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1847 in birding and ornithology
Alfred Edmund Brehm  joins Johann Wilhelm von Müller on an expedition to Egypt, the Sudan, and the Sinai Peninsula.

Death of Giuseppe Géné

René Primevère Lesson receives the Legion of Honour

Jean Louis Cabanis erects the genus Geothlypis in  Ornithologische Notizen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte

William Henry Edwards publishes A Voyage Up the River Amazon, with a residency at Pará

Ongoing events

Fauna Japonica

Giuseppe Gené
Carlo Giuseppe Gené (7 December 1800 – 14 July 1847) was an Italian naturalist and author.

Gené was born at Turbigo in Lombardy and studied at the University of Pavia. He published a number of papers on natural history, particularly entomology. In 1828 he became an assistant lecturer in natural history at the university, and in the following year he traveled to Hungary, returning with a collection of insect specimens. Between 1833 and 1838 he made four trips to Sardinia collecting insects.

In 1830 Gené succeeded Franco Andrea Bonelli as professor of zoology and director of the Royal Zoological Museum at Turin. Most of his insect collection is in the Turin Museum of Natural History. Duplicates are in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano and in Museo di storia naturale dell'Università di Pisa.

The slender-billed gull (Larus genei) was named after him.
Bill Rompkey
William Hubert Rompkey PC (May 13, 1936 – March 21, 2017) was a Canadian educator and politician from Newfoundland. A member of the Liberal Party, he served as member of Parliament from Labrador from 1972 to 1995, and as a senator from Newfoundland and Labrador from 1995 to 2011.

King's Privy Council for Canada
The King's Privy Council for Canada (French: Conseil privé du Roi pour le Canada), sometimes called His Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the Privy Council (PC), is the full group of personal advisors to the monarch of Canada on state and constitutional affairs. Practically, the tenets of responsible government require the sovereign or his viceroy, the governor general, almost always to follow only that advice tendered by the Cabinet: a committee within the Privy Council composed usually of elected members of Parliament. Those summoned to the Privy Council are appointed for life by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister. The group is composed predominantly of former Cabinet ministers, with some others having been inducted as an honorary gesture. Privy counsellors are accorded the use of an honorific style and post-nominal letters, as well as various signifiers of precedence.
Pamela Anne Gordon
Pamela Anne Gordon (10 February 1943 – 25 January 2023) was a Canadian model. She was Playboy magazine's first Canadian Playmate, featured in its March 1962 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli and Ken Honey.

Gordon was born in British Columbia on 10 February 1943. She went on to work as a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club. She also was named one of the top Canadians of 1962 by Liberty magazine.

She died in Abbotsford shortly before her 80th birthday.

Mario Casilli
Mario Anthony Casilli (January 22, 1931 – April 25, 2002) was an American photographer. Among other assignments, he worked for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996 and his first photoshoot there was of Jacquelyn Prescott, as Playmate of the Month of September 1957.
2006 San Jose City Council election
The 2006 San Jose City Council election took place on June 6, 2006, to elect five of the ten seats of the San Jose City Council, with runoff elections taking place on November 7, 2006. Runoffs only occurred if no candidate received more than 50% of the votes cast in the contest. Local elections in California are officially nonpartisan. Each councilmember is term-limited after two consecutive terms in office.

San Jose City Council
The San Jose City Council, officially San José City Council, is the legislature of the Government of the
City of San José, California.

As the Mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan casts the 11th vote on matters before the council and acts as chair of the council during most meetings. Vice Mayor Pam Foley conducts Council meetings in the absence of the Mayor.
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, later repackaged as The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Volume One, is a compilation album released in 1985 on the Earthworks label by Jumbo Vanrenen featuring musicians from South Africa, including Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Mahlathini. In 2020, it was ranked number 497 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Makgona Tsohle Band
The Makgona Tsohle Band was a South African instrumental band that is noted for creating the mbaqanga music style. Mbaqanga is an acculturated popular South African music  that emerged in the 19th century. Mbaqanga is also referred to as township jive. The group was formed in 1964 at Mavuthela (the 'black music' division of Gallo Record Company), and became the Mavuthela house band. It garnered success by backing fellow Mavuthela-Gallo stars, Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens. It is often referred to as the South African equivalent to Motown's The Funk Brothers.
Walpola (surname)
Walpola (Sinhala: වල්පොල, romanized: Valpola) is a Sinhalese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Dharmadasa Walpola (1927–1983), Sri Lankan singer

Latha Walpola (1934–2025), Sri Lankan singer

Walpola Rahula Thera (1907–1997), Sri Lankan Buddhist monk

Dharmadasa Walpola
Dharmadasa Walpola (Sinhala: ධර්මදාස වල්පොල) (27 November 1927–25 December 1983), was a Sri Lankan singer. He is the most prominent Sri Lankan male playback singer of the 1950s and 1960s in Sinhala cinema with a career spanning more than three decades. Walpola was an accomplished musician adept at playing the flute, harmonium, violin and tabla.
Edward J. Smith (Canadian politician)
Edward John Smith (1819–1903) was a merchant and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Westmorland County from 1875 to 1878 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Shediac, New Brunswick, the son of Thomas Edward Smith, a descendant of United Empire Loyalists, and was educated there. In 1844, he married Mary Bell. He married Amelia E. Robb in 1856 after his first wife's death.

