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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotirios%20Prapas

Sotirios Prapas

Sotirios Prapas is a Greek cardiac surgeon. Education Prapas graduated from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and had his training in Cardiothoracic Surgery under Professor Panagiotis Spyrou (1936-2012) at the “G. Papanikolaou” Hospital in Thessaloniki. He continued his postgraduate training at the Royal Brompton Hospital of London for two years as a locum doctor and then worked at the “Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre” for 8 years. He organized in 2001, the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the “Henry Dunant” Hospital and is the Director ever since. Career He often applies off-pump coronary surgery (OPCAB), using the arterial “π-graft” technique as supplemental to the OPCAB method, by applying off-Pump, aorta non-touch, and total arterial revascularization. In 2005, Dr. Prapas implemented in Greece a combination of an Off-Pump surgical treatment and autologous bone-marrow implantation which appears to improve the patients’ functional status. This treatment though has never been proven to improve heart function in the context of established ischemic heart damage and recent research has cast a shadow on its safety and efficacy. His academic work consists of papers and abstract publications in medical journals, presentations in many international congresses, lectures around the world as well as a series of live demonstrations. He holds a PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has taught in the European School of Cardiac Surgery in Bergamo in 2009. Academic appointments Prapas and Prof. M. Tourina were assigned by the “Razavi Hospital” Board of Directors, to establish the “Iranian School for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery”, in Mashhad, Iran. Chairman of the 18th W.S.C.T.S. Congress in Kos island, Greece in 2008. Chancellor of “THE EURO-ASIAN BRIDGE” Society, a link between Cardiac Surgeons from 28 countries, from Balkans and Middle East, which he personally inspired and created in 2004, promoting the cooperation and friendship among neighbor colleagues. Since 2012, is the Vice Chancellor of the World Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (W.S.C.T.S). He is also member in 10 international societies, including the American STS, the ISMICS, the Europeans’ E.A.C.T.S. and ESCVS, the ASCVTS and others. References External links LinkedIn profile Researchgate profile Living people Aristotle University of Thessaloniki alumni Greek cardiologists 20th-century Greek physicians 21st-century Greek physicians Year of birth missing (living people)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e%20Fran%C3%A7ais%20International%20Samuel%20Beckett

Lycée Français International Samuel Beckett

The Lycée français international Samuel Beckett, formerly Lycée Français d'Irlande, is a French international school organisation in Dublin, Ireland. It has two units, a pre- and primary school division, covering from maternelle (preschool and infant classes) and elémentaire (junior classes), in a building on Foxrock Avenue in Foxrock, and a secondary school, comprising collège (junior cycle secondary) and lycée (senior cycle secondary), at the Eurocampus in Clonskeagh, shared with St. Kilian's Deutsche Schule, to which they moved in 2001. Alumni Nicolas Roche - cyclist References External links (in French and English) Dublin Private schools in the Republic of Ireland Primary schools in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Secondary schools in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown International schools in the Republic of Ireland Clonskeagh

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floodwood%20Township%2C%20St.%20Louis%20County%2C%20Minnesota

Floodwood Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota

Floodwood Township is a township in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 280 at the 2010 census. The township took its name from the Floodwood River. U.S. Highway 2 and State Highway 73 (MN 73) are two of the main routes in the township. U.S. Highway 2 runs roughly diagonally throughout Floodwood Township, in a northwest–southeast direction. Highway 73 runs north–south through the western portion of the township. Saint Louis County Road 8 (CR 8) runs east–west through the northern portion of the township. The unincorporated community of Gowan is located within Floodwood Township. The city of Floodwood is located within the northwest part of Floodwood Township geographically but is a separate entity. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of ; is land and , or 1.80%, is water. The Saint Louis River flows through the township. Adjacent townships, cities, and communities The following are adjacent to Floodwood Township : The city of Floodwood (northwest) Van Buren Township (north) Ness Township (northeast) Arrowhead Township (east and southeast) Fine Lakes Township (south) Prairie Lake Township (southwest) Halden Township (west) Unincorporated communities Gowan Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 325 people, 117 households, and 87 families residing in the township. The population density was 9.3 people per square mile (3.6/km2). There were 145 housing units at an average density of 4.2/sq mi (1.6/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 99.08% White. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.85% of the population. There were 117 households, out of which 29.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.5% were married couples living together, 3.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.8% were non-families. 22.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.27. In the township the population was spread out, with 29.2% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 24.3% from 25 to 44, 27.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.8 males. The median income for a household in the township was $38,906, and the median income for a family was $41,500. Males had a median income of $32,000 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the township was $17,805. About 2.3% of families and 5.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.8% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over. References Townships in St. Louis County, Minnesota Townships in Minnesota

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italee%20Lucas

Italee Lucas

Italee Lucas (born January 12, 1989) is an American-Angolan professional basketball player. Born in the United States, in 2015 Lucas was granted Angolan nationality and became eligible to play for the Angolan Women's Basketball Team High school Lucas won a state championship with Centennial High School in 2006 and 2007. Lucas won the 2007 Powerade Jam fest high school 3 point shootout. USA Basketball Lucas was a member of the USA team which competed in the U18 championship in Colorado Springs, Colorado in June 2006. The team won all four games, earning the gold-medal and a qualification for the 2007 U19 world championship. She continued with the team the following year when the team competed in the U19 championship in Bratislava, Slovakia in August 2007. She averaged 4.9 points per game and recorded 23 assists second highest on the team is the USA team won all nine games and the gold-medal. College Lucas finished her final season at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill averaging 16.2 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game in the 2010–11 season. North Carolina statistics Source Awards USA U18 National Team -06 Gold Medal Tournament of the Americas U18 -06 USA U19 National Team -07 Gold Medal U19 World Championship - 07 ACC Regular Season Champion -08 ACC Tournament Winner -08 ACC Tournament Semifinals -09 ACC All-Tournament 2nd Team -09 All-ACC 2nd Team -10, 11 ACC All-Tournament 1st Team -11 ACC Tournament Finalist -11 NCAA Sweet 16 -11 Afrobasket.com All-African Champions Cup MVP -13 Afrobasket.com All-African Champions Cup Best Guard -13 Afrobasket.com All-African Champions Cup 1st Team -13 African Champions Cup Winner -13 African SuperCup Champion - 13 African Championship Champion - 13 Selected as a 2007 McDonald's and WBCA All-American. Tabbed as a 2007 Gatorade State Player of the Year. Honored as a 2007 Parade Magazine and EA Sports All-America first team member and a USA Today All-USA second team member. Named a Parade Magazine All-America second team member in 2006. Tabbed as a Street & Smith's All-America sixth team member in 2006. Highlighted as the Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada Player of the Year in 2006 and 2007. Honored as the state MVP in 2004-2007 and as the district MVP in 2005 and 2006. An all-region selection in 2004, 2005 and 2006 All-conference selection in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. References External links North Carolina Tar Heels bio 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Las Vegas Angolan women's basketball players American women's basketball players American emigrants to Angola Angolan people of African-American descent American expatriate basketball people in Angola American expatriate basketball people in Hungary American expatriate basketball people in Israel American expatriate basketball people in Romania American expatriate basketball people in Spain Angolan expatriate sportspeople in Romania Basketball players from Nevada G.D. Interclube women's basketball players McDonald's High School All-Americans North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball players Parade High School All-Americans (girls' basketball) Shooting guards

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

Cyclone

In meteorology, a cyclone () is a large air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anticyclone). Cyclones are characterized by inward-spiraling winds that rotate about a zone of low pressure. The largest low-pressure systems are polar vortices and extratropical cyclones of the largest scale (the synoptic scale). Warm-core cyclones such as tropical cyclones and subtropical cyclones also lie within the synoptic scale. Mesocyclones, tornadoes, and dust devils lie within smaller mesoscale. Upper level cyclones can exist without the presence of a surface low, and can pinch off from the base of the tropical upper tropospheric trough during the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere. Cyclones have also been seen on extraterrestrial planets, such as Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune. Cyclogenesis is the process of cyclone formation and intensification. Extratropical cyclones begin as waves in large regions of enhanced mid-latitude temperature contrasts called baroclinic zones. These zones contract and form weather fronts as the cyclonic circulation closes and intensifies. Later in their life cycle, extratropical cyclones occlude as cold air masses undercut the warmer air and become cold core systems. A cyclone's track is guided over the course of its 2 to 6 day life cycle by the steering flow of the subtropical jet stream. Weather fronts mark the boundary between two masses of air of different temperature, humidity, and densities, and are associated with the most prominent meteorological phenomena. Strong cold fronts typically feature narrow bands of thunderstorms and severe weather, and may on occasion be preceded by squall lines or dry lines. Such fronts form west of the circulation center and generally move from west to east; warm fronts form east of the cyclone center and are usually preceded by stratiform precipitation and fog. Warm fronts move poleward ahead of the cyclone path. Occluded fronts form late in the cyclone life cycle near the center of the cyclone and often wrap around the storm center. Tropical cyclogenesis describes the process of development of tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclones form due to latent heat driven by significant thunderstorm activity, and are warm core. Cyclones can transition between extratropical, subtropical, and tropical phases. Mesocyclones form as warm core cyclones over land, and can lead to tornado formation. Waterspouts can also form from mesocyclones, but more often develop from environments of high instability and low vertical wind shear. In the Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific oceans, a tropical cyclone is generally referred to as a hurricane (from the name of the ancient Central American deity of wind, Huracan), in the Indian and south Pacific oceans it is called a cyclone, and in the northwestern Pacific it is called a typhoon. The growth of instability in the vortices is not universal. For example, the size, intensity, moist-convection, surface evaporation, the value of potential temperature at each potential height can affect the nonlinear evolution of a vortex. Nomenclature Henry Piddington published 40 papers dealing with tropical storms from Calcutta between 1836 and 1855 in The Journal of the Asiatic Society. He also coined the term cyclone, meaning the coil of a snake. In 1842, he published his landmark thesis, Laws of the Storms. Structure There are a number of structural characteristics common to all cyclones. A cyclone is a low-pressure area. A cyclone's center (often known in a mature tropical cyclone as the eye), is the area of lowest atmospheric pressure in the region. Near the center, the pressure gradient force (from the pressure in the center of the cyclone compared to the pressure outside the cyclone) and the force from the Coriolis effect must be in an approximate balance, or the cyclone would collapse on itself as a result of the difference in pressure. Because of the Coriolis effect, the wind flow around a large cyclone is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, the fastest winds relative to the surface of the Earth therefore occur on the eastern side of a northward-moving cyclone and on the northern side of a westward-moving one; the opposite occurs in the Southern Hemisphere. In contrast to low-pressure systems, the wind flow around high-pressure systems are clockwise (anticyclonic) in the northern hemisphere, and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. Formation Cyclogenesis is the development or strengthening of cyclonic circulation in the atmosphere. Cyclogenesis is an umbrella term for several different processes that all result in the development of some sort of cyclone. It can occur at various scales, from the microscale to the synoptic scale. Extratropical cyclones begin as waves along weather fronts before occluding later in their life cycle as cold-core systems. However, some intense extratropical cyclones can become warm-core systems when a warm seclusion occurs. Tropical cyclones form as a result of significant convective activity, and are warm core. Mesocyclones form as warm core cyclones over land, and can lead to tornado formation. Waterspouts can also form from mesocyclones, but more often develop from environments of high instability and low vertical wind shear. Cyclolysis is the opposite of cyclogenesis, and is the high-pressure system equivalent, which deals with the formation of high-pressure areas—Anticyclogenesis. A surface low can form in a variety of ways. Topography can create a surface low. Mesoscale convective systems can spawn surface lows that are initially warm-core. The disturbance can grow into a wave-like formation along the front and the low is positioned at the crest. Around the low, the flow becomes cyclonic. This rotational flow moves polar air towards the equator on the west side of the low, while warm air move towards the pole on the east side. A cold front appears on the west side, while a warm front forms on the east side. Usually, the cold front moves at a quicker pace than the warm front and "catches up" with it due to the slow erosion of higher density air mass out ahead of the cyclone. In addition, the higher density air mass sweeping in behind the cyclone strengthens the higher pressure, denser cold air mass. The cold front over takes the warm front, and reduces the length of the warm front. At this point an occluded front forms where the warm air mass is pushed upwards into a trough of warm air aloft, which is also known as a trowal. Tropical cyclogenesis is the development and strengthening of a tropical cyclone. The mechanisms by which tropical cyclogenesis occurs are distinctly different from those that produce mid-latitude cyclones. Tropical cyclogenesis, the development of a warm-core cyclone, begins with significant convection in a favorable atmospheric environment. There are six main requirements for tropical cyclogenesis: sufficiently warm sea surface temperatures, atmospheric instability, high humidity in the lower to middle levels of the troposphere enough Coriolis force to develop a low-pressure center a preexisting low-level focus or disturbance low vertical wind shear. An average of 86 tropical cyclones of tropical storm intensity form annually worldwide, with 47 reaching hurricane/typhoon strength, and 20 becoming intense tropical cyclones (at least Category 3 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale). Synoptic scale The following types of cyclones are identifiable in synoptic charts. Surface-based types There are three main types of surface-based cyclones: Extratropical cyclones, Subtropical cyclones and Tropical cyclones Extratropical cyclone An extratropical cyclone is a synoptic scale low-pressure weather system that does not have tropical characteristics, as it is connected with fronts and horizontal gradients (rather than vertical) in temperature and dew point otherwise known as "baroclinic zones". "Extratropical" is applied to cyclones outside the tropics, in the middle latitudes. These systems may also be described as "mid-latitude cyclones" due to their area of formation, or "post-tropical cyclones" when a tropical cyclone has moved (extratropical transition) beyond the tropics. They are often described as "depressions" or "lows" by weather forecasters and the general public. These are the everyday phenomena that, along with anticyclones, drive weather over much of the Earth. Although extratropical cyclones are almost always classified as baroclinic since they form along zones of temperature and dewpoint gradient within the westerlies, they can sometimes become barotropic late in their life cycle when the temperature distribution around the cyclone becomes fairly uniform with radius. An extratropical cyclone can transform into a subtropical storm, and from there into a tropical cyclone, if it dwells over warm waters sufficient to warm its core, and as a result develops central convection. A particularly intense type of extratropical cyclone that strikes during winter is known colloquially as a nor'easter. Polar low A polar low is a small-scale, short-lived atmospheric low-pressure system (depression) that is found over the ocean areas poleward of the main polar front in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Polar lows were first identified on the meteorological satellite imagery that became available in the 1960s, which revealed many small-scale cloud vortices at high latitudes. The most active polar lows are found over certain ice-free maritime areas in or near the Arctic during the winter, such as the Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, Labrador Sea and Gulf of Alaska. Polar lows dissipate rapidly when they make landfall. Antarctic systems tend to be weaker than their northern counterparts since the air-sea temperature differences around the continent are generally smaller . However, vigorous polar lows can be found over the Southern Ocean. During winter, when cold-core lows with temperatures in the mid-levels of the troposphere reach move over open waters, deep convection forms, which allows polar low development to become possible. The systems usually have a horizontal length scale of less than and exist for no more than a couple of days. They are part of the larger class of mesoscale weather systems. Polar lows can be difficult to detect using conventional weather reports and are a hazard to high-latitude operations, such as shipping and gas and oil platforms. Polar lows have been referred to by many other terms, such as polar mesoscale vortex, Arctic hurricane, Arctic low, and cold air depression. Today the term is usually reserved for the more vigorous systems that have near-surface winds of at least 17 m/s. Subtropical A subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of a tropical cyclone and some characteristics of an extratropical cyclone. They can form between the equator and the 50th parallel. As early as the 1950s, meteorologists were unclear whether they should be characterized as tropical cyclones or extratropical cyclones, and used terms such as quasi-tropical and semi-tropical to describe the cyclone hybrids. By 1972, the National Hurricane Center officially recognized this cyclone category. Subtropical cyclones began to receive names off the official tropical cyclone list in the Atlantic Basin in 2002. They have broad wind patterns with maximum sustained winds located farther from the center than typical tropical cyclones, and exist in areas of weak to moderate temperature gradient. Since they form from extratropical cyclones, which have colder temperatures aloft than normally found in the tropics, the sea surface temperatures required is around 23 degrees Celsius (73 °F) for their formation, which is three degrees Celsius (5 °F) lower than for tropical cyclones. This means that subtropical cyclones are more likely to form outside the traditional bounds of the hurricane season. Although subtropical storms rarely have hurricane-force winds, they may become tropical in nature as their cores warm. Tropical A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain. A tropical cyclone feeds on heat released when moist air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapour contained in the moist air. They are fueled by a different heat mechanism than other cyclonic windstorms such as nor'easters, European windstorms, and polar lows, leading to their classification as "warm core" storm systems. The term "tropical" refers to both the geographic origin of these systems, which form almost exclusively in tropical regions of the globe, and their dependence on Maritime Tropical air masses for their formation. The term "cyclone" refers to the storms' cyclonic nature, with counterclockwise rotation in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise rotation in the Southern Hemisphere. Depending on their location and strength, tropical cyclones are referred to by other names, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply as a cyclone. While tropical cyclones can produce extremely powerful winds and torrential rain, they are also able to produce high waves and a damaging storm surge. Their winds increase the wave size, and in so doing they draw more heat and moisture into their system, thereby increasing their strength. They develop over large bodies of warm water, and hence lose their strength if they move over land. This is the reason coastal regions can receive significant damage from a tropical cyclone, while inland regions are relatively safe from strong winds. Heavy rains, however, can produce significant flooding inland. Storm surges are rises in sea level caused by the reduced pressure of the core that in effect "sucks" the water upward and from winds that in effect "pile" the water up. Storm surges can produce extensive coastal flooding up to from the coastline. Although their effects on human populations can be devastating, tropical cyclones can also relieve drought conditions. They also carry heat and energy away from the tropics and transport it toward temperate latitudes, which makes them an important part of the global atmospheric circulation mechanism. As a result, tropical cyclones help to maintain equilibrium in the Earth's troposphere. Many tropical cyclones develop when the atmospheric conditions around a weak disturbance in the atmosphere are favorable. Others form when other types of cyclones acquire tropical characteristics. Tropical systems are then moved by steering winds in the troposphere; if the conditions remain favorable, the tropical disturbance intensifies, and can even develop an eye. On the other end of the spectrum, if the conditions around the system deteriorate or the tropical cyclone makes landfall, the system weakens and eventually dissipates. A tropical cyclone can become extratropical as it moves toward higher latitudes if its energy source changes from heat released by condensation to differences in temperature between air masses. A tropical cyclone is usually not considered to become subtropical during its extratropical transition. Upper level types Polar cyclone A polar, sub-polar, or Arctic cyclone (also known as a polar vortex) is a vast area of low pressure that strengthens in the winter and weakens in the summer. A polar cyclone is a low-pressure weather system, usually spanning to , in which the air circulates in a counterclockwise direction in the northern hemisphere, and a clockwise direction in the southern hemisphere. The Coriolis acceleration acting on the air masses moving poleward at high altitude, causes a counterclockwise circulation at high altitude. The poleward movement of air originates from the air circulation of the Polar cell. The polar low is not driven by convection as are tropical cyclones, nor the cold and warm air mass interactions as are extratropical cyclones, but is an artifact of the global air movement of the Polar cell. The base of the polar low is in the mid to upper troposphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, the polar cyclone has two centers on average. One center lies near Baffin Island and the other over northeast Siberia. In the southern hemisphere, it tends to be located near the edge of the Ross ice shelf near 160 west longitude. When the polar vortex is strong, its effect can be felt at the surface as a westerly wind (toward the east). When the polar cyclone is weak, significant cold outbreaks occur. TUTT cell Under specific circumstances, upper level cold lows can break off from the base of the tropical upper tropospheric trough (TUTT), which is located mid-ocean in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer months. These upper tropospheric cyclonic vortices, also known as TUTT cells or TUTT lows, usually move slowly from east-northeast to west-southwest, and their bases generally do not extend below in altitude. A weak inverted surface trough within the trade wind is generally found underneath them, and they may also be associated with broad areas of high-level clouds. Downward development results in an increase of cumulus clouds and the appearance of a surface vortex. In rare cases, they become warm-core tropical cyclones. Upper cyclones and the upper troughs that trail tropical cyclones can cause additional outflow channels and aid in their intensification. Developing tropical disturbances can help create or deepen upper troughs or upper lows in their wake due to the outflow jet emanating from the developing tropical disturbance/cyclone. Mesoscale The following types of cyclones are not identifiable in synoptic charts. Mesocyclone A mesocyclone is a vortex of air, to in diameter (the mesoscale of meteorology), within a convective storm. Air rises and rotates around a vertical axis, usually in the same direction as low-pressure systems in both northern and southern hemisphere. They are most often cyclonic, that is, associated with a localized low-pressure region within a supercell. Such storms can feature strong surface winds and severe hail. Mesocyclones often occur together with updrafts in supercells, where tornadoes may form. About 1,700 mesocyclones form annually across the United States, but only half produce tornadoes. Tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. Also referred to as twisters, a colloquial term in America, or cyclones, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology, in a wider sense, to name any closed low-pressure circulation. Dust devil A dust devil is a strong, well-formed, and relatively long-lived whirlwind, ranging from small (half a metre wide and a few metres tall) to large (more than 10 metres wide and more than 1000 metres tall). The primary vertical motion is upward. Dust devils are usually harmless, but can on rare occasions grow large enough to pose a threat to both people and property. Waterspout A waterspout is a columnar vortex forming over water that is, in its most common form, a non-supercell tornado over water that is connected to a cumuliform cloud. While it is often weaker than most of its land counterparts, stronger versions spawned by mesocyclones do occur. Steam devil A gentle vortex over calm water or wet land made visible by rising water vapour. Fire whirl A fire whirl – also colloquially known as a fire devil, fire tornado, firenado, or fire twister – is a whirlwind induced by a fire and often made up of flame or ash. Other planets Cyclones are not unique to Earth. Cyclonic storms are common on Jovian planets, such as the Small Dark Spot on Neptune. It is about one third the diameter of the Great Dark Spot and received the nickname "Wizard's Eye" because it looks like an eye. This appearance is caused by a white cloud in the middle of the Wizard's Eye. Mars has also exhibited cyclonic storms. Jovian storms like the Great Red Spot are usually mistakenly named as giant hurricanes or cyclonic storms. However, this is inaccurate, as the Great Red Spot is, in fact, the inverse phenomenon, an anticyclone. See also Tropical cyclone Subtropical cyclone Tropical cyclone Tornado Storm Atlantic hurricane Australian region tropical cyclone Space hurricane Space tornado References External links Fundamentals of Physical Geography: The Mid-Latitude Cyclone – Dr. Michael Pidwirny, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Glossary Definition: Cyclogenesis – The National Snow and Ice Data Center Glossary Definition: Cyclolysis – The National Snow and Ice Data Center Weather Facts: The Polar Low – Weather Online UK NOAA FAQ Cyclones 'ClearlyExplained' Cyclone Video Archive The EM-DAT International Disaster Database by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters Meteorological phenomena Tropical cyclone meteorology Cyclone Weather hazards Vortices

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Mar%C3%ADa%20Uribezubia

Juan María Uribezubia

Juan María Uribezubia (4 April 1940 – 14 July 2018) was a Spanish racing cyclist. He rode in the 1964 Tour de France as well as in four editions of the Vuelta a España. Major results 1961 1st Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya 2nd Overall Milk Race 1965 1st Overall Vuelta a La Rioja 1st Stage 3 1966 1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca 1st Stage 3 1969 1st Stage 4a Volta a Catalunya References External links 1940 births 2018 deaths Spanish male cyclists People from Durangaldea

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Emotions%20%28doo-wop%20group%29

The Emotions (doo-wop group)

The Emotions are an American doo-wop vocal group from New York City, United States. The group was formed in 1958 by Joe Favale (lead vocal, b.1940), who had been singing with a group called The Moments, and Tony Maltese (tenor), who had another group, The Runarounds. They recruited singers Dom Colurra (bass), Larry Cusamano (second tenor) and Joe Nigro (baritone), and found a manager, Henry Boye. Initially calling themselves The Runarounds, they renamed themselves as The Emotions in 1959. In 1962, they won a contract with Kapp Records, and released "Echo", a song written by Favale but credited jointly to the group and Boye. The record was chosen as a "pick hit of the week" by leading DJ Murray the K, and rose to number 76 on the Billboard pop chart. After further singles on Kapp and Laurie, the group signed for the 20th Century Fox label in 1963 and released their version of "A Story Untold", which became a regional hit. However, later recordings were less successful and, after a series of personnel changes but still fronted by Favale, the group finally broke up in 1970. Favale reformed the group with new personnel in 1982, and recorded an album for Columbia Records. The group continues to perform, with a line-up of Joe Favale, George Winter, Vic Guzman, and Carmine Laietta. References External links Doo-wop groups American vocal groups

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdock%20%28footballer%29

Murdock (footballer)

Paulo Sérgio Macedo Dias (born 19 February 1977), known as Murdock, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. References External links 1977 births Living people Footballers from Porto Portuguese footballers Association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Varzim S.C. players SC Vianense players G.D. Ribeirão players F.C. Tirsense players Leça F.C. players Vilanovense F.C. players G.D. Joane players F.C. Maia players CD Candal players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistolida%20erythraeensis

Bistolida erythraeensis

Bistolida erythraeensis, the Red Sea cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Description These quite uncommon shells reach of length, with a maximum size of . The shell surface is smooth and shiny. The dorsum is grey or pale bluish with small brown irregular blotches and spots, one or more trasversal bands and two brown spots at each end, while the base is whitish-grey with several brown spots. The shape of these shells is elongated oval, the aperture is long and narrow, outer and inner lips have fine teeth, with a tongue-shaped radula. In the living cowry the mantle and the foot are well developed, usually with external antennae. The mantle is thin, transparent and greyish-white, with many white papillae and covers almost entirely the shell. Distribution This species can be found in the Red Sea, and the seas along Aden, Eritrea, Somalia, Tanzania and Zanzibar. Habitat These cowries live in warm tropical and subtropical waters, from intertidal zone to the shallow reef, at about of depth, mainly on coral reefs, in caves, under rock slabs or on sandy seabed. They fear daylight and feed at dawn or dusk on algae, sponges, coral polyps and small crustaceans. References External links Seashell Rbridges Flmnh WoRMS Xenophora Cypraeidae Gastropods described in 1837

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20L.%20Owens

Donald L. Owens

Maj. Gen. Donald L. Owens (April 13, 1930 – May 2, 2012) served as Arizona's Adjutant General and Director of the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs. Maj. Gen. Owens joined the Arizona Air National Guard as a private in 1952. During his career, he served as Commanding General of the Arizona Air National Guard and Commander of the 161st Air Refueling Wing, among other positions. He was named Adjutant General in 1983, and faithfully served in this role until his retirement in 1994. Maj. Gen. Owens was inducted into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame in 2010. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer ordered flags be lowered to half-staff on the date of his interment, May 10, 2012. References 2012 deaths United States Air Force generals 1930 births National Guard of the United States generals State cabinet secretaries of Arizona

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Roberts%20%28footballer%29

Jeremy Roberts (footballer)

