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1179935 | Yi (Cyrillic) | Yi (Ї ї; italics: "Ї ї") is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Yi is derived from the Greek letter iota with diaeresis.
It was the initial variant of the Cyrillic letter Іі, which saw change from two dots to one in 18th century, possibly inspired by similar Latin letter i. Later two variants of the letter separated to become distinct letters in the Ukrainian alphabet.
It is used in the Ukrainian alphabet, the Pannonian Rusyn alphabet, and the Prešov Rusyn alphabet of Slovakia, where it represents the iotated vowel sound , like the pronunciation of in "yeast". As the historical variant of the Cyrillic Іі it represented either /i/ (as i in "pizza") or /j/ (as y in "yen").
In various romanization systems of Ukrainian, "ї" is represented by Latin letters "i" or "yi" (word-initially), "yi", "ji", or even "ï".
It was formerly also used in the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet in the late 1700s and early 1800s, where it represented the sound ; in this capacity, it was introduced by Dositej Obradović but eventually replaced with the modern letter ј by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić.
In Ukrainian, the letter was introduced as part of the "Zhelekhivka" orthography, in Yevhen Zhelekhivsky's Ukrainian–German dictionary (2 volumes, 1885–86).
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15057312 | Louise Campbell (designer) | Louise Campbell (born 1970 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish furniture and lighting designer. She is a leading figure in contemporary Danish design and experiments with free, unconstrained forms and new technologies. She has won several awards and her products are produced by many renowned producers like Louis Poulsen, Zanotta, HAY, Muuto and Holmegaard. She was born to Danish father and English mother.
Career.
Campbell’s interest in design is focused on furniture and lighting, but she is also involved in product and interior design projects. Some of the companies she has worked with include: Louis Poulsen, Zanotta, HAY, Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Stelton, Muuto, Interstop, and the Danish Ministry of Culture.
She is best known for the Prince Chair that she designed as her entry for a 2002 competition hosted by the Association of Danish Furniture Industries. The competition invited designers to create a chair for Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark. Although Campbell did not win the competition, the chair won several awards and HAY picked it up to manufacture. It is now a part of the Museum of Modern Art's collection. The chair itself resembles an "unfolded paper cutout" and was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's archival museum paper cutouts.
She is also known for the Collage pendant lamp designed for Louis Poulsen, the "More the Merrier" candlestick created for Muuto, and the "Campbell Pendant" (2005) for Louis Poulsen, which won the IF Product Design Award in gold.
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28061408 | Aqaba Archaeological Museum |
Aqaba Archaeological Museum () is the official archaeological museum of the city of Aqaba in Jordan.
Location.
The museum is located in the historical part of Aqaba, adjacent to the historic fort of Aqaba and near the Aqaba Flagpole.
History.
The building that hosts the museum was the palace of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali, the founder of the Hashemite dynasty, and was built shortly after World War I in 1917. The museum was established in 1989 and was officially opened on January 1, 1990.
Collection.
The museum houses Bronze Age artifacts that were recently discovered in the Tall Hujayrat Al-Ghuzlan archaeological site near Aqaba, dating back to 4000 BC. The discovery of the Tall Hujayrat al-Ghuzlan settlement provides an important proof that Aqaba is one of the oldest continuous settlements in the region that had a vibrant copper production. The museum also houses a collection of artifacts from the 7th to the early 12th century AD.
Some of the most known pieces of the museum's collections include a large inscription of a Quranic verse that was hanging on top of the eastern gate of the city in the 9th century, as well as golden coins that date back to the Fatimides and other coins from the kingdom of Segelmasa in Morocco.
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35892874 | Bushcaddy L-162 Max | The Bushcaddy L-162 Max is a Canadian kit aircraft that was designed by Sean Gilmore and produced by Canadian Light Aircraft Sales and Service and most recently by Bushcaddy. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.
Design and development.
The L-162 was developed from the Bushcaddy L-160 as a result of customer demand for a freight aircraft that could also provide room for a second row of seats behind the pilot and passenger seats. Unlike the L-160's designation, which indicates that the design engine for that model was originally a Lycoming O-320 of , the L-162 designation is just a numerical sequence and does not indicate horsepower.
The L-162 features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear, or optionally tricycle landing gear, and a single engine in tractor configuration. Floats and skis can also be fitted.
The aircraft fuselage is made with a frame of welded 6061-T6 aluminum square tubing, covered in 6061-T6 sheet. Its span wing employs V-struts with jury struts. The wing has an area of and flaps. It can accept four-stroke powerplants from , with the Lycoming O-360 of commonly used. Cabin access is via two fold-up doors.
Construction time for the factory kit is estimated at 1200 hours. Twelve examples had been completed and flown by December 2011.
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13455948 | Precision Talent | Founded in 2007, Precision Talent was a voice over talent management company, audio production house, voice over casting service, and a spoken word record label. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Precision Talent represented a talent pool called "The 100", which is composed of voice over talent based in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, London, and San Francisco.
Members of “The 100” included:
Leigh Kelly, Melanie Harrison, Doug Gochman, Virginia Hamilton, Juliet Wendell Brown, Brian Boyd, Marnie Saitta, Catherine Taber, Claudia Black, Milton Lawrence, Nicholas Hosking, Mike Vaughn, Andy Caploe, Kathy Grable, Chitra Elizabeth, Molly Hagan, Susan Balboni, Edoardo Ballerini, Sondi Kroeger, G.K. Bowes, Jack Dennis, David Paluck, Tansy Alexander, Shenita Moore, Samantha Robson, Karen Strassman, Matt Ritchey, Jennifer Aquino, John Balma, Leo G. Brown, Kay Bess, Ian Gregory, Robert Cait, Sirena Irwin, Robert Izenberg, Lisa Fuson, Addie Daddio, Chris Fries, Joe Joe Camareno, Alethea Allen, Gwen Mcgee, Giselle Achecar, Eric Loomis, Kipp Shiotani, Nancy Sullivan, Danny Garcia, Alex Alba, Ann Dewig, Keri Tombazian, Zach Hanks, John Capellaro, Kecia Cooper, Shelly Callahan, Mike Dunahee, Kay Lenz, Rochelle Greenwood.
History.
Precision Talent was founded by Cheryllynn Carter, who worked for thirteen years at TBWA\Chiat\Day in Los Angeles. She began her career at the Los Angeles Music Center.
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28129477 | William Alfred Merchant | William Alfred Merchant (31 July 1919 – 26 May 2001), was an English dwarf clown who performed under the name of "Little Billy" Merchant. Born in a workhouse in Barton Hill, Bristol, Merchant was abandoned by his parents as a young child and brought up in an orphanage in Bristol. As an adult, he was only tall.
Merchant was fascinated by his local variety theatre, the Bristol Empire, where a chance encounter in 1937 resulted in his recruitment into John Lester's troupe of midgets. He subsequently joined Joe Boganny's band of acrobatic dwarves, with whom he appeared in many of the leading variety venues of the time. During the Second World War Merchant worked as an aircraft fitter for the Bristol Aeroplane Company, but he managed to spend the 1944 summer season at Chessington Zoo Circus, partnering the clown Fiery Jack (real name Fred Zetina). His partnership with Jacko the Clown lasted for 30 years, during which time the pair traveled extensively on the European circus circuit. They were regular performers at the Belle Vue Christmas Circus until Merchant's retirement in 1979. They also spent six summer seasons at the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome.
Merchant moved to a retirement home in Skegness in 1979. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Circus Friends' Association of Great Britain in 2000.
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30638320 | Apollinarius (governor) | Apollinarius was a Byzantine governor of the Balearic Islands, appointed in 534. The main source about him is Procopius.
Biography.
Apollinarius was a native of the Italian Peninsula, but apparently settled in the Vandal Kingdom of North Africa while still underage. He grew up to serve King Hilderic (r. 523–530) and was reportedly rewarded "with great sums of money". When Hilderic was overthrown by Gelimer (r. 530–534), Apollinarius escaped to Constantinople. He and other political exiles asked Justinian I (r. 527–565) to intervene. Justinian soon started the Vandalic War.
Apollinarius served under Belisarius in the War and "proved himself a brave man". He took part in the Battle of Tricamarum (15 December, 533) and his contact earned him the favour of Belisarius. In 534, Apollinarius was rewarded with appointment as governor over the islands of Ibiza, Majorca and Menorca. His authority possibly extended over the rest of the Balearic Islands, but they are not named in primary sources. His subsequent activities are unknown.
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40422062 | Giovanni Bernardino Pollinari | Giovanni Bernardino Pollinari (Piacenza, February 27, 1813 – Piacenza, October 5, 1896) was an Italian painter, mainly of historic and sacred canvases, as well as portraits.
Biography.
Pollinari began his studies at the Istituto Gazzola in Piacenza, under Giuseppe Gherardi (or Girardi), and then of Antonio Gemmi. Under the patronage of Marchese Bernardino Mandelli, in 1824 Pollinari moved to Rome, where he worked in the studios of the leaders of the neoclassical style including Minardi, Camuccini, and Landi. He painted an "Immaculate Conception" for the church of San Raimondo in Piacenza. He also painted the sipario (stage curtain) of the Teatro Filodrammatico di Piacenza, depicting: "Alessandro Farnese receives ambassadors from the city during the Siege of Antwerp" completed by commission of the società d'incoraggiamento di Parma. Among his other works are: "Vignola presents his design for the Palazzo Farnese to Margherita d'Austria" and "La potestà delle chiavi". He painted life-size portraits of King Vittorio Emanuele. The Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi displays his portrait of the "Family of Antonio Francischelli". Pollinari himself became professor of the Istituto Gazzola in Piacenza. One of his pupils was Emilio Perinetti.
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15092237 | Christine Horne | Christine Horne (born December 14, 1981, in Aurora, Ontario) is a Canadian actress. She received her BFA in Theatre at York University in 2004 and has since become an established stage actor in Toronto.
She has been nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role, and won in 2010 for her role as The Governess in "The Turn of the Screw".
In 2019 she played Prince Hamlet in Ravi Jain's gender-flipped adaptation of "Hamlet", opposite Ho Ka Kei as Ophelia.
She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Guest Performance in a Drama Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for an appearance in "Remedy", and was nominated in the same category at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017 for an appearance in "Saving Hope". At the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2007, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film for her role as the young Hagar Shipley in "The Stone Angel".
She is married to television writer and producer Mike McPhaden.
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23014246 | Musashi-Masuko Station | is a passenger railway station located in the city of Akiruno, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines.
Musashi-Masuko Station is served by the Itsukaichi Line, and is located 8.5 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Haijima Station.
Station layout.
This station consists of one side platform and one island platform, with a small station building located adjacent to the side platform; however, track 3 on the outside of the island platform is not normally used, and is used as a siding at night. The station is staffed.
History.
The station opened on 21 April 1925 as on the Itsukaichi Railway; however it was renamed Musashi-Masuko on 16 May of the same year. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East. A new station building was completed in March 2011.
Passenger statistics.
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 2,481 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
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3840490 | Dallas Superstars | Dallas Superstars is a Finnish Electronic music duo of Heikki "Bostik" Liimatainen and Jaakko "JS16" Salovaara, noted for internationally charting dance club hit, "Helium" of 2002. The achievement of this single (which came to #3 on the Finnish move outline) provoked further arrivals of Fast Driving, Ready To Go, I Feel Love (a revamp of the Donna Summer exemplary) and Crazy, and the collection from which these tracks came. In 2006 they delivered their subsequent collection called Higher State.
"Helium".
The Dallas Superstar's first single was a dance track entitled "Helium", released in 2002. The success of this single (which reached #3 on the Finnish dance chart, and #64 in the UK Singles Chart) prompted further releases of "Fast Driving", "Ready To Go", "I Feel Love" (a cover version of the Donna Summer song) and "Crazy", and the album from which these tracks came.
"Flash".
"Flash" (2004) was the Dallas Superstar's first album, which was released only in Finland and Sweden. The release of another album "Higher State" was announced from the official website in September 2005. The first single from "Higher State" was "Fine Day".
Live.
The Dallas Superstars live performances mostly consist of DJ sets, although they have played small gigs consisting of purely their own material.
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70066737 | Lego Masters (American season 1) | The first season of the American reality competition television series "Lego Masters" premiered on Fox on February 5, 2020. The series is based on the British series of the same name. The season concluded with 10 episodes on April 15, 2020 crowning married couple Tyler and Amy Clites the winners during the finale.
On November 11, 2020, it was announced that Fox had renewed the series for a second season with Arnett, Berard and Corbett returning.
Host and judges.
The season is hosted by Will Arnett with Jamie Berard and Amy Corbett serving as judges. Various guests were featured in the season including Mayim Bialik in the second episode, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in the fourth episode, Nicole Byer in the seventh episode and Terry Crews in the eighth episode. Additionally, C-3PO, R2-D2 and BB-8 from the "Star Wars" franchise were featured in the ninth episode which was themed to the franchise.
