A Loading gauge defines the maximum height and width for railway vehicles and their loads to ensure safe passage through bridges, tunnels and other structures. Classification systems vary between different countries and gauges may vary across a network, even if the track gauge remains constant.
L’Malouma Said
L’Malouma Said (; born 1972) is a politician and activist from Mauritania. In 2018, she received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S Department of State.
L’Malouma Said was born a slave in Boutilmitt, Mauritania. She was a leader in the El Hor movement (Movement for the liberation of Haratines) in Mauritania. She helped to start the Mauritanian anti-slavery organization S.O.S. Esclaves. She is married to Boubacar Messaoud, the current leader of S.O.S. Esclaves.
She was elected to the National Assembly of the Parliament of Mauritania in 2006 and 2013.
Silvia Bel
Silvia Bel (Catalan: Sílvia Bel i Busquet) (born June 24, 1970) is a Spanish actor of theater, film, and television. She is known for the films Painless, The Next Skin, and Com si fos ahir. In 2012 she received the Margarita Xirgu Memorial Award for the best female performance of the Barcelona theater season for her part in "La Ciutat".
Bel was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, in Spain. She was married to actor Karra Elejalde. They had one daughter. She studied theater at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona.
Titot
Titot or Francesc Ribera i Toneu (born June 26, 1967) is a musician and Catalan politician.
Titot was born in Berga, Berguedà, in central Catalonia, Spain. He started the musical group Brams in 1990. In 2000, he started the group Mesclat. In 2006, he started the group Aramateix.
In 2011, Titot was elected councilor in the Berga municipal election on the list of the CUP (Candidatura d'Unitat Popular) party.
Mascarats
Mascarats is a Catalonian rock and reggae musical group.
The group started in 2008 with the name "Amagau Todos" in the city of La Sénia in Catalonia, Spain. Later they changed their name to Mascarats.
Mascarats is a nickname given to the people of La Sénia. At one time, coal was produced La Sénia, and the people who worked there came out with black and dirty faces. They were called "masked". This name was being forgotten and the group wanted to revive it.
Their first album was "La veu del poble" in 2014.
Their second album was "Trencarem l'imaginari" ("Let's break the imaginary') in 2017. The album was released with a video: "Mai més presons" ("No more prisons'). The album was described as "fusing reggae and rock", and having a rebellious spirit with themes of feminism, internationalism, anti-capitalism, and political references. The album was produced at WZ Estudi in Borriol, Castellón de la Plana, Spain, and produced by Sam Ferrer. It featured Gemma Polo (vocalist from Roba Estesa), and backup vocals by Xavi Sarrià of Obrint Pas and Josep Nadal of La Gossa Sorda, and additional instrumentals by Joan Palà of Txarango on percussion and Héctor Peropadre of Aspencat on lute.
In 2015 their song "Sentiment comú" was chosen to represent the XXXVII Aplec dels Ports, a yearly festival of the historical port cities, that is in a different city every year.
In 2018 they recorded a video "Els carrers seran sempre nostres" ("The streets will always be ours") as a tribute to the October 1, 2017 Catalonia independence referendum and the September 20 arrests.
In July 2018 they joined the "Free Forcadell" campaign, a benefit for Catalan President Carme Forcadell, the release of the political prisoners, and the return of the exiles, along with musicians Maria del Mar Bonet, musical group Gossos, singer Gerard Quintana, actor Sílvia Bel, musicians Titot and Borja Penalba, and poet Roc Casagran, actors Joel Joan and Anna Sahún, and journalist Sarai Sarroca. The event was originally scheduled for July 21, but was changed to September 15 because of rain.
Roc Casagran
Roc Casagran or Roc Casagran i Casañas (born 1980) is a Catalonian professor and poet. He received the "XIII Premi de poesia Parc Taulí" (Parc Taulí Poetry Prize) for his work "L’ombra queixalada" on the subject of the May 1968 student protests. He received the 18th Ciutat de Tarragona Prize for his work "Austràlia".
Selected works:
Anna Sahun
Anna Sahun or Anna Sahun Martí (born March 13, 1975) is a Catalonian actor. Sahun is known for the movies "Agnosia", "The Hours of the Day", and "Temps de Silenci". She is also known for playing the part of Lídia Almeda in the television series "La Riera".
Anna Sahun was born in Barcelona. She studied theater at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona.
Telling You
Telling You, also known as Love Sucks, is a 1998 romantic comedy movie directed by Robert DeFranco and starring Peter Facinelli, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Matthew Lillard, Judge Reinhold and Dash Mihok. It was distributed by Miramax. Its filming location finds place in North Hollywood. It was released on August 7, 1998.
Three college graduates find themselves back home in New Jersey stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor and frustrated about their life's perspectives, while their friends move on, struggle to find a new direction for their lives. Dennis feels overtaken by those he outstripped at high school while Phil re-encounters an ex-girlfriend who is Tony's sister he left behind. In the meantime, dealing with problems created by some money missing from the restaurant, the trio begin meeting old acquaintances and trying to pull themselves up and reorganise their plans for the future.
V509 Cassiopeiae
V509 Cassiopeiae is a yellow hypergiant in the Cassiopeia constellation. It is 900 times bigger than the Sun.
Alpha Herculis
Rasalgethi, (Arabic: رأس الجاثي ra‘is al-jāthī‎ 'Head of the Kneeler'). also called as Alpha Herculis, is a red giant star. It is the brightest star in the Hercules constellation.
NGK (film)
NGK is an Indian Tamil language political drama movie. It was written and directed by Selvaraghavan. This was his first time working with Suriya. Yuvan Shankar Raja is the music composer. The movie was produced by S. R. Prakashbabu and S. R. Prabhu of Dream Warrior Pictures.
The movie stars Suriya, Rakul Preet Singh and Sai Pallavi in the lead roles. The project was officially announced in November 2017 after completion of "Thaanaa Serndha Kootam". The movie's pre-production began in January 2018. Principal photography began on 22 January 2018. It was released on 31 May 2019. This movie received mixed to positive reviews.
Principal photography of the movie began on 22 January 2018. The first look of the movie and title "NGK" were unveiled on 5 March 2018.
1000 Forms of Fear
1000 Forms of Fear is the fourth studio album by Sia Furler, released in June 2014.
Prestel
Prestel was the brand name for the United Kingdom Post Office's Viewdata technology, It was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979. It achieved a maximum of 90,000 subscribers in the UK and was eventually sold by BT in 1994.
The technology was a forerunner of on-line services today. Instead of a computer, a television set hooked to a dedicated terminal was used to receive information from a remote database via a telephone line. The service offered thousands of pages ranging from consumer information to financial data but with limited graphics.
Trichodesmium
Trichodesmium, or "sea sawdust", is a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria. They are found in nutrient-poor tropical and subtropical ocean waters.
They are most common around Australia and in the Red Sea, where they were first described by Captain Cook.
"Trichodesmium" is a diazotroph; that is, it fixes atmospheric nitrogen into ammonium, a nutrient used by other organisms. "Trichodesmium" is thought to fix nitrogen on such a scale that it accounts for almost half of the nitrogen fixation in marine systems globally.
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