Jeremy Roberts (born 24 November 1966), sometimes known as Jerry Roberts, is an English former footballer who made 38 appearances in the Football League playing as a goalkeeper for Hartlepool United, Leicester City, Darlington and Brentford in the 1980s. A former England youth international born in Middlesbrough, Roberts was on the books of Luton Town and Gillingham without representing either in the League, played in the League of Ireland for Waterford United, and played non-league football for clubs including Maidenhead United and Whitby Town. References External links Profile at brentfordfchistory.co.uk Hartlepool United profile at inthemadcrowd.co.uk 1966 births Living people Footballers from Middlesbrough English footballers England youth international footballers Association football goalkeepers Hartlepool United F.C. players Leicester City F.C. players Luton Town F.C. players Waterford F.C. players Darlington F.C. players Brentford F.C. players Maidenhead United F.C. players Gillingham F.C. players Whitby Town F.C. players English Football League players League of Ireland players

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Cunibert (bishop of Turin)

Cunibert of Turin (died c.1082) was an Italian bishop. According to Anselm of Besate, Cunibert was a member of the Besate dynasty from Milan. Cunibert is first documented as bishop of Turin at the Council of Pavia (October 1046). His episcopate lasted from then until his death, c.1082. Cunibert and Gregorian Reform Cunibert had an ambiguous relationship with Gregorian reform. In April 1059, Cunibert attended the Lateran council held by Pope Nicholas II in Rome. During the Cadalan Schism (1061-1064) he supported the Pope Alexander II against Bishop Cadalus of Parma. He also supported the canons of San Lorenzo at Oulx. Yet Cunibert could not always be relied upon in matters of reform. Peter Damian accused Cunibert of being too lax in his dealings with simonists and unchaste priests. Damian wrote to Adelaide of Susa to see if she could encourage Cunibert to take action against them. Cunibert and the Abbey of San Michele della Chiusa Cunibert was opposed to the appointment of Benedict II as abbot of San Michele della Chiusa, believing that the abbey belonged to the diocese of Turin, and that he, rather than the monks of San Michele should choose the new abbot. In 1078, along with Peter I, Count of Savoy, Cunibert thus attempted to drive Abbot Benedict II from the abbey. Cunibert also accompanied Henry IV of Germany to Piacenza (1077), and on his new Italian expedition (1081). Notes and references Sources Anselm of Besate, Rhetorimachia, in Gunzo: Epistola ad Augienses und Anselm von Besate: Rhetorimachia, ed. K. Manitius, MGH QQ zur Geistesgesch. 2 (Weimar, 1958), accessible online at: Monumenta Germaniae Historica C.W. Previté-Orton, The Early History of the House of Savoy (1000-1233) (Cambridge, 1912), accessible online at: archive.org S. Hellmann, Die Grafen von Savoyen und das Reich: bis zum Ende der staufischen Periode (Innsbruck, 1900), accessible online (but without page numbers) at: Genealogie Mittelalter G. Sergi, L'aristocrazia della preghiera: politica e scelte religiose nel medioevo italiano (1994), esp. pp. 181–185. Investiture Controversy 11th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops Bishops of Turin Clergy from Milan it:Cuniberto (vescovo di Torino)

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Jessiefjellet

Jessiefjellet is a mountain in Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard. It has a height of 1,033 m.a.s.l. with a pointed summit. It is named after Jessie Bruce, wife of Scottish Arctic explorer William S. Bruce. Jessiefjellet is part of the Grampianfjella mountain ridge. References Mountains of Prins Karls Forland

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List of Superfund sites in Delaware

This is a list of Superfund sites in Delaware designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. These locations are known as Superfund sites, and are placed on the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL guides the EPA in "determining which sites warrant further investigation" for environmental remediation. As of December 16, 2010, there were 14 Superfund sites on the National Priorities List in Delaware. One additional site has been proposed for entry on the list. Six sites have been cleaned up and removed from the list. Superfund sites See also Fox Point State Park List of Superfund sites in the United States List of environmental issues List of waste types TOXMAP External links EPA list of proposed Superfund sites in Delaware EPA list of current Superfund sites in Delaware EPA list of Superfund site construction completions in Delaware EPA list of partially deleted Superfund sites in Delaware EPA list of deleted Superfund sites in Delaware References Delaware Environment of Delaware Superfund

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Hole in the Wall Gang (comedy)

The Hole in the Wall Gang is the name of a comedy group from Northern Ireland, who came to prominence in the mid-1990s with the extremely popular satirical comedy Give My Head Peace. The line up consists of Tim McGarry, Damon Quinn, Marty Reid and Michael McDowell, all of whom were born in 1964. They were originally known as the "Hole in the Wall Theatre Company", before adopting the name Hole in the Wall Gang when they moved to television. In 1992, the group won a UK Sony Award for Best Radio Comedy for their first radio series A Perforated Ulster. They then won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Regional Programme in 1996, for Two Ceasefires and a Wedding, the prelude to Give My Head Peace. A Perforated Ulster won a Celtic Media Festival award in 2019. The success of Give My Head Peace led to a new sketch show in 2006 entitled Dry Your Eyes, two seasons of which were broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland before being cancelled. Since, they have worked on several films, scripts and non-comedy television and radio shows, examples including "Pop Goes Northern Ireland," a documentary series, and "The Titanic Inquiry," also a film. "Give My Head Peace" returned for a special on 28 December 2016 called 'The Farce Awakens and the series returned with an 11th series on 19 January 2018. References External links Official site Television actors from Northern Ireland Comedians from Northern Ireland British comedy troupes Radio actors from Northern Ireland

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Micrommata ligurina

Micrommata ligurina is a species of huntsman spider. It was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1845. Description In the females of Micrommata ligurina the body length can reach , while in the males it is about . The carapace is long and narrow and the abdomen is elongate. The cephalothorax and the long legs of the females are bright green, with a lighter green abdomen showing an almost indistinct median band. This spider is very similar to the green huntsman spider (Micrommata virescens), but the females have a black dot on the carapace. Moreover the adult males of M. ligurina have a dark brown median band on abdomen with whitish or gray sides. The eight eyes are arranged in two rows and surrounded by white hairs. Adults can be found in late winter and in early spring. Distribution Micrommata ligurina occurs from the Mediterranean Basin to Central Asia. The range of this species includes Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, Romania and Spain. Habitat These huntsman spiders live on herbaceous vegetation. Gallery Bibliography Koch, C. L. (1845). Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Zwolfter Band, pp. 1–166. Kulczyński, W. (1911a). Fragmenta Arachnologica. XVI, XVII. Bulletin International de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie 1911: 12-75. Lecigne, S. (2013). Contribution à l'inventaire aranéologique de Corfou (Grèce) (Arachnida, Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28: 177-191. Levy, G. (1989). The family of huntsman spiders in Israel with annotations on species of the Middle East (Araneae: Sparassidae). Journal of Zoology, London 217: 127-176. Simon, E. (1870b). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 3: 271-358. Simon, E. (1874b). Etudes aracnologiques. 3e mémoire. V. Révision des espèces européennes de la famille des Sparassidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 4: 243-279. Simon, E. (1875a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 2, 1-350. Simon, E. (1932). Les arachnides de France. Tome VI. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 4e partie. Paris 6, 773-978. Urones, C. (2004). El género Micrommata (Araneae, Sparassidae) en la Península Ibérica, con la descripción do dos nuevas especies. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 10: 41-52. References External links Inaturalist Arachnida Sparassidae Spiders of Europe Spiders described in 1845

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Heer Ranjha

Heer Ranjha (or Heer and Ranjha) ( ) is one of several popular tragic romances of Punjab, other important ones being "Sohni Mahiwal", "Mirza Sahiban" and "Sassi Punnhun". There are several poetic narrations of the story, the most famous being Heer by Waris Shah written in 1766. It tells the story of the love between Heer Sial and Dheedo Ranjha. History Heer Ranjha was written by Waris Shah. Some historians say that the story was the original work of Shah,Others say that Heer and Ranjha were real personalities who lived under the Lodi dynasty of the 15th and 16th century and that Waris Shah later utilised these personalities for his novel that he wrote in 1766. Waris Shah states that the story has a deeper meaning, referring to the unrelenting quest that man has towards God. Plot Heer is an extremely beautiful woman, born into a wealthy Sial Jat family in Jhang, Punjab and Dheedo Ranjha of the Ranjha tribe of Jats, is the youngest of four brothers and lives in the village of Takht Hazara by the river Chenab in Punjab, Pakistan. Being his father's favourite son, unlike his brothers who had to toil in the lands, he led a life of ease, playing the flute ('Wanjhli'/'Bansuri'). After the death of Ranjha's father, Mauju Chaudhry, Ranjha has a quarrel with his brothers over land, and leaves home. In Waris Shah's version of the epic, Ranjha leaves home because his brothers' wives refused to give and serve him food. Eventually he arrives in Heer's village and falls in love with her. Heer's father offers Ranjha a job herding his cattle. Heer becomes mesmerised by the way Ranjha plays his flute and eventually falls in love with him. They meet each other secretly for many years until they are caught by Heer's jealous uncle, Kaido, and her parents Chuchak and Malki. Heer is forced by her family and the local priest or 'Maulvi' to marry another man named Saida Khera. Ranjha is heartbroken. He wanders the countryside alone, until eventually he meets a Shaiva Jogi (ascetic). After meeting Gorakhnath, the founder of the "Kanphata" (pierced ear) sect of jogis at Tilla Jogian (the 'Hill of Ascetics', located 80 kilometres north of the historic town of Bhera, Sargodha District, Punjab), Ranjha becomes a jogi himself, piercing his ears and renouncing the material world. While reciting the name of the Lord, he wanders all over Punjab, eventually finding the village where Heer now lives. The two return to Heer's village, where Heer's parents agree to their marriage - though some versions of the story state that the parents' agreement is only a deception. On the wedding day, Kaido poisons her food so that the wedding will not take place, in order to punish the girl for her behaviour. Hearing this news, Ranjha rushes to aid Heer, but is too late, as she has already eaten the poison and has died. Brokenhearted once again, Ranjha eats the remaining poisoned food and dies by her side. Heer and Ranjha are buried in Heer's hometown, Jhang. Love-smitten couples and others often pay visits to their mausoleum. Legacy and influence Because its plot involves a romance opposed by family members and ends with the two lovers dying, the story is often compared to the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. In popular culture The epic poem has been made into several feature films between 1928 and 2013. In 2013, the television serial Heer Ranjha, directed by Shahid Zahoor and produced by Yousuf Salahuddin, aired on PTV Home. Heer Ranjha is a 2020 Indian Punjabi-language period drama television series starring Amaninder Pal Singh and Sara Gurpal in the lead roles. It aired on Zee Punjabi and is based on the folktale of Heer and Ranjha. In music Bally Jagpal British musician has a song dedicated to their story. ‘RANJHA’ (sad love song). The British musician Panjabi MC references the tale of Heer and Ranjha in his 2003 song Jogi. It has been sung by various Pakistani singers, including the classical/traditional artist Ghulam Ali. The tale is mentioned in popular Bollywood songs such as "Ranjha" by Rupesh Kumar Ram from the movie Queen ,"Ranjha Ranjha" by Rekha Bhardwaj and Javed Ali from the movie Raavan and "Dariya" from the movie Baar Baar Dekho. The names of Heer and Ranjha have been referred in the song lyrics of "One Love: The Taj Anthem" by A.R.Rahman. Alam Lohar is renowned for reciting Heer in various styles and one of the first international folk singers to bring this story in a song format. The song Khaireyan De Naal from Shafqat Amanat Ali's debut solo album, Tabeer (2008), tells the tale of Heer Ranjha. One of the songs of 2012 Hindi film Jab Tak Hai Jaan has been named "Heer". Also, the 2018 Hindi film Race 3 has a song named "Heeriye" which refers to Heer and Ranjha. In 2020, popular Indian YouTuber Bhuvan Bam wrote and sang "Heer Ranjha". The song depicts the brutal customs of society in the Indian sub-continent] and has garnered more than 10 million views. See also Muna Madan Damodar Das Arora Sassi Punnun Trilok Singh Chitarkar References External links Documentary on Heer Ranjha Kamran Saqi Documentary Film on Heer Ranjha Produced by Kamran Saqi - Royal News Read Online Heer Waris Shah By Peeran Dita Targarh in Urdu language. Complete Heer Waris Shah in Shahmukhi language. Qissa Heer Waris Shah in Unicode Punjabi language. Punjabi culture Punjabi folklore Punjabi literature Sufi literature 1766 novels Literary duos Tragedies (dramas) Indian folklore Indian literature Love stories Pakistani folklore Pakistani literature

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Sutton Court

Sutton Court is an English house remodelled by Thomas Henry Wyatt in the 1850s from a manor house built in the 15th and 16th centuries around a 14th-century fortified pele tower and surrounding buildings. The house has been designated as Grade II* listed building. The house is at Stowey in the Chew Valley in an area of Somerset now part of Bath and North East Somerset and near to the village of Bishop Sutton. The house is surrounded by an extensive estate laid out as a ferme ornée, part of which is now the Folly Farm nature reserve. The estate is boarded by the villages of Chew Magna to the north, Cholwell to the south, Clutton to the east and the reservoir Chew Valley Lake to the west. Since the early modern period the house has been the country seat of several prominent families including the St Loes, one of whom married Bess of Hardwick. They lived at Sutton Court and expanded the property in the second half of the 16th century. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries it was owned by the Strachey baronets and their descendants until it was sold in 1987 and converted into apartments. In the early 1980s the house was used as a film location for the BBC Look and Read series Dark Towers, a series very popular to this day in primary schools. History The original tower of a fortified house forms a central part of the current building and was built in the 14th century by Walter de Sutton. The estate was later purchased by the St Loe family of Newton St Loe Castle, who expanded the hall and established a small deer park of around which covered the site now occupied by Folly Farm. A length of original embattled wall, also built in the 14th century, survives. G.W. and J.H. Wade suggest that Bishop Hooper, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, found asylum at Sutton Court around 1550 during the Marian Persecutions when the house was owned by the Protestant sympathiser Sir John St Loe, a Member of Parliament (MP) and High Sheriff of Somerset. Sir John St Loe was a friend and neighbour of John Locke a philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism. Locke who lived in Belluton, Pensford approximately from Sutton Court. John St Loe was buried at the local Church of St Andrew, Chew Magna. About 1558, according to a date on a fireplace, Bess of Hardwick and her third husband, Sir John's son Sir William St Loe, added a north east wing with a parlour and chapel, which includes Tudor buttresses. Sir William St Loe was a soldier, politician and courtier. His official positions included Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, Chief Butler of England and Member of Parliament for Derbyshire. He died suddenly without male issue in 1564/5, which Mary S. Lovell suggests may have been as a result of poisoning by his younger brother. All his property was left to Bess, to the detriment of his daughters and brother. When Bess died in 1608 the house was left to her son Charles Cavendish. In the early 17th century it was the seat of Richard Jones and his son Sir William Jones, the Attorney General of England. In the 1650s the estate was bought by the Baber family. The house soon became the seat of the Strachey family including John Strachey, the geologist, who inherited estates including Sutton Court from his father in 1674 at three years of age. He introduced a theory of rock formations known as stratum, based on a pictorial cross-section of the geology under the estate and coal seams in nearby coal works of the Somerset Coalfield. He projected them according to their measured thicknesses and attitudes into unknown areas between the coal workings. The purpose was to enhance the value of his grant of a coal-lease on parts of his estate. This work was later developed by William Smith. Henry Strachey, the grandson of the geologist and a senior civil servant, was created a baronet in 1801. When he inherited the house in the 18th century the house had been mortgaged, however the mortgage was redeemed by Strachey's employer Clive of India. Henry Strachey, the 2nd Baronet, was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset in 1832 and Edward Strachey the 3rd Baronet High Sheriff in 1864. In 1858 much of the house was remodelled for the 3rd Baronet by Thomas Henry Wyatt. The 4th Baronet who was also Edward Strachey, a Liberal politician, was returned to Parliament for Somerset South at the 1892 general election. He served under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and later H. H. Asquith as Treasurer of the Household from 1905 to 1909 and under Asquith as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1909 to 1911. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Strachie in 1911. During the 1970s major restoration work was undertaken to deal with dry rot and replace wiring which resulted in the removal of several ceilings and decorations from many of the rooms. After the death of Edward Strachey, 2nd Baron Strachie in 1973, it passed to Tory MEP Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan, the grandson of Frances Constance Maddalena (d.1931), daughter of the 1st Baron Strachie He sold it in 1987 for conversion into flats. The building is now private apartments set in fifteen acres (3 ha) of communal grounds, including a trout lake and tennis court. It is run by a management company made up of the residents. Architecture Sutton Court is built of squared and coursed sandstone rubble throughout with freestone and ashlar dressings, copings, slate roofs. The north front comprises a central three-storey fourteenth century pele tower with a taller circular stair turret and two-storey ranges linking it to the 1558 'Bess of Hardwick Building' to the left and a four bay 1858–1860 servants' wing of three storeys to the right. Windows to the pele tower and right-hand linking range are 15th century, of two cusped lights with hood moulds, some of which have been renewed, and some relocated from other areas. The doorway to the tower dates from 1858–60. The windows to the left-hand linking range and the 'Hardwick Building' are four and six lights, with chamfered mullions. The two-storey 'Hardwick' range has diagonal offset buttresses. There are eighteenth-century battlements to the pele tower, with tall octagonal ashlar stacks. To the north of the servants wing are old stables and stable yard with a coach house and groom's cottage along with the laundry and wash house, which was once a brew house. A curtain wall to the north of the house with a gazebo is also designated as a listed building. It includes 14th century masonry at the bottom of the wall; however most of the structure as it is now dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. The corner gazebo was built in the 19th century. The gate lodge, gates and gatepiers were built around 1820. Estate During the late 18th and early 19th centuries a ferme ornée was established, with planting of various trees and the damming of streams to form ponds with paths and seating around them. Tenant farmers leased the majority of the land and during most of the 20th century it was used for dairy cattle, sheep and pigs. Much of the estate was sold in 1987 to the Avon Wildlife Trust who established their Folly Farm nature reserve on the site. References External links Grade II listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset Grade II* listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset Country houses in Somerset Grade II* listed houses in Somerset

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Conghua District

Conghua District, alternately romanized as Tsungfa, is one of 11 urban districts and the northernmost district of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, China. Conghua connects the Pearl River Delta with the mountainous area of northern Guangdong. Within China, it is known for its hot springs and lychees. It covers an area of , with a population of 543.377 in 2006. Its GDP was RMB10.369 billion (US$2,360 per person). History Under the Qing, the area was known as . It was subsequently upgraded to county-level city status and then, on 12 February 2014, to an urban district of Guangzhou. Administrative divisions Climate See also Conghua city yueyuan animal breeding farm Guangzhou Wenquan, Guangdong Notes References Citations Bibliography . External links Official website of Guangdong Province Official website of Conghua Government Guangzhou International Website - English version Lychee Festival County-level divisions of Guangdong Districts of Guangzhou

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Apse line

An apse line, or line of apsides, is an imaginary line defined by an orbit's eccentricity vector. It is strictly defined for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic orbits. For such orbits the apse line is found: for elliptical orbitsbetween the orbit's periapsis and apoapsis (also known as the major axis) for parabolic and hyperbolic orbitsbetween the orbit's periapsis and focus For circular orbits, the apse line is not defined because the eccentricity is equal to zero. As it is required as a base for the definition of true anomaly, it is usually arbitrarily assumed (as a line pointing into the direction of the vernal equinox). See also Apsidal precession Apsis Eccentricity (orbit) Orbit: circular, elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic True anomaly References Orbits

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Gbèkèkro

Gbèkèkro (also known as Gbèkèkro-Noumousso and also spelled Gbèlèkoro) is a village in north-eastern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Yaossédougou, Dabakala Department, Hambol Region, Vallée du Bandama District. Gbèkèkro was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. Notes Former communes of Ivory Coast Populated places in Vallée du Bandama District Populated places in Hambol

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Columbia University School of Professional Studies

The School of Professional Studies is one of the schools comprising Columbia University. It offers seventeen master's degrees, courses for advancement and graduate school preparation, certificate programs, summer courses, auditing and lifelong learning programs, high school programs in New York City and abroad, and a program for learning English as a second language. History The predecessor of the School of Professional Studies was first established as the Division of Special Programs in 1995, and was later renamed the "Division of Continuing Education and Special Programs" in 1997. In 2000, the Division began to consider offering degree programs, and was reorganized as the School of Continuing Education in 2002 under its founding dean, Frank Wolf. In 2002, the university's board of trustees granted final approval for the creation of the School of Continuing Education, the first new school at Columbia in 50 years. With this new status, the School became both a Faculty and a Department of Instruction in the Arts and Sciences, and was granted authority to offer the master of science degree. In the course of 2002–2006 it expanded its graduate offerings to eight M.S. Programs. A cross‑enrollment agreement with Union Theological Seminary was also established in 2002. In 2011 the university commissioned McKinsey & Company to provide suggestions on how to improve the university. Some of the report's suggestions caused contentions with some faculty and administrators. One of the proposed changes included increasing enrollment at the School of Continuing Education to increase university funding. In 2015, the School's incoming Dean, Jason Wingard announced that the School of Continuing Education was renamed the School of Professional Studies. During the most recent academic year, 2019-2020, the school's 1,359 graduates represented 14.3 percent of the 9,194 master's degrees conferred across all of Columbia University's graduate and professional schools. Academic Programs , the school offers graduate degrees in actuarial science, applied analytics, bioethics, construction administration, enterprise risk management, human capital management, nonprofit management, information and knowledge strategy, insurance management, narrative medicine, negotiation and conflict resolution, sport management, strategic communication, sustainability management, sustainability science, technology management, and wealth management. Student Outcomes The latest student outcomes released by Columbia's School of Professional Studies (SPS) in 2019 showed that 72% of students surveyed reported they were employed or continuing their education at the time they graduated (based on a sample of 82% of the total class). A sample of 2016 School of Professional Studies students showed a breakdown of income as follows: Under $29,999: 17% $30,000–$49,000: 10% $50,000–$69,999: 25% $70,000–$89,999: 13% $90,000 or more: 35% Rankings In 2020, the School's Negotiation and Conflict Resolution master's program was named the #1 Best Master's in Negotiation and Conflict Management degrees in the United States by College Choice. In 2021, the School's Construction Administration master's program was ranked #1 and topped the list of 25 Best Master's in Construction Management, compiled by Great Business Schools. College Choice also ranked it #1 amongst the Best Master's Program in Construction Management. In 2021, the School's Sustainability Management master's program was named #2 in the United States on Great Business Schools' list of the best Environmental & Sustainability Management Master's Programs. Controversy Some controversy has arisen following the re-branding of the school as the School of Professional Studies and its expansion. In 2017 and 2019 the Columbia Senate met to discuss whether the existence of the School of Professional Studies negatively impacted the university's reputation. The External Relations Committee at Columbia expressed concerns that SPS's “proliferation of graduate degrees without academic oversight can threaten Columbia's external brand and reputation.” An ad hoc committee was formed by students and graduates after rumors surfaced that students in the Applied Analytics program were considering a lawsuit for what they believed was an inferior program. In addition, other Columbia schools, such as the engineering school and the business school, have criticized SPS for offering programs that appear to overlap with programs already offered by their respective schools. The meeting in 2017 saw continued contentions upon the matter, where a statement unanimously endorsed by the External Relations Committee was presented to criticize the school's swell in graduate degrees without adequate academic oversight. Notable faculty Jeffrey Sachs – University Professor and Director of the Earth Institute, Faculty in the Bioethics Program Rita Charon – Professor of Medicine, Founder and Executive Director of the Narrative Medicine Program Peter T. Coleman – Professor of Psychology and Education, Lecturer in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Jason Wingard - Professor of Human Capital Management Robert Klitzman - Academic Director, M.S. in Bioethics Program Geovanny Vicente - Associate lecturer, M.S. in Enterprise Risk Management Program Notable alumni Andrew Hawkins – Retired NFL Player, M.S. 2017 Kira Peikoff – Journalist and Author, M.S. 2015 References External links 1995 establishments in New York City Columbia University Educational institutions established in 1995

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Swann Galleries

Swann Galleries is a New York City auction house founded in 1941. It is a specialist auctioneer of antique and rare works on paper, and it is considered the oldest continually operating New York specialist auction house. The company has separate specialist departments for books, autographs and manuscripts, maps and atlases, photographs and photographic literature, prints and drawings, vintage posters, illustration art, and African-American fine art. Additionally, Swann conducts annual sales of printed and manuscript African Americana. In total, Swann conducts over 35 catalogued live auctions a year. History Book dealer Benjamin Swann founded the family-owned firm in 1941. In 1970, George Lowry acquired the business from Mr. Swann, and it is now headed by Nicholas D. Lowry, the third generation at the company’s helm. For over thirty years, Swann has been located on East 25th Street, just one block east of Madison Square Park, at the boundaries of the historic Murray Hill, Gramercy Park, and Flatiron districts. Affiliations Swann is one of the founding members of International Auctioneers (IA), formed in 1993 by some of the world’s leading independent auction houses. Current European members are located in Stockholm, Cologne, Milan, Paris, Zurich, Geneva, and Vienna. Swann is the only auction house that is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, which actively promotes an ethical professionalism in the dealing and trading of rare books. Many of the specialists at Swann share their expertise on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow, where they assess people’s antiques and collectibles in the quest for hidden gems. References African-American Art Arrives Rare Cookbooks on the Auction Block Sportivo! External links Auction houses based in New York City American companies established in 1941 Retail companies established in 1941 Commercial buildings in Manhattan 1941 establishments in New York City

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Phavaraea rectangularis

Phavaraea rectangularis is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Hervé de Toulgoët in 1997. It is only known from French Guiana. External links "Phavaraea rectangularis (Toulgoët & Navatte 1997)". Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved January 1, 2018. Notodontidae of South America Moths described in 1997

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2008–09 Galatasaray S.K. season

The 2008–09 season was Galatasarays 105th in existence and the 51st consecutive season in the Süper Lig. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club have played in the season. Current squad As of March 10, 2009; according to the official website. . Transfers In Out Loaned out Squad statistics Statistics accurate as of match played June 1, 2009 Competitions Turkish Super CupAll times at CESTSüper Lig League table Results summary Results by round MatchesKick-off listed in local time (EEST)Turkish CupKick-off listed in local time (EEST)Group stage Quarter-finals UEFA Champions LeagueAll times at CETThird qualifying round UEFA CupAll times at CET'' First round Group stage Knockout phase Round of 32 Round of 16 Attendance References External links Galatasaray Sports Club Official Website Turkish Football Federation - Galatasaray A.Ş. uefa.com - Galatasaray AŞ 2008-09 Turkish football clubs 2008–09 season 2000s in Istanbul Galatasaray Sports Club 2008–09 season