Elimination table.
†Team awarded the Golden Brick.
Episodes.
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42104796 | Joseph F. and Anna B. Schrot Farm | The Joseph F. and Anna B. Schrot Farm is a subsistence farm located at 880 Carbon Mine Road in Lawrence Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The farm was established in 1889 by Joseph F. and Anna B. Schrot, a stonemason and his wife who immigrated to Clearfield County from Austria in 1883. Stone quarries at nearby Curwensville had created a local demand for masons, and Joseph Schrot was one of many Europeans who came to Clearfield County to take construction work. The Schrots' farm provided food for the couple and their family of fourteen children; the couple sold their excess food for additional income.
The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 2011.
Farm.
Five contributing buildings still stand on the farm. The oldest remaining building, the 1889 woodshed, is a wood and stone structure. The farmhouse is a wood frame building constructed from 1891 to 1915 and features a gabled front and a side wing. The farm also includes a barn built in 1900, a chicken coop built in 1908, and a pigpen built in 1909. The farm's landscape also contributes to the historic value of the site and includes an orchard, vegetable gardens, a blueberry patch, a wood lot, and hay fields.
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41438443 | Stephen Dycus | Stephen Dycus (born 1941) is an American professor of National Security Law at the Vermont Law School.
Biography.
Dycus obtained his bachelor's degree from the Southern Methodist University in 1963 and two years later got Bachelor of Laws degree at the same place. In 1976 he got his Master of Laws degree from Harvard University and the same year became faculty member of the Vermont Law School. From 1983 to 1984 he was a visiting scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and by 1991 held the same position at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. From 1991 to 1992 he was a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy and in 1997 worked at the Petrozavodsk State University in Karelia, Russia. Later on, for four years he was a member of the Vermont Water Resources Board, National Academies and the American Law Institute. Dycus was a consultant to the United States Department of Energy and was a founder and chairman of the National Security Law Section, a division of the Association of American Law Schools. He is also an author of "National Security Law" and "Counterterrorism Law" among other works.
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65778944 | Pagtingin | "Pagtingin" () is a song by Filipino folk-pop band Ben&Ben, composed by lead vocalist Paolo Benjamin Guico. It was released alongside "Araw-Araw" on May 2, 2019. It was used for the film "LSS (Last Song Syndrome)" released in 2019 under Globe Studios.
Music video.
The music video of the song was directed by Jorel Lising, with appearances from Gabbi Garcia and Khalil Ramos and was released on July 19, 2019. A sequel to the music video, "Araw-Araw", was released two months later on September 28, 2019. It was revealed by the band that the guitar solo during the break, performed by lead guitarist Poch Baretto and vocalist-guitarist Miguel Benjamin Guico, was recorded as they were filming the music video.
The music video is considered the most viewed video on the band's YouTube channel with over 21 million views since its release.
Aftermath.
A comment from the music video, posted some time after its upload on YouTube, would become the sole basis for the composition of their 2020 single "Lifetime."
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26576325 | Shankarpur | Shankarpur is a beach village located 14 km east of Digha in West Bengal, India. It is also a regular fishing harbour. Shankarpur contains a number of temples.
Geography.
Location.
Shankarpur is located in the Purba (East) Medinipur District of the state of West Bengal, Shankarpur is a beach destination along the Digha-Contai Road which is fast gaining popularity. It is at a distance of about 185 km from the capital city Kolkata, and about 14 km from the famous beach town Digha.
Transport.
Bus service.
There is frequent bus service to Digha from Dharmatala bus stand of Kolkata and many other parts of West Bengal. It is almost a 5-hour journey from Kolkata.
Bus service is also available from towns across West Bengal such as Midnapore, Bankura, Asansol, Bardhaman, Howrah and, also from Orissa via Balasore (Baleswar).
Nearest bus stops of Shankarpur are "14 Mile" or at "Ramnagar". From both of the places tracker service or van service is available.
External links.
Best Hotel In Shankarpur
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34219465 | Achille Grandi | Achille Grandi (24 August 1883 – 28 September 1946) was an Italian politician and catholic syndicalist.
Grandi was born in Como, Italy. In 1918 he entered the secretariat of the Confederazione Italiana dei Lavoratori CIL being one of its founding members, with Ulisse Carbone. He was elected CIL general secretary from 1922 to 1926 and brought the CIL up to 2 million members. In 1919 he was among the founding members of Partito Popolare Italiano becoming member of the parliament the same year. During fascism he didn't collaborate and survived working in a printing house. On 3 June 1944 he was one of the promoters and signatories of the Pact of Rome, which originated the "unified CGIL" and was the germ of all post-war Italian trade-unionism. In August 1944 he founded the Associazioni Cristiane dei Lavoratori Italiani (ACLI) becoming just for 6 months their president. As member of Democrazia Cristiana he was elected in 1946 to the Constituent Assembly of Italy. He died two months later in Desio nearby Milan, aged 63.
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61404733 | Greenhouse–Geisser correction | The Greenhouse–Geisser correction formula_1 is a statistical method of adjusting for lack of sphericity in a repeated measures ANOVA. The correction functions as both an estimate of epsilon (sphericity) and a correction for lack of sphericity. The correction was proposed by Samuel Greenhouse and Seymour Geisser in 1959.
The Greenhouse–Geisser correction is an estimate of sphericity (formula_1). If sphericity is met, then formula_3. If sphericity is not met, then epsilon will be less than 1 (and the degrees of freedom will be overestimated and the F-value will be inflated). To correct for this inflation, multiply the Greenhouse–Geisser estimate of epsilon to the degrees of freedom used to calculate the F critical value.
An alternative correction that is believed to be less conservative is the Huynh–Feldt correction (1976). As a general rule of thumb, the Greenhouse–Geisser correction is the preferred correction method when the epsilon estimate is below 0.75. Otherwise, the Huynh–Feldt correction is preferred.
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23091750 | JACK Intelligent Agents | JACK Intelligent Agents is a framework in Java for multi-agent system development. JACK Intelligent Agents was built by Agent Oriented Software Pty. Ltd. (AOS) and is a third generation agent platform building on the experiences of the Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) and Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System (dMARS). JACK is one of the few multi-agent systems that uses the BDI software model and provides its own Java-based plan language and graphical planning tools.
History.
JACK Intelligent Agents was initially developed in 1997 by ex-members of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII or A2I2) who were involved in the design, implementation, and application of PRS at SRI International and/or dMARS at the AAII. The JACK platform was written for commercial application of the multi-agent paradigm (a COTS product) to complex problem solving and was the basis for starting the company Agent Oriented Software (AOS) where it remains the flagship product.
Features.
JACK Intelligent Agents is a mature commercial multi-agent platform that has been under active research, development, and domain-specific application for more than 10 years. The following provides a listing of the platform's key differentiating features.
Extensions.
The JACK platform has been extended a number of times since its inception. Most of the extensions, such as JACK Teams and CoJACK were developed by or in collaboration with AOS.
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9273231 | Olive Township, Noble County, Ohio | Olive Township is one of the fifteen townships of Noble County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 5,395 people in the township, 3,429 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.
Geography.
Located in the south central part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Most of the village of Caldwell, the county seat and by far the biggest village of Noble County, is in northern Olive Township. A small corner of the village of Dexter City is also in the township's far southeast.
Name and history.
Statewide, the only other Olive Township is in Meigs County.
Government.
The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.
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15736704 | Christian Negouai | Christian Negouai (born 20 January 1978) is a French former professional footballer who played for as a midfielder.
He notably played in the Premier League for Manchester City and spent a spell on loan with Coventry City. He also played in Belgium with UR Namur, Charleroi and Standard Liège, FC Brussels and with Aalesund in Norway.
Career.
Negouai was bought for £1.5 million by Manchester City from Charleroi in 2001. He made six league appearances of which two were match starts and scored once against Rotherham. He also appeared for Manchester City in the UEFA Cup scoring against The New Saints F.C. Negouai proved to be a versatile success for Manchester City Reserves in the Premier Reserve League, scoring nine goals in 19 games after being converted to a centre forward from a defensive midfielder although his time at Manchester City was hampered by a serious injury which required operations on both knees restricting his appearances. According to Duncan Alexander, as of January 2019 he remains the only player to be sent off on their one and only Premier League appearance.
Upon joining Standard Liège, Negouai scored the fastest goal in Belgian League history when he struck after just 11 seconds in a 2-0 win over KVC Westerlo.
Personal life.
Negouai is a practising Muslim.
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15775785 | Māngere Lagoon | Māngere Lagoon is a lagoon in the Manukau Harbour, New Zealand. It occupies a volcanic crater or maar which is part of the Auckland volcanic field. Oval and about 600m long, it has a small restored scoria island remaining in the centre.
Geography.
Māngere Lagoon erupted an estimated 59,500 years before the present, predating the adjacent Māngere Mountain. Approximately 7,000 years ago, the crater became a tidal lagoon due to rising sea levels. The crater dome became a small island within the tidal estuary.
History.
The lagoon, alongside Waitomokia, Crater Hill, Kohuora, Pukaki Lagoon and Robertson Hill, is one of the volcanic features collectively referred to as Nga Tapuwae a Mataoho ("The Sacred Footprints of Mataoho"), referring to the deity in Tāmaki Māori myths who was involved in their creation.
In the 1930s efforts were made to drain the swamp for conversion to pasture, while in the late 1950s, earthworks for sewage sludge ponds in the lagoon removed the scoria cone and the crater was divided into ponds. Public demand for a better sewage treatment system eventually led to a land-based facility, and in 2003, the restoration of the area to a tidal lagoon was completed, with the sludge removed. The scoria cone was rebuilt with an extra flat portion added on the west side as an artificial bird roost. The shores of the lagoon are restored with native bush, replacing pine forests.
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3152041 | Shearjashub Bourne | Shearjashub Bourne (June 14, 1746 – March 11, 1806) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Massachusetts who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and United States House of Representatives.
Bourne was born in Barnstable in the Province of Massachusetts Bay on June 14, 1746, the son of Timothy and Elizabeth Bourne.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1764, studied law and became an attorney in Barnstable. He served in local office including justice of the peace. Among the individuals who studied law with him and later embarked on their own legal careers was Lot Hall, who served as a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
From 1782 to 1785 and 1788 to 1790 he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was also a delegate to the Massachusetts convention which ratified the U.S. Constitution.
Bourne represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1791, to March 3, 1795. He later served as Chief Justice of the Suffolk County, Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas. He died in Boston on March 11, 1806.
External links.
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49648381 | The Angelou Centre | The Angelou Centre is a charity in the West End of Newcastle in the North East of England, UK. It provides Black, Asian, minority ethnic and refugee women with training, personal development, counselling, legal advice for immigration and domestic violence.
History.
The Angelou Centre was founded by a collective of women activists and social workers in 1993. The director is Umme Imam, who has previously taught Community and Youth Work at Durham University, and is committed to highlighting the intersections of race and gender.
Aims.
The centre and its team of support workers, counselors, trainers, facilitators and volunteers provides women with skills training, personal development, employability support and access to welfare. The aim is to provide services to enable women to overcome barriers and achieve economic independence. The Angelou Centre organises meetings and protests to raise awareness of global issues around discrimination, while also organising celebrations, religious festivals, social groups and facilitating informal peer mentoring. The centre co-ordinates the heritage project BAM! Sistahood!, which focuses on the past and present achievements and experiences of Black, Asian, minority ethnic and refugee women in North East England.
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55839898 | Ferdinand Bury | Ferdinand Bury (1740–1795) was a Parisian cabinetmaker ("ébéniste") during the reign of Louis XVI. So renowned was he that until the first part of the nineteenth century, contemporaries and collectors referred to him simply as Ferdinand. He collaborated with the finest cabinetmakers of his age, including Jean-Henri Riesener, Martin Carlin, and Jean-Baptiste Tuart. According to the Count de Salverte, "Le soin que Ferdinand Bury apportait a ses travaux lui merita du succes."
Bury became a master in the guild of ebenistes in 1774 and set up shop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris. A German, he employed German workers. Apparently hot-tempered, he once started a drunken brawl with the merchants in the shop next door. Bad investments and the French Revolution ruined him, and Bury declared bankruptcy late in 1789. His richly decorated pieces, such as cylinder desks, were collected by the rich and famous, including several of the Rothschild family, and can sell today for as much as half a million dollars.
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36559613 | Tom Jasper | Thomas D. Jasper (born November 21, 1948) is an American former basketball player notable for his collegiate career at the College of William & Mary. After spending his first two seasons at then-Division II (and now defunct) Frederick College, in which he led them to a Small College National Championship as a sophomore, Jasper transferred to William & Mary in 1969 and played for head coach Warren Mitchell.
William & Mary.
