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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo%20%282017%20film%29

Zoo (2017 film)

Zoo is a 2017 British and Irish historical war family drama film directed and written by Colin McIvor. The film, based on a true story, stars Dame Penelope Wilton, Art Parkinson, Toby Jones, Ian O'Reilly, Ian McElhinney, Amy Huberman, and Damian O'Hare. As the Belfast Blitz ravages the city, a lonely widow and an awkward teenager with misfit friends take an elephant named Buster from the city zoo, and hide it in the widow's terraced house back yard. Cast Art Parkinson as Tom Hall Penelope Wilton as Denise Austin Toby Jones as Security Guard Charlie Ian McElhinney as Mr Shawcross Amy Huberman as Emily Hall Ian O'Reilly as Pete Emily Flain as Jane Berry James Stockdale as Mickey Stephen Hagan as Jake McClune Glen Nee as Vernon Damian O'Hare as George Hall Shane McCaffrey as Officer Burland Production Principal photography on the film began in September 2016 in Belfast. The film is loosely based on the story of Denise Weston Austin, Belfast Zoo's 'Elephant Angel'. Reception On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88%, based on 17 reviews, and an average rating of 7.2/10.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Segal

Edith Segal

Edith Segal (November 11, 1902 - 1997) was a Jewish-American choreographer, dancer, poet and songwriter. Early life Born and raised in New York City to immigrant parents, Segal chose to pursue a professional career in dance against the wishes of her mother who called her a "bummarke" (Yiddish for bum). She soon became a dance student of the highly regarded Blanche Talmud, and later earned a scholarship with ballet dancer Michael Mordkin. Early career An early supporter of the Soviet Union, in 1929 she formed a dance company known as the Red Dancers. Some of her first works were in tribute to VI Lenin and were performed at a memorial she organized for him. The next year, along with other American artists, she visited the Soviet Union and upon returning declared with the others that "Art is a weapon". During this period she also studied with Martha Graham. In 1930 she created her best-known work, Black and White, along with Allison Burroughs which was one of the first interracial dance performances in the United States. Black And White has been noted as the signature work in American leftist dance. Other Segal choreographed works on race relations included Scottsboro, Third Degree and Southern Holiday. In addition to civil rights themes, Segal created many dances around Jewish cultural themes as well as worker's rights, always sympathetic to communist causes. During the Red Scare in the 1950s she was called to testify before the New York state legislature investigating committee regarding her communist ties. Later career Retiring as a professional dancer in the late 1930s, Segal became a dance teacher and was active for decades at the progressive Jewish Camp Kinderland. She published numerous books of poetry around progressive themes, often illustrated by her artist husband Samuel Kamen. Well known progressives including Langston Hughes and Dr. Spock praised her writings. She died in New York City in 1997. References External links Edith Segal papers, 1920-1997 Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. Edith Segal papers, Additions, 1915-1991 Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.7%20cm%20Flak%20M42

3.7 cm Flak M42

The 3.7 cm Flak M42 was the marine version of the Flak 36/37 and used by the Kriegsmarine on surface ships and as the M42U on Type VII and Type IX U-boats. The 3.7 cm Flak M42U used several types of mounts and entered service in autumn 1943. 3.7 cm Flak M42 The 3.7 cm Flak M42 was a longer caliber version of the Wehrmacht's 3.7 cm Flak 36, 69 caliber as opposed to 57 caliber. It replaced the older 3.7 cm SK C/30 that had been designed in 1930. The gun was loaded with a five-round ammunition clip, giving it a rate of fire of 250 rounds per minute, unlike the SK C/30 which was single-shot with a rate of 30 rounds per minute. The M42 was also about lighter than the SK C/30 and had gun shields. LM 42U Mount The LM 42U mount was developed specifically for the 3.7 cm Flak M42U. It was manned by a 3-man crew, with a fourth man operating as the loader. DLM 42U Mount The twin mount was based on the LM 42U design, in which the 3.7 cm Flak M42U guns were mounted side by side. LM 43U Mount The LM 43U mount was the final design of mount used on U-boats. It was a further improvement on the LM 42U. The LM 43U was only known to be installed on these U-boats (, , , , , and ).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954%20Mille%20Miglia

1954 Mille Miglia

The 1954 Mille Miglia (officially XXI Mille Miglia ), was a motor race open to Sports Cars, GT cars and Touring Cars. It was the 21st Mille Miglia and the third race of the 1954 World Sportscar Championship. The race was held on the public roads of Italy on 2 May 1954 using a route based on a round trip between Brescia and Rome, with the start and finish in Brescia. It was won by Alberto Ascari driving a Lancia D24. As in previous year, the event is not strictly a race against each other, as is a race against the clock. The cars are released at one-minute intervals with the larger professional class cars going before the slower cars, in the Mille Miglia, however the smaller displacement slower cars started first. Each car number related to their allocated start time. For example, Giuseppe Farina's car had the number 606, he left Brescia at 6:06am, while the first cars had started late in the evening on the previous day. The previous August, Italian racing legend Tazio Nuvolari died. As a mark of respect, the route of this race was changed to divert through Mantua, where he was a resident. Report Entry A total of 483 cars were entered for the event, across nine classes based on engine sizes, ranging from up to 750cc to over 2.0 litre, for Grand Touring Cars, Touring Cars and Sport Cars. Of these, 378 cars started the event. Fresh from their loss in Florida at the 12 Hours of Sebring, Lancia entered in force with four newly revised D24 cars, these were piloted by Piero Taruffi, Alberto Ascari, Eugenio Castellotti and Gino Valenzano. The cars were modified by race car designer Vittorio Jano. These enhancements featured an enlarge version of their V6 engine, so that could produce 265 bhp. Ferrari for their part arrived with four 300 bhp 4.9 litre, Ferrari 375 Plus's for Giuseppe Farina, Umberto Maglioli, Giannino Marzotto and his brother Paolo Marzotto. For 1954, the Mille Miglia was a round of the World Sports Car Championship; the home teams faced strong challengers. From Great Britain, came Aston Martin and Austin-Healey, and West Germany sent Porsches. Also amongst the entry was the four-time winner, Clemente Biondetti, but by the time of the race, he was very sick man, fighting cancer, and only had a few months left to live. Race The race started at 21:01 on 1 May, when Domenico Stragliotto and Adolfo Montorio departed Brescia in their Iso Isetta. The faster cars would leave the following morning, when conditions were foggy mixed with little rain. After nine and half hours, all the cars were on their way to Rome. The Lancias took the early lead, with Taruffi's D24 controlling the pace, averaging 108.9 mph, on the opening stages into Ravenna, with a lead of 90 seconds, over Ascari and Castellotti. The Ferrari of Maglioli was back in fourth. On the run into Rome, the Lancia of Castellotti developed distributor problems, and was forced into retirement, moving Maglioli into third. Further trouble hit the Lancia of Taruffi, when his sprung an oil leak and he soon retired. Ascari had taken it easy in the early stages, now assumed the lead. On the run back to Brescia, Ascari's Lancia suffered a throttle spring return failure, and this was temporarily replaced by a rubber band. This and other problems started to affect the Lancia and by the time Ascari reached Florence, he had enough and wanted to retire from the event. It was only after a long stop for repairs, he was persuaded to continue. By Bologna, all the top Scuderia Ferrari cars were out, and the path was clear for Ascari to win. For Ferrari, they had not lost a Mille Miglia since 1947, but this they were sounded thrashed by the team from Torino, with Ascari, winning in a time of 11hr 26:10mins., averaging a speed of 72.80 mph. 33:51mins adrift in second place was Ferrari 500 Mondial of Vittorio Marzotto, who salvaged some honour for Maranello marque with second place and a class win. The third different car on the podium was the Maserati of Musso. Another Ferrari came home in fourth, driven by Biondetti, in what was to be his last Mille Miglia; he was lifted exhausted from the car at the finish. With the British attack failing to make it back to Brescia, it was left to the Germans to provide some opposition to the Italian teams. Encountering a lowered gate at a railway crossing, the Porsche driver, Hans Herrmann drove his low 550 Spyder under it, narrowly missing an express train. This daring act gave Porsche a first in class and an amazing sixth overall. The event was marred by fatal accidents which killed 5 people and injured 13. Andre Pouschol and co-driver Gabriel Saisse were both killed and eight spectators injured when his Citroen 15 Six crashed into a signpost near Vicenza 75 miles into the race. The second accident saw navigator Silvio Dal Cin lose his life when his driver Ferdinando Mancini crashed his Maserati A6GCS after crossing the finish line. While other competitors were still arriving, Mancini left the course area at speed, waving hands and greeting the crowd. Shortly later, for unknown reasons Mancini lost control of the Maserati and crashed, passing in a long straight towards Ghedi, a neighbourhood of Brescia. During the crash Dal Cin was thrown out and received fatal skull fractures, and on top of this the crashing Maserati also hit an unnamed bystander and killed him instantly. Another accident involving a Renault 4CV of Jean Bianchi-Jean Sigrand at the village of Alfonsine near Ravenna. 15-year old spectator Settimio Caroli was killed and 2 other spectators injured after the Renault went off the road and crashed; Bianchi and Sigrand were both unhurt. There was a spectating woman who was also killed during the race in unknown circumstances. Classification Mille Miglia Of the 378 starters, 182 were classified as finishers. Therefore, only a selection of notably racers has been listed below. Class Winners are in Bold text. Class Winners Standings after the race Note: Only the top five positions are included in this set of standings.Championship points were awarded for the first six places in each race in the order of 8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest finishing car with no points awarded for positions filled by additional cars. Only the best 4 results out of the 6 races could be retained by each manufacturer. References Further reading Anthony Pritchard. The Mille Miglia: The World's Greatest Road Race. J H Haynes & Co Ltd. Leonardo Acerbi.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Division%201%20%28Swedish%20football%29

2006 Division 1 (Swedish football)

The 2006 Division 1 was contested by 28 teams divided into two groups geographically. Enkopings SK and IF Sylvia won their respective groups and were promoted to Superettan, along with second place-teams IK Sirius and Bunkeflo IF who each one their respective promotion playoffs against teams from Superettan. League tables North South Young Player Teams of the Year At the end of each Division 1 season an all-star game is played called "Morgondagens Stjarnor" (English: "The Stars Of Tomorrow"). The two teams playing against each other consist of the best young players from each of the two leagues. However, in 2006, which was the first year of the new Division 1, the game was instead called "FramtidsFajten" (English: "The Future Fight") and the concept was slightly different compared to the following years with the biggest young talents of Division 1 playing against the biggest young talents from the 2006 Division 2 season.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ria%20de%20Vigo

Ria de Vigo

Vigo Ria () and () is an estuary in Galicia, Spain. It is the southernmost ria of the Rias Baixas. It is located south of the province of Pontevedra, and extends in a northeast direction over a distance of from its mouth at Cape Silleiro to the deepest point in Arcade, with a maximum width of and is narrowest in the Strait of Rande, at . Its western entrance is protected by the Cies Islands, which are part of the National Park of the Atlantic Islands, within the islands of Toralla and San Simon. Its borders the north with Morrazo Peninsula. In the extreme south lies the Bay of Baiona. Its easy access, deep draft and calm waters make the Vigo estuary an ideal retreat for sailing and water sports. From the environmental point of view, it is a bay with a biologically richness because of its crop water currents and deep cold waters from the north, carrying large quantities of nutrients. Historically, the Vigo estuary area has been good for fishing and shell fishing, although current conditions are not ideal due to high human and industrial pressure on the coastal waterfront. On its banks stands the city of Vigo. The municipalities of Baiona, Nigran, Redondela, Soutomaior, Vilaboa, Moana and Cangas do Morrazo are also situated here. It has a total population of about 420,000 inhabitants. The Battle of Rande was fought here on October 23, 1702, more precisely at the end of the estuary, in the Ensenada de San Simon. The following German U-boats are reported to have been sunk somewhere in the ria: , sunk August 25, 1943 (17 dead and 37 survivors), and , sunk at 15:50 on July 12, 1943 (48 dead and six survivors). Tourist activities Water sports at the marinas in Baiona, Chapela, Moana, Cangas and Vigo. Two golf courses of eighteen holes and one of nine nearby. Parador "Conde de Gondomar" in Baiona: Located inside a medieval fortress, has a natural setting and convenient facilities. Pazo los Escudos in Vigo: converted Galician manor house that has walled gardens spread across the largest collection of heraldic Galician carvings. Pazo de Castrelos: manor house in Vigo.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Delengat

El Delengat

El Delengat () is a city in Beheira Governorate in Egypt Geography El Delengat is about 21 kilometers south of Damanhour the governorate's capital. It is bordered to the south by the Tahrir region, to the east by Kom Hamada, Itay El Barud, and to the west by Hosh Essa. It includes 5 local village units, 45 villages, and 771 followers. The city is famous for agriculture, industry, trade and investment, and it contains urban, rural and Bedouin, and the education rate is high in urban and rural areas, and Aldlnjat participate in the third section of football. Among the most important quarters of the city of Delengat: Al-Rawda quarter Al-Zahra quarter (New Delengat) Hammouda quarter Al-Ashlam quarter Sidi Hamad quarter Hindi quarter Al-Taflah quarter Al-Fakharani quarter Downtown quarter Al-Aqraa quarter Al-Saha'a quarter Al-Sawy quarter Abboud quarter History The history of the Delengat dates back to the era of the Pharaohs, where there are several archaeological sites dating back to 2000 BC, such as the Kom King Freen, which is located in the village of Kom Fren Baldengat, which is one of the most important and largest archaeological hills. During the 19th Dynasty in the era of Ramesses II, a fortress was built from the fortification system erected by King Ramses II in the west of the Delta to defend the western borders of Egypt from the raids coming from the Libyan desert, which is located in the north of the city. The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded El Delengat (as El-Delingat) as a nahiyah in its own district in Beheira Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 1,768 (939 men and 859 women).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullarbor%20dwarf%20bettong

Nullarbor dwarf bettong

The Nullarbor dwarf bettong, Bettongia pusilla, was a potoroine marsupial that occurred in Australia. The animal is only known from skeletons found in caves of the Nullarbor Plain and is now classified as recently extinct. Taxonomy The Nullarbor dwarf bettong was a species of Bettongia, a genus that includes still living species such as the northern bettong, belonging to the subfamily Potoroinae. The description was first published in 1997 by R. A. McNamara, using specimens collected on the Nullarbor Plain from the Koonalda and Weekes Caves. The holotype is part of a juvenile's right jaw, with some teeth absent, obtained at the Koonalda site. The author recognised an earlier description, misidentified as Caloprymnus campestris by Ernest Lundelius and William D. Turnbull in 1984, and the informal reference to an potoroid species. McNamara's paper on the new species details his diagnosis as arising independently, but gives credit for the discovery to earlier worker's identification of the taxon as 'Thomson's unnamed Potoroid' or 'Unnamed potoroid' (Baynes 1987). The epithet pusilla is derived from Latin, a reference to the small size of the animal. The English vernacular Nullarbor dwarf bettong was suggested by McNamara and is used to refer to this species. Description Betongia pusilla show a form of dentition and jaw structure that distinguishes them from others of the genus. The mandible is lighter than the extant species, and the teeth are smaller. Molars of Bettongia pusilla are straight sided with an elevated crown, which contrasts with the bulbous shape of other Bettongia species. Distribution and habitat Only known from a series of skeletal remains found in caves on the Nullarbor Plain, an arid desert region of southern Australia. The species is assumed to have become extinct in the states of Western and South Australia during the period of colonisation.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory%20Township%2C%20Forest%20County%2C%20Pennsylvania

Hickory Township, Forest County, Pennsylvania

Hickory Township is a township in Forest County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 457, a decline from 558 in 2010. History The West Hickory Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Geography Hickory Township is located in northwestern Forest County, and is bordered to the north by Warren County. The Allegheny River forms the western boundary of the township. U.S. Route 62 follows the east side of the river through the township, leading north to Warren and south to Tionesta. Pennsylvania Route 666 crosses the township from US-62 at East Hickory in the west to Kellettville in neighboring Kingsley Township. In addition to East Hickory, unincorporated places in Hickory Township include Queen, Endeavor, Church Hill, and Little Hickory. According to the United States Census Bureau, Hickory Township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.11%, is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 525 people, 226 households, and 150 families residing in the township. The population density was 14.0 people per square mile (5.4/km). There were 1,017 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 98.10% White, 0.19% African American, 0.76% Native American, 0.38% Asian, and 0.57% from two or more races. There were 226 households, out of which 25.7% had children under the age of eighteen living with them; 53.5% were married couples living together, 6.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.2% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.4% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.82. In the township the population was spread out, with 20.2% under the age of eighteen, 5.0% from eighteen to twenty-four, 27.2% from twenty-five to forty-four, 29.1% from forty-five to sixty-four, and 18.5% who were sixty-five years of age or older. The median age was forty-four years. For every one hundred females, there were 105.1 males. For every one hundred females who were aged eighteen or older, there were 105.4 males. The median income for a household in the township was $28,750, and the median income for a family was $36,964. Males had a median income of $27,361 compared with that of $17,500 for females. The per capita income for the township was $15,856. Roughly 7.5% of families and 9.6% of the population were living below the poverty line, including 9.0% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 16.5% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20Haoxuan

Huang Haoxuan

Huang Haoxuan (; born 15 January 1994) is a Chinese footballer who plays for China League Two side Guangxi Pingguo Haliao. Club career Huang Haoxuan started his professional football career in 2011 when he was promoted to Guangdong Youth's squad for the 2011 China League Two campaign. He joined China League One side Guangdong Sunray Cave in December 2013. On 15 March 2014, he made his debut for the club in a 2-2 home draw against Hebei Zhongji. He became an unattached player after Guangdong failed to register for the 2015 league season due to wage arrears. Huang joined Guangzhou R&F's reserve team in July 2015. He was loaned to Hong Kong Premier League side R&F, which was the satellite team of Guangzhou R&F, in February 2017. He made his debut on 18 February 2017 in a 4-3 away win against Hong Kong FC. Career statistics References External links 1994 births Living people Chinese men's footballers Footballers from Guangxi People from Beihai Shaanxi Wuzhou F.C. players R&F (Hong Kong) players Men's association football midfielders China League One players Hong Kong Premier League players Guangxi Pingguo Haliao F.C.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Splits

Gordon Splits

The Gordon Splits is a notable section of gorges of the Gordon River, located in South West Tasmania, Australia. The once impassable gorges are situated on the lower Gordon River in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The splits has also been an important location of focus within the larger environmental campaign for wilderness preservation in South West Tasmania. Location and features The earlier works of Charles Whitham and others suggested that the river went underground at some point. It was not until in 1928 that three piners (J.Hadmar Sticht, G.W. Harrison and Charles Abel) were described as having passed through them in March of that year. It was reported in the Mercury newspaper of 12 April 1928 under the title The Gordon River - Exploration of the Splits - Showplace of Tasmania - Sprent Falls alone worth the trip. The section of river is very difficult to access and apart from Olegas Truchanas, Les Southwell and Peter Dombrovskis - few others are known to have successfully traversed the section in the time of European presence in Tasmania. Following the initial journey by Truchanas in 1954 and the complete journey in 1958 through the splits, the photographs taken by Truchanas were destroyed in the 1967 Tasmanian fires. Southwell and others in the 1970s tended to free float on an inflatable water mattress through the splits to alleviate some of the issues arising from using fixed structure boats travelling through. Photographs by Truchanas, Les Southwell, and Dombrovskis show the steep narrow nature of the splits dramatically in their photographs. More recent aerial photographs can be found like Joe Shemesh's in the Huon Pine book of Kerr and McDermott. Later description Geraldine Brooks wrote a piece in the National Times of 24-30 May 1981 which Peter Thompson quoted in his Power in Tasmania as an evocative overview of the splits and their context. The Splits are a geological phenomenon. Six hundred million years ago, the powerful waters of the Gordon River wore a deep erosion slot through a rugged spine of quartzite. The river runs across the grain of the countryside, instead of following it. The result is rare and spectacular. From the air, the Splits seem to grasp the Gordon River like giant rocky pincers, squeezing its wide flow into narrow strips of deep water about 100 metres long. From the river bank below them, they appear like pieces of a giant's unsolved jigsaw, crggy masses and voids of sparkling quartzite, frozen a few metres apart, never quite meshing in the first Split, the rock rises vertically for about 100 metres before it merges with the gentler mountainside. Films (1982) Gordon Splits [videorecording] produced for the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. Melbourne : The Wilderness Society. Director, photographer, editor, Michael Cordell ; photographers, Chris Noone, Peter Dombrovskis.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbottstown%2C%20Pennsylvania

Abbottstown, Pennsylvania

Abbottstown is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,022 at the 2020 census. History Abbottstown is named for John Abbott, who founded it in 1753. The John Abbott House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The town had rail service via the East Berlin Railroad from 1877 to 1914 and 1916 to 1939. The tracks were removed in 1940. In 1950, Abbottstown had a population of 538. Geography Abbottstown is located at (39.885621, -76.986120). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 905 people, 323 households, and 254 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 346 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 95.25% White, 0.22% African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 3.87% from other races, and 0.44% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.52% of the population. There were 323 households, out of which 43.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.4% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.1% were non-families. 15.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.80 and the average family size was 3.15. In the borough the population is spread out over several age groups, with 29.5% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 36.4% from 25 to 44, 18.7% from 45 to 64, and 7.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 92.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.6 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $49,063, and the median income for a family was $52,578. Males had a median income of $31,736 versus $24,083 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $17,246. About 1.6% of families and 2.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.8% of those under age 18 and 1.7% of those age 65 or over. In 2010 Abbottstown had a population of 1,011. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 88.4% non-Hispanic white, 1.4% black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 1.2% reporting two or more races and 9.4% Hispanic or Latino.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey%20Island%20%28Cleveland%29

Whiskey Island (Cleveland)

Whiskey Island is a peninsula at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River at Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio. Its current configuration was created in 1827 when the river's mouth was moved to its present location. Part of the city's Cuyahoga Valley neighborhood, the peninsula is long and at its widest, bounded by Lake Erie to the north, West 54th Street on the west (roughly), and the Cuyahoga River to the south and east. The western half of Whiskey Island is occupied by the Cleveland Bulk Terminal. The eastern section is home to a marina and public park, known as Wendy Park, which forms part the Lakefront Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. History 19th century Whiskey Island was the first piece of solid land amid the swamps lining the river one-quarter mile down the Cuyahoga when Moses Cleaveland visited the area in 1796. Lorenzo Carter built his family farm on Whiskey Island, which got its name after a distillery was built on the site in the 1830s. The area was settled, largely by Irish immigrants, when the Ohio and Erie Canal was constructed in 1825 and the river was rechanneled in 1827. In 1831 the Buffalo Co. and the New Harbor Co., representing investors from Buffalo and Brooklyn, purchased the Carter farm and divided its into allotments along 22 streets. Manufacturing plants and docks were constructed. The Lake Erie Iron Works made steamboat shafts and railroad axles on the island and thirteen saloons were located in the area. Cleveland's second hospital, the "pest house," was built on Whiskey Island following the Cholera epidemic of 1832. The Cleveland and Toledo Railroad (later the New York Central) ran its northern division through Whiskey Island "stopping at the river to ferry its passengers across the Cuyahoga because the city refused permission for the railroad to connect to the eastbound line". 20th century The Irish moved from Whiskey Island when better employment and housing opportunities became available and except for a Depression-era Hooverville, Whiskey Island was left largely to the railroads, a salt mine owned by Cargill, and the set of four large Hulett ore unloaders at the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, which when built in 1911 was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The Huletts were dismantled by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority in 2000 to create room for additional bulk storage. Two of the Hullets were scrapped, and the other two were disassembled and remain on the site. The Coast Guard built its Cleveland station at the end of a pier north of Whiskey Island. A second station, designed by architect J. Milton Dyer, opened in 1940. The Coast Guard operated at the site until 1976, when they relocated the search and rescue station to new facilities at the Coast Guard moorings on East Ninth Street. The old station has sat unused since then, except for a brief period in the early 1990s when it served as a nightclub. The City of Cleveland purchased the station for $1 in 2003, and is developing plans for its restoration and reuse. 21st century In the early 2000s, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority pursued the purchase of the eastern portion of Whiskey Island in order to expand port facilities; however, the port did not buy the land. The open space and marina were purchased by Cuyahoga County in 2004 and preserved as a public park. The area's protection was due in large part to the efforts of activist Ed Hauser, known as the "Mayor of Whiskey Island". Wendy Park at Whiskey Island opened to the public in 2005, and includes sand volleyball courts, a prairie garden, and a restaurant-bar. In 2014, Whiskey Island was purchased by the Cleveland Metroparks. About 7,000 people visited Wendy Park in 2005. The number rose to more than 180,000 in 2010.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Henry%20%28poet%29