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David Kirsch

David Guy Kirsch is an American oncologist currently the Barbara Levine University Professor at Duke University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Education He earned his M.D. and Ph.D at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2000. Research His interests are in studying sarcomagenesis, cancer biology and radiation oncology. His highest cited papers are "Conversion of Bcl-2 to a Bax-like death effector by caspases", at 1332 times, and "Restoration of p53 function leads to tumour regression in vivo", at 1320 times, according to Google Scholar. Publications Yoon, SW, Cramer, CK, Miles, DA, Reinsvold, MH, Joo, KM, Kirsch, DG, and Oldham, M. "A precision 3D conformal treatment technique in rats: Application to whole-brain radiotherapy with hippocampal avoidance." Medical physics 44, no. 11 (November 2017): 6008-6017. Dodd, RD, Lee, C-L, Overton, T, Huang, W, Eward, WC, Luo, L, Ma, Y, Ingram, DR, Torres, KE, Cardona, DM, Lazar, AJ, and Kirsch, DG. "NF1+/- Hematopoietic Cells Accelerate Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor Development without Altering Chemotherapy Response." Cancer research 77, no. 16 (August 2017): 4486-4497. Huang, J, Chen, M, Whitley, MJ, Kuo, H-C, Xu, ES, Walens, A, Mowery, YM, Van Mater, D, Eward, WC, Cardona, DM, Luo, L, Ma, Y, Lopez, OM, Nelson, CE, Robinson-Hamm, JN, Reddy, A, Dave, SS, Gersbach, CA, Dodd, RD, and Kirsch, DG. "Generation and comparison of CRISPR-Cas9 and Cre-mediated genetically engineered mouse models of sarcoma." Nature communications 8 (July 10, 2017): 15999-. Castle, KD, Chen, M, Wisdom, AJ, and Kirsch, DG. "Genetically engineered mouse models for studying radiation biology." Translational Cancer Research 6, no. S5 (July 2017): S900-S913. McConnell, AM, Yao, C, Yeckes, AR, Wang, Y, Selvaggio, AS, Tang, J, Kirsch, DG, and Stripp, BR. "p53 Regulates Progenitor Cell Quiescence and Differentiation in the Airway." Cell reports 17, no. 9 (November 2016): 2173-2182. References Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Duke University faculty American oncologists Living people Johns Hopkins University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)

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De la Conquête de Constantinople

De la Conquête de Constantinople (On the Conquest of Constantinople), is the oldest surviving example of historical French prose, and considered to be one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade. It was written by Geoffrey of Villehardouin, a knight and crusader, who gave his eyewitness account of the successful conquest of the Christian Byzantine Empire's capital city, Constantinople, on April 13, 1204. Background Villehardouin was present at the origins of the Crusade during the 1199 tournament held by Thibauld III of Champagne. Throughout the five-year crusade he acted as an envoy, an ambassador, a councilman, and even a military leader at the Battle of Adrianople in 1205. Several years later, Villehardouin took the time to write down his account. Villehardouin chose to write his work in epic fashion. He writes his work in the third-person, and combines objectivity and ecclesiastical points-of-view. A common technique in his work is to narrate a battle or episode along subjective and even militaristic guidelines, and follow this with his personal and religious explanation of what the results were. Villehardouin makes constant hints and references to future events and the unknowingness of the characters at this moment. He defines the outcome in his own terms and does not allow the audience to reach their own conclusion for the actions of the characters. He recapitulates the events leading to Alexis's negotiations with the Crusaders. Compare this to Robert de Clari's account of the Fourth Crusade. His Crusade is more than just a Holy War, it is an event of such great magnitude that he must recapture it within his work in lengthy detail and describe the actors. Villehardouin describes the Doge of Venice (Enrico Dandolo) as a blind man who valiantly leads his men into battle. Contemporary studies are undecided but lean towards this man being only short-sighted or having poor eyesight. He makes many references to The Song of Roland. Much like this earlier epic, Villehardouin describes the French Army as elected to execute God's will. When Villehardouin describes how Count Louis refuses to leave the field, there is a clear reference to the functions of Roland's climax in his epic. Villehardouin's words — while sometimes accurate and other times not — present a vivid personal account of the Fourth Crusade. From the outset, Villehardouin states that he is a pilgrim, but he never explains this tenet of the Crusade. Another omission is Fulk of Neuilly's influence on the origins of the Fourth Crusade. Villehardouin merely reports of the successes of his work. A misleading portion of the book is Villehardouin's treatment of the envoy and negotiations that lead to Venice being the central port for the Fourth Crusade. Many historians have described the calculation by Villehardouin on the number of men and horses needed as chivalrous enthusiasm combined with Christian idealism. Villehardouin claims that it is in fact the Venetians who were outwitted, but Villehardouin has overcalculated (only 11,000 showed up instead of over 33,000 as planned). Villehardouin directs attention to crusaders possibly leaving from other ports. Villehardouin captures the Council at Zara with specific detail, and so creates a negative view of this portion of the Crusade. He describes how Zara's citizens pleaded with the Crusaders not to attack a Christian city and gives an unbiased description of the looting by the Crusaders. He also points out that the French would not attack Zara and that many deserted the Crusade. This attitude continues with his description of the Siege at Constantinople as well. He is appalled at the actions of the Crusaders and describes the destruction and thefts. He claims that Constantinople had prized and ancient relics equivalent to the rest of the world combined. Throughout his book, Villehardouin shows an understanding of history and of Greek culture that allows for a more complete view. A sample text from the Chronicle The first paragraphs from the Chronicle are copied here: Sachiez que mille cent quatre-vinz et dix huit ans après l'incarnation nostre seingnor Jésus Christ, al tens Innocent trois, apostoille de Rome, et Philippe, roi de France, et Richart, roi d’Angleterre , ot un saint home en France qui ot nom Folques de Nuilli. Cil Nuillis siet entre Lagny-sor-Marne et Paris; e il ère prestre et tenoit la paroiche de la ville. Et cil Folques dont je vous di, comença à parler de Dieu par France et par les autres terres entor, et Nostre Sires fist maint miracles por luy. Sachiez que la renommée de cil saint home alla tant qu’elle vint a l'apostoille de Rome, Innocent; et l’apostoille envoya en France et manda al prod'ome que il empreschast des croiz par s’autorité. Et après y envoia un suen cardonal , maistre Perron de Chappes, croisié, et manda par luy le pardon tel come vos dirai: Tuit cil qui se croisieroient et feroient le service Dieu un an en l’ost, seroient quittes de toz les péchiez que il avoient faiz, dont il seroient confés. Por ce que cil pardons fu issi granz, si s’en esmeurent mult li cuers des gens; et mult s’encroisièrent por ce que li pardons ère si grans. in translation: Be it known to you that eleven hundred and ninety-seven years after the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the time of Innocent Pope of Rome, and Philip King of France, and Richard King of England, there was in France a holy man named Fulk of Neuilly - which Neuilly is between Lagni-sur-Marne and Paris - and he was a priest and held the cure of the village. And this said Fulk began to speak of God throughout the Isle-de-France, and the other countries round about; and you must know that by him the Lord wrought many miracles. Be it known to you further, that the fame of this holy man so spread, that it reached the Pope of Rome, Innocent; and the Pope sent to France, and ordered the right worthy man to preach the cross (the Crusade) by his authority. And afterwards the Pope sent a cardinal of his, Master Peter of Capua, who himself had taken the cross, to proclaim the Indulgence of which I now tell you, viz., that all who should take the cross and serve in the host for one year, would be delivered from all the sins they had committed, and acknowledged in confession. And because this indulgence was so great, the hearts of men were much moved, and many took the cross for the greatness of the pardon. Notes Sources Beer, Jeanette M. A. Villehardouin: Epic Historian, Librarie Droz, 1968 Burckhardt, Jacob. Judgement on History and Historians, Garland Publishing, 1984 Godfrey, John. 1204: The Unholy Crusade, Oxford University Press, 1980 Joinville and Villehardouin. Chronicles of the Crusades, Penguin Books, 1963 Michaud, Joseph Francois. Michaud's History of the Crusades, AMS Press, 1973 Queller, Donald E. The Fourth Crusade, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977 This contains a summary and critical review of the work. External links Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople - English translation Old French Online, Lesson 7 - Some of the original text parsed The full text available online, edition of Jean Alexandre Buchon, on Google Books (contains translated words in modern French, inserted by the editor), 1828, Paris. Crusade literature Fourth Crusade 13th-century history books French literature 1200s in the Byzantine Empire 1204 in Europe

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Auto battler

An auto battler, also known as auto chess, is a subgenre of strategy video games that typically feature chess-like elements where players place characters on a grid-shaped battlefield during a preparation phase, who then fight the opposing team's characters without any further direct input from the player. The genre was popularized by Dota Auto Chess in early 2019 and saw other games in the genre released soon after by more established studios, such as Teamfight Tactics, Dota Underlords, and Hearthstone's Battlegrounds. Gameplay Auto battler games typically feature multiple players competing against each other as individuals, similar to a battle royale. Each player fields a team of units, sometimes called minions, with the player being tasked to assemble the strongest possible team. Once each player has selected some initial units, players are paired off randomly for a series of 1-versus-1 battles. In combat, both players units are placed on the board and automatically battle each other, typically without player input. When one team is completely defeated, with none of that player's units being able to continue fighting, the loser takes a penalty to their hit points, and the game moves on to the next phase. After the battle phase, at the start of each round, players buy units, which can be combined to make stronger versions of the same units. Units may be divided into multiple categories, with combat bonuses awarded for stacking multiple units of the same type. If a player loses all their health, they are eliminated from the match. History The roots of the genre can be traced back to "Pokemon Defense", a custom tower defense mode in Warcraft III. However, the codifier of the genre is Dota Auto Chess, a custom game mode for Dota 2, which was released by the group of Chinese developers known as Drodo Studio in January 2019. The popularity of the mod, with it having over eight million players by May 2019, led to the proliferation of the genre after the unique gameplay of "Pokemon Defense" and other similar custom maps of Warcraft III's heyday had been largely forgotten. The first full-fledged games of the genre were initially developed as game modes for already established video games, such as Teamfight Tactics from Riot Games, released within their MOBA game League of Legends. Later in 2019, both Drodo Studio and Valve developed their own standalone versions, Auto Chess and Dota Underlords, respectively. In November 2019, Blizzard Entertainment introduced their own take on the genre, Battlegrounds, in their card game Hearthstone. References Video game genres Video game terminology

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Robert Jordan (disambiguation)

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) was the American author of The Wheel of Time fantasy series. Robert Jordan, Bob Jordan, and Bobby Jordan may also refer to: Law Robert H. Jordan (1916–1992), Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Leon Jordan (born 1934), U.S. federal judge Robert E. Jordan III (1936–2010), U.S. General Counsel of the Army Robert W. Jordan (born 1945), American lawyer and diplomat Sports Robert Jordan (baseball) (1867–1931), Negro leagues first baseman Robert F. Jordan (1927–2004, Bobby), American bridge player Robert Jordan (American football) (born 1986), free agent wide receiver Others "Bob Jordan", (a pen name of Fletcher Hanks, 1889–1976), American cartoonist Robert Furneaux Jordan (1905–1978), English architect, architectural critic and novelist Bobby Jordan (1923–1965), American actor Robert B. Jordan (1932–2020), lieutenant governor of North Carolina Bob Jordan (newscaster) (born 1943), American television newscaster Bob Jordan (businessman), CEO of Southwest Airlines Robert Jordan (character), character in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls See also Jordan (name)

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John W. Stayton

John William Stayton (December 24, 1830 – July 5, 1894) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from November 1881 to July 1894, serving as Chief Justice from March 1888 to July 1894. References Justices of the Texas Supreme Court 1830 births 1894 deaths 19th-century American judges

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Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm

The Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm (named after Donald Knuth and Peter Bendix) is a semi-decision algorithm for transforming a set of equations (over terms) into a confluent term rewriting system. When the algorithm succeeds, it effectively solves the word problem for the specified algebra. Buchberger's algorithm for computing Gröbner bases is a very similar algorithm. Although developed independently, it may also be seen as the instantiation of Knuth–Bendix algorithm in the theory of polynomial rings. Introduction For a set E of equations, its deductive closure () is the set of all equations that can be derived by applying equations from E in any order. Formally, E is considered a binary relation, () is its rewrite closure, and () is the equivalence closure of (). For a set R of rewrite rules, its deductive closure ( ∘ ) is the set of all equations that can be confirmed by applying rules from R left-to-right to both sides until they are literally equal. Formally, R is again viewed as binary relation, () is its rewrite closure, () is its converse, and ( ∘ ) is the relation composition of their reflexive transitive closures ( and ). For example, if are the group axioms, the derivation chain demonstrates that a−1⋅(a⋅b) b is a member of E'''s deductive closure. If is a "rewrite rule" version of E, the derivation chains demonstrate that (a−1⋅a)⋅b ∘ b is a member of Rs deductive closure. However, there is no way to derive a−1⋅(a⋅b) ∘ b similar to above, since a right-to-left application of the rule is not allowed. The Knuth–Bendix algorithm takes a set E of equations between terms, and a reduction ordering (>) on the set of all terms, and attempts to construct a confluent and terminating term rewriting system R that has the same deductive closure as E. While proving consequences from E often requires human intuition, proving consequences from R does not. For more details, see Confluence (abstract rewriting)#Motivating examples, which gives an example proof from group theory, performed both using E and using R. Rules Given a set E of equations between terms, the following inference rules can be used to transform it into an equivalent convergent term rewrite system (if possible): Here: sect.8.1, p.293 They are based on a user-given reduction ordering (>) on the set of all terms; it is lifted to a well-founded ordering (▻) on the set of rewrite rules by defining if in the encompassment ordering, or and are literally similar and . Example The following example run, obtained from the E theorem prover, computes a completion of the (additive) group axioms as in Knuth, Bendix (1970). It starts with the three initial equations for the group (neutral element 0, inverse elements, associativity), using f(X,Y) for X+Y, and i(X) for −X. The 10 starred equations turn out to constitute the resulting convergent rewrite system. "pm" is short for "paramodulation", implementing deduce. Critical pair computation is an instance of paramodulation for equational unit clauses. "rw" is rewriting, implementing compose, collapse, and simplify. Orienting of equations is done implicitly and not recorded. See also Word problem (mathematics) for another presentation of this example. String rewriting systems in group theory An important case in computational group theory are string rewriting systems which can be used to give canonical labels to elements or cosets of a finitely presented group as products of the generators. This special case is the focus of this section. Motivation in group theory The critical pair lemma states that a term rewriting system is locally confluent (or weakly confluent) if and only if all its critical pairs are convergent. Furthermore, we have Newman's lemma which states that if an (abstract) rewriting system is strongly normalizing and weakly confluent, then the rewriting system is confluent. So, if we can add rules to the term rewriting system in order to force all critical pairs to be convergent while maintaining the strong normalizing property, then this will force the resultant rewriting system to be confluent. Consider a finitely presented monoid where X is a finite set of generators and R is a set of defining relations on X. Let X* be the set of all words in X (i.e. the free monoid generated by X). Since the relations R generate an equivalence relation on X*, one can consider elements of M to be the equivalence classes of X* under R. For each class {w1, w2, ... } it is desirable to choose a standard representative wk. This representative is called the canonical or normal form for each word wk in the class. If there is a computable method to determine for each wk its normal form wi then the word problem is easily solved. A confluent rewriting system allows one to do precisely this. Although the choice of a canonical form can theoretically be made in an arbitrary fashion this approach is generally not computable. (Consider that an equivalence relation on a language can produce an infinite number of infinite classes.) If the language is well-ordered then the order < gives a consistent method for defining minimal representatives, however computing these representatives may still not be possible. In particular, if a rewriting system is used to calculate minimal representatives then the order < should also have the property: A < B → XAY < XBY for all words A,B,X,Y This property is called translation invariance. An order that is both translation-invariant and a well-order is called a reduction order'. From the presentation of the monoid it is possible to define a rewriting system given by the relations R. If A x B is in R then either A < B in which case B → A is a rule in the rewriting system, otherwise A > B and A → B. Since < is a reduction order a given word W can be reduced W > W_1 > ... > W_n where W_n is irreducible under the rewriting system. However, depending on the rules that are applied at each Wi → Wi+1 it is possible to end up with two different irreducible reductions Wn ≠ W'm of W. However, if the rewriting system given by the relations is converted to a confluent rewriting system via the Knuth–Bendix algorithm, then all reductions are guaranteed to produce the same irreducible word, namely the normal form for that word. Description of the algorithm for finitely presented monoids Suppose we are given a presentation , where is a set of generators and is a set of relations giving the rewriting system. Suppose further that we have a reduction ordering among the words generated by (e.g., shortlex order). For each relation in , suppose . Thus we begin with the set of reductions . First, if any relation can be reduced, replace and with the reductions. Next, we add more reductions (that is, rewriting rules) to eliminate possible exceptions of confluence. Suppose that and overlap. Case 1: either the prefix of equals the suffix of , or vice versa. In the former case, we can write and ; in the latter case, and . Case 2: either is completely contained in (surrounded by) , or vice versa. In the former case, we can write and ; in the latter case, and . Reduce the word using first, then using first. Call the results , respectively. If , then we have an instance where confluence could fail. Hence, add the reduction to . After adding a rule to , remove any rules in that might have reducible left sides (after checking if such rules have critical pairs with other rules). Repeat the procedure until all overlapping left sides have been checked. Examples A terminating example Consider the monoid: . We use the shortlex order. This is an infinite monoid but nevertheless, the Knuth–Bendix algorithm is able to solve the word problem. Our beginning three reductions are therefore A suffix of (namely ) is a prefix of , so consider the word . Reducing using (), we get . Reducing using (), we get . Hence, we get , giving the reduction rule Similarly, using and reducing using () and (), we get . Hence the reduction Both of these rules obsolete (), so we remove it. Next, consider by overlapping () and (). Reducing we get , so we add the rule Considering by overlapping () and (), we get , so we add the rule These obsolete rules () and (), so we remove them. Now, we are left with the rewriting system Checking the overlaps of these rules, we find no potential failures of confluence. Therefore, we have a confluent rewriting system, and the algorithm terminates successfully. A non-terminating example The order of the generators may crucially affect whether the Knuth–Bendix completion terminates. As an example, consider the free Abelian group by the monoid presentation: The Knuth–Bendix completion with respect to lexicographic order finishes with a convergent system, however considering the length-lexicographic order it does not finish for there are no finite convergent systems compatible with this latter order. Generalizations If Knuth–Bendix does not succeed, it will either run forever and produce successive approximations to an infinite complete system, or fail when it encounters an unorientable equation (i.e. an equation that it cannot turn into a rewrite rule). An enhanced version will not fail on unorientable equations and produces a ground confluent system, providing a semi-algorithm for the word problem. The notion of logged rewriting discussed in the paper by Heyworth and Wensley listed below allows some recording or logging of the rewriting process as it proceeds. This is useful for computing identities among relations for presentations of groups. References C. Sims. 'Computations with finitely presented groups.' Cambridge, 1994. Anne Heyworth and C.D. Wensley. "Logged rewriting and identities among relators." Groups St. Andrews 2001 in Oxford. Vol. I,'' 256–276, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 304, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2003. External links Knuth-Bendix Completion Visualizer Computational group theory Donald Knuth Combinatorics on words Rewriting systems

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Hearst papyrus

The Hearst Papyrus, also called the Hearst Medical Papyrus, is one of the medical papyri of ancient Egypt. It was named after Phoebe Hearst. The papyrus contains 18 pages of medical prescriptions written in hieratic Egyptian writing, concentrating on treatments for problems dealing with the urinary system, blood, hair, and bites. It is dated to the first half of the 2nd millennium BC. It is considered an important manuscript, but some doubts persist about its authenticity. Origin According to George Reisner (who published plates of the papyrus in 1905), the Hearst Papyrus was received in the spring of 1901 at the camp of the Hearst Expedition in Egypt from a peasant of the nearby village of Deir el-Ballas, as a thank-you for being allowed to take fertilizer from their dump-heaps. It was later named after Phoebe Hearst (the mother of William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate) who funded much of that expedition carried out by the University of California. The papyrus has been dated to the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, around the time of pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The text is believed to have been composed earlier, during the Middle Kingdom, around 2000 BC. , it is kept in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. In later years, some doubts have been raised about its authenticity. The contents of the papyrus have been studied extensively from the published plates, but the original papyrus had never been carefully examined. As its curator explained in 2003, "the papyrus is in surprisingly good condition. It is almost too good to be true." On the other hand, Reisner had no doubts, writing in 1905, "The roll had not been opened since antiquity as was manifest in the set of the turns, the fine dust, and the casts of insects." To settle the matter, the Bancroft Library has expressed its intention to have the papyrus examined at some point in the future to establish "whether it is indeed real or an almost perfect fake". Contents The Hearst Papyrus is one of the medical papyri of ancient Egypt, which were used to record remedial methods for problems such as headaches and digestive problems. Most papyri also included a section on incantations and magic spells that would be performed on the patient before, during, and after treatment. The Hearst Papyrus contains 260 paragraphs on 18 columns of medical prescriptions, written in hieratic Egyptian writing. The topics range from "a tooth which falls out" to "remedy for treatment of the lung", but concentrates on treatments for problems dealing with the urinary system, blood, hair, and bites (by human beings, pigs, and hippopotamuses). One incantation deals with the "Canaanite illness", "when the body is coal-black with charcoal spots", probably tularemia, one of the "plagues" that helped to unseat the Hyksos. See also List of ancient Egyptian papyri Ancient Egyptian medicine History of medicine References External links Ancient Egyptian medical works Egyptian papyri

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Companyia Elèctrica Dharma

Companyia Elèctrica Dharma is a Spanish band. Many of its members are brothers, from the district of Sants, in the city of Barcelona. They have performed in Europe, North and South America, and Africa at music festivals such as "Rock in Rio", Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) "Memphis In May" Memphis (USA) "Festival of Essakane" (Mali) "Awesome Africa Festival" and Durban (South Africa). Their albums are sold all over the world. The band's music is a fusion of Cobla, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Progressive music, and Symphonic rock. History Early years The three Fortuny brothers first played in the band "Els Llums". Their first concert was at Casal d'Horta in 1967. Josep was the drummer, Esteve played guitar and organ, and Joan was on bass. They sang The Beatles' songs, the obligatory rendition of The House of the Rising Sun and other traditional Catalan arrangements in rock versions. The rise in popularity of folk music prompted Els Llums to become La Roda and they began playing more acoustic sets. Josep played the twelve-string guitar, Esteve the double bass and Joan guitars and flute. They were joined by two new friends, Jordi Marigó, banjo; and Francesc Granell, guitar. They sang in Catalan and added some of their own work (El pescador, Tinc Fred, Mariner, Cors Humils, etc.), musical versions of popular songs and poems. Changing their name once again to "Fang i Disbauxa", they abandoned folk music and went back to their electric roots, partly because they crashed their father's car, a tiny Seat 600, while the double bass was on the roof rack. They got into Blues, and wanted to play solos like John Lee Hooker and Big Bill Broonzy so they decided to turn their hands to instrumental pieces. Dharma 1971, Josep, Esteve and Joan met a saxophonist called Leandro, who was a big fan of The Road by Kerouac, the iconic book of the Beat Generation, which in Catalan was translated by Manuel de Pedrolo as "Els pòtols místics" or "Els pirats de la Dharma". During these early years some new faces came and went: for example, Joan Bofill (flute) and Joan Albert, who inspired Joan Fortuny to play the saxo. They shared the scene with Màquina!, the band which was regarded as the best underground rock or progressive music band of its time, alongside groups such as Agua de Regaliz, Baf or Bueyes Madereros. The first festival in which they took part was at Les Palmeres, in the district of Sants, on 30 June 1972. Also on the bill were other musicians who have become big stars such as Maria del Mar Bonet, Om, Baf, Fennech, Bueyes Madereros, Slo Blo, Jaume Sisa and Pau Riba. At that time, Josep, Esteve and Joan really got into hippy culture, oriental philosophies, countercultural values and the underground. Following the example of the K1 and K2 hippy communities from Berlin, Josep wrote a manifesto to organize an urban community as a first step towards a rural community. In this project they met Carles Vidal. 1973 was an important year for Dharma. The urban community was set up, Carles joined the band as bass player and Joan took up the saxo, which gave the band their special unmistakable identity. Laietan Rock May 10, 1973 Pepe Aponte and Victor Jou opened the celebrated Sala Zeleste in the old part of Barcelona, which became home to the musical movement Rock Laietà (Laietan Rock) one of the most fertile music initiatives that the country has ever had. Companyia Elèctrica Dharma and Orquesta Mirasol were the main exponents of this musical style together with such musicians as Santi Arisa, Arrels, Jordi Sabatés, Sisa and Max Sunyer, to mention only a few. The band had their first taste of stardom on November 10, 1973, when a short film they had written and acted in, La Dansa de Moloc, won the 12th National Film Contest organised by the Manresa Film Club. Soon afterwards, they met Jordi Soley in Malla (Osona). He initially wanted to join the urban community, but by that time it was full. However, he got into the band as a piano player. With Soley, Dharma rose to the challenge of composing the soundtrack for a tribute to Picasso in a multivision performance at the Picasso Museu on the occasion of the first anniversary of the artist's death, and playing as session musicians for the record Vetlles Al Voltant Del Foc by Jaume Arnella. Consolidation Summer 1974, Josep, Esteve, Joan, Carles and Jordi, together with Frances Contra went to live in Casa Nova de Can Comas, a farm in the north of the country. They made handicrafts for a living and set up a rehearsal room, where they worked on their first album Diumenge, and received such well-known musicians as Jaume Sisa, Manel Joseph, Josep Maria París, the piano player Victor Ammann and the flute player Xavier Barenys. In January 1975, Josep's girlfriend left the Dharma Community to join the theatre group Els Comediants. The album, released in April, had a jazz, rock and free-jazz influences, the result of listening to musicians sucg as Miles Davis, Weather Report, John McLaughlin and Wayne Shorter. But less than a month later they decided that this was not what they were looking for. They wanted a more personal sound more rooted in the autochthonous musical tradition. Cobla music Success The results of their search for their own sound were soon to come. The album L'Oucomballa was the first time they combined their own peculiar sound with more traditional music, and they matured and consolidated this experiment in Tramuntana. This album, presented at the Canet Rock Festival in 1976 and released the year after, led to the consecration of the band. They sold 30,000 copies almost immediately and were given excellent reviews. They went on tour and were a great success all over Spain, particularly in the final concert at the Real Madrid Sports Pavillian in the capital in December 1977. In May 1978 they released their fourth album, L'àngel de la dansa, which they performed at Palau dels Esports in Barcelona in front of more than 9,000 people., The Dharma put on an extraordinary performance, but it was Jordi Soley's last gig before he left the band. They toured around Catalonia (Spain) and Italy. Meanwhile, L'Oucomballa and Tramuntana became the best-selling Catalan rock albums. They became big in Italy where they often appeared on magazine covers and TV programs. With L'àngel de la dansa, they closed what is regarded as the group's symphonic period. Towards a more "Pop"-type sound Under Construction Collaboration with Cobla Mediterrània Under construction The Tribal Age Death of Esteve Fortuny To be done, soon International projection Paris In September 1990, the band traveled to Paris to play at the Showcase of MARS, and they were made several offers by promoters from USA, Asia and Europe. USA, April 1991 Elèctrica Dharma crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. They did a series of concerts in universities all over the country: Syracuse, Rochester, Ithaca, Watertown and Elmira. The North American public reacted very positively. In the magazine Billboard, Carlos Agudelo wrote "The music o Companyia Elèctrica Dharma is mature, rich and powerful; it calls your attention and plays with your senses in a new, delicate and fascinating way. They ended this first tour at SOB's in Manhattan (NYC). After they had returned from the states, on 11 January 1992 they presented Tifa Head at Zeleste in Barcelona. In March 1993 they released Que no es perdi aquest so, an album in which they used melodies from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat. By going back to their roots, they re-encountered their original sound, closer to what had first made them popular. With this album they went back to the United States for a second tour in 1993. In 1992, they were awarded the National Prize of Music by the Government of Catalonia. USA 1993 In 1993 they went back to the USA for a tour of the Summer Festivals, playing a final gig at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan. 20th Anniversary 1994 was their busiest year yet. They signed for the record label Picap and re-released Catalluna. The Fortuny brothers and Carles Vidal went back to the rehearsal studio, a house in Carrer de Sagunt street in the district of Sants, to prepare for the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the group. The activities were coordinated by Rosa Solsona, Esteve's girlfriend, who managed them until 1995. The most important event was a concert at the Palau Sant Jordi on 23 April, where they performed with 17 different bands and guest singers in front of an audience of up to 20,000 people. FIL 2000 Mexico Europe 2000 Decade At the beginning of the first decade of the 20th century, Dharma went on tour several times in Europe. They played in countries such as Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden. They particularly remember the gigs in Croatia where they used to perform two or three times every year in Zagreb or Split, and in summer on the beach. The first time it didn't feel as if there had been a war. But the next time they went back in winter. They crossed the country and saw the devastation, abandoned towns and misery. When they got to Split, they once again performed on the beach but this time with snow and ice. It was their coldest concert ever, but they played to a full house. Some of the most important concerts from these European tours were: Colliure Festival (France) Mediator (France) Mars Fair (France) Nuit Mediterranean (France) Matav Kalaka Folk Festival (Hungary) Ethno Ambient Festival (Croatia) Mediteran Festival (Slovenia) Teatr Polski Festival (Poland) International Folk Festival (Holland) De Oude Ulo Festival (Holland) Rock in Rio III (Brazil) Split Carnival Festival (Croatia) W. Ethno Amb. Fest. at Tvornica (Croatia) Festa do Avante in Lisbon (Portugal) Wrzesnia Jeleniogórskiego 2001 (Poland) Rhodes Summer Festival (Greece) Malmö festivalen (Sweden) Goteborgskalaset festival (Sweden) Ethno Ambient Festival’03 (Croatia) 13ème Fifres de Garonne (France) Kalaka Folk Festival (Hungary) Brazil, January 2001 They performed at the biggest festival in the world, with a total audience of around one million people. They had been invited by Carlos de Andrade, owner of Visom Digital, a Brazilian-based record company, and a promoter who had discovered them at a WOMEX in Germany and decided to publish two compilations of their work in Brazil. 2003 South Africa 36º Festival Intern. Londrina (Brazil) Memphis (2007-2008) They played in Memphis (Tennessee- US) by the River Mississippi. There they put on two concerts in 2007 and 2008, as part of the Memphis In May International Festival. Mali 2008 Dharma were invited to play in Africa for a second time at the Festival Au Desert in Mali. They started a collaboration with the Tamasheq group Imarhane. It was a highly prestigious festival in the World Music style. It was held in the middle of the desert. The camp was huge and full of tents (haimas) divided into different camp areas accordinbg to nationality: French, Americans, etc. And the stage in the middle. Sound experiences In 1996 they released the album El ventre de la bèstia, which expresses their frustration with how the system absorbs all the struggles for change. Two years later, in 1998, they released Racó de món, all the songs on which were traditional, played and arranged by the present members, except for La filla del marxant, parts of which were arranged by Esteve Fortuny. In the year 2000 the eighteenth Dharma record, Sonada, was released with influences from Romani music and new versions of previous songs. Three years later, they released Llibre Vermell in which they mixed rock and medieval music. The songs were traditional Catalan ones, but played in the contemporary style. The traditional sound of tenora was backed by African rhythms. So it was a mix of the old and the new. In this period they went on two international tours, the first to Rock in Rio III, in Brazil, and the second to South Africa, where for the first time they managed to combine the tenora and the imbombo (Catalan and African instruments together). They also toured Europe, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Netherlands, Portugal or Sweden. Albums Diumenge (1975) L'oucomballa (1976) Tramuntana (1977) L'àngel de la dansa (1978) Ordinàries aventures (1979) L'Atlàntida (1981) Al Palau de la Música amb la Cobla Mediterrània (1982) Catalluna (1983) Força Dharma! Deu anys de resistència (1985) No volem ser (1986) Homenatge a Esteve Fortuny (1987) Fibres del cor (1989) Tifa Head (1991) Que no es perdi aquest so (1993) 20 anys de Companyia Elèctrica Dharma (1994) El ventre de la bèstia (1996) Racó de món (1998) Sonada (2000) Llibre vermell (2002) Dharmasseria (2004) 30 anys, la Dharma l'arma! (2006) El misteri d'en Miles Serra i les musiques mutants (2008) Monpou's mood Mariagneta and Patum Jack Blues (2010) Nit Col.lectiva! (2012) Flamarada (2019) External links English presentation by the Catalan Government Cultural Department: Wide review by Barcelona City Council (in Catalan): English introduction to Catalan music promoted by Catalan Government: Official web site: CED Fact Sheet: A little taste of Dharma Mediterranean Energy, live on their 20th Anniversary celebration: Documentaries Companyia Elèctrica Dharma at Rock In Rio festival Part 1 Part 2 CED in South-Africa Part 1 Part 2 Other References Antoni Batista, journalist in La Vanguardia (Spanish international newspaper) José Luís Rubio, musical journalist at Cambio16 (Spanish newspaper) Musical groups from Catalonia

