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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bellasis%20%28East%20India%20Company%20officer%29

John Bellasis (East India Company officer)

John Bellasis (died 1808) was a British Major-General who was commanding the forces at Bombay. He first went to India in 1763. He died in Bombay at age 64. He married Ann, daughter of John Hutchins, who died in Bombay in 1797. References Year of birth missing 1808 deaths British East India Company Army generals

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molad%3A%20The%20Center%20for%20the%20Renewal%20of%20Israeli%20Democracy

Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy

Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy (מולד) is a progressive Israeli think tank established in 2012 in Jerusalem. The Center's website describes it as "dedicated to the fundamental political and social issues of Israeli life". History and mission Molad was created in 2012, and its work is divided into three content categories: security and state, citizenship, and socio-economics. Its founders are Avraham Burg, Assaf Sharon and Avner Inbar. Its executive director is Liat Schlesinger, and its academic director is Dr. Assaf Sharon. According to a 2012 article in Haaretz, Molad is "committed to leftist renewal" in Israel and believes that "the left must present reliable, comprehensible policy on key issues, a policy aimed at reviving the left as a credible, viable political force." Its political views are progressive. Since its founding, the Center's senior fellows have included high-profile Israeli academics and politicians including Professor of Law Chaim Gans, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design President Eva Illouz, Talia Sasson, author of the Sasson Report. Fellows include economists such as Israel Prize winner Dr. Menahem Yaari and Aix Group co-founder Arie Arnon. Molad partnered with the Center for American Progress in organizing a symposium addressing U.S. and Israeli foreign policy and regional security in the Middle East, on 1 April 2014. Positions Molad is opposed to Israeli settlements in the West Bank. One Molad representative has called the settlement movement a geographical failure, and another stated that the reversibility of the settlements is highly possible. It produced a 2012 report concluding that Israel does not have a "Hasbara", or "PR", problem, but that its image is instead harmed by poor policy.'' Also in 2012, Molad published another report recommending the revival of the Arab Peace Initiative. It supported Chuck Hagel's nomination for U.S. Secretary of Defense. The organization published a report in June 2013 which states that the proposed Basic Law declaring Israel the "nation-state of the Jewish people" is “both illegitimate and dangerous” and “undermines the original values of Zionism.” According to the report: "It is illegitimate because its formulators and backers are attempting to… decide on issues of profound controversy regarding identity, culture, and society." References External links Molad - The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy 2012 establishments in Israel Foreign policy and strategy think tanks Liberalism in Israel Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process Organizations based in Jerusalem Peace organizations based in Israel Political and economic think tanks based in Israel Think tanks based in Israel Think tanks established in 2012

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olave%20%28disambiguation%29

Olave (disambiguation)

Olave may refer to: an alternate form of the Scandinavian name Olaf Gonzalo Olave (1983-2009), Chilean actor Jámison Olave (born 1981), Colombian footballer Juan Carlos Olave (born 1976), Argentine footballer See also Olaf (disambiguation)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therku%20Theru%20Machan

Therku Theru Machan

Therku Theru Machan is a 1992 Indian Tamil-language drama film, directed by Manivannan. The film stars Sathyaraj and Bhanupriya. The film, produced by K. Prabakaran, had musical score by Deva and was released on 13 April 1992. The film completed a 100-day run. Plot Valayapalam village's Landlord Paramasiva Gounder (R. Sundarrajan) has two sons: Subramani (Sathyaraj) and Ganesan (K. Prabakaran). Ganesan, the elder one, gets married with Segamalam (Sandhya), daughter of village President and Landlord "School gounder" from neighbouring Kittampalayam. In the meantime, Subramani and Sengamalam's sister Parimala (Bhanupriya) fall in love with each other, though they are from different villages. Devaraj (Mansoor Ali Khan), landlord and owner of a gambling club in Kittampalayam, wants to marry Parimala and she is his maternal cousin. But she refuses and ridicules him. So Devaraj decides to take revenge. Ganesan is a gambler and he even landed his family's bungalow to Devaraj. Devaraj tries to sell the house using court and the auction begins. At the same time, Subramani goes to local bank to receive the loan amount to settle the debt; but he sees Parimala getting same amount by pledging her jewels. She gives the amount to Subramani and Subramani settles the amount to the Officers before the third bells of auction, foiling the plans of Devaraj. Devaraj wants to absolutely split the lovers. Then, Devaraj and his cousin Nagaraj create a water dispute between the two villages, and kills 4 newly married youngesters from his own village, at night. This causes heavy riots and it leads the government to separate both villages. Ganesan sends Sengamalam back to her village as revenge. The State appoints a retd Judge Subramanian Iyer to enquire about the riot and provide a solution. Subramani approaches the Judge with a plan, and with permission comes with an old man disguise to Kittampalayam as the Judge Iyer, with his cousin as helper Mani. Subramani unites Sengamalam and Ganesan, and earns the trust of the people. He starts to investigate the root of the issue: Devaraj had given huge loans to villagers of Valayapalam, who had pledged their lands to him. If the dispute continues, Valayapalayam's harvest will be totally spoiled, and thus Devaraj will get hold of those lands quickly. At the same time, Devaraj pesters his uncle to get Parimalam married to him. Out of options, School gounder organises an open wrestling tournament, where anyone who wants to marry parimalam must compete and the last man standing, wins her. Devaraj defeats all other competition, and out of options, Subramani, in Iyer disguise fights him off. Subramani wins the competition, and marries Parimalam, to the anguish of everyone present. That night, he reveals to her that he is her lover, and they consummate their marriage. Subramani's drama is exposed within weeks, and he escapes with Parimalam and Mani. The couple is denied entry to his village as Subramani had married one from the opposite village, and he moves to a hilltop house owned by Mani. Parimalam gets pregnant, and the issue between village remains unsolved. Subramani devises a plan and Mani, with permission from Police, takes interview of Nagaraj in his fields. Subramani then dubs over nagaraj's voice and makes it look like Nagaraj is planning to betray Devaraj. Angered, Devaraj sends men to kill nagaraj. Nagaraj, fearing for life, is captured by Subramani. He is brought to the Police, and the truth about riots comes to public knowledge. Devaraj, in a fit of anger, tries to kill the pregnant Parimalam, but Subramani defeats him and he is arrested. The real Judge Manivannan ends the riots and the separation between two villages, water is released and peace resumes. Cast Sathyaraj as Subramani Bhanupriya as Parimala K. Prabakaran as Ganesan Sandhya as Segamalam Mansoor Ali Khan as Devaraj R. Sundarrajan as Paramasivan Goundamani Senthil Alex Pandian as Kuppusamy R. P. Viswam as Mirasu Chokkalinga Bhagavathar as Kandasamy Kovai Sarala Vasu Kottai Perumal Manivannan as Judge (cameo) Soundtrack The soundtrack was composed by Deva, with lyrics written by Kalidasan. Reception The Indian Express called it "more or less okay entertainer". References 1990s Tamil-language films 1992 drama films 1992 films Films directed by Manivannan Films scored by Deva (composer) Indian drama films Indian films

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian%20National%20Army%20Aviation

Colombian National Army Aviation

The Colombian National Army Aviation is an aviation combat arms unit in the National Army of Colombia. Its history dates back to December 31, 1919, but was not fully developed until August 25, 1995 when this unit is officially activated under the name "Aviación Ejército" (Army Aviation). The Army Aviation was created to support ground operations from the air. History Military aviation began in Colombia in 1919 with the creation of a military aviation school for the Colombian Army. Previously by Law 15 of 1916 of September 7 to commissions were sent overseas to study new technological advancements in aviation, infantry, cavalry, engineering and trains. Officers pertaining to the Colombian Army were also sent to take a course on flight training on techniques and tactics. The school is then created in Colombia along with the Colombian National Army Aviation as a fifth regiment by Law 126 of 1919 of December 31 authorized by President of Colombia, Marco Fidel Suárez. The unit was officially activated on February 15, 1921 in Flandes, Department of Tolima with the support of French mission led by Lieutenant Colonel Rene Guichard. The Aviation School initially had 3 Caudron G.3 E-2, 3 Caudron G.4 A-2 and four Nieuport Delage 11 C-1. The school was closed due to financial hardships on 1922. Current Order of Battle 25th Army Aviation Brigade Army Aviation Operational Command (AAF Fuerte Tolemaida) Army Aviation Airfield "TG. General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla" 2nd Air Assault Aviation Battalion operating UH-60L 3rd Equipment and Troop Transport Aviation Battalion operating Ми-17-1В/МД/B5 4th Reconnaissance and Escort Aviation Battalion operating UH-1N 5th Aerial Movement Aviation Battalion operating UH-1H-II Special Operations Aviation Battalion Aviation Training Battalion Aviation Maintenance Battalion 25th Aviation Support and Service Battalion Army Aviation Base Bogotà, El Dorado I.A.P. 1st Aircraft Aviation Battalion operating AN-32A, C212-100, Ce208B, RC695/A and various Beech aircraft types Army Aviation School Aviation Logistics and Service Battalion Army Aviation Detachment of 2nd AAABn operating UH-60L Detachment of 4th REABn operating UH-1N Detachment of 5th AMABn operating UH-1H-II 6th Mobility and Manoeuvre Battalion operating helicopters detached from the parent units Army Aviation Base San José del Guaviare Detachment of 2nd AAABn operating UH-60L Detachment of 4th REABn operating UH-1N Detachment of 5th AMABn operating UH-1H-II 4th Mobility and Manoeuvre Battalion operating helicopters detached from the parent units Army Aviation Base Tumaco Detachment of 2nd AAABn operating UH-60L Detachment of 4th REABn operating UH-1N Detachment of 5th AMABn operating UH-1H-II Batallón de Movilidad y Maniobra No. 1 Forward Operating Base Buena Vista 1st Mobility and Manoeuvre Battalion operating helicopters detached from the parent units Forward Operating Base Saravena 5th Mobility and Manoeuvre Battalion operating helicopters detached from the parent units Aircraft inventory While reliant on the Colombian Air Force for heavier air support, the Army maintains a fleet of 163 aircraft, including 141 helicopters. See also Army aviation References External links Colombia: Seguridad & Defensa - Unofficial site UNFFMM - Unofficial site Army aviation National Army of Colombia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrington%20Walker

Larrington Walker

Larrington St Anthony Walker (1946 – 3 September 2017) was a Jamaican-born British actor. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Walker emigrated to the UK in 1956. Walker starred in the British television drama Taboo, and starred in movies such as Second Coming (2014), and Human Traffic (2000), as well as appearing in Minder (1982), The Bill and Inspector Morse. For three seasons from 2008, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed in productions of Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra, among others. Walker also worked with Lenny Henry in the BBC Radio 4 comedy Rudy’s Rare Records. Walker also played Rudy, the father of Adam (Henry), in the 2014 stage version which was performed both at the Birmingham Rep and the Hackney Empire. He died on 3 September 2017. His son reported on Facebook that his father died in Guadeloupe on a day off from filming there. References External links 1947 births 2017 deaths English male television actors

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappetta

Cappetta

Cappetta is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gary Michael Cappetta (born 1952), American professional wrestling ring announcer, author, and voice over artist Henri Cappetta, French ichthyologist Suzie Cappetta (1948–2007), American pop musician

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20subtropicalis

Psilocybe subtropicalis

Psilocybe subtropicalis is a species of mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. The mushroom contains the medicinal compound psilocybin. Found in Mexico, it was described as new to science by mycologist and Psilocybe authority Gastón Guzmán in 1995. See also List of Psilocybin mushrooms Psilocybin mushrooms Psilocybe References Entheogens Fungi described in 1995 Fungi of North America Psychoactive fungi subtropicalis Psychedelic tryptamine carriers Taxa named by Gastón Guzmán

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddle%27s%20Station

Riddle's Station

Riddle's Station was a stage stand on the old Butterfield Overland Mail route in Indian Territory. It was located on the west side of the Forche Maline in what is now Latimer County. The station was named for Captain John Riddle, the operator. Riddle was a mixed-blood Choctaw and a prominent member of the Nation. He served many terms on the Choctaw Council. In 1858, the Council granted Riddle the right to build a bridge and tollbooth across the Forche Maline near his station. Riddle's Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. "Riddle's Station is one of the more important of the even dozen such stands serving the Butterfield Overland Mail 1858-1861 along its 192-mile route across Indian Territory from Fort Smith to Colbert's Ferry on Red River. Unlike some of the other stands, however, it played a significant role in the development of the area for many years after the Civil War put an end to the service itself." The bridge there was asserted to be the first in the Butterfield route. Notes Sources Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987: . Wright, Murial H.; George H. Shirk; Kenny A. Franks. Mark of Heritage. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1976. Wright, Muriel H. "The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago", Chronicles of Oklahoma 35:1 (January 1957) 55-71 (accessed August 23, 2006). Buildings and structures in Latimer County, Oklahoma Stagecoach stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian Territory National Register of Historic Places in Latimer County, Oklahoma Stagecoach stations in Oklahoma

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekal

Hekal

Hekal is a village and a former municipality in the Fier County, southwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mallakastër. The population at the 2011 census was 2,623. Notable people Rrapo Hekali Albanian leader of the uprising of 1847 Dervish Hekali Albanian hero. References Former municipalities in Fier County Administrative units of Mallakastër Villages in Fier County

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro%20Shynkarenko

Dmytro Shynkarenko

Dmytro Shynkarenko (; born 26 January 2000) is a professional Ukrainian football defender who plays for Hirnyk-Sport Horishni Plavni. Career Shynkarenko was born in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine, and he began to play football in his native city, where he joined local the Mariupol youth sportive school. In FC Mariupol he played in the Ukrainian Premier League Reserves and Under 19 Championship during four seasons. In August 2020 he signed a one-year loan deal with the Ukrainian First League Avanhard Kramatorsk. References External links Statistics at UAF website (Ukr) 2000 births Living people People from Mariupol Ukrainian footballers Association football defenders FC Mariupol players FC Kramatorsk players Ukrainian First League players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Aegon%20International%20Eastbourne%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20doubles

2017 Aegon International Eastbourne – Women's doubles

Darija Jurak and Anastasia Rodionova were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina. Chan Yung-jan and Martina Hingis won the title, defeating Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua in the final, 6–3, 7–5. Seeds Draw Draw References Main Draw Aegon Internationalandnbsp;- Doubles 2017 Women's Doubles

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily%20Neill

Lily Neill

Lily Neill is an American harp player. She is recognised for her performances of original music and repertoire from various folk traditions. Neill was born in Maryland, United States and started playing the harp at the age of nine, after taking several years of piano lessons. She gave her first professional public performance the following year, earning many awards at harp competitions in the USA including the U.S. National Scottish harp competition where she was undefeated. She also earned a prize at the 1998 All-Ireland competition in Ballina, County Mayo. As a teenager she performed for then-President Bill Clinton, Congressman Richard Neal and Senators Ted Kennedy and George Mitchell as well as with The Chieftains and Derek Bell at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington DC, in his final two performances there. Neill received a first class honours degree from the University of Limerick's Irish World Academy and released her debut CD, Without Words, while still a student. The CD earned her the 2006 New Female Artist of the Year Award from LiveIreland.com and the Irish-American News. Neill also has a Master of Music degree from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, and did additional studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her second album, "The Habit of a Foreign Sky" was recorded in Helsinki. Lily Neill is based in Europe. She recorded with Finnish rock band Carmen Gray on their debut album for Sony BMG and performs in both solo and group line-ups in Europe and the United States. She is also known for her collaboration with tap dancer Cartier Williams. She performed in Brittany at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in both 2007 and 2008. Albums Without Words, 2004 The Habit of a Foreign Sky, 2011 References The Irish American News LiveIreland.com HotPress Review External links Lily Neill official web site Lily Neill at the Kennedy Center in Washington American harpists Living people Musicians from Maryland Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Commercial%20Historic%20District

Leslie Commercial Historic District

The Leslie Commercial Historic District encompasses a one-block historic area of downtown Leslie, Arkansas. The basically linear district runs on Main Street between Oak and Walnut Streets, and includes 18 buildings and a small city park. Most of the buildings were built in the early decades of the 20th century, and are one and two-story brick buildings. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. Previously listed buildings in the district include the American Legion Post No. 131, the Farmers Bank Building, and the Meek Building. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Searcy County, Arkansas References Historic districts in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Searcy County, Arkansas

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20E.%20Dunlavey

Michael E. Dunlavey

Michael E. Dunlavey (born December 12, 1945) is a former major general in the United States Army. Following his retirement from the Army he was elected a State Judge in Erie Pennsylvania. Dunlavey is on record as requesting authorization for interrogators to use controversial interrogation techniques derived from reverse-engineering the SERE training special forces soldiers go through so they can withstand torture, when he was the camp commandant of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Dunlavey's speciality in the military was military intelligence, and it was in that capacity that he was appointed the commander of Joint Task Force 170, a position he held from February through November 2002. Dunlavey was the sole commander of JTF 170, a unit created to interrogate individuals held in Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba. Generals Lehnert and Baccus commanded Joint Task Force 160, a unit created to handle the detention of individuals held in Guantanamo. Dunlavey clashed with his Lehnert and Baccus, claiming they were undermining the efforts of his command through treating them humanely, allowing them to be visited by representatives of the Red Cross, and allowing them to be advised of their rights under the Geneva Conventions. He also clashed with the FBI, when its agents reported JTF 170 was using illegal interrogation techniques. In October 2002 Dunlavey wrote a memo to his superiors, requesting formal authorization to use extended interrogation techniques, that included sleep deprivation, beatings, sensory deprivation and overload. In November 2002 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld created Joint Task Force Guantanamo with the combined responsibilities of both Task Force 160 and Task Force 170, and appointed Geoffrey D. Miller to its command. According to a September 11, 2011, profile in the Erie Times-News, a local paper, Dunlavey has defended the use of these controversial interrogation techniques. {| class="wikitable" | Dunlavey no longer discusses his involvement. In a previous interview with the Erie-Times News, he said that detainees at Guantanamo were "not prisoners of war the way we were trained for, or the (kind the) Geneva Convention envisions." However, he has said he believes the tactics developed for their interrogations were "consistent with the Geneva Convention." |} In 2004 four United Kingdom citizens sued Dunlavey for his role in their detention. In 2007 Freedom of Information Act requests revealed that Dunlavey told military investigators investigating the use of torture at Guantanamo that his orders came directly from Secretary of Defense Rumseld. In 2011 Dunlavey sent out an email joke, for which he felt he should apologize the next day. Dunlavey announced his intention to retire in May 2012, due to health problem. Dunlavey had been undergoing treatment for after-effects of his service during the 1991 Gulf War since 2002, and had been diagnosed with cancer in the fall of 2011. According to the Erie Times News Dunlavey had been an early advocate of establishing veterans courts. The article compared special veteran's courts to mental health courts. References External links 1945 births Living people United States Army generals Guantanamo Bay detention camp

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Preakness%20Stakes

2018 Preakness Stakes

The 2018 Preakness Stakes was the 143rd running of the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the American Triple Crown. It was a Grade I stakes race with a purse of $1.5 million for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of miles (1.9 km). It was held on May 19, 2018, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland and was broadcast on NBC from 5:00 pm to 7:15 pm EDT with coverage of the undercard on NBCSN starting at 2:30 pm. It was a very muddy track and extremely foggy at post time with visibility down to a sixteenth of a mile. Out of the gate, Justify went to the early lead while Good Magic rushed up his inside to challenge. The two matched strides for the first mile before Good Magic tired somewhat down the stretch. Justify held off a fast closing Bravazo to win by half a length, keeping alive his hopes of winning the Triple Crown. The Maryland Jockey Club reported a track record total attendance of 134,487, the second highest attendance for American thoroughbred racing events in North America during 2018. Field Entries for the 2018 Preakness were taken on May 16. As is commonly the case with the Preakness, the field for the race featured the winner and other top horses from the Kentucky Derby, facing off with several "new shooters" – horses who either did not qualify for the Derby or whose connections chose to bypass that race to focus on the Preakness. The heavy favorite for the race was Justify, the 2018 Kentucky Derby winner, even though he bruised his heel during the running of that race. His main rival was Good Magic, the champion two-year-colt of 2017 and runner-up in the Derby. Six other horses completed the field: Quip, winner of the Tampa Bay Derby and second in the Arkansas Derby, bypassed the Kentucky Derby to focus on the Preakness; Bravazo (sixth in the Derby); Lone Sailor (eighth); Diamond King (winner of the Federico Tesio Stakes); Sporting Chance (fourth in the Blue Grass Stakes); and Tenfold (fifth in the Arkansas Derby). Race description The conditions for the race were so poor that the Washington Post jokingly said the track "should have been downgraded from 'sloppy' to 'biblical'". After heavy downpours over several days, the rain finally stopped shortly before the race but then a heavy fog descended, limiting visibility to about a sixteenth of a mile. Despite the weather, a crowd of 134,487 watched at the track, the third-largest attendance in history. Total wagering on the race was a record $61.97 million, boosted by increases in wagering on exotics such as the trifecta and superfecta. The NBC broadcast received a 5.5 overnight rating and 12 share, a 12% increase over 2017. The ratings during the race itself peaked at 6.6 overnight with a 15 share. The start was critical, and Justify broke well to take the early lead. To his inside, Good Magic rushed up to challenge and the two matched strides around the first turn and down the backstretch while setting moderate fractions. They picked up the pace rounding the final turn and opened a gap on the rest of the field. However, in mid-stretch, Tenfold started closing ground rapidly to Justify's outside while Bravazo, who had trailed by five lengths in mid-stretch, was moving fastest of all in the center of the track. Justify dug in to win by half a length over Bravazo, with Tenfold just a neck further back in third, another neck in front of Good Magic. It was a record-tying seventh win of the Preakness for Justify's trainer, Bob Baffert. Five of those wins came with horses who had just won the Kentucky Derby: Silver Charm, Real Quiet, War Emblem and American Pharoah. Of these, only American Pharoah went on to complete the Triple Crown by winning the Belmont Stakes. Justify later duplicated this feat in the 2018 Belmont Stakes, making Baffert only the second person to train two Triple Crown winners. Results Winning owner: China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners, Starlight Racing, WinStar Farm Winning breeder: John D. Gunther Track: Sloppy Times: mile – 0:23.11; mile – 0:47.19; mile – 1:11.42; mile – 1:36.10; final – 1:55.93. Splits for each quarter-mile: (:23.11) (:24.08) (:24.23) (:24.68) (:19.83 for final ) Reference: Equibase Chart Payout The 143rd Preakness payout schedule $2 Exacta (7–8) $27.40 $1 Trifecta (7–8–6) $148.30 $1 Superfecta (7–8–6–5) $372.50 $1 Super High Five (7–8–6–5–2) $1,370.20 See also 2018 Kentucky Derby 2018 Belmont Stakes References 2018 2018 in horse racing May 2018 sports events in the United States Horse races in Maryland 2018 in sports in Maryland

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20in%20Alberta

List of municipalities in Alberta

Alberta is the fourth-most populous province in Canada with 4,262,635 residents as of 2021 Census of Population and is the fourth-largest in land area at . Alberta's 344 municipalities cover of the province's land mass and are home to of its population. These municipalities provide local government services, including roads, water, sewer and garbage collection among others, and a variety of programs to their residents. According to the Municipal Government Act (MGA), which was enacted in 2000, a municipality in Alberta is "a city, town, village, summer village, municipal district or specialized municipality, a town under the Parks Towns Act, or a municipality formed by special Act". The MGA also recognizes improvement districts and special areas as municipal authorities while Metis settlements are recognized as municipalities by the Government of Alberta's Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Cities, towns, villages, summer villages, municipal districts, specialized municipalities and improvement districts are formed under the provincial authority of the MGA. Special areas and Metis settlements are formed under the provincial authority of the Special Areas Act (SAA) and the Metis Settlements Act (MSA) respectively, of which both were enacted in 2000. As provincial law, the MGA, the SAA and the MSA were passed by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta with royal assent granted by the Lieutenant Governor. Of Alberta's 344 municipalities, 257 of them are urban municipalities (19 cities, 106 towns, 81 villages and 51 summer villages), 6 are specialized municipalities, 73 are rural municipalities (63 municipal districts, 7 improvement districts and 3 special areas) and 8 are Metis settlements. The MGA, the SAA and the MSA stipulate governance of these municipalities. Alberta's Ministry of Municipal Affairs is responsible for providing provincial services to municipalities. Over half of Alberta's population resides in its two largest cities. Calgary, the largest city, is home to of the province's population (1,306,784 residents), while Edmonton, Alberta's capital city, is home to (1,010,899 residents). Improvement District No. 13 (Elk Island). Improvement District No. 12 (Jasper National Park) and Improvement District No. 25 (Willmore Wilderness) are Alberta's smallest municipalities by population; they are unpopulated according to the 2021 Census of Population. The largest municipality by land area is Mackenzie County at , while the smallest by land area is the Summer Village of Castle Island at . Urban municipalities Alberta's Municipal Government Act (MGA), enacted in 2000, defines urban municipality as a "city, town, village or summer village." For federal census purposes, Statistics Canada recognizes all four urban municipality types as census subdivisions. Combined, Alberta has 257 urban municipalities comprising 19 cities, 106 towns, 81 villages and 51 summer villages. The 257 urban municipalities have a total population of 3,533,377, a total land area of . These totals represent of Alberta's population yet only of its land area. Cities The MGA stipulates that an area may incorporate as a city if it has a population of 10,000 people or more and the majority of its buildings are on parcels of land smaller than . Alberta has 19 cities that had a cumulative population of 3,023,641 in the 2021 Census of Population. These 19 cities include Lloydminster, of which a portion is located within the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan. Alberta's largest city by population and land area is Calgary with 1,306,784 and , while Wetaskiwin is its smallest city by population with 12,594 and land area at . Beaumont is Alberta's newest city; it became Alberta's 19th city on January 1, 2019. Towns The MGA stipulates that an area may incorporate as a town if it has a population of 1,000 people or more and the majority of its buildings are on parcels of land smaller than . Alberta has 106 towns that had a cumulative population of 471,028 in the 2021 Census of Population. The province's largest and smallest towns by population are Cochrane and Rainbow Lake with 32,199 and 495 respectively, while its largest and smallest by land area are Drumheller and Eckville with and respectively. Nobleford is Alberta's newest town, which changed from a village to a town on February 28, 2021. Villages The MGA stipulates that an area may incorporate as a village if it has a population of 300 people or more and the majority of its buildings are on parcels of land smaller than . Alberta has 81 villages that had a cumulative population of 32,753 in the 2021 Census of Population. The province's largest and smallest villages by population are Stirling and Halkirk with 1,164 and 92 respectively, while its largest and smallest by land area are Chipman and Edberg with and respectively. The last communities to incorporate as villages were Alberta Beach and Spring Lake, which both changed from summer villages to villages on January 1, 1999. Summer villages Under previous legislation, a community could incorporate as a summer village if it had "a minimum of 50 separate buildings occupied as dwellings at any time during a six-month period". A community can no longer incorporate as a summer village under the MGA. Alberta has 51 summer villages that had a cumulative population of 5,955 in the 2021 Census of Population. The province's largest summer village by population is Norglenwold with 306, while Castle Island us Alberta's smallest summer villages with a population of 15. The province's largest and smallest summer villages by land area are Silver Sands and Castle Island with and respectively. Gull Lake and Kapasiwin were the last communities in Alberta to incorporate as summer villages. Both were incorporated on September 1, 1993. Since then, two summer villages have incorporated as villages (Alberta Beach and Edmonton Beach, now named Spring Lake) and one has dissolved (White Gull). List Specialized municipalities Specialized municipalities in Alberta are unique local governments. Alberta's Municipal Government Act (MGA), enacted in 2000, provides the authority to form a specialized municipality under the following scenarios: where the Minister of Municipal Affairs is satisfied that the other incorporated statuses under the MGA do not meet the needs of the proposed municipality's residents; to form a local government that, in the opinion of the Minister of Municipal Affairs, will provide for the orderly development of the municipality in a similar fashion to the other incorporated statuses within the MGA, including other previously incorporated specialized municipalities; or for any other circumstances that are deemed appropriate by the Minister of Municipal Affairs. Alberta has six specialized municipalities, which are recognized as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada. In the 2021 Census of Population, they had a cumulative population of 202,461, a total land area of . These totals represent of Alberta's population yet of its land area. The province's largest and smallest specialized municipalities by population are Strathcona County and the Municipality of Jasper with 99,225 and 4,738 respectively, while its largest and smallest by land area are Mackenzie County and the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass with and respectively. Lac La Biche County is Alberta's newest specialized municipality, which was formed on January 1, 2018. Alberta's first specialized municipality was the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which formed on April 1, 1995. Strathcona County and the Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo are home to the unincorporated hamlets of Sherwood Park and Fort McMurray respectively. These communities are designated urban service areas, which are deemed equivalents of cities. Excluding Sherwood Park and Fort McMurray, 18 other unincorporated communities, also recognized as hamlets by Alberta Municipal Affairs, are distributed among Mackenzie County, Strathcona County and the RM of Wood Buffalo. List Rural municipalities Rural municipalities in Alberta include municipal districts, improvement districts and special areas. For federal census purposes, Statistics Canada recognizes all three rural municipality types as census subdivisions. However, Statistics Canada embeds Alberta's eight Metis settlements, a separate type of municipality, into the census subdivisions for six municipal districts. Combined, Alberta has 73 rural municipalities comprising 63 municipal districts, 7 improvement districts and 3 special areas. The 73 rural municipalities have a total population of 481,120, a total land area of . These totals represent of Alberta's population yet of its land area. Municipal districts In Alberta, a municipal district, typically branded as a county, is a type of rural municipality. The MGA, enacted in 2000, stipulates that an area may incorporate as a municipal district if it has a population of 1,000 people or more and the majority of its buildings are on parcels of land larger than . Alberta has 63 municipal districts that had a cumulative population of 470,620 in the 2021 Census of Population. The province's largest and smallest municipal districts by population are Rocky View County and the Municipal District (MD) of Ranchland No. 66 with 41,028 and 110 respectively, while its largest and smallest by land area are the MD of Greenview No. 16 and the MD of Spirit River No. 133 with and respectively. Unincorporated communities recognized as hamlets by Alberta Municipal Affairs are located within every municipal district with the exception of Mountain View County, the MD of Ranchland No. 66 and the MD of Spirit River No. 133. Improvement districts In Alberta, an improvement district is a type of rural municipality that can be incorporated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council on the recommendation of Alberta's Minister of Municipal Affairs under the authority of the MGA. Improvement districts are administered by the Province of Alberta through its Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Alberta had eight improvement districts that had a cumulative population of 2,024 in the 2021 Census of Population. The number of improvement districts was reduced to seven on May 1, 2021 when Improvement District (ID) No. 349 dissolved by way of annexation to the MD of Bonnyville No. 87. Five of Alberta's improvement districts are within national parks while two are within provincial parks. Alberta's largest improvement district by population is ID No. 9, located within Banff National Park, with 1,004, while its largest by land area is ID No. 24, located within Wood Buffalo National Park, at . ID No. 13 (Elk Island), ID No. 12 (Jasper National Park) and ID No. 25 (Willmore Wilderness) are unpopulated, while its smallest by land area is ID No. 13 (Elk Island) at . Alberta Municipal Affairs recognizes two unincorporated communities within improvement districts as hamlets – Lake Louise within ID No. 9 (Banff National Park) and Waterton Park within ID No. 4 (Waterton Lakes National Park). Special areas In Alberta, a special area is a type of rural municipality that can be incorporated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council under the authority of the Special Areas Act, which was enacted in 2000. They were originally created in 1938 as a result of hardship brought upon a particular area in southeastern Alberta during the drought of the 1930s. Alberta has three special areas that had a cumulative population of 4,238 in the 2021 Census of Populations. The province's largest by population and land area is Special Area (SA) No. 2 with 1,860 and respectively. Alberta's smallest by population is SA No. 3 with 1,142, while its smallest by land area is SA No. 4 with . The last special area to form was SA No. 4, which incorporated on January 1, 1969 through the removal of certain lands from SA No. 3. The three special areas are administered as a single unit by the Special Areas Board, and are home to 16 unincorporated communities recognized as hamlets by Alberta Municipal Affairs. List Metis settlements Metis settlements are unique local governments dedicated to Alberta's Metis people. The settlements were originally created in 1938 under the authority of the Metis Population Betterment Act with land and governance being transferred to the settlements in 1989. Metis settlements are presently under the jurisdiction of the Metis Settlements Act, which was enacted in 2000. Alberta has eight Metis settlements. Unlike the other types of municipalities, Metis settlements are not recognized as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada for federal census purposes. Rather, Statistics Canada recognizes them as designated places embedded within six municipal districts. Alberta's eight Metis settlements had a cumulative population of 4,238 in the 2021 Census of Population. The province's largest and smallest Metis settlements by population are Kikino and East Prairie with 978 and 310 respectively, while the largest and smallest by land area are Paddle Prairie and Elizabeth at and respectively. List See also List of former urban municipalities in Alberta List of population centres in Alberta Notes References External links Alberta Municipal Affairs Alberta Municipalities Association of Summer Villages of Alberta Metis Settlements General Council Rural Municipalities of Alberta Alberta-related lists

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2019 Southern Jaguars baseball team

