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Hartola Church

**Hartola Church** (, ) is a church building in Hartola, Finland.

Construction begun in 1911. The church was opened on 16 December 1913. Architect was Josef Stenbäck.

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (church)

- **name**: Hartola Church
- **native name**: Hartolan kirkko
Gustav Adolfs kyrka
- **native name lang**: Finnish language, Finnish, Swedish language, Swedish
- **image**: Hartolan kirkko.jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **caption**: Hartola Church in July 2006
- **location**: Hartola
- **country**: Finland
- **denomination**: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, ELCF
Skellefteå IBK

**Skellefteå IBK ** is a floorball club in Skellefteå in Sweden, established 1985. The men's team played six seasons in the Swedish top division, starting with the 1989-1990 season.

## Other websites

- official website
Sonic Rush

is a platformer video game in the _Sonic Rush_ series. It was only ever released for the Nintendo DS in 2005. The game eventually got a sequel _Sonic Rush Adventure_, which was released in 2007. In the game, you can play as Sonic the Hedgehog and Blaze the Cat. The game is 2D, but the characters are 3D, making the game look 2.5D.

## Reception

The game got excellent reviews, including a 9/10 from IGN,  and an average of 82/100 from Metacritic.

## Infobox (video game)

- **developer**: Sonic Team
- **publisher**: Sega
- **series**: Sonic the Hedgehog
- **platform**: Nintendo DS
- **genre**: 2D Platformer
- **image**: Sonic Rush.png
Jan Öjlers

**Jan Öjlers** was a dansband from Sweden. The band scored several Svensktoppen hit songs.

## Svensktoppen hit songs

- "Natten har tusen ögon - 1968
- Bara dig vill jag ha - 1969
- En skön liten sång - 1971
- Lycka till med nästa kille - 1973
- Maria dansar - 1978

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Jan Öjlers
- **background**: group_or_band
- **origin**: Limmared, Sweden,
- **genre**: dansband
Beauvau family

The **House of Beauvau** was a noble family that originated from Anjou a region of France. The Beauvau du Rivau branch was rooted in Brittany. It produced two bishops of Nantes. The Craon (**Prince of Craon**) branch was established in Lorraine. This branch was intimate with the then reigning ducal family.

## Brief history

Of knightly extraction, it has proofs of its nobility going back as far as 1265. The title of marquis of Beauvau was granted to the head of the family by Louis XIV in 1664. The family also had rights to the prestigious title of "cousin du Roi", reserved for a few families with an alliance with the royal house. Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Craon (1679–1754) was entitled prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1722, and it was under this title that the family was admitted to the "honneurs de la Cour" in 1775.

## Princes of Craon

The princely title of Prince of Craon was a title used by the Beauvau family using their status as Prince of the Holy Roman Empire which was gained in 1722. This was later fully recognised by Louis XV of France in 1755. The title was inherited by male offspring. It became extinct in 1982. These princes were sometimes but also known as the **Prince of Beauvau**.

1. 1722–1754: Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Craon (1679–1754), also a Grandee of Spain
1. 1754–1793: Charles Juste de Beauvau, Prince of Craon (1720–1793), also Marshal of France
1. 1793–1849: Marc Étienne de Beauvau, Prince of Craon (1773–1849) better known as the Prince of Beauvau.
1. 1849–1864: Charles de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau (1793–1864)
1. 1864–1883: Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau (1816–1883)
1. 1883–1942: Charles Louis de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau (1878–1942)
1. 1942–1982: Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau (1921-1982) (1921–1982)

## In Lorraine

The Beauvau family later enjoyed close relations with the then ducal family of Lorraine even going so far as to name one of their sons after a son of the Duke. They had a townhouse in Nancy, itself the capital of Lorraine. The townhouse was called the _Hôtel de Craon_. The family also had a residence in Paris named the _Hôtel de Beauvau_.

## Other websites

Further information on the family
Hemlock

**Hemlock** is a herbal poison got from several related plants in the Apiaceae family. The toxic chemicals differ in each plant, but there is a general similarity in the way they work.

- _Conium_, two species. An extract of _Conium maculatum_ was used to execute Socrates. This is the plant most often referred to as hemlock. There are eight alkaloids found in _Conium maculatum_. Two of them, gamma-coniceine and coniine  account for most of the plant's toxicity. Coniine disrupts the workings of the central nervous system by blocking the neuromuscular junction in a manner similar to curare. These alkaloids are made by the plant, and are no doubt effective to stop herbivores eating the plant.
- _Cicuta_ water hemlock or cowbane: highly poisonous. Water hemlock is one of North America's most toxic plants, being highly poisonous to humans. Three members of the genus contain a toxin, cicutoxin, which causes central nervous system stimulation including seizures.
- _Oenanthe crocata_  and several other species of the water dropwort are extremely poisonous. It has been referred to as the most poisonous of all British plants, and is considered particularly dangerous because of its similarity to several edible plants. The active poison is oenanthotoxin. The poison produces the "sardonic grin" a spasm of the facial muscles that produces what appears to be a grin. The poison was said to be used in ancient  Phoenician Sardinia to kill old people who could no longer support themselves.
Felix Timmermans

**Felix Timmermans** (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) was a writer, poet, and drawer from Belgium.

Timmermans was born in Lier, a Belgian city, near Antwerp.

