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71031493 | Student Action (Italy) | Student Action ("Azione Studentesca", AS) is a far-right student movement in Italy, formerly connected to National Alliance and since 2016 to Brothers of Italy.
History.
1996–2009.
The movement was founded in 1996 by Youth Action ("Azione Giovani", AS), the youth wing of National Alliance. Among the early members of the association was Giorgia Meloni, who would later become a prominent right-wing leader in Italy and eventually became Prime Minister of Italy in 2022.
The group gained notoriety when it occupied the headquarters of the Federation of Education Workers (FLC), a left-wing trade unions affiliated to the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL).
After National Alliance merged with Forza Italia into The People of Freedom (PdL), Student Action was disbanded and its members joined the National Student Movement, affiliated to Young Italy, the youth wing of the PdL.
Relaunch in 2016.
Student Action was relaunched in 2016, this time affiliated with Brothers of Italy and its youth movement, the National Youth. The new group is considered to be much more radical than the original one, often openly supporting neo-fascist, the identitarian movement, and communitarian, and paternalistic conservative positions.
Symbol.
Student Action adapted a breton cross (a variant of the celtic cross) as its symbol in 2016.
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64658180 | All That Cube | All The Cube (Hangul: 큐브 통신), also known as Cube Communication, is a South Korean talk show which first ran on July 23, 2020. The program delivers weekly news of Cube Entertainment's artist.
Background.
It is a program launched by Cube TV on their 5th anniversary, and artists from Cube such as BtoB, CLC, Pentagon, Yoo Seon-ho and (G)I-dle, and several entertainers, including Lee Hwi-jae, Heo Kyung-hwan, and Park Mi-sun appear as MC and guests. The program delivers from the official news of Cube Entertainment to the extremely private status of artists and interviews. It is a comprehensive information show where fans can discover the hidden charms of each artist and get curious information through photos and videos that cross information and disclosure.
Episodes.
Note: The episodes aired every Thursday, 9pm KST, real-time broadcast on CUBE TV.<br>
Note 2: Every episode is re-upload with English subtitles on United CUBE (CUBE Entertainment) YouTube official channel.<br>
Note 3: For episodes 12-16, the episode is uploaded into 3 parts: "Official News", "Didn't Ask, Don't Care, CUBE & A Talk" and "Closing Song". (Excluding "Fan Sol News" and "First Private News")
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32262927 | Grassi Lakes | The Upper and Lower Grassi Lakes lie at an elevation of about in the southern Canadian Rockies overlooking the town of Canmore, Alberta. They receive their water from the Spray Lakes Reservoir on the Spray River. The land is part of the Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park, which is part of the Kananaskis Country park system.
The lakes are named after Lawrence Grassi, who emigrated to Canada in 1912. After working for the Canadian Pacific Railway for several years, he began work as a miner in the Canmore coal mines in 1916. Grassi went on to become a well-respected climbing guide and built many trails in the area, including the one to the Grassi Lakes that bear his name.
The small, emerald-colored Grassi Lakes are a popular destination for hikers and rock climbers. They lie at the foot of grey cliffs that are about high. The cliffs are part of the Cairn Formation, a fossil reef that formed during the Late Devonian period. The primary reef-forming organisms were stromatoporoids, a long-extinct type of bulbous sponge. The cliff is a favorite of rock climbers who use the pockets left by the sponges as hand- and foot-holds.
Rock paintings that are more than 1,000 years old can be found near the top of the canyon beyond the lakes. They are believed to have been painted by Kutenai ancestors.
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36074104 | Birds Nest (horse) | Birds Nest (1970–1994) was a British-bred thoroughbred racehorse. In a long career as a specialist hurdler he ran six times in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham Racecourse, finishing second to Night Nurse in 1976 and third behind Sea Pigeon and Monksfield in 1980. He won 19 hurdle races including the Fighting Fifth Hurdle and the Bula Hurdle on three occasions each. He also won the Christmas Hurdle and two runnings of the Scottish Champion Hurdle, beating some of the best hurdlers of all time. He has been described as the best hurdler never to win the Champion Hurdle. Throughout his career, he was known for being a difficult and temperamental horse, with a tendency to veer left when under pressure.
Assessment.
Birds Nest was rated at 176 by Timeform in the seasons 1975/6 and 1976/7. At the time of his retirement he was the joint-third highest rated hurdler in the organisation's history, after Night Nurse and Monksfield and equal with Golden Cygnet. In their book "A Century of Champions", John Randall and Tony Morris ranked Birds Nest the ninth best British or Irish hurdler of the 20th century.
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43754020 | Masahiro Higashide | is a Japanese actor and model. In 2012, he debuted as an actor in "The Kirishima Thing."
Early life.
Higashide graduated from Saitama Prefectural Asaka High School. He practiced kendo daily when he was young because his father is a kendo teacher. His father is also a cook of Japanese cuisine.
Career.
He debuted as a model in the 19th Men's Non-no Exclusive Model Audition in high school. After graduating from high school, he aimed to become a jewelry designer and proceeded to attend a jewelry school. He was active as a model for ZUCCa or Yohji Yamamoto from 2006 to 2011.
He debuted in The Kirishima Thing in 2012 and has been an actor since then.
He has acted on the NHK TV program “Rakugo Deeper!"
Personal life.
He married Anne Watanabe on January 1, 2015. Their twin daughters were born in May 2016. Their son was born in November 2017.
In January 2020, "Shūkan Bunshun" revealed that Higashide had been having an extramarital affair with actress Erika Karata since 2017, when Watanabe was pregnant with their third child. The report was later confirmed by his agency. The incident has caused Higashide to lose several endorsement deals. On 1 August 2020, Watanabe finalized her divorce with Higashide, promising that they’ll work together to take care of the children.
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62613100 | Sakris Kupila | Sakris Kupila (born 1996 and from Humppila, near Forssa) is a Finnish transgender medical student who was serving as the chair of Seta (the name was originally an acronym meaning "" "sexual equality") in 2019–20. This is the main LGBT rights organisation in Finland.
Biography.
Kupila was assigned female at birth but experienced gender dysphoria from an early age. At the age of nineteen, he initiated the legal process of change of gender from female to male. As a condition for this, he first had to receive a psychiatric diagnosis of transsexuality which equates the condition to a mental disorder.
In addition, Finland has a second legal requirement for gender change which is sterilization. Kupila refused this, and was denied a change in legal gender. In response, he began an international campaign involving Amnesty International to have the Finnish law changed as infringing his transgender rights. The latter he considered as an integral part of his overall human rights.
This was despite LGBT rights in Finland being regarded as some of the most progressive in the world.
The campaign ended in August 2017, when the Finnish government decided not to amend the law on gender transitions.
Kupila is married, under Finnish same-sex marriage law, to Jaana Tiiri who is a disability rights activist. They reside in Helsinki, where he is undertaking medical studies at the University of Helsinki.
In 2019 he was listed as among the top ten most influential medical professionals in Finland.
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42723532 | WAGR ADF/ADU class | The WAGR ADF class (also known as the Wildflower class) was a six member class of diesel railcars operated by the Western Australian Government Railways between 1949 and 1975.
History.
In 1949/50, the Midland Railway Workshops delivered built six diesel railcar sets to replace the Governor sets. Each set had one powered ADF railcar and two ADU trailers. All were named after wildflowers, hence the class name.
The first was launched to the media on 23 August 1949 followed by a demonstration run from Perth to Pinjarra. They entered service shortly after, operating from Perth to Albany, Perth to Geraldton via Wongan Hills and Mullewa, Perth to Merredin, Perth to Chidlow, Perth to Ongerup and Kalgoorlie to Esperance.
All were withdrawn between 1959 and 1963 as daylight country passenger trains were withdrawn and replaced by road coaches.
Three ADFs and four ADUs were refurbished in 1964 to operate the new "Bunbury Belle" and "The Shopper" services. A further four ADUs were converted to locomotive hauled carriages. All were written off in 1975 with ADF495 preserved by Rail Heritage WA.
References.
5. WAGR 'Wildflower diesel-electric train', datasheet 55311/12/68 with full technical specifications.
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14571265 | 2007 Next Generation Adelaide International | The 2007 Next Generation Adelaide International was a professional men's tennis event on the 2007 ATP Tour in Adelaide, Australia, held from 1 January to 7 January 2007. Novak Djokovic won the title, an ATP International Series level tournament.
This was the first tournament of the season (alongside Viña del Mar, Delray Beach, Buenos Aires and Las Vegas) that implemented a 24-player round robin tournament for the singles competition, as part of the round-robin trials proposed during this season.
Singles main-draw entrants.
Other entrants.
The following players received wildcards into the main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Doubles main-draw entrants.
Other entrants.
The following pairs received wildcards into the main draw:
Finals.
Singles.
Novak Djokovic defeated Chris Guccione, 6–3, 6–7(6–8), 6–4
Doubles.
Wesley Moodie / Todd Perry defeated Novak Djokovic / Radek Štěpánek, 6–4, 3–6, [15–13]
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49605961 | House of Splendid Isolation | House of Splendid Isolation is a 1994 novel by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. The novel depicts the relations of an Irish Republican Army terrorist and his hostage, an elderly woman. The novel brings elements of the thriller genre to O'Brien's ongoing explorations of Irish society. It is based on the life of Dominic McGlinchy, whom O'Brien interviewed while incarcerated in Portlaoise Prison.
Reception.
"The New York Times" gave a mediocre review calling the novel both "a brave book, and if it does not altogether succeed, [and an] attempt nonetheless [that] merits praise." The review notes that the novel is a "dramatic departure" from O'Brien's typical novels, and in that context of experiment "we see her audacity fail and her elegant prose run badly out of control." "The Independent" was decidedly negative, writing "there could hardly be a neater illustration of O'Brien's fatal humourlessness, and of the extent to which too much posing as a tragedy queen has turned her deaf to her own bathetic effects."
"Publishers Weekly" was slightly more positive, noting that the scenes about McGreevy the terrorist were unsuccessful, but describing the novel on a whole as "Powerful, however, is the elegiac voice on themes of womanly love, the tale's psychological acuity and the re-creation of a haunted landscape." "Kirkus Reviews" describes it as successful, its "well worth reading as O'Brien's first concentrated treatment of the troubles--and the pain they visit on the Irish people."
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822831 | Luigi Beccali | Luigi Beccali (19 November 1907 – 29 August 1990) was the first Italian to win an Olympic gold medal in running, in the 1500 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics, and the first Italian to win a European Championship title in athletics.
Biography.
Born in Milan, Luigi Beccali, as a youth, was fascinated by cycling and track and field athletics, but choose the latter, when he met the coach Dino Nai.
Luigi Beccali, an Italian champion in 1500 m from 1928 to 1931, became a national hero overnight when he won the Olympic 1500 m gold at Los Angeles.
In 1933, Beccali ran three world records. At first he equalled Jules Ladoumègue's world record 3:49.2, then lowered it to 3:49.0. At the end of the year he also set the world record of 2:10.0.
Beccali won the 1500 m at the first European Championships in 1934, but was outrun by Jack Lovelock at the 1936 Summer Olympics, settling for third place in 1500 m. He was again third in 1500 m at the European Championships in 1938. He also won the Italian championships from 1934 to 1938 in 1500 m and at 1935 in the 5000 m.
Beccali was originally a council surveyor, responsible for road maintenance. His work schedule allowed him to train twice a day. He eventually moved to the United States, and retired from running there in 1941, becoming a wine trader.
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37038834 | Revolution Trilogy | The Revolution Trilogy (Spanish: Trilogía de la Revolución) is a series of 1930s movies about the Mexican Revolution by Fernando de Fuentes: "El prisionero trece" (1933), "El compadre Mendoza" (1934) and "Vámonos con Pancho Villa" (1936). All three share a disenchanted view of the conflict, in opposition to the more common romantic, folk, and heroic viewpoints present in more well-known productions.
Three portraits of the same conflict.
According to Mraz, De Fuentes dedicates each film to one theme of conflict and loss:
Reception.
The three movies were not well received by audiences. Particularly ill-met was the 1936 "Vámonos con Pancho Villa", which only lasted one week in theatres and ultimately led to the production company's bankruptcy. Nevertheless, thanks to critics and cineclubs, the trilogy was rediscovered and reevaluated during the 1960s as a milestone in Mexican cinema.
In 2010, to commemorate the war's centenary, Filmoteca de la UNAM released a DVD edition of the restored version of the trilogy, the first attempt to popularize these films since their initial release in the 1930s.
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16467341 | 2204 Lyyli | 2204 Lyyli ("prov. designation": ) is a dark asteroid and very eccentric Mars-crosser from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 3 March 1943 by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland.
Orbit and classification.
"Lyyli" orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 1.5–3.6 AU once every 4 years and 2 months (1,522 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.41 and an inclination of 21° with respect to the ecliptic.
Naming.
This minor planet was named in honour of Lyyli Heinänen (1903–1988), née Hartonen, a Finnish female Esperantist, professor of mathematics, amateur astronomer and former assistant of the discoverer. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 May 1983 ().
Physical characteristics.
"Lyyli" is an X-type asteroid in the SMASS classification. It has also been characterized as a P-type asteroid by NASA's NEOWISE mission.
It has a rotation period of 11 hours and a very low albedo between 0.02 and 0.05, according to the surveys carried out by IRAS, Akari, and WISE/NEOWISE. Other large Mars crossing minor planets include 132 Aethra and 323 Brucia, with diameters of 43 and 36 kilometers, respectively.
