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7019828 | Cécil von Renthe-Fink | Cécil Karl-August Timon Ernst Anton von Renthe-Fink (1885 Breslau, Silesia Province, German Empire–1964 Munich, West Germany) was a German diplomat. He was Plenipotentiary of Denmark from 9 April 1940 until 1942.
In 1926, Cécil von Renthe-Fink was posted to Dresden as Joint Secretary of the International Elbe Commission. This Commission had been set up by the League of Nations to ensure that the Elbe was kept as a free outlet to the North Sea for shipping from Czechoslovakia.
He was appointed envoy to Denmark in 1936. In 1939 he became a member of the Nazi party. After the occupation of Denmark he became Plenipotentiary ("Reichsbevollmächtigter"). In 1942, he was replaced by Dr. Werner Best after the Telegram Crisis. Berlin was hoping for a harder line.
In 1943, Renthe-Fink was posted to Vichy France. In that year, the German ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Renthe-Fink proposed the creation of a European Confederation, which would have had a single currency, a central bank in Berlin, a regional principle, a labour policy, and economic and trading agreements.
He was married to Countess Christa von Eckstädt, daughter of Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt.
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63515731 | Yuliya Mishura | Yuliya Stepanivna Mishura () is a Ukrainian mathematician specializing in probability theory and mathematical finance. She is a professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Education and career.
Mishura earned a Ph.D. in 1978 from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a dissertation on "Limit Theorems for Functionals from Stochastic Fields" supervised by Dmitrii Sergeevich Silvestrov. She earned a Dr. Sci. from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1990 with a dissertation "Martingale Methods in the Theory of Stochastic Fields".
She became an assistant professor in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv in 1976. She has been a full professor since 1991, and head of the Department of Probability, Statistics and Actuarial Mathematics since 2003.
With Kęstutis Kubilius, she is the founding co-editor-in-chief of the journal "".
She is the editor-in-chief of the journal "Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics".
Books.
Mishura is the author of many monographs and textbooks. They include:
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65803451 | Regina Lee Blaszczyk | Regina Lee Blaszczyk is an American historian. She is a professor of business history and leadership chair in the history of business and society at The University of Leeds.
She is an associate editor at the "Journal of Design History."
Education.
Blaszczyk graduated from Marlboro College with a B.A. in 1978. She received a M.A. in American Civilization from The George Washington University in 1987. In 1995, She received her PhD from the University of Delaware Hagley Program in the History of Capitalism, Technology, and Culture.
Career.
Blaszczyk has been a curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, a professor of American Studies at Boston University, and director of programs at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.
She has received numerous honors including: The Hagley Prize for the Best Book in Business History from the Business History Conference, the Sally Hacker Prize for Exceptional Scholarship that Reaches Beyond the Academy from the Society for the History of Technology.
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72959237 | Binibining Pilipinas 2023 | Binibining Pilipinas 2023 was the 59th edition of Binibining Pilipinas held on May 28, 2023 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
At the end of the event, Nicole Borromeo crowned Angelica Lopez of Palawan as Binibining Pilipinas International 2023 and Chelsea Fernandez crowned Annalena Valencia Lakrini of Bataan as Binibining Pilipinas Globe 2023. Only two titles were awarded this edition after Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc. relinquished the franchise for Miss Grand International and Miss Intercontinental.
ABS-CBN broadcast the coronation night via Kapamilya Channel and free-to-air channel A2Z. The pageant will be simulcasted on ABS-CBN's Metro Channel and livestreamed on iWantTFC and YouTube. The competition was hosted by Catriona Gray, Nicole Cordoves, and Mary Jean Lastimosa, and with a performance from Vice Ganda.
Background.
Selection of participants.
On January 6, 2023, the organization launched its search for the next set of Filipinas who will represent the Philippines at different international pageants. The final submission of the application was on January 31, 2023. The final screening and selection of the official contestants were done on February 6, 2023.
Selection committee.
The following served as members of Binibining Pilipinas 2023 board of judges:
Contestants.
40 candidates will compete for the two titles:
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18769955 | Dimple Jhangiani | Dimple Jhangiani (born 24 February 1990, in India) is an Indian television actress. Her first appearance in Tellywood began with her playing the role of Kanya in the serial "Kuchh Is Tara" on Sony Entertainment Television. Dimple Jhangiani had joined "Kis Desh Mein Hai Mera Dil" and played the role of Sanjana as Harshad Chopda's (Prem) close friend. She also played RajKumari Sandhya in "Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat". She played the role of Nimrit in Life OK's Amrit Manthan as the lead but she was replaced by Ankita Sharma due to the story. After her exit from "Amrit Manthan" she did a short telefilm on StarPlus, "Teri Meri Love Stories".
She re-entered the show "Amrit Manthan" as Nimrit's twin sister Shivangi. After Amrit Manthan she roped on to play the character of Minty in Colors TV "Mrs. Pammi Pyarelal". In 2013, Jhangiani played the role, Barkat Abdullah, in Beintehaa which aired on Colors TV.
After taking a break from getting married, Jhangiani returned to screens in "Meri Durga" which started airing on StarPlus in 2017.
Personal life.
Jhangiani is married to Sunny Asrani. Jhangiani, after getting married, changed her name to Anaisha Asrani because it brings good luck to the couple.
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8289981 | William Porteous | William Porteous (born 1945) is a Canadian-born Australian land developer and real estate agent.
Biography.
Born in Ottawa, Canada, Porteous was raised and educated in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He attended Simon Fraser University in British Columbia where he attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Resource Management and Town Planning. He worked for a short time as a trainee stock broker trader before coming to Australia in September 1970, when he was employed by the Bond Corporation from 1971 to 1979 as their project manager for various large Bond Corporation ventures.
Porteous undertook several substantial property development projects of his own in Western Australia. In 1979 he accepted Acton Consolidated's offer to join their organization. He was appointed a director and partner of the Acton Group in 1983. In 2008, he embarked on his own and created William Porteous Properties International. Porteous specialises in prestige properties and developments. He is best known for his success in the top price range luxury properties and developments, especially in the Western suburbs, and as an auctioneer. In December 2009, he sold a property in Mosman Park for A$57.5 million, setting a record for the most expensive house ever sold in Australia.
On 25 June 1992, he married Perth socialite Rose Hancock whose former husband (deceased a few months earlier) was Lang Hancock, the iron ore magnate, William's friend.
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37155106 | Andrew Jones (Medal of Honor) | Andrew Jones (born 1835, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Born in 1835 in Limerick, Ireland, Jones immigrated to the United States and was living in New York when he joined the U.S. Navy. He served during the Civil War as a chief boatswain's mate on the . Although their enlistments had expired, Jones and crewmate James Seanor voluntarily transferred to the to fight in the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, during which they "carried out [their] duties gallantly". For this action, both Jones and Seanor were awarded the Medal of Honor four months later, on December 31, 1864.
Jones's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
Served as chief boatswain's mate on board the U.S. Ironclad "Chickasaw", Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Although his enlistment was up, Jones volunteered for the battle of Mobile Bay, going on board the "Chickasaw" from the "Vincennes" where he then carried out his duties gallantly throughout the engagement with the enemy which resulted in the capture of the rebel ram "Tennessee".
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22845770 | Lai Sun | Lai Sun Group () is a Hong Kong conglomerate. It was founded by garment billionaire and entrepreneur, Lim Por-yen. Its businesses include property development, real estate investment, hotel, telecom, mass media and entertainment. Lai Sun is working with Major League Gaming to build an esports arena on Hengqin.
Lai Sun Group is developing Novotown at Hengqin, Zhuhai, China. It is an integrated tourism and entertainment project. Phase one has been completed, and features two indoor attractions Lionsgate Entertainment World and National Geographic Ultimate Explorer. It also includes the 494-room Hengqin Hyatt Regency Hotel and mixed-use shopping centre with a host of restaurants and bars. Phase one costs about 5 billion yuan (HK$6.16 billion). Phase 2 will include an interactive football experience centre and automobile experience centre in partnership with Real Madrid football club and Porsche respectively.
The group consists of several companies and some of them are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Leadership.
The Lai Sun Group has been run by Lim Por-yen and his family since its founding in 1947; the group is currently being run by the second generation of the family. Lim first became Chairman and an Executive Director in the company in 1959.
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73991930 | Clinton McCullough | Clinton McCullough (December 11, 1844 – April 11, 1895) was an American politician and lawyer from Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland Senate, representing Cecil County from 1886 to 1890.
Early life.
Clinton McCullough was born on December 11, 1844, at "Bell Hill" near Elkton, Maryland, to Hiram McCullough. His mother's maiden name was Ricketts. His father was a U.S. congressman. He was educated at Elkton Academy. He graduated from Princeton College in 1864. He read law at his father's office and was admitted to the bar in 1866.
Career.
McCullough was elected as state's attorney in 1871 and 1875. McCullough was a Democrat. He was a member of the Maryland Senate, representing Cecil County, from 1886 to 1890. He was appointed auditor in chancery.
McCullough had a law office at North Street in Elkton. He was an attorney for the Mutual Building Association of Cecil County.
McCullough served on the board of trustees of Elkton Academy at the time of his death. He was a member of the board of managers of the Mutual Insurance Company.
Personal life.
McCullough married Jeanette Pearce, daughter of Matthew C. Pierce and niece of John C. Groome. They had four sons, Clinton Jr., Matthew, Hiram and Groome.
McCullough died of heart disease on April 11, 1895, at his home in Elkton. He was buried at the family lot in Elkton Cemetery.
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40654020 | Amit Kumar Dhankar | Amit Kumar Dhankar (born 2 January 1987) is a freestyle wrestler from India. He became Asian wrestling champion in 2013, along with becoming Commonwealth wrestling champion twice. He also won gold medal in the 2016 South Asian Games. In 2015, he participated in the inaugural edition of the Pro Wrestling League, where his team won the title. He is employed as an inspector in the Haryana Police.
Owing to the presence of Yogeshwar Dutt in Dhankar's weight category, he could hardly get a chance to represent India in the events like Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, World Wrestling Championships, Olympic Qualifiers, etc. In 2014, Dhankar moved to the Delhi High Court after the Wrestling Federation of India shortlisted Yogeshwar Dutt for the 2014 Commonwealth Games without conducting trials, but to no avail. In 2015, at the trails for the World Wrestling Championships, Yogeshwar Dutt was able to defeat Dhankar to secure his place in the 65 kg category of the Freestyle. In 2016, Yogeshwar again defeated Dhankar in the trials of the Asian Olympic qualifiers.
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26027085 | Cigar ash | Cigar ash is the ash produced by a cigar as it is smoked.
Smoking.
Connoisseurs of cigars disagree as to whether the quality of a cigar may be determined from the appearance of its ash.
Uses.
Cigar ash may be mixed with chalk to make a dentifrice or tooth powder. It may also be mixed with poppyseed oil to make paint in shades of grey.
Disposal.
Usually, during smoking, the ash is an unwanted product that is to be disposed of. An ashtray is used to dispose of ashes and butts without creating a fire hazard. Once it is certain that any burning has been extinguished, the ashtray contents are disposed of.
Sherlock Holmes.
The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes was an expert in the study of cigar ash and wrote a monograph, "Upon the Distinction Between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos", about it. This expertise was used in his cases such as "A Study in Scarlet", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles". This is repeatedly used as an example of deduction or the Baconian method in philosophical accounts of science and reasoning.
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17727729 | Western Base party | The Western Base Party was a successful exploration party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The eight-man Western Party was deposited by the SY "Aurora" on the Shackleton Ice Shelf at Queen Mary Land. The leader of the team was Frank Wild and the party included the geologist Charles Hoadley.
The party established the Queen Mary Land Station. An early setback was the destruction of the radio mast in the first blizzard. Severe weather impeded activities as did dangerous crevices. The team sent an expedition into Kaiser Wilhelm II Land.
The party had no supplies for a second winter. The Western Base Party was collected on February 23, 1913 by the "Aurora", with no loss of life.
Discoveries.
The Western Base Party made a number of discoveries including;
Drygalski Island was first sited by the Western Base Party but it was not until the return voyage of Australasian Antarctic Expedition that the island was accurately identified.
A.L. Kennedy was cartographer of the expedition. He was later honored by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN)'s naming of Kennedy Peak (Antarctica) for him, in recognition of the close correlation of his 1912–13 running survey of the eastern half of the Queen Mary Coast with the US-ACAN map of 1955 compiled from aerial photographs.
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24469846 | History in the Making (song) | "History in the Making" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Darius Rucker. Written along with Clay Mills and Frank Rogers, it was released in September 2009 as the fourth single from Rucker's album "Learn to Live".
Content.
"History in the Making" is a song in which the male narrator addresses his new love, telling her that the beginning of their relationship could be a momentous occasion in their lives.
Critical reception.
Brittney McKenna of Engine 145 gave the song a thumbs-down review, calling the song "a formulaic but catchy little number about a relationship of 'historic' proportions." but describing Rucker's voice favorably. Matt Bjorke of "Roughstock" gave a more positive review, saying "The song really feels like it will become part of many wedding playlists" and referring to Rucker's vocal as "flawless [and] passionate."
Music video.
The music video was directed by Shane Drake and premiered in late 2009.
Chart performance.