## Bibliography (selection)

- Pallieter (1916)
- Het kindeke Jezus in Vlaanderen (1919)
- De pastoor uit den bloeyenden wijngaerdt (1924)
- Pieter Bruegel, zoo heb ik uit uwe werken geroken (1928)
- De harp van Sint-Franciscus (1932)
- Boerenpsalm (1935)
- De familie Hernat (1941)
- Een lepel herinneringen (1943)
- Adriaan Brouwer (1948)

## Translations

Some of his books were translated and published in English, French, German, Lithuanian, and Italian.

## Filmography

- Boerenpsalm (1989)
- Pallieter (1975)
- Little Baby Jesus of Flandr (2010)
Hall, Indiana

**Hall** is an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is in Gregg Township, Morgan County, Indiana. It was founded in 1860.
Mo Collins (American football)

**Damon Jamal Collins** (September 22, 1976 – October 26, 2014), nicknamed **Mo Collins**, was an American college and professional football player. He was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Collins played college football for the University of Florida, and was a member of a national championship team. The Oakland Raiders selected him in the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and he played his entire professional career for the Raiders.

Collins died of kidney failure in Charlotte, North Carolina, aged 38.

## Infobox (nfl player)

- **name**: Mo Collins
- **number**: 79
- **position**: Offensive lineman
- **birth place**: Charlotte, North Carolina
- **death place**: Charlotte, North Carolina
- **height ft**: 6
- **height in**: 4
- **weight lbs**: 325
- **high school**: West Charlotte High School, West Charlotte (NC)
- **college**: Florida Gators football, Florida
- **draftyear**: 1998
- **draftround**: 1
- **draftpick**: 23
- **pastteams**: * Oakland Raiders (–)
- **pastexecutive**: * Charlotte Speed () (General manager, GM)
- **highlights**: * SEC Championship Game, SEC Championship (1995 SEC Championship Game, 1995, 1996 SEC Championship Game, 1996)
* Bowl Alliance, Bowl Alliance National Championship (1997 Sugar Bowl, 1996)
- **statleague**: NFL
- **statlabel1**: Games played
- **statvalue1**: 71
- **statlabel2**: Games started
- **statvalue2**: 64
- **nfl**: COL528081
- **pfr**: CollMo20
Senzo Meyiwa

**Senzo Robert Meyiwa** (24 September 1987 – 26 October 2014) was a South African footballer. He played as a goalkeeper for Orlando Pirates in the Premier Soccer League, and for the South Africa national team. He was the captain of both.

Meyiwa was killed when two people broke into his house and shot him in Vosloorus, South Africa, aged 27. South African President Jacob Zuma led tributes to Meyiwa.

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Senzo Meyiwa
- **fullname**: Senzo Robert Meyiwa
- **birth place**: Durban, South Africa
- **death place**: Vosloorus, South Africa
- **position**: Goalkeeper (association football), Goalkeeper
- **youthyears2**: 2002–2005
- **youthclubs1**: London Cosmos (South Africa)
- **youthclubs2**: Orlando Pirates
- **years1**: 2005–2014
- **clubs1**: Orlando Pirates
- **caps1**: 109
- **goals1**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 2013–2014
- **nationalteam1**: South Africa national football team, South Africa
- **nationalcaps1**: 6
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
Jeff Robinson (starting pitcher)

**Jeffrey Mark Robinson** (December 14, 1961 – October 26, 2014) was an American professional baseball player. He played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1987 to 1992. Robinson pitched for the Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers and Detroit Tigers.

Robinson died in Overland Park, Kansas from a short-illness, aged 52.

## Infobox (mlb player)

- **name**: Jeff Robinson
- **position**: Pitcher (baseball), Pitcher
- **bats**: Right
- **throws**: Right
- **birth place**: Ventura, California
- **death place**: Overland Park, Kansas
- **debutdate**: April 12
- **debutyear**: 1987
- **debutteam**: Detroit Tigers
- **finaldate**: July 20
- **finalyear**: 1992
- **finalteam**: Pittsburgh Pirates
- **stat1label**: Win–loss record (pitching), Win–loss record
- **stat1value**: 47–40
- **stat3label**: Strikeouts
- **stat3value**: 425
- **stat2label**: Earned run average
- **stat2value**: 4.79
- **teams**: *Detroit Tigers (–)
*Baltimore Orioles ()
*Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers ()
*Pittsburgh Pirates ()
Vasaloppet USA

**Vasaloppet USA** is a cross-country skiing event held around Mora in Minnesota, USA. The first race was held in 1973, The race is held each February. The main event is 58 kilometers long. The competition is named after Vasaloppet in Sweden.

## Other websites

- official website
Johanna Ölander

**Johanna Ölander**, born 23 May 1827, dead 16 July 1909 in Hedvig Eleonora Parish in Stockholm in Sweden was a Swedish song composer. She has written the tune for the Christmas song _Julpolska_ ("Nu ha vi ljus, här i vårt hus").

She was married with Per August Ölander.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Johanna Ölander
- **background**: non_performing_personnel
- **birth name**: Johanna Maria Nordblom
- **death place**: Hedvig Eleonora Parish, Sweden
- **occupation**: composer
Vasaloppet Japan

**Vasaloppet Japan** is a cross-country skiing event held around Asahikawa on the island of Hokkaidō in the northern parts of Japan. The event has been held since 1981. The event is named after Vasaloppet in Sweden.

## Other websites

- official website
Vasaloppet de la Sergerie

**Vasaloppet de la Sergerie** is a cross-country skiing event. It is held around Le Norvégien in the Quebec Province in Canada. The event was first held in 2007

The event is held in February or early March. The event is named after Vasaloppet in Sweden.
Botniavasan

**Botniavasan** is a cross-country skiing event held around Vörå in Finland. The event was first held in 2006. The event is held every year in February. The first time the event was first held was in 2006. The main race is 50 kilometers long. The event has been named after Vasaloppet in Sweden.