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Pierrot Bidon

Pierrot Bidon (1 January 1954 - 9 March 2010) was a French circus promoter. He formed circus troupe Archaos in 1984 and directed The Circus of Horrors in 1995. His work with Archaos revolutionised the concept of the contemporary circus in Europe. The Independent newspaper described him as being "one of the founding fathers of New Circus" while The Daily Telegraph argued his work paved the way for the success of companies such as the Cirque de Soleil. References 1954 births 2009 deaths An archive website for Archaos Circus 1988-1991 was launched after the passing of Pierrot Bidon in 2011. It holds film, images, press coverage and stories. You can add your own memories and content. http://www.archaos.info/

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Flok (company)

flok (stylized "fˇlok") (formerly Loyalblocks) was an American tech startup based in New York City that provides marketing services such as chatbots/AI, customer loyalty programs, mobile apps and CRM services to local businesses. In January 2017, the company was acquired by Wix.com. Around March 2017, flok ceased communication. On October 1, 2019, flok communicated via email stating that Flok is shutting down on March 1st, 2020. On March 1, 2020, flok communicated via email stating that Flok has officially shut down. Background flok was founded in 2011 by Ido Gaver and Eran Kirshenboim and has offices in Tel Aviv, Israel. In May 2013, flok secured a $9 million Series A Round from General Catalyst Partners with participation from Founder Collective and existing investor Gemini Israel Ventures. In total, flok has raised over $18 million in venture capital in three rounds. In May 2014, flok announced a self-service loyalty platform for SMBs to build their own programs with beacon integration. At that time, approximately 40,000 businesses were using the service. In 2016, flok released a turnkey chatbot service for local businesses, and was featured in AdWeek for developing the first "weed bot" chatbot for a California cannabis business. Services flok offers an eponymous customer-facing app that consumers use to receive rewards and deals form partner businesses, and a flok business app for merchants to manage the platform. Both are available for iOS and Android operating systems. flok's main products center around customer loyalty and rewards. The platform offers a digital punch card, proximity marketing, push messaging and CRM services in addition to its chatbots and AI features. flok provides partner businesses with beacons that can locate customers and verify store visits. As of July 2016, flok had a 4-star rating on Merchant Maverick review site. References External links Companies based in New York (state) Software companies of the United States Business intelligence companies Software companies of Israel Chatbots Content management systems Software companies established in 2011 Software companies disestablished in 2020 IOS software Customer loyalty programs 2011 establishments in the United States 2011 establishments in New York (state) Companies established in 2011 2017 mergers and acquisitions

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian%20Americans

Romanian Americans

Romanian Americans are Americans who have Romanian ancestry. According to the 2017 American Community Survey, 478,278 Americans indicated Romanian as their first or second ancestry. Other sources provide higher estimates for the numbers of Romanian Americans in the contemporary US; for example, the Romanian-American Network supplies a rough estimate of 1.2 million who are fully or partially of Romanian ethnicity. There is also a significant number of persons of Romanian Jewish ancestry, estimated at about 225,000. History The first Romanian known to have been to what is now the United States was Samuel Damian (also spelled Domien), a former priest. Samuel Damian's name appears as far back as 1748, when he placed an advertisement in the South Carolina Gazette announcing the electrical demonstrations he planned to give and inviting the public to attend. Letters written in 1753 and 1755 by Benjamin Franklin attest to the fact that the two had met and had carried on discussions concerning electricity. Damian remained in the States some years living in South Carolina, then travelled on to Jamaica. There were several Romanians who became officers in the Union Army during the American Civil War, including Brevet Brigadier General George Pomutz, commander of the 15th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Captain Nicolae Dunca, who fought and died in the Battle of Cross Keys, and Captain Eugen Ghica-Comănești, of the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry. There were also several Romanian soldiers who fought in the Spanish–American War in 1898. The first major wave of Romanian immigrants to the United States took place between 1895 and 1920, in which 145,000 Romanians entered the country. They came from various regions in Moldavia, Transylvania and neighboring countries such as Ukraine and Serbia with significant Romanian population. The majority of these immigrants particularly those from Transylvania and Banat that were under Austro-Hungarian rule left their native regions because of economic depression and forced assimilation, a policy practiced by Hungarian rulers. They settled mostly in the industrial centers in Pennsylvania and Delaware as well as in areas around the Great Lakes such as Cleveland, Chicago, and Detroit. The migrants from the Romanian Old Kingdom were mostly Jews, most of whom settled in New York. One of their prominent organizations was the United Rumanian Jews of America. 75,000 Romanian Jews emigrated in the period 1881–1914, mostly to the United States. During the interwar period, the number of ethnic Romanians who migrated to the US decreased as a consequence of the economic development in Romania, but the number of Jews who migrated to the US increased, mostly after the rise of the fascist Iron Guard. After the Second World War, the number of Romanians who migrated to the United States increased again. This time, they settled mostly in California, Florida and New York and they came from throughout Romania. After the Romanian Revolution, increased numbers of Romanians came to the US, taking advantage of the new relaxation of Romania's emigration policies (during the communist rule, the borders were officially closed, although some people managed to migrate, including to the US). In the 1990s, New York and Los Angeles were favorite destinations for Romanian emigrants to the US. Distribution Romanian Americans are distributed throughout the U.S., with concentrations found in the Midwest, such as in the states of Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois; the Northeast, in New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware, as well as California (Los Angeles and Sacramento). In the Southeast, communities are found in Georgia (Metro Atlanta), Florida (South Florida) and Alabama (Montgomery). There are also significant communities in the Southwest US, such as in Arizona. The largest Romanian American community is in the state of New York. The states with the largest estimated Romanian American populations are: New York (161,900) California (128,133) Florida (121,015) Michigan (119,624) Pennsylvania (114,529) Illinois (106,017) Delaware (84,958) Ohio (83,228) Georgia (47,689) Romanian-born population Romanian-born population in the US since 2010: Romania-U.S relations The United States established diplomatic relations with Romania in 1880, following Romania's independence. The two countries severed diplomatic ties after Romania declared war on the United States in 1941; and re-established them in 1947. Relations remained strained during the Cold War era while Romania was under communist leadership. Cold and strained during the early post-war period, U.S. bilateral relations with Romania began to improve in the early 1960s with the signing of an agreement providing for partial settlement of American property claims. Cultural, scientific, and educational exchanges were initiated, and in 1964 the legations of both nations were promoted to full embassies. In March 2005, President Traian Băsescu made his first official visit to Washington to meet with President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and other senior U.S. officials. In December 2005, Secretary Rice visited Bucharest to meet with President Băsescu and to sign a bilateral defense cooperation agreement that would allow for the joint use of Romanian military facilities by U.S. troops. The first proof of principle exercise took place at Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base from August to October 2007. Romanian American culture Romanian culture has merged with American culture, characterized by Romanian-born Americans adopting American culture or American-born people having strong Romanian heritage. The Romanian culture can be seen in many different kinds, like Romanian music, newspapers, churches, cultural organizations and groups, such as the Romanian-American Congress or the Round Table Society NFP. Religion, predominantly within the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Romanian Greek Catholic Church, is an important trace of the Romanian presence in the United States, with churches in almost all bigger cities throughout the country. In certain areas of the US, Romanian communities were first established several generations ago (in the late 19th century and early 20th century) such as in the Great Lakes region; while in others, such as California and Florida, Romanian communities are formed especially by Romanians who emigrated more recently, into the late 20th century and early 21st century. After the Romanian Revolution, large numbers of Romanians emigrated to New York and Los Angeles. One of the best known foods of Romanian origin is Pastrama. Romanian-American Chamber Commerce The Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce is a bilateral trade and investment organization that promotes commerce and investment between Romania and United States, and is headquartered in Washington D.C. The Chamber is composed of both Romanian and American businesses and has active chapters in New York, Washington, D.C., Florida, California and the Mid-West. It was founded in February 1990 and is celebrating its 20th year of activity in 2010. The RACC conducts a broad range of events, activities, and services and is a member organization of the Bi-National European Chambers of Commerce of the United States, which includes most of the bilateral chambers of the major EU member states. Gallery Notable people See also European Americans Meridianul Românesc Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce Romanian-American organizations Moldovan Americans Romanian Canadians Romania–United States relations Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of the Americas The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Romanian Greek Catholic Eparchy of St George References Further reading Hațegan, Vasile. Romanian Culture in America. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Cultural Center, 1985. Raica, Eugene S. and Alexandru T. Nemoianu. History of the "United Romanian Society". Southfield, Michigan: The Society, 1995. Rus, Flaviu Vasile. The cultural and diplomatic relations between Romania and the United States of America. 1880-1920, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, 2018. Wertsman, Vladimir. The Romanians in America, 1748–1974: A Chronology and Factbook. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1975. Wertsman, Vladimir. The Romanians in America and Canada: A Guide to Information Sources (Gale Research Company, 1980). Alexandru T. Nemoianu. Tărâmuri: între Banat și America. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Limes, 2003. Sasu, Aurel. Comunitățile românești din Statele Unite și Canada. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Limes, 2003. External links Romanian-American Network Inc. Romanian Tribune Newspaper – published in Chicago for the Americans of Romanian heritage Article about the Romanians in Cleveland Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans In Minnesota List of Romanian communities in the United States In celebration of 125 years of U.S. Romanian Diplomatic Relations American Cultural Center 2006 European-American society United States

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The Man Who Turned White

The Man Who Turned White is a 1919 American silent adventure film directed by Park Frame and starring H. B. Warner as a desert shiek. It was produced by Jesse D. Hampton Productions and distributed by Robertson-Cole Company and Exhibitors Mutual Distributing Company. It was rereleased in 1922 by Robertson-Cole. Cast H. B. Warner as Captain Rand, aka Ali Zaman Barbara Castleton as Ethel Lambert (per AFI) Wedgwood Nowell as Captain Beverly (credited as Wedgewood Nowell) Carmen Phillips as Fanina Manuel R. Ojeda as Jouder Jay Dwiggins as Monsieur Mirabeau Walter Perry as Watchman Preservation status The Man Who Turned White is a lost film, but snippets or fragments exist at the Library of Congress. References External links 1919 films American silent feature films Lost American films American black-and-white films Films based on short fiction American films American adventure films 1919 adventure films 1919 lost films Lost adventure films Films directed by Park Frame

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Julio César La Cruz

Julio César De La Cruz Peraza (born 11 August 1989) is a Cuban amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. He is also a five-time amateur world champion, having won gold medals at the 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships. Career At the 2011 World Championships, he captained the Cuban national team, where he beat number 1 seeded Egor Mekhontsev from Russia on points (21–15) in semi-final, and defeated Adilbek Niyazymbetov from Kazakhstan after 3 rounds by 17–13 finishing score in final, being the 4th World amateur boxing champion boxer from Camagüey. He grasped the gold medal at 2011 Pan American Games in which Cuba national team topped the medal table with 8 golds and 1 silver. He beat Carlos Gongora of Ecuador in the semi-finals and Yamaguchi Falcão Florentino of Brazil in the final on points (22–12). At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was upset by Falcão Florentino in the quarterfinals in a rematch from the 2011 Pan American Games. At the 2013 World Championships in Almaty, he beat Serge Michel, Oleksandr Ganzulia, Abdelhafid Benchabla and Joe Ward, before again beating Niyazymbetov in the final. On 4 January 2014, Julio Cesar la Cruz was hospitalized after being shot outside of a recreation center in his hometown of Camagüey. In 2015, he again won the gold at the AIBA World Boxing Championships held in Doha. He won the gold medal at the men's light heavyweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. La Cruz sports a 21–3 record in the World Series of Boxing. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he gained attention for expressing his support for the Cuban government by declaring after his quarterfinal win over a Cuban-born Spanish opponent, "Patria y vida, no. ¡Patria o muerte, venceremos!". At the 2021 World Championships, he again won the gold several months after winning the men's heavyweight tournament at the Olympics. References External links (archive) 1989 births Living people Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2015 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2019 Pan American Games Light-heavyweight boxers Heavyweight boxers Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Cuba Cuban male boxers Sportspeople from Camagüey AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Olympic gold medalists for Cuba Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in boxing Shooting survivors Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Cavalcantia

Cavalcantia is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae, endemic to the State of Pará in Brazil. Species Cavalcantia glomerata (G.M.Barroso & R.M.King) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Pará Cavalcantia percymosa R.M.King & H.Rob. - Pará References Eupatorieae Endemic flora of Brazil Asteraceae genera

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Scardino

Albert Scardino

Albert Scardino is an American journalist and former publisher of The Georgia Gazette who is known for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1984. Early life and education Scardino was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in Savannah, Georgia, where his father, Dr. Peter Scardino, practiced medicine. He graduated from Savannah Country Day School. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College in 1970, he went on to get his Master of Arts in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. At Columbia, he was night editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator. Career On April 10, 1978, he started The Georgia Gazette with his wife Majorie on $50,000 raised among family and friends and the two managed the daily operations of the newspaper as publishers and maintained a staff of around twenty. The newspaper was famous for its investigative journalism that exposed the corruption of Sam Caldwell, who was later convicted of fraud conspiracy. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his editorials exposing the corruption and ineptitude of local and state governments. However, their style of journalism did not appeal to many locals, and the paper occasionally met resistance from the officials, including then mayor John Rousakis. Circulation of the newspaper was meager and hovered between 2,500 and 4,000. Eventually, financial constraints forced the couple to shut down the newspaper in 1985. Scardino was later hired by The New York Times as an editor and worked there until 1990, when he was hired by mayor David Dinkins as his press secretary, a role he served until his resignation 1991. He later moved to the United Kingdom with his wife after she was promoted to the CEO of the Economist Group and worked as a journalist and executive editor of The Guardian from 2002 to 2004. He also served as a governor of The Royal Shakespeare Company, a director of Media Standards Trust, and judge on the Orwell Prize jury in 2008. Outside of his journalism career, he owned Notts County F.C., the world's oldest professional association football club, in a futile attempt to help it get out of debt. Personal life In 1974 he married Marjorie Scardino (née Morris), who was raised in Texas and received her BA from Baylor University and JD from the University of San Francisco. She became the first female CEO of a FTSE 100 Index company when she was appointed as the chief executive of British publisher Pearson plc in 1997. The couple has a son, Hal Scardino, who was a child actor known for playing the protagonist in The Indian in the Cupboard. References American newspaper founders American newspaper editors Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners Columbia College (New York) alumni People from Savannah, Georgia UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumni Editors of New York City newspapers The New York Times editors The Guardian journalists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remise%20%C3%A0%20Jorelle%20railway%20station

Remise à Jorelle railway station

Remise à Jorelle is a railway station located on the Île-de-France tramway Line 4 in the commune of Bondy. !colspan=3 style="background:#ffbf00;"| Île-de-France tramway line External links Railway stations in France opened in 2006

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Sue Troyan

Sue Troyan is an American basketball coach who is currently the head women's basketball coach at Lehigh University, a position that she's held since 1995. Prior to coaching basketball at Lehigh, she was the college's softball coach for five years. Player career While attending Dickinson College, Troyan competed in both basketball and track. She was voted the basketball team's most valuable player, following her 1988 senior season, and was a three-time All-American in track. Head coaching record Personal life She met her future husband Fran while finishing undergraduate studies at Dickinson, where he was enrolled in law school. When she accepted a graduate assistant's job with Lehigh's women's basketball team and pursued her MBA at the school, he worked in nearby Allentown. She was offered an assistant coach's job with the basketball team, in addition to the softball team's head coaching position. Fran became her assistant in softball and took over the head coaching job in 1995, when she became the basketball head coach. They reside in Saucon Valley, Pennsylvania, and have three children. References 1960s births Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women's basketball coaches Dickinson College alumni Lehigh University alumni Lehigh Mountain Hawks women's basketball coaches

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peckoltia%20relictum

Peckoltia relictum

Peckoltia relictum is a species of armored catfish where it is found in the upper Marañon River in northern Peru. References Loricariidae Fish of Peru Fish described in 2011

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%82ugosze

Długosze

Długosze () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Prostki, within Ełk County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Prostki, south-east of Ełk, and east of the regional capital Olsztyn. Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia). References Villages in Ełk County

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Boonsong Lekagul

Boonsong Lekagul (15 December 1907 – 9 February 1992) was a Thai medical doctor, biologist, ornithologist, herpetologist, and conservationist. He was born at Songkhla in southern Thailand and received a medical degree from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok in 1933. In 1935 he established Thailand's first polyclinic in Bangkok. At first a keen hunter, he became a strong conservationist as he saw Thailand's forests and wildlife becoming fragmented and destroyed. In 1952 he founded the Association for the Conservation of Wildlife. In the mid-1950s, he and the ACW lobbied for a bird sanctuary on the banks of the Chao Phraya River to protect the only known nesting site in Thailand of the openbill stork. In 1962 he founded the Bangkok Bird Club (the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand since 1993) and worked actively with the International Council for Bird Preservation and the World Wildlife Fund. Eponymous species Several species and subspecies are named after Boonsong Lekagul in honour of his work as naturalist and conservationist: Boonsong's roundleaf bat, Hipposideros lekaguli Boonsong's variable squirrel, Callosciurus finlaysonii boonsongi Hill blue flycatcher, Cyornis whitei lekhakuni Grey-eyed bulbul, Iole propinqua lekhakuni Boonsong's stream snake, Opisthotropis boonsongi – a snake endemic to Thailand, in the family Colubridae Tuk-kai Boonsong, Cyrtodactylus lekaguli – a species of bent-toed gecko endemic to Thailand Lekagul's horned frog, Xenophrys (Megophrys) lekaguli – a megophryid frog from Eastern Thailand. Awards Honorary member of the World Wide Fund for Nature, 1971 Commander (Third Class) of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant, 1974 Corresponding Fellow of the American Ornithologists Union, 1974 Honorary doctorate in Forestry, Kasetsart University, 1976 Honorary member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1978 J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize from the World Wildlife Fund US, 1979 Honorary doctorate in sciences, Chulalongkorn University, 1979 Order of the Golden Ark from Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, 1980 Knight Commander (Second Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand, 1985 Publications Works authored or coauthored by him include: Lekagul, Boonsong (1968). Bird Guide of Thailand. (Illustrated by the author). Lekagul, Boonsong (1969). Monitors (Varanus) of Thailand. Conservation News of S.E. Asia 8: 31–32. Lekagul, Boonsong; Cronin, Paul (1974). Bird Guide of Thailand. (2nd edition). (Illustrated by the senior author). Bangkok: Association for the Conservation of Wildlife. Lekagul, Boonsong; Askins, Karen; Nabhitabhata, Jarujinta; Samruadit, Aroon (1977). Fieldguide to the Butterflies of Thailand. Bangkok: Association for the Conservation of Wildlife. Lekagul, Boonsong; McNeely, Jeffrey A. (1977). Mammals of Thailand. Lekagul, Boonsong; Round, Philip D. (1991). A Guide to the Birds of Thailand. (Illustrated by Mongkol Wongkalasin and Kamol Komolphalin). Thailand: Saha Karn Bhaet Co. References Further reading McClure, H. Elliott (1993). "In Memoriam: Boonsong Lekagul, 1907-1992". Auk 110 (1): 128. External links Bird Conservation Society of Thailand Official Dr Boonsong Lekagul Website Lekagul, Boonsong Lekagul, Boonsong Lekagul, Boonsong Boonsong Lekagul Boonsong Lekagul Boonsong Lekagul Lekagul, Boonsong

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euseius%20facundus

Euseius facundus

Euseius facundus is a species of mite in the family Phytoseiidae. References facundus Articles created by Qbugbot Animals described in 1969

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1942 Santos FC season

The 1942 season was the thirty-first season for Santos FC. References External links Official Site Santos 1942 1942 in Brazilian football

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Scott County Courthouse (Iowa)

