Championship players Category:Sportspeople from Santa Cruz de la Sierra Category:Association football central defenders |
2,119 | Class 97 | Class 97 may refer to: British Rail Class 97 DRG Class 97, a class of German rack railway steam locomotive operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn |
2,120 | Abun district | Abun is a district in Tambrauw Regency in West Papua, Indonesia. Its district capital is Warmandi. Administrative divisions Abun is divided into 7 villages which are: Wau Warmandi Waibeem Saubeba Weyaf Weprari Wowom Demography Population As of the 2010 census, the population of Abun was 603. References Category:Populated places in West Papua Category:West Papua (province) |
2,121 | Jeffries Creek | Jeffries Creek is a tributary and protected watershed and old growth swamp of the Great Pee Dee River in South Carolina. Its headwaters begin just south of Hartsville, South Carolina. It flows through Darlington and Florence counties. The principal significance of this body of water is that it is a primary water shed of the area. The creek is a blackwater creek that flows from the upper to lower coastal plain in a southeasterly direction. There are several recreational uses of Jeffries Creek. Fishing is commonly seen along the creek which contains a variety of Sunfish, Warmouth, Large Mouth Bass, Common Sucker, Pike and Gar. Also, Birdwatching and kayaking Jeffries Creek is very enjoyable. Being an old growth Swamp, many species of Warblers and Wood Peckers can be spotted It has an abundance of wildlife such as, Rabbits, Wild Ducks, Muskrats, Beaver, Hawks and Owls, including numerous species of Snakes, poisonous and non-poisonous. Category:Rivers of South Carolina Category:Tributaries of the Pee Dee River Category:Bodies of water of Darlington County, South Carolina Category:Bodies of water of Florence County, South Carolina |
2,122 | Aristid von Grosse | Aristid von Grosse was a German nuclear chemist. During his work with Otto Hahn, he got access to waste material from radium production, and with this starting material he was able in 1927 to isolate protactinium oxide and was later able to produce metallic protactinium by decomposition of protactinium iodide. From 1948 to 1969, he was president of the Research Institute of Temple University and was later affiliated with the laboratories of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia until his retirement in 1979. In 1971, he received a United States Atomic Energy Commission award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the development of nuclear energy." Aristid was born in Riga in January 1905 and moved to the United States in 1930. He retired in 1979 and died of pneumonia in Laguna Hills, California on July 21, 1985. References Category:1905 births Category:1985 deaths Category:German chemists Category:20th-century American chemists Category:Baltic-German people Category:American people of Baltic German descent Category:People from Riga Category:Deaths from pneumonia Category:Manhattan Project people |
2,123 | Turbo bruneus | Turbo bruneus, common name the brown (Pacific) dwarf turban or the little burnt turbo, is a species of sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae. Description The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 50 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Central Indo-Pacific, in the Western Pacific Ocean, off East India, the Philippines and off Western Australia. References Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp Rajagopal, A.S. & Mookherjee, H.P. 1978. Contributions to the molluscan fauna of India. Pt. I. Marine molluscs of the Coromandel Coast, Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar - Gastropoda: Archaeogastropoda. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 12: 1-48 Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 2000. Catalogue of marine molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 187: x, 323 pp Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. [ Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592. External links bruneus Category:Gastropods described in 1791 |
2,124 | Angola forest tree frog | The Angola forest tree frog, Leptopelis cynnamomeus, is a species of frog in the family Arthroleptidae found in an area from southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northwestern Zambia to central Angola. It is a common frog found in gallery forests, dry forests and well-wooded humid savanna. References Category:Leptopelis Category:Frogs of Africa Category:Amphibians of Angola Category:Amphibians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Category:Amphibians of Zambia Category:Taxa named by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage Category:Amphibians described in 1893 Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
2,125 | St John's Church, Mundoolun | St John's Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church at Mundoolun Road, Mundoolun, City of Logan, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by John Hingeston Buckeridge and built from 1901 to 1915. It is also known as Memorial Church of St John the Evangelist. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 26 November 1999. History St. John's Church at Mundoolun is a private family chapel built in 1901 on a property settled by the Collins family in the 1840s. The property is located between Canungra and Beaudesert in the Albert River Valley, South East Queensland. The church is constructed of local sandstone to the design of the Brisbane Diocesan Architect John Buckeridge who was commissioned by the Collins family in 1899. The chapel was built as a memorial to John and Anne Collins by their children, soon after the death of John Collins in 1898. The Collins had arrived in Australia from Ireland in 1839, the same year that the closure of the Moreton Bay penal colony made way for settlement of the area within a fifty-mile radius of Brisbane. Anne's cousin, William Humphries, had taken up 17,000 acres at Mundoolun in 1842, a venture the Collins followed with great interest. In 1844, they joined him as partners and by 1847, the Collins had bought Humphries out. The family went on to be prominent pastoralists, eventually owning Tamrookum, Rathdowney and Nindooinbah, as well as the home station of Mundoolun. The couple had five children. From 1863, when John Collins' sons joined him in the family business, they began to acquire properties further north and west. In 1877, Robert and William Collins formed the North Australian Pastoral Company in the Northern Territory with other shareholders and their interests and influence were wide-ranging. In 1878/79, Robert and William undertook a world tour which was to have a profound impact on Robert, in particular. In the United States, he was deeply impressed by the National Park movement and upon his return, began a serious campaign for the establishment of a national park in the McPherson Range. He continued this campaign until his death, becoming the Independent Member for Albert in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1896 and branch president of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland in order to further his goal. Unfortunately he did not live to see the proclamation of Lamington National Park which eventually took place in 1915; however, he has been credited with the title of Father of the National Park Ideal. At about the turn of the century, Mundoolun and the Collins family were at the peak of their success. It was decided by the five children that a memorial to their pioneering parents should be built. They selected a site on a ridge of the Birnam Range, near the small cemetery overlooking the homestead and the Albert Valley. The family commissioned architect John Buckeridge to design the chapel. Buckeridge had come to Queensland in 1886 to supervise the construction of St.John's Cathedral in Brisbane. He had spent five years in the London office of leading ecclesiastical architect John Loughborough |
2,126 | Pata (sword) | The pata or patta (Marathi:दांडपट्टा, ) is a sword, originating from the Indian subcontinent, with a gauntlet integrated as a handguard. Often referred to in its native Marathi as a dandpatta, it is commonly called a gauntlet-sword in English. Description The pata has a long straight blade ranging in length from 10 to 44 inches. The blades were sometimes locally made and other times recycled from older European swords imported through colonial trade. In the case of European blades, broadswords were most common, though rapier blades were occasionally employed. The characteristic feature of the pata is its hilt which takes the form of a half-gauntlet, the inside of which is usually padded. The hilt is attached to the blade by decorative arms that extend forward on both sides of the blade. The Mughals developed a variation with matchlock pistols adjoining the handle. The hilt also has a long cuff which is usually decorated and in older examples inlaid and embellished with gold and silver. The swordsman holds the weapon by gripping a crossbar inside the gauntlet. The cuff is held close to the forearm by another bar or chain. History Created during the Mughal period, the pata's use in warfare appears to be mostly restricted to the 17th and 18th century when the Maratha empire came into prominence. It was considered to be a highly effective weapon for infantrymen against heavily armoured cavalry. The Maratha ruler Shivaji and his general Baji Prabhu Deshpande were reputedly trained in the use of the pata. When Mughal Afzal Khan's bodyguard Bada Sayyad attacked Shivaji with swords in the Battle of Pratapgad, Shivaji's bodyguard Jiva Mahala fatally struck him down, cutting off one of Bada Sayyad's hands with a pata. Use The pata is most commonly paired with either a shield or another pata, though it can also be used with a javelin, axe, or belt. The restrictive handle was particularly suited to the stiff-wristed style of South Asian swordsmanship. Despite its shape, the pata is used primarily for cutting rather than thrusting. The extended grip provided by the forearm permitted powerful slashes but restricted any thrusts. This can be seen in mardani khel today and in colonial descriptions which describe spinning techniques with dual pata "much like a windmill". Miniature paintings show that the pata was also wielded by mounted cavalry, which has led some modern collectors to erroneously conclude that the weapon was used for thrusting from horseback. However, the restriction on wrist movement would have made it difficult to dislodge the pata from an opponent's body, and doing so while mounted would most likely cause the swordsmen to fall off their horses. Rather, it is more probable that the pata was used in cut-and-run tactics, characteristic of the Maratha army. Cutting technique was practiced by slicing fruit on the ground like lemons or limes without touching the ground. This was and still is a common method of demonstration, often using a flexible blade to facilitate the trick. It is said that Maratha warriors would use the pata when encircled before they fell, so |
2,127 | Nahdi | Nahdi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi (born 1976 in Saudi Arabia, identified as a Yemeni citizen), suspected terrorist Sulaiman al-Nahdi (born 1974), a citizen of Yemen who held without charge in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, from 2002 until 2015 Category:Arabic-language surnames |
2,128 | Krähenbach (Kammel) | Krähenbach is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Kammel in Ettenbeuren. See also List of rivers of Bavaria References Category:Rivers of Bavaria Category:Rivers of Germany |
2,129 | USS Laboon | USS Laboon (DDG-58) is an in the United States Navy. She is named for Father John Francis Laboon (1921–1988), a captain in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy, who was awarded the Silver Star during World War II while serving on the submarine . Construction and career Laboon keel was laid down on 23 March 1992 at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine. She was launched on 20 February 1993. Laboon was commissioned on 18 March 1995, commanded by CDR Douglas D. McDonald. In the fall of 1996, she fired Tomahawk missiles at targets in Iraq, thus becoming the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to engage in combat. In 1998, Laboon took part in NATO Exercise Dynamic Response 98, together with 's Amphibious Ready Group. On 12 September 2012, Laboon was ordered to the coast of Libya in what the Pentagon called a "contingency" in case a strike was ordered. This was in response to the 2012 diplomatic missions attacks. On 21 June 2015, Laboon entered the Black Sea along with the French ship as part of NATO's presence missions following the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. While in the Black Sea, Laboon participated in joint maneuvers with a Romanian Navy for two days beginning on 22 June 2015. On 27 June 2015, Laboon began a two-day visit to the Black Sea port of Batumi, Georgia to participate in training with the Coast Guard of Georgia and offer tours of the ship. On 14 April 2018, she fired seven Tomahawk missiles from a position in the Red Sea as part of a bombing campaign in retaliation for the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons against people in Douma. References External links USS Laboon official website. Retrieved 2010-07-27. Category:Arleigh Burke-class destroyers Category:Active destroyers of the United States Category:Ships built in Bath, Maine Category:1993 ships Category:Carrier Strike Group Twelve |
2,130 | Black-and-white ruffed lemur | The black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) is an endangered species of ruffed lemur, one of two which are endemic to the island of Madagascar. Despite having a larger range than the red ruffed lemur, it has a much smaller population that is spread out, living in lower population densities and reproductively isolated. It also has less coverage and protection in large national parks than the red ruffed lemur. Three subspecies of black-and-white ruffed lemur have been recognized since the red ruffed lemur was elevated to species status in 2001. Together with the red ruffed lemur, they are the largest extant members of the family Lemuridae, ranging in length from and weighing between . They are arboreal, spending most of their time in the high canopy of the seasonal rainforests on the eastern side of the island. They are also diurnal, active exclusively in daylight hours. Quadrupedal locomotion is preferred in the trees and on the ground, and suspensory behavior is seen during feeding. As the most frugivorous of lemurs, the diet consists mainly of fruit, although nectar and flowers are also favored, followed by leaves and some seeds. The black-and-white ruffed lemur has a complex social structure and is known for its loud, raucous calls. It is unusual in that it exhibits several reproductive traits typically found in small, nocturnal lemurs, such as a short gestation period, large litters and rapid maturation. In captivity, they can live up to 36 years. Taxonomy The black-and-white ruffed lemur is one of two species in the genus Varecia, the other being the red ruffed lemur (V. rubra). Three subspecies are recognized: the white-belted black-and-white ruffed lemur (V. v. subcincta), the Hill's ruffed lemur, (V. v. editorum), and the black-and-white ruffed lemur (V. v. variegata, the nominate subspecies). Description Together with the red ruffed lemur, the species is the largest extant member of the family Lemuridae, ranging in length from and weighing between . The black-and-white ruffed lemur is always both black and white; the general color patterns do not usually vary. Abdomen, tail, hands and feet, inner limbs, forehead, face and crown are black. The fur is white on the sides, back, hind limbs and on the hindquarters. Males and females are alike. Distribution and habitat The species inhabits the eastern rainforests of Madagascar. It occurs at low to moderate altitudes, in primary forests with tall and mature trees, and by preference deep inside contiguous blocks of vegetation, although patchy forests are made use of if necessary. The three subspecies have slightly different ranges. The white-belted black-and-white ruffed lemur is found furthest to the north, the southern black-and-white ruffed lemur is found furthest to the south, and the black-and-white ruffed lemur has a geographic range between the other two subspecies. Diet Wild black-and-white ruffed lemurs have a highly frugiviorous diet, with fruit making up 92% of their overall diet. Smaller percentages of leaves, nectar, seeds, and even fungi make up the remainder. Their diet is also influenced by the seasons, with certain plant parts and fruits only ripening or becoming available during certain times of |