## Other websites

- official webstie
Democratic Labour Party (Australia)

The **Democratic Labour Party** (or DLP) is a social conservative political party in Australia. The party was founded in 1955.
Vasaloppet China

**Vasaloppet China** () is a cross-country skiing competition held in the beginning of every year in the People's Republic of China. The race was first held in 2003. It has been part of Worldloppet since 2014. The competition is named after Vasaloppet in Sweden.

## Background

The initiative to the race was taken by Swedish orienteer Jörgen Mårtensson during his travels in China at the time of the the turn of the millennium.

## Other wwbsites

- official website

## Infobox (recurring event)

- **name**: Vasaloppet China
- **image**: Vasaloppet China 2020.jpg
- **caption**: Vinjar Skogsholm of Norway celebrates his victory in the 2020 men's edition
- **status**: active
- **genre**: sporting event
- **date**: January
- **frequency**: annual
- **country**: China, People's Republic of China
Tjejtrampet

**Tjejtrampet** was an annual road bicycle racing event which, as the name tells, was open only for female participants. The event was held in Sweden by lagte May between 1990-2009. The race was held for first time on 13 May 1990. It was won by Marianne Berglund.

In 2006, the event were moved from the town of Stockholm to the town of Västerås.

## Winners

- 1990: Marianne Berglund, Sweden
- 1991: Tea Vikstedt-Nyman, Finland
- 1992: Monique Knol, Netherlands
- 1993: Monique Knol, Netherlands
- 1994: Monique Knol, Netherlands
- 1995: Debby Mansveldl, Netherlands
- 1996: Monique Knol, Netherlands
- 1997: Jorunn Kvalø, Norway
- 1998: Susanne Ljungskog, Sweden
- 1999: Leoniten-Zilijaard van Moorsel, Netherlands
- 2000: Leoniten-Zilijaard van Moorsel, Netherlands
- 2001: Leoniten-Zilijaard van Moorsel, Netherlands
- 2002: Leoniten-Zilijaard van Moorsel, Netherlands
- 2003: Leoniten-Zilijaard van Moorsel, Netherlands
- 2004: Tina Nieminen, Finland
- 2005: Suzanne de Goede, Netherlands
- 2006: Hanna Isacsson, Sweden
- 2007: Monica Holler, CK Hymer, Sweden
- 2008: Kajsa Snihs, Alrikssons Cycle Team CK, Sweden
- 2009: Majken Lidén, Sweden
- <span style="color: gray;"> 2010: cancelled</span>

## Related pages

- Tjejmilen
- Tjejvasan

## Infobox (cycling race)

- **name**: Tjejtrampet
- **date**: late May-early June
- **region**: Sweden
- **discipline**: road bicycle racing
- **type**: one-day
- **first**: Tjejtrampet 1990, 1990
- **firstwinner**: Marianne Berglund, Sweden
- **mostwins**: Leoniten-Zilijaard van Moorsel, Netherlands (5)
- **mostrecent**: Majken Lidén, Sweden
Starke Taylor

**Austin Starke Taylor, Jr.** (July 2, 1922 – October 27, 2014) was an American politician. He served as Mayor of Dallas, Texas. Taylor was a member of the Republican Party. He served as mayor from 1983 to 1987. He was also a cotton investor. Taylor was born in Paris, Texas.

Taylor died at his home in Dallas on October 27, 2014, aged 92.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Starke Taylor, Jr.
- **office**: Mayor of Dallas, Texas
- **term start**: 1983
- **term end**: 1987
- **predecessor**: Jack Wilson Evans
- **successor**: Annette Strauss
- **birth place**: Paris, Texas, Paris, Texas
- **death place**: Dallas, Texas
- **nationality**: American
- **spouse**: Delores Myrlee Burris, Carolyn Wray Norman Markle
- **alma mater**: Rice Institute
- **occupation**: Cotton investor
- **party**: Republican Party (United States), Republican
- **branch**: Navy
- **serviceyears**: World War II
Paris, Texas

**Paris** is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Lamar County, Texas. It had a population of 24,476 in 2020. It has been called the "Second Largest Paris in the World". It has a replica of the Eiffel Tower.
Francisco Accioly Rodrigues da Costa Filho

**Francisco Accioly Rodrigues da Costa Filho** (Paranaguá, March 5, 1920 - Curitiba, November 13, 1979) was a lawyer, professor, and Brazilian politician. He was a Senator of the Republic between 1971 and 1978.

## Bibliography

- NICOLAS, Maria. 130 Anos de Vida Parlamentar Paranaense - Assembleias Legislativas e Constituintes. 1854-1954. 2° ed. Curitiba: Assembléia Legislativa do Paraná; 1984. 779p
The Fall of Ideals

***The Fall of Ideals*** is the third studio album by All That Remains. The album was released on July 11, 2006. It was the only studio album with drummer Shannon Lucas.

The song "Six" was featured in the 2006 video game, _Guitar Hero II_.

The song "This Calling" was featured in the 2007 video game, _Rock Band_, on the _Saw III_ soundtrack and on the __Masters of Horror II_ soundtrack_.