The 2019 Southern Jaguars baseball team represented Southern University in the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Jaguars played their home games at Lee–Hines Field. They, along with the LSU Tigers baseball team, and the McNeese State Cowboys baseball team, were the only three teams in the state to make it to the NCAA Tournament. They were also the lone member from the SWAC Conference. Roster Coaching staff Schedule ! style="" | Regular Season |- valign="top" |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 1 || February 15 || vs. Florida A&M || Wesley Barrow Stadium • New Orleans, LA || W 6-3 || 1-0 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 2 || February 16 || vs. Grambling State || Wesley Barrow Stadium • New Orleans, LA || W 6–5 || 2–0 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 3 || February 17 || vs. Alcorn State || Maestri Field at Privateer Park • New Orleans, LA || W 12-9 || 3–0 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 4 || February 18 || vs. Air Force || Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field • Baton Rouge, LA || L 0–13 || 3–1 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 5 || February 24 || at Northwestern State || H. Alvin Brown–C. C. Stroud Field • Natchitoches, LA || L 6–13 || 3–2 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 6 || February 24 || at Northwestern State || H. Alvin Brown-C. C. Stroud Field • Natchitoches, LA || W 7–5 || 4–2 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 7 || February 27 || at LSU || Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA || L 4-17 || 4-3 || |- |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 9 || March 1 || Eastern Illinois || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 10–8 || 5–3 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 10 || March 1 || Eastern Illinois || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || L 2–4 || 5–4 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 11 || March 2 || Eastern Illinois || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 5–3 || 6–4 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 12 || March 2 || Eastern Illinois || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || L 1–6 || 6–5 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 13 || March 6 || at Southern Miss || Pete Taylor Park • Hattiesburg, MS || L 3–8 || 6–6 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 14 || March 8 || Arkansas-Pine Bluff || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 16–4 || 7–6 || 1-0 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 15 || March 8 || Arkansas-Pine Bluff || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 9–4 || 8–6 || 2-0 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 16 || March 9 || Arkansas-Pine Bluf || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 16-13 || 9–6 || 3-0 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 17 || March 12 || at Louisiana-Monroe || Warhawk Field • Monroe, LA || L 6–10 || 9–7 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 18 || March 15 || at Texas Southern || MacGregor Park • Houston, TX || L 0–1 || 9–8 || 3–1 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 19 || March 16 || at Texas Southern || MacGregor Park • Houston, TX || W 1–0 || 10–8 || 4–1 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 20 || March 17 || at Texas Southern || MacGregor Park • Houston, TX || W 8-7 || 11–8 || 5-1 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 21 || March 19 || at Lamar || Vincent-Beck Stadium • Beaumont, TX || L 5-6 || 11–9 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 22 || March 22 || Grambling State || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 18-8 (8 inn) || 12–9 || 6-1 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 23 || March 23 || Grambling State || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 15-13 || 13–9 || 7-1 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 24 || March 24 || Grambling State || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 13-8 || 14–9 || 8-1 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 25 || March 26 || at New Orleans || Maestri Field at Privateer Park • New Orleans, LA || L 6–9 || 14–10 || |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc | 26 || March 27 || Northwestern State || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || L 3–6 || 14–11 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 24 || March 29 || Prairie View A&M || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || L 6-10 || 14–12 || 8-2 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 24 || March 30 || Prairie View A&M || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 26-7 (7 inn) || 15–12 || 9-2 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 24 || March 30 || Prairie View A&M || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 8-5 || 16–12 || 10-2 |- |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 27 || April 2 || at Nicholls || Ben Meyer Diamond at Ray E. Didier Field • Thibodaux, LA || L 2-4 || 16–13 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 28 || April 5 || at Memphis || FedExPark • Memphis, TN || W 6–1 || 17–13 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 29 || April 6 || at Memphis || FedExPark • Memphis, TN || L 1–10 || 17–14 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 30 || April 6 || at Memphis || FedExPark • Memphis, TN || L 12–14 (12 inn) || 17–15 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 31 || April 9 || #8 LSU || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 7–2 || 18–15 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 32 || April 10 || New Orleans || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 5–4 (10 inn) || 19–15 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 33 || April 12 || at Arkansas-Pine Bluff || Torii Hunter Baseball Complex • Pine Bluff, AR || W 10–4 || 20–15 || 11–2 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 34 || April 12 || at Arkansas-Pine Bluff || Torii Hunter Baseball Complex • Pine Bluff, AR || W 21–2 (7 inn) || 21–15 || 12–2 |- bgcolor="#cccccc" | 35 || April 14 || at Arkansas-Pine Bluff || Torii Hunter Baseball Complex • Pine Bluff, AR || colspan=4 |Game canceled |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 36 || April 16 || Alcorn State || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 11-1 (7 inn) || 22–15 || 13–2 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 37 || April 20 || Texas Southern || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 7–6 (12 inn) || 23–15 || 14–2 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 38 || April 20 || Texas Southern || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || L 5–6 || 23–16 || 14-3 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 39 || April 21 || Texas Southern || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 16–6 (7 inn) || 24–16 || 15-3 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 40 || April 23 || Louisiana-Monroe || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || L 4–5 || 24–17 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 41 || April 26 || at Grambling State || Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones Park at Wilbert Ellis Field • Grambling, LA || L 0–12 || 24–18 || 15–4 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 42 || April 27 || at Grambling State || Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones Park at Wilbert Ellis Field • Grambling, LA || L 16–21 || 24–19 || 15–5 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 42 || April 28 || at Grambling State || Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones Park at Wilbert Ellis Field • Grambling, LA || W 15–3 (7 inn) || 25–19 || 16–5 |- |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 43 || May 1 || Nicholls || Lee–Hines Field • Baton Rouge, LA || W 6–5 || 26–19 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 44 || May 4 || at Prairie View A&M || Tankersley Field • Prairie View, TX || W 12-8 || 27–19 || 17–5 |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 45 || May 5 || at Prairie View A&M || Tankersley Field • Prairie View, TX || W 6–4 || 28–19 || 18–5 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 46 || May 5 || at Prairie View A&M || Tankersley Field • Prairie View A&M || L 2–12 (7 inn) || 28–20 || 18–6 |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 47 || May 7 || at New Orleans || Maestri Field at Privateer Park • New Orleans, LA || L 4–5 || 28–21 || |- |- ! style="" | Post-Season |- valign="top" |- |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 54 || May 15 || vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff || Wesley Barrow Stadium • New Orleans, LA || W 11–7 || 29–21 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 55 || May 16 || vs. Texas Southern || Wesley Barrow Stadium • New Orleans, LA || W 10-9 (10 inn) || 30-21 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 56 || May 17 || vs. Texas Southern || Wesley Barrow Stadium • New Orleans, LA || L 6-8 || 30-22 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 57 || May 18 || vs. Texas Southern || Wesley Barrow Stadium • New Orleans, LA || W 7-6 || 31-22 || |- bgcolor="#ccffcc" | 57 || May 19 || vs. Alabama State || Wesley Barrow Stadium • New Orleans, LA || W 15-0 || 32-22 || |- |- bgcolor="#cccccc" | 58 || May 24 || vs. North Carolina A&T || Guarantee Rate Field • Chicago, IL || colspan=4| Game canceled |- |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 58 || May 31 || vs. Mississippi State || Dudy Noble Field, Polk–DeMent Stadium • Starkville, MS || L 6-11 || 32-23 || |- bgcolor="#ffcccc" | 58 || June 1 || vs. Miami || Dudy Noble Field, Polk–DeMent Stadium • Starkville, MS || L 2-12 || 32-24 || |- | Starkville Regional References Southern Jaguars Southern Jaguars baseball seasons Southern baseball Southern

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Chan

Benjamin Chan

Benjamin K. Chan () is a research scientist at Yale University in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He was born in 1980 to a U.S. Asian father, an engineer, and an American mother. He is known for his work in phage therapy exploiting genetic trade-offs to treat antibiotic resistant bacterial infections. He currently lives in Guilford, Connecticut. Phage therapy In January 2016, Chan treated an antibiotic resistant infection of a Dacron aortic graft caused by the superbug Pseudomonas aeruginosa, this treatment reinvigorated phage therapy in Western medicine. Following this successful treatment, a second case of superbug infection was treated by Chan and others at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. This case involved use of nebulized phage to treat a multidrug resistant lung infection in Paige Rogers, a woman with cystic fibrosis and the research involved was featured in the Netflix series, "Follow This." He has since been featured in documentaries produced by Vice, Freethink, and BBC One. Following the publication of his first two cases, Chan and others have since treated multiple infections at Yale New Haven Hospital successfully. References Yale University faculty Evolutionary biologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American biologists People from Guilford, Connecticut American people of Chinese descent

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus%20minor%20%27Umbraculifera%20Gracilis%27

Ulmus minor 'Umbraculifera Gracilis'

The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Umbraculifera Gracilis' was obtained as a sport of 'Umbraculifera' by the Späth nursery of Berlin c.1897. It was marketed by the Späth nursery in the early 20th century, and by the Hesse Nursery of Weener, Germany, in the 1930s. Description The tree is distinguished by its long oval crown, but with thinner branches and smaller leaves than 'Umbraculifera'. Pests and diseases The cultivar is susceptible to Dutch elm disease. Cultivation The only known surviving specimens are in the United States and Scotland (see 'Accessions' and 'Notable trees'). Henry (1913) mentions no example at Kew, though a specimen had been planted there by 1902. A specimen obtained from Späth stood in the Ryston Hall arboretum, Norfolk, in the early 20th century. Notable trees Three trees supplied by Späth to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) in 1902 as U. campestris umbraculifera gracilis survive in Edinburgh (2019). The two oldest, planted in the Garden itself (one of which is base-grafted), were long known by an updated version of Melville's name for them, U. plotii × U. carpinifolia (:U. minor 'Plotii' × U. minor). It is known that Melville renamed some of Späth's trees at RBGE in 1958. These two were, according to one RBGE herbarium sheet, formerly called U. campestris umbraculifera (see 'External links'), the name of the parent tree (not present in RBGE) of 'Umbraculifera Gracilis'. A herbarium specimen from Amsterdam labelled U. carpinifolia Gled. f. 'Gracilis' var. (Späth) Rehd. matches the Edinburgh trees. Taken together, the evidence suggested that the three Edinburgh trees (the third, with smaller bole-girth, is on Bruntsfield Links) were the clone Späth supplied as U. campestris 'Umbraculifera Gracilis', an identification confirmed in 2016 by RBGE. It is not known why Melville was permitted to disregard the trees' documented Central Asian provenance, and pronounce them hybrids of Plot Elm, a local variety of English field elm. Synonymy Ulmus carpinifolia var. gracilis: Krüssmann , Handbuch der Laubgehölze 2: 534, 1962. Ulmus camp. umbraculifera nova Accessions North America Holden Arboretum, US. Acc. no. 60-164 Europe Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK. Acc. nos. 19699358, 19699365 Nurseries Europe Centrum voor Botanische Verrijking vzw, Kampenhout, Belgium. ('Umbraculifera' listed separately to 'Umbraculifera Gracilis'). Baumschulen Bauch GbR, Rheinbach, Germany. Notes References External links Sheet described as U. carpinifolia Gled. f. 'Gracilis' var. (Späth) Rehd. (Amsterdam specimen) Sheet described as U. carpinifolia Gled. f. 'Gracilis' var. (Späth) Rehd. (Amsterdam specimen) Sheet described as U. campestris umbraculifera (RBGE specimen C2717); renamed U. plotii × U. carpinifolia by Melville. Cultivar name not given (RBGE specimen C2714); renamed U. plotii × U. carpinifolia by Melville Cultivar name not given (RBGE specimen C2714); renamed U. plotii × U. carpinifolia by Melville Sheet described as U. campestris umbraculifera gracilis (RBGE specimen, 1902) Sheet described as U. campestris umbraculifera gracilis (RBGE specimen, 1902) Sheet described as U. campestris umbraculifera gracilis (RBGE specimen, 1902) Sheet described as U. carpinifolia Gled. var. 'Gracilis' var. (Späth) Rehd.; formerly named U. scabra Mill. × U. campestris var. umbraculifera and as U. umbraculifera gracilis (Haarlem specimen) Sheet described as U. carpinifolia Gled. cv. 'Gracilis' var. Späth; formerly known as 'U. montana umbraculifera gracilis' (Dahlem Hortus specimen, 1925) Field elm cultivar Ulmus Ulmus Edinburgh Spath 1902

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Brott

Denis Brott

Denis Brott (born December 9, 1950) is a Canadian cellist, music teacher, and founder and artistic director of the Montreal Chamber Music Festival.> Early life and education Brott was born in Montreal, into a family of professional musicians; he is the son of the violinist and composer Alexander Brott, cellist Lotte Brott and younger brother of conductor Boris Brott. He studied cello with Walter Joachim at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal from 1959 to 1967. From 1964 to 1968 he studied with Leonard Rose at The Juilliard School in New York. From 1968 to 1971 he continued his training with Janos Starker at the Indiana University in Bloomington, after which he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, until 1975, acting as Piatigorsky's assistant for part of his four years there. Career As a young man Brott performed as a cellist; in 1973 he won second Prize in the Munich International Cello Competition. In 1975 he became a Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the North Carolina School of the Arts. In 1978 he became a professor at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, where he taught until 1980, when he joined the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, serving there until 1989. In 1985, Brott played a pivotal role in the creation of the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank which collects fine, rare string instruments to lend to Canadian musicians. In recognition of his efforts, the Instrument Bank loaned him a 1706 David Tecchler cello for his lifetime use. Since 1989 he has been Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. His concert tours have taken him to four continents and he has performed at many festivals, including Marlboro, Sitka, Santa Barbara, Banff, and Toronto. He was artistic director of Festival of the Sound in 1991. Brott taught at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California from 1992 until 2001. During that time he served as an international jurist at the Evian International String Quartet Competition in 1993, the Munich International ARD String Quartet Competition in 1996 and 2008, the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Performers in 1997, and the Munich International ARD Cello Competition in 1998. Brott performed for eight years with the Orford String Quartet during which time he recorded 25 chamber music discs. In 1986 the quartet was named Ensemble of the Year by the Canadian Music Council, and their recordings of the complete string quartets of Beethoven won the Grand Prix du Disque Award in 1998 and two Juno Awards (1985, 1987) for Best Chamber Ensemble Classical Recording. Brott appeared as a guestmusician with the Emerson, Tokyo and St. Lawrence String Quartets. Brott also recorded as a solo artist; the best known of these recordings is the three Brahms Sonatas for cello and piano and Homage to Piatigorsky. The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal selected Brott as one of four Great Montrealers in 2004, presenting him with the Award for Culture. Brott held the cello chair at the Musicorda Chamber Music Institute and Festival in 2005. A recent project involves bringing music classes to Montreal area high schools, mixing classical music with rap and break dancing. Montreal Chamber Music Festival In 1990, Brott moved back to Montreal, with plans to make classical music more accessible to the public by developing an international chamber music festival. His idea gain the approval of then mayor of Montreal, Pierre Bourque. It was decided to hold the festival at The Chalet situated atop Mont Royal, half of which had been made into a park in 1876. In 1995, the first Montreal Chamber Music Festival was held at The Chalet, with Brott as the festival's artistic director. The festival organizers sought out historic locations for the performances, and planned a program of performances by internationally known chamber music artists and chamber music ensembles. The aim was to allow promising young chamber music artists to interact with established musicians and to acquire experience essential to the development of their careers, and to promote exchanges between Canadian and foreign chamber music artists, and meanwhile enhance the stature of Montreal as a centre for cultural and artistic activities. In 2006, the Festival organized a rejuvenation project in downtown Montreal, known as the "Quartier des festivals". At that time, the Festival moved to the historic St. James United Church, which had become an acoustically desirable venue after the installation of specially designed panels. In 2012 Brott performed in Orange County, California with pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks. As of 2014, Brott continues to be the artistic director of the festival. Musician's Life in the Age of Corona In mid-March 2020, Denis Brott, 69, was placed in an induced coma in intensive care in Montreal's Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu as a result of contracting COVID-19. He "first showed symptoms just after returning to Canada... from the Netherlands, where he had been performing." As of May 12, 2020 Brott has been taken out of intensive care and is expected to make a full recovery. Discography Solo 3 Sonatas for Cello & Piano: Analekta AN2 9901 (Glen Montgomery, piano). Johannes Brahms Sonata in E Minor, Opus 38, Sonata in D Major, Opus 78, Sonata in F Major, Opus 99 Remembering Piatigorsky: Analekta FL2 3035 (Samuel Sanders, piano; Tony Randall, narrator; Evan Drachman, 2nd cello). Beglarian "Of Fables, Foibles & Fancies", Haydn Divertimento, Menotti Suite for 2 Cellos & Piano, Piatigorsky Syrinx for Solo Cello, Piatigorsky Promenade for Solo Cello, Piatigorsky Variations on the 24th Caprice of Paganini Celebration: Analekta AN2 7201-2. National Arts Centre Orchestra 25th Anniversary, (National Arts Centre Orchestra, Mario Bernardi, conductor). Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 Brott Arabesque for Cello & Orchestra: Analekta ANC 9801. (McGill Chamber Orchestra, Boris Brott, conductor) Tribute to Piatigorsky: DFCDI-013. (same repertoire as FL2 3035) Anthology of Canadian Music: CBC ACM20. Alexander Brott, Brott Psalmody for Solo Cello, Brott Shofar for Solo Cello Debussy Sonate: CBC SM185 . Schubert Introduction, Theme & Variations, Opus 82 #2 (Charles Reiner, piano), Strauss Sonata in F Major, Opus 6 (Rebecca Penneys, piano) Chamber music with Orford String Quartet The Complete String Quartets of Beethoven: Delos DE 3039. Volumes I-VIII. Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34: Sefel SEFD 5019. (Gloria Saarinen, piano) Brott "Critic's Corner": SNE 516. (Louis Charbonneau, percussion), Brott Songs of Contemplation (Maureen Forrester, mezzo-soprano) Brott Ritual: CBC SMCD 504. (CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Simon Streatfeild, conductor), Elgar Introduction & Allegro, Mercure Divertissement, Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Freedman Chalumeau: Centrediscs CNCO 983. (James Campbell, clarinet) CTL S5256 . Glick String Quartet #1: Prevost Ahimsa, (Robert Aitken, flute; Sandra Graham, mezzo-soprano; Elmer Iseler Singers), Haydn Serenade, Opus 3 #5, Mozart Serenade (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik), *Riley Concerto for String Quartet & Woodwind Doubler, (Moe Koffman, flute, saxophone, clarinet) CBC RCI550Hetu String Quaratet, Opus 29, Morawetz String Quartet #2 Ofra Harnoy & The Orford String Quartet Plays The Beatles: Fanfare DFL 6002 (arrangements by Doug Riley). Musica Viva Mozart Quintet in A Major, K. 581 Weber Quintet, Opus 34: CBC Musica Viva MVCD1032 (James Campbell, clarinet) Orford Encores: Fanfare DFC 7008. Borodin Nocturne & Scherzo from Quartet #2, Dvorak Waltz, Opus 54 #1, Foster (arr. Pochon) Old Black Joe, Gagnon Tango, Gershwin Lullaby, Haydn Serenade from Quartet, Opus 3 #5, Lennon-McCartney (arr. Wilkins) Yesterday, MacMillan A Saint Malo, Puccini Crisantemi Moments magiques: FMCM 2 001. Juno Award-winning album for Best Classical Recording in the Solo/Chamber Music Category. Schubert Presto from Trio #2 Opus 100 D929, Dvorak Poco adagio and Finale from Trio Opus 65 References External links Denis Brott Montreal Chamber Music Festival 1950 births Canadian classical cellists Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal faculty Canadian music educators Living people Members of the Order of Canada Musicians from Montreal

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%20Tipperary%20Senior%20Hurling%20Championship

1990 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship

The 1990 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 100th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887. The championship began on 15 September 1990 and ended on 14 October 1990. Clonoulty-Rossmore were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Kilruane MacDomaghs at the quarter-final stage. On 14 October 1990, Holycross-Ballycahill won the title after a 0-13 to 0-10 defeat of Cashel King Cormacs in the final at Semple Stadium. It was their fourth championship title overall and their first title since 1954. It remains their last championship title. Holycross-Ballycahill's Stephen Dwan was the championship's top scorer with 2-20. Participating teams Results Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final Championship statistics Top scorers Top scorer overall Top scorers in a single game References External links The County Senior Hurling Championship - 1990 Tipperary Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Eastaugh

Stephen Eastaugh

Stephen Eastaugh (born 1960) is an Australian contemporary artist from Melbourne, Australia. He is known for producing semi-abstract, mixed media art, and his work is often informed by his experiences traveling. Career Eastaugh studied at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1979 to 1981. After completing his Bachelors of Fine Art, he began to travel, first to New Zealand and Norway, and since then has not settled anywhere for more than a few months at a time. Since the early 1980s, he has participated in over 100 solo exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. He is represented in many of Australia’s state and national art collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and Parliament House Canberra. In 2012 Eastaugh self-published Unstill Life, a book with a limited-edition of 500 copies, documenting his 30 years of traveling which he wrote over the winter of 2009 at Mawson station in Antarctica. Artistic Style and Influences Each of Eastaugh's semi-abstract, mixed-media artworks tells a story based on his travels, such as passing out after his drink was spiked in Peru (Drugs, 1990). Antarctichinoiserie-scape (2004), for example, was inspired by the rafting sea ice found in Antarctica while reminiscent of depictions of distance in Chinese landscape paintings. Eastaugh calls his art of travel an ‘Unstill Life’. He has made nine trips to Antarctica: three trips as the official Australian Antarctic Arts fellow (2000, 2002–3, 2009), and six times as an artist-in-residence on tourist ships. He travelled twice to the North Pole as part of a Polar art residency on Russian icebreakers. Ulan Bator (Mongolia), Nuuk (Greenland), Nufa Alofa (Tonga), Ushuaia (Argentina) are among the 80 plus countries Eastaugh has visited. His 2006 Summer studio at Australia’s Davis Station in Antarctica was the subject of the ABC TV documentary AntarcticArt. On Eastaugh's third official trip to Antarctica he over-wintered at Mawson station. The work Eastaugh produces in each country regularly uses materials that resonate with, or are particular to, the local culture. These materials have a strong textural quality: encaustic wax, oilsticks, medical bandages, rugs, fabric, embroidery, damaged paper and pearl shells. Rooted (Mongolia), 2004, for example, abstracts various Mongolian objects and views in 30 panels made from acrylic paint and embroidered medical bandages, wool and cotton thread. Personal life An adopted child born in Melbourne, Australia Eastaugh made contact with his biological parents when he was 28. His biological father is a former Dutch sailor, based in Broome, Australia. In 2007 Eastaugh married Argentinian photographer and vigneron Carolina Furque in Hong Kong. Collections (selected) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart Parliament House, Canberra Australian Antarctic Division Collection Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth Nevada Museum of Art, Reno Awards, grants, fellowships (selected) Asialink Residency, Hong Kong 2001 and Beijing 2012 Art Gallery of NSW, Moya * Dyring Studio, Cite Internationale, Paris, 2001 Australian Antarctic Division Artists' Program, 2000, 2002–3 and 2009 Faber Castell National Drawing Award (Professional), 1991 References External links stepheneastaugh.com.au Australian art 1960 births Living people

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mumbai%20City%20FC%20records%20and%20statistics

List of Mumbai City FC records and statistics

Mumbai City Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The club was established on 30 August 2014 and began their first competitive season in the Indian Super League a few months later on 2014. Club All time performance record As of 6 January 2021 General Note: When scores are mentioned, score Mumbai City FC are given first. First match: 0–3 (vs ATK, 12 October 2014) First win: 5–0 (vs Pune City, Indian Super League, 18 October 2014) Biggest win (in Indian Super League): 6–1 (vs Kerala Blasters FC, 16 December 2018) 6-1 (vs Odisha FC, 24 February 2021) Biggest loss (in Indian Super League): 0-7 (vs FC Goa, 17 November 2015) Highest scoring draw: 3-3 (vs FC Goa, 8 February 2021) Biggest win (in Super Cup): 2-1 (vs Indian Arrows, 16 March 2018) Biggest loss (in Super Cup): 0–2 (vs Chennaiyin FC, 2019) Most wins in an ISL season:9 (out of 18 games), during the 2018-19 season Fewest wins in an ISL season:4 (out of 14 games), during the 2014 and 2015 season Most defeats in an ISL season:9 (out of 18 matches), during the 2017-18 season Fewest defeats in an ISL season:3 (out of 14 matches), during the 2016 season Most goals scored in an ISL season:35 goals in 20 games, during the 2020–21 season. Fewest goals scored in an ISL season:14 goals in 14 games, during the 2014 season Most goals conceded in an ISL season:32 goals in 18 games, during the 2019-20 season Fewest goals conceded in an ISL season:11 goals in 14 games, during the 2014 season Most points in an ISL season:40 in 20 games, during the 2020–21 season Fewest points in an ISL season:16 in 14 games, during the 2014 and 2015 seasons Highest attendance: 28000 ((vs Pune City, 18 October 2014) Highest average home attendance in a season :7853 Team Records League winners (2016) (2020–21) Fewest goals conceded in a season: (11), Mumbai City (2016) (2020-21) Joint Highest Points tally in the Indian Super League (40 Points) (2020-21) Quickest semi-final qualification in Indian Super League history (15) Games (2020-21) Most no. of goals scored by a team in a single season (39)Goals Mumbai City (2020-21) Second Most Number of Wins in Indian Super League (50 Wins) (as of 28 February 2021) Record no. of Goalscorers from a single team Mumbai City (12) Goalscorers (25) Goals (2019-20) First team to score 5 goals in a single game v/s FC Pune City on 18 October 2014 at DY Patil Stadium Most Clean Sheets in Indian Super League by a Club : Total 43 Mumbai City (as of 28 February 2021) Biggest Away Win in Indian Super League v/s Odisha FC on 24 February 2021 at GMC stadium Bambolim Most passes by a Team in Indian Super League Mumbai City (807)Passes v/s Odisha FC on 24 February 2021 at GMC stadium Bambolim Most Passes completed by a Team in Indian Super League Mumbai City (714)Passes v/s Odisha FC on 24 February 2021 at GMC stadium Bambolim Players Appearances Most appearances:Amrinder Singh 70 Most appearances as captain Amrinder Singh - youngest Goalscorer : Pranjal Bhumij 19 Years 7 Months 3 Days v/s Kerala Blasters FC on 5 October 2018 Oldest GoalScorer : Diego Forlán 37 years 06 months v/s Kerala Blasters FC on 19 November 2016 References Mumbai City FC-related lists Mumbai

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocardiopsis%20listeri

Nocardiopsis listeri

Nocardiopsis listeri is a bacterium from the genus of Nocardiopsis which has been isolated from human clinical isolates. References Further reading External links Type strain of Nocardiopsis listeri at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase Actinomycetales Bacteria described in 1990

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coscinium%20%28bryozoan%29

Coscinium (bryozoan)

Coscinium is an extinct genus of prehistoric bryozoans in the family Hexagonellidae. The species C. elegans is from the Paleozoic rocks of the western states and territories. See also List of prehistoric bryozoan genera References External links Stenolaemata genera Prehistoric bryozoan genera Cystoporida Paleozoic life of Ontario

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverender

Neverender

Neverender was a four-night concert series performed by Coheed and Cambria. It took place in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London, and consisted of one of the band's four studio albums being played in full each night, telling the story of the concept in sequence according to each album. "Neverender" is a song from the album The Second Stage Turbine Blade. Night One: The Second Stage Turbine Blade Night Two: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Night Three: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness Night Four: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow (The London showing played in a different order due to cancellation on December 2.) Announcement In early July 2008, the band's official website and MySpace featured a teaser poster with the dragonfly artwork for an event called Neverender. A few days later, the event was unveiled to the public. Four days before all of the tickets went on sale there was a presale of special "VIP" tickets. These were 10% of the total number of tickets for the concerts. They sold out within minutes of going on sale. In early August, the band's official website along with their MySpace featured two flags on the same Neverender poster. Two days later it was announced that Neverender would also have shows in Chicago and London. The film Night of the Living Dead was played in the background on night four. Neverender: The Children of the Fence Box Set On March 24, 2009 a box set was released containing footage from all nights of Neverender from the New York City dates. It contains a CD and DVD of each night of the concert as well as a documentary entitled The Fiction Will See The Real, both directed by Doug Spangenberg. Tour dates London Astoria cancellation The band were forced to cancel their show at the London Astoria on Tuesday December 2, due to a power cut caused by road maintenance outside the building and the accidental severance of a major power conduit. One worker died as a result of electrocution. As a result, the performance of In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 was rescheduled for Friday December 5. Initially, the VIP Meet and Greet and Acoustic performance were moved to the Friday, but as a fair number of fans were unable to make the new date, lead singer Claudio Sanchez announced on-stage that the Thursday would remain the same and Friday date would feature a cover song set including music by Claudio Sanchez's one-man side project The Prize Fighter Inferno. Neverender 12% On February 26, 2009 an exclusive live EP was released only at Hot Topic stores, which contains 6 tracks pulled from the upcoming Neverender set. The tracks were recorded by Michael Comstock at Terminal 5, NYC, October 22–25, 2008, and were mixed and mastered by Mike Major, at Mike's Mix Room, Madeira Beach, FL Tracks: Gravemakers and Gunslingers – 5:13 Delirium Trigger – 4:51 The Willing Well II : From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness – 6:39 A Favor House Atlantic – 3:31 Three Evils (Embodied In Love and Shadow) – 4:54 Wake Up – 4:38 External links Official website DVD Presale Information Concerts

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Briscoe

East Briscoe

East Briscoe is a village in Baldersdale, in the Pennines district of County Durham, England. It is traditionally located in the North Riding of Yorkshire but along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it was transferred to County Durham for administrative and ceremonial purposes on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972. References Villages in County Durham

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolayat%20railway%20station

Kolayat railway station

Kolayat railway station is a railway station in Bikaner district, Rajasthan. Its code is KLYT. It serves Kolayat town. The station consists of 2 platforms. Passenger, Express, and Superfast trains halt here. Trains The following trains halt at Kolayat railway station in both directions: Leelan Express Jaisalmer–Lalgarh Express Bhavnagar Terminus–Udhampur Janmabhoomi Express References Railway stations in Bikaner district Bikaner railway division

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Montauk

Lake Montauk

Lake Montauk is a 900-acre (360 ha) artificial embayment in Montauk, New York that is home to the largest commercial and sporting fish fleets in the state of New York. History The lake was originally referred to on maps as Lake Wyandanch and commonly referred to as the "Great Lake". It was the largest body of freshwater on Long Island, more than double the size of Lake Ronkonkoma. In 1927, real estate developer Carl Fisher blasted a gap on the northern shoreline to connect the lake to Block Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. Fisher intended to develop the new port of Montauk into the "Miami Beach of the North." On Star Island, a small island in the lake, he built the Montauk Yacht Club and Star Island Casino. His other projects included the hotel Montauk Manor, Montauk Playhouse, the golf course Montauk Downs, and the six-story Montauk tower. Fisher renamed the lake Lake Montauk. After Fisher opened and dredged the lake, the lake replaced Fort Pond Bay as Montauk's main port (Fort Pond Bay is notoriously shallow and rocky with one of its more famous groundings being during the American Revolution). Fisher's enterprises became bankrupt after the Crash of 1929. The United States Navy assumed control of the lake during World War II along with other Fisher businesses including Montauk Manor. Development After World War II, the lake became a well-known commercial and sports fishing area, and became New York's largest fishing port. In the 1970s, a proposal was made to dam the sound and build a canal through the former Montaukett Indian Field and Big Reed Pond for a new outlet. The plan included a proposal for constructing more than 1,000 houses along the new waterway. Intense local opposition organized by Hilda Lindley stopped the plan. Suffolk County assumed ownership of the property and it is now Theodore Roosevelt County Park (formerly Montauk County Park). Among the businesses on the lake is the only ferry service in East Hampton town. It offers service during summers to Block Island, Martha's Vineyard and New London, Connecticut. The United States Coast Guard also operates a station on Star Island. Montauk Airport is on the east side of the lake, on East Lake Drive. Fishing Montauk is noted as one of the leading centers for sport fishing on the Atlantic Coast. By 1986, it claimed 39 world-record catches. including a striped bass. Montauk hosts several annual shark tournaments. The craze for shark fishing off Montauk was encouraged in the 1970s by local boat operator Frank Mundus who often was reported in stories as the source for the character Quint in the movie Jaws. Mundus caught a great white shark by harpoon and a great white shark by rod and reel. References Bays of New York (state) East Hampton (town), New York Bays of Suffolk County, New York