2,131 | Henryk Siedlaczek | Henryk Piotr Siedlaczek (born January 30, 1956 in Wodzisław) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7476 votes in 30 Rybnik district, candidating from the Civic Platform list. See also Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External links Henryk Siedlaczek - parliamentary page - includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. Category:Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Category:Civic Platform politicians Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Category:Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015 |
2,132 | No Fear (Terri Clark song) | "No Fear" is a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music artist Terri Clark. It was released in January 2001 as the second single from the album Fearless. The song reached #27 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by Clark and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Chart performance References Category:2001 singles Category:2000 songs Category:Terri Clark songs Category:Songs written by Mary Chapin Carpenter Category:Songs written by Terri Clark Category:Song recordings produced by Keith Stegall Category:Mercury Records singles |
2,133 | J-ta Yamada | is a Japanese manga artist. Yamada is known for creating the manga Asatte no Houkou, which also spawned an anime. Yamada also created the manga Majina! and the manga Gifuto. His has created a mahjong game called Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jong, which is based on 07th Expansion's Higurashi When They Cry. It began appearing once a month in Takeshobo's Kindai Mahjong magazine starting in January 1, 2010. References External links J-ta Yamada's personal website Category:Manga artists Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) |
2,134 | Endoxyla reticulosa | Endoxyla reticulosa is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. References Category:Endoxyla (moth) Category:Moths described in 1945 |
2,135 | Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company | Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA), (), is an Iranian aircraft production company. Established in 1976, it belongs to the Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) and is located at Shahin Shahr, Isfahan. Approximately 2 million square meters or 500 acres of land on which the company is established was gifted by the locally notable and well-regarded Boroumand family (the brothers: Abdolghaffar, Abdolrahman, Abdolrahim, Abdolkarim, Abdolrashid and Abdollah). The company has thousands of square meters of available grounds, and 250,000 square meters of shops and hangars are allocated to A/C part manufacturing, assembling, laboratories, flight test facilities and shops of preparation for production. The original factory, built by Textron, was to produce Bell 214s of different configurations in Iran with a deal that involved several hundred helicopters and technology transfers. Reportedly the contract was so huge that a new Textron division had to be founded to meet Iranian demands and handle the program with Major General Delk M. Oden as president. The work ended due to the Iranian Revolution and subsequent sanctions against Iran. Projects HESA Kowsar - a domestic "4th generation" version of reverse-engineered F-5 Tiger. Manufacturing IrAn-140 passenger plane with Ukrainian cooperation and based on Antonov An-140. Designing and manufacturing parachute recovery system for Ababil drone. Manufacturing Shahed-278 helicopter (using components from Bell 206 and Panha Shabaviz 2061) Manufacturing Zafar 300 helicopter (based on Bell 206) Manufacturing Shahed-274 helicopter (based on Bell 206) Manufacturing Shahed-285 helicopter (using components from Bell 206 and Panha Shabaviz 2061) Manufacturing Dorna training aircraft Manufacturing Karrar UCAV Manufacturing propeller with composite materials Hovercraft repairs likely for Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Manufacturing parts Manufacturing Azarakhsh fighter jet (based on Northrop F-5) Manufacturing Saeqeh fighter jet (based on Northrop F-5) Developing Shafaq Light Trainer/Light Attack/Light Fighter (based on M-ATF) Developing Sofreh Mahi Simorgh: The Simorgh (هواپيماي سيمرغ) is a HESA-built two-seat Northrop F-5A to F-5B conversion. It was first flown in Iran Kish Air Show 2005, and two have been built. See also HESA Dorna Iran Aviation Industries Organization Military of Iran Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force List of Iranian Air Force aircraft Iranian military industry Current Equipment of the Iranian Army References External links Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA) Official website Videos Iranian Combat Aircraft Programmes - IHS Aerospace Defence & Security (2015) Category:Aircraft manufacturers of Iran Category:Defence companies of Iran Category:Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force Category:Manufacturing companies of Iran Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1976 Category:1976 establishments in Iran |
2,136 | Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden | Richardis of Schwerin (; 1347 – April 23 or July 11, 1377) was Queen of Sweden as the consort of King Albert. Life Richardis was the child of Otto I, Count of Schwerin (d. 1357) and Matilda of Mecklenburg-Werle (d. 1361) and the paternal niece of Richardis of Schwerin, Duchess of Schleswig, the wife of the former Valdemar III of Denmark. She was engaged to Albert of Mecklenburg, who was also to be king of Sweden. In Wismar on 12 October 1352, the marriage contract was signed. It was not until 1365, however, that they were married in person and Richardis arrived in Sweden. She died in Stockholm and was buried in the Cloister Church at the Black Friars' Monastery. Children Eric I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1365–1397); also called Duke Eric, heir to the throne of Sweden and Lord of Gotland. Richardis Catherine of Sweden (1370/1372-1400); married John of Görlitz Ancestry References Wilhelmina Stålberg: Anteqningar om svenska qvinnor (Notes on Swedish women) (Swedish) Åke Ohlmarks: Alla Sveriges drottningar (All the queens of Sweden) (Swedish) |- |- Richardis Category:1347 births Category:1377 deaths Category:House of Hagen Category:14th-century Swedish people Category:14th-century Swedish women |
2,137 | Sandavágur stone | The Sandavágur stone (FR 2 M) is a runestone that was discovered in the town of Sandavágur on the Faroe Islands in 1917. The stone can today be seen in the Sandavágur Church. The inscription speaks of Þorkell, a man from Rogaland, Norway who claims to have lived on that place first. He is presumably one of the first settlers, if not the very first one, in the Sandavágur area. In both runes and language the Sandavágur stone corresponds to what is known from Rogaland around the 13th century. See also Fámjin stone Kirkjubøur stone References Category:Runestones on the Faroe Islands |
2,138 | Michael Pollan | Michael Kevin Pollan (; born February 6, 1955) is an American author, journalist, activist, and the Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer and Professor of Practice of Non-Fiction at Harvard University. Pollan is also professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Pollan is best known for his books which explore the socio-cultural impacts of food in books like The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma. Early years Pollan was born to a Jewish family on Long Island, New York. He is the son of author and financial consultant Stephen Pollan and columnist Corky Pollan. Pollan received a B.A. in English from Bennington College in 1977 and an M.A. in English from Columbia University in 1981. Career The Botany of Desire In The Botany of Desire, Pollan explores the concept of co-evolution, specifically of humankind's evolutionary relationship with four plants—apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes—from the dual perspectives of humans and the plants. He uses case examples that fit the archetype of four basic human desires, demonstrating how each of these botanical species are selectively grown, bred, and genetically engineered. The apple reflects the desire for sweetness, the tulip for beauty, marijuana for intoxication, and the potato for control. Throughout the book, Pollan explores the narrative of his own experience with each of the plants, which he then intertwines with a well-researched exploration into their social history. Each section presents a unique element of human domestication, or the "human bumblebee" as Pollan calls it. These range from the true story of Johnny Appleseed to Pollan's first-hand research with sophisticated marijuana hybrids in Amsterdam, to the alarming and paradigm-shifting possibilities of genetically engineered potatoes. The Omnivore's Dilemma In The Omnivore's Dilemma, Pollan describes four basic ways that human societies have obtained food: the current industrial system, the big organic operation, the local self-sufficient farm, and the hunter-gatherer. Pollan follows each of these processes—from a group of plants photosynthesizing calories through a series of intermediate stages, ultimately into a meal. Along the way, he suggests that there is a fundamental tension between the logic of nature and the logic of human industry, that the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world, and that industrial eating obscures crucially important ecological relationships and connections. On December 10, 2006, The New York Times named The Omnivore's Dilemma one of the five best nonfiction books of the year. On May 8, 2007, the James Beard Foundation named The Omnivore's Dilemma its 2007 winner for the best food writing. It was the book of focus for the University of Pennsylvania's Reading Project in 2007, and the book of choice for Washington State University's Common Reading Program in 2009–10. Pollan's discussion of the industrial food chain is in large part a critique of modern agribusiness. According to the book, agribusiness has lost touch with the natural cycles of farming, wherein livestock and crops intertwine in mutually beneficial circles. Pollan's critique of modern agribusiness focuses on what he describes as the overuse of corn for purposes ranging from fattening cattle to massive production of |
2,139 | Obrenovac-Surčin Bridge (A2 motorway) | The Obrenovac-Surčin Bridge on A2 motorway () is the bridge under construction, crossing the rivers Kolubara and Sava in the suburban section of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It will be part of the A2 motorway, in Serbia more often called Corridor XI. Preparatory works on the bridge began on 12 February 2017 and it was ceremonially opened, with the adjoining Obrenovac-Surčin section of the motorway, on 17 December 2019. Location On Obrenovac side, the bridge is located west of the town itself and just north of Barič. On Surčin side, it crosses into the uninhabited area of Boljevci, southeast of the village. Construction Preparatory works began on 12 February 2017. Ceremony marking the official beginning of the construction, attended by the Minister of Construction, Zorana Mihajlović, was held on 23 May 2017. The construction of the long Surčin-Obrenovac section of the A2 motorway began on 1 March 2017, and both the motorway and the bridge, should be finished by the end of 2019. By August 2017 all 252 piles projected on the ground section were finished and the construction of the piles for the main beam across the Sava, from the Obrenovac direction, began. Construction of the body of the bridge should began by the end of 2017. In October 2018 it was announced that the bridge will be open for the pedestrians in April-May 2019. The opening of the completely finished bridge was set for 5 January 2020. It was also stated that the Surčin-Obrenovac motorway itself, without which the bridge has no purpose, will be finished by the end of 2020 or early 2021, and not at the beginning of 2020, as previously stated. Beginning of the construction of the final, long Surčin-New Belgrade section, which will connect the motorway and the bridge directly with Belgrade, was announced for 2019. The construction company which builds the bridge is the CCCC, China Communications Construction. In August 2019, section of the A2 motorway below Obrenovac was opened for traffic and named "Miloš Veliki". Section of the motorway which should connect the bridge to it, on both sides, wasn't finished and after numerous changes it was announced that the new price will be €9 million per km, which is deemed way to much by the experts, as the road is being constructed in the low, flat, non-urbanized area. As the access to the opened section of the motorway from the Belgrade direction wasn't done properly, this caused traffic collapses and long traffic jams. Authorities claim that the traffic will be relieved when the remaining part of the motorway, including the bridge, will be finished and functional, by the end of 2019. The bridge was ceremonially opened on 17 December 2019, jointly with the adjoining section of the Obrenovac-Surčin motorway. That way, the bridge was connected with the motorways on both sides. Despite the claims that the construction of the access roads was without any problems, the fact that the terrain was easy for the construction and that work was finished almost a month before deadline, the total price of the bridge motorway |
2,140 | Anderson, Clayton and Company | Anderson, Clayton and Company (sometimes written Anderson, Clayton and Co) was a cotton trading firm started in Oklahoma City by Frank Anderson, Monroe Anderson, and William Clayton. These three men formed a partnership on August 1, 1904. The company moved to Houston very early in the 20th Century because that city was gaining on Galveston for the title of Cotton Capital of the U. S. after the near-complete destruction of that port by the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, and on account of Houston's rapidly expanding shipping facilities. In time the company itself was the world's largest cotton-trading company. Eventually the company was acquired by the Quaker Oats Company which led to its delisting from the stock exchange and the closing of its Houston offices. History The company was created as a partnership on August 1, 1904, by Monroe Dunaway (M. D.) Anderson, his brother Frank E. Anderson and Frank's brother-in-law William L. "Will") Clayton. In 1916, the company moved to Houston, Texas in order to have better access to a shipping port. In 1905, Will's younger brother, Benjamin Clayton, already known as an expert in railroad and steamship transportation, joined the partnership. The company grew through meeting high cotton demand during World War I. By 1944 the company had grown to be the largest provider of cotton in the world, and had cotton oil mills and cotton gins in several countries. The company went public in 1945, and continued to expand by financing cotton growers in several states. Monroe Anderson died in 1939, leaving a legacy which was used to fund the M.D. Anderson Foundation which, in turn, funded the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center by matching funding from the state of Texas. The Anderson Foundation trustees insisted that the new school be set up in Houston near the company headquarters. The new Cancer Center originally operated out of World War II barracks; it later grew to become a substantial part of the Texas Medical Center. As the company grew it diversified into foods and international markets, including the brands Chiffon margarine, Gaines Pet Foods and Seven Seas salad dressing. Anderson, Clayton also acquired major interests in food companies in Brazil and Mexico, but their profits were hurt by currency devaluations in those countries. Although the food acquisitions turned out to be quite profitable, some other acquisitions were decidedly not. The Ranger Insurance Company had lost money for several years, culminating in a loss of $58.8 million in fiscal year 1985 alone. Although Anderson, Clayton had tried to sell Ranger, there were no bidders, and the parent corporation experienced its worst financial performance in many years. By 1986, stock analysts were already discussing rumors of hostile takeovers. Anderson, Clayton began selling off some valuable holdings to raise more cash, so it could raise cash reserves in case of a fight. American Founders Life Insurance Company, was the first to go, bringing in $58.7 million. A warehouse and trucking company sold for $22 million. The Brazilian and Mexican food operations were sold to Unilever, N.V., for $109.1 million. On September 29 |