His son Ernest also served in the provincial assembly. His brother Albert James was a former New Brunswick premier who also served in the Canadian House of Commons.

Shediac
Shediac (official name in both French and English; Shédiac is colloquial French) is a town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick known as the "Lobster Capital of the World". It hosts an annual festival every July which promotes its ties to lobster fishing. At the western entrance to the town is a 90-ton sculpture called The World's Largest Lobster. It is believed that chiac, a well-known Acadian French patois, was named after Shediac.

Since its founding it has expanded several times, most recently in 2023, when it annexed all or part of four local service districts. Revised census figures have not been released.
Malagasy palm swift
The Malagasy palm swift (Cypsiurus gracilis) is a small swift in the family Apodidae. It is very similar to the African palm swift, Cypsiurus parvus, with which it was formerly considered conspecific. It was split based on differences in vocalizations and plumage coloration.

Swift (bird)
The Apodidae, or swifts, form a family of highly aerial birds. They are superficially similar to swallows, but are not closely related to any passerine species. Swifts are placed in the order Apodiformes along with hummingbirds. The treeswifts are closely related to the true swifts, but form a separate family, the Hemiprocnidae.

Resemblances between swifts and swallows are due to convergent evolution, reflecting similar life styles based on catching insects in flight.

The family name, Apodidae, is derived from the Greek ἄπους (ápous), meaning "footless", a reference to the small, weak legs of these most aerial of birds. The tradition of depicting swifts without feet continued into the Middle Ages, as seen in the heraldic martlet.
Charles "Chuck" Harrison
Charles "Chuck" Harrison (September 23, 1931 – November 29, 2018) was an American industrial designer, speaker and educator. He was the first African-American executive to work at Sears, Roebuck and Company, starting in 1961 as a designer and eventually becoming manager of the company's entire design group. He was involved in the design of over 750 consumer products, including the portable hair dryer, toasters, stereos, lawn mowers, sewing machines, Craftsman power tools, the see-through measuring cup, fondue pots, stoves, and the first plastic trash can, which has been credited with changing the sound of trash collection day. Perhaps his most famous achievement was leading the team that updated the View-Master in 1958, designing the classic Model F View-Master.

Power tool
A power tool is a tool that is actuated by an additional power source and mechanism other than the solely manual labor used with hand tools. The most common types of power tools use electric motors. Internal combustion engines and compressed air are also commonly used. Tools directly driven by animal power are not generally considered power tools. Power tools can produce large amounts of particulates, including ultrafine particles. Airborne particulate matter is a Group 1 carcinogen.
Communauté de communes Les Sources de l'Yerres
The Communauté de communes Les Sources de l'Yerres is a former federation of municipalities (communauté de communes) in the Seine-et-Marne département and in the Île-de-France région of France. It was created in December 2003. It was merged into the new Communauté de communes du Val Briard in January 2017.

Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Marne (French pronunciation: [sɛn e maʁn] ⓘ; lit. 'Seine and Marne') is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its eastern half. In 2019, it had a population of 1,421,197. Its prefecture is Melun, although both Meaux and Chelles have larger populations.
Connecticut's 24th State Senate district
Connecticut's 24th State Senate district elects one member of the Connecticut State Senate. It consists of the communities of Danbury, New Fairfield, Sherman, and parts of Bethel. It has been represented by Democrat Julie Kushner since 2019.

Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury (/ˈdænbɛri/ DAN-berr-ee) is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New York City. Danbury's population as of 2020 was 86,518. It is the third-largest city in Western Connecticut, and the seventh-largest city in Connecticut. Located within the heart of the Housatonic Valley region, the city is a historic commercial hub of western Connecticut, home to many commuters and summer residents from the New York metropolitan area and New England.

Danbury is nicknamed the "Hat City", because it was once the center of the American hat industry, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The mineral danburite is named after Danbury, while the city itself is named for Danbury in Essex, England.

Danbury is home to Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury Fair Mall, and Danbury Municipal Airport.
Hida (region)
Hida (飛騨) is the northern portion of Gifu Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan. The Hida region received its name because the area was formerly part of Hida Province, before the formation of prefectures in Japan. The borders of this region are not officially set, but it generally consists of the following four municipalities: Takayama, Hida, Gero and Shirakawa.