The Scott County Courthouse in Davenport, Iowa, United States was built from 1955 to 1956 and extensively renovated over a ten-year period between 1998 and 2009. It is the third building the county has used for court functions and county administration. It is part of a larger county complex that includes the county jail, administration building and juvenile detention facility. In 2020 the courthouse was included as a contributing property in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. History Scott County was established in 1837 by the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory. Until this time the area had been a part of Des Moines County. The first court sessions in the county were held in St. Anthony's Catholic Church. The juries met in a room that was made available by George Davenport. County Seat election Davenport and Rockingham, a town a mile south on the Mississippi River, contended for the county seat. An election was held in February 1838. Because the population base at the time was in the southern part of the county, Rockingham was favored. Davenport's promoters paid $3,000 in whiskey and bribes to miners from Dubuque, Iowa to vote for Davenport, which won the election. Rockingham contested the election and a new election was set for August 1838. A rule was put in place whereby one had to be a resident for at least 60 days in order to vote in the election. Both towns' promoters defrauded the ballot box this time. Laborers were imported to work in the mills at least 60 days before the election and Illinois citizens were invited to vote. When the county commissioners purged the polls after the election Davenport won by two votes. Rockingham again protested and the legislature of the Iowa Territory, of which Scott County had become a part of in 1838, set a new election for the summer of 1840. The third election had four jurisdictions vying for the county seat. Besides Davenport and Rockingham the geographical center of the county, or "Sloperville," entered the race as did Winfield, a town along the Mississippi near the mouth of Duck Creek. Sloperville dropped out early. The other three jurisdictions made offers of land, buildings, and cash. Winfield offered of land and $100 in labor and materials. Rockingham made an offer to build the courthouse and jail. Davenport's promoters, especially Antoine LeClaire and George Davenport, promised to build a courthouse and jail free of charge. Davenport's offer of land, cash, and building materials was valued at $5,000. The town also stressed its more central location and that its proposed courthouse site was on higher ground away from the Mississippi River, and therefore would not flood. Rockingham and Winfield could not match the offer and Davenport won after Rockingham withdrew on the eve of the election. The election results were celebrated in Davenport with bonfires, fireworks, and speeches. Rockingham was later annexed into the city of Davenport, and Winfield is now part of Bettendorf. 1842 courthouse The county's first courthouse was a Greek Revival style building built in 1842. It was a two-story structure that featured stately columns and a round cupola. The building was located on Bolivar Square, one of the four public squares laid out by Antoine LeClaire when he plotted the town in 1836. 1886 courthouse As the county grew a larger courthouse was needed and an ornate Beaux Arts structure was built in 1886. It was designed by former Davenport architect John C. Cochrane. The building was constructed of Bedford stone by Lang & Moody. It measured and rose three stories above a raised basement. The large central dome rose to a height of and weighed 11,025 tons. The four corners of the building were marked by turreted towers. The exterior was decorated with elements symbolizing the pioneer experience and life in the Mississippi River Valley. Marble plaques on either side of the main entrance listed the names of the county's early pioneers. The east side of the third floor housed the James Grant Law Library, which was owned by the Scott County Bar Association. The courthouse was built at a cost of $125,000. The courthouse, however, was built on sandy soil and slowly sank. The large vault, which had been built on the ground floor, dropped below ground level. A stairway was constructed down into the vault. Around 1930 termites began to eat away at the wood beams that supported the structure. The building continued to sink into the sandy soil it was built on, which necessitated costly repairs. To help alleviate the weight of the building the dome was removed in 1932. The courthouse continued to sink so the tower wall was torn down the following year. This time 450 tons of brick, which had supported the dome, were removed. Chemicals and other methods were used to get rid of the termites, but they failed. The county made a request for a federal grant of $6,480 to repair and prop up the foundation. It was approved and work began in 1940. Scott County voters approved a $1.5 million bond issue in 1945 to build a new courthouse and the old structure was finally torn down in March 1955. The various county offices moved into rented space in the downtown area. 1956 courthouse The present courthouse was built from 1955 to 1956 at a cost of $1,480,000. Disagreements over location, design, and cost resulted in delays and redesigns. Iowa Governor Leo Hoegh spoke at the dedication on October 21, 1956. In 1983 the courthouse and the Scott County Jail were joined together by an addition to the jail, whose original building was constructed in 1896. A ten-year $13.8 million renovation project began in 1998 after many county offices were moved from the courthouse into a new Scott County Administrative Center. Court related offices were moved into newly renovated areas during the project. In 2004 a bond referendum was passed by county voters to expand the size of the jail. The $29.7 million expansion was opened in 2007 and expanded the courthouse and jail complex with a addition. The new entrance pavilion provided security screening to the entire courthouse for the first time. In 2010 the county board of supervisors approved a $176,000 plan to renovate the courthouse's 11 court rooms. Renovations include electrical wiring, technology upgrades, painting, replacing carpet and ceiling tiles and asbestos removal. The Scott County Administrative Center was built as a warehouse for a transfer company in the 1930s. It was acquired by the county in 1974, and the first sections of the building were occupied by the county in 1976. The building was called the Bicentennial Building for 27 years. It was extensively renovated with the addition of the sixth floor. That project was completed in 2003. The building houses both county and state offices. Architecture The 1956 courthouse itself is a three-story rectangular structure. It was designed in the modern architectural style by Chester C. Woodburn of the Des Moines architectural firm of Dougher, Rich & Woodburn. Davenport architect Arthur H. Ebeling served as the associate architect. Priester Construction Company of Davenport was the main contractor. The exterior is clad in aluminum sheets that had been rolled at Alcoa's Davenport plant in nearby Riverdale, Iowa. It was the first courthouse in the United States to be clad in aluminum. The building's foundation is faced with granite, as is the surround for what served as the building's main entrance. There are corrugated metal sections between the floors and fixed-pane windows. The building is topped by a flat roof. The interior features of space. When the jail was expanded in 2007 a new entrance into the courthouse and jail complex was created on the west side of the courthouse. The new entrance pavilion has a glass and metal façade with a freestanding stone archway in front of the building. References Government buildings completed in 1956 International style architecture in Iowa Buildings and structures in Davenport, Iowa County courthouses in Iowa Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Historic district contributing properties in Iowa

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20H%C3%B6fner

Ernst Höfner

Ernst Höfner (1 October 1929 – 24 November 2009) was Finance Minister of the German Democratic Republic. Born in Berlin, Höfner graduated with a degree in business. In the 1960s, he was a secretary in the finance ministry. From 1970 to 1976 he was deputy minister of finance. From 1976 to 1979 he was first secretary of SED's department for central bank and financial organs. And from 1979 to 1981 he was also first secretary of the national planning commission. From 1981 to 1989, after succeeding Werner Schmieder, he served as Finance Minister. As Finance Minister, he also belonged to the presidency of the cabinet council. References 1929 births Politicians from Berlin Finance ministers of East Germany Government ministers of East Germany 2009 deaths 20th-century German politicians

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming%20Elizabeth

Becoming Elizabeth

Becoming Elizabeth is an upcoming American-British drama series that follows the younger years of Queen Elizabeth I. It is set to premiere on Starz. Plot The series follows the younger years of Queen Elizabeth I, an orphaned teenager who becomes embroiled in the politics of the English court on her journey to secure the crown. Cast and characters Alicia von Rittberg as Queen Elizabeth I Romola Garai as Mary I Jessica Raine as Catherine Parr Tom Cullen as Thomas Seymour Bella Ramsey as Jane Grey Oliver Zetterström as Edward VI John Heffernan as Duke of Somerset Jamie Blackley as Robert Dudley Jacob Avery as Guildford Dudley Alexandra Gilbreath as Kat Ashley Leo Bill as Henry Grey Ekow Quartey as Pedro Alex Macqueen as Stephen Gardiner Olivier Huband as Ambassador Guzman Robert Whitelock as Robert Kett Production Development In December 2019, it was announced Starz had greenlit an 8-episode series focusing on the younger years of Queen Elizabeth I created by Anya Reiss, who would also serve as an executive producer. Casting In October 2020, Alicia von Rittberg joined the cast of the series. In May 2021, Romola Garai, Jessica Raine, Tom Cullen, Bella Ramsey, Oliver Zetterström, John Heffernan, Jamie Blackley, Jacob Avery, Alexandra Gilbreath, Leo Bill, Ekow Quartey, Alex Macqueen and Oliver Huband joined the cast of the series. Filming Principal photography began in December 2020. In March 2021, production took place at Cardiff Castle. References External links 2022 American television series debuts 2022 British television series debuts Upcoming drama television series American biographical series British biographical drama films Television series by Lionsgate Television Starz original programming Cultural depictions of Elizabeth I

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Rona Morison

Rona Morison is a Glaswegian actress having had roles playing Chell Our Ladies in 2019 and as Thompson in Absentia 2020. Early life and career Morison was born and raised very close to Glasgow in Scotland. Morison attended St Columba's School in Kilmacolm, then joined the Scottish Youth Theatre to hone her acting skills, before being accepted into the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London at the age of 17. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2011, after attending workshops with Charlotte Munkso at Prima del Teatro and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Between roles, Morison doubles as an acting teacher at the Fontainebleau School of Acting in Fontainebleau just outside of Paris, France. In 2020, Morison appeared in a main role as Chell in the Michael Caton-Jones directed Our Ladies, the world premiere of which, was held at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival on 4 October. and was later screened at the 2020 Glasgow Film Festival. Theatre career Morison's theatre career has included appearing in Scuttlers at the Royal Exchange Theatre, To Kill a Mockingbird at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, Illusions at the Bush Theatre, The Second Mrs Tanqueray at Rose Theatre in Kingston. Morison played the lead role of 15-year-old Minnie in the 2017 in a play based on the Phoebe Gloeckner novel and Marielle Heller film The Diary of a Teenage Girl, at the Southwark Playhouse. Morison performed another lead role in the 2018 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Donmar Warehouse. Morison received a nomination at the 2018 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for the Emerging Talent Award for her performance as Sandy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Donmar Warehouse in 2018. Morison has appeared in The Haystack at the Hampstead Theatre in 2020 Filmography Film Television Awards and Nominations References External links Curtis Brown Profile Living people 21st-century Scottish actresses Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Scottish television actresses Scottish film actresses 1990 births

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2001 Governor General's Awards

The 2001 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on November 14. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000. English-language finalists Fiction Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan Yann Martel, Life of Pi Tessa McWatt, Dragons Cry Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers Thomas Wharton, Salamander Poetry George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours Phil Hall, Trouble Sleeping Robert Kroetsch, The Hornbooks of Rita K. Steve McCaffery, Seven Pages Missing Drama Kent Stetson, The Harps of God Mark Brownell, Monsieur d'Eon Clem Martini, A Three Martini Lunch Michael Redhill, Building Jerusalem Jason Sherman, An Acre of Time: The Play Non-fiction Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap Susan Crean, The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr Ross A. Laird, Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft Alberto Manguel, Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate Jack Todd, The Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story Children's literature (text) Arthur Slade, Dust Brian Doyle, Mary Ann Alice Beth Goobie, Before Wings Julie Johnston, In Spite of Killer Bees Teresa Toten, The Game Children's literature (illustration) Mireille Levert, An Island in the Soup Harvey Chan, Wild Bog Tea Murray Kimber, The Wolf of Gubbio Kim LaFave, We'll All Go Sailing Cindy Revell, Mallory and the Power Boy French-to-English translation Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (Martine Desjardins, Le Cercle de Clara) Sheila Fischman, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (Gaétan Soucy, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) Gail Scott, The Sailor's Disquiet (Michael Delisle, Le Désarroi du matelot) French-language finalists Fiction Andrée A. Michaud, Marie-Claire Blais, Rachel Leclerc, Poetry Paul Chanel Malenfant, Tania Langlais, Hélène Monette, Stefan Psenak, Jean-Philippe Raîche, Drama Normand Chaurette, François Archambault, Réjane Charpentier, Michel Ouellette, "Requiem", in Non-fiction Renée Dupuis, Jacques Allard, Michel Biron, Madeleine Gagnon, Jacques B. Gélinas, Children's literature (text) Christiane Duchesne, Cécile Gagnon, Ann Lamontagne, Marthe Pelletier, Jean-Michel Schembré, Children's literature (illustration) Bruce Roberts, Marjolaine Bonenfant, Pascale Constantin, Stéphane Poulin, Mylène Pratt, English-to-French translationMichel Saint-Germain, 'Agnès Guitard, Maryse Warda, '' References Governor General's Awards Governor General's Awards Governor General's Awards

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

Concomitant

Concomitance is the condition of accompanying or coexisting. A concomitant is something that accompanies something else. Concomitant or concomitance may refer to: Concomitance (doctrine), a Christian doctrine Concomitant (classical algebraic geometry), an invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable Concomitant (invariant theory), a relative invariant of GL(V) acting on the polynomials over Sn(V)⊕V⊕V* Concomitant (statistics), a statistic that arises when one sorts the members of a random sample according to the corresponding values of another random sample Concomitant drug, a drug given at the same time as, or shortly after, another drug Concomitantly variable codon, a codon in a computational phylogenetic model in which the hypothesized rate of molecular evolution varies in an autocorrelated manner See also Concomitant disease in pregnancy, a pre-existing disease that may worsen during pregnancy

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

TRAME

TRAME (TRAnsmission of MEssages) was the name of the second computer network in the world similar to the internet to be used in an electric utility. Like the internet, the base technology was packet switching; it was developed by the electric utility ENHER in Barcelona. It was deployed by the same utility, first in Catalonia and Aragón, Spain, and later in other places. Its development started in 1974 and the first routers, called nodes at that time, were deployed by 1978. The network was in operation until 2016 (38 years) with successive technological software and hardware updates. Beginnings In 1974, packet switching was a technology known only in research circles. The concept began in 1968 in association with the United States' Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) research project ARPANET. The idea of applying the packet switching concept to electric utilities control communication networks first appeared in 1974 when the Swedish power utility Vattenfall started to create its TIDAS packet-switching network and was followed by the Spanish electric utility ENHER, which aimed to telecontrol and automate its high-voltage power grid. For this purpose, ENHER created a specific team of people to develop both the packet-switching network and the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, also called the telecontrol system. By 1978 the first four TRAME routers were available and by 1980, eight of them were deployed and operating. The printed circuit boards (PCBs) controlling the communication lines were connected to a shared memory PCB allowing them to exchange data and messages. The project was developed together with its main initial application, the Telecontrol or SCADA system SICL () with which initially they shared a very similar hardware. The maximum link capacity was 9600 bit/s, which in 1980 was the maximum possible on a 4 kHz wide voice channel at the time. These channels were the basic unit of the then-analog communication systems in use. By that time power utilities used either telephone calls or low speed (below 1200bit/s) dedicated links for telecontrol, typically shared among ten high-voltage electrical substations. Services The basic service provided by the TRAME network was SCADA or Telecontrol to automate the high-voltage power grid, thus improving operational efficiency, which was until then operated manually with telephone communication between human operators. Each TRAME router was associated with one or more remote terminal units (RTUs) of the SICL telecontrol system. It also had connected screens, and later PCs, located in electrical substations to interchange messages between them and with the Control Center located in the well-known in Barcelona. It was a kind of predecessor to today's e-mail. Later, in the 1990s, other protocols (X.25, IP) were developed to include corporate information technology (IT) terminals, company physical surveillance systems and other services. Additionally, applications and terminals were developed for the transmission of voice and video over the TRAME network. Protocols The TRAME routing system, like that of the original ARPANET, was based on the Bellman-Ford algorithm but with "split-horizon" as in the Swedish TIDAS network, but with an original improvement. This protocol allows optimal paths to be found in meshed networks for each packet to be transmitted, allowing the shared use of the same network by multiple services. In contrast, traditional circuit-switched technology used to establish dedicated circuits for each service or communication. The addressing of routers and terminals used a proprietary system with a 16-bit address; it would be the equivalent of the well-known IP (Internet Protocol) version 4 (IPv4), still in use on the internet today, which uses 32-bit addresses. It is necessary to take into account that in 1978, the IPv4 protocol did not yet exist since the IPv4 version used on the internet did not appear until 1981, and in fact, did not reach the general public until much later. The line protocols were also proprietary and were called UCL (, 'line control unit'), which linked the routers together, and UTR (), the access protocol. They were designed to offer the highest quality of service required by the telecontrol/SCADA function in terms of data integrity and availability set by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) IEC-870-5-1 and ANSI C37.1. standards, and because the protocol used at the time in corporate computer networks, HDLC (high-level data link control), did not offer enough quality for critical industrial applications. Later on, other protocols like X.25 and IP were also made compatible with the aforementioned TRAME protocols. In 2000, the UTR protocol was replaced by the international standard IEC 60870- 5-101/104. Initially network flow control was based on the management of eight data priorities in head-of-the-line (HOL) waiting queues. Later and after some experimentation, a flow control method based on a bit indicating route congestion and management of the gap between packets when accessing the network was adopted. This required measuring the capacity of the route bottleneck. An end-to-end protocol was also added for some flows requiring order preservation like X.25. Evolution To last for 38 years, the technology had to endure intense evolution. There were essentially four TRAME generations which are summarized in the table. A description of the four generations of TRAME is provided below. TRAME 1 The project began in 1974 and in 1978 a first network with four routers was already installed and in operation at the electric utility ENHER. In 1980, the network had eight nodes in operation (see Figure I). The hardware was based on the Zilog Z80 processor and had a multiprocessor structure with 16 processors sharing a common memory. The software was developed at ENHER's headquarters located in the well-known Casa Fuster, , 132, Barcelona, using the Z80 assembly language. Beyond 1980 the software began to be written in C programming language and an HP64000 Logic Development System emulator was used for the purpose. The hardware was produced by ISEL, an INI () company. The routing system was a variant of Bellman-Ford with split-horizon. It was an improvement of the original ARPA network routing system consisting of an original update procedure which allowed for a faster reaction to changes. The distance function was the number of packets in the output waiting queues plus one. The line protocols (UCL for internal lines linking routers and UTR for accessing the network) were designed to meet the stringent requirements set for telecontrol (SCADA) of high-voltage power networks (IEC-870-5-1 and ANSI C37.1 standards). At the OSI transport layer, windows with a width of 1 to 8, depending on the required service, residing in the terminals were used. Initially, addresses were only 14 bits long to address both the routers (called nodes by then) and the devices connected to them. They were made up of two fields, an 8-bit field to address the router and a 6-bit sub-address to address the terminals connected to it. The node address was assigned to the nodes and not to the ends of the links as in the internet. The basic advantages of TRAME over other technologies used in electric utilities at the time were in part due to the packet technology itself: ability to manage any network topology, automatic adaptability to topological and traffic changes, integration of different link technologies (digital or analog) and capacities in a single network, open and decentralized intercommunicability between users and devices, simultaneous communication with several users and locations from a single physical connection, and integrated network supervision. In fact, the network was provided from its inception with a supervision center consisting of a computer and a synoptic board located at the company's headquarters (see Figure II). But other advantages were due to the specific design of TRAME: high data integrity, priority support for packets, and ease of including special protocols such as the many SCADA protocols in use at that time. All of the above resulted in improved quality of service, especially with respect to data availability and data integrity, and in the integration of services in a single network. Part of the evolution of its deployment can be seen in Figures II to IV. TRAME 2 In 1990, TRAME 2 was fully deployed and TRAME 1 was replaced. The processor of the new hardware was Intel 80286 and the hardware structure and external appearance of the routers was very similar to that of TRAME 1. The software was written in C and the above-mentioned emulator continued to be used. Improvements over TRAME 1 were the introduction of the standardized X.25 access protocol to enable the connection of corporate terminals to the network, the ability to handle the 64kbit/s of the new digital lines, increased switching capacity, and the introduction of an end-to-end protocol to avoid packet loss and clutter as required by X.25. An important improvement was the possibility of using dual homing to increase terminal availability; they could be connected to the network by two access points. For the purpose, the terminals had two addresses, a primary and a secondary one. Regarding addressing, in 1991 two bits were added to the addressing to indicate the network. The address space was thus increased to 16 bits and, in this way, up to four networks could be freely meshed as in a single one. This addressing scheme was maintained in subsequent versions of TRAME. TRAME 3 The hardware was again a multiprocessor structure with 16 processors sharing a common memory but the latter was not a separate PCB but instead was distributed among the 16 PCBs to avoid single points of failure. The interconnection of PCBs was done with a shared 40Mbit/s capacity multimaster bus designed and manufactured by DIMAT, S.A.. It also included a serial channel for maintenance, monitoring, reprogramming and resetting of the different modules through a terminal connected to them. The software was developed by ENHER in collaboration with DIMAT, S.A.. The routing algorithm remained the same, but the distance function was changed to a less dynamic one. A flow control procedure based route congestion metering and backwards indication to the source was introduced. Improvements over TRAME2 were IPv4 support, the introduction of an SNMP monitoring agent, a new flow control system, an improved distance metric that made the system less dynamic, and an autoexec task to periodically check hardware and software. TRAME+ The hardware design was radically modified by moving to a single processor per node architecture as opposed to the traditional TRAME hardware. It had two alternative base modules of different capacity based on Intel i960CA and i960RM processors with a 1Gbit/s bus to communicate the different router boards. The number of physical interfaces was only ten (eight serial + two Ethernet (10B2 or 10BT)) since Ethernet allowed for the connection of several devices on a single LAN. It also had a front service serial channel. By losing redundancy (a single processor per router) the node lost some availability over previous versions of TRAME. This was done for economical reasons stemming from the fact that the network was being extended to smaller substations where cost constraints are higher. Dual homing could help in places with more stringent availability requirements. Improvements over TRAME 3 were the ability to handle 2Mbit/s capacity links, smaller and less expensive routers, access by Ethernet and standard protocols, and the change from the proprietary UTR protocol to the internationally standardized ones for SCADA systems (IEC 60870-5-101 and IEC 60870-5-104) with an original adaptation to packet-switched networks. References External links Video introducing TRAME 1 Computer networks

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List of rivers of North Sumatra

List of rivers flowing in the province of North Sumatra, Indonesia: In alphabetical order See also List of rivers of Indonesia List of rivers of Sumatra References Sources W. van Gelder. Dari Tanah Hindia berkoeliling boemi: kitab pengadjaran ilmoe boemi bagi sekola anak negeri di Hindia-Nederland. J.B. Wolters, 1897.Original from National Library of the Netherlands (original from Leiden University Libraries). Digitized: Nov 5, 2017. Wetenschappelijke voordrachten gehouden te Amsterdam in 1883, ter gelegenheid der Koloniale Tentoonstelling. Amsterdam (Netherlands). Koloniale Tentoonstelling, 1883. Uitgegeven door de Vijfde Afdeeling van het Tentoonstellings-bestuur, E. J. Brill, 1884. Cornell University. Digitized: May 22, 2014. External links Colour relief map of Sumatra showing province borders and capital cities and main rivers. North Sumatra

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89glise%20Saint-Georges%20de%20Ch%C3%A2tenois

Église Saint-Georges de Châtenois

Église Saint-Georges de Châtenois is the Catholic parish church of Châtenois, in the Bas-Rhin department of France. The current church was built from 1759 until 1761 by the local architect Martin Dorgler, but retains a Romanesque steeple from the 12th century, crowned with a spire from 1525. It became a registered Monument historique in 1901. The church houses some notable works of art, classified as Monument historique, among which are two 16th-century polychrome wooden Renaissance reliefs of the Nativity and the Assumption of Mary, and a 1765 pipe organ by Johann Andreas Silbermann. Gallery References Churches in Bas-Rhin Monuments historiques of Bas-Rhin Roman Catholic churches completed in 1761 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in France

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

MDMF

MDMF may refer to: Merlin Depth Maintenance Facility Multiple Data Message Format, a function within Caller ID

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonionota%20oriphanta

Gonionota oriphanta

Gonionota oriphanta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1928. It is found in Colombia. The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are yellow, irregularly mottled and streaked crimson, especially on the veins. The costal edge is dark fuscous, shortly interrupted with pale yellow at two-fifths and two-thirds and with some fuscous suffusion towards the base of the costa, and two or three suffused dark fuscous marks beyond this. There is a slender oblique dark fuscous streak from one-third of the dorsum to above the middle of the disc, then curved over around the end of the cell to its lower angle, connected above by a quadrate blotch of fuscous suffusion with the median portion of the costa. There is an angulated transverse series of small suffused dark fuscous spots from the costa at three-fifths, towards the dorsum broken inwards to near the middle. There is also a terminal fascia of fuscous suffusion, including a subterminal series of yellow dots. The hindwings are grey whitish. References Moths described in 1928 Gonionota

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20McNabb

Linda McNabb

Linda McNabb (born 16 August 1963) is a British-born New Zealand children's author who has written several fantasy novels for children and young adults. Biography McNabb was born in Rutland, England in 1963. She moved to New Zealand five years later and lives in Auckland. Her 2002 book The Dragon’s Apprentice was a finalist in the 2003 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards... Bibliography And the winner is... (2001) Dragon's Apprentice (2002) The Puppet Master (2003) The Stonekeeper's Daughter (2004) The Seventh Son (2005) Circle of Dreams: Runeweaver (2005) Mountains of Fire (2006) The Crystal Runners (2006) Valley of Silver (2007) The Shadow Hunters (2007) Circle of Dreams: Timeweaver (2007) Dragons' Bane (2008) Circle of Dreams: Starweaver (2008) References External links Official site 1963 births New Zealand people of English descent Living people New Zealand children's writers New Zealand women novelists People from Auckland People from Rutland 21st-century New Zealand novelists New Zealand women children's writers 21st-century New Zealand women writers

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Northside station

Northside station is a station on the Metrorail rapid transit service in Gladeview, Florida. This station is located near the intersection of 79th Street (SR 934) and Northwest 31st Avenue, opening to service May 19, 1985. Station layout Places of interest Northside Shopping Plaza Flea Market USA Walmart supercenter Ross Dress for Less West Little River References External links MDT – Metrorail Stations Station from Google Maps Street View Green Line (Metrorail) Metrorail (Miami-Dade County) stations in Miami-Dade County, Florida Railway stations in the United States opened in 1985 1985 establishments in Florida

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Bishop's messenger

A bishop's messenger was a woman appointed a lay reader by the Church of England during the First World War due to the shortage of male clergy. Messengers were first appointed in 1917 in many dioceses of the Church of England. Meanwhile, women were appointed to run missions, and in some cases church congregations. In the absence of men, however, many continued in their work after the war ended. No further female lay readers were appointed until 1969. The women were organised into the Diocesan Order of Women Messengers (DOWM). The last bishop's messenger in England was Bessie Bangay, who died in 1987. From 1928, bishop's messengers were also appointed in the Diocese of Rupert's Land. The first one was Marguerita Fowler (1884-1970), based at St. Faith's Church. Diocese of St Davids This Welsh diocese also appointed clergymen to the post of Bishop's Messenger. Notes Anglican Church of Canada Anglican ecclesiastical offices Christianity and women Church of England

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

Damocles (disambiguation)

Damocles (main article) was a legendary Greek figure. Damocles or the Sword of Damocles can also refer to: 5335 Damocles, an asteroid Damocles (video game), a 1990 science fiction videogame The Sword of Damocles (virtual reality), the first virtual reality system The Sword of Damocles (film), a 1920 British silent film directed by George Ridgwell "The Sword of Damocles", a song from the musical The Rocky Horror Show "Sword of Damocles Externally", a song by Lou Reed on the 1992 album Magic and Loss "Sword of Damocles", a song from the 2014 Judas Priest album Redeemer of Souls "Sword of Damocles" (Rufus Wainwright song), a 2018 song by Rufus Wainwright Tree of Damocles, an alternative name for the Oroxylum indicum tree Damocles (targeting pod), a French laser designator and forward looking infrared pod, made by the Thales Group and used on military aircraft. a super weapon in the 1996 movie Escape from L.A. a strategic weapon in the anime Code Geass "Sword of Damocles" marking each of the Kings K (anime) The Damocles Gulf Crusade, a major conflict in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop miniature wargame. Damocles serratus, a species of prehistoric shark See also

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David W. Orr

David W. Orr (; born 1944) is an environmental studies and politics professor. He is a well known environmentalist and is active in many areas of environmental studies, including environmental education and ecological design. He has been a trustee of many organizations and foundations including the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Education Orr holds a B.A. from Westminster College (1965), an M.A. from Michigan State University (1966), and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania (1973). Career In 1996, he organized the construction of the green Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College. He was awarded a Lyndhurst Prize by the Lyndhurst Foundation in 1992, a National Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Federation in 1993, the Benton Box Award from Clemson University in 1995 for his work in Environmental Education, and a Bioneers Award in 2002. Books published Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward Publisher: Yale University Press (November 22, 2016) Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr Publisher: Island Press (December 1, 2011) Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse Publisher: Oxford University Press (September 2009) Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building (Cooperative Information System) Publisher: The MIT Press (April 30, 2008) Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (The Bioneers Series). Publisher: Sierra Club Books; (October 1, 2005) The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; (October 14, 2004) Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect. Publisher: Island Press; (July 30, 2004) The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror. Publisher: Island Press; (March 15, 2004) Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World (Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought). Publisher: State University of New York Press (January 1992) References External links David W. Orr (Oberlin Project) (2014). Retrieved November 16, 2014. Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies. Retrieved February 14, 2008. Ancestry and Influence: A Portrait of David Orr. Retrieved April 26, 2010. American environmentalists Writers from Des Moines, Iowa Living people Westminster College (Pennsylvania) alumni Michigan State University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Oberlin College faculty University of Vermont faculty 1944 births