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles%20of%20Napoleon

Battles of Napoleon

Battles of Napoleon is a 1988 computer wargame by Chuck Kroegel and David Landrey published by Strategic Simulations. It was released for the Apple II, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. Scenario disks Designer David Landrey received permission from SSI to release expansion packs for Battles of Napoleon and, in 1994, the game itself from his company, Novastar Games. Scenario disk #1 Austerlitz Marengo Utitsa Redoubt Scenario disk #2 Albuera Medellin Bridge Battle Santon New Orleans Scenario disk #3 Camden Cowpens Kings Mountain Hobkirk Eutaw Springs Scenario disk #4 Wagram Smolensk Eylau Plancenoit Bladensburg The Hill Waterloo (variant) Leipzig (variant) Scenario disk #5 Leipzig (variant) Quatre Bras (variant) Vimiero Aspern-Essling Podubno Village Retreat Ligny Scenario disk #6 Pyramids Raab Craonne Corunna Borodino (variant) North Jena Wavre Reception Battles of Napoleon sold under 10,000 copies. Computer Gaming World gave it a glowing review, calling it "the game that can keep you satisfied, even addicted, for many years to come." The magazine in 1989 named it Wargame of the Year, in 1990 gave the game five out of five stars, in 1993 gave it three-plus stars, stating that "its play value and historical accuracy mandated its acquisition for anyone interested in the period". and in 1994 stated that the game "far outshines any Napoleonic game released since", with "a veritable cult following". In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Battles of Napoleon the 91st-best computer game ever released. The magazine's wargame columnist Terry Coleman named it his pick for the seventh-best computer wargame released by late 1996. References External links 1988 video games Apple II games Commodore 64 games Computer wargames DOS games Napoleonic Wars video games Strategic Simulations games Video games developed in the United States

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambura%20County

Tambura County

Tambura County (spelled also as Tombura County) is an administrative area in Western Equatoria (before 22 February 2020 Tambura State), South Sudan. References Western Equatoria Counties of South Sudan

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothingface%20%28Voivod%20album%29

Nothingface (Voivod album)

Nothingface is the fifth studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Voivod. It was released by Mechanic/MCA Records on 1989. The album marked a change for the band, expanding their music into a more progressive rock/metal sound. Several riffs are heavily influenced by Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring", specifically the centre section of "Pre-Ignition". Critical reception Nothingface was Voivod's most successful album to date, and their only album to enter the Billboard 200 charts, where it peaked at number 114. A music video made for the album's third track, a cover of Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine", received airplay on MTV's Headbangers Ball. In 2005, Nothingface was ranked number 350 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. Loudwire named the album at number 23 in their list "Top 25 Progressive Metal Albums of All Time". Track listing All music written by Denis D'Amour, Jean-Yves Thériault and Michel Langevin, all lyrics by Denis Bélanger, except "Astronomy Domine" written by Syd Barrett. Note: The original version combined the intro track and "The Unknown Knows" into one track. On later versions, both tracks were separated, with the intro track being either the first track or a pre-gap hidden track, which is followed by "The Unknown Knows". Personnel Voivod Snake (Denis Bélanger) – vocals Piggy (Denis D'Amour) – guitar Blacky (Jean-Yves Thériault) – bass Away (Michel Langevin) – drums, artwork Production Glen Robinson – producer, engineer, mixing Benoit Lavallée, Rob Sutton – assistant engineers Steve Sinclair – executive producer References 1989 albums Voivod (band) albums MCA Records albums Noise Records albums

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VzRoom

VzRoom

vzRoom is a software system developed by Manipeer Limited for multi-party video conferencing, media sharing and VoIP phone integration. It was launched in July 2008. Features Multi-party videoconferencing Each conference room supports up to 63 concurrent users. Each user has an own room to host individual videoconferencing meeting and all users can share voice, camera and other multimedia to the users in the videoconferencing room. The meeting will be coordinated by the host of the room. Media sharing Screen sharing Synchronous video sharing Multiple-user whiteboard Remote desktop File transfer Instant messaging VoIP phone integration vzRoom clients can connect to VoIP phone and merge the phone call with the conference room users. Other features Discussion and presentation modes Scheduler Videoconferencing recording Applications Videoconferencing Distance education Karaoke Implementation Server installation: vzRoom allows users to build their own server. References External links 2008 software File sharing software Shareware Videotelephony VoIP software Instant messaging

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Drews

Carl Drews

Carl Drews (27 January 1894 – 3 September 1983 ) was a German cinematographer. Selected filmography The Last Kolczaks (1920) Roswolsky's Mistress (1921) The Secret of the Mummy (1921) The Eternal Struggle (1921) Lucrezia Borgia (1922) The Game with Women (1922) Tatjana (1923) The Third Watch (1924) Chronicles of the Gray House (1925) The Farmer from Texas (1925) The Schimeck Family (1926) The Divorcée (1926) Vienna, How it Cries and Laughs (1926) Derby (1926) The Ones Down There (1926) Sword and Shield (1926) The House of Lies (1926) Prinz Louis Ferdinand (1927) The Indiscreet Woman (1927) The Girl from Abroad (1927) The Queen of Spades (1927) The Trousers (1927) Ariadne in Hoppegarten (1928) Yacht of the Seven Sins (1928) The Lady with the Mask (1928) The Merry Widower (1929) Her Dark Secret (1929) The Hero of Every Girl's Dream (1929) Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days (1930) The Love Express (1931) Alarm at Midnight (1931) Marriage with Limited Liability (1931) Johann Strauss (1931) Trenck (1932) The Ladies Diplomat (1932) Viennese Waltz (1932) The Mad Bomberg (1932) Dream of the Rhine (1933) The Gentleman from Maxim's (1933) The Big Bluff (1933) Adventure on the Southern Express (1934) The Voice of Love (1934) Heinz in the Moon (1934) Love and the First Railway (1934) The Last Waltz (1934) Charley's Aunt (1934) Marriage Strike (1935) Pillars of Society (1935) The Last Waltz (1936) All Lies (1938) Bachelor's Paradise (1939) Wunschkonzert (1940) Bibliography Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996. External links 1894 births 1983 deaths German cinematographers Film people from Berlin

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiara%20Ferrari

Naiara Ferrari

Naiara Florencia Ferrari Gómez (born 24 June 1998) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a midfielder for Club Nacional de Football and the Uruguay women's national team. Club career In 2015, Ferrari moved from Universidad ROU to Nacional. International career Ferrari capped for Uruguay during the 2018 Copa América Femenina. References 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from Montevideo Uruguayan women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Club Nacional de Football players Uruguay women's international footballers

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuukka%20M%C3%A4kel%C3%A4

Tuukka Mäkelä

Tuukka Mäkelä is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Val Pusteria Wolves of Serie A, the top tier ice hockey league in Italy. He played for the team previously, during the 2012-2013 season. References External links Profile on Elite Prospects Living people HPK players 1982 births Boston Bruins draft picks Finnish ice hockey defencemen

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley%20Martin

Foley Martin

Alexander Foley Martin (January 4, 1901 – December 9. 1923) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League in the early 1920s. In the beginning of the 1923–24 season, Martin died of blood poisoning during the Tigers' season opening road trip to the Pacific Coast. Playing style While not a prominent scorer Martin's strong sides to his game included his stick-handling and his defensive hook check technique. References External links 1901 births 1923 deaths Calgary Tigers players Canadian ice hockey left wingers Ice hockey people from Alberta People from Banff, Alberta

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Portuguese%20municipalities%20by%20population

List of Portuguese municipalities by population

This is a list of Portugal's municipalities by population, according to the estimate of the resident population for the Census 2021 made by the National Statistics Institute (INE). The 308 Portuguese municipalities are divided among the 25 sub-regions and the 7 national regions, the population density of each municipality, and the area it totals. About 65% of the national population, 6.716.691 inhabitants, live in the 56 municipalities with more than 50.000 inhabitants, about 18% of all national municipalities. While there are 121 municipalities, about 39% of all national municipalities, with a population of less than 10.000 inhabitants, a total of 672.516 inhabitants, about 6,5% of the national population. See also Subdivisions of Portugal List of cities in Portugal List of towns in Portugal List of municipalities of Portugal List of parishes of Portugal List of cities in Europe References External links National Association of Portuguese Municipalities Cities Portugal, List of Cities in 05

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Gaponov-Grekhov

Andrey Gaponov-Grekhov

Andrei Viktorovich Gaponov-Grekhov (; born 7 June 1926, Moscow) is a Russian physicist and a professor at N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. Honors and awards Order of Lenin (twice) Order of the October Revolution State Prize of the USSR (1967, 1983) Hero of Socialist Labor (1986) Demidov Prize (1995) Order of Merit for the Fatherland 3rd Class (1999) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2000) State Prize of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology (2003) Prize of the Foundation for the Promotion of Russian Science (2004) Order of Merit for the Fatherland 2nd Class (2006) Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1964) Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968) Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Honorary Professor of the Lobachevsky University, Nizhny Novgorod References External links Author page in zbMATH living people 1926 births 20th-century Russian physicists Soviet physicists Demidov Prize laureates Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%2085

Maryland Route 85

Maryland Route 85 (MD 85) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Buckeystown Pike, the state highway runs from MD 28 in Tuscarora north to the Frederick city limit north of Interstate 70 (I-70), where the highway continues north as East Street. MD 85 connects Tuscarora and Buckeystown in southern Frederick County with the county seat of Frederick. The state highway also links the suburban area between Buckeystown and Frederick with I-70 and I-270. MD 85 is the old alignment of U.S. Route 15 (US 15), which was originally constructed between Tuscarora and Frederick in the late 1910s and early 1920s. MD 85 was assigned to the highway in 1970 when US 15 was moved to a new highway heading north from its Potomac River crossing at Point of Rocks. The state highway was extended north to the city of Frederick as part of a project to overhaul MD 355's interchange with I-70 in the first decade of the 21st century. Route description MD 85 begins at a three-way intersection with MD 28 in Tuscarora, which is also known as Licksville. The roadway continues south as eastbound MD 28 (Dickerson Road) and westbound MD 28 (Tuscarora Road) heads west from the intersection. MD 85 heads north through farmland as a two-lane undivided road that parallels the Monocacy River about to the east. The state highway intersects Lily Pons Road, which heads east toward the Lily Pons Water Gardens and the historic Amelung House and Glassworks, and Adamstown Road, which heads west toward Adamstown. MD 85 intersects the western terminus of MD 80 (Fingerboard Road) on the southern edge of Buckeystown. The state highway continues through the Buckeystown Historic District, where the highway intersects Manor Woods Road and the old alignment of MD 80, Michaels Mill Road, and crosses Rocky Fountain Run. The road runs through rural land and passes to the west of Saint John's Catholic Prep school. MD 85 enters an industrial area as the highway enters the community of Lime Kiln, the site of the road's oblique at-grade crossing of CSX's Old Main Line Subdivision. The state highway temporarily expands to a four-lane undivided highway between the railroad crossing and its intersection with English Muffin Way, which is the site of a Bimbo Bakeries USA factory. At the north end of the industrial area, MD 85 crosses Ballenger Creek and passes the George Markell Farmstead and the historic home Arcadia. The state highway expands to a four-lane undivided highway as it passes through a commercial area north of Executive Way. MD 85 intersects Crestwood Boulevard, which heads west into the suburb of Ballenger Creek, before the highway meets I-270 (Eisenhower Memorial Highway) at a partial cloverleaf interchange at a rakish angle. MD 85 continues north through a commercial area that includes the Francis Scott Key Mall. At the northern end of the commercial area at Evergreen Point, the state highway expands to a divided highway, veers east, and intersects MD 355 (Urbana Pike). MD 85 curves to the north and meets I-70 and US 40 (Baltimore National Pike) at a single-point urban interchange. The state highway intersects Walser Drive and Monocacy Boulevard before reaching its northern terminus at the end of state maintenance next to Harry T. Greager Memorial Athletic Field at the city limit of Frederick. The roadway continues north as East Street through the Frederick Historic District, where the street passes the Frederick station on the Frederick Branch of MARC's Brunswick Line. MD 85 is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial from Michaels Mill Road in Buckeystown to I-70 and US 40 just south of Frederick. History MD 85 is the old alignment of US 15 from Tuscarora to Frederick. A portion of the highway was originally a turnpike called the Frederick and Buckeystown Turnpike from its junction with the Frederick and Monocacy Turnpike (which became US 240 and is now MD 355) at Evergreen Point to south of Buckeystown. The old turnpike was resurfaced in macadam by 1921. The remainder of modern Buckeystown Pike was paved as a wide concrete road from south of Buckeystown to around Lily Pons Road in 1918 and 1919 and south of Lily Pons Road to just north of the modern MD 28 junction by 1921. The concrete highway was extended south through the MD 28 junction to MD 28's junction with Nolands Ferry Road by 1923. Buckeystown Pike was designated US 15 in 1927. At that time, US 15 had yet to be constructed as a modern highway from Tuscarora to the bridge across the Potomac River at Point of Rocks. US 15 from Tuscarora to Point of Rocks was completed in 1933. The first significant improvement to US 15 between Tuscarora and Frederick came in 1951 and 1952 when the U.S. highway was reconstructed and widened from Evergreen Point to Lime Kiln. In 1950, construction began on the Washington National Pike freeway, which would later become I-270. As part of that construction, a cloverleaf interchange was constructed between US 15 and the new freeway, which had its northern terminus at US 15 until US 40's segment of the Frederick Bypass opened in 1956. US 15 was moved to Washington National Pike north of Buckeystown Pike after the completion of the Frederick Freeway in 1959. The portion of Buckeystown Pike between the freeway and MD 355 was designated MD 806, which is used for several segments of the old alignment of US 15 north of Frederick. After US 15's present alignment north of Point of Rocks was completed in 1970, MD 85 was assigned to Buckeystown Pike south of I-270. MD 85 was extended north to MD 355 at Evergreen Point in 1971, replacing MD 806. The two loop ramps from MD 85 to I-270 were taken out of service to transform the interchange to its present partial cloverleaf by 1999; the loop ramps remain paved but blocked off. The reconstruction of I-70 Exit 54 began in 2001 to replace the tight folded diamond interchange between the Interstate and MD 355 constructed in 1956 as part of the Frederick Freeway. The ramps between MD 355 and westbound I-70 were removed and temporarily replaced with ramps to and from Stadium Drive. In 2005, the intersection between MD 85 and MD 355 was transformed into a perpendicular intersection from the previous angled junction. MD 85 was extended north of MD 355 as a four-lane divided highway to a pair of ramps to and from eastbound I-70; the eastbound ramps at MD 355 were removed. Related to the project was an extension of East Street south from downtown Frederick to near I-70 that was temporarily designated MD 475. The overall project was completed in 2009 when a single-point urban interchange was completed between I-70 and MD 85. At the same time, MD 85 was extended north to its present terminus, the temporary ramps between Stadium Drive and westbound I-70 were removed, East Street was completed between MD 85 and downtown Frederick, and the unsigned MD 475 designation was removed from East Street. The Maryland State Highway Administration plans to expand MD 85 to a four-lane divided highway from English Muffin Way north to MD 355 as part of a three-phase project. Phase 1 includes the state highway from Crestwood Boulevard to just north of its interchange with I-270. The interchange will be reconstructed in a five-ramp configuration. I-270's bridges over MD 85, originally built in 1950, will be replaced. Phase 2 will extend the four-lane divided highway south from MD 355 to just north of I-270. Phase 3 from English Muffin Way to Crestwood Boulevard includes a new bridge over Ballenger Creek. Junction list Auxiliary routes MD 85A is the designation for a section of Monocacy Boulevard in Frederick between the end of state maintenance west of MD 85 east across MD 85 to an intersection with South Street. The route was assigned in 2009 west of MD 85. MD 85A was extended east from MD 85 to South Street in 2012. MD 85B is the designation for the section of Francis Scott Key Drive running from MD 355 to MD 85 between the MD 85–MD 355 intersection and I-70. This road was built as part of the reconstruction at the northern end of MD 85 shortly before 2010; the route received its numerical designation in 2010. See also References External links MDRoads: MD 85 085 Maryland Route 085 U.S. Route 15

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Northamptonshire%20Cricket%20Board%20List%20A%20players

List of Northamptonshire Cricket Board List A players

A cricket team representing the Northamptonshire Cricket Board played six List A cricket matches between 1999 and 2002. This is a list of the players who appeared in those matches. Richard Ashton, 2 matches, 1999–2000 David Austen, 1 match, 2000 Thomas Baker, 1 match, 2002 Terry Barratt, 1 match, 2001 David Capel, 3 matches, 2001–2002 Tim Coleman, 4 matches, 1999–2002 Jeffrey Cook, 1 match, 1999 Paul Coverdale, 3 matches, 2001–2002 Andrew Daniels, 1 match, 2002 Thomas Dann, 4 matches, 2000–2001 Martyn Dobson, 1 match, 2001 Richard Falkner, 4 matches, 1999–2001 Brenden Fourie, 4 matches, 2001–2002 Jeremy Goode, 1 match, 1999 Dale Iniff, 1 match, 1999 Craig Jennings, 1 match, 2001 Richard Kaufman, 2 matches, 2000–2001 Richard King, 2 matches, 2001–2002 Rob Large, 1 match, 2001 John Mann, 2 matches, 2000–2001 Ross McLean, 2 matches, 2000–2002 Mark Neave, 1 match, 2001 Robert Pack, 2 matches, 1999–2000 Chris Park, 1 match, 2002 David Paynter, 1 match, 2001 David Roberts, 2 matches, 2001 Adam Shantry, 1 match, 2002 Marcus Steed, 4 matches, 2001–2002 Arran Steele, 1 match, 1999 Alec Swann, 1 match, 2000 Raymond Swann, 1 match, 1999 Glenn Thompson, 1 match, 1999 Jamie Wade, 2 matches, 2001 John Wolstenholme, 1 match, 2000 Mark Wolstenholme, 5 matches, 1999–2001 References Northamptonshire Cricket Board

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Afromelittia natalensis

Afromelittia natalensis is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is known from South Africa. References Sesiidae Moths of Africa Insects of Mozambique Insects of Malawi Insects of Zambia Moths described in 1874

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Ray Church

Ray Church () is a medieval church and National Monument in County Donegal, Ireland. Location Ray Church is located northeast of Falcarragh, near the confluence of the Yellow River and Ray River. History St Fionnán founded this church in the 6th century. Ray stood next to the Ray River, an ancient boundary between the Cenél Luighdech and Cenél Duach. Four 7th-century abbots of Iona were of the Cenél Duach; Ray was almost certainly their home church. Ray high cross is the largest early medieval stone cross in Ireland. Local lore claims it was made by Columba (521–597) on Muckish to bring to Tory Island, but local saint Fionnán recovered Columba's Gospel Book and he gave the cross to Ray. The cross actually dates to the late 8th century. The church was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers in the 17th century. During Sunday Mass, the entire congregation was slaughtered in the Massacre of Ray (Marfach Ráithe). The dead are buried in a mass grave called Resting Place of the Bones (Lag na gCnámh). The cross was knocked down in a storm about 1750, and lay broken in the graveyard until it was repaired by the Office of Public Works in the 1970s. Buildings Church The church is rectangular with wide round-arched windows. Cross St Colm Cille's Cross, high and across and made of slate, was modelled on Saint John's Cross, Iona. Nearby A basin stone and standing stone are nearby. References External links Religion in County Donegal Archaeological sites in County Donegal National Monuments in County Donegal Former churches in the Republic of Ireland

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Sergio Bergonzelli

Sergio Bergonzelli (25 August 1924 – 24 September 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Life and career Born in Alba, Cuneo, Bergonzelli graduated in Philosophy, then he started working as an actor with the stage name Siro Carme. After being assistant and second unit director in a number of genre films, in 1960 he made his debut as director and screenwriter with Seven in the Sun. Also a film producer, Bergonzelli was the first to produce Spaghetti Western films entirely shot in Italy. In the 1970s he specialized in the erotic genre. Selected filmography Director Seven in the Sun (1960)* The Last Gun (1964) Stranger in Sacramento (1965)* The Sea Pirate (1966) M.M.M. 83 (1966)* Colt in the Hand of the Devil (1967)* In the Folds of the Flesh (1970) Blood Delirium (N/A)* '*' denotes he wrote the screenplay Actor Messalina (1951) The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo (1952) La storia del fornaretto di Venezia (1952) I, Hamlet (1952) - Maestro di scherma The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1953) - The young Conspirator It's Never Too Late (1953) Una donna prega (1953) The Daughter of the Regiment (1953) Passione (1953) Cristo è passato sull'aia (1953) Terra straniera (1954) Gran varietà (1954) The King's Prisoner (1954) Farewell, My Beautiful Lady (1954) - The Student who gives a Speech (uncredited) The Violent Patriot (1956) The Most Wonderful Moment (1957) - Signor Mancini Et la tendresse?... Bordel! (1979) Pasiones desenfrenadas (1981) Tentazione (1988) - (uncredited) Sick-o-pathics (1955) - Neighbour #1 (segment "The Poor, The Flesh & The Bag") (final film role) References External links 1924 births 2002 deaths Italian film directors 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male film actors Italian film producers People from the Province of Cuneo Italian male screenwriters 20th-century Italian male writers

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Suzana Amaral

Suzana Amaral Rezende (March 28, 1932 – June 25, 2020) was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She was best known for the 1985 film A Hora da Estrela (Hour of the Star). Career Amaral's film career started at the age of 37 when she entered the University of São Paulo film school. After graduating, she taught at the University for three years and began working for Radio and Television Cultura. In her 14-year career at Radio and Television Cultura she produced approximately 50 documentaries, films, and plays for the station. In 1976 she moved to New York to pursue a degree in film from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She completed this degree and graduated in 1978. A Hora da Estrela Amaral's first feature film and best known work, A Hora da Estrela (Hour of the Star) was released in 1985. Based on the novel of the same name by Clarice Lispector, the film focuses on the life of a troubled young protagonist, Macabéa (Marcélia Cartaxo), living in São Paulo. According to film critic Nissa Torrents, "the film upsets many stereotypes in its presentation of the female protagonist, who is neither beautiful nor middle-class. An anti-heroine, starved of affection and respect, she wanders through life looking for an image she can adopt and adapt." The film was well received at its release and was a Submission to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Additionally, it was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, where actress Marcélia Cartaxo won the Silver Bear for Best Actress. At the 1985 Brasilia Film Festival the film won best picture and Amaral won best director. Additionally, the film also won best picture at the 1986 Havana Film Festival. Amaral was chosen as best director at the 1986 International Woman's Film Festival. A Hora da Estrela was shot in four weeks on a budget of $150,000, 70% of which was funded by Embrafilme. The success of A Hora da Estrela led Amaral to immediate notoriety, though none of her other films have achieved such success. Personal life Amaral had nine children, one of which was born while she was pursuing her film studies in São Paulo. She has said that she was "totally dedicated to motherhood for 10 years" before deciding to pursue her dream of filmmaking. She was divorced. Amaral was an avid follower of Bollywood films who said she wanted Indian films to come to Brazil in a big way. Amaral was a Buddhist. Filmography References Further reading Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. Women Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1995. Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey, Katrien Jacobs, and Amy L. Unterburger, eds. Women Filmmakers & Their Films. Detroit: St. James Press, 1998. External links Suzana Amaral on FilmDirectorsSite.com 1932 births 2020 deaths University of São Paulo alumni Tisch School of the Arts alumni Brazilian women film directors 20th-century Brazilian women writers Brazilian Buddhists Brazilian screenwriters People from São Paulo Women screenwriters 21st-century Brazilian women writers 21st-century Brazilian writers Road incident deaths in Brazil

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William Hammon

William McDowall Hammon (1904 – September 19, 1989) was an American physician and researcher, best known for his work on poliomyelitis. In his early twenties and prior to becoming a research physician, Hammon worked for four years as a medical missionary in the former Belgian Congo. After returning, he received his undergraduate degree from Allegheny College in 1932. Completing his medical training at Harvard Medical School in 1936, Hammon then studied with the bacteriologist Hans Zinsser, receiving a Master of Public Health degree in 1938, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1939. During this period Hammon co-discovered the first vaccine for feline panleucopenia. Hammon was presented with the Medal of Freedom in 1946 by President Harry Truman. References Further reading 1904 births Harvard Medical School alumni Recipients of the Medal of Freedom 1989 deaths Medical missionaries American virologists 20th-century American physicians Belgian Congo people

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Rothwell Town F.C.

Rothwell Town F.C. was a football club based in Rothwell in the north of Northamptonshire. They were founding members of the Northamptonshire League in 1895, and played in the United Counties League Division One until 2011–12. History The club was formed as Rothwell Town Swifts in 1895 and the club were founder members of the Northamptonshire League. The club's nickname, the Bones, derives from the bone crypt in the town's Holy Trinity Church, one of only two medieval ossuaries in the country; the other being at St Leonards, Hythe, Kent. Although financial difficulties led to the club switching between senior and junior football on several occasions, they did manage to achieve several runners-up positions during their stay in the Northants League. In 1933 the club dropped down to the Kettering League, which they won in 1937. In 1948 they returned to senior football, spending two seasons in the Leicestershire Senior League before becoming founder members of the United Counties League in 1950. During their time in the United Counties League Rothwell achieved five runners-up finishes and finally claimed the league title in 1992–1993, a feat which they repeated the following year. Following their second title win, the club stepped up to the Southern League. In 1997 Rothwell finished second in the Midland Division and were promoted to the Premier Division, where they spent three seasons. Since their relegation from the Premier Division in 2000 they played in the Eastern Division, the Western Division, and from 2006 the newly formed Division One Midlands, until resigning from the League at the end of the 2009–2010 season. They rejoined the United Counties League in Division One. The club appointed former Corby Town manager Rob Dunion as their new manager in June 2008. Season 2009–2010 saw Rothwell struggle both on and off the pitch. In the league they finished in the bottom four and financial crisis kicked in with the club's main stream of revenue—the social club becoming unavailable for public use. In the summer of 2010 Rothwell resigned from the Southern League and applied to join the United Counties League in which they were successful. Rob Dunion left as manager and former Rothwell favourite Dave Williams took over once again as manager. The club folded at the end of the 2011–12 season. Local rivalries Local rivals included: Kettering Town (Conference National), Corby Town (Conference North), Desborough Town and Rothwell Corinthians (both United Counties League). Honours United Counties League Premier Division Champions: 1992–93, 1993–94 Division One Winners: 1899–1900 Division Two Champions: 1952–53, 1953–54 Knockout Cup Winners: 1991–92, 1992–93 Division One Knockout Cup Winners: 1955–56, 1970–71, 1971–72 Division Two Knockout Cup Winners: 1952–53, 1953–54 Benevolent Cup Winners: 1992–93, 1993–94 Northamptonshire Senior Cup Winners: 1899–1900, 1923–24, 1956–60, 1988–89, 1995–96, 2001–02, 2002–03 Northamptonshire Maunsell Cup Winners: 2003 Records Best league performance: 16th in Southern League Premier Division, 1997–98 Best FA Cup performance: 4th qualifying round, 1999–2000 Best FA Trophy performance: 3rd round, 1999–2000 Best FA Vase performance: 5th round, 1992–93 Former players 1. Players that have played/managed in the Football League or any foreign equivalent to this level (i.e. fully professional league). 2. Players with full international caps. 3. Players that hold a club record or have captained the club. Paul Birch Ricky Miller References External links Official website Defunct football clubs in England Southern Football League clubs Football clubs in Northamptonshire 1895 establishments in England Association football clubs disestablished in 2012 Association football clubs established in 1895 2012 disestablishments in England Rothwell, Northamptonshire

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Corbet%20%28died%201583%29

Robert Corbet (died 1583)