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26778304 | Murray Marshall | Murray Marshall was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1878. He also captained his country.
Early life.
Murray Wyatt Marshall was born 7 October 1852 in Guildford and baptised on 3 November 1852 in the parish of St Peter and St Paul, Godalming. His parents were Murray (a merchant) and Eliza Marshall. He had two older brothers, George and Bryant, and six younger siblings, Milicent, Lionel Hasler, Oswald Percival, Constance Emily, Octavia and Walter Douglas. After leaving Wellington College he became a timber merchant and married Alice Maud Everitt, eighteen years his junior, in 1892 and they had a daughter, Madelaine.
Rugby union career.
Marshall made his international debut on 3 March 1873 at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow in the Scotland vs England match.
Of the 10 matches he played for his national side he was on the winning side on 6 occasions.
He played his final match for England on 11 March 1878 at Lansdowne Road in the Ireland vs England match.
In an era where international matches were few and far between, Marshall played in ten consecutive international matches, a record that stood for 36 years. He was described in 1892 as "in every respect one of the best forwards England ever turned out. Possessed of great height and strength, he was invaluable in a scrummage, used his feet well when the ball got loose, and was a very clever tackle."
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61493177 | Sofia Achaval de Montaigu | Sofia Àchaval de Montaigu is an Argentine fashion model, stylist, editor and designer.
Early life.
Sofia Àchaval was born and raised in Buenos Aires. Her family owned farms in Plamas where she would spend summers as a child. She went to school for film in Buenos Aires.
Career.
Àchaval de Montaigu moved to Paris in 2003 at the age of 22 to study fashion at Studio Berçot. Her first modelling job was in a campaign for "Mulberry". She also walked the runway for Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton. She was also featured in campaigns for Chloé. After finishing school, she started working at Azzaro as an intern and later as an assistant to Vanessa Seward. Àchaval de Montaigu retired from modelling and was hired by the American fashion magazine "V" as a stylist, eventually becoming the editor-at-large.
In 2018, Àchaval de Montaigu partnered with Lucila Sperber and Delfina Blaquier to create the fashion label Àcheval Pampa. On 4 March 2019, their 2019-2020 Fall/Winter collection made its debut at Paris Fashion Week.
In 2019, she worked as a fashion correspondent for "Daily Front Row".
Personal life.
Àchaval de Montaigu is married to French journalist and writer Thibault de Montaigu. They have two children and have residences in Paris and Buenos Aires.
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21956277 | André Caroff | André Caroff (pseudonym of André Carpouzis) (1924 in Paris – 9 March 2009) was a French author of science fiction and horror. His œuvre, particularly abundant, was published primarily by publisher Fleuve Noir.
Caroff was one of the leading authors of publisher Fleuve Noir's popular horror, then science fiction imprints, "Angoisse" and "Anticipation". For "Angoisse", he created the character of Madame Atomos, a brilliant but twisted middle-aged female Japanese scientist who is out to revenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she was born. Eighteen novels were published between 1964 and 1970, and were recently collected in a six-volume omnibus edition by Rivière Blanche.
For "Anticipation", Caroff had created various series including that of Space Security Agent Tom Rod. While his sight was impaired, Caroff had embarked on a new post-apocalyptic saga for Rivière Blanche in 2006, with two volumes already released and two more to be published posthumously. In total, Caroff's oeuvre included thirty horror novels and thirty-four science fiction novels.
References.
Source: Some of the information contained in this article was taken from:
French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier .
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8971813 | Colt Diamondback | The Colt Diamondback is a revolver manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, in calibers of .22 LR and .38 Special. Inspired by the successful Colt Python, the Diamondback was manufactured from 1966 to 1988 and was available in barrel lengths of 2½, 4, and 6 inches.
Description.
Colt introduced the double-action Diamondback as a deluxe model in 1966. It has a wide serrated target hammer, ventilated rib, fully adjustable target quality sights, and full-length barrel underlug. It is a 6-shot revolver with a swing-out cylinder and was available in blue or nickel finishes. Visually, the Diamondback resembles a scaled-down version of the Python, though the action was not tuned as finely as the Python, nor did it receive the Python's Royal Blue finish. While the Python is built on Colt's "I frame," the Diamondback is built on the smaller "D frame," as used in the Detective Special. The Diamondback was dropped from production in 1988.
Because of the light recoil of .22 caliber ammunition, the .22 version of the Diamondback can be used as a training gun for novice shooters. It had gained popularity with gun enthusiasts due to the inexpensive price of .22 caliber ammunition and since it has been discontinued, for its rarity. Saddam Hussein collected the Colt Diamondback among other guns.
In addition, the Diamondback was marketed to law enforcement agencies who did not allow the use of the .357 Magnum cartridge.
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52619143 | Shadows of the Workhouse | Shadows of the Workhouse is a 2005 book by British author Jennifer Worth (1935-2011). It formed the basis for the second series of the television drama "Call the Midwife".
Setting.
Although Britain's workhouses were officially abolished in 1930, many did not close their doors until much later. Renamed Public Assistance Institutions, they continued under the control of county councils. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 almost 100,000 people were accommodated in former workhouses, including 5000 children. It was not until the 1948 National Assistance Act that the last traces of the Poor Law disappeared, and with them the workhouses.
Subsequently, until the end of the 20th century and early years of the 21st, there were still many people who had lasting memories of life in the workhouses. Some as young adult, others who had been born there or sent as orphans. Worth based her book on the lives of such people, many of whom she met through her work as a midwife in London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s.
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22629615 | Tunbridge, Tasmania | Tunbridge is a rural locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Northern Midlands and Southern Midlands in the Central LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north of the town of Oatlands. The has a population of 145 for the state suburb of Tunbridge.
History.
Tunbridge was gazetted as a locality in 1974.
It was originally a coaching stop on the Hobart to Launceston road, now known as the Midland Highway. It was named after one of its three original coaching inns, the Tunbridge Wells, which in turn was named after Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.
In its coaching heyday it had three coaching inns, the "Tunbridge Wells Inn," the "Victoria Inn" and the "York Inn." Each inn was associated with a different coaching company. The Tunbridge Wells serviced J. E. Cox Coaches, the Victoria Inn serviced Samuel Page Coaches and the York Inn serviced Alfred Burbury Coaches. Tunbridge Post Office opened in 1856.
Geography.
The Blackman River flows through, via the Blackman Dam, from south-west to north-east.
Road infrastructure.
National Route 1 (Midland Highway) passes through from south to north-east. Route C526 (Tunbridge Tier Road) starts at an intersection with NR1 and runs west until it exits.
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25133776 | Harvest at Jimmy's (Festival) | Harvest at Jimmy's is a two-day music and food festival held at Jimmy's Farm near Ipswich in Suffolk. The first ever Harvest Festival took place on 12–13 September 2009. The 2010 event took place on the same site on 11–12 September. The event is fairly unusual in the British festival calendar due to its equal combination of showcasing live music and live food demonstrations in a family atmosphere and environment.
2009 event.
Music line-up.
The festival featured one main stage of music with live music performances throughout both days including KT Tunstall, Seth Lakeman, Athlete, José González, Badly Drawn Boy, along with several other performances.
Chef Line-up.
The festival also featured a live chef demonstration area with various celebrity and noted chefs including James Martin, Gino D'Acampo, James Wong, Gennaro Contaldo and Anjum Anand.
2012 event.
The 2012 event was cancelled by Doherty as he "decided there were too many other big events, such as the Olympics and the Queen's Jubilee". He stated, however, that it will return in 2013.
Big Wheel Promotions.
The 2009–2011 events were run by Big Wheel Promotions, who went into liquidation in 2011 owing debts of over £1 million. The event organisers have confirmed that the future of the event is safe, however.
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21060540 | Vroom–Yetton decision model | The Vroom–Yetton contingency model is a situational leadership theory of industrial and organizational psychology developed by Victor Vroom, in collaboration with Phillip Yetton (1973) and later with Arthur Jago (1988). The situational theory argues the best style of leadership is contingent to the situation. This model suggests the selection of a leadership style of groups decision-making.
The Vroom-Yetton-Jago Normative Decision Model helps to answer above questions. This model identifies five different styles (ranging from autocratic to consultative to group-based decisions) on the situation and level of involvement. They are:
Vroom and Yetton formulated following seven questions on decision quality, commitment, problem information and decision acceptance, with which leaders can determine level of followers involvement in decision. Answer to the following questions must be either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ with the current scenario:
Based on the answers one can find out the styles from the graph.
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43395543 | Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (comic) | Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was a comic book produced by DC Comics under license from TSR.
Publication history.
From 1988 to 1991, DC Comics published several licensed "D&D" comics, including "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons", "Dragonlance", "Forgotten Realms", and "Spelljammer". "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" debuted in October 1988, after the "Dragonlance" series.
Dan Mishkin was the primary author during the title's three year run.
Creator Jeff Grubb also wrote four fill-in issues. Michael Fleisher also wrote for the series. Jan Duursema was the primary artist for the comic book series for three years. Duursema drew issues #1-22, 24-30, 33-36, and Annual #1 (1988–91), while Ron Randall also provided artwork for issue #8, and Tom Mandrake illustrated issues ##23, 31-32, and Annual #1 (1990-1991).
Elliot S. Maggin served as an editor for DC from 1989 to 1991 and oversaw the licensed TSR titles, including "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons".
In October 1991, the TSR license expired, with "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" ending at issue 36.
Plot.
The series follows the exploits of a group of adventurers in the Forgotten Realms city of Mystara. The main arc is broken into shorter stories 2-4 issues long.
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50148642 | Baby book | Baby books are scrapbooks used by parents to track their children's development.
History.
Baby books first became popular over 100 years ago to keep track of children's diseases, immunization records, and growth. Baby books started appearing more frequently in homes starting in the 1910s, but did not gain popularity until the succeeding decades.
Uses.
Baby books can be used to track a child's development or mark developmental milestones. Many have ledgers that can track disease and immunizations. Some books are pre-fabricated with fill-in-the blank areas and places to put special mementos, such as a lock of hair from the baby's first haircut, a hospital bracelet, birth announcements, or cards from the baby shower. Parents may include ultrasound pictures, pictures of the baby at birth, and pictures as the child grows up. Parents can look at baby books for memories.
Baby books have also been used for research. UCLA has a collection of baby books dating back to 1882 used for the study of the history of childhood, family, art, medicine, architecture, and other disciplines.
Various memories can be included in the baby books like birth story, baby shower, naming of the baby, first cry, walking or sitting, first movement, saying first word, as well as various occasions like first Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Pictures for each month Christening/Baptism/Dedication.
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49283219 | Universe (gamer) | Saahil Arora, better known as Universe, is an American former professional "Dota 2" player. He was a member of the Evil Geniuses team that won The International 2015.
History.
Universe is of Indian origin. He began his "Dota" career in 2011. Universe finished 9th at The International 2013 as a member of Team Dignitas. He finished 3rd at The International 2014 and won The International 2015, both as a member of Evil Geniuses (EG), and made the series-clinching play known as the "6 Million Dollar Echo Slam". EG also finished third at the Frankfurt Major 2015.
Evil Geniuses took third place at the Shanghai Major 2016. In March 2016, Arteezy and UNiVeRsE left the team to join Team Secret. He would then leave Team Secret to rejoin Evil Geniuses after the end of the Manila Major 2016 in June, effectively trading places with Sam "Bulba" Sosale.
Evil Geniuses also won the Manila Masters tournament in May 2017. Later on The International 2017 tournament, EG got a 9th-12th finish. During post-tournament shuffles, the team lost their support player Zai, who was replaced by former team member and coach Fear. Since leaving Evil Geniuses in 2017, he has played for Fnatic, Forward Gaming, and Ninjas in Pyjamas.
In April 2020, Universe retired from competitive "Dota 2".
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46963420 | Juliana Freire | Juliana Freire de Lima e Silva is a Brazilian computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science and engineering at the New York University. She is known for her research in information visualization, data provenance, and computerized assistance for scientific reproducibility.
Education and career.
Freire did her undergraduate studies at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, and earned her doctorate from Stony Brook University. Prior to joining NYU-Poly in 2011, she was a researcher at Bell Laboratories, and a faculty member at the Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Utah.
Freire was the program co-chair of the WWW2010 conference.
Research.
Freire's research projects include the VisTrails scientific workflow management system, and the DeepPeep search engine for web database content.
Recognition.
In 2014, Freire was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to provenance management research and technology, and computational reproducibility."
She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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19630925 | Inuyasha (season 2) | The second season of the anime series "Inuyasha" aired in Japan on ytv from May 28, 2001, through December 10, 2001. Based on the manga series of the same title by Rumiko Takahashi, the anime was produced by Sunrise. The series continues a half demon Inuyasha's and a high school girl Kagome Higurashi's journey, alongside their friends Shippo, Miroku and Sango to obtain the fragments of the shattered Jewel of Four Souls, a powerful jewel that had been hidden inside Kagome's body, and keep the shards from being used for evil.
The anime is licensed for release in North America by Viz Media. The English dub of the first season was broadcast on Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim programming block from January 22, 2003, through May 1, 2004.
The opening themes for this season were "Change the World" by V6 for episodes 28-33, and "I Am" by hitomi for episodes 34-54. Networks and streaming services in the United States typically use an instrumental opening theme in place of "Change the World" due to licensing issues. The ending themes were by Do As Infinity for episodes 28-41 and "Dearest" by Ayumi Hamasaki for episodes 42-54.