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: The Fall Of Ideals
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: All That Remains
- **released**: July 11, 2006
- **recorded**: October 2005 - February 2006 Zing Studios in Westfield, Massachusetts, Westfield, Massachusetts
- **genre**: Metalcore, Melodic metalcore
- **length**: 38:59
- **language**: English language, English
- **label**: Prosthetic Records, Prosthetic, Razor & Tie
- **producer**: Adam Dutkiewicz
- **prev title**: This Darkened Heart
- **prev year**: 2004
- **next title**: Overcome (All That Remains album), Overcome
- **next year**: 2008
Brassica juncea

***Brassica juncea*** is a species of the mustard plant. It is commonly known  as **mustard greens**, **Indian mustard**, **Chinese mustard**, **Kai Choi**, and **leaf mustard**. Originally, it came from Asia, but it has also been imported into other parts of the world.

Its leaves are commonly used as a vegetable. Its flowers can also be eaten raw, or cooked. Its seeds can be pressed into a vegetable oil or used as a kind of spice. The seeds are also used to make culinary mustard, especially Dijon mustard.
Recess (album)

***Recess*** is the debut studio album by American electronic music producer, Skrillex. _Recess_ was released on March 14, 2014. It was released through Big Beat Records, Asylum Records, and Atlantic Records.

The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200. Skrillex recorded the album while he was touring around the world, through countries such as the United States, Canada, South Korea,  and the United Kingdom.

The album featured the singles "Try It Out" and "Recess".

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: Recess
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: Skrillex
- **recorded**: 2013–14
- **genre**: * Electronic dance music, EDM
* dubstep
* Pop music, pop
- **length**: 46:34
- **label**: * Big Beat Records (American record label), Big Beat
* Owsla
* Atlantic Records, Atlantic
- **producer**: * Chance the Rapper
* Diplo
* Kill the Noise
* KillaGraham
* Alvin Risk
* Skrillex
* The Social Experiment
- **prev title**: Leaving (EP), Leaving
- **prev year**: 2013
- **next title**: Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü
- **next year**: 2015
Climbing plant

**Climbing plants** are plants which climb up trees and other tall objects. Many of them are vines or lianas. Their stems twine round trees and branches.

There are various ways of climbing. The climbing habit has evolved many times. In most cases the climbing plants were more diverse (had more species) than their non–climbing sister groups.

It is a key innovation which has been very successful. Over 130 plant families include climbers. Vine species may be more than 40% of species diversity in tropical forests.

It has evolved independently in several plant families, using many different climbing methods: Botanists generally divide climbing plants into two broad groups:

- **Bines**, which twine their stems around a support. Many bines have rough stems or downward-pointing bristles to aid their grip.
    - Hops (used in flavoring beer) are a commercially important bine.
    - Morning glory, _Ipomoea_ species.
    - Honeysuckle

- Vines which use tendrils, suckers and other methods.
    - twining petioles (e.g., _Clematis_ species)
    - using tendrils, which may be specialized shoots (Vitaceae), leaves (Bignoniaceae), or even inflorescences (_Passiflora_)
    - using tendrils which have adhesive pads at the end. The pads attach themselves quite strongly to the support, (_Parthenocissus_: Virginia creeper)
    - using thorns (e.g. climbing rose) or other hooked structures, such as hooked branches (e.g. _Artabotrys hexapetalus_)
    - by clinging roots (e.g., ivy, _Hedera_ species)

The climbing fetterbush (_Pieris phillyreifolia_) has a strange habit. It is a woody shrub vine which climbs without clinging roots, tendrils, or thorns. Its stem goes into a crack in the bark of fibrous barked trees (such as bald cypress). The stem flattens and grows up the tree _underneath_ the host tree's outer bark. The fetterbush then sends out branches that emerge near the top of the tree.

Most vines are flowering plants. These may be divided into woody vines or lianas, such as wisteria, kiwifruit, and common ivy, and herbaceous (nonwoody) vines, such as morning glory.

One odd group of climbing plants is the fern genus _Lygodium_, called "climbing ferns". The stem does not climb, but rather the fronds (leaves) do. The fronds unroll from the tip, and theoretically never stop growing; they can form thickets as they unroll over other plants, rock faces, and fences.

## Examples

- _Bougainvillea_
- Calabash
- _Campsis_
- Chayote
- _Clematis_
- Common ivy
- Cucumber
- Cyclamen

- Grape
- Honeysuckle
- _Hydrangea_
- Kudzu
- Luffa
- _Lygodium_
- Morning glory
- _Nepenthes_
- Passionfruit
- Poison ivy
- _Solanum_
- Sweet pea
- Virginia creeper
- _Vitis_
- Wild grape
- _Wisteria_
Flanking maneuver

In military tactics, a **flanking maneuver**,also called a **flank attack**, is an attack on the sides or rear of an opposing force. If a flanking maneuver succeeds, the opposing force is surrounded or has to fight from two or more directions, which reduces the ability of the outflanked force to move or defend itself.

Unlike an envelopment, which depends on the enemy's defensive position, obstacles and the terrain, a flanking maneuver uses the enemy's forward movement to create an attackable flank. A psychological advantage may also be present. The confusion and the threat from multiple directions can often cause shock and panic. That may cause soldiers to run from the battle.

A larger-scaled tactical flanking is called a strategic flanking and can have the targets of the flanking be as large as divisions or even entire armies.

## Strategy

A flanking maneuver works best when an enemy is engaged at its front. Often, an opposing force must be maneuvered into a position for a flanking attack to work. An ideal situation is getting it into a position in which its front is narrow, and its flanks are long.

