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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Knatchbull

Mary Knatchbull

Mary Knatchbull (1610 – 6 March 1696) was abbess of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Ghent in what is now Belgium. Knatchbull tried to handle the convent's large debts which she inherited, but her plans were thwarted when Charles II of England borrowed money, promising its return, but failing to pay back the full amount to the convent after The Restoration. Life Knatchbull was born in Kingdom of England in 1610. When she was about fourteen she was amongst the founding members of a new Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Ghent. The convent was created by her aunt Lucy Knatchbull in 1624. The convent was founded by nuns from the Brussels convent and the original four were her aunt, Magdalen Digby, Eugenia Poulton and Mary Roper. Another of the early nuns, Margaret Knatchbull, her sister, was also a niece of the abbess. The convent grew rapidly gathering new members and funds from their dowries. Her aunt led the group and she commissioned a new building on the banks of the River Scheldt which they moved to in 1628. She rose through the ranks. Her aunt died in 1629, and by the time she was elected abbess in 1640 there was £6,000 of debt. She tackled this in two ways, firstly she reduced the convent's expenditure, but she also renegotiated the convent's debts to spread and reduce the payments necessary to service the loans. Meanwhile the exiled Charles II was in Europe and Knatchbull enjoyed a close relationship with the King and his court. The convent played host to the court and received and passed on letters to the King's advisers including the Earl of Ormonde and Edward Hyde (later earl of Clarendon). Knatchbull communicated widely and her opinions were noted. She was considered one of the finest of abbesses and a person who played an important role in Charles II's restoration to the throne in 1660. When Charles left to return to England her called in to see the nuns. He owed them over £3,000. He gave them a token payment and reaffirmed his intention to settle his debts with thanks once her was restored to the monarchy. Knatchbull never saw the £3,000, but she did manage to obtain £1,000 after twice travelling to London to remind the new King of his dept to the nuns of Ghent. Knatchbull died in Ghent in 1696. References 1610 births 1696 deaths Nuns People from Ghent

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20Cologne%20Cup

1984 Cologne Cup

The 1984 Cologne Cup, also known as the Cologne Grand Prix, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Cologne, West Germany that was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held from 15 October through 21 October 1984. First-seeded Joakim Nyström won the singles title. Finals Singles Joakim Nyström defeated Miloslav Mečíř 7–6, 6–2 It was Nyström's 1st singles title of the year and the 5th of his career. Doubles Wojciech Fibak / Sandy Mayer defeated Jan Gunnarsson / Joakim Nyström 6–3, 6–4 References External links ITF tournament edition details Cologne Cup Cologne Cup

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20East%20St.%20Louis%2C%20Illinois

List of people from East St. Louis, Illinois

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in East St. Louis, Illinois. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from East St. Louis, Illinois. Authors and academics Business, science and engineering Media and arts Bands Politics Sports Baseball Basketball Football Tennis Track and field References East St. Louis East Saint Louis

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%E2%80%9374%20Coupe%20de%20France

1973–74 Coupe de France

The 1973–74 Coupe de France was the 57th Coupe de France, France's annual national football cup competition. It was won by AS Saint-Étienne, who defeated AS Monaco FC in the final. Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final References French federation 1973–74 domestic association football cups 1973–74 in French football 1973-74

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Laidman

Fred Laidman

Frederick Laidman (20 June 1913 – 20 June 1987) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Bristol City and Darlington. He was on the books of Burnley and Everton without representing them in the League, was registered with Sunderland during the Second World War, and played non-league football for Crook Town, Wigan Athletic and Stockton. Life and career Laidman was born in Durham in 1913. He played football in the North-Eastern League for Crook Town, then, after a two-match trial, turned professional with Burnley, then a Second Division club, in December 1934. He played for the club's 'A' team, and for the reserves in the Central League, but was released on a free transfer at the end of the season without having appeared in the first team. He played for Cheshire League club Wigan Athletic, and signed for Everton of the First Division in December 1936 for a £500 fee. Laidman was retained for the 1937–38 season, but by December, he was available for transfer. Amid interest from Stockport County and Chester, Everton's secretary was instructed to accept offers of £500 or better, but none were forthcoming. At the end of the season, he was transfer-listed at £350. He submitted a written request to be allowed a free transfer, but in June 1938, joined Third Division South club Bristol City for a £250 fee. He never played first-team football for Everton. Laidman made his debut in the Football League on the opening day of the 1938–39 season in a 2–2 draw away to Watford. The Western Daily Press reported that he "showed up well towards the end". By mid-September, we read that his "passing lacked precision and accuracy", and an unnamed Bristolian in the Cheltenham Chronicle expressed his disappointment with the lack of understanding between the left-wing pairing of Laidman and George Willshaw, suggesting that Laidman needed to play higher up the field and nearer to his partner. He scored in a 2–2 draw at Northampton Town, but lost his place, finished the season with ten League appearances and that one goal, and was listed as available for transfer. During the Second World War, Laidman served in the Durham Light Infantry. He played for their football team alongside such players as England internationals Walter Boyes and Bill Nicholson. By October 1942, he had been promoted from private to corporal, was playing at right half rather than inside forward, and had signed professional forms with Sunderland. In December, the Sunderland Echo's "Argus" wrote "what a grand little right half he is – full of grit and enthusiasm, capable of running for the proverbial week, and capable of using the ball to the advantage of those in front of him", but sometimes his enthusiasm was to get the better of him. A year of so into his Sunderland career, the same correspondent described him as "sometimes in a hurry to use the ball before he had it under control", and feeding Johnny Spuhler with passes that were well-conceived but so overhit that "some of them Spuhler could not reach if he had a flying start on a Spitfire". Laidman scored 16 goals from 67 games in three seasons of wartime football for Sunderland, and made one guest appearance for Queens Park Rangers in November 1944, before signing professionally for North Eastern League club Stockton in 1945. He also played as a guest for Leeds United in the Football League North in 1945–46, but the Football Association's ruling that clubs could only field their own registered players in the first postwar FA Cup made him ineligible to guest for Sunderland in that competition. Laidman was a member of the Stockton team that reached the second round proper of the 1947–48 FA Cup, losing only after a replay to Notts County, who fielded Tommy Lawton in both matches. He continued with Stockton until the summer of 1948, when he made a brief return to League football with Darlington. He played just twice in the Third Division North before retiring from the game. Laidman went on to work on the railways, and died in Durham in 1987, on his 74th birthday. References 1913 births 1987 deaths Sportspeople from Durham, England Footballers from County Durham English footballers Association football inside forwards Crook Town A.F.C. players Burnley F.C. players Wigan Athletic F.C. players Everton F.C. players Bristol City F.C. players Sunderland A.F.C. players Stockton F.C. players Darlington F.C. players English Football League players Leeds United F.C. wartime guest players Queens Park Rangers F.C. wartime guest players Durham Light Infantry soldiers British Army personnel of World War II

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

Wildermieming

Wildermieming is a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 40 km west of Innsbruck and 4 km west of Telfs. The village was separated from Mieming which belongs to Imst (district) in 1833 and was incorporated into Innsbruck-Land in 1925. Population References External links Cities and towns in Innsbruck-Land District Mieming Range

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20Torneo%20Internacional%20AGT

2012 Torneo Internacional AGT

The 2012 Torneo Internacional AGT was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in León, Mexico between 9 and 15 April 2012. ATP entrants Seeds 1 Rankings are as of April 2, 2012. Other entrants The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Miguel Gallardo-Valles Marinko Matosevic César Ramírez Manuel Sanchez The following players received entry as an alternate into the singles main draw: John-Patrick Smith The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Colin Ebelthite John Peers Bruno Rodriguez Denis Zivkovic The following players received entry as a lucky loser: Christopher Díaz Figueroa Champions Singles Denis Zivkovic def. Rajeev Ram, 7–6(7–5), 6–4 Doubles John Peers / John-Patrick Smith def. César Ramírez / Bruno Rodríguez, 6–3, 6–3 External links ITF Search ATP official site Torneo Internacional AGT Torneo Internacional Challenger León 2012 in Mexican tennis

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e%20Vukadinovi%C4%87

Đorđe Vukadinović

Đorđe Vukadinović (; born 23 October 1962) is a Serbian philosopher, political analyst and journalist. He is the founder of the conservative political magazine "Nova srpska politička misao". Since 1990 he has been teaching at University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He is a columnist on Nova srpska politička misao, Politika and NIN. Since 2020, he is an independent member of United Opposition of Serbia. Vukadinović was an MP in Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2020. He was elected in the 2016 election as part of the Democratic Party of Serbia/Dveri list, but left the group in late 2016 to join the newly formed Za spas Srbije parliamentary group. Vukadinović publicly espouses conservative and eurosceptic views. Biography Vukadinović was born in Sombor on 23 October 1962. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1987. After that, he was a teacher of philosophy at the Gymnasium of Karlovci for some time. Since 1990, he lectures at the Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy on the courses "Introduction to the social theory" and "Philosophy of politics". He wrote several dozen scientific papers on the topics of classical and modern German philosophy, philosophy of history and philosophy of politics. He wrote columns for many newspapers and journals including Politika and NIN. Vukadinović wrote two books: "Između dve vatre" (2007) and " Od nemila do nedraga" (2008). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine Nova srpska politička misao. Works Između dve vatre, 2007 Od nemila do nedraga, 2008 Pompeja na Balkanu, 2012 References 1962 births Serbian journalists Serbian columnists 20th-century Serbian philosophers 21st-century Serbian philosophers Serbian political philosophers Politicians from Sombor Writers from Sombor Living people University of Belgrade faculty

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20slavery%20in%20Texas

History of slavery in Texas

The history of slavery in Texas began slowly at first during the first few phases in Texas' history. Texas was a colonial territory, then part of Mexico, later Republic in 1836, and U.S. state in 1845. The use of slavery expanded in the mid-nineteenth century as White American settlers, primarily from the Southeastern United States, crossed the Sabine River and brought enslaved people with them. Slavery was present in Spanish America and Mexico prior to the arrival of American settlers, but it was not highly developed, and the Spanish did not rely on it for labor during their years in Spanish Texas. The issue of slavery became a source of contention between the Anglo-American settlers and Spanish governors. The governors feared the growth in the Anglo-American population in Texas, and for various reasons, by the early 19th century, they and their superiors in Mexico City disapproved of expanding slavery. In 1829 the Guerrero decree conditionally abolished slavery throughout Mexican territories. It was a decision that increased tensions with slave-holders among the Anglo-Americans. After the Texas Revolution ended in 1836, the Constitution of the Republic of Texas made slavery legal. Sam Houston made illegal importation from Mexico a crime in 1836. The General Provisions of the Constitution forbade any owner of enslaved people from freeing them without the consent of Congress and forbade Congress from making any law that restricted the slave trade or emancipated slaves. Americans of European extraction and enslaved people contributed greatly to the population growth in the Republic and State of Texas. Settlements grew and developed more land under cultivation in cotton and other commodities. The cotton industry flourished in East Texas, where enslaved labor became most widely used. The central part of the state was dominated by subsistence farmers. Free and runaway blacks had great difficulty finding jobs in Texas. Many worked in other parts of the state as cowboys herding cattle or migrated for better opportunities in the Midwest, California, or southward to Mexico. Early slavery The first non-Native slave in Texas was Estevanico, a Moor from North Africa who had been captured and enslaved by the Spanish when he was a child. Estevanico accompanied his enslaver Captain Andrés Dorantes de Carranza on the Narváez expedition, which landed at present-day Tampa. Trying to get around the Gulf Coast, they built five barges, but in November 1528 these went aground off the coast of Texas. Estevanico, Dorantes, and Alonso Castillo Maldonado, the only survivors, spent several months living on a barrier island (now believed to be Galveston Island) before making their way in April 1529 to the mainland. American Indians captured and enslaved the party, putting them to work as laborers. They survived with the help of Castillo's faith healing among the Indians. Later they were joined by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Five years later, in September 1534, they escaped to the interior. Although Estevanico was still enslaved, after these events the Spaniards treated him more as an equal. Later he was given leadership of a Spanish expedition. His account, along with those of the others, led to more extensive Spanish exploration of the new territory. Slavery in colonial times Both the civil and religious authorities in Spanish Texas officially encouraged freeing enslaved people, but the laws were often ignored. Beginning in the 1740s in the Southwest, when Spanish settlers captured American Indian children, they often had them baptized and "adopted" into the homes of townspeople. There they were raised to be servants. At first, the practice involved primarily Apaches; eventually Comanche children were likewise "adopted" as servants. Importation of enslaved Africans was not widespread in Spanish Texas. In 1751, after three Frenchmen were found to have settled along the Trinity River to trade with the American Indians, the Spanish arrested and expelled them from the colony. A 1777 census of San Antonio showed a total of 2,060 people, with 151 of African descent. Of these, only 15 were enslaved, 4 males and 11 females. The 1783 census for all of Texas listed a total of 36 enslaved people. There was intermarriage among blacks, Indians and Europeans. In 1792 there were 34 blacks and 414 mulattos in Spanish Texas, some of whom were free men and women. This was 15 percent of the total 2,992 people living in Spanish Texas. When the United States purchased Louisiana in 1803, Spain declared that any enslaved person who crossed the Sabine River into Texas would be automatically freed. For a time, many enslaved ran away to Texas. Free blacks also emigrated to Texas. Most escapees joined friendly American Indian tribes, but others settled in the East Texas forests. When some French and Spanish slaveholders moved to Texas, they were allowed to retain their enslaved people. In 1809, the Commandant General of the Interior Provinces, Nemesio Salcedo, ordered the Texas-Louisiana border to be closed to everyone, regardless of ethnic background. His nephew, governor of Texas Manuel María de Salcedo, interpreted the order as allowing slaveholders from the United States to enter Texas to reclaim runaways. The United States outlawed the importation of enslaved people in 1808, but domestic trade flourished, especially in New Orleans during the antebellum decades. In part due to the trade in enslaved people, New Orleans was the fourth largest city in the US in 1840 and one of the wealthiest. Between 1816 and 1821, Louis-Michel Aury and Jean Lafitte smuggled enslaved people into the United States through Galveston Island. To encourage citizens to report unlawful activity, most southern states allowed anyone who informed on a slave trader to receive half of what the imported enslaved people would earn at auction. The men sold enslaved people to James Bowie and others, who brought them directly to a customhouse and informed on themselves. The customs officers offered the enslaved people for auction, and Bowie would buy them back. Due to the state laws, he would receive half of the price he had paid. After that, he could legally transport the enslaved people and sell them in New Orleans or areas further up the Mississippi River. Mexican Texas In 1821 at the conclusion of the Mexican War of Independence, Texas was included in the new nation. That year, the American Stephen F. Austin was granted permission by Mexican authorities to bring Anglo settlers into Texas. Most of the settlers Austin recruited came from the southern slave-owning portions of the United States. Under Austin's development scheme, each settler was allowed to purchase an additional of land for each enslaved person he brought to the territory. At the same time, however, Mexico offered full citizenship to free blacks, including land ownership and other privileges. The province continued to attract free blacks and escaped enslaved people from the Southern United States. Favorable conditions for free blacks continued into the 1830s. In 1823, Mexico forbade the sale or purchase of people, and required that the children of the enslaved be freed when they reached age fourteen. By 1825, however, a census of Austin's Colony showed 1,347 Anglo-Americans and 443 people of African descent, including a small number of free blacks. In 1827, the legislature of Coahuila y Tejas outlawed the introduction of additional enslaved people and granted freedom at birth to all children born to an enslaved person. In 1829, Mexico abolished slavery, but it granted an exception until 1830 to Texas. That year, Mexico made the importation of enslaved people illegal. Anglo-American immigration to the province slowed at this point, with settlers angry about the changing rules. To circumvent the law, numerous Anglo-American colonists converted their enslaved people to indentured servants, but with life terms. Others simply called their enslaved people indentured servants without legally changing their status. Slaveholders trying to enter Mexico would force the people they enslaved to sign contracts claiming that they owed money and would work to pay the debt. The low wages the enslaved person would receive made repayment impossible, and the debt would be inherited, even though no enslaved person would receive wages until age eighteen. In 1832, the state passed legislation prohibiting worker contracts from lasting more than ten years. Many enslaved people who escaped from slaveholders in Texas or in the United States joined various East Texas Indian tribes. Although not considered equals in the tribes, they were generally treated well. Many former enslaved people fought with the Cherokee against the Texan army that drove the tribe from East Texas in 1838. Enslaved people often fought against the Comanche tribe, however. The Comanche indiscriminately killed enslaved people and their white owners during raids. The Comanche sold any captured enslaved people to the Cherokee and Creek in Indian Territory, as they were both slaveholding tribes. By the 1800s, most enslaved people in Texas had been brought by slaveholders from the United States. A small number of enslaved were imported illegally from the West Indies or Africa. In the 1830s, the British consul estimated that approximately 500 enslaved people had been illegally imported into Texas. By 1836, there were approximately 5,000 enslaved people in Texas. Exportation in the slave-owning areas of the state surpassed that of the non-slave-owning areas. A survey of Texas in 1834 found that the department of Bexar, which was mostly made up of Tejanos, had exported no goods. The Brazos department, including Austin's colonies and those of Green DeWitt, had exported 600,000 pesos worth of goods, including 5,000 bales of cotton. The department of Texas, which included the eastern settlements, expected to export 2,000 bales of cotton and 5,000 head of cattle. The abolition of slavery created tensions between the Mexican government and slave-holding settlers from the United States. These tensions came to a head in the Anahuac Disturbances. In August 1831, Juan Davis Bradburn, the military commander of the custom station on Upper Galveston Bay, gave asylum to two men who had escaped from slavery in Louisiana. The slaveholder hired William Barret Travis, a local lawyer, in an attempt to retrieve the men. When Bradburn arrested Travis on suspicion of plotting an insurrection, settlers rebelled. The disturbances were resolved through a combination of arms and political maneuvering. One result was the Turtle Bayou Resolutions, which were an explanation of the grievances that had led to the disturbances. One of the resolutions challenged Bradburn for "advising and procuring servants to quit the service of their masters, and offering them protection; causing them to labor for his benefits, and refusing to compensate them for the same." Republic As the Texas Revolution began in 1835, some enslaved people sided with Mexico, which provided for freedom. In the fall of 1835, a group of almost 100 enslaved people staged an uprising along the Brazos River after they heard rumors of approaching Mexican troops. Whites in the area defeated and severely punished them. Several enslaved people ran away to serve with Mexican forces. Texan forces executed one runaway taken prisoner and resold another into slavery. Other enslaved people joined the Texan forces, with some killed while fighting Mexican soldiers. Three enslaved people were known to be at the Battle of the Alamo; a boy named John was killed, while William B. Travis's enslaved person, Joe, and James Bowie's enslaved person, Sam, survived to be freed by the Mexican Army. The Section 9 of the General Provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, ratified in 1836, made slavery legal again in Texas and defined the status of the enslaved and people of color in the Republic of Texas. People of color who had been servants for life under Mexican law would become property. Congress should pass no law restricting emigrants from bring their enslaved people into Texas. Congress shall not have the power to emancipate enslaved people. Slaveowners may not free their enslaved servants without Congressional approval unless the freed people leave Texas. Free persons of African descent were required to petition the Texas Congress for permission to continue living in the country. Africans and the descendants of Africans and Indians were excluded from the class of 'persons' having rights. The following year all those who had been living in Texas at the time of independence were allowed to remain. On the other hand, the legislature created political segregation; it classified free residents with at least 1/8 African heritage (the equivalent to one great-grandparent) as a separate category, and abrogated their citizens' rights, prohibiting them from voting, owning property, testifying against whites in court, or intermarrying with whites. As planters increased cotton production, they rapidly increased the purchase and transport of enslaved workers. By 1840 there were 11,323 enslaved people in Texas. Statehood In 1845 the state legislature passed legislation further restricting the rights of free blacks. For example, it subjected them to punishments, such as working on road gangs if convicted of crimes, similar to those of enslaved rather than free men. By 1850, the enslaved population in Texas had increased to 58,161; in 1860 there were 182,566 enslaved, 30 percent of the total population. Texas ranked 10th in total enslaved population and 9th in percentage enslaved (30 percent of all residents). Forty percent of Texas enslaved people lived on plantations along the Gulf Coast and in the East Texas river valleys, where they cultivated cotton, corn, and some sugar. Fifty percent of the enslaved people worked either alone or in groups of fewer than 20 on small farms ranging from the Nueces River to the Red River, and from the Louisiana border to the edge of the western settlements of San Antonio, Austin, Waco, and Fort Worth. Some enslaved people lived among the cattlemen along the southern Gulf Coast and helped herd sheep and cattle. Rarely, an enslaved person also broke horses, but generally only white men were used for that dangerous task. If they died, the boss did not suffer a monetary loss. Enslaved people were not held between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. A large supply of cheap Mexican labor in the area made the purchase and care of a slave too expensive. Although most enslaved people lived in rural areas, more than 1000 resided in both Galveston and Houston by 1860, with several hundred in other large towns. Unlike in most southern cities, the number of urban enslaved people in Texas grew throughout the 1850s. Most worked as house servants or on farms on the edges of towns, but others served as cooks and waiters in hotels, as teamsters or boatmen, or as coachmen and skilled artisans, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and barbers. Plantation enslaved people generally lived in one or two-room log cabins. Most field hands received two sets of clothing twice each year, with a hat and coat for winter. Meals often consisted of bread, molasses, sweet potatoes, hominy, and beef, chicken, and pork. Enslaved people often lived similarly to poor whites in Texas, especially those new to the territory and just getting started. The whites, however, could hope to improve their lives with their own hard work, while the enslaved people could have no such hope or expectation as, of course, their work belonged by law to their owners and not to them. Many churches in Texas accepted enslaved people as members. Both the Baptist and Methodist churches appointed missionaries to the enslaved people and allowed active participation by them. In 1860, the Methodists claimed 7,541 enslaved people among their members in Texas. Some enslaved people became ministers, but their masters often tried to instruct them in what they were supposed to preach. As in other southern states, however, the enslaved people made Christianity their own and they developed strong religious faith. Many local communities adopted laws forbidding enslaved people from having liquor or weapons, from selling agricultural products, hiring their own time, or being hired by free blacks. In rural areas, counties often set up patrols to enforce restrictions on enslaved people traveling without passes from planter owners. Urban enslaved people often had greater freedoms and opportunity. Unlike most southern states, Texas did not explicitly ban education of enslaved people, but most slaveholders did not allow the practice. In 1865, 95% of the enslaved were illiterate. Many enslaved people ran away. Some hid in the bayous for a time, while others lived among the Indians, and a few managed to board ships bound for northern or foreign ports. Most runaways attempted to go to Mexico. By 1850, an estimated 3,000 enslaved people had successfully escaped to Mexico, and an additional 1,000 crossed into Mexico between 1851 and 1855. Ninety percent of the runaways were men, most between ages 20 and 40, because they were best equipped to deal with the long, difficult journey. All ages were represented, however, from 5 months to 60 years. As early as 1836, Texas slaveholders sent representatives to Matamoros to try to reclaim their runaways, but Mexico refused. See Underground Railroad § South to Mexico. A group of enslaved people killed the sheriff of Gonzales when he attempted to stop their going to Matamoros. Over 30 of the fugitives made it safely to freedom in Mexico. From 1849 until 1860, Texas tried to convince the United States government to negotiate a treaty with Mexico to permit extradition of runaways, but it did not succeed. Some slave hunters illegally traveled to Mexico and captured runaways. After José María Jesús Carvajal promised to return all escapees, more than 400 Texans joined his revolt of 1851. He tried to create a Republic of Sierra Madre in Northern Mexico but was defeated by the Mexican Army. White Texans were fearful about revolts, and as in other southern states, rumors of uprisings took hold rapidly, often in times of economic and social tension. In 1854, citizens in Austin and other towns drove many poor Mexicans from the area in fear that they might assist in revolts. Two years later, Colorado County hanged several enslaved people and drove one white man and several Mexicans from the area after uncovering a plot to equip 200 enslaved people with pistols and knives to escape into Mexico. In 1860, mass hysteria ensued after a series of fires erupted throughout the state. Planters had hundreds of enslaved people arrested and questioned forcefully. Several confessed to a plot by white abolitionists to avenge John Brown's execution by burning food supplies and poisoning slaveowners. Up to 80 enslaved people and 37 whites may have been executed as a result of the supposed plot. Later newspaper accounts revealed that most of what was confessed under torture appeared to be false. Many of the fires had coincided with a summer drought, and new matches were susceptible to spontaneous combustion. The supposed "poison" found in enslaved quarters was baby powder. There was an auction block next to the Menger Hotel and near the Alamo. Confederacy Texas seceded from the United States in 1861, and joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. It replaced the pro-Union governor, Sam Houston, in the process. During the war, slavery in Texas was little affected, and prices for enslaved people remained high until the last few months of the war. The number of enslaved people in the state increased dramatically as the Union Army occupied parts of Arkansas and Louisiana. Slaveholders in those areas often moved their enslaved to Texas to avoid having them emancipated. By 1865 there were an estimated 250,000 enslaved people in Texas. Many planters, however, lost part of their workforce temporarily to the Confederate Army, which impressed one-quarter of the enslaved on each plantation to construct defensive earthworks for the Texas coast and to drive military supply wagons. Anyone convicted of providing arms to enslaved people during the war was sentenced to between two and five years of hard labor. Unlike in other Southern states, only a small number of enslaved Texans, estimated at 47, joined the Union Army. Few battles took place in Texas, which acted as a supply state to the Confederacy. As Texas was much more distant from the Union Army lines for much of the war, enslaved people were unable to reach them. The last battle of the war was fought at Palmito Ranch near Brownsville, in 1865. Emancipation On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger and over 2,000 federal troops arrived at Galveston Island to take possession of the state and enforce the two-year-old Emancipation Proclamation. There, he proclaimed his "General Order No. 3" on the balcony of Ashton Villa: The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere. On some plantations, many enslaved people left immediately after hearing of the emancipation, even if their former owners offered to pay them wages. Throughout the summer, many East Texas newspapers continued to recommend that slaveholders oppose ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, in the hopes that emancipation could be gradually implemented. Some slaveowners did not free their enslaved people until late in 1865. Slavery was officially abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment which took effect on December 18, 1865. Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which proclaimed, in 1863, that only those enslaved in territories that were in rebellion from the United States were free. Since the U.S. government was not in effective control of many of these territories until later in the war, many of these people proclaimed to be free by the Emancipation Proclamation were still held in servitude until those areas came back under Union control. Legacy June 19, the day of the Emancipation announcement, has been celebrated annually in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. The long-term effects of slavery can be seen to this day in the state's demographics. The eastern quarter of the state, where cotton production depended on thousands of slaves, is considered the westernmost extension of the Deep South. It contains a very significant number of Texas' African-American population. On the other hand, western parts of Texas were still a frontier during the American Civil War. While settled chiefly by Anglo-Southerners after the war; with the history of ranching, some of these parts have been more associated with the Southwest than the South. After whites regained power in Texas and other southern states in the 1870s, they imposed a system of legalized racial segregation and white supremacy. In 1876 Texas adopted a new constitution requiring segregated schools and imposing a poll tax, which decreased the number of poor voters both black and white. By the late 19th century, Texas passed other Jim Crow laws. The system of school support was inadequate, and schools for racial minorities were seriously underfunded. Texas did not, however, employ techniques common in other Southern states such as complex voter registration rules and literacy tests; even the "white primary" was not implemented statewide until 1923. In 1900, African Americans comprised 30% of the state's population of 3,084,710. The drop in proportion of population reflected greatly-increased European immigration to the state in the 19th century, as well as population growth. Like Georgia, the Texas Democratic Party adopted a whites-only primary. Since they politically dominated the state for decades after 1900, the only contest for office was at the primary level. The white primary was another way to exclude African Americans from making electoral decisions, and it was not overturned by the Supreme Court until 1944 in Smith v. Allwright. States that had used it adopted other means to keep most African Americans from voting. African Americans immediately started raising legal challenges to disfranchisement, but early Supreme Court cases, such as Giles v. Harris (1903), upheld the states. Through organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), African Americans continued to work to regain their ability to exercise their civil and voting rights as citizens. The civil rights movement led to the U.S. Congress and President Lyndon Johnson passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protected the rights of all citizens to integrated public facilities and enforcement of voting rights. On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act as unconstitutional, a ruling which was shortly followed the implementation of Voter i.d. laws in Texas. Those against this decision typically argue that it unfairly targets key Democratic constituencies such as minority groups and the elderly, while proponents argue that the law's intention is to prevent voting by illegal immigrants. See also History of African Americans in Houston History of African Americans in Dallas-Ft. Worth History of African Americans in San Antonio Estevanico Juneteenth Joshua Houston, former slave of Sam and Margaret Houston Texas Confederate Museum Footnotes and references Footnotes Inline references References for footnotes Campbell, Randolph B., An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989 Salas. Mario Marcel, "Foundation Myth in Political Thought: The Racial Moorings of Foundation Myth", Dubugue:Kendal Hunt Publishers,2011 External links Lester G. Bugbee, "Slavery in early Texas", The Political Science Quarterly, vol. III, no. 3, 1898, transcribed text, Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas Website Douglas Hales, "FREE BLACKS", Handbook of Texas Online Randolph B. Campbell, "SLAVERY", Handbook of Texas Online Slavery African-American history of Texas History of racism in Texas