Episode list.
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11174566 | The Woman in You | "The Woman in You" is one of five songs the Bee Gees contributed to the film, "Staying Alive", the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever". It was their most recent song on that time to reach the Top 40 on "Billboard" Hot 100 chart until 1989's "One" (after a six-year gap).
History and background.
"The Woman in You" was the last track recorded for "Staying Alive", and the lead single from the soundtrack. Director Sylvester Stallone used the Bee Gees songs in the movie more as background music rather than the prominent way "Saturday Night Fever" had featured them. The single received more airplay than the Bee Gees previous two singles, though not enough to reach a top 10 position. In interviews following the release of the film, the brothers expressed their displeasure at the way their songs were edited and revealed that their hearts were not in the music. By 1983, the Bee Gees were focusing their talents on solo projects and production of other artists, so it is not surprising that they were not all enthusiastic about the "Staying Alive" movie.
Reception.
"Cash Box" said that "the keyboards, horns and funk beat make for a tougher sound" than the Bee Gees "Saturday Night Fever" songs but that "the end result is equally tuneful."
Music video.
The video, directed by Brian Grant and conceptualised by Keith Williams, which did air in rotation on MTV, featured each brother in a working class job where they all come in contact with the same woman (Cynthia Rhodes) who lures them away.
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61644923 | Leona P. Thurman | Leona Pouncey Thurman (1911 – 1985) was an American attorney who became Kansas City, Missouri's first African American female lawyer. She was also Missouri's first African American female lawyer to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Early life and education.
She was born on July 1, 1911, in Russellville, Arkansas. Before settling in Kansas City, Missouri, she attended the Henderson Business College in Memphis, Tennessee. She earned her law degree in 1949 from Howard University School of Law
Career.
After earning her Bachelor of Laws in 1949, she became the first African American female lawyer in Kansas City.
In 1962, she became the first African American female from Missouri admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Additionally, Thurman served as the President of the Southwest Bar Association.
Personal life.
Thuman married her first husband, James D. Pouncey, in 1937, and pursued a legal career after his death. She married a second time in 1957 to A. Odell Thurman, a school administrator. Thuman died on May 1, 1985, in Kansas City, Missouri.
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65599371 | Nikon Z 6II | The Nikon Z 6II is a high-end full-frame mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera (MILC) produced by Nikon and is the successor to the Nikon Z 6. The camera was officially announced on October 14, 2020 alongside the Nikon Z 7II, and became available for purchase on November 5.
Features.
The most notable upgrade over the Nikon Z 6 is the inclusion of a second memory card slot. The Z 6II features an SD card slot and a CFexpress/XQD card slot. The camera features dual EXPEED 6 image processing engines, a first for Nikon cameras. This improves autofocus performance and enables 4K video recording at 60 fps. The frame rate for photos was increased from 12 fps to 14 fps with a larger memory buffer, but 14 fps can only be used in 12-bit RAW and single-point autofocus. The autofocus system has been vastly improved with more advanced eye detection. Lastly, in video recording, the camera can now record 4K "Ultra HD" footage at 60p in DX-crop mode.
The Z 6II features the same back-illuminated full-frame 24.5-megapixel CMOS sensor as the Z 6.
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15932680 | Önder Özen | Zeki Önder Özen (born 17 October 1969 in Eskişehir) is a Turkish football coach and former player. He managed Bugsaş Spor and had been an assistant coach & match analyst of Fenerbahçe.
He qualified for a coaching license in 1997. He has been working forFenerbahçe and Fenerbahçe Youth Academy from January 2002 to 2008. He also managed Hacettepe Spor Kulübü in 2009–10 season. In 2012, he started to appear on Ntvspor as a commentator.
President of Beşiktaş JK, Fikret Orman made a press conference on 22 May 2013, to announce that Özen was the new Director of football of the club.
Management mentality.
On 22 March 2013, Özen declared his football mentality during his presentation for Beşiktaş. For him a perfect football team should comprise 24 players, divided to three groups of eight players. According to him, first group of players must be well-experienced, international and winner. Second group of players must be local heroes, fighters and good team-workers. The last group should be formed as young, determined and disciplined players.
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18873255 | Ləkit | Ləkit (also, Lekit and Lyakit) is a village and municipality in the Qakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,510.
History and Etymology.
In written historic courses which have been saved up to the present, the village has been mentioned for the first time in a Georgian Gospel's "Anderdzi" (postscript), written in 1300–1310, during the reign of king George V the Brilliant of Georgia. It is said that catholicos of Georgia Ekvtime III visited Lekarti Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the Kakheti province of Kingdom of Georgia. Originally the village was called "Lekarti". The postal code is AZ 3424.
Georgian sources claim that the village's oldest name "Lekarti" (Georgian: ლექართი) is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians" and that among the Dagestani Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village". Letifova E.M considers that actual origin of toponym of villages such as Lekit, Lekit-Ketuklu, Lekit-Malakh in former Ilisu Sultanate are derived from ethnonym of Leg tribe of Caucasian Albania.
Mamirli waterfall.
Mamirli waterfall (covered with "moss") is located in the village of Lakit-Kotuklu in Qakh District.
Located at the depth of a dense forest, with a height of 15m and width of 30m. The waterfall was registered as Qakh district protected Natural habitat on August 5, 2006.
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32699448 | Office Products International | Office Products International ("OPI") is a British monthly magazine that reports on global issues affecting the office supplies sector. The headquarters of the magazine is in London.
Apart from its monthly magazine, OPI also provides other services to the office products industry. These include a daily news service on the opi.net website, special supplements, contract publishing, and conferences and awards dinners in Europe, North America and Asia.
History.
The first issue of "OPI" magazine came out in November 1991 and was released by its former publisher Mondiale Corporation Ltd. The company was then sold to Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC in June 1997. "OPI" was acquired by its current directors Steve Hilleard and Janet Bell in a management buyout in August 2006.
"OPI" ran its first conference in Palm Springs, California in November 1995.
The opi.net website went live in 1998.
The company's first awards event, the European Office Products Awards dinner, was held in 2002 in Montreux, Switzerland.
OPI's sister company OP Resource (OPR), a consulting and professional services firm focused exclusively on the office products industry, was formed in August 2007.
Staff.
The editor of "OPI" magazine is Heike Dieckmann. Andy Braithwaite is Editor-at-Large and Michelle Sturman is the Deputy Editor. Janet Bell is a director and the company's CEO is Steve Hilleard.
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26823680 | Psalm 123 | Psalm 123 is the 123rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens". The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. This short psalm is one of fifteen psalms that begin with the words "A song of ascents" (Shir Hama'alot). In Latin, it is known as "Ad te levavi oculos meos", and Baptist writer Charles Spurgeon calls it "the Psalm of the eyes".
In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 122.
It forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.
Text.
Hebrew Bible version.
Following is the Hebrew text of Psalm 126:
Uses.
Catholic.
Since the Middle Ages, this psalm was traditionally performed during the office of Sext week, namely from Tuesday until Saturday, according to the Rule of St. Benedict set in 530 AD.
In the Liturgy of Hours today, Psalm 123 is recited or sung at Vespers on the Monday of the third week of the four weekly liturgical cycle, as the psalm that follows. In the liturgy of the Mass, it is read on the third Sunday in Ordinary Time of the year.
Rhyming.
Spurgeon points out that Psalm 123 is a rare case of a psalm that rhymes in Hebrew, although he notes Samuel Cox's comment that the rhymes are "purely accidental".
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6113675 | CKQK-FM | CKQK-FM is a radio station broadcasting at 105.5 FM in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada with a Top 40/CHR format branded on-air as "Hot 105.5". The station is owned by the Stingray Group which also owns sister station CHTN-FM. CKQK's studios & offices are located at 176 Great George Street in the downtown Charlottetown area.
On July 11, 2006 Newcap received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate a new FM radio station at Charlottetown.
The station launched on July 25, 2006 under an active rock format branded as "K-Rock 105.5" but was re-branded under a new format on January 12, 2012, with the station's last song AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," being abruptly cut mid-way at 1:05 PM (AST) in favour of a lengthy launch montage that was then followed by the first song under the new format being Flo Rida's "Good Feeling." CKQK's current logo and presentation is being patterned after its sister station CIHT-FM in Ottawa.
On November 13, 2008, CKQK applied to add a new FM transmitter at Elmira and another at St. Edward. The application was approved on January 19, 2009. Based on the current format, CKQK currently competes with the Summerside-based CJRW-FM (with a standard AC format).
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5553468 | Algueña | Algueña () or L'Alguenya () is a Spanish municipality located in the Alicante province, in the "comarca" of Vinalopó Mitjà. Its climate is arid Mediterranean.
Geography.
Algueña is located in the extreme West of Medio Vinalopó, on the border of the old Kingdom of Murcia. The district occupies a high plateau with mid altitudes around 600 m, hilly to the North because of the Reclot mountain range. The district includes the city population center as well as the village of La Solana at 3 km from the town.
History.
The first reference to Algueña, then called "Alhenya", is a date in a lawsuit in the year 1582 between the lordships of Monòver and Novelda.
The population was linked to the municipality of Pinoso until 1934, although it previously already had an independent parish. In this year it obtained municipal independence due to the strong demographic growth experience during the last years of the 19th and beginnings of the 20th centuries (the 1900 census showed a figure of 1,953 inhabitants). Beginning in the 1950s, there was a slow regression until 2005, when Algueña had 1,501 inhabitants.
Algueña (like Pinoso) remained included in the Territory of Orihuela until 1707. In the administrative reform carried out by the Bourbons, it remained equally included in Orihuela's district of corregidor until 1833, the year in which the current provincial system was established.
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1473280 | N. S. V. Chitthan | N.S.V.Chitthan is an Indian politician of the Tamil Maanila Congress party.
Early life and background.
N.S.V Chitthan was born in Tirumangalam district of Madurai on 12 April 1934. He belongs to the strong Thevar community. His father Shri N. S. Veerapathira Thevar was a member of Congress during the Pre Independence period. He married Shakuntala in 1959 . He holds a B.A. in (Economics) and studied in Madura College in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
Entry into politics.
Chithan joined Congress when he was young and contested the elections in 1967 when DMK routed Congress and managed to win even though he was contesting the elections for the first time and given the fact that there was a wave in favour of DMK.
Political base.
Chithan contests from the Dindigul Parliamentary constituency. He has not been a Minister in the Union Government but has served on different committees and has been attributed to the Development of Madurai suburban localities and the transition of Road networks and Industries in Dindigul district and Madurai District.
Honours.
Recipient of Silver Medal by Bureau of Parliamentary Affairs for raising maximum number (more than 7000) of Questions on the Floor of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly during 1967-71 . He also addressed the UN General Assembly in 1997 as member of the Indian Delegation . He also Served as the General Secretary of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee for 2 Years .
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30703793 | Beatriz de Menezes, 2nd Countess of Vila Real | Dona Beatriz de Menezes (1400 – ) (sometimes written as 'Brites de Meneses') was a Portuguese noblewoman. She was the 2nd Countess of Vila Real from 1437, a title she shared with her consort, Fernando de Noronha.
Brites de Meneses was the eldest legitimate daughter of D. Pedro de Menezes, 1st Count of Vila Real and Margarida de Miranda. On October 30, 1430, Brites married the Castilian-Portuguese nobleman Fernando de Noronha, the son of two bastard lines of the royal houses of Portugal and Castile (i.e. Fernando de Noronha was a grandson of Henry II of Castile and Ferdinand I of Portugal).
Brites de Meneses competed with her half-brother Duarte de Menezes (born illegitimate, but legitimized by royal letter) to secure the inheritance of her father's titles for herself and her husband. Upon her father Pedro de Meneses' death in 1437, the titles were distributed - the crown-granted title of Count of Vila Real went to Brites and Fernando, while the older family title of Count of Viana do Alentejo went to Duarte.
Brites de Menezes had two legitimate sons from her marriage to Fernando de Noronha:
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23971773 | Marcianise Airfield | Marcianise Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in southeast Italy, which is located approximately 10 km north-northwest of Marcianise in the province of Caserta, Campania; about 32 km north-northwest of Naples. Built in 1943 by United States Army Engineers, the airfield was a large facility capable of handling heavy bombers built for Fifteenth Air Force, which stationed B-17s at the field after the war, prior to their return to the United States. However its primary use was by Air Technical Service Command and by Twelfth Air Force tactical fighter bomber units during the Italian Campaign. The field was used by the senior command of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations based at the Royal Palace of Caserta through 1947.
Major units stationed at Marcianise were:
Closed by the Americans on 23 October 1945, today, the location of the airfield is an Italian military base, its precise use is undetermined. The remains of the main runway can be seen on the base in aerial photography.
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1397307 | Prado Dam | Prado Dam is an earth-fill dry dam across the Santa Ana River at the Chino Hills near Corona, California in Riverside County with the resulting impounded water creating Prado Flood Control Basin reservoir. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the dam in Lower Santa Ana River Canyon. Its primary purpose is flood control and it is the downstream element of the Santa Ana River's flood control system, which is a natural constriction about upstream from the ocean. The area upstream from the dam contains of the watershed's . The dam's construction was authorized in 1936 and the flood of 1938 demonstrated its necessity. Construction was completed in 1941. Prado Flood Control Basin also provides water storage for groundwater recharge operations.