In Jasper's two seasons with the Tribe, he scored 982 points in 54 career games. Through 2011–12, his 18.2 points per game career average is the fifth highest all-time at William & Mary. In his senior season in 1970–71, Jasper averaged 19.8 points and 8.6 rebounds per game, both of which led the team. His scoring also paced the Southern Conference. That season, Jasper earned a First Team All-SoCon selection, was named to the All-SoCon tournament Team and was also named the SoCon Co-Player of the Year with East Carolina's Jim Gregory. He became the second men's basketball conference player of the year in school history after Jeff Cohen earned the honor in 1961. He never played professionally after graduating, however.
Later life.
As of March 2008, Jasper was serving as Vice President of Marketing at Cavanaugh Press, Incorporated, in Baltimore, Maryland.
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21299380 | Commissioner of the Revenue | The Commissioner of the Revenue is one of five locally elected constitutional officers whose authority is specifically conveyed in the Virginia Constitution. The other four are the treasurer, sheriff, Commonwealth's attorney, and clerk.
In general, the local governing body (i.e. City Council, Board of Supervisors) establishes tax policy and sets tax rates. The Commissioner of the Revenue implements and administers these policies by establishing assessments and determining what is taxable. The Treasurer then collects the tax revenue.
The Commissioner of the Revenue is the chief tax-assessing official of the locality. The responsibilities of Commissioners vary from office to office across the Commonwealth. Generally, the Office of the Commissioner of the Revenue is responsible for administering the following taxes: Business and Professional Occupational License Tax, Bank Franchise Stock Tax, Motor Vehicle Rental Tax, Meals Tax,</ref> Meals Tax, Personal Property Tax, Public Service Corporation Tax, Public Rights of Way Use Tax, Transient occupancy tax, Consumer Utility Tax, and Virginia Income Tax. Commissioners also assist taxpayers in completing state tax returns and filing forms.
The Virginia General Assembly grants the Commissioner of the Revenue the power to summons taxpayers, to issue statutory assessments, to audit taxpayer returns, and, if necessary, to file civil and criminal proceedings against taxpayers for failure to file returns and/or provide information.
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72203907 | Wayne Douglas Quinn | Wayne Douglas Quinn (January 31, 1941 – Oct 2, 1987) was an American painter. He is known for photorealist works that explore queer male identity in San Francisco during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Early life and education.
Wayne Douglas Quinn was born on January 31, 1941.
Quinn lived and worked in San Francisco, California, of which he said "this is a mystical city. Once you leave San Francisco there's a whole other reality"
In 1979 Quinn painted author of 'Sex, Drugs & Disco', Mark Abramson.
Work.
Quinn worked to achieve a flat photographic effect, creating nudes in "lush flesh tones". The figures most often occupy detailed gem colored San Francisco interiors. Thomas Albright, art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, said of his work, "Quinn's forte...is a kind of haunted realism" Quinn allowed "his subjects to drift into thought. The resulting facial expressions are a reflection of this quiet self-awareness, solitude...it has been said often that there is a sadness peculiar to Mr. Quinn's paintings" The paintings "are very much involved with the desolation of the urban experience".
Selected exhibitions.
Quinn's solo exhibitions include "Wayne Douglas Quinn (1962-1972)" at Upper Market Street Gallery in 1973.
Collections.
Quinn's work is held in permanent collections including:
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3685387 | Stuart Anderson (Australian footballer) | Stuart Anderson (born 27 June 1974) is an Australian rules footballer. He comes from the Victorian town of Sale. In 1994 he was drafted by North Melbourne where he played 61 games as a midfielder/half-forward, including the 1996 premiership. At the end of the 1997 he was traded to the Fremantle Dockers in return for Winston Abraham. His career declined after the move west, only managing to play 9 games in 1998 for the Dockers. After failing to be selected in the league team at the beginning of the 1999 season, Anderson left the Fremantle Football Club mid year.
He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne.
Anderson played 21 first eleven games for the Melbourne Cricket Club between 1992/93 and 2000/01.
He is the cousin of Australian comedian Wil Anderson.
Statistics.
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1995
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1997
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! 70
! 23
! 22
! 526
! 349
! 875
! 154
! 55
! 0.3
! 0.3
! 7.5
! 5.0
! 12.5
! 2.2
! 0.8
! 2
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62807052 | BMO Tower (Milwaukee) | BMO Tower, also known as BMO Harris Financial Center at Market Square, is a 25-story, 328-foot tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building was scheduled to be completed in December 2019, but construction delays postponed the opening until April 2020. The building is 281,000 square feet and 328 feet tall.
History.
The developer, Irgens Development Partners, purchased a 20-story building and a parking lot as the site for this high-rise. On November 17, 2017 demolition of the existing structures began. Construction began in December 2017. The total cost of the BMO project was $175 million. It is one of the tallest office towers in Milwaukee.
The construction encountered delays such as a water lateral break which flooded the lower floors of the building. In January 2020 The building's developer Irgens fired the general contractor J.H. Findorff & Son and hired another builder, Pepper Construction, to finish the building.
The BMO Financial Center was designed by Kahler Slater. It is a glass tower.
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31303493 | 23rd National Hockey League All-Star Game | The 23rd National Hockey League All-Star Game was held in the St. Louis Arena in St. Louis, home of the St. Louis Blues, on January 20, 1970. It was the first time the All-Star Game was held at the St. Louis Arena. The East Division All-Stars defeated the West Division All-Stars 4–1. Bobby Hull was named the game's most valuable player.
It was also the first NHL All-Star Game carried live on American network television, airing on CBS.
League business.
Clarence Campbell, president of the NHL, announced that the NHL All-Star Game will be held in Boston in 1971, in Minnesota in 1972, and in New York City in 1973. He also announced that the NHL would expand to Buffalo and Vancouver for the next season.
The game.
It was the first time the game had been held outside of the Stanley Cup champion's home rink since the 1948 game in Chicago. Brad Park, Bobby Clarke and Tony Esposito were the only three players making their first appearance in the game. Clarke was substituting for Phil Goyette, who had a knee injury.
Summary.
Source: Podnieks
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6759528 | Eno River Rugby | Founded in 1991, Eno River Rugby, also called the "Rage," is a rugby union club based in Durham, North Carolina. Eno River players come from in and around Durham, playing other teams in the Carolinas Geographical Union and participating in tournaments and playoffs in bordering states.
Divisions.
Current.
Women - Eno River Rugby is the oldest women's rugby club in North Carolina and the founding division of the Rage. The club is always seeking women interested in learning and playing rugby. No experience necessary. The team practices at Campus Hills Park in Durham, North Carolina, Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7-9 PM. The women compete in 15s in the fall and spring and 7s in the summer, traveling throughout North Carolina and the Southeast for tournaments and matches.
Disbanded.
Men - The men's team used to include players 21 and over, a mix of skilled veterans and newcomers. The men's division usually traveled throughout North Carolina and other states for matches, round robins, and tournaments. Unfortunately, this team has disbanded. The current men's rugby team is Tobacco Road Rugby, formerly known as Chapel Hill Warriors. Raleigh Vipers and the
Youth - Known under the youth or "under-19" division, it was the newest division under the Rage and faced some of the best in the North Carolina Rugby Football Union, such as the Chapel Hill Highlanders and schools in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. This team has disbanded.
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19526493 | Hustis House | The Hustis House is located on Main Street (NY 301) in Nelsonville, New York, United States. It is a small home built sometime in the middle of the 19th century, likely as housing for workers at the West Point Foundry in nearby Cold Spring. It has remained nearly intact since then, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The house is a simple one-and-a-half-story frame clapboard-sided structure with a stone basement, its gabled roof sloping saltbox-style to create an extended rear first floor. Its doors and windows are trimmed with plain wooden sills and lintels. The only decorative touch are the pillars on the covered porch, which was added sometime after the house was built. A cellar door and shed addition on the rear also seem to have come later.
It is unknown exactly when the house was built. It first appears on an 1867 map of the region as the property of an E. Hustis but with an earlier construction date indicated. It is typical of the kind of vernacular homes found in Nelsonville, a community that was home to many workers at the foundry.
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4410078 | Sigismund Albicus | Sigismund Albicus () (c.1360 – July 23, 1427) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Prague and a Moravian.
Albicus was born at Uničov, Moravia, and entered the University of Prague when quite young, taking his degree in medicine in 1387.
Desiring to pursue the study of civil and canon law with more profit, he went to Italy and received the Doctor's degree in 1404, at Padua.
On his return to Prague, he taught medicine for twenty years in the university. He was appointed physician-in-chief to Wenceslaus IV, who recommended him as successor to the archdiocese of Prague, on the death of its incumbent in 1409.
The canons appointed him to the position, although reluctantly. Albicus held it only four years, and when he resigned, in 1413, Conrad of Vechta was elected in his place.
Albicus later received the Priory of Vyšehrad and the title of Archbishop of Caesarea. He was accused of favouring the new doctrines of Jan Hus and John Wycliffe. He retired to Hungary during the Hussite war, and died there, in 1427. He left three works on medical subjects, which were published after his death: "Praxis medendi"; "Regimen Sanitatis"; "Regimen pestilentiæ" (Leipzig, 1484–87).
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11318839 | Stewart Valley | Stewart Valley (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Saskatchewan Landing No. 167 and Census Division No. 8. It is on Highway 4, just south of the South Saskatchewan River, approximately north of the City of Swift Current in southern Saskatchewan. It is along the remains of the historic Swift Current-Battleford Trail.
History.
Stewart Valley incorporated as a village on January 1, 1958.
Demographics.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Stewart Valley had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Stewart Valley recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Notable people.
Travis Moen is a Stewart Valley native and a professional ice hockey player most recently playing for the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League.
Notable events.
In late August of 2022, the school and community centre in Stewart Valley burned down.
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4319291 | Edward Hunloke | Edward Hunloke (d. ) was deputy governor of West Jersey between 1690 and 1692.
Career.
Hunloke was appointed deputy governor by absentee Governor Daniel Coxe after Sir Edmund Andros, governor of the Dominion of New England, was deposed and returned to England. Coxe had initially appointed John Tatham, but Tatham, a suspected Jacobite, was rejected by the province. Edward Hunloke held office at least until Coxe sold his interest in the province to the West Jersey Society, a group of English investors. The West Jersey Society appointed Andrew Hamilton governor, presumably superseding Hunloke.
Edward Hunloke continued to be referred to as Deputy Governor in court documents at least as late as 1694, however this appears to have been an honorific title.
After the late 1690s the government of East and West Jersey became increasingly dysfunctional. This ultimately resulted in the surrender by the Proprietors of East Jersey and those of West Jersey of the right of government to Queen Anne. Anne's government united the two colonies as the Province of New Jersey, a royal colony, establishing a new system of government. In 1703 Edward Hunloke was appointed by The Crown as a member of the New Jersey Provincial Council, however he died before his commission reached American shores.
Edward Hunloke made his will on June 4, 1702; proved August 8, 1702.
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54398146 | Dayenu (organisation) | Dayenu is an LGBTQ+ organisation based in Sydney, Australia. The word Dayenu means "enough" in Hebrew, and the group uses it to mean that they have had "enough" of homophobia.
History.
The group Dayenu began as an idea in 1999 to create a gay and Jewish float for the 2000 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. After the parade the group began in order to offer permanent resources for LGBTQ+ Jews in Sydney.
In 2013 Dayenu celebrated its bar mitzah as it turned 13 at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. The group celebrated by wearing pink kippot and rainbow tallit, as well as featuring a large glittery Star of David.
Goals.
The group's mission is to:
Services and events.
Religious services.
Dayenu hosts synagogue services and weekly Shabbat dinners, as well as an annual Passover Seder. Emanuel Synagogue in Sydney supports Dayenu and hosts many of their religious events.
Social events.
Dayenu hosts movie nights, bowling, dinners, and pub nights.
Mardi Gras.
Sydney has an annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in which Dayenu participates and has a float. The group has participated every year since the 2000 parade, except for 2006 when inactivity and lack of funds precluded the group's involvement. The group also has a large Shabbat dinner to celebrate the Mardi Gras.
Youth Services.
Dayenu is a parent organisation to the group Young Dayenu, which is a group of younger Jewish LGBTQ+ people.
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17244108 | Algol paradox | In stellar astronomy, the Algol paradox is a paradoxical situation when elements of a binary star seem to evolve in discord with the established theories of stellar evolution. A fundamental feature of these theories is that the rate of evolution of stars depends on their mass: The greater the mass, the faster this evolution, and the more quickly it leaves the main sequence, entering either a subgiant or giant phase.
In the case of Algol and other binary stars, something completely different is observed: The less massive star is already a subgiant, while the star with much greater mass is still on the main sequence. Since the partner stars of the binary are thought to have formed at approximately the same time and so should have similar ages, this appears paradoxical. The more massive star, rather than the less massive one, should have left the main sequence.