Robert Corbet (1542–1583) was an English landowner, diplomat and politician of the Elizabethan period, a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Shropshire, his native county. Background and education Robert Corbet was the eldest son of Sir Andrew Corbet of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire.The Corbets had a history as Marcher lords in Shropshire stretching back to the Norman conquest and were the leading landed gentry family in the county, although they were never ennobled. Their seat was at Moreton Corbet Castle, although they had very large property holdings across Shropshire and in many other parts of the country. Jane Needham the daughter of Sir Robert Needham of Shavington Hall, Shropshire. The Needhams were another important Shropshire gentry family and close neighbours of the Corbets. Sir Andrew was to emerge in the 1560s as a pillar of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement. He was a member for a quarter of a century of the Council in the Marches of Wales, of which he became vice-president and effective leader in his last years. However, when Robert was born he was still a youth of about nineteen, not yet a knight. Like his father, Roger Corbet, Andrew underwent a prolonged wardship although he was fortunate that the wardship was purchased by his uncle Richard Corbet. Richard was responsible for arranging his marriage to Jane Needham and it is likely that they had been married for only a very short time before the conception of their first child. Robert was born more than a year before Andrew could take livery of his estates. He was one of at least eleven children of the marriage, including six sons. Robert had been a favourite name for Corbet heirs for centuries but had been demoted in recent generations. Elizabeth Corbet, née Vernon, Robert's great-grandmother, who survived until 1563, may have had a decisive say in the choice of name. Augusta Corbet, the family historian, maintains that Robert Corbet was educated at Shrewsbury School and cites a known payment of 3 shillings and ninepence by Sir Andrew to the school for his three sons. While plausible, there is no other evidence. The Corbet family did have a close association with the school: Reginald Corbet, Robert's great-uncle and recorder of Shrewsbury played an important part in getting permission to establish it in 1548. However, if Robert did get his schooling at Shrewsbury, it would have been in the very early days, as the school was opened only in 1552. From the outset, it had a distinctly Calvinist ethos, and under Thomas Ashton, its head appointed in 1561, it developed a reputation as a centre for humanistic learning and drama. It is quite possibly where Corbet developed an international outlook and facility for languages that would be useful in his later career. Political and diplomatic career Member of Parliament for Shropshire Many Corbet's had been knights of the shire for Shropshire over the centuries and it was to replace one of them that Robert Corbet became a member of parliament in 1566. The parliament had been called as long before as November 1562 and assembled in January 1563. It showed much concern with the succession question and the queen prorogued it, only recalling it in 1566 to seek a financial bail-out. Richard Corbet, brother of Reginald and a great-uncle of Robert Corbet, had been duly elected in 1562 but died in July 1566. The young Robert was slotted into his uncle's place and held the seat until the parliament was dissolved in January 1567. He was listed as "junior" in the parliamentary record to distinguish him from his uncle Robert of Stanwardine, near Baschurch. Shropshire's second MP was Edward Leighton (died 1593), an older and more experienced man and a close colleague of Sir Andrew in the military organisation of the county and the Council in the Marches, and he was a member of the committee investigating the succession question, which continued to preoccupy parliament. However, Leighton was granted leave of absence on 16 November, leaving Robert Corbet as the county's sole representative for the closing stages of the parliament. Travels During the 1570s Robert Corbet travelled widely in mainland Europe, sometimes in company with Philip Sidney, an alumnus of Shrewsbury School whose father, Sir Henry Sidney, was president of the Council in the Marches and a close friend of Sir Andrew Corbet, who was formally recognised as his deputy in 1574. On 15 April 1574 Sidney, residing in Venice, recommended Corbet in a letter to Hubert Languet, a Huguenot who acted as diplomatic representative of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and who was at that time at the court of Maximilian II, the Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna: "In a few days you will see two noble Englishmen, to whom I shall give letters of introduction to you, and therefore it seems well to write a few words to precede their arrival, and prepare you to receive them with your wonted courtesy. The one whom I especially commend to you is Master Robert Corbet, my very greatest friend, a man of high birth, but one who, as Buchanan says, ‘in excellence of parts outdoes his birth’. He is of the right side in religion and not unpractised in the art of war; he speaks only Italian The other is Master Richard Shelley, my cousin, as also is Corbett, but nearer to me in blood as the other in friendship." Shelley, Corbet's travelling companion on this occasion was last grand prior of the Knights of St. John in England, a Catholic notable who resided in Venice acting informally as the queen's trade representative and even less formally as a spy for the English government. Corbet set out for Vienna on 27 May, without his servant, who was too ill for the journey, but carrying a portrait of Sidney for Languet. After a brief stay in Vienna, Corbet and Shelly set out with letters of introduction from Languet to friends in Prague, Nuremberg and Augsburg. However, Corbet was soon writing back from Prague to Languet that Shelley was too ill to proceed, which Languet initially put down to Shelley's hypochondria. However, wrote Languet: "alas he made a more just calculation of his danger than the physicians, as I learn from a second letter from our friend Corbet, who writes in despair of Richard's condition. He was at the point of death, given over by his physicians...Corbet's letter shows that he is greatly disturbed, and I do not wonder at it. He consults me about his own affairs, and asks whether he shall pursue his journey when he has lost his companion as he hears that troops are being raised in the places through which his road lies, and that all the country about the Rhine and Lorraine is in a state of great confusion. But as he intimates that he will not leave Prague until he receives my reply, I have written to him to say what I think he should do." The regions mentioned as being in turmoil suggest that Corbet and Shelley were now making for England. Shelley survived his illness and Corbet arrived home the following year, receiving a present valued at £1 13s. 4d. from the borough of Shrewsbury on his return. The journeys that can be reconstructed from the Sidney-Languet correspondence may be typical rather than exhaustive. A tribute in Shrewsbury's manuscript chronicle after his death says that Corbet was "of great estimation with the Queen’s Majesty and the nobility because he could speak perfectly sundry foreign languages by reason of his long absence in his youth out of England in foreign countries and especially trained as it were in the Emperor’s court, who was like to have come to great worship had he lived." Ambassador Corbet's earlier travels had not been officially sponsored, although he was clearly involved in promoting English and Protestant interests. However, in 1575, he received a government commission to act as an emissary to the Spanish governor of the Netherlands, Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, known to the English as the Commendator. Requesens held the post only briefly and had shown considerably more flexibility in confronting the Dutch Revolt than the Duke of Alba, his predecessor. After significant victories, his funds had run out and he was now attempting to find common ground with the rebels under William the Silent, with the Emperor Maximilian acting as mediator: this may have been the background to Corbet and Shelley's journey to Vienna in the previous year. The English government was determined to push the negotiations towards a truce and, beyond that, to a permanent peace. Corbet was sent as part of a three-pronged diplomatic assault, with the slightly older and considerably more experienced Henry Cobham taking responsibility for the direct approach to Spain, and John Hastings, who probably had Dutch connections, approaching the rebels. Corbet's detailed brief, dated 29 October, is preserved in the State Papers. It strongly stressed the queen's concern for England's commercial interests: "the recovering and better settling of the ancient intercourse between her subjects and those of the Low Countries." He was told to emphasise the shared interest of England and Spain in keeping the French out of the Netherlands, with their fine ports and shipping. However, there was a red line: the queen might even support Spain "if she perceived that the King would permit his subjects to enjoy their liberties and be governed peaceably." In other words, England would not abandon the Protestant cause. At first the mission seemed to go well. By 16 November Corbet had met Requesens and reported back to Burghley on the poor morale and unpopularity of the Spanish forces. On 4 December Corbet reported that the governor was made more receptive to peace overtures by further blows to Spanish morale. They feared an intervention by forces allied to the French Huguenot champion, Henri, Prince of Condé (1552–1588), and long-expected Spanish reinforcements had amounted to a mere 700 men. There was also a rumour that the English were raising forces to aid the Dutch. Perhaps this is why Corbet found the Commendator in a much more antagonistic mood on his next encounter, a week later. Requesens openly blamed English support for sustaining the Dutch revolt and cast doubt on the good faith of the English in pressing for peace. Corbet offered to go straight to the Dutch camp and press for peace negotiations but Requesens would not hear of it, refusing to create the impression that he had made the first move. Corbet sadly requested permission to return home, concluding: "The Commendator will condescend to any reasonable conditions of peace, the same being proffered by others first to him, and withal his Papistical religion excepted. Whether this exception be unreasonable or not he leaves to Burghley to judge." Burghley was as much concerned by developments in the French wars of religion as in the Dutch revolt, but had no intention of committing English forces to either conflict. The very State Papers detailing Corbet's mission constantly refer to large sums expended subsidising Reiters (German mercenary cavalry) for John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, called "Duke Casimir" by the English, whose forces were marching to the aid of the Prince of Condé in France's civil war. The political and social dislocation caused by this recruitment drive had destabilised the Rhineland, obstructing Corbet's travels the previous year. The rumour was deliberately put about that the reiters would also intervene in the Netherlands, thus subverting French and Spanish positions simultaneously. Requesens was agitated and may have known or suspected Burghley's role. Corbet would have known no more than Reqesens about the covert dealings of his own government. By 26 December Corbet was on his way home, after slightly less heated concluding talks with Requesens. He had done exactly what was expected of him but was not called on to act as ambassador again. He was rewarded by being made Master of the posts and chamberlain of the Exchequer. Landowner Before inheriting the Corbet estates, Robert Corbet is said to have resided in a place he called Sowbyche when signing the Shawbury parish register. Later rendered Sowbatch, this is almost certainly the modern hamlet of Sowbath, south of Stanton upon Hine Heath, in a parish neighbouring Moreton Corbet. However, it is possible that the signatory was actually Robert Corbet of Stanwardine, the uncle from whom Robert had to be distinguished in the parliamentary record. If his travels were extensive and prolonged, and he was still unmarried, it is possible he had no separate residence before he inherited the estates. Robert Corbet's mother, Jane Needham, died in 1577 and the perpetually overworked Sir Andrew in 1578. As Sir Andrew's heir Robert Corbet became owner of very large estates. These were concentrated in Shropshire, where Sir Andrew had held land in 40 parishes, but spread over many counties: Herefordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cornwall. As befitted his new status as a major landowner, Corbet was appointed Justice of the Peace of the quorum for Shropshire from 1579 - a signal honour. The other justices were not allowed to make certain decisions without the presence of those appointed to the quorum, so this was a distinction normally reserved for experienced JPs. On taking over the estates, his father's refurbishment of Moreton Corbet Castle was nearing completion and it is likely it became his home. However, Robert's generation had very different expectations of domestic architecture from their forebears and he very quickly set about the construction of a new home immediately south of the castle. Early in the next century, William Camden described it: "Morton Corbet, anciently an house of the familie of Turet, afterward a Castle of the Corbets, sheweth it selfe, where within our remembrance Robert Corbet, carried away with the affectionate delight of Architecture, began to build in a barraine place a most gorgeous and stately house after the Italians modell. But death prevented him, so that hee left the new worke unfinished and the old castle defaced." The house was wide and imposing, but shallow. Its facings were of stone but most of the internal construction was brick. Although Italian in inspiration and elaborately decorated, much of the carving was of a rustic finish. However, its large, rectangular windows and pilasters made clear it was intended for an entirely different way of living from the neighbouring castle - a significant achievement for a landed gentry family at that period. Moreton Corbet's new house was built a decade before the great examples of Elizabethan architecture, like Wollaton Hall and Hardwick Hall, began to appear. While the later halls used imported craftsmen, Corbet did his best with local masons and carvers. However, as Camden observed, he never properly finished the building and the rest was left to his brothers, who never cleared away the old castle. Death Robert Corbet visited his uncle Walter Corbet in London in May 1583. Both uncle and nephew contracted bubonic plague. Robert survived Walter's death by a few days and himself died on 30 May. His body was returned to Moreton Corbet and buried on 24 July "next to his father and his ancientry very worshipfully." He had no surviving son, although there were two small daughters. His heir was his younger brother, Richard. Marriage and family Corbet had married Anne, the daughter of Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso, apparently while still young. They had two or three children: Roger Corbet, baptised 9 June 1561 at Shawbury, is given by Augusta Corbet as a son of Robert. However, it is likely this was a son of Robert Corbet of Stanwardine, the brother of Sir Andrew. This child survived to be an adult and died in Spain. Elizabeth Corbet married Henry Wallop (died 1642), a prominent parliamentarian. Robert Wallop, their son, was a republican politician during the English Civil War and considered a regicide. He died imprisoned in the Tower of London. Anne Corbet married Sir Adolphus Carey of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, an MP and briefly a diplomat. They were without issue. If there was a son, there was a long gap between his birth those of the daughters. Both daughters seem to have been infants at the time of Corbet's death: according to the Inquisition post mortem, Elizabeth was almost 4 and Anne only 10 months. As a result of the disruption of the line of male succession, their marriages resulted in substantial losses of land to the Corbet estates. It is more likely the daughters were the only children of Robert Corbet and his wife, and that he married fairly late by the standards of the time - in his mid-30s and to a considerably younger wife. This accords better with the known facts of his wife, Anne St John's, remarriage. It also accords better with an extensive period of travel in Robert's earlier years, some of it in association with circle of Philip Sidney, generally thought to be homosexual Corbet's widow Anne remarried after his death. Her second husband was Roland Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, a prominent politician and lawyer. They had 3 sons and 4 daughters and she died on 28 February 1602. References 1542 births 1583 deaths 16th-century deaths from plague (disease) English MPs 1563–1567 Ambassadors of England 16th-century English diplomats

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Yaafour

Yaafour (Arabic: يعفور) is a Syrian village in the Qatana District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Yaafour had a population of 4,638 in the 2004 census. References External links Populated places in Qatana District

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Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis

Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis is a rash of small, red papular nodules in the skin that may appear 2–4 weeks after inoculation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a previously infected and immunocompetent individual. It is also known as "prosector's wart" because it was a common occupational disease of prosectors, the preparers of dissections and autopsies. Reinfection by tuberculosis via the skin, therefore, can result from accidental exposure to human tuberculous tissue in physicians, pathologists and laboratory workers; or to tissues of other infected animals, in veterinarians, butchers, etc. TVC is one of the many forms of cutaneous tuberculosis, such as the tuberculous chancre (which results from the cutaneous inoculation in immunocompetent people without previous exposure), and the reactivation cutaneous tuberculosis (the most common form, which appears in previously infected patients). Other forms of cutaneous tuberculosis are: lupus vulgaris, scrofuloderma, lichen scrofulosorum, erythema induratum and the papulonecrotic tuberculid. It was described by René Laennec in 1826. Signs and symptoms Because the TVC's entry point usually is the site of a trauma, wound or puncture in the skin (during an autopsy, for example), the most frequent site for the wart are the hands. But it can occur anywhere in the skin, such as in the sole of the feet, in the anus, and, in the case of children from developing countries, in the buttocks and knees. This is because children from countries of high incidence of tuberculosis can contract the lesion after contact with tuberculous sputum, by walking barefoot, sitting or playing on the ground. When recent, the skin lesion has the outside appearance of a wart or verruca, thus it can be confused with other kinds of warts. It evolves to an annular red-brown plaque with time, with central healing and gradual expansion in the periphery. In this phase, it can be confused with fungal infections such as blastomycosis and chromoblastomycosis. Cause Diagnosis The diagnosis is confirmed by a skin biopsy and a positive culture for acid-fast bacilli. A PPD test may also result positive. Treatment Therapy for cutaneous tuberculosis is the same as for systemic tuberculosis, and usually consists of a 4-drug regimen, i.e., isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol or streptomycin. See also Tuberculosis Tuberculosis classification Tuberculosis diagnosis Tuberculosis treatment Prosector's paronychia Notes References Goldman, G.; Bolognia, J.L. Pinpointing cutaneous signs of tuberculosis: is it a common wart, or tuberculosis verrucosa cutis? Journal of Critical Illness, Dec. 2002. External links Cutaneous tuberculosis. eMedicine. verrucosa cutis Mycobacterium-related cutaneous conditions Occupational diseases

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Frank Jacques

Frank Mortimer Jacques (born 1899) was a British political and educational activist. Born in Maidenhead, Jacques attended Witney Grammar School and Oxford High School. He became a railway clerk, and joined the Railway Clerks' Association. He soon became secretary of its Maidenhead branch, but devoted much of his time to the Independent Labour Party, which was affiliated to the Labour Party. He stood for the Labour Party in Newbury at the 1924 and 1929 United Kingdom general elections, and then in Watford at the 1931 United Kingdom general election, but was not elected. While Jacques was not able to obtain sponsorship for his candidatures from his union, he was the leading figure within the union arguing that it was not desirable for both the union's general secretary and president to contest parliamentary seats, as if both were elected, it would create problems in administering the union. In 1936, Jacques became the Eastern District Secretary of the Workers' Educational Association, based in Cambridge. He remained in the post for more than fifty years, mentoring Raymond Williams, and also completed a degree in English. References 1899 births Year of death missing Trade unionists from Berkshire Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates People from Maidenhead

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Khaosan Road

Khaosan Road or Khao San Road (, , ) is a short ( long) street in central Bangkok, Thailand constructed in 1892 during the reign of Rama V. It is in the Bang Lamphu area of Phra Nakhon District about north of the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew. Background "Khaosan" translates as 'milled rice', a hint that in former times the street was a major Bangkok rice market. In the last 40 years, however, Khaosan Road has developed into a world-famous "backpacker ghetto". It offers cheap accommodation, ranging from "mattress in a box"-style hotels to reasonably priced three-star hotels. In an essay on the backpacker culture of Khaosan Road, Susan Orlean called it "the place to disappear." According to the Khao San Business Association, the road sees 40,000-50,000 tourists per day in the high season, and 20,000 per day in the low season. Visitors to Khao San Road are a disparate lot: It is also a base of travel: coaches leave daily for all major tourist destinations in Thailand, from Chiang Mai in the north to Ko Pha-ngan in the south, and there are many relatively inexpensive travel agents who can arrange visas and transportation to the neighbouring countries of Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Khaosan shops sell handicrafts, paintings, clothes, local fruits, unlicensed CDs, DVDs, a wide range of fake IDs, used books, and other useful backpacker items. After dark, bars open, music is played, food hawkers sell barbecued insects and other exotic snacks for tourists, and touts promote ping pong shows. The area is internationally known as a center of dancing, partying, and just prior to the traditional Thai New Year (Songkran festival) of 13–15 April, water splashing that usually turns into a huge water fight. One Thai writer has described Khaosan as "...a short road that has the longest dream in the world". A Buddhist temple under royal patronage, the centuries-old Wat Chana Songkram, is directly opposite Khaosan Road to the west, while the area to the northwest contains an Islamic community and several small mosques. Conflict In July 2018, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), in an attempt to clean up Khaosan Road, announced that street vendors would be removed from the thoroughfare from 1 August 2018. The BMA intends to move them to a nearby area and restrict their trading hours to 18:00 to midnight. The Khaosan Street Vendors Association, representing some 300 vendors, rejected the move, citing financial ruin for vendors. Last-minute negotiations between the BMA and vendors proved fruitless as neither side has been willing to compromise. Khaosan vendors announced that, in defiance of BMA order, they will open as usual on 1 August. On the first day of the ban on stalls, roughly 70 percent of the vendors opened as usual in defiance of the police. Facelift The BMA announced in 2019 that it will commit 48.8 million baht to transform Khaosan Road into an "international walking street". The US$1.6 million project, the first makeover of the road since its creation in 1892, will commence in October 2019, continue through the tourist high-season, and be completed by February 2020. The project will repave footpaths and create designated 1.5 m x 2 m spaces for 240–360 licensed Thai vendors drawn by lot. Vehicles will be prohibited on Khaosan Road from 09:00–21:00 daily. See also Banana Pancake Trail References External links Khaosan Road Survival Guide Ultimate Guide to Khao San Road Khaosan Neighbourhoods of Bangkok Tourist attractions in Bangkok Shopping districts and streets in Thailand Phra Nakhon District

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2-6-6-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a is a locomotive with one pair of unpowered leading wheels, followed by two sets of three pairs of powered driving wheels and one pair of trailing wheels. The wheel arrangement was principally used on Mallet-type articulated locomotives, although some tank locomotive examples were also built. A Garratt type locomotive with the same wheel arrangement is designated . Under the UIC classification the wheel arrangement is referred to as (1'C)C1' for Mallet locomotives. Overview The 2-6-6-2 wheel arrangement was most often used for articulated compound steam Mallet locomotives. In a compound Mallet, the rear set of coupled wheels are driven by the smaller high pressure cylinders, from which spent steam is then fed to the larger low pressure cylinders that drive the front set of coupled wheels. This type of locomotive was commonly used in North America on logging railroads. The 2-6-6-2 wheel arrangement was also used in South Africa and the Soviet Union. Usage Serbia The Serbian government used a Mallet articulated compound locomotive for freight service on narrow gauge. It was built for the Serbian government by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). South Africa The South African Railways (SAR) operated 22 Mallet locomotives with this wheel arrangement, spread over five classes, all of them built to . In March 1910, the Central South African Railways (CSAR) placed a single experimental Mallet articulated compound steam locomotive in service. Ordered from ALCO, it was the first Mallet on the CSAR and, with its full working order weight of , it was the heaviest locomotive in the world working on gauge at the time. It had Walschaerts valve gear and used saturated steam. In 1912, when it was assimilated into the SAR, it was designated Class MD. In 1911, the CSAR placed nine compound Mallets in service. Also built by ALCO and with Walschaerts valve gear, they were very similar to the experimental Class MD, but they were equipped with Schmidt superheaters. In 1912, when they were assimilated into the SAR, they were classified as Class MF. Five more that were delivered in November 1911 were taken directly onto the SAR roster. In 1923 and 1925, six of them were converted to simple expansion (simplex) locomotives. A single experimental compound locomotive was included with the CSAR's order for Class MF Mallets from ALCO. It was similar to the others, also with Walschaerts valve gear, but it used saturated steam and had a mechanical stoker, the first South African locomotive to be so equipped. The coupled wheels on the leading engine unit were of a larger diameter than those of the trailing engine unit. It was the only South African articulated locomotive to have driving wheels of different diameters and, in theory, this configuration was to result in improved acceleration, with the rear engine unit providing the traction. It was also believed that the difference in frequency between the front and rear cylinder exhaust beats would result in a more even pressure in the receiver pipe and therefore improved steam flow. In 1912, when it was assimilated into the SAR, it was designated Class MG. During 1911, the CSAR ordered an experimental simple expansion Mallet from the North British Locomotive Company (NBL). Compared to other South African Mallets, this locomotive was unique, being arranged as a simplex locomotive with four high pressure cylinders instead of the more usual compound expansion arrangement. The locomotive was intended for test purposes on branchlines with light rail. It had Walschaerts valve gear, a plate frame and was equipped with a Schmidt superheater. By the time it was delivered in January 1912, the CSAR had already become part of the newly established SAR, who designated it the sole Class ME. In 1915, the SAR placed five Class MH compound Mallets in service, designed in detail in the locomotive drawing office in Pretoria under the direction of D.A. Hendrie, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the SAR from 1910 to 1922. They were superheated and had Walschaerts valve gear. The locomotives were built by NBL and erected in the Salvokop shops in Pretoria. At the time of their introduction, the Class MH was the largest and most powerful locomotive in the world on Cape gauge, with a full working order weight of .i.0/}+"P: Soviet Union The wheel arrangement also appeared in Soviet Russia as a locomotive, the P34, built by Kolomna Locomotive Works. It was a modern but compact Mallet of which only one was built. United States This "Chesapeake" wheel configuration existed on both the Norfolk & Western Railroad as Class L-76 (built by Norfolk & Western), later sold to Denver and Rio Grande Western, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western's standard gauge line as Class 340/L-62 (built by Alco-Schenectady), and in 1947 the Class L-76 from Norfolk & Western. D&RGW purchased these for helper service in 1910 (Soldier Summit and Tennessee Pass), and later added the two N&W locomotives to "beef up helper service" once again. All were retired between 1947 and 1952. Chesapeake and Ohio 1309 is now operation on Western Maryland Scenic Railroad after a restoration completed in December 2020, replacing its companion, 734, which has been retired. It operated on its first excursion in December 2021. References

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Steven Reddicliffe

Steven V. Reddicliffe (born 1953) is an American journalist who is the deputy editor of the travel section at The New York Times. He was the television editor for the newspaper's cultural news desk from September 2004 until early 2011. Career After graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1975, Reddicliffe worked for several newspapers as a reporter, editor and television critic, including the Dallas Times Herald, the Miami Herald and the Baltimore News-American. From 1989 to 1992, Reddicliffe was a founding senior editor then a general editor at Entertainment Weekly magazine, then moved with his family to San Francisco to become editor-in-chief of Parenting magazine. In August 1995, Reddicliffe became editor-in-chief of TV Guide. He stepped down from the post in 2002 Personal Reddicliffe is a son of Donald K. and Violet Reddicliffe. He and his wife, Connie, a former copy editor of the Times 's cultural news desk, have three children, James, Anna and Rebecca (triplets). They are graduates of Bates College, Colgate University, and Northwestern, respectively. Notes 1953 births Writers from Chicago Living people Medill School of Journalism alumni American magazine editors American male journalists The New York Times writers 20th-century American journalists

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Richard Barber

Richard William Barber FRSL FSA FRHistS (born 1941) is a British historian who has published several books about medieval history and literature. His book The Knight and Chivalry, about the interplay between history and literature, won the Somerset Maugham Award, a well-known British literary prize, in 1971. A similarly-themed 2004 book, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, was widely praised in the UK press, and received major reviews in The New York Times and The New Republic. Barber has long specialised in Arthurian legend, beginning with the general survey, Arthur of Albion (1961). His other major interest is historical biography: he has published Henry Plantagenet (1964) and a biography of Edward, the Black Prince, Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine (1978). Recent biographical books are Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crécy and the Order of the Garter (2013), which includes a reappraisal of the origins of the Order, and Henry II in the Penguin Monarchs series (2015). His latest book is Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages (2020). Life Barber was educated at Marlborough College, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1969 he founded The Boydell Press, which later became Boydell & Brewer Ltd, a publisher in medieval studies, and acted as group managing director until 2009. In 1989, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, in association with the University of Rochester, started the University of Rochester Press in upstate New York. In 2016, the directors of Boydell & Brewer Ltd transferred the company into a trust for the benefit of the employees. He was visiting Professor in the history department at the University of York from 2013 to 2016, and was awarded an honorary doctorate there in 2015. Select bibliography Arthur of Albion: an introduction to the Arthurian literature and Legends of England (Barrie & Rockliff with Pall Mall P, 1961). The Knight and Chivalry (London; 1970). The Figure of Arthur (London: Longman, 1972). King Arthur: in Legend and History (Boydell Press, 1973). Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine (London; 1978). Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince (1979). The Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1979). Legends of Arthur (The Boydell Press; 2001) The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief (London: Allen Lane & Harvard University Press; 2004). The Holy Grail, The History of a Legend (Penguin Books Ltd; 2004). The Reign of Chivalry (2nd Ed. UK: The Boydell Press; 2005) Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crécy and the Order of the Garter (London: Allen Lane, 2013) Henry II (Penguin Monarchs) (London: Penguin Books, 2015). Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2020). Edited and introduced by Richard Barber: Myths & legends of the British Isles (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999). Collaborations with Juliet Barker: Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1989). References External links Living people British medievalists British writers Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 1941 births Place of birth missing (living people) Holy Grail Arthurian scholars Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London

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Dimitrios Kolovos

Dimitrios Kolovos (born 1940) is a Greek former swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the heats. References 1940 births Living people Greek male swimmers Olympic swimmers of Greece Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Athens Male backstroke swimmers

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Peter Ryefelt

Peter Ryefelt (8 September 1893 – 10 February 1967) was a Danish fencer. He competed at two Olympic Games. References External links 1893 births 1967 deaths Danish male fencers Olympic fencers of Denmark Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics

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Limnebius crinifer

Limnebius crinifer is a species of beetle belonging to the family Hydraenidae. It is native to Europe. References Staphylinoidea

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George Dawkes

George Owen Dawkes (19 July 1920 – 10 August 2006) was a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire between 1937 and 1939 and for Derbyshire between 1947 and 1961 as a wicket keeper and a lower-order right-handed batsman. During the 1949–50 season he toured India with a team of players making up a Commonwealth XI. Leicestershire cricketer Dawkes was born at Leicester and made his debut for Leicestershire in the 1937 season at the age of 16. According to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, he "was claimed to be the youngest wicket-keeper ever to take part in county cricket". He played in 11 matches in the 1937 season as replacement for the injury-prone main wicketkeeper, Percy Corrall, taking 13 catches and making four stumpings. For a player who later earned a reputation as a solid lower-order batsman, his batting record was singular: in 17 innings, he made 53 runs, and never once reached double figures. In 1938 and 1939, though Corrall was fit again, Dawkes was preferred as Leicestershire's first-choice wicketkeeper. He was awarded his county cap in 1938 and by the end of the season he was batting regularly at No 7 or No 8, which would remain his usual batting place for the rest of his career. He made his first two scores of more than 50 in 1939, and his 81 against Somerset in a follow-on that almost turned into a victory was his highest score for Leicestershire. Leicestershire finished bottom of the County Championship in 1939, but Dawkes' wicketkeeping earned praise from Wisden: "Without doubt the brightest part of the Leicestershire cricket was the magnificent wicket-keeping of Dawkes, who also showed much improvement with the bat," it wrote. "Many competent judges regarded Dawkes as an England wicket-keeper of the future." Derbyshire cricketer Dawkes served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and was not discharged in time to take part in county cricket on its resumption in 1946. In his absence, Corrall resumed as regular wicketkeeper for Leicestershire. Still in the RAF in the first two-thirds of the 1947 season, Dawkes played three first-class matches for the Combined Services cricket team before his discharge in August, when he joined Derbyshire for the county's final four County Championship matches of the season. Until Dawkes' arrival, Derbyshire had lacked a full-time wicketkeeper all season: the job was being done, mostly, by the former England batsman Denis Smith, and Wisden noted that "handicapped by injury and the cares of wicket-keeping, Denis Smith revealed only glimpses of his true form". For some matches when Smith was injured, Derbyshire had recalled prewar wicketkeeper Harry Elliott, believed at the time to be 51, but in reality 55 years of age. Unsurprisingly, at the end of the season, Dawkes was offered a contract and accepted. Dawkes therefore became Derbyshire's regular wicketkeeper from the start of the 1948 season and missed very few matches for the county over the next 13 seasons. In all, he played 392 first-class matches for Derbyshire, which puts him 10th on the all-time list of appearances. He is also third on the list of Derbyshire wicketkeepers, behind his successor, Bob Taylor and Harry Elliott, for catches, stumpings and overall dismissals. Dawkes was awarded his Derbyshire county cap in 1948, and also increased his own personal highest score in the match against Nottinghamshire at Ilkeston that season, scoring 95 in a partnership of 149 for the sixth wicket with George Pope which took control of what had been until then an even game. That remained his highest score for six seasons, and his batting went through something of a trough from 1949 to 1953, in a couple of years averaging only 12 runs per innings. Representative cricket That he was on the fringes of consideration for the England Test team in this postwar period is indicated by the fact that he was chosen in 1948 for the opening Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) match of the season, against Yorkshire, and for the season-ending North v South match. He appeared in other MCC and North v South matches in 1949 and 1950. And in 1951 he was picked for an England XI against a Commonwealth XI in another end-of-season cricket festival, when he was also chosen for a Gentlemen v Players match at Scarborough. But no call came from the England selectors, and Dawkes' only taste of representative cricket was as a member of the Commonwealth XI cricket team that visited India and Pakistan in the 1949–50 season, playing five matches against a full Indian cricket team that were termed "unofficial Tests". The side was organised by the former Lancashire and England wicketkeeper George Duckworth and many of the recruits came from the Lancashire League. They nevertheless included prominent names: Frank Worrell among them. Dawkes' own prospects were limited by the inclusion of Jock Livingston, the Australian batsman who could also keep wicket, as the side's captain. Dawkes played in only one of the "Test" matches, batting at No 11 and making one stumping. Later career From 1954 to 1960, Dawkes remained the regular wicketkeeper for Derbyshire, but also became more reliable in his batting. In 1954, he made the sole first-class century of his career, 143 in the match against Hampshire at Burton on Trent. He put on 191 for the seventh wicket with John Kelly. That 1954 season, he made 864 runs at an average of 21.07, and in 1956 he went on to 963 runs at 26.75, which was the best average of his career. Finally in 1960, he made 964 runs, his highest aggregate in a single season, averaging 21.90; in the same season, he passed 1,000 dismissals in first-class cricket. Dawkes' reliability as a wicketkeeper was commented on in many editions of Wisden across the 1950s, but his season figures were rarely spectacular, Derbyshire relying heavily on a fast bowling attack consisting for the bulk of Dawkes' career of Les Jackson and Cliff Gladwin, which gave a lot of chances to slip fielders such as Donald Carr, as well as behind the wicket. But he achieved, on behalf of Jackson, a hat-trick of catches in the match against Worcestershire at Kidderminster in 1958. In 1961, after 13 seasons for Derbyshire without being much affected by injury, Dawkes was sidelined for more than half the season by problems with his knee. Derbyshire recruited Bob Taylor from Minor Counties cricket with Staffordshire as Dawkes' deputy, and Taylor took over as first choice wicketkeeper at the end of the season. Dawkes played a couple of second eleven matches in 1962, and then retired. Dawkes died in Leicester at the age of 86. External links George Dawkes at Cricinfo George Dawkes at Cricket Archive References 1920 births 2006 deaths English cricketers Derbyshire cricketers Leicestershire cricketers Combined Services cricketers Commonwealth XI cricketers Cricketers from Leicester Players cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers North v South cricketers T. N. Pearce's XI cricketers Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Wicket-keepers