A classic example of a flanking maneuver is Confederate General Stonewall Jackson against the Union Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

## Related pages

- Turning movement
- Ambush
- Envelopment
    - Pincer movement (also called a double-envelopment)
- Rearguard
- Attrition warfare
- Feigned retreat
- Preemptive war
- Oblique order
- Shock tactics

## Other websites

- American Artifacts: Jackson's Flank Attack at Chancellorsville - Full Tour; YouTube
Lincoln Center

**Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts** is a group of building in New York city used for showing performing arts. It is a  complex of buildings. The Lincoln Center is located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Henry Timms is the president. The Lincoln Square neighborhood was named for United States President Abraham Lincoln.

## History and facilities

A group of civic leaders led by John D. Rockefeller III built Lincoln Center. It was part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contracted to design the major buildings on the site. Over the next thirty years the area around Lincoln Center became a new cultural hub.

Rockefeller was Lincoln Center's first president in 1956. He became its chairman in 1961. Rockefeller is credited with raising more than half of the $184.5 million in private funds needed to build the complex.  The center's three buildings, Avery Fisher Hall (formerly Philharmonic Hall), David H. Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater) and the Metropolitan Opera House were opened in 1962, 1964 and 1966, respectively.

The center may have been named because it was located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. It is unclear whether the area was named as a tribute to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The name was bestowed on the area in 1906 by the New York City Board of Aldermen. The records give no reason for choosing that name.
Mike Moustakas

**Mike Moustakas** (born September 11, 1988) is a Major League Baseball player for the Kansas City Royals. He is a third baseman.

## Infobox (mlb player)

- **image**: Mike Moustakas on May 25, 2012.jpg
- **name**: Mike Moustakas
- **bats**: Left
- **throws**: Right
Kit Carson Peak

**Kit Carson Mountain** is a mountain in Colorado. It is  high. It is named after the American frontiersman Kit Carson.
Jason Vargas

**Jason Matthew Vargas** (born February 2, 1983) is an American professional baseball player.  He plays for the Kansas City Royals.  He joined the Florida Marlins in the 2004 MLB Draft.  Vargas made his MLB debut in 2005.  He recorded two career starts with the New York Mets in 2007 and was sent to the Seattle Mariners in 2009.

## Infobox (mlb player)

- **name**: Jason Vargas
- **image**: IMG 0026 Jason Vargas.jpg
- **image size**: 240
- **position**: Starting pitcher
- **team**: Kansas City Royals
- **number**: 51
- **bats**: Left
- **throws**: Left
- **birth place**: Apple Valley, California
- **debutdate**: July 14
- **debutyear**: 2005
- **debutteam**: Florida Marlins
- **statyear**: 2014 season
- **stat1label**: Win–loss record (pitching), Win–loss record
- **stat1value**: 62–68
- **stat2label**: Earned run average
- **stat2value**: 4.20
- **stat3label**: Strikeouts
- **stat3value**: 767
- **teams**: * Florida Marlins (–)
* New York Mets ()
* Seattle Mariners (–)
* Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ()
* Kansas City Royals (–present)
- **awards**: * 2× AL Pitcher of the Month
If You Were Still Around

"**If You Were Still Around**" is a song by Welsh musician and composer John Cale. It was co-written by John Cale and playwright Sam Shepard. It was originally released in 1982 on _Music for a New Society_ album. The new version of the song was released in 2014 together with music video directed by Abigail Portner. The video was dedicated to Lou Reed who died one year before.

## Infobox (song)

- **name**: If You Were Still Around
- **type**: song
- **artist**: John Cale
- **album**: Music for a New Society
- **language**: English
- **released**: October 1982
- **genre**: Art rock
- **length**: 3:25
- **label**: ZE Records
- **writer**: Sam Shepard, John Cale
- **producer**: John Cale
Tomasgårdens IF

**Tomasgårdens IF** was a floorball club at the Thomas Church in Västerås in Sweden. It was established as a club in 1982 following the 1978 establishment of a floorball team. The club was disestablished in 1999, when the club was merged with Västerås IBF. The men's team won the Swedish national championship in 1984. The men's team also played in the Swedish top division during the 1990's. In 1991, the men's team lost the Swedish national championship finals to IBK Lockerud.
KFUM Örebro

**KFUM Örebro** is an YMCA association in the town of Örebro in Sweden. It was established in 1890. In 1990 the club won the Swedish women's juniors national volleyball championship. Between 1996 and 2001 the club won the Swedish national women's volleyball championship during six seasons in a row.

The men's floorball team played in the Swedish top division during the 1990s.
Kolbäcks VK

**Kolbäcks VK** is a volleyball club in Kolbäck in Sweden. The club was established in 1948.

The club won the Swedish men's national volleyball championship in 1962, 1963 and 1965. In 1969, the club won the Swedish women's national volleyball championship in 1969. The club also won the Swedish men's national junior volleyball championship in 1974. In 1985 and 2003 the club won the Swedish men's junior national volleyball championship.

## Other websites

- official website
Kolbäck

**Kolbäck** is a locality in Hallstahammar Municipality in Västmanland County, Sweden. In 2010, 1,951 people lived there.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **official name**: Kolbäck
- **image skyline**: Kolbäck kyrka.jpg
- **image caption**: Kolbäck Church in September 2009
- **pushpin map**: Sweden
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: Sweden
- **subdivision type3**: Municipalities of Sweden, Municipality
- **subdivision name3**: Hallstahammar Municipality
- **subdivision type2**: Counties of Sweden, County
- **subdivision name2**: Västmanland County
- **subdivision type1**: Provinces of Sweden, Province
- **subdivision name1**: Västmanland
- **area total km2**: 2.22
- **population as of**: 31 December 2010
- **population total**: 1,951
- **population density km2**: 880
- **timezone**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset**: +1
- **timezone dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset dst**: +2
Samantha Power

**Samantha Power** (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish-born American academic and diplomat. Power was the 19th Administrator to the United States Agency for International Development from April 2021 until January 2025 under the Joe Biden administration. She was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 until 2017 under the Barack Obama administration.