Failure threat.
On January 14, 2005, after days of heavy rain, water began seeping through an earthen extension. Authorities released water in order to relieve pressure and sent a flood warning to areas downriver of the dam. Over 3,000 residents were evacuated from their homes for nearly twenty-four hours for fear of flooding. The gymnasium at Corona High School was converted by the American Red Cross into a temporary shelter.
Upgrades.
As of 2005 work to increase the downstream channel's capacity from per second is ongoing. The total costs of the improvements is estimated at $400 million.
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1859024 | Randy Constan | Randy Constan (born November 18, 1953) is a Peter Pan impersonator who first posted his cosplay pictures on a website in 2001, in what he stated was an attempt to find a girlfriend. The website became a widely circulated internet meme, and in 2001 Constan's website, "pixyland.org" (aka "Peter Pan's Home Page") won a Webby Award in the "weird" category. Constan currently resides in Tampa, Florida.
Constan has made television appearances in costume, including "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent", and "Because I Said So".
In 2006, Constan appeared in a music video alongside Jay Maynard, Leslie Hall, and other individuals who gained worldwide exposure via the Internet, created for the web site WeAreTheWeb.org. The video advocates for net neutrality.
Personal life.
Constan grew up in Staten Island, New York. He graduated from Staten Island College in 1974 with an Associate of Applied Science in Electronics and worked for Consolidated Edison in New York City from 1974 through 1994. His first marriage was in 1976, during which he lived on Long Island. He later moved to Tampa, Florida where he has worked for Tasnet Inc. since 1995.
On October 7, 2007, Constan became engaged to his girlfriend of one year (who goes by the names Tinkerbell and Princess Dorothy) at a local club called "The Castle", the couple married March 29, 2009 at the Bay Area Renaissance Fair.
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36120781 | Shellpot Park | Shellpot Park was a trolley park located in Brandywine Hundred, Delaware that operated from 1893 until 1934. The park was developed by the Wilmington City Railway Company after extending the trolley lines to Shellpot Creek near the outskirts of the city. In its early years, Shellpot Park (and the adjacent Malin's Grove) was little more than a wooded lake and a place to picnic. At the peak of its popularity, the park also featured a miniature railroad, carousel, and roller coaster.
The carousel, built in 1916 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, had twenty-eight jumping horses, eighteen stationary horses, two chariots, and two Wurlitzer band organs. The roller coaster, also designed by PTC, was added in 1925 and featured a 65-foot vertical drop. (The tallest coaster of its era, at 100 feet, Cyclone, was built the same year at Revere Beach.)
As interest in the park waned after the 1920s, the park added an open-air arena for boxing events. In 1932, the carousel was sold to Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom; it was subsequently destroyed in a 1983 fire at that park. In 1934, a fire along the railway destroyed most of the remaining attractions, and Shellpot Park closed. The former dance pavilion, converted into a roller rink, was eventually torn down in 1936.
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6720351 | Ceresco, Michigan | Ceresco is a small unincorporated community in Calhoun County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Ceresco is situated on the Kalamazoo River approximately five miles west of downtown Marshall. It is on the boundary between Marshall Township and Emmett Charter Township at . Ceresco has a post office with ZIP Code 49033. The ZIP Code area serves portions of west and southwest Marshall Township, southeast Emmett Charter Township, northwest Fredonia Township, and a large portion of Newton Township.
History.
In 1838, a saw mill and flour mill were built on the Kalamazoo River at the site of what became Ceresco. Isaac E. Crary and John D. Pierce named the community by combining the name of Ceres, the Roman goddess of growing grains, with the first two letters of "company." The first post office was established on December 30, 1843, with Winslow S. Hale as the first postmaster.
The farming village of Ceresco, Nebraska is named after this place, the home town of Richard Nelson and Hod Andrus, two early settlers in the Nebraska hamlet.
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26544644 | Arenostola phragmitidis | Arenostola phragmitidis, the fen wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1803. It is found in most of Europe (except Ireland, Iceland, the Iberian Peninsula and the western part of the Balkan Peninsula), western Siberia, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Central Asia and China.
Technical description and variation.
"A. phragmitidis" Hbn. (= "semicana" Esp., "verecunda" Ev., "moravitzii" Men.) (49 d). Forewing very smooth, pale ochreous, becoming pale brownish red towards termen; the fringe dark at tips; hindwing pale
greyish ochreous; — the ab. "rufescens" Tutt (49 d) is flushed throughout with deep flesh colour; ab. "pallida" Tutt (49 e), the usual British form, is smooth pale ochreous throughout; ab. olivescens ab. nov. (49 e), is
smooth olive grey, the hindwing dark grey. Larva bone-colour; subdorsal line somewhat interrupted, broad, purplish-fuscous; lateral lines similar, but narrower; head black; thoracic plate brown. The wingspan is 32–36 mm.
Biology.
Adults are on wing from July to August.
The larvae feed internally in the stems of "Phragmites australis".
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32721476 | B. Radhabai Ananda Rao | B. Radhabai Ananda Rao was member of Indian Parliament.
She was born at Venkatapuram village in Khammam district on 2 February 1930. She was educated at Rajahmundry Tutorial College and Rajahmundry Teachers' Training School, Rajahmundry.
She was elected from Bhadrachalam (Lok Sabha constituency) as a member of Indian National Congress for the 4th Lok Sabha in 1967 and also the four successive times until 1985.
She married B. K. Ananda Rao on 6 June 1952; they had a son and two daughters. She is an Agriculturist and worked as family planning instructor in Singareni Collieries between 1957 and 1967. She was Member of Indian National Trade Union Congress, 1962–64 and Parents' Association, Zila Parishad High School, Ramavaram and Member, Panchayat Samiti, Kothagudem, 1957. She took active part in propagating Family Planning schemes in Singareni Collieries and other tribal areas and also worked for the welfare of the tribal people.
She was Member, Committee on Government Assurances and intensively toured foreign countries in a parliamentary delegation.
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56016547 | Church Street drill hall, Brighton | The Church Street drill hall is a former military installation in Brighton. It is a Grade II listed building.
History.
The building was designed by Edmund Scott as the headquarters of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment and was completed in 1890. This unit evolved to become the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment but moved to Montpelier Place in Brighton before the First World War.
Meanwhile, the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry had been located at the Church Street drill hall from their re-formation in 1901. The regiment was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to Gallipoli and, ultimately, to the Western Front. After the First World War, the unit converted to artillery and was reduced to battery size, becoming 389 (Sussex Yeomanry) Battery, the 98th (Sussex Yeomanry) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
After the Second World War, the battery was reformed as P Battery, 344th (Sussex Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery and then as P Battery, 258th (Sussex Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1955. After the defence cut-backs of 1967, the drill hall was decommissioned and became a Royal Mail sorting office and, more recently, it has been used as an antiques warehouse.
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29073023 | Torfi Ólafsson | Torfi Olafsson (born 13 April 1965) is an Icelandic former strongman competitor and junior world champion powerlifter. He was one of the biggest competitors from Iceland to compete at the World's Strongest Man, standing 201 cm (6'7") and weighing 190 kg (418 lbs).
Biography.
Torfi was born on 13 April 1965. His father was in the road construction industry and Torfi began working for him as early as seven years old. He spent his summers helping his father until he was seventeen. He became the Icelandic powerlifting champion and at the age of 20 won the IPF Junior World Powerlifting Championship. He repeated this feat the following year. As a senior, he placed ninth a number of years later. He also won the EPF Junior European crown.
Like a number of his compatriots he turned to strength athletics and on the strongman circuit was very successful. He won Iceland's Strongest Man in 1997 and was placed third in the prestigious World Muscle Power Championships in 1996. Of the five World's Strongest Man contests he entered, his highest place was fourth in 1997. He was also a keen Highland Games competitor.
Outside of sport Torfi worked in Iceland with the mentally handicapped and is married with four children and a dog. And 5 grandchildren His daughter Kristin Helga Torfadottir is a powerlifter of growing reputation. His son Stefán Karel Torfason became Iceland's Strongest Man in 2021.
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14979538 | Atomic Energy Commission's Historical Advisory Committee | The Atomic Energy Commission's Historical Advisory Committee was established in February 1958, when the United States Atomic Energy Commission was a decade old and continued until 1974 when the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and later the United States Department of Energy replaced the commission.
History.
In 1957, the United States Atomic Energy Commission appointed Dr Richard G. Hewlett to be the historian of the Atomic Energy Commission. Upon taking up this post, Hewlett proposed the creation of an historical advisory committee for the AEC. His proposal was referred to historians James Phinney Baxter III and Samuel Eliot Morison and Nobel Prize–winning physicist Isidor I. Rabi. These three men recommended the approval of Hewlett's proposal as a means of giving credibility of the AEC Historical Office's work and avoiding self-serving official history.
Chairman.
The following is a chronological list of chairmen, 1958–1974. In cases where a chairman also served as a regular member of the committee, his dates of such service are listed in the alphabetical listing of members.
Members.
The following is an alphabetical listing of members who served on this committee:
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1817534 | 1978 European Athletics Championships | The 12th European Athletics Championships were held from 29 August to 3 September 1978 in the Stadion Evžena Rošického in Prague, the capital city of Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic). Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.
There were a number of disqualifications because of infringements of IAAF doping rules resulting in 18-month bans for shot putter Yevgeniy Mironov, javelin thrower Vasiliy Yershov, and pentathletes Nadiya Tkachenko and Yekaterina Gordiyenko, all competing for the Soviet Union, as well as shot putter Elena Stoyanova from Bulgaria.
Men's results.
Complete results were published.
Track.
1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |
Field.
1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |
†: In shot put, Yevgeniy Mironov initially finished second (20.87m), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.
Women's results.
Track.
1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |
Field.
1971 |1974 |1978 |1982 |1986 |
‡: In pentathlon, Nadiya Tkachenko (URS) initially finished 1st (4744pts), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.
Participation.
According to an unofficial count, 847 athletes from 30 countries participated in the event, 157 athletes less than the official number of 1004, and one country more than the official number of 29 as published. The significantly higher official number might include coaches and/or officials.
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2878690 | Contax N Digital | The Contax N Digital was a six-megapixel digital SLR camera produced by Contax in Japan. The camera was announced in late 2000, and began to be sold in spring 2002, after several delays. The camera received mixed reviews from the press, and was withdrawn from the market within a year of its introduction.
It was noteworthy for being the first full-frame digital SLR, with an imaging chip the full size of a 135 film frame. All previous digital SLRs had a smaller sensor, giving a cropped view (see magnification factor). The imaging sensor was a Philips FTF3020-C, which had previously been used in the Jenoptik "Eyelike" medium format digital back. Pentax also planned to use the sensor in a full-frame digital SLR, the Pentax MZ-D, but abandoned work on the prototype in late 2001. The sensor featured ISO settings as low as ISO 25, but the reviews noted that it had a relatively high noise level above ISO 100. The next full-frame digital SLRs were the Canon EOS-1Ds of late 2002, followed by Kodak's DCS Pro 14n in 2003. Nikon and Sony introduced full-frame models in 2007 and 2008 respectively.
The N Digital was based on the short-lived Contax N range of 35mm film SLRs, and used the Contax N-mount lens system. Nine lenses were produced for this mount, by Carl Zeiss. There were three Contax N-Mount cameras – two 35mm film SLR bodies, plus the N Digital – all of which are now discontinued.
Contax's parent company Kyocera withdrew from the digital imaging market in 2005.
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14560735 | Mark Sharman | Mark Brian Sharman (born 2 January 1950) is a British broadcasting executive.
Early life.
He attended the John Port Grammar School in Etwall.
Career.
Sharman first worked as a journalist with the "Derby Evening Telegraph" and "Birmingham Evening Mail" before entering television journalism with ITV in 1976, where he edited coverage of Football World Cups and the Olympic Games. He later worked for BSkyB as deputy managing director of Sky Sports, helping to expand from one channel to four and creating Sky Sports News, before joining Channel 4 as controller of sport in 1998, where he wrested broadcasting rights for test cricket from the BBC. A year later he returned to BSkyB and became director of broadcasting, with responsibility for Sky One, Sky News and Sky Movies channels.
After a fourteen-month sabbatical, he re-joined ITV as controller of sport in early 2005. Two years later Sharman was appointed as director of ITV's network and regional news, replacing the retiring Clive Jones, retaining his controller of sport role. He secured a notable coup in March 2007, when ITV, in a joint bid with Setanta Sports, successfully gained broadcasting rights for FA Cup matches and England national football team home games starting from August 2008. The BBC and Sky had previously held the rights since 2001. He stepped down from his position at the end of 2008.
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53265087 | 168th New York Infantry Regiment | The 168th New York Infantry Regiment ( "19th State Militia") was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service.
The 168th New York Infantry was organized at Newburgh, New York, beginning August 22, 1862, and mustered in February 11, 1863, for nine months' service under the command of Colonel William R. Brown.
The regiment was attached to Busteed's Independent Brigade, IV Corps, Department of Virginia, to April 1863. King's Independent Brigade, IV Corps, to June 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, IV Corps, to July 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XI Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October 1863.
The 168th New York Infantry mustered out on October 31, 1863.
Detailed service.