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Dunino

See also Dunino, Poland. Dunino is a village and parish in the East Neuk of Fife. It is 10 km from the nearest town, St Andrews, and 8 km from the fishing village of Anstruther. It is a small village with no local shops or services. It had one primary school which was closed down in 2014. The civil parish has a population of 134 (in 2011). Nearby is Dunino Den. An ancient site of pagan and druidic worship it is said to be haunted by the local populations and is often visited by spiritual people seeking guidance. The name derives from the Gaelic word for "fort of the assembly place" (dùn) and "assembly" (aonach). Notable people Rev Dr Charles Rogers James Wood (university principal) References Citations Sources External links Dunino Primary School Villages in Fife Parishes in Fife World War II prisoner of war camps in Scotland

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Janardan Tiwari

Janardan Tiwari is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Siwan in Bihar as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. References External links Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website Living people 1927 births 9th Lok Sabha members Lok Sabha members from Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Bihar Bihari politicians People from Siwan, Bihar

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Pádraig O'Driscoll

Pádraig O'Driscoll is a Dublin senior hurler at Lucan Sarsfields. O'Driscoll made substitute appearances with Dublin in the 2006 championship against Clare and Limerick although he made his first start against Wexford on 7 June 2007. While Pádraig "Tubridy" O'Driscoll is often mistaken for the famous RTÉ presenter he is actually no relation. Originally from Carigaline in County Cork, he learnt his trade from the master Justin McCarthy and spent many's the day in Roches Point playing hurling in the alley with his hero. He captained Carrigaline to the Cork Intermediate Football Championship final, before moving to Lucan to live with his best friend Quenton. He Captained Lucan Sarsfields to the semi final of the Dublin Senior Hurling Championship in 2009. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Dublin inter-county hurlers Sportspeople from Cork (city) Lucan Sarsfields hurlers

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Thockrington

Thockrington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bavington, in Northumberland, England. The village lies about north of Hexham. In 1951 the parish had a population of 18. Governance Thockrington is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. The parish was abolished on 1 April 1955 to form Bovington. Religious sites Thockrington church, which stands so prominently on a spur of the Great Whin Sill, is one of the oldest churches in the county. The church is dedicated to St Aidan. Here are buried several members of the ancient family of Shafto, the earliest mention of whom is in 1240. The Shaftos lived at nearby Bavington until the eighteenth century when, as a result of their support of the Jacobite cause in 1715, their estates were confiscated by the Crown, and ultimately sold to a Delaval. The Shaftos had connections with the county of Durham and lived on their Durham estates until 1953, when Mr R. D. Shafto returned to Bavington Hall. Landmarks A little over a mile south-west of the village are the ruins of Little Swinburne Tower, a fifteenth-century pele tower. Notable people Lord Beveridge, founder of the modern welfare state, is buried in the churchyard The author Tom Sharpe's ashes were buried in the churchyard in 2014 by his Spanish partner, witnessed by a Spanish TV crew. Sharpe's father was once vicar of Thockrington. The aviatrix, Connie Leathart (1903–93), is buried here; her remains are marked by a simple stone bearing the initials "CL". References External links GENUKI (Accessed: 19 November 2008) Villages in Northumberland Former civil parishes in Northumberland

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Transfield

Transfield may refer to: Broadspectrum, formerly Transfield Services, Australian company established in 2001 Transfield Holdings, Australian company established in 1956

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprise%20%28Paul%20Simon%20album%29

Surprise (Paul Simon album)

Surprise is the eleventh solo studio album by American musician Paul Simon, released on May 9, 2006. It peaked at #14 on the Billboard 200. History After the relative success of You're the One, which was released in late 2000 finding Simon back to the Top 20 of the American charts after ten years of absence and also receiving a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, Paul Simon spent most of the following two years promoting the album. In 2002 he took a year off, and during 2003 and 2004 had a widely documented reunion with Art Garfunkel, followed by a Simon & Garfunkel Old Friends reunion tour from October–December 2003 and June and July 2004, where the duo extensively toured America and Europe and the concerts in New York in December 2003 were registered on both a live album and video that was released by the end of the year. Also in December 2004, Paul Simon's studio albums were re-released in remastered issues, as well as re-promoted. At this point, Simon was fully involved in the writing and recording of a new studio album. He was introduced to Brian Eno, producer of Talking Heads and U2 among others. According to Simon, one of the first songs written for the album was "Wartime Prayers", which became one of the most celebrated tracks of the album and later a concert favourite. Simon commented that, in some kind of premonition, the song was written even before the Iraq invasion in 2003. Soon after, early recording for the album began. The album was recorded in London, New York and Nashville. Simon first met with Brian Eno in London to discuss a collaboration between Eno's electronic production and Simon's classic guitar folk-rock. As Simon said, "We spent some time in his studio and decided to combine our visions. It took about two years. The actual time I spent with Brian was 20 days, split into four periods. We found we could really work intensely for five days, and after that it was a bit of a burnout." Inspiration In personal terms, Simon was inspired by the fact of being over sixty years old – an age that he turned in 2001 and that he humorously referred already on his single "Old", from the You're the One album. In the way of the songs were written, Simon stated – "I start with the rhythm. It's drums first, then I go to key to sound to guitar to the form of the song to the beginning of the melody. As the melody begins, so do the words. That's how it's been since Graceland. I write backward." Simon was particularly grateful with the results of the songs written considering of his age. Simon showed special care about the musical venture he traveled since 1986's Graceland. As he put it, "Once you go away for a bit, you wonder who people think you are. If they don't know what you're up to, they just go by your history. I'm so often described as this person that went to other cultures, which is true, but I never thought of it that way. I suspect people are thinking, 'What culture did you go to?' But this record is straight-ahead American." The digital sounds of the 2000s also reportedly inspired Simon. "I wondered, 'Is this an appropriate context to express various thoughts, given the way people listen now and the way music is exposed to the world?' Pop music, as it's constantly evolving, is completely different from the value system and aesthetic I grew up with and contributed to." Simon stated that he wasn't demonizing technological shifts. "The Internet is opening things up", he said. "At first it caused the record business to implode, but now it's making life easier. It's broken the stranglehold that radio had. Downloading has made people more eclectic in their tastes, and I'd guess eventually that will redirect radio to loosen up, because it will have to compete. When that happens, you can say whatever you want, and there will be a place for it." Eno was finally not credited as producer but as provider of "sonic landscape". Simon expressed gratitude with the album – "Working with Brian Eno opens the door to a world of sonic possibilities; plus he's just a great guy to hang with in the studio, or for that matter in life. I had a really good time." Singles Surprise gained attention for spawning an unusual number of singles for a later Simon album, something that did not happen with either Songs From The Capeman or You're the One. "Father and Daughter" was released in Europe on May 29, 2006 as a CD single backed with "Another Galaxy". It managed to reach #31 in the UK, becoming Simon's only appearance as a solo artist on the British singles charts after 1990. On August 21, "That's Me" was released as the second single of the album, with the classic "You Can Call Me Al" as the B-side. It failed to appear on any national charts. Finally, "Outrageous", one of the most promoted and particularly distinctive songs from the album, was released as the third single of Surprise on November 13. The B-side for the CD single was the American number-one hit "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", while the B-side for the coloured vinyl 7" single was the Top 5 smash "Slip Slidin' Away". "Outrageous" was also promoted with a music video specifically made for the song. It also, however, failed to become a hit. Critical reception Surprise was positively received by most critics. It gained a score of 78 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 23 professional reviews. The Observer reviewer Neil Spencer praised both Simon's and Eno's work: "Simon offers no easy answers to the questions sprayed out in his memorable lines, alternating dreamy idylls with grumpy dissatisfaction while Eno's production ebbs and flows like a digitalised Greek chorus." He called the album "a thrilling return to form". Entertainment Weekly Chris Willman stated that "patience is rewarded with moments of stellar songwriting", in an allusion to the high anticipation of the release of the album. Willman praised particularly Brian Eno's work: "If Surprise seduces a wider audience than the placid-sounding You're the One, thank co-producer Brian Eno, whose sonic upgrade makes his subject's musings more ear-tickling and appropriately tense. [...] Eno finds smart ways to accent Simon's worry lines." Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic was also very positive with the album, calling the album a "comeback": "Simon doesn't achieve his comeback by reconnecting with the sound and spirit of his classic work; he has achieved it by being as restless and ambitious as he was at his popular and creative peak, which makes Surprise all the more remarkable." Both Billboard and Rolling Stone were more reserved in their praise, with Billboard stating that "Surprise falls shy of a masterpiece, but it is consistently engaging and offers some of Simon's most creative songs in two decades." Rolling Stone wrote that "despite the album's shiny surface, Simon sounds like Simon". Commercial performance Simon promoted the album extensively, making television appearances, signing copies of the album and later launching a transatlantic tour in support of Surprise. On May 7, he appeared on Sunday Morning where he was interviewed by Harry Smith. On May 12, three days after the release of the album, he appeared on Good Morning America. On May 13 Simon performed "How Can You Live in the Northeast?" and "Outrageous" at Saturday Night Live. Promotion in the UK was next, with Simon performing "Outrageous", "Father and Daughter" and "Graceland" on Later... with Jools Holland. That show also featured performances by David Gilmour with David Crosby and Graham Nash, Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, The Streets and Nação Zumbi. The hype surrounding the release of the album was followed by a positive commercial reception. With Surprise, Paul Simon achieved his greatest week of sales during the Soundscan era, when the album debuted at #14 on the Billboard 200 with sales of over 61,000 copies sold, which slightly surpassed the 60,000 units sold by You're the One back in 2000. Surprise was also Simon's highest chart position in his homeland since The Rhythm of the Saints landed at #4 in 1990. Surprise has sold 296,000 copies in the US. In the UK, reaction was even stronger, with the album debuting at #4, and then becoming his best chart position also since The Rhythm of the Saints was #1 in 1990. During its second week, Surprise notably stayed at #4, and then slipped down to #20 during its third week, disappearing quickly from the charts. Track listing Personnel Paul Simon – vocals, guitar Brian Eno – electronics all tracks except "Father and Daughter" Steve Gadd – drums all tracks except "Outrageous" Bill Frisell – electric guitar on "Everything About It Is a Love Song" Vincent Nguini – acoustic guitar on "Father and Daughter" Gil Goldstein – harmonium on "How Can You Live in the Northeast?" and "I Don't Believe"; keyboards on "Wartime Prayers" Herbie Hancock – piano on "Wartime Prayers" Pino Palladino – bass guitar on "How Can You Live in the Northeast?," "Outrageous," "Wartime Prayers," "Beautiful," "Another Galaxy," and "That's Me" Abraham Laboriel – bass guitar on "Everything About It Is a Love Song," "I Don't Believe," and "Father and Daughter" Leo Abrahams – bass guitar on "Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean" Alex Al – bass on "Sure Don't Feel Like Love" Robin DiMaggio – drums on "How Can You Live in the Northeast?," "Outrageous," "Wartime Prayers," "I Don't Believe," and "That's Me" Jamey Haddad – percussion on "Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean" Jessy Dixon Singers – vocals on "Wartime Prayers" Adrian Simon – vocals on "Father and Daughter" Production Paul Simon – producer Brian Eno – sonic landscape Andy Smith – recording and programming Tchad Blake – mixing Laurence Brazil, Jim Briggs, Dan Bucchi, Daniel Gross, Scrap Marshall, Zach McNees, Claudius Mittendorfer, Derek Moffatt, Charlie Paakkari, Steve Pelluet, Mike Peters, Bryan Russell, Ryan Simms, Bryan Smith, Chris Testa – engineers The Surprise Tour The Surprise Tour covered the United States, Canada and parts of Europe between June and November 2006. It consisted on 27 shows, including a performance on a sold-out Wembley Stadium on November 10. Below is a typical set list from "The Surprise Tour." Main Set "Gumboots" "The Boy in the Bubble" "Outrageous" "Slip Slidin' Away" "You're the One" "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" "How Can You Live in the Northeast" "Mrs. Robinson" "Loves Me Like a Rock" "That Was Your Mother" "Duncan" "Graceland" "Father and Daughter" "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" "Still Crazy After All These Years" "Cecilia" First Encore "You Can Call Me Al" "The Only Living Boy in New York" "The Boxer" (featuring Jerry Douglas on Dobro) Second Encore "Wartime Prayers" "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Tour dates Note: The September 2, 2006 show was originally scheduled for July 14 but had to be postponed due to artist's illnessNote: The set listed above is in the order performed at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, July 12, 2006.An October 2006 performance during a tour stop at the Tower Theater outside Philadelphia was recorded and aired as part of National Public Radio's Live Concert Series. The concert recording featured 24 tracks from Paul Simon's 5-decade career. Charts Certifications } } References External links A Psychic Meltdown, Joined in Progress – brief analysis of "Everything About It Is a Love Song" by Tom Moon for NPR's Song of the Day''. Paul Simon albums 2006 albums Warner Records albums Albums produced by Paul Simon Albums recorded at Capitol Studios Albums recorded at MSR Studios

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Delocharis

Delocharis is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. References Sterrhinae

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2003 Clásico RCN

The 43rd edition of the annual Clásico RCN was held from August 24 to August 31, 2003 in Colombia. The stage race with an UCI rate of 2.3 started in Medellín and finished in Bogotá. RCN stands for "Radio Cadena Nacional". Stages 2003-08-24: Medellín — Carmen de Viboral (111.5 km) 2003-08-25: Sabaneta — Manizales (184.8 km) 2003-08-26: Pereira — Cali (204 km) 2003-08-27: Buga — Ibagué (191.8 km) 2003-08-28: Ibagué — Mosquera (194.8 km) 2003-08-29: Chia — Villa de Leyva (162.2 km) 2003-08-30: Villa de Leyva — Tunja (41.4 km) 2003-08-31: Tunja — Bogotá (142.4 km) Final classification Teams Colombia — Selle Italia Lotería de Boyacá Orbitel 05 Aguardiente Antioqueño — Lotería de Medellín Cundeportes — Juegos Nacionales Coldeportes Boyacá — Aguardiente Líder Orbitel 05 Ciclo Acosta — Bello — Gripogen — Seres Club Rotarios de Bello Cicloases Cundinamarca Mixto Uno Mixto Dos EPM.net-IDEA See also 2003 Vuelta a Colombia References cyclingnews maspedal Clásico RCN Clasico RCN Clasico RCN

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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1582

United Nations Security Council resolution 1582, adopted unanimously on 28 January 2005, after reaffirming all resolutions on Abkhazia and Georgia, particularly Resolution 1554 (2004), the council extended the mandate of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) until 31 July 2005. Georgia's attendance at the meeting was opposed by Russia, and therefore the former was not present. Resolution Observations In the preamble of the resolution, the security council stressed that the lack of progress on a settlement between the two parties was unacceptable. It condemned the shooting down of an UNOMIG helicopter in October 2001 which resulted in nine deaths and deplored that the perpetrators of the attack had not been identified. The contributions of UNOMIG and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) peacekeeping forces in the region were welcomed, in addition to the United Nations-led peace process. Acts The security council welcomed political efforts to resolve the situation, in particular the "Basic Principles for the Distribution of Competences between Tbilisi and Sukhumi" to facilitate negotiations between Georgia and Abkhazia. It regretted the lack of progress on political status negotiations and the refusal of Abkhazia to discuss the document, further calling on both sides to overcome their mutual mistrust. The council's position on elections in Abkhazia, described in 1255 (1999), was reaffirmed. All violations of the 1994 Agreement on a Cease-fire and Separation of Forces were condemned. The council also welcomed the calm in the Kodori Valley and the signing of a protocol by both parties on 2 April 2002. Concerns of the civilian population were noted and the Georgian side was asked to guarantee the safety of UNOMIG and CIS troops in the valley. Greater efforts to improve security in the Gali region were encouraged. The resolution urged the two parties to revitalise the peace process, including greater participation on issues relating to refugees, internally displaced persons, economic co-operation and political and security matters. It also reaffirmed the unacceptability of demographic changes resulting from the conflict. Abkhazia in particular was called upon to improve law enforcement, address the lack of instruction to ethnic Georgians in their first language and ensure the safety of returning refugees. The council called again on both parties to take measures to identify those responsible for the shooting down of an UNOMIG helicopter in October 2001. Both parties were also asked to dissociate themselves from military rhetoric and demonstrations in support of illegal armed groups, and ensure the safety of United Nations personnel. Furthermore, there were concerns about the security of UNOMIG personnel, with repeated abductions of UNOMIG and CIS peacekeeping personnel, which the Council condemned. Finally, the Secretary-General Kofi Annan was asked to report on the situation in Abkhazia within three months. See also Georgian–Abkhazian conflict List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1501 to 1600 (2003–2005) United Nations resolutions on Abkhazia References External links Text of the Resolution at undocs.org 1582 Abkhaz–Georgian conflict 2005 in Georgia (country) 2005 in Abkhazia 1582 1582 January 2005 events

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Divide

The Divide

The Divide may refer to: Books The Divide (novel), a 1980 alternate history novel by William Overgard The Divide, novel by Nicholas Evans 2005 The Divide trilogy, a series of novels by Elizabeth Kay, or the first book in the trilogy The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, a 2014 book by Matt Taibbi Film and TV The Divide (2011 film), a nuclear-apocalyptic fiction film by Xavier Gens The Divide (2015 film), a documentary film by Katharine Round The Divide (2021 film), a/k/a La Fracture, a drama film by Catherine Corsini The Divide (TV series), a 2014 WeTV series Music The Divide, album by Tom Waits and Scott Vestal 2011 "The Divide", a song by Miss Kittin from On the Road "The Divide", a song by Tenacious D from The Pick of Destiny "The Divide", an alternative rock band from Manchester Video games The Divide: Enemies Within, a 1996 video game See also Divide (disambiguation) The Divided, an English metalcore band

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire%20of%20Chapman%20Valley

Shire of Chapman Valley

The Shire of Chapman Valley is a local government area located in the Mid West region of Western Australia, immediately northeast of the City of Geraldton and about north of Perth, the state capital. The Shire covers an area of and its seat of government is the small town of Nabawa. History The Upper Chapman Road District was established on 25 January 1901. On 28 March 1958, it was renamed to Chapman Valley Road District and on 1 July 1961, it became a Shire under the Local Government Act 1960, which reformed all remaining road districts into shires. Wards The Shire no longer has wards - represented by 8 councillors Towns Nabawa Howatharra Mount Erin Nanson Naraling Narra Tarra Oakajee Protheroe Rockwell Whelarra Yetna Yuna Population Heritage-listed places As of 2021, 95 places are heritage-listed in the Shire of Chapman Valley, of which seven are on the State Register of Heritage Places. References External links Chapman Valley

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Rohdea japonica

Rohdea japonica is a species of plant native to Japan, China and Korea. Common names include Nippon lily, sacred lily, and Japanese sacred lily. It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant, with fibrous roots. The leaves are evergreen, broad lanceolate, 15–50 cm long and 2.5–7 cm broad, with an acute apex. The flowers are produced in a short, stout, dense spike 3–4 cm long, each flower pale yellowish, 4–5 mm long. The fruit is a red berry 8 mm diameter, produced in a tight cluster of several together. Cultivation and uses It is cultivated as an ornamental plant. In Chinese it is called wan nian qing (simplified: 万年青; traditional: 萬年青; lit. "evergreen"), and for this reason has been used symbolically in visual culture (e.g. on Mao badges). In Japanese it is called omoto. The plant is also used in traditional Chinese medicine, though it is generally regarded as inedible and possibly toxic. References External links Flora of China: Rohdea japonica Plants for a Future: Rohdea japonica Nolinoideae Flora of Japan Flora of China Flora of Korea Plants described in 1784

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Teatro del Fondo

The Teatro del Fondo is a theatre in Naples, now known as the Teatro Mercadante. It is located on Piazza del Municipio #1, with the front facing the west side of Castel Nuovo and near the Molo (Dock) Siglio. Together with the Teatro San Carlo, it was originally one of the two royal opera houses of the 18th and 19th-century city. It opened in 1779 as the 'Teatro del Real Fondo di Separazione', with comic operas sung mainly in Tuscan. The Mozart operas Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte were performed there (1812-1815) and also a number of French operas under the patronage and influence of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (1806-1808). The theatre was later used by Gioachino Rossini, who became the music director of the royal theatres, Giovanni Pacini and Gaetano Donizetti and many other leading composers. After a period of relative inactivity, in 1871 it was renamed the Real Teatro Mercadante, after Saverio Mercadante, whereupon opera productions once again flourished at the theatre. It is now part of the Teatro Stabile Napoli. References Robinson, Michael F and Di Benedetto, Renato (1992), 'Naples' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, External links Teatro Stabile Napoli history of the theatre Opera houses in Italy 1779 establishments in Italy Theatres in Naples Theatres completed in 1779 Music venues completed in 1779

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Maztica Trilogy

The Maztica Trilogy is a set of 3 fantasy novels set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The series were written by Douglas Niles, and the books are: Ironhelm (1990) Viperhand (1990) Feathered Dragon (1991) The books are essentially a translation of the Spanish conquest of what is now Mexico in the 16th Century to the Forgotten Realms world. The name 'Maztica' is itself a portmanteau of "Maya" and "Aztec", two major civilizations in Central America. The plot of the trilogy closely follows real-life events. The main character, Cordell, is similar in name to real-life conquistador Hernán Cortés. The conquistador analogs in this case worship the deity Helm and originate from the empire of Amn in the Forgotten Realms. The states of Maztica resemble the Aztecs and other mesoamericans in that: they have Stone Age technology they worship many gods and offer human sacrifices they build large stone pyramids there is a warrior class with particular uniforms there is one powerful civilization dominating the continent, from which some tribes are independent and others subjugated The principal difference is the existence of magic in the D&D fantasy world. External links http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org&q=Maztica+Trilogy&submit=Search http://www.o-love.net/realms/head_maz.html Fantasy novel trilogies Forgotten Realms novel series Novels by Douglas Niles

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System folder

The System folder is the directory in the classic Mac OS that holds various files required for the system to operate, such as fonts, system extensions, control panels, and preferences. Note: On macOS, files in /Library are not loaded at boot time when booting into Safe Mode. Location and "blessed" folders The System Folder is normally located directly below the root directory in the filesystem hierarchy, but does not need to be. The Mac OS identifies the "System Folder" by undocumented characteristics that are independent of its name (it has different names in non-English versions of the Mac OS), or its location in the directory hierarchy. The Macintosh Finder displays this "blessed" folder with a special icon. A "live" System Folder can freely be moved to any location in the directory hierarchy while the OS is operating, and it will continue to operate with no problems after the folder has been moved and after the system is restarted with the folder in its new location. When the Finder copies a "blessed" folder to a new volume, the copy is "blessed" as well. On a system with more than one disk volume, it is thus easy to create functioning backups of a system simply by dragging the folder. It is also easy to maintain older and newer versions of the OS "in parallel", each on its own volume, and revert to the old one if problems are encountered with the new one. This degree of flexibility distinguishes the classic Mac OS from most other operating systems, including macOS. All versions of Mac OS permit multiple copies of the operating system on a single volume. Mac OS 9 added formal support for this by permitting the user to select from multiple copies of the system on the same volume via the Startup Disk control panel, primarily used for selecting which volume to boot from. Prior to this, one would have to manually bless the copy of the System Folder that they wished to use. A folder can be de-blessed by removing either the System or Finder files from it, which are the two files required for booting. (New World Macintoshes also need the Mac OS ROM file.) Some versions of the classic Mac OS, 8.5 and upwards, check the blessed System Folder before shutdown and warn the user if the System Folder is missing any of the key system files, to prevent them from inadvertently rendering the hard drive unbootable. An alternative to manually blessing the system folders in the Mac OS was to use a utility like System Picker. Blessing is continued for mactel machines running macOS with an EFI system, albeit in a mostly different manner. See and the two types of booting for Apple's BootX bootloader. User accessibility and customization The System Folder is less protected than the equivalent folders on macOS, in that the contents are all viewable and most files and folders are editable. However it was possible to prevent inexperienced users from accidentally altering the contents by using the Protect System Folder Contents checkbox in the General Controls Control Panel. The Startup and Shut Down programs, Appearance themes, control panels, fonts, and extensions, as well as items in the Apple Menu, are controlled by adding or removing items from folders in the System Folder. This process was made more convenient when Apple implemented the Extensions Manager, itself a Control Panel that was originally a shareware utility by Ricardo Batista. This allowed activation and deactivation of Control Panels, Extensions, Startup Items and Shutdown Items, and could be invoked fairly early in the boot process by holding down the space bar on the keyboard. One notable absence was the managements of Fonts. For this, Apple allowed Third-party development of font management programs such as Extensis Suitcase, Adobe Type Manager and AlSoft MasterJuggler. References Classic Mac OS

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Cala Mitjana

Cala Mitjana is a bay and beach on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Menorca's southern coast. The small pine tree surrounded beach can be reached by foot in 20 minutes starting from a parking lot close to country road OM-714. The beach is highly frequented in the summer season. References Geography of Menorca

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Rony Ahonen

Rony Ahonen (born 2 February 1987) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for HIFK of the Finnish Liiga. He has played with HIFK since the 2006–07 season. Facebook References External links 1987 births Finnish ice hockey defencemen HIFK (ice hockey) players Living people SaiPa players Lukko players

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St. Anthony's Hospital, North Cheam

Spire St Anthony's Hospital is a private hospital in North Cheam, formerly in the county of Surrey, now in the London Borough of Sutton. The hospital is part of the Spire Healthcare group, the second largest provider of private healthcare in the United Kingdom. It was formerly owned and operated by the Daughters of the Cross of Liege, a Roman Catholic religious order. It is located on the junction between the A24 and Gander Green Lane. History St Anthony's was founded in 1904. Its location, once the site of North Cheam House, was purchased by the Daughters of the Cross for £4,625. By 1914 the Daughters of the Cross had replaced North Cheam House, erecting a building of three storeys and 163-foot frontage. The hospital operated a 'pay-by-your-means' policy until 1948, when the National Health Service was formed, causing St Anthony's to begin accepting public patients with funding from the NHS. In the early 1970s, St. Anthony's NHS contract was withdrawn and the hospital reverted to private status. Responding to this change in status, it developed a speciality for cardiac surgery and moved to a smaller purpose-built facility opened by Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk in October 1975. In 1987, the Daughters of the Cross formed St. Raphael's Hospice, a registered charity providing specialist medical and nursing care for those with cancer and other serious illnesses and support for the families of the afflicted. By 2012, a decline in the membership of the Daughters of the Cross, coupled with the advanced age of many of its members, led the order to seek to divest itself of responsibility for the hospital and hospice. After obtaining a management consultancy's advice, they decided to try to sell the hospital but retain ownership of the hospice. They expected to make a decision on a buyer in December 2013. Staff and consultants of the hospital and the chairman of the hospice board raised concerns about how a sale to a private firm might affect the charity work of the hospice, which is subsidised by hospital revenues, and the ability of the hospital to operate within moral directives of the Catholic Church. In June 2013 they appealed to Vatican officials to prevent the sale, and Paul Burstow, the member of parliament for Sutton and Cheam, said he would seek to have the Foreign Office direct an embassy official to bring the issue to the Vatican's attention. In November 2013, Burstow presented a petition to Parliament, signed by over 7,000 people, requesting government help in blocking the sale. Opponents of the sale hoped for formation of a new Catholic charity to take over the hospital and hospice. In March 2014, it was announced that they were to be sold to Spire Healthcare. Facility Spire St Anthony's is a 92-bed private hospital. It provides routine and complex surgery and has an 8-bed intensive care unit. Spire St Anthony’s offers a wide range of treatments from diagnostic imaging to major surgery covering a range of specialities including orthopaedics, neurosurgery, paediatric day cases, cardiology and cardiac surgery. They have continually invested in development projects to ensure a high standard of accommodation and facilities including six state of the art integrated theatres suites, incorporating three laminar flow and one hybrid theatre. They have also invested in a dedicated physiotherapy suite. The associated St. Raphael's Hospice is operated as a charity; it employs 53 nurses. Performance In 2015/6 it made a loss of £1.5 million, attributed to delays in the redevelopment programme by Spire. Transport 93 from North Cheam to Putney Bridge tube station 293 from Epsom Hospital to Morden tube station 413 from Sutton Bus Garage to Morden tube station S3 from Sutton Hospital to Malden Manor railway station See also List of hospitals in England References External links St. Anthony's Hospital website St. Raphael's Hospice website Hospital buildings completed in 1914 Catholic hospitals in Europe Hospitals in London Hospitals established in 1904 Private hospitals in the United Kingdom