2,141 | Omer Lavoie | Lieutenant-General Omer Lavoie, CMM, MSC, CD is a senior officer in the Canadian Forces. He was the commander of the 4th Canadian Division until the summer of 2014. He was promoted to Major General in January 2016, and appointed Commander 1 Division. He served as Battle Group Commander of the 1 RCR Battle Group, Task Force 3-06, from July 2006 to February 2007 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Biography Lt Gen Omer Lavoie joined the CF in 1983 as a private soldier in the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment. Upon high school graduation, he transferred to the Regular Force and attended Royal Roads Military College from 1985-1989. Upon completion of infantry phase training, he was posted to Second Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment. Lt Gen Lavoie's regimental employment includes service with 2 RCR, 1 RCR and as the Regimental Adjutant. As a member of 2 RCR, he was employed as a platoon commander, officer commanding reconnaissance platoon and as a company second-in command. While posted to 1 RCR, he served as the battle group operations officer and as Officer Commanding the Duke of Edinburgh's Company. Lt Gen Lavoie's extra regimental service has included postings to Canadian Forces Northern Area Headquarters in Yellowknife, attendance at the CF Command and Staff College in Toronto, and staff officer to Director General Strategic Planning in National Defence Headquarters. Lt Gen Lavoie assumed command of 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment on 24 June 2005. Shortly after his appointment, Brig-Gen. Lavoie commenced specialized training for OP ATHENA and deployed to Afghanistan in August 2006. Lt Gen Lavoie's operational experience includes employment as a rifle platoon commander during the OKA Crisis, as a company second-in-command in Croatia and Bosnia in 1992/1993, and as a battle group operations officer in Kosovo in 1999/2000. He was Commanding Officer of the 1 RCR Battle Group in Afghanistan in 2006/2007. In February 2019, Lavoie was promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed Deputy Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples. Awards MGen Lavoie has been awarded the Meritorious Service Cross for his role in leading 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group in Afghanistan and has been awarded the NATO Meritorious Service Medal for leading NATO's first offensive ground operation at the Battle Group level and defeating the enemy during Operation MEDUSA. The citation reads: "From August 2006 to February 2007, Lieutenant-Colonel Lavoie commanded the 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group, in southern Afghanistan. He played a leading role in two complex brigade operations, including Operation MEDUSA, the most significant ground combat operation in NATO’s history. His battle group’s actions throughout their operational tour set the conditions for thousands of Afghans to return to their homes. During this period of sustained intense combat, Lieutenant-Colonel Lavoie led from the front, sharing the dangers and harsh living conditions of his troops. His exceptional professionalism and leadership in combat brought great credit to the Canadian Forces, to Canada and to NATO." References Category:Canadian Army officers Category:Living people Category:Canadian military personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present) Category:Commanders of the Order of Military Merit (Canada) Category:Year of birth |
2,142 | Wilton Park, Batley | Wilton Park is a public park located in Batley, West Yorkshire, England. Opened to the public in 1909 in the grounds of an old mansion (which now serves as the Bagshaw Museum) by the Batley Corporation, the park now serves the whole of the town. The park contains a lake, formal gardens, a large area of natural woodland and open fields. Facilities include bowling greens, tennis courts and a paddling pool. A railway line once ran through the park. Despite being closed many years ago, its path is still evident, as is the bridge which lies directly in front of the park's main entrance. References Category:Parks and open spaces in West Yorkshire |
2,143 | Eurrhyparodes splendens | Eurrhyparodes splendens is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1895. It is found in the US from Arizona and Texas through the Mexican states of Xalapa, Veracruz, Morelos, Guerrero and Yucatán to Guatemala and Costa Rica. The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are dark brown, crossed by three fine waved yellowish-white lines. The third line, outer margin and part of the inner margin bordered by a metallic steel-blue band. The hindwings are crossed by two yellowish-white lines from the costal to the inner margin. There is a third waved line. Both the outer and inner margins are bordered with metallic steel blue. Adults are on wing in July, September and December. References Category:Moths described in 1895 Category:Spilomelinae |
2,144 | Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure | "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the 23 January 1926 issue of Liberty under the title "The Rest Cure", and in the United Kingdom in the February 1926 Strand. It was included in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935). It is a Bobbie Wickham story. Plot summary J. H. Potter, a New York publisher, is, on the advice of his doctor, taking a restful vacation in London. He accepts an invitation to stay at Skeldings Hall, which is owned by Lady Wickham, a best-selling novelist who wants him to publish her novels in America. Lady Wickham's daughter, Roberta ("Bobbie") is in residence, and is actively trying to sabotage an impending marriage proposal by Clifford Gandle, a member of Parliament and Lady Wickham's choice to be Bobbie's husband, much to Bobbie's distress. Readers of the other Bobbie Wickham stories will know that Bobbie is an expert at using psychological tricks to create chaos that swirls around her. Some accidental events, increased by Bobbie's machinations, cause Gandle to believe that Potter is suicidal, and Potter to believe that Gandle is homicidal. Bobbie hints to her mother that Gandle is probably violent, which Lady Wickham refuses to believe. LIke many Wodehouse matrons, she has strong opinions about which suitors are suitable for their children. Gandle, urged on by Bobbie, decides that it would be wise to deprive Potter of his shaving razor. Potter, meanwhile, has barricaded himself in his room as a precaution against the presumed blood lust of Gandle. After midnight, Gandle sneaks into Potter's room by climbing through the window. Discovered by Potter, he nevertheless manages to secure the razor and exit via the window. At breakfast the next day, Bobbie cleverly manipulates Potter into believing that it would be wise for him to leave Skeldings Hall as soon as possible, with no notice or explanation. When Gandle enters for breakfast, he sees Potter about to pop a pill into his mouth. In order to save him from suicide, Gandle rushes at Potter, who decides that he should delay his departure no more. Potter runs off with Gandle in hot pursuit. Bobbie, meanwhile, has given her own spin on these events to her mother, who, as a result, forbids Bobbie ever to marry Gandle. A side effect is that Lady Wickham loses the opportunity to pursue a publishing contract with Potter. Once again, a female novelist trying to manipulate a publisher finds, in Wodehouse's universe, that this is easier said than done. Style Robert Hall used the story as an example of a Wodehouse short story where the romantic element is only a minor part of the story and treated farcically, as in Gandle's interrupted proposal of marriage to Bobbie Wickham, in contrast to stories in which romance plays a larger role or is not involved at all. The other example Hall gave of a short story similar to "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure" in this respect was "Uncle Fred Flits By". In the story, |
2,145 | Iron, Aisne | Iron is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Population See also Communes of the Aisne department References INSEE Category:Communes of Aisne Category:Aisne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia |
2,146 | Catharine Clark Gallery | Established in 1991, the Catharine Clark Gallery presents the work of contemporary, living artists using a variety of media. The gallery is located in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill Neighborhood, at 248 Utah Street. The Catharine Clark gallery is the only commercial gallery in San Francisco with an entire room dedicated to showcasing video projects. History The Catharine Clark Gallery opened in 1991 with a location in the Hayes Valley district of San Francisco. In 1995, the gallery moved from its original "hole in the wall" to a space at 49 Geary. In 2007, the gallery was moved to a location on nearby Minna Street. The new location placed the gallery close to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the African Diaspora. The move from Geary to Minna brought the gallery a larger and more consistent audience, as the gallery's change in location gave it greater independence from the numerous galleries at 49 Geary. With the demolition and on-going construction going on at the San Francisco MoMa next door, Clark decided to move her gallery once more, this time to 248 Utah Street in the Potrero Hill region of San Francisco. On September 7, 2013, the gallery opened its new location with an exhibition titled "This is the Sound of Someone Losing the Plot" curated by Anthony Discenza. Exhibitions Exhibitions at the Catharine Clark Gallery generally last six weeks and feature one or two individual artists' work in addition to work that is being shown in their dedicated media room. The gallery program has garnered critical attention from numerous publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Artforum The Catharine Clark Gallery's artists have been featured by numerous different galleries and museums in the United States and abroad. Institutions that have hosted their artists include: the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, the Serpentine Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Queensland Art Gallery, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Locations The Catharine Clark Gallery currently has two locations; the main gallery is located in San Francisco while a smaller salon space is located in Chelsea, Manhattan in New York City and is open only by appointment. Selected represented artists Sandow Birk Adam Chapman Chris Doyle Ken Goldberg Scott Greene Julie Heffernan Nina Katchadourian Ellen Kooi LigoranoReese Kara Maria Stephanie Syjuco Masami Teraoka Kal Spelletich References Category:Arts organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area Category:Art galleries in San Francisco Category:Art galleries established in 1991 Category:1991 establishments in California Category:South of Market, San Francisco |
2,147 | Luke Nussbaumer | Luke Nussbaumer (born 12 February 1989) is a professional cricketer who plays for Guernsey. He played in the 2016 ICC World Cricket League Division Five tournament, taking 8 wickets in 3 matches. In May 2019, he was named in Guernsey's squad for the 2019 T20 Inter-Insular Cup. He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Guernsey against Jersey on 1 June 2019. References External links Category:1989 births Category:Living people Category:Guernsey cricketers Category:Guernsey Twenty20 International cricketers Category:Place of birth missing (living people) |
2,148 | Bruno Tiago | Bruno Tiago Fernandes Andrade (born 1 April 1981), known as Bruno Tiago, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a midfielder. After very brief spells in the Primeira Liga and unassuming stints in Spain, he was forced to retire still in his 20s due to injury. Club career Bruno Tiago was born in Santo Tirso, Porto District. Having grown through the ranks of Minho's Vitória S.C. he moved to Spain in 2000–01, joining second division club UD Salamanca where he would remain two and a half seasons (with a loan to lowly Real Ávila CF in between), without any impact. Bruno Tiago returned to Portugal in January 2003 where, after a spell with Sport Clube Dragões Sandinenses, he signed with Gil Vicente F.C. for the 2004–05 campaign. He made his Primeira Liga debut on 28 August 2004 in a 2–3 away loss against Sporting CP, and finished his first year with 25 league appearances. In July 2007, Bruno Tiago moved to Vitória's neighbours S.C. Braga. Only one week into pre-season he seriously broke his leg, being ruled out for the season's duration; following a two-year spell on the sidelines, he was forced to retire from the game at only 28. References External links National team data Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Portuguese footballers Category:Association football midfielders Category:Primeira Liga players Category:LigaPro players Category:Portuguese Second Division players Category:F.C. Tirsense players Category:Vitória S.C. players Category:Gil Vicente F.C. players Category:S.C. Braga players Category:Segunda División players Category:Segunda División B players Category:UD Salamanca players Category:Portugal youth international footballers Category:Portuguese expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Spain Category:Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain |
2,149 | Slánoll | Slánoll, son of Ollom Fotla, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He succeeded to throne on the death of his brother Fínnachta. It is said that there was no disease during his reign (his name is explained as Old Irish slán, "whole, healthy"; oll, "great, ample"). After a reign of fifteen, or seventeen, or thirty years, he was found dead of unknown causes in his bed in Tara, and was succeeded by his brother Géde Ollgothach. When his body was dug up forty years later by his son Ailill, it showed no sign of decomposition. The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 895–880 BC, that of the Annals of the Four Masters to 1257–1241 BC. References Category:Legendary High Kings of Ireland |
2,150 | Caught You | Caught You is a roots reggae album released by Steel Pulse in 1980. It is Steel Pulse's third studio album. It was released in the United States as Reggae Fever. Track listing All songs written by David Hinds except as shown. "Drug Squad" – 3:53 "Harassment" – 4:18 "Reggae Fever" – 3:26 "Shining" (Alphonso Martin) – 3:55 "Heart of Stone (Chant Them)" – 5:00 "Rumours (Not True)" – 3:52 "Caught You Dancing" – 3:25 "Burning Flame" – 3:09 "Higher Than High" (Basil Gabbidon) – 3:18 "Nyahbinghi Voyage" – 5:00 Personnel David Hinds - vocals, guitar Basil Gabbidon - lead guitar Alphonso Martin, Selwyn Brown - vocals Ronald "Stepper" McQueen - bass Steve Nesbitt - drums Category:Steel Pulse albums Category:1980 albums Category:Mango Records albums Category:Albums produced by Del Newman |
