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Scoparia fumata

species of insect

Scoparia fumata is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It is endemic in New Zealand. Taxonomy It was described by Alfred Philpott in 1915. However the placement of this species within the genus Scoparia is in doubt. As a result, this species has also been referred to as Scoparia (s.l.) fumata. Description The wingspan is 20–23 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous-brown with dark fuscous markings. The hindwings are grey, tinged with ochreous and with a darker subterminal line. Adults have been recorded on wing in December. References Category:Moths described in 1915 Category:Moths of New Zealand Category:Scopariinae Category:Endemic

Battle of Jinyang

battle

The Battle of Jinyang () was fought between the elite families of the State of Jin, the house of Zhao and the house of Zhi (智), in the Spring and Autumn period of China. The other houses of Wei and Han first participated in the battle in alliance with the Zhi, but later defected to ally with Zhao to annihilate the Zhi house. This event was a catalyst to the Tripartition of Jin in 434 BC, the forming of the three states of Zhao, Wei, and Han, and the start to the Warring States period. It is the first battle

Eduardo Missoni

Scouting leader

Eduardo Missoni (born July 31, 1954 in Rome) is an Italian medical doctor who has been active in numerous social causes. He was appointed as the Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from April 1, 2004 through November 30, 2007. Life Dr. Missoni received his medical training and specialty in tropical medicine from Rome University. He subsequently obtained a master's degree from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is a professor at Bocconi University Management School in Milan. His area of teaching and research is related to health development cooperation management and global

Eduardo Missoni

Scouting leader

strategies for health. He began his career as a volunteer doctor in Nicaragua. He was later employed as a UNICEF officer in Mexico. He worked for the Italian government in the capacity of adviser and representative for health cooperation programs in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. As a youth in Italy Dr. Missoni joined the Scout movement. Later, as a young adult he became a Scout leader and remained active in Scouting until he left for his medical mission in Nicaragua. Many years later, without having applied for the position, he was "headhunted" on behalf of the World Scout Committee

Bruno Cornillet

road bicycle racer

Bruno Cornillet (born 8 February 1963 in Lamballe, Côtes-d'Armor) is a French former professional road bicycle racer. Major results 1984 1st, Overall, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 1st, Stage 1 1985 1st, Stage 2, Paris–Bourges 1986 1st, Chateauroux-Limoges 1st, Stage 4, Tour de Romandie 1987 1st, Stage 2, Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1st, Stage 3, Postgirot Open 1989 1st, Stage 6, Postgirot Open 1st, Stage 4, Paris–Nice (Mt Faron) 1990 1st, GP Ouest-France 1st, Stage 2b, Tour of Ireland 1991 1st, A Travers le Morbihan 1st, Overall, Circuit de la Sarthe 1st, Stage 2 1st, Stage 4a 1992 1st, Tour

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

Mircea Eliade (; – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most influential contributions to religious studies was his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

the religious, actually participate in them. His literary works belong to the fantastic and autobiographical genres. The best known are the novels Maitreyi ("La Nuit Bengali" or "Bengal Nights"), Noaptea de Sânziene ("The Forbidden Forest"), Isabel și apele diavolului ("Isabel and the Devil's Waters") and Romanul Adolescentului Miop ("Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent"), the novellas Domnișoara Christina ("Miss Christina") and Tinerețe fără tinerețe ("Youth Without Youth"), and the short stories Secretul doctorului Honigberger ("The Secret of Dr. Honigberger") and La Țigănci ("With the Gypsy Girls"). Early in his life, Eliade was a journalist and essayist, a disciple of Romanian far-right

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

philosopher and journalist Nae Ionescu, and a member of the literary society Criterion. In the 1940s, he served as cultural attaché to the United Kingdom and Portugal. Several times during the late 1930s, Eliade publicly expressed his support for the Iron Guard, a fascist and antisemitic political organization. His political involvement at the time, as well as his other far right connections, were frequently criticised after World War II. Noted for his vast erudition, Eliade had fluent command of five languages (Romanian, French, German, Italian, and English) and a reading knowledge of three others (Hebrew, Persian, and Sanskrit). He was

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

a group of friends, he designed and sailed a boat on the Danube, from Tulcea to the Black Sea. In parallel, Eliade grew estranged from the educational environment, becoming disenchanted with the discipline required and obsessed with the idea that he was uglier and less virile than his colleagues. In order to cultivate his willpower, he would force himself to swallow insects and only slept four to five hours a night. At one point, Eliade was failing four subjects, among which was the study of the Romanian language. Instead, he became interested in natural science and chemistry, as well as

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

Nazi Germany's state-enforced racism. In 1934, at a time when Sebastian was publicly insulted by Nae Ionescu, who prefaced his book (De două mii de ani...) with thoughts on the "eternal damnation" of Jews, Mircea Eliade spoke out against this perspective, and commented that Ionescu's references to the verdict "Outside the Church there is no salvation" contradicted the notion of God's omnipotence. However, he contended that Ionescu's text was not evidence of antisemitism. In 1936, reflecting on the early history of the Romanian Kingdom and its Jewish community, he deplored the expulsion of Jewish scholars from Romania, making specific references

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

to withdraw the Romanian Army from the Eastern Front ("[In his place], I would not be grinding it in Russia"). Eliade also claimed that such contacts with the leader of a neutral country had made him the target for Gestapo surveillance, but that he had managed to communicate Salazar's advice to Mihai Antonescu, Romania's Foreign Minister. In autumn 1943, he traveled to occupied France, where he rejoined Emil Cioran, also meeting with scholar Georges Dumézil and the collaborationist writer Paul Morand. At the same time, he applied for a position of lecturer at the University of Bucharest, but withdrew from

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

constraints, and Ananda Coomaraswamy found him a job as a French-language teacher in the United States, at a school in Arizona; the arrangement ended upon Coomaraswamy's death in September. Beginning in 1948, he wrote for the journal Critique, edited by French philosopher Georges Bataille. The following year, he went on a visit to Italy, where he wrote the first 300 pages of his novel Noaptea de Sânziene (he visited the country a third time in 1952). He collaborated with Carl Jung and the Eranos circle after Henry Corbin recommended him in 1949, and wrote for the Antaios magazine (edited by

