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Jane Gomeldon (formerly Jane Middleton; around 1720 – 10 July 1779) was an English writer, poet, and adventurer. She was known after her death as an early supporter of feminism. Jane Middleton was born in the Newcastle area to a Quaker family worked in glassmaking. She took a detailed education in philosophy, science, and languages. At a young age, she married Captain Francis Gomeldon, an officer in Sir John Bruce Hope's Regiment of Foot and a friend of George Bowes, a coal seller. Shortly after her marriage, she went to France, where she had a few adventures, often hid herself as a man. These included unusual pursuits like courting a young nun she nearly persuaded to elope. In 1740, her husband publicly announced her departure in the Newcastle Journal. He asked her to respond in the rival Newcastle Courant, citing his cruelty and interference with her inheritance. She later sued for separation for the reason of cruelty. After her husband's death, she wasn't included in his will, which left her belongings to his nephew, Thomas Lake. She was interested in the Lying-in Hospital in Newcastle. She supported expansion and fundraising through her first book, published in 1766. Gomeldon wanted to join Captain James Cook on his first voyage. This was possibly inspired by her cousin, Sydney Parkinson, who also joined Cook. She provided evidence in a court dispute related to the voyage's publication, supporting Parkinson against Dr. Hawkesworth's claims. A letter from Gomeldon (addressed to Parkinson as "Dear Cousin") is published in the preface to the first published edition of Parkinson's journal. Jane Gomeldon died on 10 July 1779, as reported in the Newcastle Courant. The Medley: Her first book, "The Medley", aimed to support the Lying-in Hospital, raising approximately £53 through subscriptions. The work consists of satirical essays mocking societal figures like Lord and Lady Magnesia. This work included taboo topics such as female education, cross-dressing, and adultery. Written from the perspective of a fictional male narrator, the essays critique societal norms and support for men to better themselves as companions for women.
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The Grenadier Guards are a foot guards regiment of the British Army. They are famous because they are the most senior Infantry regiment regularly responsible for guarding His Majesty The King. History. The regiment's history starts in 1656, with the formation of Lord Wentworth's Regiment. This regiment combined with John Russell's Regiment of Guards in 1665 to form the 1st Regiment of Foot. For over 300 years, the Grenadier Guards have fought in many large conflicts, such as the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, World War I and World War II. Traditions. As one of the 5 foot guards regiments, the Grenadier Guards often mount the King's Guard. This also means the Grenadier Guards appoint lance sergeants instead of full corporals.
Catie Curtis (born 22 May 1965) is an American singer-songwriter. She is a folk rock singer. Her most recent album recording, "The Raft," was released in 2020. Career. Curtis lived in Saco, Maine. When she was fifteen she was playing drums for a local theater company and in her late teens worked with Foreigner on a performance of "I Want to Know What Love Is". She graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island with a degree in history. Then she moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she began working as a folk rock artist . Curtis self-released the cassette-only "Dandelion" in 1989; her first CD, "From Years to Hours", in 1991; and her second CD, "Truth from Lies", in 1995. Her 1997 follow-up, "Catie Curtis", was named Album of the Year at that year's Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards. She currently has thirteen albums. Her album "A Crash Course in Roses" (1999) is known best. Her songs were played in "Alias", "Dawson's Creek", "Grey's Anatomy", "Felicity" and "Chicago Hope", as well as in several independent films. In 2005, she and Mark Erelli won the Grand Prize in the International Songwriting Competition for "People Look Around". This was a song written for Hurricane Katrina.
Don't Look Under the Bed is a 1999 American family psychological fantasy horror movie directed by Kenneth Johnson. It stars Erin Chambers, Ty Hodges, Robin Raker, Steve Valentine and Rachel Kimsey. It was a television movie made under Disney network.
The Welsh Open is a snooker tournament. It has been held since 1992. It replaced the Welsh Professional Championship, which was played from 1980 to 1991 and was open only to Welsh players. The Welsh Open is the longest running ranking event after the World Snooker Championship and the UK Championship. Since 2016, it is part of the Home Nations Series. Since 2017, the winner of the event has received the Ray Reardon Trophy. Mark Williams is the only Welsh winner, having captured the title in 1996 and 1999. John Higgins holds the record for the most Welsh Open wins, claiming the title five times. Gary Wilson is the reigning champion. Winners. The winners of each event is below:
Jahafil Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad fi Filastin (The Armies for Monotheism and Jihad in the Palestinian territories) is a Islamist militant group in Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula and is a division of al-Qaeda in Gaza. The founding of the group was made public on the 6th of November 2008, with the announcers pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda after being messaged by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Religious ruling allowing killing of civilians. On the 5th of February 2011, the commander of a group that called itself Jama'at Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad, Abu al-Walid al-Maqdisi posted a religious ruling allowing the killing of Jews and Christians in attacks like 9/11 because they are fighters who are not innocent. The religious ruling also said that it is haram to not do such attacks out of fear of killing other Muslims, as it would lead to stopping jihad. He was arrested by Hamas police on the 2nd of March 2011 but was released in August of 2012 but was killed 2 months after he was released by the Israel Defense Forces.