"History in the Making" debuted at number 51 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated September 19, 2009. It also debuted at number 99 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 on the week ending November 7, 2009. It fell off the following week but re-entered at number 90 on the week ending November 21, 2009 and has since reached number 61. "History in the Making" peaked at number three on the country chart in February 2010, becoming Rucker's first single to miss number one.
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53476704 | Broken Doll & Odds & Ends | Broken Doll & Odds & Ends is the second studio album by singer-songwriter Anna Nalick, released on June 5, 2011. The original version of "Shine" was released three years earlier on her EP "Shine", although it has been re-worked for this album. It was intended to be the lead for her initially planned second album, but the plans fell through after a dispute with her label. After Nalick separated from her label, she got married and took a two year break from the music industry. In 2010, Nalick announced her return to the music business on her Facebook page. She formed her own independent label, Nyctograph, and released "Broken Doll & Odds & Ends". The title track of the album, "Broken Doll", was developed after she found her old Barbie dolls discarded and broken. The song develops this as a theme of once feeling special, but then being left behind. The song was written early in the process, when Nalick was still under contract with Sony Music. One of the themes the album explores is the discomfort Nalick felt at being asked to be somebody different than herself. Initially, the album was intended to be an acoustic album, but Nalick's friends who performed on the album had talent with many instruments, so that she gave them the opportunity to explore a variety of sounds to put on the album, so that various instruments like the sitar, the mandocello, and the glockenspiel ended up on the album.
Personnel.
Musicians
Production
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11947950 | European Peace University | The European University Center for Peace Studies offered postgraduate political studies from 1990 to 2013 in Stadtschlaining, Austria.
The institution was founded in 1988 by Gerald Mader in his capacity as president of the ASPR, with the support of European UNESCO commissions, and is affiliated to the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), also located at Stadtschlaining.
The original curriculum of EPU was designed along the lines of Johan Galtung’s ”Plan for a Master of Peace and Conflict Resolution” which he developed for the University of Hawaii. The EPU has been offering postgraduate programs in Peace Studies since 1990. In 1995, EPU was co-winner of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. The EPU's UNESCO Chair on Peace, Human Rights and Democracy was established in 1996.
Between 2010 and 2013, the institute gained accredited private university status and was renamed to "European Peace University (EPU) - Private Universität". In July 2013, EPU's accreditation was withdrawn by Austria's accreditation body; students currently enrolled in the "Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies" programme may finish their studies until 2014.
Primary goals of the EPU are:
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30780327 | Duda Ranch | A. Duda & Sons refers to various agricultural and real estate developments, with ranches in Central Florida, Texas, and California.
The company grows vegetables, citrus, sugarcane, and other crops, and raises cattle. It is best known as one of the top growers of celery in the United States. It markets produce using the "Dandy" label.
It has significant land holdings in Florida, California and Texas. It has developed some of this land for residential and commercial use. The Viera Company subsidiary oversees the development and management of Viera, Florida, a planned community in Brevard County, Florida, which had 16,000 residents in 2007.
Operations.
Operations include vegetable and melon farming; orange groves; other citrus Groves; Nursery and Tree Production; Sugarcane Farming; Beef Cattle Ranching and Farming; Commercial and Institutional Building Construction; Land Subdivision; Sugar Manufacturing; Sugarcane Mills; Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchandising Wholesalers.
History.
Andrew Duda immigrated to United States from Slovakia. He started the ranch in the mid-1920s with .
With celery as the cash crop, Duda had around in the 1940s. The family diversified into beef cattle ranching at their Cocoa Ranch, near Cocoa, Florida. By the 1970s, it had 20,000 cattle.
The business was incorporated in 1953.
The company revenues were $200 million in the 1980s. Ranch holdings in Central Florida had risen to .
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21529058 | Gladys Lunn | Gladys Anne Lunn (1 June 1908 – 3 January 1988) was an English track and field athlete from Birmingham, England who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games in the 1938 British Empire Games.
Gladys was a member of Birchfield Harriers athletics club.
At the 1934 Empire Games she won the gold medal in the 880 yards event as well as in the javelin throw competition, an unorthodox combination.
Four years later she won the bronze medal in the javelin throw event at the 1938 Empire Games. She also participated in the 220 yards contest but did not start in her semi-final heat.
She was the inaugural winner of the (unofficial) ladies race at the International Cross Country Championships. She was also twice a medallist in the 800 metres at the Women's World Games, taking gold in 1930 before returning for a bronze medal in 1934.
Nationally, she was a ten-time champion at the Women's Amateur Athletic Association Championships. This included three straight 880-yard titles from 1930 to 1932, two 800 m titles, the first ever mile run in 1936 and the following year in 1937, a 1937 javelin title and two cross country titles.
Lunn had two world records ratified by the International Women's Sports Federation (FSFI): 3:04.4 minutes for the 1000 m in 1931 and 3:00.6 minutes over the same distance in 1934. Four of her performances over the mile were later recognised as world best times.
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52524295 | Large-eyed green tree snake | The large-eyed green tree snake (Rhamnophis aethiopissa), also known commonly as the splendid dagger-tooth tree snake, is a species of venomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Africa. There are three recognized subspecies.
Geographic range.
"R. aethiopissa" is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.
Description.
"R. aethiopissa" may attain a total length (including tail) of . The dorsal scales, which are smooth, are arranged in 17 rows at midbody.
Reproduction.
"R. aethiopissa" is oviparous.
Subspecies.
The following three subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.
Venom.
"Rhamnophis aethiopissa" is a rear-fanged colubrid, i.e., it has venom, which it may be able to inoculate by biting. Because very little is known about this species and its venom, it is necessary to be very cautious when working with it. This species has an almost identical defence mechanism to the boomslang ("Dispholidus typus") and twig snakes (genus "Thelotornis") as they also inflate their throat to make themselves look bigger. It is believed that the species of the genus "Rhamnophis" evolved between the boomslang and the species of the genus "Thrasops" in terms of their fangs and means of envenomation.
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1399346 | Unterfeldwebel | () was a rank of the Wehrmacht, from 1935 until 1945. It was also used in the East German National People's Army from 1956 to 1990. The equivalent to "Unterfeldwebel" in the Bundeswehr of West Germany and later the Federal Republic of Germany is the rank Stabsunteroffizier (OR-5).
History.
Unterfeldwebel (in Cavalry, Artillery, and "Armoured corps": Unterwachtmeister) was in Germany the designation to a person in uniform with the second lowest NCO-rank (after Unteroffizier). It was counted to the rank-group Unteroffiziere ohne Portepee.
The rank-designations "Unterfeldwebel", respectively "Unterfeldwebel" were created by renaming of the Sergeant rank of the Imperial German Army
Independent to the military assignment an "Unteroffizier" could be promoted to "Unterfeldwebel" after a service time of three to four years. Since 1936 this rank could normally be skipped in "Heer" and "Luftwaffe", and NCOs with the rank Unteroffizier were promoted to Feldwebel.
Nationale People's Army.
By the GDR National People's Army and the Border Troops the rank was introduced in 1962, comparable to NATO OR-6a. The rank insignia remained almost identically to these Wehrmacht and Reichswehr.
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59552567 | Jesper Fredberg | Jesper Fredberg (born 11 May 1981) is a Danish football director who works as CEO Sports in R.S.C. Anderlecht who before that worked as Sport Director in Viborg FF. He was a coach in Panathinaikos F.C.'s youth academy, previously having worked with the club's technical director, Nikos Dabizas, as the coach of AC Omonia's youth academy. Fredberg had a brief spell as caretaker manager for Omonia's senior side, replacing Ivaylo Petev for the last seven matches of the 2017–18 Cypriot First Division season. He had previously assisted Omonia's caretaker manager Akis Ioakim at the end of the 2016–17 season.
Playing career.
Born Aarhus, Fredberg began his career as a professional player at the age of 15. He played in the club of AGF Aarhus.
Coaching career.
Fredberg is one of the youngest professional coaches in Danish football. He has worked as a trainer, but also as a Technical Director and Talent Detector. He left his country very young for his country.
Head Coach of the young teams
Head Coach of the young teams
Head Coach of the young teams
Head Coach of the young team
Head Coach of the professional Team
National Head Coach of U-23
Head Coach and Technical Director of the club's academy
Head Coach of the club's academy
Sport Director
CEO Sports
Personal life.
Fredberg has a past in the Danish military as a Sergeant in The Royal Guard, and is a trained policeman. He speaks Danish, English, German, Swedish and Greek fluently.
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65599860 | Gordon House (Jamaica) | Gordon House (or George William Gordon House) is the meeting place of the Jamaica Parliament, located at 81 Duke Street in Kingston, close to the old parliament building headquarters.
The house serves as the meeting place of both the Senate and the House of Representatives since independence on August 6, 1962
History.
The house was built before the 1960s. It became the official seat of the legislature on October 26, 1960. It was named the George William Gordon House in honour and memory of George William Gordon, who served in the Jamaican Parliament. Gordon was accused of instigating the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion and was condemned to death. Earlier, the Parliament met at nearby Headquarters (Hibbert) House that was in use since 1872.
Replacement.
A new parliament building to replace Gordon House will be built on the National Heroes Park, directly north of Gordon House.
Construction on the new parliament building was expected to start in early 2021. However, the start of construction has been delayed until at least 2022.
Parliament chamber.
The house currently has only one chamber. Visitors are often allowed when Parliament is not in session.
The two-story contemporary building has a symmetrical design at the entrance elevation. It is 'L' shaped with an open courtyard for parking concealed from the adjoining roads.
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69189558 | Drabsha | The drabsha () or darfash () is the symbol of the Mandaean faith. It is typically translated as 'banner'.
Etymology.
The Mandaic term drabša is derived from the Middle Persian word "drafš", which means 'banner or standard; a flash of light; sunrise'. In Mandaic, "drabša" can also mean 'a ray or beam of light'.
Description and symbolism.
The drabša is a banner in the shape of a cross made of two branches of olive wood fastened together and half covered with a piece of white cloth traditionally made of pure silk, and seven branches of myrtle. The drabša white silk banner is not identified with the Christian cross. Instead, the four arms of the drabsha symbolize the four corners of the universe, while the pure silk cloth represents the Light of God (Hayyi Rabbi). The seven branches of myrtle represent the seven days of creation. The drabsha is viewed as a symbol of light and the light of the sun, moon and stars is envisaged to shine from it. It may be of pre-Christian origin and used originally to hang a prayer shawl during immersion in the river (masbuta).
Prayers.
In E. S. Drower's version of the "Qolasta", prayers 330–347 (corresponding to Part 4 of Mark Lidzbarski's "Oxford Collection") are dedicated to the drabša.
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57108764 | Miller Harris | Miller Harris is a London-based luxury perfume brand founded by perfumer Lyn Harris in 2000. In 2012 Harris sold a stake in the company, with "The Daily Telegraph" later noting that Miller Harris had come "to a major player in the world of independent fragrance".
Miller Harris has two London stores, in Seven Dials and Covent Garden.
, Miller Harris have opened 8 shops in other countries, in Hong Kong and China.
In 2010, the business received a boost in awareness to its niche clientele when Michelle Obama was gifted a set of candles by the then UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha Cameron, on their first trip to meet President Barack Obama in Washington.
From 2010 through to 2020, Miller Harris have continued to launch fragrances with the Robertet, the French fragrance house, adding bestselling lines such as Lumière Dorée and Étui Noir. In 2018, the brand launched the now bestselling fragrance Scherzo. Based on a page torn out of the novel Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and given to perfumer Mathieu Nardin. The resulting fragrance was, in 2020, claimed by Grazia to be one of the 10 cult perfumes, taking the planet by storm.
In 2020, Miller Harris gave all the hand wash and soap in its warehouse to Age UK in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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31313847 | Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet | Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet (ca. 16202 June 1694) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660.
Skipwith was the son of Edward Skipwith of Gosburton and Grantham and his wife Elizabeth Hatcher, daughter of Sir John Hatcher of Coteby, Lincolnshire. His father was the illegitimate son of William Skipwith, a Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire, and Anne Tothby.
In 1659, Skipwith was elected a Member of Parliament for Grantham in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected in 1660, as MP for Grantham in the Convention Parliament. He was knighted at Whitehall on 29 May 1673, made Serjeant-at-law on 21 April 1675, and was created baronet of Metheringham on 27 July 1678.
Skipwith died at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields in June 1694.
Skipwith married firstly Elizabeth Lathom daughter of Ralph Lathom of Upminster, Essex. Their son Thomas succeeded to the baronetcy, and his daughter Susan married Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet of Minster. He married secondly Elizabeth Maddison, widow of Edward Maddison and daughter of Sir John Rea, but had no further children.
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73539137 | Transatlantic Dialogue Center | The Transatlantic Dialogue Center ("TDC", ) is a Ukrainian non-governmental think tank that specializes in political analysis, project activities, and consulting in the field of foreign policy and communications.
Activities.
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the TDC has launched a campaign to inform foreign governments and NGOs about the situation in Ukraine. The center's analysts published dozens of articles and gave comments to the world's leading media. One of the priorities of the Transatlantic Dialogue Center's advocacy activities has also been the organization of study visits to Ukraine for foreign journalists, politicians, youth organizations and NGOs.
In March 2022, the Center prepared a booklet containing a list of damaged and destroyed cultural heritage sites in Ukraine, which began documenting Russia's crimes against world culture.
The organization was one of the signatories of an appeal from Ukrainian NGOs to the European Union to grant Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership.