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Madeleine Chaumont

Madeleine Chaumont (8 April 1896 – 27 July 1973) was a French mathematics teacher, who was notable as one of the first 41 women to be admitted to the École normale supérieure, and the second woman to be awarded the male agrégation in mathematics. Throughout her life, her teaching career was disrupted by various health problems. Life Chaumont was the daughter of Alfred Chaumont, director of the Chaumont Frères distillery, and Hélène Chaumont, a pianist. Having contracted several ear infections as a child, she suffered from hearing problems all her life. A student at the Collège Sévigné, she obtained her Baccalauréat in mathematics and philosophy in 1912 and 1913. After a brief spell in preparatory classes at the Lycée Chaptal, she obtained a degree in mathematics. Encouraged by her former teacher at Chaptal, Alexandre Bernheim, and by the success of Marguerite Rouvière and Georgette Parize in the competitive examination for the École Normale Supérieure, she decided to apply in 1919; she was accepted, but had to make do with the status of bachelor's scholarship holder. It was not until 1927 that a decree issued by Édouard Herriot granted her the title of former student of the École normale supérieure. She was thus one of the 41 female students at the École before the competitive examination was banned in 1939. She stayed at the school for only one year, to prepare for the men's agrégation in mathematics in 1920. Chaumont obtained it in 1920, in first place; she was the first female laureate since Liouba Bortniker in 1885. She demanded that "young girls should not have the right, but the obligation, to take the agrégation in boys' high schools", and she spoke out in favour of abolishing the women's agrégation, which was not achieved until 1976, after her death. Career In September 1920, she was assigned to the girls' high school in Reims, where she demanded equal treatment with her male colleagues. Unanimously praised for her pedagogical qualities, she was nevertheless regularly absent due to health problems. In 1927, she moved to the Lycée de Jeunes Filles de Versailles, where she prepared for the competitive examination for the École Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles, and then in 1933 to the Lycée Fénelon. Her pupils' applications were regularly successful. Chaumont moved to Limoges in 1939–40, she was excluded from teaching in October 1941 in application of the Second law on the status of Jews and had to wear the yellow star. She was replaced by her former colleague from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, François Deschamps, who sent her pupils for private lessons. She was reinstated at Fénelon in October 1944, and regularly received praise from the Inspectors General and her headmistress; again, many of her students were successful. From 1955 onwards, however, it had to face the reservations of the new headmistress and competition from the new special mathematics class at the Lycée Jules-Ferry. After a drastic fall in its numbers, the Fénelon class was closed in 1956. Appointed to the Centre national d'enseignement à distance because of her health problems, she prepared for the CAPES and the agrégation, but fell victim to overwork and missed the contact with her students1. In 1958, she obtained an appointment in elementary mathematics at the Lycée Claude-Monet, but the number of pupils fell again and she provoked an outcry. After much pressure, she retired in October of the same year. However, she continued to teach a course at the Institut Catholique de Paris until 1963. In 1971, she again gave lessons to a candidate at the École Polytechnique. All in all, during her career, she played "a decisive role in the access of women to quality scientific education". Chaumont was woman of culture, who remained close to her cousin Geneviève Cahn, wife of Germain Debré, and a pianist like her own mother. Having entered a retirement home in Châtenay-Malabry, she died on 27 July 1973 at the hospital in Châtenay-Malabry, aged 77, following a fracture of the neck of the femur. She was cremated in the Père-Lachaise cemetery and her ashes were placed in the tomb of her sister and brother-in-law in the Montparnasse cemetery. References 1896 births 1973 deaths People from Poissy French women activists French feminists

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Great Fire of Bucharest

The Great Fire of Bucharest ( or simply ) was the largest conflagration ever to occur in Bucharest, Romania, then the capital of Wallachia. It started on March 23, 1847 and destroyed 1850 buildings, a third of the city, including, according to Prince Gheorghe Bibescu, "the most populated and richest part of Bucharest". The fire destroyed the central commercial part of the city, replacing the small and crowded wooden buildings with two-story brick merchants' and craftsemen's houses, inspired by those in Austria, having their shops and warehouses at the first floor and the habitation at the second floor. Background At the time, many of the houses of Bucharest were made out of wood, which, together with the crowded narrow streets, made them prone to fire. The constant danger made this a concern ever since the Phanariote era, when fire watches were organized around the Aghia and the Spătar's residence. During the Organic Regulations era, a modern firemen squad was organized, equipped with Western European pumpers. The fire The fire started during the afternoon at the house of the Cluceress Zoița Drugăneasca, near the metochion of the Buzău bishopric, at the St. Demetrius Church. The strong southern wind (austru) helped it to spread in a triangular area with one corner at the house where it started and the two vertices going one towards Curtea Veche and the Artillery building (Pușcăria) and the other towards Lipscani, St. George's Inn and St. George's Monastery. The fire spread towards the outskirts of the city, where it couldn't spread anymore as the yards of the houses were larger and the fire couldn't spread from one house to the next as easily as in the crowded commercial center. The rest of the city was not burnt thanks to the firemen's intervention who were also helped by the soldiers. The fire burnt the St. Demetrius mahala (neighbourhood), the commercial streets Ulița Franțuzească (the nowaday Strada Franceză), Ulița Nemțească (the nowaday Strada Smârdan), Șelari, the artillery building in Piața de Flori, Lipscani (from Picollo to Marchitani), Hanul lui Zamfir, Bărăția, the Papazoglu Inn, New and Old St. George's Churches, Târgul Cucului, Mahalaua Stelei, Udricani, St. Vineri, Lucaci, St. Stephan and other areas. The fire killed 15 people and burnt 158,730 square stânjeni (ca. 61.38 hectares), including 1850 buildings, including 686 private homes, 1142 shops, 10 inns and 12 churches. The damage was then estimated at 100 million lei. Reconstruction Reconstruction fund After the fire was put out, the authorities began a reconstruction process. A fund was created for the rebuilding of the city. The Prince, Gheorghe Bibescu was the first to donate 6000 lei, with the rest of the institutions contributed 2,200,000 lei: the Romanian Orthodox Church Metropolis contributed a quarter of its annual income, 500,000 lei the National Bank contributed with all its income, 220,000 lei the Romanian Monsteries owned by the Greek Church, 700,000 lei the Treasury contributed with its reserve fund, 300,000 lei the clerks and soldiers contributed their one month's wage, 300,000 lei the City Halls' association contributed 180,000 lei The royal courts of Vienna, Stamboul and Petersburg contributed as well, as did the merchants of Leipzig and bankers (Rothschild family and Sinas), who contributed 3401 thalers (45,584 lei). The Moldavians, led by Vasile Alecsandri, had also a significant contribution of 50,715 lei. Additional contributions came from Bucharesters not affected by the fire, as well as from Wallachians living outside the capital (276,357 lei). Reconstruction commission For helping the people who lost their homes and businesses, a merchants' commission was created which had to oversee the usage of the reconstruction fund and help resume trade. It also levied mandatory contributions from the clerks' wages and church's incomes. The commission members were Ion Otetelișanu, Mihai Califarov and Lazăr Kalenderoglu. The commission began a census of the burnt buildings, gathering information on the owners' and renters' names, the owner's profession, the type of the buildings, the value of the house, the value of the things inside, etc. On June 26, 1847, the list was published, containing the details of how the sum of 2,573,250 lei will be divided to 1559 affected property owners. The biggest sums of aid money were given to the affected boyars, important merchants and even relatives of the commission members (such as Elenca Califarov, receiving 8000 lei), some of them receiving over 10,000 lei, while many of the poorer people receiving only 100-200 lei. This led to discontent, with some poorer craftsmen sending petitions and refusing to accept the sums. Foreign consuls also intervened distributing money on their own: the Russian consul distributed a sum of 236,800 lei, while the French consul intervened with a list of 12 protégés whom they considered that they didn't receive a fair compensation. A final report was published in April 1848, when the commission's report said that 52 people still refused to get their aid money and that a sum of 3,195,759 lei was divided to 2887 people affected. The Bucharest Metropolis kept some money of those which it had to pay, in order to rebuild the burnt churches: 12,000 lei for Old St. George's Church, 8000 lei for Vergului Church, 10,000 for Lucaci Church, 6000 lei for St. Stephan's Church, 8000 lei for Ceauș Radu Church and 6000 lei for Olteni Church. City systematization At the suggestion of a civil clerk who remained in Wallachia from the time of the Russian military administration, the government took some measures for the systematization of the areas of the city that were destroyed by the fire. For this, a sum of 230,552 was withdrawn from the reconstruction fund in order to paid to the land owners who had their land expropriated. Major Rudolf Arthur von Borroczyn, the head of the technical section had a major role in the city planning. He proposed that the streets should follow the same directions, just that they should be made wider and the buildings should follow some safety rules. Notes References Florian Georgescu, "Focul cel mare din martie 1847", in București: Materiale de istorie și muzeografie: VII, 1969, Muzeul de Istorie a Municipiului București Florian Georgescu (coord.), Istoria Orașului București, 1965, Muzeul de Istorie a Municipiului București History of Bucharest Fires in Romania 1847 disasters 1847 in Romania Disasters in Bucharest Urban fires in Europe

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Growth of the Soil

Growth of the Soil (Norwegian Markens Grøde), is a novel by Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows the story of a man who settles and lives in rural Norway. First published in 1917, it has since been translated from Norwegian into languages such as English. The novel was written in the popular style of Norwegian new realism, a movement dominating the early 20th century. The novel exemplified Hamsun's aversion to modernity and inclination towards primitivism and the agrarian lifestyle. The novel employed literary techniques new to the time such as stream of consciousness. Hamsun tended to stress the relationship between his characters and the natural environment. Growth of the Soil portrays the protagonist (Isak) and his family as awed by modernity, yet at times, they come into conflict with it. The novel contains two sections entitled Book One and Book Two. The first book focuses almost solely on the story of Isak and his family and the second book starts off by following the plight of Axel and ends mainly focusing on Isak's family. Plot Book One The novel begins by following the story of Isak, a Norwegian man, who finally settled upon a patch of land which he deemed fit for farming. He began creating earthen sheds in which he housed several goats obtained from the village yonder. Isak asked passing by Lapps, nomadic indigenous people, to tell women that he is in need of help on his farm. Eventually, a “big, brown-eyed girl, full-built and coarse” with a harelip named Inger, arrived at the house and settled in. Inger had her first child which was a son named Eleseus. She then had another son named Sivert. The Lensmand Geissler came by their farm one day informing them that they were on States land and assisting them in purchasing it. They named the farm Sellanraa. Soon after, Geissler was discharged from his position as Lensmand after a sharp reprimand from his superior and was subsequently replaced with Lensmand Heyerdahl. One day while Isak had left the farm to sell a bull in the village, Inger gave birth to a child and had killed it upon seeing that it had a harelip and would undergo the inevitable suffering in life she herself had experienced. One day, Oline, Inger's relative, visited the farm and figured out that Inger had killed a child. The news of the infanticide now spreading. One October day, the Lensmand and a man showed up at their doorstep to investigate and find evidence pertaining to the crime. Oline had agreed to serve at the farm while Inger was serving her eight-year sentence in prison. Geissler returned one day, interested in prospective copper mining grounds near Sellanraa. Apparently, Geissler did not come to the farm just for the ore, but he also intended on planning to have Inger released from prison as soon as possible. Brede Olsen, the Lensmand's assistant, had now settled on the land halfway between Sellanraa and the village. The farm of his was named Breidablik. One day, people came out to mark the route for a telegraph line that was to run near Isak's farm. Meanwhile, Inger had given birth to another baby girl, Leopoldine, at the prison. The following day, Geissler returned to Sellanraa. He first addressed the matter of the copper tract. He purchased the land for 200 daler from Isak, money unheard of to him until this day. Geissler also spoke of Inger and how he submitted a report to the King and the Governor regarding the case asking for her release. Inger was to be released early. Isak was stupefied by the generosity of Geissler. Isak drove down to the village to meet Inger. Great changes had occurred while Inger was away. No longer had she the harelip but merely a scar on her face. And now she was with the daughter Isak had not yet met, Leopoldine. When one of the telegraph engineers stopped at Isak's house, a job was offered to Eleseus to work under his care in the village. Eleseus went to work in town. A new settler arrived in between Sellanraa and Breidablik, his name was Axel Ström. He named his farm Maaneland. Axel Ström was offered by Brede to have his daughter Barbro assist him at his place. Inger once again gave birth to a daughter named Rebecca. When Oline arrived one day, she told the family that Uncle Sivert, the one who Sivert was named after, had fallen terribly ill. It was agreed upon that Sivert was to inherit the big fortune which his uncle was to leave behind. Eventually, Uncle Sivert died and later, the fortune was to be determined. Geissler and a few prospective mining buyers arrived at the farm by horse one day. Geissler acted as Isak's advocate and sold the section of Isak's land for four thousand Kroner. Isak marvels at how much Geissler has assisted him in making money. News arrived that Breidablik was going to be sold. The real reason Brede was selling his place was because there were some money issues associated with the banks and stores at the village, but they made it seem as though he was selling the place on his own freewill in order to avoid disgrace. The last part of Book One tells of Isak obtaining another wonder for his farm, this time, a mowing machine. He attempts to assemble it but fails and requires Eleseus’ reading skills to help him fix it. People from all over assemble to witness this luxury in use. Book Two After the officials went through the financial books, it was discovered to the shock of the family that Uncle Sivert had nothing left of his fortune. Isak went to the auction of Breidablik. Axel, to the surprise of everyone, had purchased the farm. When asked, he said that he was buying it on someone else's behalf. Meanwhile, Eleseus had left the farm and headed back to town for a job which was no longer available for him. On the third of September, Axel could not find Barbro anywhere. He searched around and eventually finds her on the banks of a stream. He wonders what has happened the child Barbro was pregnant with. According to her, she had been near the stream collecting juniper twigs for cleaning buckets when suddenly, she slipped into the river at the same time she was to give birth. It was too late as the baby had already succumbed to drowning. Axel went to look for the infant and found it under a heap of moss and twigs wrapped in a cloth. He ran home for a shovel to bury the body properly. Axel and Barbro argued as she continued to claim that the baby drowned when she accidentally slipped into the water. Barbro, in the heat of the argument, confessed that she had once killed another baby and threw it off a boat. That winter, Barbro went to the village to visit the dentist. Axel had no faith in her returning and as he predicted, she had gone to Bergen, another large city, to stay. One day, Axel was going out to the forest to fell some trees when he sees Brede going up the hill, most likely on an errand to fix something relating to the telegraph line. Axel started chopping down a tree when suddenly, his foot slipped into a cleft in a stone and the tree came crashing down on him. There was a blizzard that day and night was setting in. Axel struggled for hours trying to free himself but was not able to reach for the axe lying on the ground to cut his way out. Axel yelled to Brede hoping that he would be returning from his errand soon. Surely enough, after a few hours, Brede came by but simply ignored him pretending that he was unaware of the situation. He walked on and left Axel to die. When all hope was lost, Oline found Axel. She freed him and helped him return home. On their way back, they encountered Brede who claimed that when he encountered Axel on the ground, he showed no signs of needing help or that anything was wrong. Next day, the news reported that there was a new settler arriving below Maaneland. He was apparently very rich and was going to open a store at the location. His name was Aronson and he called his place Storborg. Spring arrived and engineers and workmen from Sweden began work on the mine. Storborg was prospering with all of these workers buying things at his trading post. The work on the mine continues but there was news that the yield of ore was not as good as promised. As expected, the commotion at the mine started to subside and workers were being dismissed. Now that the mine had been deemed fruitless, the engineer wanted to purchase the land south of the water owned by Geissler. Geissler anticipated that this would happen and so he offered the land at an exorbitant price showing that he had nothing to lose if they did not want to buy it. Eventually, the ordeal with Barbro was discovered and she was arrested in Bergen, the village where she was staying. Now the time had come for Barbro and Axel's trial to take place. Amazingly, the Lensmand's wife, Mrs. Heyerdahl, had stepped up for Barbro by giving a great, eloquent speech that moved everyone. The jury was obviously affected by this speech and Barbro and Axel were fully pardoned. Mrs. Heyerdahl had then gotten Barbro to come work for her. Meanwhile, Aronsen was furious that Geissler was refusing to sell his tract of land to the mining company. His trading business depended on a lot of foot traffic but since there was no more, there were no more customers. Geissler was taking revenge on the village for removing him as Lensmand. The entire fate and economy of the district hinged on whether he would sell the land. Eventually, Aronsen, not able to handle it anymore, sold his place to Eleseus who decided that he become a farmer. Geissler had finally sold his land and the mine was operational again. Later, Aronsen returned to buy back the farm from Eleseus but to no avail. Barbro was evicted from Mrs. Heyerdahl's house after an argument in which Mrs. Heyerdahl discovered that Barbro was often sneaking out to celebrations when she was supposed to be working. Mrs. Heyerdahl was outraged that this was what she got after saving Barbro from the clutches of the law. Barbro daringly returned to Axel but unfortunately, Oline had taken her place in the household while she was away. Oline really does not want to leave the place and asked Axel to call for the doctor as she was not feeling well one night. She criticizes them for trying to evict such a poor, ill woman. Oline had died that night. When Eleseus returned home, he talked privately with Sivert telling him his big plans - he was going to start a new life in America. Sivert was shocked and advised his brother not to go but seeing that this was futile, he gave him 25 kroner for his journey. Eleseus left that day on a boat and never came back. What was once barren land is now rich of settlers, all started from the one pioneer Isak. Characters Isak Isak, the protagonist of the novel, is described as a "strong, course fellow, with a red iron beard, and little scars on face and hands". He is the first settler on the Almenning near the village. He is the husband of Inger and father of Eleseus, Sivert, Leopoldine, and Rebecca. The character of Isak conforms to Hamsun's ideal individual: hard working, with a large family, and averted to modernity but rather finding roots with the agrarian lifestyle. Isak is often portrayed as very simple. He has no education and is unable to read well or write. Isak is a pioneer of the land, starting a farm and family from virtually nothing, a trait which Hamsun admired in individuals. There are several moments when Hamsun reveals Isak's crude and violent side, such as when he slams his wife Inger to the floor when he sees her flirting with a telegraph worker. Isak is admired by many, his farm is very developed compared to his neighbors. He has many sheds, fancy tools such as gift from Geissler and a mining operator, good land, an advanced irrigation system, and more things which gains him the admiration of many. Inger Inger is Isak's wife. She is described as being "a big, brown-eyed girl, full built and coarse, with good, heavy hands, and rough hide brogues on her feet as if she had been a Lapp..." She also had a harelip. She is the mother of two boys, Eleseus and Sivert; two girls, Leopoldine and Rebecca; and a fifth child, whom she killed because it was born with a harelip. She wanted to spare the child the kind of suffering she knew this defect would bring. People soon realized that something had happened to her pregnancy, and the body of the child was discovered buried in the forest. Inger was sentenced to eight years in prison out of a maximum sentence of life. Prison was a positive experience for her. She learned how to knit, do various types of needlework, read, write, and other things. In addition, Iger's harelip was surgically repaired when she was in prison. Hamsun described Inger as being quite ugly, unrefined, and unintelligent. She is always amazed at everything which Isak does. Whenever he purchases something at the village, Inger marvels at it. After her time at the prison though, she had experience some modernity and no longer was as awed by the things which Isak did. Isak's children Isak had four children: Eleseus, Sivert, Leopoldine, and Rebecca. There was also one child that was killed just after birth by Inger. The eldest child is a boy named Eleseus. He represents the intellectual of the family. Eleseus was offered a job in the village by a man where he learned many academic skills which are foreign to the rest of his family. His parents frequently sent him money which he would spend frivolously thus angering them. Upon returning home for a vacation, his position at his former job was lost. While staying at the farm again, it is evident that Eleseus is weak compared to his brother and isn't a physical worker. After much consideration, Eleseus purchased Aronsens' home with Isak's money. He stayed for a while but after realizing that he no longer wanted that lifestyle, set off to America never to be seen again. Sivert, the second eldest son, is a strong, hard-working person. He is similar to his father in terms of strength. Sivert is named after his uncle who was supposed to leave his nephew most of his supposedly large fortune, which amounted to nothing at his death. Leopoldine is one of the daughters which Inger bore while she was serving her prison sentence for committing infanticide. Rebecca is the youngest daughter who was born afterwards. Geissler Geissler is the ex-Lensmand of the village. He was a great friend of Isak and helped him sell his land, release Inger from prison, and give advice on selling the mine. Geissler was replaced by Lensmand Heyerdahl after a sharp reprimand from his superior. Isak admired Geissler and was always excited when he came by. Geissler would often be doing big business with other people and travelling but towards the end of the novel, he was seemingly becoming worn out and out of health. As the plot progresses Geissler becomes antagonistic as his personal business begins negatively affecting the lives and businesses of the township. Isak's neighbours Isak's neighbours are Brede Olsen, Aronsen, Axel Strom and Barbro. The first neighbour to settle near Isak was Brede Olsen of the farm Breidablik. He was scatterbrained and unable to look after a farm properly. Evidence of neglect of Brede's tools were seen as Isak passed by his farm to go to the village. Brede's place was eventually sold because of outstanding charges with the banks in the villages. They allowed Brede to make it seem like he was selling Breidablik out of his own will to avoid unnecessary embarrassment. Breidablik was purchased by Axel Strom who bought it for his brother. Axel Strom was the owner of Maaneland. He was not proficient at farming as Isak was but received help from Barbro, Brede's daughter, who went to work for him. Aronsen was another very rich settler who set up a store in order to make profit from the many miners who would be in the area working on the mine near Sellanraa (Isak's farm). His place was named Storborg. Seeing that there was no more business as they were leaving due to a failure of yield, Aronsen sold his place to Eleseus, Isak's son. Major themes Hamsun's protagonists were often outcasts and vagabonds that opposed civilization, industrialization, and modernisation. These rootless individuals who distrusted organized society were a reflection of Hamsun himself. The novel “Growth of the Soil” expresses back-to-nature, old-school philosophies, and peasant life. His works set simple agrarian values against those of industrial society, showing a deep aversion to civilization proving that people's fulfillment lies with the soil. The novel showed Hamsun's favour of primitivism and aversion to modernity. He opposed naturalism and realism and wanted “modern literature to represent the complex intricacies of human mind”. Hamsun believed that the true nature of an individual could only be revealed through a subjective and irrational approach. Hamsun's political beliefs and ideologies were often expressed in his books, especially Growth of the Soil. The character Isak conforms to Hamsun's vision of an ideal individual. He has little connection with industrialized society or modernity, and when he does, it usually is in a negative light. For example, when he was informed that he was needing to purchase the farms land from the State, Isak was confused as this had never crossed his mind. Luckily for him, the cost was mild thanks to Lensmand Geissler's generosity. Isak was a pioneer of the soil, he started with nothing and built a great farm out of it. The theme of hard work yielding results was evident throughout the book with Isak as an example. Style The novel is written in the style of Norwegian new realism, a literary movement which was used in Hamsun's later novels. This style was common during the first half of the 20th century in Norwegian literature. Hamsun utilized techniques fairly new to the time such as stream of consciousness or interior monologue. Reception Growth of the Soil is regarded as a historical classic. It has been acclaimed by many and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Hamsun's support of the German occupation of Norway has drawn a lot controversy and many refuse to acknowledge his success as a writer in light of that. William Worster, in an afterword to his 1920 translation of Growth of the Soil, describes the novel as follows: Film adaptation Growth of the Soil is a 1921 Norwegian silent film based on Hamsun's Growth of the Soil by the Norrøna Film company with an orchestral accompaniment composed by Leif Halvorsen. It was directed by Gunnar Sommerfeldt who also wrote the script and played the role of Lensmand Geissler. The original film was 107 minutes long and cost about 240,000 kroner to make, a very considerable sum of money at the time. It was filmed at Rana, Norway. The film cast stars Amund Rydland as Isak, Karen Poulsen as Inger, Ragna Wettergreen as Oline (Inger's relative), and Gunnar Sommerfeldt as Geissler. The chief photographer was George Schnéevoigt. Nobel Prize The novel Growth of the Soil was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. This is Hamsun's speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1920 translated to English. Notes References External links Growth of the Soil (1921) Book I, Book II at the Internet Archive 1917 novels Novels by Knut Hamsun Novels set in Norway Norwegian novels adapted into films Nobel Prize in Literature

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobsleigh%20at%20the%202014%20Winter%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Four-man

Bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Four-man

The four-man bobsleigh competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia was held at the Sliding Center Sanki near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia on 22–23 February 2014. On 24 November 2017, the IOC imposed a life ban on bobsledder Alexandr Zubkov. He was stripped of 2 gold medals (two-man and four-man bobsleigh). On November 27 IOC imposed similar sanctions to members of the same team Dmitry Trunenkov and Alexey Negodaylo. On 29 November 2017, IOC also sanctioned Alexander Kasjanov, Ilvir Huzin and Aleksei Pushkarev for doping offences and stripped their team of results. On 18 December 2017, Alexey Voyevoda also received a lifetime ban from the Olympic Games due to doping violations at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The IOC requested that the FIBT modify the results, and the medals were redistributed accordingly. Records While the IOC does not consider bobsled times eligible for Olympic records, the FIBT does maintain records for both the start and a complete run at each track it competes. Qualifying teams A total of 30 teams from 19 NOCs qualified for the event: Three teams , , and . Two teams , , , and . One team , , , , , , , , , , and . Results SR = Start Record TR = Track Record *Canada 3 crashed in the heat. **According to run results Cody Sorensen and Ben Coakwell were replaced in run 3 by Luke Demetre and Graeme Rinholm. *** Poland were disqualified in 2014 after Daniel Zalewski was banned for doping. **** Russia 1 and Russia 2 were disqualified in 2019 after a review of doping samples which showed that Alexandr Zubkov, Alexander Kasyanov, Aleksei Pushkarev and Ilvir Khuzin had all tested positive for banned substances and were banned until 2020. On 18 September 2019, NBC Sports and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced the reallocated silver medals were to be awarded at the 2019 USOPC awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The reallocated bronze medals were awarded at the 2019 Team GB Ball in London. References Bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics Men's bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics Men's events at the 2014 Winter Olympics

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gijsbert%20d%27Hondecoeter

Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter

Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter (1604 – 29 August 1653) was a Dutch landscape and animalier painter. Hondecoeter belonged to a family of painters. His father was Gillis d'Hondecoeter and his son was Melchior d'Hondecoeter. Hondecoeter primarily painted works of barnyard fowl. Some of his works can be found at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. He became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Utrecht in 1629. After he died in 1653, his brother-in-law and artist Jan Baptist Weenix continued the training of his son Melchior. Gallery References 1604 births 1653 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Utrecht Painters from Utrecht Dutch bird artists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwaves%20%28comic%20strip%29