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Sergio Osmeña

Sergio Osmeña Sr. (, ; 9 September 1878 – 19 October 1961) was a Filipino politician who served as the fourth president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946. He was Vice President under Manuel L. Quezon. Upon Quezon's sudden death in 1944, Osmeña succeeded him at age 65, becoming the oldest person to assume the Philippine presidency until Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016 at age 71. A founder of the Nacionalista Party, Osmeña was also the first Visayan to become president. Prior to his accession in 1944, Osmeña served as Governor of Cebu from 1906 to 1907, Member and first Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives from 1907 to 1922, and Senator from the 10th Senatorial District for thirteen years, in which capacity he served as Senate President pro tempore. In 1935, he was nominated to be the running-mate of Senate President Manuel L. Quezon for the presidential election that year. The duo were overwhelmingly re-elected in 1941. He was the patriarch of the prominent Osmeña family, which includes his son, former Senator Sergio Osmeña Jr., and his grandsons, former Senators Sergio Osmeña III and John Henry Osmeña, ex-governor Lito Osmeña and former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña. Early life and career Osmeña was born on 9 September 1878 in the then-municipality of Cebu to a wealthy businessman Don Pedro Lee Gotiaoco and to Juana Osmeña y Suico, who was reportedly only 14 years of age at the time. Owing to the circumstances of his birth, the identity of his father had been a closely guarded family secret, surnamed "Sanson". Although carrying the stigma of being an illegitimate child – Juana never married the father – he did not allow this aspect to affect his standing in society. The Osmeña family, a rich and prominent clan of Chinese Filipino heritage with vast business interests in Cebu, warmed to him as he established himself as a prominent figure in local society. Osmeña received his elementary education at the Colegio de San Carlos and graduated in 1892. Osmeña continued his education in Manila, studying in San Juan de Letran College where he first met Manuel L. Quezon, a classmate of his, as well as Juan Sumulong and Emilio Jacinto. He took up law at the University of Santo Tomas and was second place in the bar examination in 1903. He served on the war staff of General Emilio Aguinaldo as a courier and journalist. In 1900, he founded the Cebu newspaper, El Nuevo Día [English: 'The New Day'] which lasted for three years. Public service in Cebu When Cebu Governor Juan Climaco was sent as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the St. Louis Purchase Expedition, Osmeña was appointed acting governor. When Climaco returned, he was appointed as provincial fiscal. His stint there elevated him in politics when he was elected governor of Cebu in 1906. Congressional career House of Representatives While governor, he ran for a seat in the first Philippine Assembly inaugurated in 1907 and was elected as its first Speaker. Osmeña was 29 years old and already the highest-ranking Filipino official. He and another provincial politician, Manuel L. Quezon of Tayabas, set up the Nacionalista Party as a foil to the Partido Federalista of Manila-based politicians. During his speakership, members of the Assembly sought to initiate policies that constantly clashed with the opinions of American superiors in the Philippine Commission that ultimately did not pass. Three important bills from the Assembly were rejected by the Philippine Commission. the repeal of the Sedition law which imposed penalties on any Filipino who advocated independence; the repeal of the Flag law which banned display of the Filipino flag; the grant of more powers to the local governments. The Americans' authority did not stop the Assembly under him from initiating transformative legislation that would come to pass. These included the creation of a Council of State and a Board of Control that enabled the Philippine legislature to share some of the executive powers ofi the American Governor-General. Quezon-Osmeña alliance Osmeña was friends and classmates with Manuel Quezon, who was the Majority Floor Leader under Osmeña's speakership. When the Jones Law was passed, Quezon was elected as Senate President and Osmeña remained Speaker. Senate In 1922, Osmeña was elected to the Senate representing the 10th Senatorial District. He went to the United States as part of the OsRox Mission in 1933, to secure passage of the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Independence Bill which was superseded by the Tydings–McDuffie Act in March 1934. Vice-Presidency In 1924, Quezon and Osmeña reconciled and joined forces in the Partido Nacionalista Consolidado against the threat of an emerging opposition from the Democrata Party. The reunited Nacionalista Party dominated the political scene until the second break-up when the members polarized into Pros and Antis in 1934. Quezon and Osmeña again reconciled for the 1935 Presidential Election. In 1935 Quezon and Osmeña won the Philippine's first national presidential election under the banner of the Nacionalista Party. Quezon obtained nearly 68% of the vote against his two main rivals, Emilio Aguinaldo and Bishop Gregorio Aglipay. They were inaugurated on 15 November 1935. Quezon had originally been barred by the Philippine constitution from seeking re-election. However, in 1940, constitutional amendments were ratified allowing him to seek re-election for a fresh term ending in 1943. In the 1941 presidential elections, Quezon was re-elected over former Senator Juan Sumulong with nearly 82% of the vote. Re-elected in 1941, Osmeña remained vice president during the Japanese occupation when the government was in exile. As Vice-President, Osmeña concurrently served as Secretary of Public Instruction from 1935 to 1940, and again from 1941 to 1944. The outbreak of World War II and the Japanese invasion resulted in periodic and drastic changes to the government structure. Executive Order 390, 22 December 1941 abolished the Department of the Interior and established a new line of succession. Executive Order 396, 24 December 1941, further reorganized and grouped the cabinet, with the functions of Secretary of Justice assigned to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Quezon-Osmeña Impasse By 1943, the Philippine Government-in-exile was faced with a serious crisis. According to the amendments to the 1935 Constitution, Quezon's term was to expire on 30 December 1943, and Vice-President Sergio Osmeña would automatically succeed him to serve out the remainder of term until 1945. This eventuality was brought to the attention of President Quezon by Osmeña himself, who wrote the former to this effect. Aside from replying to this letter informing Vice-President Osmeña that it would not be wise and prudent to effect any such change under the circumstances, President Quezon issued a press release along the same line. Osmeña then requested the opinion of U.S. Attorney General Homer Cummings, who upheld Osmeña's view as more in keeping the law. Quezon, however, remained adamant. He accordingly sought President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision. The latter chose to remain aloof from the controversy, suggesting instead that the Philippine officials themselves solve the impasse. A cabinet meeting was then convened by President Quezon. Aside from Quezon and Osmeña, others present in this momentous meeting were Resident Commissioner Joaquin Elizalde, Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, and Cabinet Secretaries Andres Soriano and Jaime Hernandez. Following a spirited discussion, the Cabinet adopted Elizalde's opinion favoring the decision and announced his plan to retire in California. After the meeting, however, Vice-President Osmeña approached the President and broached his plan to ask the U.S. Congress to suspend the constitutional provisions for presidential succession until after the Philippines should have been liberated. This legal way out was agreeable to President Quezon and the members of his Cabinet. Proper steps were taken to carry out the proposal. Sponsored by Senator Tydings and Congressman Bell, the pertinent Joint Resolution No. 95 was unanimously approved by the Senate on a voice vote and passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 181 to 107 on 12 November 1943. Presidency Osmeña became president of the Commonwealth on Quezon's death in 1944. He was sworn in by Associate Justice Robert Jackson in Washington, D.C. He returned to the Philippines the same year with General Douglas MacArthur and the liberation forces. After the war, Osmeña restored the Commonwealth government and the various executive departments. He continued the fight for Philippine independence. For the presidential election of 1946, Osmeña refused to campaign, saying that the Filipino people knew of his record of 40 years of honest and faithful service. He lost to Manuel Roxas, who won 54% of the vote and became president of the independent Republic of the Philippines. Administration and cabinet War Cabinet 1944–45 On 8 August 1944, President Osmeña issued Executive Order 15-W reorganizing and consolidating the Executive Departments of the Commonwealth government. The reorganization of the government after it was reestablished on Philippine soil was undertaken with Executive Order No. 27; 27 February 1945. Cabinet and judicial appointments 1945–46 Executive Order No. 27; 27 February 1945 was issued upon the restoration of civilian authority to the government of the Commonwealth, and members of the new cabinet appointed on 8 March 1945. Subsequent renaming and mergers of departments have separate listings. Liberation Osmeña accompanied U.S. General Douglas MacArthur during the landing of U.S. forces in Leyte on 20 October 1944, starting the liberation of the Philippines during the Second World War. Upon establishing the beachhead, MacArthur immediately transferred authority to Osmeña, the successor of Manuel Quezon, as Philippine Commonwealth president. Domestic policies Restoration of the Commonwealth With Manila liberated, General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, on behalf of the United States, turned over the reins of government of the Philippines to Commonwealth President, Sergio Osmeña, on 27 February 1945, amidst brief, but impressive, ceremonies held at the Malacañang Palace. President Osmeña, after thanking the United States through General MacArthur, announced the restoration of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and worked out the salvation of the Philippines from the ravages of war. Government reorganization President Osmeña proceeded with the immediate reorganization of the government and its diverse dependencies. On 8 April 1945, he formed his Cabinet, administering the oath of office to its component members. Later, President Osmeña received the Council of State to help him solve the major problems confronting the nation. Government offices and bureaus were gradually reestablished. A number of new ones were created to meet needs then current. Also restored were the Supreme Court of the Philippines and the inferior courts. The Court of Appeals was abolished and its appellate jurisdiction was transferred to the Supreme Court, the members of which were increased to eleven – one Chief Justice and ten Associate Justices – in order to attend to the new responsibilities. Slowly but steadily, as the liberating forces freed the other portions of the country, provincial and municipal governments were established by the Commonwealth to take over from the military authorities. Rehabilitation of the Philippine National Bank Following the restoration of the Commonwealth government, Congress was reorganized. Manuel Roxas and Elpidio Quirino were elected Senate President and Senate President pro tempore, respectively. In the House of Representatives, Jose Zulueta of Iloilo was elected Speaker and Prospero Sanidad as Speaker pro tempore. The opening session of the Congress was personally addressed by President Osmeña, who reported on the Commonwealth Government in exile and proposed vital pieces of legislation. The First Commonwealth Congress earnestly took up the various pending assignments to solve the pressing matters affecting the Philippines, especially in regard to relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. The first bill enacted was Commonwealth Act No. 672 – rehabilitating the Philippine National Bank. People's court Yielding to American pressure, on 25 September 1945, the Congress enacted C.A. No. 682 creating the People's Court and the Office of Special Prosecutors to deal with the pending cases of "collaboration". Foreign policies United Nations Charter President Osmeña sent the Philippine delegation, which was headed by Carlos P. Romulo, to the San Francisco gathering for the promulgation of the Charter of the United Nations on 26 June 1945. Other members of the delegation were Maximo Kalaw, Carlos P. Garcia, Pedro Lopez, Francisco Delegado, Urbano Zafra, Alejandro Melchor, and Vicente Sinco. The 28th signatory nation of the United Nations, the Philippines was one of the fifty-one nations that drafted the UN Charter. Once approved by Philippine delegation, the UN Charter was ratified by the Congress of the Philippines and deposited with the U.S. State Department on 11 October 1945. Foreign Relations Office To prepare for the forthcoming independent status of the Philippines, President Osmeña created the Office of Foreign Relations. Vicente Sinco was appointed as its first Commissioner, with cabinet rank. In this connection, President Osmeña also entered into an agreement with the United States Government to send five Filipino trainees to the U.S. State Department to prepare themselves for diplomatic service. They were sent by U.S. State Department to the United States embassies in Moscow and Mexico City and consulates in Saigon and Singapore. International banking On 5 December 1945, President Osmeña appointed Resident Commissioner Carlos P. Romulo as his representative to accept Philippine membership in the International Monetary Fund and in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which bodies had been conceived in the Bretton Woods Agreement, in which the Philippine had also taken part. Romulo signed said membership on 27 December 1945 on behalf of the Philippines. Bell Trade Act On 30 April 1946, the United States Congress, at last, approved the Bell Act, which as early as 20 January had been reported to the Ways and Means Committee of the lower house, having been already passed by the Senate. President Osmeña and Resident Commissioner Romulo had urged the passage of this bill, with United States High Commissioner, Paul V. McNutt, exerting similar pressure. The Act gave the Philippines eight years of free trade with the United States, then twenty years during which tariffs would be upped gradually until they were in line with the rest of the American tariff policy. The law also fixed some quotas for certain products: sugar – 850,000 long tons; cordage – 6,000,000 pounds; coconut oil – 200,000 long tons; cigars – 200,000,000 pounds. This aid was coupled with that to be obtained from the recently passed Tydings Damage bill, which provided some nine hundred million dollars for payment of war damages, of which one million was earmarked to compensate for church losses. The sum of two hundred and forty million dollars was to be periodically allocated by the United States President as good will. Also, sixty million pieces of surplus property were transferred to the Philippines government. 1946 presidential election Soon after the reconstitution of the Commonwealth government in 1945, Senators Manuel Roxas, Elpidio Quirino and their allies called for an early national election to choose the president and vice president of the Philippines and members of the Congress. In December 1945, the House Insular Affairs of the United States Congress approved the joint resolution setting the date of the election on no later than 30 April 1946. Prompted by this congressional action, President Sergio Osmeña called the Philippine Congress to a three-day special session. Congress enacted Commonwealth Act No. 725, setting the date of the election on 23 April 1946. The act was signed by President Osmeña on 5 January 1946. Three parties presented their respective candidates for the different national elective positions. These were the Nacionalista PartyConservative (Osmeña) wing, the Liberal wing of the Nacionalista Party and the Partido Modernista. The Nacionalistas had Osmeña and Senator Eulogio Rodriguez as their candidates for president and vice president, respectively. The Modernistas chose Hilario Camino Moncado and Luis Salvador for the same positions. The standard bearers of the Liberals were Senators Manuel Roxas and Elpidio Quirino. On 3 January 1946, President Osmeña announced his re-election bid. On 22 January 1946 Eulogio Rodriguez was nominated as Osmeña's running mate for Vice President, in a convention held at Ciro's Club in Manila. According to the Manila Chronicle:The convention opened at 10:15 in the morning when the acting secretary of the party, Vicente Farmoso, called the confab to order. Congressman José C. Romero [sic], who delivered the keynote speech accused Senate President Manuel Roxas and his followers "of fanning the flames of discontent among the people, of capitalizing on the people's hardship, and of minimizing the accomplishment of the [Osmeña] Administration. These men with the Messiah complex have been the bane of the country and of the world. This is the mentality that produces Hitlers and the Mussolinis, and their desire to climb to power. they even want to destroy the party which placed them where they are today." Senator Carlos P. Garcia, who delivered the nomination speech for President Sergio Osmeña, made a long recital of Osmeña's achievements, his virtues as public official and as private citizen. Entering the convention hall at about 7:30 p.m, President Osmeña, accompanied by the committee on notification, was greeted with rounds of cheer and applause as he ascended the platform. President Osmeña delivered his speech which was a general outline of his future plans once elected. He emphasized that as far as his party is concerned, independence is a close issue. It is definitely coming on 4 July 1946 On 19 January 1946, Senator Roxas announced his candidacy for President in a convention held in Santa Ana Cabaret in Manila. According to the Manila Chronicle:...more than three thousand (by conservative estimate there were only 1,000 plus) delegates, party members and hero worshipers jammed into suburban, well known Santa Ana Cabaret (biggest in the world) to acclaim ex-katipunero and Bagong Katipunan organizer Manuel Acuña Roxas as the guidon bearer of the Nacionalista Party's Liberal Wing. The delegates, who came from all over the Islands, met in formal convention from 10:50 am and did not break up till about 5:30 pm. They elected 1. Mariano J. Cuenco, professional Osmeñaphobe, as temporary chairman; 2. José Avelino and ex-pharmacist Antonio Zacarias permanent chairman and secretary, respectively; 3. nominated forty-four candidates for senators; 4. heard the generalissimo himself deliver an oratorical masterpiece consisting of 50 per cent attacks against the (Osmeña) Administration, 50 per cent promises, pledges. Rabid Roxasites greeted the Roxas acceptance speech with hysterical applause. A split developed among the members of the Nacionalista Party over issues. President Osmeña tried to prevent the split in the Nacionalista Party by offering Senator Roxas the position of Philippine Regent Commissioner to the United States but Roxas turned down the offer. A new political organization was born, the Liberal wing of the Nacionalista Party, which would later become the Liberal Party of the Philippines. The election was generally peaceful except in some places, especially in the province of Pampanga. According to a "controversial" decision of the Electoral Tribunal of the House of Representatives in Meliton Soliman vs. Luis Taruc, "Pampanga was under the terroristic clutches and control of the Hukbalahaps. So terrorized were the people of Arayat, at one time, 200 persons abandoned their homes, their work, and their food, all their belongings in a mass evacuation to the poblacion due to fear and terror." A total of 2,218,847 voters went to the polls to elect a President and Vice President. who were to be the Commonwealth's last and the Republic's first. Four days after election day, the Liberal Party candidates were proclaimed victors. Roxas registered an overwhelming majority of votes in 34 provinces and nine cities: Abra, Agusan, Albay, Antique, Bataan, Batanes, Batangas, Bukidnon, Bulacan, Cagayan, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Capiz, Cavite, Cotabato, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Isabela, Laguna, La Union, Leyte, Marinduque, Mindoro, Misamis Oriental, Negros Occidental, Nueva Vizcaya, Palawan, Pangasinan, Rizal, Romblon, Samar, Sorsogon, Sulu, Surigao, Tayabas, Zambales, Manila, Quezon City, Bacolod (Negros Occidental), Iloilo City (Iloilo), Baguio (Mountain Province), Zamboanga City (Zamboanga), Tagaytay (Cavite), Cavite City (Cavite) and San Pablo City (Laguna). The Liberal Party won nine out of 16 contested seats in the Philippine Senate and in the House of Representatives, the Liberals won a majority with 50 seats while the Nacionalistas and the Democratic Alliance winning 33 and six seats, respectively. Post-presidency and death After his electoral defeat, Osmeña retired to his home in Cebu. He died of pulmonary edema at age 83 on 19 October 1961 at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City. He was buried at Manila North Cemetery, Manila on 26 October 1961. Personal life Family On 10 April 1901, he married Estefania Chiong Veloso, the couple had ten children: Nicasio Veloso Osmeña, Vicenta Veloso Osmeña, Edilderto Veloso Osmeña, Milagros Veloso Osmeña, Emilio Veloso Osmeña, Maria Paloma Veloso Osmeña, Jesus Veloso Osmeña, Teodoro Veloso Osmeña, José Veloso Osmeña, and Sergio Veloso Osmeña Jr. In 1920, two years after the death of his first wife, Osmeña married Esperanza Limjap, the couple had three more children, namely, Ramón Limjap Osmeña, Rosalina Limjap Osmeña, and Victor Limjap Osmeña. Descendants Several of Osmeña's descendants became prominent political figures in their own right: Sergio Osmeña Jr., son and former Senator Sergio Osmeña III, grandson and former Senator John Henry Osmeña, grandson, former congressman, former Senator, and former Mayor of Toledo, Cebu Tomas Osmeña, grandson, former Mayor of Cebu City, former congressman Emilio Mario Osmeña, grandson and former governor of Cebu Rogelio Veloso Osmeña, grandson and former Councilor of Cebu City Renato Veloso Osmeña, grandson and former Vice Mayor of Cebu City Notes References Cullinane, Michael, Ilustrado Politics: Filipino Elite Responses to American Rule, 1898–1908, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2004, External links The Philippine Presidency Project Philippines-Archipelago (Sergio Osmeña) Sergio Osmeña at WN Sergio Osmeña on the Presidential Museum and Library 1878 births 1961 deaths Candidates in the 1946 Philippine presidential election Chief Commanders of the Philippine Legion of Honor Colegio de San Juan de Letran alumni Deaths from pulmonary edema Exiled politicians Filipino expatriates in the United States Filipino lawyers Filipino Roman Catholics Nacionalista Party politicians Sergio People from Cebu City Presidents of the Philippines Presidents pro tempore of the Senate of the Philippines Senators of the 10th Philippine Legislature Senators of the 9th Philippine Legislature Senators of the 8th Philippine Legislature Senators of the 7th Philippine Legislature Senators of the 6th Philippine Legislature Speakers of the House of Representatives of the Philippines University of San Carlos alumni Cebuano people University of Santo Tomas alumni Vice presidents of the Philippines Visayan people World War II political leaders Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Cebu Secretaries of Education of the Philippines Secretaries of Health of the Philippines Secretaries of Social Welfare and Development of the Philippines Burials at the Manila North Cemetery Quezon Administration cabinet members Presidents of the Nacionalista Party Governors of Cebu Filipino politicians of Chinese descent Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Merit (Philippines)

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Tahira Syed

Tahira Syed [sic] () (born 1958, Lahore) is a Pakistani ghazal and folk singer. Her repertoire includes folk songs in Urdu, Punjabi, Dogri and Pahari. Early life Tahira Syed was born in Lahore to a Dogra vocalist Malika Pukhraj and Shabbir Hussain, a junior Punjabi government official and writer. Syed obtained her primary education from the Convent of Jesus and Mary where she passed her Senior Cambridge examinations. She graduated from Lahore College, then studied law at the Punjab University. After obtaining an LLB degree, she enrolled in a Masters Program in English at Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, but later dropped out of the college. Syed began singing, at age of 12, to please her mother. After two years of rigorous classical music training by Akhtar Hussain, Syed was instructed in geet and ghazal by her mother. Her final teacher, Nazar Hussain, taught her voice modulation and raggi (singing using the throat). Music career Syed first appeared on air in 1968–1969 on Radio Pakistan, and then on Pakistan Television. "Yeh Alam Shauq Ka Dekha na Jaey", "Chanjar Phabdi Na Mutiar Bina" and "Abhi Tau Main Jawan Houn", written by Pakistani poet Hafeez Jalandhri, are some of her most popular songs. In April 1985, she appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine. She received the Pakistan Television Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Pride of Performance Award from the President of Pakistan on 23 March 2013. In 1972, she won the Nigar Award for Best Female Playback Singer. Syed continues to perform at diverse events such as a "ghazal evening" in Dallas, Texas, U.S., a tribute to Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., and at the Faiz International Festival in Lahore. Personal life Syed was married to lawyer Naeem Bukhari for 15 years (1975-1990) before their separation and divorce; they had two children. She is a well-known personality in Pakistan and occasionally speaks publicly at art and literature events. References External links Bridging differences with cultural exchanges 20th-century Pakistani women singers Pakistani ghazal singers 1958 births Living people Punjabi women Nigar Award winners Pakistani playback singers Singers from Lahore Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore alumni Kinnaird College for Women University alumni Recipients of the Pride of Performance University of the Punjab alumni Women ghazal singers

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Tirpak

Dennis Tirpak

Dennis Tirpak is a climate change scientist. Tirpak was the director of the Global Climate Change Policy Division at the United States Environmental Protection Agency from 1984–1992. He was the coordinator of science and technology at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for nine years. He was the head of the climate change unit at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for three years. Tirpak is one of the coordinating lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore. He is an associate of the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Canada, and a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. Tirpak was the chairman of the International Scientific Steering Committee for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in February 2005. In 1989 he and Joel B. Smith co-authored the first report on global warming to Congress, The Potential Effects Of Global Climate Change on the United States. See also Global warming Montreal Protocol References American atmospheric scientists American climatologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undulus

Undulus

Undulus is a genus of armoured harvestmen in the family Phalangodidae. There is at least one described species in Undulus, U. formosus. References Further reading Harvestmen Articles created by Qbugbot

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamlar%C3%A6tt

Gamlarætt

Gamlarætt is a ferry port in the Faroe Islands. It is situated on the southwestern side of the island of Streymoy between the villages of Velbastaður and Kirkjubøur. It accommodates ferry services to the islands of Sandoy and Hestur. The port is also used for local salmon farms. History Until 1993 all ferry traffic to Sandoy operated from Tórshavn, on a northern route across Skopunarfjørður to Skopun and Hestur, and a southern route via Skúvoyarfjørður to Skálavík, Skúvoy and Sandur. This resulted in crossing times of 1–2 hours for non-stop trips to 2–3 hours with other calls en route from Tórshavn. A ferry port at Streymoy's southern tip would reduce the crossing time to 30 minutes to both Sandoy and 20 minutes to Hestur. Such a jetty was earlier proposed to be built in Kirkjubøur in 1963 and 1970, selected for its proximity to Sandoy and the relatively calm waters. The latest proposal for a new ferry port surfaced in 1983, again selecting Kirkjubøur. However, locals argued the ferry port would harm the village's important historic character. Eventually the Løgting decided in 1986 to construct the ferry port north of Kirkjubøur at a site only locally known, named Gamlarætt or in translation 'the old sheepfold'. This site has a steep coast with heavy breakers, necessitating the extensive use of breakwaters. Construction started in 1987 but was put on hold in 1990 in the face of the Faroese economic crisis. The Faroese government had to deprioritise numerous projects, including the Vágatunnilin (which opened eventually in 2002), but for financial reasons it continued the works at Gamlarætt. It opened in May 1993 when the old ferry Tróndur started using the new jetty and route, reducing crossing times from Streymoy to Skopun from 1.15 hour (2.5 hours via Hestur) down to 30 minutes. The direct ferry services to other villages on Sandoy ceased. In 2001 the purpose-built ferry Teistin took over the route and Tróndur was decommissioned. Gamlarætt consists of 540 metres of breakwater, which was built with broken rocks created by the blasting of the hairpin turns carved into the cliffside, seen in the photo above. The total costs are estimated at 130 million krones. When including the construction of ports in Skopun and Hestur and the new highway to Tórshavn, the entire project has an estimated cost of 300 million krones. Ferry routes Strandfaraskip Landsins operates three ferry routes from Gamlarætt: Route 60 to Skopun, Sandoy (ferry Teistin) Route 61 to Hestur (ferry Teistin) Route 85 to Skopun, only cargo (ferry Hasfjord). There is no ferry connection to the uninhabited island of Koltur. Accessibility From Gamlarætt there is a modern highway to Tórshavn, which takes circa 15 minutes by car. Strandfaraskip Landsins operates route 101 from Tórshavn to meet departures to Sandoy. Buses do not call in Velbastaður (village) or Kirkjubøur, but can stop at junctions on request. Tórshavn's local Bussleiðin routes 6 and 8 does not stop at Gamlarætt port, though passengers can embark and disembark at the junction towards Kirkjubøur, some uphill. The Sandoyartunnilin is currently being constructed from Gamlarætt towards Sandoy, and is scheduled to open in 2023. The tunnel mouth is located right next to the ferry jetty. This will replace the ferry service to Sandoy, but Gamlarætt will remain in use for the service to Hestur. In future, this might provide a stepping stone for the Suðuroyartunnilin. After opening, Gamlarætt will remain the port-of-access to Hestur, though additional uses for the terrain may be found for example tourism and recreational purposes. See also Transport in the Faroe Islands Fjords in the Faroe Islands List of tunnels of the Faroe Islands References Faroe Islands Transport in the Faroe Islands Geography of the Faroe Islands Ferry transport

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Sparta%20Prague%20Open%20%E2%80%93%20Doubles

2013 Sparta Prague Open – Doubles

Alizé Cornet and Virginie Razzano were the defending champions, having won the event in 2012, but both players decided not to defend their title. Renata Voráčová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová won the title, defeating Irina Falconi and Eva Hrdinová in the final, 6–4, 6–0. Seeds Draw References Draw Sparta Prague Open - Doubles WTA Prague Open 2013 in Czech tennis

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20the%20Visitation%2C%20Turin

Church of the Visitation, Turin

The Church of the Visitation () is a 17th-century Roman Catholic church, attached to a monastery, located on Via XX Settembre #23 in central Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy. Background By 1638, with the blessing of the Matilde of Savoy, the order of the nuns of the Visitation, founded by Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot de Chantal, were able to found a monastery at the site. Under Matilde's patronage, they were able to commission the church from the architect Francesco Lanfranchi. The chamfered corner location gives the tall Baroque-style domed church a scenographic quality. As typical of Piedmontese Baroque architecture, the dome is close to the entrance. The layout is that of a Greek cross, with an opening from the presbytery to a large chapel-like area, now the sanctuary of the Passion, where the nuns could attend services apart from the community. This area now holds the remains of the blessed Marco Antonio Durando. The interior was decorated with frescoes by a team of artists, including Luigi Vannier in the ceiling of the presbytery. The elaborate dome frescoes, however, were painted over a century after the church's construction, circa 1768, by Michele Antonio Milocco. It depicts the Glory of St Francis of Sales (canonized in 1665). In the pendants of the dome are depicted the Theological Virtues. Other works inside the church are the stucco statuary in the presbytery by Cristoforo Ciseri. There are twenty canvases on the presbytery walls attributed to Giovanni Sacchetti. The polychrome main altar, with Solomonic columns of black marble, is attributed to Carlo and Giuseppe Busso, while the main altarpiece, initially was a canvas depicting the Visitation of Mary and Elizabeth by Vannier. This was later replaced by a painting of the same topic by Ignazio Nepote. In the chapel to the left, dedicated to St Francis of Sales and Alessandro Trona, is an altar (1730) designed by Filippo Juvarra. The altarpiece depicts St Francis providing the rules of the Order to the Saint Giovanna Francesca Fremiot di Chantal. Chantal was ultimately canonized in 1768. During the French occupation of the Piedmont under Napoleon, the convent was deconsecrated and the nuns expelled. The site was returned only to the church in 1830, when it was granted to the Congregation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul, who still hold the site. Under the patronage of the blessed Marco Antonio Durando, the order restored the church. In 1838, they added a chapel on the right dedicated to their founder, St Vincent de Paul. Frescoes for the nun's choir, depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ were painted by Paolo Emilio and Luigi Morgari. References 17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Roman Catholic churches completed in 1660 Roman Catholic churches in Turin 1660 establishments in Italy

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87avu%C5%9Fk%C3%B6y%2C%20Kastamonu

Çavuşköy, Kastamonu

Çavuşköy is a town in the Kastamonu Province of Turkey. Located in what was once called Paphlagonia, The economy is primarily agricultural. External links RealTravel Information for Cavuskoy Travelpost info for Cavuskoy Towns in Turkey

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad%20%28Saturday%20Night%20Live%29

Chad (Saturday Night Live)

Chad is a fictional character from Saturday Night Live, portrayed by Pete Davidson. Background The character was created by and is played by Pete Davidson. He first appears in the SNL skit "Pool Boy," which is part of the episode that aired on April 16, 2016. He has no known last name. Chad has become one of the most popular recurring SNL characters from the last 5 years. Personality Chad is an easily-distracted, chill, apathetic man. In the sketch "Pool Boy," it's stated that he's 23. The sketches depict him doing various things such as going to a Narnia-like world through his closet, being targeted by a serial killer, going to a haunted mansion, touring with RuPaul, and going on a SpaceX mission. He is oblivious to the things that are about to happen to him, and usually just responds with "OK" or "cool." He is usually well-liked by other characters, and even unintentionally saves the world in his SpaceX skit. Reception Chad was generally well-received by different sources. Entertainment Tonight described the character as "hilariously stupid," and Rolling Stone described him as a "stereotypical stoner bro." References Saturday Night Live characters

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Coyne

Peter Coyne

Peter Coyne may refer to: Peter Coyne (footballer) (born 1958), English footballer Peter Coyne (politician) (1917–2001), Australian politician Peter Coyne (rugby league) (born 1964), Australian rugby league player

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1997 Stanley Cup playoffs

The 1997 Stanley Cup playoffs, the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL), began on April 16, 1997, following the completion of the 1996–97 NHL season. The sixteen teams that qualified, eight from each conference, played best-of-seven series for conference quarter-finals, semi-finals and championships, and then the conference champions played a best-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup. The Playoffs ended on June 7, with the Detroit Red Wings defeating the Philadelphia Flyers in a four-game sweep to win their eighth Stanley Cup championship in their history, and their first in 42 years. Red Wings goaltender Mike Vernon was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff's Most Valuable Player. It was also the first time since 1967 that the Boston Bruins failed to qualify for the playoffs, ending their 29-year consecutive playoffs appearances record. Playoff seeds The following teams qualified for the playoffs: Eastern Conference New Jersey Devils, Atlantic Division champions, Eastern Conference regular season champions – 104 points Buffalo Sabres, Northeast Division champions – 92 points Philadelphia Flyers – 103 points Florida Panthers – 89 points New York Rangers – 86 points Pittsburgh Penguins – 84 points Ottawa Senators – 77 points (31 wins, 8 points head-to-head vs. Montreal) Montreal Canadiens – 77 points (31 wins, 2 points head-to-head vs. Ottawa) Western Conference Colorado Avalanche, Pacific Division champions, Western Conference regular season champions, Presidents' Trophy winners – 107 points Dallas Stars, Central Division champions – 104 points Detroit Red Wings – 94 points Mighty Ducks of Anaheim – 85 points Phoenix Coyotes – 83 points (38 wins) St. Louis Blues – 83 points (36 wins) Edmonton Oilers – 81 points (36 wins) Chicago Blackhawks – 81 points (34 wins) Playoff bracket Conference Quarterfinals Eastern Conference Quarterfinals (1) New Jersey Devils vs. (8) Montreal Canadiens This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Martin Brodeur became the fourth goaltender in league history to score a goal in game one, marking the second time in NHL history that a goaltender had scored a goal in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the fifth time overall. (2) Buffalo Sabres vs. (7) Ottawa Senators This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. This series marked the first appearance of a team representing Ottawa in the Stanley Cup playoffs in 67 years. The most recent team to represent Ottawa prior to this was the original Ottawa Senators, who lost in the Quarterfinal round in 1930. (3) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (6) Pittsburgh Penguins This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams; with Philadelphia winning the only previous series in the 1989 Patrick Division Finals in seven games. (4) Florida Panthers vs. (5) New York Rangers This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Western Conference Quarterfinals (1) Colorado Avalanche vs. (8) Chicago Blackhawks This was the second consecutive and second overall playoff meeting between these two teams; with Colorado winning last year's series in six games. (2) Dallas Stars vs. (7) Edmonton Oilers This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams; with the teams splitting the two previous series. They last met in the 1991 Clarence Campbell Conference Final where the Minnesota North Stars defeated Edmonton in five games. (3) Detroit Red Wings vs. (6) St. Louis Blues This was the second consecutive and fifth overall playoff meeting between these two teams; with the teams splitting the four previous series. Detroit won last year's Western Conference Semifinals in seven games. (4) Mighty Ducks of Anaheim vs. (5) Phoenix Coyotes This was the first and to date only playoff series between these two teams. This was the first time the cities of Anaheim and Phoenix were represented in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Conference Semifinals Eastern Conference Semifinals (1) New Jersey Devils vs. (5) New York Rangers This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams; with New York winning both previous series. They last met in the 1994 Eastern Conference Final, where New York won in seven games. (2) Buffalo Sabres vs. (3) Philadelphia Flyers This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams; with Philadelphia winning all three previous series. They last met in the 1995 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, where Philadelphia won in five games. Western Conference Semifinals (1) Colorado Avalanche vs. (7) Edmonton Oilers This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. (3) Detroit Red Wings vs. (4) Mighty Ducks of Anaheim This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Conference Finals Eastern Conference Final (3) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (5) New York Rangers This was the tenth playoff meeting between these two teams, with Philadelphia having won five of the nine previous series. Their most recent meeting was in the 1995 Eastern Conference Semifinals which Philadelphia won in four games. The Rangers made their third conference final appearance and first since defeating New Jersey in seven games in 1994. Philadelphia made their fifth conference final appearance and first since losing to New Jersey in six games in 1995. New York out shot Philadelphia in Game 1 25–21, but the Flyers ended up winning 3–1. Wayne Gretzky had his second hat-trick of the playoffs in Game 2 as the Rangers edged the Flyers 5–4. With the series tied at 1–1, the two teams moved to Madison Square Garden in New York for Games 3 and 4. This time, it was the Flyers' Eric Lindros who scored a hat-trick as Philadelphia won 6–3. In Game 4, Lindros broke a 2–2 tie with just seven seconds remaining in regulation, and the Flyers won 3–2. The Rangers scored twice in 26 seconds in the first period to take a 2–1 lead. The Flyers scored three unanswered goals and won the game 4–2 and the series 4–1. This was the last playoff game for both Gretzky and Mark Messier, as neither of the players' teams made the post-season for the rest of their careers. Western Conference Final (1) Colorado Avalanche vs. (3) Detroit Red Wings This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with Colorado winning the only previous series. This was a rematch of the previous season's Western Conference Finals, which Colorado won in six games. This was Detroit's third straight and fifth overall Conference Finals appearance, while it was Colorado's fourth trip to Conference Finals. The rivalry between the two teams was as heated as ever after the events of a brawl during a game on March 26 still fresh. The Red Wings played a determined Game 1 as Brendan Shanahan broke a scoreless tie at 1:13 of the third period to give Detroit a 1–0 lead. Joe Sakic scored just 27 seconds later and Mike Ricci added another at 6:13 gave Colorado a 2–1 lead that they would not relinquish. In Game 2, Colorado led 2–0 but Detroit pulled to within one on a power-play goal by Igor Larionov at 16:51 of the second period. The Red Wings then went on to score three times in the third period to win 4–2 and tie the series at one game apiece. In Game 3, the Red Wings got two goals from Vyacheslav Kozlov and went on to win 2–1. Detroit also won Game 4, 6–0. Red Wings goaltender Mike Vernon made 19 saves in the shutout and Igor Larionov and Kirk Maltby both scored twice. Detroit now led the series three games to one. Embarrassed and frustrated after such a lopsided loss in Game 4, Colorado came right back in Game 5 with a 6–0 win of their own, with Patrick Roy stopping all 32 shots he faced. Claude Lemieux and Joe Sakic both scored two goals in the victory. In Game 6, the Red Wings looked to close out the series. Sergei Fedorov's goal at 6:11 of the third period gave Detroit a 2–0 lead. Scott Young pulled Colorado to within one on a goal at 14:48, but the Avalanche could not score the equalizer, and Brendan Shanahan sealed the game and series for Detroit with an empty net goal at 19:30. Stanley Cup Finals This was the first and to date only playoff series between these two teams. Detroit made their twentieth appearance in the Finals and first since 1995 where they lost to the New Jersey Devils in a four-game sweep. Philadelphia made their seventh appearance in the Finals and first since 1987 when they lost to the Edmonton Oilers in seven games. Detroit last won the Stanley Cup in 1955, while Philadelphia last won the Stanley Cup in 1975. Playoff statistics Skaters These are the top ten skaters based on points. Goaltenders This is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage, with at least 420 minutes played. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded. See also List of Stanley Cup champions 1996 NHL Entry Draft 47th National Hockey League All-Star Game NHL All-Star Game NHL All-Rookie Team 1997 in sports 1996–97 NHL season References External links 1997 Stanley Cup playoffs at Hockey Reference pl Stanley Cup playoffs

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos%20Kor%C3%A1nyi

Lajos Korányi

Lajos Korányi Kronenberger (15 May 1907 – 29 January 1981) was a Hungarian footballer. He played for Újszegedi TC, Csabai Előre, Ferencváros, Phöbus FC, Nemzeti SC and for the Hungarian national team. He appeared at the 1938 FIFA World Cup. His brothers Mátyás and Désiré also played international football, the first with Hungary and the second with France. 1907 births 1981 deaths Hungarian footballers 1938 FIFA World Cup players Hungary international footballers Ferencvárosi TC footballers Association football defenders