Gordon Henry (poet)

Gordon Henry Jr. (born 1955) is a poet and fiction writer. Life and work Henry was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe of Minnesota. He received his PhD in literature from the University of North Dakota and is currently a professor of English at Michigan State University. Henry's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series. Henry's first novel, The Light People (1994), explores Chippewa life and culture and the style takes some of its elements from the Chippewa style of oral story telling. He co-authored the textbook Ojibwa and has released a book of poetry, The Failure of Certain Charms, (Earthworks). In 2022, he published a second poetry collection, "Spirit Matters", (Holy Cow! Gordon has also published short stories and poems in various journals and anthologies. Further reading Maceda, Maria Theresa Gilbert. Nuevas Tendencias De La Literatura Indian de Norte Americana: Entrevista A Gordon Henry, Escritor Anishinabe. A Distancia: Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia. Henry: Los Nativos Americanos No Quieran Cargado con Imagenes del Pasado" La Nueva Espana de Asturias (Cultura). 27 de Mayo de 1995. Oviedo, Espana Blaeser, Kimberly M. "The New "Frontier" of Native American Literature: Dis-Arming History with Tribal Humor." Native American Perspectives on Literature and History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. "Narrative Community, Community Narrative: (Anti) Academic Discourse in Gordon Henry's The Light People." Contemporary Authors Detroit: Gale Research, 1995 Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami%20%28Will%20Smith%20song%29

Miami (Will Smith song)

"Miami" is a song by American rapper and actor Will Smith from his debut solo album, Big Willie Style (1997). It samples the Whispers's 1979 single "And the Beat Goes On". Released as a single on November 23, 1998, the song charted at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the UK Singles Chart. "Miami" won a MTV VMA Best Male Video award. The video, which incorporates the first two verses and refrains of the selection's "radio edit" followed by the third verse and refrain of its "Miami Mix", features an early on-screen appearance of Smith's future Hitch co-star, Eva Mendes. Critical reception Larry Flick of Billboard wrote, "Smith should have no problem maintaining the momentum of his current album, "Big Willie Style", with this third single, following the ubiquitous "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" and "Just The Two Of Us". On "Miami", he talks us up with an ode to the heat, style, and hip factor of that city. This time around, Smith employs the instrumental hook of the Whispers' 1979 single "And The Beat Goes On", which adds a classic, string-filled disco backdrop as festive as the city itself. With Smith's record on the airwaves and at the box office, as well as his appeal with younger demographics, this really is a no-brainer, now isn't it?" Music video In the music video for the song, Smith and members of his band are freezing in Philadelphia, where it is 30 degrees below zero causing a bandmate to curse Jack Frost. They hop on a plane to Miami, and are shown going around Miami in their car and various scenes morph into one another. The video ends with Will Smith and his band performing a concert. The video features samples from Gloria Estefan's hits "Conga" and "You'll Be Mine (Party Time)".

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD%20Srnka

Jiří Srnka

Jiri Srnka (19 August 1907 - 31 January 1982) was a Czech composer. Biography His teacher was the well known violinist, Otakar Sevcik at the Prague Conservatory from the age of 8. From 1928, he studied at the school of Vitezslav Novak and Alois Haba. He composed music for nearly 200 films. These included Krakatit, Jan Hus, and Darbujan a Pandrhola. Additionally, he created works for TV series, such as F. L. Vek. His works depicts the essential parts of his connection with the musical reality. He wrote several songs and orchestral works as well. He frequently worked with directors Otakar Vavra and Frantisek Cap.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hendrickse

Peter Hendrickse

Peter Alroy Charles Hendrickse (born 31 May 1958) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2009. During apartheid, he represented the Labour Party, which was led by his father, Allan Hendrickse. Early life Hendrickse was born on 31 May 1958. He is the son of the Reverend Allan Hendrickse, who led the opposition Labour Party during apartheid. Legislative career While still in his twenties, and like his father and brothers, Hendrickse represented the Labour Party in the Tricameral Parliament during apartheid. In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, he stood as a candidate for the ANC and was elected to a seat in the National Assembly. He was re-elected to his seat in 1999. Though he was not initially re-elected in 2004, he was sworn in shortly after the start of the legislative term, in July 2004, after Mzwandile Masala resigned. The ANC did not nominate him to stand for a fourth term in the 2009 general election.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Brewery

Cliff Brewery

The Cliff Brewery is a Grade II listed former brewery in Ipswich, England. The building dates to 1896 and was designed by William Bradford. Location The building is located on Cliff Lane, near the Ipswich wet dock. History The business that became Cliff Brewery was started in 1723 (in Kings Quay Street, Harwich) by Thomas Cobbold and is believed to be the second oldest independent brewery in England. Thomas senior started to transport fresh water from Holywells by barge to Harwich as the spring water was better than the brackish water available in Harwich. His son Thomas Cobbold (1708-1767) then relocated the brewery to Ipswich where the original building stood above the quays of the River Orwell since 1746. The current building of 1896 is a tower brewery by William Bradford. It became a Grade II listed building in 1989; the listing includes the interior fixtures and fittings. Nearby Cliff House was the home of John Cobbold and Elizabeth Cobbold before they moved to live at Holywells Park, Ipswich in 1814. It became the Brewery Tap public house. Cobbold merged with local rival, Tollemache Breweries in 1957 to form Tolly Cobbold. The brewery ceased operations in 2002, when the Tolly Cobbold company merged with Ridley's brewery. After it became disused, schemes were put forward to convert the Cliff Brewery into housing and a mixed-use development. Planning permission was granted in 2016 for a business and educational centre, but the owner sold it in May 2019 without having begun work. Conversion into housing and a theatre was later considered. The Victorian Society listed the building in 2015 as one of the most endangered in England. In February 2020 a fire broke out in the building; arrests were made on suspicion of arson. Plans for redevelopment Prior plans from 2020 proposed a renovation and expansion including a visitor and education centre with theatre and arts spaces linked to the local university, but these fell through due to a lack of funds. The Cliff Brewery was sold at auction through estate agents Savills in November 2021. In spring 2022 the new owner of the site submitted pre-application proposals to the borough for redevelopment of the site.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchison%2C%20Topeka%20and%20Santa%20Fe%20Passenger%20and%20Freight%20Complex%20Historic%20District

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Passenger and Freight Complex Historic District

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Passenger and Freight Complex is a nationally recognized historic district located in Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. At the time of its nomination it contained three resources, all of which are contributing buildings. The buildings were constructed over a 24-year time period, and reflect the styles that were popular when they were built. The facility currently houses a local history museum, and after renovations a portion of it was converted back to a passenger train depot for Amtrak, which opened on December 15, 2021. Description The historic district consists of a former passenger depot (1910) and a former freight station (1934) built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. They replaced an earlier frame passenger depot that was built in 1888 and later expanded to include the freight office. Fort Madison had become a division and crew change point for Santa Fe routes, and it had a locomotive repair shop and other facilities in town, so an upgraded depot was seen as a necessity. This was the railroad's only stop in Iowa. It also includes the Railway Express Agency's (REA) Express Office, which was completed in 1922. The station was closed in 1968 and replaced by the Amtrak station until service moved back in 2021. Architecture Both the passenger depot and the Railway Express Office were designed in the Mission Revival style, however, they were designed separately by different individuals. The depot was designed as a combination passenger and freight station by C.F. Morse, Chief Engineer for the Santa Fe. It is an adaptation of the brick depot standard they called the "county-seat." The depot is a single-story structure and rectangular in shape, that measures . The exterior is composed of pressed brick and its copings, window sills, and water table are of composed of locally quarried Appanoose stone. The building rests on a reinforced concrete foundation and it is capped with a red tile hipped roof. There are three curvilinear roof dormers on the north elevation and two on the south. They each feature the Santa Fe insignia. In the center of the structure is a three-story tower. A 1945 renovation changed the interior to the Art Deco style and removed the women's waiting room. The Railway Express Office was designed by J. M. Dunham, who was the REA's architect and superintendent of buildings working in their St. Louis office. Adjoining the depot, it too is composed of pressed brick with stone trim, a concrete foundation, and red tile roof. It differed in that it featured copper flashings on the chimney and a copper dormer with louvers on the east and west elevations. The dormers were removed in a 1990 renovation. The Santa Fe Freight Office was built to the west of the Railway Express Office between January 1931 and December 1934. It is a two-story rectangular brick structure, and it is more utilitarian than Mission Revival in its style. The Santa Fe logo in stone is located in the upper corners of the north and south elevations. A fire in the late 1960s or early 1970s destroyed a wooden frame structure that was attached to the building and was used for loading and unloading freight. As the depot was a crew changing location, the Santa Fe's conductor and brakemen showered and slept in this building. Post Santa Fe-era When the Santa Fe closed their depot here in 1968, they sold the facility to the City of Fort Madison for $1. The railroad removed most of the furnishings. The city leased the buildings to the North Lee County Historical Society (NLCHS) beginning in 1972 for a local history museum. The NLCHS is responsible for routine maintenance of the three buildings. A Santa Fe caboose (1954) is on display on the property, Steam Locomotive 2913 (1944) is located a little farther to the east. Since 2006, the City of Fort Madison, BNSF Railway, Amtrak, the Iowa Department of Transportation, the Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission, and the NLCHS have worked together to restore the old Santa Fe station and create an Amtrak waiting room and ticket office in addition to the museum space. Metzger Johnson Architects of Galesburg, Illinois assisted in the design of the four-phase project. The first phase, completed in 2011, raised the buildings and attach them to the new foundations that are now above the projected 500-year flood elevation. This was necessitated by the complex's location near the Mississippi River and its floods. The second phase raised, graded, and paved the parking lot. The fourth phase was completed at the same time as phase two in 2012 and renovated the interiors to accommodate Amtrak and the museum. The third phase, yet to be completed, is to construct a concrete platform and a canopy for rail passengers. The total cost of the project is estimated at $3.2 million. The city obtained funding from various grant programs, including $1.5 million through the Federal Highway Administration's Transportation Enhancements program and $1.13 million through I-Jobs, a state economic investment program that is designed to update Iowa's infrastructure and to help create and retain jobs. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad station The former Chicago, Burlington and Quincy (CB&Q) Fort Madison station is located immediately to the north of the Santa Fe complex, but it is not part of the historic district. The station was built in 1898 and currently houses the North Lee County Historical Society Transportation Museum. The station was impacted by flooding in 2019, as the area was not a part of the project to raise the foundation of the former Santa Fe station. The single track is also owned by the BNSF Railway on the Hannibal Subdivision, also known as the "K Line."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste%20Anicet-Bourgeois

Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois

Auguste Anicet, later Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (25 December 1806 - 12 January 1871) was a French dramatist. He was born in Paris. The first play to bear his name is L'Ami et le mari, ou le Nouvel Amphitryon, a vaudeville in one act. It was produced in 1825, when the author was still in his teens. Over the course of his career he was credited in the writing of nearly 200 plays, as many as ten a year. However the nature of theatrical collaboration at this time was such that the extent of his contribution to any given play is debatable. In fact it is known that he assisted Alexandre Dumas in the writing of several plays (Teresa, Angele, Le Mari de la Veuve, La Venitienne), sometimes without acknowledgement. He is the subject of an anecdote in Dumas's "Comment je devins auteur dramatique" ("How I became a Dramatist"), published in 1833 in Revue des Deux Mondes. Other writers with whom he worked were Philippe Dumanoir, Julien de Mallian, Victor Ducange, Francis Cornu, Lockroy, Edouard Brisebarre, Michel Masson and Paul Feval. One of his plays was adapted for the English stage as The Black Doctor (1846), a vehicle for Ira Aldridge. Very little is known of his life beyond a connection to the military. Married, with one daughter, he was named Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur on 10 December 1849. He died on 12 January 1871 at Pau, Pyrenees-Atlantiques (a fortnight before the end of the Siege of Paris) and was buried in division 4 of Pere-Lachaise.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm

Npm

It consists of a command line client, also called npm, and an online database of public and paid-for private packages, called the npm registry. The registry is accessed via the client, and the available packages can be browsed and searched via the npm website. The package manager and the registry are managed by npm, Inc. Etymology npm is officially a "recursive bacronymic abbreviation for 'npm is not an acronym. However, the initial commit of npm referred to it as the "Node Package Manager". The expansion of the name was changed in 2014. Although the package was republished three hours later, it caused widespread disruption, leading npm to change its policies regarding unpublishing to prevent a similar event in the future. Other breakages In February 2018, an issue was discovered in version 5.7.0 in which running sudo npm on Linux systems would change the ownership of system files, permanently breaking the operating system. In July 2018, the npm credentials of a maintainer of the popular eslint-scope package were compromised resulting in a malicious release of eslint-scope, version 3.7.2. The malicious code copied the npm credentials of the machine running eslint-scope and uploaded them to the attacker. In November 2018, it was discovered that a malicious package had been added as a dependency to version 3.3.6 of the popular package event-stream. The malicious package, called flatmap-stream, contained an encrypted payload that stole bitcoins from certain applications. npm administrators removed the offending package. In April 2020, a small package called is-promise resulted in outage in serverless applications and deployments worldwide by virtue of being a dependency of many big and important applications. In January 2022, the maintainer of the popular package colors pushed changes printing garbage text in an infinite loop. The maintainer also cleared the repository of another popular package, faker, and its package on npm, and replaced it with a README that read, "What really happened to Aaron Swartz?" In March 2022, developer Brandon Nozaki Miller released a version of the package node-ipc containing malicious code that would delete files from users with Belarusian and Russian IP addresses, in protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Vue.js, which uses node-ipc as a dependency, did not pin its dependencies to a safe version, meaning that some users of Vue.js became affected by the malicious package if the dependency was fetched as the latest package. The affected dependency was also briefly present in version 3.1 of Unity Hub; a hotfix was released the same day to remove the issue, however. Description npm is included as a recommended feature in the Node.js installer. npm consists of a command line client that interacts with a remote registry. Packages in the registry are in EsmaScript Module (ESM) or CommonJS format and include a metadata file in JSON format. Over 1.3 million packages are available in the main npm registry. The registry does not have any vetting process for submission, which means that packages found there can potentially be low quality, insecure, or malicious. Instead, npm relies on user reports to take down packages if they violate policies by being low quality, insecure, or malicious. npm exposes statistics including number of downloads and number of depending packages to assist developers in judging the quality of packages. In npm version 6, the audit feature was introduced to help developers identify and fix security vulnerabilities in installed packages. The source of security vulnerabilities were taken from reports found on the Node Security Platform (NSP) and has been integrated with npm since npm's acquisition of NSP. When used as a dependency manager for a local project, npm can install, in one command, all the dependencies of a project through the package.json file. In the package.json file, each dependency can specify a range of valid versions using the semantic versioning scheme, allowing developers to auto-update their packages while at the same time avoiding unwanted breaking changes. npm also provides version-bumping tools for developers to tag their packages with a particular version. npm also provides the package-lock.json file which has the entry of the exact version used by the project after evaluating semantic versioning in package.json. They are all compatible with the public npm registry and use it by default, but provide different client-side experiences, usually focused on improving performance and determinism compared to the npm client. Registry Internally npm relies on the NoSQL Couch DB to manage publicly available data.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckleheads%20Saloon

Knuckleheads Saloon

Knuckleheads is a music venue in Kansas City, Missouri. The facility is a complex of four stages: a large outdoor stage with a converted caboose to one side as a VIP seating area; an indoor stage; a large indoor stage known as Knuckleheads Garage and a lounge, the "Gospel Lounge" for Wednesday-evening blues-oriented church services. Live music can be presented on all four stages at once. The venue presents live music Wednesday through Sunday, with occasional Tuesday concerts. History The original building was built in 1887 as a railroad boarding house, across the street from the original location of early Kansas City amusement park Electric Park. A very active train track runs close by the outdoor stage and performers have had to become accustomed to train whistles blowing during shows. Singer-songwriter Joe Ely was performing his song, "Boxcar", on the outdoor stage when a train came by, blowing its whistle at the right point in the song. Ely said he had "...waited 20 years for a train to come by at the perfect timing". Knuckleheads is owned by Frank and Mary Hicks, who owned an auto body shop called Mid-City Collision Repair. They opened a Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership across the street from Mid-City in 1997 called F.O.G. Cycles and sponsored street parties as a promotional tool, giving away free beer. In 2001, Hicks obtained a liquor license and the bar opened as Knucklehead's in homage to a trio of his cycling friends, calling themselves The Three Stooges. In 2004, Hicks closed F.O.G. Cycles to concentrate on the club. Mid-City has a mural painted on the wall facing Knuckleheads featuring rock, blues and country icons Elvis Presley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hank Williams Sr., Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Buddy Holly and many others. Location The location in the East Bottoms on Rochester Street is bordered on the east by Montgall Ave, on the east by the North Chestnut Trafficway overpass and the south by railroad tracks. Knuckleheads Garage The size of the smaller indoor facility, limited the venue's ability to present large concerts to temperate weather. On January 12, 2015, Knuckleheads launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $35,000 to outfit the former Mid-City Collision Repair location as an additional indoor concert venue to be known as Knuckleheads Garage to hold 800 to 1000 guests. The campaign was successful, raising $38,490 on a $35,000 goal, and the venue premiered with an open house on April 11, 2015. Gospel lounge Carl and Sharon Butler of the New Song Christian Fellowship church started holding church services in 2009 on Wednesday nights in the smallest of Knuckleheads' performance spaces. They are intended to be a church for those who work late on Saturday nights, what Butler describes as "a church geared toward service-industry people." Butler is a guitarist and recovering drug abuser and mixes music and preaching, playing "...everything from Merle Haggard to Motown". Performers The zydeco band, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, recorded their live album, Live at Knuckleheads, Kansas City, and an accompanying DVD in 2007, as did Cadillic Flambe. The venue hosts several hundred performers every year, with concerts five nights a week, with two or three stages operating in a single night. Well-known acts who have played Knuckleheads include Sam Bush, Leon Russell, Nick Lowe, Edgar Winter and his brother Johnny Winter, Keb' Mo', John Doe, Ian Moore, Ray Price, Billy Joe Shaver, Dale Watson, Kinky Friedman, Rodney Crowell, Samantha Fish, Amanda Fish, Danielle Nicole, Brandon Miller and David Lindley. Advance tickets are sold for concerts by most of the national and international acts playing the venue via Eventbrite. Jam sessions The venue hosts no-cover open jams on weekends, allowing amateur musicians to play on stage with professionals. The Saturday jam is hosted by Billy Ebeling from 1 PM to 5:30 PM. The Sunday jam is hosted by the band Levee Town from 1 PM to 6 PM. Facilities All four stages feature 32 channel digital mixing boards. The venue has television screens and projectors in every public and performer area to present what is happening on the various stages, or an in-house calendar of upcoming events. The saloon and outdoor stage has eight cameras feeding to a Blackmagic Design ATEM 1M/E video mixer. The Garage stage has six cameras going to a Ross Video Synergy video mixer. And in the gospel lounge there are four PTZ cameras going to a Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio. All switchers drive the in-house video and an optional Facebook web stream. Honors Knuckleheads was given the Blues Foundation's Keeping the Blues Alive Award as Best Blues Club in 2008, calling it "...the place to see live Blues in Kansas City" and "...a premier stop for Blues artists traveling through the Midwest". Starting in 2005, it has won Best Blues Club from the readers of the Kansas City alternative paper The Pitch, and has won that award for each of the following six years. Bill Brownlee of The Kansas City Star, in a review of a concert by Leon Russell, said "Knuckleheads is Kansas City's premier roots music venue of the last 30 years."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrondissement%20of%20Auch

Arrondissement of Auch

The arrondissement of Auch is an arrondissement of France in the Gers department in the Occitanie region. Its population is 81,242 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Auch, and their INSEE codes, are: Ansan (32002) Antras (32003) Aubiet (32012) Auch (32013) Augnax (32014) Aurade (32016) Aurimont (32018) Auterive (32019) Ayguetinte (32024) Bazian (32033) Beaupuy (32038) Bedechan (32040) Belmont (32043) Betcave-Aguin (32048) Bezeril (32051) Bezolles (32052) Biran (32054) Blanquefort (32056) Bonas (32059) Boulaur (32061) Cadeillan (32069) Caillavet (32071) Callian (32072) Castelnau-Barbarens (32076) Castera-Verduzan (32083) Castillon-Debats (32088) Castillon-Massas (32089) Castillon-Saves (32090) Castin (32091) Cazaux-d'Angles (32097) Cazaux-Saves (32098) Clermont-Saves (32105) Crastes (32112) Duran (32117) Endoufielle (32121) Escorneboeuf (32123) Espaon (32124) Fregouville (32134) Garravet (32138) Gaujac (32140) Gaujan (32141) Gazax-et-Baccarisse (32144) Gimont (32147) Giscaro (32148) L'Isle-Arne (32157) L'Isle-Jourdain (32160) Jegun (32162) Juilles (32165) Justian (32166) Labastide-Saves (32171) Lahas (32182) Lahitte (32183) Lartigue (32198) Lavardens (32204) Laymont (32206) Leboulin (32207) Lias (32210) Lombez (32213) Lupiac (32219) Lussan (32221) Marambat (32231) Marestaing (32234) Marsan (32237) Maurens (32247) Merens (32251) Mirannes (32257) Mirepoix (32258) Monblanc (32261) Monferran-Saves (32268) Mongausy (32270) Montadet (32276) Montamat (32277) Montaut-les-Creneaux (32279) Montegut (32282) Montegut-Saves (32284) Montiron (32288) Montpezat (32289) Mourede (32294) Nizas (32295) Noilhan (32297) Nougaroulet (32298) Ordan-Larroque (32301) Pavie (32307) Pebees (32308) Pellefigue (32309) Pessan (32312) Peyrusse-Grande (32315) Peyrusse-Massas (32316) Peyrusse-Vieille (32317) Polastron (32321) Pompiac (32322) Preignan (32331) Preneron (32332) Pujaudran (32334) Puycasquier (32335) Puylausic (32336) Razengues (32339) Riguepeu (32343) Roquebrune (32346) Roquefort (32347) Roquelaure (32348) Roques (32351) Rozes (32352) Sabaillan (32353) Saint-Andre (32356) Saint-Arailles (32360) Saint-Caprais (32467) Sainte-Christie (32368) Saint-Elix-d'Astarac (32374) Sainte-Marie (32388) Saint-Jean-Poutge (32382) Saint-Lary (32384) Saint-Lizier-du-Plante (32386) Saint-Loube (32387) Saint-Martin-Gimois (32392) Saint-Paul-de-Baise (32402) Saint-Pierre-d'Aubezies (32403) Saint-Sauvy (32406) Saint-Soulan (32407) Samatan (32410) Saramon (32412) Sauveterre (32418) Sauvimont (32420) Savignac-Mona (32421) Segoufielle (32425) Semezies-Cachan (32428) Seysses-Saves (32432) Simorre (32433) Tirent-Pontejac (32447) Tournan (32451) Tourrenquets (32453) Tudelle (32456) Vic-Fezensac (32462) Villefranche (32465) History The arrondissement of Auch was created in 1800. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Gers, it gained nine communes from the arrondissement of Condom and five communes from the arrondissement of Mirande, and it lost 13 communes to the arrondissement of Condom and 21 communes to the arrondissement of Mirande. As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise%20Lost%20%28Herd%20song%29