Power is listed as the 63rd most powerful woman in the world by _Forbes_.

Power was born in Dublin, Ireland. She moved to Pittsburgh when she was nine. She graduated from Yale University in 1992.

Her book, _A Problem From Hell_, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, examines the role and responses of the United States government in the genocides and ethnic conflicts of the 20th Century.

In January 2021, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Power to be the head of the United States Agency for International Development. In April 2021, her nominated was confirmed by the United States Senate with a 68 to 28 vote.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Samantha Power
- **image**: Samantha Power in 2023 (cropped).jpg
- **office**: 19th United States Agency for International Development, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
- **president**: Joe Biden
- **term start**: May 3, 2021
- **term end**: January 20, 2025
- **predecessor**: Mark Andrew Green, Mark Green
- **successor**: Marco Rubio (acting)
- **office1**: 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- **president1**: Barack Obama
- **deputy1**: Rosemary DiCarlo
Michele J. Sison
- **term start1**: August 5, 2013
- **term end1**: January 20, 2017
- **predecessor1**: Susan Rice
- **successor1**: Nikki Haley
- **birth name**: Samantha Jane Power
- **birth place**: London, United Kingdom
- **party**: Democratic Party (United States), Democratic
- **children**: 2
- **education**: Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, BA)
Harvard University (Juris Doctor, JD)
Allegiance

**Allegiance** is a duty of faithfulness or loyalty said to be owed, or freely committed, by the people, subjects or citizens to their state or sovereign.

## Oath of allegiance

The oath of allegiance is an oath of fidelity to the sovereign in the United Kingdom.  It must be taken by all persons holding important public office and as a condition of naturalization. By ancient common law, it was required of all persons above the age of 12.  It was repeatedly used as a test of loyalty. In England, it was first imposed by statute in the reign of Elizabeth I (1558). The words have, more than once, been altered since. Up to the time of the revolution, the promise was "to be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb and terrene honour, and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him without defending him therefrom." The Convention Parliament enacted the form that has been in use since that time – "I do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty ..."

In the United States and some other republics, the oath is known as the Pledge of Allegiance. Instead of declaring fidelity to a monarch, the pledge is made to the flag, the republic, and to the core values of the country, specifically liberty and justice. The reciting of the pledge in the United States is not compulsory because of the rights guaranteed to the people under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The guarantee of freedom of speech includes the freedom _not_ to speak.

## In Islam

The word used in the Arabic language for allegiance is _bay'at_ (Arabic: بيعة), which means "taking hand". The practice is sanctioned in the Quran by Surah 48:10: "Verily, those who give thee their allegiance, they give it but to Allah Himself". The word is used for the oath of allegiance to an emir. It is also used for the initiation ceremony specific to many Sufi orders.
Edward J. Perkins

**Edward Joseph Perkins** (June 8, 1928 – November 7, 2020) was an American diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, and the United Nations 1992-1993. He was later Director of the US State Department's Diplomatic Corps.

Perkins died on November 7, 2020 at a hospital in Washington, D.C. from a stroke at the age of 92.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **image**: Ambassador Perkins.jpg
- **office**: United States Ambassador to Australia
- **president**: Bill Clinton
- **term start**: November 24, 1993
- **term end**: July 19, 1996
- **predecessor**: Mel Sembler
- **successor**: Genta H. Holmes
- **office1**: 19th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- **president1**: George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
- **term start1**: May 12, 1992
- **term end1**: January 27, 1993
- **predecessor1**: Thomas R. Pickering
- **successor1**: Madeleine Albright
- **office2**: Director General of the Foreign Service
- **president2**: George H. W. Bush
- **term start2**: September 22, 1989
- **term end2**: May 7, 1992
- **predecessor2**: George S. Vest
- **successor2**: Genta H. Holmes
- **office3**: United States Ambassador to South Africa
- **president3**: Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
- **term start3**: November 27, 1986
- **term end3**: May 22, 1989
- **predecessor3**: Herman W. Nickel
- **successor3**: William L. Swing
- **office4**: United States Ambassador to Liberia
- **president4**: Ronald Reagan
- **term start4**: August 28, 1985
- **term end4**: October 22, 1986
- **predecessor4**: William L. Swing
- **successor4**: James Bishop (diplomat), James Bishop
- **birth name**: Edward Joseph Perkins
- **birth place**: Sterlington, Louisiana, Sterlington, Louisiana, U.S.
- **death place**: Washington D.C., U.S.
- **spouse**: Lucy Chen-mei Liu
- **children**: Katherine Perkins, Sarah Perkins
- **party**: Independent politician, Independent
- **education**: University of Maryland University College, University of Maryland, University College (Bachelor of Arts, BA)
University of Southern California (Master of Public Administration, MPA, Doctor of Public Administration, DPA)
Vernon A. Walters

**Vernon A. Walters** (January 3, 1917 – February 10, 2002) was an American politician. He was a member of the United States Army. Walters was born in New York City, New York.

He served from 1972 to 1976 as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, from 1985 to 1989 as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations and from 1989 to 1991 as Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany.