The regiment left New York for Baltimore, Maryland on February 12, 1863 then moved to Norfolk, Virginia Garrison duty at Yorktown, Virginia until June 1863. They participated in Dix's Peninsula Campaign from June 24 until July 7. The regiment was ordered to Washington, D.C. on July 9 then to Funkstown, Maryland. It joined the Army of the Potomac at Hagerstown, Maryland on July 14. The regiment took part in the pursuit of Robert E. Lee to Manassas Gap, Virginia from July 14 to July 24. They then assumed guard duty along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad until October.
Casualties.
The regiment lost a total of 38 men during service; one enlisted man killed, one officer and 36 enlisted men died of disease.
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37162076 | Harshaville Covered Bridge | The Harshaville Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge spanning the Cherry Fork Creek at Harshaville, Adams County, Ohio. Built in 1855, it is a Burr truss bridge with a 110-foot span. It has sheet metal siding, a metal roof and stone abutments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The "Ohio Historic Places Dictionary" has described it as "an outstanding example" of a Burr truss bridge. The name reflects the community, which was named for the Harsha family that built a mill there. In the summer of 1863, in a campaign known as Morgan's Raid, raiders from the Confederate States Army led by John Hunt Morgan ransacked the Harshaville general store and burned many bridges, but spared the Harshaville Covered Bridge.
In June 2010, the Ohio Department of Transportation received a $100,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration to rehabilitate the bridge. The County planned to replace the bridge's metal siding with historically correct wood siding and to replace the metal roof and failed backwall. Tom Cross, executive director of the Adams County Travel and Visitor's Bureau, noted, "Once this work is completed, this bridge will look like new."
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31647208 | Human Rights Code (British Columbia) | The Human Rights Code is a provincial law in the province of British Columbia, Canada that gives all people equal rights and opportunities without discrimination in specific areas such as jobs, housing and services. The code's goal is to prevent discrimination and harassment because of race, colour, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, creed, age and other grounds.
History.
The Code was enacted in 1973. Before that date, various laws dealt with different kinds of discrimination. The code brought them together into one law and added some new protections.
Administration.
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal is the administrative, quasi-judicial tribunal tasked with hearing complaints that the Code has been violated. It has the power to grant damages and specific performance to remedy discriminatory acts. The BCHRT is subject to judicial review by the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Application.
The Code does not apply to federally-regulated activities, such as aeronautics and telecommunications. They are subject to the "Canadian Human Rights Act".
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49889367 | Linda Gazzera | Linda Gazzera (1890, Italy - 1942, Brazil) was an Italian spiritualist medium.
During 1908-1909, Gazzera was investigated in a series of séances by the spiritualist Enrico Imoda who endorsed her alleged materializations as genuine. Photographs were taken, they were later published in a posthumous book entitled "Fotografie di Fantasmi" in 1912. French psychical researcher Guillaume de Fontenay in an afterword for the book cast doubt on the authenticity of the photographs, noting that the materializations looked dubious and two-dimensional with suspicious shadows.
Skeptical author Joseph McCabe has written that Gazzera was exposed as a fraud in 1911. According to McCabe "Her materializations and tricks were simple. She brought her birds and flowers and muslin and masks (or pictures) in her hair (which was largely false, and never examined) and her under-clothing, and she, by a common trick, released her hands and feet from control to manipulate them."
In 2022, the counterfeit photographs were included in the exhibit "Corpse orbit" for the 59th Venice Biennale.
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25355464 | Cumberland County Vocational School District | The Cumberland County Vocational School District is a vocational public school district based in Vineland, serving the vocational and training needs of high school students in ninth through twelfth grades and adults from Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 937 students and 80.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1.
School.
The Cumberland County Technology Education Center relocated for the 2016–17 school year to a campus in Vineland constructed at a cost of $70 million and located next to Cumberland County College. The school initiated a new full-time high school program involving 240 students who will be part of the initial graduating class of 2020.
Administration.
Core members of the district's administration are:
Board of education.
The district's board of education is comprised of seven members—the county superintendent of schools and six appointed members—who set policy and oversee the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type I school district, the board's trustees are appointed by the members of the Cumberland County Board of County Commissioners to serve four-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats up for reappointment each year. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the day-to-day operation of the district.
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27889003 | World Wide Blitz Tour | The World Wide Blitz Tour was a 1981 concert tour by English heavy metal band Judas Priest where the band toured in Europe and North America from 13 February to 14 December 1981 in support of the album "Point of Entry."
Overview.
Europe (first leg).
For the first European leg of the tour, the band was supported by Saxon, who were promoting their album, "Strong Arm of the Law."
North American leg.
Savoy Brown supported the band for the first month of the leg until the end of May. Iron Maiden, who were promoting their album "Killers," supported the band after that. Humble Pie would co-headline all of the June dates with Priest and Maiden. Whitesnake would then be the co-headliner throughout most of the July dates. Joe Perry opened a couple of the later shows in July.
The only official Judas Priest track recorded during this tour, a performance of "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" from a show at Palladium in New York City, is featured on the "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" single released in February 1984. The same track is found on the "Metalogy" box set.
Europe (final leg).
The final European leg was supported by Def Leppard, who were promoting their album, High 'n' Dry, and Accept.
Setlist.
The setlist varied throughout the tour. The European leg had a setlist of:
The typical setlist for the North American leg and second European leg
Also occasionally played were:
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60482282 | Acura ARX-05 | The Acura ARX-05 is a sports prototype racing car built to Daytona Prototype International regulations. It was developed in partnership by Honda Performance Development and Oreca, and is based on the Oreca 07 chassis and powered by the Acura AR35TT twin-turbocharged 3.5L V6 engine.
The car made its racing debut at the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona with Team Penske. In 2019, the car won the drivers', teams' and manufacturers' titles in the top DPi class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, becoming the first non-General Motors car to do so. Acura and Team Penske successfully defended their titles in 2020, winning all of the DPi class championships.
It was announced in July 2020 that the partnership between Team Penske and Honda Performance Development would not be renewed for the 2021 season. For the 2021 season, Wayne Taylor Racing and Meyer Shank Racing campaigned one of the ARX-05s previously run by Penske. Both teams continued using the model for the 2022 season.
Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results.
Results in bold indicate pole position. Results in "italics" indicate fastest lap.
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23948162 | Rachel Tzabari | Rachel Tzabari (, 27 July 1909 – 16 February 1995) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai and its successors between 1952 and 1969.
Biography.
Born in Tel Aviv during the Ottoman era to Jewish parents who immigrated from Yemen, Tzabari was educated at a girls' school in Neve Tzedek, before studying at a Teachers Seminary in Tel Aviv and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She had five siblings, including Simha. She worked as a teacher, and taught at the model schools in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. She also lectured at the Teachers Seminary at Beit HaKerem, and was a schools supervisor in Jerusalem.
A member of the Haganah prior to independence, Tzabari was on the Mapai list for the 1951 elections, but failed to win a seat. However, she entered the Knesset on 4 April 1952 as a replacement for the deceased Yehezkel Hen. She retained her seat in elections in 1955, 1959, 1961 and 1965, by which time Mapai had formed the Alignment. She lost her seat in the 1969 elections.
She died in 1995 at the age of 85.
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50918693 | Better Man (2016 TV series) | Better Man () is a 2016 Taiwanese romance, family television drama starring , , Jolin Chien, , Shara Lin and . Filming began on May 5, 2016 and is filmed as it airs. The original broadcast began on June 1, 2016 on SET Metro, airing weekdays (Monday through Friday) at 8:00 pm.
Synopsis.
The Yang brothers have it all — good looks, brains and family background. But each shuns romantic entanglements for his own reasons. Yang Zhen Wei is the workaholic oldest brother who only has his mind set on expanding his catering business. Yang Zhen Hao is the middle brother who works in the entertainment industry and as a fitness instructor. Yang Zhen Kai is the meticulous youngest brother who has been given the position of CEO of the family empire. How will the brothers handle their emotions when they each meet a woman who turns their perfect worlds upside down?
Soundtrack.
Better Man Original TV Soundtrack (OST) (我的極品男友 電視原聲帶) was released on August 16, 2016 by various artists under Universal Music (TW). It contains 13 tracks total, in which 8 tracks are various instrumental versions of the songs. The opening theme is track 1 "Faded Pictures 屬於你和我之間的事" by Vanness Wu. The closing theme "All You Did 都是你害的" by Bii is not featured on the official soundtrack CD since singer Bii is signed exclusively to Linfair Records.
Track listing.
Songs not featured on the official soundtrack album.
Episode ratings.
Competing dramas on rival channels airing at the same time slot were:
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30640268 | Sidi Gaber | Sidi Gaber () is a neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt.
The interior section of the neighborhood contains the Sidi Gaber railway station, the main rail entry point to Alexandria for most travelers. The station is one of the oldest in Egypt, having served the eastern regions of the city before their transformation into major urban districts (they had previously been summer resorts for foreigners and wealthy and middle-class Cairenes). , the station is undergoing expansion, with the intent to turn old parts of the station into a railway museum, and include space for commerce in the newer sections.
Archaeology.
In July 2018, archaeologists led by Zeinab Hashish announced the discovery of a 2.000-year-old 30-ton black granite sarcophagus. It contained three damaged skeletons in red-brown sewage water. According to archaeologist Mostafa Waziri, the skeletons looked like a family burial with a middle-aged woman and two men. Researchers also revealed a small gold artifact and three thin sheets of gold.
Military.
The Sidi Gaber neighbourhood hosts the headquarters of the Northern Military Region of the Egyptian Army and the Armed Forces Hospital in Alexandria.
Politics.
The death of Khaled Saeed which triggered the 2011 Egyptian Revolution took place in Sidi Gaber Police station. Many protests took place in the area before the revolution and were dealt with brutally by the police.
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2216370 | The Fool and His Money | The Fool and His Money is a puzzle game by Cliff Johnson. It is a self-published sequel to the 1987 game "The Fool's Errand". Like its predecessor, "The Fool and His Money" contains many different types of logic and word puzzles which, although centered on a story with a medieval tarot deck theme, have added elements of the Prince, Egyptian gods, and Pirates.
Release information.
Originally expected in late 2003, the game experienced dozens of postponements. On February 4, 2009, Johnson released a functioning preview of the game, containing the Prologue and five puzzles.
The game was released on October 25, 2012, one day earlier than finally promised, having taken ten years to produce. It is written using Adobe Director with embedded Flash.
Reception and awards.
“I'm happy to award, for the first time in my reviewing career, "The Fool and His Money" a long-overdue but well-deserved A plus. We, God forbid, may never see another game of its genius and quality in our lifetimes.” —Greg Collins, Just Adventure Review
JayIsGames rated it Best of 2012.
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35306325 | H. A. Hargreaves | Henry A. Hargreaves, Ph.D. (1928-2017) was a prolific Canadian science fiction writer. Originally from Bronx, N.Y., Hargreaves was a pioneer of Canadian short fiction as well as having an academic career that culminated with him retiring as a professor emeritus of English Literature at the University of Alberta.
His short fiction was collected in one of Canadian science fiction's earliest anthologies: "North By 2000", published in 1975 and was re-issued as "North by 2000+" in 2012 with additional material, with such short stories as ""Fore" - Eight - Sixteen", "In His Moccasins", "Infinite Variation", and "2020 Vision."
Hargreaves released an introspective memoir "Growing Up Bronx: A Memoir of my Shapers and Shakers" in 2012.
In 2015, Hargreaves was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association Hall of Fame, whilst living in retirement in Claresholm, Alberta, with his wife.
Hargreaves died on July 27, 2017. He was survived by his wife Margaret and his two daughters.
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63546870 | French corvette Décius (1795) | Décius was a "Société populaire"-class corvette launched in 1795 in Brest. Originally named "Doucereuse", she was renamed to "Décius" in 1795. The British Royal Navy destroyed her in November 1796.
Career.
"Décius" was appointed to the Saint Martin station in 1796, under Lieutenant Louis-André Senez. On 27 November, she took part in the French invasion of Anguilla, along with the gun-brig "Vaillante", and three schooners. In the raid, the French captured 21 ships and took 900 prisoners. Returning to Guadeloupe, the French flotilla encountered the frigate , under Captain R. Barton. "Décius" engaged "Lapwing" in order to cover the retreat of the weaker ships, and fought for two hours before striking her colours.
"Lapwing" then destroyed "Vaillante", and took possession of "Décius". Barton found that she had suffered about 80 men killed and 40 wounded. He took 170 prisoners. The next day two French frigates, and "Pensée", chased "Lapwing". Barton took the prisoners aboard "Lapwing" and set fire to "Décius". "Lapwing" then returned to St Kitts.
Citations and references.
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17927743 | WSTM (FM) | WSTM (91.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Inspirational format licensed to Kiel, Wisconsin, and broadcasting from the WXER transmitter west of Plymouth on WI 67. The station is currently owned by The Family Radio Network (the former Evangel Ministries), carrying a format shared with sister stations WEMI/Appleton, WEMY/Green Bay and WGNV/Milladore (serving Wausau and Stevens Point) known as "The Family". Studio facilities are located in Appleton.
As part of "The Family" schedule it also airs biblical and family-related programming, such as Insight for Living and Focus on the Family.
History.
The station went on the air as WSTM on May 12, 1998, becoming the second sister station to WJUB (1420) in its history on-air (from 1990 to 1995, WXER was run as a sister station from the WPLY-WJUB facility). On October 25, 2002, the station changed its call sign to the current WSTM. The merger between Evangel and The Family stations occurred in mid-2017; WJUB was considered surplus to the sale, and was sold to Galaxie Broadcasting, a company made up of Stuart Muck and longtime WJUB on-air programmer and personality Dave Hendrickson, who will continue to maintain the station's format as-is.