The Lidder Valley is a valley in the Himalayas around the southeastern part of the Anantnag District in the Indian part of Kashmir. The Lidder River goes down the valley. The way into the valley is 7 kilometers northeast of Anantnag and 62 kilometers southeast of Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a 40 kilometer long ravine valley being 3 kilometers in width on average.
The Amal Movement is a Lebanese political party that used to be a militant group related to followers of Shi'ism in Lebanon. It is noted for its dedication towards the social and economic emancipation of Shi'ites in the south of Lebanon. The party was created shortly after the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War, in which it later participated, by Musa al-Sadr, Mostafa Chamran and Hussein el-Husseini as the military wing of "The Movement of the Deprived." The party has been led by Nabih Berri since 1980. History. Shi'ism in Lebanon after the Second World War. In Lebanon, the years after the Second World War were marked by severe social and economic inequalities. Especially Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims dominated the political realm and had control over most of the recourses. Shi'ites however were the largest and poorest group in Lebanon, which caused tensions in Lebanese society. During the 1950s and 1960s, some Shi'ites left their jobs in agricultural sector and immigrated to the cities or to Africa and America. The migration to cities like Beirut was stimulated by the neglection of rural areas in especially southern Lebanon by the government. Figures like Lebanese President Fu'ad Shihab made sure Shi'ites had access to state education, which lead to the social and economic emancipation of the Shia community. By the mid-1960s, the Shi'ites had organized themselves in political parties that tried to obtain political influence and power for the Shia community. Musa al-Sadr and Shi'ite political power. The founder of the Amal Movement, Sayyid Musa al-Sadr, was born in Iran into a family of religious scholars. During the 1960s he gained prominence as a spokesman for the politically neglected Shi'ites in Lebanon. One of his mayor accomplishments was the establishment of an independent Shi'i Council, the Supreme Islamic Shi'i Council (SISC), in 1967. This was a government sanctioned representative body that gave Shi'ites some degree of political power. Musa al Sadr served as its first president till his presumed death in 1978. It was met by some resistance
Kroll is a 1991 Polish crime thriller movie by first time director Władysław Pasikowski. It stars Olaf Lubaszenko, Bogusław Linda, Dariusz Kordek, Cezary Pazura and Maciej Kozłowski. It was distributed by Agencja Produkcji Filmowej.
"Outside" is a 1998 song by George Michael and is the leading single from his greatest hits album "". It went to number 2 in the United Kingdom, number 1 in Spain, Hungary and Greece, number 3 in Scotland and Italy, number 4 in Denmark, number 5 in Iceland, number 14 in the Netherlands, number 10 in Norway, number 7 in Ireland, number 8 in Finland, number 13 in Australia, number 17 in Austria, number 26 in France, number 11 in New Zealand and number 30 in Germany.
A role model is a person who shows certain behavior patterns that are seen as ideal, or worthy to be imitated. The behavior of a role model is often seen as an example of how to behave, or how to do things. In sociology, and psychology, people also look at role models which are close to the person, for example, which are members of the peer group or the parents.
Spessart is a region in Gernany, about southeast of Frankfurt am Main. It is about northwest of Würzburg. It contains the largest mixed forest in Germany. Most of it is hilly plains, but there are also some mountains. The region is split between Bavaria and Hesse. Many of the German fairy tales mention the Spessart. Snow White takes place in Lohr am Main, in the Spessart. The name is a contraction of Specht (woodpecker) and -hart (for forest)
Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight operated by Air France that crashed on 25 July 2000. The flight was supposed to go from Paris to New York City. Shortly after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport, the airplane crashed into a hotel in a suburb in nearby Gonesse, killing all 109 people on board plus 4 people on the ground. The crash was caused by a piece of metal on the runway from a DC-10 that punctured one of the airplane's fuel tanks. This led to an engine fire, and the airplane lost power in its engines. The aircraft lost control due to the fire and crashed. This accident led to the temporary grounding of the Concorde fleet and changes in how the airplane was operated. The Concorde also decreased in popularity from the crash.
Aspidorhynchus is an extinct genus of predatory aspidorhynchiform from the Jurassic. Fossils have been found in Europe, Antarctica, and the Caribbean. Description. Physical appearance. A slender-bodied fish, "Aspidorhynchus" had heavy scales and a symmetrical tail. It is famous for its pointy rostrum. It was a fast-swimming fish, too. Although it would've looked like the modern-day gars, it was not related to them because Aspidorhynchiformes is a separate order from the Lepisosteiformes. Classification. "Aspidorhynchus" is a member of the family Aspidorhynchidae within the order Aspidorhynchiformes.
Aspidorhynchiformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the late Paleocene. They only have one family, Aspidorhynchidae. The most famous is "Aspidorhynchus". Description. The Aspidorhynchiformes are best known for their elongated, pointy rostrums. They are formed from fused premaxillary bones.
Susan Abulhawa (born June 3, 1970) is a Palestinian-American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of the 2010 best-selling novel "While the World Sleeps", and founder of the NGO Playgrounds for Palestine"." She lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania. Her second novel, "The Blue Between Sky and Water" (), which has been translated into more than 19 languages. It was published in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2015, and in the United States on September 1, 2015. Family Background. Her parents were born in the city of Al-Tur in Jerusalem, and were displaced in the 1967 war. Her father said that they were expelled at gunpoint. Her mother was studying in Germany at the time, so she could not return. After that, they were reunited in Jordan before going to Kuwait, where Suzan was born in 1970. After the disintegration of the family due to the war, she was sent to her uncle in the United States At the age of thirteen, she was sent to North Carolina as an adopted child. She has lived in the United States since that time.  Writing. She majored in biology in college and completed a master's degree in neuroscience. She later moved to journalism and fiction, where she contributed to some anthologies that were published in major and minor American and international newspapers. She wrote her first novel", While the World Sleeps", which achieved many international sales and was published in at least 26 languages. In 2013, she published some poetic writings entitled “The Voice of the Wind Sought for Me,” and she announced that she had completed them and sold her second novel. Playgrounds for Palestine. She founded Playgrounds for Palestine, a non-governmental organization that defends Palestinian children by building camps for them in Palestine and in United Nations camps in Lebanon. Their first land was established at the beginning of 2002. Her activities. In 2000, she traveled to Palestine and heard the sound of her childhood at the foot of the Mount of Olives, and there she finally achieved her purpose. She lived her life along an indef
The China Open was a snooker tournament. It was a ranking tournament tournaments. It began in 1997. The final champion is Neil Robertson, who won the event in 2019. History. The first big snooker tournament in China was the China International in September 1997. The China International was a non-ranking tournament for the top 16 players and local players. The following season the tournament was given a ranking and was held in March. Then the name of the event was changed to China Open and was held in December, so there were two events in 1999. After the 2002 tournament the event was abandoned. The event was revived in 2004. Local players were invited to play against the qualifiers. Ding Junhui, Chinese, won the tournament, but as he entered as a wild-card, he received no prize money nor ranking points. The last edition of the tournament in 2019 took place at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, Chaoyang District, Beijing in early April, and it was usually the last ranking event before the World Championship. The 2020 edition was scheduled to take place, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused it to be cancelled: the subsequent restrictions meant it was not staged through 2021, 2022 and 2023. Despite the COVID restrictions ending in China, the tournament has not been restored to the calendar, with new events in Wuhan and Xi'an being staged in its place. Winners. Below are the winners of the events.
The Yasin (Arabic: ياسين), also known as Yassin or Al-Yassin, is a RPG weapon made by the Al-Qassam Brigades which is the military group of Hamas. It's used to destroy tanks and other armoured vehicles and was first used in 2004. It's named after Hamas' leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, who was killed by the Israeli Forces on March 22, 2004. The Yasin was shown for the first time in August 2004. It was created by engineers from Hamas, led by Adnan al-Ghoul, who was killed by the IDF on October 22, 2004. The design of the Yasin was influenced by two other weapons: the RPG-2 and RPG-7. The RPG-2 was used for the launcher's tube design and the shape of the warhead. The RPG-7 was used for the enhanced warhead and the nozzle at the launcher's rear. This nozzle helps reduce the recoil when firing the rocket. The Yasin is made in small underground workshops and uses TNT and powdered ammonium nitrate as explosives. It's said to have a range of 200 to 250 meters, according to Israeli intelligence.
Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 - September 2, 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker. He also had the name Lo Spagnoletto ("the little Spaniard") given to him by his contemporaries and early biographers. Rivera was considered as one of leading painters of the Spanish School, although his mature works were painted in Italy.
Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir (born 25 November 1964) is a politician from Malaysia. He served as the Menteri Besar of Kedah, from 2013 to 2016 and from 2018 to 2020. He was also a deputy minister and a member of parliament. He is the son of Mahathir Mohamad, a former prime minister. Mukhriz founded the Homeland Fighters Party in 2020. He was part of different political parties like BERSATU and UMNO. He left UMNO with his father to create BERSATU in 2016. Later, they founded the Homeland Fighters Party in 2020.