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommy%20Mommy

Mommy Mommy

Mommy Mommy is a 2007 documentary film directed by Sylvie Rosenthal about a Montreal lesbian couple's five-year-long struggle to have a child. Background The film's subjects had been long-time friends and business associates with Rezolution Pictures co-founders Catherine Bainbridge and Ernest Webb, who thought that their personal story would help to illustrate the growing phenomenon of same-sex couple adoption in Quebec, the first Canadian province to legalize the practice. The film represented a creative departure for Rezolution, which had previously focused on Canadian Aboriginal film and television productions. Story The couple's efforts began in 2001, with one of them hoping to conceive from a sperm donor. After a year of trying unsuccessfully to become pregnant, they sought help from the fertility clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital, only to find that treatment was refused to lesbians. After a complaint was filed with the Quebec Human Rights Commission by another couple, the hospital changed its policy. However, despite access to fertility drugs and continued efforts at artificial insemination, they were unable to conceive and their doctor suggested they adopt. They put themselves on a local list for adoption, where the wait could be as long as 10 years, and also explored international adoption, only to be told that no country in the world accepted same sex couples as parents. Then they heard about a lesbian couple in Ontario who had successfully adopted two children from the United States. However, Quebec's provincial body that controls international adoption had only approved one U.S. adoption agency: a Tennessee-based Christian agency that refused to place babies with anything other than married heterosexual couples. In spring 2006, Bainbridge and Webb noticed an advertisement in the Cree newsweekly The Nation, which they also co-own, from Batshaw Youth and Family Centres, an agency for abused and neglected children. The agency was looking for someone to adopt a Canadian Aboriginal child. The couple learn that there is a 7-month-old boy who also has a sister on the way, both in need of a home. At the end of the film, after a long and Byzantine process, the couple have two children of their own. Release Mommy Mommy was screened at Reel Pride in Winnipeg and Image + Nation in Montreal, and had its television premiere on CBC Newsworld on December 4, 2007. It was then screened at the Women in Film Festival in Vancouver in March 2008 and rebroadcast on CBC for Mother's Day. See also Preacher's Sons - a documentary about a gay adoptive couple The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant List of LGBT films directed by women References External links CBC Webpage 2007 television films 2007 films Quebec films Documentary films about adoption English-language films Documentary films about lesbians Films shot in Montreal LGBT adoption 2007 documentary films Canadian LGBT-related films Canadian films Films shot in Kingston, Ontario Rezolution Pictures films 2007 LGBT-related films Women in Quebec

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Tony Carp

Anthony Jules Carp (May 2, 1911 – May 29, 1960) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League in one game for the Chicago Bruins during the 1939–40 season. He also competed in the Amateur Athletic Union, Midwest Basketball Conference, and independent leagues. References 1911 births 1960 deaths Amateur Athletic Union men's basketball players American men's basketball players Basketball players from Chicago Chicago Bruins players Forwards (basketball)

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John Schacht

John Schacht (February 12, 1938 – August 10, 2009) was a self-trained, American artist based in the Midwest. His art ranges from biomorphic abstract paintings to folk-inspired, semi-representational drawings to ritual-like performances, altars and assemblages. Critics sometimes relate his work to Chicago Imagism due to shared affinities for fantastical and erotic imagery, Pop art-like psychedelia, and folk-art and vernacular sources. Friends and colleagues have stated, however, that Schacht, who exhibited inconsistently during his lifetime, was never part of that circle. Schacht was a pre-Stonewall generation gay man; New Art Examiner critic Michel Segard sees in his work a "palpable" sense of the emotional isolation of the closeted gay culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Schacht's work has received its fullest recognition posthumously, through reviews in The New York Times, New Art Examiner, The Brooklyn Rail and Vulture of exhibitions at the Knockdown Center in Queens, New York (2016) and Iceberg Projects in Chicago (2018). Life Schacht was born in 1938 on the northwest side of Chicago, and spent his early years there and in Florida. His family life was troubled by alcoholism and divorce; he took refuge in libraries and art, and by age thirteen decided to be an artist. He was a well-read autodidact, who left school at age seventeen before graduating and remained insecure about his lack of formal education. In the mid-1950s, Schacht moved on his own to the Chicago's near-north Old Town neighborhood and its livelier arts scene. As an adult, he would support himself sporadically through part-time jobs at an antique store, hospital and gay bar, as well as sometimes-paid art gigs at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Art League of Indiana, and instructing at Columbia College Chicago and an Indiana Arts Commission visiting artist program for high schools. Schacht was an active member of Chicago's burgeoning 1970s gay community, but remained on the periphery of the city's art scene—neither inside nor completely outside. As a result, he showed his work in wildly different contexts. These ranged from art fairs, businesses, community centers and bars like the Old Town Ale House or La Mere Vipere (a gay bar and early punk dance club) to alternative galleries such as Quantum (1981) and WPA (1982), which was directed by his friend and colleague, Charles Thomas Eaton, to established venues such as the Renaissance Society (1976), N.A.M.E. Gallery (1978) and Hyde Park Art Center (1979), which exhibited the nationally known Imagists. In 1989, photographer Marc Hauser took his portrait in various guises, including an "Uncle Sam" outfit. Through the 1970s, Schacht lived in Chicago and Indianapolis, sometimes commuting between them. In 1981, he moved for financial reasons into a vacant railroad lineman shack without running water on property in rural Talmage, Iowa owned by friend and college professor Ed Homewood. He collected antiques, found objects and bric-a-brac (a lifelong compulsion) there, which he sometimes sold, and continued to create art. In the 1990s, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona to care for his ailing father. When he returned to Iowa in 1997, he discovered that neighbors ransacked his shack, which he attributed to their discovery that he was gay; when they became outwardly hostile toward him, he moved to Leon, Iowa, where he lived until his death at age 71 in 2009. Schacht's friend, artist Jane Wenger, retrieved and preserved his artwork after his death and manages its archive. Work and reception Schacht's work can be organized into two key bodies: black-and-white, semi-abstract figurative drawings that explore primal symbols, sexuality and gay identity, which primarily date from the 1970s; and colorful, semi-abstract paintings on paper of still lifes (1970s) and biomorphic patterned forms (1980s and later). Early drawings Schacht's early black-and-white drawings, executed in both simple outline or complex, delicate pencil, mix abstract and representational imagery in a stream-of-conscious style. They are structured by a wide set of symbols (e.g., stars, eyes, trees, breasts, penises, vaginas), which serve as a personal shorthand to explore the human collective unconscious, gender dichotomies, and sexuality. In 1975, Indianapolis Museum of Art curator Lynn Karn published a limited edition of 300 spiral-bound books of Schacht's line drawings, titled Gods in Search of a Myth, which debuted in an exhibit at the Washington Gallery in Frankfort, Indiana. She conceived the book with Schacht as a collaborative coloring book whose communication viewer/purchasers would complete when they colored in the images. Reviews have described Schacht's drawings as intimate, cartoon-like abstractions of flowing, organic forms and sexual symbols that convey "the contemporary primal self" in a raw style. Queer expression Later writers have suggested that queerness is both ever-present and repressed in Schacht's work (the most explicit of which was rarely shown in public), citing fugitive S&M elements, embedded genitalia, abstract cowboy figures in chains or leather, and excessive ornamentation. C.C. McKee writes that the visual ornamentation exceeds mere decoration, suggesting a desire to elude and transcend heteronormative constraints through aesthetic means. New Art Examiner critic Michel Segard observed that Schacht's usage of the penis—as a hieroglyph or meme, rather than erotic form (like the later Keith Haring)—and lone males in erotic contexts reveals a closeted tension between expression and repression. Schacht explored similar themes in a ritual performance that was part of a group exhibition at the Renaissance Society (1976), which also featured Edith Altman, Nancy Davidson and Dennis Kowalski. In the performance, a young, jock-strap-clad man was led into a confined cube space by a rope around his neck, suspended from ceiling hooks by a harness, and strapped to the walls by ropes tied around his body; after he went limp, the ropes were cut and he was deposed, laid on the floor, and wrapped in blankets. Paintings on paper While still embedded with personal symbols (chairs, teapots, chinoserie, mandalas, and earlier, characteristic forms), Schacht's paintings differ from his drawings in their increased abstraction, intense colors and wider inspirations and imagery. His paintings feature leitmotifs of ceramic vases, Persian textiles, quasi-psychedelic genitalia, cowboy hats and saloon doors in decentralized, rhythmic compositions that Brooklyn Rail critic Diane McClure and others describe as moving between disorder, play, and a sense of the surreal. Schacht's 1970s paintings include brightly colored, semi-abstract, chaotic still lifes and interiors, stylized portraits of women and 15-foot scroll drawings exploring male and female erotic imagery. The interior still lifes emphasize flattened perspectives and space, rhythmic movement, and a dissolution of the distinction between structure and ornament. The scroll works, painted in golds, silvers, reds and blues, suggest both the spiritual and the erotic. Schacht's later paintings feature morphing organic abstraction and ambiguous character-like forms, painted with curving lines, free-spirited shapes and saturated colors. Critics describe them as displaying spontaneity, impulse and expansion, reigned in by form and intellect; a 1985 series visualized the sensation of sexual play and orgasm through an array of color, ornate design and patterning. References External links John Schacht website "In a house, Tinted and Patterned": John Schacht and Queer Ornament, Iceberg Projects. American artists Outsider artists Gay artists Artists from Chicago 1938 births 2009 deaths LGBT people from Illinois LGBT artists from the United States 20th-century LGBT people

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous%20casiornis

Rufous casiornis

The rufous casiornis (Casiornis rufus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is found in northern Argentina, Bolivia, mid-central Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Uruguay; it is a vagrant to eastern Peru and more northern parts of the Amazon Rainforest. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. References rufous casiornis Birds of the Gran Chaco Birds of Bolivia Birds of Brazil Birds of Paraguay rufous casiornis Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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Bob Lefsetz

Robert Scott "Bob" Lefsetz (born April 22, 1953) is an American music industry analyst and critic. He is the author of The Lefsetz Letter, an email newsletter and a blog. Background Lefsetz grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut and is a graduate of Middlebury College where he majored in art history. He moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s. After earning his law degree from Southwestern Law School, Lefsetz worked as an entertainment business attorney, and briefly as head of Sanctuary Music's American division. He has worked as a consultant to major record labels. He is based in Santa Monica, California. The Lefsetz Letter The newsletter has tens of thousands of subscribers. From April 2013 through December 2015, Lefsetz wrote a weekly column for Variety's weekly print edition and its website. Controversy In 2007, Lefsetz and Kid Rock engaged in an email feud but have since reconciled. In 2009, Lefsetz and Kiss bassist Gene Simmons exchanged insults via e-mail and in person at the Canadian Music Week conference, and they debated officially at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. In 2010, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift released a song titled "Mean" which is rumored to be about Lefsetz and his critical review about her performance at the 52nd Grammy Awards with rock and roll legend Stevie Nicks. References External links Lefsetz Letter Living people 1953 births American bloggers Middlebury College alumni Writers from Fairfield, Connecticut

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekaij%C5%AB%20no%20Rinjin%20yo

Sekaijū no Rinjin yo

is a song released by Japanese idol group Nogizaka46. The song was written in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and was released digitally only as a charity single. Background and composition "Sekaijū no Rinjin yo" was written as a tribute to the efforts of hospital workers during the pandemic as well as citizens practicing social distancing by staying at home. The lyrics call for unity in order to curb the spread of the virus. The song's music video was revealed on 25 May 2020. In the video, footage of Nogizaka46's members singing at home was played on the jumbotron of an empty Meiji Jingu Stadium, a venue that Nogizaka46 has performed annually as part of the "Midsummer National Tour" from 2014 until 2019. Every member in the group participated in the song, including Mai Shiraishi, who intended on leaving the group after the release of "Shiawase no Hogoshoku" but delayed her departure due to the pandemic. Additionally, eleven former members also performed the song: Rina Ikoma, Rena Ichiki, Karin Itō, Misa Etō, Chiharu Saitō, Yūri Saitō, Iori Sagara, Reika Sakurai, Nishino Nanase, Ami Nōjō, and Yumi Wakatsuki. Reception Initially, the song was not intended to be released commercially. However, immediately after the music video was posted on YouTube, the song went viral and reached a million views on YouTube within 20 hours. Therefore, Nogizaka46 decided to release the song as a digital download, where all proceeds would be donated to medical personnel combatting the virus. The song was released on 17 June within Japan and 24 June internationally. According to Billboard Japan, the song was the most downloaded song within the week of its release. The song was one of nine recipients of the Excellent Work Award at the 62nd Japan Record Awards. Charts See also Hanarete Ite mo Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the music industry References 2020 songs Japanese-language songs Nogizaka46 songs Songs written by Yasushi Akimoto Songs about the COVID-19 pandemic

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20McArthur

Thomas McArthur

Thomas McArthur or MacArthur may refer to: Tom MacArthur (born 1960), American businessman and politician Tom McArthur (umpire) (1937–2018), Australian rules football umpire in Queensland Tom McArthur (linguist), editor of English Today

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn%20Dove

Evelyn Dove

Evelyn Mary Dove (11 January 1902 – 7 March 1987) was a British singer and actress, who early in her career drew comparisons with Josephine Baker. Of Sierra Leone Creole and English parentage, Dove is recognized as a "trailblazing performer": in 1939, she made history as the first black singer to feature on BBC Radio, building a solid reputation not only through her work in Britain but also internationally, travelling to France, Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, the United States, India and Spain. She was featured as a Google Doodle on what would have been her 117th birthday in 2019. Family background Evelyn Mary Dove was born at the Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street, London, the daughter of leading Sierra Leonean barrister Francis (Frans) Dove (1869–1949) and his English first wife Augusta, née Winchester, from whom he was later divorced. Evelyn's older brother Frank Dove, who studied law at Oxford University, was called up by the British army in 1915 and fought at the Battle of Cambrai, being awarded the Military Medal. Early years Evelyn Dove studied singing, piano, and elocution at the Royal Academy of Music from 1917 until 1919, when she graduated, and on 27 September that year married Milton Alphonso Luke in London. Howard Rye records that she was using the name "Norma Winchester" when she became a member of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra (SSO), a band composed of British West Indian and West African and American musicians who were popularising black music on the UK club scene. On 9 October 1921, eight or nine members of the SSO and around 27 other passengers drowned when the SS Rowan sailing from Glasgow to Dublin collided with another ship and sank. Dove and other SSO survivors such as Cyril Blake took part on 14 October in the "Survivors Sacred Concert". When in 1925 the all-Black revue Chocolate Kiddies toured Europe from New York, she joined the cast, replacing Lottie Gee, who had to return to the US, and the show toured western Europe for a year, before going to the USSR to play in Leningrad and Moscow, where the audience included Stalin, according to Stephen Bourne, who has researched and written about Dove for the Dictionary of National Biography and elsewhere. Dove's career burgeoned internationally in the 1920s and '30s. She was performing at London's Mile End Empire in June 1926, then five months later Evelyn Dove and Her Plantation Creoles – "the only singing and dancing act of its kind in Europe" – appeared at Wintergarten in Berlin, and her revue appeared in the Netherlands in February 1927. She was very popular in Italy, where she lived for some years, before in 1932 going to France to replace Josephine Baker starring in a revue at the Casino de Paris. She subsequently went to the US, where in 1936 she was the headline cabaret act at the famous Harlem nightclub Connie's Inn. In New York she was photographed by the celebrated photographer Carl Van Vechten. Her travels also took her to Bombay, India, where on 7 October 1937 The Evening News of India reviewed her opening-night performance at the Harbour Bar: 1939–49 The decade from 1939 to 1949 marked the height of Dove's career in Britain, when she did much notable radio work broadcasting with the BBC. As Stephen Bourne has written: "Throughout World War II she enjoyed the same appeal as the 'Forces Sweetheart', Vera Lynn. The BBC employed Evelyn all through the war, and she proved to be one of radio’s most popular singers, appearing in a wide range of music and variety programmes." A memo from producer Eric Fawcett to a colleague on 6 June 1947 states: She appeared regularly on such popular music and variety radio programmes as Rhapsody in Black, Calling the West Indies, Variety Bandbox, Music For You, Caribbean Carnival, and Mississippi Nights. Particularly successful was the series Serenade in Sepia (1945–47), for which she made more than 50 broadcasts with Trinidadian folk-singer Edric Connor, attracting so many listeners that the BBC decided to make a television version. In 1947 Dove and Connor – along with other artists including Mable Lee, Cyril Blake and his Calypso Band, Buddy Bradley, Winifred Atwell, and Adelaide Hall – performed in Variety in Sepia, an early example of a UK television special dedicated to Black talent, which was filmed live on 7 October 1947 at the RadiOlympia Theatre, Alexandra Palace, London, and aired on BBC TV. Later career Leaving the BBC in 1949, Dove worked in cabaret in India, Paris and Spain. When she returned to Britain at the end of 1950, as Stephen Bourne has written, she struggled to find work, "though she did appear in the cast of London Melody with ice-skater Belita and comedian Norman Wisdom at London's Empress Hall in 1951. Despite her experience and talent, she found herself understudying Muriel Smith in the role of Bloody Mary in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific at Drury Lane." In 1955, her search for work led her to apply for a job as a Post Office telephonist, asking the BBC for a reference. In 1956 the BBC cast her as Eartha Kitt's mother in a television drama called Mrs Patterson, and more television work followed, and then a role on the West End musical stage, as one of the stars of Langston Hughes's Simply Heavenly, directed by Laurence Harvey. Bourne notes that another cast member was Isabelle Lucas, who later recalled: Evelyn Dove died of pneumonia at Horton Hospital in Epsom, Surrey, aged 85, on 7 March 1987, registered as "Evelyn Dove, otherwise Brantley" (she had married her third husband William Newton Brantley, in 1958, having previously been married to Felix John Basil Inglis Allen in 1941). Legacy Dove features on the two-CD compilation Negro Spirituals – The Concert Tradition 1909 – 1948 singing the spiritual "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray". On 18 September 1993, Moira Stuart featured Evelyn Dove in Salutations, a BBC Radio 2 series celebrating black British and British-based musical entertainers who came to fame between the 1930s and 1950s. A biography by Stephen Bourne, entitled Evelyn Dove: Britain's Black Cabaret Queen, was published in October 2016 by Jacaranda Books. On 11 January 2019, which would have been Dove's 117th birthday, Google celebrated her life in one of their first "doodles" of the year. Selected filmography 1958: The Green Pastures – Noah's wife 1957: Another Part of the Forest – Coralee 1956: Mrs. Patterson – Anna Hicks 1954: Halcyon Days – Mrs Carter References Further reading Stephen Bourne, Evelyn Dove: Britain's Black Cabaret Queen, London: Jacaranda Books, 2016, External links "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray (Negro Spiritual)" by Evelyn Dove, soprano, c. 1926. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Billy Cotton, 1939". "Evelyn Dove (1902–1987)", Devotional by Sonia Boyce, at National Portrait Gallery, London. "Evelyn Dove (1902–1987)" at IMDb. Evelyn Dove at Vintage Black Glamour by Nichelle Gainer. 1902 births 1987 deaths English people of Sierra Leonean descent Sierra Leone Creole people 20th-century Black British women singers British entertainers Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music English radio personalities Singers from London Black British actresses British cabaret performers

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb%20%28crater%29

Webb (crater)

Webb is a small lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern edge of the Mare Fecunditatis, in the eastern part of the Moon near the equator. It was named after British astronomer Thomas William Webb. It is to the north of the prominent crater Langrenus, and west of Maclaurin. The interior of Webb is relatively dark compared with the inner walls of the rim, and it has a low hill at the midpoint of the interior. On the lunar mare to the north is a faint marking of a ray system that appears to radiate from this crater. West of the crater is the wrinkle ridge Dorsa Andrusov. Satellite craters By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Webb. The following craters have been renamed by the IAU. Webb R — See Condon (crater). See also Asteroid 3041 Webb References Impact craters on the Moon Mare Fecunditatis

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20variable%20analysis

Live variable analysis

In compilers, live variable analysis (or simply liveness analysis) is a classic data-flow analysis to calculate the variables that are live at each point in the program. A variable is live at some point if it holds a value that may be needed in the future, or equivalently if its value may be read before the next time the variable is written to. Example Consider the following program: b = 3 c = 5 a = f(b * c) The set of live variables between lines 2 and 3 is {b, c} because both are used in the multiplication on line 3. But the set of live variables after line 1 is only {b}, since variable c is updated later, on line 2. The value of variable a is not used in this code. Note that the assignment to a may be eliminated as a is not used later, but there is insufficient information to justify removing all of line 3 as f may have side effects (printing b * c, perhaps). Expression in terms of dataflow equations Liveness analysis is a "backwards may" analysis. The analysis is done in a backwards order, and the dataflow confluence operator is set union. In other words, if applying liveness analysis to a function with a particular number of logical branches within it, the analysis is performed starting from the end of the function working towards the beginning (hence "backwards"), and a variable is considered live if any of the branches moving forward within the function might potentially (hence "may") need the variable's current value. This is in contrast to a "backwards must" analysis which would instead enforce this condition on all branches moving forward. The dataflow equations used for a given basic block s and exiting block f in live variable analysis are the following: : The set of variables that are used in s before any assignment. : The set of variables that are assigned a value in s (in many books, KILL (s) is also defined as the set of variables assigned a value in s before any use, but this does not change the solution of the dataflow equation): The in-state of a block is the set of variables that are live at the start of the block. Its out-state is the set of variables that are live at the end of it. The out-state is the union of the in-states of the block's successors. The transfer function of a statement is applied by making the variables that are written dead, then making the variables that are read live. Second example The in-state of b3 only contains b and d, since c has been written. The out-state of b1 is the union of the in-states of b2 and b3. The definition of c in b2 can be removed, since c is not live immediately after the statement. Solving the data flow equations starts with initializing all in-states and out-states to the empty set. The work list is initialized by inserting the exit point (b3) in the work list (typical for backward flow). Its computed in-state differs from the previous one, so its predecessors b1 and b2 are inserted and the process continues. The progress is summarized in the table below. Note that b1 was entered in the list before b2, which forced processing b1 twice (b1 was re-entered as predecessor of b2). Inserting b2 before b1 would have allowed earlier completion. Initializing with the empty set is an optimistic initialization: all variables start out as dead. Note that the out-states cannot shrink from one iteration to the next, although the out-state can be smaller than the in-state. This can be seen from the fact that after the first iteration the out-state can only change by a change of the in-state. Since the in-state starts as the empty set, it can only grow in further iterations. References Compiler optimizations Data-flow analysis Static program analysis

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20London%20Fields

On London Fields

On London Fields is an opera in two acts by Matthew King with a libretto by Alasdair Middleton, notable for its use of multiple ensembles and choruses. Some of the music was devised during a series of improvisational workshops. It was commissioned by Hackney Music Development Trust and premiered in the Hackney Empire theatre in 2004. The opera has been described by the novelist, Margaret Drabble as "one of the most exciting community events I’ve ever seen." The story concerns the life and prophecies of the 17th Century mystic and resident of Hackney, Hannah Trapnell. The opera is set in Hackney during the oppressive reign of Oliver Cromwell. Hannah leads the people of Hackney on to London Fields where, in a series of increasingly vivid prophecies, she sings of a new proto-Marxist Kingdom of Heaven. Among her followers are an idealistic young couple called Deborah and Abel. Eventually the meeting is brutally suppressed by a group of Puritan soldiers led by Sir Bawnagayne Surly. Abel tries to oppose the soldiers and is killed. The opera ends with his young widow singing a poignant lullaby to the couple's unborn child. For the original production Matthew King composed for a cast of four professional singers (Sally Burgess, Alison Buchanan, Simon Thorpe and Jonathan Gunthorpe) and several choruses of Hackney residents, including a children's choir and a Gospel choir. The orchestra was the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, supported by Young Jazz Hackney; the Cambridge Heath Salvation Army Band; Hackney Centre for Young Musicians, a Turkish Saz band and an African Drumming group called Emashi. The opera makes use of spatial distribution of players and instrumentalists with the brass band playing in the upper circle of the theatre and other groups distributed around the building and off-stage. The opera critic and musicologist, Rodney Milnes, described the event in the following terms:The scale was daunting. There were five orchestras, with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in the pit, plus jazz and brass bands (Henze would like that) dotted about the auditorium...There were more than 150 singers, of every known age, race and gender. Writing in The Evening Standard, Stephen Pettitt was also largely enthusiastic about the work: King's music is eminently approachable, veering between jazz and a sort of energetic minimalism. Even so, he’s unafraid of complexity, even when writing for very young performers. Some of the clashing rhythms and textural layerings are mind-boggling. In 2005 On London Fields received the Royal Philharmonic Society Education Award. References External links Official Hackney Music Development Trust Website English-language operas 2004 operas Operas Compositions by Matthew King

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C21H32O3

C21H32O3

{{DISPLAYTITLE:C21H32O3}} The molecular formula C21H32O3 may refer to: Alfaxalone Androstenediol 3β-acetate Androstenediol 17β-acetate BNN-27 Dihydrodeoxycorticosterone Dihydrotestosterone acetate Hydroxydione, a neurosteroid Hydroxypregnenolones 17α-Hydroxypregnenolone 21-Hydroxypregnenolone Oxymetholone 5α-Pregnan-17α-ol-3,20-dione

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oussama%20Mrabet

Oussama Mrabet

Oussama Mrabet (born 10 July 1993) is a French footballer of Tunisian descent who plays as a midfielder. He appeared in the Bulgarian A PFG for Chernomorets Burgas. Career In June 2013, Mrabet joined Chernomorets Burgas in Bulgaria. He made his debut on the opening day of the 2013–14 season, in a 1–0 home win over Cherno More Varna on 20 July, playing the full 90 minutes. Mrabet remained with Chernomorets until late October 2013. References External links Player Profile at chernomoretz.bg 1993 births Living people French footballers French expatriate footballers French expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate footballers in Tunisia Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria ES Zarzis players PFC Chernomorets Burgas players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Association football midfielders French people of Tunisian descent Tunisian footballers

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diiron%20nonacarbonyl

Diiron nonacarbonyl

Diiron nonacarbonyl is an inorganic compound with the formula Fe2(CO)9. This metal carbonyl is an important reagent in organometallic chemistry and of occasional use in organic synthesis. It is a more reactive source of Fe(0) than Fe(CO)5 and less dangerous to handle because it is nonvolatile. This micaceous orange solid is virtually insoluble in all common solvents. Synthesis and structure Following the original method, photolysis of an acetic acid solution of Fe(CO)5 produces Fe2(CO)9 in good yield: 2 Fe(CO)5 → Fe2(CO)9 + CO Fe2(CO)9 consists of a pair of Fe(CO)3 centers linked by three bridging CO ligands. Although older textbooks show an Fe-Fe bond consistent with the 18 electron rule (8 valence electrons from Fe, two each from the terminal carbonyls, one each from the bridging carbonyls and one from the other Fe atom in the metal-metal bond), theoretical analyses have consistently indicated the absence of a direct Fe-Fe bond: this latter model proposes an Fe-C-Fe three-center-two-electron "banana bond" for one of the bridging carbonyls. The minor isomer has been crystallized together with C60. The iron atoms are equivalent and octahedral molecular geometry. Elucidation of the structure of Fe2(CO)9 proved to be challenging because its low solubility inhibits growth of crystals. The Mößbauer spectrum reveals one quadrupole doublet, consistent with the D3h-symmetric structure. Reactions Fe2(CO)9 is a precursor to compounds of the type Fe(CO)4L and Fe(CO)3(diene). Such syntheses are typically conducted in THF solution. In these conversions, it is proposed that small amounts of Fe2(CO)9 dissolve according to the following reaction: Fe2(CO)9 → Fe(CO)5 + Fe(CO)4(THF) Oxidative addition of allyl bromide to diiron nonacarbonyl gives the allyl iron(II) derivaive: Fe2(CO)9 + BrCH2CH=CH2 → FeBr(CO)3(C3H5) + CO + Fe(CO)5 Cyclobutadieneiron tricarbonyl is prepared similarly using 3,4-dichlorocyclobutene: C4H4Cl2 + 2 Fe2(CO)9 → (C4H4)Fe(CO)3 + 2 Fe(CO)5 + 2 CO + 2 FeCl2. Fe2(CO)9 has also been employed in the synthesis of cyclopentadienones via a net [2+3]-cycloaddition from dibromoketones, known as the Noyori [3+2] reaction. Low temperature UV/vis photolysis of Fe2(CO)9 yields the Fe2(CO)8 unsaturated complex, producing both CO-bridged and unbridged isomers. References Carbonyl complexes Iron complexes Organoiron compounds

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%20Finnish%20parliamentary%20election

1987 Finnish parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 15 and 16 March 1987. The results saw a rightwards shift in Finnish politics, although it was uncertain how far, because the voter turnout — at a comparatively low 75% — hurt the left more than the right and had a variable impact. The centre-right National Coalition Party (KOK) increased its vote share by only 1% yet gained nine seats in the Eduskunta, almost overtaking the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as the largest party. The SDP vote share dropped by 3%, with 100,000 fewer votes, yet they lost only one seat due to the way their votes were distributed across the country. The Centre Party's vote share remained stable and it gained two new seats. The Greens, who had registered a significant gain in the 1984 municipal elections gained two seats, far fewer than expected. Weakened perhaps from its membership in the long-lived government, the Finnish Rural Party (SMP) lost more than one-third of its support and almost half of its seats. Results Aftermath Faced with these inconclusive results, negotiations about the shape of the new government began. After six weeks of talks and attempts to put together a completely non-socialist government, a pathbreaking combination was formed that included conservatives and socialists in the Council of State, joined by the dependable and successful Swedish People's Party and the battered and desperate SMP. The new government, consisting of nine centrist and conservative and eight socialist ministers and headed by the KOK's Harri Holkeri, surprised some observers because a non-socialist government was possible and seemed appropriate given the election results. The outcome angered others, who contended that Koivisto had misused presidential powers when he brokered a government that had his former party as a member despite its considerable electoral losses. Koivisto countered that he had behaved properly and had let the parties themselves argue out a workable combination. One explanation for the unusual government was that animosity against the Centre Party (Kesk) leader, Paavo Väyrynen, was so common in both the SDP and the KOK that neither party was willing to form a government with him. Thus, Kesk was deprived of its traditional "hinge" role. Another consideration was that the SDP and the KOK were not so much at odds with each another as socialist and conservative parties elsewhere might have been. Both parties had moved toward the centre, and they were in agreement about most issues, especially about the need to reduce the agricultural subsidies that had always been defended by Kesk. The resulting "red-blue" government had as program objective the preservation of the social welfare system, the improvement of Finland's competitive position in international trade, a fundamental reform of the tax system, and adherence to the Paasikivi-Kekkonen Line in foreign affairs. The SFP fitted in easily with this program. The formerly rightist, but now moderate, SMP was included because it strengthened the government slightly and because it was likely to be dependable, because it had no other place to go. Koivisto informed the new government that it would not have to resign after the presidential election of 1988, and observers expected the cabinet to serve its full term until the 1991 parliamentary elections. References 1987 1987 elections in Finland March 1987 events in Europe

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Trappers Cove Formation

The Trappers Cove Formation is a geologic formation in Nunavut. It preserves fossils dating back to the Permian period. See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nunavut References Permian Nunavut Permian northern paleotemperate deposits

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Jirō Kawasaki

is a Japanese politician who served as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi. Kawasaki was born in Iga, Mie. His father and grandfather were both politicians. He attended Keio University and graduated with a degree in Commerce. After several years working at Matsushita, Kawasaki won a seat in the House of Representatives, representing Mie Prefecture in 1980. Kawasaki is a long-time rival of Hiroshi Nakai of the Democratic Party of Japan, and the two have repeatedly challenged each other for seats representing Mie in the Diet. He served as Minister of Transportation under Keizō Obuchi, and later as Director of the Hokkaido Development Agency. On October 31, 2005, Junichirō Koizumi chose Kawasaki to head the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Quotes "We must regret having given him (Horie) too much credit." Asahi Shimbun January 25, 2006 “I do not think that Japan should ever become a multi-ethnic society.” The New York Times, April 22, 2009. References |- |- 1947 births Ministers of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan Keio University alumni Living people Politicians from Mie Prefecture 21st-century Japanese politicians

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Jordan Jones

Jordan Jones may refer to: Jordan Jones (Australian footballer) (born 1990), Australian rules football player Jordan Jones (footballer, born 1994), English-born Northern Ireland international football player Jordan Jones (soccer) (born 1995), American professional soccer player Jordan Jones (Emmerdale), fictional character on Emmerdale

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History of Panama (1964–77)