Translators.
In addition to the main station, WSTM is relayed by an additional translator to serve the city of Sheboygan, along with nearby Kohler.
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13038856 | Skylon (album) | Skylon is Ott's second album. It was released on 25 January 2008 by Twisted Records.
Samples.
Samples can be heard here: Ott at Twisted Music
Artwork.
The album art has been created by a Romanian artist Matei Apostolescu in response to a request for "organic and optimistic" image with "Soviet-era kids and airplanes".
Reception.
SputnikMusic gave the album a score of 4 out of 5, calling it "an album for the dreamers", praising it for the "flight into the upper stratosphere" through an "unbelievable landscapes blotted with fluffy clouds and wide blue skies", noting "near flawless melding of picturesque lucidity and tactile production lush with analogue textures and deep, shapely tones".
RateYourMusic gives the album 3.51 out of 5 with listeners being pleased with the album overall, commenting on the relaxing organic feel of the music, which crosses from psybient to dub. At the same time, the listeners consider "The Queen of All Everything" the highlight of the album, after which the album weakens and becomes formulaic.
Other listeners, while praising the album for distancing itself from less inventive psy-dub clichés, still could not find anything that stands out of other psy-chill / psy-dub / ambient dub productions.
Those, for whom "Skylon" is the only Ott's album they listened to, rate it more favorably, noting that even when the album lacks in inventiveness, it more than makes up for in musicianship and polished production.
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28075562 | Peter Daubeny | Sir Peter Lauderdale Daubeny, (16 April 1921, Wiesbaden, Germany – 6 August 1975, London) was a British theatre impresario.
Daubeny trained with Michel Saint-Denis and began his career under the director William Armstrong at the Liverpool Playhouse. Losing his left-arm at Salerno in 1943 led to him abandoning an acting career and staging his own productions including Franz Werfel's "Jacobowsky and the Colonel" in 1945. The London visits of the Berliner Ensemble in 1956 and the Moscow Art Theatre were organised by Daubeny.
Henry Kendall (actor), in Chapter 23 of his autobiography, 'I Remember Romano's', 'An Alligator and Mr. Chaplin', (Macdonald, London, 1960), wrote that Daubney asked him in 1955 to " ...keep an eye on his (Daubney's) revival at the Palace", (Palace Theatre, London), of The Merry Widow, starring Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggerth, while he was on business in Paris.
He is best remembered for his organisation of the World Theatre Season, which brought foreign theatre companies to London between 1964 and 1975. Amongst other honours, including an OBE in the 1961 Birthday Honours and a CBE in the 1967 New Year Honours, he was knighted in the 1973 Birthday Honours.
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14672003 | Kurupt discography | American rapper Kurupt has released six studio albums, three compilation albums, one EP and seven singles. Since his debut in 1998 he has released through a number of labels, Including Antra, Death Row and Universal. He is a close associate of Daz Dillinger (as one half of Tha Dogg Pound), Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.
Born Ricardo Brown in Philadelphia, he moved to Los Angeles to join Death Row Records. As a recording artist he made his debut on Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992. He continued to make a number other guest appearances, including Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle the year after. The collaborative record Dogg Food brought further into the limelight and Brown made his solo debut on the double-album "Kuruption!" on A&M Records. Released in October 1998, one disc of the album was dedicated to the West Coast and the other to the East Coast. It reached No. 8 in the Billboard 200, the highest position he would attain in his career.
His subsequent albums had moderate success, with "Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey" reaching No. 10 in the Billboard 200. In 2004 he returned to Death Row for "Against tha Grain" and has since released records through different outlets. Throughout his career he has continued to make guest appearances for Snoop Dogg and affiliated acts.
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51989700 | William Augustus Elmore | William Augustus Elmore (October 13, 1812 – October 6, 1890) was a 19th-century lawyer and judge in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Born in Laurens District, South Carolina to John Archer Elmore and Nancy Ann Martin; among his siblings was his half brother Franklin H. Elmore, who served in both U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate representing South Carolina.
Elmore began a practicing law in New Orleans in 1835, forming a partnership with William W. King. He served as Attorney General of Louisiana during the governorship of Isaac Johnson from 1846 to 1850. President James Buchanan appointed him superintendent of the New Orleans Mint and was retained in that position when the mint came under the control of the Confederate government in 1861. He was later judge of the Eighth District Court by the appointment of Governor Francis T. Nicholls.
Elmore married twice, first to Mary Ann Morrison on July 28, 1840. Following her death, he married Julia Minor on January 2, 1851, in Ascension Parish. He had children by both wives.
Elmore died of apoplexy at Crowell House in Greencastle, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1890, just a week short of his 78th birthday. He was interred at "Huntingdon" in Elmore County, Alabama.
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3196080 | Pikermi | Pikermi () is a suburb of Athens and a former community of East Attica regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rafina-Pikermi, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 21.522 km2.
Geography.
Pikermi is situated at the northern edge of the Mesogaia plain, south of the Penteliko Mountain. It is 5 km east of Pallini, 6 km west of Rafina and 19 km east of Athens city centre. Greek National Road 54 (Athens - Rafina) passes through Pikermi. The municipal unit Pikermi consists of the settlements Pikermi, Drafi and Dioni.
Paleontology.
Pikermi features a paleontological site which has more than forty mammal species from the late Miocene (8 million years ago). What is special about Pikermi is that it is one of the first Miocene fossil localities to be discovered. It was discovered in 1839 by Bavarian soldiers of king Otto. Since it was one of the first localities, many of the species named there are type species. The locality itself is used as the archetypal example of a 'Pikermian' chronofauna that existed from Afghanistan to the Balkans during the Late Miocene. Similar fossils are found on Samos Island in Greece and Shanxi China.
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56419731 | Winston Surfshirt | Winston Surfshirt is an Australian funk, hip hop band formed in 2015 by lead vocals and multi-instrumentalist Winston, Bustlip on beats, The Bone on trombone, Bik Julio on bass guitar, Dool on keyboards and Mi-K on guitar.
History.
The group started when solo musician Winston Surfshirt formed the eponymous six-piece funk, hip hop band in 2015 with Surfshirt on lead vocals and multi-instrumentals, Bustlip on beats, The Bone on trombone, Bik Julio on bass guitar, Dool on keyboards and Mi-K on guitar and keys. Their stylistic influences include both surf rock and West Coast hip hop. Winston Surfshirt have performed at Falls Festival and Splendour in the Grass, and have supported Rüfüs on tour. They released their first album, "Sponge Cake", on 29 September 2017, and released their second, "Apple Crumble", on 15 November 2019.
In August 2022, the group announced the forthcoming release of their third studio album, "Panna Cotta", scheduled for release in November 2022.
Awards and nominations.
AIR Awards.
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.
APRA Awards.
The APRA Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) to recognise composing and song writing skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.
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43587719 | Conor Boffeli | Conor Boffeli (born August 29, 1991) is a former American football guard. He played college football at Iowa.
Early years.
Boffeli attended Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa. He was a Class 4A second-team All-State selection as a senior, three time All-Conference pick. For his career he had 31 catches for 402 yards and 2 touchdowns as a Tight End. He was also a letterman in basketball and baseball.
College career.
Boffeli redshirted his first year in 2009. In 2010 was listed as third-team Center, and saw limited play time in 2011. He started the final 3 games of the 2012 season at Left Guard. In 2013, he started all 13 games at Left Guard, where he received Honorable Mention All-Big Ten and Academic All-Big Ten.
Professional career.
2014 NFL Draft.
Conor Boffeli went undrafted.
Minnesota Vikings.
Boffeli was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent on May 10, 2014. He was released by the Vikings on May 19, 2014.
Houston Texans.
The Houston Texans signed Boffeli on May 19, 2014. The Texans released Boffeli on August 26, 2014.
Chicago Bears.
The Chicago Bears signed Boffeli on October 2, 2014 to the practice squad. On September 5, 2015, he was released by the Bears.
Cleveland Browns.
The Cleveland Browns signed Boffeli to a reserve-future contract on January 7, 2016. On August 1, 2016, Boffeli was waived by the Browns.
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67982993 | Bhanwar (2020 TV series) | Bhanwar is a sci-fi thriller series starring Karanvir Bohra, Priya Banerjee, Teejay Sidhu, Payal Sodhi and Mantra in key roles. The web series marks the directional debut of TV actor, Karanvir Bohra. Its about a couple who moves into a new apartment and discovers that the place is already occupied by their own ghosts, it also focuses on the theme of time travel. The web series was released on 18 August 2020 on ZEE5 OTT platform.
Premise.
The plot revolves around the lives of a husband and wife who move in to a new house where they encounter mysterious incidents. However, they soon learn that their new house is occupied by their own ghosts. Things get complicated when they realize that they have time travelled six months in future and
that they were killed by the estate agent, who is a serial killer.
Release.
The trailer was released on 13 August 2020 while the web series premiered on ZEE5 on 18 August 2020.
Reception.
Shefali Jha from "IBTimes" termed the series as a suspenseful ride and discussed further on the plot.
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60131111 | Ruslan Muradov | Ruslan Hamid oglu Muradov (; 27 June 1973, Mingachevir, Azerbaijan SSR – 22 August 1992, Papravənd, Agdam, Azerbaijan) was the National Hero of Azerbaijan and warrior during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Early life and education.
Muradov was born on 27 June 1973 in Mingachevir, Azerbaijan SSR. In 1990, he completed his secondary education in Mingachevir. He later worked at Mingachevir Technical Rubber Plant, where his father worked. He joined Azerbaijani Armed Forces in 1992 and was appointed to the Papravand village of Agdam District.
Muradov was single.
First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
When Armenians attacked the territory of Azerbaijan, Muradov voluntarily joined Azerbaijani Armed Forces and was sent to participate in the battles around the village of Papravand of Agdam District. The village was released from Armenian soldiers.
In 1992, one of the aircraft belonging to Azerbaijan fled to the territory controlled by Armenian soldiers and was shot down. A group of Azerbaijani soldiers was sent to rescue the wounded.
Muradov was killed during the battles for the Papravand village of Agdam District on August 22, 1992.
Honors.
Ruslan Hamid oglu Muradov was posthumously awarded the title of the "National Hero of Azerbaijan" by Presidential Decree No. 290 dated 6 November 1992.
He was buried at a Martyrs' Lane cemetery in Mingachevir. The Secondary School No. 15 in Mingachevir was named after him.
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63737845 | Curzio Maltese | Curzio Maltese (30 March 1959 – 26 February 2023) was an Italian journalist and politician.
Biography.
Maltese was born in Milan and raised in Sesto San Giovanni, and the brother of RAI sports journalist Cinzia Maltese. After working at factories and on independent radio, he became a journalist.
Maltese started reporting on sports and news for the newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, La Stampa, and La Notte. He was a columnist for the newspaper La Repubblica and the weekly newspaper Il Sabato di Repubblica, where he also covered television and film criticism.
In 2014, he ran for the European elections as top candidate in the northwest Italian constituency for The Other Europe list, in support of Alexīs Tsipras as President of the European Commission, obtaining 31,980 preferences. Despite being the first of the unelected on his list, he entered the European Parliament following the renunciation of Moni Ovadia and sat in the GUE/NGL group. In 2015, he entered the national presidency of Left Ecology Freedom, the party led by Nichi Vendola. In 2017, he was on the promoting committee of the Italian Left.
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9451133 | Johnny Williams (boxer) | Johnny Williams (25 December 1926 – 28 January 2007) was a British former professional boxer in the 1940s and 1950s and was at one time both the British and Empire heavyweight champion.
Life and career.
Born in Barmouth, Wales, Williams grew up in Rugby, England, his family having moved there when he was a toddler. He started to box from the age of 10. He turned professional in 1946 and was known for his scientific approach in the ring, with one of his greatest fights being a bout with Jack Gardner on 17 July 1950 in Leicester. It was a Commonwealth title eliminator fight and he lost on points, and according to the BBC it was rated as one of the most grueling bouts ever staged in Britain and left both boxers requiring a night in hospital.
Two years later on 11 March 1952, Williams had his finest hour, when in a rematch with Gardner, he won the 15 round fight, claiming both the British and Empire Heavyweight titles. However the following year he lost these titles to Don Cockell.
Williams made an attempt at winning back the titles in 1955, but was defeated in a fifth-round knockout by Gardner.
Williams retired in 1956 with 60 wins, 38 by knockout, 11 losses and 4 draws, and began a career as a farmer at Newton near Rugby.
He died on 28 January 2007 survived by his wife and daughter.
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61316432 | João Lucas (footballer, born 1998) | João Lucas de Almeida Carvalho (born 9 March 1998), known as João Lucas, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a right back for Santos.
Club career.
Early career.
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, João Lucas had failed trials at Atlético Mineiro and Cruzeiro before joining Villa Nova's youth setup in 2015. In 2016, he moved to Goiás, initially joining the under-17 team.
Ahead of the 2019 season, João Lucas signed for Bangu. He made his senior debut on 22 February of that year, starting in a 2–0 Campeonato Carioca home loss against Fluminense.
Flamengo.
On 9 May 2019, Flamengo signed João Lucas from Bangu for an undisclosed fee. Initially a backup to Rafinha, he made his club – and Série A – debut on 12 June, replacing Rodinei late into a 2–0 away win over CSA.