Paradise Lost (Herd song)

"Paradise Lost" is a single by the English rock band the Herd, released in December 1967. Written by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, it was the follow-up to the group's first hit "From the Underworld". Unlike its predecessor, it failed to reach the top ten on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 15. It was later included on the group's only studio album, Paradise Lost (1968). Background and recording According to songwriters Howard and Blaikley, the lyrics of "Paradise Lost" bear no relation to the Milton poem of the same name. The song presents the perspective of "a fellow who's drowning his sorrows in a sleazy strip joint, while he reflects sadly on the loss of his youthful innocence", according to Derek Johnson of the New Musical Express. The verses, sung by Peter Frampton, are accompanied by an arrangement similar to that of "From the Underground", with trumpet, strings, and celesta prominent. They are sandwiched between two jazz sections reminiscent of David Rose's 1958 composition "The Stripper", creating a musical contrast and illustrating the gulf between the narrator's thoughts and his environment. Release "Paradise Lost", backed with "Come On-Believe Me", was released by Fontana on 1 December 1967, ahead of the Herd's five-date tour of Scotland. Originally to have been issued on 17 November, the single was pushed back due to the prolonged chart success of "From the Underworld". The group promoted the song with television appearances on Crackerjack (12 December) and Dee Time (23 December). It peaked at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart, spending nine weeks on the chart. It was ultimately the least successful of the Herd's three hit singles. In the week following the single's release, New Musical Express readers voted the Herd the sixth "Best New Group" of 1967, behind the Bee Gees, Traffic, the Tremeloes, Procol Harum and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Peter Frampton was voted the ninth best "New Disc Singer". Critical reception The song received a warm reception upon release. Writing in the New Musical Express, Derek Johnson praised the "evocative and highly commercial" song, singling out the "urgent, attacking style of young Peter Frampton, commanding sympathy and appeal in this expressive and wistful lyric". Penny Valentine of Disc and Music Echo considered the song similar to "From the Underworld", due to the "doomy backing and Frampton's clawing away in front". Peter Jones of Record Mirror was positive, commenting "Tremendous. Very tough and rough and commercial." Chris Welch of Melody Maker considered it "a piece of advanced pop writing" and noted how the "reverie" section is "sandwiched callously between brash stripper music, creating a violent contrast". Ray Connolly for the Evening Standard was less favourable, describing it as "a continuation of 'From the Underworld', which an awful lot of you bought despite my reservations. I don't really care terribly for this record either, but it would be caddish of me to criticise such a pretty lad as Peter Frampton."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej%20Pilipiuk

Andrzej Pilipiuk

Andrzej Pilipiuk (born 20 March 1974 in Warsaw), Polish humoristic science-fiction and fantasy author. He debuted in 1996 with short story "Hiena", which featured the first appearance of Jakub Wedrowycz, an alcoholic exorcist. Since that time, Pilipiuk has written several dozen other short stories about that character. Nine times nominated to the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, won it in 2002 for his short story Kuzynki, which he expanded into a novel in 2003 and followed by sequels: Ksiezniczka in 2004 and Dziedziczki in 2005. The series describes the adventures of 3 women: a more-than-1000-year-old teenage vampire, a 300-year-old alchemist-szlachcianka, and her relative, a former Polish secret agent from CBS (Polish 'FBI'). A recurring character in the series alchemist Michal Sedziwoj, and the universe is the same as the one of Wedrowycz (who makes appearances from time to time).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316%20SIU%20Edwardsville%20Cougars%20men%27s%20basketball%20team

2015–16 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's basketball team

The 2015-16 SIU Edwardsville Cougars men's basketball team represented Southern Illinois University Edwardsville during the 2015-16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cougars, led by first year head coach Jon Harris, played their home games at the Vadalabene Center as members of the West Division of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). They finished the season 6-22, 3-13 in OVC play to finish in fifth place in the west division. They failed to qualify for the OVC tournament. Off-season A nationwide search for a new head coach began in March, 2015, and on April 3, Edwardsville native Jon Harris, an assistant coach for the California Golden Bears was introduced as the new Cougars head coach. Harris announced the addition of assistant coaches Kent Williams and Tarrence Crump on April 24. On May 28, Charles "Bubba" Wells was also added to the staff. Preseason Six players, all of whom saw major playing time, return from the 12-16 team of 2014-15. One recruit from high school signed by previous coach Lennox Forrester joined the team in addition to others recruited by new coach Harris and his staff, including three transfers from Southern Illinois junior colleges (one from local Lewis & Clark), a transferring graduate student with remaining eligibility, and a transfer who will be eligible after the semester break. Missing from the mix is Donovine Stewart, last season's leader in minutes played, assists, and steals and #2 in scoring and rebounding, who graduated with a year of eligibility remaining and was said to have been contacted about transferring by Illinois, Minnesota, USC, and others, with Illinois having requested his transcripts; Stewart eventually transferred to Portland State but sat out the PSU @ SIUE game on December 12. Season The 2015-16 season will begin in mid-November, 2015. Although the final schedule was not released until August 2, SIUE's non-conference opponents for the upcoming campaign were announced in May. The Cougars will host Saint Louis (11-21 in 2014-15), Portland State (15-14), Campbell (10-22), and Grand Canyon (17-15) at the Vadalabene Center. They will take road trips to play at USC (12-20), Butler (23-11), Northwestern (15-17), SIU Carbondale (12-21), Milwaukee (14-16), and IPFW (16-15). Most games will be streamed online. Fox Sports Midwest will carry a package of SIUE games for the fourth consecutive season. Fox's broadcast/cablecasts of Cougars games began with five games in the 2012-2013 season, increasing to eight games in 2013-14 and nine games last season. The OVC is also has conference cablecast packages with American Sports Network and CBS Sports Network that will include Cougar games. Postseason The Ohio Valley Conference men's and women's basketball tournaments will again return to Nashville, Tennessee and the Nashville Municipal Auditorium on March 2-5, 2016. The 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament is scheduled to begin on March 15, 2016, and will conclude with the championship game on April 4 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.

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Sulphide Lake

Sulphide Lake is located in North Cascades National Park, in the U. S. state of Washington. Sulphide Lake lies in a cirque on the southeast slopes of Mount Shuksan. Several major cascades drop as much as into Sulphide Lake including Sulphide Basin Falls which is from melt off the Sulphide Glacier. After Sulphide Creek drains from Sulphide lake, it then plunges at least over a series of cascades called Sulphide Creek Falls, which is one of the tallest waterfalls in the U.S. The lake is in a basin with near vertical walls and the rock is phyllite and greenschist. Above the lake on the cliffs below Crystal Glacier a 0.3 mile wide band stained red in color (from iron oxide) is exposed that runs for about 2.5 miles. This band is rich in the iron sulfides pyrite and pyrrhotite. Presumably this is the source of the lake's name.

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Ikaria wariootia

Ikaria wariootia is an early example of a wormlike, bilaterian organism. Its fossils are found in rocks of the Ediacara Member of South Australia that are estimated to be between 560 and 555 million years old. A representative of the Ediacaran biota, Ikaria lived during the Ediacaran period, roughly 15 million years before the Cambrian, when the Cambrian explosion occurred and where widespread fossil evidence of modern bilaterian taxa appear in the fossil record. Discovery Scott D. Evans, Ian V. Hughes, James G. Gehling, and Mary L. Droser published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on 23 March 2020, describing the finding and identification of I. wariootia. Age The age of Ediacara Member strata are not well-defined through radiometric dating, and are primarily estimated comparatively with other Ediacaran Biota assemblages, likely ranging between approximately 562 Ma and 542 Ma. Brazilian trace fossils associated with later bilaterians, found 30-40m above a bed radiometrically dated to 555 Ma, are thought to be younger than Ikaria. It is possible that Ikaria evolved prior to 560 Ma. Etymology The generic name is taken from the Adnyamathanha word for "meeting place" (, also the name for nearby Wilpena Pound) in recognition of the local indigenous people who originally lived in the region where the fossils were collected. The specific name refers to Warioota Creek, the type locality. Features Over 100 Ikaria fossils have been found. These are simple imprints resembling a small grain of rice (from 1.9 to 6.7 mm in length), slightly thickening to one end. The "anterior"/"posterior" differentiation may indicate that Ikaria was a bilaterally symmetrical animal. No other details of Ikaria anatomy were found on its fossils. On the same sandstone bed there are numerous trace fossils of the type Helminthoidichnites. The animal that produced such traces moved or burrowed through thin layers of well-oxygenated sand on the ocean floor as it sought sustenance and appeared to show sensory and seeking behaviour, turning as it moved. It is thought to have moved by peristalsis, constricting muscles against the animal's hydrostatic skeleton, and may have possessed a coelom, mouth, anus, and through-gut, in a similar way to a worm. The authors of the Ikaria description find that the size and morphology of Ikaria match predictions for the producer of the trace fossil Helminthoidichnites. At least one of the fossils of Ikaria identified in the study was found in close proximity to Helminthoidichnites, which the discoverers attribute to vertical motion of the organism through sediment before its death - noting that due to differing preservation methods it is unlikely that both trace and body fossil could otherwise form simultaneously. However, this does not entirely remove the possibility that the association of Ikaria with Helminthoidichnites is erroneous. Significance This discovery is notable because while it has been long suspected that bilaterians evolved in the Ediacaran, for example Temnoxa and Kimberella, yet the vast majority of Ediacaran biota fossils are very different from the animals that came to dominate the life on Earth in the Cambrian and until present day.

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List of missing ships

This is a list of missing ships and wrecks. If it is known that the ship in question sank, then its wreck has not yet been located. Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of disappearance. The disappearance of a ship usually implies all hands lost. Without witnesses or survivors, the mystery surrounding the fate of missing ships has inspired many items of nautical lores and the creation of paranormal zones such as the Bermuda Triangle. In many cases a probable cause has been deduced, such as a known storm or warfare, but it could not be confirmed without witnesses or sufficient documentation. Many disappearances occurred before wireless telegraphy became available in navigation applications in the late 1890s, which would have allowed crew to send a distress call. Sudden disasters such as military strike, collision, rogue wave, or piracy could also prevent a crew from sending a distress call and reporting a location. Among the many missing ships on the list are submarines, which have limited communication, and provide the crew almost no chance of survival if struck by disaster under water. The advancement of radar technology by the end of World War II and today's Global Positioning System make it more likely that a distressed vessel will be located. Most vessels currently listed as missing disappeared over a vast search area and/or deep water and there is little commercial interest in searching for the vessels and salvaging the wreck and its contents. Often the search and recovery costs are prohibitive even with today's sonar and wrecking technologies and could not be compensated by salvaged valuables, even if there were any on board. The search for these types of missing vessels is usually motivated by historical, legal or actuarial interests requiring the aid of government funding such as in the 2008 discovery of HMAS Sydney and Kormoran. The list is organised by the marine region in which the disappearance or sinking occurred, or the closest country to the area. The year of the disappearance, last known location, and possible location of the wreck are included. Africa North America Central America Asia Europe Oceania High seas The following lists contain entries that could not be referenced to an area close to any one particular country or an area definitely in international waters.

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Niara Bely

Niara Bely (c. 1790 - 1879), also known as Elizabeth Bailey Gomez, was a Luso-African queen who became a prominent businesswoman in nineteenth century Guinea. She was active in the slave trade in Farenya, Guinea. Biography Niara Bely was the daughter of Emmanuel Gomez, the Luso-African ruler of Bakia, Guinea. At some point, she also adopted the westernised name of Elizabeth Bailey Gomez. Slave trader In 1809 she married the slave trader Stiles Edward Lightbourn who spent much of his time on voyages across the Atlantic. The couple originally lived in Bangalan. Bely subsequently maintained a trading settlement located in Farenya, Guinea. While there, she became a prominent businesswoman involved in the slave trade. She resided in the fortified settlement, in a two-storey building she described as a "palace". Archaeological evidence suggests that the area became a village only after Bely set up her trading outpost. It was the destination for trading routes from the Fouta Djallon highlands. Chief Lightbourn was lost at sea in 1833. Two years later both Bely and her son Stiles Jr were made chiefs. Over the course of the following 30 years, the family would fight for control of the local area. The children of Bely and Lightbourn did not reside in Farenya, but instead at Gnanya, which at the time was the port for the region. In 1841, when Benjamin Campbell was investigated for involvement in the slave trade, he freely admitted that he had done business with "Mrs Lightbourn", but said that he had only bought legitimate goods such as ivory, hides, wax, gold and coffee. In 1842, Niara Bely and her colleague Mary Faber united their armies to help their allies, the Fula, to plunder the Susu capital, Thia, when weakened by throne fighting, and installing their own candidate there, which benefited Fula, Faber, and Lightburn. The 1840s are described as a great flowering period for the region's trade. On January 17, 1852, the British and Sierra Leone, in agreement with the domestic ruler, imposed a ban on the slave trade of the region, a ban which the lower river region had already adopted. Mary Faber de Sanger, who perceived the treaty as a hostile act from the lower river trader in alliance with Freetown's "mulatto" and also as a way of releasing the lower river's Susa tribe from her allied Fula tribe power, which would hurt her business, closed alliance with Niara Bely and Charles Wilkinson, and together they pillaged the Susu region by the lower river. However, the war ended with a defeat for Faber, Bely and Wilkinson (1855). Around this time, the Transatlantic slave trade experienced its final declined, however, and the slave traders of the region gradually started to invest in other business. Death In 1878 she was baptised as an Anglican, later archaeological investigations discovered the remains of the original Anglican church at Farenya. She died on 14 April 1879, with the news commemorated by the firing of the settlement's cannon the morning after. A mission who was present at the time wrote "The infirmities of age had pressed heavily upon her ever since her baptism, and at last she died somewhat suddenly". She was initially buried in a hole under a cheese tree in the middle of the village. In 1966, a graveyard was built around the location and her remains were re-interred in a cement grave. Additional, empty, graves were built for her husband and her son.

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1837 in France

Events from the year 1837 in France. Incumbents Monarch - Louis Philippe I Events 30 May - Treaty of Tafna signed by France and Emir Abdelkader after French forces sustained heavy losses and military reversals in Algeria. 24 August - Queen Marie Amelie and King Louis Philippe officially open the first section of the Paris-Saint-Germain-en-Laye railway, the first steam-worked passenger line in France. 4 November - Legislative election held for the fourth legislature of the July Monarchy. At Le Mans, Father Basil Moreau founds the Congregation of Holy Cross by joining the Brothers of St. Joseph and the Auxiliary Priests of Le Mans. Louis Daguerre develops the daguerreotype. Luxury goods manufacturer Hermes is established in Paris by Thierry Hermes. Joseph Maes and Rouyer establish a glass factory in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt which after 1839 becomes the Cristallerie de Clichy. Sylvain Charles Valee captures and conquers Skikda, Algeria.

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Iča Putrih

Ica Putrih, born Marija Kos (4 February 1942 - 18 April 2019), was a Slovenian comedian. Putrih was born in Ljubljana, in a family with three children, and spent her youth in Dravlje. At the age of 14 and a half, she was employed as secretary after graduating from a gymnasium. Later, she was also employed as a secretary at Delo. For many years she has collaborated with fellow comedian Marjan Roblek, and as a humorist she has also performed with Avsenik Brothers Ensemble for two years. Putrih was married three times and the mother of two children, son and daughter. Her son died at the age of 16 of cancer. She died at the age of 77, after serious health complications with the gut.

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Esther Locke House

The Esther Locke House is a historic house at the southeast corner of Spring and 3rd Streets in Hardy, Arkansas. It is a large Plain Traditional rubble stone structure, with a gable roof and rubble stone foundation. The dominant feature of its main facade is a recessed two-story porch. Built in 1936-37, it is locally distinctive as a Depression-era structure built as a residence and rooming house. The downstairs housed Esther and Norma Sue Locke, who owned the property, and there were seven rooms upstairs that were rented to long-term tenants. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

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Argentina national rugby league team

The Argentina national rugby league team (formerly nicknamed the Penguins but now the Jabalis) represent Argentina in the sport of rugby league football. History Argentina first played rugby league in 2005 when the Australian Police Rugby League Association organised a tour to Buenos Aires. The Australian Police team played two games against Argentina. The first was a 40-4 win for the Australian Police, with a crowd of 87 people attending. The second game was a 60-6 win for the Australian Police with a crowd attendance of 71. The sport then remained dormant in the country for over 10 years before being revived in 2016 amidst a number of other South and Central American nations taking up the sport. Argentina saw its first domestic activity for a decade in November 2016 when it hosted the Primer Torneo Sudamericano de Rugby League, a slightly modified 9-a-side tournament in Miramar involving the national teams of Argentina and Chile, as well as a number of select sides from around the region which were bolstered by the Latin Heat organization. The final of the event was between the Argentinian and Chilean national teams, with Argentina winning 16-0. In 2017, with great effort from the players and coaching staff, Argentina traveled to Chile by bus, to be in the inaugural Latinoamericano Championship. This was the first time that a Latin American championship was played with 13 players a side, three referees and full RLIF tournament rules. This event gave Argentina their first chance to earn World Ranking points and debut in the International Rankings. Argentina's first match of the tournament was a 36-6 win over Colombia. This win earned a spot in the Final against Chile with Argentina losing 32-12 to a team sporting a number of heritage players from Australia. The Argentinian team for the tournament was wholly made up of players from development and social leagues and no heritage players. 2018 saw Argentina playing in the Confederacao Brasileira de Rugby League Festival in Sao Paulo, beating Colombia 28-16 before losing to Brazil in the final by 22-20 despite leading 14-20 at one point. Nowadays, the national team struggles to survive trying to add players, open some local competition and arrange some international friendlies with the typical economic issues of an amateur sport in the country.

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Life Is Beautiful (2000 film)

Life Is Beautiful is a 2000 Indian Malayalam-language drama film written, directed and produced by Fazil. The film stars Mohanlal and Samyuktha Varma in lead roles, and features a soundtrack composed by Ouseppachan. The film was released on 14 April 2000, and is partly a remake of the classic "Dead Poets Society", but titled was inspired by the 1997 Italian film of the same title Life is Beautiful. Plot Vinayachandran and Sindhu are a happily married couple who enjoy romancing. Vinayachandran joins a public school as a Plus Two teacher. In the strict disciplined school, unlike other teachers, Vinayachandran is friendly and conducts enjoyable classes. The students gets easily carried away by his amiable nature. One day, Sindhu's sister Bala visits them and asks Sindhu's permission for leaving to the United States for her higher studies, which Sindhu disapproves bluntly. Later, Sindhu leaves for a professional tour, leaving Vinayachandran and Bala alone. Meanwhile, Bala tries to get intimate with Vinayachandran which annoys him and he asks her why she is behaving so childishly for which she replies that Sindhu was the only one she had in this world but now as she has married Vinayachandran, she is all alone. Vinayachandran understands her state of mind consoles her and asks her to behave like his sister. As the story progresses, much to Vinayachandran's dismay, Bala's behaviour gets more strange day by day. Vinayachandran also loses his job because of his in-academic style of teaching. Sindhu after her trip returns and Bala confesses that she tried to get intimate with Vinayachandran and hence intended to replace Sindhu. Sindhu is devastated by this revelation and stops talking to Vinayachandran. Vinayachandran gets his job back as his students stood up for him and asks the authority not to fire him. Sindhu agrees for Bala's US plans. Vinayachandran joins them at the railway station and together the couple bids good bye for Bala. The film ends with Sindhu repeating Vinayachandran's words to him that whatever happens in LIFE it IS always BEAUTIFUL. Cast Mohanlal as Vinayachandran Samyuktha Varma as Sindhu, Vinayachandran's wife Geetu Mohandas as Bala, Sindhu's younger sister Arun as Sooraj Kishore Innocent as Nambiar K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Sosamma Nedumudi Venu as Principal Reena Rizabawa as Sindhu's Manager Sai Kumar as Suraj's father Saritha as Vice Principal Mithun Ramesh as Rajan Panicker Soundtrack The film features an eight-song soundtrack composed by Ouseppachan, all songs' lyrics were written by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri. The music label T-Series released the soundtrack on 1 January 2012. Production The film marked the return of Geethu Mohandas, it was her first adult role after appearing in films as a child artist early in her life. Legacy On 5 September 2015 on the occasion of Teachers' Day in India, International Business Times included Mohanlal's Vinayachandran in their compilation of seven "Best Teachers in Malayalam Films That You Will Never Forget".

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Enemy Swim, South Dakota

Enemy Swim is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation in Day County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 310 at the 2020 census. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. It is in the eastern part of the county, surrounding the west cove of Enemy Swim Lake and extending south to include the northwest shore of Campbell Slough. It is north of Waubay and by road northeast of Webster, the county seat.

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11th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam

The 11th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), formally the 11th Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Bo Chinh tri Ban Chap hanh trung uong Dang Cong san Viet Nam Khoa XI), was elected at the 1st Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee in the immediate aftermath of the 11th National Congress. Of the 14 members of the 11th Politubro, five of them were new to the Politburo (Tran Dai Quang, Tong Thi Phong, Ngo Van Du, Dinh The Huynh and Nguyen Xuan Phuc). Nguyen Phu Trong was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee - as General Secretary he presides over the work of the Central Committee, the Secretariat and the Politburo. The 11th Politburo, and in particular Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, the third ranked member, has been criticised over its handling of the Vietnamese economy. In the aftermath of the 6th plenum of the Central Committee (held 1-15 October 2012), Nguyen Phu Trong issued an official apology to the people of Vietnam, saying "The Politburo and Secretariat for many terms now have made some big mistakes, especially having not prevented and remedied corruption and the deterioration among some party members", further stating that "Some senior officials, those currently in office as well as former ones, have occasionally not been morally good role models through their lifestyles and those of their families. They have significantly impacted the prestige of the party and the state." He specified that the Central Committee choose not to dissolve the 14-member 11th Politburo, even if one of its members (later proven to be Nguyen Tan Dung), "was deserving of punishment." Later, at a convocation of the National Assembly, Nguyen Tan Dung apologised to the Vietnamese people; "I recognise my political responsibility and my faults" over his handling of the Vietnamese economy. According to Tuong Vu, an associate professor at the University of Oregon, there exists a rivalry between Truong Tan Sang, Nguyen Phu Trong, Nguyen Sinh Hung, the Chairman of the National Assembly, and others against Nguyen Tan Dung and his supporters. According to several diplomats and Western academics, Truong Tan Sang, during the run-up to the 11th National Congress, tried to supplant Nguyen Tan Dung as prime minister. In this he failed, and he was instead appointed to the largely ceremonial post of President. One of the most outstanding critiques of Nguyen Tan Dung's economic policy is his handling of the state-owned sector; state companies have preserved Soviet-like working ethics, together with large loans, and overextended growth led to a meltdown of two high-profile state-owned companies; both Vinashin and Vinalines both required government rescue. Nguyen Tan Dung's has also been criticised by his handling of corruption; several corruption scandals became public during his first term as prime minister. Following the 6th plenum of the Central Committee, Nguyen Phu Trong said a vote of confidence would be introduced in 2013. Two additional members were elected to the 11th Politburo at the 7th plenum of the 11th Central Committee on 11 May 2013.