The paradox is resolved by the fact that in many binary stars, there can be a flow of material between the two, disturbing the normal process of stellar evolution. As the flow progresses, their evolutionary stage advances, even as the relative masses change. Eventually, the originally more massive star reaches the next stage in its evolution despite having lost much of its mass to its companion.
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4199116 | Bone hemostasis | Bone hemostasis is the process of controlling the bleeding from bone.
Bone is a living vascular organ containing channels for blood and bone marrow. When a bone is cut during surgery bleeding can be a difficult problem to control, especially in the highly vascular bones of the spine and sternum. Bleeding from soft tissue is normally stopped using a cautery that creates heat, causing blood vessels to collapse and become sealed. Since the blood in living bone flows through channels in the bone that do not collapse, a cautery is not effective in preventing bone bleeding. Blocking the holes in the bone typically stops bone bleeding. This can be done by mechanically blocking the holes (tamponade effect), or by inducing a blood clot to form.
In the past the easiest and most common way to stop bone bleeding was to apply bone wax, which is made from beeswax. The bone wax is smeared across the bleeding edge of the bone, blocking the holes and causing immediate hemostasis. Because of the complications associated with the use of bone wax, newer absorbable and resorbable hemostatic agents have been developed. These include firm waxes derived from alkylene oxide copolymers as well as ready use resorbable putties.
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7675075 | Zipper storage bag | A zipper storage bag, slider storage bag, zipper bag, zip lock bag, or zippie is an inexpensive flexible rectangular storage bag, usually transparent, made of polyethylene or similar plastic, that can be sealed and opened many times, either by a slider, which works in a similar way to a zip fastener, or by pinching together the two sides of a mechanical sealing mechanism with one's fingers. The bags are made in many sizes; a typical small size is , and a typical large size is . Material thickness (gauge) varies; smaller bags are typically 40 to 45 µm.
Many such bags are used to contain foodstuffs, such as sandwiches and freezer storage. Single and multiple small items for sale are often packed in small zipper bags for convenience and visibility.
Several types of reclosable features are available for plastic bags. Sometimes other types of bag, such as a cloth bag for toiletries fitted with a conventional zip fastener, are described as zipper bags.
One bag was patented by Robert W. Vergobbi on May 18, 1954. In the same year, Minigrip licensed them as pencil bags. The zipper storage bag's most recognized function was not realized until 1957, when a fifth-grader named Robert Lejeune demonstrated that the bag could also be used safely as a food storage device. Eleven years later, in 1968, Dow Chemical Company began marketing them under the name Ziploc. Widetrack ribs were added in 1982, clicking zippers in 1993 and color in 1997.
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68194983 | Václav Zelený | Václav Zelený (August 18, 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia – November 3, 2020) was a Czech botanist and university teacher. Václav Zelený was born in 1936 in Prague. In 1959 he graduated from the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague. He then worked at the Sugar Research Institute in Prague, Modřany and from 1962 he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Botany and Plant Physiology of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. During his tenure, he published several books concerning his specializations, which were the flora of Podblanicko region and the flora of the Mediterranean. These are mainly the publications Plants of the Mediterranean (in Czech "Rostliny Středozemí"), Nature of Vlašim Castle Park: Vlašim Castle and Park and Castle Parks and Memorial Trees of Podblanicko ("Příroda vlašimského zámeckého parku: zámek a park Vlašim" a "Zámecké parky a památné stromy Podblanicka)"; as a co-author he also contributed to a large publication published by Academia entitled Useful Plants of the Tropics and Subtropics ("Užitkové rostliny tropů a subtropů)" or to the Flora of the Czech Republic ("Květena České republiky"). He wrote almost 40 articles for Živa magazine. Václav Zelený was a member of several organizations, such as the Czech Botanical Society, the Blaník Protected Landscape Area, the Vietnamese Society and the Latin American Society.
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20324715 | Stoven | Stoven is a village and former civil parish now in the parish of Brampton with Stoven, in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located approximately north east of Halesworth and south of Beccles. In 1961 the parish had a population of 110. On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with Brampton to form "Brampton with Stoven" and the population of the expanded parish was 427 at the 2011 United Kingdom census. Brampton is located just to the west, Uggeshall to the south and Sotterley to the north.
The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret and is a Grade II* listed building. It was threatened with demolition and sale in the late 1980s and early 1990s before being listed when its medieval structure was revealed. The church re-opened in 1996 and restoration work is believed to be ongoing.
Stoven has no services other than the church. Children attend primary school in Brampton and high school in Beccles. The local public house, a 17th-century Grade II listed building, re-opened in July 2008 after having been closed for three and a half years, but closed again in early 2011 and has been converted to residential use.
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6565623 | Henry Colin Campbell | Henry Colin Campbell (June 23, 1868 – April 18, 1930), aka The Torch Murderer, was executed by the State of New Jersey for the murder of Mildred Mowry, whom he met through a personal ad placed with a "matrimonial agency." A career criminal and bigamist whose previous crimes were non-violent, Campbell married Mowry in 1929 despite having another wife. Six months after marrying Mowry, Campbell murdered her to collect on a $1,000 investment she owned and burned her corpse.
He was also suspected in another, similar murder of Margaret Brown in 1928. Both Mowry and Brown had been shot in the head, had their bodies dumped on the side of a road, and were set on fire.
During his adult life, Campbell worked as a civil engineer and advertising executive and posed as a physician. Using a matchmaking service in Detroit, Michigan, Campbell married several women between 1910 and 1928 although police looking into his life were never able to find any record of divorce actions.
A pair of shoes at the Mowry crime scene were traced to Campbell who subsequently confessed to killing her. He denied killing Brown and never stood trial for her murder. Police suspected he murdered some of his previous "wives".
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2638173 | Kraton (Indonesia) | Kraton or keraton () is a type of royal palace in Java, Indonesia. Its name is derived from the Javanese "ka-ratu-an", meaning residence of the "ratu", the traditional honorific title for a monarch. In Java, the palace of a prince is called "pura" or "dalem", while the general word for palace is "istana", identical to Malay.
Specific palaces.
Kraton that function as the residence of a royal family include:
Historical palaces.
The locations of former "kraton" have been determined by historical records or archaeological efforts. Former "kraton" include:
In Banten region there are remnants of the Sultanate of Banten's palaces:
In Surakarta and Yogyakarta region, there is the remnants of Sultanate of Mataram palaces:
Metonymic use.
The term kraton 'palace' is also used as a way to refer to the court which it houses.
This is especially the case for native Indonesian states where the succession is disputed, giving issue to two or more branches of the dynasty, or even rivaling dynasties, each setting up an alternative court, while competing for the same state, but generally only controlling part of it.
An example is the West-Javan state of Cirebon, which was founded in 1478 and since 1662 was ruled from three Kraton (palaces):
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50289435 | The Cloud (painting) | The Cloud () is a 1985 oil painting by the Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum. It depicts a nude man in a leather helmet, looking out over a landscape with a compact dark cloud in the sky.
In 2005 the painting was selected by the newspaper "Morgenbladet" as one of Norway's twelve most important artworks from the period 1945–2005.
A version of the painting was sold for 1.9 million Norwegian kroner in 2008, which was the new record for a Nerdrum painting. The record was held until 2016 when "Dawn" was sold for 341,000 British pounds.
Status.
The original version is severely damaged because it was painted with an oil mix that turned out to be sensitive to heat. The damaged painting was shown as part of Nerdrum's 2011 tax case, when the Norwegian tax agency deemed that Nerdrum had evaded taxes during the years 1997–2002 by hiding earnings in an Austrian safe deposit box. Nerdrum's defence said that the money was kept so it could be repaid to buyers of potentially damaged paintings from the same period as "The Cloud", and that the secrecy was maintained to avoid a general devaluation of Nerdrum's art.
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64120489 | John Forster (British Army officer) | Major-General John Burton Forster (1856 – 13 June 1938) was a British Army officer.
Military career.
Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Forster was commissioned into the Royal Irish Regiment on 23 November 1872. After seeing action in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879 and then the Nile Expedition in 1884, he became commanding officer of the Kurram-Kohat Force in India in December 1897. He went on to be Assistant Adjutant-General at the Headquarters of the Bengal Command in 1902, brigadier-general commanding the Regimental Districts in Southern Ireland in May 1907 and commander of the Quetta Brigade in India in April 1910.
Forster returned to the UK to become General Officer Commanding 55th (West Lancashire) Division in September 1914 at the start of the First World War. Due to the casualties suffered by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) during the opening months of fighting on the Western Front, the division's volunteers were used as reinforcements. After the division's last remaining infantry formation of volunteers departed, he became General Officer Commanding 57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division in April 1915 before retiring in early 1917. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 24 January 1917.
He was honorary colonel of the Royal Irish Regiment from 1918 to 1922.
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15052692 | Arlequin Mahomet | Arlequin Mahomet () is a one act farce by Alain-René Lesage. It was first performed at the Foire de Saint Laurent in 1714. "Arlequin Mahomet" was performed as the second play in a series consisting of "La Foire de Guibray" and "Le Tombeau de Nostradamus". Between the three works, Lesage created a comedy in three acts.
Plot summary.
Arlequin is being pursued by his debtors, so his friend Boubekir gives him a flying box so that he can flee the country. As he is flying over Persia, he sees a young man about to kill himself because his true love, the Princess of Basra, is to be married to the Kam of the Tartars (played by Pierrot from "La Foire de Guibray"). Arlequin agrees to help.
He flies to the princess who does not want to marry the Kam and is praying to Mohammed. When she sees Arlequin in his flying machine, she believes that he is Mohammed. Arlequin tells her that she does not have to marry the Kam and presents her with a portrait of her future husband, the Prince of Persia. The Princess tells her father about this revelation, and the King and the Kam go in search of the "false Arlequin." Meanwhile, Arlequin enters the scene and flies over their heads. Arlequin beats them with his stick until the King and the Kam agree that the princess should marry the Prince. Arlequin brings the Prince to the court in his flying machine, so he can marry the princess. Arlequin, in turn, marries the princess' servant.
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1237358 | Dave Morgan (racing driver) | David Rowland John Morgan (7 August 1944 in Cranmore, Somerset – 6 November 2018 in Leatherhead, Surrey) was a British racing driver from England. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1975 British Grand Prix in which, like several others, he crashed during a storm in the closing laps. He was classified 18th and thus scored no championship points.
Driving career.
Prior to his single grand prix entry, Morgan raced a Mini in the mid-1960s, and soon moved on to Formula Three. He incurred a 12-month ban for dangerous driving at the end of 1970, after a last corner collision with James Hunt at Crystal Palace, but was subsequently allowed to progress to Formula Atlantic in 1971. This was followed by two seasons in Formula Two, then a return to Formula Atlantic. After his one Grand Prix, he retired from racing until returning in the British Saloon Car Championship in 1980–1981, driving a Mitsubishi Colt Lancer. Morgan also later worked as an engineer to Eric van de Poele, in both Formula One and Formula 3000.
He died on 6 November 2018, following a stroke.
Racing record.
Complete British Saloon / Touring Car Championship results.
† Events with 2 races staged for the different classes.
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2347575 | Posse cut | A posse cut is a popular form of song in hip hop music that involves successive verses by four or more rappers.
Tracks described as posse cuts by "Rolling Stone" include A Tribe Called Quest's "Scenario", "Tha Shit" by The D.O.C., "Doin' Our Own Dang" by Jungle Brothers, "Monster" and “So Appalled” by Kanye West, and "Set It Off" by Snoop Dogg. Tracks described by Allmusic as posse cuts include "Wu-Gambinos" by Raekwon, "1, 2, 3" by Naughty by Nature, and "Head Banger" by EPMD.
History.
Many classic early hip hop tracks, such as Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force's "Zulu Nation Throwdown", took the form of a posse cut. The posse cut became established in the eighties as a way for rappers to give exposure to their friends, or their posse. However, towards the end of the eighties and the start of the nineties, the posse cut began to be used as an "All-Stars" device to bring together rappers who had respect for each other's skills on the microphone, or a way to unite various well-known and respected artists to deliver an important message.
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36499313 | Vietnam women's national futsal team | The Vietnam women's national futsal team () represents Vietnam in international women's futsal competitions and is controlled by the Futsal Commission of the Vietnam Football Federation.
Overview.
Preparing for the 2007 Asian Indoor Games from October 26 to November 3 in Macau, the Vietnamese futsal women's squad assembled in Thành Long Sports Centre, Ho Chi Minh City with 16 players.Veterans of the Vietnamese women's football team who have won the SEA Games gold medal three times are included in this list, including Luu Ngoc Mai, Phung Thi Minh Nguyet, Nguyen Hong Phuc, and Nguyen Thi Ha. The squad had its debut international encounter against Uzbekistan in Macau. At the 2007 Asia Indoor Games, the team ended in 4th place. Vietnamese women futsal have competed in two more Asian Indoor Games in 2009 and 2013, both halted at the group stage.Fulsal Vietnam women competed in three Sea Games earning silver medals in 2007, 2011, and 2013.With the Southeast Asian Women's Futsal Championship, Vietnam won the 2013 tournament held in Myanmar. On September 30, they were beaten 2-5 by Thailand in the elimination match, but won the final 4-3 on October 3, 2013. This is the first time, Vietnamese women's futsal in particular and Vietnamese futsal in general defeated Thailand to win Southeast Asia
Players.
Current squad.
Source:
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14991956 | 1912 Cleveland Naps season | The 1912 Cleveland Naps season was a season in American baseball. The Naps had two of the best hitters in the majors in Shoeless Joe Jackson and Nap Lajoie. Despite this, they ended up back in the second division, finishing in fifth place with a record of 75-78.
Player stats.
Batting.
Starters by position.
"Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in"
Other batters.
"Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in"
Pitching.
Starting pitchers.
"Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts"
Other pitchers.
"Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts"
Relief pitchers.
"Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts"
Awards and honors.
League top five finishers.
Vean Gregg
Shoeless Joe Jackson
George Kahler
Nap Lajoie
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3527623 | Carville Benson | Carville Dickinson Benson (August 24, 1872 – February 8, 1929) was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second Congressional district of Maryland from 1918 to 1921.
Early life.
Carville Benson was born near Halethorpe in Baltimore County, Maryland, Benson attended preparatory schools and Lehigh University of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1890. He graduated from the law department of University of Baltimore in 1893, and was admitted to the bar the same year.
Career.
Benson served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1904 to 1910 and again in 1918, serving as Speaker of the House in 1906. He also served as a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1912 to 1914.
In 1918, Benson was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott, and was re-elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, serving from November 5, 1918, to March 3, 1921. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixth-seventh Congress.
After Congress, Benson resumed the practice of law in Baltimore, Maryland, and resided in Halethorpe. He was appointed the State insurance commissioner of Maryland in 1924 and served until his death.
Personal life.
Benson died on February 8, 1929, in Baltimore. He is interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery of Brooklyn, Maryland.
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45569620 | Stanford DASH | Stanford DASH was a cache coherent multiprocessor developed in the late 1980s by a group led by Anoop Gupta, John L. Hennessy, Mark Horowitz, and Monica S. Lam at Stanford University. It was based on adding a pair of directory boards designed at Stanford to up to 16 SGI IRIS 4D Power Series machines and then cabling the systems in a mesh topology using a Stanford-modified version of the Torus Routing Chip. The boards designed at Stanford implemented a directory-based cache coherence protocol allowing Stanford DASH to support distributed shared memory for up to 64 processors. Stanford DASH was also notable for both supporting and helping to formalize weak memory consistency models, including release consistency. Because Stanford DASH was the first operational machine to include scalable cache coherence, it influenced subsequent computer science research as well as the commercially available SGI Origin 2000. Stanford DASH is included in the 25th anniversary retrospective of selected papers from the International Symposium on Computer Architecture and several computer science books, has been simulated by the University of Edinburgh, and is used as a case study in contemporary computer science classes.
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54081652 | 2017–18 Botola | The 2017–18 Botola, also known as Botola Maroc Telecom for sponsorship reasons, is the 61st season of the Premier League and the 7th under its new format of Moroccan Pro League, the top Moroccan professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1956. The season started on 8 September 2017 and ended on 21 May 2018.
Wydad Athletic Club came into the season as defending champions of the 2016–17 season. Rapide Oued Zem and Racing de Casablanca entered as the two promoted teams from the 2016–17 GNF 2.
On May 12, 2018, IR Tanger won the Botola Pro after a 2-1 victory against Moghreb Tétouan. The IR Tanger club won the championship for the first time after being runner-up to the title in 1989-90 season.
Annual awards.
The UMFP (Union Marocaine des Footballeurs Professionnels), in partnership with the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, organized the Night of Stars Award in its 4th edition, which celebrated the brilliants of the Botola Pro for the 2017/18 season.
See also.
2017 Coupe du Trône
2017–18 Botola 2
2018 CAF Champions League
2018 CAF Confederation Cup
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3315878 | Björn Bach | Björn Bach (born 21 June 1976) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2006. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals in the K-4 1000 m (2000, 2004).
Born in Magdeburg he took up the sport at the age of thirteen.
Bach won a dozen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001, 2005), four silvers (K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 2003).
His most recent success came at the 2006 European Championships, held in Račice, Czech Republic, where he won a K-4 1000 m bronze medal. At the 2006 ICF Flatwater Racing World Championships however, he finished outside the medals with a fourth in the K-4 1000 m, sixth in the K-4 500 m, and fifth in the K-4 200 m, thus putting to an end Bach's record of having won medals at seven consecutive world championships.
At club level he competes for his home-town club, SC Magdeburg and is trained by Guido Behling.
Height: 1.95 m (6' 5")
Weight: 92 kg (14 st 7) (203 lb)
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65408603 | Miss Jenis | Miss Jenis () is a 2020 Sri Lankan Sinhala comedy drama film directed by Susiran De Silva and produced by Walter Abeysundara. It stars late Jayalath Manoratne in lead dual roles along with Giriraj Kaushalya, Jayalal Rohana and Duleeka Marapana in supportive roles. Music composed by Lakshman Wijesekara.
It is the debut cinema direction of Susiran de Silva, where he has produced several popular television serials earlier such as "Manokaya" and "Isuru Yogaya". The film also marks the final lead role of maestro Jayalath Manoratne who died in early 2020. This is unique to Sinhala cinema as his one and only female character. However in 2019, Manoratne and his wife came to see the film when it was shown to the film exhibition boards even though he showed a slight illness at that time.
The film was officially released on 25 September 2020. However, the film had his special screening on 7 September 2020 at The Scope Film Festival which was held from 4-8 September at Scope Cinemas, Liberty Complex. It was filmed in Haputale, Hikkaduwa and Colombo areas. The film received mixed views from critics.
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58112433 | List of Metro Pictures films | Metro Pictures Corporation was a motion picture production company founded in 1915 in the United States. It was, along with Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation, one of the forerunners of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leased facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Metro Pictures was founded as a film distribution company in February 1915 by a number of "exchange men" with Richard A. Rowland as president, George Grombacher as vice-president and Louis B. Mayer as secretary. It soon also began producing its own films, with "Sealed Valley" being Metro's first production, which was released on August 2, 1915.
Metro's list of stars during its existence included Mae Murray, Viola Dana, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, Emmy Wehlen, Emily Stevens, Lillian Gish, Buster Keaton, Jackie Coogan, Marion Davies, Ramon Novarro, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone. The romantic teams of Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne and Harold Lockwood and May Allison also worked for Metro.
In 1919, the company was purchased by Marcus Loew as a supplier of product for his theater chain. Several years later, in 1924, Loew merged it with his recently acquired Goldwyn Pictures, followed shortly thereafter with another merge with Louis B. Mayer Productions. The resulting entity was named Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925 with Mayer in charge.
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24337686 | Samuel Maoz | Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director. His
2009 film, "Lebanon" won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Screenplay for Lebanon at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2010.
Biography.
Shmuel (Shmuel) Maoz was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 20, he was a gunner in one of the first Israeli tanks to enter Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War. After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Beit Zvi theater school, and did art direction in film and television productions.
Film career.
As a director, Maoz was associated with the production of documentary films, directing the Arte production "Total Eclipse" (2000) with Evgenia Dodina. In 2007, Maoz began working on "Lebanon", his first feature film. The script, based on Maoz's personal experiences, describes the traumatic experiences of a four-man Israeli tank crew in a Lebanese village early in the war.
At the end of July 2009, Maoz received an invitation to the competition of the 66th Venice Film Festival, where he won the Golden Lion after having had been rejected at the Berlin and the Cannes film festivals.
Lebanon was praised as one of the most compelling competition entries. That same year the film was nominated for the "Ophir", Israel's national film awards, in ten categories.
His next film, "Foxtrot" (2017), won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
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15362336 | 1954 Gold Coast general election | General elections were held in the Gold Coast on 15 June 1954. The result was a victory for Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, which won 71 of the 104 seats.
Background.
The election was held following the approval of a new constitution on 29 April 1954. The new constitution meant that assembly members were no longer elected by the tribal councils, the Assembly was enlarged, and all members were chosen by direct election from equal, single-member constituencies. It established a cabinet composed of African ministers, and only defense and foreign policy remained in the hands of the governor; the elected assembly was given control over the majority of internal affairs.
Aftermath.
In May 1956, Nkrumah's government issued a white paper containing proposals for Gold Coast independence. The British Government stated it would agree to a firm date for independence if a reasonable majority for such a step were obtained in the Gold Coast Legislative Assembly after a general election. This election was held in July 1956, and resulted in another win for the CPP. Gold Coast became the independent nation of Ghana on 6 March 1957.
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45322684 | Carole Lacampagne | Carole Baker Lacampagne is a retired mathematician formerly of George Washington University. She is known for her work in mathematics education and gender equality.
Career.
Lacampagne received her Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1964. She then worked at Northern Illinois University and the National Science Foundation before moving to the Department of Education in 1991, becoming Director of the National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning (PLLI). She then became Director of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board at the National Academies of Science before her partial retirement as an adjunct at George Washington University.
Work for gender equality.
Lacampagne was actively involved in supporting women in mathematics, and became head of the Women and Mathematic's program of the Mathematical Association of America. She wrote about women and mathematics throughout her career, including her 1979 dissertation.
Awards and honors.
In 2012, Lacampagne became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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30353679 | Long Island Beach | Long Island Beach is a former amusement park located in Whitewater Township, Hamilton County, Ohio.
The property was acquired by John Pope in 1888, and in 1924, John's son and daughter-in-law, Earl and Dolores Pope opened a park on the site. The park, often compared to a miniature Coney Island was in operation from 1924 through 1956.
The park's attractions included hand powered rides, swimming (with more than a mile of beaches), bingo, camping, ball fields and dances. The park was also the location for big bands to play and entertain. Entertainers such as Rosemary Clooney and Spike Jones were amongst those who performed there. Long Island Beach was a favorite location for company picnics from local firms and would often host more than 1,000 visitors per day. In its early years, visitors would travel by streetcar from nearby Cincinnati to find relief from the heat of the day by picnicking or swimming in the Whitewater River.
Long Island Beach closed in 1956 due to competition from city swimming pools and local park districts which has been established. The Pope family converted the property back to farm production. In 1998, however, the family once again opened up the site for river recreation, in the form of a canoe rental firm named Green Acres.
External links.
For maps showing Long Island Beach:
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2340317 | Sylvia Young Theatre School | Sylvia Young Theatre School is an independent school in Marble Arch, London, England. It is a specialist performing arts school named after its founder and principal, Sylvia Young OBE.
Outline.
The Sylvia Young Theatre School was founded in 1972 with part-time classes in East London. It was established as a full-time school in 1981 on Drury Lane, but due to expansion it moved to a former 1880’s church school building in Rossmore Road, Marylebone in 1983. The school moved premises once again in 2010 to a converted church in Nutford Place, Westminster.
Students either attend the full-time school (students aged 10 to 16 years), the part-time school on Thursday evenings and Saturdays (students aged 4 to 18 years) or holiday schools (students aged 7 to 18 years). Tuition fees for full-time schooling (as of 2022) are £15,000 per annum for day pupils, £25,000–30,000 per annum for boarding pupils. (Day pupils outnumber boarding pupils by a factor of five to one.)
Students from the Sylvia Young Theatre School have appeared in television, film and theatre productions, including main roles in "EastEnders", "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean", "Matilda", "Billy Elliott", "The Lion King", "The Bodyguard", "Les Misérables", and "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory".
The school has been described as "Eton for the Pop Idol generation" and is renowned for producing soap stars, pop stars and TV personalities.
Notable alumni.
Performers who attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School include:
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62693047 | Marie Kingué | Marie Kingué (fl. 1785) was a famous midwife, "kaperlata" medicine woman and voodoo priestess active in Saint Domingue.
Marie Kingué was a slave, officially active as a midwife on a plantation outside Cap-Francais during the 1770s and 1780s. She was famous all over the colony as a voodoo priestess and medicine woman. She sold amulets and proposed magical services. She also had many followers as well as pupils. She was hired not only by the slaves, but also among white people and slave owners, who also believed in her purported powers. It was said that she knew the secrets of every plantation in her area. She was often engaged by white slave owners to perform ceremonies in order to cure suspected so-called Macandal poisonings (named after Francois Macandal), in which slaves were suspected of committing suicides, or reveal slave conspiracies. She was a controversial figure and made friends as well as enemies among both slaves and slave owners, black, white and free people of color. She was reported to the authorities in 1785 for quackery and accused of trying to encourage a slave rebellion, but hidden by her followers.
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36547560 | Iris unguicularis | Iris unguicularis (syn. "Iris stylosa"), the Algerian iris, is a rhizomatous flowering plant in the genus "Iris", native to Greece, Turkey, Western Syria, and Tunisia. It grows to , with grassy evergreen leaves, producing pale lilac or purple flowers with a central band of yellow on the falls. The flowers appear in winter and early spring. They are fragrant, with pronounced perianth tubes up to long.
This plant is widely cultivated in temperate regions, and numerous cultivars have been selected for garden use, including a slightly more tender white form 'Alba', and a dwarf variety "I. unguicularis" subsp. "cretensis". The cultivar 'Mary Barnard' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Chemistry.
In 2013, a chemical analysis study was carried on "Iris loczyi" and "Iris unguicularis" as both plants are known as medicinally important.
The rhizome of "Iris unguicularis" contains 1,3-O-diferuloylsucrose, 5,7-dihydroxy-6-methoxychromone, irilone, 4′,5,7-trihydroxy-6-methoxyflavanone, tectorigenin, kaempferol, 4′,5,7-trihydroxy-3′,8-dimethoxyflavanone, 8-methoxyeriodictyol, hispidulin and mangiferin.
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13000647 | Bishop of Limerick | The Bishop of Limerick is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Limerick in the Province of Munster, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it still continues as a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.
History.
The diocese of Limerick is one of the twenty-four dioceses established at the Synod of Rathbreasail in 1111. After the Reformation, there are parallel apostolic successions: one of the Church of Ireland and the other of the Roman Catholic Church.
In the Church of Ireland, Limerick continued as a separate title until 1661 when it was combined with Ardfert and Aghadoe to form the united bishopric of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. Since 1976, the Church of Ireland see has been part of the united bishopric of Limerick and Killaloe.
In the Roman Catholic Church, Limerick still remains as a separate title. The current bishop is the Most Reverend Brendan Leahy, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limerick, who was appointed by the Holy See on 10 January 2013 and received episcopal ordination on 14 April 2013.
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710363 | Yuri Razuvaev | Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev (also Razuvayev; 10 October 1945 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian chess player and trainer.
Chess career.
Razuvaev became an International Master in 1973, a Grandmaster in 1976 and an Honoured Coach of Russia in 1977.
Razuvaev's tournament wins included Dubna 1978, Polanica-Zdrój 1979, London 1983, Dortmund 1985, Jūrmala 1987, Pula 1988, Protvino 1988, Reykjavík 1990, Leningrad 1992, Tiraspol 1994, Reggio Emilia 1996 and San Sebastian 1996.
At the second USSR vs Rest of the World match in 1984, he substituted for Tigran Petrosian, who was absent because of illness. Razuvaev limited his opponent, the much higher rated Robert Hübner, to four straight draws.
Razuvaev was a respected trainer, becoming a second to Anatoly Karpov from 1971 until 1978, stepping down before the World Championship match against Viktor Korchnoi. They had first met at the Botvinnik School's first sessions in 1963 He coached Alexandra Kosteniuk, who won the Women's World Chess Championship in 2008, along with Evgeny Tomashevsky along with the Italian national team. In 2005 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.
Chess strength.
At his peak, in the July 1991 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2590.
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22963937 | Thelwell Pike | Thelwell Mather Pike (17 November 1866 – 21 July 1957) was an English footballer who earned one cap for the national team in 1886. Pike played club football for Cambridge University, Crusaders, Brentwood, Swifts, Thanet Wanderers and Corinthian.
Pike was born in Andover, Hampshire and educated at Malvern College, playing football for the school in 1884 and 1885, before attending Cambridge University, where he earned a blue in 1886 and 1888.
He made his solitary England appearance on 13 March 1886, in a 6–1 victory over Ireland. In the match at Ballynafeigh Park, Belfast, Pike's fellow Cantabrians, Ralph Squire and Benjamin Spilsbury played at centre-half and inside-left respectively, with Spilsbury scoring four of England's goals.
After leaving the university, Pike played for several clubs, including Crusaders, Brentwood, Swifts and Thanet Wanderers, although it was with the Corinthian club that he was most closely associated, playing 21 games for them between 1886 and 1891.
Pike was also a noted cricketer, playing for Worcestershire, then a minor county, between 1886 and 1895.
A few years later, he became the headmaster of Weybridge Preparatory School between 1897 and 1906, before moving to Thanet School in Margate, where he remained until his retirement.
The 1881 Census calls him Mather Pike.
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43113071 | James Halyburton (1707 MP) | James Halyburton (or Haliburton) of Pitcur was a Scottish landowner and politician.
Biography.
Halyburton was the only son of David Halyburton of Pitcur and his wife Agnes Wedderburn. The Halyburtons of Pitcur were descended from a younger son of Walter Haliburton of Dirleton, Treasurer of Scotland, and members of the family had sat in the Parliament of Scotland in 1560 and in 1617. Halyburton's father David was killed fighting for the Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie, and the son was only permitted to succeed to the estates in 1700.
Halyburton was elected to represent the barons of Forfarshire in the Parliament of Scotland in 1702, and was made a commissioner of justiciary for the Highlands the same year. In Parliament he supported the Squadrone and after the Act of Union 1707 he was one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain. He did not stand at the general election in 1708. He was made a burgess of Ayr in 1708.
Halyburton's first wife was Catherine, daughter of Sir John Hall, 1st Baronet of Dunglass. They were the parents of Colonel James Halyburton of Pitcur and of Agatha, who married James Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton. He was married secondly, by contract dated 8 December 1710, Mary, daughter of George Drummond of Blair Drummond; they had no children. Halyburton is said to have died in about 1743, but his son James was not served as his heir until 1755.
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22484219 | Rudolf Batz | Rudolf Batz (10 November 1903 – 8 February 1961) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From 1 July to 4 November 1941 he was the leader of Einsatzkommando 2 and as such was responsible for the mass murder of Jews and others in the Baltic states. Arrested in 1961, Batz committed suicide while in custody awaiting trial.
Biography.
Batz was born in Bad Langensalza in Thuringia. After a course of studies in jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen, he joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1933. On 10 December 1935 he joined the "Schutzstaffel" (SS). By 1942 he was promoted to the rank of "Obersturmbannführer".
At the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union he was the leader of a unit of about 40 men, "Einsatzkommando 2" of Einsatzgruppe A, and was responsible for overseeing the mass murder of the Jews of the Baltic states. In 1943, Batz became commander of "Sicherheitspolizei" (SiPo; Security Police) in Cracow and shortly after that became the head of the Gestapo in Hannover.
After the war, Batz lived unrecognized for a long time in West Germany. He was arrested in 1961. Batz hanged himself in custody while awaiting trial.
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57149667 | 2018 Maine Black Bears football team | The 2018 Maine Black Bears football team represented the University of Maine in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They played their home games at Alfond Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They were led by third-year head coach Joe Harasymiak. They finished the season 10–4, 7–1 in CAA play to be crowned CAA champions. They received the CAA's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs where, after a first round bye, they defeated Jacksonville State in the second round, and Weber State in the quarterfinals before losing in the semifinals to Eastern Washington.
Previous season.
The Black Bears finished the 2017 season 4–6, 3–5 in CAA play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place.
Preseason.
CAA Poll.
In the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Black Bears were predicted to finish in eighth place.
Preseason All-CAA Team.
The Black Bears had three players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.
Defense
Kayon Whitaker – DL
Special teams
Earnest Edwards – KR
Mozai Nelson – Specialist
FCS Playoffs.
Maine received a bye in the first round.<br>
Box scores:
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25819819 | Rude Kids | Rude Kids is a punk rock band from Hagsätra. Their first single "Raggare Is a Bunch of Motherfuckers", that they recorded themselves, was released by Polydor in 1978. Rude Kids was the first Swedish punk band to release a record through a major record label. The single sold between 5000 and 6000 copies (compared to 600-700 copies for an average Sham 69 single). Tony Parsons named it "single of the year". Polydor also released the single "Stranglers" and the LP "Safe Society". Their records got good reviews in the press.
Rude Kids played in London a few times. Once they opened up for Madness (only realising at the gig that it was Madness, not Doctors of Madness) and were attacked by skinheads in the audience. After they fled the stage the audience smashed up all the gear without realising they smashed up Madness's gear.
In 1980, when Rude Kids signed with the record company Sonet, they had a more poppy sound compared to their earlier music. In 2002 Turbonegro performed a cover on the Rude Kids song "Raggare Is a Bunch of Motherfuckers" at Hultsfredsfestivalen.
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67291379 | AloPeyk | AloPeyk is an on-demand delivery company based in Iran. It was founded in September 2016 by Mehdi Nayebi and Mehrshad Pezeshk who both moved from Europe to Tehran to start the company. Nayebi wanted to offer a solution for Iranian ecommerce companies looking to outsource deliveries and logistics. By 2017, the company was reported to deliver 10,000 packages per day. That same year, Apple had removed the AloPeyk app from its App Store in compliance with U.S. sanctions against Iran. By 2021, the company reportedly had shipped 75 million packages since its founding, and had 15,000 active daily drivers on its platform.
The company gained its initial market share by offering lower prices than its competitors. On the back-end, the company uses algorithms and computer software to reduce the idle time of its delivery drivers, and allow them to make more deliveries at a lower cost to the end customer. In 2018, the Financial Times reported that AloPeyk had hired 50,000 motorcycle couriers and 10,000 van drivers since its founding.
To fund its expansion, the company received investments in 2019 from Turquoise Partners and other firms.
Mobile app.
The AloPeyk app allows users to choose their preferred delivery date and time, plan returns, automate billing documents, and choose from several payments methods. The company also offers an API to automate bulk requests.
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70463590 | 2022 Pokhara municipal election | Municipal election for Pokhara took place on 13 May 2022, with all 167 positions up for election across 33 wards. The electorate elected a mayor, a deputy mayor, 33 ward chairs and 132 ward members. An indirect election will also be held to elect five female members and an additional three female members from the Dalit and minority community to the municipal executive.
Dhanraj Acharya of CPN (Unified Socialist) was elected mayor of Pokhara Metropolitan city.
Background.
Pokhara was established in 1962 as a municipality. The metropolitan city was created in 2017 by incorporating neighboring village development committees and Lekhnath municipality into Pokhara sub-metropolitan city. Electors in each ward elect a ward chair and four ward members, out of which two must be female and one of the two must belong to the Dalit community.
In the previous election, Man Bahadur GC from CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) was elected as the first mayor of the metropolitan city.
Ward results.
! colspan="2" style="text-align:centre;" | Party
! Chairman
! Members
! colspan="2" style="text-align:right;" | Total
! 33
! 132
Results for municipal executive election.
The municipal executive consists of the mayor, who is also the chair of the municipal executive, the deputy mayor and ward chairs from each ward. The members of the municipal assembly will elect five female members and three members from the Dalit and minority community to the municipal executive using single non-transferable vote.
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5000279 | American National Biography | The American National Biography (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Background.
A 400-entry supplement appeared in 2002. Additional funding came from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The "ANB" bills itself as the successor of the "Dictionary of American Biography", which was first published between 1926 and 1937. It is not, however, a strict superset of this older publication; the selection of topics was made anew.
It is commonly available in the reference sections of United States libraries, and is available online by subscription (see external links).
Awards and reception.
In 1999, the American Library Association awarded the "American National Biography" its Dartmouth Medal as a reference work of outstanding quality and significance. The American Historical Association's Waldo G. Leland Prize was awarded for 2001.
It has been criticized for missing cross references and occasional errors, and for its cost, which is said to limit availability in poor countries.
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33889043 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1886 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1886 was unanimously adopted on 15 September 2009.
Resolution.
The Security Council decided this morning to extend the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) for one year, until 30 September 2010.
By its unanimous adoption of resolution 1886 (2009), the Council also determined that UNIPSIL, which was created a year ago under resolution 1829 (2008), should focus its efforts on supporting the Government of Sierra Leone in the areas of constitutional reform and police force improvement, as well as helping it tackle corruption, illicit drug trafficking and organized crime.
The Council emphasized the importance of UNIPSIL’s assistance with youth unemployment, support in preparing for the 2012 elections, in conjunction with the Peacebuilding Fund and the Peacebuilding Commission, which selected Sierra Leone as one of the first two countries to receive assistance in recovering from conflict. In all those efforts, the Council stressed that the Office should work within the Joint Vision of the United Nations country team.
Through the resolution, the Council called on the Secretary-General to develop a series of benchmarks towards the goal of a transition from UNIPSIL to a programme directed by the country team itself. It requested two progress reports from the Secretary-General next year, down from the quarterly reports of the previous year.
