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Dustin Kerns
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Dustin Kerns is an American college basketball coach, and current head coach of the Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball team.
Coaching career
Kerns served as a student assistant at Clemson for its men's basketball team, and after graduation landed his first coaching job at Tennessee Tech. Following a one-year stop as a graduate assistant at Tennessee, Kerns joined Mike Young's staff at Wofford from 2004 to 2007, then moved on to Santa Clara as an assistant from 2007 to 2013. He returned to Wofford as the Associate Head Coach in 2013, where he was on staff for the Terriers' 2014 and 2015 NCAA Tournament appearances.
On May 23, 2017, Kerns was named the head coach at Presbyterian. Kerns took over a Presbyterian program that had endured 12 straight losing seasons and a 5 win campaign the previous season. The program quickly turned around as in his 2nd season at Presbyterian, he led the Blue Hose to a 20 win season, first ever post-season berth, and quarterfinal appearance in the CIT Tournament. Kerns was named a Finalist for the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year and the Hugh Durham Mid-Major National Coach of the Year. After two seasons and a 31–37 record, including a nine–win turnaround in season two with the Blue Hose, Kerns was named the head coach at Appalachian State on March 28, 2019.
Head coaching record
NCAA DI
References
Living people
American men's basketball coaches
Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball coaches
Basketball coaches from Tennessee
Clemson University alumni
People from Kingsport, Tennessee
Presbyterian Blue Hose men's basketball coaches
Santa Clara Broncos men's basketball coaches
Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles men's basketball coaches
Tennessee Volunteers basketball coaches
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro%20Kharchenko
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Petro Kharchenko
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Petro Kharchenko (, also known as Petr Kharchenko; born 2 March 1983) is a Ukrainian former pair skater. With Tatiana Volosozhar, he won four medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and became the 2004 Ukrainian national senior champion. The pair placed seventh at the 2003 European Championships.
Programs
(with Volosozhar)
Competitive highlights
(with Volosozhar)
References
External links
Ukrainian male pair skaters
1983 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Dnipro
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsteronia%20pycnothyrsus
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Forsteronia pycnothyrsus
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Forsteronia pycnothyrsus is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
References
pycnothyrsus
Endemic flora of Ecuador
Data deficient plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Edward Butterworth
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Edward Robert Butterworth (August 14, 1908 – September 7, 1984) was an American lawyer and politician.
Early life
Butterworth was born on August 14, 1908 in Lynn, Massachusetts. He graduated from Lynn Classical High School in 1925, Dartmouth College in 1930, and Boston College Law School in 1934.
Political career
Butterworth began his political career as a member of the Nahant, Massachusetts school committee. From 1943 to 1947 he represented the 12th Essex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1950 he was a candidate for Massachusetts Attorney General. He finished third in the Republican primary behind Frederick Ayer Jr. and George Fingold.
Legal career
Butterworth practiced law for 50 years. He founded the law firm of Butterworth and Palleschi, which was based in Lynn, and also practiced law in Barnstable County, Massachusetts while he was a summer resident of New Seabury, Massachusetts. Butterworth died on September 7, 1984 in Burlington, Massachusetts.
See also
1943–1944 Massachusetts legislature
1945–1946 Massachusetts legislature
References
1908 births
1984 deaths
Boston College Law School alumni
Dartmouth College alumni
Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Massachusetts lawyers
Massachusetts Republicans
People from Lynn, Massachusetts
People from Mashpee, Massachusetts
People from Nahant, Massachusetts
People from Swampscott, Massachusetts
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American lawyers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20A.%20O%27Neill
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William A. O'Neill
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William Atchison O'Neill (August 11, 1930November 24, 2007) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 84th Governor of Connecticut from 1980 to 1991. He was the second longest-serving governor in Connecticut history, with 10 years in office.
Biography
O'Neil was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Joseph and Frances O'Neill, He was educated at Teachers College of Connecticut (now Central Connecticut State University) and the University of Hartford but left without matriculating. He married Natalie Scott "Nikki" Damon in 1962. He sold insurance for Prudential Insurance Company.
Career
O'Neil served as a combat pilot with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. He was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Upon his return, he ran the family business—an East Hampton tavern where residents and politicians often met and where he, by his own admission, learned to listen.
Elected to six terms in the Connecticut House of Representatives, O'Neil served as majority leader from 1975 to 1976 and 1977 to 1978. He was House assistant minority leader and assistant majority leader. He chaired the Coalition of Northeastern Governors and the New England Governors' Conference and was president of the Council of State Governments.
O'Neill was elected the 102nd Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut in 1978 on a Democratic ticket along with Governor Ella Grasso. When Grasso resigned for health reasons in December 1980 (she would pass away the following February), O'Neill became Governor and was elected to a full term in 1982 and re-elected in 1986. He benefited from the economic boom Connecticut enjoyed during the 1980s when the state's job growth was at a recent historic peak. The state enjoyed large budget surpluses in this era. His large re-election victory in 1986 over Lowell Weicker ally Julie Belaga had an effect on the state legislature, which gained large majorities of liberal Democrats eager to expand state government, such as House Speaker Irving Stolberg.
The 1990 recession hit Connecticut very hard, with the real estate, banking and defense industries all faltering with resultant job losses and tax revenue losses. Facing plummeting approval ratings and a budget situation continuing to deteriorate despite the 1989 tax hike, O'Neill decided in early 1990 to bow out of a re-election bid.
Death and legacy
O'Neill died from emphysema on November 24, 2007, aged 77. He is interred at Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut. A terminal at Bradley International Airport is named in his honor.
He was eulogized by his fellow Connecticut politicians as Trumanesque. "I always thought the secret to his success was that he was genuine," said John Droney, who was chairman of the state Democratic party during O'Neill's last term. "He was honest. And he projected the image of an ordinary man called upon to do extraordinary things. He was, in my view, the Harry Truman of Connecticut." Republican state chairman Chris Healy called O'Neill "a good and decent man who served his state and country with distinction."
References
William Oneill
External links
The Political Graveyard
National Governors Association
William A. O'Neill: Connecticut State Archives
Connecticut State Library
Deaths from emphysema
Governors of Connecticut
Lieutenant Governors of Connecticut
Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Connecticut Democrats
Politicians from Hartford, Connecticut
1930 births
2007 deaths
Drinking establishment owners
Democratic Party state governors of the United States
Military personnel from Connecticut
20th-century American politicians
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Debra L. Ness
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Debra L. Ness is the president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. She has previously worked for the Service Employees International Union and National Abortion Rights Action League.
Career
Ness graduated summa cum laude from Drew University with an undergraduate degree in psychology and sociology. Ness received a Master of Science from the Columbia University School of Social Work in social welfare and public policy.
From 1980 to 1986, Ness worked at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). In 1986, Ness moved to the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) to head up field operations, and in 1989 was promoted to deputy director of the organization. In 1991, Ness joined the National Partnership for Women & Families (then the Women’s Legal Defense Fund) as executive vice president. In 2004, she assumed her current position as president.
Ness also serves as the leader of the Campaign for Better Care, a health care initiative of the National Partnership for Women & Families, Community Catalyst, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the National Health Law Program. It is funded by Atlantic Philanthropies.
Under Ness’s leadership, First Lady Michelle Obama said of the National Partnership in 2011, “Thanks to your tremendous efforts, the landscape of this nation has been fundamentally changed for the better: our workplaces are more family friendly, women and girls do have more opportunities, and many discriminatory practices have been completely abolished.”
Notable contributions
Ness is a recurring contributor to the Huffington Post.
Ness has provided expert testimony at more than a dozen congressional hearings. She advocated for paid sick leave policies during the 2009 swine flu pandemic before the House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee and the Senate Health Subcommittee on Children and Families. Ness has testified in support of the Healthy Families Act and the FIRST Act before the House Education Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. She has spoken before the House Energy Subcommittee on Health, endorsing H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, and H.R. 2279, Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2009.
Notes
External links
American women chief executives
American feminists
Drew University alumni
Columbia University School of Social Work alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Tom Heathcote
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Tom Heathcote (born 11 February 1992 in Inverness) is a rugby union player for Scotland and Worcester Warriors in the Aviva Premiership.
Heathcote was born in Inverness whilst his father Gareth, a Nimrod pilot, was stationed at RAF Kinloss. The family returned to England when Heathcote was three, and he has represented England at age group level.
He made his first team debut for Bath against Gloucester on 24 September 2011. He scored his first points against Leicester on 3 October 2011, and claimed his first try against Worcester in the LV= cup.
On 19 November 2012, he was called up to the Scotland squad (being eligible to play for Scotland having been born in Inverness) and made his international debut off the bench in the test against Tonga on 24 November 2012.
At the end of the 2013–14 season it was announced that Heathcote would be ending his contract one-year early and moving to Edinburgh for the 2014–15 season, citing the progression of 'his career and international aspirations.'
It was announced in February 2015 that Heathcote would depart Edinburgh in summer 2015 to join Worcester Warriors. On 16 October 2015 Heathcote scored an injury time drop goal to help Warriors win their first game back in the Premiership, securing a 13–12 win over Northampton.
References
External links
Bath Profile
Scotland
Bath Rugby players
Living people
Sportspeople from Bath, Somerset
1992 births
Rugby union fly-halves
Scotland international rugby union players
Team Bath rugby union players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal%20Youth%20Federation
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Tribal Youth Federation
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Tribal Youth Federation (in Bengali Upajati Juba Federation) is an organization affiliated to Democratic Youth Federation of India in Tripura. TYF organizes youth from the tribal populations of the state. TYF has a separate central committee and publishes Bini Kharad (Our Voice). The supreme body of TYF is the Central Conference.
TYF works in close coordination with Ganamukti Parishad and is often considered as the youth wing of GMP.
TYF was founded in 1967 to counter the influence of Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti.
Activities
14 September 2014: TYF rejected IPFT's Demand separate state in a press conference.
13 August 2019: TYF organised a convention with 10 point demand in agartala Town Hall.
17 September 2019: Tribal Youth Federation demanding jobs for youth unemployment and address a massive rally in Tripura.
17 January 2020: Tribal Youth Federation (TYF) demand immediate release of former minister Badal Chowdhury.
See also
Democratic Youth Federation of India
Ganamukti Parishad
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
References
External links
official Facebook Page of TYF
http://www.tripurainfoway.com/news-details/TN/21128/tribal-youth-federation-to-start-membership-drive-from-march-8-ipft-and-inpt-masks-of-nlft-rsquo.html
Youth wings of communist parties of India
Organisations based in Tripura
1967 establishments in Tripura
Organizations established in 1967
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin%20%28computing%29
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In computing, a skin (also known as visual styles in Windows XP) is a custom graphical appearance preset package achieved by the use of a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be applied to specific computer software, operating system, and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users. As such, a skin can completely change the look and feel and navigation interface of a piece of application software or operating system.
Software that is capable of having a skin applied is referred to as being skinnable, and the process of writing or applying such a skin is known as skinning. Applying a skin changes a piece of software's look and feel—some skins merely make the program more aesthetically pleasing, but others can rearrange elements of the interface, potentially making the program easier to use.
Common skinnable applications
The most popular skins are for instant messaging clients, media center, and media player software, such as Trillian and Winamp, due to the association with fun that such programs try to encourage.
Standard interface
Some platforms support changing the standard interface, including most using the X Window System. For those that do not, programs can add the functionality, like WindowBlinds for Microsoft Windows and ShapeShifter for macOS.
Model–view–controller
Skinning is typically implemented with a model–view–controller architecture, which allows for a flexible structure in which the interface is independent from and indirectly linked to application functionality, so the GUI can be easily customized. This allows the user to select or design a different skin at will, and also allows for more deep changes in the position and function of the interface elements.
Pros and cons
The benefit of skinning in user interfaces is disputed. While some find it useful or pleasant to be able to change the appearance of software, a changed appearance can complicate technical support and training. A user interface that has been extensively customized by one person may appear completely unfamiliar to another who knows the software under a different appearance. Some usability practitioners feel that this flexibility requires interaction design expertise that users might not have.
Websites
Many websites are skinnable, particularly those that provide social capabilities. Some sites provide skins that make primarily cosmetic changes, while some—such as H2G2—offer skins that make major changes to page layout. As with standalone software interfaces, this is facilitated by the underlying technology of the website—XML and XSLT, for instance, facilitate major changes of layout, while CSS can easily produce different visual styles.
Video gaming
In video games, the term "skin" is similarly used to refer to cosmetic options for a player's character and other in-game items, which can range from different color schemes, to more elaborate designs and costumes. Skins are often awarded as unlockable content for completing specific in-game goals or milestones. Skins can sometimes include historical incarnations of the player character (such as Spider-Man, which includes unlockable skins based on Spider-Man's past comic book and film appearances), as well as crossovers with other video games (such as Final Fantasy XIII-2 offering a costume based on Ezio Auditore from the Assassin's Creed franchise, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate offering costume items based on other video game characters for its customizable Mii Fighter characters). Fortnite Battle Royale has similarly featured extensive uses of licensed properties as the basis for skins, also including non-gaming properties such as comic book characters, the National Football League, and musicians.
Skins are sometimes distributed as part of downloadable content, and as pre-order incentives for newly-released games. In the 2010s, skins were increasingly deemed a virtual good as part of monetization strategies, especially within free-to-play games and those otherwise treated as a service. Via microtransactions commonly known as "loot boxes", a player can earn a random selection of in-game items, which may include skins and other cosmetic items of varying rarity. While often defended as being similar in practice to booster packs for collectible card games, researchers have deemed loot boxes to be "psychologically akin to gambling", and their inclusion in full-priced games have faced criticism from players for being an anti-consumer practice. They have largely been supplanted by "battle passes", which are collections of in-game challenges and goals that unlock reward tiers over a short- or long-term period.
Via the Steam platform, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 also allow players to trade these items, which has led to communities devoted to bartering them for real-world money, as well as gambling.
See also
Theme (computing)
Computer wallpaper
Look and feel
User interface engineering
Industrial design
Windows Aero
Windows XP visual styles
References
Graphical user interfaces
Software add-ons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonda%20Rae
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Fonda Rae
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Fonda Rae Wood (performing as simply Fonda Rae) is an American R&B singer best known for her club hits like "Over Like a Fat Rat" and "Touch Me" (the latter which was later covered by Cathy Dennis).
She has also worked with artists such as Don Armando, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Taka Boom, The Fat Boys and Debbie Harry.
Discography
Singles
Legacy
"Over Like a Fat Rat" was sampled by the following artists:
Grand Puba's "Fat Rat" was based on the song. It appeared on the 1991 movie Strictly Business.
Eric B. & Rakim and Marley Marl, sampled the song into "Eric B. Is President"
SWV sampled the song on the single "On & On" on their album New Beginning.
Master P uses the Eric B. sample of "Fat Rat" on the title track of his 1997 gangsta rap album Ghetto D.
Kool G Rap sampled the song in "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".
De La Soul sampled the song on the single " Keepin' The Faith" from the De La Soul Is Dead album.
Two Shiny Heads Bass line was sampled on single "Dub House Disco Part 2" on Guerrilla Records in 1992?
References
External links
– official site
Digital Jukebox Records – record label
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American women singers
American contemporary R&B singers
American disco singers
American dance musicians
Singers from New York (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENP7
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SENP7
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Sentrin-specific protease 7 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the SENP7 gene.
References
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Offline root certificate authority
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An offline root certificate authority is a certificate authority (as defined in the X.509 standard and ) which has been isolated from network access, and is often kept in a powered-down state.
In a public key infrastructure, the chain of trusted authorities begins with the root certificate authority (root CA). Once the root CA is installed and its root certificate is created, the next action taken by the administrator of the root CA is to issue certificates authorizing intermediate (or subordinate) CAs. This creates the ability to issue, distribute and revoke digital certificates without the direct action of the root CA.
Because the consequences of a compromised root CA are so great (up to and including the need to re-issue each and every certificate in the PKI), all root CAs must be kept safe from unauthorized access. A common method to ensure the security and integrity of a root CA is to keep it in an offline state. It is only brought online when needed for specific, infrequent tasks, typically limited to the issuance or re-issuance of certificates authorizing intermediate CAs.
A drawback to offline operation is that hosting of a certificate revocation list by the root CA is not possible (as it is unable to respond to CRL requests via protocols such as HTTP, LDAP or OCSP). However, it is possible to move certificate validation functionality into a dedicated validation authority authorized by the offline root CA.
To better understand how an offline root CA can greatly improve the security and integrity of a PKI, it is important to realize that a CRL is specific to the CA which issued the certificates on the list. Therefore, each CA (root or intermediate) is only responsible for tracking the revocation of certificates it alone has issued.
Consider the scenario where a root CA issues certificates to three intermediate CAs: A, B, and C.
The root CA has issued a total of three certificates.
The newly created intermediate CAs then issue their own certificates:
Intermediate CA "A" issues 10,000 certificates
Intermediate CA "B" issues 20,000 certificates
Intermediate CA "C" issues 30,000 certificates
If each intermediate CA were to revoke all certificates issue by it, the maximum size of the CRL specific to each Intermediate CA would be:
Intermediate CA "A": 10,000 CRL entries
Intermediate CA "B": 20,000 CRL entries
Intermediate CA "C": 30,000 CRL entries
However, because the root CA has only issued three certificates (to each of the intermediate CAs), the maximum size of its CRL is:
Root CA: 3 CRL entries
Therefore, the overall burden of maintaining and hosting a CRL specific to the root CA is minimized by the use of intermediate CAs, as well as the burden of maintaining an associated validation authority.
See also
X.509
Certificate server
Extended Validation Certificate
Intermediate certificate authority
Validation authority
Key ceremony
Online Certificate Status Protocol
Certificate revocation list
Self-signed certificate
Web of trust
References
Public-key cryptography
Key management
Public key infrastructure
Transport Layer Security
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1939 Maryland Terrapins football team
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The 1939 Maryland Terrapins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maryland in the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1939 college football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach Frank Dobson, the Terrapins compiled a 2–7 record (0–1 in conference), finished in 14th place in the SoCon, and were outscored by a total of 106 to 64.