Gero, Gifu
Gero (下呂市, Gero-shi) is a city located  in Gifu, Japan. As of 31 October 2017, the city had an estimated population of 33,283, and a population density of 39 persons per km2 (101/sq mi), in 12,253 households. The total area of the city was 851.21 square kilometres (328.65 sq mi). The city is famous for its hot springs.
Drama-Kavala-Xanthi Super-prefecture
Drama-Kavala-Xanthi Super-prefecture was one of three super-prefectures of Greece.

It consisted of Drama Prefecture in the northwest, Kavala Prefecture in the centre-south and Xanthi Prefecture in the east.

Xanthi (regional unit)
Xanthi (pronounced [ˈksanθi], Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ξάνθης) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace. The capital is Xanthi. Together with the regional units Rhodope and Evros, it forms the geographical region of Western Thrace.
Come Back, Little Sheba (Laurence Olivier Presents)
"Come Back, Little Sheba" is a 1977 videotaped television film production of the play of the same name by William Inge produced by Granada Television as part of the anthology series Laurence Olivier Presents transmitted in the UK by ITV on 1 January 1978. The selected plays were intended to represent "the best" in 20th Century theatre, staged for television. It aired in the United States on NBC on 31 December 1977.

The original play premiered on Broadway in 1950 and was subsequently filmed in 1952. In this version, the cast is led by Laurence Olivier as Doc Delaney and Joanne Woodward as Lola, and features Carrie Fisher as Marie, Patience Collier as Mrs. Coffman, Jay Benedict as Bruce, and Nicholas Campbell as Turk. It was directed by Silvio Narizzano.

The play was released as part of a 6-DVD set of Laurence Olivier Presents, which also includes "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "The Collection", "Saturday, Sunday, Monday", and "Hindle Wakes".

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Laurence Olivier Presents)
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is a 1976 British television movie that aired as part of Laurence Olivier Presents and was based on the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. It was produced in England for Granada Television in association with NBC.
Static induction transistor
The static induction transistor (SIT) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET) capable of high-speed and high-power operation, with low distortion and low noise. It is a vertical structure device with short multichannel. The device was originally known as a VFET, with V being short for vertical. Being a vertical device, the SIT structure offers advantages in obtaining higher breakdown voltages than a conventional FET. For the SIT, the breakdown voltage is not limited by the surface breakdown between gate and drain, allowing it to operate at a very high current and voltage. The SIT has a current-voltage characteristic similar to a vacuum tube triode and it was therefore used in high-end audio products, including power amplifiers from Sony in the second half of the 1970s and Yamaha from 1973-1980. The Sony n-channel SIT had the model number 2SK82 with its p-channel complement named 2SJ28.

Yamaha Corporation
Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社, Yamaha Kabushiki gaisha; /ˈjɑːməhɑː/; Japanese pronunciation: [jamaha]) is a Japanese multinational musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer.

It is one of the constituents of Nikkei 225 and is the world's largest musical instrument manufacturing company.

The former motorcycle division was established in 1955 as Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd., which started as an affiliated company but has been spun-off as its own independent company.
Josephine Fagan
Josephine Fagan was an American politician from Lusk, Wyoming who served a single term in the Wyoming House of Representatives. She was elected in 1932, and represented Niobrara County from 1933 to 1935 as a Democrat in the 22nd Wyoming Legislature. Fagan represented Niobrara County alongside Dan Hanson.

Fagan was married to Thomas M. Fagan, who previously represented Niobrara County in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1925 to 1927 as a Democrat in the 18th legislature.

Niobrara County, Wyoming
Niobrara County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 2,467, making it the least populous county in Wyoming. Its county seat is Lusk. Its eastern boundary abuts the west lines of the states of Nebraska and South Dakota.
North Pole Nicks
The North Pole Nicks were an amateur-level collegiate summer baseball league team based in North Pole, Alaska. Between 1980 and 1991, the North Pole Nicks played exclusively as members of the Alaska Baseball League, winning the 1986 league championship.

Amateur baseball in the United States
Amateur baseball is baseball in which the players either are not paid for playing, or (as in Town Team Baseball) receive only a modest stipend or employment arranged by the team's boosters. Amateur baseball is played in the United States by players of all ages, from young children to adults.
24/7 Media
24/7 Media, formerly 24/7 Real Media is a technology company headquartered in New York City and 20 offices in 12 countries, specializing in Digital Marketing. It provides for publishers, advertisers and agencies globally. It was formerly listed as "TFSM" on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The company was purchased by WPP plc in 2007 for $649 million. David J. Moore is the chairman, founder and CEO. He also served as chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.  In December, 2013, 24/7 Media announced it would merge with GroupM subsidiary, Xaxis.