## Other websites

- Finding aid for the Vernon A. Walters Oral History, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
- Alan Goodman discuses the role of the United States at the UN and the UN's contributions to American foreign policy with Vernon Walters  On _American Interests_,1987
- New York Times obituary
- Interview on Central American Crisis of 1984 from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Vernon A. Walters
- **image name**: Ambassador Vernon A. Walters.jpg
- **office**: United States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
- **term start**: 1989
- **term end**: 1991
- **president**: George H. W. Bush
- **office2**: 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- **term start2**: 1985
- **term end2**: 1989
- **president2**: Ronald Reagan
- **preceded2**: Jeane Kirkpatrick
- **succeeded2**: Thomas R. Pickering
- **birth date**: January 3, 1917
- **birth place**: New York City, New York (state), New York
- **death date**: February 10, 2002 (aged 85)
- **death place**: West Palm Beach, Florida, West Palm Beach, Florida
Jeane Kirkpatrick

**Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick** (née Jordan; December 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American politician. She served as the American ambassador to the United Nations. She served as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet.

Kirkpatrick died of congestive heart failure caused by heart disease in Bethesda, Maryland, aged 79.

## Other websites

- Honorary Doctoral Degrees, Universidad Francisco Marroquín
- "Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan's Forceful Envoy, Dies" , 'The New York Times_, December 9, 2006; accessed May 20, 2014.
- "Kirkpatrick hit liberals for blaming America first", washtimes.com; accessed May 20, 2014.
- official website of Empower America
- American Enterprise Institute website
- Profile: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
- ADL Mourns the Passing of Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick , Anti-Defamation League press release; accessed May 20, 2014.
- The Cold War series: interview with Jeane Kirkpatrick, National Security Archive (February 28, 1999)
- "Jeane Kirkpatrick advocates war" , _The Oprah Winfrey Show_, October 1, 2001.
- The National Association of Scholar's Board of Advisors
- Jeane Kirkpatrick interviewed by Peter Krogh , _American Interests'' (1982)

## Infobox (us cabinet official)

- **birthname**: Jeane Duane Jordan
- **image**: Od jeane-kirkpatrick-official-portrait 1-255x301.jpg
- **caption**: Jeane Kirkpatrick's official portrait
- **order**: 16th
- **title**: United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- **term start**: 1981
- **term end**: 1985
- **president**: Ronald Reagan
- **predecessor**: Donald McHenry
- **successor**: Vernon A. Walters
- **birth place**: Duncan, Oklahoma, U.S.
- **death place**: Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
- **spouse**: Evron Maurice Kirkpatrick
- **children**: Douglas Jordan Kirkpatrick
John Evron Kirkpatrick
Stuart Kirkpatrick
- **party**: Democratic Party (United States), Democratic (until 1980)
Republican Party (United States), Republican (1980–2006)
- **alma mater**: Stephens College
Barnard College
Columbia University
University of Paris
- **profession**: Professor, diplomat, political activist
Edward Stettinius Jr.

**Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.** (October 22, 1900 – October 31, 1949) was an American politician. He served as United States Secretary of State under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, serving from 1944 to 1945. He was also the first United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

## Infobox (us cabinet official)

- **birth name**: Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
- **image**: Edward Stettinius, as lend-lease administrator, September 2, 1941.jpg
- **order**: List of Secretaries of State of the United States, 48th
- **title**: United States Secretary of State
- **term start**: December 1, 1944
- **term end**: June 27, 1945
- **predecessor**: Cordell Hull
- **successor**: James F. Byrnes
- **president**: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
- **order2**: 1st
- **ambassador from2**: United States
- **country2**: the United Nations
- **term start2**: 1945
- **term end2**: 1946
- **president2**: Harry S. Truman
- **predecessor2**: None
- **successor2**: Herschel Johnson _(Acting)_
- **birth date**: October 22, 1900
- **birth place**: Chicago, Illinois
- **death place**: Greenwich, Connecticut
- **party**: United States Democratic Party, Democratic
- **spouse**: Virginia Gordon Wallace
- **children**: Edward R. "Ed" Stettinius, III
Wallace Stettinius
Joseph Stettinius
- **alma mater**: University of Virginia
- **profession**: Businessman
Office of Management and Budget

The **Office of Management and Budget** (**OMB**) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).

The Director of the OMB is a member of the executive office of the president. The main job of the OMB is to help the President in preparing the budget. The OMB also measures the quality of agency programs, policies, and procedures and to see if they comply with the President's policies.

## List of directors

List of OMB directors.

|Name|Start|End|colspan=2|President|class=unsortable|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1921–1923)||
|rowspan=3||rowspan=3||rowspan=3||rowspan=3||
|style="background: ;"||(1923–1929)||||||
|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1929–1933)|||||
||||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1933–1945)||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2||
|rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(1945–1953)|||||
||||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(1953–1961)||
||||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1961–1963)||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2||
|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1963–1969)|||||
||||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(1969–1974)||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2||
|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1974–1977)|||||
||||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1977–1981)||
||||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1981–1989)||
||||style="background: ;"||(1989–1993)|||
||||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(1993–2001)||
||||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(2001–2009)||
||||rowspan=7 style="background: ;"||rowspan=7|(2009–2017)||
||||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(2017–2021)||
||||Became Acting White House Chief of Staff on January 2, 2019, but remained OMB Director through the rest of his tenure.|||||
||||Initially Acting Director during Mulvaney's service as Acting White House Chief of Staff continued until Vought was confirmed.|||||
||||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2021–2025)||
||||While Young was Acting Director, Jason Miller assumed duties during her parental leave from October 2021 – December 2021.|||||
||||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2025–present)||
||February 7, 2025|Present||||||

## Infobox (government agency)

- **agency name**: Office of Management and Budget
- **seal**: US-OfficeOfManagementAndBudget-Seal.svg
- **seal width**: 140px
- **formed**: 1970
- **preceding1**: Bureau of the Budget
- **headquarters**: Eisenhower Executive Office Building
- **employees**: 529
- **budget**: $92.8 million (FY 2011)
- **chief1 name**: Russell Vought
- **chief1 position**: Director
- **chief2 name**: Dan Bishop (nominee)
- **chief2 position**: Deputy Director
- **parent agency**: Executive Office of the President of the United States
- **website**: [http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb Office of Management and Budget]
Council of Economic Advisers

The **Council of Economic Advisers** (**CEA**) is an agency within the Executive Office of the President that advises the President of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the research for the White House and prepares the annual Economic Report of the President.