Schedule
References
Maryland
Maryland Terrapins football seasons
Maryland Terrapins football
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opticon
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Opticon
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Opticon may refer to:
In business
Opticon (conference), an annual user conference organized by Optimizely
OptiCon, an annual conference organized by the American Board of Opticianry
Opticon is a traffic signal preemption system from Global Traffic Technologies.
In music
Opticon, a single from released by the band Orgy in 2000
In publishing
Opticon (typeface), a typeface developed for newspapers in 1935
See also
Panopticon (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM%20500
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PGM 500
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The PGM 500 and PGM 2000 are guided bombs developed by Alenia Marconi Systems and now marketed by MBDA. The PGM 500 carries a 500 lb (227 kg) warhead, and the PGM 2000 a 2000 lb (909 kg) one. The weapons are available with interchangeable laser, TV, or infra-red seekers.
The PGM 500 is known as the Hakim in United Arab Emirates service.
Combat use
Yemen Civil War (2015-)
References
External links
MDBA PGM page
Guided bombs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam
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Shazam
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Shazam may refer to:
Comic book franchise
Captain Marvel (DC Comics), also known as Shazam, a superhero character published by Fawcett Comics and DC Comics
Shazam (wizard), a character from the Shazam!/Captain Marvel comics, who gives the superhero and his associates their powers
Shazam!, a scrambler-style theme park ride based on DC's Shazam character, located at Six Flags St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Shazam! (TV series), 1974-77 live-action television series based on the comic book franchise
The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! a 1981 Saturday morning cartoon series segment based on the comic book franchise
Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil, a 2007 limited-edition DC Comics series
Shazam! (film), 2019 American superhero film based on the comic book franchise
Other uses in arts and media
"Shazam!" (Duane Eddy song), a 1960 song by Duane Eddy
Shazam (album), a 1970 LP by The Move
Shazam! (New Zealand TV series) a New Zealand youth music programme from the 1980s
"Shazam!" (Spiderbait song), a song by Spiderbait from their 1999 album Grand Slam
"Shazam!", a song by the Beastie Boys from their 2004 album To the 5 Boroughs
"Shazam!", original title for Attack Attack!'s second album Attack Attack!
"Shazam", a catch-phrase used by the character Gomer Pyle in The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Beat Shazam, a 2010s TV game show based on the song-recognition app
Foxy Shazam, a rock band
Other uses
Shazam (application), a music recognition app on Android and iPhone
SHAZAM (interbank network), financial services and payments processing company
SHAZAM (software), software package for econometrics and statistics
See also
Chazzan, a Jewish musician, or precentor, trained in the vocal arts
Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file sharing application
Kazaam, a 1996 American comedy film starring Shaquille O'Neal
ShahZaM, a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player
Shazzan, an American animated series from 1967 to 1969, about a genie with magical powers
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Religion in Mercia
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Throughout its history the Kingdom of Mercia was a battleground between conflicting religious ideologies.
Early history
It is likely that the Anglian occupation of Mercia saw the displacement of, or integration with, Sub-Roman British tribes. There is a possibility that some of these British Christian communities survived the Anglo-Saxon occupation: Richard Fletcher mentions Much Wenlock as a possible candidate.
The first kings of Mercia were pagans, and they resisted the encroachment of Christianity longer than those of other kingdoms in the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. Placenames like Wednesfield and Wednesbury perhaps suggest that the worship of Woden was particularly prominent, and that there was a cluster of late pagan practice near Birmingham: there are no surviving toponyms relating to Thunor, for example, although Tiw may be connected to Tyseley, Tysemere and Tysoe. Similarly the Old English word weoh (altar) is found as a root for several Mercian placenames including Weeford near Lichfield.
Mercian rulers remained resolutely pagan until the reign of Peada in 656, although this did not prevent them joining coalitions with Christian Welsh rulers to resist Northumbria. The first appearance of Christianity in Mercia, however, had come at least thirty years earlier, following the Battle of Cirencester of 628, when Penda incorporated the largely Christian West Saxon territories of the Hwiccas into his kingdom.
The Mercian Supremacy
Reign of Penda
The conversion of Mercia to Christianity occurred in the latter part of the 7th century, and was carried out almost entirely by Northumbrian and Irish monks of the Celtic Rite. Penda remained pagan to the end, but by the time of his defeat and death, Mercia was largely surrounded by Christian states. As such, it was excluded from many of the networks of diplomacy and alliance that extended through Western Europe, as these generally involved dynastic marriages and ecclesiastical negotiation. Christianity gained a foothold in Mercia precisely through these channels. Part of the price of Oswiu's support for Peada as sub-king of the Middle Angles, during the period of Mercian eclipse, was that Peada marry Oswiu's daughter, Alchflaed, and accept her religion. Diuma, an Irish monk and one of Oswiu's missionaries was subsequently ordained a bishop—the first to operate in Mercia. Peada founded an abbey at Medeshamstede, in modern Peterborough, as earnest of his support for the Church. Bede tells us that Penda respected the Christians and even allowed them to operate more widely in Mercia. However, it seems that not much progress was made at converting the nobles and people of Mercia.
The mission of Chad
After an inconclusive start, decisive steps to Christianise Mercia were taken by Chad (Latinised by Bede as Ceadda), the fifth bishop to minister to the Mercians. He was a controversial figure, who had been removed from his duties among the Northumbrians by the Archbishop Theodore of Tarsus. Finding his realm without a bishop in 669, King
Wulfhere requested Theodore to send one, and Theodore despatched Chad. Wulfhere gave him land to build a monastery at Lichfield which is around north-west of Tamworth. These early bishops were known as bishops of the Middle Angles and/or the Mercians and, in Chad's case, also of the Lindsey people: bishoprics were still ethnic rather than territorial, according to Celtic tradition. Chad tirelessly evangelised Mercia, and Bede credits him with the conversion of the kingdom, despite the briefness of his episcopate—less than three years.
The sons of Penda not only supported Christian missionaries but invested heavily in the Church. Wulfhere greatly endowed the family monastery at Medeshamstede. In addition to the gift of land at Lichfield, he also gave Chad land for a monastery at Barwae—probably the modern Barrow upon Humber. Merewalh, sub-king of the Magonsæte, to the west, in modern Shropshire and Herefordshire, and apparently a brother or half-brother of Wulfhere, fathered a dynasty of abbesses, endowing an abbey at Leominster and probably also that at Much Wenlock, which his daughter Mildburh headed. As in other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the many small monasteries allowed the political/military and ecclesiastical leadership to consolidate their unity through bonds of kinship.
Division of Mercia into dioceses
However, Mercia did not long survive as an ecclesiastical entity. Chad's successor, Winfrith, was expected to conform more closely to Roman norms but was soon at loggerheads with Archbishop Theodore. Involved in similar problems with Wilfrid of York, from 676 Theodore adopted a policy of appointing bishops to much smaller tribal groups within the kingdoms, thus covering smaller areas—closer in size to those found in Francia and other West European countries. Hence, bishoprics were based at Worcester for the Hwiccas, at Hereford for the Magonsæte, at Lincoln for the Lindsey people, the latter attached to York rather than Canterbury, and at Leicester, perhaps for the Middle Angles. This left the remaining diocese still based at Lichfield and still very large, but much more manageable. For a short time, Offa succeeded in restoring the ecclesiastical unity of Mercia, while adding East Anglia to it. Under his influence, the Synod of Chelsea in 787 established an Archbishopric of Lichfield, headed by Higbert, the existing bishop. This arrangement did not long survive Offa himself, and the various dioceses were returned to their original provinces in 803.
The Danelaw
In 867, under Ivar the Boneless, the Danes captured Nottingham. Despite attempts by King Æthelred of Wessex and his brother, Alfred, the Danes remained, establishing Nottingham as one of the five Burghs of the Danelaw. Marching from Lindsey to Repton in 874, Ivar drove Burgred from his kingdom, bringing Norse paganism with him. The north of Mercia remained under pagan influence until Ivar’s successor, Guthrum, converted to Christianity at the Treaty of Wedmore in 878.
References
Religion
Anglo-Saxon paganism
Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England
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The Future of Ideas
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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (2001) is a book by Lawrence Lessig, at the time of writing a professor of law at Stanford Law School, who is well known as a critic of the extension of the copyright term in US. It is a continuation of his previous book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, which is about how computer programs can restrict freedom of ideas in cyberspace.
While copyright helps artists get rewarded for their work, Lessig warns that a copyright regime that is too strict and grants copyright for too long a period of time (e.g. the current US legal climate) can destroy innovation, as the future always builds on the past. Lessig also discusses recent movements by corporate interests to promote longer and tighter protection of intellectual property in three layers: the code layer, the content layer, and the physical layer.
The code layer is that which is controlled by computer programs. One instance is Internet censorship in mainland China by sorting out geographical IP addresses. The content layer is notoriously illustrated by Napster, a peer-to-peer file sharing service. Lessig criticizes the reaction of music companies and Hollywood. The physical layer is the one that actually conveys information from one point to another, and can be either wired or wireless. He discusses particularly the regulation of the radio spectrum in the United States.
In the end, he stresses the importance of existing works entering the public domain in a reasonably short period of time, as the Founding Fathers intended.
On 15 January 2008, Lessig announced on his blog that his publishers agreed to license the book under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, and the book in PDF format can be downloaded freely.
Editions
US 1st hardcover edition (Random House):
US paperback (Vintage books):
On-line version (PDF, free, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial licence)
References
External links
Author Lawrence Lessig's homepage
Book homepage
Direct book download links in e-book formats: epub mobi
2001 non-fiction books
Books about the Internet
Works about intellectual property law
Books by Lawrence Lessig
Law books
Creative Commons-licensed books
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Cliff Pinchbeck
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Clifford Brian Pinchbeck (20 January 1925 – 1996) was an English footballer who played as a forward. He spent six years in the Football League, between 1947 and 1953, with Everton, Brighton & Hove Albion, Port Vale, and Northampton Town. He later played non-league football for Bath City and Salisbury.
Playing career
Pinchbeck began his career at Scunthorpe United, before moving on to Everton. He played three First Division games for Theo Kelly's "Toffees" in 1947–48, before leaving Goodison Park for Don Welsh's Brighton & Hove Albion. He helped the "Seagulls" to finish sixth in the Third Division South in 1948–49. He left the Goldstone Ground and joined league rivals Port Vale for a £3,500 fee in November 1949.
He made a perfect start for his new club, scoring a hat-trick in a 4–0 win over Millwall at The Old Recreation Ground on 12 November. He went on to finish the 1949–50 campaign as the club's top-scorer with 16 goals in 31 appearances – twice as many goals as his nearest rivals. He hit 19 goals in 34 games in 1950–51, including one against rivals Stoke City at the Victoria Ground, to become the club's top-scorer for a second successive season. However, he was transfer-listed and dropped from the side by manager Gordon Hodgson in March 1951, and failed to turn up at the start of the 1951–52 season, claiming illness. He regained his first team place in September 1951 under new boss Ivor Powell, and hit five goals in 13 games in 1951–52. He finally got his wish, and secured a move away from Vale Park in November 1951, when he was sold to league rivals Northampton Town for 'an undisclosed sum'.
Pinchbeck scored three goals in three league games for Bob Dennison's "Cobblers" in 1951–52. He left the County Ground, and signed for Eddie Hapgood's Southern League side Bath City in August 1953, scoring 23 goals within his first year at Twerton Park. He moved on to Western League side Salisbury in January 1955.
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References
1925 births
1996 deaths
People from Cleethorpes
English footballers
Association football forwards
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Everton F.C. players
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
Bath City F.C. players
Salisbury City F.C. players
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Deerness (Old Norse: Dyrnes) is a quoad sacra parish (i.e. one created and functioning for ecclesiastical purposes only) and peninsula in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is about south east of Kirkwall. Deerness forms a part of the civil parish of St. Andrews and Deerness. There is a shop/post office and a community centre.
Deerness is connected to the rest of the Orkney Mainland by a narrow isthmus, known as Dingieshowe. Deerness parish consists chiefly of the peninsula, but also takes in its surrounding islets of Copinsay, the Horse of Copinsay and Corn Holm. The Brough of Deerness is the site of an early Christian monastery near the north eastern tip of the peninsula. The Gloup is a sea-cave approximately long and deep just south of the Brough.
The Crown of London shipwreck
The Covenanter's Memorial at Deerness, commemorating the loss in a shipwreck of 200 Covenanters en route to the New World of America (as a punishment), was largely paid for by Robert Halliday Gunning. The inscription on the monument reads "For Christ His Crown Covenant, erected by public subscription Aug. 1888 to the memory of the 200 covenanters who were taken prisoners at Bothwell Bridge, and sentence to transportation for life; but who perished by shipwreck near this spot on 10th December 1679."
John Blackadder recorded that a prisoner related the following:
Notable people
Edwin Muir was born in Deerness in 1887.
References
Citations
Sources
Parishes of Orkney
Orkneyinga saga places
Mainland, Orkney
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The Women's 7.5 kilometre sprint biathlon competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics was held on 23 February, at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium. Each miss was penalized by requiring the competitor to race over a 150-metre penalty loop.
Results
References
Sports-Reference.com - Women's 7.5 km Sprint - 1994 Olympics
Women's biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics
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Mohawk, Herkimer County, New York
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Mohawk is a village in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 2,731 at the 2010 census. The village was named after the adjacent Mohawk River.
The village is at the northern border of the town of German Flatts and adjacent to the Erie Canal. Mohawk is southeast of Utica.
History
The area was settled by Palatine Germans after 1722. In 1725, the King of Great Britain and Governor Burnet granted Mohawk to the Palatine Germans in what was known as the Burnetsfield Patent.
George Washington was known to stop in Mohawk to have lunch at the Shoemaker Tavern on his way to and from Fort Stanwix in Rome.
Mohawk became known as "Bennetts Corners" after a hotel stand that was located here in 1826. In 1838, the village became
known as "Mohawk".
The village was incorporated on April 16, 1844. The first president of the village, Frederick Bellinger, came into office on May 4 of that year.
The first mayor of Mohawk was James V. Casey, who was elected in 1960. The current mayor is Jim Baron.
Mohawk is one of only twelve villages in New York still incorporated under a municipal charter, the other villages having incorporated or re-incorporated under the provisions of Village Law.
The Herkimer County shootings took place partially in Mohawk on March 13, 2013.
Geography
Mohawk is located in the northern part of the town of German Flatts at (43.010194, -75.005022), on the south side of the Mohawk River. It is bordered to the west by the village of Ilion and to the northeast, across the river, by the village of Herkimer.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Mohawk has a total area of , of which , or 2.94%, are water.
New York State Route 5S, an east-west highway, runs through the northern part of the village, leading east (downriver) to Fort Plain and west (upriver) to Utica. New York State Route 28 (Warren Street/Columbia Street) is a north-south highway through the village center, leading northeast to Herkimer and south to Richfield Springs. New York State Route 168 (Hammond Street) has its western terminus in the village and leads southeast to Starkville.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,660 people, 1,146 households, and 708 families residing in the village. The population density was 3,009.8 people per square mile (1,167.1/km2). There were 1,233 housing units at an average density of 1,395.1 per square mile (541.0/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 98.42% White, 0.49% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.23% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.88% of the population.
There were 1,146 households, out of which 27.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.0% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.2% were non-families. 30.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.86.
In the village, the population was spread out, with 21.7% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 24.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.9 males.
The median income for a household in the village was $32,439, and the median income for a family was $39,185. Males had a median income of $29,915 versus $20,918 for females. The per capita income for the village was $16,469. About 5.5% of families and 8.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.0% of those under age 18 and 6.1% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Mohawk students get their education from the Central Valley Central School District, a merger between the Ilion and Mohawk Central School Districts that took effect early in 2013. The sports teams of Central Valley call themselves the Thunder, and their school colors are light blue, navy, yellow and white. Prior to this, Mohawk had called their teams the "Mohicans", and their school colors were orange, black, and white. The last graduating class of Mohawk Central School District was in 2013 and consisted of 54 students. The Mohawk Nation occupied the Mohawk Valley.
Harry M. Fisher Elementary School is a public elementary school in Mohawk, New York that is now part of the Central Valley School District and goes up to sixth grade.
Media
One radio station is licensed to Mohawk: WHMV-LP (97.5 FM), which also serves the neighboring villages of Ilion and Herkimer. Mohawk is also served by television stations in the nearby Utica media market, and by the Observer-Dispatch and Times Telegram newspapers, both also in Utica.
Notable people
Gregory Jarvis, engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist. The local middle school is named after him.
Carl Edgar Myers, balloon inventor and aeronautical engineer scientist
Mary Myers, the first female to solo fly a lighter-than-air passenger balloon
Leigh and Leslie Keno, antique appraisers, longtime contributors to Antiques Roadshow.
Francis E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United States during and after the Civil War; celebrated for his distinctive signature and for being the first federal official to employ women.
Robert E. Fistick, Noted national journalist and newspaper publisher with the Gannett, Hearst, and Whitney publishing organizations, and later a deputy director at The Library of Congress.
References
External links
Village of Mohawk official website
Mohawk Central School
Villages in New York (state)
Utica–Rome metropolitan area
Palatine German settlement in New York (state)
Villages in Herkimer County, New York
Populated places on the Mohawk River
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Jukun
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Jukun or Djugun or Dyugun may refer to:
Jukun people (West Africa)
Jukun Takum language
Jukun people (Australia)
Jukun language (disambiguation)
Djugun, Western Australia, suburb of Broome
Language and nationality disambiguation pages
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Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania
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Mount Cobb is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,799 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Mount Cobb is located in eastern Lackawanna County at (41.424422, -75.505257), in the southern part of Jefferson Township. Interstate 84 forms the southern edge of the community, with access from Exit 8 (Pennsylvania Route 247). I-84 leads east to Port Jervis, New York, and west via Interstate 81 to Scranton. Pennsylvania Route 348 (Mount Cobb Road) passes through the center of the community, leading east to Hamlin and west to Pennsylvania Route 435 in Roaring Brook Township. PA 247 leads northwest from Mount Cobb to Jessup.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 2.16%, are water. Most of the community drains east to the West Branch of Wallenpaupack Creek, a tributary of the Lackawaxen River and part of the Delaware River watershed. The western part of Mount Cobb drains west via Rock Bottom Creek to Roaring Brook, a west-flowing tributary of the Lackawanna River and part of the Susquehanna River watershed.