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan%20Mine

Leviathan Mine

Leviathan Mine is a United States superfund site (CERCLIS ID: CAD98067685) at an abandoned open-pit sulfur mine located in Alpine County, California. The mine is located on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada at about elevation, east of Markleeville and southeast of Lake Tahoe. The mine site comprises approximately of land surrounded by the Toiyabe National Forest, which is only accessible a few months a year. The approximately 22 million tons of sulfur ore-containing crushed rock at the mine are responsible for contaminating the Leviathan and Aspen Creek, which join with Mountaineer Creek to form Bryant Creek which ultimately empties into the East Fork of the Carson River. These water bodies are listed as 303(d) impaired. The site location is seismically active. Mining history Pre-open pit mining began in 1863 by Comstock Lode miners. Between 1863 and 1870, 500 tons of copper sulfate was removed from two adits. This copper sulfate was used for silver ore refining. A large sulfur deposit was discovered in one of the adits and the mine was subsequently abandoned. Between 1935 and 1941 Calpine Corporation of Los Angeles, which subleased the mine from the Texas Gulf Sulfur Company, conducted subsurface sulfur mining and recovered 5,000 tons of sulfur. Mining was suspended in 1941 due to the hazardous nature of mining sulfur underground. In 1945 the Siskon Mining Corporation, acquired the mine. Open-pit mining of sulfur was initiated at the site when Anaconda Copper Mining Company purchased the Leviathan in 1951. The extracted sulfur was used for copper ore processing at Anaconda Copper Mine (Nevada). During its excavating operations and Leviathan (1953–1962), Anaconda turned the original mine into a , pit, and removed approximately 500,000 long tons of sulfur. During this time period acid mine drainage (AMD) began contaminating Leviathan Creek. In 1963, Anaconda sold the property to founders of the Alpine Mining Enterprises, Zella N. Mann and William Chris Mann, who was the Alpine County Clerk. Post-mining clean-up Site cleanup began with the 1983-1985 formation of the Leviathan Mine Pollution Abatement Project by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (LRWQCB) which was built in an effort to mitigate acid mine drainage. The State of California acquired Leviathan from Alpine Mining Enterprises in 1984, and the California State Water Resources Control Board gained jurisdiction over the property. The Leviathan Mine Pollution Abatement Project consisted of building drains beneath the pit to capture contaminated water and making evaporation ponds, filling and regrading the pit, and separating uncontaminated surface water from AMD groundwater. Results of the project include the discovery of unknown acidic springs and accidental AMD discharge directly into Leviathan Creek via a drain line. In 1997 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) became involved in the cleanup of Leviathan Mine at the request of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. The tribe had concerns about overflow from evaporation ponds onto downstream tribal lands and the impacts of AMD on their cultural and natural resources. The EPA Region IX tried unsuccessfully to use a lime neutralization treatment of the AMD. In 1998, the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), who purchased Anaconda in 1977, was issued an Administrative Order on Consent (AOC) by the EPA that obligated them to aid in the mitigation of AMD flow into Leviathan creek. However, due to the use of unproven technologies implemented by ARCO Environmental Remediation, L.L.C. and the logistical challenges of getting supplies to the mine this effort had limited success. Then in 1999, a biphasic neutralization water treatment plant was established by the LRWQCB to treat AMD in the evaporation ponds and minimize over flow into Leviathan Creek. In 1999 the EPA proposed making Leviathan's open-pit sulfur mine a superfund site by adding it to the National Priorities List for hazardous waste sites. In 2000 EPA added the mine to the NPL, and had the written support of the Washoe Tribe, Alpine County, California, the State of Nevada, Douglas County, Nevada and the Carson River Conservancy District. The LRWQCB was issued an Administrative Abatement Action (AAA) in 2000 (which was renewed in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005) by the EPA in order to continue the biphasic treatment, water quality monitoring and other actives. Since 2005, the involvement of the LRWQCB is determined by the EPA Remedial Project Manager for the mine. In 2000, a unilateral administrative order was issued to ARCO, in which the EPA required ARCO to conduct early response actions and develop a long-term response plan for mitigating AMD. In 1993 the State of California set up a pilot scale one-cell bioreactor with manure substrate for AMD treatment at Leviathan Creek Seep. By 1998, researchers from the University of Nevada-Reno (UNR) installed a two cell bioreactor at Aspen seep. By 2001, the Aspen seep bioreactor treated 2.5 million gallons of ARD. The design evolved over time and in 2003, at the behest of the State of California, ARCO and the UNR researchers developed a compost-free sulfate reducing bioreactor at Aspen Seep. Environmental damage Sulfuric acid is produced at the open-pit mine when water, such as rain, snow melt or groundwater, interacts with the waste rock. This sulfuric acid leaches contaminants from surrounding rock, such as arsenic, copper, nickel, zinc, chromium, aluminum and iron. This acid rock drainage ARD, with a low pH, and high concentrations of dissolved sulfate and metals, flows into the surrounding watershed and has adverse effects on water quality through deposition of metal-rich precipitates, which cascade through the ecosystem affecting algae, insect, and fish. The site is unvegetated and is susceptible to erosion due to several long steep slopes. The instability resulting from the open-pit mine has resulted in several landslides, with one affecting over . Human health concerns Contact with contaminates from the mine can result in both cancerous and non-cancerous health effects depending on where, when, and how long the exposure occurred. Arsenic poses the most significant health risk to exposed individuals via contact with contaminated surface water and sediment. Other risks for exposure include eating fish, plants and wild game collected near the mine, inhalation of dust near the mine, and or eating animals raised near Leviathan. In general, avoiding contact with mine tailings, surface water, and sediments in Leviathan, Aspen, and Bryant creeks, as well as the River Ranch Irrigation channel will reduce contaminate exposure and therefore reduce health risks. Biphasic neutralization water treatment Biphasic neutralization water treatment is a two-step process. Phase I raises the pH of the outflow to the point that iron precipitates out of solution as ferric hydroxide and arsenic co-precipitates with the ferric hydroxide. This sludge is then removed and disposed of at an appropriate hazardous waste facility. In Phase II the pH of the effluent is raised again and additional metals precipitate. Much of this sludge is non-hazardous and is stored at Leviathan. The remaining wastewater can then be discharged into Leviathan Creek. Compost-free sulfate reducing bioreactor The compost-free sulfate reducing bioreactor employs sulfate-reducing microbes (e.g. Desulfovibrio sp.) to reduce sulfate to sulfide at pH 4.0 . However, the ARD at Aspen Seep is too acidic (pH 3.1) and is pretreated with sodium hydroxide solution. Ethanol, the carbon source for the sulfate reducing microbes, is also added to the system (,). The solution is reduced from sulfate to sulfide in Bioreactor No. 1, which is lined with 60-millimeter high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and filled with river rocks, which aid in the flow of effluent. The sulfide effluent is passed into Bioreactor No. 2 for additional metal removal. Next, sodium hydroxide is added to the effluent to increase the pH to neutral, and it is sent through two settling ponds (to allow for the settling of metal sulfide precipitates) and a rock-lined aeration channel for degassing of hydrogen sulfide. At the end of the aeration channel the effluent is released into Aspen Creek. See also List of Superfund sites in California References Superfund sites in California Buildings and structures in Alpine County, California Geography of Alpine County, California

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358%20Tennessee%20A%26I%20State%20Tigers%20basketball%20team

1957–58 Tennessee A&I State Tigers basketball team

The 1957–58 Tennessee A&I State Tigers basketball team represented Tennessee A&I State College (now called Tennessee State University) in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) men's basketball during the 1957–58 season. Coached by fourth-year head coach John McLendon, the Tigers finished the season with a 31–3 record and were crowned NAIA national champions by winning the 1958 NAIA Tournament. This marked the second of three consecutive national championships, a feat that no other team at any level of college basketball had previously accomplished. In 2019, all three national championship teams were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Individual honors Associated Press Little All-America – Dick Barnett NAIA All-America – Dick Barnett, John Barnhill NAIA Tournament MVP – Dick Barnett References Tennessee State Tigers basketball seasons Tennessee AandI NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament championship seasons Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Tennessee AandI State Basketball Team Tennessee AandI State Basketball Team

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

Cryptoblastus

Cryptoblastus is a genus of extinct blastoids, a primitive group of echinoderms related to the modern sea lilies. Fossils are found in sedimentary rocks laid down in the Early Carboniferous period some 360 to 320 million years ago. References Blastozoa genera Paleozoic life of Alberta Carboniferous echinoderms

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz%20%28Missy%20Higgins%20album%29

Oz (Missy Higgins album)

Oz is the fourth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins, and was released by Eleven on 19 September 2014. It is Higgins' first cover album, which is accompanied by a book of the same name that collects a series of essays by Higgins; using each song title as a jumping off point. The album's title refers to each of the artists covered being from Australia, as well as being a reference to the land of Oz as established in The Wizard of Oz. Upon release, Higgins said “I wanted to try something different this time around. I couldn’t decide between making a covers album or writing a book so I decided to do both at once. Musically it’s intended to be a real mixed bag of lollies.” adding “I like the idea of songwriters being like the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz. Some people think we're special people who have special powers but really we're just scared little people hiding in a backroom somewhere, working like crazy to make sure we don't get found out.” The album was originally conceived by Higgins and her manager, John Watson, as a circuit-breaker during the several years of depression and writer's block that preceded the singer's third album, The Ol' Razzle Dazzle in 2012. Higgins successfully persisted with writing her own material, but came back to the idea of interpreting some of her favourite Australian songs in 2013. The album's lead single is "Shark Fin Blues", originally released by The Drones on their 2005 album Wait Long by the River.... It was released via SoundCloud on 7 July 2014. A music video for the song was released on 11 August 2014. Critical reception Everett True from The Guardian said: "Having Missy Higgins cover a series of widely disparate songs in her trademark style leads to an unintentional levelling off, a flattening of variety. Whether this is to the album's detriment will come down to how much you like Missy Higgins." Carley Hill from The Music said: "Higgins has made these much-loved tracks sing with a bold, new voice", adding, "Higgins' lush symphonic rendering of The Drones' guttural "Shark Fin Blues" is arguably the best on the album." Helena Ho from Renowned for Sound said: Higgins transformed "each track based on her own musical style, so that it is worthy to be critiqued as a new song altogether." adding "Oz is a tribute to some of the country’s greatest music artists." Ali Birnie from Beat Magazine said: "Higgins has made these songs shine with her unique and beautiful style." Track listing Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 2014 albums Missy Higgins albums Eleven: A Music Company albums

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laska%2C%20Chojnice%20County

Laska, Chojnice County

Laska () is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Brusy, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Brusy, north of Chojnice, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. The settlement has a population of 43. References Laska

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex%20County%20Division

Essex County Division

The Essex County Division was a formation of the British Army formed in the Second World War on 18 February 1941 by the redesignation of the West Sussex County Division. It lasted until 7 October when it was disbanded. It had one commanding officer, Major-General J. H. T. Priestman, It was under the command of XI Corps from formation to 22 July and then under GHQ Home Forces. Organization Organization of the Division in June 1941: 207th Independent Home Infantry Brigade 7th Battalion, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 9th Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment 10th Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment 13th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters 208th Independent Home Infantry Brigade 7th Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment 10th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers 13th Battalion, The King's Regiment 22nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers 223rd Independent Home Infantry Brigade 6th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment 8th Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment 10th Battalion, The Essex Regiment See also List of British divisions in World War II References Bibliography British county divisions Military units and formations established in 1941 Military units and formations disestablished in 1941 Military units and formations of the British Empire in World War II

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cophomantella%20pumicata

Cophomantella pumicata

Cophomantella pumicata is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929. It is known from Mumbai, India. The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are glossy light grey with the discal stigmata forming small cloudy dark grey spots, the second larger. The hindwings are pale grey. References Moths described in 1929 Cophomantella

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong%20Pixiang

Gong Pixiang

Gong Pixiang (Chinese character: 公丕祥; Pinyin: Gōng Pĭxiáng; born 1955) is a jurist in China. He was the President of Nanjing Normal University and is the President of the High People's Court of Jiangsu Province. Biography Gong Pixiang was born in Siyang, Jiangsu in 1955. He graduated from Nanjing Normal University in 1982. After graduation, he joined the faculty of this university. Gong Pixiang was selected as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Jourists" by China Law Society in 1995. He received his LL.D degree from Renmin University of China Law School in 1997. He has written about human rights. Gong Pixiang was the President of Nanjing Normal University from 1996 to 2002. He was elected as the President of the High People's Court of Jiangsu Province in 2003. References 1955 births Chinese jurists Living people Renmin University of China alumni People from Siyang County

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20Good%20to%20Be%20Alive

It's Good to Be Alive

It's (or It Is) Good to Be Alive may refer to: Music It's Good to Be Alive (album), an album by D. J. Rogers "It's Good to Be Alive", a song by D. J. Rogers It's Good to Be Alive, an album by Michael Saxell "It's Good to Be Alive", a song from an album Manfred Mann Chapter Three Volume Two by Manfred Mann Chapter Three "It's Good to Be Alive", a 1957 song written by Bob Merrill "It's Good to Be Alive", a song from the theatrical musical New Girl in Town "It's Good to Be Alive", a song from the theatrical musical Desperate Measures (musical) "Tänk va' skönt", a Swedish version of "It's Good To Be Alive", from album Som jag är by Agnetha Fältskog Other uses It's Good to Be Alive (book), by Roy Campanella It's Good to Be Alive (film), a television film adaptation of the book Dis Lekker om te Lewe, also known as It's Good to Be Alive, a South African film, starring Al Debbo See also It's Great to Be Alive (disambiguation) Good to Be Alive (disambiguation)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20D.%20Foote

Paul D. Foote

Paul Darwin Foote (March 27, 1888 – August 2, 1971) was a director of research and executive vice president of the Gulf Research and Development company, as well as the United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering during the Eisenhower administration. He also served as a member of the industrial advisory group of the Atomic Energy Commission. Education Foote graduated in 1909 from Adelbert College, now Case Western Reserve University, with degrees in mathematics and physics. He received an MS degree from the University of Nebraska (now University of Nebraska–Lincoln) in 1912. Foote received a PhD in physics in 1918 from the University of Minnesota. Notable works Statistics on number of libraries is according to The origin of spectra: held in 277 libraries worldwide Pyrometric practice: held in 59 libraries worldwide A new microphotometer for photographic densities by William Frederick Meggers: held in 17 libraries worldwide References Further reading Paul Darwin Foote: March 27, 1888 – August 2, 1971 External links National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir 1888 births 1971 deaths Case Western Reserve University alumni United States Department of Defense officials University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 20th-century American inventors

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Rapporteur%20on%20Women%27s%20Rights%20in%20Africa

Special Rapporteur on Women's Rights in Africa

The Special Rapporteur on Women's Rights in Africa (SRRWA) is an official of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) charged with reinforcing and promoting women's rights in the countries of the African Union. The Rapporteur also bears specific responsibilities with respect to the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol. The role was created by the ACHPR through resolution ACHPR/res.38 (XXV) 99 at the 25th Ordinary Session of the ACHPR at Bujumbura, Burundi, between 26 April and 5 May 1999. Rapporteurs Commissioner Julienne Ondziel Gnelenga, served from 1998 to 2001, retired when her time with the Commission ended. Commissioner Angela Melo, October 2001 – November 2007 Maître Soyata Maïga, November 2007 – References External links Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa, official page, ACHPR website. Video interview with Soyata Maïga, French only with English transcript, website of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, filmed January 27, 2008 Women's rights in Africa African Union

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasim%20Al-Shaikh

Jasim Al-Shaikh

Jasim Ahmed Jasim Abdulla Al-Shaikh (; born 1 February 1996) is a Bahraini footballer who plays as a forward for Al-Ahli and the Bahrain national team. Career Al-Shaikh was included in Bahrain's squad for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Career statistics International International goals Scores and results list Bahrain's goal tally first. References External links Jasim Al-Shaikh at WorldFootball.com 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Manama Bahraini footballers Bahrain international footballers Association football forwards Al-Ahli Club (Manama) players Bahraini Premier League players 2019 AFC Asian Cup players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316%20Luge%20World%20Cup

2015–16 Luge World Cup

The 2015–16 Luge World Cup was a multi race tournament over a season for luge, organised by the FIL. The season started on 28 November 2015 in Igls, Austria and ended on 21 February 2016 in Winterberg, Germany. Calendar Results Men's singles Women's singles Doubles Team Relay Standings Men's singles |- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;" |- style="background:#ccc;" ! style="width:10px;"|Pos. ! style="width:215px;"|Luger ! style="width:45px;"|Points |- | 1. ||align="left"| * || 940 |- | 2. ||align="left"| || 795 |- | 3. ||align="left"| || 700 |- | 4. ||align="left"| || 628 |- | 5. ||align="left"| || 617 |- | 6. ||align="left"| || 590 |- | 7. ||align="left"| || 524 |- | 8. ||align="left"| || 481 |- | 9. ||align="left"| || 395 |- | 10. ||align="left"| || 377 |- (*Champion 2015) Men's singles Sprint |- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;" |- style="background:#ccc;" ! style="width:10px;"|Pos. ! style="width:215px;"|Luger ! style="width:55px;"|Agg. time |- | 1. ||align="left"| || 1:31.739 |- | 2. ||align="left"| || 1:32.165 |- | 3. ||align="left"| || 1:32.532 |- | 4. ||align="left"| || 1:32.647 |- | 5. ||align="left"| || 1:32.714 |- | 6. ||align="left"| || 1:32.723 |- | 7. ||align="left"| || 1:32.790 |- | 8. ||align="left"| || 1:33.122 Women's singles |- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;" |- style="background:#ccc;" ! style="width:10px;"|Pos. ! style="width:215px;"|Luger ! style="width:45px;"|Points |- | 1. ||align="left"| * || 895 |- | 2. ||align="left"| || 771 |- | 3. ||align="left"| || 769 |- | 4. ||align="left"| || 747 |- | 5. ||align="left"| || 726 |- | 6. ||align="left"| || 712 |- | 7. ||align="left"| || 583 |- | 8. ||align="left"| || 537 |- | 9. ||align="left"| || 425 |- | 10. ||align="left"| || 391 |- (*Champion 2015) Women's singles Sprint |- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;" |- style="background:#ccc;" ! style="width:10px;"|Pos. ! style="width:215px;"|Luger ! style="width:55px;"|Agg. time |- | 1. ||align="left"| || 1:30.016 |- | 2. ||align="left"| || 1:30.061 |- | 3. ||align="left"| || 1:30.132 |- | 4. ||align="left"| || 1:30.279 |- | 5. ||align="left"| || 1:30.344 |- | 6. ||align="left"| || 1:30.543 |- | 7. ||align="left"| || 1:30.692 |- | 8. ||align="left"| || 1:30.727 |- | 9. ||align="left"| || 1:30.784 |- | 10. ||align="left"| || 1:30.834 |- Doubles |- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;" |- style="background:#ccc;" ! style="width:10px;"|Pos. ! style="width:215px;"|Luger ! style="width:45px;"|Points |- | 1. ||align="left"| Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt || 1037 |- | 2. ||align="left"| Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken* || 962 |- | 3. ||align="left"| Peter Penz Georg Fischler || 785 |- | 4. ||align="left"| Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber || 668 |- | 5. ||align="left"| Matthew Mortensen Jayson Terdiman || 532 |- | 6. ||align="left"| Andris Šics Juris Šics || 530 |- | 7. ||align="left"| Emanuel Rieder Patrick Rastner || 486 |- | 8. ||align="left"| Andrei Bogdanov Andrei Medvedev || 482 |- | 9. ||align="left"| Robin Johannes Geueke David Gamm || 481 |- | 10. ||align="left"| Tristan Walker Justin Snith || 449 |- (*champion 2015) Doubles Sprint |- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;" |- style="background:#ccc;" ! style="width:10px;"|Pos. ! style="width:215px;"|Luger ! style="width:55px;"|Agg. time |- | 1. ||align="left"| Tobias Wendl Tobias Arlt || 1:35.013 |- | 2. ||align="left"| Toni Eggert Sascha Benecken || 1:35.320 |- | 3. ||align="left"| Peter Penz Georg Fischler || 1:35.378 |- | 4. ||align="left"| Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber || 1:35.658 |- | 5. ||align="left"| Matthew Mortensen Jayson Terdiman || 1:35.780 |- | 6. ||align="left"| Alexander Denisyev Vladislav Antonov || 1:36.186 |- | 7. ||align="left"| Thomas Steu Lorenz Koller || 1:36.197 |- | 8. ||align="left"| Tristan Walker Justin Snith || 1:36.222 |- | 9. ||align="left"| Ludwig Rieder Patrick Rastner || 1:36.325 |- | 10. ||align="left"| Robin Johannes Geueke David Gamm || 1:36.448 |- Team Relay |- class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f7f8ff; text-align:center; border:gray solid 1px;" |- style="background:#ccc;" ! style="width:10px;"|Pos. ! style="width:215px;"|Luger ! style="width:45px;"|Points |- | 1. ||align="left"| * || 491 |- | 2. ||align="left"| || 385 |- | 3. ||align="left"| || 375 |- | 4. ||align="left"| || 355 |- | 5. ||align="left"| || 325 |- | 6. ||align="left"| || 322 |- | 7. ||align="left"| || 286 |- | 8. ||align="left"| || 227 |- | 9. ||align="left"| || 216 |- | 10. ||align="left"| || 156 |- (*champion 2015) References 2015-16 2015 in luge 2016 in luge

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Rossendale%20Borough%20Council%20election

2021 Rossendale Borough Council election

Elections to Rossendale Borough Council were held on 6 May 2021, as part of the wider 2021 UK local elections. Councillors elected in 2016 were defending their seats this year, and they will be contested again in 2024. The Labour Party lost control of the Council, however they continue to run a minority administration. Results summary Ward results Cribden Eden Facit & Shawforth Goodshaw Greenfield Greensclough Hareholme Helmshore Irwell Longholme Stacksteads Whitewell Worsley References 2021 Rossendale 2020s in Lancashire

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni%C3%B3n%20de%20Mujeres%20Americanas

Unión de Mujeres Americanas

The Unión de Mujeres Americanas (Union of American Women, UAW) was founded in 1934 by Mexican women's rights activist and suffragette, Margarita Robles de Mendoza. The purpose of the organization was to develop ties between women in the region to fight for the civic and political rights of women throughout the Americas and improve women's social and economic situations. She served as first chair along with an international board which initially had representatives from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Peru and Venezuela. The headquarters of the organization is in New York City, but there are branches of affiliates in almost every country of the Western Hemisphere. In the 1930s and 1940s much of the work of the organization was directed towards enfranchisement, in the widest sense of the word, but even more specifically, as in the case of Nicaragua, towards the attainment of women's rights, an advocacy led by educator Josefa Toledo de Aguerri (b. Juigalpa, 1866 – d. Managua, 1962) and by the President of the Nicaraguan Feminist League, also known as the "First Lady of Liberalism", Dame Angélica Balladares Montealegre de Arguello Vargas, (b. Chinandega, 1872 – d. San Marcos, 1973) both of whom named "Women of the Americas" (1950) and "Woman of Nicaragua" (1959), respectively, by the Union. As the years went by, the organization also looked at broader women's issues. As was the case with the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), the organization was concerned with disparities of legal status for women, as in their 1937 endorsement of a CIM project to clarify the legal status of married women and illegitimate children. In Puerto Rico the organization was tied to pacifist organizations, worked for racial parity, and against white-supremacist groups while in places like Tlaxcala, Mexico; Puebla, Mexico; and Venezuela women like Elvira Trueba and Paulina Ana María Zapata Portillo as well as another UAW laureate, Dame Amelia Benard de Lacayo, (1897-1987),in Nicaragua, were working for socioeconomic gains for women, as well as political gains. Today the organization functions under the direction of the CIM but derives its own funding from member dues and has its own board of directors composed of the president, four vice presidents, a treasurer and three secretaries (one for recording, one for internal affairs, and one for external affairs). References Organizations based in New York City International diplomatic organizations International organizations based in the Americas United States–South American relations Organizations established in 1934 Women's rights organizations

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Dayamir Union

Dayamir Union () is a union council under Osmani Nagar Upazila of Sylhet District, Bangladesh. It is the native home of General M. A. G. Osmani, who was the supreme commander of the Bangladesh Liberation War. Villages Khagdior Dawlatpur Raghavpur Kauwarai Khalpar Khapon Kharai Raikdara Muhammadpur Chintamoni Chonditiyor Ahmadnagar Mondolkapon Keshorpur Dhakur Mahal Ataullah Khatupur Nij Korua Little Dhirarai Dayamir Ranagalpur Mirpara Shonir Gaon Ghoshgaon Hussain Namki Shorishpur Shonyashi Para Mirdar Chowk Tazpur Radhakona Kaiyakair Shirazpur Kabari Para Aalapur Parkul Sowar Gaon Khondaker Bazar Mirar Gaon Khairpur Boro Dhirarai Alampur Khanchanpur Chowkh Ataullah Ashrafpur References Unions of Osmani Nagar Upazila

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Herpetopoma serratocinctum

Herpetopoma serratocinctum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chilodontidae. Description The height of the shell attains 3 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarenes. References External links To World Register of Marine Species serratocinctum Gastropods described in 2012