Partnering with the Rating sociological group, TDC has been conducting nationwide surveys to measure Ukrainian's expectations of reconstruction as well as their perception of war, possible ways to achieve peace and durable security guarantees.
Starting from 2023, the organization is also engaged in the research related to the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.
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56671719 | Piano Concerto No. 6 (Ries) | The Piano Concerto No. 6 in C major, Op. 123, by Ferdinand Ries was composed around 1806. Composed in a proto-Romantic style, similar to the concertos of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, it also shows evidence of the influence of Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto, Op. 37 which Ries had performed at his public debut in 1804.
Composition date.
The manuscript bears the notation "Bonn 1806", suggesting it was completed there. Allan Badley, in the notes to the Naxos recording comments that this would most likely make it the first of Ries's eight piano concertos to be written. Further evidence for this lies in the fact that this is the only piano concerto by Ries to provide for a cadenza at the end of the first movement, as was traditional. Publication, as the composers Op. 123 by firm of Sauer & Leidesdorf did not take place until around 1823/24.
Structure.
The concerto follows the traditional three-movement structure:
Recordings.
To date the concerto has only been recorded once, by Uwe Grodd with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and soloist Christopher Hinterhuber, this was released by Naxos Records in conjunction with a publication of the score in a critical edition prepared by Allen Bradley.
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47926766 | Canyon River (film) | Canyon River is a 1956 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Harmon Jones and starring George Montgomery.
It is a remake of the 1951 film "The Longhorn".
It received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
Plot summary.
A cattleman (George Montgomery actor) goes south to pick up breeding stock that he can cross-breed to withstand his Wyoming ranch's winters, but his foreman (Peter Graves) is in cahoots with a crooked businessman from the ranch's hometown in Wyoming. They plan to buy up ranchland in that area, do away with the cattleman (George Montgomery) and steal his herd he's driving in from Oregon or elsewhere. Near the end of the movie and before they reach a planned 'stampede to steal the cattle', Montgomery likes Graves and offers him a share of his 6,000 acre ranch and also some cattle. Graves decides this would be a great deal and tries to call off the 'crooked deal' he made with the crooked investor and his hired guns, but the cattle do stampede anyway and Graves is critically injured trying to stop them. In the end Montgomery maintains his cattle and ranch ownership. So the 'good guy' wins. On the trail drive, there had been a shortage of 'meat' to feed the crew, because the boss Montgomery wouldn't kill a beef from his herd. The crew was about to mutiny, until a 'deer' was killed and steaks were served. This main plot coincides with a romance between Montgomery and a widow (Marcia Henderson), who Graves is also in love with.
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15092284 | Lindesmith Center | The Lindesmith Center was an Open Society Institute project which has conducted research related to drug reform. It was founded in 1994 by Ethan Nadelmann with financial support from George Soros. The Center conducted some NIDA-funded studies on harm reduction.
In 2000, the Center and the Drug Policy Foundation were merged into the Drug Policy Alliance, with the Center being renamed The Lindesmith Library. The Drug Policy Foundation was a non-profit organization whose focus was public policy, advocating for harm reduction, sentencing reform for non-violent drug offenses, and the legal access to medical marijuana. Through the Drug Policy Alliance, the Lindesmith Library continues to distribute materials to community organizations seeking science-based information about drug use and misuse.
More than 15,000 documents and videos are freely available online through the website of the Drug Policy Alliance.
The name 'Lindesmith' refers to Alfred R. Lindesmith (1905–1991), a professor of sociology at Indiana University, who was a prolific writer on drug use and policy.
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12396261 | Leptolalax heteropus | Leptolalax heteropus (Malaysian Asian toad or variable litter frog) is a frog species in the family Megophryidae. It is found in the Malay Peninsula, both in Malaysia and southern Thailand. The type locality is Maxwell Hill in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, moist montane forests, and rivers. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
Male "Leptolalax heteropus" grow to snout-vent length of and females to . These frogs are usually encountered while perched on the leaves of small plants close to the ground. The call of male "L. heteropus" is short and consists of a short series of 3–6 notes, the first note being longer in duration and higher in dominant frequency than subsequent ones. The call characteristics are among the features that separate this species from superficially similar "Leptolalax solus". Indeed, frogs reported from Thailand as "Leptolalax heteropus" might actually be the relatively recently (2006) described "L. solus".
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3209469 | Chef Tony | Anthony Joseph "Chef Tony" Notaro (born November 5, 1954) is an advertising pitchman for cooking and kitchen products, seen primarily on infomercials and home shopping channels.
Biography.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York to first generation Italian-Americans. His informal chef training includes working in his grandmother's Southern Italian restaurant in lower Manhattan. His father sold fresh produce from a horse and wagon, and his mother ran a home-based Italian catering business.
At age 16, Notaro began developing his own culinary products after school in a neighborhood pizzeria. At age 18 he became an assistant to a salesman demonstrating kitchen products in a local Brooklyn store. Notaro began demonstrating the Popeil Dial-O-Matic throughout New York City. Eventually chosen as the first person to demonstrate T-Fal cookware in the U.S. He was awarded 2002 best male demonstrator for Miracle Blade III and 2004 Best kitchen product for the Ultimate Chopper by the Electronic Retailers Association. He is a regular guest on the QVC Shopping Channel as well as Ideal World in England.
Products.
He is most noted for selling the patented Miracle Blades, and the TastiWave. Tony also endorses the Ultimate Chopper (in an infomercial co-hosted by Jenilee Harrison). He also endorses Smartware bakeware, which is made of non-stick "Temperflex" silicone, SmartLidz, Wonder Cooker, Brown & Crisp, Funnel Cake Kit, and a dozen more products.
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5751325 | A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim | A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim is a 1967 television special starring Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, accompanied by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. The medley that Jobim and Sinatra sing together was arranged by Claus Ogerman.
The title is a reference to Sinatra's previous two television specials by this name, 1965's "A Man and His Music", the following years "A Man and His Music - Part II" and his 1965 album, "A Man and His Music", which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1967.
Earlier in the year Sinatra had recorded the album "Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim" with Jobim, and this show offered a rare opportunity to see them both in live performance.
Sinatra had featured Fitzgerald on his Timex television shows in the late 1950s, and this show marked their first television appearance together since then. They performed a swinging duet of "The Lady is a Tramp". Fitzgerald's pianist, Paul Smith said, "Ella loved working with [Frank]. Sinatra gave her his dressing room on "A Man and His Music" and couldn't do enough for her." Fitzgerald and Sinatra came close to recording together around this period, but the plans were eventually scuppered.
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62345366 | Carex albula | Carex albula, common name white sedge, is a species of sedge (in the Cyperaceae family). It is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.
According to Plants of the World online, it has no synonyms. However the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network lists "Carex comans" var "stricta" Cheeseman as a synonym.
Description.
It is a densely tufted sedge growing from 250 to 350 mm tall, and may be buff-coloured, an almost bleached white, or green or red.
The culms are smooth and 50-200 mm by 0.5 mm, often having a deep groove. The leaves are numerous and the basal sheaths are dark brown to purple-red. The terminal spike is male with the other spikes being female.
It flowers from October to December and fruits from October to September and the nuts are dispersed by granivory and wind.
Distribution & habitat.
It is found in the South Island from the Mackenzie Basin, to Waitaki and Central Otago, on alluvial terraces, and slopes and on river flats.
Conservation status.
The IUCN Redlist declared its conservation status to be of "least concern" (LC). However, assessments under the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS), declared it to be "At Risk – Declining" (Dec) in 2013, and in 2017 to be "Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable" (NV).
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15211037 | Carruthers Peak | Carruthers Peak, formerly Curruthers Peak, a mountain in the Main Range of the Great Dividing Range, is located in Snowy Mountains region in southeast New South Wales, Australia. The peak is situated between Mount Lee and Mount Twynam within the Kosciuszko National Park.
With an elevation of above sea level, Carruthers Peak is the seventh-highest peak in mainland Australia.
It was named after Joseph Carruthers, a Premier of New South Wales, who, while he served as Minister for Lands, facilitated the building of the Summit Road to Mount Kosciuszko. It can be easily accessed, with the Main Range walk going straight up it.
Geology.
The area around it contains patches of the rare windswept feldmark ecotope. Due to a century of grazing on the Main Range, the area around it was heavily eroded. From the 1950s Soil Conservation Service undertook an extensive program of rehabilitation of the vegetation of the Carruthers Peak–Mount Twynam area using bitumen, wire netting and bales of straw. It lies on a vein of shale running south-southeast through the predominant granite.
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3989524 | Bruja (novel) | Bruja is an original novel based on the U.S. television series "Angel".
Plot summary.
L.A. is shocked when a woman attacks a priest. The woman had just confessed to the priest that she had murdered her own son. Meanwhile, Angel and Co. get reports of a woman fighting with teens across L.A. The woman appears to be everywhere, a 'bruja' - a witch. She may be an embodiment of "La Llorona," known in Spanish lore as the "Weeping Woman."
The priest soon goes into a coma, but Angel Investigations is busy with other matters: Doyle has a vision of a young mother and her son in danger at the docks. Meanwhile, Cordelia's looking for a big-shot producer's missing wife. Angel must find the connections between the missing wife and recent events.
Continuity.
Canonical issues.
"Angel" books such as this one are not usually considered by fans as canonical. Some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially "Buffy"/"Angel" merchandise.
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21741549 | Joseph J. Fauliso | Joseph John Fauliso (February 16, 1916 – August 20, 2014) was an American politician who was the 103rd lieutenant governor of Connecticut from 1980 to 1991.
Early life.
Fauliso was born in Stonington, Connecticut. He studied at Providence College and then studied law at Boston University Law School. He married Ann-Marie Schwerdtfeger and they have one son, Richard.
Political career.
Fauliso was an Alderman in Hartford and city and state judge before he was first elected into the Connecticut Senate in 1966. He served as President pro tempore of the Connecticut Senate. Early in 1980, he told his close friend, governor Ella T. Grasso, that he had decided not to seek reelection that year, after seven terms in the State Senate. Grasso then asked Fauliso to reconsider, because she needed him in the Senate for the final two years of her second term. He consulted with his family and close friends, and after a week told Grasso he would seek reelection. What he did not anticipate was that Grasso would resign on December 31, 1980, because she was dying from cancer. On that day, Lieutenant Governor William A. O'Neill became the new governor and Fauliso, as the newly reelected leader of the State Senate, automatically became Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. Fauliso then stayed as lieutenant governor throughout the gubernatorial terms of O'Neill. They did not seek reelection in 1990 and served until January 9, 1991. He died in 2014 at the age of 98.
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33844468 | Constantine tramway | The Constantine Tramway is a tramway system which has been operating in Constantine, Algeria, since 2013.
There had been several delays and cost over-runs in the construction of the tramway. Originally scheduled to enter revenue service in November 2011, the first section of 8.9 kilometres with 10 stations between the Ben-Abdelmalek-Ramdhan stadium and Zouaghi opened on 4 July 2013 with five additional stations added in 2019. Six more stations opened on 29 September 2021.
The tram system construction project was overseen by Pizzarotti, an Italian construction company. The tramway stretches for from a terminal in the Zouaghi District to the Ben-Abdelmalek Stadium station. The tramway runs from the city’s old-town alongside the main historical Mosque, passes over the slope of the Oued Rhumel, and proceeds through the university area, ending in the modern part of the city. The tramway has 21 stations, three of which are multi-modal (tram-bus-taxi), two viaducts of and in length, an underpass for urban traffic (with an open cutting in length at the Emir Abdelkader Mosque), 12 supporting walls having an overall length of , a ground level depot (65,000 sq. m.) that guarantees the maintenance and parking of 27 trams.
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33508878 | Mark Roberts Motion Control | Mark Roberts Motion Control designs and manufactures motion control equipment (robotic camera rigs) for both the TV and Film industry. The company, based in Sussex in the UK, received an Academy Award in 1999 for its contribution to the special effects industry in feature films. The company was acquired by Nikon Corporation in September 2017.
The Bolt High-Speed Cinebot Robot is a 6-axis robotic arm used to capture high-speed camera movements. The rig can be combined with track (3 metres each in length) creating a 7 axis of motion. In January 2018, the company launched "Junior", a more compact and more affordable version of its larger scale Bolt cinebot, which is marketed as "the fastest high-speed camera robot in the world."
The company was established in 1966 when Australian born engineer, inventor and part-time racing driver, Mark Roberts, set up a company to service and upgrade old animation rostrum tables that were used in everything from film titles, cell animation and news clips.
In 2017, Mark Roberts Motion Control was presented with the Queen's Award for Enterprise for International Trade by Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
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71241636 | Helograpsus | Helopgrapsus haswellianus or Haswell’s shore crab, is the sole species of crab in the genus Helograpsus. It lives in river mouths and bays on the eastern coast of Australia (South Australia to Queensland, and Tasmania). The carapace is strongly convex with one distinct notch behind the eye. Adult males have larger claws than adult females. The carapace is olive, dark slate grey or reddish. Claws of adult males are orange-yellow. Carapace size is up to 30 mm wide. The orange color is stronger when these crabs live in habitat with lower pollution levels.
"Helograpsus haswellianus" lives in tidal saltmarshes, and can be active at night. It constructs burrows 30–40 cm deep above the high tide level, living at the highest shore levels of marine crabs. The burrows can be in dirty sand or mud. It can also be found under rocks. Crabs range up to 20 m from their burrows. Their burrows increase the surface area of shore sediments exposed to saltwater and help maintain the condition of tidal marshes.