Demographics
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,799 people, 696 households, and 529 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 257 people per square mile (99.2/km). There were 826 housing units at an average density of 118/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 98.5% White, 0.3% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.1% from other races, and 0.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.8% of the population.
There were 696 households, out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.9% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24% were non-families. 19.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 2.96.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 21.3% under the age of 18, 64.4% from 18 to 64, and 14.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44.6 years.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $44,725, and the median income for a family was $52,933. Males had a median income of $33,051 versus $23,971 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $20,855. About 1.4% of families and 2.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.5% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
References
Census-designated places in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania
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Roberto Villanueva
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Roberto Villanueva (born 1970 in Manila, The Philippines) is an American dancer, teacher, artistic director, and producer. He performed with Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company before founding BalaSole Dance Company.
Early life and career
Born and raised in Manila, after graduating early from Colegio de San Juan de Letran Villanueva moved to New York to study accounting at the University of Buffalo. Taking an introductory dance class to fulfill physical education requirements led him to switch his concentration to dance. Two years later he won the Dance Masters of America Competition and a special scholarship to the school of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Though acknowledged as a "powerhouse dancer" Villanueva was frequently passed over for work due to his short stature. Despite these restrictions he was invited by Desmond Richardson to join Complexions Contemporary Ballet. He also performed with Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company where he worked extensively with Eleo Pomare.
Following the death of his father, Villanueva acknowledged his disenchantment with the lack of greater artistic prospects and became a financial manager for 15 years. During this period he graduated with his Masters from the Public Administration Program from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and work as cash fund manager for Wasserstein Perella & Co. and director of operations for American Bible Society. Frustrated by the continued dearth of representation in dance, Villanueva founded BalaSole Dance Company to "address the inequity of opportunities afforded talented dancers with unconventional attributes". Through BalaSole, he has presented artists from all over the world as well as his own work to great acclaim.
In addition to his solo career, Villanueva is an acclaimed instructor who has taught for Ballet Philippines, University at Buffalo, East Carolina University, Glendale Community College, University of the Philippines, and the school at Dance Masters of America. Currently he is the Director of Dance for College of Mount Saint Vincent where his company is in residence. From 2012 through 2017 he led Dance Theatre of Harlem's Dancing Through the Barriers program.
Personal life
Villanueva lives in New York City.
In 2012, he was nominated for The Outstanding Filipino American in New York (TOFA-NY). In 2013 he received a "Distinguished Alumni Award" from the University at Buffalo's Theater & Dance Department.
References
External links
Roberto Villanueva - Official website
BalaSole Dance Company - BalaSole Dance Company
American male ballet dancers
American people of Filipino descent
Ballet teachers
Male dancers
Living people
1970 births
University at Buffalo alumni
University at Buffalo faculty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk%20Nuclear%20Power%20Plant
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Kursk Nuclear Power Plant
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The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (Russian: Курская АЭС []) is a nuclear power plant located in western Russia on the bank of the Seym River about 40 kilometers west of the city of Kursk. The nearby town of Kurchatov was founded when construction of the plant began. The plant feeds the grid for Kursk Oblast and 19 other regions.
The four reactors at the plant are RBMK-1000 reactors, the same type used at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, but a different model. The plant was originally equipped with two reactors. Two more reactors were added between 1983 and 1985.
In 2018, the first concrete construction started on Kursk-II-1, a VVER-TOI reactor. Kursk-II-1 and II-2 will replace Kursk 1 and 2 which are approaching end of life.
The structure of the Kursk plant is almost identical to Chernobyl's structure. The 1991 American television movie Chernobyl: The Final Warning used the Kursk plant and the neighbouring town of Kurchatov to stand in for Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and Pripyat.
Reactor data
The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant has 3 operational units:
See also
Nuclear power in Russia
List of nuclear reactors#Russia
References
External links
Kursk NPP home page at Energoatom (English version).
About Kursk NPP at Bellona Foundation.
Nuclear power stations built in the Soviet Union
Nuclear power stations in Russia
Nuclear power stations using RBMK reactors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Prix%20Justiniano%20Hotels%20%28women%27s%20race%29
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Grand Prix Justiniano Hotels (women's race)
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The Grand Prix Justiniano Hotels is an annual professional road bicycle race for women in Turkey.
Winners
References
Cycle races in Turkey
Recurring sporting events established in 2019
Women's road bicycle races
Annual sporting events in Turkey
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Lillian Mutuuzo
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Lilian Mutuuzo (born 22 December 2002) is a Ugandan footballer who plays as a forward for FUFA Women Super League club Kampala Queens and the Uganda women's national team.
Club career
Banura has played for Kampala Queens in Uganda.
International career
Banura capped for Uganda at senior level during the 2018 CECAFA Women's Championship.
References
2002 births
Living people
Ugandan women's footballers
Women's association football forwards
Uganda women's international footballers
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Gaia Cauchi
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Gaia Cauchi M.Q.R. (born 19 November 2002) is a Maltese singer. She represented Malta at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 and won the contest with her song "The Start".
Life and career
2004–2012: Early career
Gaia's first "international gig" came in 2011 when she appeared on the popular Italian TV show Ti Lascio Una Canzone. She took on Tina Turner's “Proud Mary” and left the audience shouting "bellissimo!". She won the prestigious Sanremo Junior Music Festival a year later in her category when she was just nine years old. There, she sang "One Night Only", from the hit film Dreamgirls.
2013–present: Junior Eurovision Song Contest and breakthrough
After a two-year break from the contest, PBS (Public Broadcasting Services) decided to return to the Junior Eurovision. PBS, Malta's national broadcaster went for an internal selection and chose Cauchi to represent the island nation. Cauchi won the contest on 30 November with a 9-point lead over Ukraine. Being the winner of the Junior Eurovision, she was given a trophy which was incidentally broken few minutes after being awarded, when the contingent had a group hug. She became the first singer from Malta to win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and the first person from the island nation to win an EBU produced competition.
On 2 December 2013, the Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced that Cauchi would be awarded the order Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika, the country's highest honour. This move generated controversy, and she and her team were given the Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika instead on 13 December 2013.
Cauchi made an appearance in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 performing part of her winning song. At the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 contest, Cauchi performed during the interval act and delivered the "Kids' Jury" points. For the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016, which returned to Malta, Cauchi revealed the points from the adult Maltese jury.
In 2018, Cauchi auditioned for the 15th series of The X-Factor. She was placed in the group "Sweet Sense". On 13 October 2018, Judge Robbie Williams sent Sweet Sense, including Gaia, home from the Judges' Houses round.
In 2019, she released her single 'Why Should I'. Cauchi has also been nominated for 3 awards at the Malta Music Awards.
Discography
Singles
References
External links
Gaia Cauchi - Participant Profile on the official site of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
2002 births
Living people
Maltese child singers
21st-century Maltese women singers
Recipients of Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika
Junior Eurovision Song Contest winners
Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Malta
People from Mġarr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphean
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Orphean
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Orphean may refer to:
Relating to Orpheus, a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth
Orphean warbler, a typical warbler of the genus Sylvia
See also
Orpheus (disambiguation)
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Andreas Audretsch (born 25 June 1984) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. Audretsch became a member of the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election.
He studied Politics, Journalism and Sociology. He also earned a PhD at the University of Potsdam.
References
Living people
1984 births
Politicians from Stuttgart
Alliance 90/The Greens politicians
Members of the Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens
Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025
University of Potsdam alumni
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Bill Patman
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William Neff Patman (March 26, 1927 – December 9, 2008) was an American politician who served from 1981 to 1985 as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 14th congressional district. He was the son of Wright Patman, who served in the U.S. House from 1929 to 1976.
Early life and education
Patman was born in Texarkana, Texas. He attended public schools there and in Washington, D.C. He then attended the now-closed Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri, graduating in 1944. Patman graduated in 1953 from the University of Texas at Austin. Later that year, he was admitted to the State Bar of Texas and served as a legal examiner for the Texas Railroad Commission until 1955.
Career
He served in the United States Marine Corps as a private first class from 1945 to 1946. He subsequently served in the United States Air Force Reserve as a captain from 1953 to 1966. He was a diplomatic courier for the United States Foreign Service from 1949 to 1950. He served as the city attorney for Ganado, Texas from 1955 to 1960.
Texas Senate
In 1960, Patman successfully sought the district 18 seat in the Texas State Senate. He took office the following year and served until 1981. He was a delegate to state Democratic Party conventions during this senatorial tenure. When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Patman was in the fifteenth vehicle of the motorcade.
In 1979, Patman was a member of the Killer Bees, the group of twelve quorum-busting Democratic senators that hid out in an Austin garage apartment for 4½ days.
U.S. House of Representatives
In 1980, he was elected to the District 14 seat in the United States House of Representatives, when the short-term incumbent Joseph P. Wyatt, Jr. , a former member of Patman's state senatorial staff, did not seek reelection. Patman was re-elected in 1982, when U.S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., of Houston led the entire Democratic ticket to its last ever full sweep of Texas statewide offices.
In 1984, however, Patman was unseated by Republican Mac Sweeney of Wharton, when Ronald W. Reagan swept Texas in his presidential reelection bid. Though Sweeney was defeated after two terms by a Democrat, the district returned to Republican representation in 1995, with the defection of Representative Greg Laughlin (who defeated Sweeney in 1988) and then the election in 1996 of former Representative Ron Paul, who defeated Laughlin in the Republican primary. After his defeat by Sweeney, Patman did not seek further office and retired to Ganado, located some ninety miles southwest of Houston, where he lived on his ranch called Ganadom.
Personal life
Patman spent his last years in Ganado and at a second house in Austin. He died of stomach cancer at the age of eighty-one at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Services were held at the Texas Senate chamber; he is interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Patman's father-in-law, Fred Mauritz, was also a Texas state senator, having served from 1940 until his death, also of cancer, in 1947.
U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett of Austin credited Patman with foreseeing the 2008 financial crisis that brought about a $700 billion bailout from Congress: "Much of his legacy — fighting predatory lenders and warning of banks deemed 'too big to fail' — testifies to his foresight."
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1927 births
2008 deaths
People from Texarkana, Texas
Texas Democrats
Deaths from cancer in Texas
Deaths from stomach cancer
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas
Ranchers from Texas
Texas state senators
Texas lawyers
People from Austin, Texas
People from Ganado, Texas
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Burials at Texas State Cemetery
United States Marines
United States Air Force officers
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American lawyers
Military personnel from Texas
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Subrah Iyar
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Subrah S. Iyar (born June 11, 1957) is an entrepreneur of Indian origin. He co-founded and was CEO of web conferencing provider WebEx until its acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2007 for US$3.2 billion.
He is an early investor in and an advisor to Zoom Video Communications.
Early life
Subrah S. Iyar was born in Mumbai, and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B). After graduation in 1982, he moved to the United States. He received a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
Career
Beginning in 1983, he worked for 6 years for Apple Inc., where he was instrumental in creating the first OS licensing business in the Newton Group.
From 1989 to 1995, he worked at Intel, where he directed product marketing and OEM sales management within the LAN software and systems group.
From October 1995 until November 1996, he was president of Future Labs, a subsidiary of Quarterdeck Office Systems.
He was vice president of sales, marketing, and business development at Teleos Research, which was acquired by Autodesk.
Iyar became an entrepreneur in 1996, when he founded WebEx in partnership with Min Zhu. The founding of the company was fueled by an interest in web conferencing. Min Zhu, a Stanford University-trained System Engineer had been struggling to develop a web-conferencing tool, when he met Iyer, who went into business together.
On May 29, 2007, Cisco Systems acquired WebEx for $3.2 billion.
After a 6-year break spending time with his 2 daughters, in 2012, Iyar co-founded and became and CEO of Moxtra. Moxtra is a mobile-first, team collaboration and communication platform that received funding from Cisco and KDDI from Japan.
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IIT Bombay alumni
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George Benson Hall Jr.
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George Benson Hall Jr. (1810 – September 4, 1876) was a businessman involved in the Quebec lumber business. On his death, the Quebec Morning Chronicle described him as "one of Quebec’s most prominent and enterprising citizens".
He was born in Amherstburg, Upper Canada, the son of George Benson Hall and Angelica Fortier. In 1843, he married Mary Jane Patterson, the daughter of Peter Patterson, and the couple had 10 children together. On the death of his father-in-law, he became seigneur for Beauport, the last person to hold that title. Hall established a milling complex at the Montmorency Falls in 1851, which eventually grew to employ members of 800 families at Beauport. He served as an alderman for Quebec City from 1853 to 1862. Hall died at Montmorency, at the time one of the richest lumber operators in Canada. He was also known for his generosity to the under-privileged of his community.
In The storied province of Quebec, the Hall sawmills at Montmorency are described as "the greatest in the world".
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1876 deaths
Canadian businesspeople
Canadian philanthropists
Businesspeople in timber
Anglophone Quebec people
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United Airlines Flight 823
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United Airlines Flight 823 was a scheduled flight from Philadelphia International Airport, Pennsylvania to Huntsville International Airport, Alabama with 39 on board. On July 9, 1964 at approximately 18:15 EST, the aircraft, a Vickers Viscount 745D, registration crashed northeast of Parrottsville, Tennessee after experiencing an uncontrollable fire on board, killing all 39. The fire of unknown origin occurred in the passenger cabin. One passenger abandoned the aircraft through the No.4 escape window prior to impact but did not survive the free-fall. Among the victims was Durant da Ponte, professor of American literature and assistant dean of the University of Tennessee graduate school.
The Aircraft Accident Report published by the Civil Aeronautics Board in June 1966—almost two years after the crash—stated that "The Board is unable to identify the source of fuel, the ignition point of the fire, or the cause of the final manoeuvre." The investigation found the probable cause was "an uncontrollable in-flight fire, of undetermined origin, in the fuselage, which resulted in a loss of control of the aircraft."
Approximately 33,000 lbs. of the 40,000 lb. (empty weight) airliner were recovered, with much of the missing weight attributable to cabin furnishings that were destroyed by fire. The wreckage was transported to the Naval Laboratory in Washington, D.C. where the Vickers was reconstructed by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
The accident triggered an investigation of the Lockheed L-109C flight data recorder which resulted in modifications of that device and revision of the standards for all recorders. Also addressed were potential problems with the Pyrene Duo Head Model DCD-10 fire extinguisher system for the underfloor baggage and heater compartments. There was an Airworthiness Directive issued. Revisions were made to the Pilot's Manual, Viscount Maintenance and Instruction, and Accessories Manuals.
References
External links
United 823
Civil Aeronautics Board Accident Report United Airlines, Inc., Vickers Viscount 745D, N7405 rosap.ntlbts.gov Investigations of Aircraft Accidents 1934-1965
"39 Victims Of Airplane Crash Remembered 50 Years Later" The Greeneville Sun, July 9, 2014, Archived from the original on May 26, 2021
Further reading
Serling, Robert J. Loud and Clear. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969, pp 225–235. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 68-22504
Airliner accidents and incidents caused by in-flight fires
Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 1964
1964 in Tennessee
Airliner accidents and incidents in Tennessee
Accidents and incidents involving the Vickers Viscount
Cocke County, Tennessee
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July 1964 events in the United States
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Jennings (disambiguation)
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Jennings is a surname.
Jennings may also refer to:
Places
Australia
Jennings, New South Wales
Caribbean
Jennings, Antigua and Barbuda
United States
Jennings, Florida
Jennings County, Indiana
Jennings, Kansas
Jennings, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Jennings, Garrett County, Maryland
Jennings, Louisiana
Jennings, Missouri
Jennings, Oklahoma
Jennings, Wisconsin
Jennings Creek, a stream in Ohio
Jennings Environmental Education Center, a state park in Pennsylvania
Other uses
Jennings (novels), a series of novels
Bryco Arms/Jennings Firearms/Jimenez Arms, a former firearms manufacturer in California
Jennings Brewery, a brewery in Cumbria, England
Jennings Musical Instruments
William M. Jennings Trophy, a National Hockey League trophy
Jennings, a steam engine created by Wilbert Awdry who was never featured in The Railway Series but was part of a layout for the Mid Sodor Railway
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Quaibrücke
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A Quaibrücke, or Quai-Brücke, or Quai Brücke (German, from ) is a German term for quay bridge. Commonly used in German language and is sometimes even used as a name of such bridges in some places:
Switzerland:
Quaibrücke in Zurich.
Alternative name for Seebrücke bridge in Lucerne.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Monte Cassino
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The Diocese of Monte Cassino (Latin: Dioecesis Cassinensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in Monte Cassino, a rocky hill on the former site of the Roman town of Casinum about southeast of Rome, Italy, to the west of the town of Cassino. In 1367, it was suppressed.
Ordinaries
Angelo Acciaioli (bishop), O.P. (1355-1357 Died)
See also
Catholic Church in Italy
References
Former Roman Catholic dioceses in Italy
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Şanlıkışla, Şereflikoçhisar is a village in the District of Şereflikoçhisar, Ankara Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds.
References
Villages in Şereflikoçhisar District
Kurdish settlements in Ankara Province
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Piotr S. Wandycz
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Piotr Stefan Wandycz (September 20, 1923 – July 29, 2017) was a Polish-American historian. He was also the President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and professor emeritus at Yale University, specializing in Eastern and Central European history.
