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Charlotte Agnes Walker (born 1884 – died 20th century) was a British foil fencer. She was a member of the Tassart fencing club. Fencing career. Walker competed internationally at the 1913 Alfred Hutton Memorial Challenge Cup. After the elimination round she won her semi-final and so reached the final where she finished in 5th place. At the 1914 national fencing championships, Walker finished second, after losing in the final bout from her sister Alice Walker. Charlotte won the next national championships, after World War I, in 1920.  Personal life. Walker was born in London as the daughter of John Walker, a well known stationer in the city and was specialising in diaries. Her sister Alice (1876 – 1954), was also a fencer who also competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics. During World War I, she and her sister, worked as cooks with the French Red Cross.
The world's fastest train is the Shanghi Maglev in China, It can reach a top speed of The train is unusual because it uses magnetic levitation to float over an elevated track rather than using wheels on railway tracks as most trains do. The train that runs fastest while carrying passengers is the CR400 "Fuxing" from China. It can go at . The fastest speed on a test run by a regular train was on 3 April 2007 in France. Fastest train by country. America. In the United States, the fastest trains are "legacy Acelas,"They can run at . China. The Shanghi Maglev in China can go as fast as . It is a special type of train that uses magnetic force to hold it off the ground. This causes it to "fly" a few centimetres above its special guide track. China also has the CR400 "Fuxing" trains, They can go at speeds of up to , and have done on a test run. France. France is known for its "TGV" trains. Some travel up to on some routes. 3 April 2007 - TGV V150 official bite speed record 574,8 km/h: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_world_speed_record Germany. In Germany, the fastest train is their "ICE3." It goes up to a speed of . It has also gone as fast as on a special test run. Japan. Japan is known for its "bullet" trains on its "Shinkansen (high speed) railway lines. The fastest, the Japanese Railways East (JR East) "E5" go at up to ." Morocco. The first high speed line in Africa opened in November 2018 in Morocco. It runs between Tangier and Casablanca. The "Alboraq" trains came from the French "TGV." They have a maximum speed of . Historical speed records. The maximum records have usually been set on special test runs and are for conventional (normal) trains:
Adedoyin Olayiwola "Ade" Adepitan (born 27 March 1973) is a Nigerian-British wheelchair basketball player and television presenter. Life. As a presenter, he has presented many travel documentaries and sport programmes for BBC television. Adepitan is an award-winning disability advocate. He is one of the UK's first physically disabled television presenters, with a career about 21 years.  Early life. Adepitan was born in Lagos. When he was a baby, he contracted polio, which caused damage to his legs that made him a wheelchair user. At the age of three, he moved with his family to the UK. This is where he grew up in East London.  Works. Sports. Becoming a wheelchair basketball player, he was part of the British team that played at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He obtained a bronze medal. Involved in many charities promoting access to sport for disabled people, in 2005 he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his services to sport for the disabled.  Television. During the 2000s, Adepitan began appearing on British television. His first appearances included as an actor in the shows Casualty and Desperados. He also went on to present for sports programs during the 2000s. Beginning in the 2010s, he appeared more and presented in travel documentaries and television specials. At first he worked for episodes of the series Unreported World of Channel 4, then for BBC Africa with Ade Adepitan, and Children In Need.