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

Ernst Jünger). In 1950, Eliade began attending Eranos conferences, meeting Jung, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, Gershom Scholem and Paul Radin. He described Eranos as "one of the most creative cultural experiences of the modern Western world." In October 1956, he moved to the United States, settling in Chicago the following year. He had been invited by Joachim Wach to give a series of lectures at Wach's home institution, the University of Chicago. Eliade and Wach are generally admitted to be the founders of the "Chicago school" that basically defined the study of religions for the second half of the 20th century. Upon

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

Wach's death before the lectures were delivered, Eliade was appointed as his replacement, becoming, in 1964, the Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions. Beginning in 1954, with the first edition of his volume on Eternal Return, Eliade also enjoyed commercial success: the book went through several editions under different titles, which sold over 100,000 copies. In 1966, Mircea Eliade became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also worked as editor-in-chief of Macmillan Publishers' Encyclopedia of Religion, and, in 1968, lectured in religious history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

was also during that period that Mircea Eliade completed his voluminous and influential History of Religious Ideas, which grouped together the overviews of his main original interpretations of religious history. He occasionally traveled out of the United States, such as attending the Congress for the History of Religions in Marburg (1960) and visits to Sweden and Norway in 1970. Final years and death Initially, Eliade was attacked with virulence by the Romanian Communist Party press, chiefly by România Liberă—which described him as "the Iron Guard's ideologue, enemy of the working class, apologist of Salazar's dictatorship". However, the regime also made

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

intellectuals in exile (including Radio Free Europe's Virgil Ierunca and Monica Lovinescu) to reject Communist proposals. In 1977, he joined other exiled Romanian intellectuals in signing a telegram protesting the repressive measures newly enforced by the Ceauşescu regime. Writing in 2007, Romanian anthropologist Andrei Oișteanu recounted how, around 1984, the Securitate unsuccessfully pressured to become an agent of influence in Eliade's Chicago circle. During his later years, Eliade's fascist past was progressively exposed publicly, the stress of which probably contributed to the decline of his health. By then, his writing career was hampered by severe arthritis. The last academic honors

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

"a mahaparanirvana", thus comparing it to the passing of Gautama Buddha. His body was cremated in Chicago, and the funeral ceremony was held on University grounds, at the Rockefeller Chapel. It was attended by 1,200 people, and included a public reading of Eliade's text in which he recalled the epiphany of his childhood—the lecture was given by novelist Saul Bellow, Eliade's colleague at the University. His grave is located in Oak Woods Cemetery. Work The general nature of religion In his work on the history of religion, Eliade is most highly regarded for his writings on Alchemy, Shamanism, Yoga and

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

having no empirical support. Thus, he is said to have "failed to provide an adequate methodology for the history of religions and to establish this discipline as an empirical science", though the same critics admit that "the history of religions should not aim at being an empirical science anyway". Specifically, his claim that the sacred is a structure of human consciousness is distrusted as not being empirically provable: "no one has yet turned up the basic category sacred". Also, there has been mention of his tendency to ignore the social aspects of religion. Anthropologist Alice Kehoe is highly critical of

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

Eliade's work on Shamanism, namely because he was not an anthropologist but a historian. She contends that Eliade never did any field work or contacted any indigenous groups that practiced Shamanism, and that his work was synthesized from various sources without being supported by direct field research. In contrast, Professor Kees W. Bolle of the University of California, Los Angeles argues that "Professor Eliade's approach, in all his works, is empirical": Bolle sets Eliade apart for what he sees as Eliade's particularly close "attention to the various particular motifs" of different myths. French researcher Daniel Dubuisson places doubt on Eliade's

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

antisemitism: "A tendency to think in generic terms of peoples, races, religions, or parties, which as we shall see is undoubtedly the profoundest flaw in mythological thinking, including that of such modern mythologists as our three, can connect with nascent anti-Semitism, or the connection can be the other way." Literary works Generic traits Many of Mircea Eliade's literary works, in particular his earliest ones, are noted for their eroticism and their focus on subjective experience. Modernist in style, they have drawn comparisons to the contemporary writings of Mihail Sebastian, I. Valerian, and Ion Biberi. Alongside Honoré de Balzac and Giovanni

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

eulogistic terms, notably comparing himself favorably to Goethe and Romania's national poet Mihai Eminescu, Cernat accused the writer of "egolatry", and deduced that Eliade was "ready to step over dead bodies for the sake of his spiritual 'mission' ". The same passages led philosopher and journalist Cătălin Avramescu to argue that Eliade's behavior was evidence of "megalomania". Eliade also wrote various essays of literary criticism. In his youth, alongside his study on Julius Evola, he published essays which introduced the Romanian public to representatives of modern Spanish literature and philosophy, among them Adolfo Bonilla San Martín, Miguel de Unamuno, José

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

Nae Ionescu's various anti-Jewish attacks.Ornea, p.408–409, 412 Late in the 1930s, Mihail Sebastian was marginalized by Romania's antisemitic policies, and came to reflect on his Romanian friend's association with the far right. The subsequent ideological break between him and Eliade has been compared by writer Gabriela Adameşteanu with that between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. In his Journal, published long after his 1945 death, Sebastian claimed that Eliade's actions during the 1930s show him to be an antisemite. According to Sebastian, Eliade had been friendly to him until the start of his political commitments, after which he severed all ties.Sebastian,

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

new waves of Jews are flooding into the country. Rather than a Romania again invaded by kikes, it would be better to have a German protectorate. The friendship between Eliade and Sebastian drastically declined during the war: the latter writer, fearing for his security during the pro-Nazi Ion Antonescu regime (see Romania during World War II), hoped that Eliade, by then a diplomat, could intervene in his favor; however, upon his brief return to Romania, Eliade did not see or approach Sebastian. Later, Mircea Eliade expressed his regret at not having had the chance to redeem his friendship with Sebastian