Life
Born in Kraków in 1923 during the Second Polish Republic and raised in Lwow, Piotr S. Wandycz left the country during World War II on September 17, 1939, when the Soviet army invaded eastern Poland. He and his family crossed into Romania, and in 1940 went to France. Graduating from the Polish Lycee in Villard de Lans, he studied at the University of Grenoble (1941–42). In late 1942 he reached the United Kingdom where he served in the Polish army until 1945 as a second lieutenant. After the war he studied at the University of Cambridge where he received B.A. and M.A. and the London School of Economics (Ph.D. 1951). Later he moved to the United States, where he taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale University in 1966 as an associate professor. He was promoted to a full professorship in 1968 and was named Bradford Durfee Professor in 1989. At Yale, he served as director of graduate studies in Russian and East European studies and in history, the chair of the Council on Russian and East European Studies, and the director of the Language and Area Center. He authored 18 books and over 400 articles and book reviews.
Piotr S. Wandycz was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, the Polish Academy of Learning, and an honorary member of the Polish Historical Association. His many other honors included the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and honorary degrees from the University of Wrocław, the Sorbonne, the Jagiellonian University, and the Catholic University of Lublin. He died on July 29, 2017.
Works
Piotr Wandycz was a noted authority on Eastern and Central European history. His many books include France and Her Eastern Allies, 1919-1925, which won the 1962 American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize; The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936, which received the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; and The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, which was a 1992 History Book Club selection.
See also
List of Poles
References
Further reading
M.B.B. Biskupski (Co-authored with Neal Pease and Anna Cienciala), "Piotr S. Wandycz - pionier badań w Ameryce nad dziejami Polski i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej" ("Piotr S. Wandycz: A Pioneer in Research in America Concerning Poland and East Central Europe"), in Studia z Dziejow Rosji i Europy srodkowo-wschodniej, 30 (1995), pp. 5–13.
External links
Piotr S. Wandycz homepage at Yale
President of PIASA, Prof. Piotr S. Wandycz, Received High Honors in Poland
1923 births
2017 deaths
Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
American historians
Polish emigrants to the United States
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Grenoble Alpes University alumni
Historians of Polish Americans
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Danny Naughton
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Daniel "Danny" Naughton (born 24 December 1924 – April 1992) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played at representative level for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and England, and at club level for Widnes and Warrington, as a , i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums.
Background
Danny Naughton's birth was registered in Prescot district, Lancashire, England.
Playing career
International honours
Naughton won caps for England while at Widnes in 1949 against Other Nationalities.
Challenge Cup Final appearances
Naughton was absent from Widnes' 0-19 defeat by Warrington in the 1949–50 Challenge Cup Final during the 1949–50 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 6 May 1950, due to being on the 1950 Great Britain Lions tour to Australia, and New Zealand, though he did not participate in any of the test matches.
Naughton played left-, i.e. number 8, in Warrington's 4-4 draw with Halifax in the 1953–54 Challenge Cup Final during the 1953–54 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 24 April 1954, in front of a crowd of 81,841, and played left- in the 8-4 victory over Halifax in the 1953–54 Challenge Cup Final replay during the 1953–54 season at Odsal Stadium, Bradford on Wednesday 5 May 1954, in front of a record crowd of 102,575 or more.
Genealogical Information
Naughton's marriage to Rita (née Mercer) was registered during third ¼ 1949 in Prescot district, they had children; Daniel J. Naughton (birth registered during third ¼ in Prescot district), and Ian M. Naughton (birth registered during first ¼ in Prescot district). Danny Naughton was the younger brother of the rugby league who played in the 1940s and 1950s for Widnes; John "Johnny" Naughton (born 5 January 1920 in Prescot district), and Teresa "Tess" Naughton (birth registered during fourth ¼ 1921 in Prescot district), and the older brother of the rugby league footballer, Albert "Ally" Naughton.
References
External links
Statistics at rugby.widnes.tv*
Statistics at wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk
1924 births
1992 deaths
England national rugby league team players
English rugby league players
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Place of death missing
Rugby league players from Prescot
Rugby league props
Warrington Wolves players
Widnes Vikings players
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Senator Frank
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Senator Frank may refer to:
Kurt Frank (born 1945), Wisconsin State Senate
Pat Collier Frank (born 1929), Florida State Senate
Harry F. Franke Jr. (1922–2012), Wisconsin State Senate
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Velykyi Bukrin (; ) is a village in the south of the Ukrainian Oblast of Kyiv with about 100 inhabitants (2001).
The village, founded in 1600, belongs administratively to the 39.3 km2 district council Malyi Bukrin (Малий Букрин) in the north of Myronivka Raion.
The village is located on the border with the Cherkassy Oblast on a peninsula in the Dniepr, which is dammed up to the Kaniv reservoir, 5 km north of the Malyi Bukrin community center, about 50 km northeast of the Myronivka district center and about 120 km south of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
At Velykyi Bukrin, the troops of the Voronezh Front established the hard-fought over Bukrin bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper in the autumn of 1943 during the Battle of the Dnieper. In the neighboring village of Balyko-Shchuchynka, there is the "National Museum-Memorial Bukrin Bridgehead" (Національний музей-меморіальний комплекс «Букринський плацда) to commemorate the fighting.
References
Historians
Populated places on the Dnieper in Ukraine
1600 establishments in Europe
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Giuseppe Puini
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Giuseppe Puini (21 July 1806 – 9 August 1869) was an Italian engineer and architect who worked in the neoclassical style in Tuscany, largely at Livorno, where he was largely responsible for the piazza that provides an urbanistic setting of the Cisternone (1842) and the Church of Sant’Andrea, and for the Church of San Giuseppe.
Biography
He was born at Regello, near Florence, the son of Valentino Puini. He gained his degree of Master of Architecture at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, 1828. He died in Florence, 1869, and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, called the "English" cemetery, in Piazzale Donatello.
For Florence, he designed in 1854 the extension of the embankment along the Arno River leading downstream to the Park of the Cascine. He published the designs in Sudi e progetto del Lungarno di Firenze nel punto più interessante alle Cascine, (Florence, 1854). He designed the small tower on the Oltrarno (left) bank at the end of the medieval walls.
His only familiar work in architecture, the church of San Giuseppe, Livorno (detail) was completed in 1839-42. The facade with its trompe-l'œil niche with a coffered barrel vault, refers to the Cisternone nearby.
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1869 deaths
19th-century Italian architects
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Italian neoclassical architects
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Anant Prasad Singh
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Anant Prasad Singh was an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected as a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from Mirganj in 1969 and 1972. He died on 27 January 2019 at the age of 92.
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Indian National Congress politicians
Members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Lonely This Christmas
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"Lonely This Christmas" is a Christmas song by the English glam rock band Mud, that
topped the UK Singles Chart in 1974, selling over 750,000 copies and reaching Christmas number one.
Song
Written and produced by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, "Lonely This Christmas" was Mud's second number one single in the UK, spending four weeks at the top in December 1974 and January 1975. It was the third number one single that year for the ChinniChap writing and production team, and was performed in the style of Elvis Presley's slower songs from his later career.
Performances
The song is noted for a performance on Top of the Pops in which guitarist Rob Davis was covered in tinsel and wore Christmas baubles as earrings, while vocalist Les Gray sang to a ventriloquist's dummy.
Its final appearance on Top of the Pops was on 8 January 1975, which was coincidentally the fortieth birthday of Elvis Presley. At the conclusion of the song, vocalist Les Gray turned to the camera and solemnly said, 'Merry Christmas darling wherever you are.'
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
Songs about loneliness
1974 singles
British Christmas songs
UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
Dutch Top 40 number-one singles
Single Top 100 number-one singles
Ultratop 50 Singles (Flanders) number-one singles
Songs written by Nicky Chinn
Songs written by Mike Chapman
1974 songs
RAK Records singles
Song recordings produced by Mike Chapman
Mud (band) songs
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Kugaaruk Airport
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Kugaaruk Airport , formerly known as Pelly Bay Townsite Airport, is located at Kugaaruk (formerly known as Pelly Bay) in Nunavut, Canada. It is operated by the government of Nunavut.
History
The airport was built by the Government of Canada in 1968 as Pelly Bay Townsite Airport and renamed in 1999.
Facilities
The terminal building a tower are the only building at the airport.
Airlines and destinations
References
External links
Certified airports in the Kitikmeot Region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer%2040%2C000%3A%20Rites%20of%20War
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Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War
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Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War is a turn-based strategy game based on the Panzer General 2 engine by SSI. It is set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. It was produced by Games Workshop in 1999, and concerns the invasion of a Tyranid Hive fleet and the Eldar and Imperial efforts to defeat it. The game was re-released in 2015 on GOG.com.
Gameplay
The game has three modes. In the "campaign mode" the player controls the Eldar forces and follows the efforts of the Craftworld Iyanden to conquer a Maiden World, a lost colony of the ancient Eldar race. During the campaign an additional and far more dangerous foe, the alien Tyranids, emerge and the Eldar and Imperial forces unite to defeat them. In "skirmish" mode the player can play as the Imperium, Eldar or Tyranids. The Imperial forces include the Imperial Guard, the Red Hunter chapter of Space Marines, and Sisters of Battle. In multiplayer mode the player can battle other players online.
Reception
The game received mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. PC Gamer USs William R. Trotter praised the game's art and interface, and called the game "an agreeable marriage of the Warhammer license and SSI's tried-and-true concepts." However, he greatly criticized its high difficulty, which he found "obnoxious". In PC Gamer UK, Jason Weston was more negative, writing that the game "plunges straight into this abyss" thanks to its dated engine and bad artificial intelligence. He concluded, "Time to buy an 8x4ft table and paint it green. Could offer much more tactical depth." Conversely, Jeff Lackey of Computer Gaming World called the game "thoroughly engrossing".
William Abner of Computer Games Strategy Plus wrote that the game "feels incomplete and unfinished", and found it to be derivative of Fantasy General and Panzer General II, but "as fun as neither." Despite these criticisms, he argued that "the game is fun to play—while it lasts." John Lee of NextGen wrote of the game, "If your PC has the muscle, you may enjoy this one for several days. Especially if you've got a good pair of sunglasses to mute the glare from those uniforms."
References
External links
Official site (archived)
1999 video games
Computer wargames
Strategic Simulations games
Video games developed in the United States
Rites of War
Windows games
Windows-only games
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Dhirapatana
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Dhirapatana is a village in the state of Orissa on the east coast of India.
Its population is around 1500 which is Panchayat head office Dhirapata Gram panchayat.
Many people work in nature. There are also doctors, software engineers, civil engineers, teachers, and bankers.
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Villages in Dhenkanal district
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İçmeler, Gölyaka
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İçmeler is a village in the Gölyaka District of Düzce Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds.
References
Villages in Gölyaka District
Kurdish settlements in East Marmara Region
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Ghousi Shah
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Ghousi Shah(Persian/Urdu:) (July 1893 – June 1954) was a Muslim Sufi, saint, scholar, writer and poet from the Indian subcontinent; whose poetry in Urdu and Persian is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era. Tayyabat-E-Ghousi is considered one of the famous poetric book in tasawwuf which has a collection of poems - Hamd, Na`at, Manqabath, Rubaiyat . He was the most famous disciple and successor of Syed Kamalullah Shah also known as Machiliwale Shah who in turn became the spiritual master of India’s noted Sufi saints. He was born on 1 July 1893 CE in Hyderabad corresponding to 16th zil haj 1310 hejiri.
Biography
He was 20 when his father died in 1913. Ghousi Shah studied under Maulana Hameedullah. He learnt Urdu, Arabic, Persian: Fiqh, Hadith, Tafseer. He also learnt calligraphy. Ghousi Shah embodied in his person, all the elements of Akhlakhe Muhammadi – the character of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. Ghousi Shah Saheb was a total transparent person. His surrender to God was total. As an orator, he left a deep, intimate impact upon his listeners. He would stir their hearts by his powerful words. As an interpreter of wahdatul wujood he was unique. He was a great Khateeb – an orator who left a great impact upon the audience. Masnavi Maulana Rum in an extremely impressive manner and he was a great interpreter of arabi. He would baffle us by his simple interpretation of the complex problems of Sufism. He would build a healthy rapport with his students.
Spiritual history
His father, Alhaj Kareemullah Shah, brought him up and initiated him in Tasawwuf. He developed love for Allah after the initiation. This love grew into great passion and ishq, after he met Machiliwale Shah. He took Baiyat under him and was awarded khilafath instantly. It was a turning point in his life. Syed Kamalullah Shah(Machiliwale Shah) a businessman from Mysore, surrendered himself to Syed Sultan Mahmoodullah Shah Hussaini, when he first met him in Secunderabad. The meeting transformed him totally. He was initiated in the order. Ghousi Shah was a one-year child, when Syed Sultan Mahmoodullah Shah Hussaini died.
Successor
Four months before his death in an impressive speech before a huge audience of murideen he declared his son, Sahvi Shah to be his successor(Janasheen). He said that it is the will of God that Sahvi Shah should take over from him. Peer Ghousi Shah( gave khilafath through his son's hand to his four disciples Mohammad Abdul Quadir Shah Saheb, Syed Khasim Shah Sahab, Sadullah Khan Sahab and Abdur Rasheed Sahab. These lines are written in the dargah stone of Peer Ghousi Shah
Title
Kanzul Irfan
Abul Eeqan
Shaikh Akber Thani
Qutub-e-Deccan
Sayings
Sayings of Peer Ghousi Shah
FAITH:
If the life of a Muslim is surcharged with faith, and if he combines both intellect and action in discharging his day to day duties, he shall spread light throughout the world, by virtue of his faith.
Prayer is a cardinal virtue of life and after prayer, if any other virtue is to be cultivated, it is the respect your should show towards the God – conscious and God – fearing. Observe the creation and accept the creator.
LA ILAHA ILALLAH: If u realize the significance of La Ilaha Ilallah, the doors of meaning will open. And you should know what is the meaning of God.
Elements of IMAN E KAMIL – the perfect faith.
Performing prayers with stead fastness.
Spending the wealth of God.
Surrendering oneself to God’s Will.
Fear of God.
Strengthening the faith.
Influence
Maulana Abdus Samad: A student of Deoband commenting about his scholarship has said "I have not seen a greater interpreter of Masnavi Maulana Rum than Ghousi Shah.
Allama seemab Akabarabadi: He once wrote "how I only wish I had seen him from a distance".
Maulana Maudoodi: Maulana Maudoodi was all praise for his learning when he had a detailed meeting with him in the company of Nisar Yar Jung.
Allama Ashraf Ali Thanvi: Allama Ashraf Ali Thanvi paid rich tributes for his interpretation of the problem of determinism.
Syed Abdullah Shah: Syed Abdullah Shah on his death said "once I went to listen to Hazrath Ghousi Shah Saheb’s sermon. He explained the intricacies of Tawheed quite coherently. Only a man of his calibre could do it. One has to wait for ages to expect such persons of distinction. Hazrath is no more. We must make the best use of the presence of Hazrath Sahvi Shah, his successor – a boon for all of us.
Nawaab Liaqat Jung: Nawaab Liaqat Jung while lauding the efforts of the Namaz committee in propagating the movement of namaaz said "in fact, a movement of this type was founded by Hazrath Ghousi Shah, who organized a huge movement to inculcate religious values".
Syed Badshah Hussaini Quadri: Hazrath Syed Badshah Hussaini Quadri also paid rich tributes to the personality of Ghousi Shah. Hazrath Ghousi Shah has dedicated his life to propagate Islam, Iman (faith), Tawheed (faith in the unity of God), Piety and Ihsan. His books are alive, his teachings are alive. He is thus alive. It is just a question of paying attention to his books to reap the benefits.
Disciples
Approximately 10 thousand people were his disciples through all over India. In the disciples many followers were educated. His disciples have spread his teachings throughout India and abroad.
Khulafa
Maulana Bareeq Shah
Maulana Hakeem
Abdul Hameed Shah
Syed Khasim Shah
Abdul Basith Shah(Bellary)
Maulana Abdul Ghani Saheb
Syed Wajid Ali Shah
Faqeer Mohammed Shah
Dr Ghulam Dastageer Rasheed Ph.D
Shaik Mohammed Shah
Moulana Shah Husamuddin Quadri (Karda,Mumbai)
Maulana Sheikh Mohiuddin Hilal Akbari
Ghouse Khan
Galeb Saheb
Ahamed Mohiyudheen Noorishah Jeelani
Abdul Quddoos, Waheedullah Shah
Naser Ali Shah(London
Hakeekm Shah Maqdoom Ashraf(Chennai)
Maulana Ghaffar Shah
Abdur Rasheed.
Books
Kanze Maktoom (Sharha Mathnawi Bahrul Uloom)
Majoone Mohammadi
Jawahere Ghousi
Maqsad-E-Bayet (Ghousi Shah discusses bayet – taking a spiritual pledge. He discusses the purpose, virtues, necessity, kinds of bayet).
Tayyebat-E-Ghousi (A collection of poems-Hamd, Naat, Manqabath, Rubaiyat. There are thumris-thumri on the Prophet and Meraj).
Noor-Un-Noor (A book on the interpretation of Wahadatul Wujood).
Kalima-E-Tayaba The book discusses the significance of Kalim-E-Tyebba – the bedrock of Islam. The book also discusses awareness of self, awareness of God, revelation, Prophethood etc.,.
Falahe Muslims
Maeete Elah
Death
Ghousi Shah Saheb died on 4th Shawwal, 1373 hejire corresponding to Sunday, 6 June 1954 CE in Hyderabad. He was buried in his father mosque Masjid-E-Kareemullah Shah, 15-6-341, Begum bazaar, Hyderabad, India.
Urs
His annual Urs is organized by his present successor Moulana Ghousavi Shah on 4th Shawwal every year. Moulana Ghousavi Shah (Secretary General: The Conference of World Religions and President: All India Muslim Conference) and other religious scholars presides the function every year. The Urs celebrations will end with sama (Qawwali Programme) at Baith-Un-Noor, Hyderabad. People from all corners of country irrespective of cast and creed comes to attend this occasion every year.