"Chasmagnathus convexus" and "Chasmagnathus haswellianus" are synonyms of "Helograpsus haswellianus".
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20086394 | Surangel S. Whipps | Surangel S. Whipps (born 21 February 1941) is a Palauan businessman and politician. He served as the president of the Senate of Palau from January 2005 to April 2005, and from 25 April 2007 to 15 January 2009, and as the speaker of the House of Delegates of Palau from January 1993 to November 1996. He was born in Airai.
He graduated from University of Baltimore in 1971 and returned to Palau in 1972. He began his political career in 1982 when he was elected in his home state, Ngatpang. In 1984, he was elected by to the House of Delegates of Palau in the Second Olbiil Era Kelulau. He served 16 years in the House of Delegates. He also founded Surangel and Sons Company, of which Ksau's Motors, the only Toyota dealer in Palau, is owned by the company.
His son, Surangel Whipps Jr., became the 10th President of Palau in 2021.
Politics.
In January 2008, Whipps proposed a bill requiring the minimum wage to apply not just to Palauans, but to non-resident workers as well. It was reasoned that this would help more Palauans to become employed, due to the increased cost of hiring non-resident workers.
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44138507 | Bernard Haber | Bernard Haber (1920 – February 26, 1959) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life.
Haber was born in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York, in 1920. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School, Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School. During World War II he served in the U.S. Air Force, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. He practiced law in New York City. He married Mildred Levine, and they had two daughters, Francine and Cheryl.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Kings Co., 16th D.) from 1956 until his death in 1959, sitting in the 170th, 171st and 172nd New York State Legislatures, and serving on the Canals and Waterways, Public Institutions, Villages, and Printing and Engrossed Bills Committees.
On February 23, 1959, Haber, State Senator Frank J. Pino, Assemblyman Joseph Kottler and Kottler's 14-year-old son Harry were driving in a snowstorm on the New York State Thruway, on the way to Albany, when their car collided near Tuxedo Park with another car and then crashed into a rock ledge. Pino broke a leg, and the Kottlers suffered only minor injuries. Haber suffered a skull fracture and brain injuries, was brought to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, and died there three days later.
Haber Houses, an NYCHA senior citizen development in Coney Island, Brooklyn was named in his honor.
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19427486 | Frankie Jones (gymnast) | Francesca Victoria R. "Frankie" Jones (born 9 November 1990) is a retired Welsh rhythmic gymnast who represented Wales at three successive Commonwealth Games. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games Jones won both the Ribbon event in rhythmic gymnastics and the David Dixon Award.
Career.
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Jones finished 12th overall in the individual all-around competition. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Francesca again represented Wales in the rhythmic gymnastic competition, this time finishing in 4th place overall and winning the event's prestigious silver medal in the hoop discipline. Jones is the current Welsh and British Rhythmic Gymnastics Champion . At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she was a member of the silver-medal-winning team from Wales, and also won gold in the individual ribbon, and silver medals in the individual hoop, ball and clubs, as well as silver in the individual all-around.
Jones also represented Great Britain in rhythmic gymnastics as an allocated host entry berth in the 2012 Summer Olympics where she finished in last place amongst 24 gymnasts. Her routine was set to "The Bird and the Worm" by The Used.
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69580055 | S7 (St. Gallen S-Bahn) | The S7 is a railway service of the St. Gallen S-Bahn that provides half-hourly service between and , with hourly service from Romanshorn to . On weekends, some trains continue from Rorschach to St. Margrethen, Bregenz (Vorarlberg, Austria) and Lindau (Bavaria, Germany) along the shores of Lake Constance.
THURBO, a joint venture of Swiss Federal Railways and the canton of Thurgau, operates the service.
Operations.
The S7 operates half-hourly over the Lake line between and . It is the only service on that section of the line. Every other train operates over the Winterthur–Romanshorn line between Romanshorn and , stopping only at . The S10 makes local stops over the line. On Saturdays and Sundays, one train every two hours operates between Romanshorn and via .
Route.
' – ' – ' (– ' – – Lindau-Reutin, only every other hour during weekends)
History.
With the December 2021 timetable change, the Romanshorn–Rorschach trains were extended every two hours, on Saturdays and Sundays only, around the southern coast of Lake Constance to Bregenz and Lindau.
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10542707 | Rowington | Rowington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. It is five miles north-west of the town of Warwick and five miles south-west of the town of Kenilworth. The parish, which also includes Lowsonford, Pinley and Mousley End, had a population of 925 according to the 2001 UK Census, increasing to 944 at the 2011 Census. The Grand Union Canal runs just south of the village and the M40 motorway is also close by. The Heart of England Way for long-distance walkers passes through the village. The parish church of St. Laurence which dates from medieval times is found on a hill in the centre of the village. In the Tudor era Rowington manor was owned by Queen Catherine Parr.
Possibly the most famous building however is Shakespeare Hall, where a branch of William Shakespeare's family is reputed to have lived at the same time he was alive, and indeed Rowington is specifically mentioned in Shakespeare's will. It was rumoured he wrote "As You Like It" there. There were once several windmills in the village but only one remains and its sails have been removed and the building converted into a house. At one time Rowington quarries supplied sandstone for several important buildings including St Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham, the parish church of St. Laurence and nearby Baddesley Clinton manor house. No quarries remain in Rowington. The village is home to several farms and livery yards. James Blyth once lived in the village and became a life peer in 1995.
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53248912 | LJ Volley | LJ Volley, known as Liu Jo Modena, was an Italian women's volleyball club based in Modena. It played in the Serie A1 from its creation in 2013 until its dissolution in 2016.
History.
The club was established when fashion company Liu·Jo decided to create a volleyball club based in Modena and in May 2013, the company acquired a Serie A1 licence from Gruppo Sportivo Oratorio Villa Cortese. The club was officially unveiled in Carpi (Modena) on 28 May 2013 under the name . The project goal was to bring women's volleyball back to Modena, which has a long tradition in the sport, by creating a professional club and supporting a local club focussed on youth teams.
After the club's third season, in May 2016, an agreement between the club and Nordmeccanica Piacenza was announced, following LJ Volley decision to ceased its volleyball operations. In the agreement River Volley acquired LJ Volley assets (players and rights to play at the PalaPanini) with Liu Jo becoming River's main sponsor and the club based in Piacenza was renamed with home matches played at the PalaPanini in Modena. LJ Volley sold its Serie A1 licence to Neruda Volley.
Team.
The club's last team, season 2015–2016.
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6367705 | Yrjö Lindegren | Yrjö Lorenzo Lindegren (13 August 1900 – 12 November 1952) was a Finnish architect and Olympic gold medalist.
Lindegren was born in Tampere. He graduated as an architect in 1925 from the Helsinki University of Technology, and set up his own office later the same year.
Lindegren's best-known work is the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, which he designed together with Toivo Jäntti in the early 1930s. After the 1940 Summer Olympics in Helsinki were cancelled due to the Second World War, he ended up competing in the Olympics himself before his stadium was used for the Games. He won the Olympic gold medal in the town planning category of architecture at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Lindegren won the Grand Prix in architecture at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, France. In the mid-1940s, he worked together with Alvar Aalto and Viljo Revell, making several community plans for the post-World War II Finland. He also designed the Docomomo-listed Serpentine House apartment building in Helsinki.
Lindegren died in Helsinki in 1952, shortly after becoming a professor and the 1952 Summer Olympics were held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
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16191074 | Parsons baronets | There have been four baronetcies created for people with the surname Parsons, two in the Baronetage of Ireland, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is still extant as of 2008.
Bellamont (1620).
The Parsons Baronetcy, of Bellamont in the County of Dublin, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 10 November 1620. For more information on this creation, see the Earl of Rosse (1718 creation).
Langley (1661).
The Parsons Baronetcy, of Langley in the County of Buckingham, was created in the Baronetage of England on 9 April 1661 for William Parsons. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1812.
Birr Castle (1677).
The Parsons Baronetcy, of Birr Castle in the King's County, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 15 December 1677. For more information on this creation, see the Earl of Rosse (1806 creation).
Winton Lodge (1918).
The Parsons Baronetcy, of Winton Lodge in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 24 June 1918 for Herbert James Francis Parsons. The title became extinct on his death in 1940.
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52584446 | WQML (FM) | WQML (101.5 FM), branded on-air as Pura Palabra Radio, is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format. Licensed to Ceiba, Puerto Rico, the station serves the eastern Puerto Rico area. The station is currently owned by Pura Palabra Media Group through its licensee, Caguas Educational TV.
On November 9, 2017, Pura Palabra Media Group (Otoniel Font, president) files to swap WQML/98.7 in Culebra and a $1.2 million cash payment to New Life Broadcasting (Juan Carlos Matos Barreto, president) in exchange for the then-WNVE. Once the swap closes, the station will switch to Pura Palabra Radio and the call letters will changed to WQML. According to the terms of the contract, New Life will allow Pura Palabra Media to program the HD3 channel of WNVM as part of the deal in order to feed its San Juan-licensed translator W268BK at 101.5 FM which carries its Pura Palabra Radio programming. The sale was completed on May 10, 2018.
The station changed its call sign to WQML on March 30, 2018.
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43710093 | Alexander Palmer (Australian politician) | Alexander Stenson Palmer (c.1825 – 8 December 1901) was a banker and politician in colonial Australia, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
Palmer was born in London, England, the son of Frederick Palmer (of the East India Company) and Mary Eliza, "nee" Wood.
Palmer arrived in Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land) as a boy in 1838, and joining the Bank of Australasia was promoted to the branch in Adelaide. In 1848, gold having been found in the Sierra Nevada, Palmer headed there and mined with varied success. Gold having been discovered in Australia in 1850 Palmer started to return. The vessel in which he sailed was wrecked on an uninhabited island, where he was compelled to remain for some months, until rescued by a chance passing vessel. In 1854 he started business in Castlemaine, Victoria, and was returned member for Castlemaine Boroughs in the inaugural Victorian Legislative Assembly. Palmer resigned his seat in July 1857; he unsuccessfully stood for Castlemaine Boroughs again in 1858, and Maryborough 1861.
In 1860 Palmer re-entered the service of the Bank of Australasia and became manager at Sale, Victoria. Palmer married Susan Georgina Marianne Fereday in George Town, Tasmania in 1861. He was a brother-in-law of Judge William Henry Gaunt (1830 - 1905), father of Guy Gaunt.
Palmer died in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia on 8 December 1901.
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2531392 | Zagato Zele | The Zagato Zele 1000, 1500, 2000 (sold in the United States as the Elcar) was an electric microcar with a fiberglass body manufactured by the Italian design company Zagato. Produced 1974–1976, the Zele was an unusual departure from Zagato's famous designs, which had long been known for their beauty and performance. The Zele, however, was high, square cornered and had a low top speed. They were produced in 7 colors (Orange-red, Brown, Dark blue, Pastel blue, White, Green and metal flake Blue) and the chassis and suspension were derived from the Fiat 500 and Fiat 124. The 1000, 1500, and 2000 stands for the wattage of the motors respectively. Approximately 500 were made.
The Zele employed a 4 position speed selector and a 2 position foot pedal providing six forward speeds, two reverse speeds and a range of approximately . The Zele 2000 also featured a boost switch which, once at top speed, weakens the motor's magnetic fields in the field coils to produce less torque but a greater top speed. Its top speed was between 25 and 30 mph.
The American importer for the vehicle, Elcar Corporation, also created an elongated four-seat prototype called the Elcar Wagonette.
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30663089 | Producers Guild Film Awards | The Producers Guild Film Awards, previously known as the Apsara Awards, is an award event hosted by the Producers Guild of India to recognize excellence in Hindi film and television. Originated by filmmaker and scholar Amit Khanna in 2004, the Guild Awards were one of the major award events from 2004 till 2016, when the last awards ceremony happened. The 22-karat gold statuette was sculpted and designed by the jewellery brand Tanishq and was "inspired by the rich heritage of one of India's most treasured possessions – the Ajanta and Ellora Caves." Nominations for the awards come from selected members of the guild, with the full membership (around 160) available to vote for the winners. The ballots cast by the guild members are then taken to a common venue for the final counting.
History.
The first Star Guild Awards ceremony was held on 28 May 2004 in Mumbai, India to honor outstanding film and television achievements of the 2003–04 film and television season. While the award ceremonies are usually held at the beginning of the subsequent year, the fourth edition of the award ceremony (2008–09) was postponed to the end of the year as a sign of respect to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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8689877 | Cienfuegos (Cuban League baseball club) | Cienfuegos, also known as Elefantes de Cienfuegos, was a Cuban baseball team that played in the old Cuban League, which existed from 1878 to 1961. Although representing the south coast city of Cienfuegos, the team played their home games in Havana.
Cienfuegos won five Cuban League championships (including in 1960–61, the last season of the league) and two Caribbean Series (in 1956 and 1960).
History.
Cienfuegos first participated in the Cuban Professional League championship during the 1926–27 season. Cienfuegos did not play in the 1927–28 season, contending again from 1928–29 through 1930–31. After eight long years of absence, Cienfuegos reappeared in the 1939–40 tournament. In the 1949–50 season, the team was renamed as the "Elefantes de Cienfuegos" (Cienfuegos Elephants). "The pace of the elephant is slow but crushing", exclaimed the slogan of the Cienfuegos franchise that contended until the 1960–61 season. Following the 1959 Cuban Revolution, political tensions rose with the Fidel Castro government. In March 1961, one month after the regular season ended, the new Cuban regime decreed the abolition of professional baseball in Cuba.