The 1964 riots Public demonstrations and riots arising from popular resentment over United States policies and the overwhelming presence of United States citizens and institutions had not been uncommon, but the rioting that occurred in January 1964 was uncommonly serious. The incident began with a symbolic dispute over the flying of the Panamanian flag in the Canal Zone. For some time the dispute had been seriously complicated by differences of opinion on that issue between the Department of Defense and the Department of State. On the one hand, the military opposed accepting a Panamanian flag, emphasizing the strategic importance of unimpaired United States control in the Canal Zone and the dangerous precedent that appeasement of the rioters' demands would set for future United States-Panamanian relations. The Department of State, on the other hand, supported the flag proposal as a reasonable concession to Panamanian demands and a method of avoiding major international embarrassment. Diplomatic officials also feared that the stability of Panamanian political institutions themselves might be threatened by extensive violence and mob action over the flag issue. The United States finally agreed to raise the Panamanian and United States flags side by side at one location. The special ceremony on September 21, 1960 at the Shaler Triangle was attended by the new governor of the zone, Major General William A. Carter, along with all high United States military and diplomatic officers and the entire Panamanian cabinet. Even this incident, however, which marked official recognition of Panama's "titular" sovereignty, was marred when the United States rejected former president Ernesto de la Guardia's request to allow him to raise the flag personally. De la Guardia, as a retaliatory measure, refused to attend the ceremony and extended invitations to the presidential reception after the ceremony only to the United States ambassador and his senior diplomatic aides; United States Canal Zone and military officials were excluded. Panamanians remained dissatisfied as their flag appeared at only one location in the Canal Zone, while the United States flag flew alone at numerous other sites. An agreement was finally reached that at several points in the Canal Zone the United States and Panamanian flags would be flown side by side. United States citizens residing in the Canal Zone were reluctant to abide by this agreement, however, and the students of an American high school, with adult encouragement, on two consecutive days hoisted the American flag alone in front of their school. Word of the gesture soon spread across the border, and on the evening of the second day, January 9, 1964, nearly 200 Panamanian students marched into the Canal Zone with their flag. A struggle ensued, and the Panamanian flag was torn. After that provocation, thousands of Panamanians stormed the border fence. The rioting lasted 3 days, and resulted in 21 deaths, serious injuries to several hundred persons, and more than US$2 million of property damage. At the outbreak of the fighting, Panama charged the United States with aggression. Panama severed relations with the United States and appealed to the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN). On January 10 the OAS referred the case to the Inter-American Peace Committee. When the UN Security Council met, United States ambassador Adlai Stevenson noted that the Inter-American Peace Committee had already scheduled an on-the-spot investigation and urged that the problem be considered in the regional forum. A proposal by the Brazilian delegate that the president of the Security Council address an appeal to the two parties to exercise restraint was agreed on, and the UN took no further action. The United States had hoped to confine the controversy to the Inter-American Peace Committee. But when negotiations broke down, Panama insisted that the Organ of Consultation under the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (the so-called Rio Treaty) be convoked. The OAS Council, acting provisionally as the Organ of Consultation, appointed an investigating committee consisting of all the members of the Council except the two disputants. A joint declaration recommended by the Committee was signed by the two countries in April, and diplomatic relations were restored. The controversy smoldered for almost a year, however, until US President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that plans for a new canal would be drawn up and that an entirely new treaty would be negotiated. Negotiations were carried on throughout the first half of the presidency of Roberto Chiari's successor, Marcos Aurelio Robles. When the terms of three draft treaties—concerning the existing lock canal, a possible sea-level canal, and defense matters—were revealed in 1967, Panamanian public reaction was adverse. The new treaties would have abolished the resented "in perpetuity" clause in favor of an expiration date of December 13, 1999, or the date of the completion of a new sea-level canal if that were earlier. Furthermore, they would have compensated the Panamanian government on the basis of tonnage shipped through the canal, an arrangement that could have increased the annuity to more than US$20 million. The intensity of Panamanian nationalism, however, was such that many contended that the United States should abandon involvement in Panama altogether. Proposals for the continued United States military bases in the Canal Zone, for the right of the United States to deploy troops and armaments anywhere in the republic, and for a joint board of nine governors for the zone, five of which were to be appointed by the United States, were particularly unpopular. Robles initially attempted to defend the terms of the drafts. When he failed to obtain treaty ratification and he learned that his own coalition would be at a disadvantage in the upcoming elections, he declared that further negotiations would be necessary. The oligarchy under fire In the mid-1960s, the oligarchy was still tenuously in charge of Panama's political system. Members of the middle class, consisting largely of teachers and government workers, occasionally gained political prominence. Aspiring to upper-class stations, they failed to unite with the lower classes to displace the oligarchy. Students were the most vocal element of the middle class and the group most disposed to speak for the inarticulate poor; as graduates, however, they were generally coopted by the system. A great chasm separated the rural section from the urban population of the two major cities. Only the rural wageworkers, concentrated in the provinces of Bocas del Toro and Chiriquí, appeared to follow events in the capital and to express themselves on issues of national policy. Among the urban lower classes, antagonism between the Spanish speakers and the English- and French-speaking blacks inhibited organization in pursuit of common interests. Literacy was high—about 77 percent—despite the scarcity of secondary schools in the rural areas. Voter turnout also tended to be high, despite the unreliability of vote counts. (A popular saying is "He who counts the votes elects.") Concentration on the sins of the United States had served as a safety valve, diverting attention from the injustices of the domestic system. The multi-party system that existed until the coup d'état of 1968 served to regulate competition for political power among the leading families. Individual parties characteristically served as the personal machines of leaders, whose clients (supporters or dependents) anticipated jobs or other advantages if their candidate were successful. Of the major parties competing in the 1960s, only the highly factionalized National Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Nacional, PLN) had a history of more than two decades. The only parties that had developed clearly identifiable programs were the small Socialist Party and the Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrato Cristiano, PDC). The only party with a mass base was the Panameñista Party (Partido Panameñista, PP), the electoral vehicle of the erratic former president, Arnulfo Arias. The Panameñista Party appealed to the frustrated, but lacked a clearly recognizable ideology or program. Seven candidates competed in the 1964 presidential elections, although only three were serious contenders. Robles, who had served as minister of the presidency in Chiari's cabinet, was the candidate of the National Opposition Union, comprising the PLN and seven smaller parties. After lengthy backstage maneuvers, Robles was endorsed by the outgoing president. Juan de Arco Galindo, a former member of the National Assembly and public works minister and brother-in-law of former President de la Guardia, was the candidate of the National Opposition Alliance (Alianza Nacional de Oposición) coalition, comprising seven parties headed by the CPN. Arnulfo Arias was supported by the PP, already the largest single party in the country. As usual, the status of the canal was a principal issue in the campaign. Both the liberal and the CPN coalitions cultivated nationalist sentiment by denouncing the United States. Arias, abandoning his earlier nationalistic theme, assumed a cooperative and conciliatory stance toward the United States. Arias attracted lower-class support by denouncing the oligarchy. The Electoral Tribunal announced that Robles had defeated Arias by a margin of more than 10,000 votes of the 317,312 votes cast. The CPN coalition trailed far behind the top two contenders. Arias supporters, who had won a majority of the National Assembly seats, attributed Robles's victory to the "miracle of Los Santos"; they claimed that enough corpses voted for Robles in that province to enable him to carry the election. The problems confronting Robles were not unlike those of his predecessors but were aggravated by the consequences of the 1964 riots. In addition to the hardships and resentments resulting from the losses of life and property, the riots had the effect of dramatically increasing the already serious unemployment in the metropolitan areas. Despite his nationalistic rhetoric during the campaign, the new president was dependent on United States economic and technical assistance to develop projects that Chiari's government, also with United States assistance, had initiated. Chiari emphasized building schools and low-cost housing. He endorsed a limited agrarian-reform program. Like his predecessor, Robles sought to increase the efficiency of tax collection rather than raise taxes. By 1967 the coalitions were being reshuffled in preparation for the 1968 elections. By the time Arias announced his candidacy, he had split both the coalitions that had participated in the 1964 elections and had secured the support of several factions in a coalition headed by the Panameñista Party. Robles's endorsement went to David Samudio of the PLN. A civil engineer and architect of middle-class background, Samudio had served as an assemblyman and had held several cabinet posts, including that of finance minister under Robles. In addition to the PLN, he was supported by the Labor and Agrarian Party (Partido Laborista Agrario, PALA) and other splinter groups. (Party labels are deceptive; the PALA, for example, had neither an agrarian base nor organized labor support.) A PDC candidate, Antonio González Revilla, also entered the race. Because many of Arias's supporters believed that the 1964 election had been rigged, the principal issue in the 1968 campaign became the prospective validity of the election itself. The credibility crisis became acute in February 1968 when the president of the Electoral Tribunal, a Samudio supporter, closed the central registration office in a dispute with the other two members of the tribunal, Arias supporters, over electoral procedures. The government brought suit before the Supreme Court for their dismissal, on the grounds that each man had a son who was a candidate for elective office. Thereupon González Revilla, with the backing of Arias, petitioned the National Assembly to begin impeachment proceedings against Robles for illegal interferences in electoral matters. Among other issues, Robles was accused of diverting public funds to Samudio's campaign. The National Assembly met in special session and appointed a commission to gather evidence. Robles, in turn, obtained a judgment from a municipal court that the assembly was acting unconstitutionally. The National Assembly chose to ignore a stay order issued by the municipal court pending the reconvening of the Supreme Court on April 1, and on March 14 it voted for impeachment. On March 24, the National Assembly found Robles guilty and declared him deposed. Robles and the National Guard ignored the proceedings, maintaining that they would abide by the decision of the Supreme Court when it reconvened. The Supreme Court, with only one dissenting vote, ruled the impeachment proceedings unconstitutional. The Electoral Tribunal subsequently ruled that thirty of the parliamentary deputies involved in the impeachment proceedings were ineligible for reelection. Robles, with the support of the National Guard, retained the presidency. The election took place on May 12, 1968, as scheduled, and tension mounted over the succeeding eighteen days as the Election Board and the Electoral Tribunal delayed announcing the results. Finally the Election Board declared that Arias had carried the election by 175,432 votes to 133,887 for Samudio and 11,371 for González Revilla. The Electoral Tribunal, senior to the Board and still loyal to Robles, protested, but the commander of the National Guard, Brigadier General Bolívar Vallarino, despite past animosity toward Arias, supported the conclusion of the Board. Arias took office on October 1, demanding the immediate return of the Canal Zone to Panamanian jurisdiction and announcing a change in the leadership of the National Guard. He attempted to remove the two most senior officers, Vallarino and Colonel José María Pinilla, and appoint Colonel Bolívar Urrutia to command the force. On October 11 the Guard, for the third time, removed Arias from the presidency. With seven of his eight ministers and twenty-four members of the National Assembly, Arias took refuge in the Canal Zone. The government of Torrijos and the National Guard The overthrow of Arias provoked student demonstrations and rioting in some of the slum areas of Panama City. The peasants in Chiriquí Province battled guardsmen sporadically for several months, but the Guard retained control. Urrutia was initially arrested but was later persuaded to join in the two-man provisional junta headed by Pinilla. Vallarino remained in retirement. The original cabinet appointed by the junta was rather broad-based and included several Samudio supporters and one Arias supporter. After the first three months, however, five civilian cabinet members resigned, accusing the new government of dictatorial practices. The provisional junta moved swiftly to consolidate government control. Several hundred actual or potential political leaders were arrested on charges of corruption or subversion. Others went into voluntary or imposed exile, and property owners were threatened with expropriation. The National Assembly and all political parties were disbanded, and the University of Panama was closed for several months while its faculty and student body were purged. The communications media were brought under control through censorship, intervention in management, or expropriation. Pinilla, who assumed the title of president, had declared that his government was provisional and that free elections were to be scheduled. In January 1969, however, power actually rested in the hands of Omar Torrijos and Boris Martínez, commander and chief of staff, respectively, of the Guard. In early March, a speech by Martinez promising agrarian reform and other measures radical enough to alarm landowners and entrepreneurs provoked a coup within the coup. Torrijos assumed full control, and Martinez and three of his supporters in the military government were exiled. Torrijos stated that "there would be less impulsiveness" in government without Martinez. Torrijos did not denounce the proposed reforms, but he assured Panamanian and United States investors that their interests were not threatened. Torrijos, now a brigadier general, became even more firmly entrenched in power after thwarting a coup attempted by Colonels Amado Sanjur, Luis Q. Nentzen Franco, and Ramiro Silvera in December 1969. While Torrijos was in Mexico, the three colonels declared him deposed. Torrijos rushed back to Panama, gathered supporters at the garrison in David, and marched triumphantly into the capital. The colonels followed earlier competitors of Torrijos into exile. Because the governing junta (Colonel Pinilla and his deputy, Colonel Urrutia) had not opposed the abortive coup, Torrijos replaced them with two civilians, Demetrio B. Lakas, an engineer well liked among businessmen, and Arturo Sucre, a lawyer and former director of the national lottery. Lakas was designated "provisional president", and Sucre was appointed his deputy. In late 1969 a close associate of Torrijos announced the formation of the New Panama Movement. This movement was originally intended to organize peasants, workers, and other social groups and was patterned after that of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party. No organizational structure was established, however, and by 1971 the idea had been abandoned. The government party was revived under a different name, the Democratic Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Democrático, PRD) in the late 1970s. A sweeping cabinet reorganization and comments of high-ranking officials in 1971 portended a shift in domestic policy. Torrijos expressed admiration for the socialist trends in the military governments of Peru and Bolivia. He also established a mutually supportive relationship with Cuba's Fidel Castro. Torrijos carefully distanced himself from the Panamanian Marxist left. The political label he appeared to wear most comfortably was "populist". In 1970 he declared, "Having finished with the oligarchy, the Panamanian has his own worth with no importance to his origin, his cradle, or where he was born." Torrijos worked on building a popular base for his government, forming an alliance among the National Guard and the various sectors of society that had been the objects of social injustice at the hands of the oligarchy, particularly the long-neglected campesinos. He regularly traveled by helicopter to villages throughout the interior to hear their problems and to explain his new programs. In addition to the National Guard and the campesinos, the populist alliance that Torrijos formed as a power base included students, the People's Party (Partido del Pueblo, PdP), and portions of the working classes. Support for Torrijos varied among interest groups and over time. The alliance contained groups, most notably the Guard and students, that were traditionally antagonistic toward one another and groups that traditionally had little concern with national politics, e.g., the rural sector. Nationalism, in the form of support of the efforts of the Torrijos regime to obtain control over the canal through a new treaty with the United States, provided the glue for maintaining political consensus. In the early 1970s, the strength of the alliance was impressive. Disloyal or potentially disloyal elements within the National Guard and student groups were purged; increased salaries, perquisites, and positions of political power were offered to the loyal majority. The adherence of the middle classes was procured partly through more jobs. In return for its support, the PdP was allowed to operate openly when all other political parties were outlawed. The Torrijos effort to secure political support in the rural sector was an innovation in Panamanian politics. With the exception of militant banana workers in the western provinces of Chiriquí and Bocas del Toro, the campesinos traditionally have had little concern with national political issues. Unlike much of Latin America, in Panama the elite is almost totally urban based, rather than being a landed aristocracy. No elections were held under the military government until April 1970, when the town of San Miguelito, incorporated as the country's sixty-fourth municipal district, was allowed to elect a mayor, treasurer, and municipal council. Candidates nominated by trade groups and other nonpartisan bodies were elected indirectly by a council that had been elected by neighborhood councils. Subsequently, the new system was extended throughout the country, and in 1972 the 505-member National Assembly of Municipal Representatives met in Panama City to confirm Torrijos's role as head of government and to approve a new constitution. The new document greatly expanded governmental powers at the expense of civil liberties. The state also was empowered to "oversee the rational distribution of land" and, in general, to regulate or initiate economic activities. In a reference to the Canal Zone, the Constitution also declared the ceding of national territory to any foreign country to be illegal. The governmental initiatives in the economy, legitimated by the new Constitution, were already underway. The government had announced in early 1969 its intention to implement 1962 legislation by distributing 700,000 hectares of land within 3 years to 61,300 families. Acquisition and distribution progressed much more slowly than anticipated, however. Nevertheless, major programs were undertaken. Primary attention and government assistance went to farmers grouped in organizations that were initially described as cooperatives but were in fact commercial farming operations by state-owned firms. The government also established companies to operate banana plantations—partly because a substantial amount of the land obtained under the land-reform laws was most suited to banana cultivation and had belonged to international fruit companies. Educational reforms instituted by Torrijos emphasized vocational and technica training at the expense of law, liberal arts, and the humanities. The programs introduced on an experimental basis in some elementary and secondary schools resembled the Cuban system of "basic schools in the countryside". New schools were established in rural areas in which half the student's time was devoted to instruction in farming. Agricultural methods and other practical skills were taught to urban students as well, and ultimately the new curriculum was to become obligatory even in private schools. Although the changes were being instituted gradually, they met strong resistance from the upper-middle classes and particularly from teachers. Far-reaching reforms were also undertaken in health care. A program of integrated medical care became available to the extended family of anyone who had been employed for the minimal period required to qualify for social security. A wide range of services was available not only to the worker's spouse and children, but to parents, aunts, uncles, cousins—to any dependent relative. Whereas in the past medical facilities had been limited almost entirely to Panama City, under Torrijos hospitals were built in several provincial cities. Clinics were established throughout the countryside. Medical-school graduates were required to spend at least two years in a rural internship servicing the scattered clinics. Torrijos also undertook an ambitious program of public works. The construction of new roads and bridges contributed particularly to greater prosperity in the rural areas. Although Torrijos showed greater interest in rural development than in urban problems, he also promoted urban housing and office construction in Panama City. These projects were funded, in part, by both increased personal and corporate taxes and increased efficiency in tax collection. The 1972 enactment of a new labor code attempted to fuse the urban working class into the populist alliance. Among other things the code provided obligatory collective agreements, obligatory payroll deduction of union fees, the establishment of a superior labor tribunal, and the incorporation of some 15,000 additional workers, including street vendors and peddlers, into labor unions. At the same time, the government attempted unsuccessfully to unite the nation's three major labor confederations into a single, government-sponsored organization. Meanwhile, Torrijos lured foreign investment by offering tax incentives and provisions for the unlimited repatriation of capital. In particular, international banking was encouraged to locate in Panama, to make the country a regional financial center. A law adopted in 1970 facilitated offshore banking. Numerous banks, largely foreign owned, were licensed to operate in Panama; some were authorized solely for external transactions. Funds borrowed abroad could be loaned to foreign borrowers without being taxed by Panama. Most of the reforms benefiting workers and peasants were undertaken between 1971 and 1973. Economic problems beginning in 1973 led to some backtracking on social programs. A new labor law passed in 1976, for example, withdrew much of the protection provided by the 1972 labor code, including compulsory collective bargaining. The causes of these economic difficulties included such external factors as the decline in world trade, and thus canal traffic. Domestic problems included a decline in agricultural production that many analysts attributed to the failure of the economic measures of the Torrijos government. The combination of a steady decline in per capita gross national product, inflation, unemployment, and massive foreign debts adversely affected all sectors of society and contributed heavily to the gradual erosion of the populist alliance that had firmly supported Torrijos in the early 1970s. Increasingly, corruption in governing circles and within the National Guard also had become an issue in both national and international arenas. Torrijos's opponents were quick to note that his relatives appeared in large numbers on the public payroll. The treaty negotiations During the first two years after the overthrow of Arias, while the Guard consolidated its control of the government and Torrijos rooted out his competitors within the Guard, the canal issue was downplayed and generally held in abeyance. By 1971, however, the negotiation of new treaties had reemerged as the primary goal of the Torrijos regime. In the 1970s, about 5 percent of world trade, by volume, some 20 to 30 ships daily, were passing through the canal. Tolls had been kept artificially low, averaging a little more than US$10,000 for the 8- to 10-hour passage, and thus entailing a United States government subsidy. Nevertheless, canal use was declining in the 1970s, because of alternate routes, vessels being too large to transit the canal, and the decline in world trade. The canal, nevertheless, was clearly vital to Panama's economy. Some 30 percent of Panama's foreign trade passed through the canal. About 25 percent of the country's foreign exchange earnings and 13 percent of its GNP were associated with canal activities. The level of traffic and the revenue thereby generated were key factors in the country's economic life. Under the 1903 treaty, the governor of the Canal Zone was appointed by the president of the United States and reported to the secretary of war. The governor also served as president of the Canal Zone Company, and reported to a board of directors appointed by the secretary of war. United States jurisdiction in the zone was complete, and residence was restricted to United States government employees and their families. On the eve of the adoption of new treaties in 1977, residents of the Canal Zone included some 40,000 United States citizens, two-thirds of whom were military personnel and their dependents, and about 7,500 Panamanians. The Canal Zone was, in effect, a United States military outpost with its attendant prosperous economy, which stood in stark contrast to the poverty on the other side of its fences. By the 1960s military activities in the zone were under the direction of the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The primary mission of SOUTHCOM was defending the canal. In addition, SOUTHCOM served as the nerve center for a wide range of military activities in Latin America, including communications, training Latin American military personnel, overseeing United States military assistance advisory groups, and conducting joint military exercises with Latin American armed forces. Negotiations for a new set of treaties were resumed in June 1971, but little was accomplished until March 1973 when, at the urging of Panama, the UN Security Council called a special meeting in Panama City. A resolution calling on the United States to negotiate a "just and equitable" treaty was vetoed by the United States on the grounds that the disposition of the canal was a bilateral matter. Panama had succeeded, however, in dramatizing the issue and gaining international support. The United States signaled renewed interest in the negotiations in late 1973, when Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker was dispatched to Panama as a special envoy. In early 1974, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Panamanian foreign minister Juan Antonio Tack announced their agreement on eight principles to serve as a guide in negotiating a "just and equitable treaty eliminating once and for all the causes of conflict between the two countries." The principles included recognition of Panamanian sovereignty in the Canal Zone; immediate enhancement of economic benefits to Panama; a fixed expiration date for United States control of the canal; increased Panamanian participation in the operation and defense of the canal; and continuation of United States participation in defending the canal. American attention was distracted later in 1974 by the Watergate scandal, impeachment proceedings, and ultimately the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. Negotiations with Panama were accelerated by President Gerald R. Ford in mid-1975 but became deadlocked on four central issues: the duration of the treaty; the amount of canal revenues to go to Panama; the amount of territory United States military bases would occupy during the life of the treaty; and the United States demand for a renewable forty- or fifty-year lease of bases to defend the canal. Panama was particularly concerned with the open-ended presence of United States military bases and held that the emerging United States position retained the bitterly opposed "perpetuity" provision of the 1903 treaty and thus violated the spirit of the 1974 Kissinger-Tack principles. The sensitivity of the issue during negotiations was illustrated in September 1975 when Kissinger's public declaration that "the United States must maintain the right, unilaterally, to defend the Panama Canal for an indefinite future" provoked a furor in Panama. A group of some 600 angry students stoned the United States embassy. Negotiations remained stalled during the United States election campaign of 1976 when the canal issue, particularly the question of how the United States could continue to guarantee its security under new treaty arrangements, became a major topic of debate. Torrijos replaced Foreign Minister Tack with Aquilino Boyd in April 1976, and early the next year Boyd was replaced by Nicolás González Revilla. Rómulo Escobar Bethancourt, meanwhile, became Panama's chief negotiator. Panama's growing economic difficulties made the conclusion of a new treaty, accompanied by increased economic benefits, increasingly vital. The new Panamanian negotiating team was thus encouraged by the high priority that President Jimmy Carter placed on rapidly concluding a new treaty. Carter added Sol Linowitz, former ambassador to the OAS, to the United States negotiating team shortly after taking office in January 1977. Carter held that United States interests would be protected by possessing "an assured capacity or capability" to guarantee that the canal would remain open and neutral after Panama assumed control. This view contrasted with previous United States demands for an ongoing physical military presence and led to the negotiation of two separate treaties. This changed point of view, together with United States willingness to provide a considerable amount of bilateral development aid in addition to the revenues associated with Panama's participation in the operation of the canal, were central to the August 10, 1977 announcement that agreement had been reached on two new treaties. References History of Panama by period Panama

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Jamie Dantzscher

Jamie Annette Dantzscher (born May 2, 1982) is an American former artistic gymnast. She was a member of the bronze-medal-winning American team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Early life Dantzscher was born in Canoga Park, California and raised in San Dimas, California. She graduated from San Dimas High School. She trained at Charter Oak Gliders in Covina under Beth Kline-Rybacki and Steve Rybacki. Elite gymnastics career Dantzscher was a member of the United States national gymnastics team for eight years, starting in 1994. In her international debut, the 1996 City of Popes competition in France, she won the all-around and floor exercise titles. She competed in her first senior U.S. Nationals in 1997, finishing sixth in the all-around. Her placement would have qualified her to the U.S. squad for the 1997 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, but at 15, she was too young to meet the International Federation of Gymnastics' newly raised minimum age requirement. She went on to compete at the 1999 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tianjin, where she placed sixth with the American team. In 2000, Dantzscher won her first national all-around medal, a bronze. She placed fifth at the Olympic Trials, securing a berth on the U.S. team for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. 2000 Olympics Dantzscher fell on the floor exercise during the team preliminaries in Sydney but competed well in the team finals, scoring 9.429 on vault, 9.700 on the uneven bars and 9.712 on floor. The U.S. team initially finished fourth, behind Romania, Russia, and China. Dantzscher was one of the most visible members of the U.S. Olympic team in the media because of her outspoken opposition to the policies of the national team coordinator, Béla Károlyi, whom she called a "puppeteer". Her opinions about Károlyi, which were echoed by some of her teammates and their coaches, were published in many major news outlets during the Olympics. On April 28, 2010, Dantzscher and the other women on the 2000 Olympic team were awarded the bronze medal in the team competition when it was discovered that the Chinese team had falsified the age of one of its gymnasts, Dong Fangxiao. Dong's results were nullified, and the International Olympic Committee stripped the Chinese team of its medal. NCAA career After the Olympics, Dantzscher joined the UCLA Bruins gymnastics team. During her NCAA career, she achieved a UCLA record 28 perfect ten scores. In her first meet as a Bruin, she scored perfect tens on both of the events she competed, floor and bars, making her the first UCLA gymnast to score a perfect ten on her debut collegiate routine. In her four years of NCAA competition, Dantzscher achieved All-American honors 15 times, earned three Pac-10 individual titles, and was a part of three NCAA Championship-winning Bruins teams. She received the 2004 AAI Award. Dantzscher was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016. Career Perfect 10.0 Post-gymnastics career During the 2008–09 season, Dantzscher was an assistant coach for Arizona State. Before that, she coached at three gyms in California: Diamond Elite Gymnastics in Chino, Club Champion in Pasadena, and East Bay Sports Academy in Concord. On March 29, 2017, Dantzscher was one of several former gymnasts who testified before Congress about the sexual abuse committed by USA Gymnastics' national team doctor, Larry Nassar. She indicated she had been abused "all over the world", and that she thought she was the only one. Personal life Dantzscher's parents and her six siblings all have first names beginning with the letter J. Two of her younger sisters, twins Janelle and Jalynne, also competed on the UCLA gymnastics team. Jalynne competed with the Bruins for one season before retiring from gymnastics because of a recurring injury. Dantzscher's oldest sister, Jennifer Pippin, died in April 2017 of asthma-related causes. Dantzscher is a Latter-day Saint. She is the sister-in-law of Brandon Crawford, the San Francisco Giants shortstop, who is married to Jalynne Dantzscher. In February 2017, three former gymnasts, Dantzscher, Jeanette Antolin and Jessica Howard, gave an interview with 60 Minutes in which they accused Larry Nassar of sexually abusing them. The gymnasts also alleged that the "emotionally abusive environment" at the national team training camps run by Béla and Márta Károlyi at the Karolyi Ranch gave Nassar an opportunity to take advantage of the gymnasts and made them afraid to speak up about the abuse. References 1982 births Living people Latter Day Saints from California American female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1999 Pan American Games Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in gymnastics Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States UCLA Bruins women's gymnasts People from San Dimas, California U.S. women's national team gymnasts Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games NCAA gymnasts who have scored a perfect 10

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Chenar, Khuzestan

Chenar (, also Romanized as Chenār) is a village in Qilab Rural District, Alvar-e Garmsiri District, Andimeshk County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 58, in 10 families. References Populated places in Andimeshk County

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List of members of the League of American Writers