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

to publicize this matter previously. Polemics and exile Dumitru G. Danielopol, a fellow diplomat present in London during Eliade's stay in the city, later stated that the latter had identified himself as "a guiding light of [the Iron Guard] movement" and victim of Carol II's repression. In October 1940, as the National Legionary State came into existence, the British Foreign Office blacklisted Mircea Eliade, alongside five other Romanians, due to his Iron Guard connections and suspicions that he was prepared to spy in favor of Nazi Germany. According to various sources, while in Portugal, the diplomat was also preparing to

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

activities were brought into discussion as he was getting ready to publish a translation of his Techniques du Yoga with the left-leaning Italian company Giulio Einaudi Editore—the denunciation was probably orchestrated by Romanian officials. In August 1954, when Horia Sima, who led the Iron Guard during its exile, was rejected by a faction inside the movement, Mircea Eliade's name was included on a list of persons who supported the latter—although this may have happened without his consent. According to exiled dissident and novelist Dumitru Ţepeneag, around that date, Eliade expressed his sympathy for Iron Guard members in general, whom he

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

Romania and, above all, to publish texts that had become unpublishable in Romania itself". Beginning in 1969, Eliade's past became the subject of public debate in Israel. At the time, historian Gershom Scholem asked Eliade to explain his attitudes, which the latter did using vague terms. As a result of this exchange, Scholem declared his dissatisfaction, and argued that Israel could not extend a welcome to the Romanian academic. During the final years of Eliade's life, his disciple Culianu exposed and publicly criticized his 1930s pro-Iron Guard activities; relations between the two soured as a result. Eliade's other Romanian disciple,

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

was aware that the "golden age" of antiquity was no longer accessible to secular man, that it could be recalled but not re-established. Thus, a "more accessible" object for nostalgia was a "secondary silver age within the last few hundred years"—the Kingdom of Romania's 19th century cultural renaissance. To the young Eliade, the Iron Guard seemed like a path for returning to the silver age of Romania's glory, being a movement "dedicated to the cultural and national renewal of the Romanian people by appeal to their spiritual roots". Ellwood describes the young Eliade as someone "capable of being fired up

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

in popularity, an interpretation partly based on the similarity between, on one hand, two monikers ascribed to the Legionary leader (by, respectively, his adversaries and his followers), and, on the other, the main character's name (Cucoanes). Matei Călinescu did not reject Culianu's version, but argued that, on its own, the piece was beyond political interpretations. Commenting on this dialog, literary historian and essayist Mircea Iorgulescu objected to the original verdict, indicating his belief that there was no historical evidence to substantiate Culianu's point of view. Alongside Eliade's main works, his attempted novel of youth, Minunata călătorie a celor cinci cărăbuși

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

Eliade's legacy in the field of the history of religions is mirrored by the journal Archaeus (founded 1997, and affiliated with the University of Bucharest Faculty of History). The 6th European Association for the Study of Religion and International Association for the History of Religions Special Conference on Religious History of Europe and Asia took place from September 20 to September 23, 2006, in Bucharest. An important section of the Congress was dedicated to the memory of Mircea Eliade, whose legacy in the field of history of religions was scrutinized by various scholars, some of whom were his direct students

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

at the University of Chicago. As Antohi noted, Eliade, Emil Cioran and Constantin Noica "represent in Romanian culture ultimate expressions of excellence, [Eliade and Cioran] being regarded as proof that Romania's interwar culture (and, by extension, Romanian culture as a whole) was able to reach the ultimate levels of depth, sophistication and creativity." A Romanian Television 1 poll carried out in 2006 nominated Mircea Eliade as the 7th Greatest Romanian in history; his case was argued by the journalist Dragoş Bucurenci (see 100 greatest Romanians). His name was given to a boulevard in the northern Bucharest area of Primăverii, to

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

a street in Cluj-Napoca, and to high schools in Bucharest, Sighişoara, and Reşiţa. The Eliades' house on Melodiei Street was torn down during the communist regime, and an apartment block was raised in its place; his second residence, on Dacia Boulevard, features a memorial plaque in his honor. Eliade's image in contemporary culture also has political implications. Historian Irina Livezeanu proposed that the respect he enjoys in Romania is matched by that of other "nationalist thinkers and politicians" who "have reentered the contemporary scene largely as heroes of a pre- and anticommunist past", including Nae Ionescu and Cioran, but also

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

by several critics as Eliade. The latter's portrayal, accomplished through statements made by the eponymous character, is polemical: Grielescu, who is identified as a disciple of Nae Ionescu, took part in the Bucharest Pogrom, and is in Chicago as a refugee scholar, searching for the friendship of a Jewish colleague as a means to rehabilitate himself. In 2005, the Romanian literary critic and translator Antoaneta Ralian, who was an acquaintance of Bellow's, argued that much of the negative portrayal was owed to a personal choice Bellow made (after having divorced from Alexandra Bagdasar, his Romanian wife and Eliade disciple). She

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.

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Lin Carter

American fantasy writer, editor, critic

broadly knowledgeable in both fields. He was also active in fandom. Carter served in the United States Army (infantry, Korea, 1951–53), and then attended Columbia University and took part in Leonie Adams's Poetry Workshop (1953–54).<ref>Contributor note on Lin Carter in August Derleth, ed. Fire, Sleet and Candlelight: New Poems of the Macabre. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1961, p. 228</ref> He was an advertising and publishers' copywriter from 1957 until 1969, when he took up writing full-time. He was also an editorial consultant. During much of his writing career he lived in Hollis, New York. Carter was married twice, first

Lin Carter

American fantasy writer, editor, critic

disfigured. In the last year before his death, he had begun to reappear in print with a new book in his Terra Magica series, a long-promised Prince Zarkon pulp hero pastiche, Horror Wears Blue, and a regular column for the magazine Crypt of Cthulhu. Despite these successes, Carter increased his alcohol intake, becoming an alcoholic. His cancer resurfaced, spreading to his throat and leading to his death in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1988. Robert M. Price, the editor of Crypt of Cthulhu, who had published a Lin Carter special issue (Vol. 5, No 2, whole number 36, Yuletide 1985), was