In 26 Championships in which Cienfuegos participated, the team won five league titles in 1929–30, 1945–46, 1955–56, 1959–60 and 1960–61, finishing second 6 times, third 7 times, and fourth 8 times, posting a 732–793 record for a .480 average. Cienfuegos also won the Caribbean Series in 1956 and 1960.
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25345139 | Prelude in F-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff) | The Prelude in F-sharp minor, Op. 23, No. 1 is a composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff completed and premiered in 1903. It is one of ten preludes composed by Rachmaninoff in 1901 and 1903.
Structure.
The prelude is ternary and homophonic in nature. The "A" section (measures 1–13) introduces the first theme, section "B" (13–30) introduces a new set of variations, and measures 30–41 mark an altered return to the original "A" theme. Each of the larger ternary sections contains its set of "micro-variations" marked by changes in note values, dynamics, and rhythm. For instance, the "A" theme, introduced in measures 1 and 2, is varied in measure 8.
Measure 2
Measure 8
The Prelude proceeds from F-sharp minor to the relative major (A major) in measure 13, and returns to the tonic in measure 30.
A "hidden" chromatic sequence in the "A" section occurs in the bass line on the second beat of measure 1 and the first beat of measures 2–6. This sequence is later revealed as the basis for the "B" theme, first introduced transitorily as a modulation between the "A" and "B" sections. Compare measures 6 and 24:
Measure 6
Measure 24
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2554365 | LaShawn Daniels | LaShawn Ameen Daniels (December 28, 1977 – September 3, 2019) was an American songwriter, vocal producer and arranger known for his songwriting credits on songs by artists such as Brandy, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Destiny’s Child, Michael Jackson, Tamar Braxton, Toni Braxton, Jennifer Lopez, Ciara, Whitney Houston and more. As a songwriter and producer, Daniels had received eight Grammy Award nominations, winning one for Best R&B Song for co-writing Destiny's Child's number-one single "Say My Name".
Early life.
Daniels was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
Personal life.
Daniels married April and together had three sons.
Career.
Daniels won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 2001 for his songwriting work on "Say My Name" by Destiny's Child, and was nominated in the same category in 2014 for "Love and War" performed by Tamar Braxton.
Death.
Daniels died on September 3, 2019, at the age of 41, following a car crash in South Carolina.
Songwriting credits.
Daniels songs were usually co-written in collaboration with producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. These include:
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3609798 | Big Ben Bolt | Big Ben Bolt is a comic strip that was syndicated from February 20, 1950 to April 15, 1978. It was drawn by John Cullen Murphy, written by Elliot Caplin, and distributed by King Features Syndicate. The strip followed the adventures of boxer and journalist Ben Bolt.
Publication history.
In 1950, writer Elliot Caplin (brother of "Li'l Abner" cartoonist Al Capp) suggested that Murphy illustrate a boxing comic strip he had in mind.
Comics historian Don Markstein wrote:
Murphy was the artist of "Big Ben Bolt" from 1950 to 1977. He occasionally used assistants, including Al Williamson ("Flash Gordon"), Alex Kotzky ("Apartment 3-G"), Neal Adams ("Deadman"), John Celardo ("Tarzan") and Stan Drake ("The Heart of Juliet Jones"). In 1971, Murphy took over "Prince Valiant", and Carlos Garzon became a regular inker. Eventually Murphy left the strip, and Joe Kubert stepped in to draw "Big Ben Bolt", followed by Gray Morrow who eventually signed the strip starting August 1, 1977. He was followed by Neal Adams. Big Ben Bolt ended on April 15, 1978.
King Features' email service, DailyINK, began carrying "Big Ben Bolt" in June 2010.
Characters and story.
As Markstein writes,
Awards.
Murphy received the National Cartoonists Society's Award for Story Comic Strip for 1971 for his work on "Big Ben Bolt" and "Prince Valiant".
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24337572 | Naón Isidro | Naón Isidro (; born 12 November 1987) is an Argentine-Israeli association football player who has been a free agent since he was released from Hapoel Ashkelon in June 2011.
Playing career.
Isidoro arrived in Israel and first trialled with Maccabi Netanya. Actor Dubie Gal acted as the players agent and suggested Isidoro trial with Netanya to one of the club's supporters. The club were short on strikers and were attracted by the prospect of Isidoro not counting as a foreigner because he is Jewish. Isidoro failed to impress then manager, Reuven Atar and the club decided not to sign him. Isidoro then joined Hapoel Haifa on trial before landing a spot with Hapoel Nazareth Illit.
After a year of playing in Nazareth Illit, Isidoro moved to Ashkelon to join Hapoel Ashkelon. Within a short time of starting there, Isidoro found himself in the middle of the Gaza War as bombs fell on the city. During the war, Isidoro provided interviews for the media in Argentina to give them a perspective of what was going on on the ground. It became too difficult for Isidoro that he moved to Tel Aviv until the war ended. While playing for Ashkelon, Isidoro developed a friendship and even lived together with fellow Argentine Jew, Bryan Man.
at June 2011 he was released from Hapoel Ashkelon and is currently a free agent.
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34688139 | Geibikei | is a ravine on the Satetsu River in the city of Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It has been designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument since 1923. In 1927 it was also selected as one of the 100 Landscapes of Japan.
Overview.
Geibikei is located in southern Iwate Prefecture, and is approximately two kilometers long. The river is surrounded by soaring cliffs of over 50 meters in height, and peaking at 124 meters, with fanciful rock formations created by erosion and numerous waterfalls. The name “Geibi,” which means “lion nose,” comes from a limestone formation near the end of the ravine which resembles a lion's snout. Unlike the Genbikei ravine, which is also located in Ichinoseki, the Geibikei is wide enough to permit use of small boats, and thus the ravine is noted for its 90-minute boat trip up and back down the river pushed along with a pole by boatmen, who sing on the return leg of the journey.
Before the Meiji period, the ravine was unknown, and the surrounding area was regarded as a near-wilderness. It was popularized by two local politicians, who invited numerous literary and political figures, including members of the aristocracy to visit the area.
Geibikei is a short walk from Geibikei Station on the JR East Ofunato Line.
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22004211 | Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball | The Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball team represents the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in NCAA Division I men's competition. On March 30, 2022, Dan Earl was hired as the new head coach. The Mocs have appeared in 12 NCAA tournaments, most recently in 2022.
History.
The Mocs won the 1977 NCAA Men's Division II basketball tournament, while completing their transition from Division II to Division I. During the 1997 tournament they progressed to the Sweet Sixteen by defeating both Georgia and Illinois. They eventually lost to Providence.
Postseason.
NCAA Division I Tournament results.
The Mocs have appeared in the NCAA Division I Tournament 12 times. Their combined record is 3–12.
NCAA Division II Tournament results.
The Mocs have appeared in the NCAA Division II Tournament five times. Their combined record is 11–5 and they were National Champions in 1977.
NIT results.
The Mocs have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) four times. Their combined record is 3–4.
CIT results.
The Mocs have appeared in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) one time. Their record is 0–1.
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2138959 | Mike O'Callaghan Military Medical Center | Mike O'Callaghan Military Medical Center is an American military hospital owned and operated by the United States Air Force. It is located on Nellis Air Force Base in Clark County, Nevada and is run by the 99th Medical Group (MDG).
Members of the 99th Medical Group run the 50-bed medical treatment facility. The Air Force provides executive oversight of the facility, staffs all outpatient activities/clinics and inpatient beds for Department of Defense (DoD) beneficiaries. Veterans Administration (VA) patients also have privileges at the hospital if referred by the VA.
Fully integrated into the Clark County emergency medical services (EMS) system, Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center (MOMMC) is the only hospital and only trauma center in northeast Las Vegas. The level III trauma center is the first Air Force medical facility to treat civilian critical care and trauma patients arriving by ambulance.
History.
Mike O'Callaghan Federal Hospital opened in August 1994, named after Nevada's 23rd Governor Mike O'Callaghan.
It was renamed Mike O'Callaghan Federal Medical Center in January 2012.
It was renamed Mike O'Callaghan Military Medical Center in March 2017.
Medical Center Commander is Colonel Ryan Mihata, who assumed command from Colonel Brent Johnson on July 15, 2022.
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7070612 | Kartell | Kartell is an Italian company that makes and sells plastic contemporary furniture. It is headquartered in Noviglio, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy, and it is a subsidiary of Felofin.
History.
The company began manufacturing automobile accessories in 1949. It expanded into home furnishings in 1963. It was founded by Giulio Castelli and Anna Castelli Ferrieri. Kartell became well-known due to the work of designer and architect Anna Castelli Ferrieri.
The company opened its first store in the United States in 1998, when a Kartell U.S. outlet opened on Greene Street in New York City. Ivan Luini, president of the U.S. division at that time, oversaw the opening of additional stores in Miami, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles.
Kartell's retail marketing strategy is to stock items in various styles and colors at prices that appeal to impulse buyers. The company grosses $100 million per year. In addition to its stores, Kartell furnishings are sold by more than 150 independent retailers in the United States.
At the time of his death, Luini was in discussions for Kartell's plastic furnishings to be used in a hotel chain being designed by Philippe Starck.
The company is a subsidiary of Felofin. Its chairman, chief executive officer and president is Claudio Luti. The current designer for the company is Ferruccio Laviani, who has created a style described by "Pianeta Design" as "Bourgiemania".
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3859136 | DVD Unlimited | DVD Unlimited was a DVD-by-mail service based in Auckland, New Zealand. It was a wholly owned unit of SKY Network Television. It competed directly with Movieshack and Fatso.
DVD Unlimited was originally based in Nelson, and was created in late 2003 by Don and Sandy Webster, a couple who ran a traditional video store there. Due to health reasons preventing the normal operation of the video store, the couple created an online store modeled after Netflix. DVD Unlimited was subsequently purchased by SKY TV for an undisclosed sum and promptly formed an alliance with both Blockbuster (New Zealand) and the Telecom New Zealand XtraMSN portal.
In June, 2008 the company announced a merger with former competitors Fatso and Movieshack. Screen Enterprises Limited was formed by merging the businesses of DVD Unlimited, Fatso and Movie Shack. According to the 2008 Sky TV annual report, the three firms were all struggling with the business model that has "yet to be accepted in New Zealand". SKY owns 51% of Screen Enterprises Limited and as such all subscribers are consolidated into SKY’s results.
The company completed the switch-over of its services in November 2008, when it switched its members to the new service which now operates under the Fatso name.
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26738615 | Pieter Janssens Elinga | Pieter Janssens Elinga (1623–1682) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, mainly of domestic interior scenes with a strong emphasis on the rectangular geometrical elements of windows, floor tiling paintings, and other elements, and a few genre figures. He also painted still lifes.
Biography.
He was born in Bruges as the son of Gisbrecht Janssens, who probably taught him to paint. When he moved to Rotterdam in 1653, he changed his name to Elinga. He moved to Amsterdam in 1657, where he probably died. He is last registered alive in 1657, when he paid a poll tax in Amsterdam. His widow is registered there in a notarized document as a widow in 1682. Elinga was a follower of Pieter de Hooch and Willem Kalf.
Legacy.
He is best known today for his perspective box, one of only 6 known to be still intact. It is on show at the Bredius Museum in The Hague. Perspective boxes were experiments with light, architectural elements, and the "camera obscura". Samuel van Hoogstraten also made one, which is on show at the National Gallery.
Given the size and contorted perspective, the small painting "" by Carel Fabritius has been considered to have originally been part of a perspective box.
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64659399 | Operation Pink Squad | Operation Pink Squad (, released in the Philippines as Lady Enforcers Strike Again) is a 1988 Hong Kong action comedy film written and directed by Jeffrey Lau and starring Sandra Ng, Ann Bridgewater, Suki Kwan, Elsie Chan, Wu Fung, Ng Man-tat, Yuen Cheung-yan, and Ricky Hui. The film was released in Hong Kong on 17 November 1988.
Plot.
Inspector Wu assigns a group of female detectives to look after a blind suspect named Piu, while a female robber who previously kidnapped him is out to retrieve some diamonds she thinks he possesses.
Release.
"Operation Pink Squad" was released in Hong Kong on 17 November 1988. In the Philippines, the film was released as "Lady Enforcers Strike Again" by First Films on 7 April 1989, connecting it to the unrelated film "The Inspector Wears Skirts" (released as "Lady Enforcer").
Home media.
"Operation Pink Squad" was released on VHS in Japan by TDK.
The film was released on DVD by Winson Entertainment Distribution in Hong Kong on 8 February 2002. In the United States, the film was released on DVD by Televista on 20 March 2007.
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1442460 | Raymundo Torres (boxer) | Raymundo "Battling" Torres (17 February 1941 - 11 November 1972) was a Mexican junior lightweight who fought from 1957 to 1967. Torres was a puncher, but proved to have difficulty taking punches himself. Thus, he was knocked out in many of his more important bouts, including his two attempts to capture a world title.