The League of American Writers was a so-called "mass organization" initiated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935 and terminated in January 1943. A small and elite organization, the League included professional novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, and literary critics. Despite the prominent role of the CPUSA in the establishment and control of the League, one should not make the assumption that any particular individual on this list was a "Communist," however. The members of the League of American Writers ranged from active and open Communist Party members to "fellow travelers" who consciously followed the party's political line without being subject to the formal discipline of party membership to individuals who merely sympathized with one or another broad policy objective being touted by the League, such as stopping the spread of fascism or supporting the cause of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Most members belonged to the latter group. The office of the League of American Writers was burglarized shortly before the National Council voted to terminate the organization in January 1943 and its membership list was taken. This page is a list of members of the League of American Writers compiled and published by Franklin Folsom, Executive Secretary for five of the seven years of the league's existence. Folsom worked from published League Bulletins, organizational minutes, partial membership lists obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, as cross-checked to a similar list compiled by Tom Wolfe for his doctoral dissertation. This list follows that published as Appendix A of Folsom's 1994 memoir. Membership list A Cyrilly Abels Marcel Acier Louis Adamic (1899–1951) Frederic L. Adams Léonie Adams (1899–1988) Irving Adler (1913- ) James Agee (1909–1955) Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) George Sumner Albee (1905–1964) Sidney S. Alberts Rhoda Truax Aldrich Sidney Alexander Benjamin Algase Nelson Algren (1909–1981) Lewis Allan (1903–1986) William Alland (1916–1997) James S. Allen (1906–1991) Jay Allen (1900–1972) Sally Elliot Allen Sarah Van Alstyne Allen Henry Alsberg George Ames (1910–?) Lou Amster (1910–1993) A.E. Anderson Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959) Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) Ruth Olive Angel Charles Angoff (1902–1979) Ruth Nanda Anshen Katharine Anthony (1877–1965) Benjamin Appel (1908–1977) Helen Appleton Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003) Louis Aragon (1897–1982) Arthur Arent (1904–1972) Eugene Armfeld Arnold B. Armstrong Louise V. Armstrong Thurman Arnold (1891–1969) Newton Arvin (1900–1963) Nathan Asch (1902–1964) Sholem Asch (1880–1957) Harriet Ashbrook (1898–1946) George Asness Leopold Atlas (1907–1954) W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Nathan Ausubel (1898–1986) B Sanora Babb (1907–2005) Georgia Backus (1900–1983) Joe Baich J.S. Balch Robert Lee Baker James Baldwin (1924–1987) Emery Balint Jenny Ballou Margaret Culkin Banning (1891–1982) Wayne Barker Samuel Barlow (1892–1982) Will Barnet John D. Barry (1866–1942) Dorothy Baruch Emjo Basshe (1900–1939) Hamilton Basso (1904–1969) Ralph Bates Marie Baumer Joseph Warren Beach (1880–1957) Carleton Beals (1893–1979) Beril Becker Florence Becker Lennon (1895–1984) Nancy Bedford-Jones Albert Bein Nicholas Bela Cedric Belfrage (1904–1990) Ben Belitt (1911–2003) Emile Beliveau Thomas Bell (1903–1961) Robert C. Benchley (1889–1945) M. R. Bendiner Agnes E. Benedict (1889–1950) Eduard Beneš (1884–1948) William Rose Benét (1886–1950) Ben Bengal Nora Benjamin (1899–1988) Milly Bennett (1909–1989) Ria Romilly Benson Theodore Bentley Rion Leonardo Bercovici (1903–1976) José Bergamín Josef Berger (1903–1971) Helen Bergovoy Martin Berkeley Harold Berman Lionel Berman (1906–1968) Lawrence Bernard (1905–1968) Aline Bernstein (1881–1955) Joseph Bernstein (1908–1975) Samuel Bernstein (1905–1977) Alvah Bessie (1904–1985) Simon Bessie A. I. Bezzerides (1908–2007) Herbert Biberman (1900–1971) Karl Billinger (1902–1979) Anthony Bimba (1894–1982) Louis P. Birk Joran Birkeland John Peale Bishop (1892–1944) Beatrice Bisno Edwin Bjorkman (1866–1951) Algernon D. Black Jean Fergusson Black Ivan Black (1904–1979) Clarice Blake Eleanor Blake Ellen Blake William J. Blake (1894–1968) Henry Blankfort, Jr. Louise Blankfort Michael Blankfort (1907–1982) Marc Blitzenstein (1905–1964) Bruce Bliven (1889–1977) Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) Anita Block (1882–1967) Pauline Bloom Frederick A. Blossom (1878–1974) Albert E. Blumberg Maxwell Bodenheim (1893–1954) Harold A. Boner (1904–1971) Stephen Bonsal (1865–1951) Robert O. Boothe Allen Boretz (1900–1986) G. A. Borgese B. A. Botkin (1901–1975) Louis Boudin (1874–1952) Florence W. Bowers Herman Boxer Ruth Fitch Boyd Thomas Boyd (1898–1935) Polly Boyden Richard Owen Boyer (1903–1973) John Boylan Ernest Brace Robert A. Brady Moe Bragin (1900-1986) Millen Brand (1906–1980) Mort Braus Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) Harvey Bresler Bessie Breuer (1893–1975) Dorothy Brewster (1883–1975) Robert Stephen Briffault (1876–1948) John Bright Ayers Brinser Alter Brody Anne Bromberger Louis Broomfield (1896–1956) J. Bronowski (1908–1974) Ernest Brooks Jerome E. Brooks (1895–1983) Marie Short Brooks Phillip Brooks (1899–1975) Van Wyck Brooks (1886–1963) Heywood Broun (1888–1939) Julie Brousseau Earl Browder (1891–1973) Bob Brown Dee Brown (1908–2002) John Mason Brown (1900–1969) Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989) Violet Brown Waldo R. Browne Herbert Bruncken (1896-unknown) Harold Buchman Sidney Buchman (1902–1975) Nathaniel Buchwlad Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) Henrietta Buckmaster (1909–1983) Harriet F. Bunn Edwin Berry Burgum (1894–1979) Fielding Burke (1869–1968) Kenneth Burke (1897–1993) Whitney Ewing Burnett (1899–1973) Paul Burns Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005) Norman Burnside Jane Burr Struthers Burt Paul Burton-Mercur Anthony Buttietta Harold Witter Bynner (1881–1968) C Harriet Cahn Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987) Alan Calmer Victor Campbell Wallace Campbell Martha Campion Robert Cantwell (1908–1978) Harry Carlisle (1910–1966) Helen Grace Carlisle Walter Carmon Cecilio J. Carnicio Marjorie Barth Carpenter Robert Carse (1902–1971) Saul Carson Vera Caspary (1904–1987) Molly Castle John Chamberlain (1904–1995) Alene Dalton Chapin (1915–1986) Katherine Garrison Chapin (1891–1978) John Cheever (1912–1982) Ralph Cheney Haakon Chevalier (1901–1985) Chao-Ting Chi Marquis W. Childs (1903–1990) Richard S. Childs Edward Chodorov (1904–1988) Jerome Chodorv Mady Christians (1892–1951) Henry E. Christman (1906–1980) Stoyan Christowe Eleanor Clark (1913–1996) Maurice Clark Faith Clarke Eugene Clay Albert Edward Clements Harold Clurman (1901–1980) Robert M. Coates (1897–1973) Humphrey Cobb (1899–1944) Lee J. Cobb (1911–1976) Stanton A. Coblentz (1896–1982) Lester Cohen (1901–1963) Charles E. Colahan Merle Colby (1902–1969) Lester Cole (1904–1985) Eugene Colehan Lloyd Collins Richard J. Collins Louis Colman (1902–1969) David Commons Groff Conklin (1904–1968) Marc Connelly (1890–1980) Harry Conover Ellen Conried Jack Conroy (1899–1990) Aaron Copland (1900–1990) Seymour A. Copstein Kathryn Coe Cordell Lewis Corey (1892–1953) Paul Corey (1903–1993) Norman Corwin George S. Counts (1889–1974) Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989) Marian Cox (1898–1983) Sidney Cox Harold Coy C. Ward Crampton Bruce Crawford Ruth Elizabeth Crawford Kyle Crichton (1896–1960) Alexander L. Crosby (1906–1980) Caresse Crosby (1892–1970) Ken Crossen Countee Cullen (1903–1946) William Cunningham Dale Curran Clifton Cuthbert Philip Cuthbert D Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977) David Daiches (1912–2005) James Daly (1918–1978) Robert D'Ambry H.W.L. Dana (1881–1950) George Dangerfield (1904–1986) Jerry Danzig Danny Dare (1905–1996) Marcia Davenport (1903–1996) Edward David Joy Davidman (1915–1960) Frank Davis Frank Marshall Davis (1905–1987) George Davis Horace Bancroft Davis Jerome Davis (1891–1979) Lavinia Riker Davis Robert A. Davis Robert Gorham Davis Stuart Davis (1894–1964) Edward Davison (1898–1971) Paul de Kruif (1890–1971) Merrill Denison (1893–1975) Leon Dennen August Derleth (1909–1971) Alvara DeSilva Margo DeSilva Karl William Detzer (1891–1987) Albert Deutsch Babette Deutsch (1895–1982) Peter De Vries (1910–1993) Gertrude Diamont Pietro di Donato (1911–1991) Frieda Meredith Dietz George Dillon (1906–1968) Howard Dimsdale Loren Disney Martha Dodd (1908–1990) William E. Dodd, Jr. James Dombrowski (1897–1983) Ambrogio Donini Edward Donahoe John Dos Passos (1896–1970) Clifford Dowdey (1904–1979) Olin Downes (1886–1955) Muriel Draper (1886–1952) Theodore Draper (1912–2006) Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) John Drury (1898–1972) James Dugan (1912–1967) John Dunn Robert Dunn (1877–1955) Philip Dunne (1908–1992) F. W. Dupee (1904–1979) Walter Duranty (1884–1957) Arnaud d'Usseau (1916–1990) Jay du Von E Horace Ainsworth Richard Eberhart (1904–2005) Irwin Edman (1896–1954) David Efron Lajor Egri (1888–1967) Leonard Ehrlich Emilio Ehricos Albert Einstein (1879–1955) Emanuel Eisenberg Alfred Eisner Harold Elby Edward Eliscu (1902–1998) Stella Eliscu Peter Ellis Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) Mary Elting Cyril Endfield (1914–1995) Guy Endore (1901–1971) Fannie Engle Paul Engle (1908–1991) H. C. Engelbrecht Stuart Engstrand (1904–1955) Angna Enters (1907–1989) Julius J. Epstein (1909–2000) Philip G. Epstein (1909–1952) Nathan Essell Renie Eulenburg-Weiner Mary Cummings Eudy (1871–1952) William Everts (1902–1988) Frederic Ewen (1899–1988) F Beatrice Faber Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999) Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880–1956) Edward Falkowski (1901-1984) John Fante (1911–1983) Francis Edward Faragoh Finis Farr (1904–1982) James T. Farrell (1904–1979) Howard Fast (1914–2003) Arthur Huff Fauset (1899–1983) Jessie Redmon Fauset (1884–1961) Franklin Fearing (1892–1962) Kenneth Fearing (1902–1961) Leon Feinberg I.F. Stone (1907–1989) David Fenwick Edward Fenwick Otis Ferguson (1907–1943) Harvey Fergusson (1890–1971) Robert Ferrari Mathild Ferro Theodore E. Ferro Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958) Arthur Davison Ficke (1883–1945) Ben Field (US author) (1900-1986) Frederick Vanderbilt Field (1905–2000) Kathleen Field Sarah Bard Field (1883–1974) Allen A. Fields Joseph A. Fields (1895–1966) Irving Fineman Maxine Finsterwald Bruno Fischer (1908–1992) Louis Fischer (1896–1970) Marjorie Fischer (1903–1961) Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) Vardis Fischer (1895–1968) Dudley Fitts (1903–1968) Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985) Grace Hodgson Flandrau Rose E. Flanell Hildegarde Flanner (1899–1987) Charles Flato (1908–1984) Ethel Fleming John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950) Eleanor Flexner (1908–1995) Angel Flores William Floyd (1871–1943) Martha Foley (1897–1977) Franklin Folsom Betsy Foote Diana Forbes-Robertson Charles Henri Ford Fanya Foss Orline Dorman Foster William Z. Foster (1881–1961) Michael Fraenkel (1896–1957) Bernhard Frank Waldo David Frank (1889–1967) Erich Franzen Frank S. Freeman Ira Henry Freeman Joseph Freeman (1897–1965) Emily Freidkin Robert Frost (1874–1963) Daniel Fuchs (1909–1993) Sol Funaroff (1911–1942) Julian Funt G Joseph Gaer (1893–1946) Wanda Gág (1893–1946) Lewis Galantiere Lewis Gannett (1891–1966) Sender Garlin (1902–1999) Troy Garrison Samuel Gaspar John W. Gassner (1903–1967) Michael Gates Mary Gawthorpe (1881–1973) Virgil Geddes (1897–1989) Lawrence Gellert (1898-c. 1979) Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) Manfred Georg Thomas Gerson Robert Gessner (1907–1968) Sheridan Gibney (1904–1988) Elsa Gidlow (1898–1986) Helen Earle Gilberta Leland Gilbert Mercedes Gilbert (1894–1952) Lauren Gilfillan (1909–1978) Lillian Barnard Gilkes Strickland Gilliland Mildred Gilman Arnold Gingrich (1903–1976) Louis Ginsberg Dorothy Glaser Baruch Glassman Charles Glenn Lillian G. Glenn H. H. Glintenkamp Alexander Godin Michael Gold (1894–1967) David A. Goldberg Nan Golden Beatrice Goldsmith Morton S. Goldstein Lawrence A. Goldston Joseph Gollomb (1881–1950) Manuel Gomez (1895–1950) Henry Goodman Francis Goodrich Murray Goodwin Don Gordon (1911–1974) Eugene Gordon (1891–1974) Ruth Gordon (1896–1985) Quentin P. Gore Jay Gorney (1894–1990) Harry Gottlieb (1895–1993) James Gow (1908–1952) Emmett Gowen Isacque Graeber (1905–1984) Oskar Maria Graf (1894–1967) Edith Grafton Samuel Grafton Harry Granick Morton Grant Mark Graubard James Gray (1899–1984) Bernard Grebanier (1903–1977) Johnny Green (1908–1989) Sara Greenhill Richard Greenleaf David Charles Greenwood Horace Gregory (1898–1982) William Lindsay Gresham (1909–1962) Jay Greulich Hilda Growald Antoni Groniwicz Louis Grudin (1898–1993) Martha Gruening Leo Grulio Bernhard G. Guerney (1894–1979) Frances Gunther John Gunther (1901–1970) Ramon Guthrie (1896–1973) Norbert Guterman (1900–1984) H Louis Hacker (1899–1987) Albert Hackett (1900–1995) Carl Haessler (1888–1972) J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889–1951) Stuart Halden Hope Hale Mauritz A. Hallgren (1899–1956) Albert Halper (1904–1984) Maurice Halperin (1906–1995) Florence Hamilton Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) Frederic Hand John Handcos Harry Hansen (1884–1977) Merlin Hansen Louis Harap (1904–1998) E. Y. Harburg (1896–1981) Rachel Harlen Jessie Fauset Harris (1882–1961) M. Tjader Harris Reed Harris (1909–1982) Alan Harrison W. E. Harrison Robert Harron Henry Hart (1903-1990) Marian Hart (1892–1940) Moss Hart (1904–1961) Walter Hart (1906–1973) Gwendolen Haste Clarence Hathaway (1892–1963) Walter Havighurst (1901–1994) Elizabeth Hawes (1903–1971) Willard Hawkins Edith Garrigues Hawthorne Alfred Hayes (1911–1985) Howard Hays Hofman Reynolds Hays (1904–1980) David Hedley Ethel McCall Head Nora Helgren George S. Hellman Lillian Hellman (1905–1984) Ernest Hemingway (1898–1961) Leon Srabian Herald Josephine Herbst (1897–1969) Angelo Herndon (1913–1997) Robert Herrick (1868–1938) John Herrmann (1900–1959) Melville J. Herskovits (1895–1963) David Hertz Allan Hewitt DuBose Heyward (1885–1940) Granville Hicks (1901–1982) James Hill (1916–2001) Norman E. Himes Alfred Hirsch Peretz Hirschbein (1880–1948) Wilder Hobson (1906–1965) Edward Hodes Carroll Hollister Eugene C. Holmes Hope Holway Milton Howard Sidney Howard (1891–1939) Quincy Howe (1900–1977) Leo Huberman (1903–1968) Warren C. Huddlestone B. W. Huebsch Edward Huebsch Harriet Hughes Langston Hughes (1902–1967) Rolfe Humphries (1894–1969) Alice Riggs Hunt (1884-1974) Ian McLellan Hunter Herman Hurlbut Fannie Hurst (1899–1968) Leo T. Hurwitz John Marcellus Huston (1906–1987) Grace Hutchins (1885–1969) I Agatha Illes Boris Ingster Theodore Irwin Sulamith Ish-Kishor (1896–1977) Eitaro Ishigaki Joris Ivens (1898–1989) J Aunt Molly Jackson (1880–1960) Gardner Jackson Lewis Jacobs (1904–1997) Eli Jaffe Eugne Jaffe Henry Jaffe Bernard Jaffee Paul Jarrico (1915–1997) K Philip Keeney M Archibald MacLeish Arthur Miller O Shaemas O'Sheel P Myra Page R Sonia Raiziss S John Steinbeck I. F. Stone T Alexander Trachtenberg Lawrence Treat U Louis Untermeyer Footnotes See also League of American Writers Communist Party USA

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Onogawa

Onogawa may refer to: Onogawa Kisaburō, the 5th Yokozuna in sumo Kitataiki Akeyoshi, sumo wrestler with the elder name Onogawa Ōno River, a river that begins in Ōita Prefecture, Japan

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John Mark Painter

John Mark Painter (born c. 1967) is an American multi-instrumental musician, composer and arranger. He is best known for his role, with his wife, singer Fleming McWilliams, in the rock duo, Fleming and John. Painter grew up in Miami, and began playing trumpet, saxophone, bass, guitar and piano by age 11. Painter met McWilliams while attending Belmont College in Nashville, and immediately began collaborating on songs. While pursuing a record contract, Painter began playing studio sessions for artists like Indigo Girls, Nanci Griffith and Jewel. Fleming and John released its first album, Delusions of Grandeur, in 1995 for independent label R.E.X. Records, then Universal Records. Their second album, The Way We Are in 1999 notably showcased Painter's skills as arranger and as instrumentalist on a panoply of uncommon instruments. Painter continues to work heavily in the Nashville area as a studio musician, performing on albums by Carolyn Arends, Ben Folds Five, Fear of Pop, Owsley, Rich Creamy Paint (Rich Painter, who is John Mark Painter's nephew), Sixpence None the Richer, Gabe Dixon Band, Sevendust, Jon Foreman, Frally Folds and others. Also producing artist such as Shapiro, Pantana, and Alva Leigh for Dweeb Records at IHOF Studio. Painter was the composer for the 2005 animated film "Hoodwinked", the 2006 film "The Second Chance" starring Michael W. Smith, and the VeggieTales DVD "The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's". He is currently a member of the alternative rock band Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil with Steve Taylor, Jimmy Abegg and Peter Furler. Their first album, Goliath was released in November 2014. References External links People from Nashville, Tennessee American male songwriters 1967 births Living people Musicians from Miami Belmont University alumni Songwriters from Tennessee Songwriters from Florida Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil members

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Nalbert Bitencourt

Nalbert Tavares Bitencourt (born March 9, 1974), known as Nalbert, is a former Brazilian professional volleyball player. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. Nalbert is and played as passer-attacker. With Brazil national team he won two World Leagues (2003 and 2004), one World Cup (2003), a World (2002) and one Olympic gold medal. Sporting achievements National team 1995 South American Championship 1997 South American Championship 1997 World Grand Champions Cup 2001 FIVB World League 2001 South American Championship 2001 World Grand Champions Cup 2002 FIVB World League 2002 FIVB World Championship 2003 FIVB World League 2003 Pan American Games 2003 South American Championship 2003 FIVB World Cup 2004 Olympic Games 2007 FIVB World League Individual 1999 World Grand Champions Cup – Most Valuable Player 1997 World Grand Champions Cup – Best Scorer 1998–99 Brazilian Superliga – Most Valuable Player 2003 Pan American Games – Best Digger External links 1974 births Living people Brazilian men's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Brazil Olympic gold medalists for Brazil Brazilian people of French descent Volleyball players from Rio de Janeiro (city) Olympic medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 2003 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMFA-212

VMFA-212

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 212 (VMFA-212) was a United States Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet squadron. Most recently known as the "Lancers", the squadron was last based at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan and fell under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 12 (MAG-12) and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW). Due to a re-organization within Marine aviation, the squadron was deactivated in 2008. It is scheduled to be reactivated as an MV-22B squadron in 2019 under MAG 26 at MCAS New River, NC. Past mission as VMFA Support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force commander by destroying surface targets and enemy aircraft, day or night under all weather conditions during expeditionary, joint or combined operations. Conduct sea and air deployment operations. Conduct fire support. Conduct close air support. Conduct interdiction operations. Conduct joint suppression of enemy air defenses. Conduct air-to-air operations. Coordinate battle space maneuver and integrate with firepower. History World War II Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 212 was activated as Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-212), the "Hell Hounds", at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, Hawaii on 1 March 1942. Deploying in May to the South Pacific in their Grumman F4F Wildcats, the squadron was stationed at Tontouta on the island of New Caledonia, and later moved up to the Quoin Hill Airfield on the island of Efate. As preparations for the invasion of Guadalcanal increased, the squadron operated a detachment at Turtle Bay Airfield on Espiritu Santo until the arrival of VMO-251 ensured that the island was provided with adequate aerial defense. During the early part of the Guadalcanal campaign, VMF-212 sent detachments to operate with Cactus Air Force squadrons deployed to Henderson Field until the entire squadron was committed to the battle in mid-October. On June 27, 1942, a Wildcat of the squadron attacked a Royal Australian Air Force Catalina flying boat of No. 11 Squadron, having mistaken it for a Japanese aircraft. This led to the RAAF removing the red dot from the center of its roundel for the duration of the war in the Pacific in order to prevent confusion with the all-red hinomaru used as a roundel by Japanese aircraft. The squadron acquired an enviable record by destroying 64½ enemy planes including that of Toshio Ohta, a Japanese ace. Of this number, LtCol Harold "Indian Joe" Bauer, the squadron's first Commanding Officer, was credited with 11 kills and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor. The squadron returned to the United States in November 1942 and remained on the West Coast until June 1943 when they sailed for Midway Atoll. The squadron remained on Midway for two months and then returned to Espiritu Santo. By August 1943, VMF-212 was back in the Solomon Islands where they participated in the campaigns to retake Vella Lavella and Bougainville. From 20 October through 27 November 1943 the squadron was based out of Barakoma Airfield and supported operations in the Treasury Islands, Choiseul and Bougainville. By December 1943 they moved to Torokina Airfield and remained there until they moved again on 20 January 1944 this time to Piva Airfield. Another move came on 20 March when they transited to Green Island and later back to Vella Lavella. VMF-212 remained in the vicinity of the Solomons and Bismarck Islands for the remainder of 1944 running fighter sweeps against the Japanese garrison on Rabaul and providing close air support for ground forces on Bougainville. On 8 January 1945, VMF-212 landed on Samar and provided close air support for United States Army troops during the campaign to retake the Philippines. During this time they flew over Mindoro, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. It was also during this time that the squadron was a part of one of the worst aviation accidents of the war. At 09:40 on 24 January 1945, while taking off, 1Lt Karl Oerth of VMF-222 hit a lump in the runway, blew a tire and his Corsair careened wildly into his own squadron's revetment area, which was shared with VMF-212. It completely wiped out the tents housing the intelligence, oxygen, parachutes and materiel departments. Many men attempted to rescue the pilot but while they were making this brave effort the plane exploded and set off all its .50 cal ammunition. 14 men were killed and over 50 wounded during this incident. In June 1945 the squadron arrived at Okinawa on the and conducted operations from there until the end of the war. During the duration of World War II, VMF-212 was credited with shooting down 132½ enemy aircraft A Corsair which came to grief on Approach to Quoin Hill Airfield on Efate, Vanuatu is now a great dive attraction. Korean War VMF-212, with no nickname since its reactivation in 1946, was one of the first squadrons sent to Far East at the outbreak of the war. They remained in Japan until Marines were able to capture Kimpo Airfield after the Battle of Inchon. The squadron finally touched down in Korea on 18 September 1950 and were flying their first Corsair F4U-5 strikes by 20 September. The squadron was later moved to Wonson, North Korea late October 1951 than onto Yonpo Airfield in North Korea as the United Nations' forces continued their advance in the early winter of 1950. The squadron adopted the name "Devil Cats" and a new patch was designed by Roy Irwin, depicting a Devil Cat clutching a Two-Step serpent in its mouth on a red shield. After the Chinese counterattack in late November 1950, VMF-212 aircraft flew almost continuous close air support missions supporting the 1st Marine Division as they fought their way out of encirclement during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir while being stationed afloat aboard the . The squadron operated from the USS Bataan until 5 March 1951. VMF-212 moved to being land based at K3 Pohang, South Korea. A Grumman F9F Panther BuNo 123520 belonging to VMF-212 was destroyed by fire from other aircraft at K-3 in Korea July 30, 1951. The squadron left Korea in the spring or summer of 1951 and returned to Cherry Point NC. Those personnel who had extended enlistments transferred to VMF 214 at another Korean base. VMA-212's F4U Corsairs were replaced by upgraded AU-1 Corsairs in 1952. The AU-1 Corsair had armor plate around the cockpit and the oil coolers that were moved up to behind the engine. The squadron dropped more ordnance during the Korean War than any other Marine Corps squadron. The AU-1 Corsair had an additional center bomb rack which carried a bomb until the rough Marston Matting, which was laid over the old pock-marked Japanese landing strip at K-6, caused the center bomb rack to break off. The AU-1 Corsair could carry a bomb on its center rack, two bombs on the wing root bomb racks and bombs on its wing racks. It struggled up to enemy territory at approximately . After releasing its bombs, the AU-l again became a fast fighter in close support of the front lines and a fighter capable of up to in a dive. Colonel Robert Galer, a Marine Corps Ace from World War II, was the Commanding Officer of MAG-12 in 1952, when he was shot down behind enemy lines and protected by VMF-212 pilots until rescued by a Marine Corps helicopter. VMF-212 lost ten pilots in Korea. On 9 June 1952, VMF-212 was re-designated VMA-212. The 1950s and 1960s After the cease fire in Korea, VMA-212 traded their AU-1 Corsairs for Douglas AD-2 and AD-3 Skyraiders. They boarded the USS Wasp in 1954, and joined MAG-13 at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, TH. They began a slow transition to white-and-gray paint schemes for their planes and sported a colorful flightline as the "blue birds" were phased out. The Devil Cats set a record for flight hours in May of 1956, when their complement of fifty pilots kept its Skyraiders aloft for 4,276.2 hours for that month. The squadron accepted the WD tail code in August and transitioned to the jet age in March, 1958, with the North American FJ-4B Fury. The Devil Cats responded to the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis by prosecuting Operation Cannonball, in October of 1958. VMA-212 and the Black Sheep of VMA-214 flew their aircraft across the Pacific, from Hawaii to Japan, utilizing their air-to-air refueling capability. This marked the first time that a single-seat aircraft had ever done so, and it stood in the record books until it was eclipsed by VMF(AW)-451 in 1961, when the Warlords flew their F8U Crusaders from El Toro to Japan. The Devil Cats traded their Fury jets for the Douglas A4D-2 Skyhawks (redesignated A-4B) in August of 1961. The squadron received the Vought F-8B Crusader in July of 1963 and changed their name to Lancers. Ed Rutty, the Executive Officer, derived that name in keeping with the medieval theme of the Crusader. David and Mary Lerps designed the Lancer insignia that was used for decades, featuring crossed lances over a cross-emblazened shield. The squadron was redesignated a Marine Fighter Squadron, VMF-212. The squadron operated the day-fighter version of the Crusader for exactly one year, when they accepted the F-8D Crusader and were redesignated Marine (All Weather) Fighter Squadron, VMF(AW)-212 on July 1, 1964. The Vietnam War & the 1980s The squadron was informed, in the Fall of 1964, that it would embark aboard the for its 1965 WestPac cruise. The squadron immediately began carrier qualifications to sharpen their skills. Armed conflict in Vietnam was looming as a reality at the time and the squadron upgraded to the ground-attack version of the Crusader, the F-8E. They arrived at NAS San Diego in January and practiced air-to-ground ordnance delivery with their new Crusaders. Carrier Air Group 16 (CVW-16) they arrived off the coast of Vietnam and began operating from Yankee Station. From 8 May to 6 December 1965 the Lancers flew missions against targets in North and South Vietnam. The Operations Officer, Major Harry E. Sexton, devised a way to carry 2,000-pound MK-84 bombs from an F-8 Crusader prior to being launched from an aircraft carrier. Commander, Air Group (CAG) of CVW-16 Commander James Stockdale's A-4E Skyhawk was shot down September 9th, over North Vietnam making the commanding officer of VMF(AW)-212 the acting CAG until a replacement arrived. This made 212's Commanding Officer LtCol Chuck Ludden the first Marine Officer to command a carrier airwing since William A. Millington did in World War II. Captain Harlan P. Chapman was shot down on November 5th, over North Vietnam. He became a POW until he was released in February, 1973. Of interest, this incident was referred to in the motion picture, Top Gun as the date that the main character, Pete Mitchell's father was shot down. Later in the movie, Top Gun commander, Viper admits, "I flew with your old man. VF-51. The Oriskany." In December 1965 the squadron returned to Hawaii having flown 3,018 combat hours and 1,588 sorties during their time off the coast of Vietnam. The squadron returned to MCAS Kaneohe Bay and resumed training with the F-8D. The unit reverted to the day-fighter version of the Crusader, the F-8B in early 1968 and lost its (all-weather) designation in March. VMF-212 received its first four McDonnell F-4J Phantom IIs in May of 1968, but without the AWG-10 Pulse Doppler radar. Production of the radar was behind schedule for the production of the F-4J. The squadron was redesignated Marine Fixed/Wing Fighter Attack squadron, VMFA on August 10th. The unit finally received radar-equipped birds in November of 1969. In April 1972, the squadron deployed from Hawaii to Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam in an effort to blunt the massive North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam. LtCol Richard Revie led the Lancers across the Pacific joining VMFA-115 and VMFA-232 at Danang. The squadron began sorties immediately, attacking ground targets in the south. Danang Air Base was attacked by rockets two days after 212's arrival and two Lancers were injured on the flight line. Captain John W. Consolvo and his RIO, CWO3 James J. Castonguay were hit on May 7th, after pulling off target near the northern Quang Tri Province. Consolvo fought to control the flaming Phantom but to no avail. He told his RIO to eject and Castonguay did. He did not see whether or not his pilot ejected. Castonguay hid from enemy patrols for nineteen hours before being rescued by helicopter. John Consolvo was listed as Missing In Action. The Lancers lost another Phantom and its crew on June 4th, when Captain Benjamin Lee Tebault and 1LT Mike Konow were hit while diving on a target. The jet flew into the ground. The Marine Phantom units of Danang were ordered to Nam Phong, Thailand, but VMFA-212 was replaced by VMA(AW)-533 and the Lancers returned to Hawaii. VMFA-212 flew more than 1000 combat sorties during the two+ months they operated from Danang. VMFA-212 earned a Meritorious Unit Commendation for its effort in Vietnam. From 1974 until 1987, VMFA-212 deployed numerous times to Japan and the West Coast earning the CNO Aviation Safety Award, the Robert M. Hanson Award, and the Meritorious Unit Commendation. During October 1988, VMFA-212 completed its seventh and final rotation in the UDP as an F-4 Phantom squadron. With the last F-4 sorties flown in August 1988, over 23,000 accident-free hours had been accumulated since the loss of an aircraft on March 27, 1978 at Midway Island. The F/A-18C Hornet was received at this time. The Gulf War & the 1990s In December 1990, the squadron deployed to Bahrain in support of Operation Desert Shield. From there, they flew air interdiction and close air support missions in support of coalition forces during Operation Desert Storm after 17 January 1991. On 13 August 1996 the Lancers took off for the final time from NAS Miramar en route to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. After a successful six-month cycle the Lancers became a permanent resident of MCAS Iwakuni. The Global War on Terror The Lancers were the second Marine Corps squadron to deploy after the September 11 attacks, following their aerial refueler aircraft from VMGR-152, the Sumos. The squadron left MCAS Iwakuni on 12 September and after being refueled over Iwo Jima, began flying Combat Air Patrols over Guam in support of Operation Noble Eagle. In the spring of 2002 the squadron deployed to Kuwait. For the first time single seat C models and 2-seat Ds from VMFA (AW)-332 The Moonlighters were combined into one unit. The Moon-Lancers flew missions into Iraq in support of Operation Southern Watch and Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The OEF missions were, on average, 10 hours in duration and mostly at night. Due to a re-organization within Marine aviation, the squadron was deactivated in 2008 in order to facilitate the Corps' transition to the F-35. Squadron aces The following members of VMF-212 were credited with shooting down at least five Japanese aircraft and earned the right to be called an Ace. The numbers after their name represents the number of enemy aircraft they were credited with shooting down. MIA information In May 2008, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command found the wreckage of an F4U Corsair (BuNo 55908) and the remains of 1stLt Allan S. Harrison III in the vicinity of Warangoi, Papua New Guinea. 1stLt Harrison was shot down by a Japanese aircraft on 11 February 1944 while taking part in a raid on the Japanese garrison at Rabaul. See also United States Marine Corps Aviation List of active United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons List of decommissioned United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons References Notes Bibliography Crowder, Michael J. (2000). United States Marine Corps Aviation Squadron Lineage, Insignia & History – Volume One – The Fighter Squadrons. Turner Publishing Company. . Web VMFA-212's official website Unofficial Lancers Homepage (hasn't been updated in a while) Fighter attack squadrons of the United States Marine Corps cadre FS0212

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Toss Panos

Anastasios (Toss) Panos is a Greek-American drummer who has played or recorded with Dweezil Zappa, Sting, Steven Stills, Paul Rodgers, Michael Landau, Robben Ford, Toy Matinee, Jude Cole, Mike Keneally, John Goodsall, Steve Vai, Mark Hart, Mel Torme, Peter Himmelman, Andy Summers, Cliff Richard, Vonda Shepard and Eric Burdon. He is also the owner of Tossimos Recording Studio. Early life Panos was born in Athens, Greece. He moved to San Diego, California at age two. At age seven, Toss started learning the drums by playing along to songs that he heard on the radio. He grew up listening to The Ohio Players, James Brown, Elton John and Joni Mitchell. His early influences included Mitch Mitchell and Eric Burdon and The Animals. By age ten Toss was playing gigs at Greek nightclubs on the weekends. Career At age 19 he left San Diego and began studying at the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles where Joe Porcaro would be one of his first teachers. After his graduation, Toss was offered a teaching position there which he accepted. His early gigs included working with guitarist Ike Willis, a long time member of Frank Zappa's band, until he was invited to audition for Toy Matinee's touring band in the early 90s. He brought a tape of him playing with The Fire Merchants to the audition and immediately got the gig. After Toy Matinee ended, he would continue working with Kevin Gilbert live and in the studio where he played drums on his cover version of "Kashmir". In 1994 Kevin would produce Fire Merchant's "Landlords of Atlantis" album. At the same time Toss performed on jingles, movies and on The Dennis Miller Show and The Roseanne Show. In 2000 Toss joined Michael Landau's band for a series of live and studio performances. Around that time he also met Robben Ford, with whom he collaborated on two albums, "Truth" and "Soul on Ten". In 2004, he connected with Robi Draco Rosa for a series of live shows and album recordings. His most recent project "Shogun Warrior" with Jeff Babko went on indefinite hiatus in 2012. Currently Toss Panos is part of Galactic Booty Co., made up of Satnam Ramgotra on Percussion (Hans Zimmer, Inception, Man of Steel), Curt “Kirkee B” Bisquera on Drums (Johnny Cash, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Tom Petty). Discography (excerpt) Mike Keneally - Hat (1992) Marc Bonilla - American Matador (1993) The Fire Merchants - Landlords of Atlantis (1994) Kevin Gilbert - Thud (1995) Mike Keneally - Sluggo! (1998) Michael Landau - The Star Spangled Banner (2001) Michael Landau - Live 2000 (2001) Frank Gambale - Resident Aliens: Live Bootlegs (2001) Faith Hill - Cry (2002) Bryan Beller - View (2003) Robi Draco Rosa - Mad Love (2004) Robi Draco Rosa - Como Me Acuerdo (2004) Robi Draco Rosa - "Draco Al Natural" (2005) Robi Draco Rosa - "Draco y El Teatro Del Absurdo" (2007) Robi Draco Rosa - "Draco Rosa Teatro Live" (2008) The Michael Landau Group - Live (2006) Tom Heasley - Passages (2007) Robben Ford - Truth (2007) Bryan Beller - Thanks in Advance (2008) Robben Ford - Soul on Ten (2009) Kevin Gilbert Performs Toy Matinee Live (2010) Keith Emerson - Three Fates Project (2013) Steve Lukather - Transition (2013) References 1964 births Musicians from Athens Progressive rock drummers Living people Musicians Institute alumni American people of Greek descent

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Val Bennett

Val Bennett (born Lovall Bennett, ?, died 1991) was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician who began his career in the 1940s. He made a number of releases on the Island Records and Crab Records labels. Biography In the late 1940s, Bennett led his own band, the Val Bennett Orchestra. Artists that played in Bennett's band included Jah Jerry Haynes, Lloyd Knibb, and Ernest Ranglin, whose first professional experience was with this band. The Val Bennett Orchestra performed regularly at the Colony Club, performing mainly for foreign visitors to Jamaica. The band also toured abroad, performing in countries including Haiti, where they picked up méringue and played it on their return to Jamaica. In the early to mid-1960s, Bennett was a regular member of Prince Buster's band, playing on many of the singer's best-known recordings, including "Al Capone". Bennett was also a regular studio session musician, appearing on many releases from artists including Theophilus Beckford, Pat Kelly, Barrington Levy, and Delroy Wilson. Bennett's session work included saxophone, horn, and trombone. In the late 1960s, Bennett joined Bunny Lee's "All Stars". Notable tracks by Bennett include "The Russians Are Coming" (1968), a cover of "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, which would later go on to be used as the theme tune to the British television series The Secret Life of Machines in the late-1980s; and "Tons Of Gold" (1970), with the Harry J Allstars, a version of their track "The Liquidator". Bennett also worked for producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, and his Spaghetti Western-inspired "Return of Django", recorded with Perry's studio band The Upsetters was a major UK hit in 1969. His track "Baby Baby" was also included on The Upsetters' album Eastwood Rides Again. Perry was the only producer to get Bennett to perform vocals, "Baby Baby" being one of these examples, the other being "Barbara". See also Island Records discography Music of Jamaica References External links Val Bennett discography at discogs.com Val Bennett discography at Roots Archives Year of birth missing 1991 deaths Jamaican reggae musicians Jamaican jazz musicians Island Records artists