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Chris Baker (golfer)

Christopher Ryan Baker (born March 1, 1986) is an American professional golfer who has played on the Challenge Tour and the Nationwide Tour. Amateur career Baker was born in Seymour, Indiana. He won the 2003 Indiana High School State Championship and lettered in golf at Iowa State University, winning the 2007 Big Four Tournament, he graduated in 2008. Professional career Baker turned professional in 2008 and began playing on mini-tours. He picked up his first professional victory at the NGA Hooters Tour Classic at Quail Crossing on the NGA Hooters Tour in 2009. In 2010, he won the River Hills Classic on the eGolf Professional Tour, which helped him finish sixth on the Tour's money list, earning him an exemption into the Moroccan Golf Classic on the Challenge Tour. He went on to win the event and took up membership on the Challenge Tour. Baker returned to the United States in 2011. He began playing on the Nationwide Tour in June, but only made 3 cuts in 13 events. Baker returned to the eGolf Professional Tour and finished 29th on the money list in 2011.

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Barbados–Germany relations

Barbadian-German relations are foreign relations between Barbados and Germany. Barbados is represented in Germany through its embassy in Brussels, (Belgium) and Germany is represented in Barbados from its regional embassy for the Eastern Caribbean in Port of Spain, (Trinidad and Tobago) and an Honorary Consul in Christ Church. Barbados and Germany formally established diplomatic relations on 14 March 1967. History From the late 1620s until 1966, Barbados constituted as a part of the British Empire and was a prominent regional base for British forces. In 1874, the German bark Pierre Buyper was wrecked on the coast of Barbados. During World War I and II a number of Barbadian troops were enlisted with the British forces to fight in the war with Germany. Twelve Barbados men made up the Second Barbados Contingent of Volunteers for the Armed Forces. They were recruited for the Royal Air Force. They left Barbados for England in November 1940 to fight against Germany. On 11 September 1942 German submarine U-514 was patrolling the waters of Barbados where it torpedoed the Canadian steam merchant ship Cornwallis off the coastline of the capital city. The ship was brought ashore in Barbados before it was released and torpedoed a second time and sank. The shipwreck was later turned into a reef and Marine park. Trade According to prize winning Barbadian novelist Austin Clarke, Barbados suffered economic hardship after it was nearly cut off from global trade by Germany. Barbadian and German economic trade are not very significant, the German government is one of the main stake holders in the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), which lends to the various territories throughout the Caribbean region. In 2008 Barbados was one of several Caribbean countries of the Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries that signed a sweeping Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union. Barbados receives substantial income from Germany from the spending by German tourists. In 2002 German tourism to Barbados dropped by 23 percent. Barbados's main exports to Germany are agricultural products. Banks Barbados Brewery in Barbados imported over 1 million Barbadian dollars of computerized production equipment from Germany in 1994-1995. Tourism Germans nationals travelling to Barbados for tourism remains one of the modern day cultural ties between both nations. In 2010, the German airline Condor announced to Barbadian aviation officials that it would be doubling its weekly flights between Barbados and Germany. Agreements The Agreement between the Government of Barbados and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Reciprocal Promotion and Protection of Investments -- Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT), was signed 2 December 1994. Short-stay visa waver agreement (for stays up to three months), covering Barbadian and German nationals, signed and entered force on 28 May 2009. Members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-EU's Joint Parliamentary Assembly. People Rupee (musician) is a soca musician from Barbados. He was born in military barracks in Germany to a German mother and a Bajan father, who was serving in the British armed forces at the time. He later migrated to Barbados. Female Barbadian reggae singer Tabitha Johnson was also born in Germany and she was born to a German mother and a Bajan father just like Rupee (musician) was. Around 160 Barbadian Emigrants live in Germany.

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Claudia Uhle

Claudia Uhle (born 15 March 1976) is a German singer, known for being a member of X-Perience. Early life Uhle was born in Johannisthal in East Berlin. She first learned the flute and the piano before practicing singing. She attended the Georg-Friedrich-Handel-Oberschule in Berlin, a special music school. During school she sang in various choirs, as a teenager she sang at the Berlin State Opera. Career In 1995, Uhle joined the pop-style group X-Perience, in which her brother Matthias was already evolving. The band found success in 1996 with the song A Neverending Dream. In 2007, Claudia left the band to better focus on her solo project, Angelzoom. In 2020, Uhle got back together with X-Perience. Discography Albums 2004: Angelzoom 2010: Nothing is Infinite Singles 2004: Fairyland 2005: Back in the Moment (feat.

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Tsai Hsien-tang

Tsai Hsien-tang (; born 29 April 1977), formerly known as Tsai Hui-kai (), is a Taiwanese football (soccer) player. He played as a defender and a defensive midfielder. Career During his participation in Tatung F.C., he was voted the best defensive midfielder after the Chinese Taipei National Football League 2005 season. In October 2005, he suffered a serious knee ligament injury in training and was unable to represent Chinese Taipei at the 2005 East Asian Games held in Macau. The injury also made him unable to be in the starting lineup during the entire Enterprise Football League 2006 season. In 2008, after he changed his name to Tsai Hsien-tang, he became captain of the Chinese Taipei national football team during the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup. For the years of 2008-2012 he played for the national team of Taiwan. In 2017 he played for Tainan City.

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Cachiyacuy

Cachiyacuy is an extinct genus of caviomorph known from the Loreto of Peru. It contains two species: the type species C. contamanensis and C. kummeli. Description All Cachiyacuy specimens were collected in the CTA-27 Locality (or Maquia locality), from the uppermost part of the Yahuarango Formation, dating to the latest Lutetian stage of the late Middle Eocene, about 41 million years ago. The type species C. contamanensis is known from the holotype MUSM 1871, a right second molar and from some referred teeth including MUSM 1870, MUSM 1872, MUSM 1873, MUSM 1874, MUSM 1875, MUSM 1876, MUSM 1877, MUSM 1878, MUSM 1879 and MUSM 1880. Its body mass estimated at 80-120 gram. The second species Cachiyacuy kummeli is known from the holotype MUSM 1882, a left first molar and from some referred teeth including MUSM 1881, MUSM 1883, MUSM 1885, MUSM 1886, MUSM 1887 and MUSM 1888. It was a tiny rodent, approximately 30% smaller than C. contamanensis as its body mass estimated at 30-40 gram. A cladistic analysis found Cachiyacuy to be monophyletic and one of the basalmost and the oldest known caviomorph (the other being Canaanimys from the same locality). Etymology Cachiyacuy was first named by Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Laurent Marivaux, Darin A. Croft, Guillaume Billet, Morgan Ganerod, Carlos Jaramillo, Thomas Martin, Maeva J. Orliac, Julia Tejada, Ali J. Altamirano, Francis Duranthon, Gregory Fanjat, Sonia Rousse and Rodolfo Salas Gismondi in 2012 and the type species is Cachiyacuy contamanensis. The generic name is derived from Cachiyacu, name of a local River, and cuy, Quechua for "guinea pig". The specific name of the type species is named after the geographical provenance of the specimens, close to the city of Contamana. The specific name of C. kummeli honors the geologist Bernhard for describing extensively for the first time the Cachiyacu section in the 1940s.

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Hassocks railway station

Hassocks railway station is on the Brighton Main Line in England, serving the village of Hassocks, West Sussex. It is down the line from via and is situated between and . It is managed by Southern. Trains calling at Hassocks are operated by Southern and Thameslink. History The station was named "Hassocks Gate" upon its opening on 21 September 1841 by the London and Brighton Railway, which became the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846. It was one of the few intermediate stations on the line with four tracks, to allow express trains to overtake those stopping at the station. However, the number of tracks was later reduced to two, although the additional width is still apparent from the siting of the station buildings. The original 1841 station building was designed by David Mocatta, the architect of the railway, in a simple cottage style, but using the same modular system that he applied to other stations on the line. For many years Hassocks Gate station was used by excursion trains for passengers visiting the nearby South Downs and suffered as a result as it became a meeting place for prostitutes. It stands almost at the summit of the line's climb from London before passing through Clayton Tunnel, a short distance south of the station. This was the site of the Clayton Tunnel rail crash in 1861, resulting in 23 deaths and 176 injuries. Between December 1880 and August 1881 a new station building was constructed by James Longley & Co of Crawley to the designs of Thomas Myres as the prototype for those later built in the same style on the Bluebell and Cuckoo line with a half-timbered upper storey, decorative brick eaves, stained glass windows and charming porches. The booking office was covered by a lantern-shaped roof and the platforms by wooden canopies on iron columns. The station was demolished in 1973 by British Rail and replaced with a CLASP structure which was described as "truly awful". In 2006 the local community announced that it was hoping to raise PS2.5m to rebuild the station to the previous design. Although these plans fell through, in 2008 Network Rail announced that it would be carrying out an 18-month feasibility study to identify possible improvements to the existing building in order to facilitate access by the disabled and elderly. Limited modifications were made to the station in 2011 with the addition of ticket gate lines on both platforms and some refurbishment of the shelters. In January 2011 it was announced by Network Rail that PS1.25 million would be used to rebuild the station under the Department for Transport's National Station Improvement Programme and that a further PS1.6 million, from the Access for All scheme, used to install step-free access. Work began on building the new station in November 2012 and the new ticket office opened for the first time on 14 June 2013. At this point there was still work to be completed including the installation of lifts to improve access to the subway however the opening of the new station officially took place on Friday 5 July 2013, conducted by the MD of Southern and Catherine Cassidy. Work was completed by December 2013. The station features in Sabine Baring-Gould's mid-Victorian ghost story The 9.30 Up-train. Woodside level crossing, to the north of the station, was closed in 2021 due to safety concerns. In June 2022, an underpass was opened which replaced the level crossing. Services Off-peak, services at Hassocks are operated by Southern and Thameslink using and EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: 2 tph to via 2 tph to 2 tph to 2 tph to via During the peak hours and on Saturdays, the service between London Victoria and Littlehampton is increased to 2 tph. There are also a number of peak hour Thameslink services to and Littlehampton. In addition, the station is served by a number of peak hour Gatwick Express services which usually pass through Hassocks. These services run non-stop from to London Victoria and are operated using EMUs.

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BR standard classes

The BR Standard steam locomotives were an effort to standardize locomotives from the motley collection of older pre-grouping locos. Due to the controversial British Railways' modernisation plan of 1955, where steam traction was abandoned in favour of diesel and electric traction, many of the locomotives' working lives were very short: between 7 and 17 years. Many have been preserved, mainly due to being sent to Barry Scrapyard. Ex-WD Austerity engines The first BR standards were the BR ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0 and BR ex-WD Austerity 2-10-0s. They were given the numbers 90000-732 and 90750-774. They were assigned the boiler types BR10 and BR11, and both had the tender type BR5. Background Robert Riddles put his case for continuing to build steam locomotives in his presidential address to the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in November 1950. He compared capital costs to show that steam was cheaper than the alternatives, though he did not mention productivity differences, except to say fuel costs did not rank very high relative to total costs. For example, a Class 5 cost PS16,000, compared to PS78,100 for a 1,600 h. p. diesel, PS138,700 for a gas turbine, or PS37,400 for electric. He calculated the costs per drawbar horse power as PS13 6s (steam), PS65 (diesel), PS69 7s (turbine) and PS17 13s (electric). Design From 1951, BR started to build steam locomotives to its own standard designs, which were largely based on LMS practice but incorporating ideas and modifications from the other constituent companies, continental Europe and North America. Their design was overseen by Riddles. Characteristic features were taper boilers, high running plates, two cylinders and streamlined cabs. Construction Although more were ordered, 999 BR "Standards" were constructed: the last, 92220 Evening Star, was built in 1960. Most never achieved their potential service life and were withdrawn in working order. Construction was split between the ex-LMS works at Crewe, Derby and Horwich, the ex-LNER works at Darlington and Doncaster, the ex-GWR works at Swindon, and the ex-SR works at Brighton. Tenders The tenders used with the Standard locomotives were also new designs. There were different types due to the use of different coal-to-water ratios, weight restrictions and later improved designs. It was standard practice for there to be fewer tenders than locomotives, as tenders took little time to overhaul compared to locomotives, locomotives entering works for overhaul would tend to lose their tenders to locomotives leaving works after overhaul. Preservation A total of 46 standards have survived - of these, 38 were rescued from Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Wales. The BR Standard Locomotive Owner's Group provides co-ordination. New Builds The new build of the 'Clan' class 72010 "Hengist" is progressing steadily. The new build of the Class 3 Tank 82045 is well underway, work continues as of 2021.

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Fabrizio Lai

Fabrizio Lai (born 14 December 1978 in Rho) is a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Italy. He currently competes in the CIV Superbike Championship, aboard a MV Agusta F4. Career He won the European Championship twice in succession in 1996 and 1997 while still a teenager, before winning the Italian championship in 2002. He has competed in the 125 cc World Championship since 2001, first as a wild card rider, and full-time since the 2003 season on a Malaguti. Lai achieved his first podium finish during the 2004 season as runner-up at Motegi on a Gilera, He finished 6th overall in 2005 and 11th in 2006 as a Honda rider. For 2007, he switched to the Campetella Racing Aprilia team.

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Slieveboy

Slieveboy () is a mountain located in north County Wexford, Ireland. Etymology It is never called 'Slieveboy' by locals, but always its Irish form Sliabh Bui, which is pronounced 'Shleeav Bwee'. Sliabh Bui means Yellow Mountain. Geography The mountain rises directly above the village of Ballyduff, midway between Carnew and Camolin. The mountain is, except for the area around the summit, completely covered in forest. There is a network of forest roads on the hill, and two communication masts on the summit.

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The Fan Brothers

Terry Fan and Eric Fan are American-born Canadian children's book writers and illustrators, known collectively as the Fan Brothers. They made their picture book debut with The Night Gardener (2016), which was named an ALA Notable Children's Book. Biography The siblings were both born in the United States (Terry in Illinois and Eric in Hawaii), and grew up in Toronto, Canada. They both studied at OCAD University. Known professionally as the Fan Brothers, they made their picture book debut in 2016 with The Night Gardener, which they wrote and illustrated. The book earned positive reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Quill & Quire, and BookPage. The Night Gardener was named an ALA Notable Children's Book and was a finalist for the Cybils Award for children's literature. In 2018, the Fan Brothers published Ocean Meets Sky. A review in Quill & Quire called the book's illustrations "truly breathtaking". The book was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration and for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration. The Fan Brothers collaborated with their youngest brother, Devin Fan, on his book debut, The Barnabus Project (2020). The book, released in September 2020, has earned positive reviews in the Canadian Review of Materials and Kirkus. The book won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration at the 2020 Governor General's Awards.

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Richard Schodde

Richard Schodde, OAM (born 23 September 1936) is an Australian botanist and ornithologist. Schodde studied at the University of Adelaide, where he received a BSc (Hons) in 1960 and a PhD in 1970. During the 1960s he was a botanist with the CSIRO Division of Land Research and Regional Survey in Papua New Guinea. From 1970 to 1998 he was the foundation curator and director of the Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) in the CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, following which he became a research fellow there. During this time he led the flora and fauna surveys that helped establish Kakadu National Park and the designation of the wet tropics of north-eastern Queensland as Australia's first World Heritage Site. These surveys resulted in the accession of almost 50,000 specimens to the ANWC, as well as 15,000 samples of frozen tissue for molecular studies. In the 2009 Queen's birthday honours, Schodde was awarded an OAM for his contribution to the natural sciences, particularly ornithology. Schodde has also been a Corresponding Fellow, and later an Honorary Fellow, of the AOU, honorary vice president of the 25th International Ornithological Congress (2010), chair of the Standing Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature of the International Ornithological Committee, and convener of symposia on the origin and evolutionary radiations of Australasian birds at the 1974 and 1990 International Ornithological Congresses. Publications As well as numerous scientific papers, books authored, coauthored or edited by Schodde include: 1975 - Interim list of Australian songbirds: Passerines. 1980 - Nocturnal Birds of Australia. a Monograph of the Maluridae. (With illustrations by Richard Weatherly). 1983 - A Review of Norfolk Island Birds: Past and Present. (With P. Fullagar and N. Hermes). 1988 - Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. (Coeditor of 2nd edition with Sonia Tidemann). 1997 - Zoological Catalogue of Australia: Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae) v. 37. 1998 - CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. (With M. Stanger, M Clayton, I. Mason and J. Wombey). 1999 - The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines. A taxonomic and zoogeographic atlas of the biodiversity of birds of Australia and its territories. 2006 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Ornithological Congress, Beijing, August 2002. Acta Zoologica Sinica, Vol.52, Supplement. 2006 - The Encyclopedia of Birds.

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Cottii Regnum

Cottii Regnum was a small independent kingdom in northwestern Italy. It included most of an important road over the pass of Mont Genevre and Mont Cenis into Gaul. The pass was in use by about 100 BC. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar met with some resistance on crossing it, but seems afterwards to have entered into friendly relations with Donnus, the king of the district; he must have used it frequently, and referred to it as the shortest route. Donnus's son Cottius erected the triumphal arch at his capital Segusio, the modern Susa, in honour of Augustus. The kingdom was included in the Roman Empire under Nero about AD 64, when it became a province under the title of "Alpes Cottiae," being governed by a procurator Augusti, though it still kept its old name also.

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Sophie Reimers

Sofie Reimers (19 April 1853 - 9 April 1932) was a Norwegian stage actress. She was recognized for her performances in both major tragedies and comedies. Biography Petra Sophie Alette Christine Reimers was born in Bergen, the daughter of Claus Severin Frimann Reimers (1808-70) and Severine Cathrine Lem (1816-96). She made her stage debut as Svanhild in Kjaerlighedens Komedie by Henrik Ibsen at Den Nationale Scene on October 31, 1879. She later performed at Christiania Theatre from 1881 and at Nationaltheatret from 1899 until her death, being the theatre's "Grand Old Lady". She continued her legacy from the 19th century during her last performance at the Nationaltheatret on March 10, 1932, where she played Klara Song in Over AEvne I by Bjornstjerne Bjornson. She published her memoir Teaterminder fra Kristiania Teater in 1919 and died in Oslo during 1932.

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OCRopus

OCRopus is a free document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) system released under the Apache License v2.0 with a very modular design using command-line interfaces. OCRopus is developed under the lead of Thomas Breuel from the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Kaiserslautern, Germany and was sponsored by Google. Description OCRopus was especially designed for use in high-volume digitization projects of books, such as Google Books, Internet Archive or libraries. A large number of languages and fonts are to be supported. However, it can also be used for desktop and office applications or for application for visually impaired people. The main components of OCRopus are formed: analysis of the document layout optical character recognition use of statistical language models Single or multiple scripts are available for these components. The modular approach allows individual workflows to be used and individual steps to be exchanged. By default, OCRopus comes with a model for English texts and a model for text in Fraktur. These models refer to the script and are largely independent of the actual language. New characters or language variants can be trained either new or in addition. Recent text recognition is based on recurrent neural networks (LSTM) and does not require a language model. This makes it possible to train language-independent models for which good recognition results for English, German and French have been shown at the same time. In addition to the Latin script, there are results for other scripts such as Sanskrit, Urdu, Devanagari and Greek. Very good detection rates can be achieved through an appropriate training. This extra effort is particularly worthwhile for difficult documents or scripts that are no longer common today, which are not in the focus of other OCR software. History On 9 April 2007, OCRopus was announced as a Google-sponsored project to develop advanced OCR technologies. Funding was granted for a period of three years and covered in particular PhD and postdoctoral positions at DFKI and the University of Kaiserslautern. In return, OCRopus was also used for automatic text recognition in Google Book Search. Licensing under an open source license was made right from the start to facilitate collaboration between industrial and academic research. OCRopus has received further funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the BMBF. The first alpha version 0.1 was released on 22 October 2007 and several pre-releases followed between December 2007 and May 2009 reaching a stable version 0.4.4 in March 2010. Originally, the software was developed in C++, Python and Lua with Jam as a build system. A complete refactoring of the source code in Python modules was done and released in version 0.5 (June 2012). Initially, Tesseract was used as the only text recognition module. Since 2009 (version 0.4) Tesseract was only supported as a plugin. Instead, a self-developed text recognizer (also segment-based) was used. This recognizer was then used together with OpenFST for language modeling after the recognition step. From 2013 onwards, an additional recognition with recurrent neural networks (LSTM) was offered, which with the release of version 1.0 in November 2014 is the only recognizer. The source code is managed over GitHub and is maintained and developed by a developer community. The current version of OCRopus is 1.3.3 (December 2017). Thomas Breuel also developed a successor OCRopus 2 and is actively working on OCRopus 4. Usage OCRopus can be used from the command line. Once installed, it can be invoked by specifying the input images. It will output the recognized text to standard output directly or write it as hOCR (HTML-based) code into files, from which it then can be transformed to a searchable PDF. If more precise control is needed, options can be specified on the command line to perform specific operations (e.g. Example for the OCRopus calls to recognize the text in an image: # perform binarization ocropus-nlbin tests/ersch.png -o book # perform page layout analysis ocropus-gpageseg book/0001.bin.png # perform text line recognition (with a fraktur model) ocropus-rpred -m models/fraktur.pyrnn.gz book/0001/*.bin.png # generate HTML output ocropus-hocr book/0001.bin.png -o book/0001.html Other tools concentrate on the training part of OCRopus. There are OCRopus models to extract text from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Indic scripts.

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Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award

The Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award was created in 1956 by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in 1956 to recognize Indian researchers in the agricultural field. The award is named after Indian Independence activist Rafi Ahmed Kidwai. Awards are distributed biennially, and takes the form of medals, citations, and cash prizes. Awardee List Following is list of the recipients of the Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award: Hiralal Chaudhuri Controversies There have been several complaints that Dr K.C. Bansal falsified the patent information on the basis of which Kidwai Award (2007-2008) was given to him. The Award was given to Dr Bansal for patenting a technique to transfer foreign gene to brinjal chloroplast. It was found that Dr Bansal did not have such a patent to his credit and that he filed an application for patent only after the award was given. The matter got wide publicity in press, media and scientific journals. Several scientists demanded Shri Sharad Pawar, Former Minister for Agriculture to remove Dr Bansal from the post of Director, NBPGR. Questions were raised in Indian Parliament. Mr Tariq Anwer, Minister of State for Agriculture has answered that an enquiry has been initiated to look into the issues. However, reports suggest that ICAR has hushed up the matter and RTI queries for the outcome of the enquiry were not answered.