Torres was born in Cerritos, San Luis Potosí, but was known as the "Reynosa Rattlesnake" because he was raised in the bordertown of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. He first challenged for the world junior welterweight title when he faced champion Carlos Ortiz in February 1960. Ortiz prevailed in the hard fought contest when he scored a knock out in the tenth round. Prior to that loss, Torres had been undefeated in 31 contests.
Torres' next crack at the title came when he challenged for the vacated WBA light welterweight crown in 1963. Although favored to win, he was knocked out in the first round by Roberto Cruz of the Philippines. Cruz lost the title a mere three months later when he was defeated by Eddie Perkins and never contended for the title again.
Torres retired with a record of 56 wins (46 by KO) and 9 losses. He was selected for the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
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8281194 | Château d'Alleuze | The Château d'Alleuze is a ruined castle situated in the commune of Alleuze, in the Cantal "département" of France.
Built in the 13th century by the constables of Auvergne, it belonged to the bishops of Clermont. During the Hundred Years War it was seized for the English by Bernard de Garlan. For seven years, he sowed terror throughout the region, pillaging and holding to ransom. To avoid troubles from any Garlan successors, the inhabitants of Saint-Flour burned down the castle in 1405. Monseigneur De la Tour, owner of the castle, was very upset with this gesture, and obliged the Sanflorains to rebuild it on the original plan. It was taken by Huguenots in 1575. The towers were used as jails by the bishops of Clermont.
The castle is built on a square plan, with round towers in each corner, characteristic of the 14th century. It includes a chapel, Saint-Illide, built in the 13th and 15th centuries.
Today, the edifice is maintained as a ruin and has been listed, along with the chapel, since 1927 as a "monument historique" by the French Ministry of Culture.
According to the Michelin Green Guide to the Auvergne and Rhône Valley, which rates it as two stars ("worth a detour"), "There can scarcely be another beauty spot in the Auvergne as romantic as the site of this castle."
See also.
List of castles in France
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2226068 | Otto L. Nelson Jr. | Otto Lauren Nelson Jr. (November 2, 1902 – June 25, 1985) was an officer in the United States Army.
Biography.
Otto L. Nelson was born in Omaha, Nebraska on November 2, 1902, the child of Swedish immigrants. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1924 and was commissioned in the Infantry branch.
In 1932 he took a Master of Arts from Columbia University. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1938 and took a Ph.D. degree from Harvard in 1939.
He was a history and economics instructor at West Point from 1929 to 1935, and from 1938 to 1941.
Nelson was a member of the Army General Staff during World War II. He participated in the reorganizations of the Army command structure at the beginning of World War II and at the end of the war. Nelson documented those reorganizations and the history of the Army General Staff in "National Security and the General Staff" (Washington, DC: Infantry Journal Press, 1946).
Nelson served as a major general from November 13, 1944 to May 31, 1946.
Following his army service, Nelson was an executive with New York Life Insurance Company.
In later life, he resided in Alexandria, Virginia. He died in New Rochelle, New York on June 25, 1985, where he had been competing in a golf tournament. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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18783799 | 1963–64 1.Lig | The 1963–64 1.Lig was the sixth season of professional football in Turkey. The league was re-branded as the 1.Lig following the creation of a second division known as the 2.Lig. Fenerbahçe won their third title, becoming the first club to do so. Güven Önüt, forward for Beşiktaş, finished top scorer of the league with 19 goals. He was the first player in club history to finish top scorer.
Overview.
Fenerbahçe won their third top-flight title and Beşiktaş finished runners-up for the second time. Galatasaray rounded out the top three. Fenerbahçe qualified for the 1964–65 European Cup and Beşiktaş qualified for the Balkans Cup. Because Galatasaray had already qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup, Göztepe took their place at the Inter–Cities Fairs Cup. No clues were promoted, while Karşıyaka, Beyoğluspor and Kasımpaşa were relegated.
The Turkish Football Federation claimed that the result of the Karşıyaka and Kasımpaşa match, which originally finished as a 4–0 win for Karşıyaka, was fixed beforehand. As a result, the TFF changed the win to a 0–3 loss for Karşıyaka. The club was penalized 3 points. The change dropped Karşiyaka into the relegation zone, and they were relegated to the 2.Lig. Karşıyaka challenged the decision, and took the TFF to civil court. Two years later, the civil court overturned the TFF's ruling, and Karşıyaka were allowed to join the 1.Lig again in 1966–67.
Final league table.
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37445983 | Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union | The Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union (GMPIU) was a labor union representing craft and industrial workers primarily in the ceramics, china, craft metals, fiberglass, glass, insulation, and pottery industries, in the United States and Canada.
History.
The union was established on May 1, 1988, when the Glass, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers' International Union merged with the International Molders and Allied Workers' Union. The Coopers' International Union of North America followed in 1992.
With the Coopers merger, the GMPIU had about 80,000 members in the United States and Canada in about 435 locals. As of 1993, the GMP had 35 staff working at its headquarters.
Job losses continued. As of 2009, the union had just 30,392 members. The Great Recession cut heavily into its membership, and by the end of 2012 it had just under 28,000 members. In 2016, the union agreed to merge into the United Steelworkers. The merger was completed on January 1, 2018, and the union became the GMP Council of the Steelworkers.
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4579569 | Assyrian Evangelical Church | The Assyrian Evangelical Church is a Presbyterian church in the Middle East that attained a status of ecclesiastical independence from the Presbyterian mission in Iran in 1870.
Members.
Its members are predominantly ethnic Assyrians, an Eastern Aramaic speaking Semitic people who are indigenous to Upper Mesopotamia (what had been Assyria between the 25th century BCE and 7th century CE), and descendants of the ancient Assyrians. (see Assyria, Assyrian continuity and Assyrian people).
Most Assyrian Evangelicals (as well as members of the Assyrian Pentecostal Church), before conversion to Protestantism, had initially been members of the Assyrian Church of the East; its later 18th century offshoot, the Chaldean Catholic Church; or the Syriac Orthodox Church. The vast majority of ethnic Assyrians remain adherents of these ancient Eastern Rite churches to this day.
Locations.
There are several Assyrian Evangelical churches in the diaspora, e.g. in San Jose, Sydney, Melbourne, Turlock, and Chicago. There are also a few in Lebanon and as well as in Jordan, although Arabic services are more common in these countries.
Incidents.
In 2010, Iranian Assyrian pastor Wilson Issavi was arrested in Kermanshah and detained for 54 days for allegedly attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity. Whilst in prison, Issavi was allegedly tortured as he had bruises and marks from beatings on his body.
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4354172 | Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 | Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1978. It was recorded live in Cutler's native Glasgow, and tells stories from his childhood growing up in a middle-class family around the time of the Great Depression.
The poems and stories from the album were also published as a book in 1984.
The sleeve notes include the following:
"Recorded by Pete Shipton of Radio Clyde at the 3rd Eye Centre, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, on the 7th, 8th, 9th of July, 1977.
Edited by Seán Murphy & Pat Stapely, and Master Record cut by Mick Webb.
All tracks registered with P.R.S and M.C.P.S and ©1977 Ivor Cutler.
Sleeve front - Helen Oxenbury ©1977. Lettering - Phyllis April King.
Deep gratitude to Al Clark and Seán Murphy."
Episodes 1 and 3 were tracks on the 1974 album "Dandruff", although there is a discrepancy in the title shown for one of the tracks on that album compared with the track titles on "Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol.2". Four other episodes in total were previously recorded on "Velvet Donkey" and "Jammy Smears".
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72588248 | Skotfoss Church | Skotfoss Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Skien Municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Skotfoss. It is one of the churches for the "Gulset og Skotfoss" parish which is part of the Skien prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1900 using plans drawn up by the architect Haldor Børve. The church seats about 420 people.
History.
The rural areas of Skotfoss were historically part of the Melum Church parish. During the 19th century, the Norske Skog Union opened the Skotfoss Bruk paper mill which attracted many workers to the area. During the 1890s, plans were made for a new church in Skotfoss to serve the growing population. The church was designed by Haldor Børve and the carpentry work was carried out by the workers from the local factory. The building was designed as a long church, somewhat reminiscent of a medieval stave church. From the exterior it almost looks like a cruciform design, but it is not set up that way in the interior. The church has a tower at the entrance to the south and to the north it has a choir which is surrounded by small vestries. The new church was consecrated on 6 December 1900 by the Bishop Johan Christian Heuch.
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56617741 | Continental Oil Company (Cheyenne, Wyoming) | The Continental Oil Company building complex is a significant component of railroad-related economic activity in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Built beginning in 1905, the complex was used by the Continental Oil Company for bulk oil storage through much of the 20th century. The property was transferred to the Sioux Oil Company, which vacated the complex in 1990. In 2000 the property was occupied by a trailer sales business.
The three-building property is associated with a rail line that runs next to Reed Avenue on the west side of Cheyenne. Building 1 measures by . The building is built over a shallow basement, expressed on the facade with sandstone masonry. The east side is the most detailed elevation with a corbeled, dentiled cornice that extends around to the north side. A brick addition on the south side was used as an oil pump house. The west side features a wood loading dock. The interior is mostly open space with a small office area.
Building 2 is a by one-story brick garage. Building 3 is a 1956 metal building. The site originally had seven large oil tanks, which have been removed. Leakage from the tanks contaminated the site and has required extensive mitigation.
The property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 13, 2003.
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6757990 | Tariq Masri | Tariq Masri (born 1973) is an American bassoonist. He is currently principal bassoonist for the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
Biography.
In addition to being the current principal bassoonist of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, he has also served as principal bassoonist of the Hofer Symphoniker in Germany. Masri holds a bachelor of music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with David McGill for five years.
He also completed one year of graduate work at the University of Southern California, studying with Stephen Maxym before joining the Hofer Symphoniker. Masri has performed at numerous summer festivals including the Spoleto Festival and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony along with various orchestral musicians including members of the San Francisco, Saint Louis and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras.
As an orchestral musician, Masri has performed with the San Francisco Symphony as well as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under various conductors including Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniel Barenboim, and Jeffrey Kahane.
Masri is currently on the music faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Samford University.
Career highlights.
Principal bassoonist of the Hofer Symphoniker in Germany
Principal bassoonist of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra
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70924429 | Al-Muwasalat SC | Al-Muwasalat Sports Club () was a sports club based in Baghdad, Iraq.
History.
In Premier League.
On 18 August 1974, the Iraq Football Association decided to form the Iraqi National Clubs Division as the first nationwide league of clubs in the country. It was decided that two top-flight teams, Al-Minaa and Al-Bareed, would be merged to form Al-Muwasalat to compete in the inaugural season of the new league. Al-Minaa were a team based in Basra, while Al-Bareed were based in Baghdad, and despite the two teams being merged, players from the two teams would continue to train separately in their respective cities and would only meet on the day of a game.
Al-Muwasalat finished in third place in 1974–75 but it was decided that the club would be dissolved after just one season. Al-Minaa were reinstated in place of Al-Muwasalat in the Iraqi top-flight, while Al-Bareed were consigned to competing in non-IFA competitions until 1992 when they were registered as a club and re-entered the Iraqi football pyramid.
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47135943 | I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living | "I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living" is a song written by Hank Williams and released as his thirteenth single on MGM Records in January 1950. The song peaked at #5 on the Best Selling Retail Folk Records chart.
Background.
The song expresses frustration and resentment towards a frigid woman who will not reciprocate the narrator's affection. The song, which alludes to "fussin' and fightin'" and contains the line "You ain't never bin known to be wrong, and I ain't never bin right," was likely inspired by Hank's tumultuous relationship with his wife at the time, Audrey Williams, with biographer Colin Escott musing, "Audrey's thoughts can only be guessed at as she heard the substance of their domestic disputes on the radio, particularly as only one side ever got aired." Williams recorded the song on August 30, 1949 at Herzog Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio (the same session that produced the B-side "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"). He is backed by members of the Pleasant Valley Boys – Zeke Turner (lead guitar), Jerry Byrd (steel guitar), and Louis Innis (rhythm guitar) – as well as Tommy Jackson (fiddle) and Ernie Newton (bass)."
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64342456 | Estadi Olímpic Camilo Cano | Estadi Olímpic Camilo Cano is a stadium located in the Spanish town of La Nucía. The venue is part of the Camilo Cano Sports City. The stadium is mainly used for soccer and athletics, and is the home of the CF La Nucía, which plays in the Segunda División B. In addition to functioning as a temporary stadium for the Levante UD during the final part of the 2019–20 La Liga season.
The stadium has a natural grass soccer field with dimensions of 105x68 meters, whose dimensions are similar to those used in the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu and Camp Nou. On the other hand the venue has an eight-lane athletics track, where all athletics competitions can be practiced in various modalities, in events of national and international stature. The stadium has the capacity to hold 5,000 spectators.
In 2019, this stadium was the venue of the 2019 Spanish Athletics Championships.
In 2020, the stadium was used by Levante UD for playing their 2019–20 La Liga matches, behind closed doors, after the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.
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6800409 | Iurie Roșca | Iurie Roșca (born 31 October 1961) is a Moldovan politician who has served as president of the Christian-Democratic People's Party (PPCD) since 1994.
Biography.
Iurie Roșca graduated in 1984 from the journalism faculty of the State University of Moldova. He then worked as a correspondent for the newspaper "Tinerimea Moldovei" ("The Youth of Moldova"), a reporter for the National Television of Moldova, and an upper-level curator at the Dimitrie Cantemir Literature Museum in Chișinău.
Political career.