Hurricane Fiona was a powerful tropical cyclone in mid-to-late September 2022. The storm crashed over Puerto Rico, the northern Dominican Republic, the eastern Bahamas, Bermuda and eastern Canada from Nova Scotia to Prince Edward Island. Fiona killed 21 or 22 people overall. It caused over 2 billion dollars in destruction. The storm died in late September 2022. It peaked at category 4 before hitting Bermuda and eastern Canada. On March 29, 2023, the name “Fiona” was retired due to its destruction in the Caribbean and Canada, it will be replaced with “Farrah” for 2028
The 1914 "La Femme Contemporaine" women's fencing competition was a women's international fencing competition during the exposition "" in Antwerp, Belgium on 21 May 1914. The competition was organized the fencing academy of Salle Verbrugge. About half of the over 50 women who entered competed. Each fencer competed against each other fencer. The Dutch Esther Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo of Salle Giandomenici won the competition ahead of the Preetorius of Salle Verbrugge the Belgian J. De Deken. Ahead of the competition it was stated as "the most important tournament of the last years". Entrants. On 10 May it was reported that over 40 women entered for the competition. With this number of entrants it was stated as "the most important tournament of the last years". This number of entrants increased to over 50 women. However, about half of these entrants withdrawn. The Algemeen Handelsblad newspaper stated fencers from three nations competed, being Belgium, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Newspaper De Telegraaf lists Preetorius as a German, and newspaper De Maasbode names her fräulein, the German language honorific for unmarried women. Algemeen Handelsblad only states that Preorius is from the Belgian "Salle Verbrugge" without indicating a nationality.  The only two Dutch entrants (both competed) were: Esther Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo and Adrie Meyerlink, both of Salle Giandomenici. Schedule. In the morning of 21 May 1913 the preliminairy matches were held at Salle Verbruggen. In the afternoon the finalists competed at "Stedelijke Feestzaal", the main the exposition area. The matches were in "competition-format" meaning that each fencer competed against each other fencer. Matches. Preliminairies. From the preliminaires, that were held in the morning, the seven women that qualified for the final were: Final. In the final all fencers competed once against each others. Esther Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo was able
AKOM Production, Ltd. (Animation KOrea Movie 애이콤 프로덕션) is a South Korean animation studio in Songpa-gu, Seoul. It has provided much work since its conception in 1985 by Nelson Shin. Its biggest claim to fame is the overseas animation of more than 200 episodes of "The Simpsons". The studio also produced a portion of the overseas animation for "The Simpsons Movie". Other well-known series that AKOM has been involved in include "", "The Tick", "Tiny Toon Adventures", "Animaniacs", "The Transformers", the first 11 seasons of "Arthur", and six of "The Land Before Time" films.
The North Island takahē ("Porphyrio mantelli") is a bird. It is extinct. This bird used to live in North Island, New Zealand. It was rail bird. That means it was in the family Rallidae. The North Island takahē did not fly. The Maori people called the North Island takahē "moho" or "mohoau." Scientists think the North Island takahē became extinct in the 1800s. The South Island takahē is alive, but it is an endangered species.
The Dominican Army (), is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic. The Dominican army has 28,750 active duty personnel. It consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, a combat service support brigade and the air cavalry squadron.
Neue Deutsche Härte (; "New German Hardness"), sometimes shortened to NDH, is a style of rock music well known in Germany and Austria. It started from Neue Deutsche Welle and the term was used by the music press after the release of Rammstein's first album "Herzeleid". Features. Neue Deutsche Härte is a crossover style from Neue Deutsche Welle, alternative metal, and groove metal. They merge it with elements from electro-industrial and techno music. Most NDH bands have an electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals. They may also have keyboards, synthesizers, samples and sometimes drum machines. NDH uses guitars that are distorted and tuned low (drop D or drop C). In most NDH songs, there is an importance of showing predominance. This is done by overpronouncing some syllables and sounds (such as the uvular [sound made with the uvula] or alveolar trill [sound made with the tongue touching or near the alveolar]). The vocals are usually in German, sung by a deep, male voice. Some bands use screaming and death growls, used in songs by Oomph!, Rammstein, Joachim Witt, Megaherz, and Eisbrecher. History. The basics of the NDH style were set up by Oomph! on their second album, "Sperm" (1994), and by Rammstein with their first album "Herzeleid" (1995). Oomph!'s biggest impact was from groove metal bands such as Prong, Pantera, and Sepultura. Rammstein, who takes inspiration from many bands, such as Depeche Mode and Ministry, is one of NDH's most influential bands. NDH is specially successful in continental Europe; Rammstein having sold almost four million records in Germany, and earning gold and platinum records in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, and Finland. Oomph! got a gold record for their 2004 single "Augen auf!" in Austria and Germany. Eisbrecher's
In sound and music, sampling is reusing a part (or sample) of a recording for another recording. Samples may have elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, sounds or bars of music, and may be layered, equalized, sped or slowed, repitched, looped, and controlled into different ways. Legal issues. Sampling someone else's songs without their permission is illegal. The punishment for illegal sampling is usually a significant fine.