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2014–15 figure skating season

The 2014-15 figure skating season began on July 1, 2014, and ended on June 30, 2015. During this season, elite skaters competed at the ISU Championship level in the 2015 European, Four Continents, World Junior, and World Championships. Other elite events included the Grand Prix series and Junior Grand Prix series, culminating in the Grand Prix Final, and the inaugural ISU Challenger Series. Season notes Beginning in the 2014-15 season, the minimum age for senior Grand Prix and senior B events increased from 14 to 15 to match the minimum age for ISU Championship events. Another rule change allows single and pair skaters to use music with lyrics in competition. Previously, they were restricted to instrumental music, including vocals without words. The ISU Challenger Series, a series of senior internationals below the Grand Prix series, was introduced. Age eligibility Skaters competing at the junior level were required to be at least 13 years of age before July 1, 2014. Those who turned 15 before that date were also eligible for all senior-level events. Partnership changes Some skaters announced the dissolution of a partnership or formation of a new one. Listed are changes involving at least one partner who competed at Worlds, Europeans, Four Continents, Junior Worlds or the senior Grand Prix, or who medaled on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. The ISU does not permit teams to compete for two countries--if skaters of different nationalities team up, they must choose one country to represent.

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Foreigners and Borders Service

The Foreigners and Borders Service - SEF () is a police service integrated into the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose mission is to enforce immigration and asylum in Portugal, in accordance with the provisions of constitutional, legal and governmental guidelines. Among other duties, SEF is the agency responsible for border control and the issuing of residence permits to foreign nationals legally residing in Portugal. Organization Headquartered in Lisbon, the SEF is headed by a director general, including central and decentralized services. Central services: Administrative Council; Offices: Asylum and Refugees, Documentation, Communication and Public Relations, Juridical and International Relations and Cooperation; Central Directorates: Border, Management and Administration, Immigration, Control and Documentary, Information Technology and Research, Research and Information Analysis; Autonomous departments: Nationality, Operations and Planning and Training. Decentralized services: Regional Directorates: Lisbon and Tagus Valley, Alentejo, North, Algarve, Beira, Madeira and Azores; Delegations, border posts and mixed posts, depending on the regional directorates. The mixed posts, located on the Portuguese-Spanish border, are joint units garrisoned by police officers from Portugal and Spain. History By decree of King Carlos I on August 29, 1893, the Civil Police of Lisbon (Corpo de Policia Civil de Lisboa) were divided into three sections, one of which was the Administrative Inspection Police, which, among other duties, was responsible for the monitoring of foreigners with Portugal. In 1918, the Emigration Police (Policia de Emigracao) were created through Decree-Law No. The Emigration Police were responsible for the control of the land borders and were a division that worked directly under the General Directorate of Public Safety. In 1928, the Portuguese International Police (Policia Internacional Portuguesa) were created with the responsibility of monitoring the land borders and foreigners who resided in Portugal. The International Police operated under the Information Police (Policia de Informacoes), a body with responsibility for national security, until it was disbanded in 1931. In 1930 the International Police were moved from the command of the Information Police to the command of the Criminal Investigation Police (Policia de Investigacao Criminal) as its International Section. 20 125 of July 28, 1931, the Portuguese International Police returned to the Ministry of the Interior, remaining under direct control of the Ministry. In 1932, the Political and Social Surveillance Section (Seccao de Vigilancia Politica e Social) of the Portuguese International Police was created, responsible for preventing and combating crimes of a political and social nature. 22 151 of January 23, 1933, the Political and Social Surveillance Section was transformed into the Political and Social Defense Police (Policia de Defesa Politica e Social), becoming independent of the International Police. 22 992 of August 29, 1933, the Portuguese International Police and the Political and Social Defense Police were once again merged into a single body that became the State Surveillance and Defense Police (Policia de Vigilancia e Defesa do Estado) (PVDE). The PVDE included an International Section which was responsible for verifying the entry, stay and exit of foreigners from the National Territory, their detention if they were deemed undesirable, fighting against espionage, and collaboration with the police of other countries. In 1945, through Decree-Law No. 35 046 of October 22, the PVDE was transformed into the International and State Defense Police (Policia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado) (PIDE). PIDE was entrusted with administrative functions and functions to prevent and combat crime. As part of its administrative functions, PIDE was responsible for immigration and passport services, land border, sea and air border services and for foreigners' stay and stay service in Portugal. As part of its functions to prevent and combat crime, it was incumbent upon PIDE to prepare preparatory documents for crimes related to the illegal entry and stay of foreigners in Portugal, border protection against criminal activities crimes of illegal emigration, and crimes against the internal and external security of the State. PIDE was disbanded in 1969, by Decree-Law no. 49 401 of November 24, and the General Directorate for Security (Direccao-Geral de Seguranca) (DGS) was created in its place. The DGS included the Directorate of Foreigners and Border Services (Direcao dos Servicos de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras), the basis of the current service which was created in 1974. In 2023, Portugal's government approved 'the abolition of the SEF. Controversy In 2020, 42-year old Ukrainian Ihor Homeniuk was beaten to death while in the SEF's custody at Lisbon Airport; in 2021, three SEF officers - Duarte Laja, Luis Silva and Bruno Sousa - were found guilty of inflicting serious bodily harm that ultimately led to Homeniuk's death and sentenced to several years in jail.

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Pierre François le Courayer

Pierre Francois le Courayer (17 November 1681 - 17 October 1776) was a French Catholic theological writer, for many years an expatriate in England. Life Pierre Francois le Courayer was born at Rouen. While canon regular and librarian of the abbey of St Genevieve at Paris, he conducted a correspondence with Archbishop William Wake on the subject of episcopal succession in England, which supplied him with material for his work, Dissertation sur la validite des ordinations des Anglais et sur la succession des eveques de l'Eglise anglicane, avec les preuves justificatives des faits avances (Dissertation on the validity of the Englishmen's ordinations and on the episcopal succession in the Anglican Church, with the justificatory proofs of the facts advanced), published anonymously in 1723 with a fake publication location of Brussels. That work was an attempt to prove that there has been no break in the line of ordination from the apostles to the clergy of the Church of England. The following year he wrote to the Journal des savants to put his name to the work, though his opinions exposed him to attacks from several theologians, a prosecution and 32 of his propositions being labelled heresies. He was rebuked by Louis Antoine de Noailles, archbishop of Paris then excommunicated by Jean XI Polinier, abbot of Sainte-Genevieve. He still did not recant his opinions but they had gained him supporters in Great Britain and with the help of Francis Atterbury, then in exile in Paris, he took refuge in England and was presented with a doctor's degree by the University of Oxford. In 1732 he accepted that it was impossible to reconcile with his opponents in France and instead settled permanently in London as well as being granted a canonry in Oxford. In 1736 he published a French translation of Paolo Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent, and dedicated it to Queen Caroline, from whom he received a pension of PS200 a year. Besides this he translated Johann Sleidan's History of the Reformation, and wrote several theological works. In his will, dated two years before his death, he declared himself still a member of the Roman Catholic Church, although dissenting from many of its opinions. He died in London, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.

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Forrest Scogin

Forrest Scogin is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Alabama. His primary interests have been in geropsychology (the psychology of the elderly) and he has conducted extensive research in this area. In 2008, Scogin was awarded the M. Powell Lawton Distinguished Contribution Award for Applied Gerontology by the American Psychological Association. Dr. Forrest Scogin is the recipient of the 2014 M. Powell Lawton Award for Distinguished Contributions to Clinical Geropsychology. The award is presented by the APA Society of Clinical Gereopsychology. Scogin founded a program with the University of Alabama to provide psychological treatment for adults aged 60 and older, while also conducting research on the effectiveness of various treatments. The program was relatively new in 1993; it offered individual and group counseling at a low cost, with adjustments available based on income.

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Leslie Greentree

Leslie Greentree is a Canadian poet and writer. Career Born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Leslie was educated at the University of Lethbridge, from which she received Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees. Greentree resides in Edmonton, Alberta where she works for the St. Albert Public Library in St. Albert, Alberta, and does freelance work on the side. Greentree's first book of poetry, guys named Bill came out in 2002 was quickly followed in 2003 by go-go dancing for Elvis. In 2004, she won the CBC Poetry Face-off for Calgary, and competed in the National Face-off. To date, she is most noted for her poetry collection go-go dancing for Elvis which shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2004. Awards go-go dancing for Elvis was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2004. In 2006, Greentree published her first collection of short stories, entitled A Minor Planet for You and won the Alberta Literary Awards Howard O'Hagan prize for best book of short fiction (2007). Productions Oral Fixations, Greentree's first play, co-written with Blaine Newton, received its world premiere in October 2014. It was produced by Ignition Theatre in Red Deer, Alberta. Bibliography Poetry guys named Bill (Frontenac House, 2002) go-go dancing for Elvis (Frontenac House, 2003) Short fiction A Minor Planet for You (University of Alberta Press, 2006) Plays Oral Fixations.

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Brooklyn, Tasman District

Brooklyn is a settlement and rural valley in the Tasman District of New Zealand's upper South Island. It is located on the outskirts of Motueka, and is dominated by orchards. The Brooklyn Recreation Reserve, a flat, 4.6 ha grassed reserve, was donated to Tasman District Council in 1984. It includes remnants of lowland forest the council has deemed "significant", including a hillside of tawhai rauriki or black beech and regenerating native forest dominated by kanuka. The reserve has had limited weeds and no outbreak of wild pigs. Brooklyn is connected to Woodstock by a cycling trail. In 2018, Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis announced funding to upgrade the trail. The Blue Gum corner of Motueka River, just outside the village, is a river swimming spot. History The valley road was partially closed due to flooding in July 2013. Homes and buildings in the valley were severely damaged by floodwaters during Cyclone Gita in February 2018. Several people had to flee or be rescued from their flooded homes, and the road was left only accessible by 4WD vehicles. In 2020, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research monitored air quality in Brooklyn on behalf of Tasman District Council. It found quality regularly exceeded World Health Organization guidelines due to home fireplaces. Education Brooklyn School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students, with a roll of as of . The school received an additional $76,230 property funding in December 2019.

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AU Small Finance Bank

AU Small Finance Bank Limited is an Indian small finance bank, based in Jaipur. It was founded as vehicle finance company AU Financiers (India) Ltd in 1996 and converted to a small finance bank on 19 April 2017. AU Small Finance Bank serves low and middle income individuals and micro and small businesses that have limited or no access to formal banking and finance channels. The Bank offers loans, deposits and payment products and services. AU Small Finance Bank ranked 355 in the list of Fortune India 500 (2019) companies, with total B/S assets of . AU Bank enjoys long term credit rating of "AA-/Stable" from CRISIL Ratings, ICRA Ratings, India Ratings and CARE Ratings. History The company was founded by Sanjay Agarwal (managing director and CEO of AU Small Finance Bank) as a private limited company, and publicly listed in an IPO on 29 June 2017. A merit holder Chartered Accountant and a first generation entrepreneur, he holds ~28.5% stake in the Bank. He is supported by a team of 23,486 employees. AU Small Finance Bank is listed on NSE & BSE with market capitalization of ~Rs. On its first day of trading, the stock rose 51% to be the most expensive bank in India based on price-to-book. In November 2017, the Reserve Bank of India added the bank to its schedule of commercial banks, further improving the bank's growth prospects by reducing the cost of short-term funds and improving the bank's ability to provide services. Shareholding Institutional holding Over the years, the Bank has attracted marquee investors like IFC, Warburg Pincus, Temasek Holdings, Nomura, Kotak Mahindra MF, etc. Private equity companies that provided venture capital, including Warburg Pincus and International Finance Corporation, made partial exits for as much as nine times their original investment. Bharti SBM May 2020 - Bharti (SBM) Holdings Pvt. Ltd, a firm owned by Sunil Mittal family has acquired 0.79% for a consideration of INR100 crores. Services Due to its history as a vehicle finance company, as of March 2018 almost all the loans made by AU Small Finance Bank were secured, unlike most small finance banks that have unsecured loans due to their background in microfinance. This provides lower yields (lower interest rates) than unsecured loans, so the bank has been particularly active in growing its deposits, as bank deposits have lower cost than other sources of funds. It has also sought to diversify into savings products like deposits, payment / transaction banking, distribution of third-party products, and additional loan products thereby positioning itself as a holistic financial products and services provider. Footprint As on June 30, 2021, AU Small Finance Bank's distribution network comprises 1000+ Banking Touchpoints, 23,486 employees spread contiguously across 15 states and two Union Territories with over 2 million customers. The bank has operations in 15 states and two union territory, with Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh being key states. It is one of the largest banks by number of locations in its home state of Rajasthan.

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Alpha Ridge

The Alpha Ridge is a major volcanic ridge under the Arctic Ocean between the Canada Basin (off Ellesmere Island) and the Lomonosov Ridge. It was active during the formation of the Amerasian Basin. It was discovered in 1963. The highest elevation is about 2,700 m over the ocean floor. It is 200 to 450 km wide. The Alpha Ridge, Lomonosov Ridge, and Nansen-Gakkel Ridge are the three major ranges that divide the Arctic Ocean floor, running generally parallel to each other. The 1983 Canadian Expedition to Study the Alpha Ridge (CESAR) seemed to establish that the Alpha Ridge is an extension of the continent from Ellesmere Island and hence there is a possibility that Canada may lay claim to the resource rights for the region, in particular for petroleum, according to the United Nations' Law of the Sea. There is no final conclusion to the issue so far, and part of the research planned for the European Drilling Research Icebreaker (Aurora Borealis) was drilling of the Alpha Ridge to collect more data. Other research suggests that the ridge is probably a result of the oceanic mode of development. The Strand Fiord Formation on northwestern and west-central Axel Heiberg Island is interpreted to represent the cratonward extension of the Alpha Ridge. The Alpha Ridge is part of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province.

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Jake Edwards (radio personality)

Jake Edwards (born in Moncton, New Brunswick), also known as Bro Jake or Brother Jake, is a Canadian radio personality based in British Columbia. Edwards has been best known for his fictional comedy character "The Champ". For his skill, Edwards won the 2001 Canadian Music Network Radio Personality of the Year Award. For the same year, Edwards' show on Rock 101 was among the highest-rated in the BBM Canada ratings. Vancouver's Classic Rock 101 (CFMI) had been the home of Bro Jake for over 17 years. In 2013, Corus Entertainment (Rock 101) declined to renew the contract of its veteran radio personality. All-sports, CKST-AM (TSN Radio 1040), jumped at the chance to pair Bro Jake with veteran sport broadcaster, David Pratt, for a more entertainment oriented morning show. The duo debuted the new morning show to the Vancouver market in September 2013. August 31, 2019 marked his last day on terrestrial radio and TSN 1040. Edwards was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame in 2019. CFRQ (Q-104) The veteran broadcaster was part of the original line-up of the album rock (AOR) format radio station Q-104 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. CFRQ, branded with its original slogan "The Rock of the Atlantic", signed on the air in November 1983 with Bro Jake as the premier host of the " Morning Zoo", which he hosted from 1983 to 1985. To commemorate Q-104's 20th anniversary, the radio station dedicated a segment of the 2003 anniversary to the broadcaster. It featured memorable stories and milestones from Bro Jakes' early days at Q-104; also, early recorded clips from regional Atlantic Canadian radio stations such as CKCW radio AM 1220 Moncton, Bro Jake's native city where he left his signature and accolades as an up-and-coming radio personality and entertainer from 1976 to 1979. Broadcasting career CJCB-AM Sydney NS 1970s CKEC-AM New Glasgow NS 1970s CKBC-AM Bathurst NB 1970s CKCW-AM Moncton NB (1976-1979) CITI-FM Winnipeg MB CFRQ-FM Halifax NS (1983-1985, station's original line-up) CILQ-FM Toronto ON (1985-86) CKIS-FM Winnipeg MB CILQ-FM Toronto ON CFMI-FM (Rock 101) Vancouver BC (1996-2013) his last day being July 19, 2013. CKST-AM (TSN Radio 1040) Vancouver BC The Champ The Champ is a fictional comedy character (created by the famed comedy duo MacLean and MacLean. and licensed to Edwards) who has a penchant for overreacting to events in his life. The basic premise of The Champ is that he was a boxer, and got into too many fights, and took a few-too-many blows to the head, and as such, he no longer has the normal patience of the average man. The character's publicized life often involves him overhearing a conversation where he misinterprets some antagonist's statement as a slight against him or his wife, Mrs. Reverting to his old boxing ways, he overreacts and "loses it," unleashing a flurry of violence upon the unfortunate antagonist. Through his overreaction, The Champ remains the champ in his life.

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Fort de la Montagne

The Fort de la Montagne (also called Fort des Messieurs or Fort Belmont) was an old fortification, the remaining structures of which are located on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The fort was constructed in 1685 and parts of it were demolished in the mid 19th century. Two high stone towers, built in 1694 as bastions of the fort, still remain and are among the oldest structures on the Island of Montreal. The towers were designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1970. History The mission to Christianize the native people was established in 1675 at the foot of Mont-Royal mountain. Francois Vachon de Belmont was sent to New France towards 1680 by his superiors, order of Saint-Sulpice priests in Paris to stop the spread of witchcraft and visions at the mission. In 1683, 210 natives, (Iroquois, Hurons et Algonquins) lived on the site. In order to protect the mission from the Iroquois, a fort was constructed in 1685. In the two decades of its existence, the brandy trade had increased significantly and the missionaries found it necessary to relocate their neophytes and catechumens farther from the drunkenness and seduction of the cities. In 1696, the inhabitants were moved to the other side of the island, to Fort Lorette at Sault-au-Recollet. The mission at de la Montagne was definitely closed in 1705: the grounds were rented to the local peasants, and some would live in the fortifications. In 1825, a floor is added to the main residence of chateau des Messieurs and a chapel is built in one of the towers. The fort contained four bastions and a series of ramparts and palisades, which were all destroyed in 1854 except for the two southern towers, during the building of the College of Montreal. Three bastions were constructed in the domaine of the Sulpicians: the first when the bastions were built in 1675. In 1984 to 1986, restoration work was undertaken on the two remaining towers. The towers were classified as provincial historical monuments in 1974. In 1982, the towers were included in the Domaine des Messieurs-de-Saint-Sulpice historic site.

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1952 Chatham Cup

The 1952 Chatham Cup was the 25th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand. The competition was run on a regional basis, with regional associations each holding separate qualifying rounds. Teams taking part in the final rounds are known to have included North Shore United (Auckland), Napier High School Old Boys (Hawkes Bay), Pukemiro (Waikato), Mangakino (Bay of Plenty), Wanganui United (Wanganui) Masterton Athletic (Wairarapa), Kiwi United (Manawatu), Seatoun (Wellington), Woodbourne (Marlborough), Western (Christchurch), and Roslyn-Wakari (Dunedin), Runanga (Westland), Brigadiers (Southland). The 1952 final The final was dominated by Western; they scored early through Noel Joseph, and it was only the heroics of North Shore keeper Roy Gordon who stopped the Christchurch side going further ahead. With ten minutes left to play Herb Moyle scrambled an equaliser and the match was sent to extra time. The added half-hour was scoreless. In the days prior to penalty shootouts and replays, tied matches were decided on the number of corners won, and it was only through the last kick of the game that Western gained a corner to level the count. With the score and number of corners equal, it was decided that the trophy would be shared between the two sides. This was the only time this was to happen; replays were introduced to settle tied finals thereafter, with the first replay being played in the 1970 final.

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Myristica polyantha

Myristica polyantha is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. References World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 22 August 2007.

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Brian Burridge

Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Kevin Burridge, (born 26 September 1949) is a retired Royal Air Force officer. A former Nimrod pilot, Burridge was in overall command of British forces under Operation Telic during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. RAF career Brian Burridge joined the Royal Air Force as a university cadet (as a member of Cambridge University Air Squadron), being commissioned on 24 September 1967. He was a pilot with an operational background in the maritime patrol role, serving on Nos 206 and 120 Squadrons. Burridge was promoted to the rank of pilot officer on 15 July 1970, to flying officer on 15 January 1971, flight lieutenant on 13 April 1972 to squadron leader on 1 July 1979 and to wing commander on 1 July 1985. In 1986 he attended the Royal Naval Staff College and then later that year went on to command the Nimrod Operational Conversion Unit. Promoted to group captain in 1990, he became officer commanding RAF Kinloss. From 1992 Burridge served in the Ministry of Defence, initially as Deputy Director of Force Doctrine (RAF) and later becoming the Director of Force Development in the Central Staff before being made Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Defence Staff in 1994 in the rank of air commodore. In 1997 he attended the Cabinet Office Top Management Programme and then later in the year became a Defence Fellow at King's College London. In 1998 he attended the Higher Command and Staff Course being promoted to air vice marshal on 1 July 1998. In January 2000 he became Commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, subsequently moving the college into a Public Private Partnership at Shrivenham. On 12 February 2002, Burridge was promoted to air marshal and appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Strike Command. Burridge was in overall command of British forces under Operation Telic during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In June 2003, Burridge appeared before the Commons Defence Select Committee, telling MPs of delays in distributing equipment to troops in Iraq and of his role in vetoing potentially controversial air strikes while he was in command in Iraq. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath "for gallant and distinguished services whilst on operations in Iraq during the period 19 March to 19 April 2003" on 31 October 2003. In July 2003 Burridge became Commander-in-Chief RAF Strike Command. He served as air aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II from 31 July 2003 to 17 January 2006. He retired on 18 January 2006 with the rank of air chief marshal, though his commission in the reserve was extended to January 2015. On 8 December 2009, Burridge gave evidence to The Iraq Inquiry. On 1 October 2018, Burridge assumed operational command of the RAeS. Interests In 2005 Air Marshal Burridge was president of the RAF Mountaineering Association and a trustee of the Windsor Leadership Trust. Burridge sat as chair of the Bentley Priory Battle of Britain Trust and was present at the facility's closing ceremony in 2007. He attained a master's degree in business administration from the Open University.

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Flag Officer Sea Training (India)

The Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) is a training organisation in the Indian Navy. FOST is the authority responsible for the operational sea training of all personnel of Indian Naval and Coast Guard ships and submarines. The organisation was instituted in 1992 and is the common authority to maintain battle efficiency standards. It also provides training to navies and maritime security forces of friendly foreign countries (FFC). Headquartered in Kochi, the FOST operates under the control of the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command. History In October 1977, an organisation called the Weapons workup organisation (WWO) was set up. This was aimed at increasing the efficiency of ships' weapons. In 1981, it was re-designated Warship Workup Organisation in Bombay. An additional WWO was set up in Vizag - WWO (V) - for the Eastern Fleet. In March 1992, a local flotilla workup team (LWT) was set up for the ships operating under the Maharashtra Naval Area. These three organisations - WWO (B), WWO (V) and LWT - reported into the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet (FOCWF), Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet (FOCEF) and Flag Officer Maharashtra Area (FOMA) respectively. In 1992, a single authority was created to consolidate work-up efforts and serve as the safety authority responsible for the operational sea training (OST) of all ships. The organisation would be headed by a rear admiral of the executive branch and be based out of Kochi. As the Southern Naval Command (SNC) was the training command of the Navy, the FOST would report into the FOC-in-C SNC. An Indian Navy Workup Team (INWT) was created at Kochi and local workup units were created at Bombay and Vizag - LWT (West) and LWT (East). On 4 June 1993, the first ship was trained by FOST - the Khukri-class corvette . In 2000, the Sukanya-class patrol vessel was sold to the Sri Lanka Navy. She was commissioned as SLNS Sayura in November 2000. The Sayura was the first foreign ship whose operational sea training was conducted by INWT and FOST. Structure The INWT at Kochi works up all major warships - Aircraft Carriers, Anti-submarine warfare and Guided-missile destroyers, frigates and other fleet units. The INWT is under the operational control of FOST and administrative control of FOC-in-C SNC. The LWT (West) and LWT (East) work up Seaward-class defense boats, missile boats, Anti Submarine Patrol Vessels, Ocean-going tugs, etc. They are under the operational control of FOST and administrative control of FOC-in-C of Western Naval Command and Eastern Naval Command respectively. Training regime The FOST conducts multiple types of training which encompasses all spheres of ship activity. There are short training programs like the Sea Safety Checks (SSC) and Operational Sea Checks (OSC) for a duration of 7 - 10 days on selected disciplines like Bridge Work, Damage Control and Fire Fighting, Machinery Breakdown Drills and Ship Safety. It also conducts full work-up programs, under the ambit of OST, from three weeks (for minor war vessels) to six weeks (for aircraft carriers). It ensures a thorough training of the ship to achieve the prescribed performance standards. On completion, it conducts an operational readiness assessment at sea and certifies the ships operational status and the areas of improvement. The OST covers all operational/combat functions - aviation, ship management, hull, seamanship, NBCD, engineering, electrical, logistics and medical.