In 1989, Roșca became one of the founders of the Popular Front of Moldova (of which the PPCD is a successor). He was executive president of the organization from 1989 to 1994. Between 1990 and 2009, he was a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.
In 2005, his party voted for the reelection of the Communist president Vladimir Voronin, and he became the Parliament's vice-president (a post he also held from 1998 to 2001). In June 2009, he was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister of the Moldovan Government However, he only held that position until September of that year.
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26163540 | John A. Wright | John A. Wright (born August 5, 1954) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Wright was the Majority Caucus Chairman in the Oklahoma House of Representatives before he was soundly defeated in the Republican Party's 2010 Primary for Lieutenant Governor by the eventual winner, Todd Lamb.
Personal.
Wright was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1954. His parents are Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Wright. He is married to Debra Lynn (Persing), they have one child Ashley. Wright received a B.S. from Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida (1976) and is a private pilot.
Political career.
Wright began serving in the Oklahoma State Legislature during the 47th legislature. Due to Oklahoma's term limits on legislators he will be term limited in 2010. Wright announced in 2009 that he will seek the office of Oklahoma's Lieutenant Governor. According to a poll taken June 22, 2010 by Soonerpoll.com, Wright will receive 17% of the vote in the primary election. This puts him 7.1 points behind Todd Lamb who in the same poll got 24.1%. The margin of error was ± 5.4%. Wright received 17.55% of the primary's votes, a far-distant second to Todd Lamb's 66.84%.
Rep. Wright lost the Lieutenant Governor's Republican primary election to then State Senator Todd Lamb.
References.
http://soonerpoll.com/many-file-for-lieutenant-governor-leader-emerges-as-primaries-loom/
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57640300 | Neil Watson (politician) | Neil Lachlan Watson (10 December 1905 – 28 April 1990) was a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Invercargill from 1962 to 1971.
Early life.
Watson was born in Invercargill on 10 December 1905. His father, John Lachlan McGillivray Watson, was a lawyer, and his mother, Laetitia Frances Menzies, was the daughter of superintendent of the Southland Province James Alexander Robertson Menzies. He attended Christ's College, and then studied law at Victoria University College. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and became a partner in his father's law firm the next year. He married Beverley Mitchel in 1936 and they had a daughter and three sons.
Political career.
Watson was first elected to the Invercargill City Council in 1950. He was deputy mayor from 1953 until 1962, when he replaced the retiring Adam Adamson as mayor. He served three terms as mayor, overseeing various improvements to the city, including a new airport and new library. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1970 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to local government.
Death.
Watson died in Rotorua on 29 April 1990, aged 84, and was buried at Invercargill's Eastern Cemetery.
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16187078 | Emad Aoda | Emad Aoda () (born 15 November 1981 in Iraq) is a coach and former international Iraqi football player, he played as a defender. he is currently working as a coach for Al-Minaa club.
International career.
Emad Aoda was part of the Iraqi youth team from the start of the trail for the 2000 AFC Youth Championship playing in the qualifiers at the Rajshahi Stadium in Bangladesh, where he made one substitute appearance in the 6-0 win over the Maldives, Emad scored Iraq's 5th goal from 25- yards after nearly 25 minutes after coming on.
The defender started Iraq's first game in Tehran, Iran in the 0-0 draw with China and also replaced suspended Bassim Abbas in the 6-0 win over Pakistan, Emad made 2 substitute appearances against Korea Republic and in the semi-final win over Iran. The defender only started in the final against Japan taking the place of suspended regular Bassim Abdul-Hassan. After the final win in Tehran, he was called up into the Iraqi World Cup qualifiers squad, but he was one of many players omitted after Milan Zivadinovic was sacked and played a few matches under Bernd Stange.
Coaching career.
Aoda started managing in the Iraq leagues in March 2014. In January 2021, he was hired as manager of his sixth different club, Naft Al-Basra SC, following his second term as manager of Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya.
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64350079 | Warbly Jets | Warbly Jets (sometimes stylized in all caps) is an American music duo formed in 2015 in Los Angeles, California. The group consists of founding members Samuel Shea (vocals, instruments) and Julien O'Neill (synthesizers, instruments) and has a rotating cast of touring and in-studio members. The group's self-titled debut album was released in late 2017.
History.
Shea and O'Neill first met while living in Brooklyn, NY. and soon moved to Los Angeles, CA to write and record demos in early 2015.
In 2017, they released their debut studio album under the name Warbly Jets.
Self-produced, recorded, and released, songs from the album such as "Alive," "Fast Change," and "The Lowdown" have been used in numerous video games and television series such as Spider-Man (2018 video game), Need for Speed Payback, and Lucifer (TV series).
In late 2017, Warbly Jets made their US television debut appearing on NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly.
They have done multiple international tours as an independent band and have toured as support acts alongside artists such as Liam Gallagher, The Dandy Warhols, Stone Temple Pilots and Rival Sons.
In 2019, they released a three-song EP entitled "Propaganda."
On August 26, 2021, Warbly Jets announced their second studio album, "MONSTERHOUSE", due out November 12, 2021 by Rebel Union Recordings.
Discography.
Studio Albums
EP
Singles
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5264723 | Javier Sierra | Javier Sierra Albert (born 11 August 1971 in Teruel, Aragon, Spain) is a journalist, writer and researcher who studied journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Biography.
In 1989, being 12 years old, he hosted the radio programme Radio Heraldo. Six years later he founded the journal "Año Cero".
He is editor consultant of the monthly magazine "" ("Beyond Science") distributed in Spain and Latin America and he participates in several radio and television programs. During the last years, he has concentrated on writing about purported ancient mysteries.
For years, Sierra has been working with people like Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval attempting to demonstrate the existence of a "Golden Age" of humanity. His hypothesis holds that this "Golden Age" was extinguished about 10,500 years ago, and it was the origin of all the known civilisations.
Career.
In 1995 he published "Roswell: Secreto de Estado", about the Roswell incident, where he analysed the case.
He became the first Spaniard to be in the Top Ten of best sellers in United States. His 2006 novel "The Secret Supper" was in the top ten of The New York Times Best Seller list and has been published in 42 countries. "The Lady in Blue" was published in 2007.
On 20 December 2017 it was released the documentary fiction "Otros mundos" by #0, which is about the great mysteries in the world. On 22 December 2019 it was released the second season.
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19001261 | Jamie A. Koufman | Jamie A. Koufman is a physician and researcher on the topic of acid reflux. She coined the terms "laryngopharyngeal reflux" and "silent reflux".
Koufman is the founder and director of the now defunct Voice Institute of New York, a comprehensive voice and reflux treatment center, and Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology at New York Medical College. As a surgeon, Koufman pioneered laryngeal framework surgery in the United States and was a founding member of the International Association of Phonosurgery. She performs voice (vocal cord) reconstruction surgery and office-based minimally invasive laryngeal laser surgery.
Koufman is a past president of the American Bronchoesophagological Association. She has received the Honor Award and the Distinguished Service Awards of the American Academy of Otolaryngology, as well as the Casselberry Award and a Presidential Citation from the American Laryngological Association. For 25 years, Dr. Koufman has lectured and published in the fields of laryngology and acid reflux research.
Koufman is the principal author of "Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure", which provides information on healthy eating for people with acid reflux.
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68870286 | Ozerovka, Konyshyovsky District, Kursk Oblast | Ozerovka () is a rural locality () in Malogorodkovsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Konyshyovsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population:
Geography.
The village is located on the Vablya River (a tributary of the Prutishche in the basin of the Seym), 72 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, 53 km north-west of Kursk, 12.5 km north-east of the district center – the urban-type settlement Konyshyovka, 5.5 km from the selsoviet center – Maloye Gorodkovo.
Ozerovka has a warm-summer humid continental climate ("Dfb" in the Köppen climate classification).
Transport.
Ozerovka is located 67 km from the federal route Ukraine Highway, 34 km from the route Crimea Highway, 41 km from the route (Trosna – M3 highway), 22 km from the road of regional importance (Fatezh – Dmitriyev), 9 km from the road (Konyshyovka – Zhigayevo – 38K-038), 27 km from the road (Kursk – Lgov – Rylsk – border with Ukraine), 1.5 km from the road of intermunicipal significance (38K-005 – Maloye Gorodkovo – Bolshoye Gorodkovo), on the road (38N-136 – Ozerovka – Yuryevka – Pavlovka), 10 km from the nearest railway halt "552 km" (railway line Navlya – Lgov-Kiyevsky).
The rural locality is situated 58.5 km from Kursk Vostochny Airport, 157 km from Belgorod International Airport and 260 km from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.
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36501638 | South West Snooker Academy | The South West Snooker Academy (or the Capital Venue) is located in Gloucester Business Park. It was purposely built for snooker in July 2010 but is now home to the owner Paul Mount's business MIUS.
History.
The South West Snooker Academy opened in 2010, with an exhibition match between Jimmy White and Tony Drago, both players who were managed by the Academy's owner Paul Mount. The venue had thirteen full-size snooker tables, a match arena with over 300 tiered seats, and a commentary box. Between the years of 2010 and 2013 the academy hosted World Snooker events such as the UK Players Tour Championship Events and World Ranking Qualifiers. But due to poor support and expenses in the summer of 2014 the layout of the building changed moving all tables upstairs in one match area and removing the arena replacing the entire downstairs with offices for MIUS.
Professionals still currently practicing there includedRobert Milkins, Michael Wasley & Daniel Wells. The venue hosted annual tournaments such as the Pink Ribbon Pro-Am & MIUS Cup (European Under 18's Championship).
In 2019 the closure of the academy was announced.
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6806912 | Ajisari | An ajisãrì is one who arouses others to pray and feast during Ramadan. He goes from house to house, as early as 2:00 AM, beating his kettle drum with a stick and singing (screaming) at the top of his voice. This is purely a religious duty; it is voluntary. Although the ajisari does not expect to be compensated by his fellow believers, he believes that Allah will reward him, in the hereafter, for forsaking his bed and discomforting himself during the month-long fasting period.
The name derives from the Arabic word "Suhur," meaning early morning meals during the holy month of Ramadan; it's spelled and pronounced "sãrì" in Yoruba.
An ajisari is fearless because he believes Allah will protect him for doing HIS (Allah's) work. The ajisari practically works alone, which explains why he's sometimes been called "Lone Ranger." So, unlike Were music, it's rare to see a group of ajisari. In the late 1970s, however, one group in Ibadan, Taiwo-Kehinde Ajisari, The Twin Brothers' Ajisari Group, violated that exclusivity when they suddenly emerged from nowhere.
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60616692 | Kita-Matsue Line | The is a 22.9 km railway line owned by the Ichibata Electric Railway. The line connects Dentetsu-Izumoshi Station in Izumo with Matsue-Shinjiko-Onsen Station in Matsue, all within Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Tracks run parallel to JR West's San'in Main Line on the north of Lake Shinji.
History.
The line was first built to transport worshippers between Izumo and Ichibata Yakushi, a shrine to the east of the city. An extension to Matsue was completed in 1928. Before World War II, the line connected directly to Ichibata Yakushi, where a station named Ichibata Station was located nearby. However, during the war, the line was designated as an "unnecessary line", and in 1944 the section between Ichibata and Ichibataguchi Station was closed. This section would later be disassembled in 1960 and parts were offered to the Nagoya Railroad. Because of this, there is still a switchback at Ichibataguchi Station.
Centralized traffic control was introduced to the line in 1966.
Operations.
The line is electrified with overhead lines and is single-tracked for the entire line.
Some services branch off the line at Kawato Station and continue along the Taisha Line to Izumo Taisha-mae Station. There are local, express, and limited express services that run along on the line, along with the "Izumotaisha" express service and the "Superliner" limited express.
Stations.
All stations are within Shimane Prefecture.
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20114190 | Octave of the Holy Innocents | Octave of the Holy Innocents is an album by bassist Jonas Hellborg on which he is joined by guitarist Buckethead and drummer Michael Shrieve. It was recorded at Greenpoint Studio in Brooklyn, New York, and was released by the Swedish label Day Eight Music in 1993. Hellborg later reworked the album and reissued it on his Bardo Records label.
Regarding his association with Buckethead, Hellborg stated that he "was always playing electric on everything he was doing. It was interesting to see what he could do with acoustic guitar. I like the record and what he did. It's sort of minimalist in a sense. It's definitely a clear musical statement and makes sense to me."
In the album liner notes, Hellborg asked: "Who is pure? Who is innocent? We need to protect innocence. Not only individuals' rights to be innocent but also innocence as a source of beauty, creativity and wisdom."
Reception.
In a review for AllMusic, Glenn Astarita wrote: "there's no lack of excitement here, as this acoustic-based power trio generates quite a bit of momentum in concert with a few ethereally enacted dreamscapes... it's all about the sparkling chemistry that prevails throughout this wonderfully conceived and executed project! (Strongly recommended)."
Paul Acquaro of The Free Jazz Collective called the album "dark and lugubriously melodic," and stated that it "rewired parts of [his] musical listening brain."
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58073834 | Elaeagnus × submacrophylla | Elaeagnus" × "submacrophylla, formerly known as Elaeagnus" × "ebbingei, is a hybrid between "Elaeagnus macrophylla" and "Elaeagnus pungens". Several cultivars, including 'Gilt Edge', are grown in gardens as ornamental plants. Both the hybrid and 'Gilt Edge' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Description.