João Lucas scored his first goal for Flamengo on 25 January 2020, netting the equalizer in a 3–2 home win over Volta Redonda. However, he lost space after the arrival of Mauricio Isla and the proeminence of Matheuzinho.
Cuiabá.
On 4 May 2021, João Lucas was loaned to top tier newcomers Cuiabá until the end of the year. An undisputed starter, he signed a permanent four-year deal with the club on 31 December.
Santos.
On 9 December 2022, Santos announced the signing of João Lucas on a three-year contract. He made his debut for the club the following 14 January, starting in a 2–1 Campeonato Paulista home win over Mirassol.
Honours.
Flamengo
Cuiabá
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2868576 | Mudashiru Lawal | Mudashiru Babatunde "Muda" Lawal (8 June 1954 – 6 July 1991) was a Nigerian footballer who played as a midfielder for both club and country.
Club career.
He worked as an automobile mechanic before his football talents were discovered, and made his national team debut in 1975. The same year, he joined Shooting Stars F.C. of Ibadan, where he would play for many years. In 1976, he helped the club to their first continental title, winning the African Cup Winners Cup – the first Nigerian team to do so. In 1985 the club side was disbanded by a military governor. Muda returned to the side four seasons latter as an assistant coach/player.
International career.
Muda made his international debut in 1975, and won 86 caps and scored 12 goals for his country; he holds the record of being the only player on the continent to have appeared at five consecutive Nations' Cup finals (1976–1984). Lawal guided Nigeria to its first African Nations Cup title, at the 1980 African Nations Cup. The team also competed at the Summer Olympics the same year.
Lawal played his last international match on 18 August 1985, when Nigeria lost to Zambia in the 1986 African Cup of Nations qualifier.
Death.
Lawal died in his home in 1991. The Ashero Stadium in his hometown Abeokuta was named after him upon his death.
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56173122 | Wakara people | The Wakara or Wakura were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
Country.
The Wakara are estimated by Norman Tindale to have had a tribal domain of some 3., running along the southern flank of the upper Mitchell River, and extending eastwards as far as Mount Mulligan. To the west their frontiers lay around Wrotham Park and Blackdown.
History of contact.
White contact with the Wakara began in 1875, when settlers remarked that they were a powerful tribe in the region. They also noted the presence of another group, west of Mount Mulligan, called the "Wunjurika", which may have been an autonomous tribe or simply a band society of the Wakara. Within 15 years, by 1890, the Wunjurika had been so thoroughly absorbed into the Wakara tribe that they lost whatever independent identity they may have had. Though numerous at the initial stage of contact, the Goldfields Commissioner on the Hodgkinson diggings, H. M. Mowbray, wrote that within the decade, they had been "much reduced by its frequent encounters with the Native Police and the settlers, as well as by diseases introduced by the Whites." Syphilis, also spread by contact with whites, further ravaged the tribe.
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24655197 | Lee Feldman | Lee Feldman (born June 15, 1959, Seattle, Washington) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Feldman grew up in New York City. He studied classical piano from an early age, attending the Manhattan School of Music (Precollege Division). In the mid-1970s he studied jazz at Berklee and studied privately with Roland Hanna. Feldman earned a degree in composition from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in 1981 and returned to New York.
Feldman's musical style has been compared to Randy Newman and Loudon Wainwright III. In 1995, he released his debut album, the critically acclaimed "Living It All Wrong" (Allmusic ). His next two efforts, "The Man in the Jupiter Hat" (2000) (Allmusic) and "I've Forgotten Everything" (2006) also won high praise. He has also created the animated musical "Starboy". In addition to creating and performing music, Feldman teaches music at the Third Street Music School Settlement in Manhattan. Feldman is the president of the Third Street Faculty Association, the first teachers' union at Third Street. He is also the director of LF/S BROOKLYN, an art gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Feldman lives in Riverdale, the Bronx.
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33886740 | The Erl-King (novel) | The Erl-King () is a 1970 novel by the French writer Michel Tournier. It is also known as The Ogre. It tells the story of a man who recruits children to be Nazis in the belief that he is protecting them. The novel received the Prix Goncourt. The 1996 film "The Ogre", directed by Volker Schlöndorff, is based on the novel.
Summary.
The story is about Abel Tiffauges, who attends the Saint-Christophe boarding-school where he meets Nestor, a privileged student who will take him under his wing and adore him so much as to let him indulge his obsessions.
Abel first writes about his childhood and his life in life before 1939 in his personal diary.
After World War I, Abel finds himself being a dedicated pigeon keeper and a soldier in Alsace.
Then, he is taken prisoner and deported throughout Germany and Poland in East Prussia (German region that corresponds to the current Kaliningrad Oblast/Königsberg in Western Russia).
He will later be imprisoned in the Moorhof camp (close to Insterburg – today Chernyakhovsk – and to Gumbinnen – today Gusev), and will then make it to the reservation of Rominten (in the South-Eastern part of East Prussia), in the hunting ground of Göring he calls "the ogre of Rominten". He then finds himself having to recruit children in the Mazurian region. He saves Ephraïm, a Jewish boy who came from a Lithuanian camp and escapes while carrying him on his back through swamps. The novel ends with the following sentence:
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33644640 | William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld | William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1 April 1692 – 13 May 1761) was a member of the House of Hesse and was Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld from 1721 to 1761.
Life.
William was a younger son of Landgrave Philip of Hesse-Philippsthal from his marriage to Catherine Amalie (1654–1736), daughter of Count Karl Otto of Solms-Laubach.
Wilhelm founded the non-sovereign line Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld of the House of Hesse in 1721, after the death of his father, who had left him Barchfeld and Herleshausen in his will. Between 1690 and 1732 he built the baroque Wilhelmsburg Castle with three wings, which was named after him, in Barchfeld.
He served in the Hessian army and later in the Dutch army. In 1732, he was appointed governor of Ypres. In 1733, he was promoted to lieutenant general of the cavalry. In 1743, he led the Dutch troops in the War of the Austrian Succession. In 1744, he had to surrender Ypres to the French. He fought in the Battle of Fontenoy and defended Bergen op Zoom and Mons. In 1747 he was promoted General of the Cavalry
He died in 1761, as governor of Breda.
Marriage and issue.
William married on 31 October 1724 in Hoym with Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine (1704–1766), daughter of Prince Lebrecht of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, with whom he had the following children:
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13156952 | Pipewell Abbey | Pipewell Abbey was an English Cistercian abbey, in the Northamptonshire hamlet of Pipewell in the old Rockingham Forest. It was established in 1143 by William Butevilain as a daughter house of Newminster Abbey in Northumberland.
The Abbey also held properties in the neighbouring county of Warwickshire, in the area of Rugby, which was then a small village, the monks had several granges at the villages of Cawston, Thurlaston, Little Lawford and Long Lawford and Rugby, with other properties at Bilton, Newbold-on-Avon, Toft, and possibly Church Lawford. The Cawston Grange was the largest and most valuable of their Warwickshire properties, and became the base of their operations there.
During the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538 the Abbey and its properties were seized by the Crown and sold off; the Abbey at Pipewell was sold to Sir William Parr, and in 1675, Pipewell Hall was built nearby from the stones of the Abbey. The Boughton family purchased many of the Warwickshire properties, including Cawston, Bilton, Little and Long Lawford, and Newbold.
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72114564 | Bebaak (film) | Bebaak "(Dying wind in her hair)" is a Hindi and Urdu language short film written and directed by Shazia Iqbal in 2019 and produced by Jar Pictures. This film is based on a true tale about a young woman named Fatin who was publicly reprimanded for being a woman at a scholarship interview by a religious leader.
Plot.
Based on a real-life incident, "Bebaak" examines the patriarchal idea of male agency over female bodies, which is based on a systematic theological notion that demands women cover up in order to be "more humble, respectful, and acceptable" by society. It tells the tale of Fatin, a young woman from a low-income family who encounters chauvinism and is reprimanded by a religious leader during a scholarship interview.
Controversy.
The scandal surrounding Anurag Kashyap stems from his alleged negligence in a sexual assault accusation against his former business partner Vikas Bahl, and it has stained a short film he made on his own. The Kashyap and Jar Films-produced film Bebaak, starring Shazia Iqbal, has been removed from this month's Mumbai Film Festival.
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65088949 | Massacre of Monte Arruit | The massacre of Monte Arruit took place on 9 August 1921 in Al Aaroui during the Rif War, when, after the July 1921 Battle of Annual, Riffian forces slaughtered most of the Spanish soldiers who had surrendered on that day.
History.
The Riffians forces advanced quite rapidly into a number of positions following the crushing defeat of the Spanish forces at the 22 July 1921 Battle of Annual and by early August they had already taken Zeluán and Nador. had retreated to Arruit on 29 July, with around 2,201 ready soldiers and 252 wounded, joining the garrison of 964 soldiers.
After 12 days of siege, General Navarro was allowed to negotiate surrender terms. He agreed on 9 August on the delivering of the weapons in exchange for free {based}passage. However, the Riffians failed to honor the agreement (either from treason from the Riffian leaders who had negotiated the terms or revolt by the disgruntled low-rank Riffians) and most of the remaining Spanish soldiers (over 2,000) were slaughtered on that day after the capitulation. About 400 (or 600), mostly officers—including General Navarro—were spared to be held for ransom.
The Riffian forces disobeyed orders from Abd el Krim who had extolled the good treatment of prisoners and wounded.
Once after the process for recapture of the Spanish territory lost after Annual began on 10 October 1921, the troops led by General Sanjurjo who secured the position of Monte Arruit on 24 October were overcome by the rotting stench of the corpses.
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34735486 | Sacred Heart Church (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) | Sacred Heart Church is located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance in 1983. The parish was organized around 1875 when a number of German-speaking families formed a parish distinct from St. Patrick's. The first building was a wooden frame structure, but a brick church was built in 1880 and a school was built in 1910, also from brick. Sacred Heart Hospital, founded in 1889 and located about half a block north of the church, was also part of the campus.
In 1928, the current building was built. It is a locally significant example of Neo-Romanesque architecture, and the imposing building is a prominent feature of the city center. It has identical twin towers, an oversized rose window, and many round arched openings. The structure has an apsidal shape, and the interior has side aisles lining the nave. The twin towers are mirror images of each other, which contrasts with the more common unmatched towers in this architectural style.
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31049104 | Olímpico Pirambu Futebol Clube | Olímpico Pirambu Futebol Clube, commonly known as Olímpico de Pirambu, is a Brazilian football club based in Pirambu, Sergipe state. They competed in the Série C and in the Copa do Brasil once.
History.
The club was founded on September 4, 1931, in Aracaju, as Siqueira Campos Futebol Clube.The team then changed its name to Olímpico Futebol Clube in 1939.In 1996, the team moved to Itabi due to financial problems, only to move to Carmópolis in the following year and to Lagarto in the same year. The team eventually moved to Pirambu in 2005, changing its name to Olímpico Pirambu Futebol Clube. Olímpico de Pirambu won the Campeonato Sergipano Série A2 in 2005, and the Campeonato Sergipano in 2006. They competed in the Série C in 2006, when they were eliminated in the First Stage, and in the Copa do Brasil in 2007, when they were eliminated in the First Round by Corinthians.
Stadium.
Olímpico Pirambu Futebol Clube play their home games at Estádio André Moura. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 3,000 people. The club also played at Estádio Valberto Gomes de Conceição, nicknamed "Bebetão". This stadium has a maximum capacity of 4,000 people.
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48950084 | George Hare Leonard | George Hare Leonard (30 January 1863 – 31 January 1941) was the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol from 1905 to 1928.
He was born in Clifton, Gloucestershire, England the second son of George Hare Leonard, JP (1826–1913) and Eliza Berry ‘Leila’ née Everett (1835–1925). Educated at Clevedon and Mill Hill Schools, and Clare College, Cambridge - BA 1884 (History Tripos 1st Class); MA 1888.
He was a Lecturer for the Cambridge Extension Lectures Syndicate from 1884–1891, and the first to lecture in Cambridge.
He was the first Warden of the Broad Plain House Settlement, Bristol from 1891 - 1900. Lecturer at University College, Bristol, in History and Literature, 1901.
He was active in the worker's education movement; Chairman of the Worker's Education Association in Bristol and the West.
He died in 1941 at Barnwood House Hospital in Gloucester.
After his death, his widow and second cousin - Mary Leonard née Warren (1868–1928) - endowed the “George Hare Leonard Prize” at the University of Bristol, given for the best overall performance in Part II examinations in History; and the “George Hare Leonard Memorial Lecture”
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57565769 | Bureau of Non-Formal Education | Bureau of Non-Formal Education is a government bureau responsible for providing jobs, education, and opportunities to individuals who have not received formal education. The Bureau is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Director General of Bureau of Non-Formal Education is Tapan Kumar Ghosh.
History.
The Bureau of Non-Formal Education traces its origin to the Directorate of Non-Formal Education. The Directorate of Non-Formal Education was under the Primary and Mass Education Division which was established in August 1992. The Directorate was placed in charge of Non-Formal Education programs providing services to 34.4 million illiterate people in Bangladesh. The Directorate of Non-Formal Education was dissolved in 2005 and replaced with the Bureau of Non-Formal Education. The Total Literacy Movement, which was founded in 1996 was dissolved in 2003, had parts of its functions absorbed into the Bureau. The Government of Bangladesh allocated Basic Literacy and Continuing Education project one and two to the bureau with a budget of 30 billion taka.