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Merchant of Venus

Merchant of Venus is a board game, published in 1988 by Avalon Hill, set in an unexplored part of the galaxy during a reawakening of galactic civilization. Players move around the board as traders discovering long forgotten pockets of civilization and buying and selling goods. The game can be played by one to six players. In tournaments it is usually played by four players. The solitaire version, which relies heavily on combat with a militaristic race, has different game mechanics. The name of the game is a pun on the Shakespeare play Merchant of Venice. The planet Venus does not actually appear in the game. Aim The aim of the game is to acquire a set amount of wealth ($1000, $2000, $3000 or $4000). The first player to hold the required amount in cash and deeds is declared the winner. Strategy The length of the game impacts on the strategy. In short games trade routes will not be well developed whereas in longer games extensive trade routes will develop. The game has at least two predictable phases. In the early part of the game, players are discovering the identity of the cultures in the fourteen solar systems available for trade, and often find valuable artifacts from an earlier period of civilization. When discovering a culture, players get bonuses, which they can use to buy goods. Once the board has been largely revealed, the game focuses on moving goods from cultures that build to other races that demand the goods. Often the winner will be a player who is effective in investing his mid-game purchase in factories and orbital ports that pay a commission when other players use the ports. Judging whether a player is coming up on a win often consists of looking at the number of deeds the player owns. Later in the game, calculating the sale, purchase and commission on several transactions can become a relatively complicated event, especially when players are expecting a fast turnaround. The game remains popular decades after publication in part thanks to its whimsical theme, but also because it allows a number of potential win strategies and calls on the players to make many interesting decisions. 2012 Second Edition On October 24, 2011, game publisher Stronghold Games announced that it had reached an agreement with designer Richard Hamblen to reprint the game for release in 2012. Later that same day, publisher Fantasy Flight Games announced that it had acquired the right to republish the game from Hasbro, which Hasbro had acquired through their purchase of Avalon Hill. Both companies issued statements in the days following, maintaining a cordial tone but each asserting its right and intention to reprint the game. On June 27, 2012, both Stronghold Games and Fantasy Flight Games announced that they had come to an agreement regarding the fate of the game. The second edition was released in November 2012 by Fantasy Flight Games with Stronghold Games consulting on the project. It contains a two-sided game board and two sets of rules, allowing for play of both the original game and an updated one that is more in line with contemporary boardgame design. Reception Mike Siggins reviewed Merchant of Venus for Games International magazine, and gave it 4 stars out of 5, and stated that "Richard Hamblin has devised a system that has some clever design tricks, works within a reasonable time, has plenty of options and offers high playability and balance. With the possible exception of SPI's out of print Star Trader, I would say it is the best trading game so far." John ONeill of Black Gate commented: "Unlike Avalon Hill's other science fiction games -- like Stellar Conquest and Alpha Omega -- the focus of Merchant of Venus wasn't crushing your opponents with massive fleets of warships. Players were explorers and traders in an unexplored part of the galaxy during a reawakening of galactic civilization, discovering long-lost pockets of civilization, and opening fabulously profitable trade routes. Playable with up to six players, the game also had an intriguing solitaire version, which featured action-heavy combat with a strange militaristic race."

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Sara Beysolow Nyanti

Sara Frances Beysolow Nyanti (born 1968) is an international development expert and Liberian pastor. She has more than 20 years of professional experience. She has been a United Nations Assistant Secretary General since December 2021. Early life and education Nyanti is the oldest of seven children of Winston E. Beysolow and Frances Hayes. Her mother worked multiple jobs to support her children. She attended the College of West Africa and Cuttington University. She has a master's degree in public administration from the New Charter University in the United States and is completing a doctoral degree in transformational leadership. Career Nyanti held senior positions in the Liberian Ministry of Health from 1999 to 2003, including as Director of the National AIDS Control Program. She wrote the country's first grant to the Global Fund for money to combat malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis. During the conflict and transitional government periods, Nyanti worked for the United Nations in Liberia. From 2005 to 2009, Nyanti worked for the UN in Nepal, before becoming UNICEF HIV/AIDS advisor to the representatives in Namibia and Kenya in 2009. She was head of the UNICEF office in Lagos from 2015 to 2015. She was UNICEF Representative in Gambia from 2015 to 2017 and in Yemen from 2019 to 2020. In January 2021, she was appointed Resident Coordinator for the UN in Nepal. Nyanti was a key figure in the response to Nigeria's Ebola Virus Disease outbreak and has been a leader in the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2019, she has been the highest ranking Liberian in the UN. In November 2021, she moderated the second day of the Women Political Leaders' fourth annual Reykjavik Global Forum, noting the need for gender equality to move from policy to action. In December 2021, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Nyanti Deputy Special Representative, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan (UNMISS) and Resident Coordinator in South Sudan, succeeding Alain Noudehou of Benin. The role is an Assistant Secretary General. Nyanti will be leading the UN's efforts in recovery and stabilization in the world's newest country. Community service and activism Nyanti is an ordained Reverend and a minister at the Zion Grove Baptist Church in Brewerville, outside Monrovia. In October 2020, she preached at the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention and expressed her disappointment over the "conspicuous silence of denominations of various churches to stand up and speak against societal ills in Liberia. She has spoken out and written about sexual violence in Liberia. In 2014, Nyanti founded an NGO, The Development Brokers, which operates the Social Movement for Change (SM4C) to change impoverished communities in Montserrado County. She has launched two Rainbow Community Learning Huts for adolescent girls in response to escalating rape cases, each accommodating 30 girls who are assisted with education and counselling. In January 2021, Nyanti was appointed to the Board of the Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia (CENTAL), the national chapter of Transparency International. Personal life Nyanti is married to Stephen Joeboe Nyanti, and has children and grandchildren. She is a feminist and on her appointment with the UN in Nepal, named the many Liberian women who had inspired her.

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Henk van Nierop

Hendrik Frans Karel van Nierop (born 1949) is a historian of early-modern Holland and professor emeritus of the University of Amsterdam. Career Nierop took part in student demonstrations in Amsterdam in May 1969, occupying the university's administrative centre. He graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1974 and in 1984 obtained a doctorate from Leiden University with a thesis on the transformation of Holland's ruling class between 1500 and 1650. He taught at the University of Amsterdam, where in 1999 he was appointed Professor of Early Modern History. He was the director of the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Dutch Golden Age from 2000 to 2008, and an editor of the Amsterdam University Press series "Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age". He retired in June 2014. A Festschrift was produced for the occasion, under the title Het gelijk van de Gouden Eeuw, edited by Michiel van Groesen, Judith Pollmann and Hans Cools (Hilversum, 2014). Publications Books Beeldenstorm en burgerlijk verzet in Amsterdam, 1566-1567 (Nijmegen, SUN, 1978). De Hollandse adel in de zestiende en de eerste helft van de zeventiende eeuw (De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1984). The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650, translated by Maarten Ultee (Cambridge University Press, 1993). Het verraad van het Noorderkwartier. Oorlog, terreur en recht in de Nederlandse Opstand (Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 1999) Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt, translated by J. C. Grayson (Princeton University Press, 2009). The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe, 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age (Amsterdam University Press, 2018) Edited volumes K. W. Swart, Willem van Oranje en de Nederlandse opstand 1572-1584, edited by R.P.

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Omega (TeX)

Omega is an extension of the TeX typesetting system that uses the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode. It was authored by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous after TeX development was frozen in 1991, primarily to enhance TeX's multilingual typesetting abilities. It includes a new 16-bit font encoding for TeX, as well as fonts (omlgc and omah) covering a wide range of alphabets. At the 2004 TeX Users Group conference, Plaice announced his decision to split off a new project (not yet public), while Haralambous continued to work on Omega proper. LaTeX for Omega is invoked as lambda. Aleph and LuaTeX Although the project seemed very promising from the beginning, the development has been slow and the functionality rather unstable. A separate project was started with the goal of stabilizing the code and extending it with e-TeX functionality, known as Aleph, and led by Giuseppe Bilotta. The LaTeX for Aleph is known as Lamed. Aleph alone is not being developed any more, but most of its functionality has been integrated into LuaTeX, a new project initially funded by Colorado State University (through the Oriental TeX Project by Idris Samawi Hamid) and NTG. LuaTeX started in 2006 and released the first beta version in Summer 2007. It will be a successor of both Aleph and pdfTeX, using Lua as an integrated lightweight programming language. It is developed primarily by Taco Hoekwater. See also XeTeX and LuaTeX for recent Unicode capable TeX extensions.

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Centenera (disambiguation)

Centenera is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Centenera may also refer to: Centenera de Andaluz, a municipality located in the province of Soria, Castile and Leon, Spain. Martin del Barco Centenera, a Spanish cleric, explorer and author of the 16th century. A street in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, named after the Spanish cleric. Centenera Fabrica Sudamericana De Envases S.A., a defunct Argentinian company that manufactured tin packaging, part of the Bunge y Born holding.

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Fattitude

Fattitude is a 2017 American documentary film by Lindsey Averill and Viridiana Lieberman. Summary The movie is about fat discrimination and its main objective is to make the general public more aware of the prejudice that fat people experience. The movie promotes the fat acceptance movement--a social movement that seeks to change anti-fat bias in social attitudes. The documentary informs people about what the filmmakers call fat shaming and fat hatred. The documentary also hopes to inspire people to speak out about the prejudice they face or the mistreatment of others. Production The film was financed by running a successful crowdfunding campaign at the website Kickstarter in which 1,073 backers pledged $44,140 to help bring this project to life. Controversy After start the Kickstarter campaign, Averill and Lieberman became the target of heavy trolling and harassment from anonymous users on 4chan and other web forums, and received rape and death threats. People ordered pizzas delivered to Averill's home, and they were forced to change their phone numbers due to the number of hateful calls.

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Ada Zhuang

Ada Zhuang (Simplified Chinese: Zhuang Xin Yan ) (Traditional Chinese: Zhuang Xin Yan ) (Pinyin: Zhuang xin yan) (born 9 January 1993), is a Chinese C-pop singer who started her music career in 2012. Since then, she has been gaining popularity in Mainland China and her albums have also been released in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Biography Personal life Ada Zhuang was born on January 9 of 1993 in Lufeng, in the Guangdong province of China. She lived her childhood and teenage in her hometown with her family. When She was only 11 years old, in 2004, she started being interested in music after seeing the first edition of the Super Girl contest produced by Hunan TV. During the programme, her favourite contestant of the show was An Youqi, of whom she considers a fan. An Youqui, the very first winner of the programme would also turn into the most important musical influence of Zhuang, who started singing her songs. From 2007 Ada Zhuang with the help of her sister started taking part in music competitions in which she performed covers of famous Cantopop songs. She also participated in a singing competition in a mall of her city. Although her first step in music was covering songs of famous singers, she started composing her own music some months later. Determined to pursue a musical career, Zhuang opened her own QQ Music account in which she posted both her covers of cantonese hit songs, and her own original songs. Thanks to that music platform, she started meeting other singers, musicians and composers who shared the same interest in music. Thanks to her songs, she gained some popularity with an increasing fanbase. Music career In 2012, Ada Zhuang signed a contract with Zhili Music, a Guangzhou based record label. One year later she released her first full album entitled "Ten thousand regrets" (Yi Wan Ge She Bu De ). The album, which featured 12 songs (11 in Mandarin and one in Cantonese), was released on March 15 of 2013. The title song was the most successful one of the album, which had a moderate success in general. Since her debut, she started releasing 2 albums per year. In 2014, after having released four albums, she published her fifth solo work entitled "Compassion" (Hao Ke Xi ), which turned, so far, into one of the most successful of her career thanks to the single "Two people remember one person" (Liang Ge Ren De Hui Yi Yi Ge Ren Guo ) a song that made her popular outside Mainland China and which also accumulates more than 10 million plays in YouTube. Since then, Ada Zhuang's albums started being also promoted by Ocean butterflies to the Taiwan, Hong Kong and the overseas Chinese community. As usual, her albums during that period included some songs in Cantonese and in Hokkien dialects. The career of Zhuang continued its rise by participating in many concerts and events. In 2015, the young singer hold her very first solo concert in the Shenyang indoor stadium. One year later, after releasing her 9th album entitled "I do my best" (Zuo Zui Hao De Wo ), she held another successful concert in the Shijazhuang indoor stadium which was also mentioned by the local and national press. In 2018, Zhuang signed under the Beijing-based label Horgos Xingtong Space Culture Media, where she released her eleventh album and her following single releases. In 2021, Zhuang returned to her former music label, Zhili Music, where she released her album "Sixth sense".

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Ad-Dustour (Jordan)

Ad-Dustour (, meaning The Constitution) is an Arabic daily newspaper published in Jordan. Its headquarters is in Amman, Jordan. History and profile The first issue of Ad-Dustour (in Arabic ldstwr) was published on 28 March 1967 as a result of a merger of two publications: Filastin (in Arabic flsTyn) and Al Manar (in Arabic lmnr) published in the West Bank and that had ceased publication in 1967 because of the Six-Day War. The daily was a private company until 1986 when the Jordanian government bought a share of it. The daily has nearly 600 staff. From 1991 to 1995 Musa Keilani served as the editor-in-chief of the paper. Its editor was Nabil Sharif until February 2009. Its current editor-in-chief is Mustafa Riyalat. In 1998, the daily started its website, the first in the Arab world to do so. The estimated circulation of Ad-Dustour was 40,000 whereas it was 90,000 copies in 2003. An Arabic website, Industry Arabic, named Ad Dustour as the most influential Arabic newspaper in 2020. Contents The daily contains four or five sections: First Section: for headline and domestic news. Second Section: for international news, business and economy. Addustour Alriyadi: for international and domestic sport news. Doroob: for miscellaneous news related to health and living styles. The Cultural Section: This section appears every Friday and contains domestic, regional, and international cultural events. Al-Shabab: This section is published every Wednesday, and daily during major sport competitions such as FIFA World Cup. It covers weekly domestic, and international youth events.

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Maradona: Blessed Dream

Maradona, sueno bendito (English: Maradona: Blessed Dream) is a biographical drama television series. The series stars Juan Palomino, Nazareno Casero, Nicolas Goldschmidt, Julieta Cardinali, Laura Esquivel, Mercedes Moran, Peter Lanzani, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Marcelo Mazzarello, and Pepe Monje. Before the series premiere, it was confirmed that the series was renewed for a second 10-episode season. The series premiered on October 29, 2021 on Amazon Prime Video. Synopsis Maradona: Blessed Dream follows the controversial life of legendary footballer Diego Armando Maradona. A boy from Argentina with a dream of greatness, made his mark in the international football league, earning himself a well-deserved place in history. Living a life strewn with drugs, sex and public scrutiny, he played by his own rules regardless of the consequence. Watch the man who took the football world by storm and made his way into the hearts of millions. Cast Main Juan Palomino as Diego Maradona Nazareno Casero as young Diego Maradona Nicolas Goldschmidt as teenage Diego Maradona Juan Cruz Romero as child Diego Maradona Julieta Cardinali as Claudia Villafane Laura Esquivel as young Claudia Villafane Mercedes Moran as Dalma Salvadora Franco "Dona Tota" Rita Cortese as old Dona Tota Pepe Monje as Diego Maradona Padre "Don Diego" Claudio Rissi as old Don Diego Leonardo Sbaraglia as Guillermo Coppola Jean Pierre Noher as old Guillermo Coppola Dario Grandinetti as Cesar Menotti Nicolas Furtado as Daniel Passarella Marcelo Mazzarello as Carlos Bilardo Eva De Dominici as Lorena Gaumont Federico D'Elia as Fernando Signorini Tea Falco as Cristiana Sinagra Martin Piroyansky as Ricardo Suarez Peter Lanzani as Jorge Cyterszpiler Recurring Gerardo Romano as Carlos Ferro Viera Fernan Miras as Francis Cornejo Giovanni Esposito as Corrado Ferlaino Francesc Orella as Jose Luis Nunez, president of F. C. Barcelona Leonard Kunz as Bernd Schuster Richard Sammel as Udo Lattek Riccardo Scamarcio as Carmine Giuliano Mauricio Dayub as Roque Villafane Douglas Silva as Pele Ines Palombo as Marilu Natalia Dal Molin as Maria Rosa "Mary" Maradona Maria Onetto as Mother of the Plaza de Mayo Esteban Recagno as Jorge Carrascosa Gabriel Schultz as Yayo Trotta Aaron Balderi as Peon Diego Martin Vasquez as Dr. Pastoni Antonio Braucci as Giuseppe Bruscolotti Romina Ricci Stefania Roitman Mario Guerci as Jorge Taiana Maximiliano Ghione Osqui Guzman Diego Alonso Gomez as Osvaldo Daniel Leonardo Quinteros as Capataz Episodes Season 1 (2021) Production Development In 2018, it was reported that Amazon Prime Video was developing a biographical series based on Diego Maradona's life. The series is written by Guillerno Salmeron and Silvina Olschansky and directed by Alejandro Aimetta. Filming In 2019, the series was filmed in places such as Argentina, Barcelona, Naples, Seville, Italy and Mexico. Release The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on October 29, 2021.

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Tore Lokoloko

Sir Tore Lokoloko (21 September 1930 - 13 March 2013) was a Papua New Guinean politician who served as the second governor-general of Papua New Guinea from 1977 to 1983. He was governor-general during Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee visit to the country, when he was appointed GCVO and GCMG. Lokoloko was born in the village of Iokea, Papua (now in Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea). He was the son of Paramount Chief Lokoloko Tore, and attended the Sogeri School, set up by the former Australian administrators in 1944. Like Sir John Guise, Lokoloko had been a member of the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea prior to self-government, from 1968 to 1972. He was selected to replace Guise as Governor-General on 18 February 1977, and remained in that position through 1 March 1983. He later became the chairman of Indosuez Niugine Bank, a position he remained in through 1989. Lokoloko died on 13 March 2013 of respiratory failure after a severe asthma attack. References Lentz, Harris M., III. Heads of States and Governments. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1994. .

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Gary Smith (footballer, born 1991)

Gary Smith (born 28 May 1991) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a striker for Rutherglen Glencairn in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Premier League and Europa League for Motherwell. Club career Motherwell Smith was signed by the Motherwell from Queens Park after he impressed the youth coaches. He was immediately drafted into the under-19 squad and made an immediate impression in the 2009-10 season, finishing as top-scorer as the Motherwell under-19 team finished second. In September 2010, Smith made his professional debut against Breidablik of Iceland in the Europa League, a match in which the Steelmen won 1-0. Smith then made his league debut as a substitute in a 4-0 loss to Dundee United. On 11 May 2012, Smith was released at the end of his contract, becoming a free agent. Dumbarton (loan) On 28 August, Smith was loaned out to Dumbarton for six-months in order to get regular first-team football. He made his debut for The Sons in a 6-0 defeat to East Fife, and made his first start in a 3-1 home defeat to Brechin City. He returned to Motherwell after his loan at Dumbarton came to an end in January. Stenhousemuir (loan) On 19 January 2012, Smith joined Second Division club Stenhousemuir on an initial one-month loan, that was later extended by a further month after Smith had scored 3 goals in 3 matches. Juniors After his release from Motherwell, Smith trained with Airdrie but suffered knee ligament damage in pre-season. He signed for Junior side Shettleston on his recovery, before moving on to Arthurlie in June 2013. Smith joined Rutherglen Glencairn in June 2017. References External links Gary Smith profile at Motherwell FC official website 1991 births Living people Scottish men's footballers Footballers from Glasgow Queen's Park F.C.

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Buy Jupiter

is a humorous science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the May 1958 issue of Venture Science Fiction Magazine, and reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. The original title of the story was "It Pays," though it was never published under this name. Plot summary Government officials of the Terrestrial Federation negotiate to sell the planet Jupiter to an energy-based alien race. The beings refuse to reveal their plans for its use and whether or not they are at war with other similar beings. Eventually, the aliens reveal that they wish to suspend letters in Jupiter's atmosphere as an advertising slogan (i.e. Jupiter is to be used as an advertising billboard), to be seen by passing spacecraft. The main Earth negotiator reveals to his colleagues that he has outsmarted the aliens, who clearly are not experienced hagglers, having neglected the other Jovian planets. So when rival beings come to do business, Saturn, with its fancy rings, can be sold for an even higher price.

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Cariño de Mis Cariños

Carino de mis Carinos is the eleventh album from Mexican pop music singer and actress Lucero. It was released in 1994, and has sold 500,000 units in Mexico. It is the third mariachi album of her career, and was produced once again by Ruben Fuentes. The track list is composed of seven covers and four original songs. The covers are: "Que Ironia" (It's Ironic) and "Corazon de Roca" (Heart of Stone) first released by Los Fresno; "Me Piden" (They Ask Me) and "Carino" (Sweetie) by Los Baby's; "Y Volvere" (I'll Return) by Los Angeles Negros, "Olvidarte... Nunca" (Forget You... Never) by Los Golpes, "Te Acordaras de Mi" (You'll Remember Me) by Los Brios and "Tu Nuevo Amor" (Your New Love) by Lucha Villa. The first single released was "Te Acordaras de Mi" a No. Also "Me Estas Quemando", "Y Volvere", "Que Te Ganaste", "Corazon de Roca" "Carino" and "Carino de mis Carinos" were issued as promo-singles. The singer shot two videos for this album: "Y Volvere" and "Me Estas Quemando", both directed by Benny Corral. This album was included on the Best Albums of 1994 by the Mexican magazine Eres, and also was the highest charted album of Lucero's career in the United States, hitting at number 13 of the Billboard Top Latin Albums, until the release of the 2010 album Indispensable which peaked at number four. In Mexico the album was certified platinum. Track listing The album contains 12 songs, all of which were arranged by different songwriters. Singles Chart performance This was the fifth album of Lucero to enter the list of Billboard. The album stayed in the Top Latin Albums chart for 26 weeks peaking at number 13, and it stayed in the Regional Mexican Albums chart for 19 weeks, 14 of which were in the top ten, entering at number 7 and peaking at number 2.