Full Metal Challenge

television series

Full Metal Challenge was a television series made by RDF Media for Channel 4 in the UK and the Learning Channel in the USA. Hosted by series creator Cathy Rogers and Henry Rollins, the show was very similar to Rogers' last show, Scrapheap Challenge. It was filmed in the United Kingdom with a budget of approx £6.5 million on location at the disused Richborough Power Station just outside Sandwich in Kent. Premise Twenty-seven teams from around the world compete in the challenge. Each team consists of 3 people. The teams were all given 1 month and $3000 USD (exchanged to

XEZJ-AM

radio station in Guadalajara, Jalisco

XEZJ-AM is a radio station on 1480 AM in San Miguel, Jalisco. It is owned by Radiorama and known as 1480. History XEZJ received its concession on June 20, 1962. It was owned by Julio Romo Valdivia and based in Zapopan, with 250 watts of power. Carlos Fregoso Mendoza bought XEZJ in 1966, and power increased to 500 and later 1,000 watts. XEZJ was known as Radio Selecciones in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Zona Juvenil in the 1980s, 14-80 in the late 1990s, sports-formatted Solo Fútbol from 2003-06, and carried Radio Trece programs from 2006 to 2008. Until

Chamal Rajapaksa

Sri Lankan politician

Chamal Jayantha Rajapaksa (Sinhala: චමල් රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: சமல் ராஜபக்ஷ; born 30 October 1942) is a Sri Lankan politician who was Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from 2010 to 2015. Previously he served as Minister of Ports & Aviation and Irrigation & Water Management. He hails from a well known political family in Sri Lanka. His father, D. A. Rajapaksa, was a prominent politician, independence agitator, member of parliament and Minister of Agriculture and Land in Wijeyananda Dahanayake's government. He is the elder brother of Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015. Nine members

Chamal Rajapaksa

Sri Lankan politician

of the Rajapaksa family have been members of parliament in Sri Lanka. Shashindra Rajapaksa (eldest son of Rajapaksa) is the former chief Minister of Uva Provincial Council and former Basnayaka Nilame (Lay Custodian) of the Ruhunu Maha Kataragama devalaya. Early life and career Rajapaksa was born in Palatuwa in the Southern District of Matara and raised in Medamulana in the District of Hambantota. He hails from a well known political family in Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa had his entire education at Richmond College, Galle. As a student, he played Soccer for the School and was an Athlete. Having left school, he

Chamal Rajapaksa

Sri Lankan politician

joined the Public Service. Public Service Entered the Public Service of Sri Lanka as a Police Officer serving in the Police Force for more than eight years. Served the State Trading General Corporation as the Asst. General Manager before getting into active politics in 1985. Political career Contested the by-election held in 1985 for Mulkirigala Electorate. Entered Parliament in 1989 as a member of parliament of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party representing Hambantota District. Has been a member of parliament continuously since 1989, retaining his seat in all elections held to date. Prior to the present appointment as Speaker of

Dingyuan County

county in Anhui, China

Dingyuan County () is a county of Anhui Province, China. It is under the administration of Chuzhou city. History In December 2011, Taiwanese businessman Zhang Jiulin () held a press conference in which he described unfair treatment at the hands of local officials in Dingyuan County in a dispute about embezzlement at a company his father had owned which lead to Zhang Jiulin serving seven months in jail. Administrative Divisions Towns: Dingcheng (), Luqiao (), Zhangqiao (), Chihe (), Jiangji (), Zhuwan (), Lianjiang (), Cang (), Jiepaiji (), Xisadian (; Hsi-san-shih-li-tien 西三十里店), Yongkang (), Sangjian (), Sanheji (), Outang

Banner-tailed kangaroo rat

species of mammal

The banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in arid environments in the southwestern United States and Mexico where it lives in a burrow by day and forages for seeds and plant matter by night. Description The banner-tailed kangaroo rat can grow to a length of about . The dorsal surface is ochre-buff with some black-tipped hairs and the underparts are white. The species' most distinctive characteristic is the black-banded, white-tipped bushy tail which is waved like a banner. The hind legs of the kangaroo rat are much longer than

Tau2 Lupi

star in the constellation Lupus

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Tau2 Lupi}} Tau2 Lupi, Latinized from τ2 Lup, is a binary star system in the constellation Lupus. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.34. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 10.22 mas as seen from Earth, it is located around 319 light years from the Sun. The two components orbit each other with a period of 26.2 years and a high eccentricity of 0.94. The brighter component is a magnitude 4.93 subgiant star with a stellar classification of F4 IV. Its companion is an A-type star with visual magnitude 5.55 and

Bombus eximius

species of bumblebee

Bombus eximius is a species of bumblebee that belongs to the subgenus Melanobombus in the simplified subgeneric classification. It is found in the Southern, Eastern and Southeastern parts of the Asian continent. Characteristics Bombus eximius is a very large species of bumblebee. The queens are 28–29 mm () long, while the female workers are and the male workers . The color of the hair on the thorax is black, and that on the mid and hind tibiae and the basitarsus is orange. The bright coloration has also been described as "yellowish red" (via ). This species can easily be misidentified

Beata Szalwinska

Polish musician

Beata Szalwinska (Polish: Beata Szałwińska), is a Polish pianist, known for her classical music concerts in Poland, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, and Switzerland living since 1999 in Luxembourg. Early years 1972-1980: Ecole de musique Emil Mlynarski in Warsaw (Poland) 1980-1985: Józef Elsner Secondary Music School with Anna Radziwonowicz in Warsaw, Poland 1980-1985: Master of Arts - Frederic Chopin Academy of Music with professor Barbara Muszynska in Warsaw, Poland 1992-1993: Ecole Normale de Musique A. Cortot, with Marian Rybicki in Paris. 1992-1994 : ‘’Conservatoire de Musique d’Olivier Messiaen’’ with Sergiei Markarov. Discography CD of a piano concert with compositions of

Jim Agler

American mathematician

Jim Agler is a mathematician who is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2016, for "contributions to operator theory and the theory of analytic functions of several complex variables". He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indiana University Bloomington in 1980 under the supervision of John B. Conway. His thesis was on Sub-Jordan operators. Agler and John E. McCarthy are the authors of the book Pick Interpolation and Hilbert Function Spaces (American Mathematical Society, 2002). Some efforts to extend the Herglotz representation theorem are described in Classical function