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Walter Kiernan

Walter J. Kiernan (January 25, 1902 – January 8, 1978) was an American radio, television, and print journalist and author, as well as television game show host during the early days of the medium. Career Walter Kiernan began his career as a journalist in New Haven in the early 1920s as a feature writer for the Elm City (Conn.) Clarion and the New Haven (Conn.) Union. He was a writer and editor of the New Haven Register from 1926 to 1928. He wrote for The Saturday Evening Post and started The Town Crier newspaper of West Haven, Connecticut in 1930. Kiernan was an Associated Press (AP) correspondent from 1928–29 and joined the now long since defunct International News Service (INS) as manager of its Hartford bureau in 1937. The following year he was moved to New York, serving until 1943 as a roving reporter and special assignment writer for INS, during which he spent a remarkable New Year's Eve with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on a train ride from the United States to Canada during World War II. While a staff correspondent for the INS, Kiernan wrote the syndicated column Manhattan Side Streets which appeared in papers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Indiana and Texas. His column One Man's Opinion was also nationally syndicated by INS. In addition to his fascinating train ride with Winston Churchill, he had previously covered Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan's return to New York, as well as the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during their royal tour of Canada in 1939. He also wrote a "Broadway" column in the Dallas Times Herald. In 1942, he co-authored with another noted columnist, Damon Runyon, The Life Story of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker As heard at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television and Radio), Kiernan's animated reporting and analysis of V-E Day in 1945 remains one of the era's most stirring historical recordings. Walter Kiernan eventually hosted his own news analysis program, Kiernan's Korner, which ran throughout 1948 for ABC Radio. On ABC Radio in 1948 he had a chat program called That Reminds Me, with former New Jersey Governor Harold Hoffman and "Uncle Jim" Harkins. He had an ABC radio chat show in 1951 called Family Circle. Among his guests was Winston Churchill's actress daughter Sarah. Radio and television Kiernan hosted several daytime chat and commentary programs on both radio and television throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, including Kiernan's Corner (1948), Sparring Partners (1949), What's the Story (1951-1953), Who Said That? (1951-1954), I've Got a Secret (1952), Who's the Boss? (1954), and history show Stroke of Fate (1952–1953). After the relative success of Stroke of Fate, he began co-hosting NBC Radio's long-running news magazine, Monitor. Kiernan co-hosted Monitor from 1955 to 1960, when the program's format was dramatically changed. A familiar baritone voice on New York radio for many years, Kiernan's commentary program on WOR Radio's, One Man's Opinion, was heard daily, in addition to co-anchoring WOR-TV's local evening news. He was also a past president of the Catholic Actors Guild'' in New York. In more national issues he was an early outspoken critic of United States policy in Vietnam, raising objections as early as 1965, and later covering the Paris peace talks. Walter Kiernan was most remembered in political circles for his reporting of every national political convention from 1940 through 1972. Kiernan retired from journalism after covering the 1968 Republican Convention in Miami. Walter Kiernan died after a protracted struggle with cancer in 1978 at the age of 75. References External links The Monitor Communicators Stroke of Fate 1902 births 1978 deaths American game show hosts American Roman Catholics

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Lobogenesis varnicosa

Lobogenesis varnicosa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Argentina. The length of the forewings is 6.5-7.2 mm. The forewings are dingy white with brownish overscaling and darker brown striae. The hindwings are dingy whitish with pale grey-brown overscaling and mottling. References Moths described in 2000 Euliini

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Graham's

W. & J. Graham's, or simply Graham's, is a producer of port wine. It is one of the most important of the port names and it is necessary for Graham's to declare a vintage for the year to be considered vintage by the port industry. Founded in 1820 as a consequence of the Graham family firm receiving a load of Portuguese wine as payment for a debt, the Graham's port business continues to operate today under the ownership of the Symington Family Estates who purchased the brand in 1970. As well as vintage port, Graham's produces a range of wines, including Six Grapes, a reserve port, Quinta dos Malvados, named after the estate purchased by the company in 1890, and various single harvest ports, including the 1882 Ne Oublie Tawny, named after the Graham family motto and at the time one of the most expensive wines for sale. The company received a Royal Warrant in 2015. History William Graham set up a trading company in Glasgow in 1784, and over the following decade developed as a textile and dry goods exporting enterprise. In 1820, his son John accepted twenty-seven pipes of Portuguese port wine in place of a debt. The shipment was sent back to Glasgow, the first time Port had arrived at the port. The new venture proved successful and, in the 1880s, trade was sufficient that William and John spun out W. & J. Graham to serve the new market. The company purchased the Quinta dos Malvados vineyards in 1890, securing its own supply of grapes. By the 1960s, like many old port names, Graham's was in financial difficulty. The Grahams sold the company to the Symington family in 1970. The Symingtons had a long association with the firm, Andrew James Symington joining the textile side of the business in 1882 before leaving to become a partner in the port factory Warre & Co in 1905. The Graham family has remained in the port business, as brothers Anthony, Jonny and William created Churchill Graham in 1981. Jonny continued the company, subsequently known as Churchill's Port. Quinta dos Malvados was repurchased in 1982 in a poor state, but was revived and has become a key part of the Graham estate. In 2015, the company received a Royal Warrant to supply port to Queen Elizabeth. More recently, the company has released a range of ports designed for non-traditional drinkers under the Blend brand. Products Blend N°5 - A white port released in 2019 restricted to 6,000 bottles and designed to accompany tonic water. Blend N°12 - A ruby port designed for bar drinkers released in 2021. LBV or Late Bottled Vintage - From grapes grown in the same vineyards as the Vintage port, laid in casks for four years and bottled to be drunk rather than stored. It is described by Richard Mayson as "consistently good". Quinta dos Malvados - a single Quinta port, the vintage port for undeclared years. Six Grapes - The company's reserve port. It has been described by Robert Parker as the "sweetest and fruitiest" of the reserve ports. Tawny - Wood-aged port. The company also releases single harvest tawnys or colheita. In 2014, the company released 656 decanters of an 1882 Tawny Port named Ne Oublie, named after the Graham family motto, at a cost of €5,500, at the time, one of the most expensive wines sold. Vintage - Considered amongst the first tier of port wines. Particular vintages of note include 1948, 1963 and 1985. Graham's is one of the firms, along with Dow, Fonseca, Warre and others, that have to declare a vintage for a year to be declared "vintage" by the Portuguese port industry. Locations Graham's is based around the Douro in Portugal, with a factory in Villa Nova de Gaia called Graham's Lodge which includes cellars that can be toured and a principle production location at Quinta dos Malvados. The company also sources from Quinta da Vila Velha and also continues to use Quinta das Lagas, which was a source of grapes during the time that it did not have access to Quinta dos Malvados. In 2017, the company purchased its first vineyard outside the Douro region, in Portalegre, in the Alto Alentejo region of Portugal. References Citations Bibliography Companies established in 1820 Port wine Portuguese brands Wineries of Portugal

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Leah MacRae

Leah MacRae is a British actress and writer. She is best known for her roles in The Karen Dunbar Show, Gary Tank Commander, River City and Grownups. She is also known for starring in theatrical productions around Scotland and the rest of the UK, most notably at King's Theatre, Glasgow and Edinburgh Playhouse; starring in ‘51 Shades Of Maggie’. MacRae was born in Belfast and now lives in Glasgow. MacRae is a writer of comedy; she wrote and performed her very own one woman show ‘Leah MacRae: My Big Fat Fabulous Diary’ which she toured around Scotland in 2019, every performance was sold out. References External links Living people Scottish television actresses Scottish soap opera actresses Year of birth missing (living people)

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Emergencybnb

Emergencybnb is a website that aims at helping vulnerable segments in society find free temporary lodging offered by their neighbors. A test version of the website was published in March 2016, with a catchphrase that read: "Host a refugee or a victim of domestic violence". Due to low traction at its infancy stage, the founder, a Harvard University graduate, resorted to listing his own Washington, D.C. apartment on Airbnb and reimbursed the guests in cash upon arrival. The website has gained media attention and was featured in a number of news portals. EmergencyBnB has partnered with various organizations helping refugees, domestic violence victims, and trafficking victims around the world. CNN referred to Emergencybnb as "An army of people who keep their homes and hearts open in case another person needs to walk through". References Citations Other Alfarone, Debra. "D.C. man offers up apartment to refugees", WUSA9, Washington, D.C., 22 August 2016. Blake, Paul. "EmergencyBnB Aims to Bring Sharing Economy to World's Most Vulnerable", ABC News, New York, NY, 22 August 2016. Bliss, Laura. "A Man in Washington, D.C., Is Hosting Refugees Through Airbnb", CityLab, Washington, D.C., 23 June 2016. Brenner, Julia. "EmergencyBnB: An Altruistic Spin on Airbnb", Apartment Therapy, Chicago, IL, 10 June 2017. Bylander, Erin. "Want to put your apartment on Airbnb? Here's what you need to know first.", The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., 29 July 2016. DeChalus, Camila. "An Airbnb for those who need it the most", CNN, Washington, D.C., 21 October 2016. Epstein, Annie. "Can Technology Solve the Refugee Crisis?", Free Enterprise, Washington, D.C., 21 September 2016. Frankel, Jillian. "Housing Refugees Could Be as Easy as Tweaking Airbnb", TakePart, Los Angeles, California, 27 June 2016. Guy-Ryan, Jessie. "Syrian Refugees List Their Campsite on Airbnb", AtlasObscura, Brooklyn, NY, 26 June 2016. Hassanein, Rokia. "D.C. Innovator Hosts Refugees and Domestic Violence Victims for Free", StreetSense, Washington, DC, 15 August 2016. Hawkins, Paul. "Inspired by Airbnb: Matching refugees with hosts", BBC, London, UK, 29 August 2016. Neo, Perpetua. "Want to leave your abuser but fear homelessness? EmergencyBnB is your lifeline.", Huffington Post , London, UK, 20 June 2017. Stein, Perry. "This man launched a website so people can invite refugees to stay in their homes", The Washington Post, Washington, DC, 25 August 2016. Stein, Perry. "Man launches Airbnb-style website to provide free accommodation for refugees", The Independent, London, UK, 28 August 2016. Szink, Emily. "EmergencyBnB: Providing safe place for refugees and victims of domestic violence", KMTV, Omaha, Neb, 2 February 2017. Wanshel, Elyse. "This Man Made An Airbnb For Refugees Looking For A Place To Stay", Huffington Post, New York, NY, 30 August 2016. External links American websites Refugee aid organizations in the United States Internet properties established in 2016

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Stefano Salterio

Stefano Salterio (1730 in Laglio – 1806) was an Italian sculptor. Biography He worked mainly in Northern Italy and his works are on the Sacred Mountain of Domodossola, in the Church of San Lorenzo in Brescia, in St John's Collegiate in Morbegno, in the Church of San Giorgio in Laglio, in the Church of Santo Stefano in Dongo, in the church of San Giorgio martyr in Breda Cisoni di Sabbioneta. He was also the architect of the Neptune Fountain in Trento. Notes Churches St. Stephen Parish - Saint Stephen Italian sculptors 1730 births 1806 deaths

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Eemshaven

Eemshaven (; ) is a seaport in the province of Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. In 1968, the Dutch government declared the Ems estuary (Eemsmond) to be an economic key region. One of the key developments for the region was the construction of a seaport called Eemshaven. The port was officially opened by Queen Juliana in 1973. Industry and shipping were slow to develop at the site. In 2013, a ferry service connects to the German island of Borkum. A ferry service to Rosyth, Scotland, was to start by late October 2019. The plan was officially abandoned in 2020. A number of power plants operate at the site. Both Electrabel and NUON operate a gas-fired power plant there while RWE Innogy operates a wind farm at the site. RWE is operating a coal-fired plant. The static inverter station of HVDC NorNed is situated at Eemshaven. One endpoint of the COBRAcable HVDC transmission line to Esbjerg, Denmark is also planned to be built here. Eemshaven is the landfall point for a high-speed transatlantic fiber-optic cable which connects the U.S. and Europe. On 23 September 2014, Google announced that it plans to spend $773 Million building a data center. Starting in April 2022 the 2020 founded cruise-ferry company Holland Norway Lines will operate one ship, the MS Romantika on a route between Kristiansand. The charter of the ship was announced on 1 November 2021, and is due to last three years with two one-year extensions. See also Groningen Queen Juliana Holland Norway Lines References External links Transport in Het Hogeland Germany–Netherlands border crossings Ports and harbours of the Netherlands Ports and harbours of the North Sea Articles containing video clips 1973 establishments in the Netherlands

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Togo women's national basketball team

The Togo women's national basketball team represents Togo in international competitions. It is administered by the Fédération Nationale de Basketball Togo (FTBB). References External links Official website of the Togolese Basketball Federation Women's national basketball teams

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboreti%20di%20Vallombrosa

Arboreti di Vallombrosa

The Arboreti di Vallombrosa (about 12 hectares) are seven arboreta located within the Forest Demaniale Vallombrosa near the historic Vallombrosa Abbey founded in 1036 by St. John Gualbert of Visdomini, heavenly patron of the Italian Forestry Corps. They are located in Vallombrosa, Reggello, Province of Florence, Tuscany, Italy, operated by the Carabinieri Department for Biodiversity of Vallombrosa. During the summer months there are free guided tours every day, in all other periods upon prior request. The arboreta date back to 1869 at another location, or to 1884 in the current location, when 230 plants were transferred in a move of the Regio Istituto Superiore Forestale's headquarters within the Vallombrosa forest. New sections were added in 1885-1886, and in 1891 a botanical garden was created; unfortunately it was abandoned in 1914 and nothing remains today but a tub. In 1894 another section was added on the Masso del Diavolo to provide a suitable environment for Mediterranean species. Severe bombing during World War II badly damaged the arboreta, but they have since recovered. Today the arboreta currently contain more than 5,000 specimens belonging to more than 1200 species of trees and shrubs, representing 137 genera, and claim to be Italy's most important collection of plants cultivated for scientific and experimental purposes. They encompass seven distinct arboreta organized into 50 sections. The arboreta are as follows: Arboreto "di Bérenger" (1869, area 1.32 hectares) Arboreto "Siemoni" (1880, area 0.34 hectares) Arboreto "Tozzi" (1886, area 3.00 hectares) Arboreto "Gellini" (1894, 3 hectares), on the Masso del Diablo Arboreto "Perona" (1914, area 0.97 hectares) Arboreto "Pavari" (1923-1958, area 2.10 hectares) Arboreto "Allegri" (1976, 1 hectare) See also List of botanical gardens in Italy Vallombrosa References Arboreti di Vallombrosa Cultura Toscana article Storiae Cultura article Bernabei G., Gellini R., Gius G., Grossoni P., Rinallo C., Tocci A., "L'arboreto di Masso del Diavolo a Vallombrosa", Annali Ist. Sper. di Selvicoltura, 11: 165-190, 1980. Piccioli L., "Gli Arboreti Sperimentali di Vallombrosa", Tip. Ricci, Firenze, 1917. La Riserva Naturale Biogenetica di Vallombrosa (in Italian) Botanical gardens in Italy Gardens in Tuscany Arboreta Reggello

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Tharaka Mal

Tharaka Mal () is a 2007 Sri Lankan Sinhala romantic drama film directed by Milton Jayawardena and produced by Soma Edirisinghe for EAP Films. It stars Roshan Ranawana and Nadeesha Hemamali in lead roles along with Anarkali Akarsha and Nalin Pradeep Udawela. Music composed by Charudaththa Ilangasinghe. It is the 1088th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema. Plot Cast Roshan Ranawana as Mahasen Nadeesha Hemamali as Madhavi Anarkali Akarsha as Suranya Nalin Pradeep Udawela as Kumaran Pubudu Chathuranga as Parthipan Muthu Tharanga as Parvathi Pradeep Senanayake as Robert Meewella Nimal Anthony as Navaratne Bandara Hyacinth Wijeratne as Agnes Sulakkana Mihiripenna Nelum Perera Janaka Ranasinghe as Siridasa Udaya Shantha References Sri Lankan films 2007 films Sinhala-language films 2007 romantic drama films Sri Lankan romantic drama films

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Swainson's flycatcher

Swainson's flycatcher (Myiarchus swainsoni) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest. References Swainson's flycatcher Birds of South America Swainson's flycatcher Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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Anders Törnkvist

Anders Lennart Törnkvist (March 4, 1920 – January 21, 1986) was a Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He finished fourth in the 50 km event at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lake Placid, New York. Törnkvist competed in two Winter Olympic Games in the 50 km event, finishing fifth in 1948 and tenth in 1952. Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Olympic Games World Championships References 1920 births 1986 deaths Swedish male cross-country skiers Cross-country skiers at the 1948 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiers at the 1952 Winter Olympics Olympic cross-country skiers of Sweden

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside%20Theatre

Fireside Theatre

Fireside Theatre (also known as Jane Wyman Presents) is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American television. Productions were low-budget and often based on public domain stories or written by freelance writers such as Rod Serling. While it was panned by critics, it remained in the top ten most popular shows for most of its run. It predated the other major pioneer of filmed TV in America, I Love Lucy, by two years. Jacques Tourneur has directed in 1956 three episodes, A Hero Return, Kirsti, and The Mirror. Overview Fireside Theatre was created by Frank Wisbar, who also wrote and directed many episodes. From 1952 to 1958, the program was presented by a host. This role was first filled by Wisbar (1952–1953), then by Gene Raymond (1953–1955), and finally by the person most associated with the series in the public mind, Jane Wyman (1955–1958). When episodes of this program were rerun on ABC during the summer of 1963, it was under the title Jane Wyman Presents; during the period first-run episodes were hosted by Wyman it was sometimes known as The Jane Wyman Show. One of Fireside Theatre'''s most notable offerings was a 1951 condensed version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, featuring Ralph Richardson as Ebenezer Scrooge for the only time on American television. He later recreated the role on a spoken word Caedmon Records LP album, with Paul Scofield as narrator. It has since been released on CD. The Doubleday Book Club also ran a playscripts club called The Fireside Theatre. Episodes Cast As an anthology series, Fireside Theatre had no regular cast, just a series of guest stars: Claude Akins Keith Andes John Archer Barry Atwater Phyllis Avery Parley Baer Gene Barry Frances Bavier William Bendix Richard Beymer Whit Bissell Gloria Blondell Neville Brand Frank Cady Rod Cameron Macdonald Carey Jack Carson Jeannie Carson Anthony Caruso George Chandler Dane Clark Gary Clarke Imogene Coca Hans Conried Jeanne Cooper Robert O. Cornthwaite Joseph Cotten Linda Darnell John Dehner Albert Dekker Reginald Denny Francis De Sales Lawrence Dobkin John Doucette Paul Douglas Stephen Dunne Dan Duryea Vince Edwards Jack Elam Richard Erdman Bill Erwin Felicia Farr William Fawcett Frank Ferguson Joe Flynn Bruce Gordon Dabbs Greer Virginia Gregg Virginia Grey Kevin Hagen Don Haggerty Charles Herbert Louis Jean Heydt William Hopper Vivi Janiss Carolyn Jones Henry Jones Gail Kobe Jack Kruschen Fernando Lamas Charles Lane John Larch Peter Lawford Peter Leeds Yvonne Lime Betty Lynn Hugh Marlowe Lee Marvin Mercedes McCambridge Jayne Meadows Ralph Meeker Gary Merrill Eve Miller George Montgomery Dennis Morgan Jeff Morrow Don Murray Burt Mustin Jeanette Nolan Margaret O'Brien Doris Packer Larry Pennell Vincent Price Maudie Prickett Ainslie Pryor Stuart Randall Gilman Rankin Lydia Reed Addison Richards Peter Mark Richman Roy Roberts Gilbert Roland Ruth Roman Herbert Rudley Roberta Shore Everett Sloane Arthur Space Aaron Spelling Jan Sterling Craig Stevens Karl Swenson Nita Talbot Gloria Talbott Tom Tryon Ann Tyrrell Minerva Urecal Herb Vigran Beverly Washburn Jesse White Frank Wilcox Cara Williams Marie Windsor Fay Wray Keenan Wynn Reception Critical responseBillboard magazine praised an episode titled "The Lottery", saying that the cast "all turned in taut, exciting performances to make Lottery a real winner". Unlike most episodes of the series, this episode aired live. In 1954, Billboard voted it fourth-best filmed network drama series, ahead of the more fondly remembered General Electric Theater; however, Billboards list excluded "mystery" shows (which was a separate list topped by Dragnet). RatingsFireside Theatre became a hit for NBC, always in the Top 30 shows at the end of each TV season, until the 1956–1957 season, when its ratings slumped. After this, it never again regained its top spot. Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of Fireside Theatre on NBC. (Note: In the United States, each network television season starts in September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.) References Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV ShowsFurther reading Lafferty, William. "'No Attempt at Artiness, Profundity, or Significance': 'Fireside Theater' and the Rise of Filmed Television Programming." Cinema Journal'' (1987): 23–46 online. External links Fireside Theatre at CVTA with episode list Fireside Theatre at the Museum of Broadcast Communications 1949 American television series debuts 1958 American television series endings 1940s American anthology television series 1950s American anthology television series American Broadcasting Company original programming 1940s American drama television series 1950s American drama television series Black-and-white American television shows English-language television shows NBC original programming

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Stan Flashman

Stanley Flashman (3 December 1936England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 – 21 December 1999) was a British ticket tout and football team chairman. He claimed he could obtain tickets for almost anything, from sports events to the Queen's Garden Parties at Buckingham Palace. Chairmanship of Barnet In 1985, he took over as chairman of struggling Barnet Football Club who were heading towards receivership. Buying the club cost him just £50,000. Almost immediately the team improved and, with Barry Fry as manager, Barnet won the Conference and promotion to the Football League in 1991. Despite Fry's success as manager, he and Flashman had their differences and Fry was regularly sacked and then reinstated by Flashman. He resigned as chairman in 1993 after they had narrowly avoided bankruptcy and expulsion from the Football League. In 1995, Barnet goalkeeper, coach and manager Gary Phillips said of Flashman, "A lot of people knock Stan and I had my runs ins with him as much as anyone but at the end of the day he did save the place once. When he was good he was very, very, generous, and most of the time he looked after the lads well. Unfortunately when it went sour he, maybe, could have handled things a lot better". Death Flashman died in 1999 after a long period of suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Notes 1940 births 1999 deaths Barnet F.C. English football chairmen and investors Neurological disease deaths in England Deaths from Alzheimer's disease 20th-century English businesspeople

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch%20to%20Touch

Touch to Touch

Touch to Touch is an album by Timmy Thomas released during 1977. Track listing All tracks composed by Noel Williams; except where noted "Touch to Touch" "Africano" "When a House Got Music" (Luther Dixon) "Game of Life" (Timmy Thomas) "Love For the People" "Torrid Zone" "Diane" (Timmy Thomas) "Sweet Music" Personnel Timmy Thomas - lead vocals, keyboards Bert Bailey - lead guitar Wayne Harris - rhythm guitar Carl Crowder, Jerry Thompson - bass Charles Hollis, Donald Bennett - drums Harold McKinney - percussion, flute Betty Wright - backing vocals Mike Lewis - string arrangements Deep Roots Band - horns, horn arrangements Technical Alex Sadkin, Jack Nuber - engineer Joe Elbert - photography 1977 albums Timmy Thomas albums TK Records albums

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Beneventum%20%28275%20BC%29

Battle of Beneventum (275 BC)

The Battle of Beneventum (275 BC) was the last battle of the Pyrrhic War. It was fought near Beneventum, in southern Italy, between the forces of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus in Greece, and the Romans, led by consul Manius Curius Dentatus. The result was a Roman victory (possibly strategic) and Pyrrhus was forced to return to Tarentum, and later to Epirus. Background The Pyrrhic War broke out when Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, in Greece sailed to southern Italy, ostensibly to aid the Greek city of Tarentum in southern Italy in a dispute with the Romans. Ancient historians agreed that his real motive was the conquest of Italy. Besides the Tarentines, three Italic peoples of southern Italy, the Samnites, Lucani and Bruttii, who were in conflict with the Romans, fought alongside the forces of this Greek king. Pyrrhus won two battles (the Battle of Heraclea and the Battle of Asculum) which were highly wasteful for him because he suffered heavy casualties. He realised that he could not sustain more battles with the Romans. They depleted his forces, whereas the pool of military manpower of the Romans was far superior. Consequently, when he was asked by the Greek city-states of eastern and southern Sicily to help them against the Carthaginians in the western part of the island, he accepted and went to Sicily. This aggrieved his allies in southern Italy, who were left to their own devices against the Romans. Pyrrhus seized all the Carthaginian domains except for Lilybaeum, which he failed to capture. He then decided to build a large fleet to attack the Carthaginians in Africa. In order to man and equip this fleet he treated the Greek city-states despotically. Many of them turned against him. This forced him to leave Sicily and return to Italy. The battle Plutarch gave the most detailed account of the battle. He wrote that during the three years Pyrrhus spent campaigning in Sicily, the Samnites suffered many defeats at the hands of the Romans and lost a substantial part of their territory. This made them resentful towards Pyrrhus. Therefore, most of them did not join him when he returned to southern Italy. Cassius Dio wrote that the Samnites being hard pressed by the Romans caused Pyrrhus to set forth again to come to their assistance. In Plutarch's account, Pyrrhus engaged the Romans despite the lack of Samnite support. The two consuls for 275 BC, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus and Manius Curius Dentatus, were fighting in Lucania and Samnium respectively. Plutarch wrote that Pyrrhus divided his forces into two divisions. He sent one of them against Cornelius Lentulus and marched with the other force during the night against Manius Curius, who was encamped near Beneventum and was waiting for help from Cornelius Lentulus. Pyrrhus was in a hurry to engage Manius Curius in case his colleague would show up. However, his soldiers lost their way and fell behind because he went a long way round through woods and his lights did not hold out. Dionysius of Halicarnassus wrote that Pyrrhus marched through "long trails that were not even used by people but were mere goat-paths through woods and crags, would keep no order and, even before the enemy came in sight, would be weakened in body by thirst and fatigue." This delayed Pyrrhus and at dawn he was in full view of the enemy as he advanced on them from the heights. Plutarch wrote that Manius Curius led his men out of the camp and attacked the enemy advance guard and captured some elephants which were left behind. This success brought him to the plain, where he could engage Pyrrhus in battle on level ground. He routed some of the enemy lines, but an elephant charge drove him back to his camp. He called on the camp guards who were standing on the parapets of the rampart. They came down and threw javelins at the elephants, forcing them to turn round. They ran through the ranks of Pyrrhus which were thrown into disarray and, as a result, the Romans caused the Epirotes to retreat. Dionysius of Halicarnassus wrote only one sentence about the battle: "When Pyrrhus and those with him had ascended along with the elephants, and the Romans became aware of it, they wounded an elephant [calf], which caused great confusion and flight among the Greeks. The Romans killed two elephants, and hemming eight others in a place that had no outlet, took them alive when the Indian mahouts surrendered them; and they wrought great slaughter among the soldiers." Cassius Dio also related the story of the wounded calf. He wrote that Pyrrhus was put to flight because "a young elephant had been wounded, and shaking off its riders, wandered about in search of its mother, whereupon the latter became excited and the other elephants grew turbulent, so that everything was thrown into dire confusion. Finally, the Romans won the day, killing many men and capturing eight elephants, and they occupied the enemy's entrenchments." Aftermath We do not have any information about the number of troops deployed by either side or the number of casualties. After this defeat Pyrrhus went back to Tarentum and gave up the war. He sailed back to Epirus. At the time of the battle this city still had its original name: Maleventum. Six years later (268 BC) the Romans sought to further secure the city and its area by establishing a Roman colony there. The name was changed from Maleventum, a name which the Romans associated with bad omens, as it means ill-come in Latin, to Beneventum, a name, meaning welcome in Latin, which to them had more fortunate connotations. References Primary sources Cassius Dio, Roman History, Vol 1, Books 1-11, (Loeb Classical Library), Loeb, 1989; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, Nabu Press, 2011; Plutarch, Lives, Vol. 9, Demetrius and Antony. Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius (Loeb Classical Library), Loeb, 1920; ASIN B00E6TGQKO Secondary sources Abbott. J., Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, A Biography. This was written in the nineteenth century. It had been published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016; Grant, M., The History of Rome, Faber & Faber, 1986; Champion, J. Pyrrhus of Epirus, Pen & Sword Military, 2016; Merlis, M.,Pyrrhus, Fourth Estate, 2008; F. W. Walbank, A. E. Astin, M. W. Frederiksen, R. M. Ogilvie (editors), The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VII, part 2, The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C., Cambridge University Press, 1989. 3rd century BC in the Roman Republic 275 BC 270s BC conflicts Battles in Campania Beneventum Benevento