2,151 | City of Moreland | The City of Moreland is a local government area in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. It comprises the inner northern suburbs between 4 and 11 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD. It was created in 1994 during the forced amalgamations of local governments by the state government, being created from the former local government areas of the City of Brunswick, the City of Coburg and the southern part of the City of Broadmeadows. The Moreland Local Government Area covers 51 km², and in June 2018, it had a population of 181,725. In 2004 the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC), an independent authority created under Victorian state legislation, conducted a representation review of the Council's electoral structure, resulting in a recommendation that the 10 single Councillor wards be replaced by three multi-councillor wards. A consequence of the change from single-Councillor to multi-Councillor wards was a change in election method from preferential voting to proportional representation. Elections are held every four years, with the last elections held on Saturday 22 October 2016. Council services Moreland Council runs the Counihan Gallery at the Brunswick Town Hall, a free public art gallery named after the local artist, Noel Counihan. Other art events supported by Council include the MoreArt event, an art in public spaces show located along the Upfield transport corridor. The Council also sponsors various street festivals around the municipality, the best known being the Sydney Road Street Party. One of the highlights of the Moreland City Council is the public library. Moreland City Libraries have five branches. Other services provided by Moreland Council include maternal and child health service, waste and recycling collection, parks and open space, youth space called Oxygen, services for children, and aged services. Suburbs Brunswick Brunswick East Brunswick West Coburg Coburg North (shared with the City of Darebin) Fawkner (shared with the City of Hume) Fitzroy North (shared with the City of Yarra) Glenroy Hadfield Gowanbrae Oak Park Parkville (shared with the City of Melbourne) Pascoe Vale Pascoe Vale South Tullamarine (shared with the cities of Brimbank and Hume) Council Current composition Councillors are elected from three multi-member wards, two electing four members, and one electing three, for a total of eleven councillors. The current council was elected in October 2016, and its composition is: In order of election by ward, is: Council election results Mayors The current Mayor is Natalie Abboud and the Deputy Mayor is Mark Riley. They were elected by council on 29 October 2018 and will serve the 2019 year. Sister cities Xianyang, Shaanxi, China Solarino, Italy Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia Aileu, East Timor Mansfield, Victoria, Australia Sparta, Greece See also List of Melbourne suburbs References External links Official Moreland City Council website Moreland Online Community Directory List of Moreland's Friendship cities Moreland Community Profile: census information and demographics Metlink local public transport map Link to Land Victoria interactive maps Moreland City Libraries website Category:Local government areas in Melbourne |
2,152 | Booster | Booster may refer to: Amusement rides Booster (Fabbri ride), a pendulum ride Booster (HUSS ride), an evolution of the Breakdance ride Booster (KMG ride), a pendulum ride Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities Booster (movie character), a character in the animated television series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Booster, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Flareon Booster, a character in the video game Super Mario RPG Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media Booster (newspaper), a Chicago newspaper Booster pack, a packaged set of collectable game cards or figurines that supplements the starter packs Science and technology Booster (electric power), a motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits Booster (rocketry), used in space flight to provide or augment the main thrust in the initial phase of the rocket's flight Booster, a co-channel repeater in broadcasting, used to improve signal strength Booster dose, or booster shot, in medicine, a vaccination given after a previous vaccination Booster engine, extra cylinders on a steam locomotive, driving the trailing truck or a tender truck, to give more power on starting Booster pump, a type of compressor Explosive booster, a bridge between a low energy explosive and a low sensitivity explosive Launch vehicle, a satellite-launching rocket, sometimes informally referred to as a booster Pegasus Booster, a powered hang glider Vacuum servo or brake booster, a component in car braking systems Other uses Booster, someone who is a member of a booster club Booster, someone who engages in boosterism Booster, someone who engages in theft, specifically to resell robbed goods Booster seat, a type of child car seat designed to properly position the vehicle's seat belt Faxe Kondi Booster and Booster Blue, Danish energy drinks See also |
2,153 | Hamskifte | Hamskifte (Danish for Moulting) is former Blue Foundation singer Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg'''s first solo album. The album is a mix of electronic and acoustic music. The texts are written and sung in Danish as Kirstine wanted to sing in the language of her mother. The album has been released for vinyl to present the correct sound, but is also disponible on CD. Some former members of Blue Foundation appears on the album such as drummer Nikolaj Bundvig which has played on two tracks. Both bassists Sune Martin and Anders Wallin are also playing on the album. Wallin is the main bassist of the record. He also added drums. Her brother, David Stubbe Teglbjærg also appears on Tæppet Er Faldet''. Track listing "Drømmenes Lyd" - 4:13 "Levende Igen" - 3:40 "Broerne Brænder" - 4:59 "Lysvæld Og Sol" - 5:05 "Under Isen" - 4:10 "Hamskifte" - 3:17 "Tungt Er Mit Hår" - 4:28 "Tæppet Er Faldet" - 3:25 "Det Larmer Ikke Mere" - 2:20 Personnel Musicians Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg - Vocals, Guitar, Würlitzer, Piano, Synthesizer, Organ Pipes, Daf Drum, Glass, Bottles, Glockenspiel, Bells, Field Recordings Dodebum - Synthesizer (tracks: 1 to 8), programmation (track: 1), glockenspiel (track: 6) Anders Wallin - bass, bass recording (tracks: 2, 4, 6, 7, 8), drums recording (tracks: 3, 6, 8) Sune Martin - additional bass, bass recording (track: 8) Rune Kielsgaard - drums (tracks: 2, 6, 7, 8) Nikolaj Bundvig - additional drums (tracks: 3, 8) Peter Bruun - drums (track: 3), additional drums (track: 6) David Stubbe Teglbjærg - additional vocals (track: 8) Angela - tambourine (track: 8) Technique Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg - Composing, Writing, Arranged, Recording, Producer Dyre Gormsen & Jon Schumann - mixing (tracks: 1, 7, 8) Adam Coel - assistant mix engineer Geoff Pesche - mastering Anders Wallin - drums recording (tracks: 3, 6, 8) Kajsa Gullberg - artwork, photography References Category:2013 debut albums |
2,154 | James Ewell Brown Stuart IV | James Ewell Brown "J.E.B." Stuart IV (July 23, 1935 - April 17, 2020) was an American army colonel, financial planner, museum chairman, and public speaker who was the great-grandson of Confederate Major General J. E. B. Stuart who was known as the master cavalryman during the American Civil War. Stuart graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering. He also received a master's degree in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University and obtained degrees from the Army Command General Staff College and the Army War College. In 1958, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Colonel Stuart served 26 years in the U.S. Army which included two tours of combat in Vietnam. He also served in the Panama Canal Zone and in Tehran, Iran. Upon retiring from the army, Stuart moved to Richmond, Virginia, and worked as a certified financial planner. At times he had served as chairman of the board at the Museum of the Confederacy, president of the General Society of the Sons of the Revolution in Virginia, commander of the Order of the Southern Cross, and president of the Sons of the Revolution in the state of Virginia. Awards and decorations Legion of Merit Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster Defense Meritorious Service Medal Army Meritorious Service Medal with an oak leaf cluster Army Commendation Medal Vietnamese Honor Medal 1st Class (Vietnam) Vietnamese Air Medal (Vietnam) References Category:1935 births Category:2020 deaths Category:American army personnel of the Vietnam War Category:United States Army soldiers |
2,155 | Anders Andersson (ice hockey) | Åke Anders "Akka" Andersson (2 January 1937 – 15 December 1989) was a Swedish ice hockey centre in the 1950s and 1960s. He played 132 international games for Sweden, including seven IIHF World Championships and two Winter Olympics, in 1960 and 1964. Andersson played on the famous "Mosquito Line" with Eilert Määttä and Kalle Hedlund. In Sweden, Andersson played for Skellefteå AIK from 1956–66 and Färjestads BK from 1966–69. He is one of only three players to win the Golden Puck as Swedish Player of the Year twice, which he did in 1961 and 1962. References Anders Andersson. sports-reference.com Anders Andersson. Swedish Olympic Committee A to Z Encyclopedia of Ice Hockey Category:1937 births Category:1989 deaths Category:Färjestad BK players Category:Ice hockey players at the 1960 Winter Olympics Category:Ice hockey players at the 1964 Winter Olympics Category:Swedish ice hockey forwards Category:Skellefteå AIK players Category:Olympic ice hockey players of Sweden Category:Olympic medalists in ice hockey Category:Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Category:Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics Category:People from Skellefteå Municipality |
2,156 | Kalabond Oval | Kalabond Oval is a sporting oval in Kokopo, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. It is home to rugby league team Agmark Gurias and has a capacity of just over 5,000 spectators. The stadium sits on the foot of an active volcano, Tavurvur. History In 2013, the stadium played host to the PNG vs Australia PM's XIII, the stadium will be home to the PNG Hunters in the Queensland Cup in 2014. In October 2014 the stadium will host the 2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup. References Category:Rugby league stadiums in Papua New Guinea Category:Papua New Guinea Hunters |
2,157 | Powell Library | Powell Library is the main college undergraduate library on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Powell Library is also known as the College Library. It was constructed from 1926 to 1929 and was one of the original four buildings that comprised the UCLA campus in the early period of the university's life. Its Romanesque Revival architecture design, its historic value and its popularity with students make it one of the defining images of UCLA. Style Like the building facing it across the quad, Royce Hall, the building's exterior is modeled after Milan's Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio. The entrance of the library is adorned with several mosaics, one of which depicts two men holding a book bearing the phrase, from Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta, "Haec studia adulescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant" ("These studies nourish youth and delight old age"), an appropriate dictum for the vast collection for undergraduate students. There are also Renaissance Printers' Marks on the ceiling. History The library is named for Lawrence Clark Powell, the University Librarian at UCLA from 1944 to 1961 and Dean of the Graduate School of Library Service from 1960 to 1966. It is part of the extensive UCLA Library system. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, as GSLS was later known, was housed for many years in the southwestern corner of the top floor. During this period the building also contained a separate unit of the campus library system devoted to education and psychology, which was later closed and its collection distributed among the other campus libraries. In 1951, author Ray Bradbury wrote an early draft of his classic novel Fahrenheit 451 in Powell Library using typewriters that were then available for rent. Students at UCLA have affectionately called this library "Club Powell" because it has a reputation for being louder than most libraries. Others explain that it is because this library has a room called Night Powell that is open 24/7 beginning on third week. Currently, the whole library is open 24/7 during tenth and finals week. The Inquiry Desk staff provides fruit and coffee during this stressful time. Powell hosts de-stressor programs during tenth and finals week, which include bringing therapy dogs, origami stations, and meditation. Located in the second floor Rotunda, this UCLA library often hosts events. Past events include the Edible Book Festival, Silent Disco, Video Game Orchestra, and International Games Day. Services The Hoover Collection is a digital collection of photos from the late 1920s to 1950s that features Powell Library, Royce Hall, and the construction of Janss Steps. Powell Library is part of the "Ask A Librarian" service, where people can chat with a University of California librarian 24/7. See also Royce Hall UCLA Library Maine East High School References External links Category:Library buildings completed in 1929 Category:University and college academic libraries in the United States Category:University of California, Los Angeles buildings and structures Category:Romanesque Revival architecture in California Category:Libraries in Los Angeles |
2,158 | 1332 Marconia | 1332 Marconia, provisional designation , is a dark asteroid and the parent body of the Marconia family located in the outer regions of the asteroid belt. It measures approximately in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 9 January 1934, by Italian astronomer Luigi Volta at the Observatory of Turin in Pino Torinese, northern Italy. It was named for Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi. The uncommon L-type asteroid has a rotation period of 19.2 hours. Orbit and classification Marconia is the parent body of the Marconia family (), a tiny asteroid family of less than 50 known members. It orbits the Sun in the outer asteroid belt at a distance of 2.7–3.5 AU once every 5 years and 4 months (1,958 days; semi-major axis of 3.06 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 2° with respect to the ecliptic. The asteroid was first observed in October 1905, as at Heidelberg Observatory, where the body's observation arc begins as in March 1924, almost 10 years prior to its official discovery observation at Pino Torinese. Physical characteristics Marconia has been characterized as an L-type asteroid in the Bus–DeMeo taxonomic system, while in the SMASS classification, it is an Ld-subtype that transitions between the L-type and D-type asteroids. The overall spectral type for members of the Marconia family is that of a carbonaceous C-type and X-type. Rotation period and poles In September 2012, a first rotational lightcurve of Marconia was obtained from photometric observations by Robert Stephens at his Santana Observatory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 19.16 hours with a brightness variation of 0.30 magnitude (). A 2016-published lightcurve, using modeled photometric data from the Lowell Photometric Database, gave a concurring sidereal period of 19.2264 hours, as well as a spin axes of (37.0°, 31.0°) and (220.0°, 31.0°) in ecliptic coordinates (λ, β). Conversely, another lightcurve inversion study by an international collaboration gave a longer spin rate of 32.1201 hours. Diameter and albedo According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Marconia measures between 44.93 and 52.009 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.04 and 0.063. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0527 and a diameter of 43.90 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.6. Naming This minor planet was named after Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), an Italian electrical engineer, pioneer and inventor of radio. In 1909, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Karl Ferdinand Braun (also see ). The official naming citation was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 (). The lunar crater Marconi was also named in his honor. References External links Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center 001332 Category:Discoveries by Luigi Volta Category:Minor planets named for people Category:Named minor planets 1332 Marconia 001332 |