Related
Mahmoodullah Shah
Machiliwale Shah
Kareemullah Shah
Moulana Sahvi Shah
Alhaj Moulana Ghousavi Shah
See also
Moinuddin Chishti
Nizamuddin Awliya
References
1893 births
1954 deaths
Sufi mystics
20th-century Indian poets
Indian Sufis
Sufi poets
Indian male poets
Indian Muslim scholars of Islam
20th-century Indian male writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji%20at%20the%202017%20World%20Games
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Fiji at the 2017 World Games
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Fiji competed at the World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, from 20 July 2017 to 30 July 2017.
Competitors
Karate
Fiji has qualified at the 2017 World Games:
Men's Kumite -75 kg - 1 quota (Joji Veremalua)
References
Nations at the 2017 World Games
2017 in Fijian sport
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozadze
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Nozadze
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Nozadze () is a Georgian surname. Common variations include Nazadze, Nozatze, and Nosadze. Notable people with the surname include:
Lasha Nozadze (born 1980), Georgian football player
Ramaz Nozadze (born 1983), Georgian wrestler
Georgian-language surnames
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed%20buildings%20in%20Shenstone%2C%20Staffordshire
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Listed buildings in Shenstone, Staffordshire
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Shenstone is a civil parish in the district of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It contains 54 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Shenstone and Stonnall, the area of Little Aston, and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings. The other listed buildings include three churches, the isolated tower from a previous church, the rest of which has been demolished, public houses, a bridge, a war memorial, two mileposts, and two pumping stations.
Key
Buildings
Notes and references
Notes
Citations
Sources
Lists of listed buildings in Staffordshire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockvale%2C%20Colorado
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Rockvale, Colorado
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Rockvale is a statutory town in Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The population was 487 at the 2010 census, up from 426 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Rockvale is located in southeastern Fremont County at (38.368845, -105.164813). It is bordered to the north by the town of Williamsburg, and the town of Coal Creek is to the east.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Rockvale has a total area of , all of it land.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 426 people, 166 households, and 122 families residing in the town. The population density was 445.0 people per square mile (171.3/km). There were 191 housing units at an average density of 199.5 per square mile (76.8/km). The racial makeup of the town was 94.60% White, 0.23% African American, 0.47% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 1.64% from other races, and 2.82% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.23% of the population.
There were 166 households, out of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.8% were married couples living together, 12.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.5% were non-families. 22.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 24.9% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 28.2% from 45 to 64, and 11.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.8 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $30,000, and the median income for a family was $33,182. Males had a median income of $28,182 versus $17,679 for females. The per capita income for the town was $13,965. About 13.1% of families and 17.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.1% of those under age 18 and 17.0% of those age 65 or over.
See also
Outline of Colorado
Index of Colorado-related articles
State of Colorado
Colorado cities and towns
Colorado municipalities
Colorado counties
Fremont County, Colorado
List of statistical areas in Colorado
Front Range Urban Corridor
South Central Colorado Urban Area
Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area
References
External links
Town of Rockvale contacts
CDOT map of the Town of Rockvale
Towns in Fremont County, Colorado
Towns in Colorado
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%20Suzuka%201000km
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1990 Suzuka 1000km
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The 1990 1000 km of Suzuka was the fourth race of the 1990 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship. It was run on August 26, 1990.
Official results
Class winners in bold. Results are as follows:
Statistics
Pole Position - #37 TOM'S 90C-V - 1:49.674
Fastest Lap - #37 TOM'S 90C-V - 1:56.352
Winner's Race Time - 5:51:40.225
References
Suzuka
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Katrine%2C%20New%20York
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Lake Katrine, New York
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Lake Katrine is a hamlet (and census-designated place (CDP)) in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 2,397 at the 2010 census.
Lake Katrine is a community in the western part of the Town of Ulster, located near a small lake, also called Lake Katrine. The hamlet is north of the City of Kingston.
History
The community was once called "Pine Bush" and the lake was known as "Auntrens Pond."
Geography
Lake Katrine is located at .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and (1.78%) is water.
The community is located next to Esopus Creek.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,396 people, 821 households, and 487 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,084.1 per square mile (418.6/km2). There were 891 housing units at an average density of 403.1/sq mi (155.7/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 91.44% White, 4.09% African American, 0.33% Native American, 1.96% Asian, 0.25% Pacific Islander, 0.25% from other races, and 1.67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.21% of the population.
There were 821 households, out of which 27.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.1% were married couples living together, 11.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.6% were non-families. 34.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the average family size was 2.88.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 17.9% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 24.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.2 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $38,017, and the median income for a family was $46,375. Males had a median income of $36,184 versus $28,214 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $18,713. About 5.5% of families and 13.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.6% of those under age 18 and 14.7% of those age 65 or over.
References
Census-designated places in New York (state)
Census-designated places in Ulster County, New York
Hamlets in New York (state)
Hamlets in Ulster County, New York
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Dalessandro
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Andrea Dalessandro
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Andrea Dalessandro is an American politician and educator serving as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 2nd district.
Education
Dalessandro earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in mathematics education from Jersey City State College (now New Jersey City University), followed by a Master of Business Administration from Rutgers University.
Elections
2012 Redistricted to District 2, and with incumbent Democratic Representatives Tom Chabin running for Arizona Senate and Albert Hale redistricted to District 7, Dalessandro ran in the August 28, 2012 Democratic Primary, placing first with 9,158 votes, and won the second seat in the November 6, 2012 General election with 27,081 votes above Republican nominee John Ackerly.
2008 When District 30 incumbent Republican Representatives Jonathan Paton ran for Arizona Senate and Marian McClure ran for the Arizona Corporation Commission, Dalessandro was unopposed in the September 2, 2008 Democratic Primary, winning with 11,871 votes, but placed third in the November 4, 2008 General election behind Republican nominees Frank Antenori and David Gowan (who had run for the seat in 2004 and 2006).
2010 To challenge incumbent Republican Representative Gowan, and with Representative Antenori running for Arizona Senate, Dalessandro was again unopposed for the August 24, 2010 Democratic Primary, placing second with 14,718 votes, and placed third in the November 2, 2010 General election behind Republican nominees Representative Gowan and Ted Vogt.
In 2014, Dalessandro was appointed to the Arizona State Senate to replace Linda J. Lopez, who resigned.
References
External links
Official page at the Arizona State Legislature
Campaign site
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Arizona Democrats
Members of the Arizona House of Representatives
Arizona state senators
New Jersey City University alumni
Politicians from Jersey City, New Jersey
People from Green Valley, Arizona
Rutgers University alumni
Women state legislators in Arizona
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischnocnema%20nigriventris
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Ischnocnema nigriventris
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Ischnocnema nigriventris is a species of frog in the family Brachycephalidae. It is endemic to the Serra do Mar in eastern São Paulo state, Brazil. Until a population was found in Bertioga in 2006, the species was only known from the brief species description published in 1925 and a single specimen collected in the 1980s.
Description
Males measure and females, based on just three specimens, in snout–vent length. The head is wide with a short, rounded snout. The eyes are large and prominent. The fingers and toes are unwebbed. The dorsal colouration consists of dark brown background with lighter or darker brown blotches. Males differ from females by having bright yellow mottling on the inguinal region and hidden areas of hindlimbs, whereas in females this mottling is bright orange. The belly light brown belly at night and deeply dark brown during daytime. The iris is silver with a yellowish copper band. The dorsal skin is shagreen with tubercles or warts.
Habitat and conservation
Its natural habitat is Atlantic forests. Calling males are usually found perching on trees or shrubs, sometimes as high as above the ground. A couple in amplexus was spotted on the leaf litter.
At the time of the latest assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), there was not enough information on this species to assess its conservation status. The species occurs in the Serra do Mar State Park, and the Bertioga population is within a private reserve.
References
nigriventris
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Amphibians of Brazil
Taxa named by Adolfo Lutz
Amphibians described in 1925
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benakis
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Benakis
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Benakis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Antonis Benakis (1873–1954), Greek art collector
Emmanouil Benakis (1843–1929), Greek merchant and politician
Linos Benakis (born 1928), Greek historian
Panagiotis Benakis ( 1700–1771), Greek freedom-fighter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amel%20Moussa
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Amel Moussa
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Amel Moussa is a Tunisian poet, teacher and journalist. She has published two books of poetry, and her poems have been translated in Italian, Spanish, French, Polish, German and Czech. She has won Tunisia's National Creative Award for her poetry and an award from the Arab Women’s Organization for her journalism in Tunisia.
In 2021, she was appointed to government. She is Minister Family, Women, Children and the Elderly in the Bouden Cabinet.
Selected works
Poetry collections
Ontha al-ma' (The water female), 1996
Khajal al-yakout (The emerald's bashfulness), 1998
References
Tunisian women poets
Tunisian women journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Tunisian women writers
21st-century Tunisian poets
Tunisian writers in Arabic
Women government ministers of Tunisia
21st-century Tunisian women politicians
Independent politicians in Tunisia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah%20Hinkle
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Jedediah Hinkle
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Jedediah Hinkle is an American politician and a Republican member of the Montana House of Representatives. He previously served in the Montana Senate from 2015 to 2019.
In 2021, he supported moving same-day voter registration back one day, to relieve pressure on elections offices while they counted ballots. He testified to individuals being bused in on election day, creating long lines that wrap around the block and being worked by political organizations. The elections office was still registering voters till just before midnight all while a counting machine was broken down. He stated that those who were bussing people to the elections office "were not from our side of the aisle", and such long lines on election night created much stress and strain on the elections department.
References
External links
Living people
Montana state senators
Montana Republicans
People from Sitka, Alaska
Taxidermists
People from Belgrade, Montana
21st-century American politicians
1980 births
Montana State University alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elina%20Mitrofanova
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Elina Mitrofanova
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Elina Sergeyevna Mitrofanova (; born 28 January 1992) is a Russian ice hockey player, currently playing with HC Agidel Ufa of the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL).
She represented at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2016 and 2017, and medaled at three Winter Universiades, winning silver in 2013 and gold in 2015 and 2017. As a junior player, she was a member of the Russian national under-18 ice hockey team and participated in the IIHF Women's U18 World Championships in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
References
External links
1992 births
Living people
People from Sysertsky District
Sportspeople from Sverdlovsk Oblast
Russian women's ice hockey forwards
HC Agidel Ufa players
Universiade medalists in ice hockey
Universiade gold medalists for Russia
Universiade silver medalists for Russia
Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2015 Winter Universiade
Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Boniface%2C%20Pennsylvania
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Saint Boniface, Pennsylvania
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Saint Boniface is an unincorporated community in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 36 east of Hastings. Saint Boniface has a post office with ZIP code 16675.
References
Unincorporated communities in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320%20Belgian%20Cup
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2019–20 Belgian Cup
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The 2019–20 Belgian Cup, called the Croky Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 65th season of Belgium's annual football cup competition. The competition began on 26 July 2019 and ended with the final on 1 August 2020. The winners of the competition qualified for the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League Group Stage. KV Mechelen were the defending champions, but were unable to defend their title as the club got banned from the competition for one season after being found guilty of match-fixing as part of the 2017–19 Belgian football fraud scandal.
Competition format
The competition consisted of ten rounds. Except for the semi-finals, all rounds were single-match elimination rounds. When tied after 90 minutes in the first three rounds, penalties were taken immediately. In rounds four to seven and the quarterfinals, when tied after 90 minutes first an extra time period of 30 minutes were played, then penalties were taken if still necessary. The semi-finals were played over two legs, where the team winning on aggregate advanced. The final was played as a single match.
Teams entered the competition in different rounds, based upon their 2019–20 league affiliation. Teams from the fifth-level Belgian Third Amateur Division or lower began in round 1. Belgian Second Amateur Division teams entered in round 2, Belgian First Amateur Division teams entered in round 3, Belgian First Division B teams in round 5 and finally the Belgian First Division A teams entered in round 6. With KV Mechelen being banned from the competition, one of the Belgian First Division B teams (Union SG) was drawn randomly to receive a bye in round 5 and progressed automatically to round 6.
Round and draw dates
First round
This round of matches were played on 27, 28 & 29 July 2019 and included teams playing in the Belgian Third Amateur Division and Belgian Provincial Leagues. Teams from the Belgian Third Amateur Division were seeded and could not play each other.
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
Fifth round
Non-professional teams (tiers 3 and below) always receive the home advantage when playing professional teams, if their stadium meets the seating and safety requirements. As a result Lokeren and Roeselare had to give up their home advantage in this round.
Sixth round
The draw for the sixth round was made on 26 August 2019 and included the teams from the Belgian First Division A and Union SG, the latter replacing KV Mechelen which were banned from the competition after being found guilty of match-fixing. The 16 teams entering at this stage were seeded and could not meet each other.
Seventh Round
The draw for the seventh round was made immediately after the last game of the sixth round, between Antwerp and Lokeren, was finished. Only three teams outside the top division qualified for this round, with Rebecq from the Belgian Second Amateur Division the lowest still in the competition.
The matches will be played on 3, 4 and 5 of December 2019.
Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was made immediately after the last game of the seventh round, between Excel Mouscron and Anderlecht was finished. Only one team from outside the top division remained at this stage of the competition, Union SG playing in the Belgian First Division B, who also reached the semifinals the previous season.
The matches were played on 17, 18 and 19 December 2019.
Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals was made immediately after the last game of the seventh round, between Anderlecht and Club Brugge was finished. The first leg matches were played on 22 and 23 January 2020, the second legs on 5 and 6 February 2020.
First Legs
Second Legs
Club Brugge win 3–2 on aggregate
Antwerp win 2–1 on aggregate
Final
Notes
References
Belgian Cup
Belgian Cup
Cup
Belgian Cup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozan%2C%20Ain
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Ozan, Ain
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Ozan is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.
Population
See also
Communes of the Ain department
Chizerots
References
Communes of Ain
Ain communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNIPL
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BNIPL
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Bcl-2/adenovirus E1B 19 kDa-interacting protein 2-like protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BNIPL gene.
Interactions
BNIPL has been shown to interact with:
BCL2-like 1,
Bcl-2,
CDC42,
GFER, and
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor.
References
External links
Further reading
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81kua%20Valley
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Mākua Valley
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The Mākua Valley Struggle is an ongoing land rights dispute between Native Hawaiians and the U.S. military.
Background
The U.S. military has occupied parts of Mākua Valley since the 1920s.
Struggle
The struggle was triggered by numerous evictions in the Mākua Valley on the island of Oʻahu, and was followed by dozens of more threats, with the main targets being Native Hawaiians who had lived there for fifty years or longer. The evictions began in 1983, which led to numerous sit-ins and camp-ins, and the eventual arrest of 16 protestors after the third eviction in June 1996. Much of this action was started in the 60's, but the two major events happened with the mass arrests and disturbance that occurred on January 20, 1983, and the mass eviction in January 1996. This mass eviction is particularly notable, because the Governor at the time, Ben Cayetano, kept the media from reporting, and even went as far as threatening to arrest and suppress the press should the try to report on the event.
First settlement in 1999 when the U.S. Army halted military testing until the Environmental Impact Statement could be completed. The Environmental Assessment was issued in 2000.
References
External Links
Photographs of the struggle taken by Ed Greevy
Protests in the United States
Native Hawaiian history
Land rights movements
Nonviolent resistance movements
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titcombe%20College%20Egbe
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Titcombe College Egbe
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Titcombe College is a secondary school in Egbe, Kogi State, Nigeria. Founded by missionaries of the Sudan Interior Mission in 1951, the school has produced notable Nigerians including the former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan and the late Professor Pius Adesamni. Alumni association of the college has commissioned several projects on the campus.
History
Titcombe College was founded in March 1951 by missionaries of the Sudan Interior Mission.
Alumni
The college has produced students who are among notable Nigerians today. Few of them include the former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan (retd.), Professor of Management Science at the University of Ibadan Solomon Adebola, the Chairman of the Central Planning Committee (CPC) Tunji Arosanyin and the late social commentator and university lecturer Pius Adesamni, a Professor of Literature and African studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and the director of the University's Institute of African Studies. Adesamni died along with 156 others, on the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed March 2019. With a robust alumni, several sets of Titcombe College have been giving back to the college.
References
External links
Official webpage
Secondary schools in Nigeria
1951 establishments in Nigeria
Educational institutions established in 1951
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager%20Magazin%20%28Poland%29
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Manager Magazin (Poland)
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The Polish business title Manager Magazin – Edycja Polska (manager magazin EDYCJA POLSKA) was published under license by the German title Manager Magazin from 2004 to 2008 and was one of two major business magazines in Poland at that time.
History and profile
The title was published by a joint venture between Hamburg based Manager Magazin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (Spiegel group) and Warsaw publishing house Infor SA. Wydawnictwo Infor Manager Sp. z o.o. published its first issue of the Polish Manager Magazin in November 2004 (issue 12/2004). In 2007 Spiegel group purchased Infor's shares and rebranded the publishing house into Manager Media Sp.z o.o..
The magazine focussed on upper managers in Polish business. The title had a print run of 50,000 copies, copy price at 9.80 Złoty and sold around 30,000 copies at outlets and via subscription. The magazine was registered at the Polish auditing association ZKDP. The editor-in-chief for the launch was business journalist Jan Bazyl Lipsczyc. In 2006 Dorota Goliszewska became editor-in-chief. Deputy editors were Dorota Kornacka and Piotr Lemberg. The CEO was Philipp Busch, and later Nikolaus von Nathusius.
Beside the main title Manager Magazin, the company published special issues on specifically focused topics. With the brand Manager Eventy several kinds of events were organized also: gala events for proprietary-award ceremonies, seminars and workshops. In October 2008 a conference with nobelist Joseph Stiglitz was organized in Warsaw.
A change in the Spiegel-group management in 2008 resulted in a change of their foreign investments strategy. Based on the decision to generally withdraw from foreign countries activities, and due to an expected major decrease of advertising revenues following the economic contraction resulting from the world financial crisis, the title and company were closed down at the end of 2008.