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Hälsö

Halso () is an island and a locality situated in Ockero Municipality, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden with 611 inhabitants in 2010. Halso is situated in the northern part of the archipelago and offers nice harbour walks along small and winding roads. There are also ancient remains on the island, mainly stone circles from temporary fishing camps. On the northern part of the island there are good fishing opportunities. Tjolmen beach on the southern part of the island is the most popular for swimming.

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Kannauj

Kannauj (Hindustani pronunciation: [k@n⭕dZ]) is a city, administrative headquarters and a municipal board or Nagar Palika Parishad in Kannauj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city's name is a corrupted form of the classical name Kanyakubja. It was also known as Mahodaya during the time of Mihira Bhoja. It is situated 123 kilometres west of the state capital, Lucknow. Kannauj is an ancient city. It is said that the Kanyakubja Brahmins who included Shandilya (teacher of Rishi Bharadwaja) were held one of the three prominent families originally from Kannauj. In Classical India, it served as the center of imperial Indian dynasties. The earliest of these was the Maukhari dynasty, and later, Emperor Harsha of the Vardhana dynasty. The city later came under the Gahadavala dynasty, and under the rule of Govindachandra, the city reached "unprecedented glory". Kannauj was also the main place of war in the Tripartite struggle between the Gurjara-Pratihara, the Palas and the Rashtrakutas. However, the "glory of Imperial Kannauj" ended with conquests of the Delhi Sultanate. Kannauj is famous for distilling of scents. It is known as "India's perfume capital" and is famous for its traditional Kannauj Perfume, a government protected entity, Kannauj itself has more than 200 perfume distilleries and is a market center for perfume, tobacco and rose water. It has given its name to a distinct dialect of the Hindustani known as Kannauji, which has two different codes or registers. History Early history Archaeological discoveries show that Kannauj was inhabited by the Painted Grey Ware and Northern Black Polished Ware cultures, -600 BCE and -200 BCE, respectively. Under the names of Kusasthala and Kanyakubja, it is mentioned as a well-known town in the Hindu Epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and by the grammarian Patanjali (). The early Buddhist literature mentions Kannauj as Kannakujja, and refers to its location on the trade route from Mathura to Varanasi and Rajgir. Kannauj may have been known to the Greco-Roman civilization under the name of Kanagora or Kanogiza, which appears in Geography by Ptolemy (), but this identification is not confirmed. It was also visited by the Chinese Buddhist travellers Faxian and Xuanzang in the fifth and seventh centuries CE, respectively. Kannauj formed part of the Gupta Empire. During the decline of the Gupta Empire in the 6th century, the Maukhari dynasty of Kannauj - who had served as vassal rulers under the Guptas - took advantage of the weakening of central authority, broke away and established control over large areas of northern India. Under the Maukharis, Kannauj continued to grow in importance and prosperity. It became the greatest city of Northern India under Emperor Harsha (r. 606 to 647 CE) of the Vardhana dynasty, who conquered it and made it his capital. Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang visited India during the reign of Harsha, and described Kannauj as a large, prosperous city with many Buddhist monasteries. Harsha died with no heir, resulting in a power vacuum until Maharaja Yashovarman seized power as the ruler of Kannauj. The Kannauj Triangle Kannauj became a focal point for three powerful dynasties, namely the Gurjara Pratiharas (r. 730-1036 CE), Palas (r. 750-1162 CE) and Rashtrakutas (r. 753-982 CE), between the 8th and 10th centuries. The conflict between the three dynasties has been referred to as the Tripartite struggle by many historians. There were initial struggles but ultimately the Gurjara Pratiharas succeeded in retaining the city. The Gurjara-Pratiharas ruled Avanti (based at Ujjain), which was bounded to the South by the Rashtrakuta Empire, and the Pala Empire to the East. The Tripartite struggle began with the defeat of Indrayudh at the hands of Gurjara-Pratihara ruler Vatsaraja (r. 780-800 CE). The Pala ruler Dharampala (~770-821 CE) was also keen to establish his authority at Kannauj, giving rise to a struggle between Vatsaraja and Dharmapala, in which Dharmapala was defeated. Taking advantage of the chaos, the Rastrakuta ruler Dhruva Dharavarsha (r. 780-793 CE) surged northwards, defeated Vatsaraja, and took Kannauj for himself, completing the furthest northern expansion by a South Indian ruler. When the Rashtrakuta ruler Dhruva Dharavarsha advanced back to the south, Dharampala was left in control of Kannauj for some time. The struggle between the two northern dynasties of Palas and Gurjara Pratiharas continued: the Pala's vassal Chakrayudha (Dharmapala's nominee for Ujjain) was defeated by the Pratihara Nagabhata II (r. 805-833 CE), and Kannauj was again occupied by the Gurjara Pratiharas. Dharmapala tried to take control of Kannauj but was defeated badly at Moongher by the Gurjara Pratiharas. However, Nagabhata II was in turn soon defeated by the Rashtrakuta Govinda III (r. 793-814 CE), who had initiated a second northern surge. An inscription states that Chakrayudha and Dharmapala invited Govinda III to war against the Gurjara Pratiharas, but Dharmapala and Chakrayudh both submitted to the Govinda III, in order to win his sympathy. After this defeat, Pratihara power degenerated for some time. After the death of Dharampala, Nagabhata II regained hold over Kannuaj and made it the capital of the Gurjara Pratihara Empire. During this period, the Rashtrakutas were facing some internal conflicts, and so they, as well as the Pala Empire, did not contest this. Thus Gurjara Pratiharas became the greatest power in Northern India after occupying Kannauj (9th century CE). Medieval times Famous Pir-e-Kamil, Hazrat Pir Shah Jewna Al-Naqvi Al-Bokhari was also born in Kannauj in 1493 in the reign of King Sikandar Lodi. He was a descendant of Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari and his father Syed Sadar-ud-din Shah Kabeer Naqvi Al Bukhari was a great saint and was also among the advisors of King Sikandar Lodhi. Shah Jewna migrated to Shah Jeewna (a town named after him) now in Pakistan. Shah Jewna's colonized towns in Kannauj :- Siray-e-Miran, Bibiyan Jalalpur, Makhdumpur, Lal Pur (associated with the name of Saint Sayyed Jalaluddin Haider Surkh Posh Bukhari or Lal Bukhari). His descendants still present in various parts of India and Pakistan. Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni captured Kanauj in 1018. Chandradeva founded the Gahadvala dynasty with its capital at Kannauj around 1090. His grandson Govindachandra "raised Kannauj to unprecedented glory." Muhammad Ghori advanced against the city, and in the Battle of Chandwar of 1193 killed Jayachandra. Alberuni has referred to "Kannoj" as the key geographical point to explain marching distances to other Indian cities. The "glory of Imperial Kannauj" ended with Iltutmish's conquest. Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun at the Battle of Kannauj on 17 May 1540. Colonial period During early English rule in India, the city was spelled Cannodge by them. The Nawab Hakim Mehndi Ali Khan has been constantly associated with the development of city of Kannauj by the travellers and writers of the period. A ghat (Mehndighat), a Sarai (for the free stay of travellers and merchants) and various metalled roads were built by the Nawab which also bear his name. Different spellings that are used to refer to Kannauj, apart from the official Kannauj, are: Cannodge, Kannauj, Kannoj, Kinnouge, Qannauj and Qannawj. The British who visited Kannauj in the later part of 19th century mostly referred to it as Kanauj (notice the single "n"). George Forster spells it Kinnouge. Alexander Cunnigham wrote its spelling as Kanoj. Geography Kannauj is located at . It has an average elevation of 139 metres (456 feet). Demographics India census, Kannauj had a population of 71,530. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Kannauj has an average literacy rate of 58%: male literacy is 64%, and female literacy is 52%. In Kannauj, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age. Colleges Medical College Government Medical College, Kannauj is a government medical college located in Tirwa of Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is affiliated to King George's Medical University, Lucknow. Engineering College Government Engineering College, Kannauj is a government engineering college located at Kannauj. It is a constituent college of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (formerly Uttar Pradesh Technical University) in Lucknow. The college is situated at Aher, Tirwa. Transportation The city is served by two major railway station Kannauj railway station and Kannauj City railway station. The nearest airport is Kanpur Airport situated about 2 hours drive from the town. It is situated on GT road(Delhi to Kanpur). It has road transportation Kannauj Depo. under the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transportation Corporation(UPSRTC). Notable people Ama, King of Kannauj Malini Awasthi, folk singer Mihira Bhoja, King of North India Shah Jewna, Missionary or Pir Siddiq Hasan Khan, Nawab of Bhopal Sayyid Muhammad Qanauji, Sufi Samyukta, Princess of Kannauj Yashovarman, King of Kannauj See also Kannauji language References Further reading Majumdar, R. C., In Pusalker, A. D., In Majumdar, A. K., & Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,. The age of imperial Kanauj. Kishori Lal, Munshi, Guldasta e Qannauj (1871) External links District Kannauj Website.

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1953 Syrian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Syria on 9 October 1953. They were the elections held under the 1953 constitution, which granted universal suffrage to women, scrapping the educational requirements used in previous elections. The result was a victory for the Arab Liberation Movement, which won 72 of the 82 seats. The People's Party and the National Party were both closed down and prohibited from operating. Most of their leaders were imprisoned or under house arrest due to President Adib al-Shishakli's tyrannical regime that came to power after a coup d'etat 3 years earlier.

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Michael D. Barbero

Michael Douglas Barbero (born September 14, 1953) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General and consultant. Early life and education Born in West Germany in 1953, Barbero was commissioned in the infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a B.S. He holds a master's degree in national security and strategic studies from the National Defense University, Washington, D.C. Barbero is also a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College and the School of Advanced Military Studies Program. Military career Lieutenant General Michael D. Barbero served as Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) from March 2011 until May 2013. In this post, he was responsible for leading the Defense Department's actions to rapidly provide counter-IED capabilities in support of combatant commanders, military services and other federal agencies to enable the defeat of the IED as a weapon of strategic influence. Following his commissioning as an infantry officer in 1976, Lieutenant General Barbero served in a variety of tactical assignments in mechanized, light and air assault infantry units. He served in the 1st Cavalry Division, 2d Infantry Division, two tours in the 101st Airborne Division, the 7th Infantry Division, the 10th Mountain Division and the 4th Infantry Division. In addition to infantry assignments at the tactical level, he commanded at every grade, from lieutenant colonel to lieutenant general. He commanded the 3d Battalion, 187th Infantry Battalion in the 101st Airborne Division and the 2d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. As a brigadier general, he commanded one of the Army's combat training centers, the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, Louisiana. As a major general, he commanded the United States Army Infantry Center and Fort Benning, Georgia. Immediately prior to joining JIEDDO, he commanded the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq and NATO Training Mission-Iraq. Other staff assignments included service as the executive assistant to the commander of Joint Forces Command/Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, the Deputy Director for Regional Operations on the Joint Staff and the Chief of Staff, III Corps and Fort Hood, Texas, Austin. Lieutenant General Barbero served nearly four years in Iraq over three separate tours. During the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom, from 2003 to 2004, he served as the assistant division commander of the 4th Infantry Division. He next served in Iraq as the Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Operations at Multi-National Force - Iraq during "the surge" in 2007 and 2008. Finally, during his most recent deployment, from 2009 to January 2011, he was responsible for the training, equipping and development of all Iraqi security forces and building the ministerial capabilities of both the Ministries of Interior and Defense, while serving simultaneously as the Commander of Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq and the Commander of the NATO Training Mission - Iraq. He also deployed to Panama and participated in Operation Just Cause in December 1989. Consulting Barbero has worked as a consultant for Ironhand Security, Intelligent Decisions Systems and Jones Group International. He has worked as a paid advisor to the Saudi, Kuwaiti and Libyan governments.

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Donna Cardinals

The Donna Cardinals were a minor league baseball team based in Donna, Texas. In 1949 and 1950, Donna based teams played exclusively as members of the Rio Grande Valley League. The 1950 Donna-Weslaco Twins played in partnership with neighboring Weslaco, Texas. Donna hosted minor league games at Avila Park. History Minor league baseball began in Donna, Texas in 1949. The Donna Cardinals became members of the Class D level Rio Grande Valley League. The Brownsville Charros, Corpus Christi Aces, Del Rio Cowboys, Laredo Apaches and McAllen Giants teams joined Donna in beginning league play. After beginning league play on April 27, 1949, Donna relocated during the season. On June 6, 1949, the Cardinals had a 13-25 record when the franchise moved to Robstown, Texas. Finishing the season as the Robstown Cardinals, the Donna/Robstown team finished last in the league standings. With an overall record of 49-93, the team placed sixth playing under managers Russell Frisch, Charlie Engle and Mimi Cavazos while finishing 43.0 games behind the first place Corpus Christi Aces. Donna/Robstown finished behind Corpus Christi (89-51), the Laredo Apaches (80-60), Brownsville Charros (75-65), McAllen Giants (70-68) and Del Rio Cowboys (58-80) in the final standings. The 1950 Donna-Weslaco Twins briefly returned to Rio Grande Valley League play, as the Rio Grande Valley League expanded. The team name reflected the team partnership with neighboring Weslaco, Texas. The 1950 Rio Grande Valley League became a Class C level league, expanding to eight teams, adding the Harlingen Capitals and the Donna-Weslaco team, as Robstown continued play as the Robstown Rebels. On May 4, 1950, Donna-Weslaco had a record of 4-20 when the team permanently folded. The Rio Grande Valley League permanently folded following the 1950 season. Donna, Texas has not hosted another minor league team. The ballpark Both Donna based minor league teams played home games at Avila Park.

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The Alan I W Frank House

The Alan I W Frank House is a private residence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and partner Marcel Breuer, two of the pioneering masters of 20th-century architecture and design. This spacious, multi-level residence, its furnishings and landscaping were all created by Gropius and Breuer as a 'Total Work of Art.' In size and completeness, it is unrivaled. It was their most important residential commission, and it is virtually the same today as when it was built in 1939-40, original and authentic. The House With four levels of living space and an indoor swimming pool, the main building encloses 12,000 square feet, complete with curved glass facade, nine bedrooms and 13 bathrooms. Including the five terraces that are part of the house and the rooftop dance floor, the floor plan totals 17,000 square feet. The stonework of the exterior walls and the dramatic entry of this innovative house suggest a detailed and richly textured building. Inside, graceful curves prevail throughout with paneled walls of warm pearwood, English sycamore, and redwood, or of travertine or stone. Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA wrote in Hauser magazine, "The home's three-story window wall swells in the facade next to the circular stair, which sweeps visitors from the ground floor entry and recreational area to the first-floor living area and then continues to rise to the next level. The stair is a sensuously curved cantilevered stair - the first embodiment of all the cantilevered stairs of independent slab risers that Breuer would make a signature of his American work. The theme is echoed in a sculptural outside stair of concrete taking visitors from the front to the back garden via an open terrace, an alternative dramatic path through the house. Perception of the house includes both theatricality of approach and intimacy of scale. Effects are achieved through natural materials set in contrast with man-made products, through ratios of light and heavy, closed and open, and through dramatic lighting and staging of movement on the wooded sloping site." Unique features of this home include roof surfaces that support living lawns and contribute to thermal efficiency, innovative electrical and energy management systems that reduce energy use, and one of the first examples of central air conditioning with electrostatic air purification. Architectural significance In addition to being the largest residence designed by Gropius and Breuer, the Frank House was also the largest project of any kind that Gropius would undertake between the completion of the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau, Germany in the mid-1920s and the commission for graduate housing granted him after World War II by Harvard. As for Breuer, he would have to wait until 1953, with the design of UNESCO headquarters in Paris, for another architectural commission of such scale. The 17,000-square-foot house is one of the "most important modernist houses in this country" relates Bergdoll. The Frank House has been described as a unique synthesis between the modernism of the interwar years and the sumptuous ethos of Breuer's so-called New Humanism. As Bergdoll writes in Hauser, "Unlike the Meisterhauser at Dessau, where a machined aesthetic of stucco rendered walls and floating boxes defined a rigorous geometric approach to composition, the Frank House uses gently swelling curves set in facades of long horizontal lines, exterior walls of warm pink-sand colored Kasota stone over a steel framework, all set upon a rugged base of local field stone, echoed in the garden's terrace walls." Contemporary critics saw the Frank House as a prime example of a change in direction in the development of modernism. "In its use of random ashlar, stone veneer, travertine and natural wood is indicated a new interest in natural materials. Also worth noting is the disintegration of the rectangle into freer shapes, as in the stairway, garden walls and entrance vestibule. If in so important an example such drastic modifications are to be seen, there is a new and impressive evidence that contemporary architecture is entering a new phase, richer, more assured, and more human." This trend was borne out in every detail of the house and its furnishings because the project was commissioned as a 'Total Work of Art' whose design included furnishings, fabrics and landscape as well as the home itself. "It's the biggest house they did, and the only house for which they designed every piece of furniture" describes Bergdoll. The Frank House was Gropius's first such commission since the Sommerfeld House in Berlin. It is also the most intact such work, as the Sommerfeld House was destroyed in World War II. Gropius, Breuer and the Franks envisioned the home's design as skillfully integrating all the requisite disciplines -- structure, materials, furnishings and landscape. The commitment to a Total Work of Art gave Breuer responsibility for designing all the furniture and furnishings in the house, from major pieces to details such as door hardware, lighting, light switches and a whole range of novel devices. It would be the single most important commission of his American career for inventing new furniture. Two thirds of the designs Breuer would create during his American years were created for the Frank House and exist nowhere else. Hundreds of new designs were developed, using new ways of shaping and finishing wood and new materials such as DuPont's Lucite polymer, a revolutionary new material at the time. History The Frank House took shape in 1939-40 as the grand family home of Cecelia and Robert Frank, the third generation of Pittsburgh industrialists in his family, who had founded and was building a new company, Copperweld Steel. An engineer and inventor, Robert Frank was open to new ideas, including modern architecture. As his family grew, Robert and his wife Cecelia started planning a new home. Cecelia and Robert considered Walter Gropius, who had recently come to the United States and become head of Harvard's Department of Architecture, to be the world's leading architect. When Gropius came to Pittsburgh to give a talk, Robert attended. Interested in what the new architecture could achieve and its potential to realize their ideals -- Cecelia, Robert and their young son Alan met with the architect at his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and visited Gropius' home in Lincoln. Long letters followed the meetings, and a collaboration was formed. Robert Frank contributed significantly to the project as an engaged architectural client. His and Cecelia's correspondence with the architects runs to hundreds of pages. During design and construction, suggestions, instructions and queries sometimes filled three eight-page, single-spaced typewritten letters a week. Gropius and Breuer came to Pittsburgh many times during the project, first to look at various pieces of land that were for sale, and then repeatedly throughout construction. Cecelia and Robert contracted with a leading national construction company to do the building, and arranged for Pittsburgh architect Dahlen Ritchey, who had been a promising student of Gropius at Harvard, to supervise the construction. The project was completed in 1940. It became, as one scholar describes it, "a machine for living," especially for healthy, comfortable living. Its sunlit rooms, outdoor terraces and indoor pool provided a warm and friendly environment in which to raise a young family. In addition to its advanced architecture and furnishings, the home incorporated an integral system for cleaning air, an innovative internal phone and light signal system, built-in projection equipment to turn the recreation room into a movie theater, lightning rod systems made of Robert Frank's Copperweld, and a heating and cooling system that used the water from the indoor swimming pool for thermal management and energy conservation. In 1941 the home was profiled in Architectural Forum. Photos were taken of the home and furnishings by renowned architectural photographer Ezra Stoller. In the decades that followed, the home fulfilled its promise as an environment designed for family life, and Cecelia's active involvement with the Pittsburgh arts and education communities made the home a well-known site for cultural and social events. The Frank House today The Frank family has owned and occupied the home continuously since it was completed. The family's dedication to preserving the work of Gropius and Breuer has kept the original features and furnishings intact, making the home a valuable example of a unique turning point in the timeline of modern architecture. Seventy years after its first review, the home is still recognized by architectural scholars as a significant milestone in the history of modernism. Scholars and critics who have visited the site are unanimous in their understanding of its importance as a masterpiece that must be preserved. John Carter Brown III, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, described the house as "the nation's crown jewel." Toshiko Mori, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, said the experience of visiting is "one of those rare occasions when you enter a house and it's absolutely authentic. Mr. Frank preserved the house in its totality -- equipment, furniture, fixtures, even original textiles and wall coverings. It's a very exquisite balance of architectural proportions, textures and colorations with machine-age aesthetics. Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator, MoMA Department of Architecture and Design, who is using the house and its trove of correspondence as part of an extended study of Marcel Breuer, described the Frank House as "an exceptional historical document, as well as a major monument of American architectural art and architectural history." Robert and Cecelia's son, Alan I W Frank, has established the Alan I W Frank House Foundation as a 501(c)(3) public charity to preserve the home. The Foundation's development plan includes the acquisition and restoration of the land and buildings, initial operating expenses, and an endowment for ongoing operation of the home as a museum. In June 2011, restoration work began on the home's exterior and roof. In June 2013, the Alan I W Frank House Foundation announced the return of four pieces of the original Marcel Breuer furniture to the Foundation for preservation and future exhibition. The desk, desk chair, armchair and table were created by Breuer for the Frank House in 1940. They were designed in wood, Lucite and natural upholstery, and some were made by American manufacturer Schmieg & Kotzian. For the last eight years, they have been on exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art through the efforts of former director Richard Armstrong, and the support of the Hillman Foundation. They are four of the hundreds of pieces of furniture that Breuer designed for the home. "Shadyside home an architectural gem." Greensburg Tribune-Review, June 26, 2005. "Architecturally significant Frank House a museum." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 26, 2006. Marcel Breuer: Architect and Designer. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1949: 74-75. Giedion, S. Walter Gropius: Work and Teamwork. New York, Reinhold, 1954: 187. Walter Gropius: Works and Projects. Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A., 1994: 176-177. Kidney, Walter C. Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture: The Historic Buildings of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1997: 408. Modern, Fall 2012: 138-143 External links Alan Frank House Foundation Formed A Bauhaus Masterpiece Pittsburgh's Frank House, Restored and Preserved Frank House in Shadyside a modernist masterpiece.