Adam Berry (born December 3, 1966) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning television and movie composer. He is also a Grammy Award-winning producer and member of the new age band White Sun. He is originally from Los Angeles.  Works. Some of his credits include "South Park", "Kim Possible", and "The Sarah Silverman Program". He worked closely with Trey Parker and Matt Stone's in developing the scores for the first four seasons of "South Park". He also played in their punk band, DVDA. As a member of new age band White Sun, Berry garnered a Grammy Award for best New Age album in 2017 for the album "White Sun II".
"If It Makes You Happy" is a 1996 song by American country rock singer Sheryl Crow. The song is taken from her 1996 self-titled album. It charted at number 1 in Canada, number 9 in the United Kingdom, number 10 in the United States and number 12 in New Zealand. The song won a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1997. A. "If It Makes You Happy" (edit) – 4:30 B. "I'm Going to Be a Wheel Someday" – 3:38 Track listings. Note: The Australian CD single switches tracks two and three.
Dorothy Joyce Haworth (19 July 1890 — 26 August 1968) was a British-Dutch violinist and fencer, mainly active during the 1910s. She was born in England and educated by Adolph Brodsky. Haworth emigrated to the Netherlands and worked together with among others Ina Santhagens-Waller, and . Biography. Haworth was born in 1890 in Accrington as the daughter of John Haworth and Alice Jenkinson. She had two brothers: Thomas Reginald and John. Haworth was educated by famous violinist at the conservatorium in Manchester, where she graduated in 1910.  Described as a "young talented violinist" she gave her first concert in the Netherlands on 6 April 1910 with singer R. van Zijp at the concerthall of hotel “du Soleil” in Nijmegen. A few years later, on 8 November 1913 she gave a concert together with singers Ina Santhagens-Waller and led by in Hilversum. She continued playing in the Netherlands, with her next concert in February 1914 with Santhagens-Waller and Cornelis at 'De Kroon' in Haarlem. From September 1913 until January 1914 she was a member of the famous Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam as a second violinist. Next to being a violinist, Haworth was also a fencer at Salle Giandominici of Giovanni Giandomenici in Amsterdam. Singer Ina Santhagens-Waller, with whom she gave concerts at the time, was also a fencer at Salle Giandominici. Haworth entered for 1914 Salle Giandomenici international women's fencing competition, but withdrawn. In the next years she continued performing together with Cornelis. In 1916 Haworth was described as a "known violinist". In late 1918 she also gave concerts with Dina Italie. She worked together with Cornelis until 1919.  Later in 1919 she went by boat to the Dutch East Indies, together with Louis Davids
"Bringin' On the Heartbreak" is a 1981 song by English heavy metal Def Leppard. It was taken from their second studio album "High 'n' Dry". The remix version went to number 61 in the United States in 1984. Mariah Carey version. "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" was covered by Mariah Carey in 2003. It was taken from her ninth studio album "Charmbracet". It was a top thirty hit in Switzerland.
Cory Efram Doctorow (/ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author.  He served as co-editor of the blog "Boing Boing". He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws. He is also a supporter of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
The white-speckled tree frog ("Hyloscirtus albopunctulatus") is a frog. It lives in Ecuador, Peru, and part of Colombia. The adult male frog is about 33 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog is green or red-brown with small dark marks and small white spots. The iris of the eye is white with red lines. This frog hides during the day and moves around at night. Scientists think it hides in bromeliad plants. The male frog sings for the female frog from under rocks or near arroyos. The Latin name of this frog means "white spots on its sides."