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James Lynch House

James Lynch House is a historic home located at Nutten Hook in Columbia County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a two-story, light frame building on a brick foundation. It functioned as the Nutten Hook post office from about 1948 to 1955. It was built for James Lynch, who operated the adjacent Lynch Hotel. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Houses completed in 1900 Houses in Columbia County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Columbia County, New York

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American Dirt

American Dirt is a 2020 novel by American author Jeanine Cummins, about the ordeal of a Mexican woman who had to leave behind her life and escape as an undocumented immigrant to the United States with her son. Plot Lydia Quixano Pérez lives a comfortable life in Acapulco, Mexico, with her journalist husband, Sebastián, and her eight-year-old son, Luca. Lydia runs a bookstore and one day befriends a charming customer, Javier, who appears to have similar interests in books. However, Javier is revealed to be the kingpin of a drug cartel. Sebastián publishes a profile exposing the crimes of Javier, who then orders the slaughter of Sebastián and his family. Lydia and Luca escape the massacre, but are forced to flee Mexico, becoming two of the countless undocumented immigrants from Latin America who undertake the dangerous journey to the United States, taking a treacherous trip on La Bestia north of Mexico City. Production and marketing The book was subject to a bidding war from publishers in 2018. The winner, Flatiron Books, paid Cummins a seven-figure advance. Flatiron engaged in a massive publicity campaign, including sending boxes of copies to libraries near the Mexican border, holding a release party, and obtaining blurbs from Stephen King, Sandra Cisneros, Don Winslow and John Grisham. On January 20, 2020, the day before the book's release, Oprah Winfrey announced that she had selected American Dirt for her book club. American Dirt debuted on New York Times best sellers list as the #1 on the list for the week of February 9, 2020. In an unusual decision, the New York Times ran separate reviews of the book both in the daily paper and in the weekly book review section, as well as publishing an excerpt. Reception American Dirt received a mixed reception. Despite initial positive reviews and its status as one of the best-selling books of 2020, it has also been widely criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of Mexico and Mexicans. Oprah Winfrey, in selecting American Dirt for her book club, said, "Jeanine Cummins accomplished a remarkable feat, literally putting us in the shoes of migrants and making us feel their anguish and desperation to live in freedom." The book also received glowing reviews from Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros, who called it "the great novel of las Americas" and "the international story of our time" and Washington Post critic Polly Rosenwaike, who wrote that it "offers both a vital chronicle of contemporary Latin American migrant experience and a profoundly moving reading experience." NPR's Maureen Corrigan was equally positive, writing that "Cummins' novel brings to life the ordeal of individual migrants, who risk everything to try to cross into the U.S." Jacob M. Appel, in New York Journal of Books wrote, "American Dirt is going to be the defining book of 2020." Myriam Gurba was one of the first reviewers to give a negative review. Originally requested by Ms. magazine, her review was considered too negative, and she instead posted it to the academic blog Tropics of Meta. She says of the protagonist, "That Lydia is so shocked by her own country’s day-to-day realities [...] gives the impression that Lydia might not be…a credible Mexican. In fact, she perceives her own country through the eyes of a pearl-clutching American tourist." In Medium, writer David Bowles called the book "harmful, appropriating, inaccurate, trauma-porn melodrama." On January 30, 2020, The Guardian published an op-ed by author and critic Daniel Olivas, who explained why Latinx writers were so angry about the circumstances behind both the publication and promotion of American Dirt: "American Dirt is an insult to Latinx writers who have toiled – some of us for decades – to little notice of major publishers and book reviewers, while building a vast collection of breathtaking, authentic literature often published by university and independent presses on shoestring budgets. And while the folks who run Flatiron Books have every right to pay seven figures to buy and publish a book like American Dirt, they have no immunity from bad reviews and valid criticism." He noted that "it’s not that we think only Latinx writers should write Latinx-themed books. No, this is not about censorship. A talented writer who does the hard work can create convincing, powerful works of literature about other cultures. That’s called art. American Dirt is not art." Olivas concluded: "Perhaps American Dirt will be remembered not as a great novel, but as a key pivot-point for an industry that desperately needs to change." A group of Latino writers formed a movement in response to the publication and initial mainstream praise of American Dirt called "#DignidadLiteraria" (English: Literary Dignity). On February 3, 2020, the group met with Macmillan, the owner of Flatiron Books, to demand greater representation of Latinx writers under the publication house. Macmillan agreed to these terms. The group is also demanding "investigation into discriminatory practices in the publishing industry at large." USA Today'''s Barbara VanDenburgh called the book "problematic". She wrote, "American Dirt positions itself as the great sociopolitical novel of our era. Instead, it reeks of opportunism, substituting characters arc for mere trauma ... These character, story and style missteps would be problematic no matter the source. But it matters in this case that the source is a European-born woman in the U.S. without ties to the Mexican migrant experience." VanDenburgh also criticized Cummins' choice to position the main character as "forced" to illegally cross the border "by an all-powerful villain" which, she argues, makes it easier for sheltered, white American readers to sympathize with the plot. VanDenburgh calls this construct "a cunning calculation, and also a deeply cynical one." The New York Times published conflicting reviews of the book. On January 17, 2020, Parul Sehgal wrote on the daily Books of the Times section, "this peculiar book flounders and fails." Two days later, The New York Times Book Review published a review from Lauren Groff that said the book "was written with good intentions, and like all deeply felt books, it calls its imagined ghost into the reader's real flesh."Alter, Rebecca (2020-01-21). "Why Is Everyone Arguing About the Novel American Dirt?" Vulture.com. Retrieved 2020-01-24. Still, Groff questions herself, writing, "I was sure I was the wrong person to review this book." On Twitter, later the same day of publication, Groff called her review "deeply inadequate" and called the situation a nightmare. Controversy and fallout Due to widespread criticism, several bookstores cancelled appearances with Cummins to promote her book. On January 29, 2020, Flatiron Books cancelled Cummins's book tour, citing threats to Cummins. In the same statement, they apologized for using barbed wire decorations at the launch of the book. On February 10, 2020, Dignidad Literaria confirmed from Flatiron Books that Jeanine had received no death threats. That same day, 82 writers signed an open letter to Oprah Winfrey, asking her to reconsider her endorsement of the book. A further 60 writers endorsed the letter after publication, bringing the total to 142. The signatories included Valeria Luiselli, Daniel Olivas, Tommy Orange and Rebecca Solnit. Winfrey took a stand amidst the controversy and carried on with her show by posting two one-hour Apple TV plus episodes that focused on American Dirt. She acknowledged the criticisms and cancellation of the book tour. However, she felt moved by the book and decided, “If one author, one artist is silenced, we’re all in danger of the same. I believe that we can do this without having to cancel, to dismiss or to silence anyone.” Participants on the show included a panel of writers, as well as the author, Cummins, and Oprah. Representatives from the book’s publisher also participated in the show: Don Weisberg, Macmillan Publishing’s president, and Amy Einhorn, a Flatiron (the book's imprint) editor and publisher. "Weisberg readily acknowledged that the industry is too white, and he said he and others are working hard to diversify his company. Einhorn said she loved American Dirt, but she took full responsibility for the clumsy and sometimes tasteless way the novel had been marketed." At the end of 2020, numerous news sources covered American Dirt'' in their end-of-year articles about publishing and the publishing industry. For example, it was listed as one of the "Biggest Literary Scandals of 2020" in a HuffPost article written by culture and literary critic Claire Fallon. And New York Magazine's Vulture referred to it as the "most controversial" book of the year. Film adaptation The novel has been optioned for a film adaptation by Charles Leavitt and Imperative Entertainment. Awards Longlist, 2020 Prix Médicis étranger References External links What's so controversial about 'American Dirt'?. The Stream, Al Jazeera English, 30 January 2020 (video, 25 mins) 2020 American novels Novels about immigration to the United States Refugees and displaced people in fiction Novels set in Mexico Race-related controversies in literature

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Aliaksei Kishou

Aliaksei Kishou (born 23 September 1986) is a Belarusian handball player for SKA Minsk and the Belarusian national team. References External links 1986 births Living people Belarusian male handball players People from Slutsk Expatriate handball players Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Russia

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IL-2 Sturmovik (series)

IL-2 Sturmovik () is a series of World War II combat flight simulation video games originally created in 2001 by Russian video game developer Maddox Games under the brand name 1C:Maddox Games, following its association with 1C Company. Maddox Games left 1C Company in 2011. Since 2012, 1C's new developers are 1C Game Studios (who develops the Great Battles series of simulation games) and Team Fusion Simulations (who develops the Dover series of simulation games). Thus, 1C Company currently owns the IL-2 Sturmovik label and runs three different accumulated generations of IL-2 games (three generations of IL-2 games have been established as three different game engine stages have been developed since 2001). Along with its sequels, IL-2 Sturmovik is considered one of the leading World War II flight simulators. The series covers a number of flyable aircraft of Soviet, German, American, British, Japanese, French, Italian, Romanian, Czechoslovak, Polish and other origins. Different games of the series cover different theaters of World War II, including the Eastern Front, the Western Front and the Pacific theater. History IL-2 Sturmovik games spans three generations : The first game in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik, was first released on 18 November 2001. This started the original line of IL-2 Sturmovik games which in the present day is officially titled IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 as this was the title of its "Complete Edition" back in 2006, the final compilation of add-ons in the first generation of IL-2 games. The development of a completely different game engine in the series, introduced in 2011 upon release of IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, started the second generation of games in the series. Almost immediately after Cliffs of Dover was released, Maddox Games left 1C Company. In 2012 a group of volunteers named "Team Fusion" took over Maddox Games and started working on Cliffs of Dover, fixing bugs and improving the game. This led in December 2017 to the release of a new version of the game (named Cliffs of Dover BLITZ) and in August 2020 to the first add-on in the second generation of IL-2 games: IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings – Tobruk. As of December 2012, the other 1C's developer is 1C Game Studios, formed after association with video game developer 777 Studios, mostly known for developing and releasing the 2009 Rise of Flight simulator. The first game of this collaboration, and the latest title in the IL-2 Sturmovik series, started the third generation of games in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles, which was released in November 2013 under the title IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad. As of 2017 the entire third generation is titled IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles. In the Great Battles series each game is considered as a "module". Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kuban, and Flying Circus are examples of modules in the series. Versions mentioned in the chart below give the number of versions reached immediately before the next module is launched with early access (as an example, upon release of the Battle of Bodenplatte module, the version of IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles was, at the time, version 3.003). Please note that, left of the versions, the year given for each game corresponds to its full access release, not to its early access release. The purchase of one module is at any time a payable and downloadable update that automatically ups all the other Great Battles modules to the latest version of the game. All three generations, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, and IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles, are still in use and supported by the current owner of the IL-2 Sturmovik label, Russian company 1C Company. Games First generation of games (IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946) Second generation of games (Dover series) Third generation of games (Great Battles series) Original IL-2 Sturmovik series The original IL-2 Sturmovik series, from IL-2 Sturmovik (2001) to IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey (2009), features a number of games using the same engine, but featuring different battlefields and aircraft: IL-2 Sturmovik IL-2 Sturmovik came out in 2001, featuring 31 flyable aircraft and focusing on the Eastern Front. IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles The first sequel Forgotten Battles was released in March 2003. In addition to the content from the original game, it added a number of simulated planes and battlefields and introduced the Continuation War theater..IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles was a payable product that did not require the original 2001 game to be installed. A relevant new feature in Forgotten Battles was the campaign system that for the first time in the IL-2 Sturmovik games started the dynamic mode. IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles - Ace Expansion Pack The Forgotten Battles Ace Expansion Pack was released in March 2004, adding 20 new modelled aircraft, 10 of them flyable by the player and with three new maps battlefields (Ardennes, Normandy, Pacific). Not a standalone game, the Ace Expansion Pack was a payable product which required that Forgotten Battles was previously installed. IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles - Gold Pack The Gold Pack was simultaneously released with the Ace Expansion Pack. The Gold Pack reunited Forgotten Battles and Forgotten Battles - Ace Expansion Pack in one single standalone installation game. It was intended to purchasers who never before have bought any game in the IL-2 Sturmovik series. Pacific Fighters Released as a stand-alone expansion pack in October 2004, Pacific Fighters focuses on the Pacific theater, with theater-appropriate aircraft, as well as aircraft carriers and battleships. Pe-2 Peshka In May 2006, the Pe-2 Peshka (domestically known as Истории пикирующего бомбардировщика, "Stories of a dive bomber") add-on was released in Europe and North America. This added 95 campaigns, five single missions and five multi-player cooperative missions. Two new flyable aircraft, the Petlyakov Pe-2 (four variants) and the Petlyakov Pe-3 (two variants), as well as a large number of new ground vehicles and artillery were also included. When installed, Pe-2 Peshka is merged with previous games in the series. Pe-2 Peshka was a payable and downloadable patch, mainly intended to players who had accumulated all previous add-ons and patches of the series. Sturmoviks over Manchuria Sturmoviks over Manchuria was a downloadable add-on, mainly focusing on the Manchuria region and the border between the USSR, China and Japanese-occupied Korea. With this new add-on the player could fly aircraft related to the conflicts that broke out in this region at the end of the Second World War. Sturmoviks over Manchuria was a payable and downloadable patch, mainly intended to players who had accumulated all previous add-ons and patches of the series. IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 Ubisoft released simultaneously both the IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 add-on (DLC) and the IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 compilation pack (in stores) in December 2006 in Europe and Australia; North American release was on 13 March 2007. The standalone compilation DVD takes its title from the add-on. In addition to all of the above games, the compilation includes the three new add-ons released in 2006: Pe-2 Peshka (released in May, see above) and the two add-ons newly included in the package: Sturmoviks over Manchuria and 1946. This raised the total number of aircraft to over 300 with 32 new flyable aircraft, such as Soviet and Japanese aircraft that served during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945. Referring to a purely hypothetical continuation of World War II in 1946, the 1946 add-on introduced a few aircraft which in real history never went beyond the design stage (the Heinkel Lerche and the Focke-Wulf Ta 183, for example). Among others, the IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 compilation pack introduced the historically existing Yak-15, MiG-9, MiG-13, Ar-234, N1K-J, J2M, Ki-21, A-20C, Il-10 and many others. It also features nearly 200 new missions and new maps featuring the Kiev region, new parts of the USSR, Manchuria, China, Korea and Burma. IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Birds of Prey is an IL-2 port created by Gaijin Entertainment. It was released in September 2009 for PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, as well as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. In December 2009, the game was made available for Microsoft Windows under the title Wings of Prey. IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover In March 2011, 1C released a sequel to the original IL-2 series (although running its own game engine) under the title IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover. In November 2017 an improved version of the game with the name of Cliffs of Dover BLITZ was developed by Team Fusion Simulations with permission by 1C Company. In August 2020 Team Fusion Simulations released the first BLITZ add-on, Desert Wings – Tobruk, set in the skies of North Africa during the Western Desert campaign from 1940 to 1943. IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles In December 2012, it was announced that 1C Company had combined with 777 Studios to form 1C Game Studios (1c-777 Limited). In November 2013 the team released another sequel in the series, titled IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, this time running the "Digital Nature" game engine (created in 2009 for Rise of Flight). After Battle of Stalingrad underwent a series of improvements between 2013 and 2016, its game engine saw its name changed from "Digital Nature" to "Digital Warfare" in November 2017. 1C Game Studios ended up releasing new theatres of operations, distinct from the Stalingrad area, the first being IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow, released in 2016. In November 2017, when announcing the change of name of the game engine, 1C Game Studios also announced that all subsequent products would be a part of the newly named IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles brand, a series of simulations not only dealing with World War II aircraft as it also allows players to purchase a World War I aircraft simulator game (Flying Circus) or an add-on intended to operate World War II tanks (Tank Crew). All of the IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles games are standalone games and it is not necessary to purchase and install any of the other games in the series. IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad The first game in the new series, released in early access in 2013. The full-content version of IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad was not released until 2014. IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow was released in 2016 IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kuban In September 2016 development of IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kuban was announced in the official forums. IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kuban was released on 14 March 2018 through the official website and on 13 July 2018 through Steam. IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte was released in October 2019. The pack includes aircraft that were operated by the USAAF, Royal Air Force and Luftwaffe during Operation Bodenplatte, the last and final large-scale offensive by the Luftwaffe in the closing stages of World War II. IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Normandy Currently in early-access (partial content is available), IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Normandy was announced in November 2019. IL-2 Sturmovik: Flying Circus IL-2 Sturmovik: Flying Circus was released in November 2019. For the first time since 2001, Flying Circus is the first game in the IL-2 Sturmovik series that allows players to fly aircraft that are not among World War II era models: indeed, in this instance, the aimed period and plane models are those of World War I. IL-2 Sturmovik: Tank Crew IL-2 Sturmovik: Tank Crew was released in November 2019. This is the first game in the entire IL-2 Sturmovik series that is not intended to fly aircraft: the pack allows players to seat inside WWII tanks and operate them in the very same simulated environment that is played by users who operate the usual WWII aircraft. References Further reading In the late 2013 and early 2014, Oleg Maddox, the main creator of the original IL-2 Sturmovik back in 2001, gave permission to Fred "HeinKill" Williams for publishing an interview, which SimHQ did, in four parts: "IL-2 Sturmovik Retrospective: Looking Back on a Legend", by Fred "HeinKill" Williams, on 1 December 2013 for SimHQ online magazine "IL-2 Sturmovik Retrospective: Forgotten Battles", by Fred "HeinKill" Williams, on 20 December 2013 for SimHQ online magazine "IL-2 Sturmovik Retrospective: Pacific Fighters", by Fred "HeinKill" Williams, on 25 December 2013 for SimHQ online magazine "IL-2 Sturmovik Retrospective: 1946 and Beyond", by Fred "HeinKill" Williams, on 13 Janvier 2014 for SimHQ online magazine External links IL-2 Sturmovik official website Ubisoft games Video game franchises Video game franchises introduced in 2001 Video games developed in Russia Windows games World War II flight simulation video games

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Avebury Manor and Garden

Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. It is in Avebury, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in the centre of the village next to St James's Church and close to the Avebury neolithic henge monument. History The manor house was built on or near the site of a Benedictine cell or priory of St Georges de Boscherville, Normandy, founded in 1114. Subsequently the estate passed into the ownership of Fotheringhay College, Northamptonshire, in 1411. Fragments of the religious foundation were incorporated into the later house. William Sharington bought and surveyed the manor in 1548, suggesting alterations to the existing building. The earliest parts of the present house were probably built after William Dunch of Little Wittenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) purchased the estate in 1551. It was some distance from most of his lands which centred on Wittenham, but he appears to have purchased it because of an interest in ancient monuments such as the Avebury stone circles. Around that time, a stone dovecote was erected in the grounds. In the 1580s, Dunch passed it on to his younger son, Walter, whose daughter, Deborah, Lady Moody, grew up at the manor before emigrating to America and founding Gravesend in Brooklyn in 1645. After Walter Dunch's death in 1594, his widow, Deborah, married Sir James Mervyn or Marvyn (who served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1596), and the couple were responsible for a major extension or remodelling of the house around 1601, especially the south range. In 1640 the Dunch family sold it to John Stawell, and the estate was sequestered when he was accused of treason in 1646. It was sold to George Long in 1652 but restored to Stawell in 1660 on his release from the Tower of London. 20th century The house has had many extensions and changes over the centuries, including the addition of a racquets court in the 18th century, the final addition being the West Library which was added by the family of Leopold C. D. Jenner who occupied the house in the early 20th century and completely redesigned the gardens. The house was leased and restored by Alexander Keiller, heir to the James Keiller & Son marmalade business, who took an intense interest in Avebury henge in the late 1930s. In 1955 the rate of destruction of country houses had reached its peak, at one house every five days. The fate of Avebury Manor was in serious doubt when Keiller, whose excavations of the henge had been ended by the outbreak of war in 1939, put it up for sale. Few at the time were interested in the national heritage and the prospects for the manor were bleak. At this point Sir Francis Knowles stepped in and purchased Avebury Manor from Keiller. The Times described Knowles as "a fundamental scientist of outstanding calibre". He immediately set about the restoration of the house which became an absorbing love as he learnt much about its construction, and claimed to have uncovered the signs of Gothic arches in the north east corner which had been filled in during Elizabethan times. The family lived partly in cottages on the estate and partly in the house over the following three years, as the works progressed with substantial financial help from the Ministry of Works. In May 1956, the house was amongst the first of the smaller houses to be opened to the public. In 1958 it was designated Grade 1. In 1948 Knowles had married Ruth Jessie Brooke-Smith, the daughter of the Rev Arther Brooke-Smith. They brought up a large family at the manor: one son, Charles Francis (b. 1951) who later succeeded to the baronetcy, and three daughters, as well as a stepdaughter born to Ruth and her first husband, Dickie Hulse, an RAF fighter pilot killed in action during the Second World War. The Knowles children recall it as a magical place in which to grow up, with acres of space to roam. They helped in all aspects of the early years of rather amateurish historic house tourism: using a surplus World War II field telephone between the tour guide (often an au pair with a vivid imagination) and the ticket office, serving teas, and helping themselves to coins from the wishing well to buy ice-creams from Sumbler's, the butchers just outside the gates. "Many would remember Francis as a most excellent host. Particularly memorable, however, was his hospitality at his beautiful Elizabethan house at Avebury, where he and his wife, Ruth, entertained so many people"." Set against this background, remote from academic biology, he appeared to one of his colleagues as 'a fascinating man who would really have been more at home in the eighteenth century'. To another he gave proof that 'one could be both a distinguished scholar and a warm, vibrant person'. By 1974 the rate of destruction of the country house had come to a near standstill. This was due not just to stricter application of legislation, but also the high-profile Destruction of the Country House exhibition held in 1974 by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Having preserved the house for future generations, Knowles died suddenly on 13 July of that year in London, at the age of 59. He is buried in the churchyard of St. James Avebury, next to the house which he had lovingly restored to ensure its survival. In 1976, Knowles' widow sold the house to Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury. After the Brudenell-Bruces left in 1981, it was bought in 1988 by property developer Ken King, who caused local controversy by making changes without planning permission and opening an "Elizabethan experience" visitor attraction. After King's bankruptcy the house was bought in 1991 by the National Trust. Visitor attraction The National Trust keep the house open to the general public. The garden was completely redesigned in the early 20th century. The topiary and other formal gardens are contained within walls and clipped box, creating numerous "rooms". In 2011, Avebury Manor was the subject of the BBC One television series The Manor Reborn, in which the house was refurbished by a group of experts in collaboration with the National Trust. The four-part series was presented by actress Penelope Keith (the title of the series refers to her earlier television work, To the Manor Born) and former antiques trader Paul Martin, with contributions from experts including Dan Cruickshank (on architecture). , visitors are encouraged to touch and experience the furnishings and objects in the rooms which now represent periods in the house from the 16th century to the early 20th century. The house is reputedly haunted. References External links Avebury Manor and stone circle – National Trust Gardens in Wiltshire Grade I listed buildings in Wiltshire National Trust properties in Wiltshire Historic house museums in Wiltshire Manor houses in England Country houses in Wiltshire Grade I listed houses

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Martin Knutson

Martin A. "Marty" Knutson (May 31, 1930 - December 11, 2013) served as Director of Flight Operations for NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, and also as site manager of the Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards Air Force Base in CA, at that time a satellite facility of Ames, from May 1984 through late 1990. Born in St. Louis Park, he attended the University of Minnesota, majoring in electrical engineering. Knutson joined the U.S. Navy, before transferring to the Air Force as an aviation cadet in 1950. Following service in Korea and participation in developmental testing and operational missions in the F-84 and F-86, he was recruited to fly the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1955. He was assigned to Det A, the first U-2 detachment to deploy operationally. On July 9, 1956 he flew the third overflight of the USSR, Mission 2020 in a U-2A. The sortie from Wiesbaden took him over Berlin, Riga, Kaunas, Vilnius and Minsk. After re-assignment to Det B he flew Operation TOUCHDOWN, the 20th Soviet overflight, exactly three years later, (also in a U-2A). This mission was launched from Peshawar, Pakistan and landed nine hours later in the Iranian desert. He retired from the USAF in 1970. Knutson joined NASA in 1971 as manager of U-2 flight operations at Ames and was one of several pilots who flew the aircraft on Earth resources science missions. He later flew the ER-2, an updated model of the U-2 that remains in service at NASA Dryden today. During Knutson's six years at Dryden he maintained the facility at operational readiness for space shuttle landings and replaced Dryden's aging fleet of F-104 support aircraft with F/A-18 Hornets. He also provided leadership for numerous flight research projects including the X-29 forward-swept-wing technology demonstrator; the Controlled Impact Demonstration, the F-15 Digital Electronic Engine Control project that integrated propulsion and flight controls, the Pegasus air-launched rocket for placing small payloads into low Earth orbit; the CV-990 Landing Systems Research aircraft that tested improved braking systems for the space shuttle; and the F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle. After the Air Force announced the impending retirement of the SR-71 Blackbird, Knutson successfully sought to acquire three of the airplanes for Dryden. In late 1990 he returned to Ames where he served as chief of flight operations until his retirement in 1997. His awards include the Meritorious Service Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross, both from the Air Force, NASA's Outstanding Leadership Award, and the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive. He was an Associate Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and a charter member of the federal government's Senior Executive Service. References NASA Dryden Center Director Biography: Martin A. Knutson 1930 births 2013 deaths University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni People of the Central Intelligence Agency Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) United States Air Force officers

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

Roque (footballer)

Marcelo José Ribeiro (born 16 April 1973), commonly known as Roque , is a former Brazilian footballer. Club career Roque played for Portuguesa and Guarani in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. He also spent one season with Panionios in the Greek Super League. References 1973 births Living people Brazilian footballers Brazilian expatriate footballers Associação Portuguesa de Desportos players Guarani FC players Panionios F.C. players Expatriate footballers in Greece Association football midfielders

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark%E2%80%93North%20Macedonia%20relations

Denmark–North Macedonia relations

Denmark–North Macedonia relations refers to the bilateral relations between Denmark and North Macedonia. Both countries are members of the Council of Europe, and NATO. Also Denmark is an EU member and North Macedonia is an EU candidate. The Danish embassy in Vienna, Austria is responsible for its relations with North Macedonia and North Macedonia has an embassy in Copenhagen. Denmark recognized North Macedonia on 16 December 1993. Denmark has had an ambassador in Vienna accredited with North Macedonia since January 1994. North Macedonia has maintained an embassy in Copenhagen since 1996. High level visits On 1 April 2002, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller visited North Macedonia, where he met the Prime Minister of North Macedonia Ljupčo Georgievski. Aid Denmark assists North Macedonia in strengthening civil society and free media. In the South East Europe Programme, Denmark assists in the four main areas: youth, refugees and displaced persons, human rights, and Mass media. 159 million DKK has been given to the programme, and 73 million DKK again in 2004. See also Foreign relations of Denmark Foreign relations of North Macedonia Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union References North Macedonia Bilateral relations of North Macedonia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaliy%20Abramov

Vitaliy Abramov

Vitaliy Sergeyevich Abramov (; born 12 July 1974) is a Kazakhstani professional football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with FC Rotor-2 Volgograd. He also holds Russian citizenship. Club career He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 1995 for FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin. Honours Russian Premier League runner-up: 1997. Russian Premier League bronze: 1996. Ukrainian Premier League champion: 2002. Ukrainian Premier League runner-up: 2000, 2001. European club competitions With FC Rotor Volgograd. 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup: 8 games, 3 goals. 1997–98 UEFA Cup: 5 games, 1 goal. 1998–99 UEFA Cup: 2 games, 1 goal. References 1974 births People from Karaganda Region Living people Russian footballers Soviet footballers Kazakhstani footballers Kazakhstani expatriate footballers Kazakhstan international footballers Association football midfielders FC Tekstilshchik Kamyshin players FC Rotor Volgograd players FC Shakhtar Donetsk players FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk players FC Metalurh Donetsk players FC Elista players FC Ural Yekaterinburg players FC Shakhter Karagandy players FC Volgar Astrakhan players Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in Ukraine Kazakhstani expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players FC Mordovia Saransk players FC Avangard Kursk players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20flag%20bearers%20for%20Kosovo%20at%20the%20Olympics

List of flag bearers for Kosovo at the Olympics

This is a list of flag bearers who have represented Kosovo at the Olympics. Flag bearers carry the national flag of their country at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. See also Kosovo at the Olympics References Kosovo at the Olympics Kosovo Olympic flagbearers

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amath%20Ndiaye

Amath Ndiaye

Amath Ndiaye Diedhiou (born 16 July 1996), simply known as Amath, is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club RCD Mallorca. Club career Born in Pikine, Amath joined Atlético Madrid's youth setup in 2014, from Real Valladolid. He made his senior debut with the former's reserves on 5 September 2015, coming on as a substitute in a 0–0 Tercera División home draw against CDE Lugo Fuenlabrada. On 15 November 2015 Amath scored his first senior goals, netting a double in a 3–0 home win against CD Móstoles URJC. The following 6 January, he scored a hat-trick in a 4–1 away routing at AD Parla. On 28 August 2016, Amath was loaned to Segunda División club CD Tenerife, for one year. He made his professional debut on 3 September, replacing Álex García in a 3–1 away loss against Elche CF. Amath scored his first professional goal on 12 October 2016, netting his team's only in a 3–1 Copa del Rey away loss against Real Valladolid. Late in the month, he scored a brace in a 3–2 home win against Rayo Vallecano. Amath finished the season with 12 goals, being a key unit as the Canarians missed out promotion in the play-offs. On 10 August 2017, he was signed a five-year contract with La Liga side Getafe CF, who bought 50% of his federative rights. Amath made his debut in the top division of Spanish football on 20 August 2017, starting in a 0–0 away draw against Athletic Bilbao. He scored his first goal in the category on 30 September, netting the first in a 2–1 loss at Deportivo de La Coruña. In December 2018, Amath was ruled out for the remainder of the season after suffering a knee injury in a match against CD Leganés. On 5 October 2020, after featuring rarely, he was loaned to second division side RCD Mallorca for the 2020–21 campaign. Amath helped the Bermellones to return to the top tier at first attempt by netting nine goals in 31 appearances, and signed a permanent four-year deal with the club on 30 June 2021. Career statistics Club International References External links 1996 births Living people People from Dakar Region Senegalese footballers Association football forwards Senegal international footballers La Liga players Segunda División players Tercera División players Atlético Madrid B players Atlético Madrid footballers CD Tenerife players Getafe CF footballers RCD Mallorca players Senegalese expatriate footballers Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate footballers in Spain

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers%20of%20Christ%2C%20Arise

Soldiers of Christ, Arise

"Soldiers of Christ, Arise" is an 18th-century English hymn. The words were written by Charles Wesley (1707–1788), and the first line ("Soldiers of Christ, arise, and put your armour on") refers to the armour of God in Ephesians 6:10–18. History Wesley initially wrote the hymn as a poem titled "The Whole Armour of God, Ephesians VI" in 1747 and was used to defend against criticism of Methodism in the United Kingdom. During their evangelical careers, both Charles Wesley and his brother John Wesley received physical abuse because of them. As a result, this hymn was written and also became known as "The Christian's bugle blast" because of the military references and the apparent call to arms when it was set to music. The hymn was published as "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" in 1749 in "Hymns and Sacred Poems" with 16 verses of 8 lines. In 1780, it was published as a hymn in John Wesley's "A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists" with 12 verses. Since 1847, the hymn is usually only performed with 3 verses. In the hymn, the words "adamant and gold" are used. This is speculated to be Wesley making reference to John Milton's poem, Paradise Lost where it says "Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering, armed in adamant and gold." This suggests that Wesley intended for the hymn to be for Christians to use Satan's ways against him. Wesley wrote a unique piece of music entitled "Soldiers of Christ" for the hymn to be set to. However the hymn has been set to other tunes as well. One of several tunes for the hymn is by William P. Merrill (1867–1954) however, the main alternative piece of music that is used for the hymn is "Diademata" by George Job Elvey. It is opined that this music has become more associated with "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" than the original "Soldiers of Christ" music. Usage The hymn is played using Diademata after first being published in the Anglican hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern, It is also played with Diademata in the Seventh-day Adventist Church hymnal and the hymn appeared in the Manchester Hymnal. In the United Methodist Church hymnal, "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" is the only hymn in it that was originally in John Wesley's A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists. It is one of only a few Methodist hymns that overtly referred to battles or the notion of Christians as soldiers. Hymn Soldiers of Christ, Arise, and put your armour on, Strong in the strength which God supplies through His eternal Son. Strong in the Lord of hosts, and in His Mighty Power, Who in the strength of Jesus is more than conqueror. Send then in His great might, with all His strength endued, But take, to arm you for the fight, the panoply of God; That, having all things done, and all your conflicts passed, Ye may o'ercome through Christ alone and stand entire at last. Stand then against your foes, in close and firm array; Legions of wily fiends oppose throughout the evil day. But meet the sons of night, and mock their vain design, Armed in the arms of heavenly light, of righteousness divine. Leave no unguarded place, no weakness of the soul, Take every virtue, every grace, and fortify the whole; Indissolubly joined, to battle all proceed; But arm yourselves with all the mind that was in Christ, your head. (bar verses) See also New Testament military metaphors "Onward, Christian Soldiers" References External links English Christian hymns Hymns by Charles Wesley Methodism 18th-century hymns

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6deh%C3%A1za

Bödeháza

Bödeháza is a village in Zala County, Hungary. References Populated places in Zala County

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillejo%20de%20Iniesta

Castillejo de Iniesta

Castillejo de Iniesta is a municipality in Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It just west of Graja de Iniesta. In recent years, there has been a movement to remove the Iniesta element in the name of the town. References Municipalities in the Province of Cuenca

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franko%20Bo%C5%BEac

Franko Božac

Franko Božac (born 3 November 1974 in Croatia) is a classical accordion performer. Biography Božac’s has performed in theatres in several countries, including the Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Cornerstone – Hope at Everton, Cosmo Rodelwald Concert Hall, Duke’s Hall, Oxford Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, City University London, and Henry Wood Hall. Recently, he has performed The Rage of Jaques Brell with Antony Cable and Stuart Barr at The New End Theatre in London. He has also performed at festivals such as the Cornerstone Festival in Liverpool, London Virtuoso Festival, International Music Forums, Bloomsbury Festival, Histria Festival, Zetra Festival. He has premiered numerous concertos for the button accordion. The most recent was The Hall of Horcum (Concerto for accordion and orchestra, which was written and dedicated to him) by British composer James Williamson. The premiere was held at the Duke's Hall of The Royal Academy of Music in London, and he was accompanied by the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, conducted by renowned conductor Patrick Bailey. Another important accordion premiere was the performance of the Introduction, Choral and Final for accordion and orchestra, (which is also dedicated to him), composed by the Russian composer Alexander A. Attarov. Other premieres include: Paraphrase for accordion and strings orchestra composed by Branko Okmaca, Aproksimato no. 2 and Zujalica composed by Bashkim Shehu (scored for bayan and symphony orchestra). With 10/10 Ensemble (Chamber Orchestra – part of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), he recorded for BBC Radio 3 the works of contemporary British composer Gary Carpenter. Besides this, he has recorded a project for BBC Scotland, the St Kilda Opera Hiort, which was conducted simultaneously in Britain, France, Belgium, Austria and Germany. The work is scored for five instruments, three choirs and soloists. Božac has also collaborated with The London Sinfonietta (under the direction of composer and conductor, George Benjamin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra, Croatian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, University “Juraj Dobrila” Symphonic Orchestra and Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra. Božac graduated from the University of Pula, Croatia and was the first accordion graduate at the time in his native land (Croatia). He later graduated with a Master's degree from Ino Mirkovich Music Academy under licence of Moscow State Conservatory P.I. Tchaikovsky in Lovran, under the tuition of Prof. Volodimir Balyk, followed by a postgraduate diploma from the Royal Academy of Music- London, in the class of Prof Owen Murray. He is currently an accordion professor at the University of Pula. His students have until now won over 80 prizes in national and international competitions, including: The Trophée Mondial de l’Accordéon, Coupe Mondiale, state and country competitions. He is a member of the Croatian society of musical artists, the Croatian Music Union and The Croatian Accordion Society. He has conduct masterclasses and seminars in Croatia and the neighbouring countries. In 2009, the Education Ministry of Croatia awarded Božac a medal for outstanding musical achievements. References External links 1974 births Living people Classical accordionists Croatian accordionists People from Pula 21st-century accordionists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo%20Piccaluga

Angelo Piccaluga

Angelo Piccaluga (; 6 October 1906 – 7 March 1993) was an Italian footballer, who played as a forward for Pro Vercelli, Modena F.C., U.S. Palermo, A.S. Biellese 1902, and the Italy national football team. He played 2 matches for Italy being part of the successful 1927-30 Central European International Cup campaign. International Italy Central European International Cup: 1927-30 References Italian footballers Italy international footballers 1906 births 1993 deaths Association football forwards F.C. Pro Vercelli 1892 players Modena F.C. players Palermo F.C. players Casale F.B.C. managers Italian football managers A.S.D. La Biellese players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th%20Anniversary%20Tour%20Lead%20Upturn%202012%3A%20Now%20or%20Never

10th Anniversary Tour Lead Upturn 2012: Now or Never

10th Anniversary Tour Lead Upturn 2012 ～Now or Never～ (stylized as 10th Anniversary TOUR Lead Upturn 2012～NOW OR NEVER～) is the tenth anniversary concert DVD released by the Japanese hip-hop group Lead one year after their previous concert DVD on December 26, 2012. It charted at #38 on the Oricon charts, remaining on the charts for one week. The tour corresponded with their 2012 studio album, Now Or Never, becoming their first tour to have a corresponding album since their 2008 live tour Lead Upturn 2018 ～Feel The Vibes～, which corresponded with the album Feel the Vibes. Information 10th Anniversary Tour Lead Upturn 2012 ～Now or Never～ is the ninth concert DVD released by the Japanese hip-hop group Lead. The DVD was released one calendar year after their previous concert DVD, Lead Upturn 2011 ～Sun×You～, on December 26, 2018. It charted at #38 on the Oricon DVD Charts, staying for one week. The tour became their first in four years to correspond with an album, whereas it corresponded with their sixth studio album, Now or Never. The last tour tie-in was their 2008 live tour that corresponding with their Feel the Vibes studio album. The tour for Now Or Never also celebrated the group's tenth anniversary, having debuted in July of 2002 with the song "Manatsu no Magic". Lead Upturn 2012 ～Now or Never～ became the final live tour with member and lead vocalist Hiroki Nakadoi. Hiroki had graduated from the group in March the following year after their Leaders Party 10! performance at Zepp Tokyo in Aomi, Kōtō Ward in Tokyo. Along with the various songs that spanned across three discs of the album - which included every a-side with some featuring alternate arrangements, and their most popular coupling tracks - other songs performed were "I believe" from Lead! Heat! Beat! (2005), and the songs "Love Rain" and "One For Da Soul" from their debut album Life On Da Beat (2003). The performance utilized on the DVD was of their July 31, 2012 performance at Nakano Sun Plaza in Nakano, Tokyo. Leader Hiroki's graduation 10th Anniversary Tour Lead Upturn 2012 ~Now or Never~ became the final Upturn tour leader and lead vocalist Hiroki Nakadoi took part in. After the group ended their tenth anniversary celebration with the Leader's Party 10! concert for their fan club in March 2013, Hiroki stepped away from the group. Prior to Hiroki making his final decision, the other members, Keita Furuya, Akira Kagimoto and Shinya Tanuichi, had questioned if they should remain as a unit if Hiroki decided to leave. When Hiroki finalized his decision, with full support to the others as a group, they chose to stay together due to the constant support of their fans. Track listing "Stand and Fight" "Real Live" "Speechless" "Fly Away" "one more side" (dancers 1st performance) "Wanna Be With You" "Stay with me" "Can't get enough" "Voice" "I believe" "Wonder Mirror" (lead dance performance, dancers 2nd performance) "Night Deluxe" "Hungry Sniper" "Boom!! Boom!!" "Color" "Hurricane" (encore) "Summer Special Medley" ～Manatsu no Magic / Love Rain / One For Da Soul / Show me the way～ "Virgin Blue" (extra shoot) "Backstage Off-shot" (double encore) "High Tension Day" Charts References External links Lead Official Site 2012 video albums 2012 live albums Live video albums Lead (band) video albums Albums recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles%20in%20Azerbaijan

Poles in Azerbaijan

There is a long history of Poles in Azerbaijan (, ). Although the current Polish population of the Republic of Azerbaijan is lower than in former times, the number of people with Polish descent in the capital city Baku is around 2,000 and several thousand self-identified Poles live in Azerbaijan. Poles as an ethnic group have lived in Azerbaijan for centuries. The Russian Empire included Azerbaijan and parts of Poland during the 19th century, this was a significant cause of the Polish minority in Azerbaijan. History of Poles in Azerbaijan In the 17th century, missionaries Paul Wroczyński, Jedrzej Zielonacki and Alexander Kulesza set up a mission in Ganja, in the 1680s. The activities of the missionaries were an important link in understanding and rapprochement of the values of East and West. Missionaries and their followers brought gifts to the court of Shah in the form of valuable paintings, illuminated manuscripts of the Bible, etc. They also raised the subject of positive associations with the Polish people. The Poles began to appear in Azerbaijan from the 13th century on, mainly as abductees, captured by the Tatars, but also as those who came there voluntarily. Since the beginning of the 19th century, Azerbaijan was of interest to Polish travelers as well as romantic poets which can be seen through their work. Poles in Azerbaijan appeared after I partition of Poland (1772). At this time Russia waged a war of aggression in the Caucasus, and as forced recruits here involved young men from all the occupied territories (mostly from Poland). Caucasus in the 19th century was, along with Siberia, one of the main places of exile Poles. After the first partition of Poland, they appear as recruits in the Caucasian Corps. In 1813, 10,000 Polish prisoners were sent to the Caucasus, most of them members of the Polish Legions in the Napoleon's army. In 1831, after the failed November Uprising a new wave of the exiled Polish insurgents arrived in Azerbaijan. The main points where the Poles were sent to military service, were in Azerbaijan - Quba, Qusar, Shamakhi, Ganja, Baku, and Zaqatala. Buildings of chapels, which were once built for the military Poles and their families in Quba and Zaqatala are still remaining there. The next batch of repressed Poles were exiled to the Caucasus after the uprising of 1863 (the January Uprising). The Poles have referred to the Caucasus and in Transcaucasia until the end of the 19th century. By the beginning of the 20th century, 17,264 people have been resettled into the Caucasus. The last Polish exile in Azerbaijan, which has so far been identified, was Edward Strump. In 1900, in Warsaw, he published his book Pictures of the Caucasus. Some Polish exiles were completely deprived of their liberty and detained in custody in places like the island fortress and Zaqatala Nargin. Absheron peninsula was an intensively developed oil industry. This, in turn, created conditions for the emergence of new and development of traditional industries. Baku turned into an international city. In 1897 the Polish population was near two thousand. In 1913, employees were among the Poles in Baku were making 52.2%. Polish community In 1903, the Poles established a "Polish Charitable Society," which opened the library and school. On August 17, 1909 the company "Polish House in Baku," was registered whose goal was the cultural development of the Polish population. When the society began to function, another Polish School was established. At the beginning of World War I created the "Polish Committee of Baku on the organization of aid war-ravaged population of the Kingdom of Poland." This was associated with the appearance in Baku wave of Polish refugees. All Polish organizations were merged into "The Council of Polish Organizations in Baku." The Poles are also united by the Christian faith. Chapels were built at the locations of the Polish regiments in the Caucasus. In Baku, thanks to the Polish diaspora the government agreed to build a Christian church. Local people called it Polish church. During Stalin's times the church was destroyed. The building of another Christian church, built by the Poles in the city Qusar survived. This building today is known among locals as "The Polish Christian church." With the establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan, many Poles left the country and returned to their historical homeland. The activities of the Polish organizations (as well as other national associations) were banned. Many persons of Polish origin were forced to change nationality. The idea of Polish organization was first expressed by Ofilom Ismailov (Kulchitsky) in 2000. In 2001, he gathered a group of people of Polish descent of 16 people and put forward a proposal for the creation of the Polish community, while noting that, according to the census beginning of the 1990s, Azerbaijan population of Poles were close to thousand. Following his suggestion Elena Teer, who was fluent in Polish was chosen as the chairman of the organization. However, the selected governing bodies of the Polish organizations were not active enough in the future, and the decision of the meeting lost its validity for the Ministry of Justice. Under existing legislation, the documents for registration of the organization should be submitted no later than one month from the date of the meeting, which was not done. In 1991 they've established a Polish community organization called "Polonia". Catholic role Roman Catholic Benevolent Society and the Polish Community were formed on 5 January 1903. The Society opened a library-reading room. Scheduled was a refuge for old people and children. Reading was the only company in a free reading room. Chairman of the Society was known oil magnate Stefan Rylski. Society headquarters building located in Rilski. This building (architect Józef Płoszko) has been preserved to this day. (Street Memmedeliyev, 11). April 27, 1903, he was enlightened by the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the foundation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At that time, the number of Catholics have already reached 9-10 thousands of people. Father Stefan Demurow was pastor of a Catholic church in Baku. Demurow Stefan was born in Tbilisi in 1871, graduated from seminary in 1895. and before the arrival in Baku was the pastor of a Christian church in Kutaisi (1895–1902) and Perekopiu (1902–1904). The Stalinist era was very damaging to religious organizations. From the 1930s the Soviet regime began mass repression, arresting one thousand priests. In 1938, the Catholic church in Baku was destroyed. But Catholics were meeting secretly, with risking their own life. Demurow was arrested on November 14, 1937 and sentenced to death. After the tragic events in Azerbaijan Catholicism ceased to exist. The revival occurred only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1992 a group of Poles in Baku asked the Vatican to create opportunities for the pastoral care of religious Poles. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1997 group of Polish Christians with a priest from Poland - Jerzy Pilyus arrived in Baku. In 2002 Pope John Paul II officially visited Azerbaijan. He was initially invited by Azerbaijan's then president, Heydar Aliyev. Thanks to his visit, President Aliyev gave the Catholic Church a plot of land to build a church. The building was funded by proceeds from Pope John Paul II's book sales and foreign donations. Poles' role in Azerbaijan's history The first Polish social organizations in Azerbaijan were created at the beginning of the twentieth century in Baku. Many Poles were living in Azerbaijan at that time. Even earlier, in the 19th century, the Poles were visiting Azerbaijan for various reasons such as political exiles, the tsarist army soldiers recruited from the Polish Kingdom, as well as Poles looking for a good job, especially during the dynamic development of Baku city - the so-called oil boom at the beginning twentieth century. There was then in Baku several Polish organizations - the Council of Polish Organisations, Association "Polish House", the Polish Society of Mutual Aid, "Focus", Polish Benevolent Society, and even the Union of Polish Youth. The Poles have made a major contribution to economic development, scientific, cultural, education areas of the country. There were doctors, teachers, and military engineers among them. The largest contribution to the economic development of Azerbaijan has made by Witold Zglenicki. He was a pioneer engineer Witold sourcing crude oil from the seabed, has developed a project life of these deposits and the invention was of great importance for further economic development in Azerbaijan. He also sponsored a foundation for the development of Polish culture and science which brought him the reputation as the "Polish Nobel". In Azerbaijan, prominent scholars of Polish origin also lived who have made a major contribution to the scientific and technical development. In 1919 Baku State University was established, which was of great importance for the overall development of the whole scientific system in a country that was backward at that time. Among the lecturers there were many professors of Polish origin. In the medical field - prof. Paul Zdrodowski (microbiology), prof. Uszyński, Malinowski, Różanowski, Berłacki, Mizernicki, Zamuchowski, in the social sciences - prof. Alexander Makowielski, Wsewołod Bronisław Tomaszewski, Aleksander Selichanowicz, M. Dabrowski, M. Downar-Zapolski, Associate Professor P. Piłaszewski, in other fields - prof. K. Krasuski (chemistry), Associate Professor P. Michalewski (geophysics) were among them. Stanislaw Despot-Zenovich, who made a great deal for the improvement of the city was Mayor of Baku 16 years (1878–1894). Paul Potocki (1879–1932) was the first who applied the technique of draining the sea bottom for oil in the filling of the bay Bibiheybət. The first rector of the Baku Polytechnic Institute, was Professor Nicholas Dombrowski. In Baku, proceeded musical career a wonderful musician - cellist of Polish descent - Leopold Rostropovich, there he had a son - the world-famous cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Were widely known names, and other musicians of Polish descent. The conductor of Opera and Ballet Theater Vladimir Trahimovich, a teacher of piano Regina Sirovich, author of the best and relevant to the present day tutorial for piano (co-authored with L. Egorova), a famous jazz musician, Bronislaw Posadovsky were also among known Poles of Azerbaijani music scene. Many Poles have left Azerbaijan after the Russian Revolution while other Polish families were leaving the country for various reasons, often because of better jobs and opportunities for children to learn and work in the Russian capitals - Moscow and Leningrad. After the revolution, most local authorities did not pay attention to the nationality of the citizens' personal documents. In the first years after the Revolution, local authorities often recorded in the documents of the Poles as a "Russian". Architecture Architecture was the area that probably the Poles most contributed to. Józef Gosławski and Józef Plośko are especially notable. Notable people Józef Gosławski, sculptor Józef Plośko, architect Michał Abramowicz, geologist Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet politician. Maciej Sulkiewicz, first General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces Alexander Makovelsky, a philosopher, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of USSR Mstislav Rostropovich, world-known cellist Witold Zglenicki, geologist and philanthropist, "Polish Nobel" Stephen Skshyvan, an engineer, builder of aqueducts Paul Zdrodovsky, Microbiologist Jozef Essman, hydraulic See also Church of the Immaculate Conception, Baku The Spring to Come Azerbaijan–Poland relations Demographics of Azerbaijan Sybirak References Andrzej Chodubski, Polacy w Azerbejdżanie (Poles in Azerbaijan), published by Wydawn. Adam Marszałek, Toruń, 2004. . External links Polish Embassy in Baku Polonia Baku Ethnic groups in Azerbaijan Polish minorities Azerbaijan–Poland relations Polish diaspora in Asia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friern%20Barnet%20Urban%20District

Friern Barnet Urban District

Friern Barnet Urban District was a local government area in Middlesex, England created in 1883 from the civil parish Friern Barnet. It was succeeded by the London Borough of Barnet in 1965 as one of the smaller of its contributory predecessor districts. It was at the local level governed for nine years by the local board, then by Friern Barnet Urban District Council which operated primarily with separate functions from the County Council, operating occasionally for major planning decisions and major projects together with that body, Middlesex County Council. Layout and two main settlements Friern Barnet parish (and later this District) stretched north north-west from the boundary with Hornsey parish (specifically its Muswell Hill part) and was half as wide as long. The parish largely formed a counter-projection into the Chipping Barnet (also known as High Barnet or Barnet)-Totteridge projection of Hertfordshire into Middlesex to its north. In the north its land was the gentle, broad east escarpment above the head of the Dollis Brook rather than others which are higher and have several limbs around Barnet. In its south the land is gradually lower and a nascent brook feeds west to east, Bounds Green brook. The parish/district had one main road; it was bisected lengthways by (the) High Road, the main road in the area, today the A1000 and part of the traditional Great North Road from London to Edinburgh. Until the mid 19th century the ancient parish of Friern Barnet, a depopulated medieval village — the manor house, manor barn, farm and church of which survived, had two tiny developed clusters: Whetstone in the far north and Colney Hatch in the south. Friern Barnet remained its ecclesiastical parish. Its civil form created in the mid 19th century took over the wide-ranging powers of the vestry; in a matter of decades it was largely supplanted by a Local Board on creation of Friern Barnet Urban District and as to some powers by Middlesex County Council. Planned urbanisation In common with most outer London areas, the vast bulk of housing was built after the coming of the railways and in this case mainly between the 1851 construction of New Southgate railway station near Colney Hatch (just within the south-east border) and the outbreak of World War II. A second station followed in 1871 which is a short distance from the north-west corner of the District and which is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line: Totteridge & Whetstone tube station. This led to high demand for housing in that area of the District. The statistics in the panel to the right show the population change, accordingly. References History of the London Borough of Barnet Districts abolished by the London Government Act 1963 Local Government Districts created by the Local Government Act 1858 Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 History of local government in London (1889–1965) History of local government in Middlesex Friern Barnet

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali%20Gubarev

Vitali Gubarev

Vitali Georgievich Gubarev (; – 1981) was a Soviet Russian writer of children's literature. Biography Gubarev was born in Rostov-on-Don (modern-day Rostov Oblast of Russia). According to the official Soviet biography, his parents were teachers. In reality his father, Georgy Vitalievich Gubarev, came from an ancient family of Don Cossacks of Russian nobility; during the Russian Civil War he fought Bolsheviks as part of the 6th Don Cossack Regiment and the 2nd Combined Cossack Division, then left for Poland in 1920, and by 1951 he arrived to the United States. He published articles, monographs and books dedicated to the history of the Cossacks, including a Cossack Encyclopedia in three volumes where he mentions Vitaly and his brother Igor. Vitaly's mother Antonina Pavlovna Gubareva came from a priest's family. She raised the children by herself. Vitaly spent his childhood at the Kushchyovskaya stanitsa where he finished the secondary school. He was studying alongside his future wife Yulia Levteri (they got married in 1936 and gave birth to Gubarev's only daughter Valeria who served as a prototype for the main character in his Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors novel). At the age of 14 he published his first short story "Rotten Tree" in a local children's magazine. In 1931 he started to work as a journalist in Komsomolskaya Pravda and Pionerskaya Pravda where he also served as the main editor at one point. He was among the first to cover the murder of Pavlik Morozov in the articles Kulak's Reprisal and One of Eleven which were later reworked into the novel Pavlik Morozov and a play of the same name. In 1951 he wrote his first fantasy novel Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which was also reworked into a play a year later. It gained enormous success and has been reguraly reprinted up to this day. In 1963 Aleksandr Rou adapted it into a movie Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors with Gubarev serving as a screenwriter. His second wife, an actress Tamara Nosova, played one of the supporting roles. It was named "Best children's film of 1963" at the all-Union poll conducted by the Soviet Screen magazine, while the title "kingdom of crooked mirrors" itself turned into an idiom. During later years Gubarev published a number of other popular fantasy books such as a comedy The Three on Island (1959) adapted as a 1986 cartoon, a children's science fiction novel Adventure to the Morning Star (1961) and a fairy tale In the Far Far Away Kingdom (1970) adapted as a movie of the same name (director Evgeny Sherstobitov). Gubarev has been awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour twice. He died in 1981 from heart attack aged 69. The exact date of his death is unknown. Gubarev was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow. Literature works В Тридевятом царстве (fairy tale novel) Королевство кривых зеркал (Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors; fairy tale novel) Преданье старины глубокой (fairy tale novel) Путешествие на утреннюю звезду (children's science fiction novel) Трое на острове (fairy tale novel) References External links Vitali Gubarev at the Library of Soviet Fiction 1912 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Russian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Russian journalists 20th-century Russian novelists Don Cossacks People from Rostov-on-Don People from Don Host Oblast Russian children's writers Russian fantasy writers Russian magazine editors Russian male dramatists and playwrights Russian male journalists Russian male novelists Russian screenwriters Soviet children's writers Soviet fantasy writers Soviet journalists Soviet male writers Soviet newspaper editors Soviet novelists Soviet screenwriters Writers from Moscow 20th-century screenwriters

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20French%20Canada

Culture of French Canada

The Culture of French Canada, French Canadian Culture or the Culture of Francophone Canadians may refer to: The culture of Quebec Acadian culture, the culture of the French-speaking people of Acadia, in the Maritime provinces The culture of Franco-Ontarians, the French-speaking people of Ontario The culture of Franco-Manitobans, the French-speaking people of Manitoba See also Francophone Canadians French Canadian French language in Canada French Canada (disambiguation)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Leader%20Pretend

World Leader Pretend

World Leader Pretend was a five-person rock band from New Orleans, featuring Keith Ferguson (lead vocals), Parker Hutchinson (keyboards), Matt Martin (guitar), Arthur Mintz (drums), and Alex Smith (bass). The band formed in 2000, and their name came from the 5th track of the album Green by R.E.M. Their first album, Fit For Faded was released in 2003 on Renaissance Records, a New Orleans label. In 2004, they were signed to Warner Bros. Records. An appearance at the first annual CMJ Cleveland and other North American tour dates coincided with the June 28, 2005 release of their major label debut, Punches. The band broke up in early 2008, shortly after traveling to Seattle, Washington, to record their 2nd major release, due to "artistic differences" within the band. Discography Albums Fit For Faded (2003) Panic Button – 4:09 The Driving Rain – 5:04 Your Tax Dollars at Work – 4:08 A Small Thought – 3:39 Fit For Faded – 5:39 Fire With Fire – 5:39 Flow – 3:49 Headlights – 1:31 Shape-Shifter – 2:32 Fish – 4:16 Theme – 7:24 Rubble-Rousing Misspent Bouts EP (2005) Bang Theory – 4:41 Punches – 3:51 Tit for Tat – 3:52 Into Thin Air – 5:09 Punches (2005) External links Myspace Pitchfork review of Punches Alternative rock groups from Louisiana Musical groups from New Orleans Musical groups disestablished in 2008 Warner Records artists

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin%20and%20Roxanne%20Fairman%20Kinyon%20House

Orrin and Roxanne Fairman Kinyon House

The Orrin and Roxanne Fairman Kinyon House is a private house located at 7675 N. Ridge Road in Canton, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. History One of the earliest settlers in Canton Township was Elisha Kinyon; he and his wife Dilla first bought land in the area in 1831. Elisha's son Orrin bought from his father in 1834, and in 1835 he married Roxanne Fairman. The couple had eight children between 1836 and 1856, all sons, and built this house in 1850. Only three of the couple's sons survived to adulthood; family tradition recounts that in 1849, Roxanne Kinyon accidentally poisoned two of her sons, and every day thereafter visited their graves for the rest of her life. Orrin Kinyon was active in township government, serving as Highway Commissioner, School Inspector, Justice of the Peace, constable, and Poor Director between 1835 and 1865. Description The Orrin and Roxanne Fairman Kinyon House is a Greek Revival farmhouse, of post and beam construction, sided with wood and sitting on a stone foundation. The rear room was once a summer kitchen, but at some point was integrated into the house proper. Although the house sits on reduced acreage, outbuildings and the remains of an orchard still exist on the property. See also Canton Township MPS Canton Charter Township, Michigan References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan Houses completed in 1850 Houses in Wayne County, Michigan National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, Michigan

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nola%20cilicoides

Nola cilicoides

Nola cilicoides, the blurry-patched nola moth, is a species of nolid moth in the family Nolidae. The MONA or Hodges number for Nola cilicoides is 8990. References Further reading cilicoides Articles created by Qbugbot Moths described in 1873

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthalungra%2C%20Queensland

Guthalungra, Queensland

Guthalungra is a rural town and coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Guthalungra had a population of 112 people. Geography The northern boundary of the locality is the Coral Sea including the large headland of Cape Upstart () rising to 680 metres. The northern half of Cape Upstart is protected as the Cape Upstart National Park. Cape Upstart was named by Lieutenant James Cook on 5 June 1770 during his voyage along the eastern coast of Australia in the HM Bark Endeavour. Being a coastal locality, much of the land is low-lying but there are a number of peaks, including (from north to south): Station Hill () Nobbies Lookout () Moosie Hill () The Maiden Mountain () Mount Curlewis () The Seven Sisters () Mount Carew () Mount Abbot () Mount Mackenzie () The Bruce Highway traverses the locality from east to west passing through the town. The North Coast railway line runs almost immediately parallel with the highway with a number of rail stops within the locality (from north to south): Broadlands railway stationi, now abandoned () Kyburra railway station, now abandonedy () Guthalungra railway station, serving the town () Wilmington railway station () The Elliot River flows from south to north through the locality and the town into the Coral Sea () to the west of Cape Upstart. The river was named by explorer George Elphinstone Dalrymple after Gilbert Eliott, the first Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1860 to 1870. History The town was named in 1889, using the name of a significant local Aboriginal Australian. Guthalungra Provisional School opened in 1948, becoming Guthalungra State School on 27 February 1957. The school closed in 1988. It was located on the north side of the Bruce Highway (). In the , the locality of Guthalungra had a population of 112 people. Economy Guthalungra is predominantly an agricultural area, mostly grazing with some crop production. Pacific Reef Fisheries operate the Guthalungra Prawn Farm near the mouth of the Elliot River. The company uses the farm as a hatchery for black tiger prawns (Penaeus monodon) and a place to conduct their breeding program. The prawns are then raised for harvest and processing at the company's 93 hectare facility at Ayr. References External links Towns in Queensland Whitsunday Region Coastline of Queensland Localities in Queensland

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos%20%28given%20name%29

Christos (given name)

Christos is a common Greek given name. In Greek, it may be spelled Χρίστος (Chrístos) or Χρήστος (Chrēstos), which are pronounced identically (cf. iotacism). Derivation Χρίστος The Greek name Χρίστος is derived from the earlier word χριστός (note the difference in accentuation), meaning "anointed" and which became the Christian theological term for the Messiah. Χρήστος The spelling of the Greek name Χρήστος suggests a derivation from the word χρηστός, which in earlier forms of the language principally meant "useful", and in modern Greek means "ethical, righteous, good, just, upright, virtuous". Transposition of accent Transposing the accent to the first syllable distinguishes Χρίστος (Christos), the common name, from Χριστός, Jesus Christ. Similarly the given name Stavros (Σταύρος, Stávros) has the stress on the first syllable, differentiating it from σταυρός (stavrós), the Christian cross. Constantine P. Cavafy gave two reasons for the transposition of the accent in the name "Christos": firstly, the rule of transposition of the accent from the final syllable to the immediately preceding syllable in ancient adjectives when they become proper nouns, "and secondly, the pious practice of differentiating in appearance from the divine epithet". Cavafy gave other anthropological examples of the need felt to distinguish between the "sacred" and the "profane", and university professor Giorgos Veloudis added tο Cavafy's examples the distinction between the "profane" word Σταύρος (the name "Stavros") and the "sacred" word σταυρός ("cross"). Veloudis also mentioned the reverse process whereby Christians have treated as "profane" the names of pre-Christian divinities such as Hermes, Artemis, Athena, Aphrodite, names used today by Greek-speakers. See also , which includes people with first name "Christos" References Greek masculine given names Given names of Greek language origin

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrolophus%20illudens

Acrolophus illudens

Acrolophus illudens is a moth of the family Acrolophidae. It is found on Jamaica. References Moths described in 1924 illudens

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saitama%20Medical%20University%20College

Saitama Medical University College

is a private junior college in Moroyama, Saitama, Japan, established in 1989. External links Japanese junior colleges Educational institutions established in 1989 Private universities and colleges in Japan Universities and colleges in Saitama Prefecture 1989 establishments in Japan

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

Synoikia

The Synoikia () was an ancient Greek festival held in Athens commemorating the political unification of Attica. It was also called the Thesean Synoikismos and the Feast of Union, and celebrated Theseus as founder of Athens and the goddess Athena as the city's patron goddess. The festival was celebrated in the month of Hekatombeion on the 16th. A two-day festival, on the 15th and the 16th was held every second year. The name of the festival comes from the word synoecism (or synoikismos, Greek: συνоικισμός), which means the merging of smaller communities into one larger community. Athenian myth recorded two synoecisms: first the establishment by King Cecrops of the original twelve cities of Attica, and then merger of these twelve cities into a single Athenian state by the mythological King Theseus, with its political centre in Athens. The Synoikia festival celebrated this act of Theseus. During the festival, ewes and bullocks were sacrificed to Zeus Phratrios (of Brotherhood). The festival was organised and paid for by the phylobasileis, representatives of the original four Athenian tribes, which had otherwise fallen out of use after the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC. After the Athenian victory over the Persians in the first Greco-Persian War and the subsequent rebuilding and resettling of the city-state, the Synoikia festival became even grander than before. Athena and Theseus, known as the "divine and heroic patrons" of the city, were glorified and worshipped more vigorously. These two figures became linked with one another, and rituals and rites that were once attributed to only one of these figures became intertwined between these two characters. Some “Thesean elements [from] festivals…[were] infused with ceremonies belonging to [Athena, and vice versa]... even those not connected with the Synoikia.” In 374 BC, in honour of a short-lived armistice during the Boeotian War, the Athenians added a “bloodless” sacrifice to Eirene, the goddess of peace. While this festival was celebrated by the Athenians, there were not many indications that showed that the other demes in Attica, outside of Athens, held Synoikia. This festival is not present in either the Marathonian and Erchian calendrical inscriptions — where the Marathonian calendar was for the Marathon Tetrapolis (consisting of the demes Marathon, Oinoe, Probalinthos, and Trikorynthos), and the Erchian calendar was for the deme of Erchia. See also Athenian festivals References July observances August observances Festivals in ancient Athens Ancient Greek religion

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petlova%C4%8Da

Petlovača

Petlovača () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Šabac municipality, in the Mačva District. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,521 people (2002 census). See also List of places in Serbia Mačva Mačva Populated places in Mačva District

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goephanomimus%20flavopictus

Goephanomimus flavopictus

Goephanomimus flavopictus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1957. References Acanthocinini Beetles described in 1957 Taxa named by Stephan von Breuning (entomologist)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai%20Station

Sendai Station

Sendai Station is the name of two train stations in Japan: Sendai Station (Miyagi) (仙台駅) in Miyagi Prefecture Sendai Station (Kagoshima) (川内駅) in Kagoshima Prefecture

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey%20Zhivotov

Aleksey Zhivotov

Aleksey Semyonovich Zhivotov (Russian: Алексей Семенович Животов, 1 November or 14 November 1904 – 27 August 1964) was a Russian composer, who was born in Kazan and died in Leningrad. He studied at the Leningrad Conservatory with Vladimir Shcherbachyov. He was a committee member of the Leningrad Composers' Union. His best-known works are his song cycles. References Detlef Gojowy. "Aleksey Semyonovich Zhivotov", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed May 20, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access). Russian male classical composers 20th-century classical composers 1904 births 1964 deaths 20th-century Russian male musicians

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

Lifouta

Lifouta is a town in southeastern Gabon. Transport It is served by a station on the national railway network. See also Railway stations in Gabon References Populated places in Ogooué-Lolo Province

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Romance%20of%20Tiger%20and%20Rose

The Romance of Tiger and Rose

The Romance of Tiger and Rose () is a 2020 Chinese streaming television series starring Zhao Lusi and Ding Yuxi, and tells the story of a young screenwriter who must survive after being trapped in her own script, with her character meant to die early in the story. The series airs on Tencent Video starting May 18, 2020. The series became a hit on social media, with its hashtag garnering over 3 billion hits on Weibo. By June 2, the series received over 897 million views on Tencent Video. Synopsis Despite facing criticism from fellow staff, Chen Xiaoqian (Zhao Lusi) exerts all her energy writing her drama screenplay. After falling into a well-earned nap, she finds herself transported into her own screenplay, becoming the hated third princess, Chen Qianqian, who is scheduled to be killed by the male lead, Han Shuo (Ding Yuxi) by episode three. Armed with knowledge of her own story, Chen Xiaoqian must struggle to keep herself alive as well as advance the plot forward by bringing her two lead characters together. Cast Main cast Zhao Lusi as Chen Xiaoqian, a screenwriter / Chen Qianqian, infamous Third Princess of Huayuan city. Dang Yixin as young Qianqian Ding Yuxi as Han Shuo, Prince of Xuanhu city Sheng Yinghao as Pei Heng, Minister of Education, Qianqian's fiance. Zhou Zixin as Chen Chuchu, Second Princess of Huayuan City. Shentu Hanqian as young Chuchu Supporting Cast Quan Peilun as Su Mu, top musician and courtesan. Xiao Wei as Lin Qi, young mistress of the Lin family, managing the Royal Academy. Chen Minghao as Su Ziying, Pei Heng's subordinate. Zhao Xin as Chen Yuanyuan, Eldest Princess of Huayuan City Hu Caihong as Chief of Huayuan City Wu Yijia as Zi Rui, Chen Qianqian's servant Liu Shuyuan as Baiji, Han Shuo's servant Pan Luyu as Zi Nian Li Ang as Sang Qi Zhang Bofan as Zi Zhu Han Zhigang as Housekeeper of Lin Manor Jin Yanqing as Pei Heng's subordinate Liu Xin as Storyteller Xue Yilun as Storyteller Wang Ming as Storyteller Guo Jiayi as Minister Hang, spy of Xuanhu city Zhang Haocheng as Chief of Xuanhu city, Han Shuo's father. Zhang Tingting as Madame of Xuanhu city, Han Shuo's mother. Ge Hao as Xuanhu envoy Shen Chi as Meng Guo Ji Shan as Minister Liu Zhang Haoge as Zhang Yide Zhang Minghe as Minister Han Ning Xianzhou as Agent Fu Qiang as General Li Fu Jingying as Miss Li Qiu Xiao as Miss Wang Shi Yan as Ceremonial Official Deng Ziyu as Examiner Zheng Yunjie as Judge Production and release The show was filmed between August and October 2019 at Hengdian World Studios. The first poster and trailer was released on April 29, 2020, and was announced on May 11 of its exclusive broadcast on Tencent Video. Soundtrack The Romance of Tiger and Rose OST's producer is Hong Chuan, who also worked on The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty (2020) and Wait in Bejing (2020) original soundtracks. Reception The Romance of Tiger and Rose has currently earned a 7.5 on Douban with more than 162,000 user reviews. It has been praised for its interesting setup and plot, although the gender swap dynamics presented in its matriarchal setting have been criticized for being inconsistent in its portrayal. References External links The Romance of Tiger and Rose on Weibo The Romance of Tiger and Rose on Douban Television series by Tencent Penguin Pictures Chinese historical television series Chinese romance television series 2020 web series debuts Tencent original programming 2020 Chinese television series debuts 2020 Chinese television series endings Chinese romantic comedy television series

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

McCashin

McCashin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur McCashin (1909–1988), American equestrian Constance McCashin (born 1947), American psychotherapist and actor Terry McCashin (1944–2017), New Zealand businessman See also McCashins Brewery, a New Zealand brewery

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20McLoughlin%20Gallery

The McLoughlin Gallery

The McLoughlin Gallery was an art gallery established in 2010 by Joan McLoughlin that presented contemporary art from mid-career and emerging artists. The gallery was located at 49 Geary Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, California, United States. The McLoughlin gallery was the third largest space at 49 Geary. Artists at the gallery worked with a variety of different, and sometimes non-traditional, materials including: resins, plastics, Xeroxes, glitter, wood panel, acrylic and found objects. History Joan McLoughlin was a long-time art enthusiast and collector and worked as an executive at startup medical device companies before she founded her gallery. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, McLoughlin's appreciation for art deepened, and found that her treatments gave her time to reflect on what she truly wanted to do with her life. After significant reflection, she decided to pursue one of her long-time dreams, and opened the McLoughlin Gallery. McLoughlin made the decision to donate a percentage of the gallery's net sales profits to Glide Memorial Church and the Stanford University Medical Center's breast cancer research, a practice that is uncommon for art galleries. The gallery shows contemporary art from both local and international (mostly European) artists. The gallery put an emphasis on discovering and developing San Francisco artists, while also including artists from abroad, through their shows. The McLoughlin Gallery opened in October 2010, the month of October holding a special significance to McLoughlin because it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The gallery's first major exhibit, "Warmth is Movement," opened in February 2011. In June 2011, the McLoughlin Gallery was featured as one of 7x7 Magazine's five most exciting new galleries in San Francisco. In their article, they remark that the gallery has rapidly "become a reputable (and the third largest) space in the prestigious 49 Geary art complex." In March 2013, The American Art Awards selected McLoughlin gallery as one of their "25 Best Galleries in America." In June 2013, the Miami New Times remarked that in the short time the gallery had been open, Mcloughlin had built a group of artists that had their work featured in "major museums and collections." In addition to the gallery's in-house exhibitions, the gallery also featured their artists at a number of fine art fairs, including: the Los Angeles Art Show, the San Francisco Fine Art Fair, ArtPadSF and Context Art Miami. Exhibitions The McLoughlin gallery's exhibitions received favorable reviews. Sculpture Magazine recognized one of McLoughlin's exhibitions featuring the work of David Middlebrook as being remarkable for Middlebrook's successful execution of the "technical and aesthetic" challenges that arose from his decision to stick to traditional materials such as wood, stone, and metal. Lisa Derrick at The Huffington Post singled out a work exhibited by a McLoughlin artist Desire Obtain Cherish (DOC) at the Los Angeles Art Show as the single best piece exhibited in the show in 2013. The Fog City Journal praised one of Mcloughlin's exhibitions for its artist Doug Thielscher's struggle to use century's old materials and techniques to convey a modern narrative that is compelling and "emotionally charged." Laura Kimpton's exhibition at McLoughlin titled "Flying Solo", which uses recycled materials to create mixed media pieces, was featured in KPIX-TV's "Eye on the Bay" program which described it as a "stunning retrospective of her impressive body of work." "Flying Solo" and the McLoughlin gallery were also profiled by CBS Radio News reporter Brian Banmiller in a "Banmiller on Business" piece titled "Re-usable art." See also Christopher H. Martin Kirstine Roepstorff Cosimo Cavallaro John Waguespack References External links 2010 establishments in California Art galleries established in 2010 Art museums and galleries in San Francisco Contemporary art galleries in the United States

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yea%20Chronicle

Yea Chronicle

The Yea Chronicle is a weekly newspaper that circulates on Wednesdays throughout the western region of the Murrindindi Shire in Victoria, Australia. The newspaper started as The Yea Telegraph in October 1885. The name changed to The Yea Chronicle in 1890. An early owner was Frederick G. Purcell. It was later owned by Tom Dignam and who sold the paper to Ash and Fleur Long in 1984 and they in turn sold it to Geoff Heyes and Jenny Smith of Alexandra newspapers in May 1993. it has a circulation of 524. See also List of newspapers in Australia References External links Digitised World War I Victorian newspapers from the State Library of Victoria Newspapers published in Victoria (Australia) 1885 establishments in Australia Newspapers on Trove

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg%20van%20Ommen

Jörg van Ommen

Jörg Van Ommen (born 27 September 1962 in Moers, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former German racing driver. He drove for Mercedes-AMG in the DTM in 1995 and 1996, finishing in second place in 1995 in a Mercedes C-Class. He also is the nephew of Hubert Hahne and Armin Hahne. Racing record Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Complete International Touring Car Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) † — Retired, but was classified as he completed 90% of the winner's race distance. Complete Super Tourenwagen Cup results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) References External links Jörg van Ommen, Driver Database 1962 births Living people People from Wesel (district) Racing drivers from North Rhine-Westphalia German racing drivers Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters drivers ADAC GT Masters drivers

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2013 Dayton Flyers football team

The 2013 Dayton Flyers football team represented the University of Dayton in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Rick Chamberlin and played their home games at Welcome Stadium. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 7–4, 5–3 in PFL play to finish in a tie for fourth place. The team was awarded White-Allen Most Valuable Player Trophy. Schedule References Dayton Dayton Flyers football seasons Dayton Flyers football

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Space travel in science fiction

Space travel, or space flight (less often, starfaring or star voyaging) is a classic science-fiction theme that has captivated the public and is almost archetypal for science fiction. Space travel, interplanetary or interstellar, is usually performed in space ships, and spacecraft propulsion in various works ranges from the scientifically plausible to the totally fictitious. While some writers focus on realistic, scientific, and educational aspects of space travel, with other writers the concept may be seen as a metaphor for freedom, including "free[ing] mankind from the prison of the solar system". Though the science-fiction rocket has been described as a 20th-century icon, according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction "The means by which space flight has been achieved in sf – its many and various spaceships – have always been of secondary importance to the mythical impact of the theme". Works related to space travel have popularized such concepts as time dilation, space stations, and space colonization. While generally associated with science fiction, space travel – involving magic or supernatural entities such as angels – has also occasionally featured in fantasy. History A classic, defining trope of the science-fiction genre is that the action takes place in space, either aboard a spaceship or on another planet. Early works of science fiction, termed "proto SF" – such as novels by 17th-century writers Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac, and by astronomer Johannes Kepler – include "lunar romances", much of whose action takes place on the Moon. Science-fiction critic George Slusser also pointed to Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1604) – in which the main character is able to see the entire earth from high above – and noted the connections of space travel to earlier dreams of flight and air travel, as far back as the writings of Plato and Socrates. In such a grand view, space travel, and inventions such as various forms of "star drive", can be seen as metaphors for freedom, including "free[ing] mankind from the prison of the solar system". In the following centuries, while science fiction addressed many aspects of futuristic science as well as space travel, space travel proved the more influential with the genre's writers and readers, evoking their sense of wonder. Most works were mainly intended to amuse readers, but a small number, often by authors with a scholarly background, sought to educate readers about related aspects of science, including astronomy; this was the motive of the influential American editor Hugo Gernsback, who dubbed it "sugar-coated science" and "scientification". Science-fiction magazines, including Gernsback's Science Wonder Stories, alongside works of pure fiction, discussed the feasibility of space travel; many science-fiction writers also published nonfiction works on space travel, such as Willy Ley's articles and David Lasser's book, The Conquest of Space (1931). From the late 19th and early 20th centuries on, there was a visible distinction between the more "realistic", scientific fiction (which would later evolve into hard sf)), whose authors, often scientists like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Max Valier, focused on the more plausible concept of interplanetary travel (to the Moon or Mars); and the more grandiose, less realistic stories of "escape from Earth into a Universe filled with worlds", which gave rise to the genre of space opera, pioneered by E. E. Smith and popularized by the television series Star Trek, which debuted in 1966. This trend continues to the present, with some works focusing on "the myth of space flight", and others on "realistic examination of space flight"; the difference can be described as that between the authors' concern with the "imaginative horizons rather than hardware". The successes of 20th-century space programs, such as the Apollo 11 Moon landing, have often been described as "science fiction come true" and have served to further "demystify" the concept of space travel within the solar system. Henceforth writers who wanted to focus on the "myth of space travel" were increasingly likely to do so through the concept of interstellar travel. Edward James wrote that many science fiction stories have "explored the idea that without the constant expansion of humanity, and the continual extension of scientific knowledge, comes stagnation and decline." While the theme of space travel has generally been seen as optimistic, some stories by revisionist authors, often more pessimistic and disillusioned, juxtapose the two types, contrasting the romantic myth of space travel with a more down-to-earth reality. George Slusser suggests that "science fiction travel since World War II has mirrored the United States space program: anticipation in the 1950s and early 1960s, euphoria into the 1970s, modulating into skepticism and gradual withdrawal since the 1980s." On the screen, the 1902 French film A Trip to the Moon, by Georges Méliès, described as the first science-fiction film, linked special effects to depictions of spaceflight. With other early films, such as Woman in the Moon (1929) and Thing to Come (1936), it contributed to an early recognition of the rocket as the iconic, primary means of space travel, decades before space programs began. Later milestones in film and television include the Star Trek series and films, and the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick (1968), which visually advanced the concept of space travel, allowing it to evolve from the simple rocket toward a more complex space ship. Stanley Kubrick's 1968 epic film featured a lengthy sequence of interstellar travel through a mysterious "star gate". This sequence, noted for its psychedelic special effects conceived by Douglas Trumbull, influenced a number of later cinematic depictions of superluminal and hyperspatial travel, such as Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). I Means of travel Generic terms for engines enabling science-fiction spacecraft propulsion include "space drive" and "star drive". In 1977 The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction listed the following means of space travel: anti-gravity, atomic (nuclear), bloater, cannon one-shot, Dean drive, faster-than-light (FTL), hyperspace, Inertialess drive, Ion thruster, photon rocket, plasma propulsion engine, Bussard ramjet, R. force, solar sail, spindizzy, and torchship. The 2007 Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction lists the following terms related to the concept of space drive: gravity drive, hyperdrive, ion drive, jump drive, overdrive, ramscoop (a synonym for ram-jet), reaction drive, stargate, ultradrive, warp drive and torchdrive. Several of these terms are entirely fictitious or are based on "rubber science", while others are based on real scientific theories. Many fictitious means of travelling through space, in particular, faster than light travel, tend to go against the current understanding of physics, in particular, the theory of relativity. Some works sport numerous alternative star drives; for example the Star Trek universe, in addition to its iconic "warp drive", has introduced concepts such as "transwarp", "slipstream" and "spore drive", among others. Many, particularly early, writers of science fiction did not address means of travel in much detail, and many writings of the "proto-SF" era were disadvantaged by their authors' living in a time when knowledge of space was very limited — in fact, many early works did not even consider the concept of vacuum and instead assumed that an atmosphere of sorts, composed of air or "aether", continued indefinitely. Highly influential in popularizing the science of science fiction was the 19th-century French writer Jules Verne, whose means of space travel in his 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon (and its sequel, Around the Moon), was explained mathematically, and whose vehicle — a gun-launched space capsule — has been described as the first such vehicle to be "scientifically conceived" in fiction. Percy Greg's Across the Zodiac (1880) featured a spaceship with a small garden, an early precursor of hydroponics. Another writer who attempted to merge concrete scientific ideas with science fiction was the turn-of-the-century Russian writer and scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who popularized the concept of rocketry. George Mann mentions Robert A. Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) and Arthur C. Clarke's Prelude to Space (1951) as early, influential modern works that emphasized the scientific and engineering aspects of space travel. From the 1960s on, growing popular interest in modern technology also led to increasing depictions of interplanetary spaceships based on advanced plausible extensions of real modern technology. Interstellar travel Slower than light With regard to interstellar travel, in which faster-than-light speeds are generally considered unrealistic, more realistic depictions of interstellar travel have often focused on the idea of "generation ships" that travel at sub-light speed for many generations before arriving at their destinations. Other scientifically plausible concepts of interstellar travel include suspended animation and, less often, ion drive, solar sail, Bussard ramjet, and time dilation. Faster than light Some works discuss Einstein's general theory of relativity and challenges that it faces from quantum mechanics, and include concepts of space travel through wormholes or black holes. Many writers, however, gloss over such problems, introducing entirely fictional concepts such as hyperspace (also, subspace, nulspace, overspace, jumpspace, or slipstream) travel using inventions such as hyperdrive, jump drive, warp drive, or space folding. Invention of completely made-up devices enabling space travel has a long tradition — already in the early 20th century, Verne criticized H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon (1901) for abandoning realistic science (his spaceship relied on anti-gravitic material called "cavorite"). Of fictitious drives, by the mid-1970s the concept of hyperspace travel was described as having achieved the most popularity, and would subsequently be further popularized — as hyperdrive — through its use in the Star Wars franchise. While the fictitious drives "solved" problems related to physics (the difficulty of faster-than-light travel), some writers introduce new wrinkles — for example, a common trope involves the difficulty of using such drives in close proximity to other objects, in some cases allowing their use only beginning from the outskirts of the solar systems. While usually the means of space travel is just a means to an end, in some works, particularly short stories, it is a central plot device. These works focus on themes such as the mysteries of hyperspace, or the consequences of getting lost after an error or malfunction. See also Flying saucer Human spaceflight Science fictional space warfare Space elevator Space flight simulation game Unidentified flying object Notes References Further reading External links Science fiction themes

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Onke Dubase

Onke Sydwell Dubase (born 6 August 1989) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the in domestic Currie Cup rugby. His regular position is flanker. Career Youth Dubase was included in the team for the 2009 and 2010 Under-21 Provincial Championships. Border Bulldogs and UFH Blues Dubase made his first class debut for the during the 2010 Currie Cup First Division competition, coming on as a substitute in their match against the in Kempton Park for his only appearance. Dubase played the whole 2011 Vodacom Cup competition, playing in all eight matches. He scored his first senior try in their match against the in East London and contributed another in the final match of the competition, a 52–19 defeat to the . Ten appearances followed in the 2011 Currie Cup First Division competition, with Dubase scoring his first Currie Cup try in their match against the . Dubase didn't play any provincial rugby in 2012 and 2013, but did participate in the Varsity Shield for Alice-based university side from 2011 to 2014. He scored three tries in the 2014 Varsity Shield competition as UFH had their best season in the competition by finishing third. His performances earned him a recall to the side and he started three matches towards the end of the 2014 Vodacom Cup campaign. He was also included in their squad for the 2014 Currie Cup qualification tournament. At the start of 2016, Dubase was one of six Border Bulldogs players that joined the ' Super Rugby squad for a trial period as they prepared for the 2016 Super Rugby season. However, he returned to Border Bulldogs after he failed to be contracted for the Super Rugby side. References 1989 births Living people Border Bulldogs players Rugby union flankers Rugby union players from East London, Eastern Cape South African rugby union players Alumni of Hudson Park High School

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Laurie Etheridge

Laurie Etheridge (born 12 September 1948 in Pulborough, England) is a former motorcycle speedway rider in National League (speedway). His first attempt at speedway, in 1963, was thwarted when his bike was stolen and he did not resume the sport until 1966. In 1967, he signed for Exeter Falcons and managed three appearances for them in that season. His career really started the following year, when he was signed up for Hackney Hawks by Len Silver and their partner team Rayleigh Rockets. A good season for Rayleigh resulted in a full-time contract for Hackney. He was a Crayford regular for 8 years, achieving nearly 300 league and cup appearances as a Kestrel. Crayford held a Testimonial Season for Etheridge in 1982, Notable performances: England v Russia (1974) National League Riders Champion (1975) National League series GB v Denmark (1978) - there was also a series against Australia National League Four Team Tournament (1980) Testimonial Year Crayford Kestrels v England (1982) In the 1975 National League Riders Championship at Wimbledon, the final race was between him and Brian Collins (speedway rider) where Collins came off in the first lap and Etheridge rode a solitary four laps to be crowned champion. Etheridge was in the side when Crayford won their only trophy, the 1980 National League Four-Team Championship, however due to machine troubles he didn't start a race in the final of the tournament. His last race was at Newcastle for Canterbury in 1983. Post-speedway, he worked in Industrial Plumbing and Central Heating. He lives in West Sussex with his wife, Denise, and they have two married daughters and four grandchildren. References External links http://www.speedwayatoz.co.uk/laurieetheridge.html|season records http://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/494|teams and meetings http://www.crayfordkestrels.co.uk/?page_id=10 http://hackneyreunion.com/Hackney-team-riders-1935-1996|names of riders 1935-1996 1948 births English motorcycle racers British speedway riders Exeter Falcons riders Rayleigh Rockets riders Canterbury Crusaders riders Crayford Kestrels riders Hackney Hawks riders Sheffield Tigers riders Coventry Bees riders Living people

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Colin Walker (footballer, born 1929)

Colin Walker (7 July 1929 – November 2017) was an English footballer. He was born in Stapleford, England. Career Walker started his career with Derby County in October 1946. He went on to play for Gresley Rovers. Notes 1929 births 2017 deaths English footballers Association football midfielders Derby County F.C. players Gresley F.C. players People from Stapleford, Nottinghamshire

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Yehor Demchenko

Yehor Demchenko (; born 25 July 1997) is a Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for Metalist Kharkiv. Career Demchenko is a product of FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia youth team system. His first trainer was Mykola Syenovalov. He made his debut for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia in the Ukrainian Premier League in a match against FC Hoverla Uzhhorod on 8 August 2015. In August 2016, he spent 2 weeks training with Japanese club Júbilo Iwata, but he wasn't signed. After his return from Japan, he trained with Olimpik Donetsk and signed contract with the club on 1 December 2016. References External links 1997 births Living people People from Vasylivka Raion Ukrainian footballers Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Ukrainian Second League players FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players FC Zorya Luhansk players FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi players FC Olimpik Donetsk players FC Kramatorsk players FC Kolos Kovalivka players FC Metalist Kharkiv players Association football midfielders

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1870 in sports

1870 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. American football College championship College football national championship – Princeton Tigers Events Columbia Lions joins the college football circuit and loses to Rutgers Scarlet Knights in its only game. Princeton Tigers beats Rutgers. Columbia doesn't play Princeton. Association football Scotland Formation of Stranraer FC International 5 March — the first international match between England and Scotland is a 0–0 draw at Kennington Oval but it is not officially recognised by FIFA as there is no Scottish FA in existence at the time Baseball National championship National Association of Base Ball Players champion – Chicago White Stockings Events Openly there are fifteen professional teams in the field. Harvard college's strongest team tours during the summer and wins 6 of 16 against the pros. 14 June — Atlantic of Brooklyn defeats the Cincinnati Red Stockings 8 to 7 in 11 innings, the first Red Stockings defeat since 3 October 1868. Boxing Events 10 May — Jem Mace returns to competitive boxing and fights Tom Allen, nominally for the now-defunct English Championship at Kennerville, Louisiana. Mace wins with a tenth-round knockout which confirms that he is still the best English fighter. Claims are made on behalf of Mace that he is also the holder of the American Championship and this fight was the first world heavyweight championship bout. Having not fought either Jimmy Elliott or Mike McCoole and strong anti-British sentiment within the mostly Irish-American boxing community at that time, these claims are still debated. 12 December — American Championship claimant Jimmy Elliott is arrested and convicted of highway robbery and assault with intent to kill. He is sentenced to 16 years and 10 months at the Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia, eventually serving more than eight years. Elliott's rival Mike McCoole is inactive this year but, with Elliott out of contention, McCoole has the strongest claim to the American Championship with Mace now his main rival. Cricket Events 2, 3 & 4 June — Gloucestershire County Cricket Club plays its initial first-class match v. Surrey at Durdham Downs, near Bristol. Formation of Derbyshire County Cricket Club England Most runs – W. G. Grace 1,808 @ 54.78 (HS 215) Most wickets – James Southerton 210 @ 14.62 (BB 8–67) Golf Major tournaments British Open – Tom Morris junior Horse racing Events Inaugural running of the Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse Racecourse is won by Sir Robert Peel. England Grand National – The Colonel (second consecutive win) 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Hester 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Macgregor The Derby – Kingcraft The Oaks – Gamos St. Leger Stakes – Hawthornden Australia Melbourne Cup – Nimblefoot Canada Queen's Plate – John Bell Ireland Irish Grand National – Sir Robert Peel Irish Derby Stakes – Billy Pitt USA Belmont Stakes – Kingfisher Rowing The Boat Race 6 April — Cambridge wins the 27th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race Other events In Australia, the inaugural Australian Universities Boat Race is won by Melbourne in 31 mins 4 seconds Rugby football Events Foundation of Leeds RLFC Alcock's Football Annual lists approximately 75 clubs playing Rugby School football rules. These clubs have different interpretations of the laws as played at Rugby School. The Nelson club of New Zealand starts to play Rugby School rules, the first club in that country to do so. May 14 - The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club. In November, an anonymous surgeon writes to The Times complaining that Rugby football is dangerous. The letter fuels agreement in the sport to form a ruling body which will regulate the laws. Yacht racing America's Cup 8 August — the New York Yacht Club wins the first America's Cup challenge race, as Magic defeats British challenger Cambria'', of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. References Sports by year

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Constant (given name)

Constant is a given name, and may refer to: André Henri Constant van Hasselt (1806–1874), Flemish poet André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860), French zoologist Constant Chevillon (1880–1944), Grand Master of the Freemasonry Rite of Memphis-Misraïm Constant d'Aubigné (circa 1584–1647), French nobleman Constant de Kerchove de Denterghem (1790–1865), Belgian liberal politician Constant Feith (1884–1958), Dutch amateur football player Constant Fornerod (1819–1899), Swiss politician Constant Fouard (1837–1903), French ecclesiastical writer Constant Huret (1870–1951), long distance track racing cyclist Constant Janssen (1895–1970), Belgian physician and businessman Constant Lambert (1905–1951), British composer and conductor Constant Le Marchand de Lignery (1662–1732), French military officer Constant Lestienne (born 1992), French tennis player Constant Martin, inventor of the Clavioline Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920–2005), Dutch painter, generally known simply as Constant Constant Permeke (1886–1952), Belgian painter Constant Prévost (1787–1856), French geologist Constant Tonegaru (1919–1952), Romanian poet Constant Troyon (1810–1865), French painter Constant Vanden Stock (born 1914), honorary president and former president and player of Belgian football club R.S.C. Anderlecht Jean Michel Constant Leber (1780–1859), French historian and bibliophile Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869), French zoologist Marie Philibert Constant Sappey (1810–1896), French anatomist See also Constance (name) Constant (surname) Constantine (name) Constant-Désiré Benjamin-Constant Benoît-Constant Saint-Constant (disambiguation) French masculine given names Masculine given names

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Leopold I

Leopold I may refer to: Leopold I, Margrave of Austria (d. 994), first Margrave of Austria Leopold I, Duke of Austria (1290–1326), co-Duke of Austria and Styria with Frederick I Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640–1705), Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676–1747), Prince of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold I, Prince of Lippe (1767–1802), ruler of the Principality of Lippe Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden (1790–1852) Leopold I of Belgium (1790–1865), first King of the Belgians

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The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. It rose to international popularity fueled by unprecedented sales of LP records and helped alter the direction of popular music in the U.S. The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent groups of the era's pop-folk boom, which they kick-started in 1958 with the release of the Trio's eponymous first album and its hit recording of "Tom Dooley", which became a number one hit and sold over three million copies as a single. The Trio released nineteen albums that made Billboards Top 100, fourteen of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Four of the group's LPs charted among the 10 top-selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years, and the group still ranks in the all-time lists of many of Billboards cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums. In 1961, the Trio was described as "the most envied, the most imitated, and the most successful singing group, folk or otherwise, in all show business" and "the undisputed kings of the folksinging rage by every yardstick". The Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter, folk rock, and Americana artists who followed in their wake. The Kingston Trio continues to tour as of 2021 with musicians who licensed the name and trademark in 2017. Formation, 1954–1957 Dave Guard and Bob Shane had been friends since junior high school at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii where both had learned to play ukulele in required music classes. They had developed an interest in and admiration for native Hawaiian slack key guitarists like Gabby Pahinui. While in Punahou's secondary school, Shane taught first himself and then Guard the rudiments of the six-string guitar, and the two began performing at parties and in school shows doing an eclectic mix of Tahitian, Hawaiian, and calypso songs. After graduating from high school in 1952, Guard enrolled at Stanford University while Shane matriculated at nearby Menlo College. At Menlo, Shane became friends with Nick Reynolds, a native San Diegan with an extensive knowledge of folk and calypso songs—in part from his guitar-playing father, a career officer in the U.S. Navy. Reynolds was also able to create and sing tenor harmonies, a skill derived in part from family singalongs, and could play both guitar and bongo and conga drums. Shane and Reynolds performed at fraternity parties and luaus for a time, and eventually Shane introduced Reynolds to Guard. The three began performing at campus and neighborhood hangouts, sometimes as a trio but with an aggregation of friends that could swell its ranks to as many as six or seven, according to Reynolds. They usually billed themselves under the name of "Dave Guard and the Calypsonians". None of the three at that time had any serious aspirations to enter professional show business, however, and Shane returned to Hawaii following his graduation in late 1956 to work in the family sporting goods business. Still in the Bay Area, Guard and Reynolds had organized themselves somewhat more formally into an entity named "The Kingston Quartet" with friends bassist Joe Gannon and vocalist Barbara Bogue, though as before the members were often joined in their performances by other friends. At one engagement at Redwood City's Cracked Pot beer garden, they met a young San Francisco publicist named Frank Werber, who had heard of them from a local entertainment reporter. Werber liked the group's raw energy but did not consider them refined enough to want to represent them as an agent or manager at that point, though he left his telephone number with Guard. Some weeks later (and following a brief period in which Reynolds was temporarily replaced in the quartet by Don MacArthur), Guard and Reynolds invited Werber to a performance of the group at the Italian Village Restaurant in San Francisco, where Werber was so impressed by the group's progress that he agreed to manage them provided they replace Gannon, in whose professional potential Werber had no faith. Bogue left with Gannon, and Guard, Reynolds, and Werber invited Shane to rejoin the now more formally organized band. Shane, who had been performing part-time as a solo act at night in Honolulu, readily assented and returned to the mainland in early March 1957. The four drew up a contract as equal partners in Werber's office in San Francisco, deciding first on the name "Kingston Trio" because it evoked, through its association with Kingston, Jamaica, the calypso music popular at the time, and second on the uniform of three-quarter-length sleeved vertically striped shirts that the group hoped would help its target audience of college students to identify with them. Era of peak success, 1957–61 Werber imposed a stern training regimen on Guard, Shane, and Reynolds, rehearsing them for six to eight hours a day for several months, sending them to prominent San Francisco vocal coach Judy Davis to help them learn to preserve their voices, and working on the group's carefully prepared but apparently spontaneous banter between songs. At the same time, the group was developing a varied and eclectic repertoire of calypso, folk, and foreign language songs, suggested by all three of the musicians though usually arranged by Guard with some harmonies created by Reynolds. The first major break for the Kingston Trio came in late June 1957 when comedian Phyllis Diller canceled a week-long engagement at The Purple Onion club in San Francisco. When Werber persuaded the club's owner to give the untested Trio a chance, Guard sent out five hundred postcards to everyone that the three musicians knew in the Bay Area and Werber plastered the city with handbills announcing the engagement. When the crowds came, the Trio had been well prepared by months of work, and they achieved such local popularity that the initial week's engagement stretched to six months. Werber built upon this initial success, booking a national club tour in early 1958 for the Trio that included engagements at such prominent night spots as Mister Kelly's in Chicago, the Village Vanguard in New York, Storyville in Boston, and finally a return to San Francisco and its showcase nightclub, the hungry i, in June of that year. At the same time, Werber was attempting to leverage the Trio's popularity as a club act into a recording contract. Both Dot Records and Liberty Records expressed some interest, but each proposed to record the Trio on 45 rpm (revolutions per minute) singles only, whereas Werber and the Trio members both felt that 33⅓ rpm albums had more potential for the group's music. Through Jimmy Saphier, agent for Bob Hope who had seen and liked the group at The Purple Onion, Werber contacted Capitol Records, which dispatched prominent producer Voyle Gilmore to San Francisco to evaluate the Trio's commercial potential. On Gilmore's strong recommendation, Capitol signed the Kingston Trio to an exclusive seven-year deal. The group's first album, Capitol T996 The Kingston Trio, was recorded over a three-day period in February 1958 and released in June that year, just as the Trio was beginning its engagement at the hungry i. Gilmore had made two important supervisory decisions as producer — first, to add the same kind of "bottom" to the Trio's sound that he had heard in live performance and consequently recruiting Purple Onion house bassist Buzz Wheeler to play on the album, and second to record the group's songs without the secondary orchestral accompaniment that was nearly universal (even for folk-styled records) at the time. The song selections on the first album reflected the repertoire that the musicians had been working on for two years—re-imagined traditional songs inspired by The Weavers like "Santy Anno" and "Bay of Mexico", calypso-flavored tunes such as "Banua" and "Sloop John B" that were reminiscent of the popular Harry Belafonte recordings of the time, and a mix of both foreign language and contemporary songwriter numbers, including Terry Gilkyson's "Fast Freight" and "Scotch and Soda", whose authorship remains unknown as of 2020. The album sold moderately well—including on-site sales at the hungry i during the Kingston Trio's engagement there through the summer—but it was DJs Paul Colburn and Bill Terry at station KLUB in Salt Lake City whose enthusiasm for a single cut on the record spurred the next development in the group's history. Colburn began playing "Tom Dooley" extensively on his show, prompting a rush of album sales in the Salt Lake area by fans who wanted to listen to the song, as yet unavailable as a single record. Colburn called other DJs around the country urging them to do the same, and national response to the song was so strong that a reluctant Capitol Records finally released the tune as a 45rpm single on August 8, 1958; it reached the number 1 spot on the Billboard chart by late November, sold a million copies by Christmas, and was awarded a gold record on January 21, 1959. "Tom Dooley" also spurred the debut album to a number 1 position on the charts and helped the band earn a second gold record for the LP, which remained charted on Billboard's weekly reports for 195 weeks. The success of the album and the single earned the Kingston Trio a Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for "Tom Dooley" at the awards' inaugural ceremony in 1959. At the time, no folk music category existed. The next year, largely as a result of The Kingston Trio and "Tom Dooley", the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences instituted a folk category and the Trio won the first Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for its second studio album At Large. This was the beginning of a remarkable three-year run for the Trio in which its first five studio albums achieved number 1 chart status and were awarded gold records. By 1961, the group had sold more than eight million records, earning in excess of US$25 million for Capitol, roughly US$220 million in 2021 dollars. The Kingston Trio was responsible for 15 percent of Capitol's total sales when Capitol recorded many other popular artists, including Frank Sinatra and Nat "King" Cole, both of whom were also producing high-charting profitable albums. For five consecutive weeks in November and December 1959, four Kingston Trio albums ranked in the top ten of Billboards Top LPs chart, an accomplishment unmatched by any artist before or since. The Trio also charted several single records during this time, made numerous television appearances, and played upwards of 200 engagements per year. Change and a second phase, 1961–67 By early 1961 a rift developed and deepened between Guard on one side and Shane and Reynolds on the other. Guard had been referred to in the press and on the albums' liner notes as the "acknowledged leader" of the group, a description never wholly endorsed by Shane and Reynolds, who felt themselves equal contributors to the group's repertoire and success. Guard wanted Shane and Reynolds to follow his lead and learn more of the technical aspects of music and to redirect the group's song selections, in part because of the withering criticism that the group had been getting from more traditional folk performers for the Trio's smoother and more commercial versions of folk songs and for the money-making copyrights that the Kingston group had secured for its arrangements of public domain songs. Shane and Reynolds felt that the formula for song selection and performance that they had painstakingly developed still served them well. Furthermore, over $100,000 appeared to be missing from the Trio's publishing royalties, an accounting error eventually rectified, which created an additional irritant to both sides. Guard regarded it as inexcusable carelessness while to Shane and Reynolds it highlighted what they perceived as Guard's propensity to claim individual copyright for some of the group's songs, including "Tom Dooley" (though Guard eventually lost a suit over copyright for that number to Alan Lomax, Frank Warner, and Frank Proffitt) and "Scotch and Soda". Following a meeting with attorneys on May 10, 1961, intended to resolve the dispute, Dave Guard resigned from the Kingston Trio, though pledging to fulfill group commitments through November of that year. Shane, Reynolds, and Werber bought out Guard's interest in the partnership for $300,000 to be paid over a number of years and moved to replace him immediately. The remaining Trio partners settled quickly on John Stewart, a 21-year-old member of the Cumberland Three, one of the many groups that sprang up hoping to imitate the Kingston Trio's success. Stewart was well-acquainted with Reynolds and Shane, having sold two songs to the Trio, and he was a proficient guitarist, banjoist, and singer. Stewart began rehearsing and recording with the group nearly immediately, commencing public appearances with the Trio in September 1961. According to Shane, "We did nearly as well with John as we did with Dave." Six of the group's next seven albums between 1961 and 1963 continued to place in Billboard's Top Ten and several of the group's most successful singles, including "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Greenback Dollar", charted as well. Beginning in 1964, however, the Kingston Trio's dominance in record sales and concert bookings began to wane, due partly to imitators in the pop-folk world and also to the rise of other commercial folk groups like Peter, Paul and Mary whose music had a decidedly more political bent than the Trio's. The British Invasion spearheaded by The Beatles, who were signed by EMI/Capitol just as the Trio's seven-year contract was running out, depressed sales of acoustic folk albums significantly, and Capitol did not make a serious effort to re-sign the group. According to critic Ken Barnes, the British Invasion played a significant role in curtailing the sales of the Trio's recordings. Werber secured a generous signing bonus from Decca Records, and the last four albums of the Kingston Trio's first decade were released by that label. Without the production facilities of Capitol, however, and the expertise of Voyle Gilmore and engineer Pete Abbott, the Decca releases lacked the aural brilliance of the Capitol albums, and none of the four sold especially well. By 1966, Reynolds had grown weary of touring and Stewart wanted to strike out on his own as a singer-songwriter, so the three musicians and Werber developed an exit strategy of playing as many dates as possible for a year with an endpoint determined to be a final two-week engagement at the hungry i in June 1967. The group followed this strategy successfully, and on June 17, 1967, the Kingston Trio ceased to be an actively performing band. Hiatus and the New Kingston Trio, 1967–1976 Following the hungry i engagement, Reynolds moved to Port Orford, Oregon and pursued interests in ranching, business, and race cars for the next twenty years. Stewart commenced a long and distinguished career as a singer-songwriter, composing hit songs like "Daydream Believer" for The Monkees and "Runaway Train" for Rosanne Cash. He recorded more than 40 albums of his own, most notably the landmark California Bloodlines, and found chart success in the top forty with "Midnight Wind", "Lost Her in the Sun", and "Gold", the latter reaching number 5 in 1979. Bob Shane decided to stay in entertainment, and he experimented with solo work. He recorded several singles, including a well-received but under-marketed version of the song "Honey" that later became a million-seller for Bobby Goldsboro, and with different configurations with other folk-oriented performers. Though finances were not an immediate concern—the Kingston Trio partners Werber, Shane and Reynolds still owned an office building, a restaurant, other commercial real estate, and a variety of other lucrative investments—Shane wanted to return to a group environment and in 1969 secured permission from his partners to use the mutually owned group name for another band, with Reynolds and Werber insisting only that Shane's group be musically as accomplished as its predecessors and that Shane prefix "new" to the band's title. Shane agreed and organized two troupes under the name of "The New Kingston Trio". The first consisted of guitarist Pat Horine and banjoist Jim Connor in addition to Shane and lasted from 1969 to 1973, the second including guitarist Roger Gambill and banjoist Bill Zorn from 1973 until 1976. Shane tried to create a repertoire for these groups that included both the older and expected Kingston Trio standards like "Tom Dooley" and "M.T.A." but that would also feature more contemporary songs as well, including country and novelty tunes. The attempt did not meet with any significant success. The only full-length album released by either group was The World Needs a Melody in 1973 (though 25 years later FolkEra Records issued The Lost Masters 1969–1972, a compilation of previously unreleased tracks from the Shane-Horine-Connor years), and its sales were negligible. Though both troupes of the New Kingston Trio made a limited number of other recordings and several television appearances, neither generated very much interest from fans or the public at large. The third phase, 1976–2017 In 1976, Bill Zorn left the New Kingston Trio to work as a solo performer and record producer in London. Shane and Gambill replaced him with George Grove, a professionally trained singer and instrumentalist from North Carolina who had been working in Nashville as a studio musician. The same year, Shane secured from Werber and Reynolds the unencumbered rights to use the band's original name of the Kingston Trio without the appended "new" in exchange for relinquishing his interest in the still-profitable corporation, whose holdings included copyrights and licensing rights to many of the original Trio's songs. Since 1976, the various troupes owned by Shane have performed and recorded simply as the Kingston Trio. The Shane-Gambill-Grove Kingston Trio existed from 1976 through 1985, when Gambill died unexpectedly from a heart attack on March 2 at the age of 42. The nine years of this configuration was to that point the longest period of time that any three musicians had worked together as the Kingston Trio, and the group released two albums of largely original material. It was during this period as well that PBS producers JoAnne Young and Paul Surratt approached Shane and the other principals of the original group with the idea of arranging a reunion concert that would be taped and used as a fundraiser for the network. Agreement was reached, and on November 7, 1981, Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and John Stewart joined the Shane-Gambill-Grove Trio and guest performers Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary, Tom Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac at the Magic Mountain amusement park north of Los Angeles for a show billed as "The Kingston Trio and Friends Reunion." The different configurations of the Trio took turns performing sets of the group's best-known songs with all the artists joining onstage for a finale. More than twenty years had passed since Dave Guard had left the group, but residual tension surfaced between Guard and Shane in an article in The Wall Street Journal that appeared in March 1982 following the national broadcast of the taped show. Guard implicitly disparaged Shane's current group, and Shane asserted a distaste for performing again with Guard, who had spent the intervening decades living and performing in Australia, touring sporadically as a soloist, and writing about and teaching music. Despite the unpleasantness, Shane and Guard reconciled to a large degree (even to the point of planning a possible reunion tour) prior to Guard's death at age 56 from lymphoma nine years later in March 1991. Following the 1985 death of Roger Gambill, Kingston Trio personnel changed several times, though Shane and Grove remained constants. Bob Haworth, a veteran folk performer who had worked as a member of The Brothers Four for many years, initially replaced Gambill from 1985 through 1988 and again from 1999 through 2005. In 1988, original member Nick Reynolds rejoined the band until his final retirement in 1999. When heart disease forced Bob Shane's retirement from touring in March 2004, he was replaced by former New Kingston Trio member Bill Zorn. A year later, following Haworth's departure, Grove and Zorn were joined by Rick Dougherty, who had performed for a time with Zorn as second-generation members of another popular folk group from the 1960s, The Limeliters. Both the Grove–Zorn–Haworth and Grove–Zorn–Dougherty troupes of the Kingston Trio released original CDs and DVDs, and the latter configuration toured extensively for 12 years under the direction of original member Bob Shane. Capitol Records, Decca Records, Collector's Choice Music, and Folk Era Records have released and continue to release compilations of older albums as well as previously unreleased tapes of both studio and live recordings from the Kingston Trio's first ten years. Trademark and roster changes, 2017 to the present In July 2017, Billboard reported that a lawsuit had been filed in Los Angeles by Josh Reynolds, who is the son of Nick Reynolds, a founding member of the band, and his cousin Gerald "Mike" Marvin. Defendants included Kingston Trio performers George Grove, William Zorn and Richard Dougherty, as well as Nikki Gary, who books concerts. The lawsuit alleged that Shane and his associates accepted $100,000 from the Reynolds group in exchange for exclusive rights to use the trademarked name of the band but then allowed Grove, Zorn and Dougherty to perform as the Kingston Trio at concerts booked by Gary. On August 11, 2017, the case against Grove, Zorn, and Dougherty was dismissed with prejudice in the same Los Angeles court and consequently cannot be re-filed. In early August 2017, sole Kingston Trio owner Bob Shane announced the licensing of his trademark to the Josh Reynolds/Mike Marvin group of investors. Shane wrote on what was then the group's official website that: I am pleased to announce the Kingston Trio legacy will be carried forth by Josh Reynolds, Mike Marvin and Tim Gorelangton, who will begin performing as the Kingston Trio in October 2017. As you all know, Josh is the son of founding member, and my friend and partner Nick Reynolds, and Mike Marvin is Nick’s cousin. Rounding it out is Tim Gorelangton, one of the only people Nick ever recorded with outside the Trio. It was Nick Reynolds’ and my fondest hope that Josh and Mike would carry on the Trio and family legacy. Consequently, in October 2017, Grove, Zorn, and Dougherty were replaced as the Trio by new licensees Reynolds and Marvin and their friend, Tim Gorelangton. In 2018, Josh Reynolds left the group and was replaced by Bob Haworth, who became a member of the band for the third time. At the end of 2018, Haworth left the group and was replaced by Don Marovich. Folk music label Initial criticism Almost from its inception, the Kingston Trio found itself at odds with the traditional music community. Urban folk musicians of the time (to whom Bob Dylan referred in Rolling Stone as "the left-wing puritans that seemed to have a hold on the folk-music community") frequently associated folk music with leftist politics and were contemptuous of the Trio's deliberate political neutrality. Peter Dreier of Occidental College observed that "Purists often derided the Kingston Trio for watering down folk songs in order to make them commercially popular and for remaining on the political sidelines during the protest movements of the 1960s." A series of scathing articles appeared over several years in Sing Out! magazine, a publication that combined articles on traditional folk music with political activism. Its editor Irwin Silber referred to "the sallow slickness of the Kingston Trio" and in an article in the spring 1959 issue Ron Radosh said that the Trio brought "good folk music to the level of the worst in Tin Pan Alley music" and referred to its members as "prostitutes of the art who gain their status as folk artists because they use guitars and banjos". Following the Trio's performance at the premier Newport Folk Festival in 1959, folk music critic Mark Morris wrote: "What connection these frenetic tinselly showmen have with a folk festival eludes me... except that it is mainly folk songs that they choose to vulgarize." Frank Proffitt, the Appalachian musician whose version of "Tom Dooley" the Trio rearranged, watched their performance of his song on a television show and wrote in reaction, "They clowned and hipswung. Then they came out with 'This time tomorrow, reckon where I'll be/If it hadn't a' been for Grayson/I'd a been in Tennessee.' I began to feel sorty sick. Like I'd lost a loved one. Tears came to my eyes. I went out and bawled on the ridge." Proffitt had learned the song from his father and his grandmother, who had known Tom Dula and Laura Foster, the killer and the victim in the actual 1866 murder related in the song. Both Proffitt and fellow North Carolina musician Doc Watson sang the older version of the tune, which had "a lively mocking tempo... that retained some of the ghastliness and moral squalor of an actual murder", according to folk historian Robert Cantwell, who also notes that the Kingston Trio's version of the song omitted several verses from the traditional lyric. The slower, harmonized Trio version of the Dooley song and other traditional numbers struck Proffitt as a betrayal of "the strange mysterious workings which has made Tom Dooly [sic] live..." In 2006, folk traditionalist and influential banjo master Billy Faier remarked: "I hear and see very little respect for the folk genre" in their music and described the Trio's repertoire as "a mishmash of twisted arrangements that not only obscure the true beauty of the folk songs from which they derive, but give them a meaning they never had." However, Trio members never claimed to be folksingers and were never comfortable with the label. The liner notes for the group's first album featured a quotation from Dave Guard asserting that "We don't really consider ourselves folksingers in the accepted sense of the word..." Guard later told journalist Richard Hadlock in Down Beat magazine: "We are not students of folk music; the basic thing for us is honest and worthwhile songs that people can pick up and become involved in." Nick Reynolds added in the same article: "We don't collect old songs in the sense that the academic cats do... We get new tunes to look over every day. Each one of us has his ears open constantly to new material or old stuff that's good." Bob Shane remarked years later: "To call the Kingston Trio folksingers was kind of stupid in the first place. We never called ourselves folksingers... We did folk-oriented material, but we did it amid all kinds of other stuff. But they didn't know what to call us with our instruments, so Capitol Records called us folksingers and gave us credit for starting this whole boom." 21st-century perspectives Over the years, the Kingston Trio expanded its song selection beyond the rearranged traditional numbers, calypso songs, and Broadway show tunes that had appeared on its first several albums. In an obituary for Nick Reynolds (d. October 1, 2008), Spencer Leigh wrote in Britain's Independent on Sunday: Looking at their repertoire now, it is apparent that the Kingston Trio was far more adventurous than is generally supposed. They introduced "It Was A Very Good Year" in 1961, later a standard for Frank Sinatra, and they were one of the first to spot the potential of English language versions of Jacques Brel's songs by recording "Seasons in the Sun" in 1963. They encouraged young songwriters including Hoyt Axton ("Greenback Dollar"), Rod McKuen ("Ally Ally Oxen Free", "The World I Used to Know") and Billy Edd Wheeler ("Reverend Mr Black"). Best of all, in 1962 they introduced listeners to one of the most poignant songs ever written, the anti-war ballad "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" by Pete Seeger, formerly with the Weavers. Further, Peter Dreier points out that "the group deserves credit for helping to launch the folk boom that brought recognition to older folkies and radicals like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and for paving the way for newcomers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, who were well known for their progressive political views and topical songs. By the time these younger folk singers arrived on the scene, the political climate had changed enough to provide a wide audience for protest music." Additionally, writing in the British daily The Guardian, also in an obituary for Reynolds, Ken Hunt asserted that "[the Kingston Trio] helped to turn untold numbers of people on to folk music... [T]hey put the boom in folk boom... They were the greatest of the bands to emerge after the McCarthy-era blacklisting of folk musicians and breathed new air into the genre." Influence On folk and pop music The Kingston Trio's influence on the development of American popular music has been considerable. According to music critic Bruce Eder writing for Allmusic.com: In the history of popular music, there are a relative handful of performers who have redefined the content of the music at critical points in history—people whose music left the landscape, and definition of popular music, altered completely. The Kingston Trio were one such group, transforming folk music into a hot commodity and creating a demand—where none had existed before—for young men (sometimes with women) strumming acoustic guitars and banjos and singing folk songs and folk-like novelty songs in harmony. On a purely commercial level, from 1957 until 1963, the Kingston Trio were the most vital and popular folk group in the world, and folk music was sufficiently popular as to make that a significant statement. Equally important, the original trio—Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and Bob Shane—in tandem with other, similar early acts such as the Limeliters, spearheaded a boom in the popularity of folk music that suddenly made the latter important to millions of listeners who previously had ignored it. Discussing his earliest musical influences in a 2001 Rolling Stone interview, Bob Dylan remembered: There were other folk-music records, commercial folk-music records, like those by the Kingston Trio. I never really was an elitist. Personally, I liked the Kingston Trio. I could see the picture...the Kingston Trio were probably the best commercial group going, and they seemed to know what they were doing. In his autobiography Chronicles, Dylan added: "I liked the Kingston Trio. Even though their style was polished and collegiate, I liked most of their stuff anyway." In February 1982, Chicago Tribune writer Eric Zorn praised the Kingston Trio's impact on the popular music industry, claiming that "for almost five years, they overshadowed all other pop groups in America." He also noted that they "so changed the course of popular music that their impact is largely felt to this day." Jac Holzman, co-founder of the originally folk-based Elektra Records, remarked that his formerly struggling company's new-found prosperity in the late 1950s resulted from "The Kingston Trio which has the ability to capture the interest of a large number of people who have never been conscious of folk music before. In this respect, the Kingston Trio has put us on the map." Even some staunch traditionalists from both the urban and rural folk music communities had an affinity for the Kingstons' polished commercial versions of older songs. In her memoir And A Voice To Sing With, singer and activist Joan Baez recalled that "Traveling across the country with my mother and sisters, we heard the commercial songs of the budding folk boom for the first time, the Kingston Trio's 'Tom Dooley' and 'Scotch and Soda.' Before I turned into a snob and learned to look down upon all commercial folk music as bastardized and unholy, I loved the Kingston Trio. When I became one of the leading practitioners of 'pure folk,' I still loved them..." Arthel "Doc" Watson of North Carolina, one of the most respected and influential musicians performing traditional music, remarked, "I’ll tell you who pointed all our noses in the right direction, even the traditional performers. They got us interested in trying to put the good stuff out there—the Kingston Trio. They got me interested in it!" On musicians Among the many other artists who cite the Kingston Trio as a formative influence in their musical careers are comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, singer-songwriter Paul Simon, Timothy B. Schmit of The Eagles, pioneering folk-rock artist Gram Parsons, Stephen Stills and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, The Beach Boys' Al Jardine, Big Brother and the Holding Company founding member Peter Albin, Denny Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas, banjo master Tony Trischka, pop groups ABBA and The Bee Gees, Jefferson Airplane founding members Marty Balin and Paul Kantner, Buffalo Springfield founding member Richie Furay, Byrds co-founder Gene Clark, roots musician and master mandolin player David Grisman, singer-songwriters Tom Paxton,Harry Chapin, Jimmy Buffett, Tim Buckley, Steve Goodman, Steve Gillette, Michael Smith (composer of "The Dutchman"), and Shawn Colvin, folk-rock group We Five co-founder Jerry Burgan, folk and rock musician Jerry Yester, rock photographer and Modern Folk Quartet musician Henry Diltz, and progressive jazz vocal group Manhattan Transfer. The Beach Boys classic stage look from the early to late 1960s, blue and white striped button-down shirts with either black or grey pants, was taken directly from the Kingston Trio. On the music business The guitar manufacturer C.F. Martin & Company has attributed the dramatic rise in demand for its instruments in the early 1960s in large part to the Kingston Trio's use of the company's guitars, which are featured prominently and without compensation on nearly all of their album covers. A Martin company press release in 2007, announcing a fourth Kingston Trio commemorative model guitar, stated that ...The Kingston Trio changed everything about popular music—and the entire acoustic guitar industry along with it... It was the rise of the Kingston Trio that really established Martin as "America's Guitar"...The Kingston Trio wasn't just a musical group. It was a phenomenon, as influential in its time as The Beatles would become in theirs. Satirist Tom Lehrer has acknowledged the Trio's pioneering of college concerts, observing that before the Kingstons "there was no real concert circuit...The Kingston Trio started all that," and in Time magazine, critic Richard Corliss asserted, "In my youth, they changed pop music, and me with it." Awards and honorsGrammy Awards1959 Best Country and Western Recording – "Tom Dooley" 1960 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording – At LargeGrammy Hall of Fame Award"Tom Dooley" 1998Grammy Lifetime Achievement AwardAwarded December 2010Vocal Group Hall of FameInducted in 2000Hit Parade Hall of Fame Inducted in 2008Library of Congress National Registry of Historically Significant Recordings"Tom Dooley" 2008Billboard Awards''' Best New Singing Group 1958 ==On Billboard's albums chart== All rankings are from "American Album Chart Records 1955–2001" Most Number 1 Albums: 5 for a Number 10 ranking Most Weeks Charting a Number 1 Album: 46 for a Number 5 ranking Most Weeks Charting an Album: 1,262 for a Number 10 ranking Most Top Ten Albums: 14 for a Number 9 ranking Most Consecutive Number 1 Albums: 4, tied for a Number 4 ranking Most Consecutive Top 40 Albums: 17, tied for a Number 6 ranking Most Total Weeks Albums Charted in One Year: 348 in 1961 for a Number 3 ranking; 284 in 1960 for a Number 6 ranking Most Weeks Charting An Album by Decade, 1960–69: 1089 for a Number 4 ranking Most Weeks With a Number 1 Album in a Calendar Year: 22 in 1960, tied for a Number 4 ranking; 18 in 1959, tied for a Number 7 ranking Most Consecutive Weeks at Number 1 Chart Position: 15, tied for a Number 8 ranking Discography and videography See also The Trident, a restaurant in Sausalito, offshoot of Trident Productions, the trio's production company with Frank Werber. References External links Nick Reynolds interviewed by Paul Magnussen (1987) The Kingston Trio Official Website The Kingston Trio Place – Comprehensive fan site including archived resources Folk U.S.A. – Archived vintage Kingston Trio audio and video clips. Digital Library Kingston Trio History and Nick Reynolds Interview (recorded 11.18.1967) for the Pop Chronicles. Further reading Bush, William J. (2013) Greenback Dollar: The Incredible Rise of the Kingston Trio Scarecrow Press. Noble, Richard E. (2009) Number #1. Outskirts Press, Inc. Seeger, Pete. (2009) Where Have All The Flowers Gone? A Singalong Memoir. W.W. Norton and Co. Weissman, Dick. (2005) Which Side Are You On? Continuum Press. Willens, Doris. (1988) Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays''. W.W. Norton and Co. 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Manase