Special issues
Other publications of the company were also closed down:
Connoisseur – lifestyle-quarterly
Vademecum Finanse Osobiste (vademecum finanse osobiste) – yearbook concerning private finance topics
Vademecum Przedsiębiorcy (vademecum przedsiębiorcy) – entrepreneurs' yearbook
Vademecum Styl Managera (VADEMECUM STYL MANAGERA) – lifestyle yearbook
Awards
Top Manager – award in four categories for extraordinary management achievements in stock noted companies. Winners have been Dariusz Miłek (CCC), Piotr Walter (TVN), Jan Kolański (Jutrzenka), Janusz Płocica (Zelmer), Maciej Witucki (TP SA) and others.
Galeria Chwały Polskiej Ekonomii – an award for economists. Recipients include Henryka Bochniarz and Leszek Balcerowicz
Top 500 – Gwiazdy Nowej Europy – at the international economic and political summit Forum Ekonomiczne in Krynica-Zdrój presented award for massive growing companies in Central and Eastern Europe.
Dyrektor Finansowe, an award for CFOs. A co-operation with the Polish subsidiary of insurance company Euler Hermes
References
2004 establishments in Poland
2008 disestablishments in Poland
Business magazines
Defunct magazines published in Poland
Magazines established in 2004
Magazines disestablished in 2008
Magazines published in Warsaw
Polish-language magazines
Magazines published in Poland
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Lewis Rose
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Lewis Rose (born 5 September 1989) is an English speedway rider.
Career
Born in Reading, Rose was a latecomer to Speedway, initially riding motocross before working his way through the Young Stars system at parent club King's Lynn. In 2014 after just one season in Speedway, Rose was given a reserve place in the Elite League side of King's Lynn. He also joined the Newcastle Diamonds in the Premier League who he still currently rides for. Ahead of the 2015 reserve draft King's Lynn were keen to keep Rose as well as his reserve partner of 2014 Lewis Kerr. However they were only allowed to protect one of their riders, and they selected Kerr. Rose then made the move to the Swindon Robins for the 2015 season.
References
1989 births
Living people
English motorcycle racers
King's Lynn Young Stars riders
Somerset Rebels riders
Newcastle Diamonds riders
King's Lynn Stars riders
Swindon Robins riders
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1915 Holy Cross football team
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The 1915 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1915 college football season.
In its second year under head coach Luke J. Kelly, the team compiled a 3–3–2 record. Edward Brawley was the team captain.
Holy Cross played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Schedule
References
Holy Cross
Holy Cross Crusaders football seasons
Holy Cross football
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1afiel%2C%20Spain
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Peñafiel, Spain
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Peñafiel is a town in the Valladolid Province and the greater autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is best known for the Peñafiel Castle and for its medieval square used for bullfights and named "Plaza del Coso" (English: "Bullring Square"). The square is surrounded by private homes, but since medieval times the rights to use their windows, balconies and doorways during bullfights are owned by the town (see easement), which auctions them to the highest bidders.
The town is full of deep excavated caveswhich were traditionally used to store the wine because of the constant temperature they kept all year around. These caves have chimney vents for ventilation and to evacuate the gases generated by the fermentation of the wine. These chimney vents dot the landscape in and around the town and the castle.
In 2006 Peñafiel had a population of about 5,434.
Peñafiel was a very important centre in the Middle Ages, as evidenced by the fact that it had up to 19 churches.
The town witnessed a clear expansion when the Spanish Rail System reached it, and this also profited the surrounding region. Rail facilitated distribution of goods, of which wheat was the most important. Three factories were established dedicated to the production of flour. This expansion did not, however, serve to develop animal husbandry in the region.
The name of Peñafiel derives from the Latin Pinna Fidelis (the loyal Rock or Mountain). The name is not casual: the "Peña" served as protection through the years, as the Castle at its top attests. The castle can be seen from kilometers away, and it is a typical postcard of the town. The castle now hosts the Wine Museum of Valladolid, and offers an impressive view of the town and the surrounding region. Below the castle, but above the town, many of wine caves were built. The mountain contains tens of such caves, some of which are as large as . Many wineries are located near Peñafiel: the town is at the heart of the Wine Region of Ribera del Duero. Guided winery visits in La Ribera del Duero are a growing tourist activity.
Twin towns
Peñafiel is twinned with:
Villena, Spain
Escalona, Spain
Penafiel, Portugal
Notes
Municipalities in the Province of Valladolid
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulation%20square
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Pulation square
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In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a pulation square (also called a Doolittle diagram) is a diagram that is simultaneously a pullback square and a pushout square. It is a self-dual concept.
References
Adámek, Jiří, Herrlich, Horst, & Strecker, George E. (1990). Abstract and Concrete Categories (4.2MB PDF). Originally publ. John Wiley & Sons. . (now free on-line edition)
Herrlich, Horst, & Strecker, George E., Category Theory, Heldermann Verlag (2007).
Category theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille%20Martens
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Camille Martens
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Martens (born June 1, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia) was a Canadian rhythmic gymnast who went on to found the only rhythmic gymnastics club in the Okanagan valley (BC, Canada). As one of the only Canadian born coaches producing International level athletes. As of 2022 Camille has produced 22 members of the Canadian High Performance National Team Pool (2000-2022) and has created National Champions at every level. Her athletes have won medals at Jr. Pan Am Games, Pan Am Senior Championships, Pacific Rim Championships (junior and senior) and many International Invitationals. In addition, her athletes have participated in World Championships, Grand Prix and World Cup events. She also founded the Cirque Theatre Company and has written, directed and produced over 20 original productions.
As an athlete, Martens won medals at Junior Pan Ams (1990), Four Continents Championships (1990, 1992, 1994) and ranked 21st at the 1993 World Championships in Alicante, Spain. She competed in the 1994 Commonwealth Games where she was Canada’s most medaled athlete of the games (1 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze). She competed at the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There, she was 33rd in the qualification round and did not advance to the semifinal.
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1976 births
Living people
Canadian rhythmic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts of Canada
Sportspeople from Vancouver
Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada
Gymnasts at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
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Industry Training Authority
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The Industry Training Authority is a provincial government agency in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
Established in 2004, to replace the Industry, Training and Apprenticeship Commission (ITAC), its mandate is to facilitate training in the trades and industry occupations in the province.
External links
Industry Training Authority - Official Site
Crown corporations of British Columbia
Vocational education in Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Party%20of%20Illinois
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Democratic Party of Illinois
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The Democratic Party of Illinois is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the oldest extant state party in Illinois and one of just two recognized parties in the state, along with the Republican Party.
History
The Democratic Party of Illinois took shape during the late 1830s. Prior to that time, Illinois did not have organized political parties; instead, political competition in the state was more personalist, with prominent factions centered on Governors Ninian Edwards and Shadrach Bond. As the Democratic and Whig parties began to form at the national level during the late 1820s and 1830s, Illinois politicians began sorting themselves accordingly and, in the summer of 1837, leading Democrats met to lay the groundwork for a Democratic Party organization in the state.
Before 2010, the party had been extremely successful in statewide elections for the past decade. In 1992, Carol Moseley Braun became the first African American woman to be elected to the United States Senate. Her election marked the first time Illinois had elected a woman, and the first time a Black person was elected as a Democratic Party candidate to the United States Senate. A second African American Democratic Senator, Barack Obama was elected in 2004 (the same seat that Senator Moseley-Braun once held), and later elected President of the United States in 2008. Democrats currently hold supermajorities in both the Illinois Senate and Illinois House of Representatives.
Organization and leadership
The Democratic Party of Illinois is run by a Democratic State Central Committee of 38 members, two from each of the state's 19 congressional districts. The Central Committee has four officers: a chairman, a vice-chair, a secretary, and a treasurer.
Calvin Sutker of Skokie served as state party chairman until 1986 when he lost his committeeman seat to reform Democrat Jeffrey Paul Smith. Sutker was succeeded by Vince Demuzio, who served from 1986 to 1990 and is credited with rebuilding the Illinois Democratic Party. Demuzio was then defeated by the then-chief of staff for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, Gary LaPaille. Madigan himself succeeded LaPaille. He then stepped down in 2021, and Congresswoman Robin Kelly was elected to the Chairpersonship. Kelly is the current Chair of the Illinois Democratic Party.
Cook County Democratic Party
The Cook County Democratic Party represents voters in 50 wards in the city of Chicago and 30 suburban townships of Cook County. It relies on a organizational structure of ward and township committeemen to elect candidates.
Current elected officials
Members of Congress
U.S. Senate
Democrats have controlled both of Illinois's seats in the U.S. Senate since 2016:
U.S. House of Representatives
Out of the 18 seats Illinois is apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives, 13 are held by Democrats:
Statewide officials
Democrats control all six of the elected statewide offices:
State legislative leaders
President of the Illinois Senate: Don Harmon
Senate Majority Leader: Kimberly A. Lightford
Assistant Senate Majority Leader/President Pro Tempore: Bill Cunningham
Deputy Senate Majority Leader: Laura Murphy
Assistant Senate Majority Leaders: Linda Holmes, Dave Koehler, Iris Martinez, and Antonio Munoz.
Senate Majority Caucus Chair: Mattie Hunter
Deputy Senate Majority Caucus Chair: Jacqueline Y. Collins
Majority Caucus Whips: Omar Aquino, Michael Hastings, Napoleon Harris III, and Laura Fine.
Speaker of the House: Emanuel “Chris” Welch
House Majority Leader: Greg Harris
Deputy House Majority Leaders: Jehan Gordon-Booth, and Art Turner.
Assistant House Majority Leaders: Kelly M. Burke, Fred Crespo, Will Davis, Elizabeth Hernandez, Jay Hoffman, and Natalie Manley.
House Majority Conference Chairperson: Kathleen Willis
See also
Illinois Republican Party
Political party strength in Illinois
References
External links
Democratic Party of Illinois
Illinois
Political parties in Illinois
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Reyn Spooner is an American fashion design company founded in 1956 by Reyn McCullough and Ruth Spooner. The company was originally named Reyns Men's wear on the island of Catalina founded by Reyn McCullough, who sought to replace the kitschy and poorly-fitting Hawaiian shirts with a more stylish alternative for professional and casual wear.
History
Founder Reynolds McCullough was raised in the 1930s on Catalina Island, California. In the 1940s after World War II, McCullough returned from Army paratrooper service and took a job with a chain of southern California men's stores. He then bought his employer's shop in Avalon. He began developing as many as six stores on Catalina, among them Reyn's Men's Wear and the Catalina Department store selling designer men's sportswear and Hawaiian printed shirts McCullough created.
McCullough and his wife Deanne visited in Honolulu for two weeks in 1957. While in Hawaii, McCullough met Don Graham of the Dillingham Corporation, the developers of the soon-to-be Ala Moana Shopping Center. After returning to Catalina, a space in the new shopping center became available and was offered to him. In November 1959, McCullough left behind his men's wear shop "Reyn's", and headed to Honolulu, where he opened his first Hawaii retail store within the Ala Moana Shopping Center.
Meanwhile, in 1956, Ruth Spooner had opened Spooner's of Waikiki and quickly built a reputation in Hawaii for manufacturing quality surf trunks. Working with just one sewing machine, her custom swimwear became known for their unique construction.
In 1962, McCullough teamed up with Ruth Spooner to ensure consistent quality and decided to merge the two company names to create Reyn Spooner in Honolulu. He then set up four sewing machines in the basement of his Ala Moana store to create Aloha apparel. McCullough began to work on something that reflected the island heritage through stylish prints, but also benefited the young professionals who worked in the islands and shopped at his store.
Spooner Kloth was created in 1964, when Tom Anderson, Reyn's Ala Moana store Assistant Manager, brought McCullough one of Pat Dorian's original "reverse" print shirts. Dorian was a charismatic bartender who would wear his signature line of "aloha wear" while serving drinks. Initially, Anderson wasn't keen on Dorian's bright patterns and the two discussed muting the print by turning it inside out.
Reyn Spooner began selling clothing internationally in 1974, when the company started shipping Aloha apparel to Japan, Australia, and Canada.
In 1984, Reyn Spooner collaborated with Vans, in which original Reyn Spooner prints were used for Vans footwear. In 1996, Reyn Spooner teamed up with "lifestyle-artist" Eddy Y. to create shirts featuring original Eddy Y. artwork. In 2009, Reyn Spooner collaborated with Urban Outfitters to create a collection of slim-fit shirts. Shortly after, Reyn teamed up with Stussy to develop an exclusive print for the clothing brand. Shortly after in 2010, Reyn Spooner debuted its Modern Collection. In 2011, Reyn Spooner collaborated with Opening Ceremony.
Reyn Spooner is now owned by Aloha Brands, representing a group of investors, led by Charlie Baxter and Dave Abrams.
Product lines
The Classic collection uses Reyn Spooner's traditional Spooner Kloth, which was first introduced in 1964 and became known as the oxford cloth of the islands. This cloth combines combed cotton with properties of spun polyester, which guarantees years of wash-n-wear durability. The Classic Collection offers prints from Dietrich Varez, Eddy Y, and Naoki.
Reyn Spooner has continued to develop new fabrications and designs including the company's newest innovation, the Modern Collection. This Collection was designed to appeal to a new generation of customers. According to former Reyn Spooner CEO Kirk Hubbard III: "We’re proud and honored to play such an influential role in the longstanding popularity and fame of the Aloha shirt. The fact that Reyn Spooner Aloha shirts have been worn by everyone from local businessmen and entertainers to U.S. presidents and film stars is a testament to Reyn McCullough’s vision to create unique, well-tailored clothing that could be worn by men of all ages and lifestyles."
In recent years, Reyn Spooner has also collaborated with fashion brands such as Urban Outfitters, Stussy, Transpac and Opening Ceremony to create exclusive apparel. Currently, Reyn Spooner operates seven retail stores in Hawaii and sells apparel in specialty and department stores throughout the United States, abroad, and online. Reyn Spooner has been worn by celebrities like George Clooney in the movie The Descendants and Chi McBride in Hawaii Five-0.
References
External links
Companies based in Honolulu
American fashion designers
Menswear designers
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Callao
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Callao () is a diocese located in the city of Callao in the Ecclesiastical province of Lima in Peru.
History
29 April 1967: Established as Diocese of Callao from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cusco
Bishops
Ordinaries
Eduardo Picher Peña (3 August 1967 – 31 May 1971), appointed Archbishop of Huancayo
Luis Vallejos Santoni (20 September 1971 – 14 January 1975), appointed Archbishop of Cuzco
Ricardo Durand Flórez, S.J. (14 January 1975 – 17 August 1995), Archbishop (personal title)
Miguel Irízar Campos, C.P. (17 August 1995 - 12 December 2011)
José Luis Del Palacio y Pérez-Medel (12 December 2011 - 15 April 2020)
Luis Alberto Barrera Pacheco, M.C.C.I (17 April 2021 - present)
Coadjutor bishop
Miguel Irizar Campos, C.P. (1989-1995)
Auxiliary bishop
Javier Augusto Del Río Alba (2004-2006), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Arequipa
See also
Roman Catholicism in Peru
Sources
GCatholic.org
Catholic Hierarchy
Diocese website
Roman Catholic dioceses in Peru
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Lima
Christian organizations established in 1967
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
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Ulsan
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Ulsan (), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighboring Busan to the south and facing Gyeongju to the north.
Ulsan is the industrial powerhouse of South Korea, forming the heart of the Ulsan Industrial District. It has the world's largest automobile assembly plant, operated by the Hyundai Motor Company; the world's largest shipyard, operated by Hyundai Heavy Industries; and the world's third largest oil refinery, owned by SK Energy. In 2020, Ulsan had a GDP per capita of $65,352, the highest of any region in South Korea.
Administrative divisions
Ulsan is divided into four gu (districts) and one gun (county):
Buk District ()
Dong District ()
Jung District ()
Nam District ()
Ulju County ()
History
Stone tools found at the Mugeo-dong Ok-hyeon archaeological site indicates that Ulsan was inhabited by humans at least as early as the Paleolithic Era. Other findings indicated human inhabitation in the Neolithic Era. Ulsan also contains a substantial number of town remains from the Bronze Age. During the Jinhan confederacy, Ulsan was a site of iron mining and production. In the Later Silla period, Ulsan served as an important port for the economic hub of Gyeongju, and likely saw the import of luxury Persian goods such as silver, glass, and peacock tails.
Records from the Joseon Dynasty show that Ulsan was developed as a shipbuilding site as early as 1642.
Economy
As the centre of the Ulsan Industrial District, the city is the corporate base of the multinational Hyundai conglomerate. Up to 1962, Ulsan operated as a fishing port and market centre. As part of South Korea's first five-year economic plan, Ulsan became an open port. Additionally, the government designated Ulsan as a Special Industrial District, which encouraged development of major industrial plants and factories: an oil refinery, fertilizer plants, automobile production, and heavy industries were developed here. The shipbuilding port Bangeojin was annexed by the city in 1962.
Shipbuilding
Hyundai Group founded Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan in 1973, which effectively turned the city into a company town and drew a large influx of workers into the city. The company's importance to the city can be seen in its name's omnipresence, with a highway named after Hyundai's founder, and the hospital, school, theater, as well as many restaurants and department stores bearing the Hyundai name.
Amid a global downturn in shipbuilding, Hyundai Heavy Industries sold $1 billion of assets and laid off large numbers of employees in 2016. The company borrowed money from the state-run Korea Development Bank in order to purchase Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, forming Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, with plans to move corporate headquarters to Seoul. Some view this downturn as an indicator of South Korea's over-reliance on chaebols, and fear that a period of deindustrialization for Ulsan mirroring the United States' Rust Belt could be on the horizon.
Petroleum
The city has the world's third largest oil refinery with 840,000 BPD, owned by SK Energy South Korea no.3 S-oil refinery complex with 669,000BPD and 1.7million PX plant of world single largest facility, 39,000BPD lubricant base oil owned by Saudi Aramco is also in Ulsan.