## List of chairs

|Image|Name|Start|End|colspan=2|President||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1945–1953)||||
|||||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1953–1961)||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2||style="background: ;"||(1961–1963)|
|rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1963–1969)||||||||
|||||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1969–1974)||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|||||
|rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(1974–1977)||||||||
|||||style="background: ;"||(1977–1981)|||||
|||||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(1981–1989)||||
|||||style="background: ;"||(1989–1993)|||||
|||||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(1993–2001)||||
|||||rowspan=5 style="background: ;"||rowspan=5|(2001–2009)||||
|||||rowspan=4 style="background: ;"||rowspan=4|(2009–2017)||||
|||||rowspan=3 style="background: ;"||rowspan=3|(2017–2021)||||
|||||rowspan=2 style="background: ;"||rowspan=2|(2021–2025)||||
||||Incumbent|style="background: ;"||(2025–present)|||||

## Infobox (government agency)

- **agency name**: Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)
- **seal**: Council of Economic Advisers.png
- **seal width**: 140px
- **preceding1**: Office of Price Administration, Office of Price Administration (World War II)
- **preceding2**: Council on Wage and Price Stability, Council on Wage and Price Stability (Carter era)
- **headquarters**: Eisenhower Executive Office Building
- **employees**: About 35
- **chief1 name**: Stephen Miran
- **chief1 position**: Chair
- **parent agency**: Executive Office of the President of the United States
Samuel Pierce

**Samuel Riley Pierce, Jr.** (September 8, 1922October 31, 2000) was an American politician. He was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He served as secretary from January 23, 1981 until January 20, 1989.

## Other websites

- Samuel Pierce biography
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution article from Pierce's tenure
- New York Times CABINET AIDE GREETED BY REAGAN AS 'MAYOR'

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Samuel Pierce
- **image**: Samuel Pierce official portrait.jpg
- **office**: 8th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- **president**: Ronald Reagan
- **term start**: January 23, 1981
- **term end**: January 20, 1989
- **predecessor**: Moon Landrieu
- **successor**: Jack Kemp
- **birth name**: Samuel Riley Pierce
- **birth place**: Glen Cove, New York, Glen Cove, New York (state), New York, U.S.
- **party**: Republican Party (United States), Republican
- **spouse**: Barbara Penn Wright
- **children**: 1
- **education**: Cornell University (Bachelor of Arts, BA, Juris Doctor, JD)
New York University (Master of Laws, LLM)
- **unit**: United States Army Criminal Investigation Command, Criminal Investigation Division
- **battles**: World War II
Hans Schneider (mathematician)

**Hans Schneider** (24 January 1927 - 28 October 2014) was an Austrian-American mathematician, and James Joseph Sylvester Emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was the first president of the  International Matrix Group (1987-1990) and it successor, the International Linear Algebra Society (1990 – 1996).

Schneider was a founding editor (1968-1972) and then editor-in-chief of _Linear Algebra and Its Applications (1972 - 2012)_. He was also an Advisory Editor of the _Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra_.

## Personal life

Schneider born in Vienna, Austria. He died of cancer at the age of 87.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Hans Schneider
- **birth date**: 24 January 1927
- **death date**: 28 October 2014
- **occupation**: Mathematician, Professor
Shin Hae-chul

**Shin Hae-chul** (6 May 1968 – 27 October 2014), also known by the nicknames **Demon Lord** (마왕) and **Cult Leader** (교주), was an avant-garde South Korean pop music performer. He was known for being a member of the pop group _N.EX.T_.

Hae-chul died in Seoul, South Korea from a heart attack, aged 46.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Shin Hae-chul
- **image**: 신해철.jpg
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth place**: Seoul, South Korea
- **death place**: Seoul, South Korea
- **instrument**: Guitar, piano
- **genre**: Rock music, Rock, Pop music, pop
- **occupation**: Singer-songwriter, Record producer, producer, artist, activist
- **years active**: 1988–2014
- **associated acts**: N.EX.T
- **website**: [http://cyworld.nate.com/Mawangcy cyworld.nate.com/Mawangcy]  [http://shinhaechul.com shinhaechul.com]
The Elephants' Graveyard (1976)

***The Elephants' Graveyard*** is a 1976 British drama television play. It was written by Peter McDougall for the BBC's _Play for Today_. It stars Billy Connolly and Jon Morrison.

It was filmed in Greenock, Scotland. It was released on DVD in 2006.

The total running time is 49 minutes.

## Story

Two strange unemployed men meet in an old house in the woods. They find out that they both are pretending to work.

They spend the day together with drinking and deep conversations.

## Quotes

You get neither chance nor choice. You leave school and straight to work without even thinking about it. Then you get married without even knowing about it. Then spend the rest of your days using both as an excuse for never have done anything with your life.