CD Eldense

association football club

Club Deportivo Eldense is a Spanish football team based in Elda, in the autonomous community of Valencia. Founded in 1921 it plays in Tercera División – Group 6, holding home matches at Estadio Nuevo Pepico Amat, which has a capacity of 4,036 spectators. History One of the oldest clubs in the Valencian Community, Eldense enrolled in the Valencian Football Federation in 1924, and started competing in Tercera División 19 years later. It first appeared in Segunda División in the 1956–57 season, narrowly avoiding relegation after finishing in 16th position; the first spell in that tier lasted three years, in a

Viking Line

Finnish shipping company

Viking Line Abp is a Finnish shipping company that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between Finland, the Åland Islands, Sweden and Estonia. Viking Line shares are quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Viking Line is operated from the Åland Islands. Company history Early years: 1959–66 Viking Line's history can be traced back to 1959, when a group of sea- and businessmen from the Åland Islands province in Finland formed Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen, purchased a steam-powered car-ferry SS Dinard from the UK, renamed her and began service on the route Korpo (Finland)–Mariehamn (Åland)–Gräddö (Sweden). In the same year the

James B. Dickman

American photographer

James (Jay) B Dickman (born 1949), is an American photographer, he won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography while a staff member for the Dallas Times Herald. In the same year he also won the World Press Golden Eye for a series of photos from the war in El Salvador. Dickman has also been awarded the Distinguished Journalist award from Sigma Delta Chi, and multiple awards in other competitions. A National Geographic photographer, with more than 25 assignments for the NG Society, he is the co-author of Perfect Digital Photography, an extensive guide to the entire process of photography

Pat Daly

Irish footballer (1927-2003)

Pat Daly (4 December 1927 - 1 January 2003), also known as Paddy Daly was an Irish former footballer who played as a centre half. He joined Shamrock Rovers in 1948 as a defender. He also had a brief spell in England with Aston Villa in the 1949–50 season playing just three games for the Birmingham-based club. He won his one and only senior cap for the Republic of Ireland national football team on 8 September 1949 in a 3–0 win over Finland in Dalymount Park, Dublin in a World Cup Qualifying game. Daly's appearance that day was shrouded in

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intercontinental Cup for men's professional basketball clubs

The 2014 FIBA Intercontinental Cup was the 24th edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup for men's professional basketball clubs and the 23rd edition of the tournament being in the form of a true intercontinental tournament for clubs. The 2 game aggregate score tournament took place at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 26 and September 28, 2014, in order to determine the world club champion. The tournament was contested between the 2013–14 season EuroLeague champions, Maccabi Electra, and the 2014 FIBA Americas League champions, Flamengo. Series summary Flamengo won the series by aggregate score 156-146. Game

Angelo Bencivenga

Italian footballer

Angelo Bencivenga (born 25 July 1991) is an Italian footballer who plays as a right midfielder for Santarcangelo. Career Bencivenga returned to Italy in January 2009 for Udinese in January 2009, from Swiss side La Chaux-de-Fonds. In summer 2011, Bencivenga was signed by Parma F.C. on free transfer, but joined Simone Malatesta at Pro Vercelli in a co-ownership soon after, for €500. On 22 June 2012, Parma became full owners of the player again, but also formed a new temporary deal for Bencivenga. On 31 January 2013 he joined Ternana. References External links Category:1991 births Category:Living people Category:Italian footballers Category:A.S.

Wiwibloggs

website

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Gabriel Wikström

Swedish politician

Per Johan Gabriel Wikström (born 21 February 1985) is a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats. He served as Minister for Public Health, Healthcare and Sports in the Swedish Government from 2014 to 2017. On 5 May 2017, Wikström announced he will be on sick leave due symptoms related to burnout. Annika Strandhäll served acting Minister for Public Health, Healthcare and Sports during his sick leave, and on 27 July 2017 he resigned from his position. Wikström started his career in the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League in Västmanland County in 2006. He was a member of the national executive

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river in Western Australia, Australia

The Buayanyup River is a river in the South West region of Western Australia. The headwaters of the river rise in the Whicher Range and flow north crossing the Bussell Highway near Vasse before discharging into Geographe Bay near Abbey about west of Busselton. The river has three main tributaries of Dawson Gulley, Ironstone Gully and the other is not named. In total the river has a stream length of over . Flowing through agricultural land that is predominantly used for raising beef and dairy cattle and to a lesser degree plantation timber and viticulture, the area has been settled

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German political scientist

Sebastian Harnisch (born 3 February 1967 in Germany) is Professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. Education 2004 Habilitation (Political Science), University of Trier 1998 Dr. Phil. (Political Science), University of Trier 1993 M.A. (Political Science, History), University of Trier 1990-1991 Graduate Studies (Diplomacy), Georgetown University, Washington DC, Exchange Year Career Harnisch is currently Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to International Politics at the University of Heidelberg and was previously Assistant and Junior Professor at the University of Trier, Germany. He has also held a

Levi Hanssen

Faroe Islands footballer

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Devin Gaines

American scholar

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Pieter Godfried Maria van Meeuwen

Dutch politician

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Pieter Godfried Maria van Meeuwen

Dutch politician

He was a member of the States of North Brabant (15 April 1931–January 1936) and the States of Limburg (6 July 1954 – 1 December 1956). Van Meeuwen was a member of the Senate of the Netherlands from 6 November 1956 to 16 September 1969. Private life Van Meeuwen married Louisa Augusta Johanna Maria van Lanschot; they had five children. Distinction Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1964) References Category:1899 births Category:1982 deaths Category:Catholic People's Party politicians Category:20th-century Dutch politicians Category:Dutch judges Category:Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Category:Leiden University alumni Category:Members of the Provincial-Council of

Emmett McLemore

American football player (1899-1973)