"Elaeagnus" × "submacrophylla" is an evergreen shrub, ultimately growing to about . The upper surfaces of the leaves are dark green, sometimes appearing metallic; the lower surfaces are silvery and scaly. Small fragrant tubular white flowers appear in autumn.
Taxonomy.
The hybrid was first discovered in 1929 by Simon Doorenbos, a Dutch horticulturalist, while he was director of the Parks Department in The Hague. He sowed seed from several "Elaeagnus" species growing next to one another. These included "E. macrophylla" and "E. pungens". Doorenbos gave the hybrid the epithet "ebbingei", honouring J.W.E. Ebbinge, and the name "E." × "ebbingei" was widely used until it was realized that the name with priority was "E." × "submacrophylla", published by Camille Servettaz in 1909. "E." × "ebbingei" is now regarded as an illegitimate name.
Cultivars.
Cultivars include:
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29160218 | Lindenow, Victoria | Lindenow is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on Bairnsdale-Dargo Road, in the Shire of East Gippsland near Bairnsdale.
At the 2016 census, Lindenow had a population of 449.
Lindenow is a small town, with a small centre and hotel. The fertile river flats of Lindenow produce vegetables that are shipped all around Australia and represent premium product.
Mitchell River National Park.
Mitchell River National Park surrounds the spectacular Mitchell River where it passes between high cliffs. There are several gorges, including the Den of Nargun mentioned in Aboriginal Legends. Remnants of temperate rainforest line some of the gorges. The park is in size and contains some of Gippsland's best forest country.
Football.
The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the East Gippsland Football League. One of the founding clubs of the league in 1974, they are known as the Cats. They won the premiership in 1980, 1986, 1989, 1991 & 2011.
The Lindenow South team, the Swampies (Swamp Hawks), has competed in the Omeo & District Football League since 2004. Prior to that they competed in the Riviera Football League from 1986 to 2003.
Railway.
Lindenow station was opened in 1888 and closed in 1981.
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2655574 | Jordan Crane (cartoonist) | Jordan Crane (born September 8, 1973) is an American comics creator.
Crane first emerged in 1996 with the anthology "NON", which he edited, contributed to, and published. This anthology combines influences from Art Spiegelman's "RAW" and newer comics artists. After two more issues of "NON", he moved to Massachusetts and began collaborating with the now defunct comics publisher Highwater Books. (There are five issues of "NON" in total, all including work by Crane.)
He has four graphic novels, "The Last Lonely Saturday", "Col-Dee", and "The Clouds Above", and "Keeping Two".
Crane's "The Clouds Above" is a fast-paced children's story which follows the adventures of a boy named Simon and his large cat named Jack. They battle angry clouds, peevish birds and elude the grasp of an overbearing teacher, with the effect resonating somewhere between "Where the Wild Things Are" and "The Wizard of Oz".
Crane is currently working on a quarterly comic called "Uptight" where he presents new short stories and serializes his long-running work "Keeping Two". In 2009 "Uptight" won two Ignatz Awards for "Outstanding Series" and "Outstanding Comic" (for "Uptight" #3).
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2973735 | Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts | Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) is a presenting and training professional residential theatre company in Santa Maria, California, offering a two-year acting and technical theatre conservatory program, operating out of Allan Hancock College.
Degree.
Onstage and offstage, PCPA’s Conservatory provides specialized training for its students. The two-year vocational certificate program combines lectures, labs, and classes with the practical hands-on training which students learn when mounting a fully realized production. Conservatory students are mentored by practicing professionals in the classroom.
For actors, the comprehensive curriculum offers no elective subjects. It is a full-time, six-days-a-week commitment. Classes include Acting, Voice, Movement, Musical Theatre Ensemble, Shakespeare, Theatre History, Stage Combat and more. The technical theatre students examine all aspects of production enabling them to develop as designers, craftspeople and technicians. Their areas of study include Stagecraft, Lighting, Sound, Drawing and Rendering, Costuming and Scene Painting.
Alumni.
Over the years, PCPA’s conservatory alumni have gone on to become distinguished theatrical professionals. Former members of the school include:
Support.
PCPA receives operating funds from the Allan Hancock College, an endowment, ticket revenue, and the fundraising efforts of the PCPA Foundation to secure corporate and individual donations.
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10872302 | Ek Se Badhkar Ek (1976 film) | Ek Se Badhkar Ek is a 1976 Hindi movie, with action, comedy and drama. The story is about two brothers who were separated and both became thieves. There was big competition between the police and thugs to steal a diamond worth a million. There are suspenses one after another. Finally, the diamond was stolen and it had gone missing from hand to hand, until discovered with much effort by the heroes. Directed by Brij, The film stars Ashok Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Navin Nischol and Sharmila Tagore. The film's music is by Kalyanji-Anandji.
The film was a big hit with it story line. Navin Nischol was at his peak when the movie was made. The role of Raaj Kumar as hero was without a heroine. Sharmila Tagore has proven that she is a multi-talented actress in the movie with her role. Anwar Hussain is the head of thugs with Helen being his lead lady. Ashok Kumar's role in the movie was considered one of his best.
The bhangra song of the movie by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar, became very popular. In the movie, Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhosle have sung a Qawwali for Ashok Kumar and Padma Khanna (in a guest appearance), which was a gem. Some part of the Qawwali and lyrics were used by R. D. Burman in the film "Hum Kisise Kum Naheen" for the song "Hai Agar Dushman". Due to the success of the movie, it was remade in Telugu as "Mugguru Muggure".
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67795370 | Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Program or Series | The Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series or Program is an annual Canadian television award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best supporting performance by an actress in a Canadian dramatic television series or television film. Previously presented as part of the Gemini Awards, since 2013 it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
Originally, only a single award for supporting actress was presented, without regard to the distinction between series, miniseries or television films. At the 10th Gemini Awards in 1995, separate awards were instituted for supporting actress in a television series and supporting actress in a television film or miniseries; the separate awards were presented until the Gemini Awards were merged into the Canadian Screen Awards, and since the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2012 there has again only been a single category presented for all three types of content.
In August 2022, the Academy announced that beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, a gender-neutral award for Best Supporting Performance in a Drama Program or Series will be presented.
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12364151 | Geotrypetes angeli | Geotrypetes angeli is a species of amphibian in the family Dermophiidae. It is only known from Labé—the type locality which could refer to several places in Guinea—and from Beyla, Guinea and Tingi Hills, Sierra Leone. Common name Angel's caecelian has been coined for this species.
Etymology.
Hampton Wildman Parker named this species in honour of Fernand Angel, a French zoologist and herpetologist from the National Museum of Natural History. Angel helped Parker to get access to specimens at the National Museum of Natural History that were included as paratypes in the species description.
Description.
The holotype, a mature female, measured in length and in width. The paratypes (3) are also females, the largest of which measured . The snout is rounded and prominent, with nostrils close to its tip. There are between 99 and 105 primary and 28 to 33 secondary folds. The holotype was pregnant with eight mature embryos.
Habitat and conservation.
"Geotrypetes angeli" is a little-known species. It is presumably fossorial, and probably lives in forests, or in fruit tree plantations, rural gardens, and secondary forests. "Geotrypetes seraphini" is known to be viviparous and not to dependent on water for breeding, and this might well apply to this species too.
Threats to and population status of this species are unknown.
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1956506 | Adirondack Frostbite | The Adirondack Frostbite were a minor professional ice hockey team based in Glens Falls, New York, and were a member of the United Hockey League (UHL). They played their home games at the Glens Falls Civic Center.
The Adirondack IceHawks UHL team came to Glens Falls in 2000, one season after the American Hockey League's (AHL) Adirondack Red Wings disbanded. The IceHawks were a relocation of the Winston-Salem IceHawks from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2004, ESPN "SportsCenter" anchor Steve Levy and NHL analyst Barry Melrose became the team's owners and the team changed its name to the Frostbite.
On January 13, 2006, head coach Marc Potvin was found dead in his hotel room in Kalamazoo, Michigan, hours before his team was to play the Kalamazoo Wings.
The Frostbite suspended operations on June 12, 2006, after the team could not come to a lease agreement with the Glens Falls Civic Center. Professional hockey would not return to the Adirondack region until 2009 when the AHL's Philadelphia Phantoms relocated to become the Adirondack Phantoms.
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28536783 | Momiji Dolls | Momiji [‘mom-ee-jee’] is a brand of collectible, hand-painted dolls inspired by Asian style and contemporary illustration. Each Momiji has a small space in the base to hide a secret message on a blank piece of folded card which is included with the doll. The dolls are a contemporary form of traditional Japanese Kokeshi dolls.
History.
Momiji Dolls were originally inspired in 2005 by traditional folk-art in northern Japan called Kokeshi. These dolls were carved from spare pieces of wood and hand painted. They were usually made by farmers. The dolls typically consist of a head and elongated torso representing the body and legs as a single piece.
Momiji dolls are different from the traditional Kokeshi dolls in that they are made from resin and contain a small space in the base. Inside the base is a small folded card for a secret message or greeting. Momiji dolls are often designed by fresh new designers and are known for their work with colleges and art schools worldwide.
Usage.
Momiji Dolls, also known as Momiji Friendship Dolls, are typically given to others to show friendship and love. MomijiHQ Limited says: Giving small gifts is part of the culture of Japan and is known as omiyage. In modern times, they have been given as presents for Christmas. The space in the base is often used to pass secret messages between friends.
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44995833 | Stephen Barchet | Stephen George Barchet (April 4, 1901 – November 30, 1964) was an American football player and a rear admiral in the United States Navy.
Barchet was born in St. Margaret's, Maryland, in 1901. He attended the United States Naval Academy where he played baseball and football at the Naval Academy. He played as a halfback for the Navy Midshipmen football team and was selected by Walter Camp as a third-team All-American in both 1921 and 1922 and won the Thompson Trophy in 1922.
After graduating from the Naval Academy, Barchet served in the United States Navy for 30 years from 1924 to 1954, attaining the rank of rear admiral. He commanded , which was near Midway Island, when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. He later commanded a submarine division base in Panama and served as operations officer for the Atlantic submarine force. In 1945, he received the Legion of Merit for his contributions to the development of the Atlantic and Pacific submarine fleets.
He retired from the Navy in 1954. He later worked for the American Trading and Production Company and as the head of a paper company in Alabama. He died in 1964 at age 63 at the naval hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. He was buried at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife Louise Elizabeth Lankford.
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4014582 | Brent Carter | Brent R. Carter (born September 28, 1948) is an American professional poker player from Oak Park, Illinois who has won two World Series of Poker bracelets. He lives in Oak Park, IL.
Poker career.
Carter first finished in the money of a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event in 1991 in the $1,500 seven-card stud event. He won his first bracelet the same year in the $1,500 No Limit Texas hold 'em event, defeating O'Neil Longson in the final heads-up confrontation. He won a second bracelet in 1994 at the $1,500 limit Omaha event. Carter also won a Hall of Fame tournament bracelet in Ace-to-Five Lowball Draw.
Carter finished in the money of the WSOP $10,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em main event in 1991 (15th), 1992 (31st), and 1995 (3rd).
In 1995 and 1996, Carter won the Best All-Around Player Award at the Four Queens Poker Classic.
On September 10, 2008, Carter, who uses the name '92848' on PokerStars, won a World Championship of Online Poker bracelet in event #11, a $320 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo tournament. He bested a field of 1,733 players to win the $88,383 first prize.
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,900,000. His 46 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,286,821 of those winnings.
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62662840 | José Manuel Fernandes | José Manuel Fernandes is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 elections. Earlier in his career, he was President of Municipal Chamber of Vila Verde in northern Portugal.
Political career.
In parliament, Fernandes is a member of the Committee on Budgets. He is also his parliamentary group's coordinator on the committee. In this capacity, he was the parliament's rapporteur on the 2012 and 2016 annual budgets as well as the European Fund for Strategic Investments.
In addition to his committee assignments, Fernandes is part of the parliament's delegations to Brazil, for relations with Mercosur and to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. He had previously been a member of the delegations to China (2009–2014), to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2014–2019) and for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2014–2019). He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas, the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability and the MEPs Against Cancer group.
Following the 2019 elections, Fernandes was part of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's five-year work program on economic and fiscal policies as well as trade.
Recognition.
In 2020, Fernandes was voted the most influential Portuguese MEP of 2020.
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69872285 | Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles | Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles (French: "Réception du Grand Condé à Versailles"), also known as Reception of the Grand Condé by Louis XIV ("Réception du Grand Condé par Louis XIV"), is a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, painted in 1878. It represents the reception of Louis II de Bourbon-Condé by Louis XIV, at the Palace of Versailles, at the foot of the Escalier des Ambassadeurs , in 1674. The painting was acquired in 2004 by the Musée d'Orsay.
Analysis.
Following the mixed success of another of his paintings, "Siècle d'Auguste : naissance de N. S. Jésus Christ" (Exposition Universelle of 1855), Gérôme chose to focus on “small” history. In this painting he highlighted the comedy of power, through the belated allegiance of the prince to his king. The taste for reconstruction and the painter's precision are found in the representation of the rich court costumes, and in the reproduction of the monumental Escalier des Ambassadeurs de Versailles, destroyed more than a century earlier.
History.
Gérôme's painting was acquired in 2004 by the Musée d'Orsay.
In 2014, the painting was loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon as part of the exhibition "L'invention du Passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée 1802-1850" .
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