Brainwaves (comic strip)

Brainwaves is a single-panel cartoon series by Betsy Streeter. Brainwaves has been described as "a single-panel stream of consciousness about the infinite absurdity of everyday life." Brainwaves began in 1993 as single cartoons published by King Features Syndicate through their feature, The New Breed. After that, Brainwaves began to appear in numerous books and periodicals, including the Newport News Daily Press. For a time Brainwaves was syndicated online by the Universal Press Syndicate on its GoComics site. Many Brainwaves cartoons are currently available through the agency CartoonStock.com (located in the United Kingdom). There are two Brainwaves book collections: Brainwaves: The First Wave (Drooly Dog Features, 2005) and Brainwaves While U Wait (Drooly Dog Features, 2006). Streeter, who hails from Northern California, is a regular contributor to the Funny Times. External links Betsy Streeter official site Gag cartoon comics 1993 comics debuts Slice of life comics

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvelinus%20inframundus

Salvelinus inframundus

Salvelinus inframundus, also known as Orkney charr is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae which is endemic to Scotland. Description Salvelinus inframundus has the following characteristics which in combination make this taxon different from other "Arctic charr" in Great Britain. It has a relatively shallow body which is less than a fifth of its body length, it has an inferiorly positioned mouth, the pectoral fins are 67–88% the length of its head and there are 8–9 10 soft rays in the dorsal fin with 8–9 soft rays in the anal fin. It has moderately large teeth, 9–11 branchiostegals, 13–14 gill rakers, 188–200 lateral scales and 63–64 vertebrae. Other distinguishing features cited include a blunt snout; steel-grey colour on the sides with a white to pinkish or bright orange belly; there are numerous whitish spots along the flanks, mostly on the upper half of body. The pectoral and anal fins are orange-brown to orange-red while the pelvic fins can be cherry-red, and all have a white leading edge. Distribution This species is known from specimens fished in Heldale Water, Hoy Island, Orkney, Scotland. It is considered locally extinct there since 1908 though. This rare char could be considered a threatened species. It has been found recently in Loch Mealt, on the Isle of Skye. Since the impact of Canadian Arctic char fish farming in the loch upon the native char population is unknown and the taxonomic identity of the char deemed as Salvelinus inframundus is lacking essential information, a full IUCN Red List assessment cannot be made and the species is considered data deficient. Taxonomy Salevlinus inframundus was first formally described by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943) in 1909 with the type locality given as Hellyal Lake, the former name of Heldale Water on the Isle of Hoy in Orkney. The specific name of this species is a compound of infra meaning "below" and mundus meaning "world" , i.e. "underworld", and is a reference to Hellyal which is derived from the Norse goddess of the underworld Hel. There is some controversy over the exact taxonomic status of the populations of charr which are found in lakes all over Europe and which show disjunct distributions and wide phenotypic variations. Some authorities take the view that there is a single species in Europe and that almost all populations fall within the subspecies Salvelinus alpinus alpinus and that the variations are due to non taxonomic adaptation to the local conditions. Other workers have accepted each population as a species, 15 of which have been recognised in Britain and Ireland. References External links Photo of Salvelinus inframundus inframundus Environment of Orkney Isle of Skye Cold water fish Endemic fauna of Scotland Endemic biota of the Scottish islands Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan Fish described in 1909

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium%20peninsulare

Allium peninsulare

Allium peninsulare is a North American species of wild onion. It is known by such common names as Mexicali onion and Peninsula onion; the former referring to the Mexican city just south of the US/Mexican border, the latter referring to the Peninsula of Baja California. It is widespread in California, USA, where it grows in the California Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada foothills, some of the Channel Islands, and Peninsular Ranges. The range extends south into the northernmost part of Baja California and north into southern Oregon. Description Allium peninsulare is usually found in Valley Grassland, Foothill Woodland, and Coastal Chaparral at elevations up to 1100 m (3660 feet). The plant produces a bulb 8–15 mm wide and has two to three channeled to more or less cylindrical leaves. Between May and July, it sends up a 12–45 cm scape topped with an umbel of 5–35 flowers, each on an 0.8–4 cm pedicel. The flowers are red-purple and have six triangular tepals. The three inner tepals are smaller than the outer ones and have teeth along the margins. Varieties A. peninsulare var. franciscanum McNeal & Ownbey --- leaves arched; stigma, unlobed or obscurely 3- lobed --- central California from Mendocino County to Monterey County A. peninsulare var. peninsulare — leaves straight, stigma strongly 3- lobed --- widespread from Baja California to Oregon formerly included Allium peninsulare var. crispum (Greene) Jeps., now called Allium crispum Greene See also California montane chaparral and woodlands References peninsulare Flora of California Flora of Oregon Flora of Baja California Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands Natural history of the Channel Islands of California Natural history of the Central Valley (California) Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains Natural history of the Transverse Ranges Plants described in 1888 Onions

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rural%20localities%20in%20Primorsky%20Krai

List of rural localities in Primorsky Krai

This is a list of rural localities in Primorsky Krai. Primorsky Krai (), informally known as Primorye (, ), is the Russian name for a province of Russia. Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, so in English translation it is sometimes known as the Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok. The region's population is 1,956,497 (2010 Census). Locations 12th km 53rd km Agzu Anuchino Barabash Baykal Bezverkhovo Chernigovka Chuguyevka Dersu Galyonki Gorny Kamen-Rybolov Khorol Mikhaylovka Narva Novaya Moskva Novonikolsk Novopokrovka Peretychikha Pokrovka Rudnaya Pristan Rudny Trudovoye Varfolomeyevka Vladimiro-Alexandrovskoye Volno-Nadezhdinskoye Vysokogorsk Yakovlevka See also Lists of rural localities in Russia References Primorsky Krai

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid%2C%20West%20Virginia

Reid, West Virginia

Reid was an unincorporated community in Cabell County, West Virginia, United States. References Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Cabell County, West Virginia

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

Collidosuchus

Collidosuchus is an extinct genus of archegosauroidean temnospondyl within the family Archegosauridae. References Permian temnospondyls Fossils of Russia Fossil taxa described in 1986 Prehistoric amphibian genera

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elin%20Nordegren

Elin Nordegren

Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren (; formerly Woods; born 1 January 1980) is the Swedish-born ex-wife of professional golfer Tiger Woods. Nordegren has worked as a model and nanny. Early life and education Nordegren was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her mother, politician Barbro Holmberg, is the former Swedish migration and asylum policy minister as well as the former Governor of Gävleborg County. Her father, Thomas Nordegren, is a radio journalist who has served as a bureau chief in Washington, D.C. She has an elder brother, Axel, and a twin sister, Josefin. Nordegren and her sister had summer jobs as cashiers in supermarkets to finance their studies. She started modeling in 2000, and appeared on the cover of Cafe Sport magazine in the summer of 2000. In May 2014, Nordegren graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, with a degree in psychology, receiving the outstanding senior award. Personal life Marriage and family Nordegren took a job in Champagne, a Stockholm clothing store where she met Mia Parnevik, wife of Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik, who hired Nordegren as the nanny to their children. The job required her to move full-time to the U.S. He introduced her to Tiger Woods during the 2001 Open Championship. For the previous year, Woods had asked to be introduced to Nordegren, who was seeing someone else at the time. "She had no interest in Tiger and he was OK with that," Mia Parnevik said. "There was a big line of single golfers wanting to meet her. They were gaga over her." At the time, she had hopes of becoming a child psychologist. In November 2003, Woods and Nordegren attended the Presidents Cup tournament in South Africa and became officially engaged when Woods proposed at the luxury Shamwari Game Reserve. They were married in October 2004, by the 19th hole of the Sandy Lane resort in Barbados. Woods rented the entire complex for a week, including three golf courses and 110 rooms, costing almost Nude photographs purporting to be of Nordegren began circulating on the Internet, which were shown to be fakes. Despite the debunking, in 2006, Irish magazine The Dubliner published the nude photographs and stated they were of Nordegren. On 16 November 2006, Nordegren filed a libel suit against The Dubliner. Nordegren won €125,000, and The Dubliner was required to publish a lengthy apology in a variety of venues. In 2007, Woods announced the birth of the couple's daughter, Sam Alexis, a day after finishing second in the U.S. Open. On 2 September 2008, Woods announced they were expecting another child in late winter. Nordegren gave birth to a boy, Charlie Axel, in 2009. Divorce In December 2009, her marriage to Woods was the subject of extensive media coverage after Woods admitted to infidelity, which had been revealed following his single-vehicle accident near the family's Florida home. After Woods' infidelity was revealed, Jesper Parnevik was quoted as having said, "I'm kind of filled with sorrow for Elin since me and my wife are at fault for hooking her up with him, and we probably thought he was a better guy than he is." Woods announced he would take an "indefinite break" from golf to work on his marriage. These efforts were unsuccessful, however, as Nordegren and Woods finalized their divorce in the Bay County Circuit Court in Panama City, Florida, on 23 August 2010. Nordegren's legal team included her sister, Josefin (who is licensed to practice law in England and Sweden) and several of Josefin's U.S. colleagues at international law firm McGuireWoods. Using the $100 million she received from her divorce from Woods, she purchased a $12 million Florida mansion built in the 1920s. She had the entire structure demolished after an architect advised that it made better sense to start over than to try bringing the home up to current hurricane safety codes. Before demolishing the home in December 2011, she allowed Habitat for Humanity to come into the home for four weeks and salvage anything they found of value. The contents of the estate were auctioned at a Habitat for Humanity warehouse, including a fountain with water spouting out of three lions' mouths, five refrigerators, temperature-controlled wine coolers and other furniture. After divorce from Woods Nordegren also had a relationship with coal mogul and philanthropist Chris Cline. In June 2019, it was announced that Nordegren was expecting her third child, her first with former National Football League player Jordan Cameron. Nordegren gave birth to a son in October 2019. References Identical twins People from Stockholm Rollins College alumni Swedish expatriates in the United States Swedish female models Twin people from Sweden 1980 births Living people

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Thomas%20%28umpire%29

Charles Thomas (umpire)

Charles Thomas (18 March 1840 – 29 November 1923) was a South African cricket umpire. He stood in one Test match, South Africa vs. England, in 1892. See also List of Test cricket umpires References 1840 births 1923 deaths Place of birth missing South African Test cricket umpires

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Gaines

Roy Gaines

Roy James Gaines (August 12, 1937 – August 11, 2021) was an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He wrote and recorded the song "A Hell of a Night", which was first issued on his 1982 album Gainelining. He was the younger brother of the blues musician Grady Gaines. Biography Gaines was born in Waskom, Texas on August 12, 1937, and relocated with his family to Houston when he was six years old. Originally a piano devotee, Gaines moved to playing the guitar in his adolescence. In his teens he was acquainted with another budding guitarist, Johnny Copeland. By the age of 14 he had performed onstage backing his hero, T-Bone Walker, and played in Houston nightclubs. He later moved to Los Angeles, California. In 1955, Gaines played as a backing musician on recordings by Bobby Bland, Junior Parker and Big Mama Thornton. He later backed Roy Milton and then Chuck Willis, and he worked again with Walker. He released two low-key albums in 1956 and a couple more in the 1960s for small record companies. In 1966, Gaines became part of Ray Charles's backing band. He was also a backing musician in sessions with the Everly Brothers, the Supremes, Bobby Darin, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. He worked primarily as a sideman, but he released a solo album, Gainelining, in 1982. He also had a small part in the 1985 film The Color Purple. Another album, New Frontier Lover, was released in 2000. It was followed by Tuxedo Blues, featuring a big band billed as Roy Gaines & His Orchestra, released in 2009. The album includes the song "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)," which Gaines had performed in The Color Purple. Also included is a cover version of Michael Jackson's "Rock with You." Gaines co-wrote the song "No Use Crying", which was recorded by George Jones and Ray Charles. Gaines died on August 11, 2021, a day before his 84th birthday. Discography Albums With the Jazz Crusaders Freedom Sound (Pacific Jazz, 1961) With Les McCann Another Beginning (Atlantic, 1974) References External links Roy Gaines Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2017) 1937 births 2021 deaths American blues guitarists American male guitarists American blues singers Songwriters from Texas Musicians from Houston Texas blues musicians People from Waskom, Texas Guitarists from Texas 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male musicians Black & Blue Records artists American male songwriters

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossacks%20of%20the%20Kuban

Cossacks of the Kuban

Cossacks of the Kuban () from Mosfilm is a color film, glorifying the life of the farmers in the kolkhoz of the Soviet Union's Kuban region, directed by Ivan Pyryev and starring Marina Ladynina, his wife at that time. The movie premiered on 26 February 1950. Synopsis The film is set during the early post-war years. In autumn at the inter-collective farm fair, a dashing horse breeder Nikolai (Vladlen Davydov) gets acquainted with an advanced collective farmer Dasha Shelest (Klara Luchko). Their infatuation is mutual, but the lovers, working in different farms will have to overcome the resistance of their leaders, who do not want to lose great employees. Chairman of the "Red Partisans", where Dasha works, Gordei Voron (Sergey Lukyanov) has long been fond of the chairman Galina Peresvetova (Marina Ladynina) of the "Precepts of Ilyich" collective farm where Nikolai works. But he can not muster up the courage to confess his love to her and Galina ends up having to confess first. Cast (partial list) Marina Ladynina as Galina Sergei Lukyanov as Gordei Gordeyich Voron Vladimir Volodin as Anton Petrovich Mudretsov Yuri Lyubimov as Andrey Aleksandr Khvylya as Denis Stepanovich Klara Luchko as Darya Shelest Ekaterina Savinova as Lubochka Viktor Avdyushko as stableman Valentina Telegina as Khristoforovna Vladlen Davydov as Nikolai Matveyevich Kovalev Songs (partial list) Harvest (in , words by Mikhail Isakovsky and music by Isaak Dunayevsky) How Have You Been, Dearest? (in , ditto) Oh, the Kalina Flowers Are in Bloom (, ditto) See also Cinema of the Soviet Union Cinema of Russia Kolkhoz Kuban Kuban Cossacks Ballad of Siberia References External links Watch Cossacks of the Kuban online at official Mosfilm site (with English subtitles) 1950 films Soviet films Mosfilm films Cossacks Agriculture in the Soviet Union Films directed by Ivan Pyryev Films scored by Isaak Dunayevsky Films set in Russia Films set in the Soviet Union Films shot in Krasnodar Krai Soviet musical comedy films 1950 musical comedy films Propaganda films Soviet propaganda films

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amador%20Rodr%C3%ADguez%20C%C3%A9spedes

Amador Rodríguez Céspedes

Amador Rodríguez Céspedes (born 8 September 1956) is a Cuban chess Grandmaster (GM) (1977) who represented Spain since 2002. Biography From the mid-1970s to the end of the 1990s, Amador Rodríguez Céspedes was one of the leading Cuban chess players. Between 1974 and 1996 he participated ten times in Chess Olympiads, in 1989, 1993 and 1997 he represented national team at World Team Chess Championships, while in 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1978 - at the World Youth U26 Team Chess Championships, where winning 3 medals: silver and 2 bronze. During his career Amador Rodríguez Céspedes won three times in Cuban Chess Championship: in 1984 (together with Jesus Nogueiras), 1988 and 1997 (together with Reynaldo Vera González-Quevedo), Amador Rodríguez Céspedes also competed three times in World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments, reaching the best result in 1987 in Subotica, where he finished sixth. Amador Rodríguez Céspedes participated in international tournaments many times, winning or dividing first places in tournaments dedicated to Capablanca Memorial (1984, 1989 and 1993, 1994 - B tournament) and in Vrnjačka Banja (1977), Havana (1979), Prague (1980), Manzanillo (1981, zonal tournament), Bayamo (1981), Envigado (1983), Caracas (1985, zonal tournament), Badalona (1985), Medina del Campo (1986), Pančevo (1987), Amsterdam (1987, OHRA B tournament, with Vlastimil Hort), Bayamo (1987, zonal tournament), Buenos Aires (1987), Martigny (1988), Bogota (1990), Cambados (1990), Málaga (1990), Burriana (1990, with Julio Granda Zuñiga), Holguín (1992), Havana (1992), Guadalajara (1994) and Olot (1996). In the years 1999–2001 Amador Rodríguez Céspedes collaborated with Peter Leko, accompanying him, among others at the elite tournaments in Linares International Chess Tournament and Tata Steel Chess Tournament and at World Chess Championship in Las Vegas (1999) and New Delhi (2000). Amador Rodríguez Céspedes awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1975 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1977 References External links Amador Rodríguez Céspedes chess games at 365chess.com 1956 births Cuban chess players Spanish chess players People from Holguín Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century chess players Living people

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Raqad%20syndrome

Al-Raqad syndrome

Al-Raqad syndrome is a congenital autosomal recessive syndrome discovered by Jordanian physician Mohammad Al-Raqad. It's characterized by: Microcephaly Growth delay Psycho-motor developmental delay Congenital hypotonia. Al-Raqad syndrome is caused by mutation of DCPS gene. References External links NCBI MalaCards: The human disease database The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) Genetic diseases and disorders Autosomal recessive disorders Syndromes with microcephaly

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit%20Through%20the%20Kwik-E-Mart

Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart

"Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" is the fifteenth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 501st episode overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 4, 2012. In the episode, Bart is punished by Homer after letting a rabbit loose in the house. He gets revenge on his father by spray-painting images of him with the word "dope" all over Springfield. Street artist Shepard Fairey encounters Bart one night and offers him a gallery show of Bart's artworks. However, Chief Wiggum suddenly appears during the show and arrests Bart for covering the town in graffiti. It turns out that Fairey is an undercover officer working for Wiggum. The episode references the 2010 street art documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop by graffiti artist Banksy, and features guest appearances from street artists Ron English, Kenny Scharf, and Robbie Conal as themselves. Fairey, who is a long-time fan of The Simpsons, also guest starred in the episode as himself. Around 5.09 million Americans tuned in to watch "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" during its original broadcast. Since then, the episode has received praise from television critics for its opening sequence, which parodies the opening sequence of the medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones. Plot As a birthday gift for Marge, Homer buys a blender designed by television chef Paula Paul. He goes to a health food store called Swapper Jack's, where Paula is giving away autographs, to have Paula sign it. Homer is impressed by the store and says he will not be shopping at the Kwik-E-Mart any more. Apu, who is there to spy, overhears Homer and the two engage in a fight until the security guards grab hold of Apu and take him away. At the signing, Homer tells Paula that Marge is a big fan of hers. Paula decides that she will call Marge live during her upcoming show to wish her a happy birthday. Meanwhile, Bart gets his mother a rabbit for her birthday. The rabbit chews through the phone lines in the Simpsons' home, causing Marge to miss Paula's call. Paula becomes furious at Marge for not answering the phone as she embarrassed herself on her show. Homer punishes Bart by locking him up in the rabbit's cage. To get revenge on Homer, Bart goes around Springfield spray-painting graffiti of Homer's face and the word "dope". When his work appears on the television news, it encourages Bart to create even more graffiti in the town. Street artists Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf, and Robbie Conal encounter Bart one night when he is making some graffiti. The four tell Bart that they are impressed by his work and would like to showcase his art in a gallery show. At first Bart is unsure, but Bart remembers how Homer treated him, and then agrees. Meanwhile, the Kwik-E-Mart suffers because of the competition from Swapper Jack's. Apu ends up attempting to rob Swapper Jack's in a desperate measure, but the cashier (Snake Jailbird) convinces him to hand over the gun. Later, Apu is about to shut down the Kwik-E-Mart when his wife Manjula tells him that Swapper Jack's is closing because it was discovered they were selling monkey meat imported from Brazil as chicken. Homer initially refuses to attend Bart's show because he discovers the artwork is an insult to him, but changes his mind after Bart apologizes and writes "I'm sorry" on the hood of Homer's car. At the show, Chief Wiggum and the Springfield Police Department suddenly appear to arrest Bart for making graffiti throughout the town. It is revealed that the gallery show is a sham and that Fairey is an undercover officer who helped the police identify Bart as the graffiti artist that had been spray-painting Springfield. Since Bart is just a boy, he is not sent to jail. Instead, he is punished by once again being locked up in the rabbit cage. When Bart tells Wiggum that he has to go to the bathroom, Wiggum covers the cage with the blanket and finds Bart gone when he removes the blanket from the cage. Production "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" was written by Marc Wilmore and directed by Steven Dean Moore as part of the twenty-third season of The Simpsons (2011–12). It spoofs the debated status of street art as a true form of art. The title is a reference to Exit Through the Gift Shop, a 2010 street art documentary by graffiti artist Banksy who produced the opening sequence of an earlier Simpsons episode titled "MoneyBART" (2010). The Richard Hawley song "Tonight The Streets Are Ours", which is the theme song of Exit Through the Gift Shop, is included in the episode during a montage of Bart painting graffiti in Springfield. Hayden Childs of The A.V. Club noted in his review of "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" that the "reveal that the art show was a police sting gives the show a moment to joke about the anti-art market theme from Exit Through The Gift Shop. Wiggum asks who would be stupid enough to pay for work that an amateur puts up for free in public, and the answer is, as in Banksy’s movie, the very wealthy, here represented by Mr. Burns." American street artist Fairey guest starred in "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" as himself. The graffiti art featuring Homer's face and the word "dope" that Bart creates in the episode is a reference to Fairey's Barack Obama "Hope" poster and his OBEY Giant image. Fairey has said that The Simpsons has been one of his favorite television shows since the early 1990s because of its "blend of humor and social commentary", and he felt "deeply honored" to be included in an episode. Fairey wrote on his website that "Part of being on The Simpsons, is you’re being honored as a reference point in culture." He described the plot of the episode as "great", adding that the staff members of the show "were kind enough to indulge a couple of my dialogue suggestions designed to make the social commentary more pointed (even though I had to make fun of myself to do so)." This was Fairey's first acting performance. Street artists English, Scharf, and Conal also guest starred in the episode as themselves. The traditional Simpsons opening sequence was replaced in this episode with a redesigned version that spoofed the opening sequence of the HBO medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones. The Game of Thrones opening shows the various locations featured in the series on a three-dimensional map of the fictional continent Westeros. In the Simpsons opening, these locations were substituted with places in Springfield, and The Wall was replaced with the Simpson family's couch. The theme song featured in the Game of Thrones opening sequence was arranged by The Simpsons composer Alf Clausen and used in the Simpsons opening as well. Nicholas McKaig, known for uploading a cappella covers of famous songs on YouTube, performed the Simpsons theme song over the closing credits of "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart". He was recruited after a staff member of the show saw his cover of the Simpsons theme on YouTube. Release "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" was originally broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on March 4, 2012. It was watched by approximately 5.09 million people during this broadcast, and in the demographic for adults aged 18–49, the episode received a 2.5 Nielsen rating and a seven percent share. The episode became the second highest-rated broadcast in Fox's Animation Domination lineup for the night in terms of both total viewers and in the 18–49 demographic. "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" placed 25th in the ratings among all prime-time broadcasts in the 18–49 demographic, and seventh among all Fox prime-time broadcasts. Writing for The A.V. Club, television reviewer Hayden Childs gave the episode a B, commenting that "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" was "somewhat amusing and far more coherent than many recent episodes, but the satire is relatively mild. The episode curdles a bit while looking for a sweet ending, but it is otherwise solid enough." Critics have praised the opening sequence that parodies Game of Thrones. Tim Surette of TV.com called it "one minute of genius", and MTV's Brandon Freeberg wrote: "Congratulations are in order for Matt Groening and his staff for really knocking this one out of the park." Jenna Busch of Zap2it and Kelly West of Cinema Blend, both fans of Game of Thrones, named the opening the best in the history of the show. IGN's Eric Goldman commented: "Ah, The Simpsons. Always there for us with clever/loving parody of something we all love. Such was the case last night, when the animated series opened with an epic opening credit sequence that gave us the Springfield-inspired version of the terrific Game of Thrones credits." References External links Nicholas McKaig's cover of the Simpsons theme song on YouTube "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" at theSimpsons.com 2012 American television episodes The Simpsons (season 23) episodes

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Je lutte donc je suis

Je lutte donc je suis (French: I fight therefore I am) is a documentary film about social and political struggles in Greece and Spain, realized by Yannis Youlountas, in September 2015, in France. The title is made from the aphorisme of the philosopher René Descartes Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am). Although it was not distributed by any mainstream company, it has had a very large success, and has been shown to numerous theaters, festivals, in France and in Europe. It received two awards. The film is available under a Creative Commons license. Synopsis Type: documentary Format: 16/9 Speakers People speaking play their own role. Diego Cañamero, Andalusian activist and trade-unionist. Gabriel Colletis, professor of economy at Toulouse 1 University Capitole. Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, Andalusian politician, mayor of Marinaleda, trade-unionist, and professor of history. Angélique Ionatos, Greek singer. Stathis Kouvelakis, professor of political philosophy at the King's College of London, previously member of SYRIZA central committee. Dimitris Papachristos, Greek journalist, member of the November 1973 insurrection against the Colonels dictature. ." Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek actor and singer, opponent of the Colonels dictature. Éric Toussaint, co-founder the international network of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt and coordinator of the Commission for the Truth on Greek debt in 2015. Festivals 12th festival Terres de résistances, Martigues, 3–6 September 2015 Festival Rencontres AD HOC, Mirabel et Blacons, 9–13 September 2015 Festival du Livre et du film, Mouans-Sartoux, 2-4 Cctober 2015 5th festival du Documentaire Politique et Social, Merlieux, 7–8 November 2015 15th festival Cinéma Méditerranéen, Brusels, 4–11 December 2015 7th festival of anarchist and activist films, Chambéry, 16–17 January 2016 3rd festival Terre et avenir, Salon-de-Provence, 20–27 January 2016 Festival Mémoires de Résistance, Digne-les-Bains, 27-30 janvier 2016 Festival 1,2,3 Soleil, Châteaubriant, 28 February-7 March 2016 Festival Diversité, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, 23 March-8 April 2016 8th festival de Saint-Martin, St-Martin-de-Valamas, 25 March-5 April 2016 10th festival ciné d'ATTAC, Mont-de-Marsan, 29 March-2 April 2016 10th festival du film antifasciste, Reims et Épernay, 3–18 May 2016 Festival Origines, Vernoux-en-Vivarais et Valence, 3 June-3 July 2016 20th festival of Resistances films, Foix, 8–16 July 2016 7th international festival for direct democracy, Thessalonique, 7–9 September 2016 Popular success On 21 August 2015, the film is shown to the public for the first time, during a projection for the 600 members of the 52nd congress of the Freinet Pédagogie in Aix-en-Provence, in south of France. It gets a warm welcome, so that the congress adopts the slogan I fight so I am, and the newspaper l'Humanité uses this for its frontline. On 2 April 2016, the film received the award Ciné d'ATTAC 2016 (Grain de sable d'or) à Mont-de-Marsan. On 19 April 2016, the film is shown during the Nuit debout movement in Nîmes. On 4 October 2016, the film received the award "Solidarity film" from the Human Rights Ligue in Orly. Gallery References External links Je lutte donc je suis on Youtube Official website Documentary films about anarchism French political films French films Films shot in Greece