Automotive
Ulsan is the home of the world's largest automobile assembly plant of 300,000 annual capacity 5 assembly plants, proving ground and in-house peers, operated by Hyundai Motors started 50,000 capacity in 1968 now 30 times expansion of massive motor top complex in the world with own export piers with logistics competitiveness. Its integrated design of related functions was inspired by the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan.
Lithium-ion battery manufacture
In November 2011, SB LiMotive opened an advanced lithium-ion battery production plant in Ulsan. SB LiMotive was a 50-50 consortium of Samsung SDI and Robert Bosch GmbH. In September 2012, Samsung SDI bought out Robert Bosch GmbH's portion of SB LiMotive for $95 million to gain 100% ownership of the Ulsan production facility. The Ulsan plant is one of Samsung SDI's trio of advanced car-battery production facilities.
Transportation
The city transport department plans to build a light-rail line. The public transportation system is as good as any other major Korean city. The bus system shows a specific ETA at most bus stops.
Ulsan Airport, constructed in 1970 and expanded in 1997, has more than 20 flights per day to and from Seoul's Gimpo International Airport and 4 flights per week to and from Jeju International Airport. In November 2010, Korea's high-speed train network, the KTX, was extended to Ulsan. This provides a high-speed link to Seoul, with a running time of just over 2 hours. The new KTX station (Ulsan Station) is in nearby Eonyang, with a series of express buses (5001-5005), as well as some city buses serving the new station. The original city station has been renamed Taehwa River Station.
Sports
The city hosts the K League 1 football club Ulsan Hyundai FC. After the 2002 FIFA World Cup, they relocated from their former stadium in Jung-gu, which is now a municipal ground, to the Munsu Stadium, which hosted several matches during the 2002 World Cup. The club have been crowned champions of Asia twice, winning the AFC Champions League in 2012 and 2020. Ulsan was home to another football team, Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dolphin FC, which played in the Korea National League until 2016, when it was dissolved. Currently, Ulsan is home to another football team, Ulsan Citizen FC, which plays in the K3 League.
It is also home to the University of Ulsan and its sports programs. Ulsan also hosts Korean Basketball League team Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Phoebus. Their home ground is Dongchun Gymnasium, which located in jung-gu ulsan.
Lotte Giants, a KBO League baseball club in Busan, plays some of their home matches at the Ulsan Munsu Baseball Stadium.
Geography
Ulsan is bounded on Busan. Busan is to the south.
Climate
Ulsan has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa/Cwa), with cold but dry winters, and hot, humid summers. Monthly means range from in January to in August, with diurnal temperature ranges generally low. Its location on the Korean peninsula results in a seasonal lag. The warmest days occur in August and averaging very near . Precipitation is relatively low in the winter months, but there is high rainfall from April to September.
Religion
Tourist attractions
Yeongnam Alps
There are seven tall mountains (Gajisan, Sinbulsan, Ganwolsan, Cheonhwangsan, Yeongchuksan, Goheonsan, Jaeyaksan) over 1,000m above sea level. Sinbulsan (MT.) Ridge, where grasses turn silver in autumn, is one of the best sights to see in the Yeongnam Alps. Eoksae festival is held every early October in Ganwoljae, which is best known for its colony of silver grass.
Oegosan Onggi village
Korea's largest traditional folk Onggi (earthware) village is Oegosan. The traditional Onggi (earthware) manufacturing process is carried on here and is open to tourists, including Onggi workshops and kilns. The Ulsan Onggi museum offers a variety of information related to Onggi and displays a diversity of this earthware.
Jangsaengpo Whale museum & Whale Ecological Experience Hall
As the only whale museum in Korea, Jangsaengpo whale museum collects, maintains and displays whaling-related artifacts. They have become more rare since 1986, when whaling was internationally prohibited in order to protect the species. The museum provides a variety of information related to whales and marine ecosystems; it is a space for education, research and experience. Whale cruises depart from Jangsaengpo port.
Grand Park and National Garden
Ulsan Grand Park : This is claimed as the best ecology park in a downtown area in Korea, boasting a vast area of . "Natural, Clean and Comfortable" are the main themes, and it is a place for urbanites to seek nature. It sponsors a variety of events and festivals for families. it is a pleasant place for relaxation where you can breathe in nature during daily life. In particular, the Rose Festival every June presents a feast for the eyes and nose.
Taehwagang (River) National Garden : Simnidaesup (10-ri bamboo grove), one of the 12 scenic beauties of Ulsan, was restored; now the river and the bamboo grove are connected. This space expresses the related ecology of the area, showing the importance of nature and environment. It allows visitors the chance to observe and experience wildlife in its natural environment and to relax while being one of nature.
Industrial tour
Ulsan Industry Park has been leading the Pacific Rim industry in the 21st century. Ulsan has Hyundai Motor Company, with the world's largest single-purpose plant; Hyundai Heavy Industries, the biggest heavy industry leader in the world; Hyundai Mipo Shipbuilding, and Petrochemical Park, leaders in Korea's chemistry industry.
Coast trip
Ulsan has beautiful beaches (Jinha, Ilsan). Daewangam Park features a lush, hundred-year-old pine forest. Ganjeolgot Cape is noted as the first place to see the sunrise from the Korean peninsula. A sunrise festival is held every New Year's Day.
Festival
April : Seo Duk-chul Original Children's Song Competitions
July ~ August : Ulsan Summer Festival
December 31 ~ January 1 : Ganjeolgot Sunrise Festival
In media
Ulsan is one of the filming locations of the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation 2012 South Korean television melodrama series May Queen, starring Han Ji-hye, Kim Jae-won, and Jae Hee.
Twin towns – sister cities
Notable people
Kim Young-chul, comedian and singer
Kim Tae-hee, actress
Han Chae-ah, actress
Oh Yoon-ah, actress
Raina, singer (After School and Orange Caramel)
Tei, singer
Seo In-guk, singer and actor
Yura, singer (Girl's Day)
Jang Ki-yong, model and actor
Kim Mingyu, actor and former Produce X 101 contestant
See also
Bangudae Petroglyphs
List of cities in South Korea
List of oil refineries
List of South Korean regions by GDP
References
External links
Ulsan Metropolitan City official site
Ulsan : Official Site of Korea Tourism Org
Ulsan's Foreigner Living Site
Populated coastal places in South Korea
Special Cities and Metropolitan Cities of South Korea
Port cities and towns in South Korea
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Pearls%20%28film%29
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Black Pearls (film)
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Black Pearls () is a 1919 German silent film directed by Erik Lund and starring Eva May.
References
Bibliography
External links
1919 films
German films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German silent feature films
Films directed by Erik Lund
German black-and-white films
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Irton Marx
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Irton Marx (born 1947) is a Brazilian journalist, politician, and gaucho activist. He is known for organizing a movement to separate the southernmost state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, to form a new country called "Republic of Pampas".
Early life
Born in Hamburg, Germany, Irton came to Santa Cruz do Sul in 1947, aged just 11 months and 4 days. Along with his older brother, in addition to two others born in Brazil, he grew up in the region where the barracks is located – where he even served in 1966. His parents worked in tobacco companies and, due to the persecution of German immigrants since the beginning of World War II, were discreet about the origins of the family.
Political life and activism
He is the author of a book called A new country will be born: Republic of Gaucho Pampas about the separation of Rio Grande do Sul from Brazil. The project supposed that other neighbouring states with significant non-Portuguese population may secede from Brazil also for forming the Federal Republic of Pampas.
Due to his ideas of having a country where German and Italian would be official languages along with Portuguese, in 1993, after an interview on the most popular Brazilian TV channel, Rede Globo, he was accused of racism, fascism and nazism. He was considered innocent in all these accusations from Brazilian officials, and the accusers had to pay a value in money for causing him all the hassle.
In 1997, he decided himself to drop the "Pampas Independence Movement" for good.
External links
Programa Fantástico - 1/05/1993 - Separatismo no Sul do Brasil
Irton Marx - O Verdadeiro Nacionalismo Rio-Grandense
References
1947 births
Living people
Brazilian people of German descent
Rio Grande do Sul politicians
Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006) politicians
Brazilian Social Democracy Party politicians
Solidariedade politicians
Brazilian journalists
Brazilian activists
Separatists
History of Rio Grande do Sul
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Miksa Róth
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Miksa Róth (26 December 1865 – 14 June 1944) was a Hungarian mosaicist and stained glass artist responsible for making mosaic and stained glass prominent art forms in Hungarian art. In part, Róth was inspired by the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Róth apprenticed at his father, Zsigmond Róth's leaded stained glass studio. Starting a business in 1885, he would make commissions for a number of buildings, largely in Budapest, including the Hungarian Parliament Building and the Buda Castle. Róth also received a number of commissions outside the country as well, for example the National Theatre of Mexico.
References
Further reading
1865 births
1944 deaths
Mosaic artists
Artists from Budapest
Hungarian Jews
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill%20Lane%2C%20Hampshire
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Mill Lane, Hampshire
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Mill Lane is a hamlet in Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Fleet approximately 2.5 miles away. The hamlet lies on the A287 road between Odiham and Aldershot. The hamlet is only made up of a few houses and a petrol station.
Bowenhurst Golf Centre is located nearby with a 9-hole pay and play course and a floodlit Driving Range.
Villages in Hampshire
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Lilyhurst
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Lilyhurst is a small hamlet near Lilleshall and Sheriffhales in Shropshire. It has a population of roughly 20 people. It is part of the parish of Sheriffhales and contains a small industrial estate, holistic centre and garden centre.
Villages in Shropshire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Latin%20songs%20on%20the%20Billboard%20Hot%20100
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List of Latin songs on the Billboard Hot 100
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Latin music in the United States is defined by both the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Billboard magazine as any release with 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish. The best performing Latin songs in the United States are compiled by Billboard since September 1986. The magazine had already a major overall songs chart titled Hot 100 since August 1958. Since 2007, the chart tracks digital sales, streaming figures and radio airplay. Prior to that, the Hot 100 only measured the latter format.
Ritchie Valens' cover version of "La Bamba" became the first Spanish-language song to enter the Hot 100 after its debut on January 3, 1959. "Guantanamera" by The Sandpipers became the first predominantly Spanish-language song to reach the top ten of the chart in September 1966. "Eres Tú" by Mocedades is credited as the first completely-Spanish-language song to reach the top ten of the chart after peaking at number nine on March 23, 1974, a milestone that was replied 44 years later by Bad Bunny's "Mía" featuring Drake, which also holds the record for the highest debut for a Spanish-language song after entering at number five on October 27, 2018. As of October 2017, only three primarily Spanish-language songs had topped the Billboard Hot 100: "La Bamba" by Los Lobos in 1987, "Macarena" by Los del Río in 1996, and "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber in 2017.
In June 2017, following the number one peak of "Despacito" in the Hot 100, Philip Bump of The Washington Post related the increasing success of Spanish-language songs in the United States since 2004 with the growth of its Spanish-speaking population, highlighting an improve from 4.9% in 1980 to 11.5% in 2015. In January 2018, Leila Cobo of Billboard related the success of "Despacito" and the increase of music consumption via streaming to the rise of predominantly Spanish-language songs charting on the Hot 100.
Latin songs on the Hot 100
As of the week ending June 29, 2019, 112 Spanish-language and two Portuguese-language songs have entered the Hot 100 chart, most of them in 2017, with 18 debuts; followed by 2018, with 16; 2006, with 13; and 2005, with seven. 33 Latin songs have debuted on the chart during the 2000s decade, a figure that increased during the 2010s decade to 65 singles. Only 10 Latin tracks have entered the Hot 100 between 1959 and 1999.
A total of 30 singles have ranked within the top 50, of which only 15 reached the top 25, seven managed to reach the top 10, and three have peaked at number one. From the 86 songs that have ranked within the bottom half of the chart, 33 have peaked between numbers 90 and 100, 22 did so between numbers 80 and 89, and 32 did so between numbers 51 and 79.
24 tracks have had a chart run of 20 or more weeks, of which only two remained on the Hot 100 for more than 50 weeks. 21 songs have had a chart run that ranged between 10 and 19 weeks, while 23 tracks remained on the list for between five and nine weeks. 49 of the Hot 100's Latin entries charted for less than five weeks, of which 29 had only one week on the chart.
Puerto Rican singer Ozuna is the act with the most Spanish-language entries on the chart, with 15. Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee achieved three and six top 25 and top 50 Spanish-language singles, respectively, the most by any artist. Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin is the first and only artist with Spanish-language entries in three decades.
1958–1989
1990–1999
2000–2009
2010–2019
2020–present
Latin songs on Billboards Year-End Hot 100 Songs charts
Latin songs on Billboards Greatest Hot 100 Songs of All-Time list
In 2008, for the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100, Billboard compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing songs on the chart since its inception in 1958. The ranking was revised in 2013, 2015 and 2018. As of 2018, only two primarily Spanish-language songs have appeared on the top 100: "Macarena" (Bayside Boys Mix) by Los del Río, which peaked at number five on the ranking's first edition in 2008, and "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber. Additionally, Los Lobos' version of "La Bamba" ranks at number 372.
Notes
References
Lists of songs
Latin songs
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Tee-name
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A tee-name is a form of nickname traditionally used in the north-east of Scotland to disambiguate people with the same name or in the same family, in the same way as the agnomen (or in early periods the cognomen) was used in Roman naming conventions. A tee-name can be based on a personal characteristic, a trade, or where the person lived. An example is "Muckle Sanny Fite" for "Alexander White", where "Muckle" means "big" (a tee-name), and "Sanny" (or Sandy, or Elshioner) is a diminutive of "Alexander".
Tee-names could be inherited from a parent.
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Erling Fløtten
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Erling Fløtten (20 November 1937 – 28 October 2010) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He served as county mayor (fylkesordfører) in Finnmark between 1987 and 1995. After that, he was regional director of NHO's Finnmark division until his retirement in 2007. As county mayor, Fløtten signed the first agreement of cooperation between Finnmark and the Murmansk Oblast in 1988. In 2009, Fløtten resigned his membership from the Labour Party after he was removed from the board of the Finnmark Estate (FeFo).
Fløtten was also an amateur chess player representing the chess club in Vadsø, and he served as president of the Norwegian Chess Federation between 1997 and 1998. During the third round of the 2010 World Senior Chess Championship in Arco, Italy, Fløtten collapsed at the chessboard, and despite rapid intervention from medical personnel, his life could not be saved.
References
1937 births
2010 deaths
Finnmark politicians
Chairmen of County Councils of Norway
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
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Stone Barn Farm is one of a small number of surviving farm properties on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine. Located at the junction of Crooked Road and Norway Drive, the farm has a distinctive stone barn, built in 1907, along with a c. 1850 Greek Revival farm house and carriage barn. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, and is subject to a conservation easement held by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust.
Description and history
Stone Barn Farm occupies of land in north-central Bar Harbor, a rural inland area of the fashionable resort community. It is set on the north side of Crooked Road, just west of its junction with Norway Drive, and consists of each of fields and marshland, and about of woodland. The farm complex is set near Crooked Road, and consists of a wood-frame house and carriage barn, and an unusual gambrel-roofed barn whose first level is stone and granite (the latter quarried from nearby Otter Creek). As of 2020, only its southern gambrel end is clapboarded. The house is 1-1/2 stories in height, with a three-bay gabled front sheltered by a hip-roofed porch. Two additions extend to the rear of the building. The carriage house a single-story clapboarded structure with a gable roof, and a track-mounted sliding door providing access to its interior. The stone barn is fashioned out of glacial till, and has a two-leaf board-and-batten door providing access to its interior.
The farmhouse and carriage house were probably built sometime between 1850 and 1860, based on their architectural style, although local histories have placed the farmhouse construction as early as 1840. The builder was Richard Paine (1828–1913), whose farm was , most of it uncleared, in 1860. In 1907 Paine's son, Willis, sold the farm to the Shea Brothers masonry firm, who may have built the stone barn as a vehicle to showcase their building skills. The Sheas eventually leased the property back to the Paines for a time. In 1963, the property was acquired by Harry and Mary "Cindy" Owen, who granted the Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) a conservation easement on the property in 2001. MCHT purchased the property in 2019 for $625,000.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Maine
References
External links
"An Old Farmer Saves an Old Barn" - Down East Magazine
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
Georgian architecture in Maine
Buildings and structures completed in 1850
Buildings and structures in Bar Harbor, Maine
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
National Register of Historic Places in Hancock County, Maine
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Elizabeth Gladys Robinson (May 28, 1899 – October 21, 1960) was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. Following the death of her husband SC MLA John Lyle Robinson, she served as a Social Credit member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1953 until her death in 1960, representing Medicine Hat.
Political career
Robinson ran in a provincial by-election in the Medicine Hat electoral district on December 19, 1953, after her husband John Lyle Robinson died on October 29, 1953. John Robinson was a SC cabinet minister and MLA for the Medicine Hat district.
Elizabeth Robinson won the 1953 by-election by a wide margin with almost 77% of the vote in a straight fight over E.W. Horne running under the Co-operative Commonwealth banner. The by-election was very low turnout, the lowest to date in the Medicine Hat district with just 28% of the voters casting a ballot.
Robinson ran for a second term in the 1955 Alberta general election. She won a large but reduced majority defeating two other candidates to hold her seat.
Robinson ran for her third and final term in the 1959 Alberta general election. She won the highest popular vote of her career despite her margin of victory dropping slightly. She held the district against three other candidates.
Robinson, like her husband, died while holding office. She was hospitalized in Medicine Hat's University Hospital on August 31, 1960, after her illness worsened. She died on October 21, 1960, from the illness, which medical staff refused to disclose.
References
External links
Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs
1899 births
1960 deaths
Women MLAs in Alberta
20th-century Canadian women politicians
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Live at McCabe's
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Live at McCabe's may refer to:
Live at McCabe's (Byron Berline album)
Live at McCabe's (Norman Blake album)
Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop (Freedy Johnston album)
Live at McCabe's (Shelby Lynne album)
Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop (Tom Paxton album)
Live at McCabe's (Henry Rollins album)
Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop (Chris Smither album)
Live at McCabe's (Townes Van Zandt album)
See also
McCabe's Guitar Shop
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Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, (24 June 1831 – 29 June 1890), known as Lord Porchester from 1833 to 1849, was a British politician and a leading member of the Conservative Party. He was twice Secretary of State for the Colonies and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Origins
Born at Grosvenor Square, London, Carnarvon was the eldest son and heir of Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon (d.1849), by his wife Henrietta Anna Howard, a daughter of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard, younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk. The Hon. Auberon Herbert was his younger brother.