2,159 | Wola Burzecka | Wola Burzecka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wojcieszków, within Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Wojcieszków, south-west of Łuków, and north of the regional capital Lublin. References Wola Burzecka |
2,160 | ビュ | ビュ or ひ, in hiragana, or ヒ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both can be written in two strokes, sometimes one for hiragana, and both are phonemically although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is , the sound would be nearer to be transcribed "hyi" in ro-maji. The pronunciation of the voiceless palatal fricative [ç] is similar to that of the English word hue [çuː] for some speakers. In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ヒ can be written as small ㇶ to represent a final h sound after an i sound (イㇶ ih). Along with other extended katakana, this was developed to represent sounds in Ainu that are not present in standard Japanese katakana. Stroke order Other communicative representations Full Braille representation Computer encodings References Category:Specific kana |
2,161 | Singapore Armed Forces Long Service and Good Conduct (20 Years) Medal | The Singapore Armed Forces Long Service and Good Conduct (20 Years) Medal is awarded to a member of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) (regardless of regular or NSmen status) who has completed 20 years of continuous service. A clasp is awarded for an additional 10 years of service, for a total of 30 years. Description The ribbon is brown, with two thick central white stripes and three sets of four thin white stripes surrounding them. Service medals In the SAF, the medals for service are: 5 years - Singapore Armed Forces Good Service Medal 10 years - Singapore Armed Forces Long Service and Good Conduct (10 Years) Medal 15 years - Singapore Armed Forces Long Service and Good Conduct (10 Years) Medal with 15 year clasp 20 years - Singapore Armed Forces Long Service and Good Conduct (20 Years) Medal 25 years - Long Service Medal (Military) 30 years - Singapore Armed Forces Long Service and Good Conduct (20 Years) Medal with 30 year clasp References Singapore MINDEF Factsheet: Review of SAF medals Singaporean Army Medals Factsheet See also Singaporean orders and decorations Category:Military awards and decorations of Singapore |
2,162 | Lubomír Kubica | Lubomír Kubica (born 10 March 1979) is a Czech association footballer who last played for FC Tescoma Zlín in the Czech 2. Liga. Club career Kubica previously played for FC Baník Ostrava, FK Drnovice in the Czech Gambrinus liga, FC Irtysh Pavlodar in Kazakhstan, FK AS Trenčín in Slovakia, for NK Maribor in the Slovenian Prva Liga Telekom Slovenije, for F.C. Ashdod in the Israeli Premier League and FC Inter Baku in the Azerbaijan Premier League. References External links Profile at Inter Baku's Official Site Profile at NK Maribor Stats from Maribor on PrvaLiga Profile at ČMFS website http://www.one.co.il/Article/131468.html Category:Living people Category:1979 births Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Czech footballers Category:Czech First League players Category:Israeli Premier League players Category:FC Baník Ostrava players Category:FK Drnovice players Category:FC Fastav Zlín players Category:NK Maribor players Category:Slovenian PrvaLiga players Category:F.C. Ashdod players Category:Keşla FK players Category:Czech expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Israel Category:Expatriate footballers in Kazakhstan Category:Expatriate footballers in Slovakia Category:Expatriate footballers in Slovenia Category:Expatriate footballers in Azerbaijan Category:Association football midfielders Category:Czech expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Category:Czech Republic youth international footballers Category:Czech Republic under-21 international footballers |
2,163 | Cuatro Vientos (aircraft) | The Cuatro Vientos was a specially built Br.19 TF Super Bidon, which Mariano Barberán y Tros de Ilarduya, Lieutenant Joaquín Collar Serra and Sergeant Modesto Madariaga flew from Spain to Cuba in 1933. The flight, which took 39 hours and 55 minutes, departed Seville on at 4:40 on 10 June 1933, and arrived in Camagüey at 20:45 (local time) on 11 June 1933, after a flight of 7320 km. On 20 June 1933, the aircraft departed for Mexico City, without Madariaga on board. It disappeared in flight, and was last sighted in the vicinity of Villahermosa, Mexico. No trace of the plane or of its occupants was subsequently found. A replica of the Cuatro Vientos is housed at the Museo del Aire. References External links Mariano Barberán Tros de Ilarduya Biography. Spanish Air Force. Category:1933 in Cuba Category:1933 in Mexico Category:1933 in Spain Category:Missing aircraft |
2,164 | Tokhyon Station | Tŏkhyŏn Station is a railway station in Tŏkhyŏn Workers' District, Ŭiju County, North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea, on the Tŏkhyŏn Line of the Korean State Railway. History The station, along with the rest of the Tŏkhyŏn Line, was opened by the Korean State Railway in April 1971. Services The station is served by commuter trains between here and Sinŭiju. References Category:Railway stations in North Korea Category:Buildings and structures in North Pyongan Province Category:Railway stations opened in 1971 Category:1971 establishments in North Korea |
2,165 | Alex Walker (Scottish footballer) | Alexander White Walker (15 November 1881 – 12 May 1916) was a Scottish professional football inside right who played in the Scottish League for Heart of Midlothian and Motherwell. He also played for Brentford in the Southern League. Personal life Walker was the younger brother of fellow Heart of Midlothian footballer, Bobby Walker. He served as a private in the Royal Scots during the First World War and died on 12 May 1916 from tuberculosis. Walker was buried in North Merchiston Cemetery, Edinburgh and his mother and brother were later interred in the same plot. Career statistics References Category:1881 births Category:1916 deaths Category:19th-century Scottish people Category:20th-century Scottish people Category:20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Category:Scottish footballers Category:Brentford F.C. players Category:Association football inside forwards Category:Southern Football League players Category:Scottish Football League players Category:Heart of Midlothian F.C. players Category:Motherwell F.C. players Category:British Army personnel of World War I Category:Royal Scots soldiers |
2,166 | The Beautiful Game (film) | The Beautiful Game is a 2012 feature documentary exploring the power of soccer in modern Africa and how it is changing the lives of individuals and communities there. The film, directed by Victor Buhler, features notable participants such as Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk, Roger Milla, John Obi Mikel, Sulley Muntari, Ema Boateng, José Mourinho, Kolo and Yaya Touré. The Beautiful Game has had numerous screenings across the world, played on The Sundance Channel and was featured on Netflix. The film drives the message that soccer is more than just a game. References External links Official website On IMDB Category:2012 films Category:American documentary films Category:Documentary films about association football Category:American films |
2,167 | Claas Mercator | The Mercator is a series of combine harvesters produced by the German agricultural company Claas in Harsewinkel. Initially called Senator, the Mercator series was introduced in 1966. The first combine harvester of the series to be called Mercator was presented in 1967, the Protector followed in 1968. Both are less productive but also less expensive models. With the Facelift, the Senator was renamed Mercator 70, while the Protector models were given the names Mercator 60 and 50. Later, more models of the Mercator series were introduced, such as the Mercator 75. The Senator is the first Claas combine harvester to feature the colour saatengrün (German: seed-green), the new Claas-logo and extensive metal covers. Technical data References Category:Claas Category:Combine harvesters Category:Agricultural machinery |
2,168 | Mildred Masterson McNeilly | Mildred Masterson McNeilly (28 May 1910 – 12 July 1997) was an American author best known for her novel Each Bright River. She also wrote for mystery magazines under the pen-names James Dewey and Glenn Kelly. Critical reception The New York Review of Books said "...McNeilly writes with the authority of a careful researcher. There is excitement here as the author re-creates the agony of the Whitman Massacre, the adventure of the Gold Rush of '48, the fear and laughter of spirited men ..." Bibliography Each Bright River: A Novel of the Oregon Country (1950) Praise at Morning (1947) Heaven is too high Lovely day References Category:1910 births Category:1997 deaths Category:American women novelists Category:20th-century American women writers |
2,169 | Soliciting to murder | Soliciting to murder is a statutory offence of incitement in England and Wales and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In common parlance, the act of soliciting to murder may be thought of as "hiring a hitman", though the word "hiring" is used loosely, and the act requires no financial transaction to qualify as such. Merely the intent to engage another in an act of murder qualifies as soliciting. England and Wales This offence is created by section 4 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 which reads: Textual amendments The words omitted at the beginning were repealed by sections 5(10)(a) and 65(5) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Criminal Law Act 1977. The words omitted elsewhere were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1892. The words "imprisonment for life" were substituted for the words from "be kept" to "years", on 8 September 1977, by section 5(10)(b) of the Criminal Law Act 1977. Case law The following cases are relevant: R v Fox (1870) 19 WR 109 (Ir) R v Banks (1873) 12 Cox 393 R v Ransford (1874) 13 Cox 9, (1874) 3 LT 488, CCR R v Most (1881) 7 QBD 244, (1881) 14 Cox 583, (1881) 45 JP 696 R v Bourtzeff (1898) 127 CCC Sess Pap 284 R v McCarthy [1903] 2 IR 146 R v Krause, 66 JP 121, 18 TLR 238 R v Antonelli and Barberi (1905) 70 JP 4 R v Shephard [1919] 2 KB 125, 14 Cr App R 26, CCA Visiting forces Soliciting to murder is an offence against the person for the purposes of section 3 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952. Mode of trial Soliciting to murder is an indictable-only offence. Sentence Soliciting to murder is punishable with imprisonment for life or for any shorter term. See the Crown Prosecution Service sentencing manual. The following cases are relevant: R v Raw (1983) 5 Cr App R (S) 229 Houseley and Kibble [1994] 15 Cr App R (S) 155 R v Adamthwaite [1994] 15 Cr App R (S) 241 Attorney-General's Reference No 43 of 1996 (Costaine) [1997] 1 Cr App R (S) 378 R v Robinson [2003] 2 Cr App R (S) 13 R v Montague [2004] 1 Cr App R (S) 137 R v Rai [2006] 2 Cr App R (S) 13 R v Saleem, Javad and Muhid [2008] 2 Cr App R (S) 12 ''R v Hills' [2007] EWCA Crim 3152, [2008] 2 Cr App R (S) 29 Orders on conviction As to violent offender orders, see section 98(3) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. History Initially, a person guilty of an offence under section 4 was liable on conviction to penal servitude for a term not more than ten and not less than three years or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour. From 1948 to 8 September 1977, the maximum sentence was imprisonment for a term of ten years. Northern Ireland This offence is created by section 4 of the Offences against the Person Act |
2,170 | Julia Terziyska | Julia Terziyska (; born 5 March 1996) is a Bulgarian tennis player. Terziyska has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 307, achieved on 28 December 2015. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 238, achieved on 5 August 2019. Terziyska has won eleven singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Terziyska made her Fed Cup debut for Bulgaria in 2018. Playing in that competition, she has a win-loss record of 1–1. ITF finals Singles: 18 (11 titles, 7 runner–ups) Doubles (15–15) Fed Cup Terziyska made her Fed Cup debut for Bulgaria in 2018, while the team was competing in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I. Since then, she has an 1–1 doubles record (1–1 overall). Doubles (1–1) External links Category:1996 births Category:Living people Category:Bulgarian female tennis players Category:Sportspeople from Sofia |
2,171 | Israel Mathematical Union | The Israel Mathematical Union (IMU) () is an association of professional mathematicians in Israel. It is a member of the European Mathematical Society and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and has reciprocity membership agreements with the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The Union was founded on 2 March 1953 and held its first meeting with eleven short lectures on 28 September of that year. Early members included Binyamin Amirà, Michael Fekete, and Abraham Fraenkel, who represented the Union at the 1954 International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam, as well as Shmuel Agmon, Jacob Levitzki, and Dov Jarden. Prizes The Israel Mathematical Union awards three major prizes: The Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics, awarded to an Israeli mathematician under the age of 41. The Levitzki Prize in Algebra, awarded biennially to a young Israeli mathematician for research in Algebra or related areas. The Haim Nessyahu Prize in Mathematics, awarded for outstanding achievements in a mathematical Ph.D. dissertation. Presidents Yakar Kannai (1981–1982) Shmuel Kantorovitz (1983–1984) Raphael Artzy (1985–1986) Moshe Jarden (1987–1988) Zvi Ziegler (1989–1990) Yisrael Aumann (1991–1992) Miriam Cohen (1993–1994) Stephen Gelbart (1995–1996) Lawrence Zalcman (1997–1998) Joseph Zaks (1999–2000) Vitali Milman (2001–2002) Allan Pinkus (2003–2004) Sergiu Hart (2005–2006) Michael Lin (2007–2008) Harry Dym (2009–2010) Louis H. Rowen (2011–2012) Alek Vainshtein (2013–2014) Vitali Milman (2015–2016) See also Einstein Institute of Mathematics Wolf Prize in Mathematics References Category:1953 establishments in Israel Category:Mathematical societies Category:Professional associations based in Israel Category:Scientific organizations based in Israel |
2,172 | Dan D | Dan D (meaning D-Day in Slovene) is a popular Slovenian rock band that has been formed in 1996 in Novo Mesto and has published five albums till now. Band members The group was formed from the remnants of the Mercedes Band musical ensemble by the singer Tomislav Jovanovič (nicknamed Tokac) and the drummer Dušan Obradinovič (nicknamed Obra) who later invited his friend Marko Turk (Tučo) as the rhythm guitar, Primož Špelko as the bass guitar, and Aleš Bartelj as the solo guitar. After Primož Špelko and Aleš Bartelj left, the band invited the bass guitarist Andrej Zupančič and the keyboardist Boštjan Grubar, and Tokac started to also play guitar. In 2006, Andrej Zupančič was replaced by Nikola Sekulovič as the bass guitarist. Performances In March 2007, Dan D and the Siddharta band performed at the presentation of the Slovenian media award Viktor in the Cankar Hall in Ljubljana the joint version of the Dan D's Voda and the Siddharta's song Male roke. This version later became one of the biggest hits of the year in Slovenia. The next day the two groups were presented in the TV show Tistega lepega popoldneva, broadcast by TV Slovenija, the Slovenian national TV station. On 13 September and 14 September 2009, the band performed in Križanke, a performance place in Ljubljana, alongside the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. The concert was broadcast by TV Slovenija as well as by Val 202, the Slovenian national radio station. Discography 1997: Igra 1999: Ko hodiš nad oblaki 2004: Katere barve je tvoj dan 2009: Ure letenja za ekstravagantne ptice 2009: Dan 202 (live CD/DVD) 2012: Poleno (limited edition music cassette) 2013: Tiho (live acoustic CD) 2015: DNA D References External links Category:Slovenian rock music groups |