Emmett "Red Fox" McLemore (September 12, 1899 – May 19, 1973) was a professional football player who played in the National Football League during the 1923 season. That season, he joined the NFL's Oorang Indians. The Indians were a team based in LaRue, Ohio, composed only of Native Americans, and coached by Jim Thorpe. Emmett was a Cherokee. On December 2, 1923, McLemore recorded a touchdown to Arrowhead and made a field goal after a Joe Guyon interception. However, he missed two extra point kicks in a 22-19 loss to the Chicago Cardinals. During that same game a McLemore punt

Yōichi Komori

Japanese academic

a poet and a Communist social activist. Komori Yoichi’s grandfather， Shinobu Komori(1911-1962, 小森忍),was a well-known artist in sculpture and ceramics in modern Japanese art history. Education Komori had spent four years in Praha with his parents, where he received his elementary education in the Elementary School Attached to Russian Embassy and he returned to Japan in 1965. This experience had brought vexation on him after he returned from Praha to Tokyo in 1965 for his poor Japanese. Komori received his B.A. and master's degree in Japanese Literature at the national Hokkaido University, Japan. He finished his Ph.D. Course at the

Yōichi Komori

Japanese academic

same university in 1982 and soon after that he got a tenured position as a lecturer at Seijo University in Tokyo, where he had been teaching till he moved to the University of Tokyo in 1988. He became full Professor of the University of Tokyo in 1998. Career Yōichi Komori made his debut with the following two influential books in the academia in Japan, which were published at the same time in March 1988, Kōzō toshiteno katari [Narrative as structure] and Buntai toshiteno monogatari [Stories as style]. With the new critical approaches and perspectives drawn from narratology and semiotics of

Cheryl Studer

American dramatic soprano

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Cheryl Studer

American dramatic soprano

began voice lessons at age 12 with Gwendolyn Pike, a local opera singer and voice teacher. She attended Herbert Henry Dow High School, then transferred to the Interlochen Arts Academy for her junior and senior years and graduated from there in 1974. Following high school, Studer studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music but left the program after a year, deciding to move with her family to Tennessee. She continued her studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance in 1979. Studer won several awards and competitions during this time, including

R. Andrew Lee

American musician

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species of plant

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Kanpur railway station

Railway station in Uttar Pradesh, India

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Isaac Rosefelt

American basketball player

Isaac Daniel "Ike" Rosefelt (; born May 3, 1985) is an American-Israeli professional basketball player who is currently a free agent. He played college basketball for Bowling Green Falcons and St. Thomas Tommies before playing professionally in Spain, Portugal, France and Israel, where he was named four-time Israeli League All-Star. Early life and college career Rosefelt was born on May 3, 1985, in Washington, D.C. He was adopted at the age of two months by a Jewish family and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Rosefelt attended Saint Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. He played college basketball for Bowling Green

Vuk Vrčević

Serbian writer

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Vuk Vrčević

Serbian writer

August 1882. He was honoured with special recognition from the Serbian Learned Society (inducted on 21 January 1868), and was a particular favourite of Milan I of Serbia and Nicholas I of Montenegro, who made him historiographer royal. Work and legacy Vrčević began his literary career by publishing translations from the poetic work of Italian poet Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym Metastasio in 1839. In Montenegro he wrote Moralno zabavne i saljivo poučno zagonetke. Ascension songs (Spasovske pesme) disappeared quite early. Vuk Vrčević managed to record the surviving remnants of the ancient tradition while in Montenegro

Filippo Bubbico

Italian politician and architect

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Filippo Bubbico

Italian politician and architect

re-elected Senator at the 2008 election and the 2013 election with the Democratic Party. From 2013 to 2017, Bubbico has been appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of the Interior in the Letta, Renzi and Gentiloni cabinets. Bubbico ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies at the 2018 election with Free and Equal, but failed the election. References External links Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian): XV, XVI, XVII legislature. Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:Italian Communist Party politicians Category:Article One (political party) politicians Category:Democratic Party (Italy) politicians Category:Democrats of the Left politicians Category:Democratic Party of the Left

Dexter Reid

player of American football

Dexter Devon Reid Jr. (born March 18, 1981) is a former American football safety. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft after playing his college football at the University of North Carolina. Reid is a two-time Super Bowl champion, having won a trophy with the Patriots and Indianapolis Colts in 2005 and 2007 respectively. High school career Reid attended Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia where he was an honorable mention All-USA Today selection, the district Player of the Year and first-team all-state selection as a senior making 62 tackles,

Simone Balsamino

Italian composer

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Angelo Spina

Italian archbishop and theologian

Angelo Spina (born 13 November 1954) is an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and the current Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo since his appointment in 2017. Spina served prior to this as the Bishop of Sulmona-Valva since being raised to the episcopate in 2007. He has served in various capacities throughout his priesthood and episcopate: religious education teacher and instructor for new teachers as well as a parish priest and vicar. Life Angelo Spina was born on 13 November 1954 in Colle d'Anchise in the Campobasso province. Spina began his theological studies in 1974 Benevento after his initial ecclesial studies from 1968 in

Angelo Spina

Italian archbishop and theologian

episcopal vicar for the Great Jubilee of 2000 that Pope John Paul II had convoked. In 1999 he was named as the pastor for the Boiano Cathedral. In 2003 he was named as the episcopal vicar for diocesan missions and then from 2004 to 2007 for the Santuario dell'Addolorata. He received his episcopal consecration in the Santuario dell'Addolorata in Castelpetroso on 9 June 2007 from Armando Dini with Antonio Nuzzi and Giuseppe Di Falco serving as the co-consecrators. Spina was then installed in his new see that 23 June. On 17 January 2013 he attended the "ad limina apostolorum" visit

Comedy Central Films

Production owned by Viacom

Comedy Central Films is the motion picture production arm of the adult-oriented comedy television cable channel Comedy Central. The studio produces comedy films aimed at a mature audience and based on Comedy Central shows. Many of which were distributed by Paramount Pictures. These are films that were theatrically released and based on Comedy Central properties. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) (with Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Scott Rudin Productions and Braniff Productions) The Hebrew Hammer (2003) (with ContentFilm and Strand Releasing) Strangers with Candy (2006) (with THINKFilm) Reno 911!: Miami (2007) (with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Jersey