Youth
He was educated at Eton College. In 1849, aged 18, he succeeded his father in the earldom. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, where his nickname was "Twitters", apparently on account of his nervous tics and twitchy behaviour, and where in 1852 he obtained a first in literae humaniores.
Early political career, 1854–66
Carnavon made his maiden speech in the House of Lords on 31 January 1854, having been requested by Lord Aberdeen to move the address in reply to the Queen's Speech. He served under Lord Derby, as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1858 to 1859, aged twenty-six.
In 1863 he worked on penal reform. Under the influence of Joshua Jebb he saw the gaols, with a population including prisoners before any trial, as numerically more significant than the system of prisons for convicts. He was himself a magistrate, and campaigned for the conditions of confinement to be made less comfortable, with more severe regimes on labour and diet. He also wished to see a national system that was more uniform. In response, he was asked to run a House of Lords committee, which sat from February 1863. It drafted a report, and a Gaol Bill was brought in, during 1864; it was, however, lost amid opposition. The Prisons Act 1866, passed by parliament during 1865, saw Carnarvon's main ideas implemented, though with detailed amendments.
Colonial Secretary and Canadian federation, 1866–7
In 1866 Carnarvon was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies by Derby. In 1867 he introduced the British North America Act, which conferred self-government on Canada, and created a federation. Later that year, he resigned (along with Lord Cranborne and Jonathan Peel) in protest against Benjamin Disraeli's Reform Bill to enfranchise the working classes.
Colonial Secretary, 1874–8
Returning to the office of the British colonial secretary in 1874, he submitted a set of proposals, the Carnarvon terms, to settle the dispute between British Columbia and Canada over the construction of the transcontinental railroad and the Vancouver Island railroad and train bridge. Vancouver Island had been promised a rail link as a condition for its entry into Canadian Confederation.
South Africa
In the same year, he set in motion plans to impose a system of confederation on the various states of Southern Africa. The situation in southern Africa was complicated, not least in that several of its states were still independent and so required military conquest before being confederated. The confederation plan was also highly unpopular among ordinary southern Africans. The Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (by far the largest and most influential state in southern Africa) firmly rejected confederation under Britain, saying that it was not a model that was applicable to the diverse region, and that conflict would result from outside involvement in southern Africa at a time when state relations were particularly sensitive. The liberal Cape government also objected to the plan for ideological concerns; Its formal response, conveyed to London via Sir Henry Barkly, had been that any federation with the illiberal Boer republics would compromise the rights and franchise of the Cape's Black citizens, and was therefore unacceptable. Other regional governments refused even to discuss the idea. Overall, the opinion of the governments of the Cape and its neighbours was that "the proposals for confederation should emanate from the communities to be affected, and not be pressed upon them from outside."
According to historian Martin Meredith, Lord Carnarvon was primarily concerned with "imperial defence", and "regarded the Cape and its naval facilities at Simon's Bay as being the most important link in the imperial network". He thus decided to force the pace, "endeavouring to give South Africa not what it wanted, but what he considered it ought to want." He sent colonial administrators such as Theophilus Shepstone and Henry Bartle Frere to southern Africa to implement his system of confederation. Shepstone occupied and annexed the Transvaal in 1877, while Bartle Frere, as the new High Commissioner, led imperial troops against the last group of independent Xhosa in the Ninth Frontier War. Carnarvon then used the rising unrest to suspend the Natal constitution, while Bartle Frere overthrew the elected Cape government, and then moved to invade the independent Zulu Kingdom.
However the confederation scheme collapsed as predicted, leaving a trail of wars across Southern Africa. Humiliating defeats also followed at Isandlwana and Majuba Hill. Of the resultant wars, the initially disastrous invasion of Zululand ultimately ended in success, but the First Boer War of 1880 had even more far-reaching consequences for the subcontinent. Francis Reginald Statham, editor of The Natal Witness in the 1870s, famously summed up the local reaction to Carnarvon's plan for the region:
The confederation idea was dropped when Carnarvon resigned in 1878, in opposition to Disraeli's policy on the Eastern Question, but the bitter conflicts caused by Carnarvon's policy continued, culminating eventually in the Second Boer War and the annexation of the two Boer republics.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1885–6
On his party's return to power in 1885, Carnarvon became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His short period of office, memorable only for a conflict on a question of personal veracity between himself and Charles Stewart Parnell, as to his negotiations with the latter in respect of Home Rule, was terminated by another premature resignation. He never returned to office.
Other public appointments
Carnarvon also held the honorary posts of Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire between 1887 and 1890 and Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. He was regarded as a highly cultured man and was a president and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (his time there noted for their campaign to save St Albans Cathedral from Lord Grimthorpe) and a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as was high steward of Oxford University. He was also a prominent freemason, having been initiated in the Westminster and Keystone Lodge. He served as Pro Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England from 1874 to 1890. With his permission a number of subsequently founded lodges bore his name in their titles.
Some buildings commissioned by, associated with or overseen by Lord Carnarvon
Carnarvon became a Freemason in 1856, joining the Westminster and Keystone Lodge, No. 10. In 1860 he was made the second Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons (created in 1856) and in 1870 he was appointed Deputy Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) by Lord Ripon, and was Pro Grand Master from 1874 to 1890. Furthermore, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1875, confirming, in addition to his work as a statesman, his interest in innovation, geometry, the Enlightenment, science, the Scientific Revolution and the world.
1855–1878: The Highclere mausoleum or chapel was built for Henrietta Anna, Countess of Carnarvon, in memory of his father and her husband, Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon. Between 1839 and 1842, his father the third earl had employed Sir Charles Barry to turn the Georgian Highclere house into a Jacobethan castle. The interiors and west wing were carried out by Sir Charles Barry's assistant Thomas Allom who also provided the design of the funerary chapel-mausoleum. The entrance hallway-vestibule inside was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott. The work on the house was complete by 1878.
1869–1870: Church of St Michael and All Angels, Highclere, by Sir Gilbert Scott.
1870: Concrete Cottages, Long Piddle, Burghclere Bottom, Scouses Corner, Kingsclere or Sydmonton road, Old Burghclere. Rare and early concrete or mass concrete estate housing. The apparatus employed in the construction could have been that patented and manufactured by Messrs. Drake, Brothers, & Reid, of London, in 1868. Designed possibly by Thomas Robjohn Wonnacott or Charles Barry, Jr. (Around the same time, neighbouring landowner Lord Ashburton and his clerk of works Thomas Potter, who wrote Concrete: its use in building and the construction of concrete walls, floors, etc., 1877, built at least one pair of concrete cottages in the Wiltshire villages of All Cannings and Steeple Langford.) Carnarvon had long been thinking about labourers' cottages and accompanying allotments. The Reading Mercury reported the Burghclere project on Saturday, 30 October 1869:
1874–1881: Villa Altachiara ("Highclere" in Italian) (Villa Carnarvon) near Portofino, Liguria. A massive villa overlooking Portofino. It was still owned by the Herberts when Evelyn Waugh visited in 1936.
Marriages and issue
Lord Carnarvon married twice. His first marriage was in 1861 to Lady Evelyn Stanhope (1834–1875), daughter of George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield, and Hon. Anne Elizabeth Weld-Forester, by whom he had one son and three daughters:
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), eldest son and heir, the financial backer of the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun;
Lady Winifred Herbert; married as her second husband Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere, and was the mother of Evelyn Gardner, who married the novelist Evelyn Waugh. Evelyn Gardner's marriage soon ended in divorce and, despite the opposition of the Herbert family, Waugh remarried to her half first cousin Laura Herbert, a daughter of Aubrey Herbert of Pixton, a son of the 4th Earl by his second wife.
Lady Margaret Herbert; married George Herbert Duckworth, a notable civil servant and half-brother of the novelist Virginia Woolf and of the artist Vanessa Bell.
Lady Victoria Herbert.
Following his first wife's death in 1875, Lord Carnarvon married his first cousin Elizabeth Catherine Howard (1857–1929) in 1878. She was a daughter of Henry Howard of Greystoke Castle, near Penrith, Cumberland (brother of Henrietta Anna Molyneux-Howard (1804–1876), wife of Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon), a son of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard and younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk. Elizabeth Howard's brother was Esmé Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith. By his second wife he had two further sons:
Hon. Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert (1880–1923), of Pixton Park in Somerset and of Teversal, in Nottinghamshire, soldier, diplomat, traveller, intelligence officer associated with Albanian independence and Conservative Member of Parliament for Yeovil. His daughter Laura Herbert was the second wife of Evelyn Waugh.
Hon. Mervyn Robert Howard Molyneux Herbert (1882–1929), of Tetton, Kingston St Mary, Somerset, third son (second son by second wife), a diplomat and cricketer. Tetton was a former Acland property bequeathed to him by his father.
Death and burial
Lord Carnarvon died in June 1890, aged 59, at Portman Square in London. His second wife survived him by almost forty years and died in February 1929, aged 72.
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
Edited compilation of the Duffering-Carnarvon Correspondences, 1874-1878, provided by the Champlain Society.
1831 births
1890 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
British Secretaries of State
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Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Presidents of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Lord-Lieutenants of Hampshire
Lords Lieutenant of Ireland
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
People educated at Eton College
Secretaries of State for the Colonies
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Gmina Janów Lubelski
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Gmina Janów Lubelski is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Janów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Janów Lubelski, which lies approximately south of the regional capital Lublin.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 16,106 (out of which the population of Janów Lubelski amounts to 11,938, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 4,168).
Villages
Apart from the town of Janów Lubelski, Gmina Janów Lubelski contains the villages and settlements of Biała Druga, Biała Pierwsza, Borownica, Cegielnia, Jonaki, Kiszki, Kopce, Łążek Garncarski, Łążek Ordynacki, Momoty Dolne, Momoty Górne, Pikule, Ruda, Szewce, Szklarnia, Ujście and Zofianka Górna.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Janów Lubelski is bordered by the gminas of Biłgoraj, Dzwola, Godziszów, Harasiuki, Jarocin, Modliborzyce and Pysznica.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
Janow Lubelski
Janów Lubelski County
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King Creole (disambiguation)
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King Creole can refer to:
King Creole, a 1958 film starring Elvis Presley
"King Creole" (song), a song by Elvis Presley from the film King Creole
King Creole (soundtrack), an album by Elvis Presley, containing the soundtrack to the film King Creole
King Creole (Christer Sjögren album)
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1917–18 Montreal Canadiens season
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The 1917–18 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's ninth season and first as a member of the new National Hockey League (NHL). The Canadiens sided with other members of the National Hockey Association (NHA) and voted to suspend the NHA and start the NHL to expel the Toronto Blueshirts ownership. The Canadiens qualified for the playoffs by winning the first half of the season, but lost the playoff to the temporary Toronto franchise, made up of Blueshirts players.
Team business
The club changed its name to "Club de Hockey Canadien Ltd." from "Club Athletic Canadien". The logo on the jersey was changed to reflect this, substituting the "A" within the "C" with an "H".
Regular season
Quebec did not ice a team for the season. Quebec's players were dispersed by draft and Montreal chose Joe Hall, Joe Malone and Walter Mummery. Georges Vezina led the league in goals against average of 4 per game and Joe Malone had an outstanding 44 goals in 20 games to lead the league in goals.
The team was forced to return to its former arena the Jubilee Rink after the Montreal Arena burned down on January 2, 1918. The rival Montreal Wanderers folded after the fire, leaving only three teams (Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto) to continue the season. The Wanderers' players were dispersed and the Canadiens picked up Billy Bell and Jack McDonald.
On January 28, 1918, when Canadiens visited Toronto, Toronto's Alf Skinner and Montreal's Joe Hall got into a stick-swinging duel. Both players received match penalties, $15 fines and were arrested by the Toronto Police for disorderly conduct, for which they received suspended sentences.
Final standings
Wanderers defaulted scheduled games against the Canadiens (Jan. 2, 1918) and Toronto (Jan. 5, 1918), when their arena burned down. These appear as losses in the standings, but the games were not played.
Record vs. opponents
Schedule and results
First half
† Montreal Arena burned down and Wanderers withdraw. Two Wanderers games count
as wins for Canadiens and Toronto.
Second half
Playoffs
The Canadiens played the Torontos in a playoff to decide the league championship. In a two-game, total-goals series, Toronto won the first game 7–3 and Montreal won the second game 4–3. Toronto won the series 10–7 and proceeded to the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Toronto wins total goals series 10–7 for the O'Brien Cup
Player statistics
Skaters
Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, Pts = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes
†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Montreal. Stats reflect time with the Canadiens only.
Goaltenders
Note: GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average
Awards and records
Transactions
acquired Joe Hall, Joe Malone and Walter Mummery from Quebec Bulldogs in Dispersal Draft, November 26, 1917
acquired Billy Bell and Jack McDonald from Montreal Wanderers in Dispersal Draft, January 4, 1918
signed Evariste Payer as a free agent, January 29, 1918
References
See also
1917–18 NHL season
List of Stanley Cup champions
Montreal Canadiens seasons
Montreal Canadiens
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2011 Grambling State Tigers football team
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The 2011 Grambling State Tigers football team represented Grambling State University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers were led by head coach Doug Williams in the first season of his second tenure as head coach and seventh overall after coaching the Tigers from 1998 to 2003. They played their home games at Eddie Robinson Stadium. They were a member of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The Tigers finished the season 8–4 overall and 6–3 in SWAC play to win the West Division and defeated Alabama A&M in the SWAC Championship Game, 16–15, to become SWAC champions.
Schedule
Reference:
References
Grambling State
Grambling State Tigers football seasons
Southwestern Athletic Conference football champion seasons
Grambling State Tigers football
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The men's 400 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 16, 17, and 18 September 1969.
Medalists
Results
Final
18 September
Semi-finals
17 September
Semi-final 1
Semi-final 2
Heats
16 September
Heat 1
Heat 2
Heat 3
Heat 4
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.
(1)
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References
400 metres
400 metres at the European Athletics Championships
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The Pigeon River is a small river flowing to Lake Michigan on the western Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The river is approximately long and drains an area of in a generally rural area situated between the cities of Holland and Grand Haven. Via Lake Michigan and the larger Great Lakes system, it is part of the watershed of the St. Lawrence River.
Course
The Pigeon River's watershed and course are located entirely in western Ottawa County. The river is formed by a confluence of agricultural drainage ditches in Olive Township and flows generally west-southwestward into Port Sheldon Township. After flowing through Pigeon Lake, which is the only lake in the river's watershed, it flows into Lake Michigan in Port Sheldon Township, approximately northwest of Holland and south of Grand Haven.
Two county-operated public parks, Pigeon Creek Park and Hemlock Crossing, are located along the lower course of the river. The river has been stocked annually with brown trout by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources since 2003.
Watershed characteristics
The Pigeon River watershed is located in portions of seven townships of Ottawa County:
Formerly covered by forests and wetlands including a black ash swamp that covered 75% of the watershed, by the 1920s most of the watershed had been cleared and drained for agriculture. Portions of the watershed were reforested in the 1940s to control wind erosion. A 1997 watershed management plan found that approximately half of the land in the Pigeon River watershed was used for agriculture, with most of this area in Blendon, Olive, and Robinson townships. Agricultural production in the watershed included ornamental nursery crops, Christmas tree, blueberries, upland vegetables, field crops, turkeys, poultry eggs, beef and dairy cattle, and hogs.
Land use in the watershed as of 1992 was as follows:
Tributaries
This is a list of named streams in the Pigeon River watershed (aside from the Pigeon River itself), as identified by the National Hydrography Dataset. The list's default order is from the mouth of the river to its source.
See also
List of rivers of Michigan
Notes
References
Rivers of Michigan
Rivers of Ottawa County, Michigan
Tributaries of Lake Michigan
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Thorunna speciosa
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Thorunna speciosa is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.
Distribution
This species was described from Halifax Point, Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.
Description
References
Chromodorididae
Gastropods described in 1990
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Virgil, Kansas
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Virgil is a city in Greenwood County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 71. It is located approximately 8 miles east of the city of Hamilton.
History
The first post office in Virgil was established in 1863. The community may be named after Virgil, New York.
Geography
Virgil is located at (37.980603, -96.011090). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Virgil has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 71 people, 35 households, and 21 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 57 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 95.8% White, 1.4% Native American, and 2.8% from two or more races.
There were 35 households, of which 22.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.9% were married couples living together, 2.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 14.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 40.0% were non-families. 34.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 28.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.03 and the average family size was 2.57.
The median age in the city was 55.8 years. 15.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 2.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 12.7% were from 25 to 44; 28.2% were from 45 to 64; and 40.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.3% male and 50.7% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 113 people, 44 households, and 28 families residing in the city. The population density was 205.0 people per square mile (79.3/km). There were 61 housing units at an average density of 110.6 per square mile (42.8/km). The racial makeup of the city was 90.27% White, 0.88% Native American, 7.96% from other races, and 0.88% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.96% of the population.
There were 44 households, out of which 27.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.0% were married couples living together, 6.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.1% were non-families. 34.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.14.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 35.4% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 17.7% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 19.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $23,750, and the median income for a family was $33,125. Males had a median income of $21,250 versus $15,625 for females. The per capita income for the city was $10,604. There were 8.7% of families and 22.8% of the population living below the poverty line, including 45.5% of under eighteens and 7.7% of those over 64.
Education
The community is served by Madison–Virgil USD 386 public school district.
References
Further reading
External links
Virgil - Directory of Public Officials
Photos of Virgil - Then and Now
Virgil City Map, KDOT
Cities in Kansas
Cities in Greenwood County, Kansas
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