2,173 | Support Your Local Sheriff! | Support Your Local Sheriff! (also known as The Sheriff) is a 1969 American comedy western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, and Walter Brennan. The supporting cast features Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Bruce Dern and Chubby Johnson. The picture was distributed by United Artists and produced by William Bowers (who also wrote the screenplay) and Bill Finnegan. The film parodies the iconic story of the western hero who tames a lawless frontier town. Its title was derived from a popular 1960s campaign slogan "Support Your Local Police". Plot The Old West town of Calendar, Colorado, springs up almost overnight when clumsy, hotheaded Prudy Perkins (Joan Hackett) notices gold in a freshly dug grave during a funeral. Her father Olly (Harry Morgan) becomes mayor of the new settlement. He and the other members of the town council (Henry Jones, Walter Burke) bemoan the town's descent into chaos and corruption, and are tired of the tolls exacted on their gold shipments by the Danbys, a family of near-outlaws who control the only shipping route out of town. The town has no sheriff, as most people are too busy prospecting, and the few who have taken the job have been run out of town or killed. Jason McCullough (James Garner), a confident and exceptionally skilled gunfighter who says he is only passing through town on his way to Australia, sees Joe Danby (Bruce Dern) gun down a man in the town's saloon. Needing money after encountering the town's ruinous rate of inflation, McCullough takes the job of sheriff, impressing the mayor and council with his uncanny marksmanship. He breaks up a street brawl, and later at the Perkins house meets Prudy, despite her attempts to avoid him due to her embarrassing circumstances. McCullough arrests Joe and tosses him in the town's unfinished jail, which lacks bars for the cell doors and windows, keeping the dimwitted Joe in his cell through tricks and psychology. McCullough acquires a reluctant deputy in scruffy Jake (Jack Elam), previously known as the "town character". Joe's arrest infuriates his father, Pa Danby (Walter Brennan), who is not accustomed to his family being challenged. Pa Danby mounts various attempts to get Joe out of jail, and when those fail, sends in a string of hired guns, whom McCullough defeats with ease. Meanwhile, McCullough enlists Jake's help in an unsuccessful attempt to prospect for gold, and spars romantically with Prudy. After numerous failures to reassert himself over McCullough and the town, Pa Danby enlists a host of his relatives to launch an all-out assault. When the news reaches McCullough, he initially tells Prudy he has decided to simply leave town and resume his trip to Australia, but when she expresses her sincere approval of this sensible idea, he declares it to be cowardly and announces he is staying instead. The rest of the townsfolk officially vote to stay out of the conflict, and not help in any way. Thus, the Danby clan rides in faced only by McCullough, Jake, and Prudy. After a lengthy but unproductive gunfight, McCullough |
2,174 | Mark Cardillo | Mark J. Cardillo is an American chemist currently at The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. References Category:Living people Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Year of birth missing (living people) He received his PhD in Chemistry from Cornell University and then worked as a post doctoral fellow in Genoa,Italy.Afterwards he was a Post doctoral Fellow at MIT in Richard Swoebel's group. From there he accepted a position at (AT & T) Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill,New Jersey. Heleft and became ExecutiveDirector,Dreyfus Foundation in 2005. |
2,175 | Edward Coffman | Edward Coffman may refer to: Edward M. Coffman, military historian Edward G. Coffman Jr. (born 1934), computer scientist Edward N. Coffman (1942–2014), American accounting scholar and professor of accounting |
2,176 | Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians | The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was a group of nine people appointed by the U.S. Congress in 1980 to conduct an official governmental study into the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Proceedings The Commission examined Executive Order 9066 (1942), related orders during World War II, and their effects on Japanese Americans in the West and Alaska Natives in the Pribilof Islands. It was directed to look at the circumstances and facts involving the impact of Executive Order 9066 on American citizens and on permanent resident aliens. It was also directed to look at the directives of the U.S. military and their detention in internment camps and relocation of these people. In July 1981, the Commission held public hearings in Washington, D.C. to hear testimony from Japanese-American and Alaska Native witnesses. Public hearings followed in other American cities, including Seattle, San Francisco, Cambridge, New York City, Anchorage, the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands (St. Paul), Chicago, and Los Angeles, where the testimonies were recorded. More than 750 people testified. The Commission then wrote up a report presenting it to Congress. Findings First, the Commission looked at the decision of the exclusion, the justification for this, and the conditions that permitted the decision. The decision they found was mostly based on fear and racism. There was a lot of public fear at the time due to racial stereotypes. The justification by General DeWitt, the man who recommended this action, was found to be unreasonable and racist. He claimed that the Japanese demonstrated a military danger; however, the majority of the Japanese population were law-abiding civilians so this clearly was not the case. The General's next justification was that the Japanese were not loyal. The Commission found this "disloyalty" to be based on the different culture the Japanese had. This was clearly not disloyalty, but a mere difference in culture and posed no threat to military security. The Commission then wondered how such a decision could have allowed this decision to be permitted when the justification had no clear basis. They found out that it was allowed because many people really did believe in this ethnicity determined loyalty and were afraid of the Japanese. Also, the President at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, wanted to calm the public and get rid of any rumors surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Commission then examined the detention of these ethnic Japanese civilians and the effects of this exclusion and detention. The decision to detain was found by the Commission to be due to the believed threat the Japanese were potential spies and saboteurs; but as found before, this was extremely unlikely. These camps were cruel and inhumane. People were housed in rooms of twenty by twenty-four feet. These "houses" were for a full family no matter the size. The children, in an attempt to Americanize them, were forced to salute the flag and sing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee". This song was about liberty and freedom, whereas here these children were forced to live in these cruel camps. Many |
2,177 | RBC Plaza | RBC Plaza may refer to several current and former office towers of the Royal Bank of Canada: Current Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto, Ontario RBC Plaza (Minneapolis), Minnesota Former PNC Plaza (Raleigh), North Carolina |
2,178 | Claire King | Jayne Claire King (born Jayne Claire Seed; 10 January 1962) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Kim Tate in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (1989–1999, 2018–present) and Karen Betts in Bad Girls. She has appeared in the fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2006, Safari School in 2007, and Celebrity Big Brother 14 in 2014. She played Erica Holroyd in Coronation Street from 2014 until 2017. She has appeared in panto at the Grand Opera House, Belfast in 2017 as the Magical Mermaid in Peter Pan. Early life and early career King grew up in Harrogate with her brother and sister. King attended Harrogate Ladies College, and as a punk chose a career in the music business, as a disc jockey in a Leeds nightclub. She then managed, sang and played keyboards in the Alternative Pop group Fidei and later To Be Continued as lead singer. Her career moved her to London, where she lived with Geoff Bird, alias guitarist Cobalt Stargazer of the group Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction. After making her acting debut in the LA Mix video Check this Out as the blonde girl with the glasses, after previously dancing in one of Zodiac Mindwarp's videos, the relationship broke down and she became a rock n roll groupie. After a series of short term relationships, she decided to become an actress, but when she tried to register with actors union Equity, she found there was already another Claire Seed, so changed her name to King in light of her love of horse racing (the sport of kings) and her favourite singer Elvis Presley. Other work In 1987, King played a role in the film Eat the Rich. In 1988, King appeared in an episode of Wish Me Luck as a Cinema Usherette. In 1989, she appeared in the film Cold Light of Day as a Prostitute. Soon after she joined the cast of the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Kim Tate a role she played for ten years before leaving the show in 1999. She had a role in an episode of Babes in the Wood as Angela. In 2000, she joined the cast of Bad Girls playing wing governor Karen Betts. She left the programme in 2004 after four years on the show. In 2002, she appeared in an episode of Doctors as Jenny Hennessey in the episode "Into The Shadows". In 2004, King had a role in an episode of the sitcom Down to Earth as Paula Wakeman and appeared in one episode of Dalziel and Pascoe as Louise Russell in the episode entitled: "Still Waters". Later that year, King played Madeline Jackson-Carter in four episodes of the hit drama TV show The Courtroom. In 2005, she appeared as Andrea Mason QC, a barrister for Justin Burton in 6 episodes of the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. She later appeared as Janice Perry in an episode of Holby City called "Not Another Car Wreck". She appeared in The Afternoon Play in the episode "The Good Citizen" as Joanna Clay as well |
2,179 | Helena Scott | Helena "Nellie" Scott (1832 Sydney – 1910) was an Australian illustrator of natural history. She was also a botanical collector who collected a number of type specimens. She and her sister Harriet Morgan (1830–1907) were the daughters of the Australian entomologist Alexander Walker Scott. Family life In 1846, the family moved from Sydney to the remote Ash Island in the Hunter River estuary, near Hexham. Located in an untouched area of native vegetation and wildlife, they flourished under the guidance of their artistic father and Harriet Calcott, their mother. For a period of some 20 years, they remained on the island, documenting its plants and wildlife, with an emphasis on the butterflies and moths. Harriet and Helena kept unusually detailed records which are held by the Australian Museum Archives. They compiled a handwritten catalogue in 1862 entitled "The Indigenous Botany of Ash Island", a list of their well-preserved botanical specimens. Their striking depictions and descriptions of the island's moths and butterflies attest to the enormous dedication of the family to their self-imposed project. A glimpse into the daily lives of the two sisters is provided by the meticulous records they kept. Together with their father, they collected live specimens from their neighbourhood, then determined the proper food plants to take back home and feed the hungry creatures. They then conducted a lively correspondence with various specialists to pin down the identities of the problematic species. Their father gave them full credit for their achievements, praising the quality of the drawings that showed the insects in all their various stages. The 1860s had also brought dark days for Helena – her mother's death, her father's bankruptcy and the death of her husband, Edward Forde, whom she had married in 1864. Facing enormous financial problems, the family were forced to leave their island home. The sisters were now obliged to seek payment for their work. While finishing some plates of birds' eggs for Edward Ramsay in 1866, Harriet asked "... above all ... let nobody know you are paying me for doing them for you." She eventually married Dr Cosby William Morgan in 1882, but the widowed Helena continued to struggle financially. Both sisters continued to illustrate commercially for the rest of their lives. Harriet produced botanical illustrations for the 1879, 1884 and 1886 editions of the "Railway Guide to New South Wales", and both were involved in the production of Australia's first Christmas cards in 1879. Helena died in Harris Park in 1910 leaving no descendants. Professional illustrators By 1864, a large number of plates of moths and butterflies had been completed, ready for the publication of the first volume of their father's Australian Lepidoptera and Their Transformations. A number of illustrating commissions sprang from this work, some from their father's contacts as trustee of the Australian Museum. They provided the illustrations for James Charles Cox's Monograph of Australian Land Shells (1868), and for Gerard Krefft's Snakes of Australia (1869) and Mammals of Australia (1871) – the artwork from these publications was singled out for praise at the Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition in 1870. |
2,180 | Armenian national awakening | The Armenian national awakening resembles that of other non-Turkish ethnic groups during the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire in development of ideas of nationalism, salvation and independence in Armenia, as the Ottoman Empire tried to cover the social needs by creating the Tanzimat era, the development of Ottomanism and First Constitutional Era. However, the coexistence of the communities (including Armenians) under Ottomanism proved to be a dysfunctional solution as did the Second Constitutional Era which also ignited the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. During the Armenian national awakening, "Armenian National Assembly" took over some of the regulations of temporal matters of the Ottoman Armenian Community from the Armenian Patriarchate. Among the Armenian elite, the idea of republicanism replaced the absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Dynasty, and establishment of the Armenian National Assembly in 1863 replaced the membership of the millet system. While it took World War I for the establishment of the First Armenian Republic, the Armenians had oscillated between the ideas of having an Armenian republic or an autonomous region within the empire during the history of Ottoman democracy, with organizations like the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party and Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (Ramgavar Party or Armenakan). Origins Prehistoric-Historic Era The discovery of Urartu has come to play a significant role in 19th and 20th-century Armenian nationalism. Beyond the mostly accepted terms of the Armenian nationalism as given in the above paragraphs, the concept has come to include a range of interpretations of Prehistoric Armenia, including the link to the Iron Age kingdom of Urartu. The Armenians are the original inhabitants of the territory of what is named as historic Armenia. Identification with the distant glories of Urartu and its prehistoric forerunners, together with Mount Ararat has come to be a powerful symbol of Armenian ethnicity especially among the diaspora. The idea which claims people living under Urartu were consciously Armenian, essentialist interpretations of Armenian ethnicity over the ages abound in Armenian historiography, and flourished particularly during the Soviet era, with examples such as S. A. Sardarian's Pervobytnoye obshchestvo v Amenii of 1967 which besides "numerous plagiarisms and mistakes" goes as far as to postulate a separate Armenian race native to the Armenian plateau, and attributes the invention of metallurgy to the Armenians (Kohl and Tsetskhladze 1995). Heavily slanted depictions of Urartu are common in this literature. Armenian historical view must explain why Urartian epigraphy is in the non-Indo-European Urartian language. While there are reasonable scholarly scenarios that there was a Proto-Armenian component in Urartu, and that the early Armenians were the bona fide cultural heirs to Urartu, but the essentialist view of Armenian nationhood that simply equates Urartu with Armenia cannot be sustained (Kohl and Tsetskhladze 1995). Armenian Classic Era In the Ottoman Empire, the social structure of "Armenians" before the 18th century was based on the system of "Millet." The Armenian millet was a confessional community in the Ottoman Empire. Confessional communities on local issues were functioning like the autonomous territories. The Ottoman millet specifically referred to the separate legal courts pertaining to personal law under which sections |