The Husband of the Rat's Daughter

Japanese fairy tale

The Husband of the Rat's Daughter is a Japanese fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book. It is Aarne-Thompson type 2031C, a chain tale or cumulative tale. Another story of this type is The Mouse Turned into a Maid. Synopsis Two rats had a remarkably beautiful daughter. In some variants, the father would have been happy to marry her to a rat of finer family, but the mother did not want her daughter to marry a mere rat; in others, they both agreed that she must marry the greatest being in the world. They offered her

Larry Sloan

American opinion journalist

initially studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but soon left college to enlist in the United States Army following the outbreak of World War II. He later attended Stanford University, where he studied Chinese language. He returned to Los Angeles after the war. Sloan became a columnist for the Hollywood Citizen News and a reporter for several magazines covering Hollywood's entertainment and gossip industries. Sloan's connections led to a career transition as a press agent and publicist representing Carol Channing, Mae West, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. In 1958, television writer Leonard B. Stern and comedian Roger

Brunkebergsåsen

esker in Stockholm, Sweden

Brunkebergsåsen was an esker that once reached over much of Stockholm's Norrmalm district. Geologically, it is a part of the much larger Stockholmsåsen. It formed a considerable obstacle to traffic, effectively dividing Norrmalm into a western and an eastern part. Consequently, most of it has been dug away over the centuries to make room for the development of that district. The pedestrian tunnel Brunkebergstunneln and, since the 1910s, the eastern part of Kungsgatan cut through Brunkebergsåsen's southern part. Conspicuous remnants of the esker can be seen in the vicinity of Johannes kyrka, at Observatorielunden, and Vanadislunden. See also Battle of

Skirö

minor locality in Vetlanda Municipality, Sweden

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Indian actor

Kopil Bora () is an Assamese actor, anchor and All India Radio voice artist. He debuted in Bidyut Chakravarty's 2002 Assamese film Gun Gun Gane Gane and known for his performance in Mon (2002), Ahir Bhairav (2008), Jetuka Pator Dore (2011) and Dwaar (2013). Early life Kopil Bora was born on 30 March. He went to high school at Don Bosco High School, Guwahati and later attended college at Cotton College, Guwahati. He currently lives in Hengerabari area of Guwahati with his brother and his parents. Career Feature films Kopil has acted in a host of Assamese films. He debuted

Kopil Bora

Indian actor

by Sanjib Hazarika for Doordarshan. His other television credit includes Niyoror Phool on News Live. He also hosted a spelling contest for children on Rang. Mobile theatre He debuted in Assam's roaming theatre with Ashirbad Theatre. He also acted in Rajmahal Theatre. The list of plays includes "Surongor Xekhot", a drama which was aired in the All India Radio in the 1980s, "Surjyo" and "Bhai". Other interests Compering and social causes Kapil had compered for Axom Idol - a Musical Talent search programme hosted in NE TV, Sur-Taal-Loy another Musical talent programme impressively anchored by Kapil Bora in association with

Damir Krupalija

Bosnian basketball player

Damir Krupalija (born June 13, 1979) is a Bosnian-American professional basketball executive and former player. He played college basketball at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Early years Krupalija fled his war-torn country in 1992, living in the Czech Republic for three years before coming to the United States in 1995. His parents, Sead and Zora Krupalija, joined him a year later. Career After arriving in the United States, Krupalija attended Boylan Catholic High School in Rockford, Illinois, where he led the Titan basketball team to a fourth-place finish in the 1997 Illinois state tournament. In 1998, he was named an

Damir Krupalija

Bosnian basketball player

Vegas Invitational Tournament. In 2002, Krupalija moved to Poland, where he played forward for Anwil Wloclawek and won the 2002-03 Polish National Championship. The following season, he relocated to Belgium and joined Spirou Charleroi. They won the 2003-04 Belgian National Championship. He played for Spirou Charleroi until end of 2007 season. For the 2010–11 season Krupalija signed for Hyères-Toulon Var Basket. In November 2011, he signs with Bilbao Basket for a month and a half. At the start of the 2013–14 season, he played for the Cypriot team Apollon Limassol BC. On March 3, 2014 he returned to Spirou Charleroi,

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Japanese era from 724 to 729

Jinki may refer to: , a Japanese era, a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Yōrō and before Tenpyō. This period spanned the years from February 724 through August 729. The reigning emperor was Shōmu-tennō (聖武天皇?) , an item used in Shinto ceremonies to worship kami Jinki (robot), the form of mecha that exists in the 2005 anime series Jinki: Extend Jinki (weapon), an anti-Gear divine weapon set in the Guilty Gear video game series Jinkies, a catchphrase from Scooby-Doo Lee Jinki (born 1989), leader of the boy band Shinee Jinki, an Aboriginal Australian, AKA Kerrianne Cox

Good 'n' Groovy

album by Joe Newman

Good 'n' Groovy is an album by trumpeter Joe Newman with saxophonist Frank Foster recorded in 1961 and originally released on the Swingville label. Reception AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "This was the second of Joe Newman's three dates he led under the Swingville banner". Track listing All compositions by Joe Newman except as indicated "A.M. Romp" - 6:56 "Li'l Darlin'" (Neal Hefti) - 5:39 "Mo-Lasses" - 6:26 "To Rigmor" - 5:15 "Just Squeeze Me" (Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines) - 7:03 "Loop-D-Loop" - 6:51 Personnel Joe Newman - trumpet Frank Foster - tenor saxophone Tommy Flanagan - piano

Jamie Burchell

British basketball player

Jamie Burchell (born 15 November 1979 in Worcester, England) is a retired British professional basketball player, who most notably played for the Plymouth Raiders in the British Basketball League. The 6ft5 Forward was educated at The Royal Grammar School, Worcester and later at Marjon's, where he won a BUCS National Championship and represented England Universities. Burchell ended his career at Plymouth Raiders in the Summer of 2013 after representing the club for nearly 15 years. An Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury in February 2011 essentially ended his career, although he would take part in the BBL 2012/2013 campaign. He had previously