Net 25 (capitalized and stylized as NET25) is a Philippine television network. It is owned and operated by Eagle Broadcasting Corporation. The network is named for its flagship station in Metro Manila, DZEC-TV, which is carried on UHF Channel 25 on analog terrestrial TV and UHF Channel 28 on digital terrestrial TV. It has carried by major cable operators in the country. The station's broadcast facilities are located at EBC Building #25 Central Ave., Barangay Culiat, New Era, Quezon City. Digital television. Net 25, with the help of GEMNET, had the first digital and full HD coverage of the 2010 Philippine elections via the ISDB-T system through their sister station's frequency, Channel 49. It also offered real-time election results via datacasting. However, the coverage was only available in some areas in the Philippines. Test digital broadcasts are still being done by the station by simulcasting their evening news program, Mata ng Agila through Channel 49. From September 7, 2017, in time for its 8th year since INC's Executive Minister Eduardo Manalo took office, INCTV was granted a "special authority" from the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to move its analog feed from UHF Channel 49 to UHF Channel 48, allowing the Net 25 and INCTV channel to simulcast digitally in full-time, which began two days earlier, on September 5. The shift was arranged for the station until its management announced its intention to permanently shut down analog broadcasts and go digital-only. As of October 2021, NET 25 has started its Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) broadcasts in the areas of Mega Manila on UHF 28 (557.143 MHz). On January 29, 2022, NET 25's Digital Terrestrial TV transmitter power suddenly increased from 500 watts to 5kW. On April 27, 2022, it further received a signal increase to 10kW transmitter power. In October 2022, Eagle Broadcasting Corporation began its expansion rollout on airing NET 25 and INCTV outside Mega Manila as a provisional authority in Baguio City, covering the northern and central parts of Luzon.
Eugénie Marguérite Gallois (born 18 November 1895) was a Dutch East Indies pianist. She learned to play piano in Surabaya by Constant van de Wall. Later she studies in Paris and was a student of Gabriel Grovles at “Conservatoire Femina”. Afterwards she was a student of Evert Cornelis in Amsterdam, and received her official certificate in 1918. She went on tour in the Dutch East Indies with Joyce Haworth starting in Surabaya in July 1919. They went to Surabaya in August. They gave their last concerts in September in Sukabumi and Cianjur, Cianjur Regency. A concert in Batavia was cancelled due to "lack of interest".
Île Saint-Louis is connected to the rest of Paris by four bridges to both banks of the river and to the Île de la Cité by the Pont Saint-Louis.  The island was first known as the Île Notre-Dame and was used mostly for grazing cattle, fishing, drying laundry, and occasionally for fighting duels. It was originally owned by the chapter of Notre-Dame cathedral.
Cristien R. Polak (died 26 September 2022) was a Surinamese politician. Polak was in the from 1 February 2017 to 16 May 2019. Together with three other ministers she was replaced in May 2019. As a diplomat Polak was at the Surinamese embassy in Caracas. Polak died in hospital in the evenening of 26 September 2022. Desi Bouterse replied to her death with: "A tranga wroko uma has preceded us! Rest in peace Cristien R. Polak and a lot of strength to the family and fellow party members".
Ayam of Kuwait, are Kuwaiti citizens of Iranian origin, who migrated to Kuwait over the past 300 years. Historically, Persian ports provided most of Kuwait's economic needs. Marafi Behbahani was one of the first merchants to settle in Kuwait in the 18th century. According to estimates, the majority of the Shia Kuwaiti citizens, who constitute 30%–40% of Kuwait's population, are of Iranian origin.
Wim van Helvoort (1938 – 11 September 2022) was a Dutch football player and politician. He was professional football player for 15 years with BVV and later with FC Den Bosch. After foundation of FC Den Bosch, Van Helvoort was a member of the team from 1965 to 1970. During these six seasons he played 161 matches. He captained FC Den Bosch for several years when it played in the second and first division. Van Helvoort had to stop playing professional football due to injuries in 1970. Van Helvoort combined his professional football career with a job at the North Brabant province and did a study in the evening hours. In social life he was active as chairman of the housing association SSW and he was involved in the founding the political party "Leefbaar 's-Hertogenbosch". He was a member of the city council of Den Bosch for the Labour Party for several years. In 2009 Van Helvoort was diagnozed with Alzheimer's disease. Van Helvoort died on 11 September 2022 at the age of 84 from a pneumonia.