José Luis de Pando Villarroya (born in La Palma (Cartagena), Murcia, in 1937 ), is a Spanish journalist, economist and lawyer.  Biography and professional career. He received his doctorate in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid . He has published more than seventy books, essays and dictionaries. He has been a TV presenter, a radio announcer, a seaman. He has traveled all over the world, across the five continents, studying their cultures, customs, languages and dedicating his entire career to compiling dictionaries, glossaries and vocabularies of a large number of subjects, including zoology and botany.  Work. Among his more than seventy published books, the following can be highlighted:
Mokhzani Mahathir (born 2 January 1961) is a businessman from Malaysia. He used to work in Kedah UMNO but stopped being involved in politics now. Mokhzani is the second oldest son of the ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad.
Fathi Arafat (; 11 January 1933 – 1 December 2004) was the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Palestinian Red Crescent. He studied medicine at Cairo University. He is the brother of Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
J D Wetherspoon plc (branded variously as Wetherspoon or Wetherspoons, and colloquially known as Spoons) is a pub company in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company was founded in 1979 by Tim Martin. It is based in Watford. It operates the sub-brand of Lloyds No.1 bars, and 56 Wetherspoon hotels. Wetherspoon is known for converting unconventional buildings, such as former cinemas and banks, into pubs. The company is publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It started non-smoking areas in its pubs before the law made smoking in pubs illegal.
Tom Keir Blyth (born 2 February 1995) is an English actor. He is known for his role as a young Coriolanus Snow in "" (2023). He also plays the main role in the MGM+ series "Billy the Kid" (2022–).
The Coptic Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia work of history, theology, language, art, architecture, archeology and hagiography of .
The Phillipine flying frog, southeast Asian tree frog, brown-eyed tree frog, frilled tree frog, rough frill-armed tree frog, or rough-armed tree frog ("Kurixalus appendiculatus") is a frog. It lives in the Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Vietnam. People have seen it between 0 and 500 meters above sea level. This frog lives in forests that have never been cut down and forests that have been cut down and are growing back. This frog lives near streams with slow water and in swamps. People have seen them on woody plants. The tadpoles swim in puddles and small pools where the water does not move. These frogs fight each other over good places to look for food. It only eats a few kinds of food, mostly animals without spines. Scientists believe this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place. However, human beings cut down the forests where it lives to build farms for palm oil.
A member of the Knesset (abbreviated as : MK) is one of the 120 representatives serving in the Knesset, after being elected to this position by the citizens of the State of Israel in democratic elections. As part of their membership in the Knesset, Knesset members also serve as members of Knesset committees, and can also serve as ministers or deputy ministers in the government . The prime minister and his deputy must also serve as members of the Knesset. The Knesset elections. In Knesset elections, any Israeli citizen who has turned 18 may vote. Any citizen who has reached the age of 21 may be a candidate for the Knesset, with the exception of civil servants, judges and military personnel, as well as other officials. The law requires a cooling-off period of three years from certain high-ranking officials (such as IDF officers of the rank of colonel and above)
The al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades is the militant group for the Popular Resistance Committees, which is a group of Palestinian militant groups that are in the Gaza Strip.  The group fought in the Gaza War from December of 2008 to January of 2009. It also fought in the 2014 Gaza War on the side of Hamas.
Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (shortly ALLFED) is a nonprofit organization in the USA. It focus on finding solutions how to give food to people in case of big agricultural failure. Such a failure could happen in case of big volcanic eruption, blackout caused by geomagnetic storms, cyber war or nuclear war. To solve this problem the researchers at ALLFED search for resilient foods, which could create enough food for everyone even after global catastrophes. Examples here are resilient plants (like fungi, potatoes or beets) or alternative sources of food (like seaweed, single-cell proteins or leaf protein concentrate). David Denkenberger and Joshua Pearce wrote a book "Feeding Everyone No Matter What" in 2014. The book discusses different technologies to give food for the humans in case of failure of agriculture. Some years after, he founded the organization Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters to evolve a research on this problem.
The Popular Resistance Committees (Arabic: لِجَانُ الْمُقَاوَمَةِ الشَّعْبِيَّةِ) is a group of Palestinian militant groups which are against the Palestinian Authority and Fatah because of its willingness to work with Israel. The group is now most active in the Gaza Strip, due to its military group, the Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades present there. The group was created in 2000 by former Fatah member Jamal Abu Samhadana, and the group's members are mainly former members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and is allegedly supported by Hezbollah. The current leader of the group is Ayman al-Shashniya.
A tocsin is an alarm signal, given with a church bell. Usually this signal is given to tell people to assemble to face an imminent danger or threat.  Tocsin can also be,
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician and stateswoman who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination on October 31 1984 in New Delhi. She was shot by her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for Operation Blue Star, which was to remove pro-Khalistan militant religious leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab.