Sanday is an island off the coast of Canna. Sanday is home to 9 people as of 2017.
Raasay
Gay Byrne
Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne (5 August 1934 – 4 November 2019), affectionately known as Uncle Gay, Gaybo or Uncle Gaybo, was a veteran Irish presenter of radio and television for several decades. His most known role was first host of "The Late Late Show" over a 37-year period spanning 1962 until 1999.
Byrne was born in Rialto, Dublin. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He was the first person to broadcast The Beatles on television.
From 1973 until 1998, Byrne presented "The Gay Byrne Hour"—later "The Gay Byrne Show" when it expanded to two hours—on RTÉ Radio 1 each weekday morning. Since retiring from his long-running radio and television shows, Byrne has presented several other programmes, including "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", "The Meaning of Life" and "For One Night Only" on RTÉ One and "Sunday Serenade"/"Sunday with Gay Byrne" on RTÉ lyric fm.
In 2006 he was elected Chairman of Ireland's Road Safety Authority. Since retiring he has become the "Elder Lemon of Irish broadcasting".
Byrne is married to Kathleen Watkins. Together they have two adopted daughters. He lives in Sandymount, Dublin with his wife.
On 21 November 2016 he revealed, live on a radio broadcast, that he was to begin treatment for prostate cancer and that the cancer may have also spread to his lower back. He died from the disease in Dublin on 4 November 2019 at the age of 85.
Elizabeth Dawn
Elizabeth "Liz" Dawn MBE (8 November 1939 – 25 September 2017] was an English actress. She was best known for her role as Vera Duckworth in the long-running British soap opera, "Coronation Street".
Dawn was awarded an MBE in October 2000 for her services to charity and for having helped raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for hospitals in the Manchester and Leeds areas.
Errol Christie
Errol Christie (29 June 1963 – 11 June 2017) was a former professional English boxer and currently a boxing trainer. He was the captain of the English amateur boxing team from 1980 to 1983 and European amateur champion in 1983. After turning professional he was a regular fixture on "ITV Fight Night" in the 1980s. After retiring from boxing he became a trainer in white collar boxing.
In March 2015 Christie was diagnosed with small-cell lung cancer. He died in London on 11 June 2017 from complications of the disease, aged 53.
Paul Rycaut
Sir Paul Rycaut (1628–1700) was a British diplomat, author and traveler. Rycaut served as secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople. Afterward, he served as consul to the Levant Company in Smyrna, Turkey. He was the English ambassador to Hamburg. Rycaut was a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Rycaut was born in November or December of 1628 in Aylesford, Kent. His parents were Peter and Mary Rycaut. His father, Peter Rycaut, was originally from Spain and was a representative in London for the King of Spain. He had also loaned the king money during his war with Holland. Because of this he was exiled from England by Cromwell and lost all his property.
Rycaut's mother, Mary van der Colge, was the daughter of silk merchant from Spitalfields whose father had fled Belgium as a result of the persecution of Protestants by the Spanish. Mary was born in London, United Kingdom and was a member of the Huguenot Society in London. Rycaut learned Greek and Latin probably while still in grammar school in Kent. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1650. In 1652, he was admitted to Gray's Inn.
When Rycaut traveled to Spain to ask Philip IV of Spain for repayment of his father's loans, the king received him warmly. The king arranged for Rycaut to attend the University of Alcalá free of charge. In 1659, Rycaut became the private secretary to Heneage Finch who was the Levant Company ambassador to Constantinople. While there Rycaut learned Turkish and began writing his book "The Present State of the Ottoman Empire." He returned to England in 1665.
Rycaut was sent to Smyrna in 1667 as the agent of the Levant Company where he spent 11 years. On his return to England in 1778 he became private secretary to King William III of England for two years. He was then appointed as ambassador to Hamburg. He was knighted in 1685. On March 28, 1700 he returned to London. On November 9 that same year he suffered a heart attack. Rycaut died on November 16, 1700.
Cantor's theorem
In set theory Cantor's theorem states that the set which contains all subsets of a set has a greater cardinality than the set itself. Georg Cantor showed this in an article he published in 1890. The theorem is valid both for finite and infinite sets.
Small Isles
The Small isles are the four islands, Muck, Rùm, Eigg, Canna and several other islands. They are a small archipelago of islands in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. They are south of Skye and north of Mull and Ardnamurchan. The Small Isles is one of 40 National Scenic Areas in Scotland. They can be reached by taking a ferry from either Arisaig or Mallaig on the mainland.
Lycorhinus
Lycorhinus is a genus of omnivorous heterodontosaurid dinosaur.
Concepción, Paraguay
Concepción is a district and city in northern Paraguay and capital of the Concepción Department. It is next to the Paraguay River.
The city is at about to the north of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay.
The Spanish Governor of Paraguay, Agustín Fernado de Pinedo, founded Concepción in 1773 with the name of "Villa Real de Concepción". The town prospered in the early years of the 20th century, as a centre for the north of the country, the "Gran Chaco", and a river port. The town was also the initial centre for the Paraguayan civil war of 1947.
The city of Concepción is in the southwest of the Concepción department, in the north of the "Oriental" region. The district has an area of and an estimated population in 2015 of 80,622 for a population density of inhabitants/km.
Concepcion has a tropical wet and dry/ savanna climate (Köppen climate classification : Aw) with a pronounced dry season in winter.
The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . Most rains fall during summer. The month with the most precipitation on average is December with of rainfall, followed by November with .
The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is July with an average of and the second is August with .
Concepción is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is January with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is June, with an average temperature of .
Square rig
Square rig refers to a type of sail and rigging where the sails are mounted on horizontal spars. The number of masts, the square sails and how the yards (spars) are set out distinguishes a square-rigged ship. The classic example of a square-rig is a three masted fully rigged ship. The square-rigger descends from the lateen-rig. Its angled sails became square sails. The full-rigged ship is a ship with square-rigged sails on all its masts. The square rig with all its sails and rigging is hard to handle when tacking or "coming about". In the trade winds, square-rigged ships have an advantage, especially in deep water.
Water Under the Bridge
"Water Under the Bridge" is a song by English singer-songwriter Adele. It is the sixth song on her third studio album, "25". It was written by Adele and her frequent writing partner, Greg Kurstin, who also produced the song. "Water Under the Bridge" was released as the fourth single from "25" on November 4, 2016.
The song is a more upbeat song, similar to "Rolling in the Deep". So far, it has charted at number 26 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. It was certified gold by the RIAA in 2017 for shipments of 500,000 copies in the US.