2,181 | Doroțcaia | Doroțcaia is a village in the Dubăsari District, Republic of Moldova, situated on the eastern bank of the River Dniester. The village was a place of fighting during 1992 War of Transnistria. It is now under the control of the central authorities from Chișinău. The Grigoriopol Romanian-language school which was not allowed to function by the authorities of Transnistria was moved to the village in 2002. According to the 2014 Moldovan Census, the village had a population of 3,038, of whom 2,976 were ethnic Moldovans, 44 were from ethnic minorities, and 18 were undeclared. Political problems On the eastern edge of Doroțcaia passes the strategic road linking Tiraspol and Rîbnița, and separatist authorities from Tiraspol want to control this road. 85% of Doroțcaia's farmland is across the road. From 2003 Transnistrian authorities tried to prevent farmers from accessing their land. Unable to harvest their crops, the farmers suffered serious losses. This situation lead to an escalation of conflict between farmers and Transnistrian guards. An Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe mission was formed to find a temporary solution that allows farmers to access their land. References Category:Villages of Dubăsari District |
2,182 | William Rolfe | William Rolfe may refer to: William James Rolfe (1827–1910), American educator William Rolfe (MP) for Heytesbury (UK Parliament constituency) |
2,183 | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is a country in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. With a land area of approximately , Saudi Arabia is geographically the largest sovereign state in Western Asia, the second-largest in the Arab world (after Algeria), the fifth-largest in Asia, and the 12th-largest in the world. Saudi Arabia is bordered by Jordan and Iraq to the north, Kuwait to the northeast, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates to the east, Oman to the southeast and Yemen to the south; it is separated from Egypt and Israel by the Gulf of Aqaba. It is the only country with both a Red Sea coast and a Persian Gulf coast, and most of its terrain consists of arid desert, lowland and mountains. As of October 2018, the Saudi economy was the largest in the Middle East and the 18th largest in the world. Saudi Arabia also has one of the world's youngest populations: 50 percent of its 33.4 million people are under 25 years old. The territory that now constitutes Saudi Arabia was the site of several ancient cultures and civilizations. The prehistory of Saudi Arabia shows some of the earliest traces of human activity in the world. The world's second-largest religion, Islam, emerged in modern-day Saudi Arabia. In the early 7th century, the Islamic prophet Muhammad united the population of Arabia and created a single Islamic religious polity. Following his death in 632, his followers rapidly expanded the territory under Muslim rule beyond Arabia, conquering huge and unprecedented swathes of territory (from the Iberian Peninsula in the West to modern-day Pakistan in the East) in a matter of decades. Arab dynasties originating from modern-day Saudi Arabia founded the Rashidun (632–661), Umayyad (661–750), Abbasid (750–1517) and Fatimid (909–1171) caliphates as well as numerous other dynasties in Asia, Africa and Europe. The area of modern-day Saudi Arabia formerly consisted of mainly four distinct regions: Hejaz, Najd and parts of Eastern Arabia (Al-Ahsa) and Southern Arabia ('Asir). The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932 by Ibn Saud. He united the four regions into a single state through a series of conquests beginning in 1902 with the capture of Riyadh, the ancestral home of his family, the House of Saud. Saudi Arabia has since been a totalitarian absolute monarchy, effectively a hereditary dictatorship governed along Islamist lines. The ultraconservative Wahhabi religious movement within Sunni Islam has been called "the predominant feature of Saudi culture", with its global spread largely financed by the oil and gas trade. Saudi Arabia is sometimes called "the Land of the Two Holy Mosques" in reference to Al-Masjid al-Haram (in Mecca) and Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (in Medina), the two holiest places in Islam. The state's official language is Arabic. Petroleum was discovered on 3 March 1938 and followed up by several other finds in the Eastern Province. Saudi Arabia has since become the world's second largest oil producer (behind the US) and the world's largest oil exporter, controlling the world's second largest oil reserves and the sixth largest gas reserves. The |
2,184 | Erik Albert Mennega | Erik Albert Mennega (January 6, 1923 – January 27, 1998) was a Dutch botanist, plant taxonomist, and author. Biography Mennega studied biology at Utrecht University, receiving his degree in 1947. He was then hired as a taxonomist at the Utrecht University Botanic Gardens. He spent much of his time identifying botanical collections at the original garden in Baarn, as well as identifying at documenting species at the Von Gimborn Arboretum. He remained at the gardens until his retirement in 1984. In 1988, Frans Stafleu and Richard Sumner Cowan published the second edition of Taxonomic Literature: A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications and Collections, with Dates, Commentaries, and Types. After Cowan left the project, Stafleu began collaborating with Mennega on a supplement series. The two wrote and published six volumes between 1992 and 2000, the last two posthumously. Mennega took over the majority of writing and compiling after 1995 due to the decline of Stafleu's health. Mennega himself died of a heart attack on January 27, 1998. Botanist Alberta Mennega was Mennega's aunt. Selected publications Stafleu, F. A., Cowan, R. S., & Mennega, E. A. (1979). Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema. Mennega, E. A. (1985). Bibliography of the Annonaceae. Utrecht, Netherlands: Institute of Systematic Botany. Mennega, E. A., Rooij, W. C. M. T., Jansen-Jacobs, M. J., & Fanshawe, D. B. (1988). Check-list of woody plants of Guyana. Ede, the Netherlands: Tropenbos Foundation. References External links Category:1923 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Dutch botanists |
2,185 | Weiwangzhuang | Weiwangzhuang () is a town in Ling County, Dezhou, in northwestern Shandong province, China. References Category:Township-level divisions of Shandong |
2,186 | Flagstad | Flagstad is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hjalte Flagstad, Danish actor Karen-Marie Flagstad (1904–1992), Norwegian opera singer Kirsten Flagstad (1895–1962), Norwegian opera singer Maja Flagstad (1871–1958), Norwegian pianist Michael Flagstad (1869–1930), Norwegian musician and conductor Mikkel Flagstad (1930–2005), Norwegian jazz musician |
2,187 | Spondylo-meta-epiphyseal dysplasia | Spondylo-meta-epiphyseal dysplasia (SMED) is a rare autosomal-recessive disease which causes skeletal disorders. SMED is thought to be caused by a mutation in the Discoidin Domain Receptor 2 (DDR2) gene. References External links Category:Autosomal recessive disorders Category:Genetic disorders by system |
2,188 | Giovanni Battista Foggini | Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Foggini (25 April 1652 – 12 April 1725) was an Italian sculptor active in Florence, renowned mainly for small bronze statuary. Biography Born in Florence, the young Foggini was sent to Rome by the Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany to join the so-called Accademia Fiorentina, and apprentice in the Roman sculptural studio of Ercole Ferrata, a pupil of Algardi. He was also tutored in drawing by the Accademia's first director (1673–86), Ciro Ferri, who was a pupil of Cortona. Returning to Florence in 1676, he became the court sculptor for Cosimo III. After the son of Pietro Tacca, Fernando, died in 1686, the mantle of the premier local sculptor fell to Foggini, who would become the Medici's Architetto Primario e Primo scultore della Casa Serenissima as well as Soprintendente dei Lavori (1687–1725). In 1687, Foggini acquired the foundry in Borgo Pinti that had once belonged to the sculptor Giambologna. This allowed him to specialize in small bronzes, produced mainly and profitably for export. His adaptation of Pietro Tacca's Moors was the basis of bronze and ceramic reproductions for the connoisseur market well into the 18th century. In Florence, his masterpieces are his sculptural relief work in the Capella Corsini of the Chiesa del Carmine. The chapel was erected by Bartolomeo and Cardinal Neri Corsini in memory of their recently canonized ancestral family member, San Andrea Corsini. It contains three large marble reliefs depicting his life: San Andrea in Glory, The Mass of San Andrea Corsini and The Battle of Anghiari (1685–87). He also completed works in Cappella Feroni in the Annunziata. Another work is the main staircase of the Medici-Riccardi Palace in Florence. Among his small bronzes are David with the Head of Goliath. Foggini's pupils included Fernando Fuga, his nephew Filippo della Valle, Balthasar Permoser, Giovacchino Fortini and Giovanni Baratta. Massimiliano Soldani Benzi was a contemporary student with Foggini in Rome and also active in small bronze sculpture. Gallery Notes External links Gli Ultimi Medici, Review by Peter Cannon-Brookes, in The Burlington Magazine, 1974, p 777-80. Category:1652 births Category:1725 deaths Category:People from Florence Category:17th-century Italian sculptors Category:Italian male sculptors Category:18th-century Italian sculptors Category:Court sculptors |
2,189 | Franco Prosperi (disambiguation) | Franco Prosperi is a name shared by two Italian film directors: Franco Prosperi was a director who specialised in fictional film. His real name was Francesco Prosperi. Franco E. Prosperi was a journalist and marine scientist who became a documentary director and producer. He is best known for his lasting collaboration with Gualtiero Jacopetti in the mondo film genre. His only fictional film was Wild Beasts (Belve feroci). References Category:Italian film directors |
2,190 | Mark Ovendale | Mark John Ovendale (22 November 1973 – 29 August 2011) was an English football goalkeeper. Playing career Ovendale was born in Leicester and began his career with local village team Leverington before joining Wisbech Town. He moved to Northampton Town, playing six league games in the 1994-95 season. He joined Welsh champions Barry Town in August 1997 and after a successful first season, joined Bournemouth for a fee of £30,000 in July 1998. He quickly became the first choice in the Bournemouth goal, making his Cherries' debut on the opening day of the 1998-99 season, a 2-0 win at home to Lincoln City. He remained a regular over the next two seasons before a £425,000 move took him to Luton Town in August 2000. Luton manager Ricky Hill installed Ovendale as his first choice goalkeeper, but he struggled to make an impact and spent the season in and out of the side, with former first choice Nathan Abbey replacing him on a number of occasions. With Abbey released and Luton relegated at the end of the season, Ovendale found himself as second choice goalkeeper, following the signing of Carl Emberson. He appeared only sporadically over the next two seasons and was released in 2003. In late July that year he re-signed for Barry Town, but just two weeks later joined York City. York were relegated to the Conference at the end of the season, and Ovendale was one of a number of players released. He signed for non-league Tiverton Town in the summer of 2004, where he remained until May 2006 when he joined Welsh side Carmarthen Town. He played for Carmarthen in the Inter-Toto Cup against Finnish side Tampere United, but left in July 2006 to join Newport County, signing as a replacement for the injured Tony Pennock. He was forced to retire from playing in June 2007 due to a hip injury. Coaching career Mark joined Wimborne Town in a coaching role in August 2008 but made a few appearances in goal for the club during the 2008-09 season. Death He died in August 2011 from cancer. Days after Ovendale's death, his old club Barry Town honoured him into the Barry Town Hall of Fame and a memorial match was held at the Newport Stadium. References External links Category:1973 births Category:2011 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Leicester Category:English footballers Category:Northampton Town F.C. players Category:A.F.C. Bournemouth players Category:Luton Town F.C. players Category:Tiverton Town F.C. players Category:York City F.C. players Category:Carmarthen Town A.F.C. players Category:Newport County A.F.C. players Category:English Football League players Category:Cymru Premier players Category:Barry Town United F.C. players Category:Association football goalkeepers Category:Wimborne Town F.C. players Category:Wisbech Town F.C. players |
2,191 | Bromazepam | Bromazepam, sold under many brand names, is a benzodiazepine. It is mainly an anti-anxiety agent with similar side effects to diazepam (Valium). In addition to being used to treat anxiety or panic states, bromazepam may be used as a premedicant prior to minor surgery. Bromazepam typically comes in doses of 3 mg and 6 mg tablets. Bromazepam is contraindicated and should be used with caution in women who are pregnant, the elderly, patients with a history of alcohol or other substance abuse disorders and children. Prolonged use of bromazepam causes tolerance and may lead to both physical and psychological dependence on the drug, and as a result, it is a medication which is controlled by international law. It was patented in 1961 by Roche and approved for medical use in 1974. Medical uses Short-term treatment of severe anxiety. Side-effects Bromazepam is similar in side effects to other benzodiazepines. The most common side effects reported are drowsiness, sedation, ataxia, memory impairment, and dizziness. Impairments to memory functions are common with bromazepam and include a reduced working memory and reduced ability to process environmental information. A 1975 experiment on healthy, male college students exploring the effects of four different drugs on learning capacity observed that taking bromazepam alone at 6 mg 3 times daily for 2 weeks impaired learning capacities significantly. In combination with alcohol, impairments in learning capacity became even more pronounced. Various studies report impaired memory, visual information processing and sensory data and impaired psychomotor performance; deterioration of cognition including attention capacity and impaired co-ordinative skills; impaired reactive and attention performance, which can impair driving skills; drowsiness and decrease in libido. Unsteadiness after taking bromazepam is, however, less pronounced than other benzodiazepines such as lorazepam. On occasion, benzodiazepines can induce extreme alterations in memory such as anterograde amnesia and amnesic automatism, which may have medico-legal consequences. Such reactions occur usually only at the higher dose end of the prescribing spectrum. Very rarely, dystonia can develop. Up to 30% treated on a long-term basis develop a form of dependence, i.e. these patients cannot stop the medication without experiencing physical and/or psychological benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms. Leukopenia and liver-damage of the cholestatic type with or without jaundice (icterus) have additionally been seen; the original manufacturer Roche recommends regular laboratory examinations to be performed routinely. Ambulatory patients should be warned that bromazepam may impair the ability to drive vehicles and to operate machinery. The impairment is worsened by consumption of alcohol, because both act as central nervous system depressants. During the course of therapy, tolerance to the sedative effect usually develops. Tolerance, dependence and withdrawal Bromazepam shares with other benzodiazepines the risk of abuse, misuse, psychological dependence or physical dependence. A withdrawal study demonstrated both psychological dependence and physical dependence on bromazepam including marked rebound anxiety after 4 weeks chronic use. Those whose dose was gradually reduced experienced no withdrawal. Patients treated with bromazepam for generalised anxiety disorder were found to experience withdrawal symptoms such as a worsening of anxiety, as well as the development of physical withdrawal symptoms when abruptly withdrawn bromazepam. Abrupt or over |