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1964 Arab League summit (Cairo)

The 1964 Arab League summit was the first summit of the Arab League, held in Cairo, Egypt, on 13-16 January 1964 and attended by all thirteen of the then member states: United Arab Republic (Egypt), Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen Arab Republic, Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Kuwait and Algeria. At the summit, held on the initiative of the United Arab Republic (modern-day Egypt only, following the 1961 secession of Syria from the union), it was decided to carry out planning to resolve inter-Arab conflicts and to adopt common principles regarding the struggle against imperialism and the "aggressive policies" of Israel. The key resolutions from the summit were expanded and recorded in a letter to the United Nations eight months later at the 1964 Arab League summit (Alexandria). Background At the time, Syria and Palestinian fedayeen called for a rematch of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, but other Arab states (most notably Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser) felt it was not the right moment to strike. Instead, they agreed on the non-military belligerent tactic of diverting water from the Jordan River so that Israel could not use it. This diversion was called the 1964 Headwater Diversion Plan. It went against the original agreed proposals of the River Jordan by both Israel and the Arabs in the 1955 Unified Johnston Plan, also known as the Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan. This was one of the factors that later precipitated the Six-Day War in 1967. The immediate catalyst for the summit was Israel's proposed diversion of water from Lake Tiberias. In reaction to Syria's repeated charges of Egyptian reluctance for military confrontation with Israel, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) championed an Arab plan to divert two sources of the River Jordan, the Hasbani River and the Banias. Nasser blamed Arab divisions for what he deemed "the disastrous situation". This had been the chosen option out of two proposals of the 1964 Headwater Diversion Plan. On 23 December 1963, he said: In order to confront Israel, which challenged us last week when its chief-of-staff stood up and said "we shall divert the water against the will of the Arabs and the Arabs can do what they want", a meeting between Arab Kings and Heads of State must take place as soon as possible, regardless of the conflicts and differences between them. Those with whom we are in conflict, we are prepared to meet; those with whom we have a quarrel, we are ready, for the sake of Palestine, to sit with. Participants The participants in the meeting were recorded in a letter to the United Nations as follows: : King Hussein of Jordan : de facto Prime Minister Bahi Ladgham : President Ahmed Ben Bella : President Ibrahim Abboud : President Abdul Salam Arif : Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia (later King) : President Amin al-Hafiz : President Gamal Abdel Nasser (technically President of the United Arab Republic) (North Yemen) President Abdullah as-Sallal : Prince Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah : President Charles Helou : King Idris of Libya : Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco : Ahmad Shukeiri A number of key Arab states had not yet achieved independence from Britain in 1964, and therefore their leaders did not participate in the conference: : Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa : Sultan Said bin Taimur of Muscat and Oman : Emir Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani : Emirs of the Trucial States : Sultans of the Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate of South Arabia Resolutions and effects On Palestine, Ahmad al-Shuqayri (1908-1988), a Palestinian diplomat and a former assistant secretary-general of the Arab League (1950-1956), was given a mandate to initiate contacts aimed at establishing a Palestinian entity, in which role he would eventually become first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. On the military front, Cairo Radio announced that the leaders of the Arab League member states agreed to set up a unified military command, the United Arab Command, to be headed by an Egyptian lieutenant general, Ali Ali Amer, and with headquarters in Cairo. No mention of this new body was made in the official communique from the summit, although the secretary-general himself, Abdel Khalek Hassouna, had stated that certain adopted resolutions would remain secret. On the water diversion plan, all thirteen member states unanimously resolved to approve Nasser's proposal. The effect of the summit and the decisions taken there was to emasculate the Council of the Arab League and supersede it as the foremost decision-making body. Nasser discouraged Syria and Palestinian guerrillas from provoking the Israelis, conceding that he had no plans for war with Israel. During the summit, Nasser developed cordial relations with King Hussein, and ties were mended with the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Morocco. The summit was to be the first of many: in late 1964, a second summit (1964 Arab League summit (Alexandria)) would be held in Alexandria, also in Egypt. Following this second summit, a letter was sent to the United Nations setting out the agreed resolutions.

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Adriana Nanclares

Adriana Nanclares Romero (born 9 May 2002) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Athletic Club. She previously played for Real Sociedad. Club career Nanclares started her career at Aurrera Vitoria. She spent a year on loan at Oiartzun but, throughout that period, she still trained with Real Sociedad from Monday to Thursday every week and only trained with Oiartzun on a Friday. Following an injury to Real Sociedad's main goalkeeper Mariasun Quinones, in the 2019-20 season, Nanclares was presented with an opportunity to make her debut in the opening league fixture against Valencia. She ended up playing in four games in September including the Valencia one. During the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons, she and Elene Lete shared the goalkeeping duties almost equally in terms of appearances. In 2023 she joined Athletic Club on a three-year contract.

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Big M

Big M is a brand of flavoured milk that was founded in Victoria, Australia, in 1977. It was launched by the Hawthorn-based and newly formed Victorian Dairy Industry Authority (VDIA), which replaced the more regulatory-oriented Victorian Milk Board. In November 2020, Australian company Bega Cheese purchased Lion Dairy & Drinks from Japan's Kirin Holdings, acquiring Big M and other notable brands from the Japanese entity. This acquisition followed an earlier attempt made by Mengniu Dairy to acquire the brand in November 2019, which was rejected by the Foreign Investment Review Board. Victoria's Minister of Agriculture Ian Smith appointed Des Cooper (MD of the Victorian Oat Growers Pool) as chairman, and Brian Purtell as general manager. Purtell appointed agricultural-science graduate Peter Granger as Marketing Manager. Granger conceived the VDIA Marketing Plan to introduce branding and promotion to both flavoured milk (Big M) and reduced-fat milk (Rev), and this was embraced by the board. Until this time there had been dozens of small 'zoned' dairies, some selling generic flavoured milks. With the exception of Ducats dairy in Shepparton, sales were minuscule. Ducats faced genuine competition from Midland Dairies, and this acted as a catalyst for innovation by both dairies. Zoning had stifled dairy innovation elsewhere. Attempting to overcome this the Victorian Milk Board had introduced a reduced-fat milk in the mid 1970s called 2:10 The product failed due to lack of co-operation by dairy processors, and the inability of the Board to overcome this resistance. It was one of the reasons the Milk Board was subsequently replaced by the VDIA. Similarly, there was resistance to the launch of Big M and Rev, but it was ultimately embraced by the industry following consumer interest and demand the advertising and promotion generated. Granger was principally the creative input, with Cooper and Purtell administrators who skillfully maneuvered the launch in the face of industry reluctance and scepticism. The advertising agency George Paterson handled the advertising campaign. They conceived the brand name and contracted Paddington Films to produce the highly successful Big M surfing ads. This was a rare occasion where a government department launched a successful and contemporary consumer product. Big M accounted for sales of 19 million litres per year, and licence fees of $6 - 6.5 million pa prior to the trademarks being sold in 2000 for almost $62 million. Big M flavoured milk is available primarily in Melbourne, regional and rural areas of Victoria and the southern and western Riverina regions of New South Wales near the state border of Victoria. In recent years distribution of the Big M brand has expanded further north into the rest of New South Wales and into Queensland as well as its state of origin. The brand gained initial popularity with its advertising association with surf and the beach culture. There were a number of subsequent ad campaigns in Victoria such as 'Think Big, but not too big'. It is sold in cartons, Tetra Briks and plastic bottles in both fresh and UHT varieties. Big M is also available in a low fat "light" chocolate variety (0.9% fat vs 3.3% for the normal product). Flavours Big M is available in 6 flavours: Original Chocolate Bigger Chocolate Strawberry Iced Coffee Banana Choc Berry Banana Split Previous flavours included: Double Strength Iced Coffee Lime Fruity Mix Choc Berry Choc Orange-Jaffa Chocanana Vanilla Pine Lime-Splice Honeycomb Choc-Malt Blue Heaven - Raspberry Vanilla Choc Mint Caramel Choc Pineapple Banana split Choc Licorice-Bullet Toffee Whip Milk Apple and Walnut Caramel Nougat Low-fat Chocolate Choc Honeycomb The flavours in bold were advertised as part of a Big M 'Flavour Flashback' promotion in 2010, with one to be voted back into regular sale. The winner was announced on 5 July 2010 as Big Egg Flip. It was retired in early 2011 and replaced with Honeycomb as another limited edition. Honeycomb was subsequently replaced by a limited edition Choc Berry in mid-2011. Egg Flip has subsequently re-appeared in late 2012.

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The Madness of Crowds (Troy Donockley album)

The Madness of Crowds is a 2009 album by English progressive rock artist Troy Donockley. It is Donockley's third solo album, and his first since he began performing with Nightwish. The album features Nightwish founder Tuomas Holopainen reciting the poem "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman in the song "Now, Voyager". The album was recorded at Waterworld Studios, East Yorkshire, UK and various other locations in early 2009. It was mixed at The Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire by Ewan Davies and mastered by Denis Blackham at Skyemasters. The album cover sculptures are from The Brutish Museum by Alastair Dickson and photographed by Sean Tamblyn.

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The Works of William Blake

The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical, edited with lithographs of the illustrated prophetic books, and a memoir and interpretation by Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats, is a three-volume commentary book about the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake. Written through a dual collaboration between the poets Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats and published by Bernard Quaritch in 1893, this work was the first comprehensive attempt to interpret Blake's oeuvre, by placing its importance on his "prophetic books", in contrast to the approach of predecessors such as Algernon Charles Swinburne and William Michael Rossetti\. Also, the work was the first collected edition of the majority of Blake's poetry with an erudite commentary, despite its erroneous and misleading traits, like the memoir. As one of the significant nineteenth-century developments in the dissemination of Blake's poetry, this book also made an ambitious attempt to interpret the poet's vatic approach to the making of literature. Today, this classic of 1893 is still illuminating for the lifetime influence it had on one of its editors, W. B. Yeats, who became perhaps the twentieth century's greatest poet in English and, like Blake, a visionary one, at that. From 1889 to 1893 Yeats worked with Edwin Ellis, a minor painter and poet, on a three-volume edition of Blake's works, with a memoir and an effort to define every aspect of Blake's symbols. Yeats was pleased that Blake's artistic and poetic ideas harmonized with those of the theosophists and the students and members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, for now he could use occult materials and claim the authority of a great poet for such beliefs and inspirations in his own poetry. This set contains the first reproduced illustrations of Blake's Prophetic Books and is the first collection to publish Blake's Vala, or The Four Zoas. Yeats marked down William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake's prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of Blake's esoteric verse. References External links Ellis, Edwin and Yeats, W. B., The Works of William Blake (2014).

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Sam Lavigne

Sam Lavigne (born 1981) is an artist and educator based in New York. His work deals with technology, data, surveillance, natural language processing, and automation. Education Born in San Francisco, Lavigne studied Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He has a Master in Professional Studies at Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. Lavigne has since taught at ITP/NYU, The New School, and the School for Poetic Computation, and was formerly Magic Grant fellow at the Brown Institute at Columbia University, and Special Projects editor at the New Inquiry Magazine. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Design at University of Texas in Austin. Projects Lavigne describes his work as "online interventions that surface the frequently opaque political and economic conditions that shape computational technologies". He has exhibited work at the Whitney Museum, the Shed, Lincoln Center, SFMOMA, Pioneer Works, DIS, Ars Electronica, the New Museum. Selected works include Smell Dating with artist Tega Brain, White Collar Crime Risk Zones, The Good Life and The Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon. He has been named an Honoree at the Webby Awards twice. ICE controversy In 2018, Lavigne published a database of the names of nearly 1600 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees sourced from LinkedIn in response to the Trump administration's family separation policy. The project was removed by GitHub who claimed it violated community guidelines and information about the project removed from Twitter and Medium. This prompted WikiLeaks to post a mirror. Experts stated the project was not illegal as all information was already publicly available.

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2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)

The South American section of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification will act as qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup to be held in Canada, the United States and Mexico for national teams who are members of South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). A total of 6 direct slots in the finals and 1 inter-confederation play-off slot are available for CONMEBOL teams. Format On 22 August 2022, the CONMEBOL sent a request to FIFA asking to keep the current qualification format that has been used since the 1998 FIFA World Cup Qualifications in South America. This was confirmed, with the first games of the qualifiers tentatively to be played in March or June 2023. On 27 February 2023, CONMEBOL president Alejandro Dominguez announced that the qualifiers would start in September 2023, which was ratified by the CONMEBOL Council in the run-up to the 73rd FIFA Congress held on 16 March in Kigali, Rwanda. The qualification structure will remain the same as in previous editions, despite the increase of slots available CONMEBOL teams. The ten teams play in a league of home-and-away round-robin format, with the match schedule being the same as that used in the previous edition. Prior to the commencement of the qualification competition, Ecuador have been deducted 3 points for falsifying birth documents for Byron Castillo in the previous World Cup qualification cycle. Entrants All 10 national teams from CONMEBOL will enter qualification. Standings Matches Matchday 1 Matchday 2 Matchday 3 Matchday 4 Matchday 5 Matchday 6 Matchday 7 Matchday 8 Matchday 9 Matchday 10 Matchday 11 Matchday 12 Matchday 13 Matchday 14 Matchday 15 Matchday 16 Matchday 17 Matchday 18 Inter-confederation play-offs The seventh-placed team will join one team each from AFC, CAF, and OFC and two from CONCACAF in the inter-confederation play-offs. The teams will be ranked according to the FIFA Men's World Ranking, with the four lowest-ranked teams playing in two matches. The winners will meet the two highest-ranked teams in another set of matches, with the winners of these matches qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

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Pattani, Thailand

Pattani is a town (thesaban mueang) in the far south of Thailand, near the border with Malaysia. It is the capital of Pattani Province. The city has a population of 44,353 (2018). It covers the whole tambon Sabarang, Anoru and Chabang Tiko of Mueang Pattani district. Pattani lies 1,056 km south of Bangkok, and is located at the mouth of the Pattani River. The historic centre of Patani was originally located a few miles away near the Krue Se Mosque, but developed at the present location after the older Patani was captured and sacked in 1785. The local dialect of Malay is called Pattani Malay or Yawi in Thai (derived from Jawi). Etymology Some believe that the name Pattani originated from Malay name Patani (Jawi: vTny), which can mean "this beach" in Pattani Malay language. According to a legend, the founder of Pattani was a raja from Kota Malikha named Phaya Tunakpa. Phaya Tunakpa went hunting one day and saw a beautiful albino mouse-deer the size of a goat, which then disappeared. He asked his men where the animal had gone, and they replied: "Pata ning lah!" in the Pattani Malay language). They searched for the mouse-deer but found instead an old couple, where the old man identified himself as Che' Tani ("Mister Tani"). The old man said that he was sent by the raja's grandfather to build a new town further beyond but had fallen ill on the journey; as he could not go any further, he stayed at that place. The raja then ordered a town be built at the site where the mouse-deer had disappeared. The town became Patani, which is believed to be named either after "this beach" where the mouse-deer had disappeared. Alternatively, it has also been said to be named after the old man as Pak Tani meaning "Father Tani". Some also say the word Pattani is derived from "Petani" in Malay which means "farmer". Another suggestion is that it derives from a Sanskrit word pathini, meaning "virgin nymph"; Pathini is also said to be the title of a daughter of Merong Mahawangsa, founder of the preceding kingdom of Langkasuka. History Pattani is located at the mouth of the Pattani River. The river may have changed course and empty into the sea at the current location in the 16th century. A small port existed in the current location at Kuala Bekah at the mouth of Sungai Patani by the early 17th century. However, the older historical centre of the Pattani Kingdom that ruled over the region of Patani was located a 6-7 km to the east of the present city; near Ban Kru Se or Kampong Kersik, which is where the Krue Se Mosque is located. The older Pattani was captured and sacked by the Siamese, and a new town centre later developed in the current location and the Sultan moved to Cabang Tiga at the southern side of present-day Pattani in the 19th century. The Patani City municipality was established in 1935 by royal decree. Climate Pattani has a tropical monsoon climate according to the Koppen climate classification, with a lengthy wet season and a brief dry season. The temperatures and humidity are high year round, with slightly higher temperatures in April, just as the monsoon arrives. The wet season is long, lasting May-December, and the dry season short, covering only January-April. The months of October, November, and December are particularly wet.

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Top Energy

Top Energy Limited is an electricity distribution and generation company based in Kerikeri, New Zealand. It owns and manages the electricity lines network in the Far North District of New Zealand, including Kaitaia, Kerikeri and Kaikohe. The service area covers 6,822 km2 and serves over 32,000 customers. It also owns and operates the Ngawha Geothermal Power Station. Ownership Far North power consumers connected to Top Energy's line network own the company, with the shares being held on their behalf by the Top Energy Consumer Trust. Distribution network The Top Energy distribution network is connected to the national grid at Kaikohe substation. The annual performance can be found in Top Energy's Group Annual Report on their website Ngawha Geothermal Power Station Top Energy owns and operates the Ngawha Geothermal Power Station on the Ngawha geothermal field. It utilises binary cycle technology manufactured by Ormat Industries and produces 56MW. The power station opened in 1998 with a generating capacity of about 8 MW. It was the first power station to come into operation via a resource consent applied for and issued under the Resource Management Act 1991. In 2008, the plant was expanded, increasing the capacity to 25 MW and allowing the power station to provide 70% of Northland's electricity. In 2015, consents were granted for expansion with a further 50 MW of generation in two stages at a nearby site, with work beginning in late 2017. The first stage of the second expansion, generating an additional 32 MW was officially opened in July 2021. The stations now generate all the electricity the Far North needs for 97 per cent of the time, with surplus power sent to the national grid.

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Núria Pompeia

Nuria Vilaplana i Buixons (1931 - 25 December 2016), better known as Nuria Pompeia, was a Catalan Spanish cartoonist, graphic humorist, journalist in the Catalan and Castilian languages, and a Catalan writer in Catalan. Born and raised in Dreta de l'Eixample neighborhood, she studied art at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. She published her first cartoons in Oriflama in 1969. Her drawings often denoted social class, the bourgeoisie, or criticism of sexism. In more laid-back humor magazines, she also depicted censorship in a comic manner. Pompeia published novels and short stories, and worked in journalism. She died in Barcelona on 25 December 2016, aged 85.

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Ajay Sadhotra

Ajay Sadhotra (born 29 December 1955) is a senior Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir. He belongs to the National Conference, a party formed by veteran leader Sheikh Abdullah. He was a General Secretary at Youth National Conference, vice-president, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, Jammu Province. In 1996 and 2002, he was elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly, Marh. From 1996 to 2002, he served as a Minister of Agriculture, CAPD, Transport, Rural Development & Panchayati Raj. He was a Deputy Leader Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, Legislative Party in J&K Legislative Assembly. From 2003 to 2009, he served as a Provincial President, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, Jammu. Since 2009 - Member of Legislative Council. He has attended the Food Ministers conference, chaired by Honorable Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the Panchayati Raj conference, chaired by Honorable Prime minister. Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council.

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Bruno Mauro

Bruno Mauro Nunes da Silva (born 3 October 1973), more commonly known as Bruno Mauro or just Mauro, is a retired Angolan professional football player who played mainly as a winger. Mauro was a journeyman who played in various teams in Portugal, as well as Cyprus and Greece. Career Mauro is the son of Portugal international footballer Laurindo, who spent most of his career with Belenenses. He was born in Portugal, but moved to Angola at the age of four with his family. He studied electrical engineering for a year before committing himself to football, returning to Portugal to jumpstart his career. He is noted for scoring a hattrick against Sporting on 16 September 2002, ending their 28-game win streak. International career Mauro was born in Portugal to Angolan parents. He played for the Angola national football team. References External links Mauro ForaDeJogo Profile Mauro ZeroZero Profile NFT Profile 1973 births Living people Footballers from Lisbon Angolan men's footballers Angola men's international footballers Portuguese men's footballers Portuguese sportspeople of Angolan descent Men's association football wingers Men's association football forwards Primeira Liga players Segunda Divisao players Academico de Viseu F.C. players Associacao Naval 1o de Maio players S.C. Farense players S.C. Lamego players S.C. Covilha players S.C.U. Torreense players S.C. Lusitania players F.C. Pacos de Ferreira players C.F. Estrela da Amadora players C.D. Santa Clara players A.D. Ovarense players Acharnaikos F.C.

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Menashe Territorial Brigade

The Menasha Territorial Brigade (also known as the Jenin Brigade) is a Territorial Brigade in the Israel Defense Forces whose role is to control law and order in the Jenin and Tulkarm sectors and to prevent terrorist attacks. The brigade is under the command of the Judea and Samaria Division. The name and emblem The brigade is named after the tribe of Menashe which according to the bible was settled in the same area as the brigade. The Brigade's emblem is built out of 4 pieces: Blue and white lines, symbolizing the flag of Israel, the Gilboa mountain, A wall that symbolizes the West Bank separation barrier and the lion that represents the Central Command. Headquarters The Headquarters of the unit is located in a military camp near Ein Shemer. Previously it was placed in the Northern West Bank area but was moved because of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza as well as the death of a soldier due to an attack by armed Palestinians in 2004. Organization and purpose Unlike the other territorial divisions in the West Bank, the Menasha Division is not responsible for just one central Palestinian district, but for two: Jenin and Tulkarm. The sector of the division extends over a large area and is surrounded on its northern and western sides by the separation fence, which separates the areas of the West Bank and Israel. To the south, the sector borders on the Samaria and Ephraim Territorial Brigades, and on the east by the Valley Territorial Brigade. In addition to the cities, in the sector of the brigade there are hundreds of Palestinian villages, for example Ya'bad and Barta'a. The villages are divided between Tulkarm and Jenin, and many of them are in area A. There are about three refugee camps in the sector (Fahma, Nur Shams and the Jenin refugee camp), and the town of Qabatiya. There are also a number of settlements in the sector, including Mevo Dotan, Avnei Hefetz, and the group of settlements that includes Shaked, Rihan, Hinanit and Tel Menashe. As a result of the 2005 disengagement, about three settlements in the sector of the brigade were evacuated - Ganim, Kadim and Sa-Nur.

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Brock Norman Brock

Brock Norman Brock (born October 1966) is a British screenwriter and playwright. Early in his career, his play Here is Monster was nominated for the Verity Bargate Award. The premiere production in 1990-91 was staged by the Show of Strength Theatre Company and directed by Mark Ravenhill. Later, he ventured into screenwriting as the co-writer of Nicolas Winding Refn's critically acclaimed 2009 film Bronson. Since then, he has co-written 2018's Yardie and 2019's The Mustang. He is a member of the Honourable Artillery Company, having served in the active unit in the 2000s.

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Tristan Plummer

Tristan Daine Plummer (born 30 January 1990) is an English professional footballer who plays for Bitton. He is the younger brother of Dwayne Plummer. Career Born in Bristol, Plummer began his career as a trainee with Bristol City and while a trainee was linked with a move to Arsenal. However, reports that Arsenal were attempting to sign Plummer were ruled out by Bristol City chairman Stephen Lansdown in December 2006. Plummer turned professional in January 2007, but failed to break into the City first team. He joined League Two side Luton Town on loan in August 2008. He made his debut in a 3-1 defeat to Port Vale on 9 August 2008. He then joined Torquay United on loan on 2 January 2009 for the remainder of the 2008-09 season, but played just once before ending his loan early, after one month. Plummer joined League Two side Hereford United on an initial one-month loan on 21 August 2009, alongside his clubmate and fellow young striker Marlon Jackson. On 21 January 2010 he joined Gillingham on loan for a month, making two appearances. After dropping out of professional football for a season, Plummer joined Portimonense S.C. of the Portuguese second division in July 2011. On 14 August 2011, Plummer scored the winning goal in a Portuguese league cup match against Freamunde, winning the game 3-2. During pre-season Tristan had a trial with 2.Bundesliga side DSC Arminia Bielefeld which was ultimately unsuccessful. He subsequently signed with the Conference South team Weston-super-Mare. Plummer ended his short spell with the South-West side to join Conference Premier side Aldershot Town in the January transfer window of 2014. He netted three goals in the latter half of the season before rejoining Weston-super-Mare for the 2015/16 season. In January 2016, Plummer scored an 89th-minute equaliser in a 5-5 draw with Hemel Hempstead Town in the Conference South. Plummer scored in three consecutive games, helping the Seagulls in their late fight for survival, eventually finishing 16th. On 7 August 2016, Plummer signed for Southern League South and West side Hereford. Bitton announced on 22 July 2019, that Plummer had joined the club. Career statistics References External links 1990 births Living people Footballers from Bristol English men's footballers England men's youth international footballers Men's association football forwards Bristol City F.C. players Portimonense S.C. players Weston-super-Mare A.F.C.