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3832232 | California, Louisville | California is a neighborhood in urban Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is bounded on the north by Broadway, on the east by Ninth Street, on the south by Oak Street, and on the west by Twenty-Sixth Street. There are no written records of the beginning of the neighborhood, but the area was settled by German immigrants around 1849. It is said that the subdivision, initially called Henderson, came to be known as California because it was the "far west" of Louisville.
African Americans settled the area after the Civil War, starting the California Colored School and a branch of the Freedmen's Bureau. The early population was mixed between whites and blacks, but white families began to leave around 1900. The neighborhood lost 50% of its population and 40% of its single-family housing from 1950 to 1980 and became known for its urban decay.
California has been the subject of urban renewal efforts, including those by the Brown-Forman Corporation, whose headquarters and warehouse is located in the neighborhood.
A commercial neighborhood arose at 18th Street (Dixie Highway) and Oak. Both Madden Hardware and the Oak Theater were on the east side of 18th.
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17017153 | Global Organization for People of Indian Origin | Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) is an international network of people of Indian origin (PIO).
History.
GOPIO was founded at the First Global Convention of People of Indian Origin in New York City in 1989. The name GOPIO was adopted by the Steering Committee formed after the First Global Convention. The initial thrust of GOPIO was fighting human rights violation against people of Indian origin.
Although this has been improved in the last decade, human rights violations continue to be a major issue for PIOs living outside India. GOPIO has now set its priorities in pooling its resources, both financial and professional, for the benefit of PIOs, the countries they come from and India.
GOPIO's Founder President is Dr. Thomas Abraham who served since inception till 2004. Inder Singh took over as president in 2004 and served till 2009 when Lord Diljit Rana, a member of the House of Lords in London was elected. Lord Rana was followed by Ashook Ramsaran who served from 2011 to 2016. Niraj Baxi of Silicon Valley, California served from March 2016 to December 2017. The incumbent president of the GOPIO is Sunny Kulathakal from Bahrain. The Founder President was elected again as the Chairman of GOPIO in 2016. In 2009, GOPIO launched GOPIO Foundation For People of Indian Origin with Dr. Thomas Abraham as its first Executive Trustee.
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64175714 | Kan-Thurston theorem | In mathematics, particularly algebraic topology, the Kan-Thurston theorem associates a discrete group formula_1 to every path-connected topological space formula_2 in such a way that the group cohomology of formula_1 is the same as the cohomology of the space formula_2. The group formula_1 might then be regarded as a good approximation to the space formula_2, and consequently the theorem is sometimes interpreted to mean that homotopy theory can be viewed as part of group theory.
More precisely, the theorem states that every path-connected topological space is homology-equivalent to the classifying space formula_7 of a discrete group formula_1, where homology-equivalent means there is a map formula_9 inducing an isomorphism on homology.
The theorem is attributed to Daniel Kan and William Thurston who published their result in 1976.
Statement of the Kan-Thurston theorem.
Let formula_2 be a path-connected topological space. Then, naturally associated to formula_2, there is a Serre fibration formula_12 where formula_13 is an aspherical space. Furthermore,
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40798074 | Jackson Asiku | Jackson "Action" Asiku (*21 October 1978) is a Ugandan-Australian amateur flyweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer.
Career.
As an amateur, Asiku represented Uganda at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and won a bronze medal, losing to eventual gold medal winner Richard Sunee of Mauritius. In 1999, he won a bronze medal at flyweight in Boxing at the All-Africa Games in Johannesburg, South Africa, losing to eventual silver medal winner Nacer Keddam of Algeria. In 2000, he took part, in the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, losing to Arlan Lerio of the Philippines. During his amateur time, Asiku boxed in flyweight.
As a professional, Asiku won the Australian featherweight title, World Boxing Organization (WBO) Asia Pacific featherweight title, African Boxing Union (ABU) featherweight title, International Boxing Federation (IBF) Australasian featherweight title, International Boxing Organization (IBO) featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the International Boxing Federation (IBF) Pan Pacific featherweight title against Fahprakorb Rakkiatgym. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. featherweight to , i.e. super featherweight.
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39417558 | St Joseph's Football & Netball Club | St Joseph’s Football & Netball Club Inc, nicknamed the Joeys, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the residential suburb of Herne Hill, Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Geelong Football Netball League, the major regional league in Geelong.
History.
With less than four weeks to the start of the 1973 season junior club St Joseph’s was told that the Geelong & District Football League had passed a motion that all affiliated clubs had to field teams in all the main sections,(Seniors, Reserves, Under 18 and under 16). The club had to find a ground, a coach, committee and forty senior players necessary to keep the club afloat.
Martin Bourke was appointed coach and Drew Reserve was obtained as a home ground.
They joined the Geelong & District Football League and won their first flag in 1982. In those days promotion to the Geelong Football League was automatic as was demotion. They were promoted, demoted then promoted again in three years.
Since then it has stayed in the Geelong Football League since 1985.
Players.
Notable players.
Over thirty players have gone on to play AFL including
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72571731 | Giustino Ferri | Giustino Lorenzo Ferri (23 March 1856 - 13 May 1913) was an Italian journalist and writer.
Biography.
He was born in the town of Picinisco. He studied first at the Liceo Tulliano of Arpino, in 1878 she graduated in 1878 as a lawyer from Naples. He moved to Rome in 1880, to work as a contributor for the journal "Capitan Fracassa", founded by Luigi Arnaldo Vassallo, Federico Napoli, Gennaro Minervini, and Giuseppe Turco. In 1881 he also began writing for the "Cronaca Bizantina", and in 1884 for "Domenica letteraria" and "Il Fanfulla". From 1887 to 1899, he wrote for the journal "Don Chisciotte della Mancia" and "Il Caffaro" of Genoa. He was a theater critic from 1889 on for the "La Rivista d'Italia", "Il Tirso", and finally "Nuova Antologia". He also wrote numerous fictional romances, short stories, and novels. He often wrote under pseudonyms such as Leandro Marquis of Carabas, Furio Stiniger, Maffio Scavelli, Fulvio Ginestri and Plongiak.
He was a frequent patron at the Caffè Bussi, where he befriended Gabriele d'Annunzio, Luigi Capuana, and Luigi Pirandello. He died in Rome.
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24616887 | Kamarajar Lake | Kamarajar Lake is a monsoon-fed water body from Athoor village in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu, which is formed by the Kamarajar Sagar Dam. This lake is a beautiful location with the hills of the Western Ghats overlooking it. Fishermen in their coracles, coconut and banana plantations and cardamom estates are the common sights. Swimming is allowed.
Some eco-friendly resorts are along the northern border of the lake provide for tourists. Coconut trees and mango trees are plenty in the area, making a tropical atmosphere prevalent here.
Taking walks through the countryside in the area is one of the most popular activities in this area. Several walking trails are present around Kamarajar Lake. Most places worth seeing near Kamarajar can be walked to in a reasonable amount of time using these walking trails.
Many birds can be sighted along the trails. Birds such as peacocks, storks, kingfishers, cranes, herons and sunbirds are all known to frequent the area. In fact, one bird watching group from Great Britain was even able to document seeing 160 different species of birds in a short span of four days. Trekking is another popular tourist activity in the area.
Although tigers are not seen in this area, other types of wildlife do flourish in this region. It is common to see leopards, mongooses, monkeys, barking deer, Indian bison and wild boar throughout the area.
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43899557 | Yannick Brauchli | Yannick Brauchli (born 30 July 1988 in Zürich) is a Swiss sailor, who specializes in two-person dinghy (470) class. He represented Switzerland, along with his partner Romuald Hausser, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training for Segel Club Enge throughout most of his sporting career under his personal coach Nicolas Novara. As of September 2014, Brauchli is ranked sixteenth in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation, following his successes at the North American Championships, European Championships and ISAF Sailing World Cup Series.
Brauchli qualified for the Swiss squad in the men's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by placing twenty-sixth and receiving a berth due to his result at the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. Teaming with crew member Romuald Hausser in the opening series at the 2012 Olympics, the Swiss duo recorded a score of 119 net points to establish a sixteenth-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats.
The team also competed at the 2016 Olympics, this time, reaching the medal race. They finished in 9th.
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9279957 | Sullivan High School (Chicago, Illinois) | Sullivan High School is a public four-year high school located in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Sullivan is a part of the Chicago Public Schools district. Opened in 1926, the school is named for businessman and Illinois politician Roger Charles Sullivan.
History.
Sullivan opened in 1926 as a junior high school under the Chicago Board of Education's plan creation of junior high schools in Chicago. The school begin serving as a traditional high school when junior high schools in the city were phased out in 1933.
In the 2010s, Sullivan High School has served a large number of refugee students. As of 2017, 45% of students were foreign-born and came from 38 different countries. That same year, the school was designated a "newcomer center" by Chicago Public Schools for its programming for refugee and immigrant students.
Athletics.
Sullivan competes in the Chicago Public League (CPL) and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). The schools sport teams are nicknamed the Tigers. Sullivan boys' soccer team were regional champions and sectional finalists in 2016 and 2017. Sullivan girls' basketball team were regional champions in 2008–09. The boys' track and field became public league champions in 1938–39. In 1977–78, the school's football team won the Public League championship.
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30642857 | Douglaston Hill Historic District | Douglaston Hill Historic District is a national historic district in Douglaston, Queens, New York. It includes 83 contributing buildings and two contributing sites. The buildings include Zion Episcopal Church (1830), houses and garages, and commercial buildings. The sites are Zion cemetery and public park. It was laid out with very large lots in 1853, at the very beginning of a movement in the United States to create suburban gardens. The buildings include a number of fine examples of late-19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles such as Queen Anne, Shingle Style, and Colonial Revival. The majority of the buildings date between 1890 and 1940.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The area was recognized as a New York City designated landmark district in December 2004 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
In 2012, some numbered streets in the historic district were renamed to their original names, with 43rd Avenue becoming Pine Street.
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54655371 | Abdollah Riazi | Abdollah Riazi () was an Iranian politician who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran for almost 15 years during Pahlavi dynasty.
According to Ali Rahnema, Riazi was "one of permanent and trusted figures" in the establishment, thus "experienced and adept at political correctness". Fakhreddin Azimi describes Riazi as having an "unquestioning deference toward the Shah", which "contrasted sharply with his disdainful attitude toward the deputies, whom he treated virtually as schoolchildren".
Parliamentary career.
In 1963, Abdollah Riazi became a candidate for the 21st Parliament and was elected as the top deputy from Tehran.
He was then elected as member of the executive committee and Speaker of the Majles (Parliament or Congress) for the first time.
He remained Speaker of the Parliament in the 22nd and 23rd term, for three consecutive full four year terms or 12 years. In the 24th term he served as Speaker in the beginning of the term, but was succeeded by Javad Saeed.
Death.
Following the Iranian Revolution, he was arrested and faced three charges in the Islamic Revolutionary Court, including "corruption on earth", "collaborating with the omted regime and trying to re-establish the Shah's idolatrous rule over the weak and defenceless people" and "treason"; eventually leading to execution.
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32090980 | Dolenje Radulje | Dolenje Radulje (; in older sources also "Dolenje Radovlje", ) is a village in the Municipality of Škocjan in southeastern Slovenia. Within the municipality, it belongs to the Local Community of Bučka. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Radelstein Castle.
The ruins of Radelstein Castle (, "Radelštajn", or "Rajtšole") stand in the valley between the hamlet of Sela and Senica Hill. The castle was built in the 16th century by the Sauraui noble family. During the Second World War, German forces maintained stalls at the castle where livestock were taken after the local inhabitants were expelled in order to make room for new ethnic German settlers from Gottschee. The castle was burned by the Partisans in October 1943. The damage from the fire was exacerbated by stockpiles of gasoline at the castle, which were also burned.
Church.
The local church is dedicated to Saint Michael and belongs to the Parish of Bučka. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1526.
Notable people.
Notable people that were born or lived in Dolenje Radulje include:
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39333522 | Domicilium citandi et executandi | Domicilium citandi et executandi is a Latin legal term meaning the address nominated by a party in a legal contract where legal notices may be sent; the onus usually being upon that party to notify the other signatory of any change in address, especially to be ready to receive any notice that is delivered to that address.
For instance, the delivery of a legal notice to the address of the "domicilium citandi et executandi" of a party to a contract can be considered legally sufficient for that notice to be considered received by that party, without the need for the person giving notice actually to find the person.
One or both parties to a contract may demand the other nominate a "domicilium citandi et executandi", typically in order to expedite later legal procedures relating to a contract by making it impossible for a party to claim that a legal notice was not received.
The literal translation from Latin into English is "house for summoning and upkeep".
The Latin term is commonly used within the legal jurisdiction of Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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43591022 | 1955 Small Club World Cup | The 1955 Small Club World Cup was the fourth edition of the Small Club World Cup, a tournament held in Venezuela between 1952 and 1957, and in 1963 and in 1965. It was played by four participants, half from Europe and half from South America in double round robin format and featured players like Mario Coluna, José Águas, goalkeeper Costa Pereira for Benfica, Dino Sani, Nílton de Sordi for Sao Paulo, Dutch Faas Wilkes and Pasieguito for Valencia.