Cobra Kai is a Netflix series mostly about karate which has 5 seasons and has a sixth with it being split into 3 parts.  Premise. "Cobra Kai" is a spin-off of the movie "The Karate Kid" and its first two sequels. In it, Johnny Lawrence, who was the bully in the first movie is an adult and he hates the kid he bullied Daniel LaRusso who has now gotten rich from selling cars, so Johnny starts his own dojo called Cobra Kai based on the one where he learned karate to teach martial arts to a kid named Miguel Diaz so that he can fight back against his bullies. Daniel believes that Cobra Kai is evil because of what happened to him in "The Karate Kid" and "The Karate Kid Part III". So Daniel and Johnny end up as enemies. Season One. Johnny Lawrence is fired from his job for calling his boss a bitch. Johnny helps a teenager named Miguel by fighting his bullies for him but says he won’t teach Miguel karate. Then a teenage girl accidentally crashes her car into Johnny’s while driving with her friends but runs away after seeing Johnny. Johnny goes to Daniel LaRusso to get his car fixed and finds out that Daniel’s daughter Sam was in the car that hit his. So Johnny decides to teach Miguel by starting his own dojo called Cobra Kai and teaches Miguel everything that John Kreese taught him in The Karate Kid. Johnny gets more students but his son Robbie Keene hates him so he goes to Daniel to work for him. Daniel teaches Robbie karate the way Mister Miyagi taught him but then finds out that he’s Johnny’s son and is angry. Robbie decides to join the karate tournament and makes it almost to the end but Johnny’s student Hawk injures Robbie’s shoulder so he can’t fight. Daniel tells Robbie that Johnny Lawrence is Daniel’s enemy but isn’t Robbie’s. Daniel also says that the bad things Johnny did weren’t his fault since he was only doing what his Sensei taught him. Daniel also gets a doctor to help him so Robbie can get back in. Robbie fights Miguel so Miguel attacks Robbie’s shoulder and wins.  Season Two. After Miguel
Ina van Eibergen Santhagens-Waller (11 December 1878 — 24 October 1969) was a Dutch singer, singing teacher, fencer and artist.  Biography. Waller was born in Haarlem on 11 December 1878. When she was 13 years old, she was one of the two girls who gave flowers to the queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands when she and her mother Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont visited Haarlem in September 1892. Waller married to ir. E. van Eibergen Santhagens. Singing. Santhagens-Waller sang in her early career in 1913 as a solo singer in churches, including in Haarlem and The Hague. Later in 1913 she started giving concerts together with violinist Joyce Haworth led by . Their first concert was on 8 November 1913 in Hilversum, at the time also with singer . Next concerts with Haworth and Cornelis followed in February 1914 at "De Kroon" in Haarlem and in Nijmegen on 1 April 1914. In 1917 she gave multiple solo concerts, led by Marga Klatte, in Haarlem and Breda. Criticism has been written about her solo performances. In 1919 she gave a solo concert together with cellist F. Canivez led by on the piano. The same year, she was also a singer of the opara "Giovanna d'Arco" in Amsterdam. In January she gave a solo concert led by J. Otten-van Warmelo. She continued to perform led by Otten-van Warmelo during readings of artist Richard Roland Holst in March and April. Santhagens-Waller was for years a mistress of Holst.  Santhagens-Waller became a teacher at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the early 1920s. She contributed to the conservatorium concerts, including singing duets with .  From 1924 she gave church concerts. In 1926 she sang in an easter radio concert. Her last church concert was in December
Neue Deutsche Welle ( New German Wave), shortened to NDW, is a style of West German rock music starting from post-punk and new wave music with elements taken from electronic music. The term was made by Dutch radio DJ Frits Spits on the popular nationwide ratio station Hilversum 3, which was popular among German listeners. Soon after that, the term was used in a record-shop advertisement by Burkhardt Seiler in an August 1979 issue of the West German magazine "Sounds". It was then used by journalist Alfred Hilsberg in an article about the movement titled ("New German Wave — From Grey Cities' Walls") in "Sounds" in October 1979.