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50948315 | Jaren Cerf | Jaren Cerf (born September 22, 1983) is an American recording artist and songwriter most recognized for her work in the trance music with artists like Armin van Buuren, Dash Berlin, and Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren. She has co-written songs for Canadian artists Lukay, Maiarah, Andee, Eva Avila, and Michelle Treacy. Additionally, she has released two folk albums since 2008 – "Fixin' It Upright" and "7 Year Itch".
In 2013, her song "This Is My Goodbye" with French DJ/producer Antoine Clamaran (under her alias Fenja) reached the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Club Charts for three consecutive weeks. In 2014, she co-wrote "We Are Gold", sung by Canadian recording artist Andee, which was featured at the Sochi Olympics.
In 2015 she starred in the stage production "Oh Canada, What A Feeling", paying homage to Joni Mitchell, Celine Dion, and Sylvia Tyson, in which she earned favorable reviews.
In 2017, Jaren starred in Pat Collins's Irish-Canadian biopic, Song of Granite, about traditional Irish sean nos singer Joe Heaney. The film debuted at SXSW in March and went on to become Ireland's official submission for the 2018 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
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6979845 | Domen, Norway | Domen is a mountain on the Varanger Peninsula in eastern Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The tall mountain is located near the coast between the small fishing village Kiberg and the island of Vardøya. Domen is bare and flat-topped, with a steep slope towards the Barents Sea below. The European route E75 highway runs along the western side of the mountain from Svartnes to Kiberg. The road is often closed in the winter due to bad weather.
Name.
The Old Norse name of the Arctic Sea was "Dumbshaf" . This sea ("haf") was named after the mountain "Dumbr" (an old form of "Domen"). The name is probably related to the English word "dumb", but in what meaning is unclear.
History and folklore.
Domen is often associated with the witch trials in Finnmark during the 17th century. Vardø was the site of approximately 70 witch trials between 1601 and 1663. This was a large number, since there were only a couple of hundred inhabitants in the area at that time.
According to folklore, Vardø and Domen became infamous as "the end of the world", Ultima Thule and the entrance to Hell was said to be somewhere around Domen or Vardø, and so witches flew to Domen to meet the devil for sabbath.
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21813761 | Benjamin Harrison (judge) | Benjamin Harrison (December 18, 1888 – August 13, 1960) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Education and career.
Born in San Bernardino, California, Harrison read law to enter the bar in 1914. He was in private practice in Needles, California from 1917 to 1923, and in San Bernardino from 1923 to 1937, and was city attorney of Needles from 1918 to 1937. He was also a member of the Board of Education of San Bernardino from 1928 to 1932. He was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1937 to 1940.
Federal judicial service.
On June 11, 1940, Harrison was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California created by 54 Stat. 219. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 22, 1940, and received his commission on June 26, 1940. He served as Chief Judge in 1959, and continued to serve on the court until his death on August 13, 1960.
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67257031 | 2016 Toulouse Olympique season | This article details Toulouse Olympique rugby league football club's 2016 season. This was Toulouse's first season back in the English competition since they left at the end of 2011. They competed in League 1. They finished the season on top of the table, but lost the promotion final to Rochdale Hornets who were crowned champions. Toulouse were promoted to the Championship in second place after they successfully came through the play-offs, beating Barrow Raiders in the play-off final. Toulouse also entered the Challenge Cup, reaching the sixth round where they lost to Super League side Wakefield Trinity.
Home matches were played at Stade Ernest-Argelès in Blagnac rather than at Toulouse's historic home ground of Stade Arnauné.
Kingstone Press League 1.
2016 League 1
Challenge Cup.
Toulouse entered the Challenge Cup in Round 3. They were drawn away to face Cumbrian amateur side Wath Brow Hornets, winning 32–14. In Round 4, Toulouse defeated fellow League 1 side Gloucestershire All Golds 62–28 in France. In Round 5 they beat Championship side Leigh Centurions 10–8 at Stade Ernest-Argeles before bowing out at Super League side Wakefield Trinity, losing 40–22.
2016 transfers.
Gains
Losses
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37779764 | 1955–56 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team | The 1955–1956 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team represented St. Francis College during the 1955–56 NCAA men's basketball season. The team was coached by Daniel Lynch, who was in his eighth year at the helm of the St. Francis Terriers. The team was a member of the Metropolitan New York Conference and played their home games at the II Corps Artillery Armory in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The Terriers were led by Al Innis, Dan Mannix, Walt Adamushko, and Tony D'Elia in the 1955–56 season and were ranked as high as 13th nationally. The team at one point won 18 straight games and upset Niagara to reach the NIT Semi-Finals, before falling to Dayton. Also of note, Al Inniss set the St. Francis single-game rebounding record with 37 against Lafayette in the First Round of the National Invitational Tournament.
Schedule and results.
!colspan=12 style="background:#0038A8; border: 2px solid #CE1126;;color:#FFFFFF;"| Regular Season
!colspan=12 style="background:#0038A8; border: 2px solid #CE1126;;color:#FFFFFF;"| National Invitation Tournament
NBA draft.
At the end of the season Dan Mannix was selected with the 63rd overall pick by the Rochester Royals.
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43098804 | John Deane (Australian politician) | John Horace Deane (1842–1913) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
Politics.
John Deane was a member of the Dalrymple Shire Council from 1880 to 1889 and from 1891 to 1911. During that period, he was chairman of the Council from 1880 to 1884 and again in 1890.
Deane was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the electoral district of Townsville in the 1878 election on 28 November 1878 as a supporter of Thomas McIlwraith. He never spoke in parliament and resigned on 3 February 1879, standing aside to allow John Murtagh Macrossan (who had already been appointed Minister for Works and Mines in the McIlwraith Ministry) to win the resulting by-election on 4 March 1879.
On 31 July 1889, Deane was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council. A lifetime appointment, he held it until his death on 27 October 1913.
Later life.
Dean died on 27 October 1913 and was buried in Townsville's West End Cemetery.
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16457039 | The Lovebirds (2007 film) | The Lovebirds is a 2007 Portuguese feature drama film directed by Bruno de Almeida, starring Michael Imperioli, John Ventimiglia, Joaquim de Almeida, Drena De Niro, Nick Sandow and Rogério Samora.
Synopsis.
"The Lovebirds" intertwines six stories in the course of one night in Lisbon. An artist pursues a girl through the old cobblestone streets bewitched by the resemblance she has to his dead wife; two small-time crooks break into an apartment as they argue about a lover that tries to divide them; an aging director shooting a boxing film struggles with a movie star and a boxer who has too much pride to be knocked out; an alienated taxi driver brutally kills a prostitute but when he picks up a pregnant woman he may unexpectedly find redemption; a pilot's weekend affair with a fashion designer goes haywire when her overprotective dog exposes certain trivialities in their relationship; an archaeologist refuses to come out of a work pit where his obsessions may be a cover up for something deeper. A mix of lovable off-beat characters dealing with love, friendship, passion, solitude and hope.
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2562174 | Julie Vlasto | Pénélope Julie "Diddie" Vlasto Serpieri (; 8 August 1903 – 2 March 1985) was a female tennis player from France. She won the silver medal at the Paris Olympics in 1924 in women's singles, losing the final to Helen Wills Moody. Vlasto also won the version of the French national championships in 1924 that was open only to French nationals. She was a doubles partner of Suzanne Lenglen in many doubles tournaments during the early 1920s.
She was born as Pénélope Julie Vlasto on 8 August 1903, in Marseille, France.
According to Wallis Myers of the "Daily Telegraph" and "Daily Mail", Vlasto was ranked in the world top ten in 1923 and 1926, reaching a career high of world No. 8 in 1923.
She married Jean-Baptiste Serpieri on 17 February 1927.
Grand Slam singles tournament timeline.
1Through 1923, the French Championships were open only to French nationals. The World Hard Court Championships (WHCC), actually played on clay in Paris or Brussels, began in 1912 and were open to all nationalities. The results from that tournament are shown here for 1923. The Olympics replaced the WHCC in 1924, as the Olympics were held in Paris. Beginning in 1925, the French Championships were open to all nationalities, with the results shown here beginning with that year.
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46177304 | Farook Abdul Rahiman |
Farook Abdul Rahiman (born 5 November 1966) is an Indian filmmaker and writer. Farook was born into a Rowther family. Starting his career as an Assistant Director in television films of Dooradarshan, Farook was drawn into independent film making after his debut feature film
Early life.
Farook Abdul Rahiman was born in Thattamangalam, Chittur of Palakkad, to Abdul Rahiman and Ayisha He attended Seri Sahib Memorial High School at Thathamangalam, and completed his Bachelor in Commerce at Chittur Government College. He has two daughters.
Career.
He started his professional career in Television films at the age of 18 as Assistant Director on Dooradarshan Malayalam television film "Nangema kutty"(1984) and then assisted Malayalam Director P.N. Menon in his television film "Ethalukal"-Petals. Later produced Malayalam Television Films "Sthree Parvam" and "Kulam"-Clan. His directorial debut was the television film "Vyathiyanam"-Digression - Story of a young man with unusual thoughts and his life in Malayalam, broadcast by Dooradarshan Thiruvananathapuram. He directed "Kaliyachan" (The Master of the Play) based on P. Kunhiraman Nair's poem of the same name which won Kerala State Film Award for the Best Debutant director (2015). Based on his movie a book "Puza pol chirichu maza pol karanju" was also written by Farook Abdul Rahiman in 2021.
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64876030 | Christian Tuipulotu | Christian Tuipulotu (born 18 February 2001) is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays as a for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League (NRL).
He previously played for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL.
Background.
Tuipulotu was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and is of Tongan descent. He is also an alumnus of St Paul's College, Auckland.
Career.
2020.
Tuipulotu made his first grade debut in round 14 of the 2020 NRL season for the Sydney Roosters against Melbourne at the Sydney Cricket Ground, scoring a try on debut.
On 27 October, he signed with Manly-Warringah.
2021.
He made only one first grade appearance for Manly in the 2021 NRL season and did not feature in the clubs finals campaign. In round 15 of the 2022 NRL season, he scored two tries in Manly's 28-26 loss against North Queensland.
2022.
Tuipulotu was one of seven players involved in the Manly pride jersey player boycott.
He played a total of 19 games in the 2022 NRL season scoring 11 tries. Manly would finish 11th on the table and miss out on the finals.
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17174855 | Taybarns | Taybarns was a British low cost all-you-can-eat restaurant chain owned by Whitbread, modelled on the Golden Corral chain in the United States. Customers paid on arrival and could eat as much food as they liked from a 34-metre-long food counter. As with most buffets, there was a lower price at lunchtime than evenings, and a slightly higher charge was levied at weekends and during bank holidays.
In March 2016, it was announced that following a strategic corporate review, all Taybarns Restaurants would close and convert to pub restaurants of Brewers Fayre. When the South Shields Taybarns closed on 13 September 2016, the business became defunct.
Locations.
The seven Taybarns restaurants were in Barnsley, Coventry, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Gateshead, South Shields, Swansea, and Wigan.
In October 2009, the company made public its intention to expand rapidly, as did Fos, with CEO Martin Howe stating that some Brewers Fayre pubs would be converted to the Taybarns brand and up to thirty new restaurants to open the following year. However, the company was unable to open new restaurants, due to the high costs of such extensive refurbishments and in 2016, it was announced that all seven sites would be returned to the Brewers Fayre brand.
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26988368 | Lectionary 211 | Lectionary 211, designated by siglum ℓ "211" (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.
Scrivener labelled it by 218evl.
The manuscript has complex contents.
Description.
The codex contains lessons from the Gospels of John, Matthew, Luke lectionary ("Evangelistarium"), on 209 parchment leaves ().
The text is written in Greek minuscule letters, in two columns per page, 28-30 lines per page. It contains pictures. The first leaf contains the history of St. Varus and six martyrs.
There are weekday Gospel lessons.
It contains the text of , Luke 22:43-44, and John 8:3-11 (dedicated to Pelagia).
Luke 9:35
John 4:51
John 6: 42
It is a palimpsest, the lower text contains a Menaion, for January, was written in minuscule letters, in the 11th century.
History.
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century, Gregory dated it to the 12th or 13th century. It is presently assigned by the INTF to the 12th century.
The manuscript is cited in the critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS3, UBS4.)
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (number 218) and Gregory (number 211). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.
Currently the codex is located in the Bodleian Library (Wake 18) at Oxford.
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45420196 | Turnip Rock | Turnip Rock is a small geological formation in Michigan. It is a stack located in Lake Huron, in shallow water a few yards offshore, near the rock called the Thumbnail which is the extreme tip of Pointe Aux Barques, a small peninsula in Pointe Aux Barques Township which in turn is the extreme tip of The Thumb, a large peninsula comprising several counties in eastern Michigan.
Turnip Rock has been severely undercut by wave action, so that its top has a significantly larger cross-section than its base. Its consequent unusual form, reminiscent of a turnip, has made it a popular tourist attraction, although it is located entirely on private property. The only access to Turnip Rock is by water, and there is no public road access. A concrete collar has been built around the base of Turnip Rock at the waterline to stop further undercutting.
Turnip Rock was one of twenty finalists in the 2013 "Seven Wonders of Michigan" contest sponsored by the "Detroit Free Press" and the "Lansing State Journal", but wasn't selected as one of the final seven.
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