Search engine marketing
Search engine marketing (SEM) is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) primarily through paid advertising. SEM may incorporate search engine optimization (SEO), which adjusts or rewrites website content and site architecture to achieve a higher ranking in search engine results pages to enhance pay-per-click (PPC) listings and increase the call to action (CTA) on the website.
Van Cott
Van Cott is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Cornelius Van Cott (1838–1904), American politician and baseball executive

Daniel M. Van Cott (died 1903), American politician from New York

George E. Van Cott (1906–1972), American politician

Margaret Newton Van Cott

John Van Cott (1814–1883), American Mormon general authority and missionary

George E. Van Cott
George E. Van Cott (June 16, 1906 – July 9, 1972) was an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly from 1961 to 1972.

He died on July 9, 1972, in Manhattan, New York City, New York at age 66.
Alabama State Route 96
State Route 96 (SR 96) is a 30.680-mile (49.375 km) east–west state highway in Lamar and Fayette counties in western Alabama, United States, that runs nearly entirely along the southern edge of the valley formed by Luxapallila Creek and connects Mississippi Highway 50 (MS 50) with Alabama State Route 18 (SR 18).

Luxapallila Creek
33°46′5.12″N 87°51′37.95″W﻿ / ﻿33.7680889°N 87.8605417°W﻿ / 33.7680889; -87.8605417

Luxapalila Creek (also spelled Luxapallila Creek) is a 73.6-mile-long (118.4 km) stream in Mississippi and Alabama in the United States. Luxapalila means "flying turtle" in the Choctaw language.

The creek drains a watershed of 803 square miles (2,080 km2) and flows through Lamar County, Marion County, Fayette County and Pickens County in Alabama and Monroe County and Lowndes County in Mississippi. It runs through the Alabama cities of  Winfield, Millport, Kennedy, Fayette, and Columbus, Mississippi.

Its tributaries are Cut Bank Creek, Hell's Creek, Magby Creek, Mud Creek, Wilson Creek, and Yellow Creek.
Ypsolopha flavistrigella
Ypsolopha flavistrigella is a moth of the family Ypsolophidae first described by August Busck in 1906. It was known only from the southern part of the United States (Texas, California, Utah and Colorado), but has also been recorded from Alberta, Canada.

The wingspan is about 23 mm. Adults are on wing from May to the beginning of October.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Salix species.

August Busck
Augustus Busck (February 18, 1870 in Randers, Denmark – March 7, 1944) was a Danish-American entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Entomology, stationed in the U.S. National Museum. He is best known for his work with microlepidoptera, of which he described over 600 species. His collections of Lepidoptera from North America and the Panama Canal Zone are held by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Donath Oehri
Donath Oehri (born 30 January 1959) is a politician from Liechtenstein who served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 1997 to 2005. He also served as the mayor of Gamprin from 1995 to 2019.

He attended teachers' training college in Pfäffikon and Rickenbach and then worked as a primary school teacher in Vaduz from 1980 to 1987 and then in Mauren from 1987 to 1995. He was the conductor of the Bendern-Gamprin Church Choir from 1983 to 1989.

Oehri did not seek re-election as mayor in 2019 and was succeeded by Johannes Hasler.

He lives in Gamprin.

Mauren
Mauren (Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈmaʊrən] ⓘ; High Alemannic: Muura) is a municipality in Liechtenstein that is situated in the north of the country. It has a population of 4,401. The Curta mechanical calculator was produced by Contina AG, in Mauren.
Rice pudding
Rice pudding is a dish made from rice and milk, and commonly other ingredients such as sweeteners, spices, flavourings and sometimes eggs.

Variants are used for either desserts or dinners. When used as a dessert, it is commonly combined with a sweetener such as sugar. Such desserts are found on many continents, especially Asia, where rice is a staple. Some variants are thickened only with the rice starch, while others include eggs, making them a kind of custard.

Cardamom
Cardamom (/ˈkɑːrdəməm/), sometimes cardamon or cardamum, is a spice made from the seeds of several plants in the genera Elettaria and Amomum in the family Zingiberaceae. Both genera are native to the Indian subcontinent and Indonesia. They are recognized by their small seed pods: triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin, papery outer shell and small, black seeds; Elettaria pods are light green and smaller, while Amomum pods are dark brown and larger.

Species used for cardamom are native throughout tropical and subtropical Asia. The first references to cardamom are found in Sumer, and in Ayurveda. In the 21st century, it is cultivated mainly in India, Indonesia, and Guatemala.
Dragon Peak
Dragon Peak is a 2,880 metres (9,450 ft) mountain summit located in the Athabasca River valley of Jasper National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. Situated southeast of Mount Christie and Brussels Peak, Dragon Peak can be seen from the Icefields Parkway. The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1979 by D. Waterman. Dragon Peak was named in 1921 by Arthur O. Wheeler on account of a dragon-shaped rock formation. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1935 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.

Geographical Names Board of Canada
The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canada.