2,192 | Peter Kinik | Peter Kinik (born 21 May 1986) is a Slovakian Paralympic archer. In the 2016 Summer Paralympics, Kinik won his first Paralympic medal which was bronze. References Category:Paralympic archers of Slovakia Category:Archers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Category:Archers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Category:Paralympic bronze medalists for Slovakia Category:Living people Category:Slovak male archers Category:1986 births Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics |
2,193 | List of butterflies of Yemen | This is a list of butterflies of Yemen. About 117 species are known from Yemen. Papilionidae Papilioninae Papilionini Papilio saharae rathjensi Warnecke, 1932 Papilio demodocus demodocus Esper, [1798] Papilio demodocus bennetti Dixey, 1898 Pieridae Coliadinae Eurema brigitta (Stoll, [1780]) Colias marnoana Rogenhofer, 1884 Pierinae Colotis antevippe zera (Lucas, 1852) Colotis daira (Klug, 1829) Colotis ephyia (Klug, 1829) Colotis euippe exole (Reiche, 1850) Colotis evagore evagore (Klug, 1829) Colotis evagore niveus (Butler, 1881) Colotis protomedia (Klug, 1829) Colotis ungemachi (Le Cerf, 1922) Colotis eris contractus Gabriel, 1954 Calopieris eulimene (Klug, 1829) Nepheronia buquetii buchanani (Rothschild, 1921) Pierini Mylothris arabicus Gabriel, 1954 Belenois anomala (Butler, 1881) Belenois creona leucogyne Butler, 1885 Lycaenidae Aphnaeinae Chloroselas arabica (Riley, 1932) Chloroselas esmeralda bilqis Larsen, 1983 Cigaritis scotti (Gabriel, 1954) Cigaritis somalina (Butler, 1886) Axiocerses harpax kadugli Talbot, 1935 Theclinae Myrina silenus nzoiae d'Abrera, 1980 Hypolycaena pachalica Butler, 1888 Hypolycaena philippus (Fabricius, 1793) Iolaus glaucus Butler, 1886 Iolaus nursei Butler, 1896 Deudorix antalus (Hopffer, 1855) Deudorix dinochares Grose-Smith, 1887 Deudorix livia (Klug, 1834) Lycaeninae Lycaena phlaeas shima Gabriel, 1954 Polyommatinae Lycaenesthini Anthene amarah (Guérin-Méneville, 1849) Anthene arora Larsen, 1983 Anthene butleri arabicus Gabriel, 1954 Anthene contrastata (Ungemach, 1932) Polyommatini Cupidopsis jobates (Hopffer, 1855) Cacyreus niebuhri Larsen, 1982 Cacyreus virilis Stempffer, 1936 Leptotes babaulti (Stempffer, 1935) Leptotes brevidentatus (Tite, 1958) Leptotes jeanneli (Stempffer, 1935) Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767) Leptotes socotranus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1899) Tuxentius gabrieli Balint, 1999 Tarucus grammicus (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1893) Tarucus quadratus Ogilvie-Grant, 1899 Tarucus rosacea (Austaut, 1885) Tarucus theophrastus (Fabricius, 1793) Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865) Zizina antanossa (Mabille, 1877) Actizera lucida (Trimen, 1883) Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775) Azanus mirza (Plötz, 1880) Azanus moriqua (Wallengren, 1857) Azanus ubaldus (Stoll, 1782) Eicochrysops distractus (de Joannis & Verity, 1913) Euchrysops lois (Butler, 1886) Euchrysops malathana (Boisduval, 1833) Euchrysops osiris (Hopffer, 1855) Euchrysops philbyi Gabriel, 1954 Chilades parrhasius (Fabricius, 1793) Lepidochrysops arabicus Gabriel, 1954 Lepidochrysops forsskali Larsen, 1982 Lepidochrysops haveni Larsen, 1983 Nymphalidae Danainae Danaini Danaus chrysippus alcippus (Cramer, 1777) Satyrinae Melanitini Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758) Satyrini Lasiommata felix (Warnecke, 1929) Bicyclus anynana socotrana (Butler, 1881) Ypthima asterope (Klug, 1832) Hipparchia tewfiki (Wiltshire, 1949) Charaxinae Charaxini Charaxes varanes bertrami Riley, 1931 Charaxes varanes torbeni Turlin, 1999 Charaxes balfouri Butler, 1881 Charaxes velox Ogilvie-Grant, 1899 Charaxes hansali yemeni Turlin, 1998 Charaxes bernstorffi Rydon, 1982 Nymphalinae Nymphalini Junonia chorimene (Guérin-Méneville, 1844) Junonia hierta cebrene Trimen, 1870 Junonia oenone (Linnaeus, 1758) Junonia orithya here Lang, 1884 Protogoniomorpha anacardii (Trimen, 1881) Precis limnoria (Klug, 1845) Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Drury, [1773]) Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764) Melitaea deserticola scotti Higgins, 1941 Biblidinae Biblidini Byblia anvatara acheloia (Wallengren, 1857) Byblia anvatara boydi Dixey, 1898 Byblia ilithyia (Drury, 1773) Eurytela dryope brittoni Gabriel, 1954 Limenitinae Neptidini Neptis serena annah Larsen, 1982 Adoliadini Hamanumida daedalus (Fabricius, 1775) Heliconiinae Acraeini Acraea chilo yemensis Le Doux, 1931 Acraea neobule Doubleday, 1847 Acraea doubledayi azvaki d'Abrera, 1980 Acraea encedon rathjensi Le Doux, 1933 Acraea serena (Fabricius, 1775) Vagrantini Phalanta phalantha granti (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) Hesperiidae Coeliadinae Coeliades anchises jucunda (Butler, 1881) Pyrginae Celaenorrhinini Sarangesa phidyle (Walker, 1870) Tagiadini Caprona pillaana Wallengren, 1857 Carcharodini Spialia colotes semiconfluens de Jong, 1978 Spialia diomus |
2,194 | Tariq Lamptey | Tariq Lamptey (born 30 September 2000) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Brighton & Hove Albion and the England national under-20 team. Club career Chelsea Lamptey was born in Hillingdon, Greater London. He is a product of the Chelsea youth system, joining the academy at the age of 7. On 29 December 2019, Lamptey made his professional debut for Chelsea against Arsenal in the Premier League, replacing Fikayo Tomori. Speaking to Chelsea TV after the game, Lamptey described how nervous he was making his debut: "My heart was racing, this is the moment me and my family have been waiting for." Lamptey became the seventh academy graduate to make a first-team appearance during Frank Lampard's managerial tenure at Chelsea, following in the footsteps of Mason Mount, Billy Gilmour, Reece James, Marc Guehi, Tino Anjorin and Ian Maatsen. Brighton & Hove Albion On 31 January 2020, the winter transfer deadline day, Lamptey completed a permanent transfer to Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., signing a three and a half year deal. Career statistics References Category:2000 births Category:Living people Category:Footballers from Hillingdon Category:English footballers Category:England youth international footballers Category:Association football defenders Category:Chelsea F.C. players Category:Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players Category:Premier League players Category:Black English sportspeople |
2,195 | Pichaqani (Sajama) | Pichaqani (Aymara pichaqa, phichaqa, piqacha a big needle, -ni a suffix, "the one with a big needle", also spelled Pichacani) is a mountain in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Turco Municipality. Pichaqani lies at the northern bank of the Pumiri River. References Category:Mountains of Oruro Department |
2,196 | Lament (Resurrection Band album) | For the Ultravox album, see Lament (Ultravox album). Lament is the twelfth and last studio album of original material, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1995. The band also reverted to their original moniker with this album. Recording history Concerned that they had fallen into a rut musically, Resurrection Band decided to reach outside the band for inspiration, finding it in producer Ty Tabor, guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the band King's X. However, the most radical departure from prior releases was not so much the style of music—the blues-based hard rock of latter-period REZ is still here in evidence—but the approach to the material. Lament is the band's first concept album, a song cycle about one man's disillusionment with the harshness and cruelty of life and his eventual realization that things will not change without his own spiritual redemption. As the band's final album of original material, it is a fitting swan song, given that Resurrection Band's entire reason for existence was to inspire listeners to seriously consider their own spiritual condition and their need for a Savior. Recognizing the importance of how the songs are ordered, Resurrection Band played the entire album from beginning to end on the tour which supported this album, which was rare enough in rock music—save for The Who, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden and Styx—and unheard of in Christian rock. As a result, the creative rebirth of Lament was highly praised among long-time fans of Resurrection Band as well as prominent Christian music critics, with some calling the album the finest the band ever recorded. Track listing Personnel Glenn Kaiser – acoustic and electric guitars, dulcimer, harmonica, lead and background vocals Wendi Kaiser – lead and background vocals Stu Heiss – electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards Roy Montroy – bass guitar, background vocals John Herrin – drums Roger Heiss – percussion Ed Bialach – percussion Ty Tabor – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, producer, engineer Chris Cameron – organ Hilde Bialach – cello Julie M. Andrews – background vocals Diane Borden – background vocals Eric Clayton – pan pipes Colleen Davick – background vocals Shelli Friede – background vocals Chris Garno – background vocals Micky Griffin – background vocals Bonnie Groth – background vocals Laurel Heiss – background vocals Lottie Jones – background vocals Caryl Montroy – background vocals Andrea Spicer – background vocals Additional production' Tom Cameron – executive producer Brian Garcia – engineer Roger Heiss – engineer Ed Bialach – assistant to engineer Marty Phillips – assistant to engineer References Category:Resurrection Band albums Category:Concept albums Category:1995 albums |
2,197 | Edinho (footballer, born 1970) | Edson Cholbi Nascimento, usually known simply as Edinho (born August 27, 1970) is a Brazilian former football goalkeeper. He is the son of football legend Pelé with his first wife Rosemeri Cholbi Nascimento, who is of Brazilian-Argentinian background. Pelé's second son and Edson's brother Joshua is also a footballer, playing under Edson at Santos. Career Edinho played for four clubs, Santos, Portuguesa Santista, São Caetano and Ponte Preta before retiring from professional football in 1999, at the age of 29. His greatest achievement was playing in the Santos side that finished runner-up in the Série A in 1995. Edinho was hired as Santos' goalkeeping coach on February 9, 2007. Until 2014, he was the team's assistant coach. In 2005, he was arrested for money laundering and drug trafficking. He appealed the sentence and was allowed to remain free during his appeal. In 2014, he was given a 33-year sentence for the charges but adamantly denies any involvement. A court reduced the sentence to 12 years and 10 months, but Edinho must serve his sentence in jail. References Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro, Volume 1 - Lance, Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A, 2001. Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Santos, São Paulo Category:Brazilian criminals Category:Brazilian footballers Category:Brazilian football managers Category:Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Category:Campeonato Brasileiro Série B managers Category:Santos FC players Category:Associação Atlética Portuguesa (Santos) players Category:Associação Desportiva São Caetano players Category:Associação Atlética Ponte Preta players Category:Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube managers Category:Association football goalkeepers |
2,198 | System Deployment Image | A System Deployment Image (aka SDI) is a file format used primarily with Microsoft products to contain an arbitrary disk image, including boot sector information. Description The System Deployment Image (SDI) file format is often used to allow the use of a virtual disk for startup or booting. Some versions of Microsoft Windows allow for "RAM booting", which is essentially the ability to load an SDI file into memory and then boot from it. The SDI file format also lends itself to network booting using the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE). Another usage is hard disk imaging. The SDI file itself is partitioned into the following sections: Boot BLOB This contains the actual boot program, STARTROM.COM. This is analogous to the boot sector of a hard disk. Load BLOB This typically contains NTLDR and is launched by the boot BLOB. Part BLOB This contains the actual boot runtime (i.e. the contents of the disk image including any Operating System [OS] files) and also includes the boot.ini (used by NTLDR) and ntdetect.com files which should be located within the root directory of the runtime. The size of the runtime cannot exceed 500 MB. In addition to this requirement the runtime must also be capable of dealing with the fact that it is booting from a ramdisk. This implies that the runtime must include the "Windows RAM Disk Driver" component (specified within the boot.ini). Disk BLOB This is flat HDD image starting with a MBR. It is used for hard drive imaging instead of booting. Also only Disk BLOBs can be mounted with Microsoft's utilities. SDI usually contains either Disk BLOB (HD cloning or temporary SDI) or three other of them (bootable SDI). Windows Vista or Windows PE 2.0 boot sequence includes a boot.sdi file, which contains Part BLOB for an empty NTFS volume and a Table-of-Contents slot for the WIM image, which is stored on a separate on-disk file. SDI features SDI driver SDI files can be mounted as virtual disk drives and assigned a drive letter if an SDI driver is available to allow this. A SDI driver is a type of storage driver and is commonly used with Windows XP Embedded. SDI management Microsoft provides a tool called the "SDI File Manager" (sdimgr.exe) which can be used for the purpose of manipulating SDI files. Some of the tasks which this tool facilitates are: The creation of an SDI image file. The creation of an SDI image file from an existing hard disk partition. The verification of an existing SDI image. SDI loader The mechanism which allows for the creation, addition and removal of virtual disk drives. SDI Loader and Driver work with Disk BLOB. See also Windows Imaging Format References Category:Computer file formats |
2,199 | Rhynchospora colorata | Rhynchospora colorata, also known as starrush whitetop, white star sedge and white-topped sedge, is a perennial sedge with white bracts, giving it the appearance of white petals with long, green points. It is native to southeastern North America, from Virginia west to New Mexico in the United States, and south into the Caribbean islands. The inflorescence is a dense cluster of small spikes, each containing several tiny flowers. It sits on top of 3–10 green and white bracts that grow to 10–15 cm long. They look much like leaves, but the real leaves arise from the base of the plant. Gallery References colorata Category:Plants described in 1893 Category:Taxa named by Hans Heinrich Pfeiffer |
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