Manase is a village on the central north coast of Savai'i island in Samoa in the political district of Gagaifomauga. It has a population of 123. Situated by the sea with a white sandy beach, Manase has become a popular tourist destination since the 1990s with low budget and locally owned beach fale accommodation. There is a petrol station with a shop at the east end of the village and another small store selling basic goods at Tanu Beach Fales. The nearest hospital is at the neighbouring village of Safotu and there's a post office and a small police station in Fagamalo, five minutes drive east. Heading west around the coast, the next village is Safotu followed by Samauga and the Safune settlements. Manase is 45 km from the ferry terminal and township of Salelologa at the east end of the island. Notes Populated places in Gaga'ifomauga

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Eugene Keazor

Eugene Akosa Keazor CPM (7 July 1907 – 1975) was a Nigerian police officer. From 1959 until Nigeria's independence the next year he held the most senior police rank ever held by an African in the British colony, retiring in 1964. It is also reputed that at many stages in his career, he was one of the most senior Indigenous Police Officers in the British Colonies. Early life Keazor was born in Obosi, Eastern Nigeria (in what is now Anambra State) on 7 July 1907, to Ikeazor Uba Oboli I, a local chief and early convert to Christianity in Obosi. The young Keazor gained admission into the newly founded Obosi Community School and then Dennis Memorial Grammar School in Onitsha in 1920 at the age of 13. He was an active member of the Boy Scouts of Nigeria and was selected for the Inaugural World Scout Jamboree in Olympia, London in 1920. Career Keazor joined the West African Constabulary Force around 1927 and was selected for Officer Training in London, appointed Inspector in 1930 and later, assuming the rank of Assistant Superintendent. Upon his return to Nigeria he was assigned Command of the Panti Street Police Command in Central Lagos, as Divisional Police Officer. He was selected for and attended the Funeral ceremony of King George VI as one of the representatives of the Colonial Police Force in February 1952 Keazor attained the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police in 1959, the most senior position ever held by an African in what was to become the Nigeria Police Force while it was still under the Command of the British Government. He distinguished himself in service as part of the police contingent of United Nations Peace-Keeping Force drafted to Congo-Kinshasa during the crisis of 1960. He retired in 1964 to the United Kingdom, where he lived with his wife Anne Abiola Keazor (née Solanke). He died in 1975, survived by several children, notably Chief Timothy Chimezie Ikeazor SAN LLD, founder of the Nigerian Legal Aid scheme, The Honourable Justice Kenneth Keazor, a one-time Attorney-General and Judge of the Nigerian High Court, Dr. Henry Keazor, a retired Consultant Anaesthetist, and George Keazor, a former British Army paratrooper and civil servant. Awards He was awarded the Colonial Police Medal in the 1953 Birthday Honours. References 1907 births 1975 deaths People from Anambra State Nigerian police officers Recipients of the Colonial Police Medal People of colonial Nigeria Nigerian emigrants to the United Kingdom

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Rohnat

Rohnat, nicknamed village of rebels, is a village in the Bawani Khera tehsil of the Bhiwani district in the Indian state of Haryana. It lies approximately north west of the district headquarters town of Bhiwani. It is 12 km from Hansi on the MDR 108 Kanwari-Hansi road, 25 km from Hisar, 160 km from Delhi and 220 km from Chandigarh. Geography Nearby villages include Kanwari, Muzadpur and Nalwa. The village of Balali, the home village of the Phogat sisters is also close. The village, which lies in the basin of the Saraswati River and the Yamuna, is irrigated by the Sunder distributory of the Western Yamuna Canal. History Due to its participation in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the village was nicknamed by the British Raj as the village of rebels. All the land of zamindars was taken away and freedom fighters were crushed under road rollers. General Courtland attacked the village for their prolific role in the rebellion and the villagers fought back bravely. Courtland ordered the destruction of the village by bombarding it with cannon shells. Birhad Bairagi was tied to the mouth of a canon and blasted. Among the villagers who were caught, some were hanged by the still-extant banyan tree [dying and in the need of revival] on the banks of Dhab Johad wetland, others were crushed in Hansi town under the road roller on the Lal Sadak (literally Red Road). Naunda Jat and Rupa Khati were among the martyrs. Surviving villagers refused to apologise, as required by the British colonials, for their part in the 1857 war of independence. Consequently, the land of the freedom fighters was confiscated and auctioned off as a punishment. The villagers still claim rights to the allegedly auctioned land. Due to this, villagers used to abstain from celebrating the Independence Day or unfurling the national flag because as per them, freedom had not yet arrived. On Martyrs Day on 23 March 2018, Chief Minister Manoharlal Khattar, for the first time, got a village elder to unfurl the flag in the village. Demographics , the village had 711 households with a population of 3,785, of which 1,970 were male and 1,815 female. Culture The major temple is Jakhli dham. Hindu festivals are celebrated every year. Teej is a popular Haryanvi festival observed with the music of Haryana. Tourism The village lies on the Golden Trinagle of West Haryana tourism i.e. the Hisar (Firoz Shah Palace Complex, Agroha Mound, Rakhi Garhi) - Hansi (Asigarh Fort) - Tosham (Tosham fort & rock inscription and Tosham Hill range) tourism circuit. The government is developing the Rohnat Ahutatma Smarak (martyr's memorial) under the Rohnat Freedom Trust on 4 acres of land to commemorate the valour and sacrifice during the revolt of 1857. The installation of the tallest Indian flag is also planned, as well as the renovation on well martyrs and the revival of the dying tree on which martyrs were hanged. See also Administrative divisions of Haryana Madhogarh Fort, Haryana Tourism in Haryana Tourism in India References Tourism in Haryana Villages in Bhiwani district

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Mohammad Hashem Zamani

Mohammad Hashem Zamani ( - born 1928 - June 10, 2005), was a prominent Afghan poet. Biography Mohammad Hashem was born in 1928 in the village of Lamattak, Kunar, Afghanistan to the Mir Zaman Khan, who fought in the Third Anglo-Afghan War and was a general during King Amanullah Khan's regime. Hashem Zamani obtained his primary education at the local mosque. He was 16 when, together with more than 100 family members, was imprisoned at Deh Mazang prison in Kabul, under the pretext of "political imprisonment". While in prison, he met with and was influenced by the presence of prominent personalities of the time, for instance, Yaqub Khan Ghond Mashar, Sarwar Joya, Dr Mahmoodi and Ferqa Mashar Ghulam Nabi Khan Charkhi along with his family. Mohammad Hashem spent 13 years of his life in Deh Mazang prison, where he witnessed the demise of 28 members of his family due to various diseases and malnourishment. After 13 years of imprisonment, Zamani and his family were exiled in Herat for a further eight years. He took part in the Grand Assembly convened during the presidency of Mohammed Daoud Khan as the representative of the people of Kunar. Due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, Mohammad Hashem took refuge in Peshawar, Pakistan. He traveled extensively and participated in many different international conferences and gatherings. In 1987, Zamani migrated to the United States and settled in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California. In the face of chronic ill health due to a second heart attack, and a stroke suffered in 1990 that paralyzed one half of his body, Mohammad Hashim continued his writings. He wrote the second part of "Scattered Flowers" and "The Injured Heart collection" as well as published 'Zindani Khaaterat". He was working through to the last night of his life on the second volume of his book which is currently being published, "Da Pohenay Inqilab",(or The Revolution of Consciousness). Mohammad Hashem Zamani died due to a heart attack on 10 June 2005, in Hayward, California at the age of 76. His body was transferred to Afghanistan and buried in his native Kunar Province. Academic life Mohammad Hashem wrote his initial poems in prison, assembled in the collection known as Zendani Ehsas, or The Emotion of Prison. His poems, articles and creative pieces have been extensively published in various prominent Afghan publications such as Anees, Hewad, Islah, Wranga, Sistan, Tolo-i- Afghan, Baidaar and Etifaqi-Islam. Qutbi Khers, or Polar Bear, was Zamani’s first book of the Soviet-Afghan War era. The book has been translated into English, and some portions also into French, Italian and Spanish. Published books Zendani Ehsaas - (زندانى احساس) Zendani Khaterat - (زنداني خاطرات) Qutbi Khirs - (قطبي خرس) Loya Qurbani - (لويه قرباني) Sarey Khwara Bala - (سړي خوړه بلا) Loya Qurbani 2 Took - (لويه قرباني ٢ ټوک) Khwara Golona - (خواره گلونه) De Azadi Armaan - (دآزادۍ آرمان) Rosey Khamaar - (روسي ښامار) Zakhmey Zra - (زخمي زړه) References 1928 births 2005 deaths 20th-century Afghan poets 20th-century male writers Afghan writers Male poets Pashto-language poets Pashtun people

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Jahangir Alam Chowdhury

Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, (born 2 February 1953 in Munshiganj District, East Pakistan) is a retired three-star general of the Bangladesh Army and former Chief of the Border Guard Bangladesh during the conflicts with Border Security Force of India and skirmishes with Banga Sena militant group in the Bangladesh–India border. A former Principal Staff Officer of the Army of Bangladesh he was elevated to the position of Quartermaster general at the same time his Military Academy course-mate Moeen U Ahmed, the Chief of the Army Staff was made first serving Four-star General in national military history. He is widely known to be credited to have gone to the Presidential Palace to ask the President of Bangladesh to declare the State of emergency which led to the Events of 2008 that brought the military in power. Early life Jahangir was born on 2 February 1953 and was commissioned in the Corps of Artillery of Bangladesh Army in 1975. Beginning his career as a Gunner he served in different artillery outfits in various capacities including commanding Two Artillery Brigades and a Field Artillery Regiment. Career Jahangir had also been an instructor in Bangladesh Military Academy. Later he served as a Group Testing Officer (GTO) in Inter Services Selection Board. He got the unique opportunity to serve as United Nations Military Observer and Staff in three different UN Missions between 1994 and 1996 in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Georgia. He is a graduate of Defence Services Command and Staff College and Bangladesh National Defence College, Mirpur, Dhaka. Trained both at home and abroad Jahangir served in number of Command, Staff and Instructional assignments of Bangladesh Army. Apart from Artillery outfits, he commanded Bangladesh Rifles for a significant period - in the rank of Major General as Director General and in the rank of Colonel as Sector Commander. He was assigned with staff responsibilities in Bangladesh Army Headquarters as Master General of Ordnance, Military secretary, Director of Inspectorate of Technical Development and General Staff Officer - 1St Grade in Military Intelligence Directorate. He was also the Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster in HQ 66 Infantry Division and General Staff Officer - II (Coordination) in Bangladesh Military Academy. He served as the chairman of Bangladesh Diesel Plant, an army operated manufacturing company. He was the Principal Staff Officer of Armed Forces Division. Relations with India Chowdhury exclaimed at a press briefing after talks with Indian Home Minister Swami Chinmayanand that India was harboring 90 terrorist camps of anti-Bangladesh separatists. He played a controversial role in blaming India for the grenade attacks which took place on 17 August 2005. The Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh said that the Indian newspapers presented a distorted version of his earlier statement and that he actually said that some Indian criminals might have been involved in the countrywide bomb blasts in Bangladesh. Relations suffered between the two countries as the Indian Ministry of External Affairs issued a statement saying "Government of India is deeply shocked and dismayed at the remarks. This is a baseless and scurrilous allegation and is all the more shocking because it has been made against a friendly country and particularly after the two countries have had useful and constructive talks between the Bangladesh Rifles and Border Security Force". He further claimed that Indian militants might have crossed into Bangladesh territory to perform the acts. In a separate incidence reported by BBC, India accused BDR of intruding into their Air Space with a few helicopters, which General Chowdhury denied and said that BDR has one helicopter which was then kept with Bangladesh Army. He accused the Indian Army of supporting Banga Sena, a banned militant group in Bangladesh. The Mutiny of 2009 In 2009, his immediate successor, the then Chief of BDR Major General Shakil Ahmed was shot and killed along with his wife during the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt. As QMG, General Chowdhury headed the Army Enquiry Committee. On 3 December 2009 he was transferred to the Foreign Ministry. He was retired from Army on 2 February 2010. Personal life Jahangir is married to Mrs Laila Arzu and they have a son and a daughter. See also 2001 Indian–Bangladeshi border conflict References Living people 1953 births Bangladesh Army generals Director Generals of Border Guards Bangladesh Principal Staff Officers (Bangladesh)

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Vehicle registration plates of São Tomé and Príncipe

The vehicle registration plates of São Tomé and Príncipe is a legal form requiring the citizens of São Tomé and Príncipe to have the car registered. The license plate São Tomé and Príncipe repeated former Portuguese standard «STP-00-00». Since 2001, this combination added suffix with one letter. The current standard has the form «STP-12-34A». Standard license plates made with white characters on a black background. External links License plates of São Tomé and Príncipe Sao Tome and Principe

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FC Dinamo-Chuy UVD

FC Dinamo-Chuy UVD is a Kyrgyzstani football club based in Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan that played in the top division in Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz Premier League. History 19??: Founded as FC Dinamo-Chuy UVD. Achievements Kyrgyz Premier League: 7th place: 1995 (Promotion/Relegation Play Off: Northern Zone) Kyrgyzstan Cup: 1/16 finals: 2001 Current squad External links Profile at footballfacts.ru Football clubs in Kyrgyzstan

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Hawkster

Hawkster (February 19, 1986 – June 1, 2003) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who holds the world record of 2:22 4/5 for one and one half miles on Turf set under jockey Russell Baze on October 14, 1989 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California while winning the Oak Tree Invitational Stakes. Bred in Kentucky by Robert C. Sims, Hawkster was sired by Silver Hawk and out of the mare, Strait Lane. He was raced by Mr. and Mrs. J. Shelton Meredith. Trained by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Ron McAnally, Hawkster won three Grade I races and earned $1,409,477 during his three years of racing. Hawkster is the damsire of Afleet Alex, the 2005 Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner who was voted that year's American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse. References 1986 racehorse births 2003 racehorse deaths Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in the United States American Grade 1 Stakes winners Thoroughbred family 5-g

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Joint Global Ocean Flux Study

The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) was an international research programme on the fluxes of carbon between the atmosphere and ocean, and within the ocean interior. Initiated by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), the programme ran from 1987 through to 2003, and became one of the early core projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). The overarching goal of JGOFS was to advance the understanding of, as well as improve the measurement of, the biogeochemical processes underlying the exchange of carbon across the air—sea interface and within the ocean. The programme aimed to study these processes from regional to global spatial scales, and from seasonal to interannual temporal scales, and to establish their sensitivity to external drivers such as climate change. Early in the programme in 1988, two long-term time-series projects were established in the Atlantic and Pacific basins. These — Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) and Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) — continue to make observations of ocean hydrography, chemistry and biology to the present-day. In 1989, JGOFS undertook the multinational North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (NABE) to investigate and characterise the annual spring bloom of phytoplankton, a key feature in the carbon cycle of the open ocean. An important aspect of JGOFS lay in its objective to develop an increased network of observations, made using routine procedures, and curated such that they were easily available to researchers. JGOFS also oversaw the development of models of the marine system based on understanding gained from its observational programme. See also Biological pump Geochemical Ocean Sections Study (GEOSECS) Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) Solubility pump World Ocean Atlas (WOA) World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) References External links International Web Site of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Biological oceanography Carbon Chemical oceanography Oceanography Physical oceanography