Tüvshrüülekh

district in Arkhangai Province, Mongolia

'Tüvshrüülekh () is a sum (district) of Arkhangai Province in central Mongolia. The Sum (1200 km²) had 3438 inhabitants in 2009, 1869 of whom lived in the town of Tüvshrüülekh which is the second largest town of the province. The distance to Tsetserleg, the capital of the province, amounts to 44 km to the southeast. Tuvshruulekh is situated about 10 km to northeast of the Tsenkher hot springs, a popular tourist destination. The town of Tüvshrüülekh is the seat of various local authorities and schools. There are some shops and a gas station as well. Karakorum, the former capital of

Märta Norberg

Swedish cross-country skier

Märta Norberg (born 19 September 1922) is a former Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. She won two bronze medals in the 3 × 5 km relay at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (1954, 1958). She was born in Örnsköldsvik, Ångermanland. Norberg also finished fourth in the 10 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. Cross-country skiing results Olympic Games World Championships 2 medals – (2 bronze) External links World Championship results Category:1922 births Category:Living people Category:People from Örnsköldsvik Municipality Category:Cross-country skiers from Västernorrland County Category:Swedish female cross-country skiers Category:Olympic cross-country skiers of Sweden Category:Cross-country

Moulhoule

town in Obock, Djibouti

Moulhoule () is a town in the northern Obock region of Djibouti. It is situated on the west coast of the Red Sea, at its southern entrance. It is situated about 70 kilometres (43 miles) North of Obock and 15 km (9 mi) South of the border with Eritrea. Overview Moulhoule is located beside the Bab el Mandeb Strait in the north-east of the Republic of Djibouti, (by road) from Djibouti City. Nearby towns and villages include Khôr ‘Angar (27 km), Rahayta (22 km), Assab (95 km). History On 26 May 1991, the Ethiopian soldiers of the garrison of Assab

Wayne Scot Lukas

American television personality

Wayne Scot Lukas is an American fashion consultant, best known as the former co-host of the makeover reality television program What Not to Wear which was broadcast on TLC in the United States and Canada. Clinton Kelly took over as co-host in 2003. Lukas featured his costume designs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Rock Style" exhibit. He also styled Justin Timberlake's wardrobe on the 2003 Justified and Stripped Tour. Lukas served as the spokesperson to promote "What To Wear" in photographs with Kodak Perfect Touch. For several years he has been resident stylist and has provided style tips to

Domenico Lovisato

Italian geologist

Domenico Lovisato (12 August 1842 – 23 February 1916) was an Italian geologist. He was a very early proponent of the theory of continental drift. Education Domenico Lovisato was born in Isola, in Istria on 12 August 1842, then under Austrian rule. He was the third of five children. His father died when he was very young, leaving the family extremely poor. However, with the help of relatives and family friends he was able to complete his primary and secondary education, enrolling in the University of Padua in 1862 to study mathematics. He was vocal in seeking independence, and was

Domenico Lovisato

Italian geologist

The hydrographer Giovanni Roncagli made up the scientific party. Lovisato's diaries of the expedition cover a range of subjects other than geology, including paleontology, botany and ethnography. The government of Argentina invited him to continue his work in Argentina, but he declined and returned to Italy. In 1884 Lovisato was appointed professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Cagliari in Cagliari, Sardinia, a position that he held for the next thirty years. During that period he taught, conducted research, and published over 100 titles, many on the geology of Sardinia. He died in Cagliari on 23 February 1916.

The Explosive Freddy Cannon

album by Freddy Cannon

The Explosive Freddy Cannon is the debut album of Freddy Cannon. Released in 1960, it spent one week at number one in the United Kingdom. It was Cannon's only number one album, and the first number one album of the 1960s. Track listing "Boston (My Home Town)" (Bob Crewe, Frank Slay, Jr.) – 2:02 "Kansas City" (Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller) – 2:14 "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 2:16 "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 2:29 "St Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 2:38 "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley)

Henderson Hall Historic District

human settlement in West Virginia, United States of America

Henderson Hall Historic District, is a historic home and national historic district located near Williamstown, Wood County, West Virginia. It encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object. The primary building is "Henderson Hall," a three-story, Italianate mansion built between 1856 and 1859. Attached to the dwelling is a rear block, constructed in 1836. The remaining buildings are part of the associated farm complex. They include a log smokehouse (c. 1836), carriage barn and schoolroom (c. 1860), log corn crib (c. 1836), corncrib (c. 1856), scale house (c. 1856), cow barn (c. 1850), barn

Sean Rowe

American singer

Sean Rowe (born in Troy, New York) is an alternative folk singer-songwriter and musician. Early life Born and raised in Troy, New York, Rowe started playing music at an early age. He received a bass guitar from his father on his 12th birthday and performed in a local band. After receiving an acoustic guitar as a gift from his uncle, Rowe began playing solo. He wrote his first song at the age of seven on a Fisher-Price typewriter after listening to Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger." Rowe started seriously writing songs when he was 18. The first complete song that

David Moule-Evans

English composer and conductor

although he continued to teach until his death in 1988. His archive and manuscripts are housed in the National Library of Wales. Selected Works Orchestral 1926 Rhapsody No 2 1928 Concerto for String Orchestra 1930 Dance Suite 1935 Cliff Castle, symphonic poem 1935 Polka for Cello and Orchestra (dedicated to cellist Maurice Hardy) 1938 Divertimento for strings (first performance, Bristol 1939 under Reginald Redman) 1942 The Spirit of London, overture 1943 September Dusk, symphonic poem 1944 Symphony in G Major (awarded 1st prize at the Australian Jubilee Competition) 1948 Vienna Rhapsody, waltz 1949 The Haunted Place, miniature for string orchestra

Mara Mattuschka

Austrian film director

Mara Mattuschka (born 22 May 1959) is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker. Life Mattuschka was born in Sofia in Bulgaria in 1959. At the age of 17, in 1976, she moved to Vienna to study Ethnology and Linguistics. In 1983, she entered Maria Lassnig's masterclass in animation and painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and started making her first short films. Her graduation film Der Einzug des Rokoko ins Inselreich der Huzis caused a small scandal at the university in 1989, because it mixed animation, theatre, performance, music and fine arts. She graduated in 1990. From 1997 until 2001