As Milan and Real Madrid declined to participate, they were replaced by Spanish club Valencia and local team La Salle. On the other hand, Brazilian club São Paulo's participation was part of a tour that also included Colombia and Mexico, while Valencia became the third Spanish team to visit Venezuela, after Real Madrid and Barcelona.
The tournament was organised by Spanish entrepreneurs Damián Gaubeka and Pedro Reyes, and named "Copa General de Brigada Marcos Pérez Jiménez" by the press, which never mentioned it as "Pequeña Copa del Mundo". Argentine striker Rubén Padín of La Salle (who had been loaned from Cúcuta Deportivo to play this tournament exclusively) was the topscorer with 10 goals.
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40807690 | Gustav Hauser | Gustav Hauser (13 July 1856 in Nördlingen – 30 June 1935 in Erlangen) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Munich and Erlangen, where he worked as an assistant in the gynecological clinic under Paul Zweifel and at the pathological institute of Friedrich Albert von Zenker. In 1883 he obtained his habilitation for pathological anatomy and bacteriology, and in 1895 became a full professor and director of the institute of pathology in Erlangen.
In 1885, Hauser was the first to isolate the bacillus "Proteus vulgaris". He is also credited with developing a formalin for the preservation of bacterial cultures.
In Erlangen, the thoroughfare "Gustav-Hauser-Straße" is named in his honor.
Published works.
He was the author of works on numerous subjects in medicine. In the field of entomology, he was the author of "Die Damaster-Coptolabrus-Gruppe der Gattung Carabus" (The Damaster-Coptolabrus group and the genus "Carabus"). The following are a few of his publications in the field of medicine:
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12752482 | AMC-6 | AMC-6, formerly GE-6, is a commercial broadcast communications satellite owned by SES S.A. Launched on 21 October 2000, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, AMC-6 became the fifth hybrid C-band / Ku-band satellite in the GE Americom fleet. The satellite provides coverage to the continental United States, Canada, the Caribbean islands, southern Greenland, and Latin America. Located in a geostationary orbit parallel to the eastern United States coastline, AMC-6 provides service to commercial and government customers, and is used as an Internet platform due to its wide coverage, scale and redundancy. Some of its capabilities include Very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) networking, satellite news gathering and Ku-band transceiver service. Launched as GE-6, it was renamed AMC-6 when SES took over GE Americom in 2001, forming SES Americom. This merged with SES New Skies in 2009 to form SES World Skies.
Rainbow 2.
Rainbow Media announced in November 2004, that it will utilize 16 transponders on the AMC-6 satellite, which VOOM refers to as Rainbow 2.
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70885634 | Kian Flanagan | Kian Thomas Flanagan (born 29 August 1999) is an English-born Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder, for club Barnet. He will become a free agent on 30 June 2023
Career.
Club.
Flanagan began his youth career with Southend United, moving to Crystal Palace in 2013, aged 13, for a fee of £37,500. In 2016, on his 17th birthday, he signed a two-year professional contract with the Eagles. In 2018–19, he won the club's young player of the season award, and saw his contract extended by a further year in 2019. In September 2019, Flanagan expressed his frustration at not having yet had a loan spell away from the club. Later that month, Flanagan went on trial at Doncaster Rovers with a view to a loan move in January. Manager Darren Moore was impressed by Flanagan, but no loan move materialised. He was named on Palace's released list at the end of the 2019–20 season, but remained with the club the following season before being released in the summer of 2021.
In July 2021, Flanagan signed for club Barnet. He joined Cheshunt on loan in September 2022. Following defeat in the play-offs, he was released by Barnet at the end of the 2022–23 season.
International.
Flanagan is eligible for England and also the Republic of Ireland, who he has represented at under-17, under-18, and under-19 level.
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8554258 | Dawn and Dusk Club | The Dawn and Dusk Club, or "Dawn and Duskers", was a Sydney-based Australian Bohemian club of writer friends from the late 19th century who met for drinks and camaraderie. Writer Henry Lawson was a prominent member of the club. The motto was "Roost high and crow low".
History.
The club was formed around 1898 in Sydney, Australia by poet Victor Daley, and named after his best known book of verses. It was based on the Gawler Humbug Society. The club met at Fred J. Broomfield's home on the corner of Ice Road and Great Barcom Street, Darlinghurst, near St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney about September, 1898.
Foundation members of 'the Duskers', a small and exclusive group of friends, were Daley, Broomfield, James Philp, Herbert Low (journalist), William Bede Melville (a reporter for the Sydney newspaper, "The Star"), Angus Sinclair (writer), Bertram Stevens and Randolph Bedford.
Daley was elected 'Symposiarch' of the Duskers and the seven 'heptarchs' were Lawson, Stevens, Nelson Illingworth, Frank P. Mahony, George Augustine Taylor, Con Lindsay (journalist), and Philp, who drafted the rules. Artists Norman Lindsay and Albert Henry Fullwood were also members. "Truth" magazine publisher John Norton called them "a band of boozy, bar-bumming bards".
The "Dawn and Dusk Club" was succeeded by the "Supper Club", the rules of which were written in Chinese. Daley was still very much part of the new Bohemian club, which also included journalist J. F. Archibald.
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28954703 | Bruno H. Zimm | Bruno Hasbrouck Zimm (October 31, 1920 – November 26, 2005) was an American chemist. He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry from University of California, San Diego, and a leading polymer chemist and DNA researcher.
Early life.
Zimm was born an only child in 1920 in Woodstock, New York. His father was the sculptor Bruno Louis Zimm, and his mother a writer. Zimm graduated from Kent School in Kent, Connecticut in 1938. After obtaining his Ph.D. in physical chemistry under the tutelage of Joe Mayer at Columbia University in 1944, he moved across town for postdoctoral work with Herman Mark at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where he began his research on light scattering.
Research.
In 1956, Zimm extended the Rouse model of Polymer Physics to include hydrodynamic interactions mediated by the solvent between different parts of the chain. Whilst the original Rouse model overestimates the decrease of the diffusion coefficient D with the number of polymer beads N as 1/N, the Zimm model predicts D~1/Nν which is consistent with the experimental data for dilute polymer solutions, and where ν is the Flory exponent, a measure of the polymer solubility.
In 1959, together with J.K. Bragg, Zimm wrote a classic paper on the helix-coil transition for polypeptides; a year later he published a second paper on the “melting” of the helical forms of DNA.
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65785653 | Eun-Ah Kim | Eun-Ah Kim (born 1975) is a Korean-American condensed matter physicist interested in high-temperature superconductivity, topological order, strange metals, and the use of neural network based machine learning to recognize patterns in these systems. She is a professor of physics at Cornell University.
Education and career.
Kim was born in Jeonju in 1975. She graduated from Seoul National University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in physics, and earned a master's degree there in 2000. She completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, "Quantum Hall Tunnel Junctions: Luttinger Liquid Physics, Quantum Coherence Effect and Fractional Quantum Numbers", was supervised by Eduardo Fradkin.
After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, Kim joined the Cornell University faculty in 2008, and was promoted to full professor in 2019.
Recognition.
In 2020, Kim was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for broad contributions to theoretical condensed matter physics, including new conceptual frameworks for interpreting experiments". In 2022 she was awarded a Simons Fellowship.
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51763502 | Up All Night (Beck song) | "Up All Night" is a song by the American musician Beck. It is the third single (fourth worldwide) from his thirteenth studio album "Colors".
Background and release.
Before its official release, the song was included in the soundtrack for the video game "FIFA 17" in September 2016 and was also used in a commercial for the smartwatch company Fossil.
"Up All Night" was released to triple-A radio September 18, 2017 in the United States as the third single from the album "Colors".
It was then sent to alternative radio September 19, 2017.
Live performances.
Beck performed the song on "Later... with Jools Holland" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in October 2017, and on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" December 6, 2017.
Music video.
The music video, directed and produced by the Catalan production company CANADA, was released on September 6, 2017. It stars French actress Solene Rigot and Pedro Attemborough. It depicts Attemborough falling unconscious during a wild and raucous party while Rigot, adorned in knight's armor and brandishing a shield made from a street sign, rushes through the apartment complex to rescue him. It was nominated for best music video at the 2018 Grammy Awards.
Chart performance.
"Up All Night" peaked at number one on the "Billboard" Alternative Songs airplay chart. This marks Beck's third number-one single and his first since "E-Pro" in 2005. He is one of six acts to accomplish three chart toppers on the Alternative chart in three different decades.
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39403036 | Callopistria latreillei | Callopistria latreillei, Latreille's Latin, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species can be found in the Palearctic realm, most parts of Europe, Asia, and in Africa from Egypt to South Africa. The habitat consists of rocky limestone slopes with deciduous woodland.
Technical description and variation.
"E. latreillei" Dup. (= "quieta" Tr. nec Hbn., "roseitelum" Walk.) (44 f). Forewing whitish, suffused with pale and dark grey, and in parts with blackish fuscous; inner and outer lines black edged with white; a prominent white spot before inner line on submedian fold; stigmata dark grey, with interrupted pale outlines; the reniform with a white dot beyond lower outer angle; submarginal line powdery white, interrupted by the olive or pinkish veins, and preceded by a pink wedge-shaped mark on vein 6; a lunulate white line close before termen; fringe olive yellow, chequered with white; hindwing fuscous, paler towards
base in the male. Larva redbrown, with a black dorsal triangle broadly edged with yellow on each segment; lateral lines yellowy with a black spot on each segment. The wingspan is about .
Biology.
There are two generations per year with adults on wing from May to October.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on "Ceterach officinarum", "Cochlearia" species and "Adiantum capillus-veneris".
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25445292 | Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir | Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir is a book publishing company in Israel.
History.
The company's oldest imprint, Dvir, was founded in Odessa in 1919 by Hayim Nahman Bialik. After the Russian Revolution, Dvir moved to Berlin and in 1924, to Mandatory Palestine. Machbarot Lesifrut, the company's imprint for world literature in translation, was established by Israel Zmora in 1939. Zmora-Bitan was established in 1973 by Ohad Zmora and Asher Bitan. In 1986 Zmora-Bitan acquired Dvir, together with its affiliates Karni and Megiddo. Kinneret publishing house was founded by Yoram and Talma Roz in 1978.
Kinneret was among the first houses to produce and market books with cassettes, board books, and pop-up books for children.
Today.
Kinneret-Zmora employs a staff of 70. It publishes around 300 new titles annually. On the retail side, Kinneret partners with the major book retailer Tzomet Sefarim, which has about 40% of Israel's book retail market. The company is a member of the Book Publishers Association of Israel.
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56124235 | Claude Deschiens | Claude Louis Deschiens de Kerulvay (February 1745 in Lorient – 10 September 1796, "Modeste", Indian Ocean) was a French slave trader and privateer. His ships included the "Boufonne", "Philippine" and "Modeste".
Career.
Born Claude Louis Deschiens to Jean Deschiens and Marie Beauvoir, a merchant family, Deschiens appears in public records with his baptism at Lorient on 21 February 1745. From the age of 11, he began sailing as an apprentice, first on the cargo "Rouillé" from 1754, and then on "Fidèle".
By 1774, Deschiens had achieved command in the merchant navy and the authorities of Île de France gave him command of the schooner "Cheval-Marin" to reconnoitre the Chagos Archipelago. In 1776, he was commander of "Bouffonne", a 150-ton ship funded by his widowed mother; he departed Lorient on 28 May 1776 and arrived at Île de France on 25 November.
At the outbreak of the War of American Independence, "Bouffonne" obtained a letter of marque and Deschiens set out on 5 June 1779, with 4 guns and 25 men, to engage in the slave trade and to purchase rice.
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13377360 | Bengt Schalin | Bengt Michael Schalin (7 January 1889 – 9 November 1982) was a well-known garden architect and botanist in Finland during the 20th century.
Life.
Schalin obtained his secondary school diploma in 1907 in Turku and went on to study horticulture in Belgium and Germany, where he obtained a degree in gardening in 1912 from the Köstritz Higher School of Horticulture. He ran his own garden design office in Helsinki from 1916 until 1922. From 1922 until 1944, he had his own garden and nursery in Kyrkslätt in Finland.
He was employed as the city gardener in Helsinki from 1946 until his retirement in 1957. He was considered one of Finland's leading experts in the field of garden archicture, with a speciality in perennial plants and decorative bushes. He was also a pioneering plant breeder who grew new hybrid lilies, rhododendrons, crab apple trees, roses and viburnums for the gardens in Helsinki.
He designed a large number of private and public gardens, including the botanical garden in Jakobstad and the park at Vanögård ("Finnish: Vanajanlinna").
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